By Jordan Shilton on August 25, 2017
The US-backed onslaught on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is claiming hundreds of civilian lives every week, including dozens of women and children. US aircraft and troops on the ground are deploying indiscriminate force on a civilian center where an estimated 25,000 people remained trapped and a further 270,000 have already fled. (more…)
By Crawford Kilian on August 23, 2017
When you follow disease outbreaks in obscure parts of the world, you soon notice the outbreaks that don’t get much attention. We all recall SARS and swine flu and Ebola and Zika — mostly because they made some North Americans sick. But when people get sick in a country of no strategic interest, we yawn and look for better clickbait. (more…)
By Leandro Albani on August 18, 2017
On Thursday morning, a suicide attack shook the Gaza strip, that fragile portion of land that still belongs to Palestinians. A man trying to cross the border towards Egypt detonated a bomb on his body in a border crossing, ending his life and killing a Palestinian security agent (more…)
August 21, 2017
SHARMINI PERIES: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. The longest war in the history of the U.S. enters its sixteenth year, the war in Afghanistan. (more…)
August 23, 2017
Days after residents in an isolated Bethlehem-area village received stop-work orders for mobile homes being set up as a school — structures for which locals insisted they had obtained the necessary permits — Israeli forces reportedly raided the village Tuesday and seized the classrooms. (more…)
By Caitlin Johnstone on August 15, 2017
Al Jazeera, not often known to rock the establishment boat when it comes to the official narrative about Syria, has published an interesting new report on some recent findings of the International Organization for Migration. (more…)
By Carol Sanders on August 15, 2017
Photo: Luke Beard
It is a familiar scenario. Somewhere in a Bay Area community space, a Palestinian voice rises and is heard. (more…)
By Ali Harb on August 17, 2017
Photo: Maya Arcilla
At the doorsteps of a US federal court in Detroit, Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh vowed on Thursday to continue organizing for Palestine after a judge ordered her removal from the United States. (more…)