In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy

January 21, 2025

Haitham S.

Ever since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October 2023, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been suffering from an acute unemployment crisis. In the first six months of the war, the unemployment rate nearly tripled, with over 300,000 workers losing their main source of income. 

 

Israeli settlers harass Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta, South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)

7 Reasons Why Age and Alcohol Don’t Mix

January 3, 2025

Sonya Collins

As you add more candles to your birthday cakes, you may notice that your organs don’t work as efficiently as they once did. Your balance might not be as good, and your response time may not be as quick. Perhaps you have more aches and pains than you did last year.

 

Unknown heroes: Memories of a Gaza first responder

January 20, 2025

Mustafa Al-Jarou

Editor’s Note: This reflection was written before the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza on January 15, 2025.

 

 First responders and civilians look for survivors amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 14, 2023, (Photo: Bashar Taleb/APA Images)

Progressives Say "Billionaires' Row" at Inauguration Ceremony Shows True Winners of Trump Agenda

January 20, 2025

Jake Johnson

While President-elect Donald Trump is expected to hail the "start of a thrilling new era of national success" during his inaugural speech on Monday, progressives said the presence of some of the nation's most powerful billionaires at the event signals that the incoming administration's agenda will prioritize the success the country's wealthiest.

 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L), Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (R) attend services as part of Inauguration ceremonies at St. John's Church on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death

January 20, 2025

Kathy Kelly

Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon) and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes. On January 15, 2025, as the world marks the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, a press conference announced the Tribunal’s verdicts and release the report of ten international jurors who have weighed the evidence submitted to them.

 

 President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence look on at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on MLK day in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2020. NICHOLAS KAMM /AFP via Getty Images

LIVE BLOG: Abu Obeida: The Sacrifices and Blood of Our People Will Not Be in Vain – Day 471

January 19, 2025

 Killed             Wounded          Missing

46,876              110,642            11.000

After 471 days of relentless massacres of innocent Palestinians by Israel, alongside legendary steadfastness and resistance, a ceasefire in Gaza officially begins.

Israel, however, has already violated the agreement by bombing targets across the Gaza Strip and killing several Palestinians.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 46,876 Palestinians have been killed, and 110,642 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

 

 Heroic medical staff stand tall alongside the police force outside the Maamadani Hospital. (Photo: via QNN)

Gaza Cease-Fire Takes Effect After Deadly Three-Hour Delay

January 19, 2025

Jessica Corbett

Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning during a three-hour delay in implementing a cease-fire and hostage-release deal that Israel's Cabinet finally approved the previous day.

  

Palestinians walk through the remnants of the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip as a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel begins on January 19, 2025. (Photo: Karam Hassan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza to take effect on Sunday morning

January 18, 2025

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas will take effect at 08:30am (06:30 GMT) on Sunday, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced in a post on X.

 

Russia-Iran security pact ‘epochal’ – Middle East expert

January 18, 2025

Moscow and Tehran have taken their cooperation to the level of strategic partnership with a “truly epochal” pact, Farhad Ibrahimov, a Middle East expert at the Moscow-based Valdai Discussion Club, told RT on Friday.

‘Complete surrender’: How gaza defeated Israel and what it means—analysis

January 17, 2025

Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu of “a complete surrender to Hamas,” calling the Gaza ceasefire agreement a “surrender deal.”

 

 Hamada Shaqoura, a Palestinian man who used to be a food blogger, distributes food to children after cooking a meal for displaced people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 16, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP via Getty Images

Dozens of Columbia University law faculty demand inquiry into professor's 'termination'

January 17, 2025

Over 45 Columbia Law School professors have signed a letter calling for a Columbia University Senate inquiry into the controversial departure of their colleague Katherine Franke, marking an escalation in the dispute over academic freedom and protest rights on campuses.

 

 'Persecution': Outpouring of anger after 'termination' of pro-Palestine Columbia professor

Want to defend immigrant workers in your contract? Here are some suggestions.

January 17, 2025

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare

The following language was compiled from a series of unions and labor activists. It is intended as a resource for workers looking to include pro-immigrant provisions in their collective bargaining agreements.

 

 Unionized teachers with ASPIRA charter school network rally outside an ASPIRA high school to convince the company's management to come to terms on a contract on March 9, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images

The Fatal Despair of Exile: An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

January 17, 2025

Fariba Amini

Nothing takes me from the butterflies of my dreams

to my reality: not dust and not fire. What

will I do without roses from Samarkand? What

will I do in a theater that burnishes the singers with its lunar

stones? Our weight has become light like our houses

in the faraway winds. We have become two friends of the strange

creatures in the clouds … and we are now loosened

from the gravity of identity’s land. What will we do … what

will we do without exile, and a long night

that stares at the water?   — Mahmoud Darwish

 

Israeli Attacks Kill 70+ as Netanyahu Delays Cabinet Vote on Cease-Fire Deal

January 16, 2025

Jake Johnson

Israeli attacks have reportedly killed more than 70 people in the Gaza Strip in the hours since a multiphase cease-fire agreement was announced Wednesday, a deal that sparked cautious hope for an end to a 15-month U.S.-backed assault that has decimated the Palestinian enclave and created one of the worst humanitarian emergencies in modern history.

 

 Relatives of a journalist killed by an Israeli drone attack carry his shrouded body in Khan Younis, Gaza on January 16, 2025. (Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Fatal Effort to Dismantle the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees

January 16, 2025

Dan Steinbock

New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Early in the year, State Department officials briefed Joel Rayburn from the Trump transition team there could be a humanitarian “catastrophe” in Gaza when a new Israeli law barring contact with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians takes effect at the end of the month.

The Gaza ceasefire will not cure the wounds of genocide

January 15, 2025

Roaa Shamallakh

Now that a ceasefire has been agreed to in Gaza, the bombs will stop falling, and the world will breathe a sigh of relief. There will be celebrations of peace, even if temporary, nations will pat themselves on the back, and the media will move on to the next trending crisis. Yet, for those of us who survived, the war hasn’t ended—it has merely transformed. 

 

Genocide

Do we call it genocide, land-grab, racism, or political maneuver? Whatever of these or similar terms we use, such action was the essence of the inception of a country called the United States of America. What the US government is doing in Palestine, aiding the Zionist government in destroying Palestinian communities, is nothing but repeating what culminated the inception of this country. The United States of America was established by European settlers on the graves of indigenous people. It is important to read the history of the United States, especially from the time when white European settles invaded this land.

What do we know about a Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza?

January 15, 2025

The Palestinian group Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire deal with Israel after more than 460 days of a war that has devastated Gaza.

 

 Israel has decimated Gaza during its war on the Palestinian enclave [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]

Fiscal Redemption Requires a Republic, Not an Empire

January 15, 2025

David Stockman

There is not a snowball’s chance in the hot place of containing America’s public debt disaster unless the Empire is brought home and the national security budget is slashed by $500 billion per year. The merits aside, all the other big slices of the budget led by Social Security and Medicare are surrounded by nearly impenetrable political moats.

 

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.