Tens of Thousands Flee Gaza City as Israel Issues New Forced Evacuation Orders

June 30, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled central and northern Gaza on Sunday after Israel issued new forced evacuation orders and began bombing eastern parts of Gaza City. 

LIVE BLOG: Israeli Army Bleeds in Gaza as Occupation Forces Target Aid Seekers and Shelters – Day 631

June 29, 2025

 

-         Palestinian resistance groups continued to carry out deadly ambushes targeting invading Israeli forces.

-         Meanwhile, Israeli forces committed a horrific massacre in the Tuffah neighborhood, killing scores of Palestinians, including nine children.

-         Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 56,500 and injured 133,419 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Over 60 Palestinian children died of starvation in Gaza due to Israeli blockade

June 28, 2025

UN officials describe Gaza as the 'hungriest place on earth' as the small amount of aid that enters the strip is distributed in 'death traps' where Israeli soldiers turn food lines into mass graves

 

Over 60 Palestinian children died of starvation in Gaza due to Israeli blockade

June 29, 2025

Sasha Abramsky

Trump wants to destroy the ability of states to chart their own course on combating climate change.

 

 In an aerial view, traffic moves on Interstate 80 on May 19, 2025, in Emeryville, California.

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

June 28, 2025
Ramzy Baroud
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East”. Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground.

Israel’s euphoric ‘victory’ over Iran is quickly giving way to disillusionment

June 27, 2025
Meron Rapoport

Politically, Netanyahu may appear the winner of the '12-Day War.' But Israel achieved none of its military goals, and Gaza is once again impossible to ignore.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene where an Iranian ballistic missile hit and caused damage at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, June 20, 2025. (Itai Ron/Pool)

US divided on fate of Iran’s enriched uranium after strikes – NYT

June 27, 2025

Intelligence reports differ as the IAEA says the fuel could have been moved before the attacks, the outlet says

General strike in Ramallah after Israeli settler rampage kills three Palestinians

June 26, 2025
Qassam Muaddi

Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.

Burnt-out vehicles at the scene of an attack by Israeli settlers, in the village of Burqa north of the West Bank city of Nablus, May 16, 2025

The United surveillance States of America

June 26, 2025
Rebecca Gordon
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the elected government of Nicaragua. We agreed that, when our call was done, I’d call another friend, “Mary,” to update her on the plans. I hung up.

NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Puts Gaza in Focus

June 25, 2025
Corinna G. Barnard

Zohran Mamdani’s Zionist antagonists tried to turn his Muslim identity and pro-Palestine politics into a liability, writes Corinna Barnard. So far, it hasn’t worked.

Dear Israel Apologist

June 26, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
Dear Israel apologist,
There is nothing you can say to me that will make me stop opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities.

برده‌داری جدید

با ورود دانالد ترامپ به کاخ سفید برای دومین بار، و تقسیم مشاغل دولتی بین هم‌فکرانش، قدرتمند‌ترین کشور دنیا از نظر نظامی و دومین کشور جهان از نظر صنعتی و تکنولوژی، توسط کسانی‌ اداره می‌شود که انسان را به یاد رهبری آلمان در نخستین نیمه قرن بیستم می‌اندازد. این دوست صمیمی‌ دانالد ترامپ، یعنی‌ الون ماسک، که البته ثروتمندترین فرد نیز می‌باشد، علنا افکار نژاد پرستی‌ خود را اعلام کرده بود. گرچه پس از مدت کوتاهی‌ روابط ترامپ با ماسک به تیرگی گرایید، ولی‌ همهٔ اطرافیان ترامپ کسانی‌ هستند که درآمد ماهیانه‌شان از مجموع درآمد‌های پنجاه و پنج درصد پایین مردم آمریکا بیشتر است.ا

Iran Says More Than 600 Killed by Israeli Attacks

The following articles report the Israeli government’s crimes using American weapons in various parts of the Middle East, just in one day:

June 25, 2025

Dave DeCamp

A woman carries her child following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Amir Kholousi/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Calm returns to Qatar following Iran’s attack on Al Udeid airbase

June 24, 2025

Hafsa Adil

Life in the Gulf state has swiftly returned to normality after a night of fear and uncertainty.

 

Global Palestine: Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East and the World After the American Attack on Iran

June 24, 2025

Jeff Halper

On the evening of June 21st in Washington, the morning of June 22nd here in Jerusalem, the United States attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, joining Israel’s more widespread assault intended to eliminate a rival for regional hegemony, one that targeted not only Iran’s nuclear facilities and ballistic missile system but civilian infrastructure as well, in the hope of inducing regime change. The meta-aims of the attack were three-fold.

