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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Damning reports confirm dozens of casualties amongst US navy sailors and marines in Iranian attacks this month, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seize another American unmanned submarine in the Strait of Hormuz. Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the latest blows dealt to Washington across West Asia... Read more »

As US President Donald Trump threatens Iran with annihilation, Iranian missiles and drones have been targeting Israeli Mossad proxies, American bases and destroying tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Washington’s allies in Riyadh are meanwhile suffering enormous losses due to their war on Yemen, which has collapsed a joint project... Read more »

A Munich-based “anti-Semitism expert” organizing political action helping restrict pro-Palestine protests across Germany is a former Israeli spy, MintPress can reveal.  Since October 7, 2023, Guy Katz, professor of international management at Munich University of Applied Sciences, has become one of the leading figures in German politics on the subject... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from these grave abuses. The post Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A whistleblower says the warden didn’t make a federally required disclosure. Now the company is turning the Arizona prison into an ICE jail. The post Prison That Didn’t Report Sex Abuse Allegation Against Staffer to Reopen as ICE Camp appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“This is one of the singularly most distressing cases that I’ve seen in terms of public access to records. This is stonewalling on steroids.” The post The Intercept Sues Texas City Over Refusal to Release Police Records on Prairieland Protest appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Trump administration’s attempt to rebrand its faltering forever war hasn’t slowed the mounting toll of U.S. casualties. The post U.S. Has Suffered More Casualties In Iran Since the Conclusion of Operation Epic Fury appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers. The post AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18. The post The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

From gaps in the evidence to a judge's intervention, jurors never got to hear the ricochet theory that would have undermined attempted murder charges. The post Exclusive: Feds Denied Ballistics Expert Access to Prairieland Defendant Who Got 100 Years in Prison appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

By threatening the filmmakers, Netanyahu lays bare how fragile the notion of what it means to be Israeli is in the age of its genocide in Gaza. The post The Backlash to “NAZA” Shows How Little Israeli Citizenship Really Means appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After suffering major losses last election cycle, Justice Democrats resurrected itself, helping put democratic socialism on the map. So what changed? The post The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back Voters  appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AI cannot make music. It cannot create the experience of an artist using skill and intention to transport something from inside them into an audience through vibrations in the air. It can only mimic the noises of that encounter.... Read more »

Humanity’s problems are not caused by a lack of intelligence, our problems are caused by greedy plutocrats like Zuckerberg. It’s like a serial killer telling us we can stop serial killing by making serial killers smarter.... Read more »

The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “Why Are So Many Adults Cutting Off Their Parents?” about the rising levels of family estrangement in our society.... Read more »

Empire psychosis keeps us in a constant state of distraction and escapism, always scrambling to avoid the here and now like we’re trying to climb out of our own skins.... Read more »

It’s just a bunch of drugged-up rich guys using their vast fortunes to chart a course for our species that would sound totally awesome to the average preadolescent boy.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Labour’s ‘conference arrangements committee’ (CAC) has barred a motion put forward by members to cancel US spy firm Palantir’s £330m contract to process NHS patients’ data. Palantir motion blocked Palantir’s founders have boasted of its activities terrifying and killing the US’s opponents. One refused to say he wants the human... Read more »

Israel fanatic peer and ‘thug‘ – and anti-Roma hate-spreader – John Mann has stolen journalist Owen Jones’s microphone at Labour’s conference. Again. John Mann: over-compensating? Jones posted footage of the ‘not big and not clever’ bully stealing the mic at the 2025 conference, along with a clip of Mann repeating... Read more »

On Sunday 27 September 2026, 94-year-old Jewish retired barrister Margaret Owen was among around 200 people arrested for opposing genocide outside the Labour Party Conference. A day later, Andy Burnham’s new foreign secretary Ed Miliband gave his conference speech in Liverpool. Margaret Owen was an old friend of his late... Read more »

The government’s and media’s warmongering narrative about the supposed ‘terrorist’ (and likely ‘false-flag’) incident at the Fairford military base already collapsed in farce yesterday after the five men arrested were quickly granted bail. Now it is wallowing in ridicule: police have admitted that there were no explosives in the vans involved... Read more »

RAIL union RMT announced strike action on 29 September on Chiltern Railways after members voted overwhelmingly for industrial action against driver-only operation (DOO) planned for East West Rail services. RMT members will take 24-hour action on Saturday 10 October and Saturday 17 October. This is after the company refused to... Read more »

Protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) have unveiled a 20-foot mushroom cloud at St George’s Plateau in Liverpool. They were calling on the government to stop increasing the risk of nuclear war and to instead focus on the real security issues facing the UK. Protesters performed a symbolic... Read more »

On 25 September, Ian Roberts began a thirst and hunger strike in HMP Wandsworth after being sent to solitary confinement. Roberts, 51, was arrested in April 2026, accused of causing £2.4m damage to the electronics firm Keysight Technologies in Hampshire. He asserts that Keysight Technologies supplies radar and electronic systems... Read more »

The president, vice-president and five other members of the Turkish Football Federation’s Central Referees’ Committee have been detained following allegations of interference in refereeing-related procedures. Ferhat Gündoğdu and others were arrested on Tuesday for allegations relating to the classification of referees and the allocation of duties as well as the... Read more »

According to US think tank, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Donald Trump’s next resource grab targets Brazil’s critical minerals. Brazil’s President Lula made a post-colonial leader’s grave mistake: he tried to assert national sovereignty, making him a target of the US’ wrath. Hence, Trump has backed Flavio Bolsonaro against Lula... Read more »

Author: Albert Henry Norrman Title: Open letter to all anarchists Date: 2026/09/18 Notes: This article was originally written in Swedish and published under the title “Anarkismens tid är nu” (The Time for Anarchism is Now) in the Swedish syndicalist newspaper... Read more... Read more »

Author: Per Bylund Title: Private Property or Possession Subtitle: A Synthesis Date: September 7th, 2005 Source: https://www.perbylund.com/the_library_privatepropertyorpossessionasynthesis.htm Ownership, according to Immanuel Kant, is “the mode of having something external to myself as my own.” As such, it is problematic, since... Read more... Read more »

From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Event Type: Protest Organizer/Author: Indivisible Santa Cruz County Location Details: 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz (County Court House) Bring... Read more... Read more »

In Brazil, the third term of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party is drawing to a close. Lula could win a fourth term—making him the most-elected politician in the country’s history—if he defeats the son of former... Read more... Read more »

The meanings of the first two concepts often overlap, and during this pre-campaign period—coinciding with the month of national celebration—they have featured prominently in every speech. Yet, in today’s climate, self-sufficiency is the decisive factor upon which the others hinge.... Read more... Read more »

Clergy, immigrant rights organizations, and youth leaders lead a coalition calling on OpenAI to end its ICE and military contracts and pledge to defend free and democratic elections. Photos and video here and here  (San Francisco, CA)— About 100 members... Read more... Read more »

House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke via video to the Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand activist conference Saturday. As he prepared to hit the campaign trail for Republican House candidates, Johnson repeated his assertions that God will bless Republicans by... Read more... Read more »

The Irish Left held a protest recently in anticipation of the upcoming budget. The article discusses the overall situation in Ireland and explores the nature of the protest. Author LAMA Submitted by LAMA on September 29, 2026 Donald Trump visited... Read more... Read more »

In the evening of the 9th of August 2026 the Alarm Phone hotline was alerted to a fibreglass boat which departed from Libya the evening before. According to family members, on the boat there were 18 people from Bangladesh, Egypt,... Read more... Read more »

Author: Per BylundTitle: Private Property or PossessionSubtitle: A SynthesisDate: September 7th, 2005Source: https://www.perbylund.com/the_library_privatepropertyorpossessionasynthesis.htm Ownership, according to Immanuel Kant, is “the mode of having something external to myself as my own.” As such, it is problematic, since ownership in effect means that someone has the exclusive right to control a part... Read more »

