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Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer who handled the Russian intelligence defector at the center of the scandal — and reaped considerable benefits from his proximity to the case. This September, a... Read more »

The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a dual American-Israeli citizen. But a source who’s been in contact with his family says he was not a US citizen at all. The Grayzone... Read more »

Once again, the British state is exploiting anti-democratic terrorism measures to secure convictions of Palestine Action defendants who targeted an Israeli weapons plant. UK media is currently forbidden from reporting on the trial. From October 5th, an eight-week-long trial of nine Palestine Action activists known as the Instro 10 will... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their education. They want more teachers, smaller classes, decent school buildings and a public education system that works for... Read more »

Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensive aimed at capturing Bab el-Mandeb. In this Monday’s edition of The Target, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down the conflict on the ground and why... Read more »

Oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have again been struck by ballistic missiles and drones, while evidence has emerged that the US could be plotting raids into north-eastern Iranian territory. In the latest episode of The Target stream, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the incidents... Read more »

Scrambling to halt the ongoing offensive of Yemen’s Armed Forces, Israel and Saudi Arabia have strengthened ties through a joint covert campaign aimed at salvaging what remains of their supremacy in the Red Sea region. Tel Aviv and Riyadh’s losses of key military strongholds in Yemen’s Western coast, has ushered... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rallying call to the country today. When we pull as one, →... Read more »

In response to news that we are this year celebrating 25 years of Media Lens we have received many kind comments from readers, some of them sympathising that it must be ‘awful’ to live with →... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech. The post An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home. The post Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing. The post ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state. The post Susan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland… Oregon appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After months of questions from The Intercept, the U.S. military finally acknowledged the March death of Maj. Sorffly Davius. The post Pentagon Finally Counts an Iran War Death — Six Months Late appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The mainstream of Minnesota’s left-of-center politics — including unions, the backbone of Democratic power — are behind the radical left. The post Trump Wanted Minneapolis 15 Case to Be Another Prairieland. Instead, Twin Cities Rallied Behind Anti-ICE Activists. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Dana Joudeh was denied proper food and medical care throughout her pregnancy in an Israeli prison. She gave birth to a premature baby surrounded by armed guards. The post A C-Section in Shackles: A Palestinian Woman’s Harrowing Birth in Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike. The post ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Despite a wildly unpopular war with Iran, a mass protest movement for peace hasn’t materialized — at least in the ways we’ve been taught to recognize. The post Where Are the Iran War Protests? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is thinking. Writing is the practice of sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of your own consciousness and transforming your thoughts and feelings into coherent, logical expression.... Read more »

They’ve been quietly constructing a cage around us this entire time in order to lock us into this capitalist dystopia forever.... Read more »

The prime minister is claiming the truth causes “harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests” because Israel is a state that can only exist on a foundation of endless lies.... Read more »

The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else.... Read more »

It’s just amazing how quickly AI is making everything worse.... Read more »

Video reading by Tim Foley: The Pentagon plans to live-streamthe firing squad executionof the Fort Hood shooter,and my head is so very heavy,and everything is covered in the ashesof a burning planet. I found the corpse of a water spiritdown by the creek where my parents live.She used to play... Read more »

All of a sudden the idea that our bombs are killing people in the middle east was no longer a vague abstraction sitting in the periphery of our awareness. It was a reality hitting us right in the guts in the middle of the day while we casually scrolled our... Read more »

No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place.... Read more »

Ever since the UK Green party’s “Zionism is racism” motion we’ve been seeing this narrative circulating that Jews are somehow exempt from the basic human duty to oppose genocide and apartheid.... Read more »

Την Δευτέρα 12/10 το βράδυ, στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών, 5 γυναίκες θα παρουσιάσουν το νέο μου βιβλίο (για 5 άλλες γυναίκες, των οποίων οι ιστορίες συνθέτουν μια ιδιαίτερη Ιστορία Ενός Αιώνα, 1923-2023). ΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΗ ΨΗΛΑ | Πέντε γυναίκες που μου δίδαξαν την αντίσταση στον φασισμό, στον αυταρχισμό και στον σοβινιστή... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your dining room sees more life than almost any other space in your home. Family dinners, holiday gatherings, homework sessions, and late night conversations all happen around that one table. Yet many homeowners leave this room untouched for years, assuming a refresh means spending thousands of dollars. The truth is... Read more »

Retraining as a personal trainer does not necessarily mean leaving your current job before you start studying. If you plan the qualification route carefully, you can fit theory work around evenings, weekends or changing shifts, then arrange practical training and assessment dates once you know what the course requires. The... Read more »

Content warning: This article contains a graphic image of injuries A Palestinian man has been shot dead and others injured during the olive harvest in the Ramin Valley as the world marks the third anniversary of the 7 October genocide. The area, which is in the Tulkarm governorate in the... Read more »

Somalia is facing a massive human catastrophe, fuelled by a combination of climate chaos and decades of foreign intervention (primarily from the US). This crisis is intensifying at a time when north-eastern Africa has become a key focus for regional powers following the US-Israeli war on Iran’s severe disruption of... Read more »

Campaigners continue to apply pressure to convince Reform-led Kirklees Council to finally reopen Dewsbury Sports Centre. The previous Labour leadership had taken the “devastating” and highly questionable decision to permanently close the sports centre in Dewsbury – one of England’s most deprived towns. For three years campaigners have been pushing... Read more »

Today, 7 October 2026, is the third anniversary of horror. However, it is not the horror that the mainstream UK media, British politicians and Israel lobbyists will tell you about. On 7 October 2023, from before dawn until well into the evening, Israel conducted the mass slaughter of its own... Read more »

The Guardian has been accused of inverting reality in its attempt to undermine the Green Party’s conference motion declaring that Zionism is (and it is) racism. The paper’s headline blared that: British Jews more likely to identify as Zionist since 7 October attacks, research finds. Percentage who feel ‘very emotionally... Read more »

Numerous public figures who want to see lasting peace in the North of Ireland have signed an open letter. The letter, to Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant, expresses support for the Garvaghy Road residents in Portadown. The open letter in support of Garvaghy Road residents Dear Secretary of State, We... Read more »

Content warning: This article contains distressing/ graphic images and videos of physical violence West Bank’s olive harvesting season has not yet officially started but ‘Israeli’ violence in olive groves, and theft of produce is already occurring throughout the territory Every autumn, Palestinian families return to their groves to harvest olives.... Read more »

Nellie and Andrew talk about parenting as world-building, reparenting themselves, gender-liberation as brown anti-capitalist people, Latinx parenting, anti-racist resources, for their 3 year old kiddo Inti. ... Read more »

Article from Znetwork. Translated from the Swedish magazine Brand. The English version has been extended and modified for a wider audience. The Swedish article, in turn, is based on a more extensive education material. More articles in English here. Illustration... Read more... Read more »

The Liverpool dockers and their wives and families insist that theirs has been a “very modern” struggle, refuting the smug neoliberal dismissal of dock labor as an atavistic throwback to an earlier mercantile age. Postmodernists, who fantasize a world of... Read more... Read more »

From 8 to 14 October 1906, 300 representatives of local CGT groups gathered in Amiens, at what is now the Albert Roze School, to discuss and adopt a common trade-union programme. It was the ninth congress of the trade union... Read more... Read more »

Garrison talks with Matt and Olivia from the NYC-DSA Labor Working Group about how Amazon uses subcontractors to exploit “last mile” delivery drivers and how a new bill could hold Amazon accountable and strengthen workers’ ability to organize.  Sources: https://act.socialists.nyc/dpa-letter... Read more... Read more »

