Iran rejects direct nuclear talks with Trump, open to indirect negotiations

March 30, 2025
US president threatens Iran with bombings if Tehran does not come to a nuclear agreement with Washington.

 

Israeli settlers raid Masafer Yatta following days of increased attacks

March 29, 2025
Nader Durgham and Alex MacDonald

The West Bank community spotlighted in an Oscar-winning documentary has been attacked by settlers and soldiers

 

 The aftermath of settler attacks on Palestinian residences in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank (Supplied)

Peak corruption: Who’s to blame? Big Business, Big Government, or ‘Bigness’ itself?

March 29, 2025
Kayla Carman
Corruption has co-opted the media, which now operates as a propaganda machine, indoctrinating the public into believing that it exists to hold power to account.

From JFK to Donald Trump: How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel

March 28, 2025
Rick Sterling
There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.

 

Making America White Again: The Deafening Silence of Black MAGA

March 28, 2025
Clarence Lusane
During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump’s most controversial rally occurred at New York’s Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico — and by implication Puerto Ricans — as garbage. He and the Trump campaign were rightfully pilloried and called out for his disgusting bigotry.

How operating drones became a death sentence for Gaza’s journalists

March 27, 2025
Youssr Youssef and Magdalena Hervada
Faced with the deadliest war for journalists in modern history, Forbidden Stories — whose mission is to continue the work of journalists who are killed on the job — set out to investigate the targeting of the press in Gaza. 

 

 An aerial view of destroyed residential buildings in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, following the withdrawal of the Israeli army, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, January 19, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

The rise of ISIS and the fall of the nation-state

March 27, 2025
Declan Hayes
Regardless of whatever different names or ideological flavours they camouflage themselves with in the various theatres they commit their crimes in, the world’s various Jihadist outfits are so-called post-national groups whose idea of what they term a Caliphate dovetails nicely with the ideology of globalist Western groupings like the European Union and the World Economic Forum, which seek to dismantle sovereign nation-states in favour of top down global governance. Though this is most evident in Syria, where I have most experience, it is also evident in Balochistan, which is conveniently perched between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and where jihadism, whatever its other qualities, is sure to weaken those three already fragile nation-states and therefore serve the interests of any and all actors who want one or more of those nation-states dismantled or destroyed.

DARK MAGA

March 27, 2025
Jon Sneider
If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here's the breakdown:

Netanyahu vows to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza if captives not released

March 26, 2025

Israeli forces have reentered Gaza on the ground, recently marching into the Netzarim corridor, which Tel Aviv was supposed to withdraw from as part of the ceasefire agreement

Mainstream Media Criticizes Ceasefire Negotiations in Ukraine: Don’t Believe Them

March 26, 2025
Ted Snider
The mainstream media continuously points out that while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed readiness to accept the Trump administration’s proposed thirty-day ceasefire without preconditions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said only that he supports the idea of a ceasefire while attaching preconditions that render it unworkable.

ناسیونالیسم یا ملّیت‌گرایی

میهن پرستی زمانی است که عشق به مردمِ خود در اولویت قرار گیرد. ناسیونالیسم، زمانی است که نفرت نسبت به افرادی غیر از مردمِ خود در اولویت قرار گیرد.ا

                     شارل دوگل

Israel kills journalist Hossam Shabat, known for his reports from North Gaza

March 25, 2025
Sharon Zhang
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” he said. “Keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free.” 

Trump Will Fail

March 25, 2025
Joshua Sperber
Some 2400 years ago, Aristotle observed in The Politics:

And the rule of the law, it is argued, is preferable to that of any individual. On the same principle, even if it be better for certain individuals to govern, they should be made only guardians and ministers of the law.… Therefore he who bids the law rule may be deemed to bid God and Reason alone rule, but he who bids man rule adds an element of the beast; for desire is a wild beast, and passion perverts the minds of rulers, even when they are the best of men. The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Istanbul Mayor’s Arrest Sparks Türkiye’s Largest Protests in over a Decade

March 25, 2025
Volkan Isbasaran
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment) – Major protests over the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, have entered their sixth day. Demonstrations have erupted in at least 55 out of Türkiye’s 81 provinces, according to AFP, which marks one of the most widespread waves of anti-government protests in recent years.

Global Capitalism: The Old Cold War Fades, A New One Expands

Noam Chomsky on The Collapse of American Empire with Matt Kennard

The last chapter of the genocide

March 24, 2025
Chris Hedges
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return.

Popular Fury Grows in Turkey Against Tyrannical Erdoğan Emboldened by Trump

March 24, 2025
Jon Queally
The imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the far-right president's top political rival, has unleashed a new wave of protests against increasingly autocratic rule.

 

A protester wearing a gas mask and dressed as a Whirling Dervish is pepper sprayed by police during clashes with police in front of Istanbul's famous Aquaduct on March 23, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a primary election today, was jailed on corruption charges following his detention earlier this week. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Trump and Putin begin addressing cumulated geo-strategic debris… amidst Trump’s ultimatum to Iran

March 24, 2025
Alastair Crooke
Does Trump see Iran through some disturbed optic – that in destroying Iran, he is bringing about peace through strength?

LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

March 23, 2025

• Israel carried out more massacres in Gaza, killing at least 30 people, including women and children, in heavy strikes on Khan Yunis and Rafah.
• Meanwhile, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opened with sharp declines, reflecting the impact of the country’s deepening political and constitutional crisis.
• Since the resumption of violence in Gaza on Tuesday morning through Saturday, Israel has killed 650 Palestinians and injured 1,172 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)