Israel plans to cut off electricity and water to Gaza after blocking aid

March 3, 2025
Mera Aladam
Israeli shelling near Khan Younis kills at least five people and wounded 21 others, as rights groups condemn new blockade as a 'tool of war'

Children react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, in north Gaza, 2 March 2025 (Reuters/Abd Elhkeem Khaled)

The empire at its most honest

March 3, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.

Why Chinese models are stunning Americans in the tech catwalk

March 3, 2025
Pepe Escobar
The Empire of Chaos will not take the competition lightly. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll.

'This Guy Is a Leech on the Public': AOC Rips Musk Over Attack on Social Security

March 3, 2025
Jake Johnson
"No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Now he's going after the elderly, the disabled, and orphaned children."

LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu Halts Gaza Aid | Palestinian Killed in Beit Hanoun Drone Strike — Day 513

March 2, 2025

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a halt on all aid to Gaza starting this morning, citing Hamas’ rejection of Witkoff’s proposal and vowing no ceasefire without captive releases.
• A Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting civilians east of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

 

Palestinians in Gaza continue to recover the bodies of those killed in Israel's ongoing genocide. (Photo: via social media)

Hamas confirms 'no talks underway' on Gaza ceasefire as phase one ends

March 1, 2025

Israel repeatedly delayed the start of talks for phase two of the ceasefire and is pushing to 'extend' phase one by an additional six weeks

Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

February 28, 2025
Lesley Joseph
(The Conversation) – The war in Gaza has come with an awful cost. Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians have been killed, and thousands more are missing. And while a temporary ceasefire has allowed for increased aid delivery, easing the plight of those facing disease and hunger, experts predict malnutrition and health issues to persist for months or even years.

A Cruel Hoax: the Political Economy of Anti-immigration

February 28, 2025
Richard D. Wolff
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For its victims, the cruelties involved are horrific. Yet such deportation makes little sense economically. It represents a nationally self-destructive program based on a faulty grasp of immigration economics. What once “made America great” (at least for the majority white population) were its successive waves of immigrants. What underscored the American economy’s strength was its ability to absorb and integrate those waves despite frictions among them: a genuinely productive melting pot. My American schooling through my PhD stressed such points.

Condemn and Counter U.S. Imperialist Aggression and War in the Philippines

February 25, 2025
Robert Reid
On February 6, a U.S. military-contracted plane crashed in Mindanao, Philippines, killing four Americans: one U.S. military service member and three defense contractors, unequivocally exposing the active role of the United States in the “counterinsurgency” war against the Filipino people and highlighting the involvement of U.S. military personnel and equipments in the war effort.

Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter

February 27, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable

British celebrities call on BBC to restore Gaza documentary

February 26, 2025
Hundreds put name to petition saying removal of documentary was based on 'racist assumptions' and dehumanisation of Palestinians

 

 Gary Lineker, as well as actors Juliet Stevenson and Miriam Margolyes, were among those demanding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone be restored to BBC iPlayer (AFP)

Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback?

February 26, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim Ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.

 

Protesters hold signs blasting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and advocating for immigrants as they gather outside of Los Angeles City Hall, on February 5, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images

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From Truman to Trump: Palestine, America’s Fork in the Road

February 25, 2025
M. Reza Behnam
For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history. It was also historically pivotal for the United States. Paraphrasing British author, George Orwell, it is essential to rediscover the past in order to gain control of the present and save the future. 

 

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Why are Israeli tanks in the occupied West Bank?

February 24, 2025
Israel is signalling a new escalation in its attacks on the West Bank , expelling tens of thousands of people from their homes.

 

 Palestinians have long resisted Israeli tanks with stones [Raneen Sawafta /Reuters]

D is for Decline, Dystopia and . . . Donald

February 24, 2025
Tom Engelhardt
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried to do with North America’s tallest peak. He wants Alaska’s Mount Denali (to hell with Native American names!) to be called Mount McKinley in honor of President William McKinley, the man who, in the 1890s, launched this country as an imperial power of the first order.

'Put Your Grandma's Social Security Check in Danger': Warren Fills in Blanks on What Trump Did Last Week

February 24, 2025
Eloise Goldsmith
"Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk's email and report on what he did last week? To help, I've gone ahead and done it for him," Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on X.

 

 U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You and Calling It ‘Efficiency’ w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

 DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You and Calling It ‘Efficiency’ w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

 

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Condemns Delay in Prisoner Release | Thousands to Attend Nasrallah’s Funeral – Day 506

February 23, 2025

 Killed    Wounded    Missing

48,297    111,733    14,000

 

 Despite the chilling cold, families of Palestinian prisoners waited for their loved ones who were set to be released. (Photo: via social media)

How the West treats immigrants as mere human cogs

February 23, 2025
Raphael Machado
In the endless pursuit of profit maximization, everyone is sacrificed—immigrants and natives alike.