US-backed activists and regime-change operatives convened the Uyghur Tribunal to ramp up conflict with China, but wound up exposing major inconsistencies in their narrative. As the US government’s propaganda campaign against China drags on, a mock tribunal has become a central node for the dissemination of allegations of Uyghur genocide... Read more »

Supposedly “independent” website Bellingcat raked in money from scandal-ridden Western intelligence firms that wreaked havoc – and reaped massive profits – in Syria. Since its launch in July 2014, the self-styled open-source investigations website Bellingcat has cemented itself as a darling of mainstream Western media, with its dives into alleged... Read more »

Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.” NATO is developing new forms of warfare to wage a “battle for... Read more »

US greenhouse gas emissions are inextricably linked to booming border militarization budgets and private security industry profit This article was originally published by Todd Miller’s The Border Chronicle. Subscribe here. Sasabe, Mexico – Not long into our conversation, the young woman at the migrant resource center in Sasabe, Sonora, told... Read more »

As the Biden administration continues to seek the extradition of Julian Assange, new details have emerged about the Trump administration’s secret CIA-led war against Assange and his organization, Wikileaks. Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News discusses on Pushback. Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News discusses his team’s reporting on the CIA plot... Read more »

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Carlos F. de Cossio, the Director General of the United States for Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, about continuing US attempts to overthrow his country’s government. By Anya Parampil   TRANSCRIPT ANYA PARAMPIL: Director General Carlos de Cossio, thank you so much for speaking with... Read more »

The media’s latest ahistorical freak-out over Afghanistan is further evidence of its de facto merger with the U.S. national security state Following the Taliban’s victory over the U.S. military, U.S. corporate media has churned out a new narrative about the imminent threat of terrorism from Afghanistan that sets the stage... Read more »

The US Congress invited neoconservative regime-change strategists to discuss the next stage of hybrid warfare on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which will likely involve creating an economic blockade, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of President Daniel Ortega, and borrowing tactics the Trump administration used in its coup attempt in Venezuela. A... Read more »

Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the United Nations Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies, endangering food sovereignty. Video by La Vía Campesina North America, Nils McCune, and Camila Escalante This September 23, the United Nations holds its Food... Read more »

SOME THOUGHTS ON BEING CANCELLED (13 October 2021) Cambridge University Palestine Society asked me to appear on a Gaza panel tomorrow with two young people from Gaza. I, of course, agreed.  But I just received a call from one of the organizers of the event.  He said that he had... Read more »

CONTACT VIA THIS WEBSITE. IN THE SUBJECT HEADING, PLEASE WRITE: I WANT TO HELP! The post RESEARCH ASSISTANT NEEDED FOR FINKELSTEIN’S NEW BOOK appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

The disillusionment of a former admirer of Israel (G.M., from Florida) I speak as someone who grew up with so much admiration for Israel, and I have to admit, I had a lot of contempt for Palestinians. I grew up hearing how Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle... Read more »

Dear Prof. Finkelstein, Since you asked about myself, I am from Pakistan and currently live in the Hague the Netherlands, (which is where I believe your good friend Mouin Rabbani lives?) My parents were both leftist journalists. My father (Ahfaz-ur-Rahman: you can click on his name for details) went to China... Read more »

The state that cried antisemitism B. Michael | Jul. 27, 2021 | 11:51 PM |  6 Everyone condemned it, competing with one another in volume, flashing angry looks and going overboard with their castigation. They were responding to that malicious Vermont plot to deprive those masses of abominable war criminals pining for a taste... Read more »

[The correspondent prefers to remain anonymous) After reading your What Gandhi Says I bought and read Knowing Too Much, which I also found to be illuminating.  I must confess I read the book looking more for insight into domestic American politics than in American policy toward Israel and Palestine.  Jews in late 20th... Read more »

Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza World Premiere Saturday June 26 Restream Sunday June 27, 2021 7pm CST  Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms  An ad-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to call for an... Read more »

Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza World Premiere Saturday June 26 and Re-Stream Sunday June 27, 2021 The same program will be shown two times 7pm CST Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms An an-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical... Read more »

It’s apartheid, say Israeli ambassadors to South Africa “It is clearer than ever that the occupation is not temporary, and there is not the political will in the Israeli government to bring about its end.” 8 June 2021 | Ilan Baruch and Alon LielOpinion | South Africa Map of the West Bank, the... Read more »

During last week’s Tory Cabinet reshuffle, ITV political editor Robert Peston inadvertently summed up the primary function of political journalists: ‘I simply pass on’ His tweet was in reference to a ministerial source saying that →... Read more »

As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. →... Read more »

11. The BBC On The Saintly Motives For Waging War On Iraq And Libya In focusing on the grim future in April, US vice president, Kamala Harris, surely revealed far more than she intended about →... Read more »

After 20 years of Media Lens, it seems only natural that we should look back in gratitude at the support we’ve received. In response to one of our early pieces, a kindly columnist at the →... Read more »

In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. As editor →... Read more »

Recent media coverage of Israel and Palestine, not least by BBC News, has been full of the usual deceptive propaganda tropes: Israel is ‘responding’ or ‘reacting’ to Palestinian ‘provocation’ and ‘escalation’; Palestinian rockets ‘killed’ Israelis, →... Read more »

9 July will mark 20 years since we sent our first media alert – a 500-word piece on the West’s crimes against humanity. Since then, our media alert and cogitation archives have swollen to well →... Read more »

Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: ‘One man does not assert →... Read more »

We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things →... Read more »

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Test Article to Test Position of New Teads Unit appeared first on Evolve Politics.... Read more »

The BBC’s ever-impartial Chief Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg danced the night away with Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, before facing off against him in a “rap battle”, during a 2am jolly at Tory Party Conference, it has been claimed. This is according to The Telegraph’s Dominic Penna, who potrays an... Read more »

During an interview on BBC Radio this morning, the controversial anti-trans Labour MP Rosie Duffield suggested that bisexual people are “appropriating gay culture”, and referred to an American anti-trans activist and convicted stalker – who was arrested after making threats to kill two men and joking about shooting up a... Read more »

