October 6, 2024
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Saturday, October 5, 2024
After a year of terror in Gaza, our souls feel suspended in time
October 5, 2024
It is a terrible
thing to witness the obliteration of your homeland. When I think about what
we’ve lived through this past year, I feel like I’m going to lose my mind
completely. It is a shock that I’m still unable to absorb. I try not to think
at all, in the hope of maintaining my sanity until it ends.
The bodies of 88 unidentified Palestinians are buried in a mass grave in
Khan Younis, after Israeli forces returned them to Gaza severely
decomposed and without any identification, September 26, 2024. (Doaa
Albaz/Activestills)
Friday, October 4, 2024
Over 1 Million Flee 'Total Destruction' in Lebanon, With Cease-Fire Demanded
October 4, 2024
About 1.2
million people have been displaced as Israeli forces have surged into southern
Lebanon and undertaken a bombing campaign in multiple parts of the country,
including in and around Beirut, leaving many people out in the street, with
shelters mostly full as of Friday.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a neighborhood in a suburb of Beirut on October 3, 2024. (Photo: Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images)
They lie. They cheat. They steal. They bomb. And they spin
October 4, 2024
A case could be
made that Iran’s Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel’s
serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the
Axis of Resistance than the decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
The U.S. privately encouraged Israel to escalate in Lebanon
October 3, 2024
POLITICO
reported on Monday that despite the Biden administration’s public calls for a
ceasefire in Lebanon, White House officials privately told Israeli officials
that they agreed with the plan to escalate in Lebanon and shift its focus to
the north.
We Charge Genocide: The Shofar Calls Us to Account on Rosh Hashanah
October 3, 2024
Every year at
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, synagogues across the world sound the
shofar, a ram’s horn that represents the signature moment of the holiday.
Members of the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace join others in
protesting President Joe Biden's visit to Manhattan and calling for a
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, on February 7, 2024, in New York
City.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Iran launches hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh and Nasrallah assassinations
October 2, 2024
Iran launched a
barrage of hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening in an
unprecedented attack that hit several cities and Israeli military sites across
Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Hezbollah kills at least eight Israeli soldiers after south Lebanon infiltration attempt
October 2, 2024
Eight Israeli
soldiers have been killed in combat with Hezbollah in south Lebanon, the
Israeli military said in a statement on Wednesday. Three of those killed are
commanders, and seven other soldiers are critically wounded.
Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 2 2024 (AFP)
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Hezbollah confirms top commander killed during Israeli massacre in Beirut
September 21,
2024
Lebanese
resistance movement Hezbollah confirmed that senior commander Ibrahim Muhammad
Aqil was among 31 killed during an Israeli airstrike
that leveled two residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiye on
20 September.
Friday, September 20, 2024
Israeli air attack on Beirut kills eight as cross-border fire intensifies
September 20,
2024
Lebanon’s health
ministry says at least eight people have been killed and 59 wounded in an
Israeli air attack on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Scientists Who First Identified Threat of Microplastics Say World Must Now Act
September 20,
2024
Some of the key
scientists who first informed the world of the potential damage being done to
natural systems by microplastics are now calling for world leaders to take
decisive action to curb the introduction of these polluting materials into the
environment—and they hope the looming United Nations treaty process on plastics
can be a key vehicle for progress.
Children collect trash on the beach of Can Pere Antoni while participating in the educational program of the NGO "Safe the Med". (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
‘The Genocide Gentry’: Weapon execs sit on boards of universities, institutions
September 19,
2024
A trio of human
rights groups on Wednesday announced a new interactive initiative exposing what
the coalition is calling a “Genocide Gentry” of weapons company executives and
board members and “54 museums, cultural organizations, universities, and colleges
that currently host these individuals on their boards or in other prominent
roles.”
Students at San Jose State University are gathered at University's
Student Union Patio, to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Jose,
California, United States on April 24, 2024. Photo by Tayfun
Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
UN General Assembly Calls for End to Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories
Dave DeCamp
September 18,
2024
The UN General
Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for
an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
A
screenshot of the UN General Assembly’s vote on September 18, 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Water, War, and Women in Gaza
September 18,
2024
In late 2020, a
report titled Saving Gaza Begins With Its Waterstated:
The water crisis
in Gaza is a problem of daunting proportions, with grave implications for the
more than 2 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave... The Coastal
Aquifer from which Gaza pumps water is diminishing; but more dangerously, it is
experiencing significant deterioration from seawater and highly saline
groundwater intrusion, as well as sewage pollution.
A woman carries a water container in an
area sheltering displaced Palestinians, in Khan Yunis in the southern
Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2024. (Photo: Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran’s Crucial Decision on Israel
September 18,
2024
Iran faces
probably its most difficult decision since its 1979 victory in the Iranian
Revolution.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
25% of 95K Injuries inflicted by Israel in Gaza are “Life-Changing;” Require Medical Care that Israelis Destroyed
September 17,
2024
Ann Arbor
(Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli bombardments killed 38 people in Gaza.
Based on past experience, we can expect a majority of those killed to have been
women and children — at least 21 and maybe more. Photographs and video coming
out of Gaza show dead children being carried in burial shrouds. For intance, Al
Jazeera reports that an Israeli bombardment of the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza
City killed 3 people, and that a child and a woman are among the dead. Several
others were injured.
Israel is joining the first global AI convention, here’s why that’s dangerous
September 16,
2024
It is deeply
troubling that Israel has been allowed to join the first global treaty on
artificial intelligence (AI)—an agreement meant to regulate AI’s responsible
use while upholding human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. For 11
consecutive months, Israel has weaponized AI in its genocide in Gaza, deploying
AI-driven surveillance and automated targeting systems that have inflicted
devastating civilian harm. Yet, Israel is now celebrating its participation in
this treaty alongside the U.S., U.K., and EU, after spending two years at the
negotiating table and helping draft the first international AI treaty for
ethical AI governance. This contradiction exposes glaring hypocrisy and raises
serious questions about the international community’s true commitment to
accountability.
Destruction in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, April 2,
2024. (Photo: © Omar Ishaq/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images)
Capitalists want your blood and maybe your kidney and liver, too
Stephen Millies
September 16,
2024
Malcolm X
famously said, “show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” That’s
literally true for U.S. capitalism.
People wait in line outside CSL Plasma on May 25, 2021, in Brownsville, Texas.
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