SEATTLE (AP) — A
federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s
executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in
the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first
hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Friday, January 24, 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Israel continues Jenin raid as two Palestinians killed in West Bank
Israeli soldiers
have killed two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they continue a
military assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp.
Palestinian women sit across from the rubble of a house where two
Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Burqin village near
Jenin in the occupied West Bank. [AFP]
For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism
Murat K. Girgin
Karl Marx and
Vladimir Lenin, as the founders of the theories of Capitalism and Imperialism,
explained the dynamics of historical events–once perceptible only as
patterns–through the lens of “the science of political economy.” Therefore,
when discussing concepts like war or peace, it becomes essential to lend an ear
to these two figures and their successors, dust off their books from the
shelves, and start revisiting their ideas.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Death toll in Gaza rises as ceasefire allows rescuers to search rubble
Mera Aladam
As people in
Gaza scour what remains of their homes and land following the ceasefire that
took effect on Sunday, victims of Israel's heavy bombardment campaign since 7
October 2023 are being recovered from beneath the rubble.
A boy rides his bicycle past destroyed infrastructure east of Rafah in
the southern Gaza Strip on 21 January 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
Sanders Blasts Trump for Ignoring 'Virtually Every Important Issue Facing Working Families'
Jake Johnson
On the campaign
trail, President Donald Trump posed in a garbage truck and performed a staged
shift at a McDonald's as he postured as a champion of the working class.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is pictured at President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Trump Reportedly Resuming Shipments of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel
Sharon Zhang
President Donald
Trump is slated to resume shipments of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, reports
say, despite the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal having been implemented the day
before his inauguration on Monday and Israel’s extensive use of the bombs on
civilian areas.
Smoke
rises from a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike at the Bureij
camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on January 12,
2025. Eyad Baba / AFP via Getty Images
Palestinians Dig 68 More Bodies Out of Gaza Rubble, Raising Death Toll
Dave DeCamp
On Tuesday,
Palestinians in Gaza continued digging bodies out of the rubble of buildings
destroyed by Israel as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas entered its third
day.
Palestinians
search building rubble in a destroyed neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza, on January
21, 2025, as residents return following a ceasefire deal (Photo by Majdi
Fathi/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect)
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy
Haitham S.
Ever since the
beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October 2023, Palestinians in the
occupied West Bank have been suffering from an acute unemployment crisis. In
the first six months of the war, the unemployment rate nearly tripled, with
over 300,000 workers losing their main source of income.
Israeli settlers harass Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta, South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)
7 Reasons Why Age and Alcohol Don’t Mix
Sonya Collins
As you add more
candles to your birthday cakes, you may notice that your organs don’t work as
efficiently as they once did. Your balance might not be as good, and your
response time may not be as quick. Perhaps you have more aches and pains than
you did last year.
Monday, January 20, 2025
Unknown heroes: Memories of a Gaza first responder
Mustafa Al-Jarou
Editor’s
Note: This reflection was written before the announcement of a ceasefire in
Gaza on January 15, 2025.
First responders and civilians look for survivors amid the rubble of
destroyed buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the
southern Gaza Strip, December 14, 2023, (Photo: Bashar Taleb/APA Images)
Progressives Say "Billionaires' Row" at Inauguration Ceremony Shows True Winners of Trump Agenda
Jake Johnson
While
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to hail the "start of a thrilling
new era of national success" during his inaugural speech on Monday,
progressives said the presence of some of the nation's most powerful
billionaires at the event signals that the incoming administration's agenda
will prioritize the success the country's wealthiest.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L), Apple CEO
Tim Cook (C), and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (R) attend services as part
of Inauguration ceremonies at St. John's Church on January 20, 2025 in
Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death
Kathy Kelly
Over the past
three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators
created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding
accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their
tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX
(formerly Raytheon) and General Atomics (a company which manufactures
weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes. On January 15, 2025, as
the world marks the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, a press
conference announced the Tribunal’s verdicts and release the report of ten
international jurors who have weighed the evidence submitted to them.
President
Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence look on at the Martin Luther
King Jr. memorial on MLK day in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2020. NICHOLAS KAMM /AFP via Getty Images
Sunday, January 19, 2025
LIVE BLOG: Abu Obeida: The Sacrifices and Blood of Our People Will Not Be in Vain – Day 471
Killed Wounded Missing
46,876 110,642 11.000
After 471 days of relentless massacres of innocent Palestinians by Israel, alongside legendary steadfastness and resistance, a ceasefire in Gaza officially begins.
Israel, however, has already violated the agreement by bombing targets across the Gaza Strip and killing several Palestinians.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 46,876 Palestinians have been killed, and 110,642 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.
Heroic medical staff stand tall alongside the police force outside the Maamadani Hospital. (Photo: via QNN)
Gaza Cease-Fire Takes Effect After Deadly Three-Hour Delay
Jessica Corbett
Israeli forces
killed at least 19 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning during
a three-hour delay in implementing a cease-fire and hostage-release deal that
Israel's Cabinet finally approved the previous day.
Palestinians walk through the remnants of
the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip as a cease-fire between Hamas
and Israel begins on January 19, 2025. (Photo: Karam Hassan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza to take effect on Sunday morning
The ceasefire in
Gaza between Israel and Hamas will take effect at 08:30am (06:30 GMT) on
Sunday, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced in a post on X.
Russia-Iran security pact ‘epochal’ – Middle East expert
Moscow and
Tehran have taken their cooperation to the level of strategic partnership with
a “truly epochal” pact, Farhad Ibrahimov, a Middle East expert at the
Moscow-based Valdai Discussion Club, told RT on Friday.
Friday, January 17, 2025
‘Complete surrender’: How gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis
Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the Israeli government of
Benjamin Netanyahu of “a complete surrender to Hamas,” calling the Gaza
ceasefire agreement a “surrender deal.”
Hamada
Shaqoura, a Palestinian man who used to be a food blogger, distributes
food to children after cooking a meal for displaced people, in Khan
Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 16, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP via Getty Images
Dozens of Columbia University law faculty demand inquiry into professor's 'termination'
Over 45 Columbia
Law School professors have signed a letter calling for a Columbia University
Senate inquiry into the controversial departure of their colleague Katherine
Franke, marking an escalation in the dispute over academic freedom and protest
rights on campuses.
'Persecution': Outpouring of anger after 'termination' of pro-Palestine Columbia professor
Want to defend immigrant workers in your contract? Here are some suggestions.
Natascha Elena
Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare
The following
language was compiled from a series of unions and labor activists. It is
intended as a resource for workers looking to include pro-immigrant provisions
in their collective bargaining agreements.
Unionized teachers with ASPIRA charter school network rally
outside an ASPIRA high school to convince the company's management to
come to terms on a contract on March 9, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo
by Scott Olson/Getty Images
The Fatal Despair of Exile: An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind
Fariba Amini
Nothing takes me
from the butterflies of my dreams
to my reality:
not dust and not fire. What
will I do
without roses from Samarkand? What
will I do in a
theater that burnishes the singers with its lunar
stones? Our
weight has become light like our houses
in the faraway
winds. We have become two friends of the strange
creatures in the
clouds … and we are now loosened
from the gravity
of identity’s land. What will we do … what
will we do
without exile, and a long night
that stares at
the water? — Mahmoud Darwish
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