Sunday Was Earth's Hottest Day on Record

Olivia Rosane

July 23, 2024

July 21 was Earth's hottest day on record, overtaking the record set last July during the hottest year in millennia.

  

Citizens are cooling off in a bomb shelter as the high temperature continues in Chongqing, China, on July 21, 2024.(Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma

Awdah Hathaleen

July 22, 2024

The demolition forces enter the village. All the children run to their mothers, who scramble to salvage whatever they can from their homes before it’s too late. Everyone watches on anxiously to see who will be made homeless today. The bulldozers gather in the center of the village and then stop. Soldiers disembark. The villagers look each other in the eye, searching for words of comfort, but there are none. Our children ask us why this is happening, but we have no answers.

Feeling the heat: capitalism and global warming

MartinHart-Landsberg

July 22, 2024

We are in real trouble. Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023. Last year was also the hottest in recorded history and, year by year, more Americans are feeling the consequences. Yet, we have seen only modest attempts to bring emissions down.

 

 Heat waves: Increasingly common, ever more deadly. (Photo: journalistsresource.org)

‘Hunted like deer in a forest’: Palestinian civilians decry Israel attacks

FedericaMarsi

July 21, 2024

 

 Mourners carry the bodies of family members to a burial ground in Khuzaa, southern Gaza [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Mister Netanyahu comes to Washington and will receive a warm welcome

July 20, 2024

Next week, on Wednesday, July 24th, Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, although he has not yet received a formal invitation. When the Israeli prime minister has traveled to Washington every year, he’s conveyed a message of closeness and intimacy, unlike the 4 years since his last visit to the White House, something that does not go unnoticed by friends and enemies.

ICJ Tells Israel to End Occupation of Palestinian Territories, Pay Reparations

MichelMoushabeck

July 19, 2024

In a landmark opinion issued today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said that Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip is in breach of international law.

Demonstrators gather outside the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestine and Nicarague, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024.

US declares 'mission complete' for Gaza Aid Pier after delivering one day's worth of food

JUL 18, 2024

The Pentagon announced on 17 July that the floating pier built off the coast of Gaza would be dismantled for good, declaring its “mission complete” two months after it started operations.

 

Hopes for Gaza Ceasefire Fade Again

July 17, 2024

Northern and central Gaza have been hit by Israeli airstrikes this week as troops return to battle Hamas fighters in areas they claimed to have cleared many months ago. The intensified military offensive unfolded just days after mediators thought they were making headway in negotiations for a ceasefire. On Friday, Hamas reportedly dropped its insistence on a “complete” ceasefire as a prerequisite for talks.

 

The US Continues To Undermine Its Own Interests in Iran

Ted Snider

July 17, 2024

The American-led isolation of Iran is springing leaks all over. It seems that wherever Iran knocks, everyone answers. Except the United States. Instead, the U.S. continues to close the door, following a long pattern with Iran of undermining its own interests.

 

By failing to stop the Gaza genocide, the ICJ is working exactly as intended

Emilio Dabed

July 16, 2024

Millions worldwide are appalled by what they see as the total failure of the international legal order to prevent Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Despite major cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), there is a growing sense of frustration that the law has not done its job. While understandable, this outrage is based on a fundamental misconception that international law’s objective is to eradicate violence; that may be what the UN Charter promises, but it is not what international law is expected to do nor what it actually does. 

Science and Freedom: Toward a new revolutionary epistemology

MR

July 13, 2024

Paul Robeson, speaking of the scientific achievements of the West which have formed the bedrock of its claim to supremacy, posed a question for the 20th century: “having found the key, has Western man—Western bourgeois man—sufficient strength left to turn it in the lock?”1

 

The Gaza Genocide Deepens: The Reckoning Begins for the Perpetrators

Ralph Nader

July 15, 2024

In the early weeks of Israel’s massive bombardment and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli military was killing anyone who moved and destroying anything that stood.  In response to telephone calls from President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties reportedly he would respond:  Don’t lecture me, look at what you did to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden.

 

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Israel’s war on Gaza live: Another deadly strike on a UN school

Mersiha Gadzo and Federica Marsi

July 14, 2024

 

Dozens killed as Israel strikes Al-Mawasi 'safe zone' in Gaza

 

July 13, 2024

Israeli forces killed at least 71 civilians and injured 289 more in a series of massive airstrikes on the Al-Mawasi region on the southern Gaza coast, Al Jazeera reported on 13 July.

 Aftermath of an Israeli strike in Al-Mawasi, Gaza. (Photo credit: BBC)

The People of Gaza Starved as US Built a Public Relations Ploy in the Form of a Pier

 Juan Cole

July 12, 2024

The Navy Times reports that the US aid pier at Gaza will be permanently decommissioned. The $270 million pier could not be reattached this week because of heavy seas.

 

U.S. and Israeli troops assemble the Trident Pier off the shore of the northern Gaza Strip on April 26, 2024. (Photo: U.S. Army Central Command)

The Folly of Empire and the Albatross of Debt

David Stockman

July 12, 2024

Like the case of Rome before it, Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost of the national security budget is now upwards of $1.3 trillion per year (counting veterans expense and international operations and aid), but there is no way to pay for it.

CBO Projects The Public Debt Will Reach $146 Trillion By Mid-Century

 

What can Palestinian artists do in the face of our slaughter?

Tamer Nafar

July 11, 2024

At the end of December 2023, as the war in Gaza neared its third month, several Palestinian singers in Israel faced harsh criticism online after they promoted their upcoming Christmas and New Year’s performances on social media. This sparked a widespread debate among their fellow Palestinian citizens.

Israel forcibly displaces tens of thousands from Gaza City into deadly 'safe-zones'

July 10, 2024

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City in northern Gaza and are on the move with nowhere to go due to new evacuation orders issued by Israel. 

Scientists to Biden: Cancel New Nuclear IBM System

Edward Carver

July 10, 2024

More than 700 scientists on Monday called for an end to the United States' land-based nuclear weapons program that's set to be replaced, following a Pentagon decision to approve the program despite soaring costs.