- UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackoutSix Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted, the six Palestine Action activists and 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms. The jury has not been notified about the ‘terrorist’ designation, and the... Read more »
- Senior BBC Iran reporter exposed as opposition activistAfter a top reporter at the BBC drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, she’s been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist whose career was launched by a CIA-founded propaganda network. Serious questions remain about the BBC’s editorial process. On April 6, 2026, horrified social media... Read more »
- His Majesty’s head-chopper: Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King CharlesAhmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president of Syria. When Syria’s “interim” leader Ahmed al-Sharaa touched down in London on March 31, he was given a much warmer welcome than many once thought... Read more »
- Who’s behind the mysterious ‘Iran-backed terror cell’ haunting Europe?Claims that an Iran-backed group is carrying out attacks in European cities raise questions about why they’re not targeting countries directly involved in the US-Israeli war, and why they appear to communicate like Israelis. Strangely, suspects arrested in the attacks have been released on bail. A specter is haunting Europe... Read more »
- Drugs, sexual blackmail: shocking confession letter exposes Israel’s Red Crescent spy ringA bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups. A leaked confession indicates the Red Crescent was infiltrated by Israeli... Read more »
The Grayzone
- Interview: Bombs in the Name of “Liberation”: Iranian Women Lead Resistance to U.S.-Israeli WarAs Western leaders claim to “liberate” Iranian women, millions are taking to the streets to defend their country — directly challenging long-standing orientalist narratives that portray them as passive victims in need of saving, explains Iranian professor Dr. Setareh Sadeqi. The post Interview: Bombs in the Name of “Liberation”: Iranian... Read more »
- Not Neutral: Inside The UAE’s Shadow Role In the US-Israeli War on IranBehind claims of neutrality, the UAE has emerged as a key player in the war on Iran — providing surveillance, hosting operations, enabling strikes from its bases and aiding Israeli false flags while portraying itself as a victim on the world stage The post Not Neutral: Inside The UAE’s Shadow... Read more »
- From Dunks To Drones: The NBA Has an Israel ProblemAs the NBA playoffs tip off this weekend, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and Stephen Curry are under growing scrutiny — not just for their play, but for links to Israeli drone technology and security firms tied to Israel’s military operations that are used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon,... Read more »
- VideoThe Battle for Bint Jbeil: Israel Revisits A Symbolic Defeat As Resistance Holds The Line
As Israel fails to advance beyond a few kilometers into Lebanon, Bint Jbeil has become the latest battleground where resistance forces are exposing the limits of Israel’s military campaign –echoing the long standing “spider web” warning about Israel's fragility in prolonged war. The post The Battle for Bint Jbeil: Israel... Read more » - Iranian Jewish Association Describe Israel as “Ominous Zionist Regime” After Israeli Strikes Destroy Historic Synagogue on Passover“We are Iranian Jews and we are always ready to sacrifice our lives for our homeland,” Bihdad Mikhail, managing director of the Tehran Jewish Association, told MintPress News as he held back his tears while carrying Jewish religious books that were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes. The post Iranian Jewish Association... Read more »
MintPress News
- 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 »
- ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are political leaders and compliant news media publicly acknowledging that the ‘international →... 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
- 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 » - The US is facing its Suez moment – the outcome could change the world order
If Donald Trump fails to end the Iran war soon, its effects could last for decades, with unpredictable consequences... Read more »
openDemocracy RSS
- VideoBiden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected
These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025. ... Read more » - VideoNothing About This Dystopia Feels Natural
Nothing about this dystopia feels natural. We all sense it deep in our marrow. We all know something has gone terribly wrong.... Read more » - VideoWe Should Not Fear The Tyrants; The Tyrants Should Fear Us
In our society, we do not push psychopaths off the ice when nobody is looking. In our society, we let them rule the world.... Read more » - VideoThe Number Of Dead Iranian Protesters Keeps Changing Because It’s A Fictional Story
In online discourse with empire apologists these past few months I've been told that the number of dead protesters is thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, and a hundred thousand.... Read more » - VideoThey Always Tell You Why The Empire Uses Violence, But Never Why Its Enemies Do
Violence is not always justified, but there is always a reason why it happens. Western pundits, politicians and newscasters will very seldom tell you what those reasons are unless it advances the interests of the western empire. ... Read more »
Caitlin Johnstone
- U.S. Imperialism Enters a New Stage
Donald Trump’s rhetoric and actions against Iran, Venezuela and Cuba over the last year have few parallels in modern history. They have to be seen as marking a new stage. As such they call for a reevaluation of analysis and strategy on the part of the Left. More The post... Read more » - Pentagon Spending Spirals Out of Control
Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter were graduates of U.S. military academies and, perhaps as a result, understood the limits and constraints on the use of force. They did not engage in the limited planning that led to Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs, Johnson’s Vietnam, Reagan’s Grenada, Bush II’s Iraq,... Read more » - How the United States Became a Warmonger
It seems an opportune time to scrutinize how it has come to pass that the U.S. has become a menace to others as well as to itself. Remembering its early vision of being a peaceful democracy that confined itself to the Western Hemisphere without entangling alliances and suspicious of a... Read more » - The Stock Market is Not Your Friend
Imagine celebrating the price of corn or wheat hitting a record high. That would make perfect sense if you grew corn or wheat, but it’s hard to see why anyone else would be celebrating. This is the same story with the stock market, even though shareholders are a somewhat larger... Read more » - Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…
In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I’ve joined countless protests and vigils outside the Court. In 2018, I was even arrested and held in detention for praying on its... Read more »
CounterPunch.org
- Capitalism & Genocide: My testimony at the Gaza Tribunal, Istanbul 23-10-2025On 23rd October, I testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. My speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. Here it is: My name is Yanis Varoufakis. I am an economist, a politician and activist representing... Read more »
- RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women
Hello everyone. RAISE YOUR SOUL! is my new book which I am taking the liberty of presenting to you. It is unlike anything I have written before. Setting aside high theory, it is the story of five women who, over of a hundred years, resisted fascism, authoritarianism and chauvinism. It... Read more » - A Trust Fund for Everyone: How to create a Monetary Commons that socialises money and funds a basic dividend without new taxes or debtAt a time Donald Trump, Big Tech and Wall Street deploy stablecoins to privatise the dollar, usurping the decentralising power of blockchain to enrich themselves at everyone else’s expense, here is an alternative use of blockchain that harnesses its decentralising powers to benefit everyone equally – to pay everyone a... Read more »
- Global Alliance for Palestine – my message on why we need itOn 26th July 2025, delegates from over 25 countries convened in London for the inaugural conference of the Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP). This new transnational initiative seeks to transform rising global solidarity for Palestine into coordinated political action. As a member of the steering committee, I was asked to... Read more »
- Who needs Marx in 2025? The Guardian, July 2025To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control A young woman I met recently remarked that it was not so much pure evil that drove her berserk, but rather people, or institutions, with... Read more »
Yanis Varoufakis
- Labour and the Tories have destroyed hope in Gen Z – as polling shows
Less than two-fifths of young adults expect they will have a better life than their parents, with the number who think they will achieve this down by almost half in a year under the Labour government. They’re some of the findings of the latest UK Youth Poll. UK Youth Poll:... Read more » - Invest NI caught yet again aiding so-called ‘Israel’
It was just two days ago that we suggested Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI), Stormont’s business development agency, needs: …a full review into all current… spending to see if further skeletons lurk in the closet. That was following revelations in the Belfast Telegraph that showed Invest NI was ploughing public money... Read more » - Irish government seemingly hiding US military flights over Ireland
Micheál Martin’s government has failed to disclose 248 flights by US military warplanes over Irish airspace since August 2025. There is a strong chance that many of these aircraft are involved in war crimes committed by the Washington terror regime. The Irish Times says they used “open source software” to... Read more » - UK media ignores CNN report exposing online “Rape Academy”
Trigger warning: themes of sexual violence and abuse. The UK state-corporate press and broadcasters are continuing to ignore a CNN report. The report shows that over 64 million men signed up for an online ‘rape academy.’ In this academy, they learned how to drug and rape wives, girlfriends and other women.... Read more » - Facial recognition rollout likely after critics lose legal suit
The UK can now roll out a racist surveillance measure that had been delayed by a legal challenge filed by anti-facial recognition campaigners. The appeal has now been lost. Met commissioner Mark Rowley has once again praised facial recognition measures. He believes that the technology helps to catch criminal, while... Read more »
