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The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it retaliation for his widely-viewed documentary on Israel’s notorious pager attacks? Israeli soldiers have looted and demolished the family home of Radwan... Read more »

Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months in jail for impeding production of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers. They’re not the only ones, they say — and are urging anyone slapped with... Read more »

US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s government. It turns out he was an opposition hooligan who destroyed a public university during the violent US-backed 2018 coup attempt. On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin,... Read more »

Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer who handled the Russian intelligence defector at the center of the scandal — and reaped considerable benefits from his proximity to the case. This September, a... Read more »

The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a dual American-Israeli citizen. But a source who’s been in contact with his family says he was not a US citizen at all. The Grayzone... Read more »

Once again, the British state is exploiting anti-democratic terrorism measures to secure convictions of Palestine Action defendants who targeted an Israeli weapons plant. UK media is currently forbidden from reporting on the trial. From October 5th, an eight-week-long trial of nine Palestine Action activists known as the Instro 10 will... Read more »

Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be more repressive than the one it forcibly replaced. The Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered the government to explain its reasoning for arresting political... Read more »

When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more disturbing revelation: the Pentagon appears to be breaking the law by paying conservative influencers to track, surveil, and propagandize Americans. Who else is involved... Read more »

A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to the Israeli government, the Fellowship is flooding conservative media with paid partnerships. One year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, The Charlie... Read more »

Iran’s Army has revealed a new drone that carries a warhead twice the weight of the previous generation, as Tehran threatens a war without limits in retaliation for US-Israeli military operations – MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the latest developments in the regional war, the economic fallout and weapons... Read more »

Iran’s IRGC have implemented an intensive strike strategy in the Strait of Hormuz, changing the nature of their conflict with the United States, while working alongside their regional allies to create new conditions on the ground. In this Monday’s episode of The Target looks at the shifts in the power... Read more »

Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to use the Mother Of All Bomb (MOAB)’s against the Islamic Republic. In the latest episode of The Target, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks... Read more »

Through its myriad of agencies, the United States government has recruited and groomed rappers from around the world to further its political interests. Washington has spent tens of millions of dollars funding, training, and promoting artists who foment public discontent, organize protests, and lead color revolutions in nations in its... Read more »

The page that is still up Westminster Synagogue sits in the exclusive Knightsbridge district of London. In the financial year 2024, it brought in a total income of £1.31 million (U.S.$1.75 million). Its “Ways to Support” page still lists appeals that go well beyond a collection plate. Two of them... Read more »

Yemen’s Ansarallah are combating Israel’s expanded military outpost project, centred in Somaliland, as it accelerated plans to control the Red Sea and overthrow Yemen’s resistance government that had bankrupted Israel’s Eilat Port. Israel lost its foothold on Mayyun Island following a Yemeni operation that ended with Sana'a taking control of... Read more »

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu draft plans to launch another attack on Iran – as oil prices continue to rise once again. In this episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the developments that have put a stranglehold on the US in... Read more »

Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their education. They want more teachers, smaller classes, decent school buildings and a public education system that works for... Read more »

Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensive aimed at capturing Bab el-Mandeb. In this Monday’s edition of The Target, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down the conflict on the ground and why... Read more »

Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rallying call to the country today. When we pull as one, →... Read more »

In response to news that we are this year celebrating 25 years of Media Lens we have received many kind comments from readers, some of them sympathising that it must be ‘awful’ to live with →... Read more »

English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is a megastar. With over 128 million followers on Spotify, he ranks as the platform’s second most-followed artist, surpassed only by Taylor Swift. Sheeran’s official YouTube channel has more than 50 →... Read more »

A stark warning was issued to humanity via CCTV on 26 August when a tsunami-like torrent of floodwater rising as high as 130 metres destroyed Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal →... Read more »

If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made →... Read more »

‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made publicly by a British newspaper editor. Allister Heath, editor of →... Read more »

This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a long time, our alerts focused →... Read more »

On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. And now the same news organisations are burnishing Andy →... Read more »

We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of anti-semitism to undermine democratic choice and defend Israel, →... Read more »

As right-wing Trump allies fearmongered about Somali American voter fraud, Maine trained local law enforcement officers on keeping armed federal agents out. The post Trump Vows to Send Election “Monitors” to Maine After Far-Right Conspiracies Spread appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The failing war with Iran marks a dramatic retreat by the U.S. from the Middle East. The post The Incredible Shrinking Superpower appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Slamming the bogus bite-mark analysis that sent Charles McCrory to prison in 1985, the judge vacated his conviction. The post Prosecutors Want to Keep a Man in Prison for His Wife’s Murder — Despite Judge Saying Their Evidence is Junk appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Brazil’s Supreme Court tried to strip Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport, but the Trump administration granted him a visa, according to reports. The post The Bolsonaro Family Playbook: Lose, Cry Fraud, and Run to Trump’s America appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The leading candidate for LA city attorney has the backing of the local DSA and vows to regulate Big Tech. Tech investors are spending millions against her. The post The Elon Musk Funder Trying to Sway the Race for LA’s Top Lawyer appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Government officials said a series of recent attacks and threats have highlighted the vulnerability of U.S. military bases. The post Pentagon Fears Drone Attacks on U.S. and Foreign Bases appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Pentagon and private capital have teamed up to militarize the island nation. The post Bankrolling American Empire in the Philippines appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“Records are important,” said the mother of a woman killed by her Navy colleague. We found nearly twice as many domestic-abuse killings by servicemembers as the DoD listed. The post Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse Killings appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“What do I tell a soldier who believes an action is immoral, but also believes that God commanded it?” one Army chaplain told The Intercept. The post Hegseth Built a New Pentagon Office for Religion. Military Religious Leaders Wish He Hadn’t. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

What do melting Arctic ice, a war for farmland in Ukraine, and the panic of Gulf petro-states have in common? Arthur Snell exposes the terrifying new geography of global conflict and how humanity can adapt to survive it.... Read more »

An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom... Read more »

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash... Read more »

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and stabbing of others... Read more »

Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup... Read more »

If Donald Trump fails to end the Iran war soon, its effects could last for decades, with unpredictable consequences... Read more »

We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat... Read more »

Keen to present itself as a key EU partner on migration, Morocco pushed migrants out of sight before tourists arrived.... Read more »

What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?... Read more »

We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers to drive our species to extinction via climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, or AI apocalypse if we want to. We are completely free to do that.... Read more »

I don't know who first coined the saying "If the penalty is a fine, then it's legal for rich people," but it certainly applies here.... Read more »

Reading by Tim Foley: There are Polymarket ads in fortune cookies.There are pop-ups in our prayers.There are paywalls on the monasteries,and the monks are millionaires. Well little Johnny’s gone to war.He joined the McMarines.The Iranians must be liberatedand blown to smithereens. Light a candle in the chapel, John,and pray to... Read more »

A few months ago I said, "You're being told there's a dangerous explosion of Jew hatred to cover up the fact that there's actually a very healthy explosion of Israel hatred." The Bell review is here admitting that my assertion is correct.... Read more »

President Trump is telling the press that he is done negotiating with the Iranians and that something will be happening "fairly soon", while America's other president, Benjamin Netanyahu, proclaims that the time has come to topple Tehran once and for all.... Read more »

The review, led by Sir David Bell, mentions the word “political” or “geopolitical” no fewer than 125 times. It mentions the word “Israel” or “Israeli” 60 times and the word “Palestine” or “Palestinian” 35 times.... Read more »

I don’t know what kind of future we’re moving into — could be very, very bad, could be very, very good. But I’m glad we’re moving into it together.... Read more »

"This is interesting, because it reveals the exact value that these companies place on human life."... Read more »

"People are successfully manipulated in these ways because the wealthiest among us control the media and own all the largest platforms, which gives them a very high degree of narrative control."... Read more »

Την Δευτέρα 12/10 το βράδυ, στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών, 5 γυναίκες θα παρουσιάσουν το νέο μου βιβλίο (για 5 άλλες γυναίκες, των οποίων οι ιστορίες συνθέτουν μια ιδιαίτερη Ιστορία Ενός Αιώνα, 1923-2023). ΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΗ ΨΗΛΑ | Πέντε γυναίκες που μου δίδαξαν την αντίσταση στον φασισμό, στον αυταρχισμό και στον σοβινιστή... Read more »

In my 2023 book I explained Big Tech’s overweening power to shape society “technofeudalism.” In this article for Jacobin, I reply to my critics that this isn’t a moral critique but one based ona fully-fledged Marxist analysis of the dynamic of capital accumulation today. The full argument linking Marx’s political economics... Read more »

As recently as two years ago, most Chinese economists paid only lip service to Marxism and assigned Western textbooks to their students. The advent of AI has changed that, because the technology—open source and available to the smallest manufacturer for a pittance—promises to avoid the “rent trap” common to capitalist... Read more »

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has returned Homer’s epic to the centre of popular culture, a feat that must be welcomed. Many have asked me to review the film. I declined. Being Greek gives me no privileged vantage point from which to comment on a work that belongs to everyone, that... Read more »

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projections of an economic Armageddon were so absurd that they proved a monumental own goal, deemed sensationalist scaremongering. Ten years on, still smarting from the... Read more »

The very definition of an inauspicious start. The New Chancellor will push public debt further into the red to buy US weaponry that does nothing either to bolster productivity or UK’s defences. The same ol’ Home Secretary will continue practising ritualistic brutality (or vicious signalling) on refugees. Cooper will continue... Read more »

Ascribing human traits to chatbots empowers techlords. ‘Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.’  The trouble with impressive new technologies is that they have the uncanny ability to expose the awfulness of our relationship to one another, not to mention to our own selves. Now that our... Read more »

At 250, America is now producing a mindless, raw power and exponentially growing instability. The possibility of catharsis that characterized the United States at its bicentennial is hard to envisage a half-century later—to the detriment of us all._ ATHENS—On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need... Read more »

Ο Μαρκ Ρούτε, ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός της Ολλανδίας και νυν γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, πρόσφατα άφησε να διαρρεύσει μια αλήθεια που προκάλεσε αναταραχή σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Περιέγραψε τη Συμμαχία όχι ως την αμυντική ασπίδα της Ευρώπης, αλλά ως «…μια πλατφόρμα για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες να προβάλλουν τη δύναμή τους... Read more »

When your loved one suffers from dementia, it is not easy to care for them. Among the most common symptoms that worsen as the condition progresses is memory loss. In the elderly, particularly in Alzheimer’s disease, the most commonly affected function is short-term memory. It is not just about remembering... Read more »

Your dining room sees more life than almost any other space in your home. Family dinners, holiday gatherings, homework sessions, and late night conversations all happen around that one table. Yet many homeowners leave this room untouched for years, assuming a refresh means spending thousands of dollars. The truth is... Read more »

Retraining as a personal trainer does not necessarily mean leaving your current job before you start studying. If you plan the qualification route carefully, you can fit theory work around evenings, weekends or changing shifts, then arrange practical training and assessment dates once you know what the course requires. The... Read more »

Content warning: This article contains a graphic image of injuries A Palestinian man has been shot dead and others injured during the olive harvest in the Ramin Valley as the world marks the third anniversary of the 7 October genocide. The area, which is in the Tulkarm governorate in the... Read more »

Somalia is facing a massive human catastrophe, fuelled by a combination of climate chaos and decades of foreign intervention (primarily from the US). This crisis is intensifying at a time when north-eastern Africa has become a key focus for regional powers following the US-Israeli war on Iran’s severe disruption of... Read more »

Campaigners continue to apply pressure to convince Reform-led Kirklees Council to finally reopen Dewsbury Sports Centre. The previous Labour leadership had taken the “devastating” and highly questionable decision to permanently close the sports centre in Dewsbury – one of England’s most deprived towns. For three years campaigners have been pushing... Read more »

Today, 7 October 2026, is the third anniversary of horror. However, it is not the horror that the mainstream UK media, British politicians and Israel lobbyists will tell you about. On 7 October 2023, from before dawn until well into the evening, Israel conducted the mass slaughter of its own... Read more »

The Guardian has been accused of inverting reality in its attempt to undermine the Green Party’s conference motion declaring that Zionism is (and it is) racism. The paper’s headline blared that: British Jews more likely to identify as Zionist since 7 October attacks, research finds. Percentage who feel ‘very emotionally... Read more »

