- Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battlegroundA scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead. On May 3, The Guardian revealed that NATO has held a series... Read more »
- ‘Highly Protected’: OPCW confirms it buried critical evidence in Syria chemical weapons probeThe OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018. For the first time in a prolonged cover-up scandal, the world’s top chemical watchdog has acknowledged censoring... Read more »
- Trump’s new Iran negotiator is Israel lobbyist who denounced negotiations with IranTapped to advise Steve Witkoff on Iran, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with any of Iran’s elected leaders. His presence consolidates military conflict as the Trump administration’s only option. The latest addition to the Trump administration’s Iran negotiation team, Nick Stewart, has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the... Read more »
- UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-upDesperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from mounting an effective defense. Since the retrial of six Palestine... Read more »
- Israel’s AI foreign influence op blames Palestinians for killing Hind RajabA new website established by the Israeli government through a contract with Trump’s former campaign manager seeks to manipulate AI platforms into denying established accounts of Hind Rajab’s killing. Israel has created nine English language websites explicitly aimed at manipulating AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT. Its vehicle for maintaining... Read more »
The Grayzone
- Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime ChangeFrom CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Open Society Foundation as part of a decades-long campaign to destabilize Cuba’s society by blaming all economic issues on... Read more »
- As Evidence Mounts of Dogs Raping Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons, NYT’s Isabel Kershner Revives Unverified October 7 Rape NarrativeFollowing Nicholas Kristof’s report on sexual abuse inside Israeli prisons including the use of dogs to rape hostages as young as 13, the NYT’s Isabel Kershner, whose sons served in the Israeli military, revived unverified October 7 rape claims relying on Israeli government-linked source Cochav Elkayam-Levy, who was later accused... Read more »
- From Bahrain to the UAE: Gulf States Expand Anti-Shia Crackdowns During Direct Strikes on IranAs reports emerge of direct Gulf involvement in strikes on Iran, Bahrain is escalating a sweeping anti-Shia crackdown — arresting clerics, revoking citizenships, and threatening dissidents with death sentences. The post From Bahrain to the UAE: Gulf States Expand Anti-Shia Crackdowns During Direct Strikes on Iran appeared first on MintPress... Read more »
- Hezbollah’s Cheap FPV Drones Are Making Israel’s High-Tech Military ObsoleteFrom destroying hundreds of Israeli Merkava tanks to Iron Dome systems, Hezbollah’s $50 FPV drones are inflicting massive losses on Israel using weapons so cheap and simple that military analysts now fear they are changing warfare forever. The post Hezbollah’s Cheap FPV Drones Are Making Israel’s High-Tech Military Obsolete appeared... Read more »
- Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE ComplicityAs Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran is rejecting U.S. outreach — citing escalating attacks, deep mistrust, and even assassination threats against its negotiating team. The post Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders,... Read more »
MintPress News
- ‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate ItselfHistorian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious →... Read more »
- A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank MuseumI was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-year gap seemed a lifetime; as →... Read more »
- VideoNuclear Genocide – The Threat And The CeasefireGiven the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how the great and the good of corporate politics and media →... Read more »
- Video‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective EmpathyOn 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK: ‘Since we last spoke, →... Read more »
- ‘Operation Epic Fury’ – Anatomy Of A War Of AggressionCommenting last week on the build-up of US military forces targeting Iran, Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, got it right: ‘This represents 40-50% of the deployable US air →... Read more »
Media Lens
- 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 UninhabitableChomsky 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 »
- Current US policies toward China are outrageous: Noam ChomskyCurrent 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.info: The Noam Chomsky Website
- The Climate Wars: How Superpowers Are Carving Up the Earth | With Arthur Snell
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 » - Sex, power and backlash in Africa
An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom... Read more » - What movements can learn from their own histories
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash... Read more » - Big Tech platforms under fire in inquiry into Southport mass stabbing
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 » - Brazil: How the CIA funded Catholic marches that paved the way for the 1964 coup
Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup... Read more »
openDemocracy
- VideoNew Podcast/Painting Video: AI, Weaponized Robots, And The Ethics Of Porn
Our best one yet! Available on video or audio. Caitlin and Tim discuss AI, Israel’s threat to sue the New York Times, militarized robots, and the ethics of watching porn. Caitlin paints Sam Altman. Please send us your questions, comments and feedback so we can respond to them in our... Read more » - VideoIt’s Not About “Blood Libel”, It’s About Narrative Control
Israel is now saying it will sue The New York Times as Zionists continue their days-long freakout over the outlet’s reporting on the systemic rape of Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.... Read more » - VideoEither You Believe Israel Is Evil Or You Believe It’s All An Elaborate Conspiracy—And Other Notes
Basically you have two choices: either you believe Israel is a genocidal state that is morally comparable to Nazi Germany, or you believe there's a giant global conspiracy of mainstream western institutions and media outlets dedicated to making Israel look bad.... Read more » - VideoI’ll Stop Talking About Israel When Israel Gets The Fuck Out Of My Face
Don’t want me to talk about Israel? Then stop shocking me with horrifying Israeli atrocities.... Read more » - VideoIsrael Accuses The New York Times Of Antisemitic Journalism, And Other Notes
The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting.... Read more »
Caitlin Johnstone
- VideoCommunal Consults and Venezuela’s Fight for the Future
“This is a system of ants,” Dulce Esperanza, a member of the Candelaria Heroica Commune in Caracas, Venezuela, explained to me as we sat outside of a voting center in her commune. Bit by bit, Dulce told me, she and her neighbors have built a part of the labor, and... Read more » - The Immigration Debate Starts Too Late
One of the great evasions in American immigration politics is that the story begins at the border. The uncomfortable truth is that it begins decades earlier, in countries where the United States undermined democracy, protected corporate interests of influential Americans, funded violent regimes producing the instability that now sends desperate... Read more » - Keeping Score: China and the USA
I will be the first to admit that comparing GDP growth across countries is generally a silly exercise. We care about how people are living: can they afford the necessities of life, do they have time to be with family and friends, are they healthy? These are the issues that... Read more » - Life in Cancer Alley, When a Liquified Natural Gas Facility Moves In
21 years after Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States, Louisianans are facing a whole new kind of storm. Liquefied natural gas facilities are disrupting the ecosystem and displacing residents, and now that the Trump administration has okayed new LNG plants, things could get much... Read more » - VideoDrug Ads Are Deceptive and Deadly
Imagine you are sick with a serious medical condition. How would you feel if someone constantly told you to buy their product because it would cure you, but this ‘cure’ is actually worse than other treatments and the price tag is enormous? This is the reality of prescription drug advertising.... Read more »
CounterPunch.org
- Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism – The PointA new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism. Yanis Varoufakis Tue 21 Apr 2026 22.00 AEST... Read more »
- On The Rest Is Politics, with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart: From the 2008 Crash to the Rise of PopulismA surprisingly agreeable and wholesome discussion with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart on their THE REST IS POLITICS podcast. I wish there were more opportunities for political adversaries to engage in discussions such as this one. In this episode we begin by discussing RAISE YOUR SOUL, my latest book on... Read more »
- Discussing Raise Your Soul with Helen Vatsikopoulos on ABC Radio National’s Big IdeasResistance — Yanis Varoufakis with Helen Vatsikopoulos on the people who fought back against fascism Source: ABC Radio National Program: Big Ideas Published: Tue 28 Apr 2026 at 7:00am Play duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds Presented by: Natasha Mitchell Through the stories of five women across three generations of his... Read more »
- Is the Iran War America’s Suez or Its Gallipoli?ATHENS – When Egypt closed the Suez Canal for five months in 1956, it triggered events that shrunk the global standing of Britain’s pound sterling, inaugurated the petrodollar age, and demonstrated how a small country can inflict serious damage upon the economic power that had subjugated it decades earlier. Some... Read more »
- Telling the Truth About China’s SuccessTelling the Truth About China’s Success With the Persian Gulf in flames, de-escalation of the cold war between the United States and China must become the world’s top priority. To that end, it is essential to explode a powerful myth: the idea that China has cheated its way to prosperity.... Read more »
