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    The Grayzone

  • The Genocide Democrats: watch Max Blumenthal speak at WNDC
    At the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington DC on March 7, 2024, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discussed the crisis within the Democratic Party as the party grassroots revolts against President Joe Biden’s vehement support for Israel’s rampage in the besieged Gaza Strip, where at least 30,000 have been killed... Read more »
  • Sweden closing Nordsteam investigation a shocking coverup -investigator
    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government’s sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO. Andersson also addresses US meddling in Swedish... Read more »
  • Western media concocts ‘evidence’ UN report on Oct 7 sex crimes failed to deliver
    Western media promoted a UN report as proof Hamas sexually assaulted Israelis. Yet the report’s authors admitted they couldn’t locate a single victim, suggested Israeli officials staged a rape scene, and denounced “inaccurate forensic interpretations.” On March 4, the United Nations released a report into sexual violence which has supposedly... Read more »
  • Leaked Israel lobby presentation urges US officials to justify war on Gaza with ‘Hamas rape’ claims
    The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Two prominent pro-Israel lobby groups are holding private briefings in New York City... Read more »
  • Assange’s brother: “Julian could receive the death penalty” if extradited
    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Gabriel Shipton, film producer and brother of Julian Assange, during his latest visit to Washington DC, where he was pushing lawmakers to oppose the Biden administration’s prosecution of the jailed Wikileaks publisher. The post Assange’s brother: “Julian could receive the death penalty” if extradited first... Read more »
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    MintPress News

  • VideoFailed ICJ Case Against Russia Backfires, Paves Way for Genocide Charges Against Ukraine
    An esteemed UN court has issued little-noticed but hugely significant rulings in cases brought by Kiev and its Western sponsors against the Kremlin. The judgments raise grave questions about Kiev’s military campaign in the Donbas, whether it was attempting genocide during its eight-year-long war against the population, and if the... Read more »
  • VideoAnsar Allah Leader Dr. Hizam Al-Assad on Yemen’s Struggle, Naval Confrontations, and Global Alliances
    Join MintPress News in an exclusive interview, delving into the heart of Yemen's resistance with Dr. Hizam Al-Assad, covering topics from the war in Gaza to international naval dynamics. The post Ansar Allah Leader Dr. Hizam Al-Assad on Yemen’s Struggle, Naval Confrontations, and Global Alliances appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »
  • Source Claims DoD Covered-up Deaths of US Special Forces Soldiers in 2020 Iranian Strike on US Airbase
    A source close to the families of two deceased US Special Forces soldiers claims that the Department of Defense intentionally mischaracterized their deaths. The post Source Claims DoD Covered-up Deaths of US Special Forces Soldiers in 2020 Iranian Strike on US Airbase appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »
  • VideoUS Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner
    Iraq war veteran Mike Prysner joins the MintCast podcast to explain the hidden history of self-immolation and anti-war protests among active duty members protesting against US wars dating back to the 1800s. The post US Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »
  • Globetrotting for Genocide: Foreign Fighters From US, France and India Are Fighting Israel’s War in Gaza
    “Most mercenaries fighting for Israel now are welcomed based on their religious affiliations and dual citizenships, making their accountability pretty complex” – some of them previously fought in Ukraine along the neo-Nazi military wing Azov Battalion. The post Globetrotting for Genocide: Foreign Fighters From US, France and India Are Fighting... Read more »


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    chomsky.info: The Noam Chomsky Website

  • VideoNoam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress (Ep. 182)
    Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress (Ep. 182) Noam Chomsky Interviewed on Conversations with Tyler  June 14, 2023. Conversations with Tyler.  Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks... Read more »
  • Chomsky and Pollin: Just Transition Can Stop Earth From Becoming Uninhabitable
    Chomsky and Pollin: Just Transition Can Stop Earth From Becoming Uninhabitable Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou June 7, 2023. Truthout.  Climate change is “making our planet uninhabitable,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in late March. Indeed, the threats of the impending climate crisis have become very tangible, and the world’s top scientists... Read more »
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  • Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam Chomsky
    Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Global Times June 6, 2023. Global Times. Editor’s Note: At 94 years old, Noam Chomsky (Chomsky) is as vocal as ever. As a renowned American linguist and public intellectual, he constantly appears on the media talking about US... Read more »
  • Chomsky: Europe May Face Decline, Deindustrialization by Staying in ‘US-Dominated System’
    Chomsky: Europe May Face Decline, Deindustrialization by Staying in ‘US-Dominated System’ Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Sputnik  May 31, 2023. Sputnik.  Europe will experience a likely decline and deindustrialization if it chooses to stay within the system dominated by the United States, renowned US academic and philosopher Noam Chomsky told Sputnik. “Europe... Read more »
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    chomsky.info: The Noam Chomsky Website

  • VideoNoam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress (Ep. 182)
    Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress (Ep. 182) Noam Chomsky Interviewed on Conversations with Tyler  June 14, 2023. Conversations with Tyler.  Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thinks... Read more »
  • Chomsky and Pollin: Just Transition Can Stop Earth From Becoming Uninhabitable
    Chomsky and Pollin: Just Transition Can Stop Earth From Becoming Uninhabitable Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou June 7, 2023. Truthout.  Climate change is “making our planet uninhabitable,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in late March. Indeed, the threats of the impending climate crisis have become very tangible, and the world’s top scientists... Read more »
  • Exclusive: GT’s interview with American linguist Noam Chomsky
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  • Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam Chomsky
    Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Global Times June 6, 2023. Global Times. Editor’s Note: At 94 years old, Noam Chomsky (Chomsky) is as vocal as ever. As a renowned American linguist and public intellectual, he constantly appears on the media talking about US... Read more »
  • Chomsky: Europe May Face Decline, Deindustrialization by Staying in ‘US-Dominated System’
    Chomsky: Europe May Face Decline, Deindustrialization by Staying in ‘US-Dominated System’ Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Sputnik  May 31, 2023. Sputnik.  Europe will experience a likely decline and deindustrialization if it chooses to stay within the system dominated by the United States, renowned US academic and philosopher Noam Chomsky told Sputnik. “Europe... Read more »
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    Novara Media

