Hama city falls to Syrian rebels as advance continues

December 5, 2024

Alex MacDonald and Harun al-Aswad

Syrian rebels have taken control of the central city of Hama as their shock advance across the country continues.

An anti-government fighter covers his ears as a multi-barrel rocket launcher fires against government forces, in the northern outskirts of Syria's west-central city of Hama on 4 December 2024 (Bakr al-Kassem / AFP)

Challenge to California Top-Two Election System in Federal Court filed

December 1, 2024

Two election attorneys challenged the top-two system in Federal Court in Oakland, California on Thursday, November 21, 2024. David L. Shoen of Montgomery, Alabama, and Seyeun D. Choi of Foster City, California filed a complaint asking that California’s “Top-Two” election system be struck down as unconstitutional.

(The 12-page complaint in its entirety may be read here.) 

Gazans face extreme hunger as ‘real famine’ spreads from north to south

December 4, 2024

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

Mustafa Al-Darsh, a 35-year-old father of three from Gaza City, spends hours every day searching for food for his family. Some days, he manages to secure a few canned goods; other days, his family has to settle for plain rice. “In the north, we yearn to eat bread with some thyme,” he told +972. He hasn’t been able to find flour for months.

Displaced Palestinians line up to receive a meal in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 29, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest

December 4, 2024

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016.

No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances.

Two times as the president of these increasingly disunited states of America? Holy cowpie!

'Unsettling New Milestone': Top 12 US Billionaires Now Control $2 Trillion in Wealth

December 4, 2024

Eloise Goldsmith

Just 12 U.S. billionaires now have a collective net worth of over $2 trillion—a figure that amounts to a little less than a third of total federal spending in 2023—according to an analysis out Tuesday from Inequality.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

‘We are human’: Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza

December 3, 2024

Hunger. Cold. Thirst. Disease. These are the daily realities of life in Gaza, where for the past 423 days, Israel has unleashed a genocide that will come to define our contemporary era. As Palestinians struggle to meet their daily needs, they are also faced with a battle to preserve their memories and dignity. Over the past year, journalist and filmmaker Ruwaida Amer has produced numerous powerful, heart-wrenching documentary reports for TRNN from the rubble and ruins of Gaza, shining a light on the darkest realities of Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, even as she herself suffers from—and struggles to survive—the onslaught. Calling in from Gaza, Amer joins The Marc Steiner Show to share an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.

 

 A Palestinian boy sits over a torn UNRWA sticker in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on December 2, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas militants. Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images

چه کسی پشت شعله ور شدن جنگ جدید سور یه قرار دارد؟

بقلم مراد صدیق زاده رئیس مرکز مطالعات خاورمیانه و مدرس مدعو در دانشگاه مسکو

بیست و نه نوامبر ۲۰۲۴

نهم آذر ۱۴۰۳

تارنمای آرتی

برگردان، کوتاه سازی و تنظیم سپیده دم

Sepidehdamaliasghar@gmail.com

 

Eight Days in Palestine

December 2, 2024

Matthew Huh

I’m back in Jordan after eight days in Palestine. I was in Palestine as part of a delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engaged in Palestinian liberation. We visited and had dialogues with Palestinians and Israelis in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah and Sderot. We sat, listened to and spoke with Christians, Jews, Muslims and non-believers. We went to the Gaza border.

LIVE BLOG: ‘Tightly Coordinated Ambushes’ | Yemeni Missile | Massacre in Beit Lahia – Day 422

December1, 2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
44,382	105,142	10,000

-Four people were slightly injured as they rushed to the shelters as sirens sounded in central Israel following the launch of a missile from Yemen.

-Two children were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a tent housing displaced persons southwest of Al Mawasi in Khan Yunis.

-According to the Palestinian Health Ministry (Gaza), 44,382 Palestinians have been killed, and 105,142 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

 

اندیشیدن به غیرقابل تصور

 بیست و هشتم نوامبر ۲۰۲۴

هشتم آذر ۱۴۰۳

داود دشتبانی

انقلاب ایران به‌زعم جامعه‌شناسان یکی از انقلاب‌های بزرگ تاریخ معاصر جهان است که در زمره انقلاب‌های کلاسیک چون انقلاب فرانسه و روسیه شمرده می‌شود. این انقلاب در عین اینکه موضوع مطالعات فراوان بوده به تئوری‌های توطئه نیز دامن زده است. گروهی از هواداران سلطنت در ایران، کنفرانس گوادلوپ را توطئه قدرت‌های جهانی برای سرنگونی محمدرضاشاه پهلوی می‌دانند اما این کنفرانس چه بود و چگونه می‌توانست به سرنگونی رژیمی قدرتمند که تا چندی پیش از آن، توسط رئیس‌جمهور آمریکا جزیره ثبات معرفی شده بود، کمک کند؟