Yanis Varoufakis
- DWP extend PIP reassessment period — but exclude under 24s
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that changes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will exclude claimants under 24s. DWP moving the goalposts again In the past, PIP claims lasted for two years for new claims. However, new legislation will see them last for a minimum of three... Read more » - US war machine wants to rip minerals from indigenous Canadian land
The US war machine is desperate to siphon vital minerals from indigenous lands in Canada. Instead of resisting, Canada’s Liberal government seems to be going along with it — seeking to deescalate tensions with its aggro southern neighbour. US extractivism targets Canada A new essay by the Transition Security Project... Read more » - Huge Tesco boss pay exposes myth of ‘cost of living crisis’
Tesco’s CEO pay increased by almost a million last year from £9.93m to £10.8m. Fat cat salaries and the profits of privatised essentials show the cost of living crisis is manufactured. In fact, Tesco sets a stark example. Manufactured, not a real ‘cost of living’ The real cost of living... Read more » - Gaza slides toward famine as Israel tightens aid squeeze
More than 71,000 children under five are at risk of acute malnutrition in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict fuel, flour, and humanitarian aid imports, pushing Gaza closer towards famine, TRT World reported. Israel tightens the squeeze on Gaza imports Israa Al-Afifi, a pediatrician in Gaza, told TRT World that:... Read more » - “Leave or we’ll kill you” — US-born Israeli threatens indigenous Palestinians
The murderous and foreign nature of Zionism was on clear show again last weekend at the 2026 ‘Flag Day’ march in Jerusalem. Extremist Zionist settlers rampaged through the Old City, posting stickers and waving flags calling for the destruction of Islam’s second-holiest site. And as they went, their message was... Read more »
Canary
- ● Mining Company Opts Out of Controversial Project Near Sacred Site in Black HillsRapid City, SD — On Thursday, May 7, a mining company announced it was stopping operations three days after tribes and advocacy organizations were granted a temporary restraining order in federal court. On May 4, the U.S. District Court of... Read more... Read more »
- mp3● Why the Yellow Vests Defy Politics as Usual w/ Prof. Ida SusserThe Yellow Vest, or gilets jaunes, are grassroots worker movement that have defied politics as usual in France and the rest of the world. In our latest, Scott talks with Prof. Ida Susser about her new book- an ethnographic study... Read more... Read more »
- ● 11. ‘Verbal Battlefields’Joe Jacobs on the intense political, organisational, and personal struggles within the Stepney branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain in mid‑1936, set against the wider backdrop of rising fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and the Moscow Trials. Submitted... Read more... Read more »
- ● Václav Havel – The Power of the PowerlessAuthor: Václav Havel Title: The Power of the Powerless Date: October 1978 Source: Retrieved on 2012-01-07 via the Internet Archive at <vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&val=72_aj_clanky.html> To the memory of Jan Patocka “The Power of the Powerless” (October 1978) was originally written (“quickly,”... Read more... Read more »
- Video● The Cheeto Snoozehound Reckons Anarchists Are TerroristsThe Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home. ‘You absolute moron’: Trump ‘falls asleep’ at Oval meeting, White House claims ‘he was blinking’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAn2k2YIIIQ Nick Turse, Jessica Washington,... Read more... Read more »
🏴 Anarchist Federation
- ● Václav Havel - The Power of the PowerlessAuthor: Václav HavelTitle: The Power of the PowerlessDate: October 1978Source: Retrieved on 2012-01-07 via the Internet Archive at <vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=clanky&val=72_aj_clanky.html> To the memory of Jan Patocka “The Power of the Powerless” (October 1978) was originally written (“quickly,” Havel said later) as a discussion piece for a projected joint Polish Czechoslovak... Read more »
- anon. - An Open Letter From Cuban AnarchistsAuthor: anon.Title: An Open Letter From Cuban AnarchistsDate: 2003Source: Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004, retrieved on 14 May 2026 from https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/363-winter-20032004/an-open-letter-from-cuban-anarchists/ Dear comrades, As you might be aware, the Castroist crackdown on dissent has been stepped up and toughened up over these past few months in Cuba. Even so,... Read more »
- Muswell Hillbillie - Review of Dolgoff Cuba BookAuthor: Muswell HillbillieTitle: Review of Dolgoff Cuba BookSubtitle: Cuba Book Avoids Crucial QuestionsDate: September 1977Source: Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977, retrieved on 14 May 2026 from https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/286-september-1977/review-of-dolgoff-cuba-book/ a review of Sam Dolgoff, The Cuban Revolution, A Critical Perspective; Copyright 1976, Black Rose Books, Ltd., Montreal; $5.95. Sam Dolgoff’s book,... Read more »
- Quincy B. Thorn - Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in CubaAuthor: Quincy B. ThornTitle: Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in CubaSubtitle: Whee! Airbnb announces 2000 available Cuban listings; The New York Times has full page ads for travel to the island. Isn't it all grand? Well, no.Date: 2015Source: Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology, retrieved on 14 May... Read more »
- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional - The Tree, The Rock, and the MorrowAuthor: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación NacionalTitle: The Tree, The Rock, and the MorrowSubtitle: A Zapatist StoryDate: December 19, 2024Notes: Transcribed and translated by Ediciones Bloodfruit/Malvivientes from Mesa Rebeldía y Resistencia Zapatistas. Parte III. Los Primeros Pasos del Común Zapatista on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/live/Ch98BvBho0gSource: Retrieved 4/27/2026 from https://www.patreon.com/posts/148154425 In those big meetings... Read more »
The Anarchist Library
- Ariane Gransac is dead: a life that was intense, rebellious and anarchistAriane Gransac is dead: a life that was intense, rebellious and anarchist... Read more »
- Ariane Gransac, Octavio Alberola, Stefi Browner [1978]Ariane Gransac, Octavio Alberola, Stefi Browner [1978] (in Stuart Christie photo album)... Read more »
- Paris 1973; Antonio Téllez, Ariane Gransac, Stuart Christie and Octavio AlberolaParis 1973; Antonio Téllez, Ariane Gransac, Stuart Christie and Octavio Alberola (in Stuart Christie photo album)... Read more »
- Agustín García Calvo with portrait by Ariane GransacAgustín García Calvo with portrait by Ariane Gransac (in Stuart Christie photo album)... Read more »
- Ariane Gransac painting Stuart ChristieAriane Gransac painting Stuart Christie (in Stuart Christie photo album)... Read more »
Kate Sharpley Library: Recent documents
- Spain summons Israeli envoy over Gaza flotilla interception, calls it ‘new violation of int’ law’
Spain on Monday summoned Israel’s chargé d’affaires and lodged what Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares described as a “formal and forceful protest” over Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, calling it “a new violation of international law,” Anadolu reports. Speaking at a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr... Read more » - 2 Palestinians killed, 4 injured from Israeli fire in Gaza despite ceasefire
Two Palestinians were killed and four others wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, in the latest violation of an ongoing ceasefire agreement, medical sources said, Anadolu reports. The sources said the body of a Palestinian man and two injured people arrived at Nasser Medical Complex, west... Read more » - Italy hit by mass strike over rearmament and in solidarity with Gaza
A nationwide general strike took place in Italy on Monday in protest against rearmament policies and in support of Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu reports. The strike was organized following a call from the USB union and other civil society groups under the slogan “We block everything.” Participants opposed rising living... Read more » - Irish president’s sister among Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel: Reports
Irish President Catherine Connolly’s sister is among the Gaza-bound Global Sumud flotilla activists detained by Israeli forces, according to media reports Monday. Margaret Connolly was among at least six Irish citizens aboard the aid flotilla detained by Israel, the Irish Independent reported, citing activists. According to the Global Sumud Flotilla,... Read more » - UAE paid $6m to reputation firm tied to Epstein whitewashing to bury damaging report on ambassador
The United Arab Emirates paid more than $6 million to a secretive US reputation management firm tied to whitewashing a client’s link to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to manipulate Google search results and suppress damaging reporting about its ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaiba, according to a New York Times... Read more »
Middle East Monitor
- Outlandish Merger of Giant Power Companies NextEra and Dominion is ‘Contrary to Public Interest’Massive Florida-based power company NextEra Energy announced today its plan to acquire Virginia’s Dominion Energy, citing the growth of A.I. data centers as the impetus for the move. In response, Public Citizen Energy Program director Tyson Slocum issued the following statement: “This absurd proposal to merge two massive, well-capitalized utilities... Read more »
- 50 rights groups blast Meta for brazen policy reversal of Instagram end-to-end encrypted messagingFight for the Future, Access Now, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and other leading human rights organizations are demanding Meta immediately course correct and make good on promises to protect Instagram DMs with end-to-end encryption by default.Led by Fight for the Future, 50 human... Read more »
- Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and...
Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones - others have taken his lead with their own patriotic... Read more » - Wholesale Horror: Producer Price Index Spells Disaster for Economic Outlook as Trump’s War in Iran Drags OnTrump’s war in Iran is now bleeding through the wholesale pipeline. April’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report shows wholesale prices rose 6% over the past year, the largest annual increase since December 2022, with core wholesale inflation at 4.4%. Despite the grim report, Trump said this week that he “[doesn’t]... Read more »
- Big Tech Favoritism on Display with CEOs Set to Join Trump at China SummitSixteen Big Tech CEOs will be joining President Trump on his upcoming summit with president Xi Jinping in China this week, according to media reports. The Big Tech executives in attendance are expected to include Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook. In response, Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the... Read more »
Common Dreams
- Dr Manivannan
The furore around the election of Dr Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament is deeply troubling. There is no argument whatsoever that they were eligible to stand for election. The law was changed specifically in order for those on temporary visas to be able to stand in Scottish parliamentary elections. I... Read more » - URGENT FILTON TRIAL UPDATE
While the Court of Appeal has now stopped the High Court contempt of court action against Rajiv Menon KC for defending his client, this is purely on procedural grounds. They ruled that Judge Johnson had to go via the Attorney General to the High Court, not direct. It is now... Read more » - Zionism Has Poisoned the UK’s Central Nervous SystemUnquestioning Zionism has for decades been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment. Anybody who was not a fully certified and compliant zionist would find their career limited – as Jeremy Corbyn, Alan Duncan, Robin Cook and David Mellor all found. Most others, of course, were never... Read more »
- The 2026 Scottish Elections
We get so trapped inside the logic of the UK’s crazy electoral systems we often do not see what is really happening. Two thirds of active voters, voted against Starmer’s Labour at the last general election. He was always highly unpopular. Just as Starmer’s landslide victory in the 2024 general... Read more » - VideoThe Morass of Injustice
A vast cloying morass of injustice has visibly submerged the British legal systems in anything connected to Palestine. In a quite incredible series of linked and kinked events this week, the senior KC representing one of the Palestine Action activists in the Filton trial was in the Court of Appeal... Read more »
Craig Murray
- DUP fear and loathing of the fada
The Democratic Unionist Party’s relationship with the Irish language has long resembled a man reacting to a toaster as if it were an unexploded bomb. Mention bilingual signage, an Irish-medium school, or the phrase céad míle fáilte, and somewhere in DUP headquarters a siren seems to go off. The... Read more » - Bertie : the man they couldn’t gag
“It’s a different world, this social media thing…You talk to people at doors and you don’t expect people to be taping you.” That was Bertie Ahern, looking back ruefully at a doorstep conversation he had with a woman in a Dublin constituency, where he was helping the Fianna Fail candidate... Read more » - The Aims of Fianna Fáil -then and now – by Joe McVeigh
According to an early Fianna Fáil Handbook, the aims of that party were stated thus: 1.To secure the Unity and Independence of Ireland as a Republic. 2. To restore the Irish language as the spoken language of the people, and to develop a distinctive national life in accordance with Irish traditions and... Read more » - Wes Streeting: the empty vesselSeveral years ago, I spotted Wes Streeting as a potential leader of the Labour Party. What impressed me were his verbal skills, his unflappability, his presence: in any conversation, his was the voice that somehow got most attention. How things change. Now I know him better and see him for... Read more »
- Starmer: the man who won’t go awayKeir Starmer surviving yet another revolt in the Labour Party feels less like a triumph of leadership and more like a man successfully escaping a collapsing gazebo at a garden centre sale. Technically impressive, perhaps, but nobody watching mistakes it for statesmanship. Every few months, Labour MPs gather in grim-faced... Read more »
Jude Collins
- DUP fear and loathing of the fada The Democratic Unionist Party’s relationship with the Irish language has long resembled a man reacting to a toaster as if it were an unexploded bomb. Mention bilingual signage, an Irish-medium school, or the phrase céad míle fáilte, and somewhere in DUP headquarters a siren seems to go off. The... Read more »
- Bertie : the man they couldn’t gag“It’s a different world, this social media thing…You talk to people at doors and you don’t expect people to be taping you.” That was Bertie Ahern, looking back ruefully at a doorstep conversation he had with a woman in a Dublin constituency, where he was helping the Fianna Fail candidate... Read more »
- The Aims of Fianna Fáil -then and now – by Joe McVeigh According to an early Fianna Fáil Handbook, the aims of that party were stated thus: 1.To secure the Unity and Independence of Ireland as a Republic. 2. To restore the Irish language as the spoken language of the people, and to develop a distinctive national life in accordance with Irish traditions and... Read more »
- Wes Streeting: the empty vesselSeveral years ago, I spotted Wes Streeting as a potential leader of the Labour Party. What impressed me were his verbal skills, his unflappability, his presence: in any conversation, his was the voice that somehow got most attention. How things change. Now I know him better and see him for... Read more »
- Starmer: the man who won’t go awayKeir Starmer surviving yet another revolt in the Labour Party feels less like a triumph of leadership and more like a man successfully escaping a collapsing gazebo at a garden centre sale. Technically impressive, perhaps, but nobody watching mistakes it for statesmanship. Every few months, Labour MPs gather in grim-faced... Read more »
Jude Collins
- VideoTrump’s failed China trip shows his trade war backfired, and US corporations are desperate
Donald Trump visited Beijing alongside the billionaire CEOs of a dozen top US corporations. His failure to pressure China to meet his demands demonstrated how Washington lost the trade war. The post Trump’s failed China trip shows his trade war backfired, and US corporations are desperate appeared first on Geopolitical... Read more » - VideoTrump boasts ‘we’re like pirates’, seizing Iran’s ships, as China challenges US sanctions
Donald Trump boasted the US government acts "like pirates", seizing Iran's ships and oil. Meanwhile, Beijing ordered all domestic companies to ignore US sanctions, after Washington hit Chinese firms for buying Iranian oil. The post Trump boasts ‘we’re like pirates’, seizing Iran’s ships, as China challenges US sanctions appeared first... Read more » - VideoHow China prepared for the new global food crisis, caused by the US war on Iran
The US-Israeli war on Iran has unleashed a massive global food crisis. China is prepared, because its state-owned enterprises maintain the largest grain reserves in human history. This is how they work. The post How China prepared for the new global food crisis, caused by the US war on Iran... Read more » - VideoIs another financial crisis brewing in the US economy? Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers
Reports suggest the US economy may be on the verge of another financial crisis, with major problems in the $3 trillion private credit market. Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers of Wall Street's Ponzi schemes. The post Is another financial crisis brewing in the US economy? Economist Michael Hudson explains... Read more » - VideoIran is winning the war with the US. This is how
Iran is winning the war started by Trump. This is now admitted even in the Western media. Tehran has destroyed major US military bases in West Asia, expelling American troops to Europe. The post Iran is winning the war with the US. This is how appeared first on Geopolitical Economy... Read more »
Geopolitical Economy Report
- Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights
To help students respond to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights. The post Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more » - Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
Historian Marcus Rediker discussed his books Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea and The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, and talked about the many enslaved people who fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South... Read more » - Teach About Toxins and Organizing for Environmental Justice
People’s exposure to toxic chemicals is on the rise — made worse by the recent cuts to the already limited regulations. This administration is placing the health of our students at risk. The post Teach About Toxins and Organizing for Environmental Justice appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more » - Educators Learn Hidden History — and Talk About Why It Matters
It’s not every day that educators can learn directly from leading historians, writers, and activists, and then immediately process that learning in small groups with peers equally committed to truth and justice. That’s exactly what makes the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series so rare... Read more » - Organization of American Historians 2026 Conference
The Zinn Education Project hosted a booth with HowardZinn.org at the Organization of American Historians Conference in Philadelphia from April 16–18, 2026. The post Organization of American Historians 2026 Conference appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
Zinn Education Project
- #BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister
#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 »
Free willl
- Back to the point of CarnsoreThe anti-nuclear festivals at Carnsore Point, 1978-1981, were recalled at a lively and political event called ‘Memory of a Free Festival’ at the Projects Arts Centre in central Dublin which will now tour nationwide for a year By Caroline Hurley The launch event of ‘Memory of A Free Festival’ was... Read more »
- International LeadersWorld leaders turned toadies as Trump dismantles international law and pollutes the discourse, without concerted opposition. The post International Leaders appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
- Massive Zack AttackSix months ago Zack Polanski was a lively London Assembly member known mainly for his theatre background and a tabloid humiliation involving “hypnoboobs”. The post Massive Zack Attack appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
- PEAK TRUMPBy February 2026, the idea that Donald Trump represents an endlessly renewable force of disruption moved from hard to stomach to hard to sustain. The post PEAK TRUMP appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
- From pastifism to pacifismAs the government prepares to jettison the triple lock, clear thinking could make Ireland a power for peace The post From pastifism to pacifism appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
Village Magazine
- The UAE’s Fujairah bet: Export flexibility, energy security, and regional leverage
The UAE’s planned second Fujairah, or West-East, pipeline marks a major shift in Gulf energy security and export strategy. It matters not only because it reduces dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, but because it gives Abu Dhabi more freedom to manage exports, expand production, and strengthen its economic leverage.... Read more » - Why the US–China Summit may decide the Middle East’s next war
There are moments in international politics when geography becomes destiny. The Strait of Hormuz—barely 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point—is once again one of those places. Nearly 20 per cent of the world’s oil passes through that narrow artery every day, carrying not just energy, but the fragile assumptions... Read more » - After the war on Iran, the Transatlantic alliance rift grows wider
For decades, the Transatlantic alliance was presented as the cornerstone of the so-called liberal international order—a partnership portrayed by shared values, mutual defence, and coordinated foreign policy. However, the recent US-Israeli war on Iran, which erupted on 28th February 2026, has contributed greatly to shattering that illusion. As the repercussions... Read more » - Egyptian forces in the UAE: Gains and losses
The presence of Egyptian forces in the UAE, against the backdrop of the US and Israeli-led war on Iran, raises serious questions among the Egyptian public about the missions and objectives, the gains and losses, and the potential dangers of involvement in a war that Egyptians say has nothing to... Read more » - The crisis of leadership in the West: From the charisma of ideas to the tyranny of public relations