Numerous public figures who want to see lasting peace in the North of Ireland have signed an open letter. The letter, to Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant, expresses support for the Garvaghy Road residents in Portadown. The open letter in support of Garvaghy Road residents Dear Secretary of State, We... Read more »

Subhead:  A labour educator and organizer talks about unions learning from migrant justice work, building workplace power together when you have little in common, and their new book Cole Rockarts grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, and is a labour educator... Read more... Read more »

from the CrimethInc. collective, 27/10/2026 The Yellow Vests Return as France Burns Over the past month, France has erupted in a nationwide rebellion that has shaken the ruling order to its core. As politicians of all stripes focus on polishing... Read more... Read more »

from lundimatin #539, 28/10/2026 For weeks, the repression against the ongoing movement has intensified. In the aftermath of October 17th, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, flouting all separation of powers, ordered the judiciary to hand down the harshest possible sentences to... Read more... Read more »

from lundimatin #539, 26/10/2026 “Opportunistic delinquency,” “holiday-strike,” “lack of political maturity,” “childish cosplay,” “reckless destruction,” “acts of rage” — all these hostile terms used to discredit the ongoing uprising have given rise to their political antonyms: “material reappropriation,” “demands for... Read more... Read more »

by Rodrigo Karmy Bolton from Ficción de la razón, 27/10/2026 It has become fashionable, thanks to sociological bureaucracy, to claim that the danger of any uprising is that it leads to fascism. That fascism can capitalise on it, turn it... Read more... Read more »

One of the fundamental political problems — if not the most urgent — is how to conceive of an uncountable multiplicity (or multitude). As a political concept, the people only makes sense on condition that it is uncountable; if it... Read more... Read more »

Hello everyone! We hope this finds you all well. Please feel free to read this as a pdf document (also featuring pretty pictures!). Hello folks! Sorry we didn’t get around to doing a newsletter in September. But there’s plenty to... Read more... Read more »

Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election held yesterday is a great source of relief for that country, as it dispels the threat of a return to the authoritarian, corrupt, and subservient “Bolsonarism”... Read more... Read more »

A report was made at SFSU on the lessons of the fascists ICE occupation of Minneapolis and also the contract fight of the California Faculty Association members at all CSU campuses. At the SFSU screening of the new film “When... Read more... Read more »

Author: Sara BlumTitle: Martyr CultureSubtitle: Revolutionary Culture in RojavaDate: June 2025Notes: This essay was written by Sara Blum, and internationalist who spent several years with the YPJ in Rojava, to accompany and contextualize Orso: Wartime Journals of an Anarchist, published in July 2025.Source: retrieved on 10/27/2026 from https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/martyr-culture I remain... Read more »

Title: Democratic Socialists of America & Libertarian SocialismSubtitle: A DebateDate: 1983Notes: 1983 debate from the Workers Solidarity Alliance magazine ideas & action on whether or not anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian socialists should participate in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).Source: From ideas & action issue # 3, Spring 1983. Retrieved on... Read more »

Author: Kevin J. HolohanTitle: Navigating ExtinctionSubtitle: Zen Buddhism and Eco-AnarchismDate: 2022Notes: College of Education and Community Innovation, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA. Religions 2022, 13(1), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010060. This article belongs to the Special Issue Buddhist Practice for the Crises That Face Us.Source: https://www.mdpi.com/ Abstract What can esoteric... Read more »

Author: Gaëtan PirouTitle: Proudhonism and MarxismDate: 1919Notes: Originally published as ‘Proudhonisme et Marxisme’ in La Grande Revue, No. 100 (August 1919), pp. 226–241. Translated from the French by Shaun Murdock.Source: Retrieved on 23 October 2026 from Root & Branch – Proudhonian Sociology Portfolio (PDF edition) A contemporary study of Proudhonian... Read more »

Author: Clare MaxwellTitle: Review: Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in PracticeDate: October 2026Source: Retrieved on October 23 2026 from https://allegralaboratory.net/constellations-of-care/ Cindy Barukh Milstein. 2024. Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice. London: Pluto Press. Constellations of Care is an anthology of answers to a fundamental question: what do people do to survive... Read more »

Author: Célestin BougléTitle: Variations on MarxismDate: 1938Notes: Originally published as ‘Variations sur le marxisme’ in Marianne, No. 286 (13 April 1938). Translated from the French by Shaun Murdock.Source: Retrieved on 23 October 2026 from Root & Branch – Proudhonian Sociology Portfolio (PDF edition) The philosophy of Marxism during my student... Read more »

Author: Célestin BougléTitle: Two ResurrectionsSubtitle: Saint-Simonism and ProudhonismDate: 1918Notes: Originally published as ‘Deux résurrections : Saint-Simonisme et Proudhonisme’ in L’Europe nouvelle, Vol. 1, No. 42 (24 October 1918), pp. 2005–2007. Translated from the French by Shaun Murdock.Source: Retrieved on 23 October 2026 from Root & Branch – Proudhonian Sociology Portfolio... Read more »

Author: AnonymousTitle: Line 5 Horizontal Directional Drill DestroyedSubtitle: Water is LifeDate: 10/24/2026 In the early morning hours on Monday, Oct 12, we destroyed a horizontal directional drill (HDD) that Enbridge had been using to build its reroute of the Line 5 pipeline on Anishinaabe land in northern Wisconsin. We painted... Read more »

Author: Spencer SunshineTitle: The Zen Already in AnarchismDate: 2005Notes: Fifth Estate # 368–369, Spring-Summer, 2005.Source: https://www.fifthestate.org/ The combination of anarchism with spiritual or religious beliefs is almost always controversial, even in the pages of Fifth Estate. Opposition to church, state, and capital is the holy trinity of the “classical” anarchist... Read more »

Barry Pateman, Oakland, November 2015... Read more »

Ron Marsden banner... Read more »

Barry Pateman: An Appreciation... Read more »

An anarchist in the archive : Remembering Barry Pateman... Read more »

Library News (Oct. 2026)... Read more »

The Commons and the Dangers of a Reactionary Derailment : Amorós in Rodrigo Mora’s Looking Glass... Read more »

Guángara Libertaria Memories... Read more »

The Jargon Libre Collections... Read more »

Sebastian “Bas” Moreel (1930-2026)... Read more »

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia’s trade turnover with Egypt is “growing steadily” despite regional tensions, as he met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Moscow, Anadolu reports. In opening remarks during the talks, held on the sidelines of the two-day Russia-Africa summit that began in Moscow earlier Wednesday,... Read more »

UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday called sanctions imposed on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese “not acceptable,” Anadolu reports. “You can agree or disagree with someone, but you should never ever sanction them,” said Turk in response to a question from Anadolu at a news conference in New... Read more »

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced Wednesday that Ethiopia has received 12 advanced Russian-made Su-35 fighter jets and plans to acquire four S-400 air defense systems, Anadolu reports. The announcement comes as tensions with neighboring Eritrea and renewed fighting in the northern Tigray region raise fears of a wider conflict in... Read more »

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran is in contact with mediators to review proposals to implement a seven-day plan with the US, Anadolu reports. Araghchi wrote on US social media company X that Tehran continues to give diplomacy a chance despite tensions with Washington. “While our Brave Armed... Read more »

Yemen’s armed forces said they neutralized 239 Houthi commanders and fighters in 749 operations targeting the group’s military positions across several fronts during 24 hours as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen, Anadolu reports. Col. Majed Abdullah al-Nuzaili, spokesman for the armed forces, said on US social media company X... Read more »

The UN World Food Program (WFP) chief Luke Lindberg said Wednesday that the hunger situation in the Gaza Strip is “unacceptable” as he pledged to defend his staff against attacks, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York, Lindberg said that “there is a very... Read more »

Syria summoned Jordan’s ambassador to Damascus on Wednesday and handed him a formal protest note for Jordanian airstrikes that killed civilians, including children, in the southern Daraa province, according to a statement by the ministry’s media department carried by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). The Foreign Ministry summoned Sufian... Read more »

Sudan’s defense minister accused more than 20 countries on Wednesday of involvement in the country’s ongoing war by supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Anadolu reports. Speaking to the Sudan News Agency, Hassan Daoud Kabroun said the countries were providing the RSF with logistical support, mercenaries, funding and drones.... Read more »

A group of former US government officials who resigned because of Washington’s policy in the Gaza Strip has urged candidates seeking the 2028 presidential nomination to pledge not to appoint officials they said enabled Israel’s genocide in the enclave, Anadolu reports. “Senior Biden Administration officials who were architects of the... Read more »

Most of Planet Earth now knows cruelty is the point of Trump 2. But if anyone implausibly needs more evidence, meet Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a 79-year-old, pro-democracy Ugandan priest who spent over a year in ICE detention. When he went in, he was fit; at his long-delayed release last week,... Read more »

Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said:"This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. The... Read more »

These truly-through-the-looking-glass days, it seems the drunk great-uncle you really didn't wanna ask to dinner is somehow getting worse. Scarily and no longer mirthfully, the befuddled "head" of a GOP blitzed on projection daily spirals deeper into phantasmagoria - slurring words, crafting fictions, renaming oceans, rekindling grievances, losing it over... Read more »

Today, Public Citizen released a new set of fact sheets that track the toll of the NAFTA-WTO era and today’s chaotic trade policies on the workers, farmers, local communities in all 50 states in the U.S., covering lost manufacturing jobs and farms, shuttered factories, battered union membership, depressed wages, falling... Read more »

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today demanded that a U.S. manufacturer of electroshock weapons stop sending its devices to Israel following an investigative report revealing their systematic use in the torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees.According to an investigation published... Read more »

The nation’s largest and most profitable corporations paid an average federal income tax rate of just 10.4 percent in 2025, the lowest rate documented in more than four decades of research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), according to a new study released today.The study examines the... Read more »

In nearly two years the Trump administration has protected just three species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act and missed dozens of deadlines to make decisions promised in a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service workplan. No other administration in the more than 50 years since the law... Read more »

The Trump-Vance administration has abandoned its appeal in National Council of Nonprofits et al. v. McMahon, a case brought by a broad coalition of nonprofit organizations, more than a dozen local governments, and labor unions against the U.S. Department of Education. The case stopped a new rule that would have... Read more »

UltraViolet, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization responsible for numerous impactful victories against sexual predators and tech-facilitated sexual violence, issued the following statement in response to Apple updating its developer guidelines to ban AI “nudify” apps on its App Store, calling on Google to make the same changes in its... Read more »

It takes a lot to get tens of thousands of people to riot. For it to happen simultaneously across several countries points to a supranational underlying cause, as opposed to local grievance at an egregious state injustice. That the temporary collapse of authority and restraint will allow some opportunists to... Read more »

“Forget justice, it’s much too expensive and time consuming. Plus if you take the government to court, you will have to spend your own money, and we are saving you from that”. That is a fair summary of the judgement by Lords Pentland and Troy and Lady Wise in our... Read more »

Tomorrow at 10am we get the judgement in our appeal against the suspension of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. We cannot have won as the appeal – held by “urgent process” – was intended to allow a judicial review before the Supreme Court meets in... Read more »

Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot. It remains quite possible the men were indeed fuel thieves, simply stealing fuel from farms. They appear to have been equipped for fuel theft and all... Read more »

I have lost faith both in Western social democracy, and in the institutions of international law. As both have been fundamental to the work of my life, this is rather a blow as I approach 70. A number of deeply shocking things have happened this past three years, not as... Read more »

On Friday we have our appeal against the suspension of the Palestine Action judicial review in Scotland. Our legal crowdfunder has been closed down by the card processors following Trump’s designation of Palestine Action as a global terrorist organisation. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/scottish-challenge-to-proscription/dashboard/ If you can, please come to the Court of Session... Read more »

I was surprised a few weeks ago to get an invitation from Yana Lantratova, Russian Federal Commissioner for Human Rights, to deliver a speech on human rights to the International Youth Festival in Ekaterinburg. It is approaching 20 years since I was last in Russia, and I tend to avoid... Read more »

UPDATE We got an expedited date to “reclaim” (appeal) against the suspension of the case, on 25 September. We shall also be reclaiming against the decision not to send the case straight to the Inner House. All parties seemed to agree there may just be time, if our appeal is... Read more »