Priti Patel has been heavily criticised after assuming the guilt of a suspected People Smuggler – a statement which could amount to Contempt of Court and potentially result in the case being thrown out, should it go to trial. On Tuesday, the Home Secretary’s official government Twitter account posted a... Read more »

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has come under fierce criticism after making the highly misleading claim that those facing the impending £20 a week cut to Universal Credit could avoid the impact by simply doing “two hours extra work every week”. Speaking on BBC Breakfast, DWP Secretary... Read more »

The Labour Party have accused one of their party members of racism for sharing a social media post in support of a four-day working week and free broadband. In an official investigation letter, seen exclusively by Evolve Politics, Labour’s Investigations Team allege that the party member – who wishes to... Read more »

I wanted to write a bit about Afghanistan. I wanted to talk about the disgusting betrayal of the Afghan people by our Western governments, the US and UK chief among them. About Macron and Patel, whose prime concern is not to help people so desperate that they cling to the... Read more »

Boris Johnson has been castigated on social media after tweeting about his hopes for a “greener” future alongside a picture of him traveling by private jet from London to the G7 summit in Cornwall this weekend. Writing on Twitter, the PM said: “I’ve arrived in Cornwall for this year’s @G7... Read more »

Keir Starmer’s woes have gone from bad to worse this afternooon after an astonishing new Westminster Voting Intention poll put the Labour Party a massive 13 points behind Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party – worse figures than the 2019 General Election results. The poll, conducted by YouGov between the 3rd and... Read more »

As it steers towards fossil fuels, the Latin American nation is on a path opposite to the objectives of the Paris Agreement... Read more »

A muddle of decisions indicates that Facebook and its ‘Supreme Court’ are making little progress towards a consistent policy on human rights... Read more »

Trying to ‘eliminate’ child labour only pushes working children into the shadows... Read more »

Rather than looking to ‘save’ others, we should aim to dismantle the hatred and exploitation of those who reject property and national borders... Read more »

Extreme weather changes are causing havoc in African states such as Zambia but they can’t afford a Green New Deal without international support... Read more »

As we mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of the formidable Maltese journalist, we must continue her fight for truth and justice... Read more »

Staff from Zerkalo – born from the ashes of TUT.BY – discuss being branded ‘extremists’, having 15 colleagues arrested, and how they continue their work in exile... Read more »

At least six killed and dozens injured in outbreak of heavy gunfire that will also create further obstacles to port blast investigation... Read more »

Bans on child labour don’t work because they ignore why children work in the first place. That is why the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour will fail. If we truly care about working children, we need to start trying to keep them safe in work rather than... Read more »

Today, Westminster will be united in offering tributes to Southend MP Sir David Amess, who was murdered during a constituency surgery last Friday. A statement released by Amess’ family yesterday praised the 69-year-old as “a man of peace”, and highlighted his campaign for Southend to be granted city status and... Read more »

The death of David Amess has renewed debates about the safety of MPs, social media anonymity, online radicalisation & civility in politics. Where are changes needed, and where is the media missing the point? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.... Read more »

Is there such a thing as a good landlord? Britain is being held hostage by a class of people whose only talent is owning stuff, and extracting money from people who don’t. Rents have doubled in the decade following the financial crisis, and the average house price is between 8... Read more »

Can people power face down the fossil fuel lobbies? Jeremy Corbyn lays out his hopes for the global fight against climate breakdown in this bonus episode from the podcast series Planet B: Everything Must Change. The Labour MP talks to host Dalia Gebrial about environmental reparations, a just transition in... Read more »

For the second time in six years a British MP has been violently killed while doing their job. We discuss the circumstances of the tragic death of Sir David Amess, and why it seems Britain cannot keep its politicians safe from harm. Also on the show – Dominic Cummings Attacks... Read more »

John Major’s government exploited Angola’s need for peacekeeping support during its bloody civil war to ensure British Petroleum (BP) was awarded new operating licenses in the country, declassified documents reveal. A series of government memos held in the National Archives and made public at the start of this year show... Read more »

Commute. Pollute. Repeat. What are we working for? In the first episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, a new six-part series from Novara Media and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London, host Dalia Gebrial tackles the future of work. As the climate changes, what kinds of work will we find ourselves doing? Which... Read more »

An official report has judged the UK’s delayed lockdown to be Britain’s worst ever public health failure. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial breakdown the key findings.... Read more »

During the Labour party’s 2021 annual conference, delegates voted to back a series of bold policies to tackle the challenges facing Britain. Labour members voted to back a £15 minimum wage; a “socialist Green New Deal”; public ownership of energy utilities; and a proportional electoral system (though this last motion... Read more »

The Israel lobby appears to be readying for a campaign to root out leftwing academics in the UK critical of Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinian people – echoing its efforts against the previous leader of Britain’s Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn. More The post After Corbyn, Israel Lobby Turns Its... Read more »

What was surprising about many of the 35 current and former world leaders that appear in the Pandora Papers was not so much their presence on the list— Gabon’s Ali Bongo, for instance, is notoriously corrupt while Chile’s Sebastian Pinera was already linked to 14 corruption investigations before he became... Read more »

The number of strikes and of striking workers might be far higher if more workers were unionized. Non-union workers like McGrath and Ragland hired by historically anti-union companies like Walmart might have been able to organize their fellow workers instead of resorting to individual resignations. While viral social media posts... Read more »

How many people who are anti-vaxxers are also climate change deniers? Both anti-vaxxers and deniers raise serious questions about the role of science in our everyday lives. While facts confirm that people properly vaccinated have less chance of serious illness from Covid-19, and that scientific reports continue to confirm that... Read more »

I didn’t expect to write again about Powell being reappointed as Fed chair, I had expected that Biden would have made a pick by now, but here we are. Now that Larry Summers has condemned the “woke” Fed for failing to crack down on inflation, it seems worth recapping what... Read more »

