I forgot to die

Tithi Bhattacharya

April 3, 2024

Today is the 167th day of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people that began on October 7. Even before Hamas’ strike on October 7, many media sources called 2023 “the deadliest year on record” for Palestinians in the West Bank. Israeli forces had killed 395 Palestinians in the West Bank that year, while settlers were responsible for 9 more killings. While murders such as these are the direct cessation of life, Israel still conducts other forms of violence, for instance attacks on hospitals and schools, that impede Palestinian lifemaking. In Palestine, a declared war is a spatio-temporal escalation of a slow and ongoing war against its people.

The NYT Finds US Complicity in Genocide Unremarkable

Norman Solomon

Apr 2, 2024

When The Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel,” a lot of people cared. Readers of the story posted more than 10,000 comments on its webpage. A leading progressive site for breaking news, Common Dreams, quickly followed up with coverage under a headline that began with the word “obscene.” 

 

A reader holds up a copy of a satirical paper, “The New York War Crimes, ” mocking The New York Times’ biased coverage of the Gaza genocide, on March 14, 2024 in New York City.(Photo: Nicki Kattoura/X)

Top Iranian general killed in Israeli strike: What we know so far

RT

April 2, 2024

A top Iranian general was among those killed in an apparent targeted assassination by Israel on Syrian soil on Monday. The airstrike, which hit Tehran’s consulate in Damascus, raises the prospect of a major regional escalation.

Israeli airstrike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria

Peter Symonds

April 1, 2024

An Israeli airstrike on Monday in the Syrian capital of Damascus destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy killing two senior generals of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) and at least five other people. The attack is a flagrant act of war, undoubtedly discussed with Washington, aimed at provoking a wider conflict throughout the Middle East with Iran and its allies.

 

GAZA LIVE BLOG: New Israeli Massacres in Gaza | Lapid: Netanyahu Must Go | Truce Talks to Resume – Day 177

Palestine Chronicle Staff

March 31, 2024

Israeli forces carried out more massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding scores of Palestinian civilians. 

History Says the Palestinians Will Remain

VijayPrashad

March 30, 2024

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency, sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion on Feb. 15, Kushner talked about “Gaza’s waterfront property,” which, he said, could be “very valuable.” 

اکثر آمریکایی ها معتقدند که ایالات متحده در دهه آینده وارد یک جنگ جهانی خواهد شد

این ترجمهٔ مقاله‌ای از نسخهٔ امروز روزنامهٔ اینترنتی مانتلی ریویو -بررسی ماهیانه- است.ا

 

Most Americans believe U.S. will be in world war within next decade

MonthlyReview

March 30, 2024

The majority of Americans believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a world war during the coming decade. Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. is preparing for great power wars with Russia and China, engaged in multiple Middle East conflicts, and posturing for a confrontation with Iran and North Korea.

Targeting opposition to Gaza genocide, University of Michigan proposes policy to suppress protests

Tom Carter

March 29, 2024

On Wednesday, the University of Michigan unveiled a proposal for a new administration policy that could be used to effectively prohibit public protests on campus, as part of an escalating nationwide and global crackdown on opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

 Students demonstrate against the Gaza genocide on March 28, 2024 at the University of Michigan.

جهان‌ها

آیا تولد ما و قدم گذاشتن به این دنیا نخستین تجربهٔ ماست، و پیش از تولد جهان دیگری را -که هیچگاه به خاطر نمی‌آوریم- تجربه نکرده‌ایم؟ یا اینکه ما قبل از ورود به این دنیا چیزی را تجربه می کنیم که هستی نیست؟

Worlds

Do we begin our lives in this world without any prior experience in any form of life or existence and in a different fashion or manner? 

Complicit in Genocide: Where Israel Gets Its Weapons From

Ramzy Baroud

March 28, 2024

Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7.

 

Is America a Rogue Superpower?

Ted Snider

March 28, 2024

“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world.

At overburdened Gaza hospital, Palestinians try to instill Ramadan spirit

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

March 27, 2024

One big problem with how we rank countries by happiness

Sigal Samuel

March 27, 2024

   We know that America is really unhappy. And Finland is the happiest country. Right?

Another Israeli soldier admits to implementing the ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7

JonathanOfir

March 26, 2024

In Israeli military terminology, the so-called “Hannibal Directive” is the policy of firing upon one’s own soldiers to avert a prospective captive situation. 

 

The Music of the late Iranian Singer Faramarz Aslani, Forced into Exile by a Puritan Revolution

Fariba Amini

March 26, 2024

 

US insists UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire will have “no impact at all”

Andre Damon

March 26, 2024

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for a two-week ceasefire in Gaza, after the United States abstained from a vote on the resolution.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, votes to abstain as the United Nations Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting at U.N. headquarters, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Kremlin comments on calls for death penalty after terrorist attack

RT

March 25, 2024

The Kremlin is not involved in any talks on lifting Russia’s moratorium on the death penalty in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

 

The story of Yazan Kafarneh, the boy who starved to death in Gaza

TareqS. Hajjaj

March 25, 2024

 

Yazan Kafarneh after dying of starvation. (Photo: Rabee’ Abu Naqirah)