Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods. Throughout Britain’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, a lobbying group known as the... Read more »

With Kiev exposed for a lie that could have triggered a third world war, it is time to examine past deceptions that Western media promoted. A missile that exploded on Polish soil on November 15 killed two civilians and destroyed farm equipment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Western corporate media... Read more »

Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor on the World War III scare in Poland and the reported Pentagon-State Department split over Ukraine-Russia peace. After accusing Russia of firing missiles into Poland — and triggering calls from Ukraine for direct NATO military intervention — US officials are now acknowledging that Ukrainian air... Read more »

The Ukrainian government mysteriously disappeared online records of its fundraising arrangement with the FTX crypto scam just days before the scandal erupted. The initiative claims to have raised $60 million for Ukraine, but where did the money go? The demise of FTX, the fifth-biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume in... Read more »

The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war Italian police announced a series of raids against the neo-Nazi Order of Hagal organization. Accused of stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks, the group has established operational ties... Read more »

UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its “military strategy” in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war. In... Read more »

Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country’s drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President... Read more »

Western media fixates on coup supporters waving Russian flags in Burkina Faso’s capital while overlooking the long history of US and French control over the country – and its destabilizing consequences. The landlocked country of Burkina Faso has proven itself to be a valuable diplomatic and intelligence asset in the... Read more »

Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal plans by a cell of British military-intelligence figures to organize and train a covert Ukrainian “partisan” army with explicit instructions to attack Russian targets in Crimea. On October 28th, a Ukrainian drone attack damaged the Russian Black Sea fleet’s flagship vessel in the Crimean... Read more »

Rania Khalek is joined by UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Alena Douhan who returned from a 12-day visit to Syria where she assessed the negative impact of sanctions across the country. Upon her return, she called for the sanctions, which she deems illegal and a violation of human rights, to be... Read more »

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he’s running for president again, despite only delivering a “red trickle” in the midterm elections and losing the presidency by seven million votes in 2020. What was his real record in office? Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, an author, activist, and co-host with... Read more »

South African workers are outraged at the $8.5 billion climate change deal signed by their government at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). The deal, which was supported by Germany, France, the UK, the US, and the EU (or the Just Energy Transition Partnership, or JETP) at COP26,... Read more »

The US is trying to reshape NATO into an anti-China alliance while demanding that the EU join in. So far the US has been somewhat immunized from the consequences of cutting economic ties with Russia. For Europe though, the outcome of sanctions has been much more dire as winter approaches. ... Read more »

Brian is joined by investigative reporter Greg Palast, who wrote the film “Vigilantes: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitmen,” available at gregpalast.com.... Read more »

How did 9/11 change the direction of the US left? What about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Obama and then Trump, the Arab Spring, Russiagate and now the war in Ukraine? How has the new Cold War against Russia and China created new lines of differentiation... Read more »

Eugene Puryear and Sam Sacks break down midterm election coverage as it comes in, LIVE on election night, Tuesday, November 8th, 2022. Eugene and Sam will be joined by guests to discuss the key races and initiatives on the ballot including labor struggles, abortion rights, and much more. Tune in... Read more »

The Supreme Court is continuing its evisceration of historic progressive social policies by preparing to abolish affirmative action. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases seeking to end affirmative action in higher education by banning race as a factor for admission. The right-wing super-majority of the... Read more »

Zimbabwe has been under US, UN & EU-imposed sanctions for over 21 years, making it one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. The illegal sanctions target Zimbabwean industry, land reform, and production, seeking to delegitimize the government and cause civil unrest. Rutendo Matinyarare, Chairperson of Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement... Read more »

On November 15, as 90 Russian cruise missiles struck at Ukraine’s energy network, a companion US-UK propaganda blitz blamed the Russian missiles for the deaths of two workers on a farm in Poland. This was →... Read more »

Last month, the United Nations environment agency issued arguably its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is ‘no credible pathway to →... Read more »

In Part 1, we described how state-corporate media non-reporting of evidence relating to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines on September 26 was an example of how the truth on key issues →... Read more »

Last week, Alex Nunns, author of ‘The Candidate – Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path To Power’ and former Corbyn speechwriter, described the current assault on democracy within the Labour Party: ‘What’s happening in the Labour Party →... Read more »

The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of →... Read more »

Last February, Emily Maitlis left her role as presenter of the BBC’s Newsnight programme to join rival media group Global. In a recent speech, Maitlis made a surprising reference to Theresa May’s former communications director →... Read more »

If every single high-profile journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing heartfelt devotion to Britain’s deceased, 96-year-old monarch, it is not because she ‘served’ her country diligently in doing her ‘duty’ for 70 years. The →... Read more »

Millions of people in the UK are beset by insecurities and worries about the rising cost of living. Fuel and energy prices are escalating, variously blamed on Brexit, Covid, and the war in Ukraine. A →... Read more »

