LIVE BLOG: Israel Sends Delegation to Doha as Resistance Launches New Operations – Day 638

July 6, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
57,418	136,261	14,000

 

LIVE: Israel kills 64 Palestinians in Gaza, at least 9 of them aid seekers

July 5, 2025
Maziar Motamedi and Tim Hume

The End Game in Iran also means the demise of Trump’s credibility around the world

July 4, 2025

Martin Jay

The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can’t be fooled again.

Outrage pours in after House GOP approves ‘one of the most catastrophic bills passed in modern history’

July 3, 2025

 Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar called the Republican budget package “one of the most cruel, immoral pieces of legislation that Congress has ever voted on.” 

 

 People take part in a protest against the Republican tax bill in Los Angeles, California on December 4, 2017.Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images

How Many People Have to Die to Keep a 79-Year-Old Man Suffering from Dementia Happy?

July 3, 2025

Dean Baker

 That’s the question Republicans in Congress will be debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form to pass and send to his desk. The essence of the bill should be well known at this point. It extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts past their scheduled expiration date at the end of the year.

 

Yes to 'Department of War' name change

July 3, 2025

Mark Thompson

This week in The Bunker: DOD's emphasis on style over substance; intruders invade an atomic US base; and more

 

The Supreme Court Has Effectively Resuscitated Dred Scott

July 2, 2025

Michael Waldman

By choosing to ban nationwide injunctions in response to a case challenging Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the court’s conservative majority put all of our rights at risk.

 

 Demonstrators hold up an anti-Trump sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 2025. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP

Profiting From Genocide

July 1, 2025

Chris Hedges

The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.

 

انسان و انسانیت

زمانی‌ که ما از انسانیت سخن می‌گوئیم، منظورمان صرفا بشریت نیست، بلکه مروت و مهربانی و لطف، و هم و غم سایر انسان‌ها را داشتن است. از همه مهم‌تر دقت در این است که مراقب و مُحتاط باشیم که آنچه که انجام می‌دهیم و یا در نظر داریم، خللی به آزادی و منافع دیگران وارد نمی‌آورد.ا

Live: At least 44 killed, as Israeli forces fire on Palestinians waiting for aid

July 1, 2025

Meanwhile, UK to give Israel fighter jet parts as Palestinian schools hit overnight

Israel's war on Gaza

July 1, 2025
On October 7, 2023, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the group that governs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, breached the barrier that has surrounded the densely populated area for the last 16 years, preventing the free flow of people and goods.

Tens of Thousands Flee Gaza City as Israel Issues New Forced Evacuation Orders

June 30, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled central and northern Gaza on Sunday after Israel issued new forced evacuation orders and began bombing eastern parts of Gaza City. 

LIVE BLOG: Israeli Army Bleeds in Gaza as Occupation Forces Target Aid Seekers and Shelters – Day 631

June 29, 2025

 

-         Palestinian resistance groups continued to carry out deadly ambushes targeting invading Israeli forces.

-         Meanwhile, Israeli forces committed a horrific massacre in the Tuffah neighborhood, killing scores of Palestinians, including nine children.

-         Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 56,500 and injured 133,419 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Over 60 Palestinian children died of starvation in Gaza due to Israeli blockade

June 28, 2025

UN officials describe Gaza as the 'hungriest place on earth' as the small amount of aid that enters the strip is distributed in 'death traps' where Israeli soldiers turn food lines into mass graves

 

Over 60 Palestinian children died of starvation in Gaza due to Israeli blockade

June 29, 2025

Sasha Abramsky

Trump wants to destroy the ability of states to chart their own course on combating climate change.

 

 In an aerial view, traffic moves on Interstate 80 on May 19, 2025, in Emeryville, California.

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

June 28, 2025
Ramzy Baroud
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East”. Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground.

Israel’s euphoric ‘victory’ over Iran is quickly giving way to disillusionment

June 27, 2025
Meron Rapoport

Politically, Netanyahu may appear the winner of the '12-Day War.' But Israel achieved none of its military goals, and Gaza is once again impossible to ignore.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene where an Iranian ballistic missile hit and caused damage at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, June 20, 2025. (Itai Ron/Pool)

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

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.