It was such a noble public health dream, even if rather hazy to begin with. Run down SARS-CoV-2. Suppress it. Crush it. Or just “flatten the curve”, which could have meant versions of all the above. This created a climate of numerical sensitivity: a few case infections here, a few cases... Read more »

The billionaire founders of KKR, America’s first nationally celebrated “private equity” giant, have just announced they’re stepping down as the company’s co-CEOs. Henry Kravis, now 77, and George Roberts, 78, helped found KKR in 1976. They opened up shop with $120,000 in capital to invest. Their KKR portfolio currently holds... Read more »

I’m an animal activist who wants to believe in God, but has a hard time getting past what’s known in theological circles as the problem of evil. Specifically, it’s difficult for me to reconcile the existence of God with wild animal suffering not caused by humans. So I decided to... Read more »

A year ago, when I examined the lessons of hatred and political violence in the US, I made note of the ugly role dehumanization and hate played in the alt-right’s support of Donald Trump. I was inspired, in part, by thinking about what Matthew Shepard would have experienced had he... Read more »

Χωρίς απαγορευμένες ή υπαγορευμένες ερωτήσεις. Χωρίς ταμπού θέματα ή προσυμφωνημένες ατζέντες. Συνεντεύξεις όπως πρέπει να γίνονται. Στο έκτο «Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα» απαντώ στις ερωτήσεις του Γιώργου Ευγενίδη για το ενδεχόμενο εκλογών και για το αν διάγουμε μια προεκλογική χρονιά, για την οικονομία και την ανάπτυξη, για την αμυντική συμφωνία με τη... Read more »

In an extended interview with Yanis Varoufakis, member of the Greek Parliament and former finance minister of Greece, we discuss his new novel, “Another Now,” and why he chose to write fiction after years of nonfiction. “All my life as a lefty, I had to find ways of escaping the poignant... Read more »

The centre-left Social Democratic Party in Germany has narrowly claimed victory in an election that marks an end to the 16-year era of Angela Merkel’s conservative chancellorship. We look at what this means for Europe and the world with Yanis Varoufakis, a member of the Greek Parliament and the former... Read more »

Shortly after midnight, on 29th September, George Varoufakis died. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in June 1925 where he finished his high school studies at the Ambetio School. After graduating, he worked at a branch of a Greek bank in Cairo before coming to Athens in 1946 to enrol... Read more »

Η πολιτική κηδεία του Γιώργου Βαρουφάκη θα γίνει στο Α’ Νεκροταφείο στις 11πμ της Παρασκευής 1ης Οκτωβρίου ενώ η ταφή του θα ακολουθήσει, αμέσως μετά, στο Νεκροταφείο Παλαιού Φαλήρου. Αντί στεφάνων ο ίδιος θα επιθυμούσε να στηριχτούν άνθρωποι που η κοινωνία μας έχει αποκλείσει ενισχύοντας μία από τις εξής δύο... Read more »

Όταν ζούσα στην Αυστραλία, είχα συναντήσει οδηγούς φορτηγών που το προηγούμενο βράδυ είχαν απολυθεί από την εταιρεία τους, η οποία τους έλεγε μην ανησυχούν καθώς θα τους έφερνε νέες συμβάσεις το 1991, με τις οποίες όμως θα έπρεπε να δανειστούν και να βάλουν υποθήκη το σπίτι τους για να μπορέσουν... Read more »

Angela Merkel’s tenure will be remembered as Germany’s, and Europe’s, cruelest paradox. On the one hand, she dominated the continent’s politics like no other peacetime leader — and is leaving the German chancellery considerably more powerful than she had found it. But the way she built up this power condemned... Read more »

At the height of the eurozone crisis, one of Angela Merkel’s close advisers explained to me her driving ambition: to bequeath to her successor a stronger chancellery than she inherited. If so, as Merkel prepares to retire, she should be delighted. Germany’s trade surpluses, and thus political clout, are far greater now... Read more »

Αυτό το γράμμα στον Αλέξη Τσίπρα δεν αφορά το παρελθόν αλλά το μέλλον. Σκιαγραφεί την αυθεντική παλλαϊκή συστράτευση που έχει ανάγκη ο τόπος κι η οποία δεν θα αφήσει ξανά χώρο για ανεύθυνη υπακοή στις διάφορες Μέρκελ τις οποίες το σύστημα γεννά ώστε να αναπαράγεται το ίδιο εις βάρος των... Read more »

15 October saw a rare, beautiful moment, when one of Britain’s elites had the book thrown at him. Mark Hankinson, one of Britain’s leading … Read more By Eliza Egret... Read more »

In Nottingham on 16 and 17 October, Resist held a festival to celebrate unity among the left. Former MP Chris Williamson formed Resist as: a … Read more By Peadar O'Cearnaigh... Read more »

If approved, industrial action could start before the end of term. By The Canary... Read more »

A new weekly show aims to bring some socialist chat to people’s Sunday evenings. And with a fresh and exciting line-up for its first … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

The future of a billion pound police database is under question. The National Law Enforcement Database Service (NLEDS), which the Home Office has spent … Read more By Emma Guy... Read more »

As the government takes back control of the failing Southeastern train franchise, workers are about to strike on Stagecoach buses. All this shows the … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has criticised the government’s handling of his wife’s case, stating that it “does not deal with problems until they … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is facing another extradition hearing on 27-28 October. The US authorities are appealing an earlier ruling that Assange should not … Read more By Tom Coburg... Read more »

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq said the British-Iranian dual-national’s sentence had been upheld with ‘no court hearing’. By The Canary... Read more »

In the wake of WMD-liar Curveball’s videotaped confession, Colin Powell was demanding to know why nobody warned him about Curveball’s unreliability. The trouble is, they did. The post Colin Powell’s Own Staff Had Warned Him Against His War Lies appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The US government must release those funds. The post How Feminists Can Support Afghan Women Living Under the Taliban appeared... Read more »

"These people want to destroy Julian and destroy Wikileaks," warns Assange's father ahead of the whistleblower's final extradition hearing next month. The post Lee Camp: Julian Assange’s Father, John Shipton, on the U.S. Government’s ‘Scandalous’ Plan to ‘Murder’ His Son appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

