Americans are Bankrolling Israel’s Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

SonaliKolhatkar

November 21, 2023

Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission.

 

Having Vanquished Gaza’s Hospitals, Israel Turns to bombing Schools, Killing Dozens

Juan Cole

November 20, 2023

The Gaza Ministry of Health announced Sunday that on the previous day at least 80 people were killed by the Israeli bombardment of the Palestinians, with 32 of them being from one extended family, according to Al-Arabiya. The deaths occurred because of two distinct Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp targeting schools.

 

‘Giving up is not an option’: Volunteer doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

Maram Humaid

November 19, 2023

Volunteers experience grueling hours, face lack of medical supplies and a collapse of healthcare system in the Gaza Strip.

 

Israeli Deceit and the Battle of Shifa Hospital

Gareth Porter

November 17, 2023

The Israeli military has attacked and is occupying parts of al-Shifa hospital in an ongoing operation in northern Gaza. It is the biggest and most modern hospital in Gaza, which has  ceased to function normally because of lack of power, while tens of thousands of displaced Gazans take shelter in it. 

 

As Israel bombs Gaza, Ireland’s enduring support of Palestine gets stronger

Mariamne Everett

November 17, 2023

Writers, politicians, and activists in Ireland, which is often an outlier in the West on the Middle East conflict, call for peace.

 

The US and China re-engage on arms control. What may come next

 Daryl G. Kimball
November 15, 2023
For more than six decades, the United States has been worried about China’s regional influence, military activities—and its nuclear potential. For instance, in 1958, US officials considered using nuclear weapons to thwart Chinese artillery strikes on islands controlled by Taiwan, according to a document leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 2021. Now, as then, a nuclear conflict between the United States and China would be devastating for both sides and the world.

The dire medical crisis in Gaza, explained

LiZhou

November 15, 2023

Israel’s ground assault is causing a collapse of Gaza’s health care centers — including the region’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, which has been raided by Israeli forces.

 

The Zelensky Paradox

TedSnider

November 15, 2023

Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to end the war. On multiple occasions in the early days of the war, long before the escalation and long before the horrifying loss of life, limb and land, the Ukrainian president was willing to preserve his people’s land and protect his people lives in exchange for abandoning the dream of membership in NATO, a dream that, even as late as three months after Russia invaded, was shared by only 59% of Ukrainians.

 

نامه به کودکان غزه: ما در مورد شما قصور ورزیدیم؛ این گناه وحشتناکی است که به دوش می کشیم

کریس هجز – برگردان: پروین اشرفی

کودک عزیزم. اکنون پاسی از نیمه شب گذشته است. من با سرعت صدها مایل در ساعت در تاریکی شب، در هزاران پایی فراز اقیانوس اطلس در حال پرواز هستم. دارم به مصر سفر می کنم. به مرز غزه در رفح خواهم رفت. بخاطر تو میروم.ا

The US could have ruled the world, but this one weakness ruined it all

DmitryTrenin

November 13, 2023

For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises

 

FILE PHOTO: In the oval office, Former President George HW Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W Bush, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Washington, DC, January 7, 2009. ©  David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images

The Secrets of the JFK Assassination Archive

ScottSayare

November 9, 2023

How a dogged journalist proved that the CIA lied about Oswald and Cuba — and spent decades covering it up.

 Lee Harvey Oswald and CIA officer George Joannides. Photo: JFK Assassination Records Collection (Oswald) & CIA FOIA files (Joannides

Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza

Chris Hedges
November 8, 2023
Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you.

The Dehumanization of War: A Meditation for Veterans Day

KellyDenton-Borhaug and Tom Engelhardt

November 10, 2023

When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its atrocities.

 

Arab-Iran amity is a geopolitical reality

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR

November 9, 2023

The forthcoming first visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Saudi Arabia on November 13 marks a milestone in the rapprochement between the two countries mediated by China in March. The relationship is fast acquiring a qualitatively new level of solidarity in the context of the Palestine-Israel conflict. 

Palestinians work in the debris of buildings targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, Nov 1, 2023

Israel’s Military Is Part of the US War Machine

Norman Solomon

November 8, 2023

The governments of Israel and the United States are now in disagreement over how many Palestinian civilians it’s okay to kill. Last week – as the death toll from massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza neared 10,000 people, including several thousand children – top U.S. officials began to worry about the rising horrified outcry at home and abroad.

 

Amid Israeli genocide in Gaza, Washington threatens Iran with nuclear war

AlexLantier

November 7, 2023

After millions worldwide protested Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza this weekend, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Baghdad Sunday. In the Iraqi capital, he denounced pro-Iranian militias that have been active in Iraq since Washington illegally invaded the country, toppled its government and occupied it from 2003 to 2011.

The USS West Virginia, one of the nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed Ohio class of of US Navy submarines.

Threat in the sky: How cheap drones are changing warfare

SaraGoudarzi
November 6, 2023
On October 7, in a surprise attack, Hamas penetrated Israel’s famous air defense system, the Iron Dome, using small, relatively inexpensive commercial drones as part of a larger assault that killed more than 1,400 people and sparked an ongoing conflict that has left thousands dead and injured. Among other actions, the drones disabled the surveillance and observation capabilities of Israel’s watchtowers along the Gaza border.

A small victory for nuclear justice. And international cooperation.

Ivana Nikolić Hughes,Christian Ciobanu
November 3, 2023

In contrast with the grandeur of the General Assembly Hall, the uplifting design of the Trusteeship Council room, and the stunning circular table in the Security Council Chamber, Conference Room 4 at the UN Headquarters is modest and unassuming. And yet, magic can happen there. When the heads of state are long gone and even the ministers have departed New York, diplomats push forward agendas to advance international cooperation on any number of international issues. They give statements, engage in debates publicly and privately, and vote for resolutions and more, often late into the night.

Just One of the Ways the Media Lies: Looking at the World Through a Straw

Robert Freeman

November 6, 2023

Have you ever seen a one-sided coin? No? That’s because there isn’t one. And there is no world in a straw either.

هدف از زندگی‌ چیست؟ا

بسیاری از ما بدون اینکه بدانیم هدفمان از این زندگی‌ چیست و چرا همواره در تلاش معاش و در تقّلای بهبود وضع موجود هستیم، چگونگیِ این زندگی‌ و نیاز خود از آن را مورد پرسش قرار نمی‌دهیم. بنا‌بر‌این، اکثر تصمیمات زندگی‌ ما بدون دخالت ما و تحت جریانات و وقایع کلی‌ دنیا پیش میروند، در حالیکه ما تصور می‌کنیم که تصمیم گیرندهٔ آن خودمان بوده‌ایم.ا