During his official visit to Beijing, President Donald Trump faced a challenge of a peculiar kind. A White House official later revealed that the President was strictly prohibited from using his personal smartphone due to stringent security protocols imposed by Chinese authorities. For a man who views that small screen... Read more »
Opinion – Middle East Monitor
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough 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 PerilsAlthough 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 HappinessAlthough 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 RussiaEthnic 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 »
Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork
- ‘How Many Minutes to Midnight?’: Noam Chomsky on Why National Security Has Nothing to Do With Security
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 » - Noam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. Presidents
Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.... Read more » - Noam Chomsky On The Responsibility To Act Against Fascism
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 » - Israel & Palestine: Possible Futures — a Discussion with Noam Chomsky
Professor Noam Chomsky discuss in May 23, 2023, Israel-Palestine conflict which he describes as “the main issue of my life” with academics Dylan Rodriguez, Michael Alexander and Mohamad Ali. With incomparable precision and detail professor Chomsky re-defines concepts such as “genocide” and “apartheid” in relation to the conflict; points the... Read more » - Humanity Imperiled[What follows is a 2013 piece by the remarkable, now 94-year-old Noam Chomsky looking at a future that — from the latest devastating news about climate change to the revival of nuclear fears thanks to the war in Ukraine — is all too of the moment. This piece was adapted... Read more »
Posts – ZNetwork
- ‘A $1,700,000,000 fraud on the American taxpayer’: Trump to drop IRS suit in exchange for MAGA slush fund
“This is a massive and unprecedented presidential plunder of the American people,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin.... Read more » - Cuba runs out of oil amidst suffocating US blockade
The UN has condemned the blockade as a violation of international law and an “extreme form” of economic coercion.... Read more » - Ghada Karmi: How Gaza shattered the myth of coexistence
“For the first time in my life I'm contemplating the physical end of Palestine. That's something I never, ever thought would happen.”... Read more » - Georgia Gov. calls special session to rig US House map for GOP, SC expected to follow“We will not sit back and watch while Gov. Kemp takes orders from a felon-in-chief to turn Dr. King’s dream into a nightmare,” said the head of Common Cause Georgia.... Read more »
- Oren Ziv: Israel is erasing the West Bank’s boundaries
“[Israeli] settlers have continued their attacks since the beginning of March. 13 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during settler raids on Palestinian villages, some of them by civilians, some of them by settlers who serve in the army."... Read more »
The Real News Network
- Dawn Butler will launch campaign to become Mayor of London this weekLabour MP Dawn Butler is expected to launch a campaign to become the Mayor of London for the 2028 mayoral […] The post Dawn Butler will launch campaign to become Mayor of London this week appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Reform council leader condemned for comments criticising free breakfast clubsThe senior Reform figure has criticised the policy which aims to ensure disadvantaged children don’t go hungry at the start of the school day The post Reform council leader condemned for comments criticising free breakfast clubs appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Keir Starmer won’t set out a timetable for his departure, says David LammyKeir Starmer remains resilient and there will be no timetable for his departure, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said. […] The post Keir Starmer won’t set out a timetable for his departure, says David Lammy appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- 1 in 3 Reform UK voters has a positive view of Tommy RobinsonThe far-right anti-Islam activist is unpopular in Britain, except among Reform voters The post 1 in 3 Reform UK voters has a positive view of Tommy Robinson appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Andy Burnham says mass renationalisation would be at the centre of his policy platformLabour Party leadership hopeful Andy Burnham has said that a programme of mass renationalisation, which would include energy and water, […] The post Andy Burnham says mass renationalisation would be at the centre of his policy platform appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
- "Staggering Corruption": Rep. Raskin on Trump's $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business
Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both plaintiff and defendant. This comes amid reports that Trump’s Department... Read more » - Trump's Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner
Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for “Rededicate 250,” a taxpayer-funded Christian evangelical service backed by President Trump. The eight-hour lineup featured songs, prayers and remarks by top government officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Defense Secretary... Read more » - As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?
The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Saturday due to the rapid spread of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Ebola causes severe hemorrhagic fever and is often fatal. There’s no approved vaccine for the strain of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak,... Read more » - Headlines for May 18, 2026Trump Escalates Threats Against Iran as Ceasefire Negotiations Remain Deadlocked, Israel Kills at Least Six People in Southern Lebanon, Including Three Paramedics, Israel Assassinates Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the Head of Hamas’s Military Wing, Israeli Cabinet Approves Plans to Build Military Compound at Former UNRWA Site, Israeli Forces Begin Intercepting Ships... Read more »
- "Israel: What Went Wrong?": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz's Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, is the author of the new book Israel: What Went Wrong? Bartov says the early Zionist movement had liberatory... Read more »
Democracy Now!
- mp3Jules Boykoff on World Cup and ‘Sportswashing’
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260515.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). FIFA, the governing body of association football, concocted a “FIFA Peace Prize”—described as recognizing “individuals for exceptional contributions to peace and unity”—in order to award it to Donald Trump. Alongside revelations of deep-seated corruption—collusion, bribery—involving official bodies and executives, and... Read more » - mp3Angelo Carusone on Media Matters v. FTC, Rachel K. Jones (2023) on Mifepristone
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260508.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Media Matters (11/16/23) This week on CounterSpin: In 2023, the group Media Matters reported that social media platform X was placing ads for major brands like Apple and IBM alongside content touting Hitler and the Nazi Party—despite the... Read more » - mp3Derek Kravitz on Dynamic Pricing
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260501.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Yahoo Finance (4/25/26) This week on CounterSpin: A CNN headline a few months back told us that Instacart—which used to call itself a company that delivers groceries, but now, as its CEO told investors, is the “leading technology... Read more » - mp3Jesse Rabinowitz on Harassing the Unhoused, Maritza Perez Medina on Rescheduling Marijuana
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260424.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). NHLC (3/24/26) This week on CounterSpin: From the federal level on down, many laws and policies that claim to be about “ending homelessness” seem to be clearly more about hurting homeless people than changing their circumstance. Even if you,... Read more » - mp3Sarah Anderson on Poverty Wages, Lia Holland on the Wayback Machine
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260417.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Inequality.org (3/4/26) This week on CounterSpin: Tesla reported $5.7 billion in US profits in 2025 and paid $0.0 in taxes. As Rebecca Crosby and Judd Legum at Popular Information report, there’s little mystery to this miracle: Tesla used... Read more »
CounterSpin
- The Crisis Finance Capitalism Can’t EscapeThe 2026 World Financial Crisis Trump is threatening to escalate his war against Iran, and Iran is prepared to destroy the oil production and transport capacity of Arab OPEC countries that do not act to stop the U.S. attack. The result will be to deepen the world depression that already... Read more »
- Did Xi Really Trade Iran for Taiwan?Professor Michael Hudson – in conversation with Ali Alizadeh, Jedaal TV, Iran AA – The American readout of the Trump–Xi meeting claims that Xi explicitly agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open, that there must be no tolls, that China opposes the militarisation of the Strait, that... Read more »
- Swap Lines, Gulf Debt and the Unravelling of Dollar PrimacyMichael Hudson and Radhika Desai argue that US swap lines with Gulf allies reveal a dangerous reversal in the dollar system: former petrodollar suppliers may now need bailouts. As war risks, debt leverage and politicised Treasury lending collide, the discussion exposes how dollar primacy depends less on market confidence than... Read more »
- Wars Are Won by Economics, Not ArmiesMichael Hudson and Ian Proud discuss why modern wars are increasingly fought through economics rather than military force, and why sanctions against Iran may rebound on the US, Europe and the wider financial system. Hudson argues that oil shocks, debt fragility and military Keynesianism expose the weakness of US strategy,... Read more »
- The Return of Guns and Butter as War Spending SurgesCounterpunch May 1 2026 Guns and Butter Sixty years ago opposition to America’s war in Vietnam focused on the costs of diverting U.S. resources away from social spending to the military – what was called Guns and Butter. I was the junior member of the Columbia University triumvirate headed by... Read more »
Michael Hudson
- VideoMinnesota Is Doing What the Federal Government Won’t: Holding ICE AccountableAn ICE officer who allegedly shot a Minneapolis man when the Trump administration sent thousands of officers to Minnesota and lied about the series of events that led to the shooting was charged on Monday. Christian J. Castro, the officer, is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one... Read more »
- Memphis Is “Under Full-Blown Occupation” by ICE. Here’s Why You May Not Know That.There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. It certainly hasn’t gotten as much attention as past surges in Chicago or Minneapolis—even though it’s been going on since September. Hunter Demster, who runs a soup kitchen in the city, has been... Read more »
- One Congresswoman’s Scary Yearlong Fight for Justice After Standing Up to ICEIt’s been just over a year since Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), a sitting member of Congress, showed up to Delaney Hall, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, to do her job. Members of Congress have the statutory right to conduct unannounced oversight visits at... Read more »
- Trump Tried to Build Australia’s Tallest Tower. It Didn’t Happen.Donald Trump has had an amazing run of success as an international businessman since becoming president for a second time. He’s made billions in crypto, traded stocks successfully, and unveiled new locations for an array of Trump-branded real estate projects—from Riyadh to Australia. Still, not all those Trump-branded projects are... Read more »
- Video“Rush Hour 4” and More Katie Miller: Welcome to the Mediautocracy.When President Donald Trump visited Beijing last week for a high-stakes summit to discuss the war in Iran, Taiwan, and other complex geopolitical issues involving the world’s two biggest superpowers, an unlikely project occupied the president’s mind: Rush Hour 4. Yes, a pending fourth installment of the buddy-cop franchise, which... Read more »
Mother Jones
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- You Don’t Own Your Narrative Anymore — Naomi Klein and Yanis Varoufakis
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 » - How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War
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
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 » - ‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”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 »
- Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”
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 »