Author: Albert Henry NorrmanTitle: Open letter to all anarchistsDate: 2026/09/18Notes: This article was originally written in Swedish and published under the title “Anarkismens tid är nu” (The Time for Anarchism is Now) in the Swedish syndicalist newspaper Arbetaren (The Worker) on September 19th 2026 (https://www.arbetaren.se/2026/09/18/anarkismens-tid-ar-nu/). Translated into English by the... Read more »

Author: ziqTitle: Beware of Open Source AbsolutistsDate: September 7. 2026Source: Retrieved on 2026-09-28 from raddle.me/wiki/open_source_absolutists Open Source Is Not the Same Thing as Liberation There is a peculiar form of ideological dogmatism that has emerged within parts of the FOSS movement. Even in anarchist circles, some people seem to believe... Read more »

Author: Jeff RiggenbachTitle: Why I Am a Left LibertarianDate: August 8th, 2015Source: https://c4ss.org/content/39598 Many libertarians say the traditional Left/Right political spectrum has become meaningless and useless. But to the extent that this is true for them, this is only because they have allowed themselves to be befuddled by political fraud... Read more »

Author: László MolnárfiTitle: No Mini-Lenins; No Mini-HitlersDate: Summer 2026Notes: László Molnárfi is a 24-year-old anarcho-communist from Hungary, participant in the Free Trinity encampment at Trinity College Dublin, and freelance journalist.Source: Fifth Estate Magazine The spectre of capitalist culture haunts even revolutionary organizations. During the French May ’68 uprising, a famous... Read more »

Author: Flower BombTitle: Really Though, Not All “Black” People Give a Fuck About “White” DreadsSubtitle: A Short Diary on Mayhem and Race NihilismDate: October 18 2017Source: <web.archive.org/.../warzonedistro.noblogs.org> “And these rhymes ain’t tight, they’re terrorishAnd that girl’s not white, she’s anarchistAnd we float like kites to get turbulenceBorn with our throats... Read more »

Author: Flower BombTitle: Why Nihilism?Subtitle: A (Friendly) Response to John Zerzans “Why Hope? (Critique of the Nihilist tendency in Anarchism)”Date: 2019Source: <web.archive.org/.../warzonedistro.noblogs.org> (PDF) For years, John Zerzan has inspired my understanding of green anarchy through many of his texts. I enjoy “Anarchy Radio” and the topics he covers, as well... Read more »

Author: Lois WaisbrookerTitle: My Century PlantDate: 1896Source: <http://www.pierssen.com/misc/treasures/mcp.htm> and <https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000567764> I demand unqualified freedom for woman as woman, and that all the institutions of society be adjusted to such freedom. The seed of (the) woman shall bruise the serpent’s head. TO THE READER. I am well aware that the demand... Read more »

Author: AnonymousTitle: MayhemDate: 08/2026Source: Retrieved on 2026-08-27 from anarchotankiesm.noblogs.org This zine is a fictional story about how a small group of 2–5 people got together to disable/destroy a Flock camera (or any other type of camera). Nobody should ever do anything described in this zine because the actions are illegal.... Read more »

Barry Pateman 1951-2026... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

Where I Stand... Read more »

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

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

The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned 10 individuals and entities in multiple jurisdictions that it said procured weapons and weapons components for Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), Anadolu reports. “Treasury will not tolerate any support to the regime and will continue to identify, expose, and... Read more »

Palestine on Tuesday called on companies worldwide to review their relationships with businesses included in the updated UN human rights office’s database of businesses involved in activities linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, Anadolu reports. Palestine’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva welcomed the rights... Read more »

Iraq’s national carrier Iraqi Airways said Tuesday that it plans to resume flights to and from Iran in October after securing a “special exemption” from US sanctions that had restricted services involving Iranian airlines, Anadolu reports. In a statement carried by the state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA), the airline said... Read more »

The Israeli opposition announced Tuesday the formation of three joint working teams aimed at coordinating efforts to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and form what it called a “Zionist government” after the Oct. 27 election, Anadolu reports. The five-party opposition alliance notably excluded Arab parties from the joint initiative... Read more »

The European Union is seeking to deepen ties with Damascus and increase investment in Syria, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. Her remarks came during a joint news conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at Tishreen Palace in Damascus during her visit to Syria.... Read more »

When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned of a greater danger than threats to the two-state politics during his UNGA prerecorded speech, he rendered the warning invalid by making the threats sound recent and new. Not only was Abbas warning the wrong audience, he also used the same audience’s language... Read more »

Japan on Tuesday said it was lifting partial sanctions on Syria, signaling support to the government of President Ahmad al-Sharaa, Anadolu reports. Japan’s top government spokesman Minoru Kihara told reporters that many of the entities being removed from the sanctions list “are expected to play a role in Syria’s reconstruction,”... Read more »

Iran’s rial fell to a fresh record low against the US dollar on Tuesday, with the free-market rate crossing 2.5 million rials per dollar, Anadolu reports. The dollar was quoted at 2.542 million rials, up 3.84% from the previous day, according to Pashizi, a website tracking Iran’s free foreign exchange... Read more »

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Tuesday called on the European Union to move beyond statements of concern and exert effective pressure on Israel to halt its continuing attacks on Syria, Anadolu reports. “This systematic aggression against a country that is recovering requires more than statements of concern; it requires... Read more »

Following the appearance of a second television ad boosting the image of President Donald Trump and paid for by government funds, Public Citizen filed a complaint with the FCC, FTC, individual broadcasters urging media companies to immediately stop airing the ad.Public Citizen also filed a second complaint with the U.S.... Read more »

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a resolution (S.Res.852) that would force the government to issue an official report on Israel's human rights abuses in the West Bank. The resolution—led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD, and co-sponsored by 24 senators—would require the State Department to... Read more »

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced today that it is gutting fuel-economy standards for cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks, an inconceivable decision given the purpose of the federal fuel economy program – to reduce gasoline consumption – and the skyrocketing prices at the pump Americans are already struggling to... Read more »

Earlier today, the federal government under President Donald Trump finalized a rollback of fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks. By doing so, the administration effectively eliminated the nation’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which have improved vehicle efficiency and saved families about $321 billion at the gas... Read more »

President Trump’s Department of Transportation today finalized a rule gutting Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, which conserve billions of gallons of gas and save consumers billions at the pump.Trump’s action is illegal because the law requires that the fuel economy standards be set at the “maximum feasible” level.... Read more »

Today, Groundwork Collaborative unveiled a Shoppers’ Bill of Rights, 12 basic protections aimed at reining in the hidden fees, pricing games, and corporate tactics that make everyday life more expensive.Authors Lindsay Owens, Nia Law, and Elizabeth Pancotti argue that existing regulations to safeguard the shopper were written for a bygone... Read more »

Atop all the others inflicted on us came last week's sickening spectacle of two vengeful, lying, broken old men - one a longtime killer of children, one a petty useful idiot abetting him - alternately celebrating and threatening genocide before "we the peoples of the United Nations." Born of "the... Read more »

A television ad boosting the image of President Donald Trump, which was paid for by government funds, violates laws prohibiting the use of government resources for propaganda, the Hatch Act, and other related laws, according to a complaint filed today by Public Citizen.The complaint, sent to the U.S. Government Accountability... Read more »

