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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 »

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the US government. See the complete files here. Eight months before a deadly... Read more »

As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen suicide bombers to wreak havoc across Syria.... Read more »

The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after he returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism... Read more »

Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5. This June, British oligarch Damon Buffini stepped down as deputy... Read more »

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism.  It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors and... Read more »

A family of Iranian legal permanent residents was abducted and confined to an ICE prison after US government-backed regime change activist Masih Alinejad campaigned for their deportation. The family committed no crime, and was only targeted by Alinejad for their bloodline. A family of Iranian legal permanent residents of the... Read more »

Iran’s IRGC has been striking various US targets and an average of two to three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on a daily basis, as gas prices hit working class Americans where it hurts. On this episode of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh explains how these... Read more »

The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements.  The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in the Israel Lobby’s face, and caused all of his... Read more »

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continue to target US vessels and tankers violating the Strait of Hormuz blockade, as its advanced weapons program has aided its allies in Yemen to become the region's second most feared ballistic missile power. On this episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert... Read more »

Ansarallah-led government forces have liberated the entire west coast of Yemen from Saudi-backed forces, triggering an Israeli media meltdown. Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have taken out a series of US assets and began firing new-generation electro-optical missiles at American warships. Also, Iran captured a US Dive LD... Read more »

Recent escalations in West Asia including Iranian missile strikes on US targets, Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon, and Yemeni territorial breakthroughs—are actively spiking global oil prices, defying established US political narratives. Alongside these military developments, the critical issue of information warfare is addressed, specifically debunking viral disinformation that falsely equates... Read more »

The United States is confronting a severe strategic crisis characterized by critically depleted air defense munitions and newly confirmed, extensive damage to its military and intelligence facilities from precise Iranian strikes. This military vulnerability is exacerbated by escalating regional instability, including a collapsing ceasefire in Lebanon, ongoing conflict in Yemen,... Read more »

The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan.  The Man Behind It All The Trump administration announced Wednesday... Read more »

Israeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic offensive in a desperate attempt to pressure the Iranians to open to Strait of Hormuz. In the latest episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh... Read more »

From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces.  But how safe is it to entrust your life and most intimate details to agents from spying... 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 »

Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likely be intrigued, bemused or simply horrified at humanity’s headlong drive towards →... Read more »

Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious →... Read more »

A security researcher’s map revealed more locations of Flock devices than any other. Flock is trying to take it down. The post Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“It is all hands on deck to stop this full-blown constitutional crisis,” said the head of NIAC Action, which filed suit on behalf of Iranian Americans. The post Congress Failed Again to Stop Trump’s Iran War. This Group Is Trying Through the Courts. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is pushing to aggressively expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert, which advocates say would decimate its vast biodiversity. The post Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The U.S. militarization of Guam has left its residents living with a legacy of pollution, environmental degradation, and cultural loss. Other Pacific islands may be next. The post As the Pentagon Expands Across the Pacific, Guam Offers a Warning appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The mockumentary “Lords of War” shows how Pentagon money gets funneled into $20-million-plus paydays for weapons company CEOs — and their lavish lifestyles. The post Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous War Profiteers appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution. The post The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani. The post DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

An additional 66 U.S. personnel were wounded in action this month, pushing the official count of Iran war casualties above 850. The post Another U.S. Soldier Is Dead as Iran War Casualties Rise appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Leavenworth fought ICE’s reopening of a CoreCivic-run prison to detain immigrants through every available avenue. It still wasn’t enough. The post How a Small Kansas City Became a Critical Hub for Trump’s Deportation Regime Against Its Will 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 »

Video reading by Tim Foley: Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if you don’t think about it... Read more »

I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more.... Read more »

The most obvious and imminent threat right now is not that artificial intelligence will outsmart us and escape our control, it’s that it is being fully controlled by humans who are stupid and evil.... Read more »

Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity.... Read more »

I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s.... Read more »

Not everyone will remember it but there was a time when this was almost impossible to imagine.... Read more »

This is a Trump-appointed US government official knowingly lying to the public so they will continue to support Israel’s US-backed abuses of the Palestinian people.... Read more »

People who defend Israel’s actions in Gaza consistently act in bad faith. Of course they do. They support genocide. They’re bad people.... Read more »

American oligarchs kicking an artist off a tour for supporting Palestine is a very in-your-face illustration of why mainstream culture is so vapid and fake these days.... 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 »

With Keir Starmer expected to fall on his sword shortly, here is my take on the conundrum facing Andy Burnham, indeed any and every British PM. The true nature of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the United States has far more to do with American financiers’ willingness to keep borrowing to... Read more »

Έχουμε μια επιτακτική ευθύνη. Το υπάρχον σύστημα γεννά τις κοινωνικές και οικολογικές κρίσεις του 21ου αιώνα. Όπου κοιτάξουμε, βλέπουμε την τραγική αντίφαση. Έχουμε αναπτύξει εκπληκτικές νέες τεχνολογίες και συλλογική ικανότητα να παράγουμε περισσότερα τρόφιμα, περισσότερα αγαθά απ’ όσα χρειαζόμαστε ή όσα μπορεί να αντέξει ο πλανήτης. Ταυτόχρονα, δισεκατομμύρια υποφέρουν από... Read more »

Some claim that the threats Europe is facing, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can create the momentum toward political union that the euro crisis and then the pandemic failed to generate. Right or wrong, one thing is clear: a functional defense union requires political union, and NATO’s existence is... Read more »

«Να πέσει ο Μητσοτάκης!», προσεύχεται η συντριπτική πλειοψηφία. «Πότε θα ενωθείτε να τον ρίξετε;», μας προκαλούν. «Γιατί περιχαρακώνεστε στο ξεπερασμένο σχήμα Αριστερά-Δεξιά;», μας ρωτούν. «Και τί κάνετε για την ενότητα της Αριστεράς;», απαιτούν να μάθουν οι πιο αριστεροί. Πρόκειται για ερωτήματα που λαμβάνουμε σοβαρά υπ’ όψιν στο ΜέΡΑ25 σε μια... Read more »

As you might expect from a wanted war criminal presiding over a genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2026 UN speech was full of bullshit that wouldn’t have been out of place in a fascist speech from the 1930s or 40s. But we’ll save you the excruciating experience of hearing it all, and... Read more »

In an era where player transfers between clubs have become an integral part of modern football, it has become rare for fans to see a player spend the majority of his career wearing the colours of a single team, let alone for his name to become synonymous with that club... Read more »

The crowd at a Holborn and St Pancras by-election hustings organised by the ultra-Zionist ‘Board of Deputies’ has heckled Green Party leader Zack Polanski – even though he has recently been accused of going soft on pro-Israeli racism for wanting to dilute an anti-Zionism conference motion. Zionism is antisemitic Polanski... Read more »

‘Former’ terrorist-turned-Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa‘s new government pick has been accused of posing next to severed heads before his appointment. Sharaa, who used to be known as Mohammad al-Julani and ran the al-Qaeda-ISIS hybrid in Syria, appointed Mohammed Sobhi al-Nashef to run his regime’s ‘Digital Media’ department. But Armenian-Syrian refugee... Read more »

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas had to give his UN speech remotely this year due to the Donald Trump regime denying him a visa. And apart from calling out this “unlawful, punitive” decision, he slammed Israel’s “state terrorism” and urged the world to help end Israeli crimes and ensure peace in... Read more »

Manchester Green Party (MGP) councillors have claimed a momentous victory against notorious US tech firm Palantir. It regards their motion before Manchester City Council (MCC), which passed. The MCC motion, titled ‘No to Palantir in the NHS‘, passed within a day of debate on 23 September. The motion follows nationwide... Read more »

The Israeli makers of a prize-winning documentary exposing the confessions of occupation soldiers engaged in the Gaza genocide are to put their film online, for free, for all to watch. Yuval Avraham and Rachel Szor, who also made Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, have been targeted by violent riots and calls for... Read more »

A major new report argues that the UK is a “Hostage Nation,” trapped by a set of rules we wrote ourselves. It urges our politicians to rip up the ransom note and implement the escape plan. The report launched on 22 September. It explodes the myth that “we can’t afford... Read more »

A new Dispatches programme tonight on Channel 4 exposes the depth and breadth of what the UK government knew and knows about Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Dispatches Among other things, its trailer suggests that the programme has evidence of the Foreign Office’s explicit knowledge of Israel’s genocide and war crimes when... Read more »

We’ve finished the latest version of the NYC ABC “Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War” and it’s available for viewing (and download) by clicking on the link below. https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/nycabc_polprislisting_september-2026_legal_v02.pdf This update includes updated mini-bios, illustrations, and address... Read more... Read more »

Athanatoi, Greece — Residents of a small village in Northern Crete, near Herakleion, are fighting the Greek government’s plan to convert a disused factory into a reception center for people on the move, escalating a monthslong standoff that pits xenophobic... Read more... Read more »

In the following narrative, anarchists who participated as internationalist volunteers in the fight to defend Rojava against the Islamic State describe the role that the anti-militarist song “Už Nikdy” (“Never Again”) by the Czechoslovakian hardcore band Kritická Situace played in... Read more... Read more »

From the 18th to 21st September, Konflikt organized an international conference against militarism and war. The conference took place at a particularly turbulent time. The wars in Ukraine, Iran, Palestine, and Sudan are affecting people far beyond their borders, while... Read more... Read more »

The wounded fighter adopted the name of the martyr Assi Zeineddine, a native of Beirut’s Burj al-Barajneh who was martyred in 1983 alongside two of his comrades from the “Covenant of the Ten” — a group led by Fouad Shukr... Read more... Read more »