Posts – ZNetwork
- Never Again, AgainWhy are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green party of England and... Read more »
- Hear ThisRadical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change them: that’s the credo of parties such as Labour and the Democrats.... Read more »
- Get the Money out of PoliticsThere’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th April 2026 How do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostly, we don’t. A plutocrat delivers a sack of cash to a political party.... Read more »
- Alternating CurrentIf this crucial circulation system shuts down, the civilisational impacts will be irreversible. So why isn’t it a top priority? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd April 2026 The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay... Read more »
- VideoSelf-BurnThanks to Trump, people around the world are scrambling to get out of fossil fuels. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th April 2026 Donald Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive. Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition... Read more »
George Monbiot
- ● Irony alert: Trump's top cybersecurity agency exposed its own passwords online
In a striking case of doing the opposite of what it's supposed to do, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) left its most sensitive digital passwords sitting in plain sight on the public internet for months.Think of it like this: imagine the agency that's supposed to protect America's... Read more » - ● MAGA civil war erupts over Trump's new 'slush fund'
President Donald Trump has reportedly received a $1.776 billion settlement from his own IRS over his allegation that the agency owed him money for a contractor who leaked his tax returns — and the money is now inciting a full-blown MAGA civil war.Now, according to conservative commentator Will Sommer, this... Read more » - ● White House silent as Trump's severely bruised hands spark fresh health concerns
A striking photograph of President Donald Trump emerged Monday, reigniting debate about the president's physical health after images showed severe bruising across both of his hands.The image, captured during a White House health care affordability event where Trump appeared alongside Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz and... Read more » - ● MAGA’s take on Mark Fuhrman’s death is quite different from everyone else’s
Mark Fuhrman — the former Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated alleged murderer OJ Simpson and was later accused of racist biases in that case — was reported on Monday to have died last week.The reactions, at least on social media, appear to be split along political lines.“Mark Fuhrman,... Read more » - ● Trump's grip slips as another Republican ally rebels
President Donald Trump is losing influence in the Republican Party, at least if the dynamics in a key congressional race reflect the party’s larger future.After describing how the son of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), William Paul, made anti-Semitic comments to Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) during a recent drunk rant, The... Read more »
Alternet.org
- ● US/Iran Energy Shock Damage Is Spreading in AsiaIn the Asian shock, four transmission channels play a role. In the case of oil, elevated risk premium is coupled with physical tightening via Strait of Hormuz disruptions. Lliquefied natural gas (LNG) poses a more severe constraint than oil and thus structural tightening of Asian gas balances. Meanwhile, coal substitution... Read more »
- The Man Who Seeks To Rule the WorldAlthough Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania. One sign, of course, is his blatant demand for the territory of other nations. Since January 2025 alone, he has suggested... Read more »
- All The Time In The World… NOT!If the Donald does not wish to bring down upon himself the ignominy of being the first US president to be impeached, convicted and removed from the White House by the US Marshals, he damn well better start reading the Iranian settlement proposals. Even if he doesn’t like the first... Read more »
- The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian ChristiansThe video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has been conditioned to see the ‘other’ as subhuman. Yet, this was not the typical viral video that emerges almost daily from occupied Palestine.... Read more »
- US Trapped by Iran’s Resilience; Why the Solution Is Agreement, Not AttritionIn recent months, a painful but increasingly undeniable conclusion has begun to emerge across Western think tanks, mainstream media, and U.S. intelligence assessments: contrary to Washington and Tel Aviv’s initial expectations, Iran has neither collapsed, fragmented, nor moved toward surrender. On the contrary, the conflict has exposed layers of what... Read more »
Antiwar.com
- May: the longer viewThe month's archives. - 2026/05 / perspective... Read more »
- Afghanistan-Pakistan border tensions
- Asia / Map, 2026/05 afghanistan pakistan... Read more » - Strategic and commercial oil reserves
- Energy / Map, 2026/05 energy... Read more » - Lebanon: where civilisations met and mergedThe gnarled, monumental olive trees leading to Nabil Nahas's studio in the mountains north of Beirut, portrayed by the renowned Lebanese-American artist in semi-abstract paintings, are silent witnesses to more than a thousand years of history. ‘They date from the Roman period,' and come from lands mentioned in the bible,... Read more »
- At Palmyra, heritage comes before peopleThe ancient city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert has frequently been ravaged by war. As new reconstruction plans take shape, the drive to rebuild it risks sidelining the needs of local people. - 2026/05 / article... Read more »
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
- Sexual abuse of Palestinians should force a reckoning for the British government
Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexualised violence to displace Palestinians, new report finds. Britain should pull every lever available to stop this The post Sexual abuse of Palestinians should force a reckoning for the British government appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - VideoMet chief should resign over Palestine comments, ex-senior officer says
Former Scotland Yard superintendent, Nusrit Mehtab, has accused Sir Mark Rowley of ‘blurring the lines’ between policing and politics The post Met chief should resign over Palestine comments, ex-senior officer says appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - Britain’s secret ‘black propaganda’ operations
Exclusive: Top secret files expose how the UK government forged documents, controlled news agencies, and cultivated journalists amid the Cold War struggle for influence and power. The post Britain’s secret ‘black propaganda’ operations appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - Palestine Action barrister wins appeal in contempt case
Rajiv Menon KC faced proceedings which his chambers said were unprecedented in English legal history The post Palestine Action barrister wins appeal in contempt case appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - Israeli settler group returns to London despite calls for sanctions
Shivat Zion previously offered to help Brits move to ‘awesome’ illegal settlements in the West Bank The post Israeli settler group returns to London despite calls for sanctions appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
Declassified UK
- ● Hong Kong set to benefit as Xi-Trump summit signals ‘more stability’, John Lee says
Hong Kong’s economy and trade with the United States will benefit from greater stability and certainty brought by the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump, the city’s leader has said. “Hong Kong is an externally oriented economy, susceptible to the influence of the main... Read more » - ● Marcos sees Philippines likely to be involved in a Taiwan conflict due to proximity
The Philippines is likely to be involved in any conflict over Taiwan because of its proximity and the nearly 200,000 Filipinos working there, President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr told Japanese media on Monday, ahead of a state visit to Japan next week. He said Manila did not want to be involved... Read more » - ● Will Chinese become the king language for commanding AI on engineering tasks?
A study from Tsinghua University has opened a new front in the global technology race by asking a question that may have profound implications for industrial powers. When commanding an artificial intelligence (AI) model to, say, design a better aircraft, does it matter whether you speak to it in English... Read more » - ● Starbucks Korea boss loses job after ‘Tank Day’ promotion misfires
The head of Starbucks Korea has been fired after a marketing campaign sparked public outrage for evoking painful memories of a brutal military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1980. Shinsegae Group, the retail conglomerate that licences and manages the US coffee chain in South Korea, said it had sacked Sohn... Read more » - ● John Lee to visit Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, taking largest-ever delegation overseas
Hong Kong’s leader will travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next month to explore and seize new business opportunities, making Central Asia his latest area of focus and with the largest delegation accompanying him. After several years of promoting the city in the Middle East and Southeast Asia amid geopolitical uncertainties,... Read more »
News - South China Morning Post
- Trump’s Taiwan independence comments: a blow to William Lai and ruling DPP?
Donald Trump’s comment that he is “not looking to have somebody go independent” has sparked debate in Taiwan over whether it undermines the ruling party’s pro-independence platform. Trump made the remark after last week’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, where Taiwan emerged as one of the most... Read more » - China arrests 16 in drone hacking cases, vowing ‘clean skies’ crackdown
Chinese police have announced the arrests of 16 people suspected of hacking drone systems and vowed a nationwide crackdown on illegal drone use. China’s Ministry of Public Security released details on 10 cases on Monday to warn the public about illegal drone use. The suspects were arrested between January and... Read more » - Why Beijing is outraged over Taiwan’s Lai honouring WWII-era Japanese engineer
Beijing has strongly criticised Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te for paying tribute to a figure from Japan’s colonial era in Taiwan. In a commentary published on Sunday, Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily accused Lai, from Taiwan’s independence-leaning ruling Democratic Progressive Party, of “forgetting his ancestors” and reaching a new... Read more » - Mainland China’s Wu Yongping on what the Xi-Trump summit means for Taiwan
Wu Yongping is one of mainland China’s leading specialists on Taiwan affairs and dean of the Institute for Taiwan Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Here, he shares his views on signals from the Xi-Trump summit, and discusses peaceful reunification between the mainland and Taiwan and how it could be... Read more » - Wang Xiaodong, derided over Covid-19 handling, comes under corruption cloud
The former Chinese governor criticised for mishandling the Covid-19 outbreak is under investigation for corruption. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), China’s top political disciplinary body, said on Sunday that Wang Xiaodong, 66, who was governor of Hubei province in 2020 as the coronavirus developed into a pandemic, was... Read more »
Politics - South China Morning Post
- UK ignores massacres and terrorism to deepen Syria relationsby 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 »
- Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocideby 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 »
- The Israel firms aiding the NHS and IDFby 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 »
- ‘Ruthless terror’ — When Labour aided genocide in Indonesiaby 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 »
- RAF Museum hosts fundraiser for Israeli soldiers’ ’emotional support’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 »
Articles – Mark Curtis
- UK ignores massacres and terrorism to deepen Syria relationsby 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 »
- Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocideby 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 »
- The Israel firms aiding the NHS and IDFby 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 »
- ‘Ruthless terror’ — When Labour aided genocide in Indonesiaby 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 »
- RAF Museum hosts fundraiser for Israeli soldiers’ ’emotional support’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 »
Articles – Mark Curtis
- Who’s Spending in Your Congressional Election? We Tracked the Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms.