  • EU Chief Says Israel Has Created Famine in Gaza, Netanyahu in Denial
    The EU’s Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell has accused Israel of using famine as a weapon of war. Plus: Vladimir Putin has been re-elected in as Russian president; and Welsh Labour have a new leader in Vaughan Gething. With Michael Walker and James Meadway.... Read more »
  • On Gaza, Grammar Schools and British War Crimes | Peter Hitchens Talks to Aaron Bastani
    Peter Hitchens is an author and journalist whose contrarian takes on drug policy, education and foreign policy have found him occupy a singular place in the British media – with his brand of conservatism often angering audiences who would consider themselves staunchly conservative. He sat down with Aaron to discuss... Read more »
  • Trust Your Gut
    From fecal transplants to the yoghurt-industrial complex, we’ve never been more absorbed in the workings of our gut. But can we trust it? Nadia, Jem and Keir investigate the mysterious connections between mind and body, reason and instinct. How did capitalism separate our minds from our bodies? Is a belief... Read more »
  • When Will Sunak Call the General Election?
    Rishi Sunak has ruled out a general election on 2 May. But will he wait for the autumn or call one earlier? Plus: US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has called for Netanyahu to go; and BBC Question Time invite on a right-winger who denies there is a shortage of... Read more »
  • Meet the ‘Robin Hood’ Group Linking Poverty and Climate Breakdown
    On 3 March, two women walked into an art gallery in Glasgow and sprayed the word “cunt” underneath a bust of Queen Victoria. They then doused the monarch’s head in porridge and jam, and glued themselves to the plinth. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this action went viral on social media. But it’s... Read more »

 


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    CounterPunch.org

  • Too Little; Too Late
    After five months of doubling down with Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, the Biden administration now finds itself walking in two directions.  On the one hand, it continues to supply U.S. bombs that fall indiscriminately on both northern and southern Gaza.  At the same time, it air drops food parcels for the... Read more »
  • For America’s Wealthy, a Sweet Start to Our 21st Century
    The Bush tax cuts didn’t fully phase in until 2010. In that year, an earlier CBPP reporthad noted, the Bush cuts raised the after-tax incomes of America’s richest 1 percent by 6.7 percent. In that same year, the Bush tax cuts inched up the after-tax incomes of the nation’s poorest... Read more »
  • Joe Sacco and Palestine
    Comic artist Joe Sacco’s work has reached millions of readers for the past thirty years or so because his descriptions of wartime scenes, from Gaza and the West Bank to the Balkans, have so effectively captured the voices of those struggling to survive. Famously and notoriously, he has planted himself... Read more »
  • Election 2024:  Closer, And Less Important, Than You Probably Think
    Depending on whom you listen to about the constantly shifting horse race we call a US presidential election, either Joe Biden or Donald Trump is always ahead or behind by a nose … nationally. For example, a March 7-13 Ipsos/Reuters poll has Biden at 39% and Trump at 38%, while... Read more »
  • How the Greedy Rich Cheat Working Americans at Every Turn
    The widowed single mom attacked grocery shopping with the doggedness of a Marine on a mission. To provide for her family in the face of corporate price-gouging, she bought off-brand items and selected eggs for protein instead of higher-costing meat. She even worked multiple jobs to keep the family solvent.... Read more »

 

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    The Anarchist Library

  • Tsuji Jun - Tada-Dada of Alangri-Gloriban
    Author: Tsuji JunTitle: Tada-Dada of Alangri-GloribanSubtitle: (written in pure cosmopolitanic jargon and with unique style japonee)Date: March, 19th, 1939Source: Retrieved from https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000159/files/857_34611.html on 09/03/2024 Ich Moi bin an Aristocratic Proletariat and an inverted Idealist who contradict himself for ever. I have just got the conviction of such an audacious fellow... Read more »
  • Peter Gelderloos & The Final Straw Radio - Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below with Peter Gelderloos
    Author: Peter Gelderloos & The Final Straw RadioTitle: Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below with Peter GelderloosDate: 17 April 2022Source: Retrieved on 13 March 2024 from thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org. TFSR: So I’m very happy to be speaking with anarchist author Peter Gelderloos. Peter’s latest book, The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for... Read more »
  • Mixael Laufer & The Final Straw Radio - Open Source, DIY Medicine with Four Thieves Vinegar
    Author: Mixael Laufer & The Final Straw RadioTitle: Open Source, DIY Medicine with Four Thieves VinegarDate: 12 March 2023Source: Retrieved on 13 March 2024 from thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org. TFSR: Would you please introduce yourself for the audience with any name, preferred pronouns, location, affiliation, or any other info that could help the... Read more »
  • Donald Rooum - Anarchism and Selfishness
    Author: Donald RooumTitle: Anarchism and SelfishnessDate: 1987Notes: Published in The Raven Anarchist Quarterly volume 1, issue 3.Source: Retieved on March 16th, 2024 from https://archive.org/download/raven_anarchist_03_1987/raven_anarchist_03_1987.pdf Governments cannot survive long by coercion alone. They need a measure of acceptance. To this end people in governed societies are encouraged to believe that government... Read more »
  • Anonymous - Our grief can go to anyone. Our solidarity must go to the oppressed: Anarchists, Palestine and October 7th
    Author: AnonymousTitle: Our grief can go to anyone. Our solidarity must go to the oppressed: Anarchists, Palestine and October 7thSubtitle: An anarchist critique of die Plattform's statement on the October 7th attacks and the ongoing genocide in PalestineDate: January 30th, 2024Notes: Authors of this text go under generic psuedonyms (Jack,... Read more »

