On 29 January 2024, six-year-old Hind Rajab is trapped in a car in Northern Gaza with 355 bullets in it, and the bodies of her aunt, uncle and four cousins.
The haunting recordings of the child’s voice pleading to be rescued are the subject of a film made by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania.
The recordings were made by the Red Crescent emergency call centre in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, whose volunteers poured their hearts into maintaining the connection with the little girl whilst their colleague desperately tried to assemble a rescue team.
Americans will not risk the incineration of Los Angeles for the rubble of Guam. Iran's attacks on US bases in the Middle East are a warning.
by Godfree Roberts / March 5th, 2026
Thanks to China’s rare earth restrictions, the US cannot replace the high-technology weapons it is using in Ukraine and the Middle East. Washington just announced that it cannot defend any of its allies in the area apart from Israel, yet will still exhaust its defensive missile inventory within a week. – Godfree.
In the annals of military history, bases have often been the linchpins of empire, the forward redoubts from which great powers projected force and deterred foes. Yet in our era of hypersonic missiles and precision-guided swarms, one must …
A huge problem, up there at the top of the list, is that the history of efforts over the last many centuries to create truly just and democratic societies, run by organized people, not oligarchs, has at best yielded mixed results since the Russian Revolution of 1917.
These words were part of the first column of this series of my Future Hope columns, planned to be at least 10 of them. I’m calling this series “21st Century Common Sense.”
So what is my “common sense” about why the world is in the state it’s in?
-One very big reason is the fact that revolutions …
“We are someone’s dirty work. And by “us,” I mean Iranians actually living in Iran. It doesn’t matter what group you think you belong to or what you believe; at the end of the day, our lives are just a resource for someone else’s agenda. We are the currency used in a game we didn’t ask to play.”
[This piece was written after the recent deadly protests in Iran in January and before the new invasion by Israel and the USA in February and March …
On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón Bolívar in 1829:
“The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”
For many Venezuelans, that line no longer feels like history. It feels like the present.
The January 3 U.S. military operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores marked a dramatic escalation in a conflict that Venezuelans describe not as sudden but as cumulative — the culmination of decades …
With the ruling classes shown to be fickle, contemptible and unreliable in fulfilling their obligations to society, much of this confirmed by the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the United States Department of Justice, politicians really ought to get their act together. If there are threats to their welfare, why not tell the public of such facts? Is it sufficient to merely say that a threat to the safety of a politician manifested only to then build a fortress and moat around it, imprisoned till careful, managed release?
On February 24, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese supposedly …
Quantum communication is no longer a physics thought experiment. It’s being deployed right now, and it’s going to change who controls secrets, who wins wars, and who you can trust online.
by Robert Malone / March 4th, 2026
There is a physics rule that changes everything about how we think about secrets. It goes like this: you cannot observe a quantum system without disturbing it. Not because our instruments are clumsy. Not because we haven’t built good enough technology yet. Because the universe, at its most fundamental level, does not allow it.
This sounds like an obscure footnote in a physics textbook. It is not. It is the foundation of a communications revolution that is quietly unfolding right now, one that promises to make certain kinds of messages …
The Constitutional and Strategic Costs of Trump’s New War in Iran
by Nolan Higdon / March 4th, 2026
“A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran,” President Donald Trump declared in a video released on the morning of February 28, 2026. Without a single vote from Congress, and in clear defiance of the constitutional requirement for a declaration of war, the President announced that the United States and Israel have launched a massive, coordinated assault on Iran. The justification offered …
The so-called progressive political and media elites have cynically normalized the assassination of Iran’s leader, dressing up regime change as a moral necessity while denying Iranians the right to self-determination. In doing so, they expose a racist double standard that humanizes Israeli victims, dehumanizes Iranian lives, and buries the very principles of freedom, dignity and international law they claim to defend.
Just imagine the uproar if Iran had killed more than 150 Israeli schoolgirls.
