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The last chapter of the genocide

March 24, 2025
Chris Hedges
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return.

Popular Fury Grows in Turkey Against Tyrannical Erdoğan Emboldened by Trump

March 24, 2025
Jon Queally
The imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the far-right president's top political rival, has unleashed a new wave of protests against increasingly autocratic rule.

 

A protester wearing a gas mask and dressed as a Whirling Dervish is pepper sprayed by police during clashes with police in front of Istanbul's famous Aquaduct on March 23, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a primary election today, was jailed on corruption charges following his detention earlier this week. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Trump and Putin begin addressing cumulated geo-strategic debris… amidst Trump’s ultimatum to Iran

March 24, 2025
Alastair Crooke
Does Trump see Iran through some disturbed optic – that in destroying Iran, he is bringing about peace through strength?