You’ve previously approached reality through fiction, yet in this book you turn to direct testimonies, diary entries, and documentary forms. Has Gaza led you to conclude that certain experiences can no longer be adequately represented within the framework of fiction?... Read more... Read more »

tl;dr: the merch is at the bottom. On July 21, during the gathering or “seedbed” entitled “War against Humanity (Populations and Nature Under Siege),” called for by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas,... Read more... Read more »

A short report on the Varna 2026 anti-war conference. Author Konflikt Konflikt Submitted by Devrim on September 24, 2026 From the 18th to 21st September, Konflikt organized an international conference against militarism and war. The conference took place at a... Read more... Read more »

Ewan Palmer @ The Daily Beast: Trump’s Insane ‘Love Me’ Ad Comes With Shocking Disclaimer The ad was aired during primetime on Fox News. Oliver Darcy @ Status: The Source Behind The Ban The anonymous source behind one of the... Read more... Read more »

Author: Fawaz Murtada from Sudanese Anarchists GatheringTitle: How Should We Understand the Political Process in Sudan Today and the Experience of the Sudanese-Sudanese Dialogue?Date: September 23 2026 A few days ago, Sudan’s political and military authorities came together and presented a proposal for what they call a “Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue,” aimed... Read more »

Author: Shane RadliffTitle: Samuel Konkin III (SEK3) on Rayo and VonuSubtitle: Different Approaches?Date: April 25th, 2017Source: https://theconsciousresistance.com/samuel-konkin-iii-sek3-rayo-vonu-different-approaches/ If you were a libertarian/anarchist in the 1960s and 70s, southern California was the place to be. This bustling community was home to many ideological figures who largely developed the theory, and practice,... Read more »

Author: Leonardo CaffoTitle: Rethinking LampedusaSubtitle: Conceptual Architecture and the Philosophy of Europe’s ParadoxDate: 2026Source: Anthropology (journal of) 2026 Abstract Lampedusa is habitually narrated as a site of emergency, yet its condition is structural rather than exceptional. This paper argues that the island functions as a paradox-object through which Europe’s constitutive... Read more »

Author: Confederación Nacional del TrabajoTitle: Ceuta, Morocco and the Weaponisation of the Working ClassDate: 3 August 2026Source: Retrieved on 21st September 2026 from www.iclcit.org First of all, we’d like to state our solidarity with the families and friends of all those who have died and those who are imprisoned. The... Read more »

Author: Solidarity CollectivesTitle: Interview with ‘Priama Diia’ union membersDate: 14 September 2026Source: Retrieved on 21st September 2026 from www.solidaritycollectives.org Anti-authoritarian self-organization in Ukraine today encompasses a wide range of initiatives, projects, organizations, ideas, and practices. Today, we would like to present a short interview with members of the “Priama Diia”... Read more »

Author: Tara KnightTitle: Going RogueSubtitle: & Love Outside CommunityDate: 2025Notes: Written by Tara Knight. Trans Black Heritage flag design, cover & book design by Joy Frown/Rhiza.Source: <www.barnesandnoble.com/w/going-rogue-tara-knight/1147667531> Going Rogue & Love Outside Community — Tara Knight * Going <br>Rogue & Love Outside Community Tara Knight * Contents 1. [[#going-rogue][Going Rogue]]... Read more »

Author: Derrick BrozeTitle: Vertical and Horizontal AgorismDate: July 7th, 2017Source: https://theconsciousresistance.com/vertical-horizontal-agorism/ “As more people reject the State’s mystifications — nationalism, pseudo-Economics, false threats, and betrayed political promises — the Counter- Economy grows both vertically and horizontally. Horizontally, it involves more and more people who turn more and more of their... Read more »

Author: AerisTitle: Toward an Economy of Relationships (Anarchist Mutual Credit System)Date: May 8th, 2026Notes: Note: I haven’t updated my blog in quite some time, so my thoughts may vary from what I’ve written here. To any new readers, reproductive labor is the work that sustains and reproduces people and communities,... Read more »

Author: Derrick BrozeTitle: Towards PanarchySubtitle: Anarchy Without AdjectivesDate: May 1st, 2015Source: https://theconsciousresistance.com/towards-panarchy-anarchy-without-adjectives/ Since “Anarchy” is one of the most maligned and misunderstood words in the English language, we are going to use a very simple definition that gets straight to the point for the purposes of this conversation. Simply put,... Read more »

Anarchism in Cuba: Historic Trajectory and the Clash With Castroism... Read more »

A German Anarchist in the Cuban Revolution: Augustin Souchy and the (Mis)remembering of Cooperativism in Cuba... Read more »

The Pet Voter : An Incident of the Recent Elections... Read more »

A Humble Reminder : To the Propertied Classes ['We have fed you all for a thousand years']... Read more »

And Now? [Against CNT collaborationism, June 1937]... Read more »

Where I Stand... Read more »

The Anarchists in Spain : A Reply To Emma Goldman... Read more »

Remembering Bartolomé Flores Cano and Pedro Cano Garrido... Read more »

Nestor Makhno (1889-1934), Anarcho-communist activist and fighter... Read more »

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty urged “sustained and unhindered” humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip on Thursday and the start of early recovery efforts to provide livelihoods for Palestinians, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Anadolu reports. Abdelatty made the remarks while participating in a ministerial roundtable... Read more »

During a closed-door meeting at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged the US and Iran to return to dialogue to end their war. China has “always believed that the sovereignty and security of all countries should be respected” and has played a constructive role in easing... Read more »

The United Arab Emirates on Thursday suspended flights by Iranian air carriers to and from the country until further notice, according to the state-run WAM news agency. The General Civil Aviation Authority said the decision took effect on Thursday, Sept. 24. In a statement carried by WAM, the authority said... Read more »

Arab member of the Israeli Knesset Ayman Odeh on Thursday criticized the Central Elections Committee’s decision to bar Arab electoral lists from running in the Oct. 27 parliamentary election, Anadolu reports. Israeli Army Radio quoted Odeh as saying: “All the Kahanists are allowed (to run the elections), but representatives of... Read more »

The Israeli army uprooted 400 olive trees and bulldozed 31 dunams (3.1 hectares, 7.6 acres) of Palestinian-owned land Thursday in Beit Rima in northwestern Ramallah in the occupied West Bank as harvest season approaches, Anadolu reports. Sources told Anadolu Agency that bulldozers cleared the land and uprooted the trees, two... Read more »

In this week’s Palestine This Week, Nasim Ahmed and Muhammad Shehada discuss allegations that Israel is destroying evidence of war crimes in Gaza, the growing use of AI to select targets and the disturbing revelations in the documentary NAZA. They also examine genocidal rhetoric and Israeli exceptionalism, plans for Gaza’s... Read more »

Israeli analysts and figures criticized the global standing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel as he visits New York this week to address the UN General Assembly, saying he will hold few meetings during his short stay, as he is now internationally shunned, Anadolu reports. One analyst said US... Read more »

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stressed the importance of Iraq continuing to play a “constructive role” in strengthening the collective security of Arab countries Thursday and safeguarding the resources of the region’s peoples amid ongoing regional tensions, Anadolu reports. Sisi made the remarks during a meeting with Ammar al-Hakim, leader... Read more »

Twenty-eight percent of Israeli police officers have resigned since Itamar Ben-Gvir became national security minister in December 2022, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Thursday. The newspaper said the figures were presented and documented during closed-door discussions held against the backdrop of a manpower shortage in the Israeli police force. The data... Read more »

Hours after Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., delivered a resounding defeat to President Trump early this morning, restraining his administration from barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and holding that the ban is likely unconstitutional, the administration defied the order... Read more »

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — legislation to stop artificial intelligence (AI) oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control and to pause advanced AI development until we have put in place rigorous federal testing and oversight to ensure AI... Read more »

Today, Groundwork Collaborative and Reset Tech released a new report, “The Hidden Costs of AI for American Households,” which exposes how artificial intelligence (AI) is already increasing costs for every American in nearly every line of the budget – and how that toll will only grow.AI is already increasing prices... Read more »

Donald Trump used his platform at the UN General Assembly to brag about the U.S’s fossil fueled imperialism. From Iran, to Venezuela, to Greenland, Trump’s actions follow a familiar path: use military force to dominate sovereign nations, let Big Oil cash in, and leave ordinary people to bear the costs... Read more »

Today, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on governments at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to “adopt a national plan to transition away from fossil fuels aligned with 1.5 degrees”.In response, Romain Ioualalen, Global Policy lead at Oil Change International, said: “The message from UNSG Guterres is... Read more »

As UN Secretary-General makes final UN General Assembly speech, global campaigners say the call to “Make Polluters Pay” has gone mainstream. In his powerful speech, he reaffirmed the importance of national governments adopting national plans to transition away from fossil fuels, aligned with the 1.5°C goal, and made a clear... Read more »

According to Bloomberg on Monday, California State Attorney General Rob Bonta and other state attorneys general have reached a settlement of their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. According to the report, the settlement creates a nominally independent editorial board to oversee CNN... Read more »

In a possibly more than averagely batshit news cycle, the apocalyptic clusterfuck of clowns "governing" this country got up to some serious weirdness last week. As the chief clown waffled on the best way to kill us all - AI, nukes, nukes in space, forever war, hissy fits, agitprop up... Read more »

On Friday, a coalition of 15 civil-society and press-freedom organizations demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release renowned Miami-based journalist Luis Galeano. The letter’s signers include Free Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, PEN America, Reporters... 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 »

Dr David Halpin, a redoubtable campaigner over the murder of Dr David Kelly, and a friend of this blog for over twenty years, has died. He will be missed. His sister Mary was for many years an invaluable commenter here and occasional researcher for me. Unfortunately about ten years ago... Read more »

