International News Roundup 10 March 2025
International Women's Day a Stain on Humanity
International Women's Day (IWD) commemorates women's fight for equality and liberation along with the women's rights movement. International Women's Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women.
‘Stain on Humanity’: Palestinian Women Endure Unprecedented Israeli Violence
On International Women’s Day, the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas condemned the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza and its devastating impact on Palestinian women.
Hamas described the killing of more than 12,000 Palestinian women, with many more wounded, arrested, or displaced, as a “stain on the brow of humanity.”
Hamas was not the only Palestinian group that used International Women’s Day to sound the alarm over the mistreatment of Palestinian women and the international silence regarding their collective plight. In addition to children, Palestinian women are the principal victims of Israeli crimes.
Other nationalist, socialist, and Islamic movements made similar appeals.
Collectively, they called on the international community to expose Israeli crimes against Palestinian women, including systematic violence such as bombing, daily massacres, displacement, deportation, arrest, and torture in prisons.
Palestinian groups also stressed that International Women’s Day should be an opportunity to shed light on these crimes and urged those who advocate for women’s rights to fulfill their political, humanitarian, and moral responsibilities to stop these brutal violations.
We don't shake hands with women. We kill them.
Women and girls are being celebrated by the world on International Women’s day, but the strength and resistance against occupation by the women of Lebanon and Palestine are truly what need to be highlighted on a day like this. Rachel Hamdoun reports from New York.
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women’s Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
Here is a list* of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of the Second World War to 2020
This list makes it seem clear that the United States has been as bellicose as any other country in the history of the world. At least, it seems clear to non-Americans. Less clear are the reasons behind the bellicosity, the reasons that so few Americans realize how bellicose they are, and the reasons that so many Americans believe their country to be peaceable and benign.
The USA Presidents and their WARS
June 21, 2020
Since 1942, every American president has used military force without a declaration of war.
A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another. The document Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications gives an extensive listing and summary of statutes which are automatically engaged upon the US declaring war.
For the United States, Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says “Congress shall have power to … declare War.” However, that passage provides no specific format for what form legislation must have in order to be considered a “declaration of war” nor does the Constitution itself use this term. In the courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Doe v. Bush, said: “[T]he text of the October Resolution itself spells out justifications for a war and frames itself as an ‘authorization’ of such a war.” in effect saying an authorization suffices for declaration and what some may view as a formal Congressional “Declaration of War” was not required by the Constitution.
The last time the United States formally declared war, using specific terminology, on any nation was in 1942, when war was declared against Axis-allied Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, because President Franklin Roosevelt thought it was improper to engage in hostilities against a country without a formal declaration of war.
Since then, every American president has used military force without a declaration of war.
Permanent war since the earliest days of settlement in America
“Some tend to think that [the recent] period of forever war is exceptional,” Vine writes at the outset. “To the contrary, this state of war is the norm in U.S history. According to the government’s own Congressional Research Service and other sources, the U.S. military has waged war, engaged in combat, or otherwise employed its forces aggressively in foreign lands in all but eleven years of its existence.” Only eleven years at peace out of two hundred forty-seven since the Declaration of Independence. “The total list of U.S. wars and other combat actions extends into the hundreds. A small fraction appears in most U.S. history textbooks.” And Vine, a social anthropologist who teaches at American University in Washington, DC, proves his case with specific, documented examples from our country’s history.
America’s Perpetual War: Six Questions
Olive Schreiner: The bestiality and insanity of war
100 Women Writers on Peace and War
Palestine
LIVE BLOG: Car Explosion in Tel Aviv | Israel Sends Delegation to Doha – Day 520
LIVE BLOG: Daniel Hagari Dismissed | Resistance: Prepared for All Scenarios – Day 518
LIVE BLOG: Abu Obeida Warns Israel against Escalation | US-Hamas Talks – Day 517
Israeli Enemy Continues Its Wide-scale Aggression on Tulkarm
Israel plans to set up ‘Migration Directorate’ to expel Palestinians from Gaza
Israeli genocidal war on Gaza killed over 40 captives: Report
Israeli Military Admits to 78,000 Wounded and Disabled Soldiers
Captive Zionist soldier Matan Angrest: "The only way to bring us back is through the exchange deal and moving to the second stage."
Al-Aqsa Flood.