The Illusion of Victory

June 23, 2025

Trump’s so-called “precision” strikes will probably spur the creation of a real bomb and spiral into a regime change-driven war.

 

 U.S. and Israeli flags are projected on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on June 22, 2025, following the U.S. involvement in the war between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Putin tells Iranian FM 'no justification' for US-Israeli war, offers support for Tehran

June 23, 2025

Russia, China, and Pakistan have submitted a draft UNSC resolution for an ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire in Iran

 

The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm

June 23, 2025

Trump sided with the Israelis, asserting that Iran was ‘very close’ to having a bomb, and added that he didn’t care what Gabbard thinks.

                                   

Chris Hedges: War With Iran

June 22, 2025

We are opening Pandora's box.

 

 A banner bearing a painting that represents various categories of the Iranian society is deployed against the facade of a building in Tehran, with a message that reads in Farsi: " we are all soldiers of Iran", on June 22, 2025. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

June 22, 2025

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more twisted view of US national security.                                    World Nuclear Forces:

LIVE BLOG: Hormuz Closure Ordered by Iranian Parliament after US Aggression – Day 624

June 22, 2025

• Iran warned it would target Israel’s Dimona reactor and US regional bases if the war expands, as Washington moves B-2 bombers to Guam and secret diplomacy collapses.

• Meanwhile, in Gaza, the death toll rises and the hunger crisis in Gaza deepens amid a relentless Israeli aid blockade.

• Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 55,959 and injured 131,242 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

                 Satellite imagery confirms that the United States did directly target the location of Fordow's underground enrichment halls. (Photo: video grab)

Iranians say their hopes of peace have been buried by US bombs

June 22, 2025

Public opinion in Iran is divided between wanting to retaliate to Trump's attack and wishing for the hell of constant bombardment to be over

 

 A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Tehran, 22 June (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)

Trump Announces ‘Successful’ Attack On Iranian Nuclear Sites

June 21, 2025

Kyle Anzalone

Trump said Iran must quickly make peace or he will authorize larger attacks

 

The Capitol Hill Republicans against US war with Iran

June 21, 2025

Stavroula Pabst

They may be a minority, but these conservatives are bucking the old guard and warning Trump of pending disaster

 

From Gaza to Iran – Israel is fighting to maintain Western empire

June 21, 2025

Yoav Haifawi

The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.

 

As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action

June 20, 2025

Marc Steiner

“What wouldn’t you do to stop the slaughter of two million people?… In the face of atrocity, the lesson I have learned from my people is we cannot do nothing.”

 

Water wars and hydro-hegemony in South Asia

June 21, 2025

Sonia Awale & Qian Sun

China plans to build the world's biggest dam, giving it a chokehold on South Asia's water supplies

 

 A cross-section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. China intends to build a massive dam on this river in the coming years, stirring regional controversy. Maxisheng18, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It joins Israel’s War on Iran

June 20, 2025

 

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

June 20, 2025

Ahmed Ahmed & Ibtisam Mahdi

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’

 

Thousands of Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid Street carrying bags of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza City, June 17, 2025. Several of those seeking aid were shot by Israeli forces. (Yousef Zaanoun /Activestills) 

Trump has approved Iran attack plan – WSJ

June 19, 2025

Israel reportedly lacks the means to take out some of Iran’s nuclear sites without US military involvement

 

War Deja Vu

June 19, 2025

Chris Hedges

The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations.

 

Attacks on Iran Show How US Support for Israel Fuels Regional Instability

June 19, 2025

Phyllis Bennis & Khury Petersen-Smith

There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible.

 

 Mourners gather around the coffins of people killed in Israeli attacks in Khorramabad, Iran, during their funeral in on June 16, 2025.AZIZ BABNEZHAD / TASNIM NEWS / AFP via Getty Images

Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval

June 19, 2025

Jake Johnson

"Right now, the most effective thing you can do is flood Congress with calls to show that the American people don't want to go to war with Iran," said the advocacy group Demand Progress.

U.S. Marines watch as protesters hold signs during a "No War on Iran" demonstration outside the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 18, 2025. (Photo: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)

The case of the Iranian ‘atomic bomb’ and the need for a new geopolitical balance

June 18, 2025

Raphael Machado

A nuclear Iran, far from necessarily leading to a nuclear war, could actually convince Israel to act more prudently and restrain its aggressive actions against Palestinians and neighboring countries, Raphael Machado writes.