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    Craig Murray

  • VideoAssange Truth and UN Shenanigans
    I spent the last week at the UN, trying to ram home some truths about the Assange case as input to the UN’s Periodic Review (every 7 years) of the UK’s human rights record, in terms of its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. I had... Read more »
  • A Tour d’Horizon on Swiss Box
    Assange, Gaza, the manipulation of “anti-semitism”, threats to civil liberties, Galloway, the forms of armed resistance available to the colonised: I enjoy the long-form interview as a chance to explore issues in depth. This one was very enjoyable, and we didn’t get through half of Antoine’s list of topics. I... Read more »
  • The Panic Of the Ruling Class
    I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which the entire political class... Read more »
  • Healthcare
    I have a post on the political class’s frenetic attempts to criminalise dissent nearly finished, which I hope will be up tonight. But as a lifelong supporter of the NHS, I wanted to share with you this. I went to a village community health centre in Greece, feeling pretty rotten.... Read more »
  • Assange Final Appeal Day 2 – Your Man in the Public Gallery
    I approached Day 2 with trepidation. It was not so much being accustomed to having hopes dashed, as having lived so long without hope that it was hard to know what to do with it. At 5:30am I stopped work for a while on writing up Day 1 and went... Read more »

 


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    Jude Collins

  • FACING THE PUBLIC by Donal Kennedy
        If on the Day of Judgement my Divine Judge is as merciful to me as the camera is I’ll have a privileged cloud in Heaven.   It amazes me that professional, even mercenary, correspondents in THE IRISHTIMES choose to show the worst of their many faces to their... Read more »
  • Was that Washington gig a win?
    So how was the visit of various Irish political parties to Washington, including the DUP, the UUP, Sinn Féin and Alastair McDonnell (his party, we’re told, boycotted the shindig) – was their journey fruitful?   No and yes. No, in that not a word or a half-syllable of what they... Read more »
  • THE WORLD AND IRELAND SINCE 1918 Part One by Donal Kennedy.
      There were no elections or plebiscites in Palestine nor other territories seized by the British and French during the Great War, nor in those seized  from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Invented “nations”  Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have fallen apart more than once and the Britain’s  purported justification  for involvement in the... Read more »
  • Charlie Bird, boy and man
    Charlie Bird, the former RTÉ journalist, died yesterday. I knew him in 1966-67 and then again, very briefly, in 2011. In 1966-67, I taught in a Dublin school called Sandymount High School. Charlie was one of my students, and I can say without fear of contradiction that he was one... Read more »
  • Frank Hester: he has a way with words. And money
    Frank Hester has a lot pf money. That’s why he gave £10 million to the Tory party. Needless to say, none of the Tories thought Frank was any other than a loaded boy scout, honourable and upright and rich. In their exclusive clubs, if someone raised Frank’s name in the... Read more »
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  • VideoArmy Demolishes Homes in Jericho, Waste Sorting Facility, in Jerusalem
    Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished two homes belonging to Palestinian citizens in the Jericho governorate in the Jordan Valley, and a waste sorting station in Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. East of Jericho, in the Jordan Valley, the Israeli army stormed the “Airport” area, accompanied by two excavators and... Read more »
  • Israeli Forces Abduct 21 Palestinians in the West Bank
    On Sunday night and Monday, Israeli forces abducted at least twenty-one Palestinians, including former prisoners, in several regions of the occupied West Bank. Jenin On Sunday night, Israeli forces abducted Ahmed Salama Awad, a resident of Jenin, when he was tried to pass through the Anabta military roadblock, east of... Read more »
  • VideoDay 164: Israel Kills Dozens, Injures Hundreds, In Gaza”
    On Monday, Day 164 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, the Israeli army invaded the Shifa Medical Center, and bombarded various parts of the coastal enclave, killing dozens and wounding hundreds, in addition to abducting scores of Palestinians, including medical staff. The Israeli... Read more »
  • Flour Power – aid convoys reach northern Gaza; infant malnutrition
    Welcome shipment of flour & other staples arrives in northern Gaza; malnourished babies too weak to cry; Oxfam publishes damning report on Israel’s lethal obstinacy; NYT: 26 attacks on aid-seekers in Gaza; West Bank prisoner death; Biden is angry; Tik Tok and Israel; Senator Chris Van Hollen tells it like... Read more »
  • Israeli Army Attacks A Funeral In Hebron
    On Monday, Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians during a funeral procession in the Al-Karatina area in Hebron city, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part. Media sources said the Palestinians were participating in the funeral and heading to the Islamic graveyard in the Sahla neighborhood when the army invaded... Read more »

 


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    Zinn Education Project

  • Teaching About Famine and Irish History on St. Patrick’s Day
    Too often, textbooks present famines as natural phenomena. They are not. As Gaza moves closer toward famine, it is not hard to see its causes. The post Teaching About Famine and Irish History on St. Patrick’s Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
  • Health and Healthcare
    On the four-year anniversary of the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, we offer resources for teaching about health and healthcare. The post Health and Healthcare appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
  • Dorie Ladner, ¡Presente!
    Mississippi-born SNCC veteran and lifelong activist Dorie Ladner died on March 11, in Washington, D.C. The post Dorie Ladner, ¡Presente! appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
  • Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel — A New Lesson
    We owe it to our students — and to the people of Gaza — to explore in our classrooms the history of violence that continues in Palestine-Israel. Check out the new mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and find more teaching resources on... Read more »
  • Lessons for Some of Our Favorite Books
    The Zinn Education Project offers free lessons for these fabulous books. Let us know how you use any of the lessons and we’ll send you a people’s history book in appreciation. The post Lessons for Some of Our Favorite Books appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
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    Village Magazine