Carlos talks about how breadfruit is being used as a tool of emergency preparedness and to fight hunger crises around the world. Sources: https://es.mongabay.com/2023/08/arbol-del-pan-conservacion-crisis-climatica/ https://www.wired.com/story/breadfruit-caribbean-pacific-climate-change-super-food/ https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000062 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/is-breadfruit-the-climate-change-proof-foo d-of-the-future-180980665/ https://thestoryexchange.org/shes-brought-a-climate-resilient-superfood-to-the-worlds-att ention/ https://ntbg.org/breadfruit/about-breadfruit/ https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/09/supply-and-demand-concerns-breadfruit/ https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/09/ulu-on-the-up-hawaii-breadfruit-production-keeps-boo ming/ https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/09/supply-and-demand-concerns-breadfruit/ https://www.9millones.com/story/como-los-puertorriquenos-disenan-su-recuperacion-just a-colectivamente https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/18/climate-change-impact-on-food-everyone- giving-up-breakfast/ https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/08/climate-resilient-breadfruit-might-be-the-f... Read more... Read more »

Margaret continues talking with Hazel Robin about the 30th anniversary of the successful fight to save Warner Creek in Oregon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.... Read more »

Send tips and feedback to Eastsideantifa@gmail.com Top: Anthony Mistretta in “anti-antifa” shirt, Michael Grove and Bryan Wheaton holding the flag Kneeling, left to right: Julius Cahoon, unknown, Joe Schifano Who are the Proud Boys? The Proud Boys are a far-right,... Read more... Read more »

Both/And: A Sexual Violence Prevention Podcast September 2026 Deep dive conversations on sexual violence prevention! Jess Clark, Director of Sexual Violence Prevention for the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs interviews experts in the field, authors, musicians, educators, podcasters,... Read more... Read more »

Author: ziqTitle: The People Aren't AlrightSubtitle: Preserving Anarchy in a Fascist WorldDate: September 21, 2026Source: https://raddle.me/wiki/The_People With authoritarian and fascist parties gaining substantial popular support all across the world, maybe it's time for anarchists to reconsider one of our movement’s most persistent assumptions: that "the people" are, in some latent... Read more »

Author: Daphne LawlessTitle: Realism in RevoltDate: Winter 2026Source: New Politics, Vol. XX, No. 4, Whole Number 80. <www.newpol.org/review/realism-in-revolt> Did the Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism By: William Gillis Center for a Stateless Society, 2025{1} I follow William Gillis—veteran anarchist activist and writer, and... Read more »

Author: Center for Especifismo StudiesTitle: 104 Steps To Recovery of the Social VectorSource: Retrieved on 10/11/26 from https://especifismostudies.org/the-104-steps/ While these words originally come from Social Anarchism and Organisation by the FARJ, this edited and abridged version represents our organizational understanding of this text which has been essential to the development... Read more »

Author: Kevin TuckerTitle: The Ghosts Knocking At My DoorSubtitle: An Excerpt from the book: What is to Be UndoneDate: 2026Notes: Originally published by Bread and Roses Press. For Wildness and Anarchy Gathered Remains Cull of Personality What is to be Undone Dedicated to: Klee Benally, Fischer Jex, Thea Cassidy, Dora... Read more »

Author: Hein Htet KyawTitle: On the Question of Ethno-Nationalist Burmese Federal StateSubtitle: In Favor of Geographical Multicultural FederalismDate: 10 Oct 2026Notes: English Version of https://sea.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hein-htet-kyaw-on-burma-ethnostate?__language=enSource: redandblackanarchists.com.au Regarding "Bamar State" Today, the political and federalist demand for a "Bamar State" has become a preliminary political and federal roadmap for a third-way... Read more »

Author: Jeff ShantzTitle: Speed KillsSubtitle: Snuff Capitalist AccelerationDate: 1996, FallSource: Scanned from Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #95, Fall 2026 Whether we like it or not, capital is accelerationist. Speed-up is built right into the very engine of capitalism. Capital’s drive for accumulation, in competition with other capital for profit, means that it... Read more »

Author: Gary Dean JaworskiTitle: Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Sociological AnarchismDate: 1993Notes: Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Arlington, Virginia, April 1992. The author gratefully acknowledges the advice of Robert K. Merton, Lewis A. Coser and two anonymous reviewers for this journal.Source: journals.sagepub.com. History of the... Read more »

Author: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review editorsTitle: So much peaceSubtitle: EditorialDate: 2026, SummerSource: Scanned from Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #94, Summer, 2026 US advisors participating in military raids in Ecuador. Nearly 200 fishermen (some of whom may have moonlighted as smugglers) murdered in the waters off the Venezuelan coast. Dozens dead in U.S. concentration camps—some... Read more »

Author: Samuel Edward Konkin IIITitle: An Agorist PrimerDate: 2008Source: Retrieved on 2026-10-08 from https://archive.org/stream/SEK3_AnAgoristPrimer/An_Agorist_Primer_by_SEK3_djvu.txt Dedication This book is dedicated to Teny Rule Fisher, Thelma Rule, and John Fragnito, without whom this book would not have happened. Most of all, though, this book is dedicated to my son, Samuel Edward Konkin... Read more »

Barry Pateman [2011 portrait]... Read more »

Tensions in Anarchism... Read more »

Barry Pateman 1951-2026... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

Where I Stand... Read more »

Spain’s King Felipe VI said on Tuesday that Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa were “an integral part” of Spain and that its sovereignty and territorial integrity “are not up for negotiation”, during a historic visit to the two cities claimed by Morocco. The Spanish monarch also stressed the importance... Read more »

Israel has raised its security alert levels to the highest possible level amid growing fears of a renewed military confrontation with Iran and the possibility of a large-scale pre-emptive Iranian attack, Israeli Channel 14 reported. According to the report, the Israeli security establishment fears that Iran may seek to change... Read more »

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday rejected the return of residents displaced from Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during Israel’s “Iron Wall” military operation launched in January, after an Israeli court ordered a timetable to be set for their return. Netanyahu described the camp as a... Read more »

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office said on Tuesday that detained physician Marwan al-Hams was beaten and physically restrained at Israel’s Ganot detention facility on 7th October in the presence of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leaving him with fractures and severe back pain. In a statement, the office... Read more »

Israeli officials have demanded the deployment of Israeli security personnel at airports in the United Arab Emirates as a condition for allowing Flydubai to resume flights to Tel Aviv, according to a report by Israeli business newspaper Globes. The newspaper reported that Israel was seeking permission to station security personnel... Read more »

The foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom have expressed deep regret over Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to postpone presidential and legislative elections until September 2027, urging the Palestinian Authority to reverse the decision and organize elections without further delay. In a joint statement issued on... Read more »

Saudi Arabia’s economy is projected to contract by 3.3 percent in 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook report, as escalating Houthi attacks and disruptions to regional shipping routes place increasing pressure on the world’s largest oil exporter. The IMF also forecast an economic contraction across... Read more »

Hamas on Tuesday condemned Israeli military raids on human rights and women’s organisations in Ramallah and the arrest of dozens of Palestinians in Nablus, describing the operations as part of a broader campaign of repression in the occupied West Bank. In a statement received by Quds Press, senior Hamas official... Read more »

The latest diplomatic deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz exposes the central problem in the US–Iran confrontation: Washington wants concessions from Iran, but Tehran is demanding clear commitments, credible guarantees, and an end to what it sees as a pattern of pressure, shifting demands, and broken trust. On 11th October... Read more »

The anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the birth of a dark new world where "the unthinkable has become banal," where many thousands of damaged Palestinian children - homeless, toy-less, traumatized, unschooled, with mournful questions about a lost world -... Read more »

As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to illegally expand oil and gas drilling into long-protected Arctic public lands in Alaska, the Department of the Interior today announced a categorical exclusion that aims to exempt oil and gas exploration projects from individual review under the National Environmental Policy Act.... Read more »

Today, the Trump administration invited fresh controversy when it announced it will abandon environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to allow oil and gas companies to run roughshod over pristine Arctic ecosystems to search for expensive, far flung oil. The Bureau of Land Management granted the polluters... Read more »

In response to allegations that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle abused her diplomatic position to advance private gas interests in the Balkans, Oil Change International’s Allie Rosenbluth said:“Trump’s push to lock Europe into decades of U.S. gas dependence puts fossil fuel profits ahead of people’s energy bills, health, and... Read more »