Rousseau wrote: ‘We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.’ Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists →... Read more »

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Former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has slammed her former employer over their obvious pro-Tory bias, and suggested that ‘active agents of the Conservative Party’ are working within the Corporation to influence decisions in favour of the government. Maitlis’s speech – in which she directly called out pro-government bias from... Read more »

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Prospective Prime Minister Liz Truss is a Board member of an obscure pro-privatisation think tank that wants to scrap the National Health Service and replace it with an insurance-style system. Truss, who is currently odds on to take over from Boris Johnson as Prime Minister in just a few weeks... Read more »

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Over the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the Tories and much of the mainstream media have been warning workers not to demand higher wages because it could supposedly ‘push prices up yet higher’ and cause a so-called “wage-price spiral”. However, regular Evolve readers will be entirely unsurprised to... Read more »

OPINION: Can people power, matched by technological advances, succeed where COP27 failed?... Read more »

For too long, peacebuilding has been left to men without any success, say activists on both sides of the conflict... Read more »

Which comes first: widening inequality or the ‘affective polarisation’ that goes with it?... Read more »

The Tories pledged to end section 21 evictions in 2019. Tens of thousands have paid the price for their slow progress... Read more »

OPINION: As nurses announce strikes in December, the Tories must start paying them fairly to save the NHS from collapse... Read more »

Russia’s war against Ukraine and long-running border conflicts raise doubts about regional institutions – and how peace is made... Read more »

Revealed: Records show the FCDO’s British International Investment fund has continued to back major polluters... Read more »

Russia has passed a controversial law banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality. Here’s what you need to know... Read more »

With a key tenants’ rights bill set to go before MPs, what is going through the minds of the UK’s property class?... Read more »

If you had millions of of ill gotten pounds, dollars or rubles you would need to find a way of hiding where it came from and the very fact that it’s yours in the first place. It turns out that the place in the world bets suited to provide this... Read more »

We don’t get enough of it. We take drugs all day to fend it off. We’ll do it when we’re dead. And it’s our last line of defence against 24/7 capitalism. Sleep, the main course in life’s feast! The ACFM crew rouse themselves from slumber to wokeness in this month’s... Read more »

After a decade of falling pay, nurses have announced dates for their first national strikes in 106 years. Can they take on the Tories and win? Also on the show, the glamorous Tory peer secretly profiting from a PPE company and the latest in Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. With Michael... Read more »

Trophies. Glory. Trade deals. Kudos. What does Qatar really want from the World Cup? In the second episode of Pro Revolution Soccer, Keir Milburn and Tom Williams reflect on the opening week of the tournament and dig deeper into the political and sporting flashpoints so far. They’re joined by Kate... Read more »

In 2013 the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) – which calls itself “the global voice of working people” – demanded that Qatar be stripped of hosting the World Cup over its treatment of the migrant workers tasked with constructing the country’s seven new stadiums, new airport, new hotels, and new... Read more »

It’s been quite the week for Labour leader Keir Starmer. Last Friday he reassured the Times that the Corbyn manifesto is “history”. On Tuesday he attended an award ceremony hosted by the Sun. On Wednesday night he accepted a “politician of the year” award from the Spectator magazine. And on... Read more »

The Supreme Court have today confirmed that Scotland can’t legally hold an independence referendum without Westminster’s permission. Will this simply increase the case for independence? Plus, Momentum in financial jeopardy, Suella Braverman crumbles under pressure and Mick Lynch keeps his cool. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebriel.... Read more »

The Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP, is one of the most effective social movements in American history. New York City author and activist Sarah Schulman has returned many times to the lessons and provocations of this radically decentralised, unapologetically confrontational direct action group, which was... Read more »

“Relentlessly irrefutable,” said the Times. “Viewers were left in tears,” the Mail announced. “A doc so shocking it sounds like a siren” was the Guardian’s verdict. A glittering stream of reviews has rolled in for Channel 4’s Jews Don’t Count, cementing its presenter David Baddiel’s place in the pantheon of... Read more »

Rishi Sunak and the red box. Photo: UK Govt. Thus opened Barthes’ commentary on how signs are worked into myths in the contemporary world. Of course, if Paris-Match had wanted to use a real example of a “Negro in a French uniform,” the obvious choice would have been Touissant L’Ourvertoure,... Read more »

“Combat de Vertières” by Patrick Noze, oil on canvas, from Haitian Art in the Diaspora. The Battle of Vertières was the decisive engagement of the Haitian revolution, fought in November 1803. In this interview, College of Staten Island CUNY professor and anthropologist Philippe-Richard Marius, author of The Unexceptional Case of... Read more »

Efforts to condemn and re-segregate queer and trans people in the U.S. are frightening and dangerous, as the shooting in Colorado Springs again demonstrates. The combination of hatred and gun possession – 42% of the world’s privately owned guns are in the U.S. – is demonstrably lethal, and the number... Read more »