  • Developer who entombed badgers walked away with Probation Act instead of a conviction after promise to pay money to wildlife charities
    Con McCarthy paid €15,000 to walk away from conviction for unprecedented case of suffocating badgers near Citywest. By Donna Mullen. Con McCarthy, a developer, planned to construct a warehouse in Brownsbarn, Citywest, Dublin, and hired an ecologist, Brian Keeley, to conduct a badger survey in February 2022. Brian Keeley found... Read more »
  • Inside the negotiations for Ireland’s new national park
    Government sole bidder on €11 million Dowth Hall estate purchase with millions more to be spent over the next few years. By Conor O’Carroll. The government was the sole bidder on the Dowth Hall estate, which was purchased for €11 million last year, documents released to Village Magazine reveal. The... Read more »
  • €75m spent on CEOs of commercial state companies in the last decade
    Half the CEOs of commercial state companies earn in excess of €250,000 a year despite pay ceiling By Conor O’Carroll. Just over €75 million has been spent on the salary and benefits of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of commercial state companies in the past decade, a Village investigation has revealed.... Read more »
  • RACISTGRIPT’S JOHN MCGUIRK – telling lies and stirring up hatred against immigrants
    Dodgy Donegal County Council and its acting director of planning: still at it The post RACISTGRIPT’S JOHN MCGUIRK – telling lies and stirring up hatred against immigrants appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • Ireland needs better correctives to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael than the Greens and Sinn Féin
    The opinion polls show the Green Party marooned on 4% (or 5%), a disgraceful haul for the party with the agenda of the epoch but about right for a party that is abjectly failing on signature cli-mate targets The post Ireland needs better correctives to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael... Read more »

 


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    Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork

  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    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 »
  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    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 »
  • Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce Happiness
    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 »
  • Who Speaks for the World?
    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 »
  • Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against Russia
    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 »
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    Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork

  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    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 »
  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    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 »
  • Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce Happiness
    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 »
  • Who Speaks for the World?
    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 »
  • Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against Russia
    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 »

 


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    Democracy Now!

  • Rachel Corrie: Parents & Friend Remember U.S. Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer in Rafah in 2003
    We mark the 21st anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old U.S. peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli soldier driving a military bulldozer on March 16, 2003. Corrie was in Rafah with the International Solidarity Movement to monitor human rights abuses and protect Palestinian... Read more »
  • "A Catastrophe That Cannot Be Described": Palestinian Poet in Rafah on Daily Hardships Amid Israel's War
    We get an update from Rafah as the World Food Programme warns of worsening catastrophic hunger in the Gaza Strip and Israel continues to block most aid from entering the territory. Despite growing international criticism, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans for a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah,... Read more »
  • Headlines for March 18, 2024
    Israel Attacks Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital Again as Hunger Grips the Besieged Territory, “Totally Inappropriate”: Netanyahu Responds to Schumer’s Call for New Israeli Elections, “We See Our History in Their Eyes” Irish Leader Calls for Gaza Ceasefire in White House Address, Basque Demonstrators Evoke Picasso’s “Guernica” in Tribute to Gaza’s Victims,... Read more »
  • "Towers of Ivory and Steel": Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
    Israeli scholar Maya Wind’s new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom, documents how Israeli universities directly constrain Palestinian rights by supporting and even developing the policies of occupation and apartheid used by the Israeli state. “In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of... Read more »
  • "Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism": Palestinian Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Hebrew Univ. Suspension
    Hebrew University in Jerusalem has suspended an internationally renowned Palestinian professor for saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a feminist scholar whose work focuses on the impacts of militarization, surveillance and violence on the lives of Palestinian women and children. She made the remarks... Read more »

 


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    Michael Hudson

  • China: Local Flowers Bloom
    RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 24th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you our show every fortnight are our host, Ben... Read more »
  • Economics as a Form of Art
    Robinson Erhardt discussion, March 10 ,2024 Michael Hudson discusses his work Robinson: Michael, I read in your book, Killing the Host, that you decided to become an economist after meeting one named Terrence McCarthy, who explained to you why financial crises tend to occur in the autumn after crops are... Read more »
  • Europe’s Loss is America’s Gain
    RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 23rd Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And working behind the scenes to bring you this show every fortnight are our host,... Read more »
  • New School University Race to the Bottom
    I found a story in Saturday’s New York Times that I think epitomizes the crapification of higher education in the United States. It concerns the New School, where I taught at the graduate faculty from 1969 to 1972 (when it was still called the New School for Social Research). Sharon... Read more »
  • Pathways to Solutions
    Economic solutions: How to go from financialized neoliberalism to a productive, sustainable economy. Geopolitical Hour 22, February 9, 2024. RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 22nd Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: I’m Michael... Read more »
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    Mother Jones