Murky political spending groups tout innocuous causes like “jobs,” “democracy,” and “electing women.” Here’s a guide to who’s really behind them. The post Who’s Spending in Your Congressional Election? We Tracked the Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight
Justice Clarence Thomas argues the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, prohibits the mailing of abortion medication. The post A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger
A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures. The post Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - CDC Didn’t Tell New York About Resident on Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise
There’s no indication that the New Yorker had imminent plans to return to the U.S. But public health experts said the city and state still should’ve been informed. The post CDC Didn’t Tell New York About Resident on Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - Video“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”
The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state. The post “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You” appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
The Intercept
- The Problem with Preemption
Laws deny communities the ability to chart their own course.... Read more » - When Cash, Banks, and Apps Fail
Palestinians in Gaza are facing a unique financial crisis.... Read more » - An Attack on Democracy in Tennessee
The maps are being redrawn to diminish the voting power of Black Americans.... Read more » - Community Schools Are at the Forefront of a ‘Neighborism’ Movement
Public schools in New York City’s network of community schools offer an alternative to top-down systems that are indifferent to the needs of working families.... Read more » - Utah Housing Model Is the Wrong Way To Go
A new report suggests the state's plan to centralize homeless services could be doomed to fail.... Read more »
The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
- Outlandish Merger of Giant Power Companies NextEra and Dominion is ‘Contrary to Public Interest’Massive Florida-based power company NextEra Energy announced today its plan to acquire Virginia’s Dominion Energy, citing the growth of A.I. data centers as the impetus for the move. In response, Public Citizen Energy Program director Tyson Slocum issued the following statement: “This absurd proposal to merge two massive, well-capitalized utilities... Read more »
- 50 rights groups blast Meta for brazen policy reversal of Instagram end-to-end encrypted messagingFight for the Future, Access Now, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and other leading human rights organizations are demanding Meta immediately course correct and make good on promises to protect Instagram DMs with end-to-end encryption by default.Led by Fight for the Future, 50 human... Read more »
- Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and...Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones - others have taken his lead with their own patriotic... Read more »
- Wholesale Horror: Producer Price Index Spells Disaster for Economic Outlook as Trump’s War in Iran Drags OnTrump’s war in Iran is now bleeding through the wholesale pipeline. April’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report shows wholesale prices rose 6% over the past year, the largest annual increase since December 2022, with core wholesale inflation at 4.4%. Despite the grim report, Trump said this week that he “[doesn’t]... Read more »
- Big Tech Favoritism on Display with CEOs Set to Join Trump at China SummitSixteen Big Tech CEOs will be joining President Trump on his upcoming summit with president Xi Jinping in China this week, according to media reports. The Big Tech executives in attendance are expected to include Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook. In response, Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the... Read more »
Common Dreams
- mp3Fund Drive Special: Against the Attention EconomyIt’s been called a new gold rush, but not of our external environment, which continues to be plundered, but of our internal environment — of our psyches. Historian of science D. Graham Burnett, one of the Friends of Attention, lays out what’s at stake — and how they’re organizing a... Read more »
- mp3Fund Drive Special: Fossil Capitalism and TreesFor as long as we’ve known, humans have revered ancient trees. We have also destroyed them, especially since the advent of colonialism and fossil fuel capitalism. Historian Jared Farmer reflects on what trees illuminate about our past and potential future. The post Fund Drive Special: Fossil Capitalism and Trees appeared... Read more »
- mp3Fund Drive Special: What the Frankfurt School Teaches Us About the RightWhat has the far right learned from the Frankfurt School? And what can we learn from Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse to understand the appeal of the right? Paul Fleming sheds light on the fixation of conservatives like Christopher Rufo — who has set about remaking... Read more »
- mp3Fund Drive Special: Back to the Gilded AgeIt’s no mystery that the fortunes of the very rich have soared under this administration, but the concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few is a hallmark of capitalism itself. Economist Rob Larson returns to discuss the state of capitalism today, with massive subsidies for the wealthy... Read more »
- mp3Fund Drive Special: Unmasking the Far RightThe Trump administration uses antifascism as a term of abuse and has branded Antifa domestic terrorists. Yet antifascism has a long but often little known history in the U.S. Journalist Christopher Mathias describes the efforts of radicals to unmask and dismantle the far right. Please donate in support of KPFA... Read more »
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- President Xi Jinping meets Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is on an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.... Read more » - President Xi Jinping meets Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, UAE
President Xi Jinping meets Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, UAE... Read more » - Mozambique's President Daniel Francisco Chapo to visit China
Mozambique's President Daniel Francisco Chapo to visit China... Read more » - IEA, IMF, World Bank heads warn of impacts of Iran war
The heads of the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group on Monday warned of the negative impacts of the war against Iran waged by the United States and Israel.... Read more » - Vietnam's top leader To Lam arrives in Beijing for state visit
To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and president of Vietnam, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a state visit to China through Friday.... Read more »
World
- President Xi Jinping meets Spanish Prime Minister Pedro SanchezChinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is on an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.... Read more »
- President Xi Jinping meets Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, UAEPresident Xi Jinping meets Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, UAE... Read more »
- Mozambique's President Daniel Francisco Chapo to visit ChinaMozambique's President Daniel Francisco Chapo to visit China... Read more »
- IEA, IMF, World Bank heads warn of impacts of Iran warThe heads of the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group on Monday warned of the negative impacts of the war against Iran waged by the United States and Israel.... Read more »
- Vietnam's top leader To Lam arrives in Beijing for state visitTo Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and president of Vietnam, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a state visit to China through Friday.... Read more »
Politics
- Polish official: A new gateway for Chinese-Polish synergy
Polish official: A new gateway for Chinese-Polish synergy... Read more » - IMF downgrades global growth forecast amid Middle East conflict
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its global economic outlook for 2026 amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.... Read more » - 85% of respondents say 'Investing in China' key for global success
85% of respondents say 'Investing in China' key for global success... Read more » - China drives sharp reduction of trade surplus with Q1 import surge
China's Q1 imports surged, reshaping the familiar narrative of export-led trade growth.... Read more » - UNDP: Middle East tensions could cost Asia-Pacific up to $299 billion
A new report from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) warns that military escalation in the Middle East could inflict $97 billion to $299 billion in economic losses across the Asia-Pacific region and push 8.8 million people into poverty.... Read more »
Business
- Canada Rolls Out New Disability Benefit Program Under Bill C-22
Canada has taken a historic step toward economic equity and social inclusion with the rollout of the Canada Disability Benefit... Read more » - Check Eligibility Criteria for Singapore’s 2025 Assurance Package
As Singapore continues its planned increase in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 7% to 9%... Read more » - Check Eligibility, Fees & Processing Time for Canada’s Open Work Permit in 2025
As of March 2025, Canada’s Open Work Permit (OWP) program has undergone significant changes aimed at simplifying the process... Read more » - Australia Government Launches Financial Relief Package to Ease Living Costs in 2025
As Australians continue to grapple with the growing burden of daily expenses... Read more » - Unlocking International Opportunities with the Digital Nomad Visa
Canada's Digital Nomad Visa is more than just a temporary travel allowance... Read more »
Citizen Truth
- ● Global bond market selloff intensifiesYields on long-term government debt are now recording some of their highest levels since the lead up to the global financial crisis.... Read more »
- ● Democratic Party, union apparatus conspire to shut down powerful New York rail strikeThe way in which the strike is being ended exposes the contempt which the trade union apparatus and the entire political establishment in New York have for the workers.... Read more »
- ● “We all should unite”: New York bus drivers speak out in support of Long Island Rail Road strikeThe powerful support for a wider struggle is precisely why the Democrats and union bureaucrats moved to shut the strike down Monday evening.... Read more »
- ● Trump creates unconstitutional $1.776 billion slush fund to pay off fascist alliesThe “Anti-Weaponization Fund” defies Congress’ power of the purse and creates a secretive claims process with no appeal or judicial review.... Read more »
- ● Bolivia’s indefinite national strike faces military repressionA national strike in Bolivia has continued to expand for more than two weeks in opposition to rising fuel costs and the right-wing policies of President Rodrigo Paz.... Read more »
World Socialist Web Site (en)
- Chinese scientists unlock potent, addiction-free pain relief
Chinese scientists unlock potent, addiction-free pain relief... Read more » - Premier Li: China encourages more Chinese companies to invest in Spain
China is ready to import more high-quality products from Spain and encourages more capable Chinese enterprises to invest in Spain, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Tuesday.... Read more » - Xi Jinping holds talks with Vietnam's top leader To Lam
Xi Jinping holds talks with Vietnam's top leader To Lam... Read more » - Xi Jinping holds welcome ceremony for Vietnam's top leader
Xi Jinping holds welcome ceremony for Vietnam's top leader... Read more » - Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov... Read more »
China
- Sanchez's fourth China visit signals EU strategic shift
The Spanish prime minister is undertaking a state visit to China from April 11 to 15. This marks his fourth trip to China in four years, demonstrating a sustained high-level engagement between two countries aimed at bolstering economic ties.... Read more » - Europe's Atlantic foundation crumbles as the US becomes a threat
The Politico survey is a clarion call. As the US retreats into a fortress of protectionism and unpredictability, Europe's quest for strategic autonomy should be matched by a diversification of its global partnerships.... Read more » - CICPE to decode China's consumption upgrade
