Three Theses on Trump’s Rule

April 25, 2025

Stephen F. Eisenman

Preface: Emigre politics

When writers go into exile, I read somewhere, they discuss the politics of their former countries more than before they left. I have an image of that in my head – scruffy emigres huddled over coffee and schnapps in a smoke-filled café. Voices are raised, tables are pounded, and drinks are spilled, before a quiet settles on the group — the silence of displacement.

 

Israel – Killing Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children

April 24, 2025

Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr.

On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The Ever-Expanding War Machine

April 24, 2025

William Hartung

Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America’s civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and plans to shut down the Department of Education are just the most visible examples of a campaign that includes layoffs of budget experts, public health officials, scientists, and other critical personnel whose work undergirds the daily operations of government and provides the basic services needed by businesses, families, and individuals alike. Many of those services can make the difference between solvency and poverty, health and illness, or even, in some cases, life and death for vulnerable populations.

 

Six trapped under rubble after Israeli attack on Gaza City shelter kills 13

April 23, 2025

Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 39 people and injured 105 in last 24 hours, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.

 

Palestinians mourn as they carry the body of a child, killed in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, on April 23, 2025 [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]

US–Iran nuclear talks advancing 'better than expected’: Report

April 22, 2025

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said that the last round of negotiations resulted in an agreement to form a ‘general framework’ for a nuclear deal

 

How to tell your friends from the Japs. And the Serbs, Syrians, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Ivans and everyone else our armies target for extermination

April 23, 2025

Declan Hayes

NATO knows that, once they incessantly beat their war drums and get their entire orchestra strumming along, their propaganda will easily carry the day in The War of the Words.

 

Facing prison time in Germany for criticizing an Israeli journalist: The case of Hüseyin Dogru

April 22, 2025

Alan MacLeod

In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

منحنی زندگی‌

چنان که به زندگیِ هر انسانی‌ از آغاز، یعنی‌ تولد، تا پایان، یعنی‌ مرگ، نظری بی‌اندازیم، به این نتیجه می‌رسیم که کسانی‌ که عمر کاملی داشته‌ا‌ند، یعنی‌ طول عمرشان تا زمان پیری بوده است، یک دورهٔ منحنی و یا دایره‌ای را طی کرده‌ا‌ند. این دایره یا منحنی از صفر شروع می‌شود، به اوج می‌رسد، و سپس نزول می‌کند تا مجددا در نقطهٔ آغازین پایان یابد.ا

Build the Life You Want

"Build the life you want" is a book by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey. The subtitle of the book is: The art and science of getting happier. This is a small book of about two hundred pages, and easy to read, containing eight chapters and a conclusion; in addition to some notes and an introduction. It seems like the book was written and prepared by Arthur Brooks, and later Oprah Winfrey added some notes to be inserted in some sections of the book.

If October 7 Justifies The Gaza Genocide, What Acts Of Violence Will The Gaza Genocide Justify?

April 22, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

If you believe that all the violence and destruction in Gaza is the fault of Hamas, then by your own logic you must also accept that the coming wave of violent extremism and antisemitism which is going to ensue from the incineration of Gaza will exclusively be the fault of Israel.

 

The Uphill Battle to Safeguard Rights

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 Freedom in the World 2025

Violence and the repression of political opponents during elections, ongoing armed conflicts, and the spread of authoritarian practices contributed to the 19th year of declining freedom. In the year to come, all those who understand the value of political rights and civil liberties must work together in the defense of democracy.

The Countdown to Iran’s Day Zero: A Crisis of Water, not War

April 22, 2025

Reza Talebi

( Global Voices ) – My grandfather was a farmer near Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran. Once the largest lake in Iran, it is now a salt-ridden desert. When the water vanished, his wheat fields dried up. Salt crept over the land, swallowing everything. He died — not suddenly, but slowly. 

 

 Lake Urmia, Iran. Public Domain. NASA.

Forgive Me, Gaza…

April 21, 2025
Jamal Kanj
I write forgive me, not forgive us, because this guilt is deeply personal. It’s a burden I carry in the comfort of my home, sipping clean water while the children of Gaza drink from brine water wells mixed in sewage—their small bodies wracked with dehydration and disease—if they even find water at all.

Najwa refused to leave her village so Israeli troops shot her in her home

April 21, 2025
Hanna Davis

The 70-year-old woman survived the war in south Lebanon, only to be found killed two months after it ended

LIVE BLOG: Mounting Civilian Deaths in Gaza | Israelis Protest for Prisoner Deal – Day 562

April 20, 2025

Killed   Wounded  Missing

51,065   116,505      14,000 

The Israeli settlers quietly waging war on the Palestinian countryside

April 19, 2025

Jessica Buxbaum

Israeli settlers are taking over Palestinian land by creating "farming outposts" with the goal of ethnically cleansing Palestinians. This strategy complements the Israeli state's broader plans for annexing the West Bank.

 

EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters

April 19, 2025

Mike Ludwig

A new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration’s removal of environmental justice maps and datasets.

 

 Marti Blake looks out her front window at the smokestack of the Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Springdale, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2017. Blake says the amount of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and coal particles originating from the plant has impacted her health as well as those in the surrounding area. Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images

They’re Coming For Us: Media Censorship in the Age of Palestinian Genocide

April 18, 2025

Joshua Frank

Recall those feverish days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq when Colin Powell presented his dubious evidence to the United Nations Security Council, claiming Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. The result of those bogus lies was The Iraq Resolution, which authorized the use of force against the sovereign state, and passed the Senate by a decisive 77-23 margin, with only 23 dissenting votes. Support crossed party lines as Hillary Clinton and many other prominent Democrats consistently reached into George W. Bush’s basket of lies, repeating the neocons’ WMD propaganda. The New York Times, fulfilling its usual perfunctory role, ran Judith Miller’s series of bogus articles parroting the same falsehoods. Outrage grew, and we took to the streets as the U.S. invasion loomed.

 

Diego Garcia: ethnically cleansed for US forever wars

April 18, 2025

Aidan J. Simardone

As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia – a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

 

A Message from Bernie Sanders

Sisters and Brothers:

Under the oligarchic and authoritarian regime of Donald Trump, we find ourselves living in an unprecedented moment in modern American history. As a result, we’ve got to respond in an unprecedented way.