انتخابات ریاست جمهوری

بر اساس گزارش‌های اخیر، برآورد جمعیت ایالات متحده بیش از سیصد و چهل و سه میلیون نفر است، که از این جمعیت حدود دویست و شصت و هشت میلیون نفر می‌توانند رای دهند. از این تعداد حائز شرایط، و بر اساس آمار پروژهٔ ریاست جمهوری آمریکا، در انتخابات ریاست جمهوری اخیر، کمی‌ بیش از یکصد و پنجاه میلیون نفر رای دادند. تعداد رای دهندگان دمکرات کمی‌ بیش از هفتاد و پنج میلیون و رای دهندگان جمهوری‌خواه کمی‌ بیش از هفتاد و هفت میلیون و تعداد سایر رای دهندگان نزدیک به سه میلیون نفر بود.ا

Rank	Country	Spending (US$ bn)	% of GDP	% of global spending
1	United States	997.0	3.4	37.0
2	China[a]	314.0	1.7	12.0
3	Russia[a]	149.0	7.1	5.5
4	Germany	88.5	1.9	3.3
5	India	86.1	2.3	3.2
6	United Kingdom	81.8	2.3	3.0
7	Saudi Arabia[a]	80.3	7.3	3.0
8	Ukraine	64.7	34.0	2.4
9	France[b]	64.7	2.1	2.4
10	Japan	55.3	1.4	2.0
11	South Korea	47.6	2.6	1.8
12	Israel	46.5	8.8	1.7
13	Poland[b]	38.0	4.2	1.4
14	Italy	38.0	1.6	1.4
15	Australia	33.8	1.9	1.2
16	Canada	29.3	1.3	1.1
17	Turkey	25.0	1.9	1.0
18	Spain	24.6	1.4	0.9
19	Netherlands	23.2	1.9	0.7
20	Algeria	21.8	8.0	0.7
21	Brazil	20.9	1.0	0.7
22	Mexico	16.7	0.9	0.6
23	Taiwan	16.5	2.1	0.5
24	Colombia	15.1	3.4	0.5
25	Singapore	15.1	2.8	0.4
26	Sweden	12.0	2.0	0.4
27	Indonesia	11.0	0.8	0.4
28	Norway	10.4	2.1	0.4
29	Pakistan	10.2	2.7	0.4
30	Denmark	10.0	2.4	0.3
31	Romania	8.7	2.3	0.3
32	Belgium	8.6	1.3	0.3
33	Greece	8.0	3.1	0.3
34	Iran	7.9	2.0	0.3
35	Kuwait	7.8	4.8	0.3
36	Finland	7.0	2.3	0.3
37	Switzerland	6.7	0.7	0.2
38	Czechia	6.5	1.9	0.2
39	Iraq	6.2	2.4	0.2
40	Philippines	6.1	1.3	0.2

Military Budget Per Each Country

The Conscience under attack: A story of aid, silence, and starvation

May 6, 2025

Walid El Houri

The drone attack against a humanitarian ship bound for Gaza near Malta is not the first.

 

The front of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship shows severe structural damage after the reported drone attack. Image via Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Trump and Musk Are Trying to Dismantle Social Security From the Inside

May 5, 2025

Katie Rose Quandt

Elon Musk’s DOGE is inflicting crashes, hang-ups and hours-long waits on Social Security recipients, eroding trust.

President Roosevelt signs Social Security Act, August 14, 1935. Standing are Rep. Robert Doughton (D-NC); unknown person in shadow; Sen. Robert Wagner (D-NY); Rep. John Dingell (D-MI); Rep. Joshua Twing Brooks (D-PA); the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins; Sen. Pat Harrison (D-MS); and Rep. David Lewis (D-MD).

Breaking new records, Israel sees unprecedented spike in media censorship

May 2, 2025

Haggai Matar

In 2024, Israel's military censor banned 1,635 articles from publication and partially redacted another 6,265 — part of a wider assault on freedom of press.

 

The front pages of newspapers in Israel at a shop in Jerusalem during the judicial overhaul, July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldbeg/Flash90)

'Mockery' of Humanitarian Law: Israel Wants US Mercenaries for Aid Relief in Gaza

May 5, 2025

Jon Queally

What the Israeli government is planning is "not an aid plan," said one legal scholar, but rather "an aid denial plan."

 

 Displaced Palestinians, including children, crowd to receive hot meals distributed by charities in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on May 3, 2025. The food distribution comes amid Israel's ongoing attacks and blockade, which have led to a deepening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

World military spending explodes

May 5, 2025

Danica Rachel

Global military spending is skyrocketing. The total spent on waging or preparing for war in 2024 was about US$2.7 trillion, 9.4 percent more in real terms than in 2023, according to the latest Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates. This is the biggest year-on-year increase since the institute began tracking world military expenditure in 1988.

 

Europe is erasing WWII’s truth – but Nazi crimes must never be forgotten

May 5, 2025

Sonja van den Ende

Fascism has resurged in Europe, with neo-Nazis masquerading as nationalists – most notably in Ukraine, where a far-right regime tightens its grip.

3 People Die in ICE Custody in April as Conditions Worsen in Immigration Jails

May 4, 2025

Mike Ludwig

At least seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump’s term began.

 

LIVE BLOG: ‘Direct Impact’ at Ben Gurion | Demolitions in Rafah | Israeli Soldiers Fled on Oct 7 – Day 576

Mary 4, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
52,535	118,491	14,000

 

 Palestinians seek refugee in makeshift tents in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

Sinjil: Palestinian town besieged by settler violence and Israeli army wall

May 3, 2025
Fayha Shalash

With farmland cut off and homes under threat, residents say Sinjil is becoming a prison surrounded by walls and expanding settlements

Palestinian farmer Ahmad Khalil reacts as he stands amid the charred remains of his agricultural installation, following an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Sinjil, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on 23 April 2025 (AFP/Zain Jaafar)

The Economic Fallout From Deadly Blast At Iran’s ‘Golden Gateway’ Of Trade

May 3, 2025
Kian Sharifi

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking at the potential economic impact of a massive explosion at Iran’s Shahid Rajaei port and whether it will impact Iranian trade and hopes for foreign investment.

In the midst of despair over Gaza, a regional struggle for freedom is brewing

May 2, 2025

Sai Englert

As Israel wages genocide in Gaza with impunity, mass movements across the Arab world are once again rising up - against both Zionism and the regimes that enable it

 

'Democracy Is on Life Support': Trump Orders Defunding of NPR and PBS

May 2, 2025

Jake Johnson

"All of us who care about an independent press, an informed populace, a responsive government, and a thriving democracy have a stake in the outcome of this fight," said one press freedom advocate.

Demonstrators urge Congress to protect funding for NPR and PBS in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 2025. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia and Ukraine ‘closer’ to settlement – Rubio

May 2, 2025

RT

The sides are nonetheless “far apart,” meaning a breakthrough is needed for the conflict to end, the US secretary of state has said

With USAID shuttered, Palestine’s most vulnerable lose a lifeline

April 30, 2025
Ella Halpern-Matthews
On Jan. 26, Dr. Sahar Alkawasmeh received a letter informing her that USAID funding to her organization, ADWAR (Roles for Social Change Association), had been suspended for 90 days, pending review. All work was to cease immediately.

An ADWAR employee cooks bread for displaced women as part of the “Resilience In Every Slice” initiative, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Dec. 8, 2024. (Courtesy of ADWAR)

Trump Quietly Took Away a Living Wage From Thousands of Federal Workers

May 1, 2025
Michael Arria
Companies can now illegally pay federal contractors less than the current minimum wage and face no consequences.

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.