February
26, 2024
For
its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us – the onlooking and
supportive patriots – war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a.,
public relations, served up for public consumption.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Monday, February 26, 2024
Red Sea attacks in Sympathy with Gaza Escalate as Yemeni Houthis’ Resilience Surprises Biden
February 26, 2024
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The
Helpers of God (Ansar Allah) or Houthis in Yemen are proving a bigger challenge
for the Biden Administration’s attempt to run interference for the Israeli
atrocities in Gaza than Washington had expected. Just Monday morning the Yemeni
forces fired a ballistic missile at the US-owned and -operated M/V Torm Thor,
an oil tanker, but it fell short. The leadership say they are hitting Red Sea
traffic as a protest against Israel’s war against Gaza. Enormous crowds in the
hundreds of thousands have demonstrated in Sanaa and other cities against the
Israeli campaign against Gaza, which the International Criminal Court has ruled
may be a genocide.
US Airman Self-Immolates in Front of Israeli Embassy, Yelling “Free Palestine”
February 26, 2024
An active duty member of the U.S.
Air Force self-immolated while yelling “free Palestine” in a tragic protest of
Israel’s genocide in Gaza in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
on Sunday afternoon. Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, was 25 years old
and died later that day.
Ayo Walker / Truthout; Adapted: Humanizing Through Story, via Facebook
Sunday, February 25, 2024
US Anti-Terror Law Has Stigmatized Palestinians as “Terrorists” Since 1969
February 25, 2024
The word “terrorism” first appeared
in a U.S. federal law in 1969. Introduced by a Zionist congressman from New
York who claimed “terrorists” were training children in refugee camps for the
Palestinians forced from their homes by Israel, the provision banned U.S.
humanitarian aid from benefiting any refugee who received military training
from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) or “has engaged in any act of
terror.”
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Iran’s “Axis of Resistance:” Different Groups, Similar Goals
February
24, 2024
Iran’s
so-called axis of resistance is a loose network of proxies, Tehran-backed
militant groups, and an allied state actor.
Friday, February 23, 2024
As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US Again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution
February
23, 2024
As
a United Nations agency halted aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where acute
malnourishment is rampant among children, citing a “breakdown of social order”
fueled by Israel’s bombardment of and blockade on the enclave, the United
States for a third time on Tuesday vetoed a cease-fire resolution at the U.N.
Security Council—saying it was an inopportune time to demand that Israel end
its massacre of Palestinians.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study
February
22, 2024
Ann
Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact
Projections, a joint report by the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins
University, issued this week, warns that a further 85,750 Palestinians could
die in the next six months from physical trauma and disease if the conflict in
Gaza continues and escalates.
The
figure of 85,750 is a worst case scenario and deaths would reach that level
only if the military assault on Gaza escalates and if the poor hygienic
conditions of the 1.9 displaced Palestinians cause epidemics.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Bombing Muslims for Peace
February
21, 2024
Like
many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those
old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the
Nazis and “the Japs” during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of
the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the
Middle East. It was, I suppose, an early sign that I would make both the
military and the study of history into careers.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Biden, tired of being “Genocide Joe,” Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire
February 20, 2024
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) –
Julian Borger at The Guardian says he has seen a draft US proposal for a United
Nations Security Council calling for a “temporary ceasefire” in Gaza and
cautioning against any offensive on the southern Gaza region of Rafah, where
1.4 million refugees from the rest of Gaza have joined the existing hundreds of
thousands of residents.
How Israel’s war went wrong
February 20,
2024
At the end of
November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important
stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning
that has led the Israeli military to kill so many civilians.
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Monday, February 19, 2024
Laying the groundwork for Gaza’s permanent exodus
February 19, 2024
With most of the Gaza Strip’s
Palestinians now trapped inside the enclave’s southern tip, the Israeli
onslaught they had attempted to escape has followed them to Rafah. Some 1.4
million people are pinned against a virtually impermeable Egyptian border, while
the entry of life-sustaining aid is chronically stalled. At Kerem Shalom, the
southeastern crossing directly controlled by Israel, Jewish Israelis have been
filmed gleefully blocking food convoys from Egypt, in a fitting correlative to
the genocidal rhetoric of their leaders.
What’s at Stake for Julian Assange—and the Rest of Us
February 19, 2024
On February 20 and 21, the High
Court of Justice in London will conduct a hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange can appeal the court’s earlier decision to extradite him
to the U.S. to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and one for computer
crime, with a Methuselan prison sentence of 175 years. This, even though Julian
is not an American citizen (he’s Australian), and he was not under U.S.
jurisdiction when the “crimes” were allegedly committed.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
نگاهی گذرا
در اینکه جمهوری اسلامی ضایعهای است برای مردمی که بیش از چهار دهه با آن مدارا کردهاند، و همواره در صدد اصلاح آن بر آمدهاند، شکی نیست. ولی رژیم همواره بیش از پیش افول کرده است. نمونهٔ بارز آن روش انتخابات است، که کاندیداها را محدود به تصویب یک عده مُلّای بیسواد میکند، که در نتیجه چنین روسای دولت نالایقی تحویل میدهند. اعتراضات و تظاهرات مردم در سرتاسر کشور به دلیل تجاوزات، حقکُشی، دزدی، نادیده گرفتن کوچکترین نیاز مردم، بیاعتباری، و افول سیاسی-علمی-اجتماعی، همچنان ادامه دارد، و تا انجام تغییرات وسیعی در سطح کشور ادامه خواهد داشت.ا
A Quick Look
There is no doubt that the Islamic Republic is a brutal regime governing the people who have tolerated it for more than four decades and have always tried to reform it, with no success. But the regime has been declining further into the abyss, by acting illogically and unreasonably in its internal politics. A clear example of that is presidential elections and its policies and methods of electing, which limits candidates to the approval of a few illiterate mullahs, resulting in such incompetent heads of states. People's protests and demonstrations throughout the country due to encroachments, killings, theft, ignoring the smallest needs of the people, and political-scientific-social decline continue, and will continue until extensive changes are made in the country.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures
February
17, 2024
Since
the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, innumerable treasures
of Palestine’s cultural heritage have been damaged or destroyed. Like so much
of the rest of the besieged enclave, these priceless and beloved landmarks of
our people’s history — archaeological sites, millennia-old religious
structures, and museums with ancient collections — now lie in ruin.
The ruins of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldes mosque in Norther Gaza, Feb 12, 2024 (Omar El Qattaa)Friday, February 16, 2024
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
Hospitals are supposed to be safe. Not in Gaza.
February
15, 2024
The
Israel Defense Forces raided Gaza’s largest still-operating hospital on
Thursday in Khan Younis, a southern city that once sheltered over 100,000
displaced Palestinians but that has been under siege for weeks.
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How the CIA Destabilizes the World
February 15, 2024
There are three basic problems with
the C.I.A.: its objectives, methods and unaccountability.
“Spies in D.C., code name ‘Giddy Up.’ ” (Lorie Shaull, Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
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