We still don’t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed. Lord Young is thinking about it. Last Thursday’s hearing went about as well as it could go. The UK government produced no written argument and barely seemed to be trying. They moved in... Read more »

After eight months of obstructionism from the Labour Friends of Israel government of the UK, tomorrow is the day on which the Scottish Court of Session will finally decide whether to go ahead with the judicial review it granted in January, or kowtow to Downing St. I publish below two... Read more »

Between ten and five years ago, specifically in the light of Brexit, it was not in the least unusual for Scottish Independence supporters to discuss a declaration of Independence as the way forward. Debate more often centred on who should make the declaration – the Scottish parliament or some form... Read more »

Unlike the USA, where it is obsessively watched, the UK has no political culture of scrutinising the political composition of its Supreme Court. This is a big mistake. The UK Supreme Court has been deliberately and openly, even ostentatiously, packed with hard-right judges selected on the specific criterion that they... Read more »

The Zinn Education Project’s Freedom to Teach and Learn Survey builds on and updates those findings by documenting, 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... 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 »

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 »

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The post One Hundred Years of High... 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 »

The America433+ coalition, led by the Resistance Rangers and including the Zinn Education Project, is hosting an in-person and virtual event to introduce the Get Loud Toolkit during a Climate Week NYC session on the Staten Island Ferry. The post Get Loud: Defend Truthtelling at the National Parks appeared first... Read more »

Studying the Constitution is essential — especially now, as constitutional rights are increasingly under attack. We offer activities to teach truthfully about the Constitution on Constitition Day and all year long. The post Teach Truth on Constitution Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

We are witnessing a vicious attack on voting rights, democratic participation, and truthful education. History reminds us that we must organize to protect the gains won through generations of struggle. The post Call to Action: Teach Voting Rights in an Age of Authoritarianism appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

Thanks to a donation by Seven Stories Press, we can offer 100 individual copies to public school teachers and teacher educators of the new edition of A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki.  The post <i>A Different Mirror</i>: Free Copy for Teaching Stories... 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 »

The General Assembly speeches reveal a dual crisis in the international system. The first concerns the absence of justice, manifested most clearly in Palestine; the second relates to a shift in the international balance of power, evident in the wars in Iran and Ukraine. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned... Read more »

Once again, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stressed that there is no other option to the two-state paradigm. Speaking at a meeting hosted by France, Canada, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Guterres noted that there was a contradiction between diplomatic support... Read more »

A missile fired from Iranian soil struck the United Arab Emirates on March 16, 2026. It was not a stray consequence of a distant war. It marked the culmination of a project that began in a Paris suburb in January 1979, when Ruhollah Khomeini boarded a plane for Tehran carrying... Read more »

Nothing exposes the fragility of totalitarian diplomacy quite like the panic that precedes submission. When one reads leaks from media outlets affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—chief among them Tasnim—lamenting the fury of “hardliners” over Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s meetings in New York with envoys of the Trump... Read more »

When Israel barred international journalists from Gaza in October 2023, the explanation was for their “safety” claiming that reporters could not be protected in an active war zone. One year after the one-sided ceasefire, Israel’s excuse has been invalidated, yet the ban remains. Leaving behind, unchecked, the largest graveyard on... Read more »

On 9 March 2026, Bahrain’s Bapco declared force majeure after an attack disrupted operations at its Sitra refinery complex. The incident came amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, as energy infrastructure and shipping routes across the Gulf were drawn directly into the conflict. Reuters reported that Bahrain was among the... Read more »

‘Page Six Hollywood’ recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable. The article described an increasingly open struggle between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel forces within the entertainment industry.  On one side are... Read more »

Much is being said right now about the dangers posed by AI and the possibility that it could ultimately wipe out humanity. Some exp erts, such as Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead and one of the AI industry’s leading safety researchers, have gone much further, warning publicly that there... Read more »

On 21st September, Republican Senate candidates Mike Rogers in Michigan and Ashley Hinson in Iowa called for a swift end to the Iran war after previously supporting President Donald Trump’s authority to conduct the campaign. Both cited economic pressures on households. Hinson’s statement followed her vote against a House measure... 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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"Brazilian democracy belongs to Brazilians. Brazil will continue to be a sovereign country. No one, no one will take us away from this path," President Lula said.... Read more »

“When I look at this bill, it almost feels like they're saying, ‘Hey, vampires want to come to Baltimore. We want to lay the groundwork to only allow the right vampires to come into the city”... What if we just did ‘No vampires’”?... Read more »

“My nine-year-old daughter, who can't sleep in her bedroom at night… she isn't the same person. My 19-year-old won't come out of his room some days, because his stomach hurts so bad. My 16-year-old has migraines and he's puking every morning.”... Read more »

The report indicates that Washington seeks to reduce China's influence and expand its control over Latin America.... Read more »

“When it comes to Black people, we need to have our own vision of public safety, because what's being offered by even the left, the Democratic Socialists, is willing to push our issues aside…”... Read more »

A “forensic method” scientists call unreliable helped convict Moira Akers of killing her newborn. Prosecutors planned to use it again—even though the Maryland Department of Health has officially disavowed the practice.... Read more »

The settlement will place CNN and CBS News under control of a group chosen by the conglomerate’s board of directors.... Read more »

Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat competed for Palestine's national teams. Now, in broken wheelchairs in Gaza's tent camps, they describe famine, displacement, and a world that stopped asking after them.... Read more »

With Brazil’s high-stakes elections just around the corner, far-right leaders are weaponizing free speech ‘to erode press freedom,” influence the election results, and “have more control over the public debate and less scrutiny in society.’... Read more »

"Brazilian democracy belongs to Brazilians. Brazil will continue to be a sovereign country. No one, no one will take us away from this path," President Lula said.... Read more »

“When I look at this bill, it almost feels like they're saying, ‘Hey, vampires want to come to Baltimore. We want to lay the groundwork to only allow the right vampires to come into the city”... What if we just did ‘No vampires’”?... Read more »

“My nine-year-old daughter, who can't sleep in her bedroom at night… she isn't the same person. My 19-year-old won't come out of his room some days, because his stomach hurts so bad. My 16-year-old has migraines and he's puking every morning.”... Read more »

The report indicates that Washington seeks to reduce China's influence and expand its control over Latin America.... Read more »

“When it comes to Black people, we need to have our own vision of public safety, because what's being offered by even the left, the Democratic Socialists, is willing to push our issues aside…”... Read more »

A “forensic method” scientists call unreliable helped convict Moira Akers of killing her newborn. Prosecutors planned to use it again—even though the Maryland Department of Health has officially disavowed the practice.... Read more »

The settlement will place CNN and CBS News under control of a group chosen by the conglomerate’s board of directors.... Read more »

Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat competed for Palestine's national teams. Now, in broken wheelchairs in Gaza's tent camps, they describe famine, displacement, and a world that stopped asking after them.... Read more »

With Brazil’s high-stakes elections just around the corner, far-right leaders are weaponizing free speech ‘to erode press freedom,” influence the election results, and “have more control over the public debate and less scrutiny in society.’... Read more »

“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’re angry at what they see as the excesses of woke culture and liberal... Read more »

Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is a member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, working on a strategy with the African Union to address the risks and benefits of AI for the continent. African countries face the threat of “colonial AI,” says Ndiaye. “When we talk about colonialism historically, that involves... Read more »

Leaders of top artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, testified to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, urging nations to adopt international standards on the development of AI. This comes after AI agents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have gone rogue in... Read more »

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ordering the administration to restore their White House access for two weeks. CBS, Fox News and NBC had suspended their coverage of President Trump Monday after he expelled CNN from the White House TV press... Read more »

Judge Blocks White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, Tech Leaders Urge U.N. to Regulate AI as Australia Says Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked Website, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar Introduce “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act”, Iranian President Condemns Trump’s Threat to “Annihilate” His Country, Navy Admits Eight... Read more »

2026 is already the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. Four people died over the last month in Pennsylvania amid an ongoing outbreak in the state, which had not seen a measles-related death in at least 35 years. All four... Read more »

In the wake of devastating flash floods triggered by glacial collapse in the Himalayas, Nepal is demanding climate reparations from polluter countries as it embarks upon the grueling process of rebuilding. Over 1,400 bodies have been recovered from the disaster, with around 6,000 others still missing. Nepal’s government estimates that... Read more »

On Monday, the South African delegation to the United Nations, in collaboration with Progressive International and the Hague Group, hosted an event in honor of the U.N. Charter at the historic Riverside Church in New York City, less than a day before the U.N. General Assembly convened for its 81st... Read more »

The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week in New York City. On its opening day, President Trump in his address to all 193 U.N. member states threatened to annihilate Iran. “This is probably a new low in U.N. history,” says Trita Parsi of the Quincy... 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 »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260821.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New York Times (8/15/26) This week on CounterSpin: The US news media marked the anniversary of August 2021’s nominal withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. A New York Times story explained that Taliban flags were “flying high along... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260814.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Al Jazeera (8/12/26) This week on CounterSpin: It was not a shock when Donald Trump’s Justice Department greenlit the merger of Paramount—owned by the scion of the Trump-adjacent Ellison family—with Warner Bros Discovery. Who cares if a single entity... Read more »

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260807.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CT Mirror (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: If you look for media coverage about the Farm Bill that’s currently passing through Congress, you can find it–at sites like agriculture.com or agri-pulse.com, or those outlets that have “ag” sections. If you... Read more »

  60 Minutes announced a batch of new hires to replace a number of staffers fired by CBS network commissar Bari Weiss, with the most prominent addition being longtime conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (Washington Post, 7/28/26). 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton—brought in by Weiss from Vanity... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260731.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   NPR (7/16/26) This week on CounterSpin: “In Primetime Speech, Trump Doesn’t Provide Evidence for Illegal Voting” was the temperate headline NPR put on a story about Trump’s recent East Room speech that, they allowed, “included many baseless claims”... Read more »