  • Trump Can’t Afford to Post Bond in His Fraud Case
    Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a state appeals court to put a stay on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ right to collect roughly $450 million in damages from the former president. Trump was found liable for defrauding insurance companies and banks by giving them falsely inflated values for his... Read more »
  • If Trump Wants to Curb Medicare Fraud, Why Did He Free This Fraudster from Prison?
    In a piece over the weekend, Washington Post reporters Amy Wang and Azi Paybarah pointed out that Donald Trump—who lately has been talking, like so many politicians before him, about targeting waste and fraud in Social Security and Medicare—granted clemency or pardons to key perpetrators of Medicare fraud while president. ... Read more »
  • Trump Considers Adding Paul Manafort—a “Grave Counterintelligence Threat”—to His Campaign
    From the Nothing Matters News Desk comes this report: Donald Trump is considering bringing back Paul Manafort as a top campaign adviser. In any time other than the Trump era, this might be shocking. Manafort is a disgraced political operator and lobbyist who was pushed out as Trump’s campaign manager... Read more »
  • VideoThis Is a “Solvable” Crisis: Denver’s Mayor on How the City Is Handling Migrant Arrivals
    On his first day in office in the summer of 2023, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston declared a state of emergency to combat homelessness. He activated the city’s emergency operations center, aiming to place 1,000 people into transitional housing by the end of the year. It was an ambitious goal on... Read more »
  • Oakland’s Progressive DA Just Wants to Do Her Job. In an Age of Recalls, That Job Is Changing.
    Almost as soon as I get into the car, District Attorney Pamela Price makes it clear that she doesn’t want to talk to me, or at the very least she doesn’t have time to. “I have to get some stuff done,” she says politely, picking up her phone to dial... Read more »

 


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  • Is the Targeting of TikTok Actually About Israel?
    “This bill is nothing but an attempt to censor young Americans’ progressive political education, activism, and organizing under the guise of protecting national security. The U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians exposed on TikTok and the abundance of pro-Palestinian content has renewed calls for tighter imperialist control of the narrative while... Read more »
  • 35 Big Corporations Paid More to Top Executives Than Federal Taxes
    Thirty-five major U.S. corporations paid less in federal income tax between 2018 and 2022 than they paid their top five executives. The post 35 Big Corporations Paid More to Top Executives Than Federal Taxes appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
  • St. Patrick’s Day and Gaza
    She recounts how in the Irish famine, "starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine Kinealy, their last meal was grass. Shamefully, British occupiers profited from exporting out of Ireland food crops so desperately needed. Over a seven year period, beginning in 1845, one million... Read more »
  • VideoIsraeli Attacks on West Bank and Jerusalem
    "The Israelis committed an atrocity at a hospital in Jenin this morning. I just interviewed the hospital director and he showed us videotape of the crime. An unarmed Palestinian man was shot in the back as he was running into the hospital to take cover from gunfire." See his latest... Read more »
  • How Foreign Intervention Precipitated Haiti’s Current Crisis
    "What is clear is that the announcement in Kingston late last night is unlikely to lead to a solution to the current crisis by itself. After criticizing Henry for relying on the support of the U.S. and other foreign powers, an agreement pushed by those same foreign powers is likely... Read more »
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  • Is the Targeting of TikTok Actually About Israel?
    “This bill is nothing but an attempt to censor young Americans’ progressive political education, activism, and organizing under the guise of protecting national security. The U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians exposed on TikTok and the abundance of pro-Palestinian content has renewed calls for tighter imperialist control of the narrative while... Read more »
  • 35 Big Corporations Paid More to Top Executives Than Federal Taxes
    Thirty-five major U.S. corporations paid less in federal income tax between 2018 and 2022 than they paid their top five executives. The post 35 Big Corporations Paid More to Top Executives Than Federal Taxes appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
  • St. Patrick’s Day and Gaza
    She recounts how in the Irish famine, "starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine Kinealy, their last meal was grass. Shamefully, British occupiers profited from exporting out of Ireland food crops so desperately needed. Over a seven year period, beginning in 1845, one million... Read more »
  • VideoIsraeli Attacks on West Bank and Jerusalem
    "The Israelis committed an atrocity at a hospital in Jenin this morning. I just interviewed the hospital director and he showed us videotape of the crime. An unarmed Palestinian man was shot in the back as he was running into the hospital to take cover from gunfire." See his latest... Read more »
  • How Foreign Intervention Precipitated Haiti’s Current Crisis
    "What is clear is that the announcement in Kingston late last night is unlikely to lead to a solution to the current crisis by itself. After criticizing Henry for relying on the support of the U.S. and other foreign powers, an agreement pushed by those same foreign powers is likely... Read more »
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  • Dry Run
    The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th March 2024 There’s a flaw in the plan. It’s not a small one: it is an Earth-sized hole in our calculations. To keep pace with the... Read more »
  • Outrage Farming
    What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th February 2024 Step back a pace to see how weird this is. Last week, the prime minister of the United Kingdom joined a protest against one of the... Read more »
  • The Long Wait
    Here are the big green policies Labour should adopt. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th February 2024 I’m as likely to be selected for the national gymnastics team. But bear with me awhile, to imagine that, like David Cameron, I’m about to be wafted by the UK’s fairytale... Read more »
  • Hard Labour
    This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th February 2024 It’s as if Keir Starmer is seeking out all the positive reasons to vote Labour at the next election and deleting them.... Read more »
  • Inequality Demands Oppression
    Corporate lobbyists are demanding a ban on protest – and getting it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd February 2024 Why are peaceful protesters treated like terrorists, while actual terrorists (especially on the far right, and especially in the US) often remain unmolested by the law? Why, in... Read more »

 

