John Feffer
Netanyahu
is about to escalate, yet again, his war crimes in Gaza.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Exterminating Gaza was always Israel’s plan, but now it’s official
Qassam Muaddi
Israel
carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the
plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly
discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel enjoys complete international
impunity.
Aerial view of the destruction in Rafah on January 19, 2025, during the
start of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (Photo: Omar
Ashtawy/APA Images)
Friday, May 9, 2025
US to use Gaza aid plan as 'bait to force displacement': UNICEF
Since
March, Israel has imposed a crippling aid blockade on Gaza as part of its
effort to starve Palestinians and ethnically cleanse them from the strip
Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request
Since October
7, 2023, the multinational tech company Meta, which owns Facebook and
Instagram, has acted on 94 percent of the Israeli government’s requests to take
down posts on Facebook and Instagram that are “critical of Israel—or even
vaguely supportive of Palestinians,” Drop Site News reported in April 2025.
Drop Site News characterized Meta’s response to the Israeli government’s
takedown request campaign as “the largest mass censorship operation in modern
history.”
Israel Really Is As Evil As It Looks
Caitlin
Johnstone
Israeli snipers
routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Famine in Gaza: Will We Continue to Watch as Gaza Starves to Death?
Ramzy Baroud
The situation
in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing
the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza
Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups
operating there.
How the Pall Mall Process Can Help Combat Commercial Spyware Abuse
Jennifer Brody
Twenty-five
governments have agreed to a promising new initiative to combat the
irresponsible use of commercial cyber intrusion capabilities, including
commercial spyware. Civil society should hold them accountable to their
commitments.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
How Israel’s ‘plan’ for Gaza could turbocharge ethnic cleansing
Mat Nashed and
Maram Humaid
Israel
has launched a new plan for Gaza which could induce ethnic cleansing and
advance a genocide, say experts.
A Palestinian man embraces the body of his five-year-old son, Adam
Namrouti, who Israel killed in an overnight air raid on a UN school used
as a shelter, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on May 7, 2025
[Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]
Trump Interview Puts Iran Negotiations in Jeopardy
Ted Snider
Donald Trump’s
unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his
administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion.
انتخابات ریاست جمهوری
بر اساس گزارشهای اخیر، برآورد جمعیت ایالات متحده بیش از سیصد و چهل و سه میلیون نفر است، که از این جمعیت حدود دویست و شصت و هشت میلیون نفر میتوانند رای دهند. از این تعداد حائز شرایط، و بر اساس آمار پروژهٔ ریاست جمهوری آمریکا، در انتخابات ریاست جمهوری اخیر، کمی بیش از یکصد و پنجاه میلیون نفر رای دادند. تعداد رای دهندگان دمکرات کمی بیش از هفتاد و پنج میلیون و رای دهندگان جمهوریخواه کمی بیش از هفتاد و هفت میلیون و تعداد سایر رای دهندگان نزدیک به سه میلیون نفر بود.ا
| Rank | Country | Spending (US$ bn) | % of GDP | % of global spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States | 997.0 | 3.4 | 37.0 |
| 2 |  China[a] | 314.0 | 1.7 | 12.0 |
| 3 |  Russia[a] | 149.0 | 7.1 | 5.5 |
| 4 |  Germany | 88.5 | 1.9 | 3.3 |
| 5 |  India | 86.1 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| 6 |  United Kingdom | 81.8 | 2.3 | 3.0 |
| 7 |  Saudi Arabia[a] | 80.3 | 7.3 | 3.0 |
| 8 |  Ukraine | 64.7 | 34.0 | 2.4 |
| 9 |  France[b] | 64.7 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| 10 |  Japan | 55.3 | 1.4 | 2.0 |
| 11 |  South Korea | 47.6 | 2.6 | 1.8 |
| 12 |  Israel | 46.5 | 8.8 | 1.7 |
| 13 |  Poland[b] | 38.0 | 4.2 | 1.4 |
| 14 |  Italy | 38.0 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| 15 |  Australia | 33.8 | 1.9 | 1.2 |
| 16 |  Canada | 29.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| 17 |  Turkey | 25.0 | 1.9 | 1.0 |
| 18 |  Spain | 24.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| 19 |  Netherlands | 23.2 | 1.9 | 0.7 |
| 20 |  Algeria | 21.8 | 8.0 | 0.7 |
| 21 |  Brazil | 20.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| 22 |  Mexico | 16.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
| 23 |  Taiwan | 16.5 | 2.1 | 0.5 |
| 24 |  Colombia | 15.1 | 3.4 | 0.5 |
| 25 |  Singapore | 15.1 | 2.8 | 0.4 |
| 26 |  Sweden | 12.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 |
| 27 |  Indonesia | 11.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| 28 |  Norway | 10.4 | 2.1 | 0.4 |
| 29 |  Pakistan | 10.2 | 2.7 | 0.4 |
| 30 |  Denmark | 10.0 | 2.4 | 0.3 |
| 31 |  Romania | 8.7 | 2.3 | 0.3 |
| 32 |  Belgium | 8.6 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| 33 |  Greece | 8.0 | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| 34 |  Iran | 7.9 | 2.0 | 0.3 |
| 35 |  Kuwait | 7.8 | 4.8 | 0.3 |
| 36 |  Finland | 7.0 | 2.3 | 0.3 |
| 37 |  Switzerland | 6.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| 38 |  Czechia | 6.5 | 1.9 | 0.2 |
| 39 |  Iraq | 6.2 | 2.4 | 0.2 |
| 40 |  Philippines | 6.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 |
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