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For the past three weeks, PA security forces have been clashing with resistance fighters in Jenin Refugee Camp while Israeli forces carry out similar operations across the West Bank.
On December 28, 1890, the US Cavalry’s 7th Regiment forced approximately 300 members of the Lakota Sioux to set up camp near Wounded Knee Creek in Dakota Territory. Their intent was to disarm the group and arrest Chief Big Foot, who was gravely ill at the time. 
In the aftermath of the Dakota War of 1862, US President Abraham Lincoln ordered the execution of 38 Dakota men from the Native American Dakota Nation, just weeks after their surrender. This event marked the largest single-day mass execution in history. 
Mao moved to Beijing, where he became a library assistant at Peking University. Already influenced by anti-imperialism and Chinese nationalism, he became a Marxist during this period. He attended the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1921. 
The Al-Jazeera (AJ) Media Network, funded by the Qatari government, is a key tool of soft power for Qatar’s foreign policy. The ruling al-Thani family has invested billions in reshaping Qatar’s reputation from being a pro-US emirate hosting the largest US military base in the Middle East—used in attacks on Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan—to a reliable source of news that challenges official narratives.
At just 33 years old, Thomas Sankara rose to the presidency of Burkina Faso with a daring coup. His leadership was cut short after only four years with an assassination believed to have been backed by the US and France. Despite this abrupt end, Sankara’s time in office brought radical change.
Back in the 1960s, the US was waging one of the bloodiest wars in history, ravaging the country of Vietnam. When the communist Pathet Lao guerrillas in neighboring Laos continued to rise in popularity, the US considered the neutral country a target as well. 
With up to 20 million killed in China alone, the “Asian Holocaust” killed around twice as many as the Nazis. The bloodiest massacre occurred today in 1936 when Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in the Chinese city of Nanjing.
On December 11, 1964, the UN Headquarters in New York became an unlikely battleground during the Cold War. Ernesto Che Guevara, the charismatic revolutionary, was delivering a critique of US foreign policy to the UN General Assembly when an explosion shook the East River. 
Refaat was a writer, poet, and professor from Gaza. Israel assassinated him, his brother, nephew, sister, and three of her children. In April 2024, Israel also killed his daughter, grandson, and son-in-law. 
Over 25,000 plantation workers went on strike in 1928 against exploitation, including wages less than 100 Colombian pesos ($0.025). Back then, Chiquita was named “United Fruit Company.” 
The Syrian proxy/civil war has reignited. Religious extremist armed groups, together with Turkish-backed militants, have shattered years of frozen fronts, storming and capturing Aleppo from the Syrian government’s forces. 
Belgium’s court of appeal found five Congolese women, now in their 70s, to be victims of “systematic kidnapping.” As children, they were forcibly taken from their mothers and sent to Catholic institutions because they were of mixed race. 
Portugal had ruled Macau since 1557, turning it into a profitable hub for European colonial trade in China. For centuries, Macau, the first European colony in Eastern Asia, symbolized foreign domination over Chinese territories. 
During the early hours of December 3, 1984, 27 tons of toxic chemicals were released from the UCC plant at Bhopal, killing residents. 3,800 people died instantly, with up to 22,000 subsequently losing their lives due to health problems following the disaster. 
The paramilitary precursor to today’s “Israel Defense Forces” killed 267 people, including more than 200 Jews, in a vicious bombing 84 years ago on this day. The victims remain without justice, the perpetrators unpunished. 
The revolutionary leader, a tireless Black liberation fighter against systemic racism and imperialism, quickly became a marked man for US security agencies. Now, more than six decades after his assassination, his family is reopening the case. 
Today, in 1973, the USSR boycotted a FIFA World Cup qualification play-off match against Chile in a Santiago stadium used as a concentration camp by the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet. Here’s one of the darkest chapters in FIFA’s bloody history. 
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill tried to convince Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to support their proposal to summarily execute 2,500 Nazis upon capture as a more “expedient” alternative to Stalin’s insistence on an international tribunal. 
The decree was part of a broader effort to rewrite the societal script. The Bolsheviks had been rolling out laws to equalize the sexes and protect working women, aiming to dismantle centuries of patriarchal control. 