Gaslighting the way to World War III

June 18, 2025

Derek Sayer

Gaslighting, noun: psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

 

Aftermath of Israeli airstrike in Tehran, June 13, 2025. Photo courtesy Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia Commons.  

ایرانیان خارج از ایران

دور ز میهن شدم و خاک وطن ایران است

لیک افسوس که آن خاک کنون ویران است

 

Israel’s Strikes on Iran Spark Growing Dissent in Congress

June 17, 2025

Medea Benjamin

On Monday, June 16, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced legislation, a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military force against Iran without Congressional authorization. This will force all Senators to go on record supporting or opposing the following: “Congress hereby directs the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force against Iran.”

After Iraq There's No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran

June 17, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

There is absolutely no excuse for buying into the war propaganda about Iran after what we all saw with Iraq.

 

Iran’s ballistic missiles cause extensive destruction across Israel

June 16, 2025

Israeli military sites and energy infrastructure came under Iranian fire, including Nevatim airbase and the Haifa power station

 

The U.S. Must Not Cave to Israel’s Demands for Help

June 16, 2025

Trita Parsi

As Iran mounts an effective response to Israel's war of choice, why should the president now risk US lives to join it?

 

 The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The Folly of a War With Iran

June 16, 2025

Chris Hedges

Iran has a large arsenal of ballistic missiles it can unleash on Israel, as well as on American military installations in the region. While initial waves can be intercepted, repeated attacks would swiftly deplete the Israeli and U.S. air defense stockpiles.

 

 And Now a Word From Our Monster – by Mr. Fish

LIVE BLOG: Iran’s Retaliation Causes Unprecedented Destruction in Israel | Al-Qassam Ambush – Day 617

June 15, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
55,315	128,741	14,000

 

Bodies pile up in the streets of Tel Aviv following Iran's retaliatory response. (Photo: video grab) 

The Rule of Idiots

June 11, 2025

Chris Hedges

Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.

 

Israel kills at least 58 people in Gaza, many at US-backed aid site: Medics

June 14, 2025

There has been no immediate comment by the Israeli military or the GHF on Saturday’s Palestinian deaths.

Israel warns ‘Tehran will burn’ after deadly missile barrage by Iran

June 14, 2025

Nils Adler, Ali Harb and Tim Hume

Israel warns ‘Tehran will burn’ after deadly missile barrage by Iran

 

  Rescue personnel evacuate a wounded woman after an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan, Israel [Itai Ron/Reuters]

Will Iran reply to Israeli Attacks with “War of Attrition?” Will its Nuclear Red Line Hold?

June 14, 2025

Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Mohammad Eslami

Historians may well mark June 13, 2025, as the day the world crossed a line it may not easily step back from. In a move that shocked the international community and sent global markets reeling, Israel launched a wide-scale military operation against Iran in the early hours of the morning, striking targets across at least 12 provinces, including the capital, Tehran, and the northwestern hub of Tabriz. Among the targets were suspected nuclear facilities, air defence systems, and the homes and offices of senior military personnel. Iranian state media confirmed the deaths of several top commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

 

A Brief History of U.S. Military Interventions Within the United States

June 13, 2025

Zoltan Grossman

Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the history and geography of U.S. military interventions from the “Indian Wars” to the Middle East, and have documented only a handful of times that Army, Marines, or federalized National Guard forces have been used against U.S. citizens over the past century. For Trump to take such a profound leap is an admission that a conflict at home is being equated to an overseas war. Sending in soldiers trained for combat will only make a bad situation worse, by launching a war at home against domestic dissent.

 

Iran live: Israeli attacks on Iran kill at least 78 people

June 13, 2025

Fresh wave of strikes hits Tabriz, Shiraz and Iran's main nuclear site

Key Points:

• Trump says Iran 'perhaps' could have second chance
• Israel shutters embassies in several countries including US, UK
• Iranian president vows 'powerful and legitimate' response

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian brothers in massive West Bank raid

June 11, 2025

Qassam Muaddi

Israeli forces killed two brothers and injured more than 30 in a large-scale military invasion in Nablus. According to witnesses, one brother was killed in a confrontation with soldiers after they ordered him to pull his pants down and he refused.

 

 A view of Palestinian homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Tulkarm refugee camp, east of Tulkarm city, in the northern West Bank, on June 9, 2025. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)

Europe’s latest sanctions show that it is heading for disaster

June 12, 2025

Ian Proud

Friedrich Merz won’t survive a single term in office and France will be the next country to exit the EU, triggering an implosion of the project.