Iranian press review: Tehran praises Musk’s attack on anti-establishment media

February 13, 2025
Georgiy Berezovsky

Meanwhile, the return of 'Butcher of the Press’ angers lawyers, Pezeshkian’s administration faces pressure over rial devaluation, and lucrative business of bypassing international sanctions revealed

 

 A mural depicting a mock version of the Great Seal of the United States painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran, 6 November 2024 (AFP)

‘It is impossible to bring us to our knees’: Russia reacts to Putin-Trump phone call

February 13, 2025
Georgiy Berezovsky

Russian politicians, journalists, and experts reacted to the news about the first contact between the presidents of Russia and the US

Amid deadly raids, Israeli army orders evacuation of another West Bank camp

 February 12, 2025
Israeli army storms Nur Shams camp as it continues three-week ‘open war against existence of Palestinian people’ in West Bank.

زن وارداتی

در روز پایانیِ سال ۱۹۹۹ و آستانهٔ ملیونیوم جدید
با توجه به تحریم اقتصادی ایران که از اوائل انقلاب تا به امروز ادامه داشته است، صادرات به ایران از آمریکا و اروپا خیلی‌ محدود، و اگر هم بطور غیر رسمی‌ و قاچاقی‌ باشد، در سطح خیلی‌ بالا انجام می‌شود. از آن طرف صادرات ایران به آمریکا و اروپا هم بصورت مافیایی و از طریق کشور‌های واسطه صورت می‌گیرد. گرچه این صادرات و واردات کم‌کم پیچ و مهره‌اشان شل می‌شود و اجناس بسیاری بصورت غیر رسمی‌ از ایران وارد آمریکا می‌شوند، ولی‌ یک نوع از واردات همیشه آزاد بوده است، و با شروع انقلاب این واردات چند برابر هم شده است، و آن واردات زن از ایران به آمریکا است.ا

 

New Administration Tells AARP Social Security Payments Are Protected

February 12, 2025
Andy Markowitz

67 million Americans receive benefits that they have earned

‘Humiliating and painful’: testimonies of mass displacement in the northern West Bank

February 11, 2025
Qassam Muaddi
Israel has expanded its offensive on the northern West Bank from the Jenin refugee camp, to the refugee camps of Nur Shams in Tulkarem and al-Far’a in Tubas. Dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” the Israeli assault has been ongoing for three weeks, killing at least 25 Palestinians, wounding over 100, and forcibly displacing 40,000 people from their homes according to a statement by UNRWA on Monday.

 

An Israeli bulldozer destroyed Palestinian homes in Jenin refugee camp as Israeli colonial forces continue to raid Jenin and the camp for a fourth day as part of a major military operation to crack down on armed resistance, January 24, 2025. Israeli armed bulldozers have entered the camp, destroying infrastructure and homes. Witnesses report that some houses are being burned by Israeli forces. Drones are constantly hovering over the camp, observing as many Palestinian families were forced to flee in the past few days. Entrances and exits are blocked by the Israeli forces, preventing health workers and journalists from entering the refugee camp. At least 12 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 40 injured in Israel’s assault on Jenin. (Photo: Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills) 

A Trumpian Fascistic Coup is Underway—Stop It Before the Terror Starts

February 11, 2025
Ralph Nader
Rise up people and fast. Tyrant Trump and his Musk-driven gangsters are launching a fascistic coup d’état. Much of everything you like about federal/civil service for your health, safety, and economic well-being and protections is being targeted.

Hamas delays captive release 'until further notice' accusing Israel of violating deal

February 10, 2025
Alex MacDonald
Hamas said it would delay the release of the next tranche of Israeli captives "until further notice", accusing Israel of failing to comply with the terms of the ceasefire deal.

