Report from Gaza: Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers

September 8, 2025
“There’s no real safe zone in Gaza [City] and all of the Gaza Strip,” says Eyad Amawi, who joins us for an update from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces move deeper into Gaza City to forcibly evict 1 million residents. The local aid coordinator describes relentless bombardment, water shortages, infectious diseases and worsening famine. “All of these things must end now. As a human being, the most priority is the life of the civilians here.”

LIVE BLOG: Ansarallah’s Drones Hit Ramon Airport as Israel Expands Gaza City Operations – Day 702

September 7, 2025

DeepSeek and the digital battleground: China’s AI influence abroad

September6, 2025
Yasemin Yam

We could see a worldwide normalization of AI technology for surveillance and propaganda purposes

West Asia is Lurching Toward War

September 5, 2025

Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.

Tehran in April 2018. (Ninara/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0)

The new Israeli map proposing to annex 80% of the West Bank, explained

September 4, 2025
Qassam Muaddi

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He's not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the "pragmatic" opposition.

sraeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees

September 4, 2025
Yuval Abraham

A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians, a joint investigation finds.

Notes from the Editors

September1, 2025

September 2025 (Volume 77, Number 4)

فراز و افول امپراتوری‌ها

طاق کسری 

US Navy 'First Among Equals': The case for a new realist internationalism

September 2, 2025
Daniel Larison

Emma Ashford's new book challenges America’s global overreach and offers an alternative for a new multipolar world

American Citizens on the Frontlines of Gaza’s War Crimes

September 1, 2025
Jamal Kanj
Serving in the military is the ultimate test of loyalty. When young Americans raise their right hand, they pledge to defend their nation, their Constitution, their people. Yet for many young Americans, that oath is NOT made to the United States military. Instead, they pack their bags, fly across the Atlantic, and enlist in a foreign army—the Israeli War Machine, aka, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

60% of US Gen Z Back Hamas Over Israel in Gaza War – New Poll

8/31/2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
63,459	160,256	9,000

A pro-Palestine protest in Seattle. (Photo: via @GuyOron W page)

A new Harris Poll shows 60% of US Gen Z support Hamas over Israel, highlighting a generational divide as Gaza’s death toll nears 63,400 amid the ongoing genocide.

FEMA Employees Speak Out After Attacks on Workers Warning of Looming Disaster

8/30/2025
Sasha Abramsky

“The danger posed to our collective communities … is very real,” said one employee who signed a public letter.

Where’s a Moral Panic When You Need One?

8/29/2025
Jeb Lund

Sold as The Answer to Everything, AI has become a factory of custom manias, faux-companionship and typo-free teenage suicide notes.

Israel’s war on Gaza kills over 63,000 Palestinians, starves 322

August 29, 2025
Usaid Siddiqui, Tim Hume, Jillian Kestler-D'Amours and Nils Adler

Displaced Palestinians fleeing the northern Gaza Strip move with their belongings on a street in Gaza City, Thursday, August 28, 2025

Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel: Poll

August 28, 2025
Stephen Prager

"Democratic politicians who continue to support sending weapons to Israel are acting in direct defiance of their own constituents' wishes," said one progressive commentator.

Israeli Forces Kill 75 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours

August 26, 2025
Dave DeCamp

Gaza hospitals recorded another three starvation-related deaths due to the Israeli siege

* یهود و صهیونیزم

آنچه که نشریات در مورد اسرائیل و فلسطین تبلیغ می‌کنند ایجاد یک مغالطه بین این دو عنوان و گسترش این تصور است که یهودیّت و صهیونیزم در اصل یکی‌ می‌باشند، در حالیکه تفاوت بین آنها بسیار است. بخش بسیار کوتاهی‌ از تعریف ویکیپدیا از آنچه که آنرا یهودیت می‌نامد چنین است:ا

Australia Blames Iran for Synagogue Attack

August 26, 2025
Joe Lauria

Based on an Australian intelligence “assessment,” the Australian government on Tuesday expelled Iran’s ambassador and three other embassy officials for allegedly planning an attack on a Melbourne synagogue last December.

Israel kills Middle East Eye journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital

August 25, 2025

Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz among 19 killed after Israeli forces bomb Khan Younis hospital providing life-saving care to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

A man holds the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri who was killed along with other journalists at the Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on 25 August 2025

LIVE BLOG: Israel to Lay Siege on Gaza City as Scores Killed by Massacres, Famine – Day 688

August 24, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
62,622	157,673	9,000