What Time’s 2023 Person of the Year reveals about the West

RachelMarsden

December 7, 2023

Taylor Swift’s victory, and her mostly unimpressive competitors, is a PR disaster for the establishment

 

'Staggering' Rise in Reports of Islamophobia During Gaza War

Jessica Corbett

December 7, 2023

"People and institutions have spent the past two months weaponizing Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias to both justify the ongoing violence against Palestinians in Gaza and silence supporters of Palestinian human rights."

 

 Six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen times in an alleged hate crime committed by their 71-year-old white landlord in Plainfield Township, Illinois on October 14, 2023.

(Photo: Family photo)

Why I’m challenging Chuck Schumer to a debate on Israel

DaveZirin

December 7, 2023

In a recent article for The Nation, Dave Zirin, host of Edge of Sports, described a recent national march in support of Israel held in DC as a hate rally. This incurred the wrath of Senator Chuck Schumer, who has accused our very own Dave of anti-Semitism. Dave Zirin responds in this special edition of “Choice Words.”

 

Anti-Zionist Jews Lead Protests Against IDF Fundraisers

EzraBerkley Nepon / Mondoweiss

December 6, 2023

Standing up against death and destruction in Gaza represents a tradition as long as Zionism itself.

 

And Here’s to You, Henry Kissinger…

WaldenBello

December 6, 2023

On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record numbers. Let me add to the “praises.” More than anyone else, Henry, along with his boss, Richard Nixon, was responsible for my transformation into an activist.

 

 Photograph of Henry A. Kissinger Dressing for a State Dinner – Public Domain

Israel's AI Targeting Puts All the People of Gaza in the Crosshairs

JonathanCook

December 5, 2023

It seems all restraints have been removed, but Israel's unrepentant backers in the West continue to turn a blind eye as the Palestinian people face a genocidal assault.

 

 A Palestinian man carries a child injured during Israeli bombardment in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip, on December 2, 2023, as the bombing campaign by the Israeli military described as "genocidal" continued.

(Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel orders evacuations as onslaught on Gaza widens

Aljazeera

December 4, 2023

The Israeli army’s assault is pushing further into the south of Gaza, leaving Palestinians little chance of safety.

 

Smoke rises at the site of a house destroyed in an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

If I Were Going To Commit Genocide

CaitlinJohnstone

December 3, 2023

Caitlin Johnstone:If I Were Going To Commit Genocide I would eventually force other nations to either take the targeted people in or keep allowing them to be slaughtered.

 

How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza’s Civilians

Juan Cole

December 1, 2023

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 is an opportunity to consider the ways in which his lawlessness helped undermine International Humanitarian Law, the laws of war that responsible leaders attempted to erect to prevent the horrors of WW II from recurring. In his single-minded calculation of supposed “national” interest, which he imagined as identical to the interests of the rich, he was entirely willing to mow down innocent noncombatants in the hundreds of thousands. There is a direct line from his advocacy of carpet-bombing Southeast Asian villagers to the Israeli carpet-bombing of Gaza, which resumed early Friday morning.

 

Why Socialism?

AlbertEinstein

May 1, 2009

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.

—The Editor

Albert Einstein (1959), charcoal and watercolor drawing by Alexander Dobkin. Dobkin (1908–1975) was an important painter of the mid-twentieth century American realist tradition along with other left-wing artists such as Jack Levine, Robert Gwathmey, Philip Evergood, and Raphael and Moses Soyer. A student and collaborator of the Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, his work is in the permanent collections of the Butler Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution. (The preceding caption was written by John J. Simon, "Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile," Monthly Review vol. 57, no. 1 [2005].)

Israeli Government’s Mass Terrorism Fortified by Biden and Congress

Ralph Nader

December 1, 2023

A letter to President Joe Biden, dated October 24, 2023, on the Israel-Hamas war by international law specialist, Bruce Fein and me, prompted this form letterBiden response.

 

Hamas has won the war!