Long before the stance was popular, Staughton and Alice were stalwart prison abolitionists. They had corresponded and visited with prisoners, perhaps most notably George Skates, the white prisoner who had refused to play the deathly race card in the Lucasville prison uprising, and was willing to pay for solidarity with... Read more »

For the last month and a half I've driven the backroads of southern Indiana, criss-crossing the unglaciated hill country 40 miles south of Indianapolis and 40 miles north of Louisville. It’s mostly forested here, large remarkably unbroken stretches of deciduous woodlands, thick with red oak and shagbark hickory, tulip poplar... Read more »

Like any junkie, cows hooked on BGH tend to get sick, mostly with mastitis, an infection of the udder. Treatment of mastitis requires liberal doses of antibiotics. The antibiotic injected into the cow passes on to the human consumer, and thus contributes to the process whereby more and more bacteria... Read more »

At CPAC the movement leaders–both national and international–made it clear that the current rightwing, in particular the conservative National Action Party, is not up to the task. Their plan involves creating a new far-right party with a religious, “family values” base, tied into the global neofascist forces represented at the... Read more »

The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer, but important and worthy of reflection, nonetheless. Based on the long trajectory of US military and political support of Israel, and... Read more »

The Teamsters claimed a major victory in the Ohio Governor’s race with the reelection of Governor Mike DeWine, a conservative Republican, during the recent midterm elections. Its celebration on the union’s social media channels should raise concerns among labor reformers and socialists, who’ve been looking for a new direction from the... Read more »

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Iran’s protesters will neither submit to the fascism hidden behind the regime’s pseudo-anti-imperialism nor surrender their country to the hegemony of the United States or their economy to financialized capital. The Western left should learn from them. ATHENS – Dealing with random, unprovoked abuse is never easy. But dealing with... Read more »

The demise of Trussonomics was a welcome victory for decency and common sense in a minor battle within a broader class war. Sadly, the class that Liz Truss tried to bolster with copious tax and regulatory gifts will win this war by deploying an even nastier, blunter, dirtier weapon: austerity.... Read more »

David McWilliams and I sat down in front of a splendid, heartwarming, boisterous Kilkenomics audience to talk about Technofeudalism but also Ukraine, Britain and Europe. The ersatz audio recording is not of the highest quality (sorry!) but it is not terrible either (especially if you have a good headset). Apologies... Read more »

The other day, Michael Liebreich and I had a lively discussion on his CleaningUp podcast provoked by my call “to blow up the electricity markets”. It was fun but, of course, fell short of a comprehensive analysis of the complex issues pertaining to the political economy of electricity generation and... Read more »

Shoja Azari, is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker based in New York, working with Sherin Neshat, his life-long partner and comrade, on art projects of note and substance. Their last project is  Land of Dreams, a magnificent new film set in the United States but ever so redolent of... Read more »

Have we, humans, passed the point of no return down the path to ecological ruin? Does ruin-without-end loom black across the land, the air, the oceans? I hope not but, regardless, I don’t think it matters. What matters is what we do. And how we do it. From now on.... Read more »

The Canary is excited to launch our members’ letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses to the news, politics, or anything else … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

The global wildlife trade body must reevaluate the protections it provides to long-tailed macaques, according to wildlife- and primate-focused nonprofits. They made their case … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

For the first time, a former British soldier has been convicted of a killing during the Troubles in the North of Ireland. A Belfast … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

Rail, Transport and Maritime union (RMT) general secretary Mick Lynch is back on the war path. The straight-talking trade union leader did another round … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

Sadiq Khan has condemned the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) for banning footballers from wearing One Love armbands. He called FIFA “weak” in … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

One of the recent climate conference’s many failings has been brought to light by experts and activists. The UN climate talks ended on 20 … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

The Royal College of Nurses (RCN) has announced the first two dates its members will be striking on. Predictably, the right-wing media has already … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

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On Wednesday 23 November, Brazil’s top electoral authority threw out a challenge by president Jair Bolsonaro’s party against his election defeat – and fined … Read more By Maryam Jameela... Read more »

The main point to be taken from the results of the Israeli elections is that the lives of Palestinian have never been in more danger than they are now. The post Settler Pogroms Against Palestinians Will Become the Norm Under New Israeli Government appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

The elevated political discourse emanating from African leaders and intellectuals gives one hope that the supposedly 'poor' continent is plotting an escape from the grip of western domination. The post Liberating Africa from Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations with the West  appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

A closer inspection of Activision Blizzard’s key staff and their connections to state power, as well as details gleaned from documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Call of Duty is not a neutral first-person shooter but a carefully constructed piece of military propaganda, designed to advance... Read more »

In this new language, Palestinians are Native Americans, not in their supposed propensity to be ‘wiped out’, but in their pride, resilience and continued quest for equality and justice. The post Palestinians are Native Americans: It’s Time to Correct the Language of History appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