The primary reason the U.S. government opposes the Lukashenko administration is not its authoritarianism, real as that might be. Instead, Lukashenko’s steadfast refusal to privatize state assets, join NATO, or open the country up for foreign exploitation are Washington’s principal objections. The post US Writes Belarus into Its Familiar Regime-Change... Read more »

It seems that the profits of the U.S. military industrial complex have been put ahead of security, and the relationship between Abu Dhabi and Washington has only grown stronger. The post Choosing Its “Gates”: US Punishes Russia but is Giving UAE a Free Pass appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Amidst all the confusion, one thing is clear: the city has done a terrible job on outreach and ensuring that those who need permanent housing have access to it. The post Microcosms of Mayhem & Humanity: Destroying Black & Brown Lives for High-Rises in the Nation’s Capital appeared first on... Read more »

Sad to say, the role of the head of the PLO office in Washington was in fact little more than that of a punching bag for the television networks. The post An Empty Building with a Tattered Flag: Palestinians Have No Voice in Washington appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Ironically, Miller’s book, “Bad News for Labour: Anti-Semitism, the Party and Public Belief,” detailed how bogus charges of anti-Semitism were weaponized against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in order to defame and destroy him. The post Academic David Miller Speaks Out Following Firing & Israel Lobby Smear Campaign appeared first... Read more »

Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising portrays a revolution brewing in the slums of Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Filmed throughout multiple visits to the island nation, the documentary tells the story of the “Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies, Mess with One, You Mess with All” and demonstrates how... Read more »

First published by Al Mayadeen English Lebanon How is the US deliberately attempting to provoke civil wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon? Iraq When America, Britain, and the coalition of the greedy decided to crush Iraq under a barrage of bombs, cruise missiles, and multiple munitions, in its campaign of... Read more »

Facebook, we’re told, is planning to create  10,000 new jobs in Europe over the next five years – and no doubt the south of Ireland will get its share. But they’re also working on a Metaverse – a virtual world which will increasingly be the way in which people interact... Read more »

                           Sean Ó Riada was a great man for reading, his son tells us on NATIONWIDE (RTÉ ONE). He would go “to the jacks” and sit there for an hour, just him and a book. He did his composing at night when the children were in bed.  He never used... Read more »

THE MURDER  BY BOMB OF A DUBLIN BUS CONDUCTOR AND A DRIVER IN DUBLIN’S SACKVILLE PLACE DUBLIN IN DECEMBER !972 never seem to have impacted on Fintan O’Toole, whose father was a Dublin bus conductor. The  bomb persuaded Fine Gael to drop opposition to Jack Lynch’s strengthening the Offences Against the State Act... Read more »

This blog originally appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News Sensible politicians and pundits regularly scold us for being fixated on flags and emblems, even (God bless the mark!) on a border poll.  It would be better, they tell us, if were to focus on  ‘bread-and-butter’ issues (cue John Hume’s father telling his wide-eyed son that he couldn’t eat... Read more »

A British General on capturing an Indian city is reputed to have sent a simple telegram – “Peccavi” which was decoded a “I Have Synd.” It  was a joke which will have been appreciated by most of my Irish and billions of other Christians who attended Sunday Mass. Anyway,I confess... Read more »

  (Contd) Total Tool Time (3). ‘In a weird coincidence, the same seventeenth  floor of the Grand Cypress, Orlando, Florida was occupied at the same time by the great icons of a new form of global Irishness, the rock band U2. They were about to launch in Florida what could... Read more »

“A part of the compact under which Redmond was elected to the chair limited the power of the newly chosen. He was to be a Chairman, not a leader. That is to say, he was not to act, except after consultation with the party as a whole: he was not... Read more »

Are you familiar with Professor Kathleen Stock? She teaches at the University of Sussex and has recently published a book in which she questions the notion that gender identity is more “socially significant” than biological sex. That’s when the roof fell in on her. An anonymous campaign was mounted at... Read more »

Israeli border police detained a Palestinian woman, Monday, when she approached the illegal Israeli Har Adar colony allegedly armed with a knife, according to the Jerusalem Post. The woman, a resident of Beit Surich village, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, was seen walking towards a military roadblock near the settlement, apparently... Read more »

Several Palestinian civilians from across the occupied West Bank were detained by the Israeli army, Sunday evening and overnight Monday, local sources reported. A 70-year-old Palestinian writer and former political prisoner, identified as Ahmad Qatamesh, was detained by the army after invading his home in al-Bireh city, in central West... Read more »

Israeli soldiers demolished Monday an under-construction Palestinian home in the Sika village, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Alliance For Human Rights, a nonviolent activist group that documents Israeli violations, has reported that the soldiers and personnel of the so-called “Civil Administration Office,” invaded the village... Read more »

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian children from the Be’er Ayyoub neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the soldiers abducted Adam Ashraf Zeitoun and Abed Da’na, before moving them to a police station in Salahudin Street in Jerusalem.... Read more »

NABLUS, Monday, October 18, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Monday morning chopped down scores of olive trees and stole harvesting equipment in the Nablus district, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors colonial settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that Palestinian farmers of Salem town, east of the... Read more »

Palestinian prisoner Kayed Al-Fasfous, 31, has maintained his hunger strike for 95 days in opposition to being held under administrative detention by Israeli authorities, with no charges or trial. The Detainees Affairs Commission reported, on Sunday, that Al-Fasfous, and six other prisoners are ongoing with their hunger strikes in protest... Read more »

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Sunday, two Palestinians, both former political prisoners, in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Several army jeeps invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem before the soldiers abducted a former pollical prisoner, identified as Raghad Raed Shamrookh, 26, after storming his home and... Read more »

Israeli forces targeted, shot and killed the former political prisoner Midhat Saleh al-Saleh while he was on his way home in the Golan Heights on Saturday. Al-Saleh was the head of the Office of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights affairs in the Syrian Cabinet. He was returning home to Ein... Read more »