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In the early months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the streets of New York were filled with protests. Hundreds of people were arrested, bridges and tunnels were blocked; the Statue of Liberty was at one point taken over. In the ensuing years, with Trump’s repression of the movement for Palestine—deporting,... Read more »

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on the defensive when he took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. His country is facing growing condemnation from all sides: In September, 11 European countries and Canada announced a joint plan to sanction Israel’s West Bank settlements, and in... Read more »

This article has been republished from Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Follow Autonomy News on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, and LinkedIn. Dr. Heidi Overton, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next head of the FDA, opened a Wednesday confirmation hearing before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and... Read more »

President Trump’s mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler: If he can’t have the toys he wants, he’ll try to break them and make sure no one else can have them, either. Thousands of furious DC-area residents and Kennedy Center patrons gathered in... Read more »

A few days ago, an X user called роман—which is Russian for the name “Roman”—posted a purported Mother Jones video that reported that the Democratic National Committee paid a whopping $259 million to Mark Thompson, the head of CNN, so the cable news network would promote “gender transition among children.”... Read more »

Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide and extreme violence. Also read part 1, part 2, and part 3 of our investigation into AI chatbots and violence. In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of... Read more »

Brandon Thomas DiSabatino is used to receiving unusual emails. DiSabatino is a poet, author, playwright, and the owner of Conveyor Belt Books, a rare and eclectic books dealer in Covington, Kentucky. A certain amount of strange correspondence is inherent in the business. But over the last two months, he has... Read more »

Bobby Williams, a third-generation Floridian and founder of a disaster relief nonprofit, was one in the crowded field of Republican candidates in Florida this summer seeking to replace Gov. Ron DeSantis. A conservative from rural Polk County, Williams’ platform centered on preserving the state’s agricultural land and halting development, including... Read more »

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday directly linked the climate crisis to everyday issues facing New Yorkers, including commutes and affordability, while urging climate-concerned individuals to align with the fast-growing movement against data centers. “The way that climate is treated in public discourse, it’s almost as if it’s... Read more »

Marcy Winograd writes that schools need to critically examine Zionism as a political ideology and that allowing students to question Zionism supports intellectual freedom and critical thinking. The post Challenging Zionism in Schools appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The National Security Agency announced it would undergo its most extensive restructuring in at least a decade. The post NSA Restructuring appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Two national activist groups, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction, announced that they are launching a campaign this November after the midterms to call for Reps. Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028. The post RootsAction and Progressive Democrats of America Urge AOC and Ro Khanna... Read more »

Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent and division counsel. She wrote a May 2002 memo to the FBI’s then-Director Robert Mueller exposing some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 conduct. Later in 2002 she was named a Person of the Year by TIME, when the magazine reported: “Coleen Rowley is... Read more »

In a video shared via social media, former immigration judge George Pappas calls on immigration judges to resign. “The time has come,” he says, “to look at the machinery you are operating, recognize its profound moral bankruptcy, and resign… The immigration courts are no longer tribunals of law. They are... Read more »

New reporting from Drop Site News found that Israeli military institutions and weapons companies are funding military research at various U.S. universities. After reviewing state and university audits, research papers, funding disclosures and other records, journalists identified more than $15 million in funding that was unreported or inconsistently reported. Research... Read more »

A new book, The Road to Medicare for All, will be released on September 4. The book provides a roadmap for making health care a right in the United States while offering arguments against scare tactics and fear mongering. The post The Road to Medicare for All appeared first on... Read more »

A report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University, “Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government ‘Quadcopter’ Use in Gaza,” does a deep dive into the use of soldier-operated ‘quadcopter’ drones that facilitate close-range attacks on civilians, including children. These drones are small, relatively inexpensive, easy to use, and... Read more »

Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s new book, Israel’… The post Israel and Its Lobby ‘Gone Rogue’ 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 »

The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2026 The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The... Read more »

Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you... Read more »

It’s real, and it’s the exact opposite of what the far right says it is. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2026 “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, asked last week, “how else... Read more »

The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? You want to destroy a million jobs? Vote Reform UK for mass unemployment: is that... Read more »

The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do... Read more »

How to alienate people from the green transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2026 We will not persuade. We will not explain. We will not listen. We know best and we will force you to comply. This, I’m sorry to say, is how the government’s climate... Read more »

Why is centrism failing so badly? Because at its heart is a mistaken idea of how politics works. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th May 2026 The biggest Brexit donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves. He gave £3.2m to the leave campaign. He justified his enthusiasm as follows:... Read more »

Why are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green party of England and... Read more »

Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change them: that’s the credo of parties such as Labour and the Democrats.... Read more »

President Donald Trump's conduct when engaging in summits, such as his ongoing one with Chinese President Xi Jinping, is "pathetic," at least according to one conservative commentator and retired professor from the US Naval War College."Once at the White House, Trump took Xi for a quick tour," wrote The Atlantic's... Read more »

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has historically disagreed with President Donald Trump — and now Trump is trying to do an end-run around her in a key case over whether immigrants can be deported to countries other than their nation of origin."The Justice Department’s emergency filing at the Supreme... Read more »

President Donald Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House this week for a multi-day event in which critics complained the president "fawned" over Xi. But one national security expert and former CIA officer is shaming Secretary of State Marco Rubio for refusing to stand up for America... Read more »

On Thursday, following a war resolutions vote that saw an unusual number of Republicans break rank and side with Democrats in an attempt to end the conflict with Iran, an expert from a leading think tank asserted that the issue may be “ending” the presidency of President Donald Trump once... Read more »

The investigation into President Donald Trump involving the theft of government documents, including classified information, was deemed restricted because Judge Aileen Cannon issued a permanent injunction barring the Justice Department from releasing it outside the department. Now it seems there's a bit of a hitch in that. Cannon was asked... Read more »

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that China has meddled in past American elections and is planning on interfering in the 2026 midterms — and yet he himself is unintentionally and quietly undermining these claims."Trump has long cast doubt on the security of U.S. elections, including by attacking mail-in voting... Read more »

The thing about Donald Trump is that he's bad at being president. I don't mean tyrannical or fascist or criminal or corrupt. Those adjectives obviously apply, but I mean just plain bad. The basic job of being president is reflecting the will of the majority of the American people as... Read more »

Popular comedian Chelsea Handler, who has previously aroused political controversy for everything from discussing having abortions to roasting MAGA comedians like Tony Hinchcliffe, on Thursday skewered Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for continuing to serve in the Senate even though he appears to be barely alive."Chelsea Handler unleashed on Mitch McConnell’s'“return'... Read more »

Capitol Hill reporter Matt Laslo had a conversation with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in which the gubernatorial candidate revealed he doesn't "No, I read very little," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Laslo, who wrote the report for Raw Story. "I want my own opinion, not somebody else's."The question is often... Read more »

“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” ~ Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) “National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly. They have become the magic words that can make... Read more »

Smoke rose over Riyadh last week as Houthi forces launched strikes on the Saudi capital, as well as on crucial oil infrastructure in major coastal cities. It has been a disastrous month for Saudi Arabia as Houthi forces have made substantial gains along the west coast of Yemen. The Yemeni... Read more »

The Donald pulled no punches at the UN today. It was all hell and brimstone on the Iranian War file. Once again, and perhaps for the 15th time, he promised to “annihilate” a nation that arose originally upwards of 2,700 years ago: I have a big decision to make. Will... Read more »

The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah forces was about to begin when... Read more »

Reprinted from Gary Taphorn’s Substack: As we approach the three-year mark of the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel has signaled that it has every intention of continuing its massive bombing campaigns against Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and possibly other countries. And Donald Trump has signaled that he is ready... Read more »

Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Instead of six more weeks of winter, we will have at least six more weeks of war, brought to us by Secretary Hegseth and his boss, President Trump, with the help of Speaker Johnson who avoided a procedural vote, taking it upon himself to... Read more »

This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe. On September 8, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK announced their intention to introduce national restrictions,... Read more »

The three top headlines in the Sept. 18 Drudge Report said: “Blue Wave Builds, Dems 84% Chance to take House – 55% Senate, Weeks Before Midterms – EVERYTHING Getting More Expensive.” Newsweek carried a story headlined “Texas Republicans Face ‘Generational Wipeout’ Amid Disastrous Polls.” Many other publications, both in print... Read more »

After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump – Colombia, Ecuador and Peru – and was asked about US policy towards Cuba and Nicaragua, and what he... Read more »

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On 8 September, as part of a joint initiative involving twelve countries, the UK foreign secretary made a statement to the House of Commons announcing new sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Most notably, Ed Miliband condemned the ‘ethnic cleansing' taking place there. The measures he detailed will... Read more »

The small self-proclaimed state of Somaliland is aiming to become a regional player: it is now an ally of Israel and has commercial and security agreements in the Gulf. Now it's hoping for US support. - 2026/09 / article, 2026/09 Somaliland... Read more »

The dollar gives America huge power, but the international monetary system built around it is sliding into chaos, as recent US support for the yen shows. Yet replacing the dollar brings risks of its own. - 2026/09 / article... Read more »

The US left is making gains. With elections looming and his ratings tanking, Trump has revived the old communist spectre – and recast the left as a terrorist threat. - 2026/09 / article... Read more »

Emmanuel Macron leaves the Élysée in eight months. And, in keeping with the political journalism tradition whereby last-minute criticism apparently makes up for a decade of deference, the brickbats are coming thick and fast. The Economist, having once regarded him as the ‘saviour of Europe', now mocks a ‘lame duck'... Read more »

