Tag: Middle East
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...
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...
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s (FFC) sailboat, Madleen was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CEST at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E.
The ship was unlawfully boarded, its 12 unarmed civilian crew and participants abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated, as well...
Deeply inspired, with a heart full of empathy and rage at almost two years of a colonial Holocaust, I returned to Palestine. My initial visit motivated me to pursue a deeper, more comprehensive connection with the historic Palestinian people who have been resisting 76 years of apartheid and genocide.
I...
Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, sister and four of his nephews and nieces.
OR Books has put out a collection of his writings, If I Must...
Part 1 of a series exposing the farce of so-called U.S. “democracy promotion”
If Americans know anything about U.S. involvement in Syria, they probably think of the recent Syrian Civil War (2011 to 2024). However, U.S. intervention in Syrian affairs goes back almost to Syrian independence from French colonialism in...
On April 9, a collection of peace activists affiliated with the People’s Arms Embargo returned to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, one hour north of San Francisco to stage a protest to try to block entry into the base.
Armed with Palestinian flags and banners, the group displayed...
Our floor is gone in the bathroom, the back deck is falling in, there is a hole in the kitchen floor, the toilet in the basement is broken, the house needs an overhaul, there are broken windows, the garage needs repair, the yard is terrible…
…and here I am, the...
Similar to the way American conscientious objectors were treated in World War I
On December 26, 2023, Tal Mitnick, then 18, entered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enlistment center in Tel Aviv and publicly announced that he would refuse military service.
Subsequently, he was forced to serve 185 days in a...
The chief of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Exterminator-in-Chief, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu jumped on his plane and jetted from one International Criminal Court (ICC) denier, authoritarian leader, Victor Orban of Hungary, to another ICC denier in Washington,...