The ritual is immutable:
1) condemn the Iranian “regime” and more or less explicitly welcome the “death” (above all, never say “assassination”) of Ali Khamenei;
The goal of US-Israel is to wipe out the ‘Shia axis’, Israel’s only real barrier to seizing all Arab lands ‘from the river [Nile] to the [Arabian sea]’. All the Arab stateS except Ansar Allah’s Yemen are what we can call Arab Zionists, i.e., subservient to Israel. In a sense Israel already has hegemony over them all. Only an anti-US-Israel revolution similar to the Arab Spring of 2011 can shake this unholy alliance.
10/7 has provided the pretext for this plan to accelerate, giving Israel free rein to …
While children are gutted by Jewish-American missiles
by Paul Haeder / March 4th, 2026
Below is a commentary for the newspaper I have been publishing my “long-form” commentaries in on a monthly basis, and that newspaper, the Newport News Times, now the Lincoln County Leader, is on the proverbial chopping block.
Here, these people who are buying up what they call “struggling newspapers,” including the Leader:
To Defend International Law and the UN Charter, Prevent Regional War, Maintain Stability in Global Energy Supplies
by John Helmer / March 4th, 2026
At about noon, Moscow time, on Friday February 27, the Russian Security Council met in a video session. The regular weekly meeting of the Council is often at the end of the week.
The Foreign and Defense Ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Andrei Belousov, and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, participated. Unless Russian intelligence had suffered an unprecedented and catastrophic failure, the Russian decision-makers knew that the US and Israel were about to launch their new war against Iran.
If you have your “Reasons For Bombing Iran & Assassinating Their Leader” bingo card out right now, it should almost be full. At various times Donald Trump has said that the US is raining hellfire down on the Iranian people because:
We need to stop their nuclear program. (Trump said he already blew it to smithereens last summer but apparently it’s back and stronger than ever!)
The Ayatollah didn’t treat his people well. (So bombing those same people is the answer. Besides, if the US bombs every leader who …
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, has been an obvious prime target for assassination by the US/Israel perhaps for the whole of his period in office, which began in 1989. It will have been just as or more obvious that his status in this regard would be amplified in the event of a fresh outbreak of war. Yet he was killed in broad daylight on the first day of the latest US/Israeli attacks, while at his office in his family compound.
Puzzling to say the least.
Not so, however, for mainstream media like the BBC who depicted the …
Rembrandt’s depiction of the biblical account of King Belshazzar seeing a hand writing the words “mene, mene, tekel, upharsin” on a wall.
Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools and private residences, slaughtering all who happen to be on the premises. The tactic, rather than demoralizing civilian populations, galvanizes contempt and the will to resist a foreign aggressor.
The chasm between consciousness and anti-consciousness continues to grow in the context of failing economies and failed states at home and abroad. In this fractured and decaying context where the gap between authoritarianism and democracy grows wider with greater speed, every day brings new criminal thinking and agendas masquerading as much-needed innovative ideas and plans.
In the world of K-12 education, the latest neoliberal proposal comes from New Hampshire. Recently, House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, R-Auburn, sponsored House Bill 1358 “…
When the Israeli lobbying group UN Watch spread disinformation about Francesca Albanese, they were trying to silence her condemnations of the true “common enemy of humanity”—the illegal system of oppressive, corporate-media-military and surveillance forces shaping a brutal new world order, and now bombing Iran.
Francesca Albanese has evoked the ire of Israeli officials, the US government, and Western countries that have failed to stop, and continued to support, Israel’s genocide in Gaza. They are mad at her for doing her job and excelling at it. When she accepted the position as United Nations …
by Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares / March 3rd, 2026
Let us be clear about what the United States and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and the international rule of law—an attempt that will fail.
On February 16, 2026, one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) sent a letter to the UN Security Council warning that the United States was on the verge of tearing up the United Nations Charter. That warning has now come to pass. The …
The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against Ukraine is, with its shattering of international law and its dismissiveness of the provisions of the United Nations Charter, the Israeli-US attack on Iran has been given the seal of approval by America’s client states and supporters. Countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada, for instance, were clear in endorsing a UN General Assembly resolution on February 24 supporting Ukraine in the …
The developments in Iran are greatly concerning. We remain in close contact with our partners in the region. We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to safeguarding regional security and stability.