Common Cause condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling today allowing the federal government to continue using the flawed SAVE system. Statement from Common Cause President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomón: “The Supreme Court’s decision to allow DHS and states to use an error-ridden system is completely unacceptable and didn’t need to... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Zinn Education Project’s Freedom to Teach and Learn Survey builds on and updates those findings by documenting, in educators’ own words, how the chilling effect is unfolding in schools today and how teachers are resisting. More than 610 educators from at least 43 states and Washington, D.C. responded to... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned of a greater danger than threats to the two-state politics during his UNGA prerecorded speech, he rendered the warning invalid by making the threats sound recent and new. Not only was Abbas warning the wrong audience, he also used the same audience’s language... Read more »

Holding roughly 145 billion barrels of proved crude reserves, Iraq ranks among the world’s major petroleum powers, yet its electricity system still comes under severe strain each summer. In 2024, available peak supply stood at about 25 GW, against roughly 48 GW needed to meet summer peak demand, according to... Read more »

The 81st United Nations General Assembly session once again exposed a diplomatic rupture that has been taking place for several years. In his address to the world body, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan deliberately refused to name Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a calculated diplomatic strategy that Turkish analysts describe... Read more »

The future of Gaza is no longer simply a question of ending a war. It has become a defining question for the political architecture of the Middle East. Diplomacy, reconstruction and Palestinian statehood are inseparable dimensions of the same geopolitical challenge. How Gaza is governed, rebuilt and politically integrated will... Read more »

Yemen is once again confronting a dangerous escalation in a war that has repeatedly demonstrated the limits of military solutions. The latest fighting, particularly along the country’s western coast and in the vicinity of the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, is a reminder that Yemen’s conflict has never been simply a contest... Read more »

On September 24, Indonesian diplomats walked out of the UN General Assembly hall in New York. They left their seats just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rose to speak. They were not alone. Diplomats from several other countries left too, crowding the exit doors. Netanyahu mocked them, telling anyone... Read more »

On Sunday, October 4, millions of Brazilians will decide Brazil’s political, economic, and social direction. They will also pit against each other two opposing visions of foreign policy and the country’s very place in the world. On one side, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva represents a sovereign diplomacy committed to... Read more »

Military cooperation among Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan is growing, but it does not yet amount to a unified four-country alliance. The ties are taking shape through different channels: a formal alliance between Azerbaijan and Türkiye, a separate allied-relations treaty between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, and broader exercises that bring Central... Read more »

The expansionist Zionist project has entered its terminal, self-devouring phase. What the global community is witnessing in the aftermath of the devastating campaign in Gaza is not the consolidation of an invincible regional power, but the structural, compounding decay of an aggressive settler-colonial enterprise. Blinded by decades of unchecked ideological... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“We got the first formerly incarcerated Black woman who is now the clerk in Prince George’s County… We’ve got a new Black woman mayor in DC because of the rallying and the intense work that Black women did, formerly incarcerated Black women did to change that and put new leadership... Read more »

“I'm hopeful because I don't have any other option. And the fact that the President of the United States came after an unknown student speaks a lot to the successes of our movement”... Read more »

ICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. We speak with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything.... Read more »

“The president and his administration have gone from breaking the law to trampling it,” said a former White House special counsel.... Read more »

The deadline to register to vote in Texas is October 5.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

“We got the first formerly incarcerated Black woman who is now the clerk in Prince George’s County… We’ve got a new Black woman mayor in DC because of the rallying and the intense work that Black women did, formerly incarcerated Black women did to change that and put new leadership... Read more »

“I'm hopeful because I don't have any other option. And the fact that the President of the United States came after an unknown student speaks a lot to the successes of our movement”... Read more »

ICE agents terrorized this suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, and beat peaceful protestors while local cops just watched. We speak with an eyewitness who saw and filmed everything.... Read more »

“The president and his administration have gone from breaking the law to trampling it,” said a former White House special counsel.... Read more »

The deadline to register to vote in Texas is October 5.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s most recent documentary, Winning Heart and Minds, is an investigation into what went wrong in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In the film, Khaja travels to Musa Qala, the capital of the southern Helmand province. Danish and British troops had been deployed... Read more »

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local authorities, the true number could be much higher when missing people and indirect deaths are taken into account,... Read more »

After months of threatening to take over Greenland by force, President Trump last week signed a 10-page agreement with Greenland and Denmark that bolsters the U.S. military presence on the mineral-rich and strategically located island but falls short of his earlier demands to make it American territory. Under the 1951... Read more »

U.S. and Iran Hold Indirect Talks on Deal to End Fighting, Lift Sanctions and Reopen Hormuz, Iran Denies Involvement in Alleged Plot to Bomb British Air Base Used by U.S. Bombers, Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences Struck as Russian Drones Kill 9, Wound Dozens, Trump Administration Slashes Biden-Era Fuel Economy Standards,... Read more »

Longtime national security reporter Sharon Weinberger’s new book, Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War, follows the rise of the military-industrial complex in Silicon Valley, where defense technology companies, like Palantir, Anduril and SpaceX, and their billionaire founders, are increasingly shaping U.S. foreign policy. Weinberger... Read more »

A new documentary titled Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed reveals new details about the U.K. government’s internal response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Presented by journalist Ramita Navai and produced by Ben De Pear for Channel 4’s investigative program Dispatches, the documentary examines government records, some newly publicized, to... Read more »

The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal Martín in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain’s rising cost of living and sparked nationwide protests against corporate greed and wealth inequality. Over 600 protesters are now... Read more »

Five Men Arrested on Suspicion of Terrorism Near British Base Used by U.S. in Iran War, Trump Asked Chinese President Xi Jinping If He Would Like to Buy American-Made Weapons, White House Blocks CNN from Air Force One, OpenAI’s Artificial Intelligence Reportedly Meddled with U.S. Government Websites, Seven People Killed... Read more »

We speak with journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, whose new book, Crossing the Red Line, looks at how President Joe Biden and top figures in his administration supported Israel’s brutal war in Gaza despite the soaring death toll and growing alarm over widespread war crimes committed by the Israeli military. “The... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I”m overjoyed to see that the number of Patreon subscribers is increasing. One of the virtues is getting feedback from you. This is the best way to extend the scope of the approach that we’re interested in spreading. One subscriber just sent me the following note: When worked in refineries... Read more »

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SuperImperialism, Dollar System, Financialization and China’s Economic Transition South South Dialogue on Sustainability 18 September 2026  Host: Professor Lau Kin Chi (Lingnan University and Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong, China) Interview Transcript Lau Kin Chi: The first question is, the United States has $40 trillion in federal debt. Is... Read more »

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My friend Amarynth at Sovereignista.com has posted the folloing information. Blocking Bachelet leaves only Grossi — who turned over Iranian scientists names and labs as targets for Israeli assassins to kill afer his “inspections” — as a candidate not recommended by tiny island nations at the behest/threat of financial support... Read more »

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What does an empire expect to live on after losing its industrial advantage? In this discussion with Richard Wolff and Nima Alkhorshid, I examine the economic rent at stake in the struggle over oil. Paying for extraction while claiming the resource surplus leaves the producing country working through its natural... Read more »

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On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves, a “pain compliance” tool and recent hit with ICE officers that function similarly to tasers at a lower voltage. ICE recently purchased about 6,000 pairs of the... Read more »

“First of all, the polls are fake.” When asked about competitive congressional races in Iowa, Donald Trump predictably dismissed Iowa Republicans’ lackluster polling numbers as “fake” and blamed Democrats for the high prices squeezing farmers and other businessmen across the state—even as the war in Iran has sparked soaring energy... Read more »

On Wednesday—the fourth day New York’s annual Climate Week—a federal judge handed the Trump administration a major victory by striking down New York’s landmark Climate Change Superfund Act. Judge P. Kevin Castel ruled that the law, which sought to hold fossil fuel companies financially responsible for climate change-related damages, overstepped the... Read more »

