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“Some scholars and scientists estimate the real death toll in Gaza at 680,000.” “If confirmed, 380,000 of them are infants under five.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur pic.twitter.com/M7e3bbHNKY https://t.co/6M5hMECw62 — sarah (@sahouraxo) January 29, 2026

As waves of deadly demonstrations and counter-demonstrations hit Iran, MintPress examines the CIA-backed NGOs helping to stir the outrage and foment more violence. One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have become the go-to group of experts for Western media, and are the source of many of the most inflammatory claims and shockingly high casualty figures reported in the press. In the past week alone, their assertions have provided much of the basis for stories in CNN, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ABC News, Sky News, and The New York Post, among others. And in a passionate plea for leftists to support the protests, Owen Jones wrote in The Guardian Tuesday that HRAI are a “respected” group whose death toll proclamations are “probably significant underestimates.” Yet what none of these reports mention is that Human Rights Activists In Iran is ba...

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel  Trump’s Board of Peace serves as a multidimensional attempt to maintain international dominance in the face of China’s rise — but is there anything "new" about Trump's colonialism?

corbettreport   The gaping maw of the AI data centre beast is threatening to devour all energy and water on the planet. Awakened to this threat, people are organizing. This is the story of the fight against the data centres.

Janta Ka Reporter   In a huge setback to the anti-Iran campaign in the West, the website of the prestigious Time magazine has deleted a story that claimed 30,000 people had died in the recent government crackdown in the Islamic Republic. Rifat Jawaid questions the dubious role played by the UNHRC and the sustained campaign against Iran to justify future US military strikes. 

Katie Halper   Katie talks to Dr Mohammad Marandi about the way Western media vilifies Iran and manufactures consent especially with regard to the latest wave of protests.

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the hypocrisy EU and Canadian leaders put on display at the latest gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, as they attempted to push back on Trump's bid to steal Greenland from Denmark. 

globinfo freexchange All these crises of the last two decades revealed more and more clearly this merciless war among the capitalists. As these have the real power with the big money and the big media, this war not only overshadows every effort for a real alternative against the capitalist system. It even brutally crushes every attempt for a democratic revival. The rampageous bulls of capitalism are fighting each other in an arena in which democracy has now turned into dust under their violent clatters. And under these circumstances, the capitalists won't hesitate to throw in the arena the expendable US working class. To fight on their behalf in an equally merciless civil war ...  

Katie Halper   Katie talks to Palestinian-American lawyer Jenin Younes about the attacks on free Speech criticizing Israel and the persecution of Mahmoud Khalil.   Younes is a palestinian-American attorney, and the national legal director of the ADC, The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She’s also the co-host of the podcast Previously Prohibited. She describes herself as cancelled by the left for her Covid views & cancelled by the right for Palestine views. 

Danny Haiphong   Prof. Jiang Xueqin argues that historical patterns and game theory can accurately predict events in the future. Prof. Jiang outlines his predictions for the US Iran War in 2026, U.S. empire collapse and the Trump era. Prof. Jiang is the host of the popular educational channel Predictive History.