The Ukrainian government mysteriously disappeared online records of its fundraising arrangement with the FTX crypto scam just days before the scandal erupted. The initiative claims to have raised $60 million for Ukraine, but where did the money go? The post FTX Partnership With Ukraine Is Latest Chapter in Shady Western... Read more »

In addition to selling armed drones to oppressive regimes, widespread reports indicate that Israel has long used the armed unmanned aircraft to carry out strikes in Gaza, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Sudan. The post Israeli Drone Sales Are Fueling Military Occupations Around The World appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

What is the point of the embargo on Cuba? What are we hoping to achieve? To punish a dead Fidel Castro for his sins? Maybe to punish a dead Che Guevara for his sins? Perhaps punish Cuban cigar makers for being so damned good? The post The Real Reason the... Read more »

Netanyahu owes his return to power to the students of the racist, Arab-hating thug Meir Kahane, founder of the FBI-designated terrorist organization, the Jewish Defense League. The post Kahanist Extremists To Take Power in New Israeli Government appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Palestinians are celebrating Lula’s victory as their own, but there is no single entity that can, alone, harness the political change currently underway in Brazil. The post How Lula’s Victory Can Be An Opportunity for Palestine appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

I read recently, I think in THE TIMES of London, of two young gentlemen who in 1919 played golf with two other gentlemen, solely with the aim of seducing their wives. An aim in which they succeeded.   I do not know if either of them had heard of, and... Read more »

  The so-called ‘Troubles’ have been replaced by a new controversy with unionists and journalists railing against ‘rewriting’ history. For Unionists the conflict was about a ‘democracy beset by irrationalism terrorism.’ For Irish republicans it was a war of resistance to British repression. This book uses Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model... Read more »

This was the week when Westminster told Nichola Sturgeon No, and when Ireland’s Future crammed a thousand people into the Ulster Hall. Funny the way things happen in twos. An article in today’s Irish Times comments on how so many countries have been built on the destruction of the culture... Read more »

Thursday was a tale of two cities: Edinburgh and Belfast. Those gathered in both shared a similar goal – to govern their own country. Not really asking too much.  In Ukraine,  the Western world hails the Ukrainians . Only yesterday Britain delivered three war helicopters to add to the massive... Read more »

      This was first published here in January 2016. Another stop on Memory Lane..  Under “NAUGHTY”   I alluded to the fact that in England the Prime Minister comes next in precedence to the Archbishop of York, who is himself less honoured than the Lord Chancellor and the... Read more »

.Listening to last night’s Ireland’s Future contributions from Glenn Bradley, Denzil McDaniel, Claire Mitchell, Lorraine Hall, and Ben Collins, something became extremely clear: more and more Protestants in the North not only see a united Ireland as viable…but see themselves as Irish.  Claire Mitchell, in her contributions, said she had... Read more »

In June 1963, I was working in Irish Shipping HQ at Aston Quay by O’Connell Bridge, and like perhaps half of Dublin I stayed in town to welcome JFK in Ireland. That meant staying two or three hours after work.  The miracles of TV and jet travel allowed me to... Read more »

There’s a huge amount of denial within Unionism and Loyalism and indeed the British government, that British forces had anything whatsoever to do with the war here in the North Eastern 6 counties of Ireland.  That, of four men arrested over the weekend after the PSNI raided and searched residential... Read more »

    On behalf of the United Kingdom. Rishi Sunak has labelled Russia a Rogue State.   England/ “Great” Britain/ the “United” KIngdom, was long ago labelled “Perfidious Albion” by her neighbours.   She is in dispute with them today over a protocol she signed quite recently. She has been and has continued... Read more »

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers assaulted and abducted two Palestinian children and a young man, near Bab Al-Amoud (Damascus Gate), in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped and assaulted several Palestinians, causing injuries, before abducting two children. They added that the children were playing near the... Read more »

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinian workers returning to their homes, wounding one, west of Qaffin town, north of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired many live rounds at the workers near a section of the illegal Annexation... Read more »

On Saturday night, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the Tal Romeida neighborhood in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and marched while chanting against the Palestinians, calling for uprooting them from their homes and lands. Media sources said the colonizers marched from the illegal Ramat... Read more »

Earlier Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers invaded a bakery in the Wadi Al-Hariyya area, south of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, and abducted one of the workers, Anas Majdi Ghazal, 20. In Anata town, northeast... Read more »

An Israeli man died on Saturday from wounds sustained on Thursday, when a bomb exploded near a Jerusalem bus station. Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma’ada, a man in his fifties who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia 21 years ago, died of his wounds on Saturday. He is the second person killed... Read more »