OpenAI called off plans to launch its latest GPT-6.1 Astra model on Tuesday, after the system failed to meet the company’s safety standards.  The model was scheduled to release sometime in October, but OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, told The Wall Street Journal that GPT-6.1 Astra, as compared... Read more »

The most unusual ritual in American politics in the scorched and cynical runup to the 2026 midterm elections takes place as often as five times a day—in restaurants and breweries, in rec centers and old churches, in train depots and art spaces, and in at least one possibly haunted pioneer... Read more »

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. I just published a book... Read more »

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recent attacks on US universities by the Trump administration have built on decades of efforts by libertarian donor networks, fossil fuel companies, and conservative think tanks to reshape university governance and increase outside influence, according to a... Read more »

A sign is placed in the yard of a residential property off US Route 322 approaching the small town of Philipsburg in central Pennsylvania. The sign appears almost as if it is floating in the lush green grass. Greeting passersby entering this town of some 3,000 residents, it displays a... Read more »

The first hint that I needn’t be so anxious to interview Min Jin Lee came as the bestselling author descended the creaky stairs of her five-story Harlem townhouse and pronounced my name. Not in the way my brain has articulated it for decades, smoothed over by an anglicized version that... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How capitalism stopped pretending, and became an undisguised death cult. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  5th August 2026 Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in the ashes! This, roughly... Read more »

At astonishing speed, around the world, fundamental rights are being cancelled at the behest of oligarchs and corporations. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  31st July 2026 No more resistance in the US. The era of human rights is over, and dissent is once more forbidden. This is what... Read more »

Trashing the living world on behalf of corporate power: is this really all we can expect from the ministers in charge of protecting it? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd July 2026 There’s a slightly mean question I often ask British people with an interest in the living... Read more »

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

A Republican strategist blew his top on Tuesday about his party's self-inflicted humiliation when interrogating prosecutor Jack Smith. As they attempted to impress President Donald Trump and his supporters by proving Smith lied about being in Atlanta, and by implication meeting with another anti-Trump prosecutor Fani Willis, Sens. Eric Schmitt... Read more »

Trump biographer Michale Wolff says President Donald Trump tends to attack his friends and loyalists hardest when things don’t go his way — primarily because they make easy targets. This, he said, will be no different after the punishing midterms when the newly infuriated president will be hunting targets to... Read more »

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist said she would have felt suicidal if she had made a mistake as egregious and foolish as that committed by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) when he tried to pull a "gotcha" on Jack Smith, the prosecutor who attempted to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his... Read more »

No matter how much conservative Nick Catoggio dislikes President Donald Trump, he is always quick to admit Trump’s Teflon superpower is impressive. But on Tuesday, Catoggio said he was surprised to have to confess that Trump’s Teflon armor regarding Jeffrey Epstein appears to be cracking.Trump’s name appears generously throughout the... Read more »

President Donald Trump recently released a campaign ad using taxpayer money, an act so blatantly illegal that even many of his fellow Republicans are fuming about it. Yet despite GOP lawmakers grumbling about it, Trump's former attorney described them as "cowardly" because they will never take substantive action to hold... Read more »

Before serving as an anchor for MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace was an adviser to the Republican presidential campaign of the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Yet when discussing President Donald Trump's supporters in the same Republican Party for which she used to work, Wallace argued on Tuesday that they... Read more »

Bloomberg reports analysts and investors alike are finally wising up to President Donald Trump’s up-and-down roller coaster of oil prices, and they’re finally settling in for a long-term slog with Trump in the White House.“The conflict in the Middle East and the implications for forward inflation remain the primary macro... Read more »

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he will do everything in his power to prevent Democrats from reclaiming either chamber of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. Now Marc Elias, an election attorney who founded the voting rights organization Democracy Docket, is warning that Trump has already guaranteed the... Read more »

A former special prosecutor’s epic takedown of a fumbled MAGA conspiracy theory before viewers on Tuesday had CNN anchor Kasie Hunt wondering if the GOP was finally done with pursuing half-baked attacks on Jack Smith. “Could that be it? Could that be it?” Hunt later asked her panel on CNN’s... Read more »

Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress. There is little... Read more »

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

Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the UN, Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran “into hell with no chance of survival.” He... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

The month's archives. - 2026/09 / perspective... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

- Africa / Map, 2026/09 Somaliland... Read more »

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

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

UK helped Gulf monarchy crackdown on dissidents to keep control over Strait of Hormuz oil route The post British soldiers interrogated detainees before mass execution appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Concerns about elderly Northern Ireland veterans are being used to protect the SAS from the Afghanistan inquiry The post I was a senior British army lawyer. This is the truth about ‘lawfare’ appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Labour MPs have condemned the ‘Trump-like’ decision, saying party is ‘bang out of order’ The post Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taiwan’s military plans to spend more than NT$27 billion (US$850 million) to quadruple critical ammunition stocks to 120 days’ supply, strengthening its ability to sustain combat operations during a wartime blockade. The proposed six-year “urgent ammunition replenishment” programme, running from this year until 2031, comes as Taipei seeks to strengthen... Read more »

Local Chinese authorities have issued warnings and demerits to 11 officials and dismissed the entire kitchen staff at a kindergarten following a teacher’s revelation about unsanitary practices, including washing dirty mops in cooking pots. On June 30, several children at the Affiliated Kindergarten of Nanjing University of Information Science and... Read more »

A Singapore-based education financing programme is testing whether income-linked funding can widen access to higher education without an unmanageable debt burden, a model analysts say could help ease repayment pressure faced by graduates across Southeast Asia. Global Financing for Education’s (GFE) Pay It Forward scheme, publicly launched in September, provides... Read more »

The two-month extension of the US-China trade truce remains fragile despite last week’s summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, with modest economic concessions leaving deeper disputes unresolved, Asia Society Policy Institute analysts said on Tuesday. “In my view, this truce is very fragile,” said Wendy Cutler, an Asia... Read more »

Hong Kong’s first five-year plan and latest policy address have put demographic sustainability on the public agenda. Among the measures announced are an extension of the newborn bonus scheme and increased financial support for the second and subsequent children. These are welcome steps. But the fertility debate should not be... Read more »

A family of four was sent to hospital on Wednesday morning after a fire broke out at a public housing estate in Sha Tin, prompting the evacuation of around 140 residents. Police received a report at 6.48am as thick smoke poured from a mid-rise flat in Yan Chuen House at... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day state visit to Washington is over, but China watchers in Congress and the US-China policy community are still parsing a wide range of outcomes, with two more leadership summits expected before the end of the year. The talks between Xi and US President Donald Trump... Read more »

Hong Kong’s crackdown on visitors abusing visas to illegally offer tour guide, photography and other services has failed to deter adverts for such unlicensed work on mainland Chinese social media ahead of the National Day “golden week” break, the South China Morning Post has found. A search of RedNote by... Read more »

American rapper Macklemore lost his spot on British pop star Ed Sheeran’s US tour after speaking up for Palestinians, but in Malaysia it was Sheeran’s music which ended up being pulled from the airwaves. In neighbouring Singapore, British band Massive Attack faced a different kind of fallout, barred from returning... Read more »

President Xi Jinping has ordered China’s security and legal apparatus to relentlessly eliminate risks and build a “safer” country a year ahead of the pivotal 21st Communist Party congress, which will usher in a major leadership reshuffle. The latest instruction, published by state news agency Xinhua on Monday night, is... Read more »

While foreign leaders and their families walk the iconic restored sections of the Great Wall around Beijing, the ancient stones of a remote Ming-era stretch of the structure in northern central China have been sacrificed for cheaper dumping of coal-mining waste. For nearly 20 years, a section of the wall... Read more »

Han Zheng, China’s vice-president, called on “major countries” to respect the sovereignty and security of Middle Eastern nations and bring about a two-state solution for the “Palestinian question” on Saturday at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in an implicit dig at the US and Israel. This came as some analysts... Read more »