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  • Iraq Weekly Roundup: Four Killed
    Five more were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Weekly Roundup</I>: Four Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com.... Read more »
  • Torture, Executions, Babies Left To Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes
    Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3... Read more »
  • In Navalny and Guaido, Washington Saw Useful Pawns, Not Political Paragons
    Following the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, outrage and eulogies echoed out in equal measure from the halls of power in Washington, amplified one-hundredfold by the US and UK press, and gave the sense that a champion of democracy had been assassinated by a dictator. In 2019, following... Read more »
  • Words vs. Action: A Supplication for Gaza, and Humanity
    ‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza... Read more »
  • How the US Military Stole Japan’s Sovereignty
    A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed off the island of Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on November 29, 2023. The following series of events shows the status of the U.S. military as an occupation force. Crash’s Investigation After the deadly crash that killed eight service members on board,... Read more »
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  • March: the longer view
    The month's archive - 2024/03 / perspective... Read more »
  • Saudi-Israel normalisation talks halted
    US diplomats have been tirelessly promoting a rapprochement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv in which the fate of the Palestinians was consigned to the sidelines. War has abruptly put a stop to that dialogue. - 2023/11 / article... Read more »
  • Smarter adaptation is not enough
    Complex life on earth cannot adapt to 4°C of warming. As COP 28 opens in Dubai, the focus of efforts must be rapid emissions reduction – and accountability – as well as more intelligent adaptation. - 2023/12 / article... Read more »
  • mp3Is China intent on remaking the world order?
    On this month's podcast we're joined by Le Monde diplomatique's new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China's global ambitions (‘China: the invention of the roadmap to global power'). The dominant western narrative maintains China is pursuing a master plan to remake... Read more »
  • The battle for Haiti is not over
    On 12 March, Haiti's president Ariel Henry agreed to resign after turmoil prevented him from returning to his country from a trip abroad. Over the past months, thousands of Haitians have fled chaos and gang violence to neighbouring Dominican Republic; the crisis recently intensified with weeks of protests against Henry... Read more »

 


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  • Andrew Mitchell: Apologist for genocide
    Andrew Mitchell has consistently defended and apologised for Israel’s war on Gaza since it launched its brutal campaign following the Hamas attacks of 7 October last year. His support, delivered in numerous parliamentary debates and questioning, is part of the UK government’s extraordinary backing of Israel.  This includes substantial military... Read more »
  • UK refuses to say if Israeli bomber planes are using its Cyprus base
    The British government is refusing to divulge any information about whether its bases on Cyprus are being used to facilitate the bombing of Gaza. Kenny MacAskill, Alba MP for East Lothian, asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) if any Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter aircraft have landed at Akrotiri, the... Read more »
  • The last days of Julian Assange in the United States
    Babar Ahmad was extradited from Britain to the United States in 2012 on charges of providing material support to terrorism because of two articles published on his website backing the Taliban government in Afghanistan.  He spent eight years fighting the extradition, but when it eventually happened he flew across the... Read more »
  • Who wants to bomb Iran?
    “The era of the peace dividend is over”. These were the words of UK defence secretary Grant Shapps during a speech last month. In five years’ time, Shapps warned, Britain “could be looking at multiple theatres” of war involving Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. Shapps’ speech came four days... Read more »
  • Stakeknife: Britain’s spy in Ireland who got away with murder
    Over decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, a near sacred mystique grew up around the intelligence services. Spoken of in reverential tones, largely unaccountable and unscrutinised, they were depicted by the media as an omniscient elite. A description, for example, selected at random online, of a book on the... Read more »


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  • ‘The sooner we get these people out of our hair the better’
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 29 December 2023 Ten years after the UK overthrew the democratically elected government of British Guiana, it engineered a further, constitutional coup to ensure the same progressive leader, Cheddi Jagan, could not be elected again, declassified files show. By 1963, the UK colony of British... Read more »
  • UK refuses to confirm use of Cyprus base in sending US arms to Israel
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 7 December 2023 The British government is refusing to answer questions in parliament about the US military’s use of RAF Akrotiri, the UK’s vast air base on Cyprus, which is reportedly being used to deliver arms to Israel. The UK government is refusing to provide... Read more »
  • VideoWhy does the UK give Israel unqualified backing?
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 21 November 2023 The two key reasons are the need for Whitehall to demonstrate British subservience and usefulness to the US, and the power of the Israel lobby, argues Declassified’s editor. Rishi Sunak’s government has shown extraordinary levels of backing for Israeli military operations in... Read more »
  • US military is secretly supplying weapons to Israel using UK base on Cyprus
    by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 17 November 2023 The US is moving arms to Israel from around Europe using Britain’s vast air base on Cyprus, but the Ministry of Defence refuses to tell Declassified what American aircraft are flying or what weapons are on board. Respected Israeli... Read more »
  • RAF admits to making 17 military flights to Israel since Gaza bombing began
    by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 10 November 2023 But Declassified discovers 33 UK military transport flights to Tel Aviv in the last month, including every day for two weeks after the Gaza bombing began. Flight logs tracking aircraft from RAF Akrotiri, the UK’s vast air base in... Read more »
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  • Methodology
    The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »
  • Acknowledgments
    This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Carroll Doherty, Director, Political ResearchJocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Political ResearchBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateJoseph Copeland, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystAndy Cerda, Research Assistant... Read more »
  • Americans’ Top Policy Priority for 2024: Strengthening the Economy
    Growing shares of Republicans rate immigration and terrorism as top priorities for the president and Congress this year. The post Americans’ Top Policy Priority for 2024: Strengthening the Economy appeared first on Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy.... Read more »
  • Methodology
    The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »
  • Acknowledgments
    This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Carroll Doherty, Director, Political ResearchJocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Political ResearchBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateJoseph Copeland, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystAndy Cerda, Research AssistantShanay... Read more »

 