Canary
- ● 16th April 2026: Recorded Live at Manchester Punk FestivalUnder The Pavement Radio Show recorded live at Manchester Punk Festival. We’re joined by Manchester Hunt Sabs and Kyaw Kyaw from Myanmar punks The Rebel Riot! Plus we ask the audience who they are looking forward to at this year’s festival (Spoiler Alert!... Read more... Read more »
- ● Israel’s quest to annex southern Lebanon amid Trump’s chaotic ‘diplomacy’By Michael Karadjis You can tell how bad things have become in the Mideast when it was an Arab government, Lebanon, begging for direct negotiations with Israel, and Israel rejecting the idea for weeks, until apparently pressured into it by... Read more... Read more »
- ● Oakland: Anarchist-Utopian Potluck Picnic, May 2ndFrom Anarchist-Utopian News Anarchist-Utopian Potluck Picnic for folks who love Mutual Aid, Gift Economy, Collectives, Cooperatives & Horizontalism MAY 2 (SATURDAY) AT LAKE MERRITT (OAKLAND) BY THE PERGOLA, NEAR THE E-BIKE RACKS 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Bring Whatever Food... Read more... Read more »
- New Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (v19.3)Via NYCABC We’ve finished the latest version of the NYC ABC “Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War” and it’s available for viewing (and download) by clicking on the link at the top of this email. This update... Read more... Read more »
- IWW: Migrant Rights Are Workers Rights!We would like to thank each and everyone, from the organisers to the participants, who took part in a successful migrant workers event in Belfast at the weekend. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in conjunction with the Pan... Read more... Read more »
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- Gustavo Rodríguez - From Caracas to Tehran with a stopover in HavanaAuthor: Gustavo RodríguezTitle: From Caracas to Tehran with a stopover in HavanaSubtitle: Reflections on the ongoing war from an anarchist perspectiveDate: March 29, 2026Source: via email “We know full well that there are values that are born old and that, from the moment of their birth, bear witness to their... Read more »
- VideoIdris Robinson - How It Might Should Be DoneAuthor: Idris RobinsonTitle: How It Might Should Be DoneDate: July 20, 2020Notes: The following is a transcript of a talk delivered in Seattle on July 20, 2020, lightly-edited by the author for readability. A video recording produced by Red May is online here. This text was first published by Ill... Read more »
- Gianfranco Sanguinetti - An Orgasm of History: 1977 in ItalyAuthor: Gianfranco SanguinettiTitle: An Orgasm of History: 1977 in ItalySubtitle: Digression on the Thread of Memory by a former SituationistDate: 2017Notes: "We thank the notbored.org collective for sharing this text...."Source: https://autonomies.org/2026/04/an-orgasm-of-history-1977-in-italy-digression-on-the-thread-of-memory-by-a-former-situationist/ They think I’m severe? I know I am, I force them to think. Vittorio Alfieri, Epigrams, 1783 The catastrophe... Read more »
- Yavor Tarinski - Déjà vu and the Horizontal Reinstitution of FutureAuthor: Yavor TarinskiTitle: Déjà vu and the Horizontal Reinstitution of FutureDate: April 8, 2026Source: https://autonomies.org/2026/04/deja-vu-and-the-horizontal-reinstitution-of-future/ We become epigones or spectators, but epigones or spectators of our very own potential-to-be. ~Paolo Virno[1] Within bureaucratic settings time seems to simultaneously rush and stay frozen – an endless cycle of past-presentism that shrinks... Read more »
- Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline - Gone to Croatan
Author: Ron Sakolsky and James KoehnlineTitle: Gone to CroatanSubtitle: Origins of North American Drop Out CultureDate: 1993Source: <www.archive.org/details/gonetocroatanori0000unse> & <www.autonomedia.org/product/gone-to-croatan> “America” was founded as a land of drop-outs. Almost at once it began to produce its own crop of dissidents—visionaries, Utopians, Maroons (escaped slaves), white and black “Indians,” sailors... Read more »
The Anarchist Library
- Juan José Caba Pedrazo, JailbreakerJuan José Caba Pedrazo, Jailbreaker... Read more »
- María Bruguera Pérez (1915-1992)María Bruguera Pérez (1915-1992)... Read more »
- KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 120, April 2026KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 120, April 2026 (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library)... Read more »
- Library update [March 2026]Library update [March 2026] (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 120, April 2026)... Read more »
- Leeds Anarchist HistoryLeeds Anarchist History (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 120, April 2026)... Read more »
Kate Sharpley Library: Recent documents
- Lebanon needs €500M to address humanitarian crisis caused by Israeli war, prime minister says
Lebanon needs €500, over $588, million over the next six months to address a worsening humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli war, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Salam said he has asked... Read more » - UN says attacks in Gaza surge 46% in weekly spike since ceasefire
The UN said Tuesday that violence in the Gaza Strip surged to its highest since a ceasefire on Oct. 10, 2025, with incidents rising nearly half compared to the previous week, Anadolu reports. “Our partners on the ground report that between 12 and 18 April, incidents such as gunfire, shelling and strikes... Read more » - Israeli army claims Hezbollah targeted its positions in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army claimed Tuesday that Hezbollah fired several rockets at its positions in southern Lebanon, describing the incident as a violation of a ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports. A military statement said that the rockets were launched toward Israeli soldiers operating south of what it described as “the Forward Defense Line” in... Read more » - Druze leader in Israel criticizes government over treatment of community
The spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, Mowafaq Tarif, on Tuesday criticized the government of Benjamin Netanyahu over unfair policies toward the community, Anadolu reports. Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported that Tarif pointed to housing shortages and the government’s refusal to connect thousands of Druze homes to the electricity grid, citing issues... Read more » - US directs 28 vessels to turn around under Iran port blockade: CENTCOM
US forces have directed 28 vessels to turn around or return to port since the start of a blockade on ships entering or exiting Iranian ports, US Central Command said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. The comments came as Washington has maintained a naval blockade since last week, a move Tehran described as a... Read more »
Middle East Monitor
- New report: Households pay $12 trillion a year in hidden fossil fuel costs – a $23 million a minute ‘gift to Big Oil’New research by 350.org shows that on top of soaring energy bills, fossil fuels cost households an additional $12 trillion a year in taxpayer handouts, health impacts and extreme weather damage – equivalent to a $23 million a minute “gift to Big Oil” that costs each person on Earth $1,400... Read more »
- EWG sues EPA for 7-year inaction on glyphosate in oats, citing risks to children’s healthThe Environmental Working Group today filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the Environmental Protection Agency is unlawfully delaying a response to the group’s petition seeking stricter limits in oats on the notorious herbicide glyphosate. The petition also asks for a ban on use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying... Read more »
- April’s Beige Book Reveals Trump’s War in Iran Is Devastating Economy At HomeThe Federal Reserve released its April 2026 Beige Book, which provides economic commentary from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts. In this month’s report, the first since the start of Trump’s war in Iran, regional contacts reported painful price increases tied directly to the conflict, sustained consumer strain, and... Read more »
- California’s Regressive Rooftop Solar Policy Hit With Second Appeal to State Supreme CourtThe Center for Biological Diversity, The Protect Our Communities Foundation and the Environmental Working Group have appealed to the California Supreme Court to overturn the state’s new rooftop solar policy after a lower court approved it a second time. The policy significantly slashes the credit new solar users get for... Read more »
- Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration Approval of BP’s Ultra-Deepwater Drilling in Gulf of Mexico, 16 Years After Deepwater HorizonGulf and environmental groups sued the Trump administration today over its approval of BP’s new ultra-deepwater oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. The project endangers the health of Gulf residents, ecosystems and industries like fishing and tourism.Kaskida is BP’s first completely new oilfield approved in the Gulf since... Read more »
Common Dreams
- An Inspiring Story
In 2018, at the height of the economic crisis in Venezuela through crippling sanctions, Kellogg’s announced the overnight closure of their Maracay factory with hundreds of redundancies – and massive knock-on effects in the local community. The workers refused to accept the closure and, with government assistance, restarted the factory.... Read more » - Vote for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland
It was not my intention to run for election to the Scottish parliament from a hospital bed in Caracas, but sometimes we have to take what life gives us. I went to a clinic a week ago feeling dizzy and was immediately rushed to hospital. My heart rate was fluttering... Read more » - The Strait of Hormuz
In international law, Tehran has every right to close the strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict. Two vital points: 1) States who permit attacks on Iran to be launched from their territory can be blocked 2) Iran can block neutral ships from trading with... Read more » - VideoThe Weight on Delcy Rodriguez
As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tocuyito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be regime... Read more » - The Caracas MetroThe extreme nature of sanctions against Venezuela made it very challenging to keep economic activity going. One example is Caracas’s impressive five-line Metro system, where for almost twenty years they had to keep things running with no spares or maintenance support from the train manufacturers. Yet resilience and ingenuity kicked... Read more »
Craig Murray
- Jeffrey who?