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

Taiwanese officials and observers have reacted cautiously to the Washington summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, with uncertainty lingering over what the two leaders discussed about the island. The only public mention of Taiwan after Thursday’s closed-door talks between the pair came from Beijing’s official statement, which said Xi... Read more »

Amid the polished silverware and fine crystal stemware on display at the state dinner in the White House on Thursday sat the vacuum flasks brought by Chinese President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan. The couple’s flasks, black for Xi and white for Peng, were spotted on their table... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from these grave abuses. The post Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A whistleblower says the warden didn’t make a federally required disclosure. Now the company is turning the Arizona prison into an ICE jail. The post Prison That Didn’t Report Sex Abuse Allegation Against Staffer to Reopen as ICE Camp appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“This is one of the singularly most distressing cases that I’ve seen in terms of public access to records. This is stonewalling on steroids.” The post The Intercept Sues Texas City Over Refusal to Release Police Records on Prairieland Protest appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Trump administration’s attempt to rebrand its faltering forever war hasn’t slowed the mounting toll of U.S. casualties. The post U.S. Has Suffered More Casualties In Iran Since the Conclusion of Operation Epic Fury appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers. The post AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18. The post The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

From gaps in the evidence to a judge's intervention, jurors never got to hear the ricochet theory that would have undermined attempted murder charges. The post Exclusive: Feds Denied Ballistics Expert Access to Prairieland Defendant Who Got 100 Years in Prison appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

By threatening the filmmakers, Netanyahu lays bare how fragile the notion of what it means to be Israeli is in the age of its genocide in Gaza. The post The Backlash to “NAZA” Shows How Little Israeli Citizenship Really Means appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After suffering major losses last election cycle, Justice Democrats resurrected itself, helping put democratic socialism on the map. So what changed? The post The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back Voters  appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Trump has appointed individuals willing to provide fawning approval of his every whim.... Read more »

For Palestinians in Gaza who have lost identification documents, missing records can complicate official procedures such as obtaining a passport and proving inheritance.... Read more »

Catastrophic flooding in the Himalayan country has left families searching for answers.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following the appearance of a second television ad boosting the image of President Donald Trump and paid for by government funds, Public Citizen filed a complaint with the FCC, FTC, individual broadcasters urging media companies to immediately stop airing the ad.Public Citizen also filed a second complaint with the U.S.... Read more »

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a resolution (S.Res.852) that would force the government to issue an official report on Israel's human rights abuses in the West Bank. The resolution—led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD, and co-sponsored by 24 senators—would require the State Department to... Read more »

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced today that it is gutting fuel-economy standards for cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks, an inconceivable decision given the purpose of the federal fuel economy program – to reduce gasoline consumption – and the skyrocketing prices at the pump Americans are already struggling to... Read more »

Earlier today, the federal government under President Donald Trump finalized a rollback of fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks. By doing so, the administration effectively eliminated the nation’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which have improved vehicle efficiency and saved families about $321 billion at the gas... Read more »

President Trump’s Department of Transportation today finalized a rule gutting Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, which conserve billions of gallons of gas and save consumers billions at the pump.Trump’s action is illegal because the law requires that the fuel economy standards be set at the “maximum feasible” level.... Read more »

Today, Groundwork Collaborative unveiled a Shoppers’ Bill of Rights, 12 basic protections aimed at reining in the hidden fees, pricing games, and corporate tactics that make everyday life more expensive.Authors Lindsay Owens, Nia Law, and Elizabeth Pancotti argue that existing regulations to safeguard the shopper were written for a bygone... Read more »

Atop all the others inflicted on us came last week's sickening spectacle of two vengeful, lying, broken old men - one a longtime killer of children, one a petty useful idiot abetting him - alternately celebrating and threatening genocide before "we the peoples of the United Nations." Born of "the... Read more »

A television ad boosting the image of President Donald Trump, which was paid for by government funds, violates laws prohibiting the use of government resources for propaganda, the Hatch Act, and other related laws, according to a complaint filed today by Public Citizen.The complaint, sent to the U.S. Government Accountability... Read more »

Common Cause condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling today allowing the federal government to continue using the flawed SAVE system. Statement from Common Cause President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomón: “The Supreme Court’s decision to allow DHS and states to use an error-ridden system is completely unacceptable and didn’t need to... Read more »

Canadian physician Gabor Mate discusses the maladies that are the norm in our society — how stress and trauma, accentuated by the divisions of class, gender, and race, damage our lives and bodies. Donate in support of Against the Grain and KPFA The post Fund Drive Special: Gabor Mate on... Read more »

Historian and activist, teacher and playwright — Howard Zinn told a different history of the United States, one of struggle between those on the bottom against those on top. Donate in support of Against the Grain and KPFA The post Fund Drive Special: Howard Zinn on His Life and Times... Read more »

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

Elites, especially in tech, over at least the last decade have espoused repugnant ideas arguing that extreme social inequality is not only inevitable, but desirable. Acclaimed historian Kim Phillips-Fein argues that there is a long US tradition promoting wealth inequality that has once again moved from the shadows into the... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

The mayor of Kadena Town in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Monday visited the Japanese Defense Ministry's Okinawa Defense Bureau to protest the planned storage of the US Typhon mid-range missile system at Kadena Air Base in the town.... Read more »

US and Iranian officials spoke separately with mediators on Monday as part of a renewed effort to end seven months of war, according to officials from both countries.... Read more »

NASA announced on Monday it was planning new missions using Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, the first since the vessel's botched test flight left two astronauts stranded at the ISS for months.... Read more »

Trump unveils $15 billion planned Iowa steel project... Read more »

General Assembly President Khalilur Rahman said the debate covered a range of issues, including peace, development, human rights, UN reform, and the selection of the next secretary-general.... Read more »

China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Monday said that for Japan, the pressing task is to correct the erroneous words and deeds of its leaders on the Taiwan question as soon as possible.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping has long championed coexistence, dialogue and mutual learning among diverse civilizations. Here are some of his key quotes on this vision.... Read more »

Nishan Forum explores how ancient wisdom can address modern challenges... Read more »

The Long March spirit not only resonates across the Chinese nation, but is also a source of inspiration that transcends borders and touches hearts around the world.... Read more »

China urges Japanese authorities to seriously reflect on and correct their wrongdoings, and take concrete actions to return to the purpose and mission of the four political documents between China and Japan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.... Read more »

China always welcomes Japanese enterprises to develop business and share market opportunities in the country, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said on Tuesday.... Read more »

China urges Japan's leaders to reflect on and correct their mistakes... Read more »

Israeli settler attack in West Bank draws rare government rebuke... Read more »

Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev held "constructive" talks with US officials on ending the Ukraine conflict, including possible US-Russia energy initiatives in the postconflict period, a US official said on Tuesday.... Read more »

Nearly 40 people were killed in three separate mass shootings across South Africa in less than a week. The deadliest attack occurred in Johannesburg late Saturday, where 17 people were killed. Hours later, at least 10 people died in a shooting in Cape Town.... Read more »

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday evacuated 161 people from Ethiopia's conflict-affected Tigray region amid heightened tensions.... Read more »

Sudan called on foreign powers to stop supplying weapons and fighters to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), saying outside interference is prolonging the conflict that has devastated the country since April 2023.... Read more »

The new "maritime chart" released by the Philippine side, which covers Zhongye Island, Mahuan Island and other reefs and islands in China's Nansha Qundao, is illegal and invalid, severely infringing upon China's territorial sovereignty, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.... Read more »

Somalia is stepping up maritime security along its northeastern coast as piracy resurges in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea region. Authorities in Puntland say they have increased patrols and operations targeting pirate hideouts and recently freed the Eritrean-flagged vessel Sibu 1.... Read more »

