Two
election attorneys challenged the top-two system in Federal Court in Oakland,
California on Thursday, November 21, 2024. David L. Shoen of Montgomery,
Alabama, and Seyeun D. Choi of Foster City, California filed a complaint asking
that California’s “Top-Two” election system be struck down as unconstitutional.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Challenge to California Top-Two Election System in Federal Court filed
Two
election attorneys challenged the top-two system in Federal Court in Oakland,
California on Thursday, November 21, 2024. David L. Shoen of Montgomery,
Alabama, and Seyeun D. Choi of Foster City, California filed a complaint asking
that California’s “Top-Two” election system be struck down as unconstitutional.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Gazans face extreme hunger as ‘real famine’ spreads from north to south
Ruwaida
Kamal Amer
Mustafa
Al-Darsh, a 35-year-old father of three from Gaza City, spends hours every day
searching for food for his family. Some days, he manages to secure a few canned
goods; other days, his family has to settle for plain rice. “In the north, we
yearn to eat bread with some thyme,” he told +972. He hasn’t been able to find
flour for months.
Displaced Palestinians line up to receive a meal in Khan Yunis, in the
southern Gaza Strip, November 29, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest
Tom
Engelhardt
(
Tomdispatch.com ) – Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise
victory in 2016.
No,
I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the
rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020).
Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do
think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances.
Two
times as the president of these increasingly disunited states of America? Holy
cowpie!
'Unsettling New Milestone': Top 12 US Billionaires Now Control $2 Trillion in Wealth
Eloise
Goldsmith
Just
12 U.S. billionaires now have a collective net worth of over $2 trillion—a
figure that amounts to a little less than a third of total federal spending in
2023—according to an analysis out Tuesday from Inequality.org, a project of the
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
‘We are human’: Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza
Hunger.
Cold. Thirst. Disease. These are the daily realities of life in Gaza, where for
the past 423 days, Israel has unleashed a genocide that will come to define our
contemporary era. As Palestinians struggle to meet their daily needs, they are
also faced with a battle to preserve their memories and dignity. Over the past
year, journalist and filmmaker Ruwaida Amer has produced numerous powerful,
heart-wrenching documentary reports for TRNN from the rubble and ruins of Gaza,
shining a light on the darkest realities of Israel’s genocidal war on
Palestinians, even as she herself suffers from—and struggles to survive—the
onslaught. Calling in from Gaza, Amer joins The Marc Steiner Show to share an
honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the
midst of genocide.
A Palestinian boy sits over a torn UNRWA sticker in Nuseirat in
the central Gaza Strip on December 2, 2024, amid the ongoing war between
Israel and Hamas militants. Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images
چه کسی پشت شعله ور شدن جنگ جدید سور یه قرار دارد؟
نهم آذر ۱۴۰۳
تارنمای آرتی
برگردان، کوتاه سازی و تنظیم سپیده دم
Sepidehdamaliasghar@gmail.com
Monday, December 2, 2024
Eight Days in Palestine
Matthew
Huh
I’m
back in Jordan after eight days in Palestine. I was in Palestine as part of a
delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engaged in Palestinian
liberation. We visited and had dialogues with Palestinians and Israelis in
Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah and Sderot. We sat, listened to
and spoke with Christians, Jews, Muslims and non-believers. We went to the Gaza
border.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
LIVE BLOG: ‘Tightly Coordinated Ambushes’ | Yemeni Missile | Massacre in Beit Lahia – Day 422
|
Killed |
Wounded |
Missing |
|
44,382 |
105,142 |
10,000 |
-Four people were slightly
injured as they rushed to the shelters as sirens sounded in central Israel
following the launch of a missile from Yemen.
-Two children were killed
in an Israeli bombardment of a tent housing displaced persons southwest of Al
Mawasi in Khan Yunis.
-According to the
Palestinian Health Ministry (Gaza), 44,382 Palestinians have been killed, and
105,142 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7,
2023.
اندیشیدن به غیرقابل تصور
هشتم آذر ۱۴۰۳
داود دشتبانی
انقلاب ایران بهزعم جامعهشناسان یکی از انقلابهای بزرگ تاریخ معاصر جهان است که در زمره انقلابهای کلاسیک چون انقلاب فرانسه و روسیه شمرده میشود. این انقلاب در عین اینکه موضوع مطالعات فراوان بوده به تئوریهای توطئه نیز دامن زده است. گروهی از هواداران سلطنت در ایران، کنفرانس گوادلوپ را توطئه قدرتهای جهانی برای سرنگونی محمدرضاشاه پهلوی میدانند اما این کنفرانس چه بود و چگونه میتوانست به سرنگونی رژیمی قدرتمند که تا چندی پیش از آن، توسط رئیسجمهور آمریکا جزیره ثبات معرفی شده بود، کمک کند؟
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Terrorists attack Iranian consulate in Syria – Tehran
Iran’s consulate in the Syrian city
of Aleppo has come under attack by “some terrorist elements,” the Islamic
Republic’s Foreign Ministry claimed on Saturday. A former local Al Qaeda
affiliate launched a major offensive against the city this week.
