اندیشمند بزرگترین احساسش عشق است و هر عملش با خرد

Friday, June 27, 2025

US divided on fate of Iran’s enriched uranium after strikes – NYT

June 27, 2025
Intelligence reports differ as the IAEA says the fuel could have been moved before the attacks, the outlet says

General strike in Ramallah after Israeli settler rampage kills three Palestinians

June 26, 2025
Qassam Muaddi
Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.
Burnt-out vehicles at the scene of an attack by Israeli settlers, in the village of Burqa north of the West Bank city of Nablus, May 16, 2025

Thursday, June 26, 2025

The United surveillance States of America

June 26, 2025
Rebecca Gordon
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the elected government of Nicaragua. We agreed that, when our call was done, I’d call another friend, “Mary,” to update her on the plans. I hung up.

NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Puts Gaza in Focus

June 25, 2025
Corinna G. Barnard
Zohran Mamdani’s Zionist antagonists tried to turn his Muslim identity and pro-Palestine politics into a liability, writes Corinna Barnard. So far, it hasn’t worked.

Dear Israel Apologist

June 26, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
Dear Israel apologist,
There is nothing you can say to me that will make me stop opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities.

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

برده‌داری جدید

با ورود دانالد ترامپ به کاخ سفید برای دومین بار، و تقسیم مشاغل دولتی بین هم‌فکرانش، قدرتمند‌ترین کشور دنیا از نظر نظامی و دومین کشور جهان از نظر صنعتی و تکنولوژی، توسط کسانی‌ اداره می‌شود که انسان را به یاد رهبری آلمان در نخستین نیمه قرن بیستم می‌اندازد. این دوست صمیمی‌ دانالد ترامپ، یعنی‌ الون ماسک، که البته ثروتمندترین فرد نیز می‌باشد، علنا افکار نژاد پرستی‌ خود را اعلام کرده بود. گرچه پس از مدت کوتاهی‌ روابط ترامپ با ماسک به تیرگی گرایید، ولی‌ همهٔ اطرافیان ترامپ کسانی‌ هستند که درآمد ماهیانه‌شان از مجموع درآمد‌های پنجاه و پنج درصد پایین مردم آمریکا بیشتر است.ا

Iran Says More Than 600 Killed by Israeli Attacks

The following articles report the Israeli government’s crimes using American weapons in various parts of the Middle East, just in one day:
Dave DeCamp
A woman carries her child following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Amir Kholousi/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Calm returns to Qatar following Iran’s attack on Al Udeid airbase

Hafsa Adil
Life in the Gulf state has swiftly returned to normality after a night of fear and uncertainty.
Qatar 

Global Palestine: Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East and the World After the American Attack on Iran

Jeff Halper
On the evening of June 21st in Washington, the morning of June 22nd here in Jerusalem, the United States attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, joining Israel’s more widespread assault intended to eliminate a rival for regional hegemony, one that targeted not only Iran’s nuclear facilities and ballistic missile system but civilian infrastructure as well, in the hope of inducing regime change. The meta-aims of the attack were three-fold.

The Illusion of Victory

Trump’s so-called “precision” strikes will probably spur the creation of a real bomb and spiral into a regime change-driven war.
 
 U.S. and Israeli flags are projected on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on June 22, 2025, following the U.S. involvement in the war between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Chris Hedges: War With Iran

June 22, 2025

We are opening Pandora's box.

 

 A banner bearing a painting that represents various categories of the Iranian society is deployed against the facade of a building in Tehran, with a message that reads in Farsi: " we are all soldiers of Iran", on June 22, 2025. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

June 22, 2025

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more twisted view of US national security.                                    World Nuclear Forces:

LIVE BLOG: Hormuz Closure Ordered by Iranian Parliament after US Aggression – Day 624

June 22, 2025

  • Iran warned it would target Israel’s Dimona reactor and US regional bases if the war expands, as Washington moves B-2 bombers to Guam and secret diplomacy collapses.

  • Meanwhile, in Gaza, the death toll rises and the hunger crisis in Gaza deepens amid a relentless Israeli aid blockade.

  • Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 55,959 and injured 131,242 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

                 Satellite imagery confirms that the United States did directly target the location of Fordow's underground enrichment halls. (Photo: video grab)

Iranians say their hopes of peace have been buried by US bombs

June 22, 2025

Public opinion in Iran is divided between wanting to retaliate to Trump's attack and wishing for the hell of constant bombardment to be over

A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Tehran, 22 June (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters) 

 A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Tehran, 22 June (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)

Trump Announces ‘Successful’ Attack On Iranian Nuclear Sites

June 21, 2025

Kyle Anzalone

Trump said Iran must quickly make peace or he will authorize larger attacks

 

Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Capitol Hill Republicans against US war with Iran

Stavroula Pabst
They may be a minority, but these conservatives are bucking the old guard and warning Trump of pending disaster
US Navy Taiwan Strait 

From Gaza to Iran – Israel is fighting to maintain Western empire

Yoav Haifawi
The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.
 An Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a US Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, October 30, 2021. (Photo: US Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris)

As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action

Marc Steiner
“What wouldn’t you do to stop the slaughter of two million people?… In the face of atrocity, the lesson I have learned from my people is we cannot do nothing.”
 As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action