The shift from negotiations driven by immediate pressure toward dialogue supported by durable mechanisms may become one of the most significant developments in China-US economic diplomacy in recent years. By building channels for continued engagement, the two countries have created new possibilities for managing differences and pursuing mutually beneficial cooperation... Read more »

China's Mid-Autumn Festival sees spike in travel demand... Read more »

Analysis: How Hormuz is driving global oil prices... Read more »

Three key takeaways from the eighth round of China-US trade talks: some $30 billion in reciprocal tariff cuts, a new Board of Trade, and an agricultural working group.... Read more »

Uganda is positioning digital innovation and artificial intelligence as drivers of tourism growth, President Yoweri Museveni said as the country marked World Tourism Day.... Read more »

The Takaichi Fallout: A 'high-pressure economy' is no fix for Japan... Read more »

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On the centenary of Debs’ death, the foundation bearing his name honors a union official who embodies everything the socialist leader fought against.... Read more »

The crushing of ramp worker Oscar Robayo by the nose gear of an Airbus A350-900 while he was performing a routine pushback at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport in August has provoked sympathy and outrage among workers throughout the aviation industry and beyond.... Read more »

Milei’s “National Sovereignty Defense Law” uses a real grievance of an oppressed nation to arm the state against the working class, while the pseudo-left offers a nationalist perspective that excludes the unity of Argentine workers with workers in the US and Britain.... Read more »

With British imperialism facing debt interest payments at £110 billion a year and plans to ramp war against Russia, along with deeper involvement in Middle East conflicts, Labour today has even less possibility of increasing social spending than under Tony Blair in the 1990s.... Read more »

B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as a people.”... Read more »

The public sector strike in France is part of an international resurgence of social struggles against the backdrop of war and the rise of the far right.... Read more »

Labour’s call for a more “peaceful” orientation, with greater “independence” from the US and Israel, is a calculated fraud.... Read more »

On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.... Read more »

A coalition of 28 unions staged a protest in Asunción to demand pay parity for healthcare administrative workers while up to 7,000 Chicago hotel workers are prepared to launch strike action over poverty wages.... Read more »

Technology helps every grain make it to the granary in China... Read more »

China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Monday called for efforts to lead people of all ethnic groups in working together to create a better life.... Read more »

China's top diplomat Wang Yi on Monday said that for Japan, the pressing task is to correct the erroneous words and deeds of its leaders on the Taiwan question as soon as possible.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping has long championed coexistence, dialogue and mutual learning among diverse civilizations. Here are some of his key quotes on this vision.... Read more »

Xi Jinping to pay tribute to national heroes on Martyrs' Day... Read more »

Nishan Forum explores how ancient wisdom can address modern challenges... Read more »

The Long March spirit not only resonates across the Chinese nation, but is also a source of inspiration that transcends borders and touches hearts around the world.... Read more »

Nishan Dialogue: The Wisdom of the Analects on Civilization... Read more »

How Chinese games are building a global following... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A traditional move from a Shandong folk dance has recently gone viral on Chinese social media, after an old instructional video recorded years ago by dance teacher Ming Wenjun as part of a basic training course was rediscovered and widely imitated by netizens.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping has long championed coexistence, dialogue and mutual learning among diverse civilizations. Here are some of his key quotes on this vision.... Read more »

Nishan Dialogue: The Wisdom of the Analects on Civilization... Read more »

How about decorating your desk with Confucius figurines?... Read more »

One step at a time: Retracing the Long March on foot... Read more »

From Nishan to world: 'Ask Confucius' cultural dialogue... Read more »

China's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday box office surpassed 270 million yuan (around $40.2 million), warming up the country's film market ahead of the upcoming National Day holiday.... Read more »

Two giant pandas from China landed in Atlanta on Sunday morning, bringing excitement to visitors eager to see the beloved animals return to the city after nearly two years.... Read more »

Young Americans share views on China's proposed exchange program... Read more »

China has issued a development plan for its new-type battery industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), setting targets for industrial growth, technological innovation and product quality.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Sichuan University to leverage its interdisciplinary strengths and play a pioneering and exemplary role in serving national strategies, as he extended congratulations on the 130th founding anniversary of the university.... Read more »

Technology helps every grain make it to the granary in China... Read more »

NASA announced on Monday it was planning new missions using Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, the first since the vessel's botched test flight left two astronauts stranded at the ISS for months.... Read more »

Trump unveils $15 billion planned Iowa steel project... Read more »

China plans to complete new-generation geological map of Mars by 2028... Read more »

Scientists create 'hot ice' that may explain Uranus' magnetic fields... Read more »

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft reached orbit for the first time on Monday and deployed 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites before ending its test mission earlier than planned.... Read more »

SpaceX launched its giant Starship rocket on its first orbital flight attempt on Monday.... Read more »

The report documents Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educational system and examines how this policy forms an integral part of Israel’s ongoing genocide. By July 2026, Israel had killed over 20,051 students, over 830 teachers & educational staff, and over 194 scholars...... Read more »

Explosive new book reports that as Biden publicly counseled a measured response, his administration privately supported Israel’s maximalist goals. Biden was haughty & sure of his Middle East expertise; his inner circle maintained wilful ignorance about the genocide in Gaza... Read more »

Israeli Ministers led 1,271 colonizers under heavy Israeli police guard in an invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinians, destroyed and stole crops... Read more »

Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity.... Read more »

The Trump administration has approved arms deals for Israel worth $21.6 billion in just 20 months. Under former President Joe Biden, sales exceeded $17.9 billion.... Read more »

Three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in Deir al-Balah and Gaza City, as Israeli forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip.... Read more »

Guy Katz, a German professor, is a leading figure in German politics on the subject of Israel and anti-Semitism. It is almost never disclosed in the widespread coverage and amplification he receives in German and international media that he is a former Mossad spy... Read more »

Egypt’s intelligence chief warned that Hamas appeared to be mobilizing for a major attack; Israel should grant Hamas economic concessions to avert conflict. 'If Israel doesn't change course, Gaza is going to blow up in your face – the window to prevent a disaster is closing.' Netanyahu's response was confident—even... Read more »

Satellite images show utter devastation in Gaza ■ Jerusalem heats up ■ Israeli citizenship only for "good Jews" now? ■ Under Trump, US sold weapons to Israel at a rate of over $1B/month ■ More... Read more »

Trump's Pentagon hike would send war spending to nearly 70 percent of discretionary funds. Most would benefit weapons contractors. The post FACT SHEET: Trump’s Proposed $1.5 Trillion War Budget in Three Charts  appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump's Pentagon hike would send war spending to nearly 70 percent of discretionary funds. Most would benefit weapons contractors. The post FACT SHEET: Trump’s Proposed $1.5 Trillion War Budget in Three Charts  appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

US Working To Close Visa Loophole For Chinese Visitors: Homan Authored by Frank Fang and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is taking steps to prevent Chinese nationals from exploiting a visa-free travel program to the Northern Mariana Islands, according to White House border czar Tom Homan.... Read more »

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Paying Illegals $575 To Become 'Organizers'... And US-Born Residents Are Excluded Boston taxpayers are funding a program that teaches immigrants how to organize, lobby city officials and advocate for political change, then hands participants $575 for completing it. Illegal immigrants are eligible, while U.S.-born Boston residents are... Read more »

Congress Ordered An Annual Accounting Of Terrorism; The Counting Has Stopped... Authored by David E. Firester via RealClearDefense, On May 1, 2026, the State Department released the 2024 edition of the Country Reports on Terrorism - a full year past the deadline in effect when the report came due, and... Read more »

