Nearly 400 Film A-Listers Condemn Gaza Genocide on Eve of Cannes

May 13, 2025

Jessica Corbett

"Why is it that cinema, a breeding ground for socially committed works, seems to be so indifferent to the horror of reality and the oppression suffered by our sisters and brothers?"

  

Palestinian hospital staff inspect the destruction inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli strike early on May 13, 2025 in which Palestinian journalist Hassan Aslih was killed along with several others. (Photo: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

America’s great brain drain

May 13, 2025

Robert Hunziker

“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ was in this program.”

    — French President Emmanuel Macron, Choose Europe for Science Event/Paris, May 5, 2025

 

INFOGRAPHICS

May 13, 2025

This infographic shows the countries which get their electricity in the most and least carbon-intensive ways.

 

‘She’s Dying in Front of My Eyes’: The Gazan Children Starving Under Israeli Siege

May 12, 2025

Ahmed Ahmed, Ruwaida Amer

With over 70,000 children hospitalized for malnutrition, Israel's blockade on the Strip has left parents to watch helplessly as their children waste away.

 

 Twelve-year-old Rahaf Ayad holds a phone showing a picture of herself before the war, in her family's home in Gaza City, May 2, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

Are Cyberattacks and Iran’s Port Explosion the First Salvo in Disrupting U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks?

May 12, 2025

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Iran, Israel, the US, Russia, and China are interconnected by rumors of cyberattacks and sabotage

 

Explosion at Bandar Abbas 4/26/2025. Via Tasnim News. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

LIVE BLOG: Children Killed as Israel Bombs Khan Yunis Tents | Katz Offers Reservist Perks – Day 583

May 11, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
52,829	119,554	14,000

مادر

The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza

May 10, 2025

John Feffer

Netanyahu is about to escalate, yet again, his war crimes in Gaza.

 

Exterminating Gaza was always Israel’s plan, but now it’s official

May 9, 2025

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)

US to use Gaza aid plan as 'bait to force displacement': UNICEF

May 9, 2025

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

May 8, 2025

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

May 7, 2025

Caitlin Johnstone

Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip.

 

Famine in Gaza: Will We Continue to Watch as Gaza Starves to Death?

May 8, 2025

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

May 8, 2025

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.

 

How Israel’s ‘plan’ for Gaza could turbocharge ethnic cleansing

May 7, 2025

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

May 7, 2025

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.

This is the Russia-Ukraine lesson India has to learn from its standoff with Pakistan

May 7, 2025

Maxim Suchkov

From Ukraine to Kashmir: The old laws of power still apply

 

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

Military Budget Per Each Country