Israel destroys neighbourhood in Jenin refugee camp, damaging hospital

February 2, 2025

Alex MacDonald and Fayha Shalash

Israel has pounded Jenin refugee camp and destroyed residential buildings as part of its ongoing large-scale operations in the occupied West Bank.

 

 Smoke billows from the site of multiple explosions during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on 2 February 2025 (Mohammad Mansour/AFP)

On the 46th Anniversary of Iranian Revolution: An Interview with Amb. John Limbert

February 2, 2025

Fariba Amini

Ambassador John Limbert is a career foreign service official who was taken hostage by student radicals in Iran in 1979 and held for 444 days. He emerged in Washington as a voice of reason and dialogue on Iran. The interview has been edited regarding the order of the anecdotes and observations.

Over 180 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons, many show signs of 'torture, starvation'

February 1, 2025

Israel released 183 Palestinian detainees in exchange for three Israeli captives on 1 February as part of the fourth prisoner swap under the ceasefire agreement underway in Gaza.

 

Rebuilding our homes and ourselves

February 1, 2025

Noor Alyacoubi

It’s been almost two weeks since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza City, yet I haven’t adjusted to the calm we were deprived of for so many months.

 

A Palestinian man surveys the rubble of destroyed buildings in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

The Israelis Left behind in 50 mn. Tons of Bomb-Infested Rubble in Gaza, as Hundreds of Thousands Stream Home

January 31, 2025

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli systemic destruction of civilian building infrastructure in Gaza generated over 50 million tons of debris by 1 December 2024.

 

 “Unexploded Munitions,” Digital, Dream / Dreamland v3 / Clip2Comic, 2024

Trump's Big, Bad, Destructive, and Unpeaceful Imperialism

January 31, 2025

Phyllis Bennis

Even as Donald Trump and his MAGA movement have seized virtually complete control of the Republican Party, there remain at least two factions competing for dominance of foreign policy: an isolationist gang and a warmongering interventionist cabal. The strains between them seemingly remain unresolved, and there are real strategic debates and disagreements about what direction Trump’s foreign policy should take.

  

U.S. President Donald Trump (looks on as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines and a military helicopter, at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

A Fools Paradise: Thomas Friedman and the Middle East

June 30, 2025

Melvin Goodman

Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ most influential columnist, has comprehensively recorded his dreamscape for the Middle East.  It tells Donald Trump that “you have a chance to reshape this region in ways that could fundamentally enhance the peace and prosperity of Israelis, Palestinians and all the region’s people, as well as the national security interests of America.”  Friedman believes that Benjamin Netanyahu is “ready to complete Israel’s withdrawal and finalize the border” with Lebanon, and that the United States has an “enormous opportunity to truly end the civil war [in Lebanon] and put the country back together.”  Finally, he produces a threat: Iran’s nuclear program and malign regional strategy need to be eliminated, and if Trump can’t do this through “peaceful negotiations,” it needs to be “done kinetically.”  That’s right: Friedman is willing to commit the United States to a war against Iran.

Trump lays out blueprint to deport pro-Palestinian foreign nationals

June 30, 2025

Umar A Farooq

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a new executive order that aims to deport any international students on university campuses who have expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments or participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in front of the University of Southern California campus, a day before commencement ceremonies, on 7 May 2024 in Los Angeles, California (Mario Tama/AFP)

Passenger plane with 64 on board collides with US Army helicopter

June 30, 2025

A regional passenger plane carrying 60 passengers and for crew collided midair with a US military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on Wednesday night, prompting the suspension of all flights from the airport and a large-scale emergency response. 

Gaza Hospitals Receive 48 More Bodies, Raising Death Toll

January 28, 2025

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.

What Sultan Erdogan is really up to

January 29, 2025

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

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.

Neofascism in the White House

January 23, 2025

John Bellamy Foster

This piece was originally published in the April 2017 issue of Monthly Review.

 

Memo to Trump: How Dumping 2.2 Million more Palestinians on Jordan would Destabilize the Middle East even More than the Iraq War Did

January 28, 2025

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

January 27, 2025

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

January 28, 2025

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.

Auschwitz’s hierarchies of villains and victims

January 27, 2025

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

January 26, 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?

January 24, 2025

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.

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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