87 Foreign Cruise Ship Employees Removed For Possession Of Child Abuse Material Federal authorities have now pulled 87 foreign crew members off cruise ships under Operation Tidal Wave, a Customs and Border Protection initiative aimed at child sexual abuse material aboard the vessels. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine... Read more »

Hegseth To Cut Top Generals, Admirals 'By 20%' Amid Ongoing Pentagon Shakeup Via The Cradle US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is due to announce plans to reduce by 20 percent the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals, according to an exclusive released by Fox News on Tuesday. ... Read more »

California Governor Vetoes DUI Bill Redefining 'Drive' To Include Using Autopilot Under The Influence California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Sept. 27 that would have added people using autopilot features in their cars after drinking or consuming drugs to the state's driving under the influence law. The legislation would... Read more »

Waste Of The Day: Trips To Tiki Bar, Nightclubs Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, It's no wonder that California's infamous high-speed rail line has more than tripled in cost and been delayed by 20 years. The consultants working on the project have been killing time at a tiki bar,... Read more »

Mystery Explosions: Syria's Recovering Gas Network Keeps Getting Sabotaged Syria has reported at least two acts of major sabotage against its gas infrastructure in six weeks, and it raises questions over who or what group is behind it, and what this means for future energy transit projects. Monday evening saw... Read more »

UAE's Next $25 Billion Bet On India Includes Energy Sector Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The United Arab Emirates has expressed intent to invest another $25 billion in India, including in the energy sector, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said at a high-level meeting in Mumbai. The... Read more »

The Trump White House stopped a cleared Homeland Security order weeks before the midterms, catching some inside the department by surprise.The Department of Homeland Security had approved a notice this month ending temporary protected status for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans before the White House intervened, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing an... Read more »

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton ripped his own party for bringing former special counsel Jack Smith to Capitol Hill weeks before the midterms.Singleton, appearing on CNN alongside Democratic strategist Paul Begala, didn't mince words when host Kaitlan Collins asked what went through his mind as he watched the already infamous moment... Read more »

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) landed in a humiliating national spotlight Tuesday after falsely accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of lying about attending an Atlanta Hawks game, when he was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes away game in Maryland.But even more embarrassing, MS NOW's Jen Psaki noted that evening, is... Read more »

Federal regulators are probing former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, over bets he placed on his pardon.Citing three people familiar with the matter, Politico reported on Tuesday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been examining trades made in December 2024 and January 2025... Read more »

President Donald Trump accidentally admitted his own war is fueling inflation during a rambling Oval Office appearance, a progressive analyst pointed out.In a Tuesday episode of "The David Pakman Show," the host broke down clips of the president fielding reporters' questions after what he described as "multiple sleeping" moments during... Read more »

Republicans are on the brink of finally losing a race in Texas as a result of nominating scandal-plagued attorney general Ken Paxton, former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt said on his "The Warning" show.Paxton, whom Schmidt dubbed "the greatest freakshow of all time," is currently down in polls to Democrat James... Read more »

The top U.S. general in Latin America and the Caribbean says land strikes against drug cartels are on the table.Gen. Francis Donovan, the Marine four-star who leads U.S. Southern Command, made the remarks in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was featured in a Tuesday article. His comments... Read more »

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found himself humiliated on Tuesday at the hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith, when he tried to corner Smith in supposed "perjury" that he hadn't been in Atlanta by providing texts of him being at a "Hawks" basketball game, when in fact he had been... Read more »

CNN’s Erin Burnett tore into Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) on Tuesday after his attempted “gotcha moment” of former special counsel Jack Smith backfired spectacularly during a Senate hearing.Schmitt accused Smith of lying about whether he attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024, suggesting the trip could connect him to... Read more »

The Trump White House stopped a cleared Homeland Security order weeks before the midterms, catching some inside the department by surprise.The Department of Homeland Security had approved a notice this month ending temporary protected status for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans before the White House intervened, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing an... Read more »

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton ripped his own party for bringing former special counsel Jack Smith to Capitol Hill weeks before the midterms.Singleton, appearing on CNN alongside Democratic strategist Paul Begala, didn't mince words when host Kaitlan Collins asked what went through his mind as he watched the already infamous moment... Read more »

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) landed in a humiliating national spotlight Tuesday after falsely accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of lying about attending an Atlanta Hawks game, when he was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes away game in Maryland.But even more embarrassing, MS NOW's Jen Psaki noted that evening, is... Read more »

Federal regulators are probing former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, over bets he placed on his pardon.Citing three people familiar with the matter, Politico reported on Tuesday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been examining trades made in December 2024 and January 2025... Read more »

President Donald Trump accidentally admitted his own war is fueling inflation during a rambling Oval Office appearance, a progressive analyst pointed out.In a Tuesday episode of "The David Pakman Show," the host broke down clips of the president fielding reporters' questions after what he described as "multiple sleeping" moments during... Read more »

Republicans are on the brink of finally losing a race in Texas as a result of nominating scandal-plagued attorney general Ken Paxton, former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt said on his "The Warning" show.Paxton, whom Schmidt dubbed "the greatest freakshow of all time," is currently down in polls to Democrat James... Read more »

The top U.S. general in Latin America and the Caribbean says land strikes against drug cartels are on the table.Gen. Francis Donovan, the Marine four-star who leads U.S. Southern Command, made the remarks in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was featured in a Tuesday article. His comments... Read more »

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found himself humiliated on Tuesday at the hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith, when he tried to corner Smith in supposed "perjury" that he hadn't been in Atlanta by providing texts of him being at a "Hawks" basketball game, when in fact he had been... Read more »

CNN’s Erin Burnett tore into Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) on Tuesday after his attempted “gotcha moment” of former special counsel Jack Smith backfired spectacularly during a Senate hearing.Schmitt accused Smith of lying about whether he attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024, suggesting the trip could connect him to... Read more »

The White House has defended three taxpayer-funded advertisements featuring President Donald Trump by comparing them to ads that were paid for by past presidential administrations. But some legal experts have said the Trump White House commercials are political messages intended to influence the 2026 midterms and may violate U.S. laws,... Read more »

In the Texas Senate race, comments Republican Ken Paxton made in 2022 about the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are circulating on social media, thanks to posts by his opponent, Democrat James Talarico, and the Democratic Party. But their posts use just a snippet of Paxton's... Read more »

A Republican super PAC has been running an ad that makes the misleading claim that North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper "let 16,000 untested rape kits sit on the shelf" when he was the state’s attorney general. The evidence kits were in the custody of hundreds of local law enforcement... Read more »

A pro-environment/liberal nonprofit with an affiliated super PAC. The post League of Conservation Voters appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A Republican nonprofit affiliated with the Senate Leadership Fund. The post One Nation appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

The White House has defended three taxpayer-funded advertisements featuring President Donald Trump by comparing them to ads that were paid for by past presidential administrations. But some legal experts have said the Trump White House commercials are political messages intended to influence the 2026 midterms and may violate U.S. laws,... Read more »

In the Texas Senate race, comments Republican Ken Paxton made in 2022 about the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are circulating on social media, thanks to posts by his opponent, Democrat James Talarico, and the Democratic Party. But their posts use just a snippet of Paxton's... Read more »

A Republican super PAC has been running an ad that makes the misleading claim that North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper "let 16,000 untested rape kits sit on the shelf" when he was the state’s attorney general. The evidence kits were in the custody of hundreds of local law enforcement... Read more »

A pro-environment/liberal nonprofit with an affiliated super PAC. The post League of Conservation Voters appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

A Republican nonprofit affiliated with the Senate Leadership Fund. The post One Nation appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

