PFAS Found in Condoms and Lubricants

April 8, 2025
According to a study by the consumer safety advocacy group Mamavation, popular brands of condoms and lubricants contain PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or so-called “forever chemicals,” Tom Perkins reported for the Guardian in July 2024.

A region on the brink: The global implications of the war on Gaza

April 30, 2025
On October 7, 2023, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the group that governs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, breached the barrier that has surrounded the densely populated area for the last 16 years, preventing the free flow of people and goods. The militants then launched an attack on 22 nearby Israeli settlements, towns, and military bases, killing around 1,200 civilians and soldiers and taking at least 199 hostages.

Gains and gaps in gender equality in North Macedonia

April 30, 2025
Kristina Hadzi-Vasileva

Significant disparities emerge among the individual indicators of gender equality analyzed by the World Economic Forum

‘Manners in Macedonia. Ladies first.’ Caricature by George Denholm Armour published in Punch magazine on September 26, 2017, on display at the Museum of the City of Skopje's exhibition ‘Foreign painters in Macedonia in the period 1850–1950′ from the collection of Vlatko Miloshevski. Photo by Filip Stojanovski, used with permission.

Federal judge orders release of Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi from ICE detention

April 30, 2025
Michael Arria
A federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi be released from detention and compared the administration's crackdown on dissent to the Red Scare. Upon his release, Mahdawi declared, “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”

Mohsen Mahdawi addressing the press and supporters outside a Vermont courthouse following his release, on 4/30/25

مرگ

مرگ یعنی‌ پایان آنچه زندگی‌ نام نهاده‌ایم. این واژه عموما بسیاری را به خود جلب می‌کند و شخص کنجکاو می‌شود که منظور از عنوان این واژه چیست. آیا ما به دانش بیشتری در مورد  این پدیده نیاز داریم؟ چرا که مرگ به معنی‌ پایان آن چیزی است که زندگی‌ می‌نامیم، و به جز این عنوان چیز دیگری از آن نمی‌دانیم. البته می‌دانیم که این عاقبت همهٔ ماست، و بنابراین، کنجکاو می‌شویم که بعد از آن چه میاید و در پشت این پرده، یعنی‌ مرگ، چیست. در حالی‌که اگر این واژه را در گوگل فارسی جستجو کنیم، به هزاران و شاید میلیون‌ها مطلب در مورد مرگ برخورد کنیم، و شاید هیچیک واقعیت را بیان نکند.ا

PHOTOS: Besieged by settlers, Palestinians race to harvest wheat early

April 28, 2025
Georgia Gee & Dikla Taylor-Sheinman

Repeatedly harassed and chased off their land, farmers in Wadi Al-Rakhim were finally able to reap their crops last Friday — but only by sheer luck.

The Alhuraini brothers record and try to stop a settler dressed in army clothing from harassing them, in Wadi Al-Rakhim, April 25, 2025 (Georgia Gee)

'Trump Is Trying to Break Us,' Carney Warns as Liberals Win Canadian Election

April 29, 2025
Jake Johnson
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that his country's "old relationship with the United States... is over" after leading his Liberal Party to victory in Monday's federal election, a contest that came amid U.S. President Donald Trump's destructive trade war and threats to forcibly annex Canada.

‘Real de-Nazification’ would include all Europe – Medvedev

April 29, 2025

A regime similar to Kiev’s must not be allowed to take root in any nation, the former Russian president has said

Watch live: ICJ hears case related to Israel's ban on Unrwa

April 28, 2025
Sondos Asem and Katherine Hearst

The World Court begins five-day proceedings following a request by the UN General Assembly to rule on Israel's breaches of international law and attacks on UN facilities

Palestine's legal team at the Peace Palace, as the International Court of Justice hears case about Israel's obligation to facilitate humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank (Sondos Asem/MEE)

LIVE BLOG: Calls for Civil Disobedience | Israel Threatens to Expand War amid Soldier Shortage – Day 569

April 27, 2025

Killed            Wounded      Missing

52,243          117,639        14,000

World Food Program says it has no remaining Food Stocks in Gaza, as Israel keeps Crossings Closed

April 26, 2025
( Middle East Monitor ) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza, it said in a statement today.

UN Food Agency Runs Out of Stock in Gaza as Famine Looms

April 26, 2025

Sharon Zhang

Gaza officials have warned of famine spreading throughout the Strip, threatening the lives of millions.

Israeli writer says aiding Gaza is like ‘feeding sharks’

April 25, 2025

In a post remembering the Holocaust, Gil Kopatz called for the extermination of Palestinians and described the war on Gaza as an essential ‘pesticide’

 

 A Palestinian child eats his portion of a hot meal at a free food distribution point at the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on 19 April 2025 (AFP/Eyad Baba)

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.