Israeli Settlers Rampage in West Bank Town, Killing 1 and Setting Houses Aflame

Sharon Zhang

August 16, 2024

Dozens of masked and armed Israeli settlers descended upon the Palestinian town of Jit in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, setting houses aflame and killing at least one Palestinian in what human rights advocates and the president of Israel have labeled as a pogrom.

What you need to know about the latest round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations

Qassam Muaddi

August 15, 2024

A new round of ceasefire talks is set to resume today in Doha, Qatar, in a last-ditch attempt by the U.S. to reach a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel. The new round of talks came after the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar issued a joint statement last week calling to renew negotiations.

 

The daily battles to survive the Gaza genocide

Yousef Aljamal

August 14, 2024

Since October 7, my life has been split between two parallel realms. In the first, I go about my daily life as usual here in Turkey, where I work, visit my friends, do my routine shopping, and take care of my immediate family. In the second realm, I am immersed in the daily reports of the death, destruction, displacement, and fear that my family, friends, and neighbors are enduring in Gaza, and try to help them as much as possible. 

 

Middle East at a very critical juncture. Will all-out war be postponed again?

Richard Hubert Barton

August 14, 2024

It will be just enough to have a brief look at main hostilities and military developments since the October 7, 2023 to realise extreme intensification in threats, genocidal killings and the extent of fighting in the Middle East area.

Will Iran Strike Israel?

EugeneDoyle

August 14, 2024

Iran may be about to launch a proper missile strike on Israel for the first time ever – in retaliation for the attack on Tehran last month which killed Ismail Haniyeh.  Israeli intelligence says an attack is likely to come within days.

 

Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections

Richard Wolff

August 14, 2024

Inside Israel’s torture, rape, and dehumanization centers

Robert Inlakesh

August 13, 2024

While the world witnesses the atrocities and massacres committed by Israel’s military assault on Gaza every day, the thousands of Palestinians detained by occupation forces – before and after the events of 7 October 2023 – face torture and death behind closed doors, alone.

 

The Murder of Others

Scott Ritter

August 13, 2024

On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the presidency in April 1945 following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, convened a meeting in the White House cabinet room of his top military and diplomatic advisers to discuss the endgame strategy for defeating Japan. 

An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the U.S. dropped a second nuclear bomb on the country on Aug. 9, 1945. (Hiromichi Matsuda, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

Israel Is Torturing Palestinian Prisoners to Death — With US Complicity

Seraj Assi

August 12, 2024

On June 26, 2023, President Joe Biden declared: “Torture is prohibited everywhere and at all times. It is illegal, immoral, and a stain on our collective conscience.”

 Israeli police form a barricade in front of a military court building as far right Israelis and relatives of soldiers protest against the arrest of nine soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman prison, in Netanya, Israel, on July 30, 2024. Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Southern Gaza under Fire | UNSC to Meet over Fajr Massacre | ‘Sinwar Grew Stronger’ – Day 310

August 11, 2024

                            The Gaza Genocide

Killed	Wounded	Missing
39,677	91,645	11,000

 

Israeli forces carried out a horrific massacre in the Tabbed school, sheltering displaced Palestinians. (Photo: via QNN TW Page)

Israeli strike on Gaza school slaughters over 100 Palestinians during morning prayer

News Desk

August 10, 2024

Israeli forces carried out a new massacre on the morning of 10 August when they bombed a school full of displaced Palestinians near Gaza City, killing at least 100 people and injuring others.

People sift through the rubble inside a Gaza school struck by the IDF on August 10, 2024 (Photo credit: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images)

Families Flee Khan Younis 'Wasteland' as Israel Hammers Gaza With US-Supplied Bombs

Jon Queally

August 9, 2024

A wave of fresh bombings and military ground operations by Israel were underway in the city of Khan Younis on Friday as images of Palestinian families once again forced to flee plastered global news sites and world leaders, including the United States, refused to intervene to stop the relentless assault being inflicted on the people of Gaza.

 Palestinians leave their home after Israel issued an evacuation warning as Israel's attacks continue in eastern Khan Yunis, Gaza on August 08, 2024. (Photo by Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Far-right riots: UK media and politicians are almost wholly to blame

Peter Oborne

August 8, 2024

The racist thugs who terrorised, intimidated and in some cases tried to murder Muslims and other minority groups in the UK over the last few days are in a deep sense victims themselves.

Paris Olympics epitomize toxic Western elitism and disconnect from real world

Strategic Culture Foundation

August 2, 2024

The Paris Summer Olympic Games opened last Friday to a global controversy with the organizers accused of offending billions of Christians and Muslims around the world through profane depictions of Jesus Christ (a revered prophet in Islam) surrounded by drag queens.

Promising signs that Palestine advocacy is building political power in Washington

MitchellPlitnick

August 8, 2024

The defeat of Cori Bush in her primary election on Tuesday left a lot of advocates for Palestinian rights in the United States despairing. It’s an understandable feeling.

 

 Upwards of 400,000 Pro-Palestine protestors take the streets in a national march in Washington DC to show support for Palestinians and call for a ceasefire and end the genocide in Gaza, January 13, 2024. (Photo: Eman Mohammed)

Israeli MP condones sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

Helen McCue

August 7, 2024

What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners by “putting a stick up their rectum” and reinforcing this torture and war crimes by saying, “Yes, with these people everything is acceptable. Everything”. That so called “democracy” is Israel. It has for years boasted about it’s military being the “most moral army in the world” when in fact it is now the most immoral army in the world run by a fascist, brutal, extremist, rogue government dominated by messianic settlers.

As war widens, US assets become easy targets

Mohamad Hasan Sweidan

August 7, 2024

During a White House press conference on 31 July, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby underscored the US commitment to maintaining readiness to protect its security interests in West Asia. 

  

Bloody water looks like map of Iran!

What Is Behind England’s Riots

John Wight

August 7, 2024

The series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England’s vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold.

نخستین روز مدرسه

زمانی‌ که انسان به سن خاصی‌ می‌رسد جزوی از تاریخ می‌شود. تاریخ شرح وقایع گذشته است، و تک‌تکِ هر لحظهٔ هست را به بود تبدیل می‌کند! پاره‌ای از زندگی‌ خاطرات جالبی‌ هستند که می‌توان آنها را داستان نامید. در زیر دو داستان می‌آیند که به دلیل استثنائی بودن، و یا حداقل کمی‌ متفاوت بودن آنها، به داستان تبدیل شده‌ا‌ند. نخستین داستان در شش سالگی من روی داد که به تفصیل در اینجا می‌آید. سپس به داستان دیگری می‌پردازم که در همان سال اتفاق افتاد و آن آغاز ورود من به مدرسه و تحصیل بود. این دو داستان را تا به آنجا که به خاطر می‌آورم نقل می‌کنم.ا

The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff

August 6, 2024

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No matter how many times that is repeated, it is simply not true and never was. Indeed, it is much more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites. To see why, you have only to look at capitalism as a production system where employees enter into a relationship with employers, where a few people are the boss, and most people simply work doing what they are told to do. That relationship is not democratic; it is autocratic.