Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Mere “Repackaging of Genocide” for Israel’s Benefit: Diana Buttu

September 30, 2025
After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel’s war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the “Board of Peace,” which Trump would head.

The F Word, the C Word & the N Word

September 29, 2025
Joe Lauria

They are all nouns. The F word can also be used as an adjective. They are all used as invectives. Today all these words are being overused. And misused.

September 28, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
65,926	167,783	9,000

An anti-genocide protest in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo: Nurah Tapeh, Palestine Chronicle)

DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad

September 27, 2025
Yasemin Yam

We could see a worldwide normalization of AI technology for surveillance and propaganda purposes

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation

September 26, 2025
Hamza Hamouchene

The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation.

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

September 25, 2025
Yuval Abraham

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Power and inequality in the 21st century

September 24, 2025
In order to understand the crisis of the imperialist world system in the twenty-first century, it is crucial to see this in terms of the present as history, that is, as an outgrowth of a centuries-long historical process (Paul M. Sweezy, The Present as History [New York: Monthly Review Press, 1953]).

پایان یک امپراطوری

یکی‌ از راه‌هائی که می‌توان سرنوشت یک امپراطوری را قدم به قدم دنبال کرد، انتخاب رهبران آن امپراطوری و روش رهبری آنان است. آمریکا برای چند دهه پُرنفوذ‌ترین و پُرقدرت‌ترین کشور دنیا بوده است. ثروتمند‌ترین و وسیع‌ترین کشور‌های دنیا تابعیت این امپراطوری را پذیرفته، و خط سیاسی خود را همواره بر مبنای سیاست‌های دولت آمریکا قرار داده‌ا‌ند. بزرگ‌ترین کشورهائی که در قارّهٔ آمریکا قرار دارند مانند کانادا و مکزیک، کشور‌های بزرگ اروپائی مانند انگلیس و فرانسه، کشور‌های بزرگ آفریقائی مانند مصر و افریقای جنوبی، و کشور‌های بزرگ آسیایی مانند عربستان سعودی و پاکستان، همه گوش به فرمان رئیس جمهور آمریکا هستند.ا

با انحلال امپراطوری شوروی در سال هزار و سیصد و شصت و هشت خورشیدی، و یا هزار و نهصد و نود و یک میلادی،

Proposed war authorization could allow Trump to target 60+ countries

September 23, 2025
Brett Heinz

An 'insanely broad' draft AUMF could provide the president with wide latitude to go after supposed 'narco-terrorists'

September 22, 2025
Ralph Nader
Some serious readers would like to see mainstream media and independent media cover several events and matters involving the Israeli war in tiny Gaza and the mass slaughter of its defenseless citizens.

LIVE BLOG: UK, Australia, Canada Recognize Palestine as Israeli Massacres Continue – Day 716

September 21, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
65,208	166,271	9,000

Israel may win in Gaza. But at what cost?

September 20, 2025
Farhad Ibragimov

Israel’s ground offensive is pushing Hamas to the wall, but also isolating the country abroad and tearing its society apart

Flames and smoke rise from the building following the Israeli army bombs the al-Ruya Tower in Gaza City, Gaza, on September 07, 2025

Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South

September 20, 2025
Jai Dulani

The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson speaks in opposition to a plan by Elon Musks's xAI to use gas turbines for a new data center during a rally outside of Fairley High School ahead of a public comment meeting on the project in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 25, 2025.

With Kimmel Suspension, Trump Tightens Grip on Media

September 19, 2025
Robert Reich

A president shouldn’t be allowed to use defamation lawsuits to suppress criticism, and those likely to surrender to this shouldn’t own major media.

UN Security Council rejects resolution to extend Iran sanctions relief

September 19, 2025
Stephen Quillen and News Agencies

Iran calls action by UN Security Council ‘unlawful’ as nine member countries vote against nuclear sanctions relief.

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran

‘Gaza is burning and the world is watching’

September 19, 2025

Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

Israeli Attacks and Starvation Kill 102 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours

September 17, 2025
Dave DeCamp

Palestinians continue to flee Gaza City, where the IDF is conducting a major assault aimed at conquering the city

A woman observes, as displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip, September 17, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza – UN commission

 September 16, 2025

West Jerusalem has rejected the accusation, slamming the body as a “Hamas proxy” and calling for its abolition

Palestinians move toward central Gaza in the Gaza Strip on September 15, 2025. ©  Moiz Salhi / Anadolu via Getty Images

انسانیت

زمانی‌ که می‌گوییم انسانیت، منظورمان از این واژه چیست؟ آیا واژهٔ مخالف آن حیوانیت است؟ ما از واژهٔ حیوانیت استفاده نمی‌کنیم، چرا که اگر انسان‌ها انسانیت نداشته باشند بدین دلیل نیست که حیوانیت دارند. ولی‌ آیا حیوانات نیز می‌توانند انسانیت داشته باشند؟ا

Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Weaponization of Murder

September 15, 2025

Max Blumenthal details the tension between Charlie Kirk and Israel in his final months, and what to expect from a new era of right-wing repression in response to his killing

After Hochul’s Mamdani Endorsement, Trump Threatens New York Federal Funding

September 15, 2025
Julia Conley

“Donald Trump is threatening to withhold money from NYC if they elect Zohran Mamdani, who [is] standing up to his billionaire donor buddies, instead of his friend Andrew Cuomo who will roll over for them,” said one organizer.