Europe urgently needs to re-establish access to Russian oil and gas. Gas prices are high – as all UK energy consumers know – and German gas storage is at a record low for September. Gulf production is degraded, supplies are cut off and its long-term strategic stability undermined. German manufacturing... Read more »

Thanks to donations, we are sending Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits to teachers. These toolkits help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics. The post Voting Rights Teaching... Read more »

Please complete this short survey and tell us which books or other works of literature you have taught using a Zinn Education Project people’s history lesson, and how you have used ZEP lessons to provide historical context in your English classroom.  The post What Literature Are You Teaching in Your... Read more »

Join us to celebrate the Zinn Education Project’s 18th year while we are in Philadelphia for the National Council for the Teachers of English conference. The post Invitation: Dinner Reception in Philadelphia appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with Howard Bryant about his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. This class is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The post Robeson, Robinson, and Resistance: Athletes,... Read more »

The Zinn Education Project’s Freedom to Teach and Learn Report documents, in educators’ own words, how the chilling effect is unfolding in schools today and how teachers are resisting. More than 610 educators from at least 43 states and Washington, D.C. responded to the survey. The post Freedom to Teach... Read more »

Historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale discussed student organizing and state repression, and talked about their new books, High School Students Unite! and A New Kind of Youth. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The... Read more »

Resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day and all year to teach outside the textbook. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

It is essential that students know their rights: not just to pass a test, but to protect themselves. We offer FIVE ways to Teach Truth on Constitution Day. The post Five Ways to Teach Truth About the Constitution appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

To contribute to national efforts to get out the vote and defend the elections, we encourage middle and high school teachers to focus on voting rights and the Constitution in September and October. We ask for your help to send free voting rights toolkits to educators nationwide. The post Send Free Voting Rights Toolkits... Read more »

Through the voices of survivors, journalists, and excerpts of legal depositions, Diabolical dips its toes into the world of the Epstein Files–a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, e-mails, and other records pertaining to criminal investigations undertaken by the FBI of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The records... Read more »

#BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister: We expect to implement the first phase of the plan soon and release our captives. The army is deployed in Gaza City and ready for any scenario, and if Hamas refuses, fire will resume.#GazaWar... Read more »

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For more than six decades, Jürgen Habermas defended the power of reasoned dialogue against authoritarianism, consumerism and political cynicism The post Our greatest intellectual is gone appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Councillor Seamie Moore got a judge’s parking vision seen to and avoided a fine he should have paid. The post The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resisted appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

How Mary McAleese’s post-presidential embrace of UAE institutions jars with the bridge-building that defined her presidency The post From Bridge to Gulf appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

State anchoring its flagship emergency energy asset, in County Clare, to an environmental crime scene and a non-existent root of title The post The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the Making appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state The post RAF deal: rough deal for truth appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Asymmetry cannot be replaced in an afternoon The post €492 Indicator Fault reveals the ontology of oppression appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Use of the army in support of the Garda rested on a mixture of custom, convenience, delegated regulations and constitutional assumption rather than explicit statutory authority, until the fuel protests and statutory panic ended all that The post Soldiers, statute and the State: Ireland’s aid to the civil power appeared... Read more »

How public cash funding Expressway shadow fleet has been exposed using the State’s own real-time tracking data The post The €1.2 billion Public Service Obligation-funded Heist appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

The Irish Times’ Pat Leahy is the establishment’s favourite storyteller The post Pat Solutions, Irish Times political editor appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Indonesian palm oil is still going to Israel. This week, new reports showed that thousands of tonnes are shipped there every year, even during the genocide in Gaza. The numbers come from Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture and its national statistics agency, Statistics Indonesia (BPS). Indonesia sent about 29,600 tonnes of... Read more »

The prospect of seeing the architect of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, Benjamin Netanyahu, ousted from political office would be a small, albeit completely pyrrhic, ‘victory’. This is a politician who has spent the past three years justifying industrial-scale levels of civilian slaughter, the enforced starvation of an entire... Read more »

For nearly half a century, Iran’s adversaries have tried to isolate it, intimidate it, sanction it into submission and bomb it into irrelevance. Now, in a remarkable inversion of regional power politics, three countries historically invested in its containment have arrived in Tehran to discuss their security with the very... Read more »

A new report released yesterday by the UN Commission of Inquiry states that Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement which was reached on 10 October 2025. Referencing earlier reports concluding that Israel had committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza, the report... Read more »

Within eight days in October, US President Donald Trump made two statements about two wartime leaders that, placed side by side, read like a confession. On 10 October, speaking to reporters as he left the White House, he said of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky: “I think it’s time for Ukraine... Read more »

The assault on an Egyptian journalist, who was beaten and dragged along the ground outside 6 October Central Hospital, west of Cairo, just days ago, highlighted the risks journalists face in Egypt. A video (https://h1.nu/1GKSf), widely shared on social media, shows around seven people beating and dragging journalist Mohamed Faisal... Read more »

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election safeguards the country’s path towards determining its own destiny and contributing to the construction of a less unequal international order. For me, his victory over Flávio Bolsonaro also represents a defeat for the project of subordinating... Read more »

There appears to be little prospect of lasting peace between Iran and the United States while Donald Trump remains in the White House. This is a view that an increasing number of serious actors across the region now seem to share. Eight months into Iran war, Washington has neither broken... Read more »

In 1956, Britain was forced to abandon the Suez Canal and withdraw from Egypt after a humiliating political and financial defeat. The crisis did not end the British Empire overnight, but it exposed the decline of a power that had dominated much of the world for more than two centuries,... Read more »

Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »

Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »

Although the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »

Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »

Ethnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »

You obviously can not be against this terrible war, but support it continuing. We must support the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and encourage them to find mutual peace in an agreed neutrality/sovereignty to end this tragic and unnecessary confrontation between such close peoples. Neutrality and internationally monitored referendums... Read more »

A key factor that explains Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine is traditional Russian imperialism. Throughout the world’s long and bloody history, other powerful territories (and, later, nations) expanded their lands through imperial conquest, including Rome, China, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Russia was no exception. ... Read more »

The declared intention of USA NATO and Ukraine’s government to join in a hostile military alliance against their neighbour Russia has now proven to be a terrible mistake and negligent disaster for the people and sovereign state of Ukraine. For USA/NATO to now continue making Ukraine a weapon, while we... Read more »

(i) This is the Wikipedia article on the Galician Regional Elections held by the Galician Autonomous President, Alberto Nuñez Feyjoo, on March 1, 2009;  the first Regional Elections in which he was victorious. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_al_Parlamento_de_Galicia_de_2009?wprov=sfti1  in total number and percentage of votes, the opposition won, made up of Emilio Pérez Touriño... Read more »

[The following was originally published in 1995 by Covert Action Quarterly.] … Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of... Read more »

Intro by Tom Engelhardt: [Note for TomDispatch readers: Back in 2014, Noam Chomsky — whose voice I miss terribly in this embattled Trumpian world of ours — wrote what still seems to me to be a stunning piece not just on “the most dangerous moment in history,” the Cuban missile crisis... Read more »

Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.... Read more »

Tomorrow is Election Day, the close of the most consequential election of our lifetimes. Get out and vote, if you haven’t already, and if you’re looking to help others do the same, there are still plenty of canvassing and phone-banking opportunities. And if you’re still in doubt for any reason,... Read more »

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After lying to the press that he wasn’t a flight risk, Bolsonaro snuck out of the country in the dead of night, with alleged support from the Trump Administration and is now in the US... Read more »

Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn't MSNOW's “foreign influence” sleuth covering it?... Read more »

"Not all voices in Miami support what this government is doing—specifically heightening sanctions and blocking international solidarity with the Cuban people. We are showing the economic strangulation that’s occurring and standing in solidarity with Cuba and those who resist."... Read more »

The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council voted to ban data centers, but the Apsáalooke have yet to take a position.... Read more »

“Israel could be next on Tuesday, then the US midterms the following week,” said one human rights advocate. “The best case against the autocrats is the autocrat.”... Read more »

“This shows that Trumpismo is waning, and it is our responsibility now to make sure that we kill the beast,” Pennsylvania Democratic House nominee Chris Rabb said.... Read more »

We sent two of the country’s top labor reporters to the 23rd Quadrennial Convention of the International Union of Police Associations in Las Vegas to find out…... Read more »

As Brazilians prepare to vote in the runoff election this Sunday, October 25, Meta has been working to lift the candidacy of Trump ally Flávio Bolsonaro.... Read more »

"We want to be really clear that it is time for these armed soldiers to leave DC… We've seen them standing in front of polling locations… at our schools… all over our transportation system… It's billions of dollars. It is a clear effort to violate our rights… and we're not... Read more »

After lying to the press that he wasn’t a flight risk, Bolsonaro snuck out of the country in the dead of night, with alleged support from the Trump Administration and is now in the US... Read more »

Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn't MSNOW's “foreign influence” sleuth covering it?... Read more »

"Not all voices in Miami support what this government is doing—specifically heightening sanctions and blocking international solidarity with the Cuban people. We are showing the economic strangulation that’s occurring and standing in solidarity with Cuba and those who resist."... Read more »

The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council voted to ban data centers, but the Apsáalooke have yet to take a position.... Read more »

“Israel could be next on Tuesday, then the US midterms the following week,” said one human rights advocate. “The best case against the autocrats is the autocrat.”... Read more »

“This shows that Trumpismo is waning, and it is our responsibility now to make sure that we kill the beast,” Pennsylvania Democratic House nominee Chris Rabb said.... Read more »

We sent two of the country’s top labor reporters to the 23rd Quadrennial Convention of the International Union of Police Associations in Las Vegas to find out…... Read more »

As Brazilians prepare to vote in the runoff election this Sunday, October 25, Meta has been working to lift the candidacy of Trump ally Flávio Bolsonaro.... Read more »

"We want to be really clear that it is time for these armed soldiers to leave DC… We've seen them standing in front of polling locations… at our schools… all over our transportation system… It's billions of dollars. It is a clear effort to violate our rights… and we're not... Read more »

We get analysis of the Israeli elections, the upcoming U.S. midterms, the pro-Palestine movement and more from Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi and Pakistani British writer Tariq Ali. They are co-authors of the new book The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle. The book, an extended conversation between Khalidi... Read more »

Political Gridlock in Israel After No Clear Winner Emerges from Tuesday’s National Election, Israeli Troops Violently Disperse Protest in Occupied West Bank, Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Sentenced to Five Years and One Month in Prison, Lina Attalah, Editor of Independent Egyptian Outlet Mada Masr, Released from Police Custody, Ansar Allah... Read more »

A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr. The court also ordered the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000. She was convicted on charges of managing an unlicensed website. Mada Masr is “the... Read more »

With the U.S. midterm elections just a week away, the affordability crisis — intensified by President Trump’s tariffs and war on Iran — has emerged as a major campaign issue. Across the country, families are struggling to make ends meet, while oil and gas companies have reported record profits during... Read more »

A competitive Senate race has gripped the once reliably Republican state of Alaska. If Democratic challenger Mary Peltola wins the election against incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, it could tip the balance of power in Washington. Attorneys for Peltola and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have submitted a motion to... Read more »

Netanyahu Battles to Hold Power as Israel Holds First Election in Four Years, U.N. Commission of Inquiry Finds Israel Committed Genocide in Gaza, War Crimes in West Bank, Humanitarian Crisis Grows as Houthis Lay Siege to Yemen’s Third-Largest City, Seven Are Killed as Jordan Bombs Syria Following Deadly Church Attack ,... Read more »

Israeli parliamentary elections are being held on Tuesday, the first since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently embroiled in a corruption scandal in Israel, is up for reelection. On Friday, after two Israeli soldiers were killed at... Read more »

Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement against Vučić’s right-wing Serbian Progressive Party. Candidates from the Student List, who are not students themselves but largely first-time politicians selected by student-led popular assemblies, won a majority of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary... Read more »