Nicole Froio A conversation with the author of Sex and Dissent about what American feminists can learn from the Green Wave movement. The post Journalist Meaghan Beatley on Latin America’s Feminist Resistance appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Chris Lehmann But as brazen and authoritarian as these ad spots are, they seem likely to backfire. The post Trump Is Using Your Taxpayer Money to Pay for Illegal Election Propaganda appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Richard Kreitner In the 1940s, The Nation asked questions about the atomic bomb we’re asking of artificial intelligence today. The post This AI Panic Is Nothing New appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Anonymous At Trump’s visit. The post Irish Trump Protests appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeannine Chiang A new lawsuit alleging that a former student was drugged and gang-raped by Chi Phi fraternity members is sparking outrage in the Cornell community. The post As Cornell’s Rape Case Draws National Attention, Students Want Accountability. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Austin Frerick A conversation with Eric Schlosser. The post “Fast Food Nation” at 25 appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jules Boykoff, Dave Zirin Bazunu’s decision raises the perennial question: Why is a country that is currently committing a genocide allowed to compete in the first place? The post Irish Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu’s Refusal to Play Against Israel Puts Him on the Right Side of History appeared first on The... Read more »

Ray Epstein, Shannon Porter Braden Peters consistently acts as though the autonomy of women is a maladaptive trait, and dogmatically dismisses any claim to female equality as an outlying aberration. The post Clavicular’s Charges Are One Thing. Rape Culture Is Another. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer The US Ambassador to Greece is making suspicious deals for her buddies. The post Kimberly Guilfoyle Is a Master of Mafia Diplomacy appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

The report documents Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educational system and examines how this policy forms an integral part of Israel’s ongoing genocide. By July 2026, Israel had killed over 20,051 students, over 830 teachers & educational staff, and over 194 scholars...... Read more »

Explosive new book reports that as Biden publicly counseled a measured response, his administration privately supported Israel’s maximalist goals. Biden was haughty & sure of his Middle East expertise; his inner circle maintained wilful ignorance about the genocide in Gaza... Read more »

Israeli Ministers led 1,271 colonizers under heavy Israeli police guard in an invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinians, destroyed and stole crops... Read more »

Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity.... Read more »

The Trump administration has approved arms deals for Israel worth $21.6 billion in just 20 months. Under former President Joe Biden, sales exceeded $17.9 billion.... Read more »

Three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in Deir al-Balah and Gaza City, as Israeli forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip.... Read more »

Guy Katz, a German professor, is a leading figure in German politics on the subject of Israel and anti-Semitism. It is almost never disclosed in the widespread coverage and amplification he receives in German and international media that he is a former Mossad spy... Read more »

Egypt’s intelligence chief warned that Hamas appeared to be mobilizing for a major attack; Israel should grant Hamas economic concessions to avert conflict. 'If Israel doesn't change course, Gaza is going to blow up in your face – the window to prevent a disaster is closing.' Netanyahu's response was confident—even... Read more »

Satellite images show utter devastation in Gaza ■ Jerusalem heats up ■ Israeli citizenship only for "good Jews" now? ■ Under Trump, US sold weapons to Israel at a rate of over $1B/month ■ More... Read more »

The report documents Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educational system and examines how this policy forms an integral part of Israel’s ongoing genocide. By July 2026, Israel had killed over 20,051 students, over 830 teachers & educational staff, and over 194 scholars...... Read more »

Explosive new book reports that as Biden publicly counseled a measured response, his administration privately supported Israel’s maximalist goals. Biden was haughty & sure of his Middle East expertise; his inner circle maintained wilful ignorance about the genocide in Gaza... Read more »

Israeli Ministers led 1,271 colonizers under heavy Israeli police guard in an invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, colonizers attacked Palestinians, destroyed and stole crops... Read more »

Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity.... Read more »

The Trump administration has approved arms deals for Israel worth $21.6 billion in just 20 months. Under former President Joe Biden, sales exceeded $17.9 billion.... Read more »

Three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in Deir al-Balah and Gaza City, as Israeli forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip.... Read more »

Guy Katz, a German professor, is a leading figure in German politics on the subject of Israel and anti-Semitism. It is almost never disclosed in the widespread coverage and amplification he receives in German and international media that he is a former Mossad spy... Read more »

Egypt’s intelligence chief warned that Hamas appeared to be mobilizing for a major attack; Israel should grant Hamas economic concessions to avert conflict. 'If Israel doesn't change course, Gaza is going to blow up in your face – the window to prevent a disaster is closing.' Netanyahu's response was confident—even... Read more »

Satellite images show utter devastation in Gaza ■ Jerusalem heats up ■ Israeli citizenship only for "good Jews" now? ■ Under Trump, US sold weapons to Israel at a rate of over $1B/month ■ More... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At least six Palestinians are killed and several others, including children, injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources report.... Read more »

Iran warns regional countries about the consequences of the presence of destabilizing actors such as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on their soils.... Read more »

The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces says Saudi Arabia has carried out 35 air strikes against civilian infrastructure across five Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours.... Read more »

Israeli forces have violated the US-backed Gaza ceasefire 5,147 times since it took effect on October 10, 2025.... Read more »

Italy has finalized the withdrawal of its final military contingent from Iraq, thereby terminating a military deployment spanning twelve years.... Read more »

Israeli settlers have intensified devastating raids on Palestinians and their properties in the occupied West Bank amid growing support from the regime.... Read more »

Hamas urged Arab and Muslim countries and peoples to mobilize in support of the Ibrahimi Mosque.... Read more »

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says the Arab nation reserves the sovereign right to prosecute Israel for its ongoing crimes against the country.... Read more »

Israeli forces have violated the US-backed Gaza ceasefire 5,147 times since it took effect on October 10, 2025.... Read more »

Brazilian President Lula da Silva says US President Donald Trump aims to colonize Brazil.... Read more »

Iran says Colombia’s baseless allegations run counter to the principle of mutual respect and the interests of the two nations.... Read more »

The US military takes preparatory measures for potential action around Cuba, a report says.... Read more »

Colombia’s new US-backed government has severed diplomatic ties with Iran, as the right-wing administration of dual US citizen Abelardo de la Espriella moves to realign Bogotá firmly with Washington and Israel.... Read more »

Petro has condemned Colombia's decision to withdraw the country’s intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ.... Read more »

US President Donald Trump and Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez have held their first face-to-face meeting in New York.... Read more »

The Pentagon says a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean killed 4 people.... Read more »

A new bilateral energy agreement between Venezuela and the United States has sparked reactions from popular organizations and trade unions in Caracas.... Read more »

Colombia’s new US-backed government has severed diplomatic ties with Iran, as the right-wing administration of dual US citizen Abelardo de la Espriella moves to realign Bogotá firmly with Washington and Israel.... Read more »

Italy has finalized the withdrawal of its final military contingent from Iraq, thereby terminating a military deployment spanning twelve years.... Read more »

Russian defense ministry says the aircraft went down in an uninhabited area in the Amur Region during a training flight.... Read more »

The Republic of Ireland defeats the Israeli team 3-0 in a UEFA match as Irish players wore black armbands in support of Palestinians killed during Israeli genocide.... Read more »

Israel gives Dutch diplomats seven days to surrender their documents after the Netherlands banned trade in goods from illegal settlements.... Read more »

The Russian foreign minister denounced the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as another unacceptable manifestation of coercive diktat.... Read more »

France is preparing to deploy troops, radar equipment and defense systems to protect Saudi Arabia amid intensifying Yemeni armed forces’ retaliatory operations.... Read more »

Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to single digits on Thursday despite repeated claims made by Washington that millions of barrels of oil are exiting the chokepoint every day.... Read more »

Kazem Gharibabadi has said that some 5,000 sorties were flown from European bases in support of US military aggression against Iran, proving that Europe formed part of the infrastructure of that aggression.... Read more »

Israel gives Dutch diplomats seven days to surrender their documents after the Netherlands banned trade in goods from illegal settlements.... Read more »