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Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass. I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed. One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.” This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it. From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own. We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution. Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

A doll and ultrasound & pregnancy test were recovered from the rubble of a house in Tehran, next to the body of a woman, indicating that a soon-to-be-mom was probably planning to surprise her husband by informing him they were becoming parents. 💔 Zionism must end.

🚨Netanyahu just admitted it openly: He has ordered the expansion of Israel’s “security buffer zone” in Lebanon to 8 km deep., as well as the demolition of all Lebanese civilian towns in that area. There is nothing “self-defence” about this. This is pure ethnic cleansing & land theft guised as security. Only a war criminal, wanted by the ICC & being investigated for war crimes, will pretend this is about security. Israel is not fighting Hezbollah. It is systematically destroying Lebanese villages & expelling their people to create a permanent occupied buffer zone. Call it what it is: Invasion + occupation + ethnic cleansing + war crimes. The mask is completely off.

Israel has now seized a larger percentage of Lebanon's total landmass than Russia has taken from Ukraine since its 2022 invasion. The latter was immediately met with international uproar and unprecedented multi-sectoral sanctions while the former is barely even mentioned.

Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.

What the US and Israel are doing in Iran and Lebanon is depraved beyond imagination. Assassinating scientists, journalists and medics, bombing schools, universities and hospitals, attempting to destroy society itself... we are staring evil in the face.

Very good news. “The US will allow,” of course, means “will not illegally intercept and seize the entirely legal and legitimate sovereign trade in oil”

As Christians around the world celebrate Palm Sunday with joy, I hope they remember that their brothers and sisters in Jerusalem itself—where these events took place—are facing restrictions and are at times prevented from even reaching their churches.

Massive protest in Puerto Rico today against ESENCIA, a mega resort & luxury residential project to be built in Cabo Rojo, a southwestern municipality whose community has been warning its environmental impacts will devastate local wildlife & natural water resources.

This stuff just disgusts me more and more. What can you say about a society that is obsessed with making robots and increasing efficiency through AI but can't house a million homeless people?

This attack will have a huge emotional impact on Iranians. It will stiffen their resolve to resist. What clearer proof that this is a war on the country and on its people than attacking universities and schools, the human capital infrastructure.

Just as in Gaza, the US is lifting the constraints on how Israel can use American bombs. As a result, Israel uses 2,000lb bombs to strike densely populated areas in Tehran. So, we are now seeing Gaza-style images of civilians and children being killed en masse in Iran.

Israel has just killed Lebanese journalist Fatima Ftouni. I am honoured to have known her. Just at the beginning of the month she reported on Israel killing seven members of her own family live on air.

Alarming! #Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Tehran, founded in 1929, was struck in an Israeli attack at 2:30 a.m. (local). Under international humanitarian law, universities are civilian objects & must not be targeted. Dangerous trend.

California governor and likely 2028 Democratic presidential candidate Gavin Newsom is in full lockstep with Trump’s fuel blockade and strangulation of Cuba, saying that the president’s policies “created the conditions” in favor of the U.S. and that he “absolutely” supports bringing “U.S. democracy” to the island.

Late last night the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force informed me that a plot against my life that was "about to" take place, and that agents had conducted an operation in Hoboken related to this plot. For months, Zionist organizations like Betar and politicians like Randy Fine have encouraged violence against my family and me. I will have more to say as additional details come to light. I will not stop speaking up for the people of Palestine. Thank you for your support. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/nyr…

This was the school that educated Edward Said years before the creation of Israel in Palestine, in addition to establishing the first Palestinian football team in 1905.

BREAKING: AP uses word to mean what word means

Conversations about US militarization in the hemisphere have largely ignored Haiti — where the US is backing the deployment of 5k foreign troops, expected to begin arriving next week. But for decades, Haiti has been the tip of the spear on US policy. Want to see where US policy is going? Then watch what it is doing in Haiti ... Full political support to the corrupt oligarchy, militarization, privatization.