As a weathervane for consumption upgrade, the CICPE is witnessing China's consumption transformation from quantity accumulation to quality leap.... Read more » - Three takeaways from KMT chair's visit to the mainland
Cheng's visit reinforces the argument that stability and peaceful development should remain the core priorities in managing cross-Strait relations.... Read more » - Sanchez's China visit to promote development of China-Europe ties
The growing development of Sino-Spanish relations is bringing tangible benefits to both sides, rendering any attempts to question or suppress the ties naive, hypocritical and powerless.... Read more »
Opinion
- CGTN's picks for the 16th Beijing International Film Festival
The 16th Beijing International Film Festival has arrived as promised this April, reuniting film lovers everywhere in front of the big screen.... Read more » - Brought with the Storm
The film centers on a male protagonist who has just ended a relationship.... Read more » - The Fox King
The film tells the story of a pair of twin brothers living in a peaceful coastal town in Malaysia.... Read more » - Goodbye Julia
Mona was once a singer before retiring from the stage after marriage. Leading a respectable life, she is tormented by a secret deep inside: She was indirectly responsible for a murder.... Read more » - The Blue Trail
Set in Brazil, the film follows a story where a mandatory elderly segregation policy is enforced, sending senior citizens to remote "relocation zones."... Read more »
Culture
- Spanish PM stresses role of cooperation in driving scientific progress
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez underscored the vital role of cooperation in driving scientific progress during a visit to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Monday.... Read more » - Musk's XChat set for App Store debut
Musk's XChat set for App Store debut... Read more » - International Dark Sky Week: China's legal path to a starry economy
International Dark Sky Week: China's legal path to a starry economy... Read more » - Spanish PM Sánchez receives honorary professorship from UCAS
Spanish PM Sánchez receives honorary professorship from UCAS... Read more » - 2026 World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit kicks off in HKSAR
The 2026 World Internet Conference (WIC) Asia-Pacific Summit opened in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday morning.... Read more »
Tech&Sci
- ● Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teacher In JeninIsraeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian teacher early Saturday (May 16) during an invasion of the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed.... Read more »
- ● Earworm Kars4Kids jingle yanked from California airwaves for false advertisingCharity failed to mention it funnels about $45m annually to a Jewish non-profit that organizes Israel trips for teens... Read more »
- ● Thousands of Colonizers, Soldiers Invade Nablus’s Joseph’s Tomb AreaThe events reflect the ongoing escalation of colonizer attacks across the occupied West Bank, where Israeli government officials continue to participate in and publicly endorse colonizer activities.... Read more »
- ● Guerillas in grey suits: K2, auditing firm tied to Israel and US, surveils Arab central banksK2 Integrity, a firm with links to the US Treasury and Israeli intel, is expanding its MENA operations and overseeing Iraq, Lebanon and Libya’s banking systems.... Read more »
- ● Pro-Israel Pressure Campaign Against NYT Crashes and BurnsEven with this story coming more than a year after a United Nations report called out Israel for “systematically” subjecting Palestinians to “sexualized torture,” it was met with apoplectic – though predictable – rage from the Israeli government and a bevy of prominent pro-Israel figures and writers.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- Russia and North Korea: An Alliance of DesperationThe Kremlin can count on only one real ally in its war in Ukraine. The post Russia and North Korea: An Alliance of Desperation appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- She Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges.Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. The post She Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- VIDEO: Phyllis Bennis Says “Stop the War” at the National Moral Monday Peace RallyBennis calls the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran "immoral and illegal" and demands an end to U.S. funding of the Gaza genocide. The post VIDEO: Phyllis Bennis Says “Stop the War” at the National Moral Monday Peace Rally appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- While the U.S. Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels, Other Countries Are Charting a Path Away From ThemThe recent Santa Marta conference in Colombia was the world’s first diplomatic conference expressly dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels. The post While the U.S. Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels, Other Countries Are Charting a Path Away From Them appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Digging Up North Korea’s Christian RootsJonathan Cheng’s book is an indispensable guide to understanding the methods by which the North Korean regime captured at least some of the hearts and minds of the residents of what had once been one of the most rapidly Christianized parts of the world. The post Digging Up North Korea’s... Read more »
Institute for Policy Studies
- Climate Coverage Plunges, Though Crisis More Dire Than Ever
The scientific consensus that we need to phase out fossil fuels fast has not changed, but coverage about climate change in US news outlets has plunged.... Read more » - mp3A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.... Read more » - The Digital Media Oligarchy: Who Owns Online News?
More than half of US visits to major online news sites from Dec. 2024 through Nov. 2025 went to outlets controlled by just seven families or corporate entities.... Read more » - After Trump Declared Gaza War ‘Over,’ Media Lost Interest
Since Donald Trump declared that "the war in Gaza is over" on October 3, 2025, US news outlets' interest in the occupied territory has plummeted.... Read more » - VideoLabeling Kidnapping a ‘Capture,’ Media Legitimate Violation of International Law
It’s misleading to use language like “capture” and “arrest,” which evoke the US upholding the law, to describe heavily armed US forces taking Maduro prisoner.... Read more »
FAIR
- ● Software CEO Convicted In Massive $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme Targeting Seniors
Software CEO Convicted In Massive $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme Targeting Seniors In a verdict hailed by federal officials as a major blow against one of the most egregious health care fraud operations in Florida history, a jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman, 42, of Johnson... Read more » - ● The Politicization Of Everything
The Politicization Of Everything Authored by David Solway via The Epoch Times, There was a time when politics occupied only a compartment of life. A citizen might vote, follow public affairs, argue over taxes or foreign policy and then return to the ordinary business of living: work, worship, family, literature,... Read more » - ● Japanese Bonds Crater After PM Takaichi Prepares To Issue Much More Debt To Pay For Gasoline Subsidies
Japanese Bonds Crater After PM Takaichi Prepares To Issue Much More Debt To Pay For Gasoline Subsidies While it may seem like every government these days - not just Emerging but certainly all Developing countries too - has become a banana republic in light of the increasingly more idiotic fiscal and... Read more » - ● UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report
UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report Via The Cradle The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex... Read more » - ● Hundreds Of Subpoenas Are Targeting The Russian Collusion HoaxHundreds Of Subpoenas Are Targeting The Russian Collusion Hoax According to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Justice Department is hunting the architects of the Russia hoax, and they’re leaving no stone unturned. Blanche sat down with Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss what he says is a sweeping... Read more »
ZeroHedge News
- ● Trump revealed MAGA's core gambit — and it paints a disturbing picture of the GOP: expert
President Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now, according to one political expert. David Rothkopf, who served in the Clinton administration, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast"... Read more » - ● Mockery as Trump-aligned 'generational talent' at CBS News could be sidelined from TV
Political analysts and observers roundly mocked the Trump-aligned leader of CBS News on Monday night after a new report indicated that she could potentially be sidelined from the station's TV decisions. Dylan Byers at Puck News reported that CBS bosses are considering removing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss from her role overseeing... Read more » - ● Scott Jennings issues stark warning on Trump DOJ fund: 'Makes me a little uncomfortable'
Scott Jennings issued a rare warning to President Donald Trump on Monday during a CNN panel discussion. Jennings, a long-time GOP political consultant and senior political commentator at CNN, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight," where he was asked about the new $1.776 billion fund President Donald Trump's Department of... Read more » - ● Rachel Maddow goes off on 'fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt' Trump scheme
MS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president. Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with... Read more » - ● Trump-friendly CBS News head could be sidelined after turbulent start: report
Ever since conservative-leaning commentator Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News, the network has seen anemic ratings and a lurching series of controversies — and now the higher-ups at Paramount-Skydance are talking about sidelining her.This comes in spite of the company's head, David Ellison, being notoriously Trump-friendly.According to... Read more »
Raw Story
- ● Trump revealed MAGA's core gambit — and it paints a disturbing picture of the GOP: expertPresident Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now, according to one political expert. David Rothkopf, who served in the Clinton administration, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast"... Read more »
- ● Mockery as Trump-aligned 'generational talent' at CBS News could be sidelined from TVPolitical analysts and observers roundly mocked the Trump-aligned leader of CBS News on Monday night after a new report indicated that she could potentially be sidelined from the station's TV decisions. Dylan Byers at Puck News reported that CBS bosses are considering removing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss from her role overseeing... Read more »
- ● Scott Jennings issues stark warning on Trump DOJ fund: 'Makes me a little uncomfortable'Scott Jennings issued a rare warning to President Donald Trump on Monday during a CNN panel discussion. Jennings, a long-time GOP political consultant and senior political commentator at CNN, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight," where he was asked about the new $1.776 billion fund President Donald Trump's Department of... Read more »
- ● Rachel Maddow goes off on 'fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt' Trump schemeMS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president. Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with... Read more »
- ● Trump-friendly CBS News head could be sidelined after turbulent start: reportEver since conservative-leaning commentator Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News, the network has seen anemic ratings and a lurching series of controversies — and now the higher-ups at Paramount-Skydance are talking about sidelining her.This comes in spite of the company's head, David Ellison, being notoriously Trump-friendly.According to... Read more »
Raw Story
- VideoWhat Will Happen To Gasoline Prices When the Iran War Ends?
President Donald Trump on multiple occasions has assured the public that high gasoline prices will “rapidly” or “quickly” decline “as soon as” the war with Iran ends. Energy experts told us that prices will start to fall when the conflict is resolved, but it could take many months before the... Read more » - Who’s Paying for the White House Ballroom?