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Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed to ‘change the face of the Middle East'. But the war with Iran has created a situation that no single power can control. - 2026/09 / article... Read more »

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany has broken with its postwar military restraint: it is rearming at speed and has set its sights on becoming NATO's leading European power, with US blessing. - 2026/09 / 2026/09 germany... Read more »

Exclusive: Ed Miliband's ‘double lock’ on arms exports to Israel has made no immediate impact on the flow of weaponry to Tel Aviv. The post UK sanctions on Israel result in no extra arms export suspensions appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

‘Defensive’ refuelling of planes bombing Yemen can still cause war crimes. Just ask Keir Starmer The post What the media isn’t telling you about Burnham’s support for Saudi Arabia appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Exclusive: Disclosure comes as Labour’s candidate in Camden faces off with Greens The post Labour council’s Palantir shares soar as by-election looms appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Are fund managers investing Oxford’s money in companies linked to Israeli military operations? A tribunal will decide who has the right to know The post Oxford academic challenges secrecy around university’s endowment fund appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

A coroner’s court has been asked to investigate Israel’s aid worker massacre and review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military The post Israel killed three UK citizens. Now their families want answers appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Children and paramedics were among at least 80 civilians killed in the incident, Declassified can reveal. The post Starmer ‘complicit’ in Trump’s Yemen massacre appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Exclusive: Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank The post The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Ed Miliband’s decision to leave the military relationship with Israel intact raises serious concerns about Britain’s compliance with international law. The post How Israel’s arms industry is integrated into Britain’s military appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Peter Mandelson claimed his 2001 visit to Syria had nothing to do with “politics” yet he carried a message from Tony Blair to Bashar Assad, declassified files show  The post Blair used Mandelson to court Syrian dictator appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Unregulated companies are running a brisk trade across Japan storing and disposing unclaimed corpses, with a recent report revealing how such “cut-price morgues” are cashing in on legal loopholes to discard the nation’s dead. The business has shed light on the growing number of “lonely deaths” of elderly Japanese as... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping broke into rare laughter as his US counterpart Donald Trump showed him a framed “autopen” displayed in place of the former American leader Joe Biden’s portrait during a White House tour. The viral moment stood out against the Chinese leader’s otherwise restrained demeanour during his first... Read more »

The US president’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump had a front-row seat at a White House welcome ceremony for President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan on Thursday, wearing a dress by Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei. Trump, in a robin’s egg blue dress and matching jacket, and her 15-year-old... Read more »

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is looking into a social media allegation that dog meat was being sold illegally in Singapore. The screengrabs shared on the Facebook group Dogs Singapore appeared to show an advertisement in Vietnamese offering various cuts of dog meat. A check on Friday morning found that... Read more »

A young seal gained widespread attention on social media in China after swimming 200km to return to an island where it had lived for months following its release into the wild. This two-year-old seal marks its second return to a human-inhabited area after being freed into open seas. Internet users... Read more »

Chinese researchers have showed a handheld quantum magnetometer built for hunting submarines in a striking real-world test: it tracked a subway train rumbling beneath a city street. The device, developed by Peng Xinhua and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China, is described in a study published... Read more »

Before setting off for Washington on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping had some correspondence to attend to. Dozens of students from 10 US universities, including Harvard, had written to Xi about their experiences on an exchange trip to China this year. According to the State Council, Xi responded with a... Read more »

Hong Kong’s first five-year plan marks an unprecedented milestone not only for its economic and social development, but also for how it governs itself. The plan, which drew on 16,000 public submissions – roughly 80 per cent from ordinary citizens – is a testament to the government’s commitment to long-term... Read more »

Britain’s Newcastle University faced criticism on Thursday for awarding a sustainability professorship to Anant Ambani, the son of Asia’s richest man and owner of a scandal-hit giant wildlife centre in India. Vantara, which calls itself the world’s largest rescue centre, last month announced a major reset of its procedures following... Read more »

Hours before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the US for a high-stakes summit, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved to restrict visas for those who “engage in or facilitate” birth tourism, a practice the Trump administration has increasingly accused China of. “By restricting visa issuance of those who... Read more »

This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account. Unrivalled Xi-Trump summit analysis: get real-time updates and exclusive boots-on-the-ground reporting from our US and China bureaus. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. President Xi Jinping met US President Donald Trump... Read more »

China’s ambassador to the United States has hailed President Xi Jinping’s coming state visit as a “historic milestone” for bilateral and international relations. Xie Feng’s remarks came just as Beijing unveiled stringent new regulations on fentanyl, in a clear move to build diplomatic momentum ahead of the Xi-Trump summit in... Read more »

Tesla CEO Elon Musk described Chinese President Xi Jinping as “a great leader” and “very capable” during an interview with China’s state broadcaster on Wednesday, just hours before Xi left China for a summit with US President Donald Trump. “He seems like a great leader. Under his tenure, China has... Read more »

China’s industry minister is set to lead Anhui province, a key semiconductor hub, in the latest personnel reshuffle within the Communist Party. Li Lecheng, 61, has served as minister of industry and information technology since April 2025. State news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday that Li had been appointed the... Read more »

Beijing has appointed a new party chief in Tibet as the Communist Party shuffles regional leaders ahead of its 21st national congress. Hu Changsheng, 62, will serve as the party secretary of Tibet autonomous region, leaving his post as party secretary of Gansu province to Wu Xiaojun, 60, currently the... Read more »

Reports that Taiwanese officials have been asked to scale back visits to Washington have sparked debate over whether the island’s ties with the United States remain as “rock solid” as Taipei has maintained. The New York Times reported on Monday that some Taiwanese officials travelling to the US had been... Read more »

When Xi Jinping sits down with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, the Chinese leader’s side of the table will be filled with senior aides bringing extensive policy expertise. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Monday that Xi would pay a state visit to the United States... Read more »

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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 »

The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story A federal judge ruled today that the Trump administration must temporarily restore White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which filed a... Read more »

Americans’ feelings toward China have warmed since 2021, though views remain mostly cold, with sharp partisan and generational divides.... 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 9 ways U.S. Mormons are changing, according to Pew data Sept. 22 – Religion News Service In the news Abortion is on the... Read more »

Prediction market trading on Kalshi and Polymarket doubled from May to July, mostly due to a large uptick in sports trading.... Read more »

Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative since January. But many are unsure or unfamiliar with them.... Read more »

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Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/religion. This project includes new analysis of data from the 2023-24 U.S. Religious Landscape Study... Read more »

The 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS), on which this project is based, is a national cross-sectional survey designed by Pew Research Center and administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. It was conducted in English and Spanish from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, among a nationally representative... Read more »

About half of Latter-day Saints (48%) say most people can be trusted, compared with 34% of U.S. adults overall.... Read more »

A security researcher’s map revealed more locations of Flock devices than any other. Flock is trying to take it down. The post Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“It is all hands on deck to stop this full-blown constitutional crisis,” said the head of NIAC Action, which filed suit on behalf of Iranian Americans. The post Congress Failed Again to Stop Trump’s Iran War. This Group Is Trying Through the Courts. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is pushing to aggressively expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert, which advocates say would decimate its vast biodiversity. The post Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The U.S. militarization of Guam has left its residents living with a legacy of pollution, environmental degradation, and cultural loss. Other Pacific islands may be next. The post As the Pentagon Expands Across the Pacific, Guam Offers a Warning appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The mockumentary “Lords of War” shows how Pentagon money gets funneled into $20-million-plus paydays for weapons company CEOs — and their lavish lifestyles. The post Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous War Profiteers appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution. The post The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani. The post DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

An additional 66 U.S. personnel were wounded in action this month, pushing the official count of Iran war casualties above 850. The post Another U.S. Soldier Is Dead as Iran War Casualties Rise appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Leavenworth fought ICE’s reopening of a CoreCivic-run prison to detain immigrants through every available avenue. It still wasn’t enough. The post How a Small Kansas City Became a Critical Hub for Trump’s Deportation Regime Against Its Will appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The politics of health care are finally catching up with patients and physicians.... Read more »

In Connecticut, a collective of attorneys is working pro bono to release immigrants illegally detained by ICE.... Read more »

Last month, my little brother decided to take swimming lessons. During one of his sessions, the Israeli military opened fire.... Read more »

If Trump's assertion of ableism is successful here, that won't be the end of it.... Read more »

The President’s goal in these renamings is to glorify himself and project his vision of national identity.... Read more »

Economic restrictions have limited residents’ disposable income, making it difficult to keep family businesses afloat.... Read more »

Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.... Read more »

Be wary of people who try to frighten you into doing things.... Read more »

Colombia’s fumbled reckoning with regularization has left its migrant population vulnerable... Read more »

Hours after Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., delivered a resounding defeat to President Trump early this morning, restraining his administration from barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and holding that the ban is likely unconstitutional, the administration defied the order... Read more »

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — legislation to stop artificial intelligence (AI) oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control and to pause advanced AI development until we have put in place rigorous federal testing and oversight to ensure AI... Read more »

Today, Groundwork Collaborative and Reset Tech released a new report, “The Hidden Costs of AI for American Households,” which exposes how artificial intelligence (AI) is already increasing costs for every American in nearly every line of the budget – and how that toll will only grow.AI is already increasing prices... Read more »

Donald Trump used his platform at the UN General Assembly to brag about the U.S’s fossil fueled imperialism. From Iran, to Venezuela, to Greenland, Trump’s actions follow a familiar path: use military force to dominate sovereign nations, let Big Oil cash in, and leave ordinary people to bear the costs... Read more »

Today, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on governments at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to “adopt a national plan to transition away from fossil fuels aligned with 1.5 degrees”.In response, Romain Ioualalen, Global Policy lead at Oil Change International, said: “The message from UNSG Guterres is... Read more »