Corporations that have benefited from the Trump administration’s cancellation of federal enforcement actions have given $210.5 million in contributions and pledges to MAGA Inc., and other Trump-aligned Super PACs, according to a new investigation by Public Citizen.The finding comes as Public Citizen’s new analysis documents the Trump administration’s cancellation of... Read more »

In response to the outcome of the pre-COP summit in Fiji, Oxfam Climate Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: “These talks were an underwhelming precursor to the summit in Türkiye next month. The absence of leaders from the richest and most polluting countries sends a dangerous signal that the global commitment... Read more »

Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson had the following response to the news that Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton discussed cuts to Social Security in private conversations in Washington, as revealed in leaked audio published by the Texas Tribune: “It's disgusting that Ken Paxton is laughing while planning to... Read more »

Facing significant backlash to his recent TV ads, Trump recently declared he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for partisan advertisements. He has not indicated that he will reimburse the U.S. Treasury for public funds wasted so far.Public Citizen has filed multiple complaints against the Trump administration for... Read more »

More than 200 conservation organizations sent a letter today urging Congress to oppose the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” introduced by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Mike Lee (R-Utah). The bill includes sweeping attacks on the Endangered Species Act that... Read more »

Tomorrow at 10am we get the judgement in our appeal against the suspension of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. We cannot have won as the appeal – held by “urgent process” – was intended to allow a judicial review before the Supreme Court meets in... Read more »

Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot. It remains quite possible the men were indeed fuel thieves, simply stealing fuel from farms. They appear to have been equipped for fuel theft and all... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please complete this short survey and tell us which books or other works of literature you have taught using a Zinn Education Project people’s history lesson, and how you have used ZEP lessons to provide historical context in your English classroom.  The post What Literature Are You Teaching in Your... Read more »

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

Join us to celebrate the Zinn Education Project’s 18th year while we are in Philadelphia for the National Council for the Teachers of English conference. The post Invitation: Dinner Reception in Philadelphia appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

Historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale discussed student organizing and state repression, and talked about their new books, High School Students Unite! and A New Kind of Youth. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The... Read more »

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

Resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day and all year to teach outside the textbook. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The latest diplomatic deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz exposes the central problem in the US–Iran confrontation: Washington wants concessions from Iran, but Tehran is demanding clear commitments, credible guarantees, and an end to what it sees as a pattern of pressure, shifting demands, and broken trust. On 11th October... Read more »

Nothing spells hypocrisy more accurately than the UN commemorating its failures. In a press release titled One year after ceasefire announcement, killings continue across Gaza, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office expresses its purported concern “about continued crimes under international law, including war crimes.” That... Read more »

Dr Muhammad Al Jasser, chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, spent four days in Jakarta, from 7 to 10 October 2026. The IsDB is a development bank owned by 57 mostly Muslim countries. It pays for roads, hospitals and farms using Islamic finance rules, which avoid interest. He... Read more »

The struggle of Gaza’s people is frequently interpreted through the competing languages of security, nationalism, religion and geopolitics. Each illuminates part of the conflict, yet each can obscure its most fundamental question: are Palestinians entitled to the rights every human being possesses simply by being human? Viewed through the history... Read more »

Few pieces of land carry as much weight as the 12 square kilometres known as E1. It is an unremarkable stretch of hillside on a map, but for critics of Israel’s settlement policy it is the place where the two-state solution could be decided without negotiation, vote, or treaty. E1... Read more »

On Friday, President Trump described his phone call with Vladimir Putin as “highly successful.” By Monday, oil traders had reason to agree. Kyiv had reason to feel betrayed. In a single weekend, Washington dismantled part of the sanctions architecture it had spent four years building against Russia, all to shave... Read more »

The recent attacks on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, particularly the strikes against King Khalid International Airport, represent a significant escalation in the security crisis affecting the Middle East. Beyond the immediate loss of life and disruption to civilian aviation, these incidents raise fundamental questions about regional deterrence, the internationalisation of... Read more »

Not all political corruption begins with money. Sometimes, it begins with success. Public imagination has long been trained to look for corruption in suitcases of cash, shady contracts, and secret deals. Yet some of the most consequential distortions of political judgment emerge from a far subtler source: a politician’s emotional... Read more »

With thousands of buildings damaged and the punishing winter fast approaching, displaced Palestinians sheltering inside Gaza’s ruins face two bitter choices: sleep beneath unstable concrete or risk having nowhere to stay at all. Pieces of concrete sometimes break loose without warning, and stones tumble from damaged walls. Yet fear of... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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On October 15, the Black Panther Party marks its 60th anniversary. Archivist Billy X Jennings highlights their legacy: 14 medical clinics (two still open in Seattle & Portland) and vital survival programs, like "free buses to prison... to keep the family unit together."... Read more »

In this exclusive interview, filmed backstage at the "once in forever" Power to the People Festival on Oct. 3, legendary musician and activist Tom Morello speaks with Kim Kelly about rocking out and fighting fascism.... Read more »

“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”... Read more »

Are cops part of the labor movement or an existential threat to it? We sent labor reporters Hamilton Nolan and Jacob Morrison to the 23rd Quadrennial Convention of the International Union of Police Associations in Las Vegas to find out.... Read more »

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis begin an investigation into the allegations that cop watcher SeanPaul Reyes is being surveilled by law enforcement and may potentially be at the center of an indictment to make an example of the cop watching community.... Read more »

A Meta Brasil worker tells of mass content moderator layoffs and their replacement with AI during the lead up to Brazil’s 2026 presidential elections.... Read more »

“I think everyone in America should be upset about what they're doing to abuse this power to take advantage of American citizens and Texans. It's not right.”... Read more »

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed the Community NEWS Act, that provides tax credits to news organizations who hire or retain local journalists.... Read more »

Former CIA agent John Kiriakou says the evidence fits a known CIA pattern of trying to influence elections abroad... Read more »

On October 15, the Black Panther Party marks its 60th anniversary. Archivist Billy X Jennings highlights their legacy: 14 medical clinics (two still open in Seattle & Portland) and vital survival programs, like "free buses to prison... to keep the family unit together."... Read more »

In this exclusive interview, filmed backstage at the "once in forever" Power to the People Festival on Oct. 3, legendary musician and activist Tom Morello speaks with Kim Kelly about rocking out and fighting fascism.... Read more »

“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”... Read more »

Are cops part of the labor movement or an existential threat to it? We sent labor reporters Hamilton Nolan and Jacob Morrison to the 23rd Quadrennial Convention of the International Union of Police Associations in Las Vegas to find out.... Read more »

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis begin an investigation into the allegations that cop watcher SeanPaul Reyes is being surveilled by law enforcement and may potentially be at the center of an indictment to make an example of the cop watching community.... Read more »

A Meta Brasil worker tells of mass content moderator layoffs and their replacement with AI during the lead up to Brazil’s 2026 presidential elections.... Read more »

“I think everyone in America should be upset about what they're doing to abuse this power to take advantage of American citizens and Texans. It's not right.”... Read more »

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed the Community NEWS Act, that provides tax credits to news organizations who hire or retain local journalists.... Read more »

Former CIA agent John Kiriakou says the evidence fits a known CIA pattern of trying to influence elections abroad... Read more »

We speak with the Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney about his new documentary Musk, an expansive, nearly four-hour examination of the world’s first trillionaire and how he has amassed unprecedented power in business, technology and politics. The film traces Elon Musk’s early ventures and the rise of SpaceX and Tesla,... Read more »

Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, have repeatedly attacked the Saudi capital of Riyadh in recent days. On Saturday, a missile strike on the airport in Riyadh killed at least 12 and injured over 300 in the deadliest attack on Saudi soil in over a decade. President Trump... Read more »