There’s a photograph of Donald Trump standing alongside Emma Little Pengely, presumably on St Patrick’s Day. The caption below reads ‘Both hoping the other won’t mention Jeffrey’. It’s a tidy little joke, but while Jeffrey Epstein is the nemesis stalking Trump, Emma’s bete noire is Sir Jeffrey Robinson. Remember him?... Read more » - PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MED TRAINING &’LOVE’, CATHOLICISM `& YOUNG PEOPLE, NEUTRALITY, & STUPID EXAMS
Nearly 250 military aircraft used Shannon airport facilities in the past year.EH? But isn’t the Free State supposed to be neutral?Isn’t it time political parties started speaking up about this blatant contradiction? Should doctors be taught to love? To have empathy for their patients? And if they should, can love/empathy... Read more » - Woke revisitedA man told me the other day that research in Oxford University shows that men who don’t comment on women’s appearance live on average some 30 years longer than men who do. I suspect he made the whole thing up, but it does draw attention to a topic that has... Read more »
- PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT WOBBLY LEADERS MARTIN & STARMER, THE IRISH LANGUAGE, AND U2’s WUUNERFUL MUSIC Will Micheál Martin get the chop as leader of Fianna Fail?After all, he made a bags of the treatment of the fuel protestors. But is there anyone to replace him?Jim O’Callaghan? Didn’t he soil his nappy by talking about AND bringing in the Army? As for Keir Starmer, do... Read more »
- The big double-thinkDoublethink is a very handy concept, invented by George Orwell in his novel 1984. It involves the ability to hold two conflicting ideas at one time. Politics today is soaked in it, but if you asked me to point to one example, I’d probably pick Palestine and Ukraine. Of course... Read more »
Jude Collins
- Jeffrey who?There’s a photograph of Donald Trump standing alongside Emma Little Pengely, presumably on St Patrick’s Day. The caption below reads ‘Both hoping the other won’t mention Jeffrey’. It’s a tidy little joke, but while Jeffrey Epstein is the nemesis stalking Trump, Emma’s bete noire is Sir Jeffrey Robinson. Remember him?... Read more »
- PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT MED TRAINING &’LOVE’, CATHOLICISM `& YOUNG PEOPLE, NEUTRALITY, & STUPID EXAMSNearly 250 military aircraft used Shannon airport facilities in the past year.EH? But isn’t the Free State supposed to be neutral?Isn’t it time political parties started speaking up about this blatant contradiction? Should doctors be taught to love? To have empathy for their patients? And if they should, can love/empathy... Read more »
- Woke revisitedA man told me the other day that research in Oxford University shows that men who don’t comment on women’s appearance live on average some 30 years longer than men who do. I suspect he made the whole thing up, but it does draw attention to a topic that has... Read more »
- PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT WOBBLY LEADERS MARTIN & STARMER, THE IRISH LANGUAGE, AND U2’s WUUNERFUL MUSIC Will Micheál Martin get the chop as leader of Fianna Fail?After all, he made a bags of the treatment of the fuel protestors. But is there anyone to replace him?Jim O’Callaghan? Didn’t he soil his nappy by talking about AND bringing in the Army? As for Keir Starmer, do... Read more »
- The big double-thinkDoublethink is a very handy concept, invented by George Orwell in his novel 1984. It involves the ability to hold two conflicting ideas at one time. Politics today is soaked in it, but if you asked me to point to one example, I’d probably pick Palestine and Ukraine. Of course... Read more »
Jude Collins
- 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 » - The war on Iran is transforming the global economy: Economist Michael Hudson explains how
The US-Israeli war on Iran is altering the geopolitical order, and could cause a global economic crisis. Economist Michael Hudson discusses the shock in the oil market and Tehran's challenge to US dominance. The post The war on Iran is transforming the global economy: Economist Michael Hudson explains how appeared... Read more » - West refuses to condemn slavery in UN General Assembly vote
The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it. The post West refuses to condemn slavery in UN General Assembly vote appeared first on Geopolitical Economy Report.... Read more » - VideoAsymmetric economic war: Iran challenges US dollar, demanding oil be sold in Chinese yuan, as it targets US corporations
In response to Trump's war of aggression, Iran is using asymmetric tactics, targeting US corporations and dollar dominance, challenging the petrodollar system, demanding oil sales in Chinese yuan. The post Asymmetric economic war: Iran challenges US dollar, demanding oil be sold in Chinese yuan, as it targets US corporations appeared... Read more »
Geopolitical Economy Report
- 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. The post Organization of American Historians 2026 Conference appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more » - Teach Truth Public Events
We need to reach as many people as possible with information about the chilling effect of these laws and how they threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. We offere here lots of ways to make our voices heard. The post Teach Truth Public Events appeared first on... Read more » - Until the Last Gun Is Silent
Historian Matthew Delmont joined Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones to discuss his latest book Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online... Read more » - Vietnam War Teaching Resources
We offer lessons, films, and this day in people’s history entries to teach about the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement. The post Vietnam War Teaching Resources appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more » - Lessons for Earth Day
Our Climate Justice Campaign has lots of lessons and resources to help bring a climate justice curriculum to life in classrooms. The post Lessons for Earth Day 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
- #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
- Europe still blurs the line between support and betrayal
“Europe is the biggest supporter of the Palestinian people,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee yesterday. However, while there have been shifts in individual European countries’ stances as regards Israel, mostly as a result of the economic ramifications of the US-Israeli attacks against Iran,... Read more » - Can Sistani save Iraq from its predicament?
The question posed by the title of this article is more than just a political inquiry. At its core, it is a question about the nature of authority in Iraq, the limits of the state, and the role that a single cleric can play when domestic crises intersect with regional... Read more » - Kuwait: Detaining Ahmed Shihab-Eldin — How far can the law stretch before it snaps?
