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The Death of Israel

Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.   By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 17, 2023   Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. […]



The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets

Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks.   By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 10, 2023     I knew Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the co-founder of Hamas, along with Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin. Al-Rantisi’s family were […]


ক্ষমতার বিকৃত সাধনা 

ক্ষমতার মদমত্ততায় জাতির সাম্রাজ্যবাদ বিরোধী সংগ্রামের ইতিহাস, সে সংগ্রামীদের হৃদয় নিংড়ানো দেশবন্দনাও এমন ইতিহাসবোধহীন শাসকের কাছে হয়ে ওঠে জনপ্রিয়তাবাদী রাজনীতির হাতিয়ার। দেশের ঐতিহাসিক সন্ধিক্ষণের রচনাও সে সংকীর্ণ রাজনীতির মাপমতো কেটেছেঁটে নিতে পিছপা নন তাঁরা। স্বয়ং রবীন্দ্রনাথ হলেও নয়। লিখলেন দেবাশিস আইচ।     ধরাকে সরা জ্ঞান করেন মুখ্যমন্ত্রী। তাঁর ইচ্ছায় সংকীর্ণ সরণিও হয়ে ওঠে বিপুলা […]


Israel continues genocide at full scale but meets with stiff Palestinian Resistance

By Harsh Thakor 10 Dec, 2023   The genocidal attack by the State of Israel and imperialism, mainly Yankee, against the Palestinian people, has escalated at an untold scale. Just between the 6 and 7 of December, 350 Palestinian people were killed. These figures are rising while the struggle for Gaza City and Khan Yunis is escalating. […]


Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse

Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two has begun. It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.   By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 2, 2023     The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery […]


Don’t Just Blame Kissinger for His Amoral, Genocidal Life and Acts

If anything, Kissinger was but a faithful representative of the criminal U.S. elites whom he served all his life—and who guaranteed him a long life of fame, wealth, and luxury.   By JOSEPH MASSAD Nov 30, 2023   Nothing notable distinguished the birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger on 27 May 1923 to a German Jewish […]


Israel’s War on Hospitals

Israel’s War on Hospitals Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die.    by CHRIS HEDGES NOV 20, 2023   Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they […]


এক ‘দেশদ্রোহী’ ভারতীয়র ক্রিকেটীয় আখ্যান

শামিকে রোজ পরীক্ষা দিতে হবে। বিশ্বকাপ ফাইনালে আবার! সোনার কাপ হাতে উঠলেও তার পরের টুর্নামেন্টে। নামের বোঝা বিশাল দায়। এই দায়ে দোষী এক বিশেষ ধর্মের মানুষ, চেষ্টা করলেও মেজরিটির মেজরের বাইরে তারা চিরকাল। মোদি যুগে এবার জুতসই শব্দ আছে – দেশদ্রোহী। আসলে শুনতে শুনতে এক সময় সয়ে যায় মশাই। যত ইচ্ছে বলুন! লিখলেন মৌমিতা আলম।     […]


Israel is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza

Israel is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza   Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries.   By CHRIS HEDGES NOV 17, 2023     CAIRO, Egypt: The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s […]


The Horror, The Horror

The Horror, The Horror   Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza.   By Chris Hedges Nov 11     DOHA, Qatar: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The […]


Letter To The Children Of Gaza

Letter to the Children of Gaza By Chris Hedges     Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of […]


The Plan to Complete the Nakba Revealed

A document leaked in recent days has fully confirmed that the Zionist right is seizing the opportunity of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” to try to implement its old dream of displacing most of the Palestinian population from the territories occupied in 1967, so as to complete the 1948 Nakba and achieve their “Greater Israel” project.   […]


Why did Israel kill my son?

Why did Israel kill my son? By Ahmed Abu Artema   I write these words from my hospital bed. I am beginning to have some energy to hold my phone and use my fingers after 10 days here.   I write in grief.   I woke up in my family house in Rafah, in the […]


Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes

Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes BY Michael Vicente Perez   An estimated 1.4 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since the Israeli military began bombing the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8, 2023, in retaliation for a surprise attack by Hamas militants. Many of these Palestinians have […]