Subjects Archives: State Repression

Kevin Crane dissects the absurd and chilling corporate fantasies around a post-war Gaza, where the involvement of Blair brings it all back to the lies of the Iraq War over twenty years ago.

Following an AP investigation accusing a U.S. mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.

As protests shake Panama, youth-led JR-16 stands at the forefront of resistance to U.S.-backed repression and neoliberal rule.

Israel Katz says the so-called ‘humanitarian city’ will be built on the ruins of Rafah.

It is just six months into Trump’s presidency, and he has waged direct military assaults on two countries, Yemen and Iran. Many of Trump’s supporters were surprised by this, for he had campaigned on a platform of ending U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

Mondoweiss talks to political consultant Peter Feld to break down Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City: “It’s proven that Zionism is a paper tiger in Democratic politics and that the emperor has no clothes.”

The U.S. and Israel’s unchecked aggression has plunged the world into a lawless state of imperial violence—yet their latest attacks on Iran have only exposed the limits of colonial power.

(6 June 2025) In a new publication, historian and legal scholar David Keanu Sai establishes (again) that the Kingdom of Hawaii never ceased to exist, as its 1898 annexation by the USA was void even under U.S. law.

Trump says Iran is weeks from a nuclear weapon, contradicting U.S. intelligence assessments.

Unlike Iran, Israel is already a nuclear state, with a secretive programme that dates back to the 1950s.

Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.

Communists in Iran and Israel strongly condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Iran and President Donald Trump’s backing for it. 

VA writer Andreína Chávez explains how US sanctions shaped Venezuelan migration and the racial bias behind Trump’s deportation policies.

Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, where relentless attacks continue and humanitarian aid remains severely restricted for over 2 million Palestinians facing starvation.

As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide of Palestinians, its efforts centred around its RAF Akrotiri military base on Cyprus, using it to launch these spy flights, which send intelligence, including targeting data, directly to the Israeli military.

Hellfire missiles would have been used for precision strikes by Israel during Iran attack, U.S. officials say.

District Judge Jon. S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued an order on June 9 granting a preliminary injunction against several provisions of three of President Trump’s executive orders adversely affecting transgender people.

An Israeli official said Tel Aviv received a “clear green light” for the attack from Washington.