Could sharing publicly available footage of a military incident land you in prison in Kuwait? Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s early March 2026 arrest for resharing already-circulated videos of alleged Kuwaiti friendly fire amid Iran tension brings this question into sharp focus. Understood to be facing charges of spreading false information and... Read more » - Troubled relations: Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin Luther’s violent Protestant split from the body of the Catholic Church was merely one aspect... Read more » - Israel’s war obsession and the urgency of Palestinian leverage
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless drive for military escalation suggests precisely that. After all, his openly declared... 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
- Zionist doxxing campaigns upended their lives. Now they’re suing for damages.
Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.... Read more » - Israel is racing to expand West Bank settlements before new political realities end its era of impunity
Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.... Read more » - Want to resist a data center? These organizers share how they did it.Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.... Read more »
- Freed Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda speaks
In this blockbuster episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa—a former Black Panther and political prisoner in the US—speaks with Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda after his release from Israeli prison.... Read more » - Is AI creating a new ‘Epstein class’?
From Epstein to AI, the question is the same: who is above the law? Congressman Khanna responds as fears grow of a new era of power without consequences.... Read more »
The Real News Network
- 5 things we learned from Sir Olly Robbins giving evidence on Peter Mandelson’s appointmentPressure is piling on the prime minister over the Mandelson scandal ahead of the local elections The post 5 things we learned from Sir Olly Robbins giving evidence on Peter Mandelson’s appointment appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Reform in turmoil: Deputy group leader of Cornwall Council defectsThe bitter infighting and defections that have plagued Reform continue. The post Reform in turmoil: Deputy group leader of Cornwall Council defects appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Nigel Farage refuses to commit to probing deputy’s corporation tax amid reports he failed to pay £100,000Farage is choosing to bury his head in the sand The post Nigel Farage refuses to commit to probing deputy’s corporation tax amid reports he failed to pay £100,000 appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Reform looks to win control of council but will not commit to policies before local electionsReform has not published a manifesto and said it will not commit to any policies until after the elections The post Reform looks to win control of council but will not commit to policies before local elections appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
- Reform candidate says he wants to ‘blast’ all Muslims ‘off the face of the earth’Daniel Devaney, one of Reform’s candidates in Bradford said he wanted to “blast [Muslims] all of the face of the earth [sic]”. The post Reform candidate says he wants to ‘blast’ all Muslims ‘off the face of the earth’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »
Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
- Animal Rights Activists Target Wisconsin Facility Accused of Breeding Dogs for Medical Experiments
Police fired tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets at hundreds of animal rights activists in Wisconsin on Saturday as they attempted to rescue about 2,000 dogs from a facility that breeds beagles for medical experimentation. The crackdown by Dane County sheriff’s deputies left scores of activists injured; 25 people... Read more » - Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart
In cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis, residents have taken to the streets to oppose the militarized immigration sweeps, enforcement tactics and violence of ICE and Border Patrol under President Trump’s second term. A new ProPublica and Frontline investigation looks at law enforcement’s heavy-handed response... Read more » - Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week
As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades. The causes of the deaths have varied, but they include at least one homicide. At least... Read more » - Headlines for April 21, 2026Confusion Reigns Over U.S.-Iran Talks as Trump Says a Ceasefire Extension Is “Highly Unlikely”, Military Veterans and Family Members Arrested in Capitol Hill Protest Against Iran War, Lebanese and Israeli Diplomats Prepare for Second Round of Talks as Lebanon Buries Its Dead, Israel Continues Deadly Attacks in Gaza, Reestablishes Evacuated... Read more »
- Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to "Break the Forest Service," Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake
The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be... Read more »
Democracy Now!
- mp3Sarah Anderson on Poverty Wages, Lia Holland on 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 » - mp3Sina Toossi on War on Iran, Chip Gibbons on Impeaching Trump
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260410.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (4/8/26) When a president commits war crimes, including what the Nuremberg trials established as the “supreme international crime” of plotting and waging an aggressive war, as Trump has done, and then blithely threatens more... Read more » - mp3Shannon Minter on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling, Alex Frandsen on Local News Day
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260403.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). USA Today (4/1/26) This week on CounterSpin: In Chiles vs. Salazar, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s law prohibiting health practitioners from employing the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” young people from their sexual orientation or... Read more » - mp3Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Good Jobs First (3/23/26) This week on CounterSpin: Sunshine Week, based on a popular statement from Louis Brandeis that “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” is an effort to spotlight open government and its importance to the public’s right to... Read more » - mp3Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. 1st Amendment, Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Justice
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Truth Social (3/14/26) This week on CounterSpin: Those not in vigorous denial understand that we in the US are in the midst of not just “foreign” wars—today on, most prominently, Iran—but also a war against our ability to... Read more »
CounterSpin
- Hormuz Is LeverageMichael Hudson explains how Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz has shifted global power, turning oil transit into leverage that could trigger a deep global depression if conflict escalates. The post Hormuz Is Leverage first appeared on Michael Hudson. The post Hormuz Is Leverage first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »
- Strait PowerCross-posted from the Democracy Collaborative. Postponing the World’s Financial Winter – For How Long? Iran’s MAD Standoff with the Rest of the World April 17,2026 Announcing that “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Donald Trump threatened on April 7, 2026 to destroy “every bridge in Iran” and “every power plant... Read more »
- The End of Stable EnergyApril 1, 2026 Nima Alkhorshid: Hi everybody. Today is Wednesday, April 1, 2026, and our friend Richard Wolf from San Francisco and Michael Hudson from New York are back with us. Welcome back, Richard and Michael. Michael Hudson: Thank you. Richard Wolff: Glad to be here. Nima Alkhorshid: And... Read more »
- When Control Means DisruptionMichael Hudson and Tarik Amar argue Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz creates economic leverage capable of triggering global crisis and forcing a shift in world power dynamics. The post When Control Means Disruption first appeared on Michael Hudson. The post When Control Means Disruption first appeared on Michael... Read more »
- The Blockade BluffRadhika Desai and Michael Hudson, ‘The Blockade Stage of Trump’s absurdities,” Geopolitical Hour, April 14, 2026. Radhika: Hello and welcome to the 59th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the conversation that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai, and you are watching Radhika Desai: Geopolitical... Read more »
Michael Hudson
- ● Virginia Dems Just Won a Major Battle in Trump’s Redistricting WarLast summer, when Donald Trump began pressuring GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps mid-decade, Republicans had a lofty goal: pick up a dozen or more seats in an effort to fend off a coming blue wave and retain the House in the midterms. Trump scored early wins in Texas,... Read more »
- Federal Judge Calls RFK Jr. an “Unsafe” Leader in Order Protecting Trans Youth Health CareIn a scathing ruling describing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal judge in Oregon issued an order that will protect doctors and hospitals, and the transgender kids they treat, from the federal crackdown on gender-affirming care. On Saturday, US... Read more »
- And Then There Was MillsAt the start of last week, there were four members of Congress at risk of expulsion due to allegations of severe misconduct. Two of those members, Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), quickly resigned. On Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) became the third member of Congress to... Read more »
- The Working Families Party Is Riding The Anti-AI WaveVoters are anxious about losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, and key players across the political spectrum have started to notice. Now, the Working Families Party has rolled out a slate of policy proposals for the midterms, backed by more than two dozen Democratic candidates and representatives, that aims to... Read more »