Q: Has President Trump asked for a billion dollars for the ballroom? A: Since the White House announced plans in July for a ballroom, the president has promised to fund its construction without using public money. But in May congressional Republicans proposed $1 billion in federal funding for “security adjustments and... Read more » - VideoRepublicans Repeat Problematic Estimate of Medication Abortion Harms
In the midst of a court battle over whether to continue to allow access by mail to the medication abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers have claimed that 10% or more of women who take the drug have serious side effects. A 2025 report from an anti-abortion group that put forward the figure has been criticized by reproductive health... Read more » - VideoKennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to Medicaid
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that "there are no... Read more » - Democratic Ad Attacks Collins on Healthcare, Iran War
An ad attacking Sen. Susan Collins in Maine claimed that she voted "to raise healthcare costs and raise insurance premiums," as well as give President Donald Trump "a blank check for his war in Iran." But neither claim fully explains Collins' more nuanced position on those issues. The post Democratic... Read more »
FactCheck.org
- VideoWhat Will Happen To Gasoline Prices When the Iran War Ends?President Donald Trump on multiple occasions has assured the public that high gasoline prices will “rapidly” or “quickly” decline “as soon as” the war with Iran ends. Energy experts told us that prices will start to fall when the conflict is resolved, but it could take many months before the... Read more »
- Who’s Paying for the White House Ballroom?Q: Has President Trump asked for a billion dollars for the ballroom? A: Since the White House announced plans in July for a ballroom, the president has promised to fund its construction without using public money. But in May congressional Republicans proposed $1 billion in federal funding for “security adjustments and... Read more »
- VideoRepublicans Repeat Problematic Estimate of Medication Abortion HarmsIn the midst of a court battle over whether to continue to allow access by mail to the medication abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers have claimed that 10% or more of women who take the drug have serious side effects. A 2025 report from an anti-abortion group that put forward the figure has been criticized by reproductive health... Read more »
- VideoKennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to MedicaidThe nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that "there are no... Read more »
- Democratic Ad Attacks Collins on Healthcare, Iran WarAn ad attacking Sen. Susan Collins in Maine claimed that she voted "to raise healthcare costs and raise insurance premiums," as well as give President Donald Trump "a blank check for his war in Iran." But neither claim fully explains Collins' more nuanced position on those issues. The post Democratic... Read more »
FactCheck.org
- The CIA Goes to Cuba
Peter Kornbluh After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island. The post The CIA Goes to Cuba appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - Trump Gloats About “Making a Fortune” While Americans Suffer
Jeet Heer As his war in Iran wreaks havoc, Trump is fixated on personal glory and enrichment. The post Trump Gloats About “Making a Fortune” While Americans Suffer appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - Undoing the Voting Rights Act
Brian Stauffer Racists undoing democracy. The post Undoing the Voting Rights Act appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - Trapped in “el Pozo”: As Overcrowding in ICE Detention Increases, So Does Solitary Confinement
Francisco Rodriguez The spike in solitary confinement epitomizes the abuses of a migrant detention system that seems to be spinning out of control. The post Trapped in “el Pozo”: As Overcrowding in ICE Detention Increases, So Does Solitary Confinement appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - Trillion-Dollar Tech Bandits Are Finally Facing Justice
Margaret Mabie, Yasmine Taeb An outdated law has allowed Big Tech to evade accountability for 30 years. Now landmark court rulings are giving consumers a chance to fight back. The post Trillion-Dollar Tech Bandits Are Finally Facing Justice appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
Article | The Nation
- ● Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teacher In JeninIsraeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian teacher early Saturday (May 16) during an invasion of the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed.... Read more »
- ● Earworm Kars4Kids jingle yanked from California airwaves for false advertisingCharity failed to mention it funnels about $45m annually to a Jewish non-profit that organizes Israel trips for teens... Read more »
- ● Thousands of Colonizers, Soldiers Invade Nablus’s Joseph’s Tomb AreaThe events reflect the ongoing escalation of colonizer attacks across the occupied West Bank, where Israeli government officials continue to participate in and publicly endorse colonizer activities.... Read more »
- ● Guerillas in grey suits: K2, auditing firm tied to Israel and US, surveils Arab central banksK2 Integrity, a firm with links to the US Treasury and Israeli intel, is expanding its MENA operations and overseeing Iraq, Lebanon and Libya’s banking systems.... Read more »
- ● Pro-Israel Pressure Campaign Against NYT Crashes and BurnsEven with this story coming more than a year after a United Nations report called out Israel for “systematically” subjecting Palestinians to “sexualized torture,” it was met with apoplectic – though predictable – rage from the Israeli government and a bevy of prominent pro-Israel figures and writers.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- ● Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teacher In JeninIsraeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian teacher early Saturday (May 16) during an invasion of the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed.... Read more »
- ● Earworm Kars4Kids jingle yanked from California airwaves for false advertisingCharity failed to mention it funnels about $45m annually to a Jewish non-profit that organizes Israel trips for teens... Read more »
- ● Thousands of Colonizers, Soldiers Invade Nablus’s Joseph’s Tomb AreaThe events reflect the ongoing escalation of colonizer attacks across the occupied West Bank, where Israeli government officials continue to participate in and publicly endorse colonizer activities.... Read more »
- ● Guerillas in grey suits: K2, auditing firm tied to Israel and US, surveils Arab central banksK2 Integrity, a firm with links to the US Treasury and Israeli intel, is expanding its MENA operations and overseeing Iraq, Lebanon and Libya’s banking systems.... Read more »
- ● Pro-Israel Pressure Campaign Against NYT Crashes and BurnsEven with this story coming more than a year after a United Nations report called out Israel for “systematically” subjecting Palestinians to “sexualized torture,” it was met with apoplectic – though predictable – rage from the Israeli government and a bevy of prominent pro-Israel figures and writers.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- How AI Music is Advancing Far Right Narratives in Ireland
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 » - Food (and fuel) for thought: unpacking Ireland’s fuel protests
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 » - Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are in economically-deprived areas
In March, global data centre and colocation provider Equinix announced construction of a new data centre in Dublin’s Blanchardstown neighbourhood (Equinix, 2026). The DB7x facility will sit next to two other Equinix locations, DB5x and DB6x, …... Read more » - A Defence of Taxation, Revisited
In 2014, TASC published A Defence of Taxation. Its argument in favour of progressive alternatives to reducing public services through tax cuts remains as salient as ever, and it is an appropriate topic to revisit on the 25th anniversary of TASC. The …... Read more » - Is the Draghi Report Good for EU Citizens?
Is the Draghi Report Good for EU Citizens? The EU Commission appointed Mario Draghi to examine how the European economy might be kick-started to boost economic growth. The Draghi report was published in late 2024 running to almost 400 pages. Last …... Read more »
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- Yemen's Ansarullah chief calls for economic, political sanctions on enemiesThe leader of Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement calls for economic and political sanctions on enemies of the Muslim world.... Read more »
- Italians strike to denounce military spending, Israel’s Gaza genocidePeople in Italy stage a nationwide general strike to condemn the country’s increased military spending and Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... Read more »
- Israeli displacement policy in occupied al-Quds poses existential threat to Palestinians: HamasHamas has strongly condemned the Israeli policy of demolition and massive displacement of Palestinians in the Old City of occupied East al-Quds.... Read more »
- Yemeni armed forces shoot down intruding US MQ-9 Reaper droneYemeni armed forces have shot down an intruding US MQ-9 Reaper drone in the skies over the northwestern province of Ma'rib.... Read more »
- Turkey condemns Israel's 'new act of piracy' against Gaza aid flotillaTurkey has condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, calling the action a “new act of piracy”.... Read more »
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- Cuba warns US spinning ‘fraudulent case’ as pretext for invasionCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says the US is fabricating a "fraudulent case" as a justification for a Cuba invasion.... Read more »
- Cuba vows to annihilate US invadersCuba's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has firmly asserted the island nation's sovereign right to defend itself against any potential US military aggression, in line with international law and the UN Charter.... Read more »
- Cuba faces fuel collapse as energy crisis deepens under 'genocidal' US blockadeCuba's minister of energy says the US-blockaded island is out of fuel.... Read more »
- Pentagon lowballs Iran war cost at $29 billion as real toll could hit $1 trillionA senior Pentagon official has revealed that the war on Iran has already cost the United States approximately $29 billion since February 28.... Read more »
- Trump ‘frustrated’ with Cuba’s ability to withstand pressure, considers military action: ReportUS President Donald Trump becomes “increasingly frustrated” with Cuba and is considering waging an act of aggression against the Caribbean country, a new report says.... Read more »
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- Iran slams German chancellor’s baseless accusations as blatant hypocrisyIran has strongly rejected “baseless and selective accusations” leveled by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz against the Islamic Republic regarding a mysterious failed explosion incident near a nuclear power plant in the UAE.... Read more »
- Italians strike to denounce military spending, Israel’s Gaza genocidePeople in Italy stage a nationwide general strike to condemn the country’s increased military spending and Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... Read more »
- French opposition figure slams ‘European complicity’ in US-Israel war on IranA leading French opposition figure attacks European complicity in the recent US-Israel war against Iran that triggered a wider conflict across the region.... Read more »
- US lets waiver allowing purchases of stranded Russian oil expireThe US allows a sanctions waiver permitting the purchase of Russian oil cargoes stranded at sea to expire without renewal.... Read more »
- Russia says US resolution on Strait of Hormuz 'not right'Russia says the US resolution on the Strait of Hormuz is incorrect, echoing China's criticism of the draft measure.... Read more »
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