Astronauts return to Earth after months stranded in orbit

March 19, 2025

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spent nine months in space instead of eight days, as was originally planned

سیاست‌های غرب در ایران

سیاست‌های کشور‌های غربی در ایران از قرن سیزدهم آغاز شد، این زمانی‌ بود‌ که ادوارد اول پادشاه انگلستان سفیری به نام جفری لنگلی به ایران، برای برقراری مناسبات سیاسی‌ فرستاد. در آن زمان ایلخانیان بر ایران حکومت می‌کردند و کشور ایران را با نام پارس می‌شناختند. البته در این دوران، یعنی‌ قرن سیزدهم، کشور‌های غربی قدرت و پیشرفت امروز را نداشتند، و دیدار این شخص از ایران بیشتر به منظور مشاهده و ثبت پیشرفت‌های ایران بود. دست درازی غرب به کشور‌های خاور‌میانه پس از کشف نفت آغاز شد. نفت در قرن بیستم به منبع انرژی ترجیحی در سطح جهانی تبدیل شد، و گرچه این ماده قبل از قرن بیستم کشف شده بود، ولی‌ ارزش جهانی‌ آن در این قرن مشخص شد.ا

Israel resumes its war on Gaza, killing over 400 people in one night

March 18, 2025
Tareq S. Hajjaj
After two weeks of systematic Israeli violations of the tenuous ceasefire agreement, Israel has officially resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel's killing of over 400 people, Hamas remains committed to completing the ceasefire.

 

 The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel resumes war on Gaza, ending ceasefire, March 18, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Trump lobs new threats at Iran over Yemen's pro-Palestine operations

March 17, 2025

Sanaa has warned that there are 'no red lines' as long as Israel's policy of starvation against Palestinians continues

March 18, 2025
Chris Walker
Trump’s call for the judge to be impeached came after his administration blatantly ignored one of the judge’s orders.

Fasting while starving, Gazans struggle to mark Ramadan

March 17, 2025
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi
As Israel continues to prevent the entry of food into the Strip, Palestinians are gathering with surviving family members to observe the holiday in the rubble.

 

 Gazans light fireworks over the ruins of Khan Younis to celebrate Ramadan, with Israel’s blockade causing an ongoing electricity blackout, southern Gaza Strip, March 12, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny?

March 17, 2025
Ralph Nader
There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice.

Stories of Resistance: The Saint Patrick’s Battalion

March 17, 2025
Michael Fox
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mexicans celebrate in honor of the Irish battalion that defended their country against the invading United States Army in the 1840s. 

There is a wall in Mexico City with a memorial plaque for the Irish.

 

 Supporters of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick in the streets of the Coyoacan municipality in Mexico City hold flags during a march to commemorate St. Patrick's Day, patron saint of Ireland, and to remember the Irish who fought alongside the Mexican army in 1846 against the United States. Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

LIVE BLOG: Lavrov Calls for End to Strikes on Yemen | Water Crisis in Gaza – Day 527

March 16, 2025

Killed                Wounded        Missing

48,543              111,981          14,000

Israel carried out a horrific massacre in Beit Lahia. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

Gaza’s silent epidemic

March 15, 2025
Hadeel Awad

Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them.

 

 A nine-year-old Palestinian girl, who had her right leg amputated, sits on a bed at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah on December 24, 2024 [File: Mohammed Saber/EPA]

Seven silent measures against Cuba

March 15, 2025
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Marco Rubio—Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him—is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize.

London is unsafe – Russian Embassy

March 15, 2025

Russian tourists have been warned of a crime spike in the British capital amid an economic crisis and influx of migrants 

New Rumblings in Aztlán: Has Trump’s mass deportation sparked a Chicano Power resurgence?

March 14, 2025
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel

A network of organizations across Southern California is building people power against ICE—and many of these groups draw on a rich history of Chicano activism.  

Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN

March 14, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.”

“Prisoners,” Digital, Midjourney, 2025

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins

March 14, 2025
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters… officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson, historian

How a Cuba Defies U.S. Sanctions to Lead in Healthcare

March 14, 2025
Renée L. Quarterman
In the heart of the Cuban capital, the Dr. Cosme Ordoñez Carceller Teaching Polyclinic stands as a testament to the nation’s unique approach to healthcare: universal, free of charge, accessible, regionalized, community-centered, and deeply rooted in preventive medicine. Unlike the profit-driven models that dominate much of the world, Cuba’s system prioritizes equitable access, public health education, and early intervention.

Jewish Americans and Allies Occupy Trump Tower Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil

March 13, 2025
Julia Conley

Nearly a year and a half after the advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace began leading nationwide demonstrations against Israel's U.S.-backed assault on Gaza, hundreds of organizers and supporters of the group risked arrest Thursday as they assembled in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, demanding the release of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil.

Demostrators from the human rights organization Jewish Voice for Peace hold a civil disobedience action inside Trump Tower in New York on March 13, 2025.(Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

'Do whatever the hell you want': Iranian president fires back against US threats

March 12, 2025

Donald Trump has called for talks with Tehran while simultaneously threatening it with military attacks 

ز گهواره تا گور

بسیاری از ما انسان‌ها به این باور هستیم که خالقی ما را خلق کرده است. او نطفهٔ ما را در رحم مادرمان نهاده و به ما زمان معینی‌ عمر ارزانی داشته است. پس از اتمام آن زمان مشخص که در هر فردی متفاوت است، مرگ به سراغ ما می‌آید و ما را از این دنیا به دنیای دیگری می‌برد.ا

The U.S. and Israel: An Alliance of Blood, Politics and Money

March 12, 2025
M. Reza Behnam
To begin to correct the injustices that generations of Palestinians have faced, and to become “a society that can live with its conscience,” the story of Palestine and its people must be told.