- VideoWhy Kevin Warsh Won’t Grade Trump’s EconomyDonald Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve chair promised to bring a new inflation framework and regime change to the central bank on Tuesday morning—all while maintaining that the president’s economy was doing just great. One bizarre exchange between nominee Kevin Warsh and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) during the former’s confirmation... 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
- VideoSelf-BurnThanks to Trump, people around the world are scrambing 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 »
- Gateway DumpHow the deregulation of waste disposal has turned this country into a magnet for the mafia. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st April 2026 This country’s a dump. I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean it literally. From the point of view of criminal waste gangs, it is... Read more »
- A Potential Termination EventCascading failure across the global food system is a real and horrific possibility, which most governments are doing nothing to avert. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th March 2026 The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved right. Vindication is what we... Read more »
- Leave Tyrants in the GroundBy unhooking ourselves from fossil fuels, we release ourselves from a world of harm. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th March 2026 I realise this is a serious breach of etiquette. But could we perhaps abandon good manners and contextualise Donald Trump’s attack on Iran? The intense western... Read more »
- Gas-LitIf it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that’s because there isn’t one. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th March 2026 These are burning, smoking lies. As oil and gas prices soar, thanks to the US and Israel’s attack on... Read more »
George Monbiot
- ● Trump agenda goes down in flames in Virginia
In one of the nation’s final redistricting battles before the November midterm elections, Virginia voters decided on Tuesday to allow Democrats to redraw the state’s House map to give their party a plus.With the passage of the referendum, voters opted to empower Virginia’s Democratic-led legislature to create a congressional map... Read more » - ● 'Terrified' red state lawmakers face the $1 billion consequences of Trump's agenda
The fallout from President Donald Trump’s unpopular Big Beautiful Bill keeps hitting impoverished red states harder than others a hospitals and voters come to terms with yawning debt and healthcare cuts threatening critical hospitals.Mississippi Today reports state lawmakers face a “daunting task” trying to fill the holes Trump blasted into... Read more » - ● Scammer used fake woman to grift 'super dumb' MAGA men
WIRED Magazine reports not just any scammer can use AI to slop together the pretty image of a woman and then market the image on the internet for money – but marketing to MAGA is is something different.“A 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his... Read more » - ● Former aide lets slip 'Donald Trump's fear'
President Donald Trump has “caved and run out of cards” in the war against Iran, according to an official who served under him during his first term.“Officially, if you are in Tehran right now and you are part of the new government that has supplanted the people who were there... Read more » - Ex-GOP aide calls out Trump's 'fool' failures
President Donald Trump is failing both with managing the American economy and prosecuting his war against Iran — and a top political strategist, one who advised the previous Republican president, characterized the current situation as that of a “lost war led by a fool.”“The economy is in free fall —... Read more »
Alternet.org
- ● Trump’s Iran Fiasco’s Silver Lining – The End of NATOThe one great big positive that has come out of the Donald’s Iran fiasco is that he has not held back in blackening the name of NATO in a manner that has heretofore been unthinkable: “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED... Read more »
- Iran’s 10-point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for NegotiationsThe US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025 and again before launching the current war in February. Now it is trying to do so for a third time. On April 8, the US and Iran began... Read more »
- America: Land of the (Not Really) FreeLast week, President Donald Trump commemorated income tax payments being due by having DoorDash deliver food from McDonald’s to the White House. The delivery was intended to highlight the first year of tax-free tips. Removing tax on tips was part of the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). As the sponsor... Read more »
- Hope in the Data: Can Palestine Explain America’s Moral Shift?In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically shallow – a society of ‘gas guzzlers’, with little grasp of global realities beyond their immediate geography. This perception did not emerge from thin air. It was cultivated – reinforced,... Read more »
- The Most Unpopular War in American History?The night before l voted against going to war in Iraq, my sister, Beverly, told me that a Knoxville television station had run a poll and found that in East Tennessee, 74 percent were in favor of going to war, 9 percent were against it, and 17 percent were undecided.... Read more »
Antiwar.com
- Justice: under pressureJustice systems in many countries are under pressure as a result of the high (and contradictory) expectations of societies, authoritarian impulses of governments and chronic under-resourcing. These factors have caused a profound democratic and social crisis. Contrary to the accusations of conservatives, the justice system is not ‘lenient'; it often... Read more »
- April: the longer viewThe month's archives. - 2026/04 / perspective... Read more »
- Kurdish women's struggle for gender equality – and much else besidesFor a century, Kurdish women have been at the forefront of the struggle against patriarchal and state oppression. They continue to push boundaries and defend their gains against mounting pressure. - Outside in / article... Read more »
- This is Israel's warUS imperialism is all too evident in the methods of the war in Iran, but what of its aims? With Trump struggling to articulate them clearly, it's much easier to see what Israel hopes to gain. - 2026/04 / article... Read more »
- Kazakhstan's industrial and mining monotowns
- Caucasus / Map, 2026/04 kazakhstan... Read more »
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
- No war crimes in Gaza, says Nigel Farage’s Israel tsar
Jason Pearlman is among several pro-Israel figures behind the party predicted to win big in May elections The post No war crimes in Gaza, says Nigel Farage’s Israel tsar appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel
Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise. The post Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates
BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows The post Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - Nato expansion ‘would provoke Russians’, UK understood
Britain’s military has stated hundreds of times that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked”, but declassified files tell a different story The post Nato expansion ‘would provoke Russians’, UK understood appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more » - How a UK arms shipment to Israel was seized in Belgium
An investigation has been launched after we discovered a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel. The post How a UK arms shipment to Israel was seized in Belgium appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
Declassified UK
- ● Shifting Saudi ties: what role could China take after Iran war is over?
The Iran conflict is pushing Saudi Arabia to reconsider its US-led security strategy, with China emerging to play a limited, but functional role, analysts say. However, deep US ties in defence would restrict Saudi Arabia’s broader cooperation with China, they added, as one expert predicted Riyadh was likely to deepen... Read more » - ● US court allows Texas public schools to display Ten Commandments
A US appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Texas can require the Bible’s Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a win for Christian conservatives who want their faith in classrooms. The 120-page decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals came in response to the legal battle that... Read more » - ● UK agrees ban on cigarette sales for people born after 2008
Both chambers of Britain’s parliament have approved a bill that would ban children aged 17 and under from buying cigarettes during their lifetime. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill aims to stop anyone born after January 1, 2009 (now aged 17) from taking up smoking. Health minister Wes Streeting called this... Read more » - ● Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire, testing Lebanon truce as talks loom
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it fired rockets and drones into northern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the Israeli military of violating a ceasefire ahead of US-mediated talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments this week. The Israeli military earlier said Iran-aligned Hezbollah had fired several rockets towards its troops operating... Read more » - ● Tai Po fire probe: ‘regulatory vacuum’ revealed in polyfoam board oversight
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Four officers from Hong Kong’s fire department are testifying on Wednesday before an independent committee investigating the Wang Fuk Court fire, as hearings enter their 17th day. The conflagration,... Read more »
News - South China Morning Post
- ● Trump effect? Taiwan poll reveals deep doubts about US military protection
Half of Taiwanese not only doubt the US would send troops to defend Taiwan in the event of a cross-strait conflict but also question whether American weapons would prove effective, a poll this week has revealed. The results highlighted mounting scepticism on the island over Washington’s security guarantees, according to... Read more » - Taiwanese leader Lai postpones Africa trip after 3 nations revoke overflight permission
Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te was forced to postpone a visit to the island’s last African partner after three other nations abruptly refused to allow his aircraft to fly over their territory, in a move Taipei blamed on pressure from Beijing. This is the first time any Taiwanese leader has... Read more » - Why leading Chinese scientists are rising to the top in the Communist Party