Notes:
0:00 - "Hello, my name is Matan Angrest. I was captured on October 7th from 'Nahal Oz.' It's been 511 days in captivity of Hamas. There was hope in the news of the deal and release of the captives. We feel that the army, state, and government abandoned us for this whole. We're starting to lose hope. We can't see the end; we can't see how this whole story ends. I want to tell the army: you will not succeed in bringing us back by military force. The only way to bring us home is through a an exchange deal and moving to the second phase. I have heard about the stages of the deal, and it really does not matter to us captives. We just want to go home. Whether it’s a second phase, a third phase, or a first phase—you finish this story, they will release all the captives. And come on, everyone go your own way. I beg you, please—bring us back alive, not in a coffin. It’s not easy here; there is no sun. The winter cold is taking its toll on us. The food and treatment here are like that for a soldier, not like that for a civilian captive. I ask you, those captives who have returned home, do not leave us here to rot in captivity—fight for us. You know what we have been through here, and what we are still enduring. "
1:47 - "I want, on this occasion, to address Trump and say to you: I beg you, bring back all the captives. You are the only one who has the power to influence Netanyahu and the government and truly push for this deal. Make every effort to bring us home as quickly as possible. I want to address the Chief of Staff, the army commanders—your commitment is to bring us home safe and whole, just as we fought for the country on October 7 and stood guard. The country must bring us back and do everything possible so that we return. My mother, Anat; my father, Hagai; my sister, Adi; my brother, Ofir; my brother, Roy—I am just waiting for the moment I can hug you and see you. I am sure you are fighting for me and doing everything so that I can come home. And I have a message for all the people of 'israel': I ask everyone to take over the roads, to come out into the streets, and not give up on us."
Note: Hamas released this video a few days after Angrest's parents approved footage of him held in captivity. He was taken as a prisoner from a tank in "Nahal Oz" on October 7th.
Star of David Markings: Israeli Soldiers Humiliate Palestinians in Hebron
Demographic Shift – Israel No Longer Top Destination for Millionaires amid Mass Exodus
Yemen
Ansarallah Gives Israel Four Days to Allow Gaza Aid or Face New Operations
Yemeni leader condemns Takfiris' crimes in Syria
Sayyed Abdulmalik: Takfiri Groups in Syria ‘Tools’ of Foreign Agendas
Yemen Adopts a Historic Stance: Breaking the Gaza Siege and Confronting the Hunger Policy
Yemen’s strikes ‘drained’ US Navy’s munitions: Report
Grand Mufti of Oman Hails Yemen, Calls on Muslims to Support of Gaza
March 9th: A Day of War Crimes in Yemen, Civilian Lives Shattered by US-Saudi Attacks
Syria/Lebanon
Israeli airstrikes target southern Lebanon
One killed, another critically injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon
‘Israel’ Continues Relentless Violations of Lebanon’s Sovereignty
'Israel' attacks Lebanese citizens amid army, UNIFIL presence
Al-Manar Exposes Israeli Military Spy Devices: Enemy Soldiers Document Their Criminality
Sheikh Qassem: Hezbollah’s Strength Unbroken, Resistance Determined to Confront Israeli Occupation
UN Security Council to hold emergency consultation session Monday morning on escalating violence in Syria 🤡
8 March 2025 "21st century, former Syria.
(Thread full of horrific crimes against Syrians/Graphic Warning)
This is what the inhabitants of this country look like today. The whole world is happy about the coming to power of the HTS devils with their main demon Jolani, calls him the legitimate ruler and does not consider what is happening to be genocide."
9 March 2025
Massacre by HTS in the village of Saliya, in the Jableh region of Syria.
"HTS openly declare that they will not stop killing until they have slaughtered all the villages on the coast and in the mountains. They realized that not only will nothing happen to them but they are also praised for it."