As UN Secretary-General makes final UN General Assembly speech, global campaigners say the call to “Make Polluters Pay” has gone mainstream. In his powerful speech, he reaffirmed the importance of national governments adopting national plans to transition away from fossil fuels, aligned with the 1.5°C goal, and made a clear... Read more »

According to Bloomberg on Monday, California State Attorney General Rob Bonta and other state attorneys general have reached a settlement of their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. According to the report, the settlement creates a nominally independent editorial board to oversee CNN... Read more »

In a possibly more than averagely batshit news cycle, the apocalyptic clusterfuck of clowns "governing" this country got up to some serious weirdness last week. As the chief clown waffled on the best way to kill us all - AI, nukes, nukes in space, forever war, hissy fits, agitprop up... Read more »

On Friday, a coalition of 15 civil-society and press-freedom organizations demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release renowned Miami-based journalist Luis Galeano. The letter’s signers include Free Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, PEN America, Reporters... Read more »

Are women as strong as men? According to science writer Starre Vartan, in some cases, they are stronger. She argues that scientific research over the last several decades shows that culture shapes strength as much as hormones — and that much of what we presume about sex differences, strength, and... Read more »

Elites, especially in tech, over at least the last decade have espoused repugnant ideas arguing 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... Read more »

Calling 911 can save lives. But all too often phoning the emergency hotline leads to maiming or death at the hands of the police. Rebecca Neusteter describes the origins of the emergency response system as a means of quashing social unrest, out of the urban uprisings of the 1960s. Rebecca... Read more »

Some of the most important struggles for health justice have taken place in New York City — from the Young Lords to ACT UP, from battles to make school lunches free to the Fight for $15 for low wage workers. Public health scholar Nicholas Freudenberg discusses the lessons he’s gleaned... Read more »

We live our lives often through the things we buy — presuming the more we have, the happier we’ll be. Have we always thought this way? Economist Mark Joseph Stelzner examines the need for ever more consumption under capitalism — and reflects on what our lives might be like if... Read more »

Almost 98% of all state executions in the U.S. are conducted by lethal injection, purportedly a quick and painless death. Corinna Barrett Lain states nothing could be further from the truth — but that it’s in the interests of the killing state that we imagine it that way. Corinna Barrett... Read more »

Why do poor, often sick, rural people vote for Republicans even after they slash funding for Medicaid and close rural hospitals? Michael Shepherd describes how conservative politicians and media have successfully built support for those cuts by claiming programs like Medicaid only help city dwellers, people of color, and immigrants.... Read more »

When we think of world makers, we’re unlikely to picture a flower. Yet flowers completely transformed our planet, giving us rain forests, altering coastlines, producing the food we eat, and enticing our pre-human ancestors to climb down from the trees. And they did that partially through reshaping the formerly adversarial... Read more »

The struggle for labor across the color line has often been credited to white activists. However, as sociologist Cedric de Leon argues, the black labor movement, independently organized outside of the official union movement, propelled such efforts. He discusses the black labor movement’s divisions, including in the face of the... Read more »

World Maritime Day: Practical steps for cleaner seas... Read more »

China has become the world's largest source of international tourists and a major destination for global travelers, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.... Read more »

Israel's Central Elections Committee voted on Wednesday to disqualify an Arab party and two left-wing lawmakers from running in the October 27 election, amid mounting tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, continued restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza and plans for settlement expansion in the West Bank.... Read more »

Iran and the United States ​remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, as the two sides held their first known indirect talks since a ceasefire collapsed in July.... Read more »

Britain returned 12 cultural relics and artworks to China at a handover ceremony held at the Chinese Embassy in Britain on Wednesday evening.... Read more »

German auto industry executives and experts have called for deeper cooperation with China on new energy vehicles (NEVs), batteries, artificial intelligence (AI) and automated driving, saying the two countries could draw on their respective strengths as the global auto industry undergoes a rapid technological shift.... Read more »

Rivals or partners? The truth of China-US tech relations... Read more »

How AI-powered digital twins enable personalized healthcare... Read more »

World leaders called for stronger international safeguards and oversight on AI on Tuesday during the general debate of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly, while also highlighting the need to balance innovation, security and cooperation.... Read more »

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Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a welcome ceremony hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday afternoon for the state visit at the invitation of US President Donald Trump. Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, received a rare planeside greeting by Trump and his wife, Melania Trump.... Read more »

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Dialogue and cooperation between China and the US — the world's two largest economies — is essential, particularly in the energy sector, said Adnan Z. Amin, chair of the officers' council of the World Energy Council.... Read more »

US business data provider: China, US share a goal of prosperity... Read more »

China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, will maintain a moderately accommodative monetary policy, use a range of tools to strengthen counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments, and keep the RMB exchange rate basically stable at a reasonable and equilibrium level, it said at a recent meeting.... Read more »

To provide more efficient and convenient clearance services for overseas exhibitors, buyers, and tourists, east China's Zhejiang Province has introduced six convenience measures.... Read more »

140 years after Carl Benz's Motorwagen first rattled through the streets of Germany, the automobile is once again being reinvented. The first revolution was about creating the machine. The next will be about everything that machine connects to.... Read more »

German automakers can learn from the Chinese market by infusing their products with Chinese technology and innovation, said Ivo Muth, executive vice president of Audi China R&D. He noted this can help leverage the strengths of both sides and make the most of what each has to offer.... Read more »

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Thursday addressed the launching ceremony of the Fifth Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province. Here are some highlights of his remarks.... Read more »

China and the United States have reached consensus on multiple fronts during their eighth round of economic and trade consultations, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. Under the consultation mechanism, Vice Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held their first dialogue on artificial intelligence.... Read more »

Researcher: China-US ties remain deeply "interlocking"... Read more »

A proposed rule would strip out some 1,400 Head Start standards, hand class ratios to the states and mandate English-only instruction, deepening the administration’s assault on poor and immigrant families.... Read more »

Four days after an ICE thug shot him in the back, Garces Perez remains imprisoned with a bleeding wound and a bullet near his spine, despite a specialist’s recommendation that it be surgically removed.... Read more »

Nine months after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro, his successor went to New York to thank his captor. Her appearance is the logical outcome of the “Bolivarian revolution” and of bourgeois nationalism as a whole.... Read more »

By linking wage rises to individual firms' profit margins, IG Metall is setting up deeper cuts in real wages for workers in the crisis-hit auto and machine-building sectors, while dangling bonuses for arms firms.... Read more »

As Sanders shares a stage with Bannon and Mamdani hosts Trump, the DSA and its allies have said nothing, and The Nation cropped Trump out of a photograph.... Read more »

Ramey was condemned by a jury from which prosecutors had removed every prospective black juror, after a trial in which he was represented by a part-time lawyer who worked days as a dentist and had never tried a capital case.... Read more »

Inadequate control measures result in about 5,000 to 8,500 cases of Legionnaires’ disease currently diagnosed in the US each year.... Read more »

Mário Maestri has sent a reply to our article “Once again in defense of the American Revolution: A reply to a Brazilian historian,” developing his position on the character of the American Revolution and Brazilian independence, to which the WSWS has in turn responded.... Read more »

Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.... Read more »

'Peace Train-2026' aims to enhance China-Laos joint rescue... Read more »

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Xi says China-US ties come to another historical juncture... Read more »

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Less national stigmatization and more joint enforcement, financial tracing, technology governance and victim protection: That is the only route to a safer world.... Read more »

HK's first five-year plan reflects rational interaction between the inherent governance culture and techniques of "One Country, Two Systems" in the new era, as well as institutional progress in competent governance under "Patriots administering Hong Kong."... Read more »

As China and ASEAN enter the next stage of their comprehensive strategic partnership, the central question is how deeply they can align their development strategies while ensuring cooperation continues to deliver visible benefits for ordinary people.... Read more »

As BRICS enters its third Golden Decade, its gold shines not merely because the mechanism has grown larger, but because its central idea remains compelling: countries can pursue their own development while contributing to shared progress.... Read more »

Walking the Long March: An American's journey... Read more »

In an evolving multipolar order, the most reliable path toward greater synergy in global governance remains open dialogue, accessible trade, and joint rule-making for emerging technologies. By executing this approach at scale, China and ASEAN offer a compelling regional answer to a global governance deficit.... Read more »

Respecting the HKSAR's right to independent planning, the plan charts long-term development based on Hong Kong's own realities and demonstrates the Central Government's firm stance of strongly supporting Hong Kong in achieving prosperity from stability and sustaining its long-term prosperity and stability.... Read more »

BRICS enters its third decade: Exclusive with fmr. NDB advisor... Read more »

By continuously refining a global public security cooperation architecture based on extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, China is contributing significantly to a fairer, more rational and efficient direction for global public security governance.... Read more »

This year's CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala takes place in Huainan, Anhui Province – the birthplace of tofu and the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) classic Huainanzi.... Read more »

An exhibition highlighting Chinese calligraphy and painting treasures from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties at the Palace Museum in Beijing has become highly sought after in recent days.... Read more »

China's Green Code: Rewriting the Rules of Growth returns with a new episode: Growing Green: Finding Balance in China's Fields.... Read more »

The cultural tourism event Market Days With Movies has kicked off on the grasslands of Ordos in Inner Mongolia.... Read more »

Britain returned 12 cultural relics and artworks to China at a handover ceremony held at the Chinese Embassy in Britain on Wednesday evening.... Read more »

Grammy-winning harmonica player Sugar Blue joins young pipa performer and soundscape producer MARSIX to reimagine "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon."... Read more »

A grassland of beauty and sacrifice in Sichuan... Read more »