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  • mp3A History of Sanctuary
    What was the modern Sanctuary Movement formed to do? What sorts of challenges has it faced, and how has the movement changed and evolved? Carl Lindskoog considers the history of the Sanctuary Movement, including its expansion into a far-reaching campaign for human rights, economic justice, and peace. Maria Cristina Garcia... Read more »
  • mp3In Search of Lost Foods
    Our food system, as well as our ecosystems, is clearly in crisis. Should we look to technological fixes and lab-grown meat to provide food for our future? Or, as writer Taras Grescoe suggests, should we look backwards instead to the lost foods of our past? Grescoe argues that a sustainable... Read more »
  • mp3Portraying Black Loss
    How can people be moved from sympathy to solidarity with an oppressed group? Juliet Hooker considers how the legendary writer and activist Ida B. Wells and Harriet Jacobs, whose slave narrative was the first authored by a woman in the U.S., balanced grief and grievance in an effort to mobilize white... Read more »
  • mp3The Price of Big Pharma
    Medicines – we’re told by the pharmaceuticals industry – are expensive by necessity owing to the high costs of research and development. Yet, as with the vaccines for Covid, much research is publicly-funded, and much comes out of universities. And, as Nick Dearden argues, only 3% of new drugs even... Read more »
  • mp3Fund Drive Special: Allen Ginsberg
    In “The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg,” Jerry Aronson paints a compelling portrait of the legendary writer, visionary, activist, and spiritual seeker. The post Fund Drive Special: Allen Ginsberg appeared first on KPFA.... Read more »

 


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  • Why Lithium Power Politics Are Playing Out Very Differently in Chile and Bolivia
    This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva Download the Spanish translation Descargar la traducción al español de este artículoDownload the Portuguese translation Baixar a tradução em português deste artigo In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s... Read more »
  • Why Our Electricity Prices Can’t Be Left to Bogus ‘Free Markets’
    This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Prabir Purkayastha “This steep rise in electricity prices is the other side of the story of the so-called market reforms in the electricity sector that have taken place over the last 30 years.” Download the Spanish translation Descargar la traducción al... Read more »
  • Ecuador’s Neoliberal Government Announces State Emergency to Impose Austerity
    This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration... Read more »
  • Despite Cutbacks, ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Science Denial
    This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Elliott Negin ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science. In a secret video recording made public in late June, a top ExxonMobil lobbyist—Keith McCoy, who was fired soon afterward—not only conceded that the oil giant’s support for... Read more »
  • Why Julian Assange’s Inhumane Prosecution Imperils Justice for Us All
    This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by John Pilger Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) When I first saw Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, in 2019, shortly after he had been dragged from his refuge... Read more »

 


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  • VideoNational Donor-Advised Funds Are Hiding Behind Donation Processors to Make Themselves Look Better
    Some donor-advised fund sponsors claim to democratize giving. They are making themselves look more egalitarian than they actually are. The post National Donor-Advised Funds Are Hiding Behind Donation Processors to Make Themselves Look Better appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers
    Check back for our regular updates on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency. The post Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • 5 Charts on Our Broken CEO Pay and Corporate Tax Systems
    When companies are paying their executives more than Uncle Sam, you know we've got a problem. The post 5 Charts on Our Broken CEO Pay and Corporate Tax Systems appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88% over Four Years
    Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion. The post Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88% over Four Years appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • Biden’s Populist Budget Marks the Overdue End of Trickle-Down Economics
    A budget that reflects the needs of the people rather than corporate profit and excessive wealth is a good step in the right direction. The post Biden’s Populist Budget Marks the Overdue End of Trickle-Down Economics appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

 


