Ecuador’s Indigenous movement launches ‘indefinite national strike’

October 3, 2025
Michael Fox

Ecuador’s Indigenous movement’s “indefinite national strike” is rattling Ecuador and the government of President Daniel Noboa. This is the latest episode of Stories of Resistance.

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

October 2, 2025
Ronny P Sasmita
( Middle East Monitor ) – The Gaza plan unveiled by Donald Trump and reluctantly accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been described as bold, controversial, and even theatrical. And indeed, it is all of these things. But it is also something else, perhaps the only available mechanism, however imperfect, to bring a pause to a conflict that has consumed countless lives and devastated Gaza’s infrastructure. For that reason alone, it deserves recognition, even if one cannot fully ignore its flaws or the ambitions that inspired it.

Photo of Gaza 6/10/25 by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash

Red Cross forced to halt operations as Israeli army encircles Gaza City

October 1, 2025

Israel’s defense minister warned that this is the ‘last chance’ for residents to flee, while threatening that those who remain will be considered ‘terrorists’

ارتجاع چیست؟

سالهای سال، ملاها ایرانیان را از خواندن ترجمهٔ فارسی قرآن منع می‌کردند. چرا که تا زمانی‌ که قرآن را به فارسی نخوانیم و از پیغام‌های آن آگاه نشویم، تصور می‌کنیم که مطالب مهمی‌ در آن است که دانستن آن برای ما انسان‌ها ضروری است. حتی زمانی‌ که به زبان عربی‌ آشنائیِ کامل داریم و آنرا به عربی‌ می‌خوانیم و هنوز در بُهت و حیرتیم که هدف این کتاب آگاهی‌ دادن در مورد چه چیزی است، ملاها به ما هشدار می‌دهند که این کلام خدا است و اسراری که در این کتاب است برای همه مکشوف نیست، و پس از مرگ حقایق را درک خواهیم کرد. البته چنانچه ما خاطره‌ای از زمان پیش از تولد خود داریم و می‌دانیم که چه بودیم و در چه جهانی‌ زندگی‌ می‌کردیم، می‌توانیم انتظار این را داشته باشیم که پس از مرگ نیز به دنیای دیگری مهاجرت کنیم.ا 

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]