US student reflects on the power of people-to-people exchange... Read more »

When the CEO of a small logging company in the U.S. state of Virginia decided to visit China to see his buyer's operation first-hand, he was amazed, not just by the woodworking factory, but China itself.... Read more »

Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared his latest views on the Chinese market, artificial intelligence and humanoid robots in an exclusive interview with China Media Group (CMG).... Read more »

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As the general debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly opened Tuesday under the theme of rebuilding trust and managing transformation for an effective UN for all, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again urged world leaders to regulate artificial intelligence, warning that rapid advances in computing power, data and... Read more »

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MAZU-Nepal AI meteorological early warning system delivered to Nepal... Read more »

U.S. President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly address to promote a new name and approach for artificial intelligence, saying the U.S. government would begin referring to AI as “super intelligence”, or SI.... Read more »

As Chinese President Xi prepares for his U.S. visit, Chinese and U.S. representatives are expected to have discussions on the topic of artificial intelligence.... Read more »

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As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, 76-year-old Mansoura reveals the terrible toll of the genocide. Mansoura’s most precious possession is the key to her former home.... Read more »

He also held up photos of a sports hall hit by a US strike that killed 21 civilians, including seven children; meanwhile, he pointed out, Israel has nuclear weapons, is not a signatory to the NPT, has not allowed a single inspection, and has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in... Read more »

Israeli forces raze 24 homes in Janba village in Masafer Yatta, leaving 176 people without shelter, as demolitions escalate... Read more »

Israel has rejected deliveries of anesthetics, crutches, and even a truckload of ICU gurneys because one pallet was plastic rather than wood.... Read more »

Board of Peace enables Israel to block desperately needed items to Gaza; Trump doesn't want trouble in West Bank – but won't do anything to stop it; not to mention $2.8B arms deal with Israel. Much more. Get caught up here.... Read more »

A government can face allegations over assistance to another military without its own troops conducting the attacks. Germany disputes the claims, and the court has not resolved its responsibility.... Read more »

In a stunning leaked 2025 recording, AIPAC CEO Elliot Brandt openly bragged about how AIPAC manipulates key figures in Trump’s national security inner circle, pushing them toward another costly war on behalf of Israel – Marco Rubio, CIA head John Ratcliffe, and Congressman Mike Waltz... Read more »

Hamas had negotiated with Israel for an end to the 17-year siege strangling Gaza, an increase in food entering Gaza, & release of Palestinian political prisoners. The Israeli army advised Netanyahu respond to these demands with an all-out attack on the Gaza. Al-Aqsa Flood was an attempt to preempt this... Read more »

Israel employs military technology capable of identifying specific individuals, tracking their movements, and striking them with precision, despite the clear civilian status of those targeted and their non-participation in hostilities or posing of any imminent threat to Israeli forces or others.... Read more »

A cadre of Californians opposing a ballot proposal to tax billionaires have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64 percent in the last twenty months. The post Billionaire Bankrollers: Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing Prop 40 appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

An international tribunal awarded only a fraction of the firm’s original claim, but Mexico’s struggle against corporate legal threats continues. The post American Mining Corporation Wins Partial Victory in Lawsuit Against Mexico appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

And European leaders are freaking out. The post Russia Expands Its War appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

As land leases come up for renewal, a new report reveals the facts about the U.S. Armed Forces’ impacts in the Pacific Islands. The post Busting the Myths of the US Military’s Presence in Hawai‘i appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Those who sought to silence Ronni Karpen Moffitt and Orlando Letelier’s calls for justice and freedom only magnified their cause. The post Reflections on the Loss of My Big Sister to International Terrorists 50 Years Ago appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A new wave of progressive, left-wing, and socialist candidates and elected officials face an enormous challenge in articulating a foreign policy for the future. Here’s a start. The post First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

One key solution: make private jet-setters pay their fair share. The post New Report “High Flyers 2026” Reveals How Private Jets Costs Taxpayers and the Planet appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

How taxpayers and commercial passengers subsidize luxury private jet travel. The post High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Millions of lawfully present immigrants are set to lose health care under the GOP’s changes. Millions more U.S. citizens will join them. The post Immigrants Didn’t Take Your Health Care. ICE Did. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A cadre of Californians opposing a ballot proposal to tax billionaires have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64 percent in the last twenty months. The post Billionaire Bankrollers: Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing Prop 40 appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

An international tribunal awarded only a fraction of the firm’s original claim, but Mexico’s struggle against corporate legal threats continues. The post American Mining Corporation Wins Partial Victory in Lawsuit Against Mexico appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

And European leaders are freaking out. The post Russia Expands Its War appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

As land leases come up for renewal, a new report reveals the facts about the U.S. Armed Forces’ impacts in the Pacific Islands. The post Busting the Myths of the US Military’s Presence in Hawai‘i appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Those who sought to silence Ronni Karpen Moffitt and Orlando Letelier’s calls for justice and freedom only magnified their cause. The post Reflections on the Loss of My Big Sister to International Terrorists 50 Years Ago appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A new wave of progressive, left-wing, and socialist candidates and elected officials face an enormous challenge in articulating a foreign policy for the future. Here’s a start. The post First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

One key solution: make private jet-setters pay their fair share. The post New Report “High Flyers 2026” Reveals How Private Jets Costs Taxpayers and the Planet appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

How taxpayers and commercial passengers subsidize luxury private jet travel. The post High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Millions of lawfully present immigrants are set to lose health care under the GOP’s changes. Millions more U.S. citizens will join them. The post Immigrants Didn’t Take Your Health Care. ICE Did. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Coalition Unveils Plan To Dismantle Australia's Net Zero Goals Authored by Lucinda Garbutt-Young via The Epoch Times (AAP), Almost every aspect of Australia's climate and energy policy would be ditched under a Coalition plan leaning heavily on fossil fuels. Member for Wannon Dan Tehan speaks to the media at Parliament... Read more »

10 Indicted In Philadelphia Cocaine Trafficking Case Tied To Mexican Cartel Ten members of an alleged drug trafficking organization were indicted, and $17 million of cocaine was seized along with multiple firearms, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Wednesday. Blanche said the drug organization worked with a Mexican drug... Read more »

Accused ISIS Propagandist Arrested In Australia, Helped Plan Mass-Casualty Attack Authored by Will Nicholas and Jacob Shteyman via The Epoch Times (AAP), An accused ISIS member has been arrested by counter-terrorism agents over allegations he instructed people how to plan and conduct mass-casualty attacks from his base in Australia. A... Read more »

She Thought Cotton Fields Vanished With Slavery... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a now viral video, a woman pulled over, pointed her phone at a cotton field, and spoke as if she had stumbled onto a dark secret. Overlay text on the clip asks "how do we still... Read more »

'Covered In Blood': Family Says Canada Euthanized Christian Grandmother Against Her Will An 83-year-old Christian grandmother in Ontario was euthanized under Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program this summer, and her family says she never gave her final consent, Fox News reports. Brigitte Kranendonk gestures with her grandmother Brigitte... Read more »

Global Energy Demand Set To Jump 60% By 2060 As Developing Nations Power Up By Haley Zarmba of OilPrice.com Emerging economies are going to see an explosion of energy demand over the coming decades. Countries like Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Indonesia are racing to expand their energy production and imports... Read more »

Carney Says He Studied Prospect Of US Invading Canada Under Trump: "Extreme Tail Risk" In a wild and unexpected comment, but which illustrates how tense things remain between Canada and the Trump administration on the trade front, the country's Prime Minister Mark Carney bluntly stated in a new interview he had... Read more »

'Silicon Wadi': UAE Firms Touted To Join Israeli Tech Project In East Jerusalem Via Middle East Eye The Israeli-run municipality of Jerusalem has recruited companies from the United Arab Emirates to invest in a modern industrial park, called Silicon Wadi, in the city's occupied east. However Palestinian urban planning experts... Read more »

Dem Senator Wants To Regulate The Internet To Prevent Another Trump From Happening Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called for government regulation of the internet as part of a broader effort to reduce loneliness and powerlessness among Americans, two conditions he argues push voters toward leaders like President Donald Trump. Murphy... Read more »

College football fans are pulling their hair out after a head coach revealed how President Donald Trump impacted a championship game.The head coach of the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns football team, Steve Sarkisian, shared a story on Thursday that suggested that Trump caused a security-related communications blackout during... Read more »

Top White House aide Sebastian Gorka sparked online ire and mockery after he wagged his finger at a Newsmax anchor for using the word "AI."Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, appeared on Newsmax on Thursday. During an interview, anchor... Read more »

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her Supreme Court colleagues for repeatedly clearing the way for Trump administration policies through rushed emergency orders.Jackson made the remarks during an annual civil rights and civil liberties lecture at the University of the District of Columbia's law school, The Washington Post and The... Read more »

Florida Republicans' last-minute redistricting push has "backfired" on President Donald Trump and his party as Democrats grow "outwardly optimistic" about the state.Speaking in a Thursday episode of his show, "Scott MacFarlane Reports," MeidasTouch Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane pointed to "a series of new race forecasts" that have shifted congressional,... Read more »

MS NOW's Jen Psaki had some intense opinions on Thursday evening, as President Donald Trump entertained Chinese President Xi Jinping — and openly fawned over his authoritarian powers."What makes all of this so on the nose, so maddeningly ridiculous, is that the event those reporters were denied access to was... Read more »

President Donald Trump invited three conservative Supreme Court justices to his state dinner hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which prompted outcry.On Thursday, multiple reporters pointed out that Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts were expected to attend the dinner. The New York Times reported the... Read more »

President Donald Trump offered a special surprise for visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday: a tour of the construction site where he is building his controversial White House ballroom project."If I could go off script just for a second — as a special treat in honor of President Xi,... Read more »

FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago asked a judge to protect them before testifying to a grand jury probing an alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump.The motion, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, asks U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to clarify her February 23... Read more »

Senate Republicans are urgently seeking nearly $9 million to defend three states President Donald Trump won by double digits in 2024, a request that would be almost unthinkable in a stronger election year for the party.A memo obtained by Axios from the National Republican Senatorial Committee outlines specific fundraising targets:... Read more »

College football fans are pulling their hair out after a head coach revealed how President Donald Trump impacted a championship game.The head coach of the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns football team, Steve Sarkisian, shared a story on Thursday that suggested that Trump caused a security-related communications blackout during... Read more »

Top White House aide Sebastian Gorka sparked online ire and mockery after he wagged his finger at a Newsmax anchor for using the word "AI."Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, appeared on Newsmax on Thursday. During an interview, anchor... Read more »

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her Supreme Court colleagues for repeatedly clearing the way for Trump administration policies through rushed emergency orders.Jackson made the remarks during an annual civil rights and civil liberties lecture at the University of the District of Columbia's law school, The Washington Post and The... Read more »

Florida Republicans' last-minute redistricting push has "backfired" on President Donald Trump and his party as Democrats grow "outwardly optimistic" about the state.Speaking in a Thursday episode of his show, "Scott MacFarlane Reports," MeidasTouch Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane pointed to "a series of new race forecasts" that have shifted congressional,... Read more »

MS NOW's Jen Psaki had some intense opinions on Thursday evening, as President Donald Trump entertained Chinese President Xi Jinping — and openly fawned over his authoritarian powers."What makes all of this so on the nose, so maddeningly ridiculous, is that the event those reporters were denied access to was... Read more »

President Donald Trump invited three conservative Supreme Court justices to his state dinner hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which prompted outcry.On Thursday, multiple reporters pointed out that Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts were expected to attend the dinner. The New York Times reported the... Read more »

President Donald Trump offered a special surprise for visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday: a tour of the construction site where he is building his controversial White House ballroom project."If I could go off script just for a second — as a special treat in honor of President Xi,... Read more »

FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago asked a judge to protect them before testifying to a grand jury probing an alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump.The motion, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, asks U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to clarify her February 23... Read more »

Senate Republicans are urgently seeking nearly $9 million to defend three states President Donald Trump won by double digits in 2024, a request that would be almost unthinkable in a stronger election year for the party.A memo obtained by Axios from the National Republican Senatorial Committee outlines specific fundraising targets:... Read more »

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In banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House, the Trump administration has argued that the move is similar to actions taken by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But the ban goes beyond what those presidents did. The post Trump’s Ban of News Organizations Goes Beyond Obama,... Read more »

As Democrats release a flurry of midterm ads portraying GOP cuts to Medicaid as a threat to rural healthcare, Republicans have countered with ads claiming Democratic candidates in Texas and Pennsylvania would put dozens of rural hospitals out of business by creating a public health insurance option. But the ads... Read more »

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A Republican TV ad cherry-picks parts of last year’s budget reconciliation law, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to overstate the impact of the law or distort Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff’s record.  The post GOP Ad Attacks Ossoff’s Vote Against Trump Tax Cuts appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

When asked about the largest surge in measles in over 30 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. is doing or has done “better … than any country in the world” in controlling outbreaks of the disease. But plenty of nations... Read more »

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A pro-Republican super PAC created by Elon Musk, the co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX. The post America PAC appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the Senate. The post WinSenate appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House, the Trump administration has argued that the move is similar to actions taken by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But the ban goes beyond what those presidents did. The post Trump’s Ban of News Organizations Goes Beyond Obama,... Read more »

As Democrats release a flurry of midterm ads portraying GOP cuts to Medicaid as a threat to rural healthcare, Republicans have countered with ads claiming Democratic candidates in Texas and Pennsylvania would put dozens of rural hospitals out of business by creating a public health insurance option. But the ads... Read more »

Headlining a conference for Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit he previously led that regularly spreads vaccine misinformation, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a litany of familiar false and misleading claims, particularly about vaccines. The post FactChecking RFK Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense Keynote appeared first on... Read more »

A Republican TV ad cherry-picks parts of last year’s budget reconciliation law, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to overstate the impact of the law or distort Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff’s record.  The post GOP Ad Attacks Ossoff’s Vote Against Trump Tax Cuts appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

When asked about the largest surge in measles in over 30 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. is doing or has done “better … than any country in the world” in controlling outbreaks of the disease. But plenty of nations... Read more »

Jack Mirkinson An interview with reporter Akbar Shahid Ahmed about his new book, “Crossing the Red Line.” The post How Joe Biden Helped Cause a Genocide in Gaza appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Kyle T. Webster Staying ahead. The post Artificial Skull appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Gillian Branstetter Trans people must now live out another election cycle knowing our friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors are being flooded with agitprop designed to dehumanize us. The post Transphobia Isn’t Winning Votes. But It Is Making Our Lives Much Worse. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Joan Walsh If Democrats win the House in the midterms, as expected, Mike Johnson won’t hold the gavel in any meaningful way again. The post A Premature Farewell to the Ignominious Speaker Mike Johnson appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Zito Madu Chuck Klosterman’s Football is a eulogy for the sport on the eve of its decline. The post America Without the NFL appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

George Porteous I serve as editor in chief and president of The Stanford Daily. Our newsroom has keenly felt the effects of Trump’s campus crackdown, which is why we sued the federal government. The post How Trump’s Crackdown on Speech Has Damaged the Student Press appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Hadar Susskind The fundamental problem is not the name of the prime minister, but rather the actions of the Israeli government and the urgent issues that need to be addressed. The post Israel’s Election Can’t Fix What Netanyahu Broke appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Ramsay Eyre Music streaming platforms have way too much control over musicians and music lovers. It’s time to rein them in. The post Treat Spotify Like a Public Utility appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Prajwal Bhat In a meeting with mayors from around the globe, Mamdani argued that the left must fix everyday problems—or the right will find someone to scapegoat for them. The post Zohran Mamdani Hosts the World appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, 76-year-old Mansoura reveals the terrible toll of the genocide. Mansoura’s most precious possession is the key to her former home.... Read more »

He also held up photos of a sports hall hit by a US strike that killed 21 civilians, including seven children; meanwhile, he pointed out, Israel has nuclear weapons, is not a signatory to the NPT, has not allowed a single inspection, and has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in... Read more »

Israeli forces raze 24 homes in Janba village in Masafer Yatta, leaving 176 people without shelter, as demolitions escalate... Read more »

Israel has rejected deliveries of anesthetics, crutches, and even a truckload of ICU gurneys because one pallet was plastic rather than wood.... Read more »

Board of Peace enables Israel to block desperately needed items to Gaza; Trump doesn't want trouble in West Bank – but won't do anything to stop it; not to mention $2.8B arms deal with Israel. Much more. Get caught up here.... Read more »

A government can face allegations over assistance to another military without its own troops conducting the attacks. Germany disputes the claims, and the court has not resolved its responsibility.... Read more »

In a stunning leaked 2025 recording, AIPAC CEO Elliot Brandt openly bragged about how AIPAC manipulates key figures in Trump’s national security inner circle, pushing them toward another costly war on behalf of Israel – Marco Rubio, CIA head John Ratcliffe, and Congressman Mike Waltz... Read more »

Hamas had negotiated with Israel for an end to the 17-year siege strangling Gaza, an increase in food entering Gaza, & release of Palestinian political prisoners. The Israeli army advised Netanyahu respond to these demands with an all-out attack on the Gaza. Al-Aqsa Flood was an attempt to preempt this... Read more »

Israel employs military technology capable of identifying specific individuals, tracking their movements, and striking them with precision, despite the clear civilian status of those targeted and their non-participation in hostilities or posing of any imminent threat to Israeli forces or others.... Read more »

As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, 76-year-old Mansoura reveals the terrible toll of the genocide. Mansoura’s most precious possession is the key to her former home.... Read more »

He also held up photos of a sports hall hit by a US strike that killed 21 civilians, including seven children; meanwhile, he pointed out, Israel has nuclear weapons, is not a signatory to the NPT, has not allowed a single inspection, and has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in... Read more »

Israeli forces raze 24 homes in Janba village in Masafer Yatta, leaving 176 people without shelter, as demolitions escalate... Read more »

Israel has rejected deliveries of anesthetics, crutches, and even a truckload of ICU gurneys because one pallet was plastic rather than wood.... Read more »

Board of Peace enables Israel to block desperately needed items to Gaza; Trump doesn't want trouble in West Bank – but won't do anything to stop it; not to mention $2.8B arms deal with Israel. Much more. Get caught up here.... Read more »

A government can face allegations over assistance to another military without its own troops conducting the attacks. Germany disputes the claims, and the court has not resolved its responsibility.... Read more »

In a stunning leaked 2025 recording, AIPAC CEO Elliot Brandt openly bragged about how AIPAC manipulates key figures in Trump’s national security inner circle, pushing them toward another costly war on behalf of Israel – Marco Rubio, CIA head John Ratcliffe, and Congressman Mike Waltz... Read more »

Hamas had negotiated with Israel for an end to the 17-year siege strangling Gaza, an increase in food entering Gaza, & release of Palestinian political prisoners. The Israeli army advised Netanyahu respond to these demands with an all-out attack on the Gaza. Al-Aqsa Flood was an attempt to preempt this... Read more »

Israel employs military technology capable of identifying specific individuals, tracking their movements, and striking them with precision, despite the clear civilian status of those targeted and their non-participation in hostilities or posing of any imminent threat to Israeli forces or others.... 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 »