Syria: Emergency Discussion About HTS Atrocities and Genocide
“Government forces” indiscriminately shell Syrian coast in ‘phase two’ of deadly operation
Over 1,000 killed in Julani regime’s assaults in Syria
Scores killed as opposition forces fight HTS militants in Syria
Syrian Druze leader calls for stopping Alawite carnage
Syria's al-Sharaa calls for 'civil peace' amid ongoing executions
Hundreds of factories closed in Syria under HTS rule: Report
The historic Kurdish PKK offers its disbandment in exchange for its share in the partition of Syria
Iran/Iraq
Iraq says PMU is an official institution
Trump admin. revokes Iraq’s sanctions waiver for Iranian electricity imports
Iraq warns US its power grid would collapse without Iran gas supplies
Iraq warns of escalating violence in Syria, calls for protection of civilians
Iran elected vice president of OPCW panel despite US opposition
IRGC dismantles two terrorist teams in southeast Iran
Qassem thanks Iran for participating in Nasrallah funeral
Africa
At Least 15 Civilians Killed in Paramilitary Attacks in Two States of Sudan
Western Sahara a No Man’s Land: Why this Territory Never Became a Country
Sahel Alliance Unveils New Flag as Regional Bloc Moves Toward Greater Integration
Canadian Economic Losses Incoming from Burkina Faso Land Nationalisation, Revoking of Mining Permits
Benin: “French Neocolonialism is the Main Cause of Our Underdevelopment”
North America
The Trump Administration’s Silent Complicity as Syrian Death Squads Slaughter Alawites, Christians
The US Begins ‘Normalization’ Pressure on Syria, Lebanon
Homeland Security agents arrest pro-Palestinian student from Columbia University
Trump Threatens Campus Protesters
US campuses erupt in protest as Naftali Bennett tours to whitewash Gaza genocide
Report: US plans to use AI to ‘catch and revoke’ pro-Palestine student visas
'Gaza is not for sale' on Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland
US health agency staff offered $25k to resign – media
Tesla Dealerships, Charging Stations Targeted amid Protests against Elon Musk
Trump Helps BlackRock Buy Panama Canal Ports, to Weaken China – and Strengthen Wall Street
Report: Trump plans to deport 240,000 Ukrainians from US
US considering ‘rare earths’ deal with DR Congo in exchange for military aid: Report
Man shot in ‘armed confrontation’ near White House
U.S. executes inmate by firing squad for the first time in 15 years
Again USA
Private aircraft crashes in residential area (VIDEO)
Haiti: Government Drone Attack on Delmas 6 Neighborhood Kills Two, Wounds 14
Patrick Lawrence: Speak, Claudia!
“Mexico for Mexicans” — the country’s new president displays the dynamism and determination of an emergent generation of non–Western leaders.
Central/South America
Women in Latin America Demand Equality and Protection Against Violence on M8 Demonstrations
Panama Canal: The Next Flashpoint of US Imperialism?
Venezuela: SOUTHCOM Replicating the Coordinates of the Gulf of Tonkin in Essequibo
‘Biased’ UN Report on Nicaragua Ignores Victims of US-Backed Opposition Violence
Europe
UK, France, Italy, Germany Endorse Arab Reconstruction Plan for Gaza
German police brutalize female pro-Palestine protesters in Berlin
Clashes erupt as thousands march on International Women’s Day in Paris
Big Ben locked down: Nine emergency vehicles over Palestinian flag
Hind Rajab Foundation files war crimes case in Germany against Israeli soldier
France says it will tap frozen Russian assets to send $211 million in arms to Ukraine
Protests erupt as anti-NATO Romanian presidential candidate booted from vote (VIDEO)
More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash
Why Europe Is Arming Itself Against an Invented Enemy
Asia/Australia/Oceania
Public anger in South Korea as 15 civilians wounded in US war games
Residents of the South Korean city of Pocheon have strongly demanded an immediate end to the US-South Korea war games after at least 15 people were wounded and multiple buildings destroyed in the city as war planes "abnormally" bombed civilian infrastructure during the exercise.
Thousands of Australians without Power As Storm Alfred Lashes Queensland
China warns of 'law of jungle' after Trump's unilateral tariffs
Wakhan Corridor—A Centuries-Old Silk Route—is Being Rejuvenated by China and Afghanistan
Qatar calls on UN to monitor Israel's nuclear facilities
PG states to run out of water in 3 days if Iran attacked
The legal obligation to prevent genocide
Every person, every state, every corporation has a legal responsibility under international law to prevent AND punish genocide.
No, israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory
By : Noura Erakat A state cannot simultaneously exercise control over territory it occupies and militarily attack that territory on the claim that it is “foreign” and poses an exogenous national security threat. In doing precisely that, Israel is asserting rights that may be consistent with colonial domination but simply do not exist under international …
ICYMI
President Bashar Al Assad Won Re-election with 95.1% of the Total Votes
https://syrianews.cc/president-bashar-al-assad-won-re-election-with-95-1-of-the-total-votes/
Thank you, sis. It really doesn't get any prettier does it!?
I've been a bit distant lately, I know. See my poem, Maybe I'm not broken, for an explanation as to why. But big changes are afoot in my personal life and before too much longer I'll be in a better situation... Home free, you could say. From there who knows what awaits. Time will tell.
But your work, and the efforts you put into compiling these roundups is deeply appreciated. I just want you to know that.
With love. 💚🙏🇵🇸🪷