Dan Kovalik

A photo from the aftermath of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian homes, killing dozens of people. This should be headline news, but there’s barely a whisper from Western media. Imagine the coverage if the picture was from Israel.

America & Israel bombed Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site & crown jewel of Iranian history. Built over 450 years ago, it’s older than Israel & the USA combined. Some civilisations destroy. Others create legacies that last centuries.

today in Current Affairs, an extraordinary essay from Norman Finkelstein on how US rhetoric justifying the expulsion of the Cherokee was the mirror image of contemporary Israeli rhetoric about Palestinians https://currentaffairs.org/news/first-the-cherokee-now-the-palestinians

🚨 Volunteers with Eyes on Heritage are sifting through the ruins of Gaza's Great Omari Mosque by hand, rescuing Ottoman-era manuscripts from ash and rubble. Of 20,000 books, only ~4,000 may survive. "Saving these books is our way of protecting Gaza's memory."

🇪🇸🚨 BREAKING: Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez calls for ending veto power in the UN Security Council. The veto that lets one country block peace. That protects allies. That paralyses the UN. 40+ times Israel was shielded. The US never condemned. The council became a club, not a court. Sánchez says enough. No more veto. No more paralysis. No more one country blocking the world. The empire won't like it. That's why it matters.

One more historical building destroyed by U.S. and Israeli regimes in Esfahan Images show the destruction of "Ashraf Hall" in Esfahan.

Syria: Anatomy of a Regime Change | Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/syria-anatomy-regime-change

Israel is starving ONE MILLION PEOPLE in Gaza while spraying ONE MILLION PEOPLE in Lebanon with banned phosphorus and relentlessly bombing NINE MILLION PEOPLE in Iran, violating international law with absolutely no consequences This’s what a real threat to world peace looks like

“None of us carries any weapons.” “We carry nothing but kindness, goodness, love and prayer.” These were the words of Father Pierre El Rahi. Today, Israel killed him in South Lebanon. A priest with prayers. Murdered in broad daylight.

An Israeli strike on the Christian-majority village of Qlayaa in southern Lebanon killed a priest and wounded at least five people on Monday afternoon. Fr Pierre al-Rahi, a Maronite priest, died after refusing to leave despite Israeli evacuation orders, in order to protect his parishioners. Israel claims the village housed a Hezbollah cell.

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.