Squadrons of heavily armored Israeli soldiers invaded several parts of the northern West Bank on Saturday, abducting 3 Palestinians and causing a number of Palestinian civilians to suffer from tear gas inhalation. One of those abducted on Saturday was the released prisoner, Mohammad Ahmad Abu Al-Rub, from the village of... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man and confiscated a car near Jenin and Nablus in the northern parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed at the Za’tara military roadblock south of Nablus, abducted a young man, Mohammad Moayyad Abbas, from the Al-Fandaqumiya... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked many Palestinians and international peace activists before detaining three internationals in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media sources said the international activists were on a solidarity tour with the indigenous Palestinians in the Tal Romeida area in the center of Hebron before the... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured several Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Morad Eshteiwi, the media spokesperson of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, said the Palestinians marched from the center of the town, chanting... 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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Danny Shaw, professor of Latin American studies at CUNY, joins Max Blumenthal to discuss the Brazilian national elections, in which the social democratic former president and target of political persecution Lula Da Silva, faces off against right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro. Shaw assesses the implications of a Lula victory for the... 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 »

The Man in Room Fourteen In one crucial respect, is like everyone else. He’s a working diagnosis about whom we know both far too much and nothing like enough The man in room fourteen spends twenty four hours either going to the toilet or not going at all; is never... Read more »

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Mr Cogito Considers The Side Effects after Dr. Janusz Crawczyk   Baldness and shortness of breath a sudden urge to vomit on coats your own and other people’s. Drymouth, brittle nails, a tendency to be not very good at driving fork-lift trucks and to become even worse at pole vaulting... Read more »

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    Construction educators ‘Common Knowledge’  promote empowerment to improve the environment, quality of life and the community.  Their Co-Founder and lead instructor is on the television every Wednesday If inadequate housing remains Ireland’s biggest problem, new policy needs to be developed and implemented without delay. Build School “Within Common Knowledge,... Read more »

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  Sky News says that the resignation speech of Ms Truss lasted ninety seconds. For some it must have seemed like a lifetime, for others it just flew by. By any standard, it was grim. None of her colleagues appeared with her, not even Larry the No 10 mouser showed... Read more »

The US' destructive wars on Muslim countries launched in the wake of 9/11 under the misplaced rubric known notoriously as the "War on Terror" spawned senseless deaths and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale. The George W. Bush administration, heavily infested with neoconservatives and Likudniks, contemptuously ignored and wilfully disregarded the... Read more »

There are countless stereotypes and tropes found throughout popular culture, movie productions and social media. One of those is that of undercover police or intelligence agents who famously tend to consist of well-built white men donned in disguises that are overly civilian with a tactical hint – usually with similar... Read more »

For three decades, world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions and greener energy sources. This year, COP27 finished with an agreement for an historic "Loss and Damage Fund". In negotiations that went down to the wire over the weekend, countries reached... Read more »

The repeated Israeli raids on the sites of the Syrian regime and its allies across Syria seem like a secondary chapter complementing the continuous crimes that have been ongoing for 11 years on the ground in Syria. It has had a devastating impact on the bleeding sovereignty, which issues statements... Read more »

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has asked Likud voters a series of questions related to the current impasse into which Benjamin Netanyahu, who is tasked with forming a new government, has fallen in the company of extreme neo-fascists and racist nationalist parties. "Is this what you wanted? That's why... Read more »

The duty of releasing and freeing the oppressed Palestinian prisoners detained in the Occupation prisons is not limited to the executive level of the Palestinian Resistance, as the level that is most willing and ready to do so. Rather, it goes beyond this level to two other levels, which may... Read more »

Further proof of US President Joe Biden reneging on his electoral promises with regard to Palestine is the ongoing refusal to reopen the US Consulate in occupied Jerusalem for use by Palestinians, and opting instead for creating a new role of Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs, which has been given... Read more »

On 17, November, a plane carrying Greece's Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, landed in Mitiga International Airport, in Tripoli, but the visitor refused to disembark once he was told that his counterpart, Najla Al-Mangoush, was waiting to welcome him. Instead, he decided to leave Tripoli and head for Benghazi, Eastern Libya.... Read more »

The Russian military setback that took place recently in Kherson, after the Russian President had annexed it to his country weeks ago, is in fact a strategic military setback for Putin personally, despite him distancing himself from the withdrawal decision made by Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu. However, everyone inside and... 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 »

Protests have been raging in Iran since mid-September in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in a hospital in Tehran after being arrested a few days earlier by Iran’s morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic theocratic regime’s dress code for women. Protesters... Read more »

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh, and we are broadcasting from downtown Cairo, Egypt, just in front of the Nile. We look now, though, at... Read more »

Russia’s war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear weapons. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, continue to believe that they can defeat the Russians... Read more »

Russia’s war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear weapons. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, continue to believe that they can defeat the Russians... Read more »

This week voters will be reshaping Congress in ways that will have profound effects for the future of the country and the world at large. Indeed, this year’s midterm elections are particularly momentous, as Noam Chomsky highlights with his typical brilliance in an exclusive interview below for Truthout. Chomsky is institute... Read more »

