The Moon's man-made problems

Arion McNicoll

December 11, 2023

Humanity is now the dominant force influencing the Moon's future, according to scientists calling for a formal declaration of a new geological epoch called the "Lunar Anthropocene".

 

‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school

IbrahimMohammad
December 11, 2023
Refusing Israel's orders to evacuate northern Gaza, Palestinians are filling every available space amid growing threats of airstrikes and service collapse.

Tlaib Says Biden Admin 'At Serious Risk' of ICC Prosecution

JakeJohnson

December 11, 2023

"Our district didn't send President Biden to the White House to have him facilitate the killing of innocent civilians," said the Michigan Democrat.

 

Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving; Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

JuanCole

December 10, 2023

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations warned on Saturday that half the population of Gaza is now starving.

 

Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress

Ralph Nader

December 8, 2023

The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers.

Palestinians detained by Israel in Gaza blindfolded, stripped to underwear

Al Jazeera Staff

December 8, 2023

At least 100 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces have been stripped to their underwear, blindfolded and made to kneel on a street in northern Gaza, according to images and videos widely circulated on social media and confirmed by the Israeli army.

 

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.