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a record fourth term in office, defeating far-right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro by 4 million votes in a runoff election on Sunday. Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who remains under house arrest for plotting a coup against... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261023.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Pluto Press (2026) Disinformation has been a key part of Israel’s US-supported war on Palestinians since before October 7, 2023, but it has been amped up since. Yet as various state and media claims are proven false, it... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261016.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   “Electrocution,” George Bellows (1917) Donald Trump has apparently called off plans to livestream an execution. It’s impossible to imagine that Trump—the guy who thought it was cute to post video of a tiger killing a man, video that... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261009.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Fortune (9/13/26) This week on CounterSpin: When Fortune magazine is telling you “corporations are raking in cash, but American workers are reaping less and less of the rewards,” something is afoot. The not-notoriously capitalist-critical magazine reported recently on... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261002.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Institute for Policy Studies This week on CounterSpin: It may sound awkward, but there’s a reason that some of us refer to the lethal attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as “September 11, 2001.” It’s... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260925.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Verso Books (2022) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media sell a lot of messages, but perhaps the overarching one is: This is how it is. You can be mad about it; we’ll give you a personal profile, maybe.... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260918.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).     Corporate Crime Reporter (8/3/26) This week on CounterSpin: FAIR, the nonprofit collective that produces CounterSpin, had a T-shirt early on that called for the “separation of press and state.” That’s still meaningful, of course, but it feels... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260911.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   HarperCollins (2006) This week on CounterSpin: Some 3,000 people died when planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. One hundred twenty-five people died at the Pentagon in Virginia, and at least 265 people were killed—passengers and... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260904.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   CCR (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: No humor intended: Listening to this show might make you a domestic terrorist. Yes, the Trump White House is trying to make anyone a “terrorist” who speaks out publicly, or co-signs silently,... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260828.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New Republic (8/24/26) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media obscure it, almost like it’s their job, but we still understand that laws and policies land on differently situated people differently. I can believe that there are millionaire... Read more »

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Europe’s place in America’s sphere of influence comes at a cost. Michael Hudson examines Nord Stream, monopoly power and the obstacles to reindustrialization. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

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Can housing stay affordable while owners expect rising prices? Michael Hudson and Einar Tangen debate China’s property market and the taxation of land rent. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

European manufacturers are being asked to compete with China while paying more for energy and surrendering export markets. Michael Hudson argues that governments have helped create this competitive disadvantage, then blamed foreign producers for the results. Speaking with former British diplomat Ian Proud, Hudson connects Europe’s energy policy to the... Read more »

Europe’s costly energy choices undermine its industry. Michael Hudson and Ian Proud discuss sanctions, Chinese competition and dependence on Washington. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Selling oil is one thing. Getting paid in something you can use is another. A country can run a trade surplus and still find itself holding another government’s debt, a depreciating currency or reserves vulnerable to sanctions. In this conversation with Kathleen Tyson at the David Graeber Institute, Michael Hudson... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson debate gold, dollar alternatives and how resource exporters can retain more of the wealth their economies produce. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

I stopped calling myself an economist in the 1970s. Debt, the balance of payments and monetary imperialism were central to what I studied, but increasingly peripheral to what the profession wanted to discuss. Catholic publications gave me space to make arguments that had little place in the academic curriculum. This... Read more »

Communities across the country are grieving the death of Dolores Huerta,  the renowned labor and feminist activist who empowered California’s immigrant workers. Huerta died Wednesday at the age of 96.  Best known for her work advocating for farmworker rights, Huerta co-founded with Cesar Chávez in 1962 the organization that would... Read more »

The State Department plans to give Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate and Donald Trump ally, and his family US visas to enter the country. At the same time, Trump’s government continues to implement widespread restrictions on new visas while it suspends and revokes existing ones. As my... Read more »

For the first time in nearly 10 years, Alice* didn’t spend her fall welcoming a new class of students. After leaving her role as a high school English teacher last spring, she spent back-to-school season tending to her newly launched small business in the southwestern Ohio town where she lives... Read more »

With the midterms less than a week away, the closing stretch of the campaign is full of bad omens for MAGA abroad and peak weirdness at home. In Serbia and Brazil, Trump allies suffered stinging and surprising defeats driven in part by energized voter turnout. An anti-corruption youth movement spearheaded... Read more »

Ken Cuccinelli is a long-time fixture of the conservative movement. The former Virginia attorney general and former Trump official is known for his far-right views on immigration, his denial of climate change, and some very conservative positions on social issues like gay rights and same-sex marriage. But more recently he’s... Read more »

“Michigan is the most important election in the United States of America,” Vice President JD Vance said at a rally in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday afternoon. In a town known as the “KKK capital of Michigan,” Vance delivered a bigoted midterms sales pitch. His words echoed Donald Trump’s Islamophobia from... Read more »

Republican Rep. Mark Amodei says he’s voted Republican in every election since he was 18. Until now. Amodei, who is retiring next month, represents Nevada’s second congressional district. David Flippo is the Trump-backed Republican nominee to replace him. But with questions swirling about Flippo’s campaign finances and allegations that Flippo and... Read more »

In December 2022, two days before the end of his tenure and after losing his reelection bid, Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro flew to the United States. Skipping the traditional transfer of power ceremony at President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, Bolsonaro settled in Florida and eventually enjoyed a... Read more »

At a crowded rally in Dayton, Ohio Monday night, celebrity singer John Legend characterized Vivek Ramaswamy as “desperate” and morally depraved. “He will stoop lower than you thought possible,” Legend said of Ramaswamy, the billionaire biotech entrepreneur and Ohio’s Republican candidate for governor. Legend was, of course, referencing Ramaswamy’s controversial... Read more »

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s sanctions against the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide and Democracy for the Arab World Now, ruling that penalizing human rights groups for supporting the International Criminal Court’s investigations into war crimes in Gaza violates the First Amendment. The post Trump Setback on ICC... Read more »

World BEYOND War is hosting its annual global conference, #NoWar2026: Beyond Borders, on October 23-25. The post #NoWar2026 Conference: Beyond Borders appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face each other in a runoff election on October 25th. The post Brazil Elections appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The documentary Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, which explores how government deregulation led to the Great Recession, has been updated and reissued. The post “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

A “People-First Foreign Policy Pledge,” signed by dozens of national organizations and foreign policy experts, calls on Congressional candidates to commit to three widely popular foreign policy positions in order to win midterm elections and deliver change. The post People-First Foreign Policy Pledge appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) faces a massive fight in the upcoming runoff presidential election. The post Lula Path Uphill But Feasible in Brazil Election Runoff appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Paul Loeb has put out an updated edition of his book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. The post “The Impossible Will Take a Little While” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

TrumpRx, the Trump administration’s prescription-drug purchasing website, creates the appearance of lowering drug prices. But are there meaningful savings? The post Realities Below the TrumpRx Surface appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Sina Toossi offered us an analysis of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations, the indirect talks involving Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and the latest statements from senior Iranian officials. The post Iran at the UN General Assembly appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

From recent deepfakes using Yanis’ image for viral gain, to his latest police harassment over events from decades ago, the discussion opens onto larger questions Naomi explores in Doppelgänger (identity, imitation, credibility, and what “truth” means when noise travels faster than institutions — and institutions still hold power) before moving... Read more »

A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. But little has gone... Read more »

The Case for BDS by Mehdi Hasan Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths used to attack the boycott movement against Israel. Read on Substack In the newest episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths around the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement – a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement that works... Read more »

In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of Zionism.”  Naomi also reacts to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu comparing student protesters at Columbia University to Nazis, telling Mehdi that... Read more »

Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” on the second night of Passover. The demonstration, held one block away from the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,... Read more »

Exactly 15 years ago this week, I published an article in the Guardian. It began like this: It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South... Read more »

On Wednesday, October 18, the Lever’s David Sirota hosted a live event with Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein and Palestinian-American political analyst Omar Baddar to discuss the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas and the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. David, Naomi, and Omar spoke about the historical and political... Read more »

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All over Maui, golf courses glisten emerald green, hotels manage to fill their pools and corporations stockpile water to sell to luxury estates. And yet, when it came time to fight the fires, some hoses ran dry. Why? The reason is the long-running battle over west Maui’s most precious natural... Read more »

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd October 2026 However grim the trajectory might seem, I’ve always believed that sense will ultimately prevail. As the great perils of dismantling the living world become increasingly obvious, even the most... Read more »

We should get Palantir out of our public services before it becomes locked in. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th October 2026 What a world we live in. Imagine: gangs dragging civil servants off commuter trains and beating them up because they handed government data jobs to the... Read more »

Instead of taking responsibility, the government is passing crucial resilience roles to the public, and failure is inevitable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th October 2026 Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden? Then... Read more »

Air travel is on track to account for almost all our emissions by 2050. So why aren’t we working to reduce demand? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd October 2026 If a third runway is built at Heathrow, what will be the impact on the wealth of the... Read more »

The neglect and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS is a scandal of astonishing proportions. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th September 2026 I’ve spent my working life covering neglected issues. But few are neglected like the devastating chronic condition ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome). In severe... Read more »

Petromasculinity not only kills people on the road. It spills into our politics, fuelling far-right individualism.   By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th September 2026 Where is lawbreaking not just visible, but designed to be seen? Where is antisocial behaviour worn as a badge of honour? Where is... Read more »

With its determination to extract more fossil fuels and its useless adaptation plans, does the UK government have any idea what it is igniting? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th September 2026 Pinch yourself, it’s happening again. Here is a Labour government spending a vast amount of political... Read more »

Why are our prime ministers more afraid of a few wealthy people than they are of losing office? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd September 2026 Damn the electorate. They’re so impatient. No sooner do they get a new leader than they want another one. Those ingrates are... Read more »

Successive governments stonewall any talk of strategic food reserves. They side with the grasshopper against the ant. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th August 2026 When a business makes long-term plans, they call it prudence. When a government makes long-term plans, they call it communism. Any sustained state... Read more »

On Wednesday, new reporting revealed that FBI agents are “worried” they could end up being called on to push President Donald Trump’s election meddling agenda. According to MS NOW, recent events have led some current agents to express concern that they may be ordered to seize voting machines or take... Read more »

President Donald Trump has long been politically aligned with his Brazilian counterpart among right-wing executives, Jair Bolsonaro. Now a conservative media outlet is accusing Trump of prioritizing his friendship with the Bolsonaros over the interest of American justice.Describing how Trump is aiding the defeated far right Brazilian presidential candidate by... Read more »

A public school bus driver who gave out Christian goodie bags to children on her route, then got fired because of it, has lost her lawsuit against the district, reports Friendly Atheist.Sarah Robinson began driving for the Mattawan Consolidated School District near Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2024. By Halloween of that... Read more »

On Wednesday, a new report revealed that the GOP is reeling after internal polling found the party’s senatorial candidate in Ohio is losing by eight percentage points. According to Axios, Democratic candidate Amy Acton has widened her lead on Republican Vivek Ramaswamy dramatically after his campaign aired a personal attack... Read more »

Critics say President Donald Trump’s Wall Street market is on the rise almost solely due to growth in one industry: AI. But analysts are worried that Wall Street’s AI debt machine is “starting to choke on supply,” with AI reaching its build out limit — and the only place left... Read more »

US Senator Darline Graham is seemingly trying to escape her family’s controversy. A man was forcefully removed from a campaign event after asking her about claims that her brother, Lindsey Graham, had sex with an underage escort. Lindsey died this summer at the age of 71 from issues related to... Read more »

Despite the White House’s insistence that President Donald Trump, 80, remains as mentally sharp as ever, videos publicly shared by members of his own team appear to tell a different story. In response to some criticizing Trump as appearing tired or sluggish during appearances, Trump representatives say he has “unmatched... Read more »

On Wednesday, a longtime conservative political commentator warned that while recent moves by President Donald Trump and his allies may seem like “sick jokes,” their efforts have dangerous implications. According to Charlie Sykes – who broke with the Republican Party after it embraced Trump – MAGA is making the United... Read more »

Former white House communications director Anthony Scaramucci spoke with investigative journalist Tara Palmeri, who has been a critical part of the public push to recognize survivors of trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. While Scaramucci cracked a joke about short-lived press secretary Katie Zacharia beating his well-earned record of being fired quickly by... Read more »

When Abelardo de la Espriella was declared the winner of Colombia’s presidential elections, he announced his plan to sever diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, saying, “In my government there will be no ties whatsoever with tyrannies.” In October, he followed this by reviving a longstanding maritime dispute with Nicaragua relating to... Read more »

The most egregious lie underlying the UniParty’s proxy war in Ukraine is the claim that the latter is just another innocent sovereign nation suffering unprovoked invasion and despoilment at the hands of the world latest land-grabbing tyrant. In fact, however, no nation or state by the name of “Ukraine” ever... Read more »