Friday, November 29, 2024
How Palestinian popular resistance became a global movement
Mandy
Turner
Today,
29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People.
There
is a long history of solidarity with Palestinians from countries and movements
struggling against colonialism and oppression across the world - especially
from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Members of the Palestinian community in Chile participate in a car
caravan on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People at Plaza Italia square in Santiago on 29 November 2023 (Javier
Torres/AFP)
PHOTOS: Rainstorm devastates Khan Younis displacement camp
Doaa
Albaz
The
first heavy rainfall of winter arrived in Gaza this week, flooding tent
encampments across the besieged Strip. With approximately 90 percent of the
enclave’s population having been displaced from their homes, often several
times, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are living in makeshift tents that
are ill-equipped to withstand the elements. Gaza’s Government Media Office
estimates that around 10,000 tents were either washed away or damaged due to
this week’s storm.
Seawater damages the tents of displaced people on the beach in Khan
Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 25, 2024. (Doaa
Albaz/Activestills)
Diaries from north Gaza: one woman’s story of survival
Sondos
Sabra
Since
October 7, 2023, Sondos Sabra has kept a diary of the genocide. These entries
serve as a window into her life and the universal Gazan story of what it means
to survive. "I remember that I remember, and I will not have that memory
erased."
Palestinians inspect the damage in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the
central Gaza Strip after Israeli shelling of the camp stopped on
November 29, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Ceasefire 101: Israel fails at war goals, Hezbollah succeeds
Ali
Rizk
Hezbollah
has once again proven to be a handful for Israel, notwithstanding the heavy
blows that were dealt to the resistance movement in the latest round of
hostilities. A ceasefire deal that has
come into effect after over two months of full-scale conflict on the
Lebanese–Israeli front falls far short of what Israel had hoped to achieve in
the earlier stages of this conflict when the momentum seemed to be on its side.
A map indicating where the Israeli forces are currently deployed
in south Lebanon one day after the ceasefire took effect.
Consumer Solar Surge: Pakistan Shows you Don’t Need Government Programs to Green the Grid
Juan
Cole
Ann
Arbor (Informed Comment) – While no one was looking, the Pakistani public took
matters into their own hands, adding 17 gigawatts of solar power this year.
These installations are mostly in the form of Chinese panels for rooftop or
ground level solar in towns and villages.
Greater Energy Levels by GOP Produce Victories Over Democrats
Ralph
Nader
Over
thirty years ago, Republican historian and political analyst, Kevin Phillips,
remarked that the “Republicans go for the jugular while the Democrats go for
the capillaries.” This serious disparity in political energy levels is rarely
taken into account to explain election turnouts. The voluntary enfeebling of
the Democratic Party started long ago. In 1970, writing in Harper’s Magazine,
economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a co-founder of Americans for Democratic
Action, wrote an article “Who Needs
Democrats? And What It Takes to be Needed?” He argued that if the
Democratic Party does not take on the corporate and political establishment, it
has no purpose at all.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
As US Celebrates Thanksgiving, Israel-Imposed Starvation and Suffering in Gaza Intensifies
Julia
Conley
As
millions prepared to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States on Wednesday,
human rights advocates provided dispatches from nearly 6,000 miles away in
Gaza, where the Biden administration has continued to provide political and
military support for Israel's onslaught despite public disapproval for the war
among Americans.
Injured Palestinians, including children,
are brought to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for medical treatment after
an Israeli attack on Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the northern part of
the Gaza on November 25, 2024. (Photo: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society
Negin
Owliaei & Maya Schenwar
In
the wake of Donald Trump’s election, after a campaign in which Trump threatened
the press, the left and “the enemy within,” 204 Republicans and 15 Democrats in
the House of Representatives decided to hand a gift to his incoming
administration — one that could be used to squash any kind of dissent.
My stories as an OB/GYN in Gaza reveal the truth of the Gaza genocide
Areej
Hijazi
I
am Dr. Areej Hijazi, an obstetrician and gynecologist. Before the October 2023
war, I worked at al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, and now I work at the
Emirati Hospital in Rafah. In this article, I will discuss my experience as an
obstetrician and gynecologist during the Gaza genocide.
Relatives of the Palestinian baby Bassam El-Maquse who was killed in
Israeli attacks, mourn as they receive the his body from the morgue of
Al-Aqsa Hospital for burial in Deir El-Balah, Gaza on March 22, 2024.
(Photo: Ali Hamad/APA Images)
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