Houthis Warn of “Swift and Painful” Response If U.S. Joins Saudi-Led Attacks on Yemen, 139 Migrants Die and 84 Go Missing as Yemen-Bound Boat Capsizes Off Djibouti, Iran’s IRGC Says It Struck Another Tanker in Strait of Hormuz, Bulgaria Summons Russian Ambassador as Drones Attack Black Sea Ships, Bipartisan Group... Read more »

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature a conversation with one of the world’s most prominent champions for Indigenous rights, Leonard Peltier. “Indigenous Day is a day that’s been long overdue for any type of recognition,” says Peltier. “I am not going to give up, because we are not free yet.... Read more »

Tens of thousands of people in India have taken to the streets in recent days to protest the deletion of 130 million names from the voter rolls, a large majority of which are believed to be opposed to Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP party. The demonstrations, joined by leaders from India’s... Read more »

Houthi Attack on Riyadh Airport Kills One Person, a Day After Another Strike Killed 12 People, Pentagon Quietly Raises Count of U.S. Troops Killed in Iran War, Two Palestinians Killed in Gaza Today, Russia Bombs Ukrainian Power Plant After Trump Declares Energy Ceasefire, Protests Against Right-Wing Government of Indian Prime... Read more »

University students across the United States held a national day of action in solidarity with “Jane Doe,” the anonymous former student whose lawsuit alleging she was gang-raped by seven Cornell University Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024 has reignited outrage over how campuses and local law enforcement mishandle sexual assault... Read more »

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Pillay’s long career in international human rights law includes work as a defense attorney for anti-apartheid activists,... Read more »

Protests have erupted in New York City after a federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon. As masked agents reportedly posing as construction workers attempted to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, they opened fire on his car. Belgal was shot in the neck. His... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261009.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Fortune (9/13/26) This week on CounterSpin: When Fortune magazine is telling you “corporations are raking in cash, but American workers are reaping less and less of the rewards,” something is afoot. The not-notoriously capitalist-critical magazine reported recently on... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261002.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Institute for Policy Studies This week on CounterSpin: It may sound awkward, but there’s a reason that some of us refer to the lethal attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as “September 11, 2001.” It’s... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

            I’m seeing a powerful transformation in the use of the term “holocaust” on the Internet. Long before World War II, it was a Greek-based English word for killing or massacre. It was a natural extension for its being used as a more familiar word to describe what the Palestinians... Read more »

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Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor challenge central bank independence and explain why higher interest rates could deepen an oil-driven economic crisis. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

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Can AI earn enough to pay its debts? Michael Hudson examines monopoly pricing, China’s competing models, and the risk of a taxpayer bailout. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

I’ve been absent from Patreon for a few days because I’ve been in a creative fury writing about what has made the West “Western.” From Athens through Rome, Europe to the United States, what was new was that it was tyhe first civilization not to impose checks on the emergence... Read more »

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Rising oil and food costs could force countries to choose between essential imports and foreign creditors. Michael Hudson explains the debt squeeze. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

What good is a country’s creditworthiness if keeping it means shutting down its economy? In this conversation with Robinson Erhardt, Michael examines how an energy shock becomes a debt crisis. His challenge to China is just as pointed: a different world order would require its strongest creditor to accept losses... Read more »

Last week, less than a month after rolling back power plant pollution standards, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin addressed an audience of oil and gas executives at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association’s annual meeting in Santa Fe. The environmental agency was “within days,” he told them, of... Read more »

One of the defining issues heading into this year’s midterms is how redistricting has rapidly reshaped electoral maps across the country. When the Supreme Court gutted much of the Voting Rights Act earlier this year, a number of states redrew maps eliminating majority-Black districts, weakening Black political power potentially for... Read more »

Seven people detained previously by ICE filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the agency, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal documents and belongings months after they were released from custody.  Items allegedly withheld include Social Security cards, employment authorization documents, and phones, which the seven individuals allege... Read more »

In March, two Mother Jones videographers and I stood outside the Space Center Houston and watched Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, order abortion pills online.  We were shadowing Hawkins through Texas for a profile, documentary, and radio story about her role overseeing one of the anti-abortion movement’s most... Read more »

All parties and other social events held in fraternity houses on the campus of Cornell University will be cancelled for the remainder of the 2026-27 school year as the university’s administration contends with a lawsuit alleging a horrific 2024 gang rape in the Chi Phi fraternity house, which has sparked... Read more »

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing strike on Yandex’s data centers, a large Russian technology company, had led to a sudden decrease in bot activity online. “When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms,” Zelenskyy... Read more »

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the embattled US ambassador to Greece, resigned from her post Tuesday amid multiple alleged instances of corruption.  “These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity,” Guilfoyle wrote in her resignation announcement. “I have dedicated my professional life to fighting... Read more »

Any remaining skepticism of America’s literacy crisis vanished Tuesday morning, when Katie Zacharia, a former TV political commentator, stepped up to the White House podium for her first briefing as President Trump’s new press secretary. It is from this esteemed perch that Zacharia appeared physically strained as she struggled to... Read more »

As the Cornell rape allegations continue to roil beyond college campuses and into the homes of families across the country, a familiar question has played out: How do we educate our sons? Specifically, how do we raise boys who grow up to be men who will not rape women and... Read more »

A “People-First Foreign Policy Pledge,” signed by dozens of national organizations and foreign policy experts, calls on Congressional candidates to commit to three widely popular foreign policy positions in order to win midterm elections and deliver change. The post People-First Foreign Policy Pledge appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) faces a massive fight in the upcoming runoff presidential election. The post Lula Path Uphill But Feasible in Brazil Election Runoff appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Paul Loeb has put out an updated edition of his book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. The post “The Impossible Will Take a Little While” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Instead of taking responsibility, the government is passing crucial resilience roles to the public, and failure is inevitable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th October 2026 Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden? Then... Read more »

Air travel is on track to account for almost all our emissions by 2050. So why aren’t we working to reduce demand? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd October 2026 If a third runway is built at Heathrow, what will be the impact on the wealth of the... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Donald Trump's empty-seat problem is growing as he faces the worst poll numbers of his political career, as many republican candidates struggle in heated races in districts he comfortably won two years ago. When White House press secretary Katie Zacharia put on a bold show of confidence at her... Read more »

Warning of a major rupture of the post-WWII global order, two experts who spoke to the New York Times in a new podcast said that President Donald Trump is "abdicating" the country's global influence "at a very, very difficult time," with one claiming that his MAGA promises have actually been... Read more »

President Donald Trump’s own statements are muddying the waters in his latest bid to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, a bid complicated by a recent rebuke from the Supreme Court. Legal experts are now wondering if a panel of his political appointees has, in effect, already made up its... Read more »

Donald Trump is a pathocrat.The Age of Trump is defined by its pathocracy: a society ruled by the emotionally, psychologically, morally, intellectually, and spiritually sick, whose behavior spreads throughout the population and becomes the new normal.Donald Trump and his enablers and followers have repeatedly defined deviancy down. There is no... Read more »

President Donald Trump traveled to Alaska on Tuesday to support Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) in his reelection bid amid fears he will lose the office to Rep. Mary Peltola (D). He followed the event with a posting spree of bizarre videos, including one of him playing with a tiger. Trump... Read more »

I'm late to this, but there's still time for a word on James Talarico's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel's show. It's important, because I don't think most people on the left appreciate how threatening he is. He has a shot at becoming the first Democrat elected to the US Senate from... Read more »

Today I will put the cart squarely in front of the horse, and submit a meaty argument that WHEN the Democrats take control of the House and the Senate next month, among the very first things they need to address is bringing some order to our lawless Republican-run Supreme Court.The... Read more »

Last week, Trump predicted “big surprises” ahead of the midterm elections. During an appearance last Wednesday in Maryland, Trump turned to Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and stated, “We have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks, right Russ?” without specifying further... Read more »

Michael Wolff says he knows exactly why President Donald Trump fired Kimberly Guilfoyle, and it probably has very little to do with corruption. Corruption, he said, is the lifeblood of the Trump administration — so it’s not that.Wolff is a longtime reporter and author, best known for his extensive coverage... Read more »