LIVE: Israel killed 19 Palestinians in Gaza in past 24 hours

November 30, 2024

Urooba Jamal and Mersiha Gadzo

Terrorists attack Iranian consulate in Syria – Tehran

November 30, 2024

Iran’s consulate in the Syrian city of Aleppo has come under attack by “some terrorist elements,” the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry claimed on Saturday. A former local Al Qaeda affiliate launched a major offensive against the city this week.

How Palestinian popular resistance became a global movement

November 29, 2024

Mandy Turner

Today, 29 November, is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

There is a long history of solidarity with Palestinians from countries and movements struggling against colonialism and oppression across the world - especially from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

 

 Members of the Palestinian community in Chile participate in a car caravan on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at Plaza Italia square in Santiago on 29 November 2023 (Javier Torres/AFP)

PHOTOS: Rainstorm devastates Khan Younis displacement camp

November29, 2024

Doaa Albaz

The first heavy rainfall of winter arrived in Gaza this week, flooding tent encampments across the besieged Strip. With approximately 90 percent of the enclave’s population having been displaced from their homes, often several times, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are living in makeshift tents that are ill-equipped to withstand the elements. Gaza’s Government Media Office estimates that around 10,000 tents were either washed away or damaged due to this week’s storm.

 

Seawater damages the tents of displaced people on the beach in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 25, 2024. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills) 

Diaries from north Gaza: one woman’s story of survival

November29, 2024

Sondos Sabra

Since October 7, 2023, Sondos Sabra has kept a diary of the genocide. These entries serve as a window into her life and the universal Gazan story of what it means to survive. "I remember that I remember, and I will not have that memory erased."

 

Palestinians inspect the damage in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip after Israeli shelling of the camp stopped on November 29, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images) 

Ceasefire 101: Israel fails at war goals, Hezbollah succeeds

November 28, 2024

Ali Rizk

Hezbollah has once again proven to be a handful for Israel, notwithstanding the heavy blows that were dealt to the resistance movement in the latest round of hostilities.  A ceasefire deal that has come into effect after over two months of full-scale conflict on the Lebanese–Israeli front falls far short of what Israel had hoped to achieve in the earlier stages of this conflict when the momentum seemed to be on its side.

 

A map indicating where the Israeli forces are currently deployed in south Lebanon one day after the ceasefire took effect.

Consumer Solar Surge: Pakistan Shows you Don’t Need Government Programs to Green the Grid

November 28, 2024

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – While no one was looking, the Pakistani public took matters into their own hands, adding 17 gigawatts of solar power this year. These installations are mostly in the form of Chinese panels for rooftop or ground level solar in towns and villages.

Greater Energy Levels by GOP Produce Victories Over Democrats

November 28, 2024

Ralph Nader

Over thirty years ago, Republican historian and political analyst, Kevin Phillips, remarked that the “Republicans go for the jugular while the Democrats go for the capillaries.” This serious disparity in political energy levels is rarely taken into account to explain election turnouts. The voluntary enfeebling of the Democratic Party started long ago. In 1970, writing in Harper’s Magazine, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action, wrote an article “Who Needs  Democrats? And What It Takes to be Needed?” He argued that if the Democratic Party does not take on the corporate and political establishment, it has no purpose at all.

 

As US Celebrates Thanksgiving, Israel-Imposed Starvation and Suffering in Gaza Intensifies

November 27, 2024

Julia Conley

As millions prepared to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States on Wednesday, human rights advocates provided dispatches from nearly 6,000 miles away in Gaza, where the Biden administration has continued to provide political and military support for Israel's onslaught despite public disapproval for the war among Americans.

 

 Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for medical treatment after an Israeli attack on Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the northern part of the Gaza on November 25, 2024. (Photo: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society

November 27, 2024

Negin Owliaei & Maya Schenwar

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, after a campaign in which Trump threatened the press, the left and “the enemy within,” 204 Republicans and 15 Democrats in the House of Representatives decided to hand a gift to his incoming administration — one that could be used to squash any kind of dissent.