March 18, 2024
Between October
and January, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built at least 15
illegal outposts and 18 illegal roads, as well as hundreds of meters of fences
and multiple roadblocks, a new report from Al-Jazeera shows.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
What the US Might Owe the World for Covid-19
March
19, 2024
The
U.S. government funded and supported a program of dangerous laboratory research
that may have resulted in the creation and accidental laboratory release of
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gravediggers
bury the body of a man suspected of having died of Covid-19 in the
cemetery of Vila Alpina, east side of São Paulo, Brazil, on April 3,
2020. That morning alone, five similar burials were held while about 150
graves were open in expectation of more victims of the new coronavirus.
(Gustavo Basso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Monday, March 18, 2024
Israel's Right-Wing Wants All the Palestinian Land—and This Explains Its State Terrorism
March 18, 2024
An Israeli man walks past an electoral billboard bearing portraits of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flanked by extreme right politicians Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich and Michael Ben Ari, with a caption in Hebrew reading "Kahana Lives" in a reference to a banned ultranationalist party in the 1994, in Jerusalem, on March 29, 2019. - Israeli general elections will be held on April 9, 2019. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America
March
18, 2024
Joe
Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look
set to make it possible again.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
آیا کشتن یک انسان کار درستی است؟!ا
در نگاه نخست این پرسش نابخردانه است. ولی چنین نیست، و بسیاری از کسانی که بدین پرسش پاسخ منفی میدهند آگاه نیستند که گرفتن جان یک انسان، با هر انگیزهای و با هر گرایشی، هرچند اگر برای انجام دادن دستوری از بالا دست باشد، چیزی جز آدمکشی نیست. پیچیدگی در اینجاست که بخش نخست واژهٔ آدمکشی، یعنی آدم، همواره به همچون یک انسان شناخته نمیشود. بدین سان که سخن ما در مورد کسی است که یک فرد زنده است و خواه ناخواه برای زندگی خود خواستار برتری است، ولی این انسان با نامهای دیگری شناسانده میشود. این نامها او را از جایگاه یک پدیده ارزشمند پایینتر میآورد و گرفتن جان او را آسانتر میسازد. برای نمونه این انسان را دشمن، قاتل، دزد، خیانتکار، بزهکار، آدم کش، جان ستان، کشنده، و با نمونههائی بدین سان میشناسانند، و همبودهای گوناگون کشتن انسانهای زنده با این فرنامها را میپذیرند.ا
Saturday, March 16, 2024
‘We scream, starve, and die alone’: Life in the ruins of Shuja’iya
March
16, 2024
More
than five months after Israel ordered all Palestinians in the northern Gaza
Strip to evacuate southward, around 300,000 remain. The majority are living in
one neighborhood: Shuja’iya.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Media continues to frame mass starvation in Gaza as natural disaster rather than deliberate siege tactic
March
15, 2024
The
evidence that Israel planned and carried out starvation as a deliberate policy
choice and siege tactic is overwhelming. Rarely in the history of war crimes
has a war crime been so telegraphed, openly discussed, and executed to the
letter.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
March 14, 2024
The following lecture was given by
World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Thousands attend a
protest organized by Jewish Voice for Peace in New York City
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Cori Bush’s Gazan SOTU Guest: Congress Is “Complicit in the Murder of My Family”
March
13, 2024
Intimaa
Salama, a 27-year-old dentist from Gaza, attended last week’s State of the
Union address at the invitation of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush. Though she said she
felt honored to join Bush in demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and
full restoration of funding for humanitarian assistance through the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), she said she’s now clear she’ll never
go to another State of the Union.
Intimaa Salama, a 27-year-old dentist from Gaza, stands in the
lobby of the Center for Global Citizenship at St. Louis University, where she
is currently a master’s student, the day after returning from the State of the
Union in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Biden’s Red Line: Why U.S. Could Be Days Away From Suspending Arms Sales to Israel
March
12, 2024
WASHINGTON
– There is a very real chance that the United States will halt the sale of
offensive weaponry to Israel by month’s end should it fail to dramatically
improve the amount of aid entering Gaza, or if it launches a military operation
in Rafah without a credible plan for the million-plus Palestinians sheltering
there.
Monday, March 11, 2024
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Strangled by Israel for decades, Gaza’s future must begin with free movement
March
10, 2024
In
partnership with
In
recent months, international media attention has rightfully been devoted to the
unprecedented scope of death and destruction wrought by the Israeli military in
the Gaza Strip. Daily news bulletins have grown increasingly concerned with the
deprivation of food, water, medicine, and other basic supplies resulting from
the intensified siege that Israel imposed shortly after the Hamas-led attacks
of October 7.
Israeli military vehicles seen near the Israeli-Gaza fence, February 28, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
Saturday, March 9, 2024
UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit 'Hamas links'
March
9, 2024
An
unpublished report from UNRWA said some of its employees released from Israeli
detention were tortured into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links
and that staff took part in the 7 October attacks, Reuters reported on 9 March.
The Historical Origin of “The Singing Union”
March 8, 2024
A
Very Musical Reputation
The
early history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) has become the stuff
of legend for the U.S. socialist left. In its first decade, the IWW led massive
strikes of industrial workers that cut across ethnic boundaries in the east and
brutal free speech fights for the rights of its organizers to publicly promote
industrial unionism in the west. Many of its organizers were assassinated by
right-wing vigilantes or executed by the state, and some have become martyr
figures for U.S. socialism and trade unionism. Key to the legendary status of
the early IWW is the notion that the organization was a “singing union.”1
Friday, March 8, 2024
With Genocide in Gaza, the Word 'Never' Has Been Stripped From 'Never Again'
March 8, 2024
The following is a statement written
by Arundhati Roy and delivered on her behalf at the meeting of Working People
Against Apartheid and Genocide in Gaza, at the Press Club, New Delhi, on
Thursday March 7, 2024. The remarks were first published by Scroll, an
independent media outlet in India.
Book Review: The New Tsar
By: Steven Lee Myers
This is a biography of Vladimir
Putin, Russia’s most powerful government official. The title of the book is
supposed to imply Putin as a dictator, as all the Tsars were. This trend
continues throughout the book, although the character of this person, and his
desire to promote Russia to its former status, Soviet Union, is clearly
explained throughout the book.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Survivors of Gaza aid convoy massacre describe ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli fire
March 5, 2024
In the early hours of Feb. 29, more
than 110 Palestinians were killed and several hundred wounded in northern Gaza
when a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid reached Gaza City, where a
starving crowd had amassed near the coast. Israel immediately denied
responsibility for the casualties, releasing edited drone footage purporting to
show that its forces “didn’t open fire on those seeking aid” and shot only at
“several individuals” who “posed a threat”; instead, Israel accused the
Palestinians of “trampling other Gazans to death.” However, testimonies
gathered by +972 Magazine from Palestinians who survived what they are calling
the “starvation massacre” describe Israeli forces opening fire indiscriminately
on the crowd.
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