British celebrities call on BBC to restore Gaza documentary

February 26, 2025
Hundreds put name to petition saying removal of documentary was based on 'racist assumptions' and dehumanisation of Palestinians

 

 Gary Lineker, as well as actors Juliet Stevenson and Miriam Margolyes, were among those demanding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone be restored to BBC iPlayer (AFP)

Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback?

February 26, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim Ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.

 

Protesters hold signs blasting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and advocating for immigrants as they gather outside of Los Angeles City Hall, on February 5, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images

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نخست باید این پیشگفتار را افزود که به دلیل هجوم واژه‌های عربی‌، فرانسه، و در این چند دههٔ اخیر انگلیسی‌، در این مقاله کوشش شده است که تا جا دارد از واژه‌های پارسی‌ کارگیری شود. چنان‌چه واژه‌ای به نظر ناآشنا بیاید، آن واژه‌ای که امروزه نهادینه شده، داخل دو ابرو () بازگو می‌شود.ا

From Truman to Trump: Palestine, America’s Fork in the Road

February 25, 2025
M. Reza Behnam
For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history. It was also historically pivotal for the United States. Paraphrasing British author, George Orwell, it is essential to rediscover the past in order to gain control of the present and save the future. 

 

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Why are Israeli tanks in the occupied West Bank?

February 24, 2025
Israel is signalling a new escalation in its attacks on the West Bank , expelling tens of thousands of people from their homes.

 

 Palestinians have long resisted Israeli tanks with stones [Raneen Sawafta /Reuters]

D is for Decline, Dystopia and . . . Donald

February 24, 2025
Tom Engelhardt
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried to do with North America’s tallest peak. He wants Alaska’s Mount Denali (to hell with Native American names!) to be called Mount McKinley in honor of President William McKinley, the man who, in the 1890s, launched this country as an imperial power of the first order.

'Put Your Grandma's Social Security Check in Danger': Warren Fills in Blanks on What Trump Did Last Week

February 24, 2025
Eloise Goldsmith
"Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk's email and report on what he did last week? To help, I've gone ahead and done it for him," Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on X.

 

 U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You and Calling It ‘Efficiency’ w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

 DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You and Calling It ‘Efficiency’ w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

 

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Condemns Delay in Prisoner Release | Thousands to Attend Nasrallah’s Funeral – Day 506

February 23, 2025

 Killed    Wounded    Missing

48,297    111,733    14,000

 

 Despite the chilling cold, families of Palestinian prisoners waited for their loved ones who were set to be released. (Photo: via social media)

How the West treats immigrants as mere human cogs

February 23, 2025
Raphael Machado
In the endless pursuit of profit maximization, everyone is sacrificed—immigrants and natives alike.

A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs

February 22, 2025         
Healthcare Workers for Palestine
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and research but for sale and profit.

 

People watch as some of the 84 bodies of Palestinians handed over by Israeli forces are buried in a mass grave, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2024. (Photo: Abdullah Abu Al-Khair / APA Images)

F*ck Big Book

February 22, 2025         
Amanda Crocker
In 2003 I bought a t-shirt that on the front said “Fuck Bush” in a surprisingly cheery font and on the back had a two-column list of twenty-four corporations: “Fuck Exxon-Mobil, Fuck Coca-Cola, Fuck Starbucks …” When I wore it to protests no one ever stopped me to ask me why Nike or Disney were on the list. After all, the Left is usually very good at analyzing and critiquing capital, showing us where the money is and what it means for massive corporations to wield extraordinary power. From Big Pharma to Big Energy, Big Retail, Big Agriculture, and Big Media, both academics and activists can usually name the largest of our corporate enemies in each industry and at least two or three of their corporate crimes.

‘Worse than the Second Intifada’: West Bank refugees reel from Israeli offensive

 February 21, 2025
Hanno Hauenstein
Displaced from Jenin and Tulkarem, Palestinian residents say Israel is waging a deliberate campaign to make the northern refugee camps unlivable.

 

Smokes rises above Jenin refugee camp during an Israeli military operation to crack down on armed resistance, January 24, 2025. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills)

'Outrageous, Unlawful Attack': Trump Plots Takeover of US Postal Service

February 21, 2025
Jake Johnson
"Any attack on the Postal Service would be part of the billionaire oligarch coup," said the president of the American Postal Workers Union.

What do countries call themselves? The stories behind their original names

February 21, 2025
Alma Milisic and Mohamed A. Hussein
Around half of the world’s countries have native or local names that differ from their English versions, often reflecting their history, geography or cultural identity.

UK Society of Authors’ Lukewarm Response to Israeli Raid on Palestinian Bookshop Provokes Resignation

February 20, 2025
( Middle East Monitor ) – British travel writer Matthew Teller has resigned from the Society of Authors (SoA) in protest at the organisation’s response to Israel’s arrest of Palestinian booksellers in occupied East Jerusalem.

As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking

February 19, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
Mara Sapon-Shevin always wondered if she had an FBI file. For more than 40 years, the Syracuse University professor has been a political activist for Palestinian liberation, first organizing with New Jewish Agenda and later with Jewish Voice for Peace.

Making America Sick Again: How Trump’s Drastic Layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control cripple our Response to Norovirus, Measles Outbreaks

February 20, 2025
Jordan Miller
(The Conversation) – In just a few short weeks, the Trump administration has brought drastic changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health. Beginning with the removal of websites and key public health datasets in January 2025, the Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term agenda.

Restoring Maximum Pressure: Can Iran withstand the economic squeeze?

February 20, 2025
Vali Kaleji
The Trump administration has reimposed its maximum pressure campaign on Iran, triggering a currency crash, soaring inflation, and worsening energy shortages, while Tehran scrambles to offset the impact by reducing dependence on oil exports (resistance economy) and strengthening economic ties with China and Russia. 

One Month into Life

I have been here, in this hellish world, for a month now. I don't know how much longer I have to be here, but I hope not for too long.