This past week, a flock of Israel supporters jetted to Jerusalem to attend this year’s “National Conservative” conference, the project led by Israeli political thinker Yoram Hazony. Days later, the offspring of neoconservatism’s godfather Norm Podhoretz, John, revealed the conceit and deception behind the “National Conservatism” project: “[Yoram Hazony] wants... Read more »

President Donald Trump reignited a fierce debate within the American right on October 10, when he made some aggressive remarks about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Zelensky could’ve settled this war many times,” Trump said. “He chooses not to. Very difficult.” Trump went on, “We said you can do whatever you... Read more »

Just after midnight on New Year’s Day 2024, a man and his two children stood near the harbor in the Danish town of Gråsten, watching fireworks over the water a short walk from the house where the children had been living. A witness later told a court in Hamburg that... Read more »

On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid political prisoners on Robben Island, and went on to serve as a judge on the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal... Read more »

That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; Those past, her nature and name is chang’d; to be Then humble to her is idolatry. ~ John Donne, Satire III Seven activists smashed their way into an engineering plant at Sandwich, Kent, before dawn on 17 June 2024. Instro Precision, the... Read more »

Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. Israel is lost. Every day for the last three years, the decent people of the world — in our untold millions — have been sunk in a pit of moral despair, weeping, having breakdowns or being permanently enraged by the most extraordinarily depraved example of... Read more »

In February 2003, the intelligence that August Hanning’s service had handed to Washington turned up in Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations Security Council, in the case for invading Iraq. On the morning of 6 October 2026, masked officers walked Hanning, now eighty, out of his house near Münster... Read more »

Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israel’s grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by the ratio of America’s population to Israel’s. The 1,200 Israelis killed that day, he said, were “equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less... Read more »

As the midterm election draws near, a number of Republicans in tough races are distancing themselves from President Trump’s war. The war is unpopular because it has inflicted economic pain on the already-suffering American people. No, I am not talking about the Iran War. I am talking about President Trump’s... Read more »

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In the run-up to October's election, the US president has been using diplomatic pressure to undermine Brazilian sovereignty and bolster Flávio Bolsonaro. This continues a long history of US interference. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

Some of the world's smallest states have taken their climate fight to the highest international court, shifting the debate from pleas for help to questions of human rights and state responsibility. - 2026/10 / article, 2026/10 Oceania... Read more »

Albania's Adriatic coast, concrete-free until now, is beginning to suffer from tourism-led development. Winning political support for projects seems to be easy – especially if your name is Trump. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

On Moscow's streets, signs of a nation at war are hard to see. Its effects are clearer in individual lives. The burden has fallen unevenly on Russians, reshaping fortunes and fracturing families. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

The prospect of Ukraine's likely EU accession is becoming less popular with Poles, as farmers and truckers face price collapses. And with disputes over historical memory, too, mistrust is deepening. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

Nigel Farage is surrounded by scandal and has seen his poll numbers dip. To counter Andy Burnham, Britain's populist leader marshalled his ‘People's Army' at Reform UK's annual conference. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

This read was first published exclusively for our email subscribers on the 14th of September 2026.Get the latest from Anna Stavrianakis direct to your inbox at www.declassifieduk.org/newsletter It is now the official view of the British government that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful.  With his statement on 8... Read more »

Exclusive: Jonathan Burman was photographed in front of a burning school which was attacked by Israeli troops The post Revealed: The British man who fought for Israel in Gaza appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Satellite imagery uncovered by Declassified shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment The post Revealed: The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Exclusive: UK foreign secretary boasted about “mounting a world wide lobbying exercise” against landmark motion. The post Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Amnesty International says Conservative donor JCB is ‘part of the machinery of ethnic cleansing’ in illegal West Bank settlements The post Tories took £1.3 million from firm linked to Israeli settlements appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Pat Finucane was murdered in Belfast decades ago. Could an inquiry finally force British intelligence to come clean? The post A lawyer was murdered. Now an inquiry must expose MI5’s role appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

The pro-Israel group does not have to declare its funders because majority of board are not Labour party members The post Why is Labour Friends of Israel not led by Labour members? appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

BP and Shell are cashing in on Venezuela’s oil and gas following the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. The post Trump kidnapped Venezuela’s president. Now Britain looks to profit appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

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

Beijing has warned Taiwanese people against acting “two-faced” on the issue of Taiwan independence after television host Kevin Tsai Kang-yong attended a campaign rally for a Taipei mayoral candidate who has been labelled a separatist by Beijing. The episode underscores the political risks facing Taiwanese entertainers working on both sides... Read more »

A new exhibition about a pioneering school that nurtured talent for the country has opened at a Hong Kong history museum as part of the government’s efforts to promote national education, with many exhibits shown in the city for the first time. “National Development and Achievements Series: Cultivation and Renewal... Read more »

Taiwan’s coastguard is buying US-designed uncrewed surface vessels for its first dedicated drone-boat programme to strengthen its ability to detect and track the growing presence of mainland Chinese vessels operating around the island. Florida-based Maritime Tactical Systems (Martac) announced on Tuesday that the deal covered an undisclosed number of its... Read more »

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC), China’s leading flash-memory maker, is set to grow revenue six times faster than its industry peers this year as it expands into server-related business ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO), according to Counterpoint Research. The company’s server-related revenue was effectively zero in 2024,... Read more »

Japanese Agriculture Minister Kazuo Yana said he tendered his resignation following allegations of possible vote-buying, lining him up to become the first minister in Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government to quit over a scandal. “I apologise for causing such a huge inconvenience to those involved,” Yana said to reporters after... Read more »

A newlywed Chinese couple has gone viral on social media because they share exactly the same name, written with the same Chinese characters, and work in the same industry. The coincidence has caused a few practical complications, but many people see it as pure fate. On October 6, the groom,... Read more »

Senior American diplomats, administration officials and Indo-Pacific military commanders met in Tokyo earlier this month in what one source called an “unusual” gathering ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned visit to China in November. People familiar with the meeting said it represented an evolution of a long-standing practice in... Read more »

A debate over tipping culture has erupted across the Indonesian resort island of Bali and beyond, triggered by a politician’s unfavourable comparison of domestic and foreign tourists. In a social media video, I Gusti Arya Wedakarna urged domestic tourists to “normalise giving tips in touristy places”, which he said was... Read more »

Roughly one in three unattended dogs captured by Hong Kong authorities had been euthanised as of May this year, a sharp rise from 18 per cent in 2021, according to the latest legislative documents. The proportion of captured unattended dogs later reclaimed by their owners or transferred to animal welfare... Read more »

Beijing has warned Taiwanese people against acting “two-faced” on the issue of Taiwan independence after television host Kevin Tsai Kang-yong attended a campaign rally for a Taipei mayoral candidate who has been labelled a separatist by Beijing. The episode underscores the political risks facing Taiwanese entertainers working on both sides... Read more »

Courts in China have sentenced three key figures of a notorious Myanmar crime syndicate to death for operating large-scale cross-border telecoms fraud networks and causing the deaths of four Chinese nationals. The Quanzhou Intermediate People’s Court and the Nanan City People’s Court in southeastern Fujian province handed down the rulings... Read more »

Huang Qifan, former mayor of Chongqing and a survivor of multiple regional graft scandals, is under investigation for corruption, according to state media. State news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday that the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was investigating Huang for alleged serious violations of discipline and law,... Read more »

A group of Chinese officials are in the middle of a highly sensitive meeting involving critical decisions yet to be made behind closed doors, with documents stamped “classified” spread across the table. Suddenly, an invisible laser beams into the room, sweeping across a glass window and allowing the contents of... Read more »

Beijing is rapidly scaling up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to produce short-form videos and microdramas in its publicity campaigns, aligning with directives stressing technology’s role in strengthening ideological work and guiding public opinion. In contrast to sensational tropes dominating AI content across Chinese media platforms – such as... Read more »

