Alastair Crooke
The Syria story,
it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic
Salafists’ rose to power.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Rainstorms uproot Gaza tents, leave children 'freezing and hungry'
Ahmed Aziz
Rainstorms
uprooted and flooded scores of displacement tents in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday,
worsening the already deteriorating living conditions for many Palestinians as
a suffocating Israeli siege continues to bar the entry of makeshift shelters.
A displaced Palestinian girl looks at a tent camp following heavy rains
amid the Israeli war on Gaza in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza
Strip, on 31 December 2024 (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Homelessness in U.S. has doubled under Biden
Patrick Martin
The number of
homeless people living in shelters or on the streets topped 770,000 this year,
according to the annual report by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development released Friday, a rise of 18 percent over 2023. That is more
homeless people than the population of Seattle, Detroit, Boston or Atlanta.
Homeless Americans outnumber the inhabitants of Washington DC, the capital city
of the richest country in the world.
Ralph Nader Statement on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
Ralph Nader
Jimmy Carter was
the last president to actively open the government for engagement by citizen
groups. Right after his November 1976 election, he agreed to address a huge
hotel ballroom in D.C. full of local and national citizen advocates. It was a
great success never again repeated by succeeding president-elects. Mr. Carter
then chose civic leaders and other solid progressives to head regulatory
agencies such as NHTSA, EPA, OSHA, FTC, and for other high positions in
government. Starting in 1981, Ronald Reagan undermined many Carter
Administration health and safety initiatives.
Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia
Monday, December 30, 2024
Israel’s collateral killing of civilians is finally in the spotlight
Robert Inlakesh
The New York
Times recently published a piece admitting that an unprecedented amount of
“collateral damage” has been permitted by the Israeli military. However, in
order to sanitize the revelations it claims to be uncovering, it omits key
statistics that were previously revealed.
FILE PHOTO. A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza. © Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images
Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir
Michael K. Smith
A pious Sunday
school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he
came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular
disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented
heights. The big business agenda during his term in office (1977-1981) was to
roll back the welfare state, break the power of unions, fan the flames of the
Cold War to increase military spending, engineer tax breaks for wealthy
corporate interests, and repeal government regulation of business. While
portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for
Wall Street.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Former President and Human Rights Champion Jimmy Carter Dies at 100
Julia Conley
Former President
Jimmy Carter, who served just four years in office and went on to win the Nobel
Peace Prize for his decades of work promoting human rights and international
peace, died on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 100.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism
Henry A. Giroux
For decades,
neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public
institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in
the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a
dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives
of profit and economic efficiency.
USC
students walk out of class and march around their campus in support of
Palestinians and the divest movement on October 7, 2024, in Los Angeles,
California. Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News / SCNG via Getty Images
Moscow warns US, UK preparing 'ISIS attacks' on airbases in Syria
Russia's Foreign
Intelligence Service (FIS) warned on 28 December that the US and UK are
planning to use ISIS to attack Russian military bases in Syria to further
destabilize the country after the fall of the Syrian government.
10 Tips to Help You Fall Asleep Fast
Michelle Crouch
We’ve all been
there: staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning and waiting for sleep to
come — only to find it slipping further away.
Friday, December 27, 2024
Israeli soldiers storm Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital, force out semi-naked medics and patients
Ahmed Dremly
Israeli soldiers
stormed Gaza's last functioning hospital on Friday and forced semi-naked
Palestinian medics and patients to leave on foot to an unknown destination,
according to videos and eyewitness testimony shared with Middle East Eye.
Israeli forces switched off oxygen supplies inside Kamal Adwan and
forced medics and patients out in the streets on 27 December 2024
(Screengrab)
Resist, my people, resist: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Vijay Prashad
Dear friends,
Greetings from
the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Maysa Yousef (Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory), Alice in Palestine #1, 2021.
'A Policy Choice': US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year
Jessica Corbett
The
controversial federal system for tracking homelessness in the United States
recorded an 18% increase from 2023, breaking the record previously set last
year, according to a report released Friday.
Unhoused people are seen near the City Hall during heavy rain in San Francisco, California, on December 26, 2024. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Three babies freeze to death in Gaza refugee camp amid Israeli blockade Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/26/three-babies-freeze-to-death-in-gaza-refugee-camp#ixzz8vXS80ReP
Father of
three-week-old victim Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh says family slept on cold sand in
tent exposed to bitter winds.
Mahmoud al-Faseeh carries the body of his daughter, three-week-old Sila,
who froze to death in the family tent in the al-Mawasi area outside the
town of Khan Younis, December 25, 2024 [Hani Alshaer/Anadolu]
‘We will leave when the last Palestinian leaves’: The defiant last stand of the doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital
Tareq S. Hajjaj
For 75 days,
doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army's attempts
to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors
are still refusing to leave, even as the army steps up its attacks.
Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiyeh (middle), holds up
his hands during the Israeli invasion of the hospital, October 26, 2024.
(Photo: Screenshot/Social Media)
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Palestinians Endure Another Christmas of Genocide and Displacement
Michel Moushabeck
Over the past 14 months, I have watched in horror as
fellow Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to Israel’s relentless
bombardment — targeting refugee camps, residential neighborhoods, schools,
hospitals, universities and bakeries — and forced to live the nightmare of
homelessness in leaky tents without food, water or medical care. I have
listened to friends and family in the West Bank and East Jerusalem talk about
their despair and describe the daily terror they are subjected to at the hands
of the Israeli military and armed settlers, whose aim is to get them to leave
their homes and land.
Palestinians
partake in the yearly Christmas procession towards the Church of the
Nativity in Bethlehem town in the Israel-occupied West Bank on December
24, 2024. HAZEM BADER / AFP via Getty Images
For Christmas: The Persian Poet Nezami’s Story of Jesus Finding Virtues even in the Lowliest
Juan Cole
On Christmas Day, I like to recall the significance
of Jesus and the nativity for Muslims. I’ve talked about Rumi, Attar, and other
mystics. Today it is Nezami’s turn.
What If Jesus Had Been Born into the American Police State?
December 25,
2024
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“When the song of the angels is stilled,
when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the
shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the
lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to
rebuild the nations, to bring peace among the people, to make music in the
heart.”
—Howard Thurman, theologian and civil rights activist
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