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Monday, January 15, 2024

What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Have To Say on Gaza?

January 15, 2024
He insisted in 1967 that it was morally imperative for the US to stop its role in the Vietnam war. He would be calling for Biden to demand a ceasefire now.

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli assault continues on 100th day of war

January 14, 2024
·        Israel’s relentless attack on Gaza continues with 125 Palestinians killed and 265 wounded over the past 24 hours.
·        Pro-Palestinian protests around the world over the weekend – from Johannesburg to Washington, DC – call for an end to the war on Gaza.
·        Dozens of arrests as Israeli bulldozers enter Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
·        At least 23,968 people have been killed and more than 60,582 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
 

Saturday, January 13, 2024

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

December 26, 2023
The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world.

 US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield 
US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield abstains during a vote to approve a resolution that "demands" all sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict allow the "safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale" at UN headquarters in New York on December 22, 2023.
(Photo by Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War

January 13, 2024
we must join the majority of the world’s nations in building pressure on Biden and Netanyahu to declare a ceasefire, to deluge Gaza with the food, water, medicines, and fuel essential for life. We must do this with everything we've got and we must do it now.
 Gaza march in London 
Little Amal, a 3.5 metre-tall giant puppet representing a ten-year-old Syrian refugee child, joins tens of thousands of protesters marching through central London in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to demand an immediate ceasefire to end the war on Gaza in London, United Kingdom on January 13, 2024.
(Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Friday, January 12, 2024

Labor organizers explain why they’re marching on DC for Palestine

January 12, 2024
For these rank-and-file union members, solidarity with Palestine is a necessity for the labor movement.
 Labor organizers explain why they’re marching on DC for Palestine
Men lock arms and shout slogans during a demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians. Demonstrators gathered in Freedom Plaza for a rally supporting Palestinians in Washington, DC, on November 4, 2023. Photo by ALI KHALIGH/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Iran’s “Women, Life, Freedom Movement” is still Resilient

January 12, 2024
Ottawa (Special to Informed Comment) – The term “social movements” typically evoke the idea of political activities in a sphere separate from culture, but social movements are closely related to values, ways of living, ethics, and more broadly culture. Among new social movement scholars, there is a growing recognition that social movements have more cultural impact than is reflected in the field.  Moreover, since the symbolic dimension of culture is part of policies and practices in all spheres, social movements are increasingly acknowledged to exert cultural influence not only in political and economic realms but also in non-political domains such as the spheres of art, music, education, fashion, and more. This paper seeks to discuss the Women, Life, Freedom movement in a broader context of culture and everyday practices, to explore what sense we can make of it one year after its emergence, and to see what it tells us about the prospect of Women’s freedom movements in Iran. The discussion begins with an overview of the contextual background.
 

Thursday, January 11, 2024

How to Create an Unlivable Hellscape in Gaza

January 11, 2024
Israel is now keeping its promise that it would act like it was "fighting human animals."
 How to Create an Unlivable Hellscape in Gaza
A man carries a propane gas cylinder on his back while walking through debris and destruction littering a street in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

SA’s Impassioned Plea to Stop Israel’s Genocide

January 11, 2024
Lawyers for South Africa argued before the World Court in The Hague on Thursday why Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and why the court must stop them now, reports Joe Lauria.
 
 Adila Hassim, attorney for South Africa, addressing the World Court, with the Israel delegation looking on. (UN TV screenshot)

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

On Gaza, Most Congress Members Have Been Moral Failures. Don’t Grade Them on a Curve.
January 9, 2024
On Gaza, Most Congress Members Have Been Moral Failures. Don’t Grade Them on a Curve.

Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens

January 8, 2024
Administrative detention, long weaponized against Palestinians under occupation, is gradually being directed toward those with citizenship too.
 Palestinians attend a protest condemning the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh by Israeli forces during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Haifa, May 11, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Monday, January 8, 2024

Together, We Can End Injustice in Gaza and Beyond

January 8, 2024
Ordinary people can fix the broken postwar international system and deliver global justice to Palestinians and oppressed people worldwide.
 

Sunday, January 7, 2024

1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

January 7, 2024
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said this week that “Children in Gaza are caught in a nightmare that worsens with every passing day.”
 1.1 mn. Children of Gaza caught in a Health Nightmare that Worsens Every Day; Clinics attacked 600 Times

Saturday, January 6, 2024

As US Backs Gaza Genocide, 'Grassroots Diplomats' Rally Support for South Africa Case

January 6, 2024
The tireless advocacy seeks to bridge nations in support of South Africa's pursuit of justice.
peace activists 
Peace activists rally at South Africa's consulate general in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 2024.
(Photo: CodePink/Flickr)

Friday, January 5, 2024

Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees

January 5, 2024
In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were civilians with no affiliation to Hamas, Israeli security officials later confirmed, and the men were taken away by the army without notifying their families of the detainees’ whereabouts. Some of them never returned.
 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, are moved to areas near the beach, December 7, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bin Laden’s Curse: Gaza, Iran and the Reemergence of ISIL

January 5, 2024
The responsibility for the bombing in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people and wounded another 284, has been claimed by the ISIL (Daesh, ISIS) terrorist group. The worst terrorist bombing in Iran since the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) blew up the Iranian leadership in 1981 struck at a commemoration of the assassination by Donald Trump of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps General Qasem Soleimani.
 

US senator vows to make Iran’s ‘worst nightmare’ come true

January 5, 2024
Doing so is “essential” for Israel’s security, Lindsey Graham argued during his visit to Tel Aviv
Another Biden official resigns over Israel policy

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Gaza, Saudi, Iran, Venezuela and More

January 4, 2024
It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of its own, and let alone sovereignty, would become the world’s most significant geopolitical spot on earth.
 

Twin blasts kill dozens near slain Iran commander’s grave

January 4, 2024
Dozens of people were killed Wednesday in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani, in what officials called a terror attack.
 People take care of injured after an explosion in Kerman, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 73 people and wounded over 170 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mahdi Karbakhsh Ravari)

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Palestine: The Greatest Moral Issue of Our Time

January 3, 2024
Long before South Africa filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice on 29 December 2023 over its genocidal war on Gaza, its iconic anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who came to embody the struggle for justice worldwide; stated, “Palestine was the greatest moral issue of our time.”