Ensuring nuclear safety and preventing any actions that could further escalate tensions or undermine the global non-proliferation regime is of critical importance.
The European Union has …
Everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
— W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing 57 children. Let that sink in. Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
Now tell those parents, as we are being told, that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. …
There were only two things that surprised me – and would have been fitting – namely that he had been dressed in military battle uniform (I predict that, as Supreme Commander, he will soon show up in that), and that he did not argue that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize even more for what he has now announced.
That said, here is how you speak when you are a danger to the world:
WE ARE THREATENED BY EVIL ITSELF
You accuse Iran of being a threat to the American people – while the …
What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home
Humanity stands at a strange and tragic crossroads. We boast of our intelligence, our innovation, our “progress,” yet we behave like a species determined to sabotage its own future. We tear open the earth for minerals, metals, and rare elements—lithium, cobalt, gold, copper—feeding an insatiable appetite for technology, weapons, and spectacle. We burn forests, poison rivers, and choke the atmosphere, all while congratulating ourselves for planning missions to Mars in search of water.
Into every commentator’s life falls a one-time permission slip to make ad hominem remarks. This is confirmed by Hoyle, the Marquess of Queensbury and natural law.
· Donald Trump is a psychotic Fascist who is consumed by the mad fantasy of becoming the global emperor. The former was evident 9 years ago; the latter was evident on Inauguration Day 12 months ago
· The American voting public nonetheless chose him President twice – almost did so on a third occasion
· The United States’ elites – political and otherwise – have failed totally to protect the Republic by their acquiescence in his despotic actions. …
February 28, 2026. Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter. A gross violation of international law. As usual, a violation celebrated as ethical, necessary, and high-minded in principle by the powerful who dictate such terms. Not squalid, dangerous, destabilising. Not, apparently, following the same pattern as before: interventions in Iraq, Libya. Not, goodness, another intervention to overthrow the regime of this same country orchestrated by the United States and Britain in 1953.
Yes, this was Iran, bombed for a second time in under a year, its hierarchy targeted, again, only more comprehensively. The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, …
Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologically distant as to be fiction. If not Marvel, it’s not marvellous. But another fiction came into play towards the end of February as the United States and Israel reprised their role as world rogues and crockery breakers by attacking Iran for a second time in less than a year in a joint campaign called Operation Lion’s Roar and Epic Fury. Following the vulgar playbook on regime change used against Iraq in 2003 by the US-led forces, a variation …
A sucker punch is a punch delivered when the recipient of the punch is hit by surprise. As such a sucker punch indicates cowardice — that the sucker puncher did not have courage and decency to announce his intentions to engage in fisticuffs or battle. The current sneak attack (a so far failed attack) to take out the Iranian leadership by the US-Israel while negotiations are still ongoing in an attempt (half-heartedly or not by the US-Israel negotiators) to settle differences among the sides is a textbook example of cowardice, pusillanimity … gutlessness!
Today, USrael attacked Iran, for the second time within just one year. Today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme (1927-1986).
In the video below, Palme condemns the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, at Xmas 1972. He paid a price for it. He lists the names of places where crimes were committed up till then.
Today, we can add places such as Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Gaza — and on this very day, February 28, 2026, we can add Iran, Iran again and again — places Palme …
For most of human history, we lived as one species among many. We shared forests with elephants, rivers with hippos, skies with vultures, and coastlines with turtles whose migrations predate our earliest civilizations. The natural world was not a backdrop to human life; it was the condition that made human life possible. For millennia, animals and ecosystems existed in a balance shaped by climate, instinct, and time — not by human ambition. Today that balance is collapsing, not because nature changed, but because we did.
Deforestation, industrial expansion, mining, poaching, and the global appetite for profit have pushed countless species to …
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year and a half later in the hope that I could find paying work focused on the climate crisis. What happened that summer to lead to that personal change?
Here is how AI Overview reports it:
The 2003 European heatwave was an extreme, prolonged, and deadly weather event, …