The number of members from China’s leading scientific and engineering institutes in the top ranks of the Communist Party has doubled over the course of a decade, according to a new report. It said the number of academicians in the party’s 18th Central Committee, selected in 2012, stood at 15,... Read more » - How China is reinforcing its ‘legal shield’ against foreign pressure
China has released new regulations that aim to counter the “unjustified” extraterritorial use of foreign laws, the latest move to protect its interests from external threats. Analysts view the move as a shift from diplomatic protests to legal warfare, and some warn it could have wide-ranging applications. The European Chamber... Read more » - Consider Beijing’s 10-point plan, Taiwan business leaders urge ruling DPP
Several Taiwan business leaders on Monday urged the island’s government to consider Beijing’s new plan for boosting cross-strait exchanges, arguing it could ease pressure on struggling sectors. In response, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party accused industry groups of helping mainland China “use business to pressure politics”. “There is no pressure... 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
- 5 facts about U.S. children living in blended families17% of U.S. children under 18 live in a blended family most or all of the time – one that includes a stepparent, stepsiblings or half siblings.... Read more »
- What types of news do Americans seek out or happen to come across?About half of U.S. adults (49%) say they mostly get news because they happen to come across it, up from 39% in 2019.... Read more »
- Americans have become more likely to say Trump is not too or not at all religiousAmong Trump's strongest supporters, relatively few people say they think he is very religious. Just 8% of Republicans and 5% of White evangelicals say this is the case.... Read more »
- Americans stand out internationally for their pessimism about the nation’s political systemPeople in higher-income countries are generally less likely to say their nation’s political system needs major changes or complete reform. Americans are an exception.... Read more »
- MethodologyThe analysis in this report is based on a self-administered web survey conducted from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, 2025, among a sample of 1,458 dyads, with each dyad (or pair) comprised of one U.S. teen age 13 to 17 and one parent per teen. The margin of sampling error... Read more »
Pew Research Center
- U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working for the CIA, Sources Say
Two Americans killed in Mexico, previously identified only as “staff from the United States Embassy,” participated in a raid on a drug lab. The post U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working for the CIA, Sources Say appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - ICE Is Looking for Parking in New York City — For a 150-Vehicle Deportation FleetWith its last contract expiring, activists say garage owners should spurn ICE to avoid becoming complicit in Trump’s deportation blitz. The post ICE Is Looking for Parking in New York City — For a 150-Vehicle Deportation Fleet appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- VideoHow the Lebanon Ceasefire Could Make It Harder to End the War on Iran
The deal is a welcome reprieve from Israel’s bombing — but separating Lebanon from the ceasefire with Iran sets a dangerous precedent. The post How the Lebanon Ceasefire Could Make It Harder to End the War on Iran appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - Progressive Group Founded by Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire for California Governor
Our Revolution is hoping to rally Democrats to Tom Steyer to prevent a Republican from taking the governor's mansion. The post Progressive Group Founded by Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire for California Governor appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings ProtestFlight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally. The post LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
The Intercept
- ● No Place Like Home
‘There Is No Place for Us’ and ‘Placeless’ paired together provide a clear picture of homelessness in the modern age.... Read more » - Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident
This administration is doing everything it can to keep Americans hooked on fossil fuels—no matter how dearly it costs working people.... Read more » - Community Solar Puts People in Charge
While Team Trump is committed to making the problem of climate change worse, local groups are stepping up to reduce impacts.... Read more » - On Chicago’s Trains, Homeless Outreach Workers Meet People Where They Are
For too many Chicagoans, public transit is one of the only accessible places to shelter during the brutal winter.... Read more » - Citizen Journalists Shine a Light on Gaza
In the absence of on-the-ground reportage from Gaza, citizen journalists have stepped in to tell the stories that traditional news platforms could not.... Read more »
The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
- New report: Households pay $12 trillion a year in hidden fossil fuel costs – a $23 million a minute ‘gift to Big Oil’New research by 350.org shows that on top of soaring energy bills, fossil fuels cost households an additional $12 trillion a year in taxpayer handouts, health impacts and extreme weather damage – equivalent to a $23 million a minute “gift to Big Oil” that costs each person on Earth $1,400... Read more »
- EWG sues EPA for 7-year inaction on glyphosate in oats, citing risks to children’s healthThe Environmental Working Group today filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the Environmental Protection Agency is unlawfully delaying a response to the group’s petition seeking stricter limits in oats on the notorious herbicide glyphosate. The petition also asks for a ban on use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying... Read more »
- April’s Beige Book Reveals Trump’s War in Iran Is Devastating Economy At HomeThe Federal Reserve released its April 2026 Beige Book, which provides economic commentary from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts. In this month’s report, the first since the start of Trump’s war in Iran, regional contacts reported painful price increases tied directly to the conflict, sustained consumer strain, and... Read more »
- California’s Regressive Rooftop Solar Policy Hit With Second Appeal to State Supreme CourtThe Center for Biological Diversity, The Protect Our Communities Foundation and the Environmental Working Group have appealed to the California Supreme Court to overturn the state’s new rooftop solar policy after a lower court approved it a second time. The policy significantly slashes the credit new solar users get for... Read more »
- Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration Approval of BP’s Ultra-Deepwater Drilling in Gulf of Mexico, 16 Years After Deepwater HorizonGulf and environmental groups sued the Trump administration today over its approval of BP’s new ultra-deepwater oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. The project endangers the health of Gulf residents, ecosystems and industries like fishing and tourism.Kaskida is BP’s first completely new oilfield approved in the Gulf since... Read more »
Common Dreams
- mp3The Decline of U.S. Capitalism?The left has a long history of predicting the decline of US capitalism and empire. Some argue that Trump is a symptom of that decline — a strongman chosen by capital to set things right — and that the ill health of U.S. capitalism is paralleled by the decline of... Read more »
- mp3American Jews and the LeftJews and the left have been closely associated with each other for well over a century, both in Europe where the Nazis genocidally linked one with the other, and in the United States. Scholar Benjamin Balthaser considers the history of American Jews and the left, including in opposition to Jewish... Read more »
- mp3Fuentes on Aggression; Graeber on EgalitarianismWe often are told there is no other way to organize society — that by our very nature, we’re destined to try to dominate each other. But are such assumptions merited? Primatologist Agustín Fuentes pulls apart the supposedly evolutionary case that humans are hardwired for war. And the late anthropologist... Read more »
- mp3(Not) Taxing the RichIt’s widely recognized that vast amounts of wealth are now concentrated in the hands of the very few. But less well understood, scholar Ray Madoff argues, is how the U.S. tax code played a key role in that process. She delineates how progressive taxation and the estate tax — designed... Read more »
- mp3Infrastructures of War and Repression in IranTrump has not only threatened Iran’s civilian infrastructure, but the U.S. and Israel have systematically targeted it since the start of their attack. Historian Golnar Nikpour reflects on the human costs of the war. And she discusses the Iranian state and prison system since the early 20th century and places... Read more »
KPFA - Against the Grain
- 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
- ● Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with MoscowOn Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.... Read more »
- ● In last-minute reversal, Trump extends ceasefire with IranIranian officials said they would not return to talks until the US ended its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while warning that Trump may be preparing a second sneak attack on their country.... Read more »
- ● Hungary’s election winner Peter Magyar announces government of expertsA few days after his election victory, Peter Magyar has announced the formation of a government of experts by mid-May. Instead of the announced “democracy,” Hungary will get a government consisting of representatives of the banks, the economy and the European Union, which will continue the right-wing, anti-social and undemocratic... Read more »
- ● Twelve killed in two school shootings in TürkiyeThese unprecedented school shootings are a tragic product of the social crisis rooted in the capitalist system, the normalization of widespread violence and mass death.... Read more »
