Dave DeCamp
Gaza’s Health
Ministry said Tuesday that over the previous 48-hour period, hospitals in the
Strip received 48 more bodies of Palestinians who were killed by “Israeli
aggression,” raising the recorded death toll.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
What Sultan Erdogan is really up to
Pepe Escobar
ISTANBUL – The scene is a Circassian
restaurant off fabled Istiklal street in historic Beyoglu. On the table, a
geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent analytical minds
from Bursa to Diyarbakir. The menu, apart from a meze feast, is simple: only
two broad questions about Sultan Erdogan’s approach to BRICS and to Syria.
7 Reasons Why Age and Alcohol Don’t Mix
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.
Neofascism in the White House
John Bellamy Foster
This piece was originally published in
the April 2017 issue of Monthly Review.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Memo to Trump: How Dumping 2.2 Million more Palestinians on Jordan would Destabilize the Middle East even More than the Iraq War Did
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor
(Informed Comment) – First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his
cabinet proposed ethnically cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants in
the fall of 2023, following many years of such calls from the Israeli
equivalent of neo-Nazis.
What a 20th-century revolutionary can teach us about resisting genocide today
Dana Miles
On Jan. 12,
thousands joined an annual commemorative march in Berlin to honor the memory of
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht — two revolutionaries murdered 106 years ago
on Jan. 15, 1919 by centrist-backed proto-fascists. For decades, the march has
taken place on the second Sunday of January, bringing together activists, trade
unionists, feminists, and others who make up the German radical left. Among the
marchers, those who perhaps best embodied Luxemburg’s spirit of
anti-imperialism were a bloc of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who walked
through the streets chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be
free,” before being attacked by German police officers.
Rosa Luxemburg addressing a crowd during the International Socialist Congress, in Stuttgart, 1907. (Wikimedia Commons)
Palestine Through the Lens
Jamal Kanj
This is a review
of an exceptional photobook, Images of Palestine (1898-1946). The book is a
collection of photographs that spans nearly five decades, captured in the
period leading up to the Palestine Nakba. Together, these black-and-white
images chronicle a vibrant and diverse Palestinian society, highlighting its
connection to the land, its achievements in commerce, architecture, and civil
society, and its development into a modern socio-political entity chafing to
break free from colonial domination.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Auschwitz’s hierarchies of villains and victims
Declan Hayes
When I visited
Kraków for some dental treatment in late January 2022 just before Putin sent
his peace-keeping forces into Ukraine, I made a point of not visiting either
Auschwitz or Schindler’s factory for the same reason I did not visit
Jerusalem’s Holocaust Museum on the two occasions I visited Zion. Quite
frankly, not only have I a gut full of hearing about Anne Frank, the boy in the
striped pyjamas and Holocaust survivors who, like the old soldiers that they
are, refuse to die, but I hate having propaganda of any sort rammed down my
neck.
PFP statement on Los Angeles wildfires of 2025
The tragic
wildfires that have taken place since Tuesday, January 7, 2025, have destroyed
thousands of homes and structures across Los Angeles, leaving tens of thousands
homeless. The death toll continues to rise as bodies are discovered under the
ashes of homes. While the corporate mainstream media spotlights the rich who
have been impacted, Peace & Freedom Party members have been on the ground,
day after day, providing aid and relief to the thousands of working-class
families who have lost everything.
Could the Carrington Event happen again?
Laura Baisas
On a hot and
humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it was
not from fireflies or a fireswamp. Instead, it was the Northern Lights–or
aurora borealis. The aurora is usually seen in far more northern latitudes, but
it had somehow reached the subtropics and danced across the night sky. Reports
of the aurora came in from as far south as Central America and some in the
Rocky Mountains even believed it was morning because the sky was so bright.
لوستر
هوشنگ فاضلی
نزدیک به پنجاه سال پیشدر
خانهای دو طبقه در قیطریه شمیران سکونت داشتم. طبقهٔ بالا در اختیار خانوادهام
بود و طبقهٔ پائین را اجاره داده بودم. یکبار مستاجر جدیدی از طریق آژانس املاک
مراجعه، و خود را مهندس وحدتی، مدیر یک شرکت ساختمانی معرفی نمود. قرار شد که وی
و همسر و یک دخترش در این طبقه سکونت نمایند. در مورد میزان اجاره هم حساسیتی نشان
نداد و گفت میتواند اجارهٔ شش ماه را هم یکباره پرداخت نماید.ا
Sunday, January 26, 2025
LIVE BLOG: Israel Closes Netzarim | Mobilization on Lebanese-Israeli Border – Day 478
Israel continues to maintain a closure around Netzarim despite earlier commitments to withdraw.
Meanwhile, heightened military mobilization along the Israeli-Lebanese border is accompanied by Israeli forces opening fire on civilians attempting to return to their towns.
Thousands of displaced Palestinians seek to return to northern Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN)
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Female Israeli soldiers 'wave and smile' during release by Hamas in Gaza
The Palestinian
resistance movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldiers on 25 January,
while Israel is releasing some 200 Palestinians as part of a ceasefire
agreement aimed at ending Israel's war on Gaza.
Trump’s assault on immigrants is coming—here’s what you need to know
January 25, 2025
On the campaign
trail, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, “On day one, I will launch the
largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.” Trump’s
administration has wasted no time since re-entering the White House on Monday,
and communities around the US are currently bracing for a wave of ICE raids. In
plans that were publicly leaked ahead of Trump’s inauguration, the city of
Chicago was identified as a key target for immigration raids, putting immigrant
residents and their neighbors on high alert. To discuss the impending threat to
Chicago and cities around the country, and how communities can fight back, The
Real News speaks with Moises Zavala, Workplace Justice Campaigns Organizer for
Arise Chicago, and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, a writer for Labor Notes and
immigrant rights activist from Sonora, Mexico.
Friday, January 24, 2025
As Gaza Ceasefire takes hold, Israeli Forces turn to Jenin – a regular Target seen as a Center of Palestinian Resistance
Maha Nassar
(The
Conversation) – Just two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza
Strip, Israel on Jan. 21, 2025, launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin
refugee camp in the West Bank.
Russia and the Trump Doctrine: Adapting to the ‘Rules of the Strong’
Sergey Strokan
The inauguration
of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States is this week’s main
news story, not only in America but also in domestic Russian politics. Though
all eyes on that day were fixed on Trump, it is telling that he also became the
subject of intense discussions in this country, ranging from political circles
to ordinary kitchen conversations. This is no anomaly — it is entirely logical.
A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship
SEATTLE (AP) — A
federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s
executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in
the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first
hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Israel continues Jenin raid as two Palestinians killed in West Bank
Israeli soldiers
have killed two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they continue a
military assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp.
Palestinian women sit across from the rubble of a house where two
Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid in Burqin village near
Jenin in the occupied West Bank. [AFP]
For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism
Murat K. Girgin
Karl Marx and
Vladimir Lenin, as the founders of the theories of Capitalism and Imperialism,
explained the dynamics of historical events–once perceptible only as
patterns–through the lens of “the science of political economy.” Therefore,
when discussing concepts like war or peace, it becomes essential to lend an ear
to these two figures and their successors, dust off their books from the
shelves, and start revisiting their ideas.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Death toll in Gaza rises as ceasefire allows rescuers to search rubble
Mera Aladam
As people in
Gaza scour what remains of their homes and land following the ceasefire that
took effect on Sunday, victims of Israel's heavy bombardment campaign since 7
October 2023 are being recovered from beneath the rubble.
A boy rides his bicycle past destroyed infrastructure east of Rafah in
the southern Gaza Strip on 21 January 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
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