Targeting opposition to Gaza genocide, University of Michigan proposes policy to suppress protests

Tom Carter

March 29, 2024

On Wednesday, the University of Michigan unveiled a proposal for a new administration policy that could be used to effectively prohibit public protests on campus, as part of an escalating nationwide and global crackdown on opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

 Students demonstrate against the Gaza genocide on March 28, 2024 at the University of Michigan.

جهان‌ها

آیا تولد ما و قدم گذاشتن به این دنیا نخستین تجربهٔ ماست، و پیش از تولد جهان دیگری را -که هیچگاه به خاطر نمی‌آوریم- تجربه نکرده‌ایم؟ یا اینکه ما قبل از ورود به این دنیا چیزی را تجربه می کنیم که هستی نیست؟

Worlds

Do we begin our lives in this world without any prior experience in any form of life or existence and in a different fashion or manner? 

Complicit in Genocide: Where Israel Gets Its Weapons From

Ramzy Baroud

March 28, 2024

Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7.

 

Is America a Rogue Superpower?

Ted Snider

March 28, 2024

“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world.

At overburdened Gaza hospital, Palestinians try to instill Ramadan spirit

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

March 27, 2024

One big problem with how we rank countries by happiness

Sigal Samuel

March 27, 2024

   We know that America is really unhappy. And Finland is the happiest country. Right?

Another Israeli soldier admits to implementing the ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7

JonathanOfir

March 26, 2024

In Israeli military terminology, the so-called “Hannibal Directive” is the policy of firing upon one’s own soldiers to avert a prospective captive situation. 

 

The Music of the late Iranian Singer Faramarz Aslani, Forced into Exile by a Puritan Revolution

Fariba Amini

March 26, 2024

 

US insists UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire will have “no impact at all”

Andre Damon

March 26, 2024

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for a two-week ceasefire in Gaza, after the United States abstained from a vote on the resolution.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, votes to abstain as the United Nations Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting at U.N. headquarters, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Kremlin comments on calls for death penalty after terrorist attack

RT

March 25, 2024

The Kremlin is not involved in any talks on lifting Russia’s moratorium on the death penalty in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

 

The story of Yazan Kafarneh, the boy who starved to death in Gaza

TareqS. Hajjaj

March 25, 2024

 

Yazan Kafarneh after dying of starvation. (Photo: Rabee’ Abu Naqirah) 

Three Gaza hospitals under brutal Israeli siege

NewsDesk

March 24, 2024

Israeli troops advanced towards the Al-Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Yunis on 24 March, laying siege to both facilities as warplanes continued to bombard the city. 

Why US ceasefire proposal failed at UNSC

Trita Parsi

March 23, 2024

Russia and China just vetoed Biden’s draft resolution on Gaza at the UN Security Council. Algeria also voted against it.

‘War against Children’ – UNICEF Spokesman Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

Blog, News

March 23, 2024

“A war against children” is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities have already claimed the lives of more than 10,000 minors, UNICEF spokesman James Elder said in an interview with the Anadolu news agency on Saturday.

 

The fraud of Biden’s call for a “ceasefire” in Gaza

Andre Damon

March 22, 2024

The Biden administration, the leading imperialist sponsor of Israel’s Gaza genocide that has killed 32,000 Palestinians, displaced nearly 2 million, and imposed starvation on the entire population, is introducing a UN resolution supporting an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza.

 

  IDF troops detain and torture people at Shifa hospital in Gaza.

Israel’s Trojan Horse

ChrisHedges

March 21, 2024

Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians. 

Capitalism’s permanent horror

Ben Hillier

March 21, 2024

The military ordered hundreds of thousands of people into a designated “safe” zone. On reaching it, they were shelled by the army and the air force. The generals said there was another safe zone; if the people kept moving, respite would be found. It wasn’t. Again they were attacked. The scene repeated, but now, corralled onto a tiny stretch of beach and trapped against the ocean, there was no way out.

United Nations says Israel using “starvation as a method of war”

AndreDamon

March 20, 2024

Israel’s withholding of food from the population of Gaza may be a deliberate effort to starve the population, the United Nations’ highest human rights official said Tuesday.

 

Israeli settlers exploit war to build illegal West Bank outposts

The Cradle

March 18, 2024

Between October and January, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank have built at least 15 illegal outposts and 18 illegal roads, as well as hundreds of meters of fences and multiple roadblocks, a new report from Al-Jazeera shows.