Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

April 8, 2025
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities are threatening to return the human rights defender and Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi to prison to serve the remainder of her unjust sentence as a means to pressure her to cease her rights advocacy, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately end their ongoing harassment and unconditionally release her and everyone else arbitrarily detained for their human rights activism.

The Graver Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza, the Quieter the BBC Grows

April 7, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Once again the UK state broadcaster goes missing in action – this time at the discovery of a mass grave of emergency workers executed by Israel

A Potent Protest in San Francisco, 5 April 2025

April 7, 2025
Jonah Raskin
They did not come to the Civic Center in San Francisco on April 5, 2025 to speak truth to power. They know that power doesn’t listen to people, not the powerful but vulnerable demigods in the White House. They came to acknowledge one another, to build a community in the open air and to air their grievances. It was a defining feature of the crowd that numbered in the thousands that no two signs were identical just as no people were identical and no two people dressed identically. They were individuals, separate and autonomous and yet linked by their total rejection of Trump and Musk whose names were deliberately misspelled in the spirit of disdain and disgust.

Trump’s war plans for Iran: opening the other gates of hell

April 7, 2025
Chris Bambery
The war drums are beating in Washington once again. This time, the drummer is the man who came to the office describing himself as the ‘President of Peace’, Donald Trump. The target: Iran.

I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

April 2, 2025
Thomas Friedman
I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowland — the massive new research center, roughly the size of 225 football fields, built by Chinese technology giant Huawei? I went to Huawei’s.

LIVE BLOG: Rafah, Khan Yunis under Fire | Norway Calls for Probe into Medics Massacre – Day 538

April 6, 2025

Killed          Missing     Wounded
50,695         14,000    115,338

Israel Killed Both Parents: 17,000 Gaza Children are worst Orphan Crisis in Modern History

April 5, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewed total war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza waged by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recreated the worst headlines of 2024, but this time no one is watching, as the deliberately-created Trump crises suck up all the oxygen in the news universe. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

New video evidence disputes Israeli army's account of medic killings

April 5, 2025

Footage shows rescue workers, with ambulance lights on, killed in barrage of Israeli gunfire

 

 Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 31 March 2025 (AFP)

Combined might of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill saved the world. Can we repeat the recipe?

April 4, 2025

 Roman Shumov

How three men in Yalta decided the fate of the planet – and why it still matters

‘The dam has been broken’: Thousands expected in DC for Palestine march

April 3, 2025
Michael Arria
On April 5, thousands are gathering in Washington D.C. to stand up against the U.S.'s continued support for the genocide in Gaza and the Trump administration's wave of domestic suppression.

The Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare Infrastructure

April 4, 2025
J.C. Mueller
On March 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa—a surgeon working in Gaza—posted an urgent update on the social media platform X:

Goodnight Syria and good morning China: Erdoğan’s Chinese Uyghurs run riot in Syria and beyond

April 4, 2025
Declan Hayes
China must put its soldiers, sailors and marines in the line of fire against those, who have wrought so much destruction on the peoples of Syria.

از جان کندی تا دونالد ترامپ: چگونه ایالات متحده با اسرائیل وصلت کرد

 ریک استرلینگ
تضادهای زیادی بین سی و پنجمین رئیس جمهور، جان اف کندی، و چهل و پنجمین و چهل و هفتمین رئیس جمهور، دونالد ترامپ، وجود دارد. سیاست‌های ایالات متحده در قبال اسرائیل مثال مناسبی برای توضیح این تضاد است.ا

Political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally freed after serving 48+ years

March 5, 2025
Leonard Peltier went home to Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, on February 19, 2025, after almost 50 years in prison. Just before leaving office on January 20, outgoing U.S. president Joe Biden commuted his life sentence.

Media’s Response to Trump Restarting the Gaza Genocide? Mostly Ignore It.

April 3, 2025
Adam Johnson
On March 18 Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire and recommenced its full scale assault, siege, and bombing of Gaza. Since then, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and the humanitarian situation is as desperate as ever. Watching mainstream media, however, one would hardly notice. 

Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist

April 3, 2025
Jon Queally
If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."

 

Firefighters battle the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

The tenth demand?

April 3, 2025
David Pozen
The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.

 Columbia faculty calling for an end to repression of student organizers. (Photo: Wyatt Souers)

Israeli jets batter south Gaza with airstrikes as troops expand ground war

April 2, 2025

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the army will seize ‘extensive territory’ in Gaza and add it to Tel Aviv’s ‘security areas’ in the strip 

With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement

April 1, 2025
Derek Seidman
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.

 

 Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez speaks to farmworkers about the H-2A guest worker program.

Trump ‘considers’ Iranian offer of indirect talks, beefs up forces in West Asia: Report

April 2, 2025

The US president renewed his threat against Iran a few days ago, vowing to bomb the country if Tehran does not make a deal