- ● The Strokes, David Byrne, Massive Attack, Tom Waits: Artists protest against the Iran war, ICE and the threat of dictatorship–“This ain’t no fooling around”The accumulating outrage and horror are inevitably finding expression in artistic circles, with greater or lesser clarity depending upon the artist or group.... 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 using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report saysIsraeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.... Read more »
- ● Top Biden Official Supports Trump Iran Attack, Says Biden May Have Done The Same“We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into [bombing Iran], because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.” Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden, was born in Israel and formerly served in the Israeli military.... Read more »
- ● A history of Israel’s invasions of LebanonIsrael invaded Lebanon on multiple occasions since 1948 and, most recently, has declared plans to reoccupy large areas of its south... Read more »
- ● How the powerful pro-Israel lobby keeps controlling Democrats in the USAIPAC-affiliated Super PACs sometimes outspend targeted candidates ten-to-one, flooding airwaves with ads on unrelated local issues. Voters never learn the funding is coming from a foreign-policy-aligned network... Read more »
- ● Replay: Israel’s slow ethnic cleansing of Christians from the Holy LandIsrael has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No AccidentWhile the costs mount for regular people, the Trump administration's allies in the fossil fuel industry stand to profit handsomely. The post Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- The Case for Blaming BillionairesCriticizing the billionaire class may lack nuance, but the ultrawealthy are robbing us of our voice and vote, trashing our environment and blocking our path to a livable future. The post The Case for Blaming Billionaires appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- When We Disinvest in People, We All Pay the PriceThe fiscal year 2027 budget proposal from President Trump is a shocking departure from values most Americans hold. The post When We Disinvest in People, We All Pay the Price appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- The Average Taxpayer Shelled Out Over $4,000 for War and Weapons Last YearAmericans want a government that supports them when times are tough—not one that shakes us down for endless wars. The post The Average Taxpayer Shelled Out Over $4,000 for War and Weapons Last Year appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- The Axis of Evil Suffers a Big LossAfter Viktor Orban's landslide loss in Hungary, will Trump and even Putin be next in line for their political comeuppance? The post The Axis of Evil Suffers a Big Loss appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... 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
- ● Nobel Physicist Predicts 'End-Date' For Modern Civilization
Nobel Physicist Predicts 'End-Date' For Modern Civilization Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has provided a sobering timeline for the potential end of modern civilisation, citing the escalating risks of nuclear war. The 2004 Nobel laureate estimates that humanity may have roughly 35 years remaining... Read more » - ● South Korea Curbs Syringe Hoarding As Iran War Cripples Supply
South Korea Curbs Syringe Hoarding As Iran War Cripples Supply The downstream consequences from the Hormuz closure are popping up in the most unexpected places. According to Bloomberg, South Korea’s health regulators are stepping in to curb syringe hoarding as supply chain disruptions tied to the Middle East conflict threaten... Read more » - ● Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire After Pakistan Talks Fail To Launch
Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire After Pakistan Talks Fail To Launch Summary Trump unilaterally extends ceasefire after Vance calls off trip to Pakistan - says Iranian port blockade to remain in place. Tasnim says Iran's 'final decision' is to not attend talks. Trump warns: 'Expect...bombs' & urges Tehran... Read more » - ● From Tank Rides To Overseeing Missile Tests: Kim Jong Un's Teenage Daughter Prepped As Likely Successor
From Tank Rides To Overseeing Missile Tests: Kim Jong Un's Teenage Daughter Prepped As Likely Successor Longtime North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a test launch of missiles equipped with multiple reentry vehicles, a move that drew limited international attention despite its escalation risk. "The purpose of the test-fire is... Read more » - ● US, Philippines Launch Their 'Biggest Ever' Balikatan Drills With Large Japanese Contingent
US, Philippines Launch Their 'Biggest Ever' Balikatan Drills With Large Japanese Contingent Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US and the Philippines on Monday launched what’s being billed as the "biggest ever" Balikatan Exercise, an annual military drill that, for the first time, includes a significant contingent of Japanese troops as... Read more »
ZeroHedge News
- Video● Author reveals how Trump plans to retain power after leaving office: 'Gives me shivers'
An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed how the president plans to retain power over the White House once he leaves office. Journalist Michael Wolff, author of the book "Fire and Fury" about the first Trump administration, argued during a new episode of "Inside Trump's... Read more » - ● 'Oh, come on!' Geraldo Rivera skewers GOP pundit's defense of Trump's bailout idea on CNN
Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera skewered a GOP pundit's defense of President Donald Trump's latest bailout idea during a segment on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip. On Tuesday, Trump was asked about a recent statement made by officials in the United Arab Emirates who said they may seek... Read more » - Video● 'Something is coming': Analysts warn Melania's 'can of worms' may be too much for Trump
The "can of worms" that first lady Melania Trump opened up when she held a seemingly unprompted press conference about her ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein may be too much for President Donald Trump to survive, according to two analysts. Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discussed Melania Trump's recent... Read more » - Video● 'When did that become normal?' UN chief slams Trump as humanitarian crisis deepens
US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is costing nearly $2 billion per day, according to a Harvard analysis based on estimates from the Pentagon. The head of the United Nations’ humanitarian agency said the money could instead be used to save more than 87 million lives around the world.Tom... Read more » - ● 'Maximum warfare': Red state GOP threatened with scorched earth answer if it gerrymanders
Fresh off Democrats' victory in Tuesday night's referendum in Virginia to retaliate against Republican mid-decade gerrymanders by drawing out four Republicans, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) put out a statement warning Florida Republicans not to try following suit — or they would go all out to break them at... Read more »
Raw Story
- Video● Author reveals how Trump plans to retain power after leaving office: 'Gives me shivers'An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed how the president plans to retain power over the White House once he leaves office. Journalist Michael Wolff, author of the book "Fire and Fury" about the first Trump administration, argued during a new episode of "Inside Trump's... Read more »
- ● 'Oh, come on!' Geraldo Rivera skewers GOP pundit's defense of Trump's bailout idea on CNNFormer Fox News host Geraldo Rivera skewered a GOP pundit's defense of President Donald Trump's latest bailout idea during a segment on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip. On Tuesday, Trump was asked about a recent statement made by officials in the United Arab Emirates who said they may seek... Read more »
- Video● 'Something is coming': Analysts warn Melania's 'can of worms' may be too much for TrumpThe "can of worms" that first lady Melania Trump opened up when she held a seemingly unprompted press conference about her ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein may be too much for President Donald Trump to survive, according to two analysts. Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discussed Melania Trump's recent... Read more »
- Video● 'When did that become normal?' UN chief slams Trump as humanitarian crisis deepensUS President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is costing nearly $2 billion per day, according to a Harvard analysis based on estimates from the Pentagon. The head of the United Nations’ humanitarian agency said the money could instead be used to save more than 87 million lives around the world.Tom... Read more »
- ● 'Maximum warfare': Red state GOP threatened with scorched earth answer if it gerrymandersFresh off Democrats' victory in Tuesday night's referendum in Virginia to retaliate against Republican mid-decade gerrymanders by drawing out four Republicans, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) put out a statement warning Florida Republicans not to try following suit — or they would go all out to break them at... Read more »
Raw Story
- We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award
We're honored to have won the 2026 Webby People’s Voice Award in the category for Websites and Mobile Sites: News & Politics. Thank you to our loyal readers and social media followers who voted for us. The post We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more » - VideoWhat Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
Q: How real is birth tourism? A: The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on tourism visas in order to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their newborn child. One outside group has estimated it may be more than 20,000... Read more » - VideoElon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
Elon Musk this week amplified an unfounded claim, based on a distortion of vaccine safety monitoring data, that COVID-19 vaccines killed tens of thousands of people in Germany. The vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide during a deadly pandemic, and serious side effects or deaths from vaccination are rare. The post... Read more » - VideoAn Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
An online ad attacks Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, for not being sufficiently progressive because of past policy positions. But it also misleadingly claims that Moulton, a critic of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "thanked ICE as they were terrorizing our communities and then... Read more » - VideoPoliticians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut
