Dan Lieberman

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Vijay Prashad |Dan Lieberman |Ramzy Baroud

At least 38 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past 24 hours.The Health Ministry in Gaza says the bodies of at least 39 people, including one recently recovered, arrived in hospitals across the besieged territory over the past 24 hours. In its latest daily update, the ministry said another 124 people were wounded in Israeli attacks. The figures bring the confirmed number of people killed since the start of Israel’s war to 50,183 with another 113,828 wounded, it added.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Dan Lieberman |Ramzy Baroud |Abdul Jabbar

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The colleagues of Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed in a targeted Israeli attack on Monday, have shared his final words. Shabat, a journalist for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed in northern Gaza. Witnesses said his car was targeted while in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. In a post on X, pre-written by Shabat, he wrote, “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Dan Lieberman |Ramzy Baroud |Abdul Jabbar

On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of the general staff of the Israeli military. He had held that post since 16 January 2023 and therefore led the military during its war against the Palestinians. Several appreciations of Halevi appeared in the aftermath of his departure from this important post. In one of these long articles, in the hugely influential Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s most well-known journalists – Nahum Barnea – profiled Halevi.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman |Vijay Prashad |Ramzy Baroud |Abdul Jabbar

Who will save the Palestinians from genocide? Nobody. Who will save Americans from moral, political, economic, and social decay? Nobody. Uncontrolled criminals prance around Gaza and West Bank neighborhoods, shooting whom they want, destroying what they don’t want, stealing whatever pleases them. The locals can’t interfere and the authorities have been told to protect the criminals from harm.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman |Ranjan Solomon |Bharat Dogra |Medea Benjamin

Sufficiently gruesome to learn of the casualties in the Ukraine/Russo war. More gruesome to learn that the statistics don’t reflect actuality and are only another weapon ─ humiliate the opponent and have the public believe the enemy ignores the deaths of its soldiers. The Kyiv Independent (???), Friday, March 14, 2025, General Staff: Russia has lost 891,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022.