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi‘s Substack:  Much of the Middle East was on edge this past weekend, fearing that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would restart the Iran war. Thankfully, hostilities didn’t resume, but it’s not because of a lack of effort. According to Iranian... Read more »

“It’s not tariffs… it’s the war, it’s gas prices, it’s diesel.” In leaked audio obtained by Axios, Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for senate in Texas, spoke candidly about what he believes are the biggest issues hurting his campaign. The Iran war, which has dragged on for almost eight months... Read more »

At a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars “we” are making from these higher prices. “We’re making a fortune,” he said. “Hundreds of billions of... Read more »

As if the world did not have enough geopolitical flashpoints, the dormant 150-year-old territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the Kuril Islands has resurfaced.  The latest phase of the bilateral spat began in mid-August 2026 when Russian president Vladimir Putin visited four islands that the Kremlin had seized during... Read more »

When you boil down the essence of the alleged Russian military threat to America’s homeland security it amounts to just plain barking idiocy; it’s so out to lunch as to be offensive to even a modicum of human intelligence. As we have seen in Parts 1 & 2, any conceivable... Read more »

Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. It’s worse than we thought. In research that I have undertaken over the last few weeks based on information compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) about Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 2023, I’ve discovered that, of the 68 Palestinian journalists killed... Read more »

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity,... Read more »

On the streets, Lula's supporters are mobilising to bring about a comeback for the incumbent president: students, labor unions, grassroots activists and artists are holding a growing number of rallies against Flávio Bolsonaro. In São Paulo, gig-economy delivery workers have even led their own versions of the motorbike caravans popularised... Read more »

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In the run-up to October's election, the US president has been using diplomatic pressure to undermine Brazilian sovereignty and bolster Flávio Bolsonaro. This continues a long history of US interference. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

Some of the world's smallest states have taken their climate fight to the highest international court, shifting the debate from pleas for help to questions of human rights and state responsibility. - 2026/10 / article, 2026/10 Oceania... Read more »

Albania's Adriatic coast, concrete-free until now, is beginning to suffer from tourism-led development. Winning political support for projects seems to be easy – especially if your name is Trump. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

On Moscow's streets, signs of a nation at war are hard to see. Its effects are clearer in individual lives. The burden has fallen unevenly on Russians, reshaping fortunes and fracturing families. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

The prospect of Ukraine's likely EU accession is becoming less popular with Poles, as farmers and truckers face price collapses. And with disputes over historical memory, too, mistrust is deepening. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

Almost 30 years after Sean Brown was kidnapped from a football club, British intelligence is still censoring files that could help solve his murder The post The murder MI5 wants to hide appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Wes Streeting once called for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia. Now he’s helping its air force bomb Yemen. The post UK boosts Saudi support after it kills Yemeni civilians appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Sean Farmer was shot dead by off-duty soldiers and police in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, court told The post Detective: Murder gang got guns from British army appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

This read was first published exclusively for our email subscribers on the 14th of September 2026.Get the latest from Anna Stavrianakis direct to your inbox at www.declassifieduk.org/newsletter It is now the official view of the British government that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful.  With his statement on 8... Read more »

Exclusive: Jonathan Burman was photographed in front of a burning school which was attacked by Israeli troops The post Revealed: The British man who fought for Israel in Gaza appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Satellite imagery uncovered by Declassified shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment The post Revealed: The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Exclusive: UK foreign secretary boasted about “mounting a world wide lobbying exercise” against landmark motion. The post Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Amnesty International says Conservative donor JCB is ‘part of the machinery of ethnic cleansing’ in illegal West Bank settlements The post Tories took £1.3 million from firm linked to Israeli settlements appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Pat Finucane was murdered in Belfast decades ago. Could an inquiry finally force British intelligence to come clean? The post A lawyer was murdered. Now an inquiry must expose MI5’s role appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Huawei Technologies started presenting its case on Wednesday, arguing that as a cutting-edge global tech leader it had no interest in stealing trade secrets, in a high-stakes criminal trial involving dozens of witnesses, legions of lawyers and untold millions of US dollars in legal fees. The Shenzhen-based company has pleaded... Read more »

The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates steady, in line with market expectations, days ahead of crucial midterm elections where surging inflation has been a key issue. The 12-member Federal Open Market Committee voted 10-2 to hold rates at a target range between 3.75 to 4.00 per cent,... Read more »

Alvin Hellerstein, the US judge overseeing the case against deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, has died aged 92, an official confirmed on Wednesday. As one of the oldest US federal judges, questions had been raised about whether he was the right justice to preside over what could be a prolonged... Read more »

Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to ⁠remain Israel’s caretaker prime minister after unexpectedly strong backing among Jewish voters left his opponents little apparent prospect of unseating him, despite his right-wing bloc losing its parliamentary majority. With nearly 86 per cent of votes tallied on Wednesday, Israel’s three main broadcasters projected Netanyahu’s... Read more »

Real Madrid has issued an apology to China over Kylian Mbappe’s controversial remarks about the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, after the Spanish football club’s initial response failed to quell anger in China. In a statement published on its website on Wednesday, the club apologised to the Chinese people for... Read more »

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday proposed a new US-Asean defence framework to guide cooperation over what he called “critically important years” ahead, but offered few details on what it would entail. The proposal faces questions over whether members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will embrace a... Read more »

President Vladimir Putin told African leaders on Wednesday that Russia was their best partner, accusing what he cast as a colonial West of still trying to exploit the continent’s resources and using debt to hold back development. The Kremlin chief was speaking at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, a... Read more »

In a rare move, Singapore on Wednesday summoned top executives from 10 locally registered companies potentially linked to haze-causing fires in Indonesia to a meeting with three ministers. The executives all agreed to cooperate fully in an investigation by the city state into the regional environmental crisis that has caused... Read more »

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro on ⁠Wednesday declared himself the ⁠rightful president-elect of Brazil, saying his ⁠victory had been denied by an electoral coup d’etat by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the country’s Supreme Court. Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday’s presidential election and left Brazil for Miami where he... Read more »

Former Chinese vice-premier Liu Yandong died of illness on Wednesday at the age of 80. She was one of China’s most prominent female leaders, playing a pivotal role in the country’s united front work and education sector. Xinhua, which announced her death on Wednesday afternoon, described Liu as an “outstanding... Read more »

A Chinese investigative blogger who exposed telecoms fraud and other illegal activity was killed by criminals hired on social media, according to media reports, prompting calls for heavier punishment for the perpetrators. The body of Wu Kai, who used the name “Huijian” on social media and had written for years... Read more »

Beijing has appointed veteran propaganda official Mo Gaoyi as Communist Party secretary of Yunnan province in its latest leadership reshuffle, making him a rare example this year of a provincial head with minimal local governance experience. An analyst said that the move could reflect Beijing’s efforts to broaden the talent... Read more »

The Communist Party has started a key four-day conclave focused on party discipline and fighting corruption, as official media outlets say adherence to the party’s leadership under President Xi Jinping is key to the country’s success. The meeting – the fifth plenum of the Communist Party’s 20th Central Committee –... Read more »

China’s five-year leadership cycle is getting under way at a provincial level, with new teams being installed in a process that offers important clues to the future of the Communist Party at a national level. Last week, four provinces – Anhui, Henan, Shanxi and Xinjiang – wrapped up their respective... Read more »

Beijing pledged to support pro-unification forces in Taiwan as it mounted a concerted publicity campaign on Sunday to mark the 81st anniversary of the end of Japanese colonial rule over the island. October 25 was formally established by Beijing last year as an official memorial date known as “Taiwan Restoration... Read more »

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the fourth part of this series, William Zheng looks at how the next generation of the party is being formed. When China’s political elites gather behind closed... Read more »

Typhoon Champi continued to batter China’s eastern coast on Saturday, grounding over a hundred flights and prompting the authorities to relocate tens of thousands of people, while weakening as it moved towards Japan. Flights from airports in Shanghai as well as Fujian and Zhejiang provinces were grounded. China Eastern Airlines... Read more »

Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the third part of this series, William Zheng and Alcott Wei examine how the fight against corruption is shaping the party’s future. When China’s political elites gather... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 8 December 2025 Reform UK leads the polls in most surveys and could form the next government. What can Britons, and the rest of the world, expect? The answer is not precisely clear since Reform has said virtually nothing about what its foreign policy would... Read more »

by Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock, Declassified UK, 18 November 2025 The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system This should be a pivotal moment in British history. Our political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide.  Rather,... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 November 2025 British officials are developing new ties with their Syrian counterparts complicit in recent killings, including former leading al-Qaeda operatives Last month, Keir Starmer’s special representative to Syria, Ann Snow, met defence minister Murhaf Abu Qasra in Damascus. This followed a meeting between... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 October 2025 A military agreement Britain and Israel signed in 2020 has not been modified despite Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Defence admits. In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 30 September 2025 Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide. An Israeli pharmaceutical company that operates at the heart of the NHS has been aiding the Israeli military during... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 29 September 2025 Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths. British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour government, together with the US government under Lyndon Johnson, were complicit in... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 25 September 2025 Exclusive: Israeli air force pilot invited to speak about ‘operational frontlines’ at British charity event. The Royal Air Force museum in London hosted an event last week supporting the education of Israeli soldiers who have fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal.  The event, entitled... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 September 2025 Britain colluded with a militia in the Kosovo war whose leaders now face war crimes charges in The Hague. Will UK officials ever be held to account? On 28 April 1999, prime minister Tony Blair’s adviser John Sawers wrote a memo to... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 August 2025 Declassified files show Britain has long known of Israel’s criminality against Palestinians, as Whitehall has deepened its military, trade and diplomatic support. The parallels are remarkable.  There were “numerous reports that the Israeli authorities have prevented medical and other humanitarian assistance from... Read more »

Today, women currently hold a record 27 of the Senate’s 100 seats, and women hold the office of governor in 14 of the 50 states.... Read more »

Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions Iowa bishop says White House visit was ‘exploited’ for politicsOct. 25 – USA Today * In the news Israelis await final election results... Read more »

Tracking the same adults from 2020 to 2025 shows most Americans' religious affiliation, prayer frequency and service attendance remained steady.... Read more »

This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/. National Cross-Sectional Surveys Most of this report focuses on how often U.S. adults say... Read more »

This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/. This report is based on Pew Research Center’s National Public Opinion Reference Surveys (NPORS)... Read more »

There is no clear evidence in the Center’s surveys that any birth cohort that can be tracked over time has become more religious in recent years.... Read more »

Around one-in-ten eligible voters in this year's midterms are naturalized citizens. See where they live, where they're from and how they differ demographically.... Read more »

We tested open-ended ways to ask which countries are global superpowers. Here's what cognitive interviews and a survey experiment revealed.... Read more »

A majority of Americans (56%) now say they have an unfavorable opinion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.... Read more »

As right-wing Trump allies fearmongered about Somali American voter fraud, Maine trained local law enforcement officers on keeping armed federal agents out. The post Trump Vows to Send Election “Monitors” to Maine After Far-Right Conspiracies Spread appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The failing war with Iran marks a dramatic retreat by the U.S. from the Middle East. The post The Incredible Shrinking Superpower appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Slamming the bogus bite-mark analysis that sent Charles McCrory to prison in 1985, the judge vacated his conviction. The post Prosecutors Want to Keep a Man in Prison for His Wife’s Murder — Despite Judge Saying Their Evidence is Junk appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Brazil’s Supreme Court tried to strip Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport, but the Trump administration granted him a visa, according to reports. The post The Bolsonaro Family Playbook: Lose, Cry Fraud, and Run to Trump’s America appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The leading candidate for LA city attorney has the backing of the local DSA and vows to regulate Big Tech. Tech investors are spending millions against her. The post The Elon Musk Funder Trying to Sway the Race for LA’s Top Lawyer appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Government officials said a series of recent attacks and threats have highlighted the vulnerability of U.S. military bases. The post Pentagon Fears Drone Attacks on U.S. and Foreign Bases appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Pentagon and private capital have teamed up to militarize the island nation. The post Bankrolling American Empire in the Philippines appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“Records are important,” said the mother of a woman killed by her Navy colleague. We found nearly twice as many domestic-abuse killings by servicemembers as the DoD listed. The post Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse Killings appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“What do I tell a soldier who believes an action is immoral, but also believes that God commanded it?” one Army chaplain told The Intercept. The post Hegseth Built a New Pentagon Office for Religion. Military Religious Leaders Wish He Hadn’t. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

