Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

May 8, 2025

Since October 7, 2023, the multinational tech company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has acted on 94 percent of the Israeli government’s requests to take down posts on Facebook and Instagram that are “critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians,” Drop Site News reported in April 2025. Drop Site News characterized Meta’s response to the Israeli government’s takedown request campaign as “the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.”

Israel Really Is As Evil As It Looks

May 7, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip.

 

Famine in Gaza: Will We Continue to Watch as Gaza Starves to Death?

May 8, 2025

Ramzy Baroud

The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there.

How the Pall Mall Process Can Help Combat Commercial Spyware Abuse

May 8, 2025

Jennifer Brody

Twenty-five governments have agreed to a promising new initiative to combat the irresponsible use of commercial cyber intrusion capabilities, including commercial spyware. Civil society should hold them accountable to their commitments.

 

How Israel’s ‘plan’ for Gaza could turbocharge ethnic cleansing

May 7, 2025

Mat Nashed and Maram Humaid

Israel has launched a new plan for Gaza which could induce ethnic cleansing and advance a genocide, say experts.

 

 A Palestinian man embraces the body of his five-year-old son, Adam Namrouti, who Israel killed in an overnight air raid on a UN school used as a shelter, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on May 7, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

Trump Interview Puts Iran Negotiations in Jeopardy

May 7, 2025

Ted Snider

Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion.

This is the Russia-Ukraine lesson India has to learn from its standoff with Pakistan

May 7, 2025

Maxim Suchkov

From Ukraine to Kashmir: The old laws of power still apply

 

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)