Twelve Palestinians were injured, Saturday, when Israeli colonizers and soldiers invaded Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked homes, and burned trees. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said dozens of colonizers invaded the town, before... Read more »

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***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

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Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

✔ Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/aMkRjb✔ Donate to our network: https://bit.ly/3bT0BMSThis video was produced and published on the Frank Barat YouTube channel on June 1, 2021. We republished it today to raise more awareness of the issues discussed.Description: Noam Chomsky and Imad Alsoos talk to Frank Barat about the future... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

By Colin Wallace. 1. Memories of Brigadier Frank Kitson. David Burke’s fascinating new book on Frank Kitson includes a comprehensive analysis of what has become known around the world as ‘Bloody Sunday’. Reading it has stirred a lot of memories of the time I spent at Army HQ in Northern... Read more »

The post Extract from Deirdre Younge’s piece in Village Magazine (in shops on Thursday) in which she names the man who Fulton says was making a bomb in the days leading up to the Omagh atrocity appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

  By Joseph de Burca.     Introduction to Village’s online pamphlet on the Colin Wallace Affair. The Tory Government of Boris Johnson is routinely accused of deceiving the House of Commons. Many British commentators behave as if this is a new low in their democratic history.  Yet, there is... Read more »

  By David Burke. Andrew Lownie will be known to many Village readers for the depth of his research into the life of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, especially the former’s abuse of boys in the Republic of Ireland. During his research into Mountbatten, Lownie tried, and failed, to... Read more »

By Deirdre Younge.   Introduction. Freddie Scappaticci became an agent for British Army intelligence in 1978. A member of the IRA in Belfast he worked his way up the IRA hierarchy,  eventually becoming  second in command of the ‘Internal Security Unit”,  known as the feared “nutting squad”. He joined the... Read more »

By Ed Moloney. The document reproduced above is the opening five-paragraph extract of a four-page, forty-paragraph Ulster Defence Association (UDA) intelligence report, or ‘memo’ as it is titled, describing the genesis of the corrupt relationship that developed in the late 1970s between the Official IRA and some leading members of... Read more »

Prince Philip’s testament will be locked away for 90 years. What is the British Royal Family hiding? By Joseph de Burca. Prince Philip’s will is to be locked away in a safe controlled by the Family Division of Britain’s High Court. The justification for this is to preserve the ‘dignity’... Read more »

By David Burke. Marian Brown, a 17-year old teenager, was shot dead in Belfast in June of 1972. For nearly half a century the British Government has denied that she was killed by British soldiers. Her family campaigned for the truth for five decades with the aid of researchers and... Read more »

Freedom of Expression had a lucky escape. By Vanessa Foran. Katherine Zappone, once upon a time, was packaged as a hero to liberals, a wrapper she was very eager to envelop herself in as she set out to make such a name for herself that she hoovered in a Taoiseach’s... Read more »

From the turbulent 1970s With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan has historically become a corridor and civilisational interstice between Persian and Hindustani empires and peoples flowing in from the north. Some were Turkic-speaking, who marked and shaped the ethnic synthesis that today makes up this heterogeneous Central... Read more »

Data recently released by Israel's immigration minister and the Jewish Agency show that Jewish immigration to Israel increased by 31 per cent in 2021. The data shows an increase of 41 per cent in immigration from the US, compared with the first nine months of 2020, as well as a... Read more »

Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American diplomats captive, the US strategy towards Iran has been aggressive. The US led the whole world to isolate Iran, turning it into a pariah state even among its neighbours and fellow Muslim countries. The US had... Read more »

In 1991, Israel was one of the first countries to recognise the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. As a neighbour of Iran, Azerbaijan's expanding relations with Israel have always been one of Tehran's major security concerns. In the 1990s, 20 per cent of Azerbaijan's territory was occupied by Armenian... Read more »

The celebration of Children's Day on 12 October made me remember and rewatch the documentary Born in Gaza (2014) on Netflix by Italian-Argentinian war correspondent, writer and filmmaker Hernán Zin. The documentary was shot during the 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip and portrays the daily lives of ten children... Read more »

Comparing grotesque crimes against humanity, while trying to work out which are the worst, is a wretched task. Acts of profound evil have implications well beyond their direct victims, so judging their long-term consequences is extremely difficult. What is certain to many in France right now, however, is that efforts... Read more »

These days, Palestinians and Israelis commemorate the 10th anniversary of the conclusion of the prisoner exchange agreement between the occupation and Hamas in 2011. Even after all these years, Israelis have a negative assessment of it.  This is because the released prisoners have returned to resisting the occupation, and the... Read more »

The public debate around three high-profile cases related to academic freedom in UK universities has exposed the contradictions and double standards at the centre of this row, the result of which will be nothing less than a hierarchy of protected speech and the right to hurt and offend some members... Read more »

The Palestinian citizens of Israel "are here by mistake—because Ben-Gurion didn't finish the job and throw you out in 1948." That was the latest rant this week from fascist Israeli lawmaker, Bezalel Smotrich, in Israel's parliament. Speaking from the Knesset podium, Smotrich was attacking Palestinian lawmakers from the Joint List.... Read more »

On September 10, 2021, during an important diplomatic meeting that occurred by telephone, U.S. President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping affirmed the necessity of a better relationship between their two nations.  According to the official Chinese summary, Xi said that “when China and the United States cooperate, the... Read more »

In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess who was able to predict the future but unable to convince others to act upon her prophecies. The fate of Cassandra seems particularly relevant today, for there has been ample warning about three developments that threaten continued human existence—preparations for nuclear war,... Read more »

Is it possible to build social solidarity beyond the state? It’s easy to conclude that it’s not.  In 1915, as national governments produced the shocking carnage of World War I, Ralph Chaplin, an activist in the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote his stirring song, “Solidarity Forever.”  Taken up by... Read more »

The US government will (perhaps within a month) probably succeed in extraditing businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde. His “crime” was being an official envoy for the Venezuelan government as he attempted to negotiate the sale of medicines from Iran to Venezuela. US sanctions have declared such activity illegal. Saab... Read more »

By Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard,... Read more »

I reviewed Josiah Thompson’s new book in a blog post the other day. The book makes a persuasive case that there was a second shooter who killed JFL, but I don’t think it’s a slam dunk. Neither is Gerald Posner’s conclusion that Oswald acted alone. I consider it a toss-up.... Read more »

I just finished Josiah Thompson’s excellent new book on the JFK assassination: Last Second in Dallas (University Press of Kansas, 2021). Near the end of the book he describes how the scene of the crime, Dealey Plaza, looks to him in 2020. He reflects that “the case itself has been... Read more »

In 1980, Venezuela’s infant mortality rate ranked 58th best in the world, far below Cuba, whose infant mortality rate was 28th that year. Infant mortality is a basic Venezuela’s infant mortality rate in 1980 was more than twice as high as that in Cuba – all according to the 2018... Read more »

Venezuela has been an important oil exporter since the 1920s. See this essay for historical details. As the chart below shows, It was not until the 1970s that big Middle east oil exporters like Saudi Arabia and Iran overtook Venezuela in oil production  ... Read more »

Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the morality of Ireland’s tax regime and whether the human race can avoid the twin catastrophes of global warming and nuclear war... Read more »

Noam Chomsky notes, there is plenty of room for despair in America right now. But he insists that, despite it all, we have ample reason for hope... Read more »

The neoliberal model has been highly successful in achieving its most basic aim, which is to shower ever-greater advantages on the already over-privileged... Read more »

The demonstrations by India's farmers are a 'model of struggle' across the world... Read more »

In a highly fragile world facing existential threats, we need the voice of critical intellectuals more than any other time in history... Read more »

Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine... Read more »

We have an enormous responsibility today to prevent the kinds of conflicts that are coming, that are brewing, that are developing... Read more »

“You can’t overestimate: we have maybe a decade or two, that’s it, in which we can decide to get the heating of the environment under control. If we don’t do it, we’re finished.”... Read more »

Interview on a many topics, including the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media... Read more »

When law professor Andrea Armstrong and her students wanted data on inmates who had recently died in Louisiana prisons, they realized that such data didn’t exist. After conducting their own research, they were shocked by what they found.... Read more »

World-renowned scholar and activist Robin DG Kelley discusses why we must continue dreaming of and fighting for a better world in the face of runaway capitalist pillage and climate catastrophe.... Read more »

"It's crucial to remember just how important Colin Powell was to selling the Iraq War, and how deliberately he used his public credibility to boost the lies that pushed us into the war. That is his biggest legacy."... Read more »

In this week’s news roundup, the city considers local control of its cops, Walters Art Museum workers continue their unionization efforts, Hogan’s “Refund the Police” canard, and more.... Read more »

Voters in Berlin shocked the world in September by voting to approve a referendum to expropriate apartments held by giant corporate landlords. As housing becomes more unaffordable in cities around the world, can the Berlin example be replicated elsewhere?... Read more »

The Black Panther Party was founded 55 years ago. Black Panther Party archivist Bill Jennings and Eddie Conway discuss the enduring legacy of the Panthers and how people are carrying on that legacy today.... Read more »

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has embraced COVID-19 conspiracy theories that obscure the real scandal of the pandemic: Wealthy countries continue to hoard vaccines and block the release of patents, all but guaranteeing astronomical profits for vaccine makers as the virus spreads.... Read more »

While consumers are freaking out about disruptions in the global supply chain, last week’s outage at Facebook revealed the global population’s vulnerable dependence on a digital infrastructure system that is dominated by private companies.... Read more »

Workers at Kellogg’s are proud to feed the country with the cereal they make, but they say that the company’s exploitative two-tier employment system keeps many of their coworkers from earning a fair wage.... Read more »

A rapid swap from fossil fuels to renewable energy would save the world ‘hundreds of billions of dollars a year’, a ground-breaking report has found. The post Switching to green power would save £20 trillion in global energy costs – report appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's... Read more »

As part of the ramping up of a long-running dispute between the UCU and university employers, the union is threatening action for fairer pay and conditions for academic staff. The post Lecturers and university staff threaten to go on strike over pay appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the... Read more »

The Justice Secretary’s plans to “correct” rulings by European Court of Human Rights have drawn criticism from legal experts and the opposition. The post ‘A step into a dark place’: Legal experts warn against Raab’s proposed human rights overhaul appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

“This report paints a stark and deeply worrying picture of the impact of deprivation and inequality." The post Black women twice as likely to have a stillbirth than white women, new report finds appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The group was formed following a report by The National Trust which highlighted connections between 93 of its historic places and colonialism and slavery. The post Who exactly are Restore Trust, the ‘anti-woke’ campaign group targeting the National Trust? appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

One in 10 households in need of housing are stuck on council waiting lists for over five years as a result of the chronic shortage of affordable homes. The post Government should fund construction of 100,000 new green council homes every year, says LGA appeared first on Left Foot Forward:... Read more »

"Morale among staff is low and has been worsened by the recent pay award in England." The post 50,000 sign petition urging government to fund maternity services as ‘midwife exodus’ looms appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Tributes have poured in from across the political spectrum for the ‘hugely kind’ and ‘irreplaceable MP’. The post Sir David Amess: Tributes pour in from across the political spectrum for ‘hugely kind MP’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'Even before the proposed suspension of the triple-lock, 2.1 million retirees (18%), including 1.25 million women, live in poverty compared to 1.6 million (13%) in 2012-13.' The post Prof Prem Sikka: The government’s claims of not being able to lift retirees out of poverty are not credible appeared first on... Read more »

We speak with Ethan Paul, a former reporter with the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong who is now with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. China's military revealed last week that it had conducted beach landing and assault drills in the province across from Taiwan. This comes as... Read more »

The Biden administration is launching a national vaccination campaign for about 28 million children between the ages of 5 and 11. The vaccine will be two doses and one-third as potent as the one being given to people over the age of 12. An independent panel is set to offer... Read more »

Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, are calling for immediate action on replacing the city's lead pipes, which have endangered their drinking water. Since 2018, tap water in the predominantly Black city has contained lead levels up to 60 times the federal limit. Yet government officials have only addressed the toxic... Read more »

Gutting Democrats' Climate Plans, Manchin Opposes Renewable Energy Program in Reconciliation Bill, Manchin Wants Strict Conditions on Child Tax Credit, Which Has Lifted Millions of Kids from Poverty, FDA Panel Unanimously Recommends Booster Shots of J&J COVID-19 Vaccine, Bronx Man Dies of COVID-19 One Hour After Release from Rikers Jail,... Read more »

We get an update from New Jersey, where the People's Organization for Progress is leading a 67-mile march to demand the state Legislature pass legislation to hold police accountable. The nine-day march wraps up Saturday, and activists are demanding passage of a state policy that would give police review boards... Read more »

We take an in-depth look at the growing humanitarian crisis at the world's largest jail complex, Rikers Island in New York City. After touring the jail, New York City Public Advocate ​​Jumaane Williams describes it as "a disaster." In response to mounting public pressure, most of the women and transgender... Read more »

This week over 530 climate activists were arrested during Indigenous-led civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., calling on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects. Indigenous leaders have issued a series of demands, including the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, whose... Read more »

Bomb Attack on Mosque in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province Kills at Least 32, Lebanon Holds Day of Mourning After Beirut Violence Leaves Seven Dead, U.K. and EU Nations Block COVID Vaccine Patent Waiver at World Trade Organization, FDA Panel Recommends Moderna Vaccine Boosters for Some Groups, Biden Welcomes Kenyan President Kenyatta... Read more »

As the House committee probing the January 6 attack on the Capitol ramps up its investigation, new details continue to emerge about former President Donald Trump's efforts to stay in the White House despite losing the 2020 election. The Senate Judiciary Committee recently revealed Trump directly asked the Justice Department... Read more »

Like Frito-Lay, Nabisco, John Deere, and Heaven Hill Distillery, cereal giant Kellogg’s has seen consumer demand skyrocket during the pandemic, reporting profits of $1.25 billion in 2020. To meet this demand, many workers in Kellogg’s plants around the US report pulling 12 to 16-hour shifts seven days a week, leaving... Read more »

On August 25, Camilo Enciso, a 41-year-old anti-corruption advocate and attorney, says he was walking inside the Walled City of Cartagena, Colombia, a popular tourist destination known for its colonial architecture and spacious plazas. He had traveled there from his home in Bogotá for a wedding, and was taking a... Read more »

Two blocks from the Mississippi State Capitol in downtown Jackson, Robert Shaffer, head of the state AFL-CIO, sits on a couch in his office trying to explain how unions could become more powerful in Mississippi. “It’s just,” he says, then pauses for an uncomfortably long time. “It’s difficult.” It’s not... Read more »

Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and farmers markets. What could be the downside of fresh veggies, homemade empanadas and a pop-up restaurant specializing in banh mis? But when they appear in unexpected places – think poor neighborhoods populated by immigrants – they’re often... Read more »

Writing in 1976, three years after the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, ITT columnist Roberta Lynch covered the anti-abortion movement as it ballooned in size, propelled by a crusading Catholic Church and an opportunistic far right. She examined how this hardline movement was able to mobilize people from various political... Read more »

We conclude our series of interviews from rural Wisconsin with farmers and community members fighting to defend life as they know it from the onslaught of Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry. As part of a special collaboration between The Real News Network and In These Times magazine for... Read more »

Ten thousand John Deere workers went on strike today. Sixty thousand IATSE members may be on strike by Monday. They will join the thousands of nurses, miners, hospital workers, factory workers, and others already on strike across America. Here we are, in our long-awaited strike wave. What does this thrilling... Read more »

In mid-November the Teamsters (IBT) will count the votes to determine who will lead North America’s logistics union for the next five years. Whoever wins will have two enormous items at the top of their to-do list: scaling up logistics organizing, including at Amazon, and bargaining the country’s largest union... Read more »

On August 29, in the final days of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the United States launched a drone strike, firing a 20-pound Hellfire missile at an aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi as he parked his car outside his home in a residential neighborhood of Kabul. The lethal strike killed... Read more »

The updated and expanded 3rd edition of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire is now available. This highly respected study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception. Forensic detail reveals how the world’s core... Read more »

If you like the depth of this discussion, please support my new Patreon page! This debate between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty was held on September 23, 2021. The debate was monitored by Lynn Parramore, and introduced by David Graeber’s widow, Nika. This debate between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty... Read more »

Cross-posted from Renegade Inc Ross: Welcome to Renegade Inc. With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. One of those investors is a bullish gentleman called George Soros. However, the Chinese are acutely aware that with Western investment comes inequality. So as Beijing begins to rethink how... Read more »

Mr. Soros has expressed his ideological fury at the prospect of not being able to make the kind of easy money off China that he was able to siphon off when the Soviet Union was carved up and privatized. On September 7, 2021, in his second mainstream editorial in a... Read more »

In a Financial Times op-ed, “Investors in Xi’s China face a rude awakening” (August 30, 2021), George Soros writes that Xi’s “crackdown on private enterprise shows he does not understand the market economy. … Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has collided with economic reality. His crackdown on private enterprise has been... Read more »

The 3rd in a 10 part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong. The post Global Financial Empire 3 first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

The 2nd in a 3 part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong. Photo by Scott Gummerson on Unsplash The post Global Financial Empire 2 first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

A 3 part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong. Photo by Ilona Frey on Unsplash The post Global Financial Empire 1 first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

President Biden put a popular flag-waving wrapping for America’s forced withdrawal from Afghanistan in his 4 PM speech on Monday. It was as if all this was following Biden’s own intentions, not a demonstration of the totally incompetent assurances by the CIA and State Department as recently as last Friday... Read more »

Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, has died from complications of COVID-19 at age 84. The news of Powell’s death only broke a few hours ago, but anti-vaccine groups are already having a field day. Instead of mourning the passing of an accomplished soldier and leader, they’re fixating... Read more »

Colin Powell, the highly decorated Army general who was the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, national security adviser, and secretary of state, died Monday at Walter Reed Medical Center from complications of COVID-19. His family reported that he was fully vaccinated but he suffered from blood cancer... Read more »

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The group of chemicals called phthalates, also known as plasticizers, may contribute to the early deaths of 91,000 to 107,000 older adults in the US each year, according to a new study.... Read more »

Twenty years ago, when MC was a teenager growing up in Tamaulipas, Mexico, she helped her friend get an illegal abortion. The two girls had heard about a local man who sold medications to end pregnancies, so they went together to meet him. He gave MC’s friend pills and a... Read more »

Joyce Faye Nelson-Crockett was 13 years old in 1955, dancing to a jukebox in the Hughes Cafe on a Saturday night in East Texas with her sister and her 16-year-old cousin, John Earl Reese. The boy had come home to the nearby town of Mayflower earlier that day after a... Read more »

During a trip to Las Vegas, I arranged to interview a wealthy source in his fancy hotel suite. At the resort in question (and probably at all of them), there was a separate entrance to the area where the suites are located, with its own elevators that are off-limits to... Read more »

Union leaders and Hollywood producers have reached an agreement that they hope will avert a strike that was set to begin Monday. The tentative agreement provides a number of improvements in wages and benefits for the costume designers, editors, set builders, and other craftspeople who work behind the scenes to... Read more »

Greg Johnson is standing on the corner of State Street in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, holding a neatly stenciled sign that says, “COVID-19 Protocols Killed My Uncle.” Behind him looms the Intermountain Medical Center, the largest hospital in the region. Johnson is one of about 30 people who’ve come to... Read more »

Florida skunks at a Tampa Bay zoo are getting COVID-19 vaccines before most humans on the planet have received their first shot. The location of this vaccination campaign is particularly striking given the antipathy to vaccine mandates often articulated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has threatened local governments with millions... Read more »

"For many years, experts have been calling for this act of sanity that could save humanity: Shutting down all of the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missiles... .Four hundred ICBMs dot the rural landscapes of Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Loaded in silos, these missiles are uniquely -- and dangerously... Read more »

"We are writing as Google and Amazon employees of conscience from diverse backgrounds. We believe that the technology we build should work to serve and uplift people everywhere, including all of our users. As workers who keep these companies running, we are morally obligated to speak out against violations of... Read more »

After the Taliban took hold of Kabul, the new group notes the U.S. government "froze nearly $10 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the country. The International Monetary Fund has frozen the distribution of more than $400 million destined for COVID... Read more »

  "The business of China is business. The business of America is war. Will the U.S. make a business-like deal with China over Taiwan? Or will the U.S. insist upon the Taiwan question being settled as a matter of war? It's not China that's aggressive -- it's the U.S. government that... Read more »

"The trouble with the Nobel Peace Prize has long been and remains that it often goes to warmongers, that it often goes to good causes that have little direct connection to abolishing war, and that it often favors the powerful rather than those in need of funding and prestige to... Read more »

"We ask you, we implore you, to vocally object to existing plans for more drone warfare. We urge you to call for an end of the 'Over the Horizon' drone attack plan of our United States government. We ask as well that you speak out in opposition to the political,... Read more »

Drawn by low taxes and some of the nation's most generous trust laws, "shady billionaires from around the world are going to South Dakota," says Collins, author of The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, and co-editor of Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies. See: "How 'Insanely Corrupt' South... Read more »

"The U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun offering a handful of new or expanded financial services in four cities, a potential first step toward a return to postal banking, which advocates say could help rescue the agency's finances and assist millions of people who have limited or no access to... Read more »

Collins’ book, The Wealth Hoarders, points to the role of enablers, what scholars call “the wealth defense industry,” in facilitating the use of dynasty trusts, off-shore tax havens, and anonymous shell companies. These wealth defenders include accountants, tax attorneys, wealth managers, and family office staff, that aid the super-rich in... Read more »

Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis... Read more »

Interview with the legendary Manuel family about the uncovering of a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children... Read more »

California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal... Read more »

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists... Read more »

“The Green New Deal is a plan that could solve so many of Texas’s problems and the problems across the country, and Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer except for more deregulation, more privatization, more austerity.”... Read more »

The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”... Read more »

A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism... Read more »

Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them... Read more »

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was... Read more »

Gangs of thugs rampage through the countryside. Yet the police look the other way, and the government does nothing. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th October 2021 Something is going badly wrong in the countryside. For years, despite abundant video evidence, bloodsports enthusiasts have intimidated and attacked people... Read more »

Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th October 2021 Whenever there’s a leak of documents from the remote islands and obscure jurisdictions where rich people hide their money, like this week’s release... Read more »

The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29th September 2021 There is a box labelled “climate”, in which politicians discuss the climate crisis.... Read more »

But if you want to keep getting email notifications about articles on this site, please could you re-enter your name and email address. *With extra apologies for the technical glitch when I first posted this Google is shutting down the FeedBurner email service we currently use, and thanks to a... Read more »

How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy theories. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd September 2021 It’s an uncomfortable thing to admit, but in the countercultural movements where my sympathies lie, people are dropping like flies. Every few days I hear of another acquaintance who has... Read more »

The Conservatives promised that communities could reshape their own towns. As the shocking case of Totnes shows, it’s a con. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th September 2021 Among the most important democratic questions is how the land surrounding us is used. Is it providing homes we can... Read more »

Earth systems could tip before 2050. We urgently need more stringent climate targets. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th September 2021 If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath... Read more »

We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st September 2021 Dig for victory: this, repurposed from the Second World War, could be the slogan of our times. All over the world, governments are using the pandemic and the environmental crisis... Read more »

The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th August 2021 Everyone is to blame for the catastrophe in Afghanistan, except the people who started it. Yes, Joe Biden... Read more »