From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb

Belal Awad and Leo Erhadt

September 9, 2024

Polio. Chickenpox. Hepatitis. The threat of epidemics is looming large in Gaza, thanks to Israel’s deliberate destruction of the Strip’s healthcare and sanitation infrastructure. Left without clean water, sewage, waste disposal, and adequate shelter, the health of Palestinians in Gaza is rapidly declining. Children and the elderly are among the most vulnerable, and time is running out. The Real News reports from the ground in Gaza, speaking directly with sanitation experts and local mothers about the conditions Israel has created through its total war on the Palestinian people.

 

The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

Richard D. Wolff

September 9, 2024

 

General Motors HQ, Detroit. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

امپراتوری بحران زده ایالات متحده می خواهد جهان را با خود در شعله های هسته ای به زیر بکشد

بنیاد فرهنگ راهبردی

ششم سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴

 

ایالات متحده خود را با جمع صفر تعریف می کند. اسطوره ملی آن - بیایید یک لحظه غرور مضحک را در خود فرو ببریم - این است که یک ملت استثنایی در تاریخ جهان است. ظاهراً این رهبر ضروری "جهان آزاد" است، نمونه ای از فضیلت دموکراتیک و دارای قدرتمندترین و خیرخواه ترین نیروی نظامی است که جهان تا کنون دیده است.ا

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Three Killed at Karameh Crossing | 100 Rockets in 24 Hours | Massacre in Jabaliya – Day 338

Palestine Chronicle Staff

September 8, 2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
40,939	94,616	10,000

Israeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7

Jonathan Cook

September 8, 2024

For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I drove past Megiddo prison on hundreds of occasions. Over time I came to barely notice the squat grey buildings, surrounded by watch towers and razor wire.

Gaza live: Twenty-four Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn

Live Updates

September 7, 2024

Women and children killed in Israeli attack in northern and central Gaza

3 minutes ago

The official spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza reported that at least three people were killed and 20 others injured in an attack at a center in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.

Canada is ending Jewish National Fund’s charitable status

Yves Engler

September 6, 2024

The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status may be the most important Palestine solidarity victory in Canadian history. The grassroots win is a boost to the global Stop the JNF campaign and efforts to disrupt Canadian charity assistance to Israel.

 

Israeli troops withdraw from Jenin, Tulkarem after 10 day assault on West Bank

The Cradle

September 6, 2024

Israeli troops withdrew from the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarem early on 6 September after 10 days of brutal raids that resulted in dozens of casualties and decimated infrastructure. 

US Finally Agrees to Back Limits on Plastic Production. Here’s Why That Matters.

Schuyler Mitchell

September 5, 2024

Plastic waste is pummeling the South Pacific, polluting coral reefs and lagoons, washing up in tons on sandy shores and accumulating in a giant mass in the ocean. Ocean currents put Pacific Island nations at the front lines of the global plastic pollution crisis, even though the islands’ 2.3 million inhabitants contribute less than 1.3 percent of the world’s plastic waste. In just five years, experts predict that up to 53 million tons of plastic pollution will impact the lives of Pacific Islanders annually.

 

 Residents on boats collect recyclable plastics from the heavily polluted Citarum River in Batujajar, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on June 12, 2024.

Who Wants to Kill and Die for the American Empire?

Nicolas J.S. Davies

September 6, 2024

The Associated Pressreports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers.

 A Ukrainian recruiting poster reads, “It’s brave to admit your fears.” (Photo: Ministry of Defense, Ukraine)

Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page

Belén Fernández

September 5, 2024

In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children – Danish journalist Nikolaj Krak penned a dispatch from Israel for the Copenhagen-based Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper.

People protest against the Israeli government in Tel Aviv on September 2, 2024 [Florion Goga/Reuters]

4 Dead in Mass Shooting in Georgia dominated Media; 42 dead in Mass Bombardment in Gaza Ignored

Juan Cole

September 5, 2024

 

Inside the brutal siege of Jenin

Mariam Barghouti

September 4, 2024

On Aug. 28, Israel launched “Operation Summer Camps,” the largest military invasion witnessed in the northern West Bank in over two decades. In Jenin, Israeli forces first moved into the city before imposing a full-blown siege on the refugee camp within hours; the army simultaneously carried out operations in Tubas, Nablus, Ramallah, and Tulkarem.

 

 Israeli military forces seen during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 2, 2024. (Flash90)

‘Jenin Is Just the Beginning’: Israel Planning More Escalations in West Bank

Dave DeCamp

September 3, 2024

Israel is planning more significant escalations in the West Bank, and the Israeli military now considers the occupied territory the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday.

 

An Israeli military vehicle takes part in a raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 1, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman

Timeline: Israel’s deadly seven-day raid in occupied West Bank’s Jenin

Al Jazeera Staff

September 3, 2024

The Israeli military is now carrying out its seventh day of massive raids across the occupied West Bank, including in Jenin, a city that houses nearly 50,000 people.

 

جایگاه انسان در دنیای حیوانات - مارک تواین۱

 در ماه اوت سال ۱۵۷۲، در پاریس و برخی‌ دیگر از شهرهای فرانسه۲، مواردی مشابه واقعه‌ای که در اینجا می‌آید رخ داد. این واقعه یک جنگ بین مسیحی‌ علیه مسیحی‌ بود. به این صورت که مسیحیانی که به آنها کاتولیک رومی می‌گفتند، مسیحیان دیگری را که پروتستان لقب داشتند غافلگیر کردند و هزاران زن و مرد و کودک را کشتند. این روز خاطره‌انگیز، روز سنت بارتلومی نام گرفت. در روم، پاپ و کلیسا با شنیدن این خبر بسیار خوشحال شدند و خداوند را شکر گفتند.ا

Man’s Place in the Animal World – Mark Twain (1)

In August, 1572, similar things were occurring in Paris and elsewhere in France(2). In this case it was Christian against Christian. The Roman Catholics, by previous concert, sprang a surprise upon the unprepared and unsuspecting Protestants, and butchered them by thousands -- both sexes and all ages. This was the memorable St. Bartholomew's Day. At Rome the Pope and the Church gave public thanks to God when the happy news came.

 

Massive Demonstrations, National Strike in Israel as Crowds blame PM Netanyahu for deaths of Hostages

Juan Cole

September 2, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghrebi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis participated on Sunday evening in massive demonstrations unprecedented since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, especially in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. They were demanding a deal of the exchange of hostages that would lead to the release of the nearly 100 Israeli hostages in the hands of Hamas, only 60 or so are thought to remain alive.

‘The Axis of Resistance’ prepares to get revenge on Israel

Abbas Juma

September 2, 2024

During Arbaeen, Iraqis traditionally dress is black. This Shiite religious ritual marks the end of 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussain, the grandson of Islamic Prophet Muhammad, who died in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD.

 

Thousands take part in a mourning event to mark Arbaeen in Iraq's southern city of Karbala on August 24, 2024. ©  Karar Essa / Anadolu via Getty Images

General Strike in Israel | 770,000 Call for Deal | Ambush in Jenin | Massacre in Gaza – Day 331

                      TheGaza Genocide

Killed	Wounded	Missing
40,738	94,154	10,000

  Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, Palestine Chronicle)