In Oregon, incarcerated residents are suing to stop the use of solitary confinement.... Read more »

‘Woke’ has become a convenient umbrella term for whatever the commenter thinks is beyond the acceptable boundaries of palatable leftist politics.... Read more »

We must have no illusions about the fact that voting alone will not solve all of our problems. But it is one of the many tools in our toolbox for creating change.... Read more »

Israelis are set to head to the polls for the first time since the genocide in Gaza began. Despite three years of violence, only a minority of citizens want meaningful change.... Read more »

Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘The Rush’ expertly reflects on a period of U.S. history increasingly resonant in a new Gilded Age.... Read more »

Pro-Israel hawks like U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper are a rapidly shrinking group within the Democratic Party.... Read more »

Parks are essential community infrastructure, providing safety, support, and connection when other trusted resources are strained or unavailable.... Read more »

Every voter still gets to decide what candidates and positions to support. No one has to vote the way the commercials advise.... Read more »

Community oncology helps absorb the pressures that might otherwise pull a patient off treatment.... Read more »

Most of Planet Earth now knows cruelty is the point of Trump 2. But if anyone implausibly needs more evidence, meet Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a 79-year-old, pro-democracy Ugandan priest who spent over a year in ICE detention. When he went in, he was fit; at his long-delayed release last week,... Read more »

Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said:"This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. The... Read more »

These truly-through-the-looking-glass days, it seems the drunk great-uncle you really didn't wanna ask to dinner is somehow getting worse. Scarily and no longer mirthfully, the befuddled "head" of a GOP blitzed on projection daily spirals deeper into phantasmagoria - slurring words, crafting fictions, renaming oceans, rekindling grievances, losing it over... Read more »

Today, Public Citizen released a new set of fact sheets that track the toll of the NAFTA-WTO era and today’s chaotic trade policies on the workers, farmers, local communities in all 50 states in the U.S., covering lost manufacturing jobs and farms, shuttered factories, battered union membership, depressed wages, falling... Read more »

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today demanded that a U.S. manufacturer of electroshock weapons stop sending its devices to Israel following an investigative report revealing their systematic use in the torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees.According to an investigation published... Read more »

The nation’s largest and most profitable corporations paid an average federal income tax rate of just 10.4 percent in 2025, the lowest rate documented in more than four decades of research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), according to a new study released today.The study examines the... Read more »

In nearly two years the Trump administration has protected just three species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act and missed dozens of deadlines to make decisions promised in a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service workplan. No other administration in the more than 50 years since the law... Read more »

The Trump-Vance administration has abandoned its appeal in National Council of Nonprofits et al. v. McMahon, a case brought by a broad coalition of nonprofit organizations, more than a dozen local governments, and labor unions against the U.S. Department of Education. The case stopped a new rule that would have... Read more »

UltraViolet, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization responsible for numerous impactful victories against sexual predators and tech-facilitated sexual violence, issued the following statement in response to Apple updating its developer guidelines to ban AI “nudify” apps on its App Store, calling on Google to make the same changes in its... Read more »

The terrorizing and mass deportations of immigrants under the Trump administration may seem an unprecedented descent into an racist order where Constitutional protections no longer apply. But, as historian Kelly Lytle Hernández argues, from early on the U.S. immigration system was exempted from the guardrails of the Constitution. She illustrates... Read more »

While Trump’s brand of reactionary politics is crude and often incoherent, a group of intellectuals have sought to legitimize his authoritarianism in the service of the greater good. Historian Hannah Gurman describes the ideas and influence of postliberalism, promulgated through publications like Compact and counting J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio... Read more »

Over the last decade, employees in the tech industry defied stereotypes — opposing contracts with ICE and the US military, even organizing to bargain collectively. Their employers, led by Elon Musk, responded by laying them off en masse and moving further to the right. Tech organizers J.S. Tan and Clarissa... Read more »

There’s not a person on earth who does not have PFAS, or Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in their blood. Mariah Blake reflects on the how these chemicals came to pollute the world and the remarkable grassroots movement — much of it coming from working class communities in red states —... Read more »

Our era is marked both by mass protest and the increasing criminalization of protest — driven by private interests, as well as states and the federal government. Annie Leonard, longtime activist, discusses the rich tradition of protest in this country and why we need to defend it, in the face... Read more »

We live in a time, says Brazilian political philosopher Rodrigo Nunes, where it feels like things cannot go on as they are — while at the same time, we can’t imagine anything else. Nunes discusses how such sentiments have fueled the ascendancy of the far right around the world and... Read more »

Elites, especially in tech, in recent years have overtly espoused the repugnant idea that extreme social inequality is not only inevitable but desirable. Acclaimed historian Kim Phillips-Fein argues that there is a long US tradition promoting wealth inequality that has once again moved from the shadows into the mainstream. And... Read more »

How should we organize while the planet is burning and authoritarianism is intensifying? Chris Dixon reflects on lessons for the present, drawn from decades of activism on the left – for a moment where interest in left politics has grown significantly, yet while the organizational infrastructures of the left are... Read more »

What was the most powerful technology introduced into schools in the past century? You might answer the computer, or something like Zoom, or even the slide projector. But scholar Antero Garcia argues that it was the humble yellow school bus. Buses have been central to the struggle to desegregate education.... Read more »

Thousands of people gathered outside Portugal's parliament in Lisbon on Tuesday to protest a police operation to clear housing rights encampments in the early hours of Sunday. Businesses in the surrounding area closed at the request of municipal authorities, as parliament began debating the 2027 state budget.... Read more »

Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot said on Tuesday night that exit polls showing his bloc ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition reflected a "complete lack of confidence" in Netanyahu's government, vowing to move swiftly to replace it, as the projections pointed to a parliamentary election deadlock.... Read more »

Eisenkot says Israel has chosen change, hopes to form government... Read more »

How the US midterm elections could impact Trump's presidency... Read more »

China hosts exhibition at UN marking 80th anniversary of Tokyo Trials... Read more »

Satellite images show oil spill on UAE coast... Read more »

World reacts to Brazil President Lula's reelection... Read more »

EXCLUSIVE: Interview with an AI actress... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday extended congratulations to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his re-election as president of Brazil.... Read more »

Real Madrid apologizes to Chinese people over Mbappe's remarks... Read more »

Former Chinese Vice Premier and State Councilor Liu Yandong passed away due to illness at the age of 81 in Beijing at 2:53 p.m. Wednesday.... Read more »

China calls for open cooperation with Europe... Read more »

China has expressed grave concern over continued tensions across the Middle East, issuing an urgent plea for dialogue.... Read more »

President of the Swiss Confederation Guy Parmelin will pay a working visit to China from October 30 to November 1, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday.... Read more »

China's permanent representative to the United Nations Fu Cong on Tuesday urged the United States to immediately end its blockade and pressure on Cuba.... Read more »

The mainland will continue implementing a package of 10 policies and measures to help more high-quality agricultural, fishery and other products from Taiwan expand their presence in the mainland market, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.... Read more »

China tightens rules governing cadres through institutional oversight... Read more »

Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they had hit Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura ‌oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, with a ballistic missile.... Read more »

Hong Kong's food safety authority decided on Tuesday to suspend the import of poultry meat and products from Lolland Municipality in Denmark and Jackson County in the State of Minnesota, US, due to avian influenza outbreaks in these regions.... Read more »

Global asset managers who gathered at the 2026 Financial Street Forum said Chinese assets are gaining structural appeal, as China doubles down on the high-level opening of its capital markets, with the focus of global capital shifting from "whether to allocate" to "how to allocate well?"... Read more »

At the 2026 Global Governance Forum (Xiongan), held from October 23 to 25, China announced eight practical actions to advance the Global Governance Initiative (GGI). But announcements are only a starting point. The real test is whether these commitments translate into fairer rules, wider participation and tangible results.... Read more »

China is bringing elderly care closer to home! From community healthcare and in-home services to smart care robots and 24-hour support, cities are making aging in-place easier and more convenient.... Read more »

A powerful El Nino could bring extreme heat, droughts and floods, threatening crops and disrupting global food supplies. Could El Nino fuel another wave of food inflation?... Read more »

Profits of China's industrial firms above designated size increased 15.5% year-on-year to 6.03 trillion yuan ($904.7 billion) during the first nine months of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. September itself witnessed a 14.4% year-on-year increase in profits.... Read more »

Kevin Strain, president and CEO of Sun Life, told CGTN's Qiu Yu that China is at the forefront of artificial intelligence technology – an incredible advantage for Chinese companies and a great opportunity for global firms in China to learn from and work with.... Read more »

China's Yiwu has just hit 100 million import orders for 2026, a full 40 days earlier than the previous year. The world's wholesale market is now the world's shopping cart!... Read more »

Global funding for nature still falling short: Paulson Institute... Read more »

The real historic character of this election lies not in any prospect that it could rescue Israel from its mounting crisis. It is in its confirmation of the reactionary essence of the Zionist project.... Read more »

The VS program of pressure, protest and parliamentary reform is directed against the fight to build a genuine socialist movement of the working class amid a historic breakdown of capitalism in Australia and globally.... Read more »

Growing evidence points to the attack on Helen Haines being the result of a psychotic episode, but the Labor government is using it to denounce popular political opposition.... Read more »

The open bigotry of the remarks in Michigan by the US president and a top cabinet secretary are a signal of the plans for mass repression and military aggression after the elections.... Read more »

The death of a homeless woman in a fire earlier this month was a social murder committed by a financial oligarchy that enriches itself through real estate speculation, with the complicity of all the establishment parties.... Read more »

Workers rejected the company’s official explanation and said Dakkota owner Andra Rush wanted to replace the current workforce with cheaper non-union labor.... Read more »

The threat to reduce Indonesia to “standalone” status in the MSCI index resulted in the biggest fall in the Indonesian stock market since the crisis of 1998 as it plunged by 12 percent, triggering a 30-minute trading halt.... Read more »

By granting a visa to an aspiring dictator under criminal investigation, the US government has exploded whatever “legal” pretense it has used to justify its repressive immigration policies.... Read more »

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins’ statement that “we don’t align” with the US against China is a lie.... Read more »

Hong Kong's food safety authority decided on Tuesday to suspend the import of poultry meat and products from Lolland Municipality in Denmark and Jackson County in the State of Minnesota, US, due to avian influenza outbreaks in these regions.... Read more »

China's internet expo opens November 2 with 6G, AI agents and robots... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday extended condolences to the family of the late former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.... Read more »

In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) introduced a set of rules governing officials' conduct. The document was just over 600 Chinese characters long, and its provisions might have sounded trivial: no floral arrangements at meetings, no lavish dishes at official receptions, no luxury hotels on business trips, and... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday extended congratulations to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his re-election as president of Brazil.... Read more »

Post-Earthquake water purification in place for people and livestock... Read more »

Gao Fu: Fighting 'Disease X' requires global cooperation... Read more »

China-backed biodiversity fund puts $4.5 mln into 9 projects worldwide... Read more »

China to send envoy to promote peace and talks in Middle East... Read more »

Culture is welcome when it leaves America and suspect when it arrives.... Read more »

Full and rigorous Party self-governance is both a strategic policy of the CPC and an undertaking under its leadership with implications for the country as a whole. As China faces external challenges and profound changes in its development, it connects oversight, reform and implementation, ensuring that the governing party's political responsibilities... Read more »

First time in China: An Australian analyst rethinks what he knows... Read more »

The Long March: An Odyssey unequaled and lessons for today... Read more »

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Centella: How China's Communist Party charts its course... Read more »

Exclusive with Speaker of Kenya's National Assembly Moses Wetang'ula... Read more »

The 2026 Brazilian general election has garnered international attention, reflecting the fact that it concerns not only the trajectory of Brazil's domestic political landscape but also carries regional and global implications that cannot be overlooked.... Read more »

"To forge conviction" with the Party's innovative theories does not mean having cadres and officials recite dogma in unison; its function is to provide a framework for analyzing problems and judging direction – one that equips cadres and officials scattered across vastly different local contexts to make consistent, well-grounded decisions with... Read more »

