by Sharon Zhang | Mar 9, 2026 | Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, News, War Crimes
Israeli forces killed dozens of people in Lebanon, including children, in airstrikes and a ground incursion after Israeli soldiers supposedly tried and failed to recover the remains of a famous pilot who has been missing for 40 years in a town in eastern Lebanon. Lebanese health officials said at least 41 people were killed and 40 others wounded by an Israeli bombardment on Saturday.
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by Sharon Zhang | Mar 9, 2026 | Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Hakeem Jeffries, Iran, Israel, News
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) is facing criticism after refusing to rule out supporting a potential request from the Trump administration for tens of billions of dollars in additional military funding for the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Jeffries didn’t speak out against the war itself, only repeating his critique of the Trump…
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by Amy Goodman | Mar 9, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, Interview, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Racism, Segregation, War, west bank
We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian drone and missile attacks. While Jewish neighborhoods are “well protected” by bomb shelters, shelters are much rarer in Palestinian neighborhoods within the highly segregated country…
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by Sharon Zhang | Mar 9, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Iran, Israel, Lindsey Graham, News
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said that the U.S.’s billions of dollars in spending on the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran is the “best money ever spent” — as oil prices see a historic spike and millions of Americans languish under an affordability crisis accelerated by Trump’s economic policies. On Sunday, Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo asked Graham about the estimated $1 billion per day…
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by Jon Queally | Mar 9, 2026 | Article, Climate Crisis, Iran, Israel, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Reprint, Trump
by Jon Queally | Mar 8, 2026 | Iran, iran war, Israel, News, Oil, Tehran
In the wake of infernos unleashed across portions of Tehran the night before, the people of Iran’s capital woke up Sunday to the hideous sight of ominous gray clouds above, choking-levels of smoke, and black raindrops full of toxic oil falling across the city. Critics described “scenes of Armageddon” and characterized the bombings and the destruction they triggered as the latest crimes…
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