Gilbert Doctorow
November 25, 2023
This afternoon I watched the news coverage of the release of the 13 Israeli women and children hostages by Hamas and the corresponding release of 39 Palestinian women and teenagers from Israeli prisons. The BBC, CNN, Euronews:  all were factual in their presentations of what occurred.  But none tried to make any sense out of it. Let us do that now.

How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza’s Civilians

Juan Cole

December 1, 2023

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 is an opportunity to consider the ways in which his lawlessness helped undermine International Humanitarian Law, the laws of war that responsible leaders attempted to erect to prevent the horrors of WW II from recurring. In his single-minded calculation of supposed “national” interest, which he imagined as identical to the interests of the rich, he was entirely willing to mow down innocent noncombatants in the hundreds of thousands. There is a direct line from his advocacy of carpet-bombing Southeast Asian villagers to the Israeli carpet-bombing of Gaza, which resumed early Friday morning.

 

‘Fascism never left Germany’: Berlin’s repression of pro-Palestine activists

Belal Awad & Leonardo Erhardt

November 30, 2023

From beatings to arbitrary arrests, Germany’s crackdown on all those who dare defy the country’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza targets everyone from Palestinian refugees to anti-Zionist Jews.

 

Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

RebeccaGordon

November 29, 2023

( Tomdispatch.com) – When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn’t.)

 

A “Pause” Isn’t a Ceasefire — and a Ceasefire Isn’t an End to the Siege of Gaza

MichelMoushabeck

November 28, 2023

A lasting peace can only be achieved when the legitimate rights and grievances of Palestinians are addressed.

Palestinian children, sitting in a destroyed house, look at ruins during the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the village of Khuza'a near the border fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023.

Targeting the Messenger to Kill the Message

Paul Cochrane

November 27, 2023 

The Israeli onslaught on Palestinians is having a chilling effect on the media and its ability to report on events. So far, since 7 October, 46 Palestinian journalists have been killed and there has been the complete or partial destruction of “at least 117 press offices”.

 

چرا اسرائیل در غزه شکست خورد؟

محمود دلخواسته

اخبار روز

یکشنبه, ۵ آذر ۱۴۰۲

ساعت ۳:۱۱

در آغاز لازم به یاد آوری است که بنیاد گردایی اسلامی که با خمینیسم و ولایت مطلقه فقیه، وارد فضای سیاسی جهان شد و در عرض چند سال، معادلهای سنی آن به شکل طالبان و القاعده و داعش سر بر آوردند، حال بمانند فواره ای که بعد از به نقطه اوج به نقطه شروع باز می گردد، دچار سقوط شده است.  اوج این سقوط را هم در وطن خود می بینیم و در روحانیت ارسطو زده ای که اعتبار و حیثیت اجتماعی را که در طی قرنها برای خود کسب کرده بود، در جستجوی قدرت به باد داد. اینگونه، معلوم شد که امپراطور لباس ندارد و آنچه دارد هیچ نیست جز فساد و خشونت و فریب.  اینگونه، جامعه ملی، در کلیت خود، از دین رسمی عبور کرده و باورمندان، محل دین را، نه بر سرنیزه قدرت دولت و حکومت، که در قلب خود قرار داده  و همراه دیگر باورهای دینی و غیر دینی، در ساختن جامعه ای سکولار، بر اصل «موسی به دین خود، عیسی بدین خود.»  که ریشه در فرهنگ ایرانی دارد، ایران آزاد و مستقل فردا را در باورهای خود واقعیت خواهند بخشید.  کمتر شکی است که در نتیجه این تغییر، این مدل، الهام بخش دیگر جوامع اسلامی خواهد شد و آنگاهی، ایدئولوژی ارتجاعی سازمانهایی چون حماس یا شیفت پارادایمی در باور خود را خواهد پذیرفت و یا منزوی.ا

  

UK’s Rwanda Deportation Ruling Offers Assange Hope

Craig Murray
November 26, 2023
The recent Appeal Court finding in the U.K.’s Rwanda deportation case that the court ultimately determines the worth of diplomatic assurances on good treatment could be greatly significant in the Julian Assange case, writes Craig Murray.

Activating the Genocide Convention

Craig Murray
November 19, 2023
There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.