Following an executive order from the Trump administration that promotes production of glyphosate, some Democrats have claimed that the herbicide causes cancer. The science, however, is nuanced. While there is some evidence linking glyphosate to cancers in lab animals or to the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma in agricultural workers, the... Read more »
FactCheck.org
- We Won a Webby People’s Voice AwardWe're honored to have won the 2026 Webby People’s Voice Award in the category for Websites and Mobile Sites: News & Politics. Thank you to our loyal readers and social media followers who voted for us. The post We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
- VideoWhat Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?Q: How real is birth tourism? A: The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on tourism visas in order to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their newborn child. One outside group has estimated it may be more than 20,000... Read more »
- VideoElon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 VaccineElon Musk this week amplified an unfounded claim, based on a distortion of vaccine safety monitoring data, that COVID-19 vaccines killed tens of thousands of people in Germany. The vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide during a deadly pandemic, and serious side effects or deaths from vaccination are rare. The post... Read more »
- VideoAn Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate RaceAn online ad attacks Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, for not being sufficiently progressive because of past policy positions. But it also misleadingly claims that Moulton, a critic of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "thanked ICE as they were terrorizing our communities and then... Read more »
- VideoPoliticians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-CutFollowing an executive order from the Trump administration that promotes production of glyphosate, some Democrats have claimed that the herbicide causes cancer. The science, however, is nuanced. While there is some evidence linking glyphosate to cancers in lab animals or to the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma in agricultural workers, the... Read more »
FactCheck.org
- We Need to Tear Down the Adoption Industry
M Ceniza Adoption as practiced in the US is rooted in racism, imperialism, colonialism, and outright abduction. It's time to do something different. The post We Need to Tear Down the Adoption Industry appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - The WNBA Draft and the Political Imperative of Minding Your Own Business
Dave Zirin With the first pick of the WNBA draft, the Dallas Stars picked Azzi Fudd. It sparked a sexist, homophobic conversation online. The post The WNBA Draft and the Political Imperative of Minding Your Own Business appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - Global Samud Flotilla: Small Boats, Huge Mission
Felipe Galindo Around 40 small boats, carrying an estimated 300 people on board, sailed from Barcelona on April 13, 2026, headed to Gaza. The post Global Samud Flotilla: Small Boats, Huge Mission appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - The Bezos “Post” Editorial Page Has Become a Mouthpiece for Pro-Billionaire Propaganda
Nathan Robinson Jeff Bezos said The Washington Post would no longer publish opinion pieces critical of free markets. Recent editorials show just how seriously the paper has taken this mandate. The post The Bezos “Post” Editorial Page Has Become a Mouthpiece for Pro-Billionaire Propaganda appeared first on The Nation.... Read more » - We Are About to Miss the Opportunity of a Lifetime
Corbin Trent 2026 and 2028 can be our time. The post We Are About to Miss the Opportunity of a Lifetime appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
Article | The Nation
- ● Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report saysIsraeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.... Read more »
- ● Top Biden Official Supports Trump Iran Attack, Says Biden May Have Done The Same“We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into [bombing Iran], because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.” Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden, was born in Israel and formerly served in the Israeli military.... Read more »
- ● A history of Israel’s invasions of LebanonIsrael invaded Lebanon on multiple occasions since 1948 and, most recently, has declared plans to reoccupy large areas of its south... Read more »
- ● How the powerful pro-Israel lobby keeps controlling Democrats in the USAIPAC-affiliated Super PACs sometimes outspend targeted candidates ten-to-one, flooding airwaves with ads on unrelated local issues. Voters never learn the funding is coming from a foreign-policy-aligned network... Read more »
- ● Replay: Israel’s slow ethnic cleansing of Christians from the Holy LandIsrael has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- ● Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report saysIsraeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.... Read more »
- ● Top Biden Official Supports Trump Iran Attack, Says Biden May Have Done The Same“We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into [bombing Iran], because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.” Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden, was born in Israel and formerly served in the Israeli military.... Read more »
- ● A history of Israel’s invasions of LebanonIsrael invaded Lebanon on multiple occasions since 1948 and, most recently, has declared plans to reoccupy large areas of its south... Read more »
- ● How the powerful pro-Israel lobby keeps controlling Democrats in the USAIPAC-affiliated Super PACs sometimes outspend targeted candidates ten-to-one, flooding airwaves with ads on unrelated local issues. Voters never learn the funding is coming from a foreign-policy-aligned network... Read more »
- ● Replay: Israel’s slow ethnic cleansing of Christians from the Holy LandIsrael has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- 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 » - Economic Inequality and the Rise of Populism, Revisited
In 2017, I published a paper entitled Three Connections between Rising Economic Inequality and the Rise of Populism. This has been my most cited academic article and it is an appropriate topic to revisit on the 25th anniversary of TASC, which has …... Read more »
Progressive Economy @ TASC - Blog
- Trump's erratic behavior signals US deadlock: AnsarullahSenior Ansarullah member says Trump's erratic behavior signals his entanglement in a deadlock amid Iran's continued successful steadfastness.... Read more »
- Israeli attacks kill several Palestinians, including two children, in occupied West BankIsraeli army and settlers have killed several Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. ... Read more »
- Iran: No decision yet on new talks in Pakistan due to US contradictory messagesIran has not made a final decision on whether to participate in the next round of Pakistan-mediated talks with the United States, citing contradictory messages, inconsistent behavior and unacceptable actions by the American side, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.... Read more »
- Yemen will ‘return to war’ if US, Israel resume aggression against Iran: HouthiAnsarullah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi says the Yemeni armed forces will return to fighting if a fragile ceasefire that halted 40 days of American-Israeli aggression against Iran expires without an agreement to permanently end the war.... Read more »
- Tehran dismisses UAE’s anti-Iran narratives following ‘groundless’ arrestsIran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the UAE’s “groundless allegations” against Iranian nationals cannot absolve those who facilitate foreign military aggression against the Islamic Republic.... Read more »
Presstv
- Two US embassy officials killed in car crash in Mexico were CIA agents: ReportThe two US embassy officials who were killed during a car accident in Mexico worked for the CIA, according to a report.... Read more »
- Canada's PM: Ties with US have turned into ‘weaknesses,’ must be correctedThe Canadian prime minister says the economic and political ties with the US have turned into “weaknesses” and must be corrected.... Read more »
- ‘We are not afraid of war’: Cuba president dismisses Trump’s threatsCuba pledges to do its best to defend itself if the United States launches an illegal act of aggression against the Caribbean country.... Read more »
- ‘Days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to US are over’: Canada PMCanada's prime minister says his country will reduce its longstanding dependence on the US in military spending and procurement.... Read more »
- ‘Complicity in US crimes’: Iran condemns Costa Rica’s move to designate IRGCTehran has strongly condemned Costa Rica's decision to designate the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).... Read more »
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- Spain, Slovenia, Ireland push EU to debate Israel pact suspensionSpain, Slovenia and Ireland have urged the European Union to debate suspending its association agreement with Israel. ... Read more »
- 40 Israeli settlers detained at Moscow airport over 'links to aggression against Iran': ReportRussian authorities reportedly detain at least 40 Israeli settlers at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport over their links to unprovoked aggression against Iran.... Read more »
- UN experts urge EU to suspend Israel trade deal over human rights atrocitiesUN experts call on the EU to immediately suspend its trade agreement with the Israeli regime over human rights atrocities.... Read more »
- Hungary’s newly-elected PM says would carry out ICC warrant against NetanyahuMagyar also said his incoming government can halt the withdrawal process before Hungary formally leaves the ICC.... Read more »
- US-Israeli aggression against Iran threatens nuclear nonproliferation regime: Russian diplomatHe described the aggression as “an egregious manifestation of a course aimed at abusing the nuclear nonproliferation regime and the NPT as its cornerstone.”... Read more »
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