World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky returns to The Chris Hedges Report to continue their discussion on contemporary fascism, the war in Ukraine, and the tasks of the left in a time of ecological and political crisis. You can watch the first part of this two-part interview here.... Read more »

Read the full letter Daniel Hale wrote to the Judge. Paul Jay Hi, I’m Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. I’ll be back in just a few seconds with Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg. Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg are great inspirations for me, and I know for millions around the world.... Read more »

Since the mid-1990s, the United Nations has been launching global climate summits — called COPs — which stands for Conference of the Parties. Last year was the 26th annual summit and took place in Glasgow. COP26 was supposed to be “a pivotal moment for the planet,” but the outcomes fell... Read more »

World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky joins The Chris Hedges Report for the first of a two-part interview. Chomsky has been a vocal critic of the $47 billion dollars in military aid the US has sent to Ukraine—an amount that equals the total budget of the State... Read more »

After losing the House to Republicans, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for the two years of gridlock ahead.... Read more »

Terminated German Twitter workers are fighting back after CEO Elon Musk's "extremely hardcore" ultimatum and other terminations.... Read more »

Often hailed as "America's greatest athlete," Sac and Fox Olympic gold medal winner Jim Thorpe's life and career were shaped by the profound anti-Indigenous racism of the country that claimed his achievements.... Read more »

As part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese and Pakistani scientists teamed up to build a new weather detecting lidar station in Peshawar that will help predict and mitigate future climate disasters.... Read more »

Brazil's organized workers delivered the presidency to Lula. How will their struggle persist now that he's been elected?... Read more »

Phoeun You says he has never received an official reason for his deportation, and has requested a pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom.... Read more »

The Supreme Court may have struck down Roe v. Wade, but reproductive healthcare and nonprofit workers in the Midwest are rising up—and unionizing—to demand better working conditions.... Read more »

"We know the toxic combination of hate and access to guns in this country leads to deadly results," said Rep. David Cicilline.... Read more »

The disparate coverage of Chesa Boudin’s recall vs. the election of half a dozen reform DAs tells a tale of two election nights.... Read more »

Amid growing pressure on processing centres and hotels accommodating individuals, some migrants that have crossed the Channel have been waiting for a decision since 2018, newly released data shows. The post Home Office needs ‘urgent overhaul’ as asylum system ‘collapses’, say critics appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the... Read more »

A review into the locking up of journalists covering the M25 protests has found that the conduct may have been “unlawful interference” in their freedom of expression. The post Just Stop Oil journalist arrests may have been ‘unlawful’, review finds appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive... Read more »

Liz Truss might have been cast to political oblivion, but she was the breed of prime minister the Tory right had long yearned for, and her spectacular downfall has not allayed the thirst for true-blue tax cuts. The post Tories at war over the economy appeared first on Left Foot... Read more »

Since it won the right to host the World Cup in 2010, the tiny but hugely wealthy Gulf state of Qatar has been granted £3.4bn worth of weapons sales licenses by Britain. The post Qatar was biggest recipient of UK arms between April-June 2022 appeared first on Left Foot Forward:... Read more »

The RMT boss is back, flustering his interrogators in the corporate media with his trademark plain-spoken and forthright responses. The post ‘Is there anyone from a normal outlet?’: Best Mick Lynch moments of the week appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'People have become accustomed to seeing revelations about government contracts for cronies, honours for sale, minsters violating laws, and legislators enriching themselves by promoting the interests of their paymasters.' The post We need a programme of reforms to tackle sleaze in the UK political system appeared first on Left Foot... Read more »

“Fund us properly, make nursing, and health and social care generally, a good profession that is well-paid, with good working conditions." The post MUST WATCH: Nurse makes emotional plea for government support as NHS walkout looms appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'A well-designed safety net would help people return to work when they can' The post The Conservatives claim to be the party of aspiration, but their broken safety net prevents it appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Rishi Sunak, as a young student joyfully exclaiming that he has no working-class friends. What is wrong with the working class?  The post Dawn Butler MP: Why Rishi Sunak is not the answer people so desperately need appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

In a special broadcast, we remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August. Zinn was a regular guest on Democracy Now!, from the start of the program in 1996 up until his death in 2010 at age 87. After... Read more »

This year marks 100 years since the birth of the historian Howard Zinn. In 1980, Zinn published his classic work, “A People’s History of the United States.” The book would go on to sell over a million copies and change the way many look at history in America. We begin... Read more »

In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.” “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma,... Read more »

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book “Our History Is the Future,” and the historic fight against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock. “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,” says Estes, who... Read more »

This week U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Philippines, where she said the U.S. would defend the Philippines “in the face of intimidation and coercion” from China and vowed to expand the U.S. military presence in the country even after former bases leaked toxic waste into the environment. We... Read more »