This is a special contribution from the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. Read the full report at the end of the article. It will be available on the institute website cccw.hku.hk from October 13. With the rising strategic significance of energy, especially... Read more »

For anyone who has visited the Chinese galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is one work that stops them in their tracks. Stepping into Gallery 206, home to Chinese Buddhist art, visitors are met by a monumental wall – over 15 metres wide and 7.5... Read more »

Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Zhejiang province have called for greater oversight of major internet platforms and their “traffic power”, warning that online traffic and algorithms had evolved into a force capable of shaping public discussion and sentiment. The publicity department of the Zhejiang provincial party committee published the... Read more »

Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has welcomed talks between Washington and Beijing aimed at reducing the risk of conflict. Lai’s annual Double Tenth address on Saturday, marking the anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of China, Taiwan’s official name, also called for democracies to work together to safeguard regional... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech. The post An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home. The post Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing. The post ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state. The post Susan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland… Oregon appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After months of questions from The Intercept, the U.S. military finally acknowledged the March death of Maj. Sorffly Davius. The post Pentagon Finally Counts an Iran War Death — Six Months Late appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The mainstream of Minnesota’s left-of-center politics — including unions, the backbone of Democratic power — are behind the radical left. The post Trump Wanted Minneapolis 15 Case to Be Another Prairieland. Instead, Twin Cities Rallied Behind Anti-ICE Activists. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Dana Joudeh was denied proper food and medical care throughout her pregnancy in an Israeli prison. She gave birth to a premature baby surrounded by armed guards. The post A C-Section in Shackles: A Palestinian Woman’s Harrowing Birth in Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike. The post ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Despite a wildly unpopular war with Iran, a mass protest movement for peace hasn’t materialized — at least in the ways we’ve been taught to recognize. The post Where Are the Iran War Protests? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

From the Columbia University campus, we witnessed the weight of the law being used to silence a fellow student. Now, he gets to tell his own story.... Read more »

Despite a hostile media and a primary loss, Francesca Hong’s democratic socialist values proved enormously popular with Wisconsin voters.... Read more »

Over the last three years, we’ve lost a season of our lives along with the land that sustained it.... Read more »

The research that once guided us in keeping Americans healthy is being obliterated.... Read more »

Non-essential items are largely out of reach in the Strip, but the children there still need to play.... Read more »

A new book by Shawn Gude illustrates how ‘Convict No. 9653’ paved the way for today’s democratic socialists.... Read more »

When disease enters a school community, the consequences can be immediate and severe.... Read more »

At a new festival, performers from Joan Baez to Public Enemy harnessed the power of music to build political solidarity.... Read more »

Displaced Palestinians reflect on how life might have been if the genocide had never happened.... Read more »

The anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the birth of a dark new world where "the unthinkable has become banal," where many thousands of damaged Palestinian children - homeless, toy-less, traumatized, unschooled, with mournful questions about a lost world -... Read more »

As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to illegally expand oil and gas drilling into long-protected Arctic public lands in Alaska, the Department of the Interior today announced a categorical exclusion that aims to exempt oil and gas exploration projects from individual review under the National Environmental Policy Act.... Read more »

Today, the Trump administration invited fresh controversy when it announced it will abandon environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to allow oil and gas companies to run roughshod over pristine Arctic ecosystems to search for expensive, far flung oil. The Bureau of Land Management granted the polluters... Read more »

In response to allegations that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle abused her diplomatic position to advance private gas interests in the Balkans, Oil Change International’s Allie Rosenbluth said:“Trump’s push to lock Europe into decades of U.S. gas dependence puts fossil fuel profits ahead of people’s energy bills, health, and... Read more »

Corporations that have benefited from the Trump administration’s cancellation of federal enforcement actions have given $210.5 million in contributions and pledges to MAGA Inc., and other Trump-aligned Super PACs, according to a new investigation by Public Citizen.The finding comes as Public Citizen’s new analysis documents the Trump administration’s cancellation of... Read more »

In response to the outcome of the pre-COP summit in Fiji, Oxfam Climate Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: “These talks were an underwhelming precursor to the summit in Türkiye next month. The absence of leaders from the richest and most polluting countries sends a dangerous signal that the global commitment... Read more »

Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson had the following response to the news that Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton discussed cuts to Social Security in private conversations in Washington, as revealed in leaked audio published by the Texas Tribune: “It's disgusting that Ken Paxton is laughing while planning to... Read more »

Facing significant backlash to his recent TV ads, Trump recently declared he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for partisan advertisements. He has not indicated that he will reimburse the U.S. Treasury for public funds wasted so far.Public Citizen has filed multiple complaints against the Trump administration for... Read more »

More than 200 conservation organizations sent a letter today urging Congress to oppose the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” introduced by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Mike Lee (R-Utah). The bill includes sweeping attacks on the Endangered Species Act that... Read more »

How should we organize while the planet is burning and authoritarianism is intensifying? Chris Dixon reflects on lessons for the present, drawn from decades of activism on the left – for a moment where interest in left politics has grown significantly, yet while the organizational infrastructures of the left are... Read more »

What was the most powerful technology introduced into schools in the past century? You might answer the computer, or something like Zoom, or even the slide projector. But scholar Antero Garcia argues that it was the humble yellow school bus. Buses have been central to the struggle to desegregate education.... Read more »

Longtime activist Annie Leonard discusses the rich tradition of protest in this country and why we need to defend it, in the face of anti-protest laws, SLAPP suits, and diktats from the Trump administration. Donate in support of Against the Grain and KPFA The post Fund Drive Special: The Power... Read more »

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez argues that our immigration laws were put in place first to protect enslavers, and later elites more broadly, from the insurgent radicalism of migrants, starting with the Haitian Revolution. She looks at the modern construction of immigration control both as a type of counterinsurgency and labor... Read more »

The history of African American antifascism is often overlooked, from Ida B Wells-Barnett’s struggle against lynchings to activism against police violence and the carceral state today. In our increasingly authoritarian times, scholar Jeanelle Hope discusses what we can learn from the black antifascist tradition. The post Fund Drive Special: The... Read more »

American education has long been a battleground, but struggles over what students learn has become particularly intense right now, when teaching about racism has been prohibited in multiple states. Sociologist Nikki Khanna reflects on what’s missing, including key episodes from US history – from the United States attempts to starve... Read more »

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

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

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

Lunar samples from the near and the far sides of the moon will be on display at the 16th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) said Tuesday.... Read more »

Tokyo's attempts to use its correspondents in Russia to gather information will further strain Russia-Japan relations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Tuesday.... Read more »

China's top legislator Zhao Leji met separately with Botswana's President Duma Gideon Boko and President of the Council of Ministers of Togo Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé in Beijing on Tuesday.... Read more »

How China's growth shapes global cooperation and our shared future... Read more »

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned British ambassador to Tehran Hugo Shorter over his government's "baseless" claim that Iran had been involved in a suspected plot targeting a British air base.... Read more »

Beijing forum focuses on smarter, people-centered cities... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to firmly follow a path with Chinese characteristics in developing the country's health programs, to secure decisive progress in the Healthy China Initiative over the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030). Here are some of his key remarks on building a Healthy China... Read more »

The People's Republic of China and the Republic of Botswana on Tuesday issued a joint statement on the establishment of a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.... Read more »

The International Monetary Fund flagged several significant risks to growth and financial stability in their latest World Economic Outlook report... Read more »

Xi puts forward four proposals on China-Africa mining cooperation... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday put forward four principles for the constructive participation of all parties in the settlement of hotspot issues in Africa, during his meeting with President of the Council of the Togolese Republic Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, who is on an official visit to China.... Read more »

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with Antoine de Saint-Affrique, chief executive officer of Danone, a leading global food and beverage company, on Monday.... Read more »

Xi, Boko attend signing ceremony of cooperation documents in Beijing... Read more »

People from China and Japan, from different backgrounds, are driven by a shared mission: bringing a hidden history to light.... Read more »

China supports stronger people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday, emphasizing the importance of public engagement in promoting friendship between the two countries.... Read more »

