Tag: Middle East
Gaza Flotilla Ship “Handala” Sails to Challenge Israeli Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright - 0
As the genocide of Palestinians continues with daily massacres of scores, sometimes hundreds, of starving people being targeted and killed by the Israeli military as they come to attempt to get food, another ship of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, the Handala, is sailing to bring attention to the criminal actions of the...
Palestinians Have Lived as Refugees For 80 Years: It is Time for a Durable Solution to End Their Suffering
Khalil Al-Wazir - 0
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has brought greater global attention to the plight of Palestinians, a huge number of whom have been refugees since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 when they were expelled from their land in what is known as the Nakba.
The brutal Israeli...
UN Special Rapporteur Issues Report Detailing Corporate Machinery that Profits Off Immiseration of Palestinians
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
In early July, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, issued a damning report detailing how large corporations profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and genocide in Gaza that has taken place since...
Western Soft-Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels
Ben Arthur Thomason - 0
From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges and counter-sieges in and around major Syrian cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. During that time, agents of U.S. diplomacy, soft power, defense and...
In late June, Syrians experienced the worst attack on a Christian church since 1860
On June 29, 2025, I attended a church service at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. St. Moses is an Antiochian church, also known as the Church of St. Peter, and harkens...
CovertAction Bulletin: Mahmoud Khalil Freed as Anti-War Movement in U.S. Celebrates and Grows
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
Mahmoud Khalil is free! After spending 104 days unjustly held in an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, he was reunited with his wife Noor, newborn son Deen and community over the weekend...
As Israel Attacked Iran, Multi-National Effort to Bring Last Three Madleen Sailors Out of Israeli Prison
Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright - 6
As Israel began its unprovoked attacks on Iran on June 13, the last three of the twelve volunteers of the Gaza Flotilla ship Madleen were still in Israeli prisons.
Marc van Rennes, a Dutch citizen, was in the detention cell at Ben Gurion Airport when Israeli authorities closed the airport expecting Iranian...
In the past couple of days, Donald Trump has been speaking about the possibility of the United States formally entering the Israeli war against Iran. And as of this evening, the U.S. has begun bombing Iran. But the reality is the United States has been at war with Iran...
The War on Iran Has Been Long in the Making, and the U.S. Is Already a Party to It
Daniel Kovalik - 3
Precipitated by Israel’s deadly bombing operations that have killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists, the U.S. is poised to attack Iran as part of a long-held goal of orchestrating a regime change there.
The U.S government appears to want to install as Iran’s new leader Reza Pahlavi, the eldest...
CovertAction Bulletin – Make No Mistake: The U.S. Wants War with Iran
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
Donald Trump posted to his social media site Truth Social on Monday evening that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” as he made an early departure from the G7 summit in Canada to “attend to many important matters,” according to the White House...