Ryan Corkery, an American student from Maryland, visited Shenzhen ahead of APEC China 2026. To him, the future is already in Shenzhen.... Read more »

China's National Cultural Heritage Administration received two lost Chinese cultural relics returned by Australia at the National Gallery of Australia on Wednesday.... Read more »

Chinese songs, cultural references and playful online challenges are sparking interest in Chinese among people around the world.... Read more »

A set of re-created models of the Qianlong Garden, located within Beijing's Palace Museum, offers a glimpse into a model-making technique unique to China.... Read more »

From Maribor to Beijing: Slovenian theatre debuts in China... Read more »

A photography exhibition titled "Life Takes Place," dedicated to the lives of modern-day senior citizens, is currently on view at the Taikang Art Museum in Beijing's Central Business District.... Read more »

Global creators revitalize Jingdezhen’s millennia-old craft... Read more »

The 2026 "China Walk: Vibrant Hainan" joint media tour for ASEAN media partners has officially kicked off in Hainan, an island province in southern China.... Read more »

The 47th Beijing Chrysanthemum Exhibition has opened at Beihai Park, featuring more than 50,000 chrysanthemum plants in over 600 varieties. The exhibition runs through mid-November.... Read more »

COP17 nears conclusion as negotiators make progress but face hurdles... Read more »

Two new sage species discovered in China's Hengduan Mountains... Read more »

Declare climate change a health emergency, Lancet report urges... Read more »

China's internet expo opens November 2 with 6G, AI agents and robots... Read more »

China-backed biodiversity fund puts $4.5 mln into 9 projects worldwide... Read more »

Nepal plans flood warnings, glacial lake risk reduction... Read more »

Hot Take: Why rocket trails look like jellyfish... Read more »

Track laying completed on Chongqing-Kunming high-speed railway... Read more »

China launches new internet satellite group... Read more »

Words from La Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicanas representatives Julio César Flores López and Adriana Barbosa Carranza at our 2026 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards The post ‘Long Live International Solidarity!’ appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Making it easier to build data centers and fossil fuel infrastructure benefits no one except Big Tech and Big Oil. A bipartisan group of Senators wants to do it anyway. The post ‘Permitting Reform’ Is a Giveaway to Data Centers and Fossil Fuels appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Last year, the US was 1 of only 17 countries to record an official execution. The post Americans Should Reject All State-Sanctioned Murder, Live-Streamed or Not appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

How public support and purchasing cooperatives brought new options to Atlanta’s food deserts — and what other cities can learn. The post Lessons from Atlanta’s Municipal Grocery Store Experiment appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A new book chronicles the challenging task of helping ordinary people in North Korea. The post Saving Lives in North Korea appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

At our LM Awards, Unidos MN leader Emilia Gonzalez Avalos shares the “sacred power” of neighbors standing up for each other. The post ‘Their Power Rests on Fear. Ours Rests on Each Other.’ appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A 1982 SEC rule change has turbocharged America’s extreme wealth concentration, adding $55 billion to the wealth piles of Larry Page and Sergey Brin alone. The post $55 Billion in Stock Buyback Wealth for Google Oligarchs appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, OR city council about a proposal to increase an existing tax on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps. The post Increasing Portland’s CEO Pay Surtax Would Boost Revenue and Encourage Narrower Pay Gaps appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The world we want now and for future generations is one where we are safe, healthy, and cared for. Let’s work together to make it ours. The post Climate Week NYC 2026: War and the Climate Crisis Demand International Solidarity From Our Movements appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Words from La Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicanas representatives Julio César Flores López and Adriana Barbosa Carranza at our 2026 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards The post ‘Long Live International Solidarity!’ appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Making it easier to build data centers and fossil fuel infrastructure benefits no one except Big Tech and Big Oil. A bipartisan group of Senators wants to do it anyway. The post ‘Permitting Reform’ Is a Giveaway to Data Centers and Fossil Fuels appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Last year, the US was 1 of only 17 countries to record an official execution. The post Americans Should Reject All State-Sanctioned Murder, Live-Streamed or Not appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

How public support and purchasing cooperatives brought new options to Atlanta’s food deserts — and what other cities can learn. The post Lessons from Atlanta’s Municipal Grocery Store Experiment appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A new book chronicles the challenging task of helping ordinary people in North Korea. The post Saving Lives in North Korea appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

At our LM Awards, Unidos MN leader Emilia Gonzalez Avalos shares the “sacred power” of neighbors standing up for each other. The post ‘Their Power Rests on Fear. Ours Rests on Each Other.’ appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A 1982 SEC rule change has turbocharged America’s extreme wealth concentration, adding $55 billion to the wealth piles of Larry Page and Sergey Brin alone. The post $55 Billion in Stock Buyback Wealth for Google Oligarchs appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, OR city council about a proposal to increase an existing tax on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps. The post Increasing Portland’s CEO Pay Surtax Would Boost Revenue and Encourage Narrower Pay Gaps appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The world we want now and for future generations is one where we are safe, healthy, and cared for. Let’s work together to make it ours. The post Climate Week NYC 2026: War and the Climate Crisis Demand International Solidarity From Our Movements appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

175 House Democrats Call For Halt To Ilhan Omar Investigation Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times,Scores of House Democrats have called for an end to the federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), claiming it could affect her reelection bid in next month's midterm elections.A letter, signed by... Read more »

MSFT Rises On Azure Beat... But Bookings Shrink And Backlog Stalls The consensus long delivered.Microsoft (MSFT) reported Azure revenue growth of 48% in constant currency for the September quarter, crushing its own 44-45% guide, the Street's ~45% and even the ~47% buyside whisper that, as we laid out this morning... Read more »

War Secretary Swears In General Forced To Retire After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,War Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed back an Air Force general who was forced to retire because she did not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was mandated during... Read more »

Fed Pauses Rate-Hikes As Expected; 2 Dissents Signal Less Hawkish 'Family Fight' Since the last FOMC meeting (9/16), where Fed Chair Warsh hiked rates somewhat surprisingly, markets have been wild (even if stocks at the index level may look 'meh'). The biggest standout is the divergence between bitcoin (up 6%)... Read more »

Minnesota Charges James O'Keefe And Cam Higby With Felonies Over Polling-Place Vouching Stunt Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Wednesday charged conservative provocateur James O'Keefe and influencer Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft, over undercover videos they shot at Minneapolis polling places during the Aug. 11 primary,... Read more »

Has Apple Peaked? Submitted by QTR's Fringe FinanceThere’s no disputing that Apple remains one of the greatest companies in the history of capitalism. Its products are still insanely popular, its ecosystem remains one of the most powerful competitive advantages in modern business, and its stock continues to enjoy the kind... Read more »

California's Billionaire Tax May Cost More Than It Raises, Reports Find Authored by Thomas Savidge via The Daily Economy,California voters will decide on Proposition 40, a proposal for "a one-time 5-percent tax on the worldwide net worth of individuals exceeding $1 billion," this November.The measure's obligation reaches backward to January... Read more »

Watch Live: Fed Chair Warsh Desperately Tries To Explain Why His 'Pause' Is Not Political Warsh will be walking a very fine tightrope in today's press conference that looks especially delicate.The Fed Chair's problem today is that he's spent the last few months telling everyone the Fed needs a "timelier... Read more »

"A Lot Of Bad Things Happening All At Once": Rubino Warns Of Perfect Storm For Banks... And The World Authored by Greg Hunter via USAWatchdog,Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has a new warning about the financial health of the global economy, and it's not good. Look no further than the... Read more »

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to expand access to injectable peptide drugs faced overwhelming opposition from a group of Food and Drug Administration scientists, prompting the Trump appointee’s department to change tactics.That’s according to an Associated Press report published Wednesday, which cited six people familiar with the policy’s... Read more »

Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department just ran into a wall in the fight to slow-walk a court-ordered dig through the Epstein files.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday denied the government's request to pause a lower court... Read more »

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho, seeking to block the state from curtailing water use at Idaho National Laboratory and from administering federal water rights, court records indicate.On Sept. 11, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against the state, the Idaho Department of Water... Read more »

The New Republic’s Greg Sargent argued in an analysis published Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s Texas rallies suggest his team doesn’t believe he can win back independents and moderates, even though the Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is a toss-up.In Sargent’s account, Trump spoke mainly... Read more »

President Donald Trump erupted Wednesday over an alleged Democratic election scheme in Alaska, accusing his political opponents of fraud and demanding that two candidates be removed from the state’s Senate ballot.“It has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan... Read more »

Republicans fear Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad is sinking his Ohio governor’s bid, according to an internal GOP poll obtained by Axios.The survey, commissioned by a Republican group, has Democrat Amy Acton ahead by eight points. Earlier this month, before the ad began circulating October 19, she led by two. Acton... Read more »

When you stand with vile, you reveal yourself. A political ad that ran in Ohio last week sparked nationwide revulsion as perhaps the vilest in American history. It is that bad.Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s morally incomprehensible hit piece against Democrat Dr. Amy Acton in the Ohio race for governor will be... Read more »

MAGA world erupted in outrage Wednesday after a New York Times investigation linked former Rep. Mary Peltola’s Democratic Senate campaign to a secret effort to recruit another candidate named Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s closely watched Senate race.“This is shameful,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) declared on X. “Fake Dan Sullivan should... Read more »

MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez stepped in to correct a guest who called President Donald Trump “a convicted sex offender” during a segment on the Ohio governor’s race.The discussion began with Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown criticizing Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who lost custody of her following... Read more »

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to expand access to injectable peptide drugs faced overwhelming opposition from a group of Food and Drug Administration scientists, prompting the Trump appointee’s department to change tactics.That’s according to an Associated Press report published Wednesday, which cited six people familiar with the policy’s... Read more »

Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department just ran into a wall in the fight to slow-walk a court-ordered dig through the Epstein files.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday denied the government's request to pause a lower court... Read more »

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho, seeking to block the state from curtailing water use at Idaho National Laboratory and from administering federal water rights, court records indicate.On Sept. 11, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against the state, the Idaho Department of Water... Read more »

The New Republic’s Greg Sargent argued in an analysis published Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s Texas rallies suggest his team doesn’t believe he can win back independents and moderates, even though the Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton is a toss-up.In Sargent’s account, Trump spoke mainly... Read more »

President Donald Trump erupted Wednesday over an alleged Democratic election scheme in Alaska, accusing his political opponents of fraud and demanding that two candidates be removed from the state’s Senate ballot.“It has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan... Read more »

Republicans fear Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad is sinking his Ohio governor’s bid, according to an internal GOP poll obtained by Axios.The survey, commissioned by a Republican group, has Democrat Amy Acton ahead by eight points. Earlier this month, before the ad began circulating October 19, she led by two. Acton... Read more »

When you stand with vile, you reveal yourself. A political ad that ran in Ohio last week sparked nationwide revulsion as perhaps the vilest in American history. It is that bad.Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s morally incomprehensible hit piece against Democrat Dr. Amy Acton in the Ohio race for governor will be... Read more »

MAGA world erupted in outrage Wednesday after a New York Times investigation linked former Rep. Mary Peltola’s Democratic Senate campaign to a secret effort to recruit another candidate named Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s closely watched Senate race.“This is shameful,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) declared on X. “Fake Dan Sullivan should... Read more »

MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez stepped in to correct a guest who called President Donald Trump “a convicted sex offender” during a segment on the Ohio governor’s race.The discussion began with Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown criticizing Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who lost custody of her following... Read more »

Q: Are voting machines changing Democratic votes to Republican votes? Several posts on Facebook are making that claim. A: There is no evidence that touchscreen voting machines are deliberately switching voter selections. Rather, elections experts and state election officials have said that reported issues of machines initially not recording votes... Read more »

Throughout October, President Donald Trump has traveled across the country, holding campaign rallies supporting Republican candidates in the 2026 midterms. In his remarks, he has made a number of false, misleading or exaggerated claims. The post FactChecking Claims from Trump’s Midterm Rallies appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A super PAC affiliated with the main PAC that supported the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. The post Lower Costs Now appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A Republican super PAC affiliated with President Donald Trump. The post Safety & Affordability PAC Inc. appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

An ad from the campaign of Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska features a mother whose 22-year-old son died from fentanyl and who claims Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola took contributions from "liberals [who] opened our borders to the drug cartels" and then "voted with them against securing our border."... Read more »

