As economists we stand, today, with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur under attack by the US and Israeli governments because her recent report throws indescribably important light on the political economy of Israel’s occupation and genocide. Groundxero | July 8, 2025 A group of world-renowned economists, including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, […]
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide. CHRIS HEDGES Jul 2, 2025 War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and […]
Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine. CHRIS HEDGES JUN 29, 2025 Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the […]
“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled. Over the past 20 months, the IDF has repeatedly slaughtered Palestinians trying to access food assistance, including at hubs recently set up by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) following an Israeli blockade on aid. By Jessica Corbett Jun 17, 2025 […]
গণহত্যা প্রায় সম্পূর্ণ। যখন এটি শেষ হবে তখন এটি কেবল ফিলিস্তিনিদের ধ্বংস করবে না, বরং পশ্চিমা সভ্যতার নৈতিক দেউলিয়াত্বও প্রকাশ করবে। ক্রিস হেজেস ৯ জুন, ২০২৫ এই তবে শেষ। গণহত্যার রক্তাক্ত অধ্যায়ের সমাপ্তি। খুব শীঘ্রই সব মিটে যাবে। সপ্তাহখানেকের মধ্যেই, বড়জোর, দু’সপ্তাহ। বিশ লক্ষ মানুষ আশ্রয় নিয়েছে ধ্বংসস্তূপের মধ্যে বা খোলা আকাশের নীচে। […]
The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization. CHRIS HEDGES JUN 9 This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are […]
In a significant development, over 1000 academics from Israeli universities have issued an open letter protesting the “war crimes and even crimes against humanity” committed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Groundxero | June 03, 2025 On last Wednesday, 1,200 academics and administrators from Israeli universities issued an open letter protesting the “war crimes and even crimes […]
The Arab monarchs’ hobnobbing with the backers of genocide in Gaza represents not only a cruel blow to the Palestinian people but also a profound insult to the ordinary citizens of the Arab. By Sushovan Dhar Groundxero | June 03, 2025 As Israel’s war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves […]
A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners. CHRIS HEDGES May 27, 2025 The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antisemitism,” laid the groundwork for […]
The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed. CHRIS HEDGES May 18, 2025 CAIRO, Egypt — It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked […]
Netanyahu has been fairly transparent about the fact that Israel’s ultimate goal in Gaza is neither freeing the hostages nor defeating Hamas, but seizing Palestinian territory and removing its Palestinian inhabitants. By Caitlin Johnstone Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas […]
The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration. CHRIS HEDGES APR 12 Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since […]
Where is humanity? Does anyone still see us? Has the world really become this cold and dispassionate, or has it always been that way? By Jennifer Loewenstein Apr 11, 2025 Below are excerpts from letters sent to me by my friend, Hudia, of Rafah. I have saved everything she has sent me since […]
Humanitarian aid is fast becoming concerned with its own image, trapped as it is by donor funding of the same countries complicit in genocide. by Ramona Wadi As Israel omits Palestinians from Gaza in its depraved genocide, let the international community omit all its hypocritical rhetoric of “concern”, “deeply disturbed”, “deplores” and “catastrophic”. The […]
Our rulers may succeed in eliminating the Palestinians as a people, but one thing they will never be able to do is put those blinders back on our eyes. What has been seen cannot be unseen. By Caitlin Johnstone One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the […]