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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

جنگ

دلیل جنگ‌ها چیست و چرا کشور‌ها با یکدیگر می‌جنگند؟ آغاز‌گر جنگ‌ها چه کسانی‌ هستند و به چه دلیل به یک جنگ دامن می‌زنند؟ چه کسانی‌ از آن جنگ‌ها سود می‌برند و یا زیان می‌بینند؟ اگر شخصی‌ مخالف با جنگ است، چگونه می‌تواند این نیت خود را آشکار کند؟ نقش تبلیغات و پروپاگاندا در برقراری و ادامهٔ جنگ‌ها چه می‌باشد؟ا

Video shows girl trying to escape inferno as Gaza family ‘burned alive’ in Israeli massacre

 Brett Wilkins
“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. 
 Video shows girl trying to escape inferno as Gaza family ‘burned alive’ in Israeli massacre
 Seven-year-old Palestinian girl Ward al-Sheikh Khalil is seen trying to escape from the inferno following a May 26, 2025 Israeli bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City, Palestine. Photo: screen grab

'Shocking': UN Report Shows Small Chance of Breaching 2°C of Warming in Near Future

Jake Johnson
"That was effectively impossible a few years ago," said one expert.
Korea Forest Service personnel observe a wildfire
 Korea Forest Service personnel observe a wildfire from the side of a road in Andong early on March 27, 2025. (Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The Venezuelan regime campaigns to cover up its human rights abuses

An emotional facade masking the cracking down on dissent
The collage image shows the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, with his arms open in a celebratory gesture over the Venezuelan flag. 
Image by Global Voices on Canva Pro. Nicolás Maduro, July 4, 2024, Photo: @maduro via Fotos Públicas. Public domain.

In a single week, a new settler outpost erases an entire Palestinian community

May 26, 2025

Oren Ziv

After building on their land, Israeli settlers attacked and drove out residents of Maghayer Al-Dir, one of the last villages in the southern Jordan Valley.

 Settlers seen in their newly-established outpost inside the Palestinian village of Maghayer Al-Dir, in the West Bank, May 21, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

 Settlers seen in their newly-established outpost inside the Palestinian village of Maghayer Al-Dir, in the West Bank, May 21, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

Monday, May 26, 2025

Two Murderous Regimes, Three Murdered Embassy Employees

Ron Jacobs
In November 1938, a seventeen year old refugee without papers named Herschel Grynzspan from Poland walked into the Nazi Embassy in Paris, France, asked to see a member of the diplomatic staff, and when Nazi diplomat Ernst von Rath appeared, shot him. Von Rath died not long afterwards, despite the efforts of Hitler’s doctors who were sent to Paris by Hitler. According to most sources, Grynzspan was angry at the Nazi regime for taking away his parents German citizenship and employment. They were then sent to a concentration camp in Poland not long before his action. Some historians have hinted that Grynzspan was gay, that von Rath was one of his associates and that Grynzspan was blackmailing him. Grynzspan was arrested in France, where he was imprisoned until the collaborator Vichy regime came to power; the Gestapo then transferred him to a concentration camp in Germany. No matter what the rationale was, the essential fact is that a few days later, the Nazi regime used the assassination as an excuse to attack Jewish people, their shops and their homes in what became known as Kristallnacht. While the Kristallnacht pogroms were not officially carried out by uniformed Nazis in the government or the Party, they were encouraged and supported by officials in the party including Joseph Goebbels, who made a speech essentially giving the Nazi rank and file the go ahead.
 

It’s 2025, but Africans are still in chains. Why?

Mussa Ibrahim
As Gaddafi’s last spokesperson, I saw what real African independence can look like: free education, universal healthcare, interest-free housing, and no IMF interference
It’s 2025, but Africans are still in chains. Why?

Friday, May 23, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge and Holds His Child for First Time

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil testified at his asylum hearing on Thursday, telling an immigration judge in Jena, Louisiana, that his deportation from the United States could lead to his “assassination, kidnapping, torture.” Hours before the hearing, Khalil was allowed to meet and hold his 1-month-old son Deen for the first time. The emotional moment came after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Khalil behind a plexiglass barrier for a visit with his wife and infant son.

Thoughts On The Israeli Embassy Staff Killings

Caitlin Johnstone
Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC have been shot and killed by a man who shouted “Free Palestine” and reportedly told police “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza” after his arrest.
 

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Israel’s Policies have already Created Catastrophic Starvation Risk for Millions in Gaza: a Trickle of Aid won’t Avert It

Yara M. Asi
(The Conversation) – After 18 months of punishing airstrikes, raids and an increasingly restrictive siege in Gaza, the United Nations on May 20, 2025, issued one of its most urgent warnings yet about the ongoing humanitarian crisis: an estimated 14,000 babies were at risk of death without an immediate influx of substantial aid, especially food.
 

United By Dissonance

Alice Kohli
The return of power politics is forcing Switzerland to confront the limits of neutrality.
 
(L-R) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Swiss federal president Karin Keller-Sutter. (Graphic by Truthdig. Images sourced via AP Photo and Adobe Stock.)

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

What happens when Israel attacks a hospital

Tareq S. Hajjaj
The Israeli army is besieging yet another hospital in north Gaza, following the same playbook it has used throughout the war to invade and destroy Gaza's hospitals.
Palestinians arrive at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike on their neighborhood, May 16, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images) 
 Palestinians arrive at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike on their neighborhood, May 16, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

خیزش در ایران

 خیزش ایران، عنوان کتابی است که امین صیقل در آگوست سال‌ ۲۰۱۸ نوشته است. این کتاب با شرح مختصری از قیام دی‌ماه ۱۳۹۶ در پایتخت و همچنین برخی دیگر از شهرهای ایران آغاز می‌شود. از آنجایی که دونالد ترامپ در آن زمان رئیس جمهور آمریکا بود، از این قیام استقبال کرد و حمایت کامل ایالات متحده را اعلام کرد. اگرچه ترامپ جز ادعای حمایت و فقط با سخن گفتن در مورد آن کار دیگری انجام نداد، نماینده ایران در سازمان ملل متحد او را محکوم کرد و  حمایت لفظی او را دخالت در امور داخلی ایران خواند. این امر بهانه خوبی به دولت ایران داد تا با نامیدن آن به عنوان یک قیام خارجی، تظاهرات را سرکوب کند.ا