In late August, Democrat James Talarico said that he had told "every ... wealthy person" that "if you are OK with getting taxed more, if you're OK with me limiting your influence in politics, you are welcome to join this movement that we are building." But an ad from his... Read more »

The campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor in Ohio, sparked controversy this week with an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton. In the ad, Acton’s mother calls her a “liar” who is being dishonest about her past. The post Controversial Ohio... Read more »

Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators of how the country is faring as the midterms loom. The post Trump’s Numbers, October 2026 Update appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In the Maine Senate race, ads from pro-Republican groups give Democratic candidate Troy Jackson the nickname “Taxin’ Jackson,” but they make misleading claims about his proposal for Social Security taxes and his votes on some other issues. The post Ads in Maine Make Misleading Tax Claims About Jackson appeared first... Read more »

Q: Are voting machines changing Democratic votes to Republican votes? Several posts on Facebook are making that claim. A: There is no evidence that touchscreen voting machines are deliberately switching voter selections. Rather, elections experts and state election officials have said that reported issues of machines initially not recording votes... Read more »

Throughout October, President Donald Trump has traveled across the country, holding campaign rallies supporting Republican candidates in the 2026 midterms. In his remarks, he has made a number of false, misleading or exaggerated claims. The post FactChecking Claims from Trump’s Midterm Rallies appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A super PAC affiliated with the main PAC that supported the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. The post Lower Costs Now appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A Republican super PAC affiliated with President Donald Trump. The post Safety & Affordability PAC Inc. appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

An ad from the campaign of Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska features a mother whose 22-year-old son died from fentanyl and who claims Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola took contributions from "liberals [who] opened our borders to the drug cartels" and then "voted with them against securing our border."... Read more »

In late August, Democrat James Talarico said that he had told "every ... wealthy person" that "if you are OK with getting taxed more, if you're OK with me limiting your influence in politics, you are welcome to join this movement that we are building." But an ad from his... Read more »

The campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor in Ohio, sparked controversy this week with an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton. In the ad, Acton’s mother calls her a “liar” who is being dishonest about her past. The post Controversial Ohio... Read more »

Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators of how the country is faring as the midterms loom. The post Trump’s Numbers, October 2026 Update appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In the Maine Senate race, ads from pro-Republican groups give Democratic candidate Troy Jackson the nickname “Taxin’ Jackson,” but they make misleading claims about his proposal for Social Security taxes and his votes on some other issues. The post Ads in Maine Make Misleading Tax Claims About Jackson appeared first... Read more »

Jo-Ann Mort The real story in this election is the extraordinary and uplifting strength of the vote of Arab citizens in Israel. The post Dispatch From Post-Election Israel appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Peter Kuper Palmer Luckey unleashes his destructive tech worldwide. The post This Reality Isn’t Virtual appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Sena Chang Republican-led efforts threatening young people’s rights to the ballot have sparked efforts to protect the youth vote across college campuses. The post Inside the Fight to Protect the Youth Vote appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Amy Littlefield In her new book “Side Effects,” the “Politico” reporter shows that the impact of abortion bans goes far beyond reproductive health care. The post How the End of “Roe” Is Reshaping Medical Care: A Q&A With Alice Miranda Ollstein appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Robert L. Borosage, Katrina vanden Heuvel For both Russia and Ukraine, the war has taken a staggering toll and poses an ever-greater danger of spreading. The post Ukraine: Time to End the War appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva “I doubt that Russia, China, or the United States has an army as victorious as the army of democracy of this country,” the president told his supporters. The post “This Election Was a Defeat for Lies”: Read Lula’s Inspiring Victory Speech appeared first on The... Read more »

Benjamin Fogel The Brazilian left has stopped the right-wing wave in Latin America. Now it has four years to work out a succession plan. The post Lessons From Lula’s Historic Victory appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elie Mystal The Alaska case is a red flag that Trump has no intention of accepting the results of an election that Republicans lose. The post Trump Just Told Us How He Intends to Steal the Midterms appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Felipe Galindo Peaceful demonstrations were overshadowed by violence and destruction in the streets of Paris and Limoges. The post French Protests Are Hijacked by Agitators appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Over half of the 45 mainstream Jewish schools in the UK say a core part of their mission is teaching children to “love Israel,” possibly breaching UK government rules against the promotion of partisan political views in schools... Read more »

All of Israel's liberal camouflage has been torn away in the state's vicious expansionism and collective desire for vengeance against Palestinians... Read more »

Ministry of Health stated on Tuesday that six Palestinians were killed and 32 injured during the preceding 24 hours, as Israeli shooting and shelling continued across Gaza. Israeli naval vessels fired live ammunition & shells at Gaza's coast and fishermen... Read more »

With neither Israel’s governing nor opposition blocs securing a majority, Arab parties hold the balance of power as politicians weigh coalition deals, a new election and the country’s political divide.... Read more »

Trump’s coalition is mad because the erstwhile “no new wars” president who promised to put America first and keep prices low instead started a brand new war at the behest of Israel and the expense of working-class Americans.... Read more »

The White House should be on guard against an intensified Israeli push for war.... Read more »

Drop Site reveals the sources of funding to keep 82-year-old incumbent CA Rep. Doris Matsui (D) from losing to progressive challenger Mai Vang, who rejected AIPAC money and called out Israel's genocide... Read more »

Israel's election: win or lose, Netanyahu could still rule ■ Israeli forces kill 6-year-old Palestinian child ■ Destruction in West Bank continues ■ Antisemitism and/or Abdul El-Sayed ■ More... Read more »

Israel's refusal to welcome int'l observers raises red flag. What is going on?... Read more »

Over half of the 45 mainstream Jewish schools in the UK say a core part of their mission is teaching children to “love Israel,” possibly breaching UK government rules against the promotion of partisan political views in schools... Read more »

All of Israel's liberal camouflage has been torn away in the state's vicious expansionism and collective desire for vengeance against Palestinians... Read more »

Ministry of Health stated on Tuesday that six Palestinians were killed and 32 injured during the preceding 24 hours, as Israeli shooting and shelling continued across Gaza. Israeli naval vessels fired live ammunition & shells at Gaza's coast and fishermen... Read more »

With neither Israel’s governing nor opposition blocs securing a majority, Arab parties hold the balance of power as politicians weigh coalition deals, a new election and the country’s political divide.... Read more »

Trump’s coalition is mad because the erstwhile “no new wars” president who promised to put America first and keep prices low instead started a brand new war at the behest of Israel and the expense of working-class Americans.... Read more »

The White House should be on guard against an intensified Israeli push for war.... Read more »

Drop Site reveals the sources of funding to keep 82-year-old incumbent CA Rep. Doris Matsui (D) from losing to progressive challenger Mai Vang, who rejected AIPAC money and called out Israel's genocide... Read more »

Israel's election: win or lose, Netanyahu could still rule ■ Israeli forces kill 6-year-old Palestinian child ■ Destruction in West Bank continues ■ Antisemitism and/or Abdul El-Sayed ■ More... Read more »

Israel's refusal to welcome int'l observers raises red flag. What is going on?... Read more »

AI for Everyone? A Critical Look at Ireland's AIready.ie Platform Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly appearing in news headlines from warnings about job losses and ethical concerns, to fears about the unchecked power this technology could …... Read more »

Content warning: This article discusses themes of suicide which may be upsetting to some readers, including the criminalisation of suicide and death by suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. Call 116 123 to …... Read more »

Politics is the art of compromise.  Therefore, both in decision-making and in elections, both for the electorate and for their representatives, voting procedures should cater for those who wish to compromise.  Single-preference procedures – like …... Read more »

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) have become an important part of the government’s strategy to combat the ongoing Irish housing crisis. Adopting MMC is a key part of Pillar 1 of the current housing strategy: Delivering Homes, Building …... Read more »

The world is entering a period of prolonged instability: geopolitical confrontation, technological acceleration, demographic pressure, information manipulation, social fragmentation and declining institutional trust. These dynamics are no longer …... Read more »

As of January 2026, successive opinion polls give centre-right Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael combined less than 40% of support for the next general election. Could Ireland have a government for the first time that excludes both of these traditional …... Read more »

For the past 26 years, I have worked in the addiction sector in Dublin watching the landscape of substance use evolve. While much attention is given to young people and new drug trends, there is a growing, overlooked and underserved group, older …... Read more »

In the middle of summer 2024, the song “10 Drunk Cigarettes” became a TikTok sensation. This was the height of Brat Summer - a time when women like Charli xcx and Sabrina Carpenter were dominating the pop industry, chartreuse was the colour of …... Read more »

Over the past week, Ireland has witnessed scenes not seen for a generation. Forecourts running out of fuel, limits placed on purchases, and the blockading of key infrastructure have disrupted daily life across the country. These developments echo …... Read more »

Former US officials urge 2028 presidential candidates to bar officials complicit in the Gaza genocide from future administrations.... Read more »

Sheikh Naim Qassem has renewed his rejection of the US-backed deal with Israel, vowing that Hezbollah’s resistance will continue as long as Israeli occupation and aggression persist.... Read more »

Israeli occupation forces have resumed extensive military assaults and systematic residential demolitions throughout the occupied West Bank.... Read more »

Some 111 ports in 22 countries plan to stage strikes on Friday to demand action against war, especially Israel’s genocide in Palestine.... Read more »

Nearly 5,000 Palestinians have been displaced as Israeli forces continued their military assault on occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil.... Read more »

Yemen’s armed forces have ordered the immediate evacuation of Aden International Airport, warning that a Saudi military cargo aircraft carrying weapons intended to be used against the Yemeni people is at the facility.... Read more »

Aaqel was shot dead in Beirut after facing weeks of online incitement and death threats linked to his military service during Syria’s war.... Read more »

The Iraqi resistance has warned the government that it will close border crossings with Jordan and Saudi Arabia if Baghdad keeps crossings with Iran shut.... Read more »

Some 111 ports in 22 countries plan to stage strikes on Friday to demand action against war, especially Israel’s genocide in Palestine.... Read more »

Lula’s reelection in Brazil has dealt a setback to Trump’s agenda, demonstrating that Latin American voters can reject political choices favoured by Washington, says a Brazilian analyst.... Read more »

Trump has floated Venezuela as the United States’ 51st state while showing off a claimed 1-million-barrel oil tanker.... Read more »

A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice has ordered a police investigation into links between a donor network co-founded by JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flavio Bolsonaro.... Read more »

Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly fled Brazil for the US after failing to surrender his passports under a Supreme Court order, with police investigating his whereabouts.... Read more »

The Iranian president and leaders across the Americas congratulate Brazil's Lula on historic reelection.... Read more »

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a landmark victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff.... Read more »

Chile enacts a law designating January 7 as the annual Day of Chilean-Palestinian Friendship and Solidarity.... Read more »

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has warned that the island's shores are an "inhospitable environment for those who make it to our shores with hostile purposes and lust for domination.”... Read more »

Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly fled Brazil for the US after failing to surrender his passports under a Supreme Court order, with police investigating his whereabouts.... Read more »

Pezeshkian has thanked Putin for Moscow’s political and economic support for Tehran, while the two leaders discussed regional tensions and bilateral ties.... Read more »

The Russian president has censured attempts by the West to weaponize global energy markets.... Read more »

Pezeshkian would depart for the Russian capital on Monday evening, with his address to the summit scheduled for Tuesday.... Read more »

The crackdown was carried out by the security forces of a country that lectures other nations on democracy, free expression, and the right to assemble.... Read more »

Yahya Ali Ahmed al-Raee, the speaker of the Yemeni House of Representatives, says that the European Parliament’s stance on Yemen is nothing more than a political cover for the war crimes being perpetrated by Saudi Arabia.... Read more »

Elon Musk says the Ukrainian military forces "violated" the terms of service of Starlink, misusing the satellite internet network to kill people.... Read more »

France reportedly asked telecom operators to be ready to implement social media restrictions during protests.... Read more »

Esmaeil Baghaei contrasted Friedrich Merz’s open endorsement of Israeli aggression in June 2025 with recent warnings by Germany against renewed attacks on Iran. ... Read more »

The crackdown was carried out by the security forces of a country that lectures other nations on democracy, free expression, and the right to assemble.... Read more »