So many little ones in these tiny coffins. How much more grief are Yemeni families expected to endure? We will neither forgive nor forget these massacres by Saudi Arabia and its allies.
In a powerful statement during their concert, the Grammy Award-winning American rock group Dave Matthews Band continuously raised banners demanding a “Free Palestine” and calling to stop the genocide on stage in front of thousands of fans.
في موقف يتكرر خلال عروضها الفنية، رفعت فرقة الروك الأمريكية الشهيرة “ديف ماثيوز باند” (Dave Matthews Band) الحائزة على جائزة غرامي، لافتات تطالب بالحرية لفلسطين ووقف الإبادة الجماعية على المسرح أمام آلاف الجماهير.
Israeli courts have rejected appeals to release 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza held without charge or trial, while also denying Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, an independent medical examination despite alarming health concerns.
According to Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, Abu Safiya lost 14 kilograms in four months, with prison medical records documenting bruises, chest pain and other health problems.
Some of the detained doctors have been imprisoned for over two years.
We packed Hakeem Jeffries' office to urge him to speak up about the most pressing issues facing people in the U.S.
We asked him to speak out about cutting the $1.5 trillion war budget, stop funding the war on Iran, and oppose the US-Israeli military merger.
China has avoided alliances, but what the United States is doing to Iran and Palestine leaves Beijing little choice. The Dengists are losing internally and this is giving way to a whole new wave of Maoists inside the Chinese political system. They are young, (fashionable,) and they are done with trying to appease US imperialism.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 8: Sheng Zhang
Sheng Zhang examines the competing traditions shaping China’s Middle East policy, contrasting Maoist solidarity with Dengist economic priorities. Using Palestine and Iran, he explores Beijing’s political commitments, trade relationships, public opinion and diplomatic constraints. He argues that regional conflict is challenging China’s balancing strategy and strengthening Iran’s strategic importance. The discussion considers boycotts, Gulf investment, energy security, generational differences and strategic patience, asking what might push Beijing toward a clearer position as regional power shifts and tensions with Washington deepen.
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00:00 China’s competing foreign-policy traditions
04:43 Xi Jinping and the Middle East
06:37 Gaza and Chinese public opinion
13:43 Trade with Israel and the Haifa dilemma
15:48 Iran, Gulf trade and diplomatic tensions
18:54 War and China’s reassessment of Iran
28:57 Discussion: boycotts, Gaza and Gulf investment
44:11 Energy, younger generations and strategic patience
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Israel must immediately open all Gaza crossings and let humanitarian aid in, starting with new tents and modular housing, clean water, nutrient-rich food, medicines. If by 9am tomorrow Israel still refuses, any principled leader would send humanitarian vessels to break the siege.
🇮🇷|Tehran, 1 November 2026: Deputy Speaker Nikzad Tells the Adversaries the War Ends Only on Iran’s Seven Conditions. He Anchored the Demand in 1964 and 1979.
Ali Nikzad, Deputy Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, told the open session of Parliament on Sunday: “The most rational course of action is to accept the realities on the ground and unconditionally fulfill the seven conditions set forth by the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
He did not say negotiate the conditions. He did not say discuss them. He said fulfill them. Unconditionally.
The seven conditions are not a new demand. They are the framework Tehran has held since the war began.
Rezaei stated on X: “If Iran’s conditions are met, a diplomatic path becomes available. Meeting these conditions is the only gateway to opening the prospect of negotiations.” Nikzad, speaking from the deputy speaker’s chair in open session, has now put the same framework into the parliamentary record. The Majlis and the Supreme National Security Council are aligned. The legislature is telling Washington what the security council already told it: the conditions come first. The letter from Vance remains unanswered because the conditions remain unmet.
Why Nikzad anchored the demand in 1964 and 1979.
He named two anniversaries. The first: 26 October 1964, when Imam Khomeini spoke against the Capitulations law — the judicial immunity bill that gave American military advisers and their families extraterritorial immunity from Iranian courts. The law was passed by the Shah’s parliament under US pressure. It placed American personnel above Iranian law on Iranian soil. Khomeini’s speech against it led to his arrest and exile. The law was the symbol of a sovereign state stripped of jurisdiction over foreign forces on its own territory.
The second: 4 November 1979, the takeover of the former US Embassy in Tehran. The embassy was not a diplomatic mission in the ordinary sense. It was the station from which the CIA had run the 1953 coup that overthrew Mosulldq — the operation that restored the Shah and created the police state the revolution later destroyed. The students who took the embassy seized the documents that proved the US had used its diplomatic cover for subversion. The documents were published. They were not fabricated. They were the embassy’s own files.
Nikzad’s argument: the conflict did not begin with the nuclear programme. It began with the US claim to jurisdiction over Iranians on Iranian soil in 1964, and with the US use of its embassy as a base for overthrowing Iranian sovereignty in 1953 and after. The nuclear file is the latest chapter in a sixty-year pattern.
The "clash of civilizations" line is not rhetoric. It is a legal argument.
Nikzad said documented evidence on both events shows American hostility stems from a clash of civilizations that long before the revolution, the US sought to subjugate and humiliate the Iranian people, with the Capitulations as the primary symbol. The claim is that the US has never accepted Iran as a sovereign equal. The Capitulations law was the legal form of that refusal. The 1953 coup was its operational form. The embassy was its institutional form. The sanctions, the bombing, and the current aggression war are its contemporary form.
The hidden layer: Parliament is being used to close the diplomatic door, not open it.
A deputy speaker speaking in open session is not a backbencher. He is the leadership of the Majlis. His statement is the parliamentary ratification of the position Rezaei stated on television. The sequence is deliberate: Rezaei reads Vance’s letter and does not reply; Nikzad tells the adversaries the only path is unconditional acceptance of the seven conditions; the historical framing tells Washington that Iran reads the current war as a continuation of 1953 and 1964.
Washington sent a letter with a changed tone. Tehran answered with a parliamentary session that restated the conditions and anchored them in the two founding grievances of the Islamic Republic. The tone has changed. The terms have not.
The message to the US Congress and the White House.
The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament has stated, on the record, in open session, that the war ends when the seven conditions are met unconditionally. Not when a letter is answered. Not when a meeting is held. Not when a framework is agreed. When the conditions are fulfilled.
The letter from Vance sits on Rezaei’s desk. The conditions sit on the parliamentary record. The gap between them is the war.
Just so you know, some accounts are exploiting the suffering in Gaza by creating AI-generated content to solicit donations and pocket the money. One recent example shows children supposedly swimming inside a flooded tent.
What’s worse is that people blindly like and repost this content without taking a moment to verify its authenticity.
Stop amplifying suspicious AI-generated content. Stop giving these accounts attention, credibility, and money.
Verify before you share. Don’t let Gaza’s suffering become a business for scammers.
It's time for NEW leadership in Congress!
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries represent the same establishment politics that put corporate donors, weapons manufacturers, and the pro-Israel lobby ahead of the needs of everyday people.
We need congressional leadership that will stand up to the war machine, challenge corporate power, and invest in healthcare, housing, education, and peace, not endless wars.
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The time for business as usual is OVER.
🔵 Save the Children: “This is a choice”
“This is not simply the result of bad weather. Tents, shelter kits and fuel are waiting at Gaza’s borders while children sleep in floodwater, because the Israeli authorities are blocking their entry.
This is a choice, and children are paying the price. More than a year into the so-called ceasefire, it has failed to protect Palestinian children.”
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