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In the new book When Marx Meets Islam, a leading scholar reveals how his support for Israel and the Abraham Accords made him a target of former allies—and led him to investigate what he calls a growing ideological threat to the West.
In a new interview, the socialist broadcaster argues that Gaza has broken the old political consensus on Israel — and that politicians who claim to oppose the destruction must be prepared to act.
More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, and just days after President Donald Trump celebrated Columbus at the White House as a “great Italian explorer,” a historical investigation challenges that very identification, bringing one of the greatest mysteries of the Age of Discovery back to Portugal: the true identity of the Admiral and Viceroy of the Indies, whose presence on the island of Madeira is documented and who may have been born in Madalena do Mar.
The Israeli donor-backed Academies of Hope say their mission is peace and recovery. Plans to record lessons and flag speech raise questions about who decides what Palestinian children and teachers may say.
Three years after 7 October, Israel’s loss of support reaches beyond campus protests and party politics. For Americans who once trusted it, Gaza has become a reckoning with what they believed — and what their country has helped sustain.
Three years after 7 October 2023, the war on Gaza has produced a body of numbers unlike any conflict before it – a daily ledger of the dead and a satellite map of every broken roof, a famine classified in phases and a defence industry's record year. This feature draws them together from the agencies that compiled them and sets them down in order.
Three years after the attacks, military admissions, soldiers’ testimony and UN findings have left unresolved questions about the Hannibal directive and the deaths of people Israel’s forces were sent to protect.
The award comes as Palestinian authorities report nearly 22,000 children killed in Gaza — an average of one child every 72 minutes for three years — while Washington targets the war crimes court and Marco Rubio threatens to “end the ICC”.
Hind Rajab Foundation seeks an investigation into medical complicity at Sde Teiman as the World Medical Association meets in Rotterdam
Three years after Israel's genocide began, Palestinians remain trapped between continuing Israeli attacks and a reconstruction process that has barely advanced. Behind the diplomatic promises are bereaved children, inaccessible homes and families struggling to survive.
The D-Day for international football has arrived, bringing with it an unmissable opportunity to overthrow the hegemony of Zurich. Today marks a historic day for global football. A new international football organisation is born in Canada, directly challenging current governance under the core principles of sovereignty, integrity, transparency, and accountability. The time has come! WUFO invites clubs, leagues, associations, and confederations to join a model designed to redistribute power, work hand-in-hand with players, leagues, and clubs, protect fans, rotate the world championship fairly and transparently, and implement profound structural improvements.
A year after a ceasefire took effect, Palestinians in Gaza are still being killed, displaced families are struggling to obtain food and water, and Israeli aircraft continue to circle overhead, according to testimony broadcast on the third anniversary of 7 October. From Gaza City, journalist Akram al-Satarri described a territory where the destruction of homes, the separation of families and the search for missing bodies continue to shape daily life.
Israel is tearing itself apart under the strain of prolonged war, bitter political divisions and the consequences of its devastation of Gaza, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson have warned, as a reported American intelligence assessment raises the prospect of civil conflict and state collapse.
Larry Johnson’s unverified account follows Donald Trump’s threats to destroy Iran, raising questions about preparations for a wider conflict and the possibility of nuclear escalation.
A new map connects more than 35,000 videos and photographs to Gaza locations as the wider archive passes 200,000 media records and preserves the names of 72,835 people killed.
Eight months after doctors in Gaza alleged that Palestinian bodies returned by Israel bore evidence of organ removal, renewed United Nations demands for access to human remains have underlined the obstacles to establishing what happened to the dead.
*Maysa Abu Daoud and her daughter Mary had moved from a church refuge into a rented flat. An Israeli strike killed them alongside another mother and daughter and a young man, leaving a 14-year-old mourning two generations of his family.*
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Up to 27 Israeli diplomats could be expelled from London if Israel forces Britain’s East Jerusalem consulate to close, threatening a historic rupture in relations.
With Gaza’s economy devastated and Netanyahu addressing the UN under an ICC arrest warrant, former UN official Craig Mokhiber challenges the gap between Israel’s growing isolation and meaningful action. His warning extends to Trump’s threats against Iran and the contest to choose the next UN chief.
Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A., San Carlos, Chile expands its previously initiated recalls on July 3, 2026 and September 3,2026 recall of frozen organic IQF blueberries and berry blends to include additional lots of Great Value frozen Organic Triple Berry Blend 10 OZ, Great Value frozen Organic Blueberries 10 OZ and one Lot of Trader Joe’s frozen Organic Mixed Berry Blend because of potential contamination with Escherichia coli O145:H28 (E. coli O145).
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) — the largest youth-led grassroots network focused on replacing the War on Drugs with policies rooted in science, compassion, and human rights — has fought against DEA efforts to restrict psychedelic research since 2022.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) members participated in the historic FDA hearing, then hosted more than 150 advocates, researchers, clinicians, and community members at a community event to discuss the hearing and what comes next.
Labour’s electoral setbacks, an American protest vote and gains for the French left show how outrage over Gaza is reaching the ballot box — as Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja is arrested outside Labour’s conference.