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  • Another Shutdown Averted As Deal Reached
    Another Shutdown Averted As Deal Reached Congress has reached a deal to avert yet another shutdown following an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the remainder of FY 2024, according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman. 🚨BREAKING NEWS -- SPENDING DEAL DONE -- Congressional negotiators have come... Read more »
  • One Bank Sees Bitcoin At $200,000, While Ether Hits $14,000 As It Becomes JPMorgan's Favorite Crypto
    One Bank Sees Bitcoin At $200,000, While Ether Hits $14,000 As It Becomes JPMorgan's Favorite Crypto Many crypto skeptics laughed over a month ago when, back on February 5, Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick predicted that Ether (which was trading in the low $2000s) would hit $4,000 by May, around... Read more »
  • Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge
    Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, An illegal immigrant was wrongly banned from possessing guns, according to a recent ruling. A federal law, Section 922 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, bars illegal immigrants from carrying guns or ammunition. Prosecutors... Read more »
  • Trust In Flying Still High, But Passengers Take More Precautions
    Trust In Flying Still High, But Passengers Take More Precautions The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the panel blow out of a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Alaska Airlines in January, according to the Wall Street Journal. The incident was the first in a chain of events... Read more »
  • Queenpin Of Guatemalan Drug Cartel Sentenced Over International Trafficking Conspiracy
    Queenpin Of Guatemalan Drug Cartel Sentenced Over International Trafficking Conspiracy Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Queenpin of the Lorenzana drug trafficking network has been sentenced to 33 years in prison and forced to forfeit $27 million for charges related to international drug trafficking. The... Read more »
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  • 'Those are his babies': Ex-Trump aide names properties he would be 'devastated' to lose
    A former spokesperson for Donald Trump revealed he has a handful of real estate properties that he considers his "babies" — and if New York Attorney General Letitia James seized them, it would leave the former president 'devastated." Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House communications director from July 2019... Read more »
  • 'Legally insane': Judge Cannon's latest filing slammed by experts as 'utterly nuts'
    Judge Aileen Cannon appears to be inviting a future jury to pore over Donald Trump's seized classified materials — despite them being national secrets — while putting constraints on her own duties. In her most recent filing Monday, Cannon also wants to task jurors with figuring out if the former... Read more »
  • 'Practically impossible': Trump lashes out hours after revelation he can't pay $464M bond
    Donald Trump hit back Monday night after his lawyers revealed he couldn't pay his $464 million fraud trial bond.In a post to Truth Social, he claimed that it wasn't that he couldn't find a company willing to underwrite a bond of that amount of money — it's that no company... Read more »
  • Elon Musk defends ketamine use, dismisses investor worries
    WASHINGTON — Elon Musk suggested his use of drugs benefits Tesla investors in an interview released Monday, saying he takes prescribed ketamine to treat his "negative frame of mind." The 52-year-old tycoon confirmed he takes the anesthetic — typically used for pain management and to treat depression -- following reports... Read more »
  • Trump insiders worry as critical small-dollar donors abandon his campaign: report
    While Donald Trump's team may be courting big-dollar donors like Elon Musk to catch up with President Joe Biden's war chest, the warning bells are sounding for an erosion in small-dollar donors. Trump's campaign team is quietly vexed about the lack of the smaller donors that buoyed the former president... Read more »
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  • Biden’s State of the Union Address Exposed by US Intelligence Threat Assessment
    President Biden used the bully pulpit of the annual State of the Union Address to describe a world that significantly differed from the picture presented just a month earlier in the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community. Information fed to the general public is deliberately spun to sell... Read more »
  • The World As It Was
    Here’s a film about the 1950s – The World As It Was – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward... Read more »
  • Mistakes Were Made
    Make fun of the Germans all you want, and I’ve certainly done that a bit during these past few years, but, if there’s one thing they’re exceptionally good at, it’s taking responsibility for their mistakes. Seriously, when it comes to acknowledging one’s mistakes, and not rationalizing, or minimizing, or attempting... Read more »
  • Reaching the Final Tragedy
    Through a dangerous act. The post Reaching the Final Tragedy first appeared on Dissident Voice.... Read more »
  • History Will Record that Israel Committed a Holocaust
    It’s 8 pm in Gaza, Palestine right now, the end of my fourth day in Rafah and the first moment I’ve had to sit in a quiet place to reflect. I’ve tried to take notes, photos, mental images, but this moment is too big for a notepad or my struggling... Read more »
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  • VideoTrump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Comment
    While speaking about the potential loss of U.S. auto manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, former President Donald Trump said if he isn't elected, "it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country." The post Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Comment appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
  • Trump’s Comments About ‘Cutting’ Entitlements in Context
    President Joe Biden said he has caught former President Donald Trump admitting that he wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. The Trump campaign said, in context, Trump was talking about cutting waste and fraud in those programs – not benefits. The post Trump’s Comments About ‘Cutting’ Entitlements in Context... Read more »
  • Explaining the New CDC Guidance on What To Do if You Have COVID-19
    Q: Is one day isolation sufficient to stop forward transmission of COVID-19?  A: People with COVID-19 could potentially transmit it to others well beyond a day after developing symptoms or testing positive. New guidance from the CDC advises people to isolate until they have been fever-free and with symptoms improving... Read more »
  • Photo Shows 1924 KKK March in Wisconsin, Not Democratic Convention in NYC
    The Ku Klux Klan caused a divisive Democratic National Convention in 1924 but failed to nominate its preferred candidate. A social media post shows a photo of a Klan march to falsely claim it depicts Democratic delegates at the convention in New York. But the photo is from a Klan... Read more »
  • Transcript of Joe Biden’s Interview with Hur Reveals How the Date of Beau Biden’s Death Came Up
    The transcript of President Joe Biden's interview with investigators looking into his handling of classified documents shows that special counsel Robert Hur did not ask him about Beau Biden's death, as the president falsely claimed in February. The post Transcript of Joe Biden’s Interview with Hur Reveals How the Date... Read more »
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  • The True Threat of Donald Trump’s “Bloodbath” Speech
    Jeet Heer Deplatforming the former president hasn’t worked, so America needs to rediscover his depravity. The post The True Threat of Donald Trump’s “Bloodbath” Speech appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
  • Palestine Shows Up for FIFA. FIFA Turns Its Back on Palestine.
    Dave Zirin FIFA has chosen to say nothing while Israel massacres Palestinian soccer players, coaches, and sports officials. The post Palestine Shows Up for FIFA. FIFA Turns Its Back on Palestine. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
  • Has London Really Become a “No-Go Zone” for Jews?
    Ben Reiff While antisemitism in the UK has certainly risen since October 7, politicians and newspapers are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda. The post Has London Really Become a “No-Go Zone” for Jews? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
  • Navalny in Florence
    Steve Brodner Ponte Santa Trinita. The post Navalny in Florence appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
  • Whom Does Adoption Really Serve? A Q&A With Gretchen Sisson
    Amy Littlefield Sisson’s new book, Relinquished, is the corrective we need to shut down the Christian conservative myth that adoption can render abortion unnecessary. The post Whom Does Adoption Really Serve? A Q&A With Gretchen Sisson appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

 


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  • Care in Just Transitions
    The care referendum takes place on the 8th of March. It seeks to amend two clauses in the Constitution which situate the work of women and mothers in the home and replace this with text recognising the care provided by family members. From the …... Read more »
  • Green Sacrifice Zones: The Justice Implications of the Green Transition
    In the last decade, we have seen the rise of just transition policies in the Global North, highlighting the importance of justice considerations in the process of addressing climate change. Recently however, academics have begun to discuss the …... Read more »
  • Automatic Enrolment:  Risk and Returns
    As AE is a funded scheme, the accumulated lump sum and future pension payments are a direct function of contributions and the return on these contributions net of costs. These returns are subject to considerable uncertainty and hence risk. Recent …... Read more »
  • What role can football play in advancing climate justice?
    Climate action on all fronts   “Our world needs climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once.” Those were the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he launched the 2023 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …... Read more »
  • What does a net zero future look like for communities in Dublin?
    Throughout 2023, TASC has worked with Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency, to understand the impacts that a transition to net zero could have on communities in Dublin. Net zero represents a scenario whereby the amount of emissions that are created is …... Read more »

 


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