Biden Administration Quietly Backs Israel’s Deadly Assault on Gaza

MitchellPlitnick, Mondoweiss

May 13, 2023

At least 29 Palestinians, including 6 children, have been killed in an Israeli bombing campaign with no end in sight.

America’s Mercenary Wars

WilliamJ. Astore
May 12, 2023
A very useful and informative site, Michigan War Studies Review, recently stopped publishing book reviews after 18 years. The site’s editor, James Holoka, posted several reviews written by yours truly, including this one in 2013 on Jeremy Scahill’s book, Dirty Wars.

You Don’t Have To Choose Between Happiness And Being Informed

Caitlin Jonstone

May 12, 2023

I write about some dark, dark things in this space, and it’s common to receive expressions of despair in response to the subjects I focus on.

Long Beach Plans a 400-Acre Facility for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Largest in World

Juan Cole
May 11, 2023

 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – City News Service reports that Long Beach is planning a 400-acre facility to manufacture and install offshore floating wind turbines off the coast of California.

The Debt Ceiling is a Massive Deception of the American Public

Richard D Wolff

May 10, 2023

Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises the question that will provoke those historians: How could this happen?

The Flight From the US Dollar

TedSnider

May 8, 2023

On March 20, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. In his article in the Russian media preceding the meeting, XI enthused that "China-Russia trade exceeded 190 billion U.S. dollars last year, up by 116 percent from ten years ago." Though it has reached 190 billion US dollars, it is no longer all being traded in US dollars. In his article in the Chinese media, Putin said that "the share of settlements in national currencies" of all that trade "is growing." 65% of that massive China-Russia trade is now being conducting in their Russian and Chinese currencies.

Sir Gawain and the Green King: What can Newly Crowned Charles III do to Combat the Climate Emergency?

Juan Cole

May 7, 2023

We can argue about the character of Charles’s philosophy of nature and whether it is conservative or not. I don’t really care about the origins of his concern for the dangers we face from the climate emergency. I’m just glad he takes this stance, unlike so many of his peers among the Judas American and British billionaire class who have actively attempted to wreck our planet in order to eke out their thirty coins of silver.

ماهنامه

یکشب گروهِ اُمّت، از جا جهیده بودند

از خانه‌ها شتابان، بیرون دویده بودند

 

A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III

JulianAssange

May 5, 2023

To His Majesty King Charles III,

On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.

Russia oil floods global markets via major Asian intermediaries

Despite western sanctions, there is more Russian fuel being exported around the world than before the Ukraine crisis. It's just coming via Saudi Arabia, India, China, and other trading states – with steep commissions.

F.M.Shakil

May 4, 2023

Despite western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, some Asian and specifically West Asian economies are importing significant amounts of Russian gasoline at discounted prices, and reselling it with windfall profits to the EU under their brand names.

آشکار شدن دو روی سکه در يک اتفاق ساده

م.م. ابوعسکر

۶ ارديبهشت ١۴٠٢

(شيادی و بلاهت آيينه تمام نمای وضعيت کنونی)

Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week amid US confrontation

MaziarMotamedi

May 3, 2023

Tehran, Iran – Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in what is the second such incident in the region in a week, as tension with the United States continues.

Chris Hedges: The Enemy From Within

Chris Hedges

April 30, 2023

The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.

یک بیانیه‌ غیرقابل دفاع؛ درباره‌ی «بیانیه‌ی احزاب کمونیستی و کارگری به مناسبت یک سال جنگ امپریالیستی در اوکراین»

 مسعود امیدی

سه‌شنبه ۵ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۲

در تاریخ ۲۸ مارچ ۲۰۲۳ بیانیه‌ای با عنوان «بیانیه‌ی احزاب کمونیستی و کارگری به مناسبت یک سال جنگ امپریالیستی در اوکراین» از سوی  سایت سولیدنت [۱] منتشرشد که ترجمه‌ی فارسی آن نیز در سایت اخبار روز  منتشر شده است[۲]. نظر به اهمیت مسئله‌ی جنگ در اوکراین و تأثیر آن بر روند تحولات جهانی، جا دارد مبانی تحلیلی و پیام‌های این بیانیه مورد بررسی قرارگیرد:

Iran Believed to Be Developing ICBM to Target America

JohnRossomando

April 29, 2023

Iran’s missile program has received considerably less attention than its nuclear program; however, it could directly threaten the U.S. homeland.

First Iranians escape Sudan strife via Saudi Arabia

AFP

April 29, 2023

The first Iranian evacuees to escape the Sudan conflict through Saudi Arabia arrived on Saturday in Jeddah, relieved that their country has settled its differences with the regional rival.

زن ایرونی‌

ایرانی‌هائی که در سنین جوانی و پس از آن مهاجرت کرده‌ا‌ند و در  کشورهای غریب زندگی میکنند، نه فرهنگ ایران را، که هر آینه در حال تحول است،  دارند و نه فرهنگ کشور میزبان را کاملا پذیرفته‌ا‌ند. کسانی که در کشور میزبان خود ده‌ها سال زندگی کرده‌ا‌ند، تغییر فرهنگ را در آن کشور و در عرض آن مدت تجربه کرده‌ا‌ند. چرا که فرهنگ هیچگاه ساکن نیست و همیشه در حال تغییر و تحول است. به همین دلیل، زمانی که مهاجر به کشور مبدأ پس از سالها باز میگردد، خود را در یک فرهنگ غریبه میابد. در واقع این اشخاص از هر دو فرهنگ عقب مانده‌ا‌ند، و هر چقدر هم پا بزنند به هیچکدام نمیرسند!

Iran seizes oil tanker ‘trying to flee’ in Gulf waters

Al Jazeera

April 27, 2023

Iran’s army has said it seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it collided with an Iranian boat, injuring several crewmen, state media reported.

High-ranking Iranian cleric assassinated

DarrylCoote

April 26, 2023

A powerful high-ranking Iranian cleric was gunned down Wednesday in a bank in northern Mazandaran province, according to Iranian news reports.

Iran court orders US, Obama to pay $313m for ‘terrorist’ attacks

Maziar Motamedi

April 26, 2023

Tehran, Iran – An Iranian court has ruled the United States government and a number of individuals and entities, including former President Barack Obama, must pay compensation for 2017 attacks carried out by the armed group ISIL (ISIS).