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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • The funeral of paramedic Hussein Jaber of the Civil Defense team in Nabatieh after he was killed in an Israeli strike alongside his colleague Ahmad Noura on May 12. Saida, Lebanon. May 13, 2026. Photo by Katrine Dige Houmøller.

    Israel is on a killing spree of paramedics and rescue workers in Lebanon

    Originally published: Drop Site News on May 22, 2026 by Katrine Dige Houmøller (more by Drop Site News) (Posted May 27, 2026)

    Israel has killed over 120 rescue workers, damaged 16 hospitals, and targeted over 130 ambulances in Lebanon since March 2.

  • Palestinians gather to receive aid from a GHF aid distribution point at the so-called "Netzarim corridor" in the central Gaza Strip on July 30, 2025. Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images.

    Second contractor steps forward to blow the whistle on Israeli attacks at Gaza aid site

    Originally published: Drop Site News on April 13, 2026 by Rhana Natour (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Apr 15, 2026)

    In his first interview since returning from Gaza, David McIntosh says he witnessed Israeli soldiers firing open fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking aid.

  • Gottheimer questions CIA Director John Ratcliffe during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 19, 2026.

    With the House eyeing another Iran WPR vote, Pro-Israel Democrats explore routes to delay

    Originally published: Drop Site News on March 20, 2026 by Julian Andreone (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Mar 23, 2026)

    Anti-war advocates have openly speculated about whether the Democratic establishment would deliberately allow the war to drag on to benefit the party politically in the 2026 midterm elections.

  • Families spend Ramadan evenings at the graves of children killed in the Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school on February 28. March 15, 2026. Credit: semi-official news agency Mehr.

    Grieving parents in Iran spend every night at the graves of their children, killed by U.S. strike

    Originally published: Drop Site News on March 18, 2026 by Mahmoud Aslan (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Mar 20, 2026)

    As Ramadan comes to a close, families in Minab, Iran struggle to come to terms with the scale of death, one of the deadliest single attacks on children in memory.

  • Donald Trump

    EXCLUSIVE: U.S. military tells key Middle East ally to prepare for attack on Iran

    Originally published: Drop Site News on January 30, 2026 by Drop Site News Staff (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Feb 04, 2026)

    In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.

  • Ryan Grim

    CBP Agent guns down Minneapolis nurse: video analysis

    Originally published: Drop Site News on January 24, 2026 by Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Jan 26, 2026)

    Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim break down video obtained by Drop Site showing CBP’s killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday.

  • A view of the destruction after the Israeli military targeted a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) building in Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. May 10, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    As Gaza starves, Israel attacked UNRWA Food Distribution Center

    Originally published: Drop Site News on May 11, 2025 by Hamza M. Salha and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (more by Drop Site News) (Posted May 14, 2025)

    Israel is targeting Palestinians’ slim means of accessing food, bombing two makeshift kitchens and UNRWA’s distribution center in Jabalia in the past few days.

  • Israel’s Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

    Trump’s NSC Director for Israel and Iran previously worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense

    Originally published: Drop Site News on April 21, 2025 by Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Apr 24, 2025)

    The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

  • Two Palestinian children amidst the rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza. January 2025. Source: still from the film “Kids Under Fire” (Mohammed Ibaida)

    “The target is unmistakable”: The shooting of Gaza’s children

    Originally published: Drop Site News on March 27, 2025 by Amel Guettatfi (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.

  • Palestinians inspect the targeted area on the tents housing displaced civilians after Israeli attacks in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on October 14, 2024. Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images

    Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage

    Originally published: Drop Site News on October 14, 2024 by Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Kouddous (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Oct 16, 2024)

    With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.

  • Benjamin Netanyahu and Antony Blinken on their way to a meeting of the Israeli War Cabinet, October 16, 2023. Israeli Government Press Office handout via Getty.

    Blinken approved policy to bomb aid trucks, Israeli Cabinet members suggest

    Originally published: Drop Site News on October 6, 2024 by Yanic Cogan (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Oct 08, 2024)

    From the very beginning of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had his hands on the steering wheel.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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