Noam Chomsky remembers the life and legacy of longtime peace and civil rights activist, lawyer and author Staughton Lynd, who has died at the age of 92. Lynd faced professional blowback after he was a conscientious objector during the Korean War and an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and... Read more »

The situation in Iran is “critical” as authorities tighten their crackdown on the continuing anti-government protests after the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the so-called morality police. United Nations human rights officials report Iranian security forces in Kurdish cities killed dozens of protesters this week... Read more »

Six People Shot Dead at Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, Supreme Court OKs Release of Trump’s Tax Returns to Congress, Zelensky Accuses Russia of Turning Cold Winter into “Weapon of Mass Destruction”, Ukrainian Forces Raid 1,000-Year-Old Orthodox Monastery in Kyiv, On Trip to Moscow, Cuban President Denounces U.S. Sanctions on Russia... Read more »

In a wide-ranging interview recorded in Cairo, we speak with Laila Soueif and Sanaa Seif, the mother and sister of British-Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, about his health, his case, his family and his hopes for freedom. After visiting him in prison, they describe how El-Fattah started a water... Read more »

Reports of widespread labor exploitation and safety hazards cast a dark shadow over the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.... Read more »

Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class.... Read more »

The midterms showed that rural voters must be an integral part of the Democratic strategy if they want to win in 2024.... Read more »

We spoke to strikers in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh about their fight to bring the multi-billion dollar company to the bargaining table.... Read more »

After the midterm elections, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.... Read more »

By banding together to demand justice on the job, essential workers paved the way for a resurgence of labor unrest—and showed how to create a crisis for capitalism.... Read more »

After the midterms, Congress will have more socialists than ever—while progressive policies won across the country. The Left will have to use its power to take on the anti-democratic GOP.... Read more »

An interview about the midterms with reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross.... Read more »

To reverse their dismal midterm election performance, Florida Democrats need to embrace working people, the environment and Unite Here.... Read more »

Cross posted from La Tribune Diplomatic International. French version Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your analysis of Mesopotamian times and the wise rule of Emperors embodied by the practice of the Jubilee (compared to the predation of oligarchies) resonate with the Islamic economic theory which forbids riba (meaning usury) and imposes that banks... Read more »

The Real Progressives Live with Michael Hudson on The Destiny of Civilization [00:00:06] Luke Parcher: All right. For those who might not know me, I’m Luke Parcher, I’m a student and activist. I volunteer with Real Progressives. I’m on our leadership team and I also do a show on Sundays... Read more »

Germany has become an economic satellite of America’s New Cold War with Russia, China and the rest of Eurasia. The article this talk was based on: Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine.... Read more »

Some follow up comments to my appearance on the Ralph Nader show. I am looking forward to our next Q&A session with Patreon Plus supporters this Friday. Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash The post We Do Read Comments: Re Nader first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

Cross-posted from Pepe Escobar’s The Cradle. It is impossible to track the geoeconomic turbulence inherent to the “birth pangs” of the multipolar world without the insights of Professor Michael Hudson at the University of Missouri, and author of the already seminal The Destiny of Civilization. In his latest essay, Professor... Read more »

The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has been... Read more »

RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR EP 465 TRANSCRIPT, September 17, 2022. Tom Morello: I’m Tom Morello and you’re listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Steve Skrovan: Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Skrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman. Hello, David. David Feldman: Hello, Steve.
Steve... Read more »

Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar. Multipolarista · Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis Transcript BEN NORTON: Hey everyone,... Read more »

RT, 8 Aug, 2022 05:05, HomeBusiness News Western sanctions are good for Moscow – US economist A former Wall Street analyst says the Russian economy is being made self-sufficient The economic war unleashed by the West against Russia has backfired and may bring the country much good, former Wall Street... Read more »

On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, former president Donald Trump hosted the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and avowed anti-Semite Nick Fuentes for dinner. It’s unclear what the main course was, but the dessert was heaps of condemnation—from both Republicans and Democrats who are considering challenging Trump in 2024.... Read more »

A shooter used an assault-style rifle and handgun to kill five people and injure 25 more at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs on November 19. Three days later, a different shooter used a handgun and multiple magazines to kill six people and injure at least six more at a... Read more »

Respiratory illnesses are sweeping the nation, overwhelming hospitals, causing kids to miss school, and keeping adults home from work. The culprit? Covid. And respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). And the flu.  “We’re facing an onslaught of three viruses—Covid, RSV and influenza. All simultaneously,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at... Read more »

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have a rich and powerful supporter in his expected presidential campaign: Twitter owner Elon Musk. Or, he might not. Despite reports that Musk would back DeSantis in 2024, the delivery of the message gives pause: Musk announced (if you can call it that) his DeSantis... Read more »

Voters in about two dozen Georgia counties began voting today in the Senate runoff between Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed challenger Herschel Walker, despite attempts by the Georgia Republicans to block Saturday voting. The election will determine whether the Senate remains split 50-50 with Democrats in control, or... Read more »

