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Saturday, July 13, 2024

Dozens killed as Israel strikes Al-Mawasi 'safe zone' in Gaza

 
Israeli forces killed at least 71 civilians and injured 289 more in a series of massive airstrikes on the Al-Mawasi region on the southern Gaza coast, Al Jazeera reported on 13 July.
 Aftermath of an Israeli strike in Al-Mawasi, Gaza. (Photo credit: BBC)

Friday, July 12, 2024

The People of Gaza Starved as US Built a Public Relations Ploy in the Form of a Pier

July 12, 2024
The Navy Times reports that the US aid pier at Gaza will be permanently decommissioned. The $270 million pier could not be reattached this week because of heavy seas.
 Pier in Gaza
U.S. and Israeli troops assemble the Trident Pier off the shore of the northern Gaza Strip on April 26, 2024. (Photo: U.S. Army Central Command)

The Folly of Empire and the Albatross of Debt

July 12, 2024
Like the case of Rome before it, Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost of the national security budget is now upwards of $1.3 trillion per year (counting veterans expense and international operations and aid), but there is no way to pay for it.
CBO Projects The Public Debt Will Reach $146 Trillion By Mid-Century
 

Thursday, July 11, 2024

What can Palestinian artists do in the face of our slaughter?

July 11, 2024
At the end of December 2023, as the war in Gaza neared its third month, several Palestinian singers in Israel faced harsh criticism online after they promoted their upcoming Christmas and New Year’s performances on social media. This sparked a widespread debate among their fellow Palestinian citizens.
Tamer Nafar (courtesy of the author)

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Israel forcibly displaces tens of thousands from Gaza City into deadly 'safe-zones'

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Gaza City in northern Gaza and are on the move with nowhere to go due to new evacuation orders issued by Israel. 

Scientists to Biden: Cancel New Nuclear IBM System

July 10, 2024
More than 700 scientists on Monday called for an end to the United States' land-based nuclear weapons program that's set to be replaced, following a Pentagon decision to approve the program despite soaring costs.
 Hundreds of Scientists Urge Biden to Cancel $100 Billion Nuclear Weapons Boondoggle

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Why the Israeli army is expanding its invasion of Gaza City

July 8, 2024
he Israeli army’s invasion of Gaza City’s eastern Shuja’iyya neighborhood has entered its second week, and it is now spreading to other parts of the city. The entire city is being put under siege, with its some 300,000 remaining inhabitants trapped in the middle with nowhere to go.
Palestinians flee eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, July 7, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)
Palestinians flee eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, July 7, 2024. (Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images)

Copernicus: June 2024 marks 12th month of global temperature reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables. Additionally, the bulletin also includes highlights regarding the boreal spring (March-April-May). Most of the reported findings are based on the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.
| Extreme heat impacts and consequences | MR Online

Can Iran’s New Reformist President Deliver?

July 9, 2024
 
Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Elections in Iran have predictable outcomes. The men picked by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, engage in a quasi-debate on TV, but usually the hand-picked guy is bound to win. This year saw a minor upset.

Patriotism

What does patriotism mean?

میهن پرستی

 

میهن پرستی ، عرق میهنی، حُبّ وطن، و اصطلاحاتی از این قبیل چه معنی میدهند؟ فرهنگ وبستر میهن پرستی‌ را عشق به کشور و فداکاری معنی‌ کرده است. در ادامهٔ این تعریف، میهن پرستی‌ را کیفیت از خود گذشته بودن و حمایت شدید از کشور عنوان کرده است.ا

Monday, July 8, 2024

The Gaza Genocide: Who’s Complicit?

July 8, 2024
Given the recent pro-Palestinian protests around the world and on many university campuses, it seems strange if not surprising that neither genocide nor the continuing flow of U.S. weapons to Israel were mentioned during the first (and maybe only) 2024 presidential debate. Nor did the New York Times Editorial Board see fit to cite complicity in genocide while calling for Biden to step down after his poor debate performance. 

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Israel’s Campaign of Starvation in Gaza Has Palestinians Eating Weeds to Survive

July 6, 2024
Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount can hardly buy a single meal.

Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran's presidential election

July 6, 2024
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian was elected Iran's ninth president on 6 July after winning a run-off election against conservative candidate Saeed Jalili, semi-official Tasnim News reported.
 

Six Supreme Court judges declare the U.S. a dictatorship

July 6, 2024
Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.
| SCOTUS | MR Online

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Largest West Bank Land Seizure in Decades

July 4, 2024
The Israeli government has appropriated around 23,700 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year, the largest appropriation of land since the Oslo Accords in 1993, according to an Israeli settlement watchdog.

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

‘Hamas has never been stronger’: Israel is stuck in a war it can’t win

July 3, 2024
Through April, the IDF had targeted more than 32,000 military sites belonging to Hamas and its allies. In June, Israel announced that 15,000 of the group's militants  had been eliminated. But experts are certain those measures won’t eradicate the Islamic group that has been in charge of Gaza since 2007.
‘Hamas has never been stronger’: Israel is stuck in a war it can’t win