Police face Pro-Palestinians protestors after security barriers were taken down during the 21st and last stage of the Vuelta a Espana 2025, a 101 km race between Alalpardo and Madrid, in Madrid on September 14, 2025. The authorities have ramped up security for the Vuelta’s final stage in Madrid, which was slightly shortened and will see 1,100 police officers deploy in the Spanish capital. 

(Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)

LIVE BLOG: Israel Targets Residential Buildings in Gaza, Besieges Refugee Camps in West Bank – Day 709

September14, 2025

      Killed    Wounded    Missing

64,871    164,610      9,000

Netanyahu has traded diplomacy for force and faced defeat nonetheless

September 13, 2025
Menachem Klein

From his start in politics, he aimed to use Israel's military might to derail Palestinian statehood, only to be stopped just short of his goal

Palestinian children in Gaza struggle to collect food from an aid operation in this image from June 2025 (AFP)

Is a new civil war in the U.S. possible?

September 12, 2025
Raphael Machado

There may be few other options for Trump than to concentrate more power and implement exceptional measures to guarantee law and order.

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

September11, 2025
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
(The Conversation) – The Israeli airstrike targeting senior Hamas political leaders in Qatar on Sept. 9, 2025, represents the crossing of a number of lines.

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

September 11, 2025
Juan Cole

Quatrain no. 12 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the imperative to live in the moment and take our pleasures where we can, disregarding visions of future power or the afterlife, which we may never achieve.
XII.

Islamic garden at the palace complex in Granada meant to evoke the Qur’an’s image of paradise. 2010. © Juan Cole.

‘We’ll get them next time’: Israel hints at more attacks on Hamas leaders in Qatar

September 10, 2025
US President Donald Trump said he assured Qatar that such an attack would not happen again, coinciding with reports that Washington knew about and even approved the strike

سیاست نو

بسیار جالب است که بدانیم که آنچه که هم اکنون در حیطهٔ سیاسی در آمریکا اتفاق می‌اُفتد از قبل پیش‌بینی‌ شده بود. کسانی‌ که به تئوری‌های اقتصادی و اقتصاد سیاسی علاقه‌مندند، با مطالعهٔ  آنچه که تاثیرگزارترین رئیس جمهور آمریکا در طی دوازده سال حکومتش، بین سالهای هزار و نهصد و سی‌ و سه، و هزار و نهصد و چهل و پنج، برای این کشور انجام داد، و مقایسهٔ آن با پیش‌بینی‌های اقتصاد سیاسی توسط دانشمندان در این رشته، می‌توانند به راحتی‌ این پدیده را درک کنند.ا

‘It’s terror’: Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza bombed

September 9, 2025
Julia Conley

“Our peaceful mission to break the siege on Gaza and stand in solidarity with its people continues with determination and resolve,” said members of the flotilla’s steering committee.

Tunisian protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans and wave Palestinian flags at the Port of Sidi Bou Said near Tunis on September 9, 2025, after the organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestinian activists said late on September 8 that one of their boats was hit by a suspected UAV but Tunisian authorities said "no drones" had been detected. Photo by YASSINE MAHJOUB/AFP via Getty Images

Trump and Silicon Valley’s plan to rule the world with AI weapons

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Report from Gaza: Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers

September 8, 2025
“There’s no real safe zone in Gaza [City] and all of the Gaza Strip,” says Eyad Amawi, who joins us for an update from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces move deeper into Gaza City to forcibly evict 1 million residents. The local aid coordinator describes relentless bombardment, water shortages, infectious diseases and worsening famine. “All of these things must end now. As a human being, the most priority is the life of the civilians here.”

LIVE BLOG: Ansarallah’s Drones Hit Ramon Airport as Israel Expands Gaza City Operations – Day 702

September 7, 2025

DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad

September6, 2025
Yasemin Yam

We could see a worldwide normalization of AI technology for surveillance and propaganda purposes

West Asia is Lurching Toward War

September 5, 2025

Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.

Tehran in April 2018. (Ninara/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0)

The new Israeli map proposing to annex 80% of the West Bank, explained

September 4, 2025
Qassam Muaddi

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He's not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the "pragmatic" opposition.

sraeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees

September 4, 2025
Yuval Abraham

A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians, a joint investigation finds.

Notes from the Editors

September1, 2025

September 2025 (Volume 77, Number 4)

فراز و افول امپراتوری‌ها

طاق کسری 

US Navy 'First Among Equals': The case for a new realist internationalism

September 2, 2025
Daniel Larison

Emma Ashford's new book challenges America’s global overreach and offers an alternative for a new multipolar world

American Citizens on the Frontlines of Gaza’s War Crimes

September 1, 2025
Jamal Kanj
Serving in the military is the ultimate test of loyalty. When young Americans raise their right hand, they pledge to defend their nation, their Constitution, their people. Yet for many young Americans, that oath is NOT made to the United States military. Instead, they pack their bags, fly across the Atlantic, and enlist in a foreign army—the Israeli War Machine, aka, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).