On Tuesday, Donald Trump, now a candidate for president, had dinner with the white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes and the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, to wide condemnation. Fuentes first gained notoriety for attending the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. He was one of... Read more »

This story was originally published by the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Deepak Palakshappa became a pediatrician to give poor kids access to good medical care. Still, back in his residency days, the now-associate professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem was shocked to discover that a... Read more »

Among the most-discussed aspects of Herschel Walker’s campaign for the US Senate seat in Georgia are the allegations he had episodes of violence and threatening to commit violence—allegations he later dismissed as the side effects of a mental illness known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, from which he now claims he is... Read more »

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over millions of years of evolution, nature has worked out solutions to many problems. Humans have arrived late in the day and pinched them. For example, Velcro was invented after a Swiss engineer marveled at the burdock... Read more »

"The idea that a society would be so inhumane as to provide free euthanasia to the poor or emotionally troubled instead of providing for everyone's welfare is a society in collapse" The post Free Euthanasia to the Poor: “A Society in Collapse” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Brian Castrucci spoke to the Institute for Public Accuracy about the politics of health in the U.S. "Elected officials have a greater influence over your health than your doctor. The prescription for better health in this nation is policy. Yet every policy we have about health is about pills and... Read more »

"With the prince now shielded from legal action stemming from his regime’s human rights abuses, he will feel far more comfortable traveling to the U.S. and Europe – anywhere he could have faced judicial accountability", writes journalism professor at New York University and fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now, founded... Read more »

Criminal Russian regime fired missiles which target not only Ukrainian civilians but also landed on NATO territory in Poland. Latvia fully stands with Polish friends and condemns this crime." The post The NATO Charter Is Not a Suicide Pact appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Last week, for the seventh time in recent months, Medicaid won at the ballot box. South Dakotans voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, making more than 45,000 people eligible for free health coverage. The post South Dakotans Voted for Access to Medicaid appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The FBI just announced an investigation into the killing of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli army. Israel has said it would not cooperate. The post Nuclear Netanyahu * Abu Akleh Killing appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The midterms will affect Biden's policy of "blank checks" of aid to Ukraine, writes former CIA analyst in his new article on American Foreign Policy. The post Midterms and Foreign Policy: Blank Check for More War in Ukraine? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

He said today: “Take the G20, subtract the G7 and it equals the BRICS. The eastern winds are predominant, the petrodollar is leaking and it will be a cold winter in the West.” The post Biden and Xi Meeting appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

RootsActions states, "On many issues, [Biden] has failed to use his executive authority, including the power to issue executive orders, to defend working families – a failure that can’t be blamed on Congress." as it launches DontRunJoe.org. The post DontRunJoe.org appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

MANY OF THE tens of thousands of delegates attending the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, go to these gatherings year after year on a kind of autopilot. They update their PowerPoint presentations, pack their organizational banners, and brush up their talking points. Next come the same warnings from the... Read more »

NO ONE KNOWS what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this: Alaa Abd El Fattah, arguably Egypt’s highest profile political prisoner, wrote it while on a hunger strike in his Cairo prison cell last month. It was, he explained later, “about global warming because of the... Read more »

THIS IS IT. The moment for President Joe Biden and Congress to challenge the underlying legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court and advance an aggressive climate action agenda. There will be no better moment to take this stand.... Read more »

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?... 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 »

I believe this is the most important environmental technology ever developed. It might be all that now stands between us and Earth systems collapse. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th November 2022 So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems that... Read more »

Powerful governments have no intention of preventing climate breakdown. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2022 The chances of any one person being born were calculated by the life coach Dr Ali Binazir. He multiplied the probability of your parents meeting, mating and conceiving by the chances... Read more »

Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian November 9th 2022 There are just two actions needed to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown: leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop farming animals.... Read more »

Because Twitter threads aren’t working at the moment (thanks Elon!), I’m republishing a chain of tweets about how we should rise to the challenge of democratic collapse. By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 9th November 2022 Here’s where I think we now stand, and how we should respond. A thread.... Read more »

Here’s how it happened before – a mass extinction caused by fossil fuel burning. It will happen again unless we step back from the precipice. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd November 2022 Budleigh Salterton, on the south coast of Devon, sits above the most frightening cliffs on... Read more »

Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th October 2022 Before we decide what needs to change, let’s take stock of what we have lost. I want to... Read more »

Why is life treated as less valuable than the depiction of life? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th October 2022 What does it take? How far must we go to alert other people to the scale of the crisis we face? Only one answer is clear: further than... Read more »

An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th October 2022 As a founder member of the “Anti-Growth Coalition”, I’m delighted to discover how fast it has, ahem, been growing. From small beginnings on the political margins, our grouping, according to... Read more »

The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th October 2022 Some of it is easy to understand. Liz Truss, a hollow vessel filled with secondhand ideas by the dark-money thinktanks, believed their... Read more »