 

People walk with belongings along the Wadi Gaza bridge along al-Rashid street in the central Gaza Strip on 10 February 2025 (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile

February 10, 2025
Nour Elassy
Poet and writer based in Gaza
For 15 months, I was displaced from my home in northern Gaza. For 15 long months that felt like 15 years, I felt like a stranger in my own homeland. Not knowing when the exile would end, I lived with an unbearable sense of loss, with memories of a home frozen in time that I could see in my mind but could not go back to.

 

 A drone view shows Palestinians, who were forcibly displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, making their way back to their homes in the north on January 27, 2025 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

What Is the Mainstream Media Missing About Elon Musk? He Is Instituting Technocracy

February 10, 2025
Tom Valovic
It’s hard to see articles about the “move fast and break things” approach of the Trump administration without also hearing about the hovering presence the world’s richest man, technocrat extraordinaire Elon Musk. 

 

 Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo: Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The American Inquisition Cometh

February 10, 2025
Kary Love
Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out “antichristianity” from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the “communist witch hunts” of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his acolyte Don Trump, but nothing could be further from the truth. Be assured: there is no “antichrist” in this “antichristianity” purge. The choice of words is just a coincidence.

LIVE BLOG: Israel Withdraws from Netzarim | Brutal Aggression on West Bank – Day 492

February 9, 2025
Killed= 62,403
Wounded = 111,638
    The Israeli army has begun withdrawing from the Netzarim axis in Gaza, leaving behind massive destruction. The withdrawal is expected to be completed today. 

ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan first target of US sanctions

February 8, 2025
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person from the war crimes tribunal to be hit by US sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump, Reuters reported on 8 February.

The only way to stop the Netanyahu-Trump plan to eliminate Palestine is to begin rebuilding Gaza now

February 8, 2025
Muhannad Ayyash
Under orders from President Donald Trump, unelected tech billionaire Elon Musk and his rogue unit, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have taken a political sledgehammer to federal agencies as part of a top-down personnel and cost-cutting shakeup that has been derided by Democrats and legal experts as unconstitutional.

DOGE Ransacks NOAA, Raising Fears About Privatization of Climate Data

February 8, 2025
Mike Ludwig
Under orders from President Donald Trump, unelected tech billionaire Elon Musk and his rogue unit, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have taken a political sledgehammer to federal agencies as part of a top-down personnel and cost-cutting shakeup that has been derided by Democrats and legal experts as unconstitutional.

 A hurricane specialist works on tracking Hurricane Beryl at the National Hurricane Center on July 1, 2024 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle / Getty Images

In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia

February 7, 2025
Pepe Escobar
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right in the middle of the proceedings: the announcement, by US President Donald Trump himself, of some sort of future Trump Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino in Palestine. 

A Sales Pitch for Ethnic Cleansing

February 7, 2025

Stanley L. Cohen

 

Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock

February 7, 2025

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, from 90 seconds up to 89 seconds to midnight, which must have come as a relief to the few members of the public who heard about it.

Trump’s Back! With a New and Improved Plan to Pervert American Democracy

February 7, 2025

Stephen Eric Bronner

And, so, it begins—again! Only this time, with new vigor, improved efficiency, and an all-encompassing agenda. Following his four-year layoff from 2020-24, in which he licked his wounds while still dominating the media, Donald Trump’s second presidency has already witnessed a blizzard of executive orders, pardons for fascists and criminals, promises to roll back the welfare state, overt threats to American democracy, and actions that endanger the well-being of the planet. This flurry of activity reflects the sobering truth that, while enough intelligent people expected him to win the election of 2024, no one believed that he would win like he did.

  

People gather in protest against U.S. President Donald Trump during a demonstration at the Texas State Capitol on February 5, 2025 in Austin, Texas.(Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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جمعه ۱۹ بهمن ۱۴۰۳

پس از ارسال سیگنال‌های متعدد از سوی غربگرایان داخلی و مدعیان اصلاحات در دولت چهاردهم، ترامپ با انتشار یادداشتی اجرائی، دستورات جدیدی را برای فشار بر اقتصاد ایران در تداوم سیاست پیشین خود یعنی فشار حداکثری اعمال کرد.ا