RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival)

December 4, 2025
Ray McGovern

Yury Ushakov, Putin’s man on Ukraine, said there’s no firm plan for Ukraine yet and some American ideas are acceptable to Russia, some not.  But the plan is not dead.

The sentence demanded in the case of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is 2,430 years

December 3, 2025
Arzu Geybullayeva

The mayor strongly rejects the charges, calling [them] a compilation of lies, allegedly built under coercion

پائیز

طبیعت چهار موسم یا فصل دارد و تاریخ ما ایرانیان با موسم بهار آغاز می‌شود. در سنجش با تاریخ‌های میلادی و اسلامی و سایر تاریخ‌ها، شاید بتوان گفت که تاریخ ما ایرانیان که آغاز آن نخستین روز بهار است، بهترین و ارزشمند‌ترین تاریخ است. نخستین روز سال خورشیدی، همزمان با زایش گیاهان و حتی گونه‌هائی از حیوانات است. می‌توانیم این تاریخ را با تاریخ‌های دیگر بسنجیم تا ارزش آنرا درک کنیم.ا

Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war

December 2, 2025
Orly Noy

In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 laws curtailing Palestinians' rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows.

Israeli police arrest a Palestinian woman in Karmiel, northern Israel, July 3, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

The genocide in Gaza cost this Palestinian woman her hands. She lost so much more than her limbs.

December 1, 2025
Noor Alyacoubi

An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza.

LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah Confirms Killing of Top Commander as Israel Continues to Violate Gaza Ceasefire – Day 779

November 30, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,100	170,983	9,500

Search teams in Al-Maghazi refugee camp continue working to retrieve the bodies of Palestinians still trapped beneath the rubble. (Photo: via QNN)

Are private American soldiers surging into new Gaza aid sites?

November 28, 2025
Connor Echols

Whistleblower Anthony Aguilar claims that a new company is already hoping to take over where the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation left off

Pay to Pollute, Starting in 2026

November 26, 2025
Robert Hunziker
The United States of America was unofficially represented at COP30, the annual UN climate conference (November 10-21) in Belem, Brazil by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). He was not granted the privilege of officially representing the U.S. The State Department refused to facilitate his trip, refused to acknowledge the senator as a representative of a congressional delegation, refusing to acknowledge COP30, refusing to acknowledge global warming. This is the first time in Senator Whitehouse’s career that the executive branch of government has dictated a congressional member’s CODEL (Congressional Delegation paid trip for members).

The Importance of Being ‘That’ Person This Thanksgiving

November26, 2025
Jeb Lund

As we carve the turkey, we can all serve as something of a measure against the mess.

Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty

November 25, 2025

Marjorie Cohn

I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.

تنکس‌گیوینگ دی یا روز شکرگذاری

آیا ما انسان‌ها هوشمندترین موجودات در این کهکشان هستیم؟ ما شخصی‌ مانند ستفن هاکینگ را داشتیم که هفت سال پیش فوت کرد، و گرچه اکثر هفتاد و شش سال عمرش را با بیماری کشنده‌ای به سر برد، ولی‌ به عنوان یکی‌ از بزرگ‌ترین نوابغ جهان شناخته شده است. بسیاری از نقاط جهان فیزیکی‌ ما هنوز کشف نشده باقی‌ مانده‌ا‌ند، بخصوص کهکشان‌ها، کرات و سیارات دیگر. ولی‌ این را می‌دانیم که بر روی کرهٔ زمین، ما انسان‌ها خود را از کلیهٔ موجودات دیگر باهوش‌تر می‌دانیم. گرچه، با توجه به تسلیحات نظامی که صرفا برای کشتار انسان‌ها و صدمه زدن به طبیعت اختراع می‌شوند و گسترش می‌یابند، میزان هوش و دانش ما انسان‌ها زیر پرسش قرار می‌گیرد.ا

Trump Is Turning Gaza Into a Brutal Colonial Protection Racket

November 25, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realized – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell

France seeks progress on nuclear talks as Iran top diplomat to visit Paris

November 24, 2025
al jaz, Elis Gjevori and News Agencies

France will host Iran’s foreign minister in Paris this week for talks that are set to include stalled nuclear negotiations.

LIVE BLOG: Deadly Strikes in Gaza as Calls Grow in Israel for an Inquiry into October 7 – Day 779

November 23, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
69756	170946	9500

Zelensky is sending a very important signal about Trump’s peace plan

November 22, 2025
Tarik Cyril Amar

The Ukrainian leader has left all options open in response to the 28-point draft – and that is a sensation in itself

"You Have a Mother" - Read by Eunice Wong

November 21, 2025
Chris Hedges

We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.

View of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Two rows of barbed wire encircle the camp. The path between could be easily machine-gunned from the watch towers. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Secret ‘Mass Surveillance Network’ by Border Patrol Tracks ‘Suspicious’ Driving Patterns of Americans

November 20, 2025
Brad Reed

The Border Patrol is engaging in “dragnet surveillance of Americans on the streets, on the highways, in their cities, in their communities,” charged one critic.

Gaza’s Palestinians sceptical after UN resolution ‘ignored humanitarian needs’

November 19, 2025
Maha Hussaini

Residents warn new UNSC plan ties Gaza’s recovery to politics and leaves urgent humanitarian needs unmet

پرواز

کسانی‌ که به شعر علاقه دارند به یقین فروغ فرخزاد را می‌شناسند. او در سن سی‌ و دو سالگی در یک سانحهٔ رانندگی‌ کشته شد. از فروغ پنج کتاب تحت عنوان؛ اسیر، دیوار، عصیان، تولدی دیگر، و ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد، به جای مانده است، که دو کتاب پسین تحولی‌ در شعر نو بودند. او در آخرین کتاب خود شعری دارد تحت عنوان "پرنده مُردنی ‌است". این یکی‌ از اشعار کوتاه ولی‌ بسیار زیبای فروغ است، که می‌گوید:ا

Americans should be enraged’: reports expose unprecedented corruption at Trump DOJ

November 17, 2025
Brad Reed

“I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”