President Xi holds welcome ceremony for Botswana's president... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of the Council of the Togolese Republic Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé announced on Tuesday that they would elevate bilateral relations to a China-Togo community with a shared future for the new era.... Read more »

President Xi holds talks with Botswana's president... Read more »

How China's growth shapes global cooperation and our shared future... Read more »

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with Antoine de Saint-Affrique, chief executive officer of Danone, a leading global food and beverage company, on Monday.... Read more »

The second meeting of the China-EU trade and investment consultation mechanism, held in Beijing on October 8-9, concluded with a list of deliverables and understandings, covering automotive trade, market access, export controls and other issues. At a time of growing trade tensions, the meeting was more than an opportunity for dialogue.... Read more »

The People's Bank of China has recently clarified its stance on the renminbi exchange rate, pushing back against simplistic narratives that attribute China's trade surplus and global trade imbalances entirely to currency factors.... Read more »

This robot dog just completed a shift — no breaks, no complaints. It guided visitors, answered questions, and covered over 40 km a day. Embodied AI isn't a demo anymore. It's on the job.... Read more »

China's rise offers the world an alternative — modernization without Westernization. The world is mentally unprepared for China's current role, but a new option now exists, said Sławomir Majman, vice president of the Polish Institute of Security and International Development and former president of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment... Read more »

World's largest industrial fair opens in Shanghai... Read more »

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met with Evan Greenberg, executive vice chair of the National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR), in Beijing on Monday.... Read more »

The IMF is forecasting global growth at 3.1% in 2026, an upgrade of 0.1 percentage point from its earlier estimate in July.... Read more »

Thousands of workers and young people joined rallies across Australia last weekend marking three years since the start of the Zionist regime’s imperialist-backed onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza.... Read more »

The film features interviews with two dozen members of the Israeli military who detail the AI systems and protocols by which the IDF target and murder civilians.... Read more »

Leading SEG member Tom Petterson will stand in the November 7 election, in opposition to all the capitalist parties, on a socialist and anti-war platform.... Read more »

No longer simply a problem of so-called “emerging markets,” the debt crisis is lodged within all the major economies.... Read more »

Racist and anti-communist denunciations accompanied attacks on protesters in scenes recalling the German American Bund’s 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.... Read more »

The proclamation by President Donald Trump of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine and his lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel have been met with scathing denunciations by broad factions of the US political establishment, led by the Democratic Party.... Read more »

By inventing mass support for UAW President Shawn Fain, they are seeking to delegitimize all opposition to the bureaucracy and providing cover for it to move against opposition in the rank and file.... Read more »

As workers march on Miraflores against starvation wages, Delcy Rodríguez boasts in Rome of Chavismo’s “zero hunger” record. The catastrophe is the work of US imperialism and its Chavista enforcers, but political responsibility for disarming the working class lies with their pseudo-left apologists.... Read more »

In a joint statement, the Left Party, Greens and Social Democratic Party have affirmed Israel’s “right to exist,” announced campus bans for pro-Palestinian activists at Berlin universities, and committed to strengthening the police and domestic intelligence agency in their “task of protecting Jewish life in Berlin.”... Read more »

China's Pinglu Canal project wins international green design awards... Read more »

Forest in China's Greater Hinggan engulfed in clouds... Read more »

China's foreign trade expands 18.8% in first three quarters... Read more »

Beijing plans to build 100 habitat gardens and villages over the next five years to protect its ancient and notable trees, according to an action plan issued by the Beijing Greening Commission.... Read more »

New bridge to open over China-DPRK border river... Read more »

China's service exports grew rapidly in the first eight months of this year, with travel, transport and knowledge-intensive services performing particularly well, according to data published by the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday.... Read more »

Lunar samples from the near and the far sides of the moon will be on display at the 16th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) said Tuesday.... Read more »

China's CPI up 0.9% in September... Read more »

China's top legislator Zhao Leji met separately with Botswana's President Duma Gideon Boko and President of the Council of Ministers of Togo Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé in Beijing on Tuesday.... Read more »

If Japan wants real international respect, it must confront its history, sincerely repent, and stop following historical revisionism and reviving militarism.... Read more »

For those remembering the Long March today, the outcome is known; yet for those who lived through it, nothing was assured. To understand its enduring place in the Chinese collective memory, we need to recover that uncertainty: When survival itself hung in the balance, what force drove people to press... Read more »

How China's growth shapes global cooperation and our shared future... Read more »

When policy, finance and implementation work together to protect where people live, resilience takes root – strengthening communities today and expanding opportunity for generations to come.... Read more »

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group began their annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, with the global economic outlook once again in focus.... Read more »

From smog to blue skies: China’s urban governance transformation... Read more »

How Cities Are Responding to an Aging Population... Read more »

Governing a megacity means confronting a paradox – the problems are infinite in variety, while bureaucratic responsibility is finite and fragmented. Since 2019, Beijing's answer to this paradox has been the reform of its 12345 citizen service hotline, known as "Jiesu jiban," or "Swift Response to Public Complaints."... Read more »

Inside Wenzhou: How do Chinese private enterprises compete globally?... Read more »

Foreign diplomats try goji berries to 'become Chinese'... Read more »

Forest in China's Greater Hinggan engulfed in clouds... Read more »

'Fabulous Beasts' comic brings Chinese mythical creatures to life... Read more »

The Gold Winged Crown of Emperor Wanli from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) is a masterpiece of fine gold-wire weaving and intricate welding.... Read more »

China's tech-driven experiences are becoming a new draw for overseas visitors, with robots, new energy vehicles (NEVs) and autonomous driving technologies joining traditional landmarks on travel itineraries in Shanghai.... Read more »

Documentary film Hotline Beijing 2 screened in Chinese capital... Read more »

2027 Shanghai Fashion Week: Global fashion converges in the East... Read more »

The Beijing Music Festival and the Capital Museum have teamed up to offer holders of Beijing Music Festival ticket stubs discounted admission to the exhibition "Maize, Gold and Jaguar – A Grand Exhibition of Ancient Maya and Andean Civilizations," giving audiences an opportunity to explore different cultures through music and... Read more »

Who would be today's Mozart? The creative team behind the reimagined "The Magic Flute" has offered different perspectives on this question.... Read more »

An OpenAI engineer has been arrested after allegedly installing a hidden audio recording device inside the company's office in San Francisco, the United States, according to statements released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and OpenAI.... Read more »

Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be only months away from being able to behave like computer worms, copying themselves from one internet-connected device to another without human intervention, AI giant Anthropic said.... Read more »

A robot has helped researchers record ghost plants in the understory of the Ailao Mountains in southwest China's Yunnan Province, highlighting how technology can support biodiversity surveys in hard-to-reach forest environments.... Read more »

China's Pinglu Canal project wins international green design awards... Read more »

Beijing plans to build 100 habitat gardens and villages over the next five years to protect its ancient and notable trees, according to an action plan issued by the Beijing Greening Commission.... Read more »

Lunar samples from the near and the far sides of the moon will be on display at the 16th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) said Tuesday.... Read more »

Florida neighbors are fighting back against AI data center boom... Read more »

China releases report on ethical governance for embodied AI... Read more »

Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim made... Read more »

High casualties on IDF strikes were not isolated mishaps or errors, but the result of Israeli policy that turned a blind eye to a civilian toll unlike anything it had ever seen.... Read more »

Defense Minister Israel Katz has bragged that Israel was destroying “not one house at a time,” but “the entirety of those villages.”... Read more »

The name Israel was decided on May 14, 1948 by a 7-3 vote. Most had assumed its name would be Judea; other contestants were Zion, Ever (the root of the word Hebrew), or simply “the Land of Israel.”... Read more »

Trump has attacked Iran twice, both times amid nuclear negotiations and alongside Israel. The war has made it more likely that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons, and has undermined the cause of nuclear nonproliferation across the Middle East and beyond.... Read more »

