Palestinian filmmakers are doing the impossible to capture their stories

January 14, 2025

Matt Minton

A young girl listens to music in her headphones while the sound of missiles and bombs destroys the only home she’s ever known. A girl and her uncle stand on top of a bombed house, looking for her father trapped below. They keep calling his phone to see if he is still alive. A group of children help create stop-motion films about their mothers’ writing names on their arms in case they are bombed and disfigured.

BRICS grows, adding Indonesia as member: World’s 4th most populous country, 7th biggest economy

January 11, 2025

Ben Norton

The Global South-led organization BRICS has expanded again.

 

عَرَق‌خوری

هوشنگ فاضلی

جمعه شب از نیمه‌شب گذشته بود و من و آغلام و آقای عینکچی، همچنان در مغازهٔ عینکچی به میگساری مشغول بودیم. تا اینکه همهٔ بطری‌ها خالی‌ شدند. شهر همدان دیگر خلوت و هوا هم نسبتا سرد شده بود. ما که در عطش مشروب دیگری می‌سوختیم بدنبال پیاله فروشی می‌گشتیم، ولی‌ همه جا تعطیل بود. یادم آمد که در تهران اول لاله‌زارنو کافهٔ شب و روز بود؛ کافه‌ای که خاموشی نداشت. به دوستانم، آقا غلام و آقای عینکچی گفتم بهتر است به کافهٔ شب و روز برویم. فولکسی داشتم که آنرا به راه انداختیم و با سه سرنشین بسوی تهران حرکت کردیم.ا

Palestinian detainee dies of medical negligence in Israeli prison

January 13, 2025

Mera Aladam

Palestinian rights groups have accused Israeli authorities of committing a "medical crime" following the death of a Palestinian prisoner who was denied treatment. 

 

 MLA Members for Justice in Palestine lead a die-in during the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly in New Orleans on January 11, 2025. (Photo: MLA Members for Justice in Palestine)

In Syria’s war-scarred Yarmouk Camp, Palestinians begin long path to recovery

January 10, 2025

Santiago Montag

In 2017, as Syrian regime forces besieged the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the southern outskirts of Damascus and food grew scarce, six Palestinian sisters devised a unique strategy for surviving the civil war: a small garden. Filled with flowers and vegetables, the garden provided sustenance, as well as camouflage for the house within the camp’s narrow alleyways. But just as importantly, it provided a much-needed affirmation of life, and a symbol of their connection to the land.

 

Trump, Iran and the Obama strategic blueprint

January 13, 2025

Alastair Crooke

Like a smashed antique clock – with its elaborate cogs, ratchet wheels and innards splayed out from the casing – so the mechanics of the Middle East lie similarly exposed and broken. All the region is in play – Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Iran.

Gaza ceasefire talks near final stage as Hamas awaits Israeli approval: Reports

January 12, 2025

Hamas said on 11 January that it had completed a draft framework for a Gaza ceasefire deal and is awaiting a response from Israel. The news coincides with recent reports of cautious progress in reaching an agreement to end 15 months of genocidal war on the strip.

The Historic Landmarks Razed By Los Angeles’ Deadly Fires

January 9, 2025

Sonja Anderson

The raging wildfires in the Los Angeles area have so far killed five people, spreading over almost 30 square miles. The fires are the city’s most destructive to date: More than 2,000 structures have burnt down, including homes, businesses and historic buildings.

 

Will Rogers' Western Ranch House was on the National Register of Historic Places. California State Parks

Israel destroyed Gaza for Generations to come, and the World stayed Silent

January 11, 2025

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip was estimated at 1.8 million inhabitants.

 

Will Iran build a nuclear bomb while Trump is in power in the US?

January 11, 2025

Maziar Motamedi

Tehran, Iran – Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States promises Iran a rocky road that could lead to different outcomes when it comes to its relations with the West, analysts say.

 

Iran’s nuclear site in Isfahan, Iran, on April 4, 2024 [Planet Labs PBC via AP]

While Los Angeles Burns, AI Fans the Flames

January 11, 2025

Schuyler Mitchell

As multiple wildfires tore across Los Angeles County this week, leveling thousands of homes and businesses and killing at least 10 people, incoming President Donald Trump seized upon the crisis as an opportunity to point fingers and make false claims.

A burned fire extinguisher sits in the auditorium at the Eliot Arts Magnet Academy that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 10, 2025, in Altadena, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

LIVE BLOG: 7 Soldiers Killed, 30 Wounded in Gaza as Ceasefire Talks in Doha Reach Critical Stage – Day 463

January 11, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
46,53	109,571	11,000

The Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson reported that Israeli forces are deploying massive munitions capable of leveling entire residential blocks, with the intent to inflict maximum casualties among civilians and medical personnel.

Simultaneously, Israeli media stated that the Palestinian Resistance is repurposing unexploded Israeli munitions to produce explosive devices.

Meanwhile, rocket fire from the Gaza Strip triggered sirens in Sderot and Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom), in the Gaza Envelope.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 46,006 Palestinians have been killed, and 109,378 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

 

Dr. Abu Safiya Symbolized Humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West Are Destroying It

January 10, 2025

 

The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism

January 10, 2025

Niles Niemuth

California is facing what could be its most devastating wildfire in history, with fires burning uncontrolled throughout Los Angeles County. Images shared widely on social media show whole neighborhoods and city block after city block completely burned to the ground, amid reports that firefighters have been unable to even access water to extinguish the flames as their lines have run dry.

Three Gaza hospitals face imminent closure as latest Israeli raids kill 50

January 9, 2025

The UN warns that a lack of fuel threatens to shut down more medical facilities as Pope Francis describes Israel’s military campaign as ‘very serious and shameful’.

 

Trump has a choice: Obliterate Palestine or end the war

November 7, 2024

David Hearst

Conventional wisdom has it that Trump 2.0 will be a disaster for Palestinians, because Trump 1.0 all but buried the Palestinian national cause.

 

تنها انتخاب ترامپ: نابودی فلسطین یا پایان دادن به جنگ

 بازگشت رهبر ایاالت متحده به قدرت، تنها می تواند تخریب وضعیت کنونی خاورمیانه راا

که وی در اولین دوره ریاست جمهوری اش آغاز کرده بود، تسریع نماید. ا

نویسنده: دیوید هرست (منبع: میدل ایست آی / ۷ نوامبر ۲۰۲۴ / ) مترجم: م. البرزی

باورعمومی این است که ترامپ برای فلسطینی ها یک فاجعه خواهد بود، زیرا ترامپ آرمان فلسطین راً تمامًا به گور سپرد. و واقعیت این است که آمریکا در دوره اول ریاست جمهوری ترامپ، کاملا توسط راست مذهبی صهیونیست کنترل می شد - چه به عنوان حامیان مالی او، و چه به عنوان سیاست گذار. ا

 

European values and the power to forgive terrorists

January 9, 2025

Hugo Dionísio

Throughout 2024, we have all heard the term “European values” used countless times by von der Leyen, Borrel, Kaja Kallas, and now António Costa as a weapon against opponents and as a supposedly civilizational wall against elected enemies. Values such as the “promotion of peace” or “solidarity and mutual respect between peoples” have come to coexist with a logic of confrontation, in which the level of fanaticism with which these values are waged against others has become the main element of evaluation and performance, and the guarantor of individual promotion in the chain of power.

Widening the cracks in Israel’s war machine

January 8, 2025

Meron Rapoport

It takes a certain kind of audacity or disconnectedness, or perhaps both, to try and write something hopeful for 2025. A sober and realistic assessment of the political forces in Israel-Palestine, the wider region, and the world as a whole does not elicit much optimism that the ongoing catastrophe of the past 15 months — particularly what Palestinians are enduring in Gaza — may soon come to an end. 

 

 Graffiti of a police officer revealing a pristine beach behind the separation wall in the Palestinian village of Abu Dis, near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, March 6, 2006. (Melanie Fidler/Flash90)

کشتار

انسان‌ها از همهٔ گونه‌ها و موجودات شرورترند. ما لازم نیست به دوران پیش از دایناسورها برگردیم تا وحشیگری و بربریت اجدادمان را تأیید کنیم. وقتی صبح از خواب بیدار می شویم و اخبار مربوط به وقایع روز قبل را بررسی می کنیم، حداقل یک گزارش از وقوع یک درگیری یا جنگ در نقطه‌ای از این جهان، و حداقل گزارش یک قتل در کشوری که در آن زندگی‌ می‌کنیم را می‌بینیم، می‌شنویم، و یا می‌خوانیم. با بررسی اخبار وقایع کشوری که در آن زندگی‌ می‌کنیم، همواره به گزارشاتی برخورد می‌کنیم که دولت یا فرد و یا گروهی از مردم، به عنوان مجازات یا برای منافع شخصی، به فرد یا گروه دیگری آسیب می‌رسانند، و یا باعث کشته شدن فرد و یا افرادی می‌شوند. کشتن شهروندان به عنوان مجازات توسط دولت‌ها خود داستان دیگری دارد.ا