The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has taken credit for a number of recent legislative efforts on behalf of Israel, including NDAA Section 219... Read more »

After Trump banned CNN, MSNow and Politico from press access to the presidency, even Fox boycotted the White House. The press needs to show the same backbone when it comes to Gaza. Major news organizations need to boycott Israel until it opens up Gaza to international coverage... Read more »

The Supreme Court’s decision to force Palestinian politician Sami Abu Shehadeh out of the upcoming Israeli elections is the latest sign that there is no place for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state.... Read more »

After the Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law... Read more »

Indiscriminate, disproportionate bombing killed massive numbers of Gazans (as Palestinian reporters have said for 3 years); new levels of Israeli settler barbarity; more... Read more »

The military's publicly subsidized grocery stores save service members an average savings rate of 25 percent. The post VIDEO: A Successful Public Option for Groceries Already Exists: Military Commissaries appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

New York City’s $100 tickets for 1,000 residents offered a small experiment in economic democracy — and an effort to keep the tournament within reach of the working class. The post Can the US Open Still Be the ‘People’s Slam’? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The mid-century height of the potluck is long gone, but some towns are keeping the flame alive. The post Our Town, Our Table: The Community-Building Power of a Shared Meal appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Amid growing concerns about America’s polarization, similar gatherings are being rediscovered as a way to rebuild connections. The post Does Your Neighborhood Need a Coffee Klatch? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Or do we have more to worry about from Donald Trump? The post Is AI About to Destroy Humanity? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The next Congress may see a record crop of progressive lawmakers. Here are some of the global issues they’ll need to confront. The post Foreign Policy Crisis Points Awaiting the Next Generation of Progressive Lawmakers appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Sarah Anderson tells the Windham World Affairs Council about Pinochet's coup and the long fight for justice for our murdered colleagues. The post VIDEO: The Long Blowback of U.S. Support for Pinochet’s Chile appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

"It's never too late" to stop supporting a genocide, Phyllis Bennis tells the Jasim Al-Azzawi Show. The post VIDEO: Phyllis Bennis on Netanyahu’s UN Speech, the Gaza Genocide, and a Shifting Political Landscape appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

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

The military's publicly subsidized grocery stores save service members an average savings rate of 25 percent. The post VIDEO: A Successful Public Option for Groceries Already Exists: Military Commissaries appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

New York City’s $100 tickets for 1,000 residents offered a small experiment in economic democracy — and an effort to keep the tournament within reach of the working class. The post Can the US Open Still Be the ‘People’s Slam’? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The mid-century height of the potluck is long gone, but some towns are keeping the flame alive. The post Our Town, Our Table: The Community-Building Power of a Shared Meal appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Amid growing concerns about America’s polarization, similar gatherings are being rediscovered as a way to rebuild connections. The post Does Your Neighborhood Need a Coffee Klatch? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Or do we have more to worry about from Donald Trump? The post Is AI About to Destroy Humanity? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The next Congress may see a record crop of progressive lawmakers. Here are some of the global issues they’ll need to confront. The post Foreign Policy Crisis Points Awaiting the Next Generation of Progressive Lawmakers appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Sarah Anderson tells the Windham World Affairs Council about Pinochet's coup and the long fight for justice for our murdered colleagues. The post VIDEO: The Long Blowback of U.S. Support for Pinochet’s Chile appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

"It's never too late" to stop supporting a genocide, Phyllis Bennis tells the Jasim Al-Azzawi Show. The post VIDEO: Phyllis Bennis on Netanyahu’s UN Speech, the Gaza Genocide, and a Shifting Political Landscape appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

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

"NO TURKS - ALL OUT" - CDU Candidate With Turkish Background Allegedly Faked Hate Crime Attack Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix, Prosecutors have opened an investigation into a local Christian Democratic Union (CDU) mayoral candidate of Turkish origin who is accused of staging a racially motivated attack on... Read more »

Pump-Pain Squeezes Convenience Store Spending: Citi Says "More Subdued" Mood Among Beverage Companies Our reporting this year has shown how skyrocketing gasoline and diesel prices at the pump are reshaping consumer spending habits at convenience stores and gas stations.  As fuel costs take up a larger share of household budgets,... Read more »

British Prime Minister Says Russia Meddled In 2016 Referendum On Leaving EU Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said that Russia interfered in the UK's 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, and he warned voters in France and Germany about efforts... Read more »

From EVs To Attack Drones: Battery Factory Conversion Echoes WWII Industrial Mobilization Amprius Technologies has secured a $75 million US Department of War grant to convert an EV battery production line into advanced batteries for Group 1, 2, and 3 military drones. The award marks another example of civilian manufacturing capacity... Read more »

Guess Which European Country Is Tolerating Child Marriages? Authored by - Remix News Staff - via Remix News, A parliamentary inquiry by Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmakers in the German state of Baden-Württemberg has brought to light official data showing that authorities have recorded 358 so-called child marriages since April... Read more »

Is The West Funding Mexican Narcoterroist Soldiers In Ukraine? President Claudia Sheinbaum said last week that authorities are investigating a video purportedly showing cartel-linked fighters on Ukraine's front lines. The investigation comes amid growing concern that Mexican narcoterrorists are incorporating lessons from the war into their operations, including one-way attack drones... Read more »

WHO Issues Update On Russian Plague Lab Worker's Death Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization (WHO) on Oct. 10 said it still doesn't know what caused the pneumonia that killed a Russian anti-plague researcher earlier this month, but it noted that no case of... Read more »

Nobody Goes To War For The Rules-Based Order Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Are all cultures equally worthy of our respect? Globalists say, "yes." Are all religions equally worthy of our respect? Globalists say, "yes." Are all nations equally worthy of our respect? Globalists say, "yes." Globalists speak... Read more »

Iran Threatens Neighbors With Ground Invasions If US Bombs Again, Preps Citizen Insurgency America's Gulf allies have raised the possibility of an Iranian military ground invasion of their territories in the event of a major renewed US bombing campaign, which President Trump has threated to restart against Iran after the... Read more »

Over the span of roughly three hours, President Donald Trump posted two dozen videos — and one rant about Greenland — on social media Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, a late-night barrage that left onlookers questioning the president’s mental state.The first of the two dozen videos Trump posted online... Read more »

JD Vance’s attack on Texas Senate candidate James Talarico by implying he is gay came back to haunt the vice president on MS NOW, which revived stories that Vance has repeatedly been accused of wearing eyeliner during his public appearances.Speaking to supporters at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, a fan yelled... Read more »

The Kennedy Center’s new artistic director was pressing for more authority over the institution months before he formally got the job, according to newly revealed emails.New emails provided to the Washington Post by the office of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) show Rick Canny, an entertainment-industry veteran who has advised Kennedy... Read more »

CNN commentator Scott Jennings tried to throw a lifeline to President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary on Tuesday night. Fellow Republican Ana Navarro used the moment to take a shot at him instead.On “NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip asked Jennings what he thought of Katie Zacharia’s first briefing. White... Read more »

In what marked an “unprecedented” and major “escalation” in the Trump administration’s campaign to exert more control over states’ voting processes, the Justice Department sent California a “password-protected thumb drive” and a 48-hour demand regarding the midterms, Reuters reported Tuesday night.The DOJ sent its demand to California Secretary of State... Read more »

President Donald Trump once again claimed ownership of Greenland in a late-night Truth Social boast.The post, at about 12:17 a.m. EDT Wednesday, described “Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration” getting ready to begin in “our new and beautiful Greenland.” Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, not a U.S. territory.Trump’s... Read more »

President Donald Trump has spent the past five days doing favors for Russian President Vladimir Putin, but with the midterm elections just three weeks away, Republicans are left with the political fallout.The 80-year-old U.S. president is renewing his scandal-plagued relationship with the reviled Russian dictator as American voters begin casting... Read more »

Every once in a while, someone comes along who explains the Trump phenomenon better than a thousand polls, focus groups and New York Times diner interviews ever could.Meet Eric Deters.Deters is a Kentucky attorney, former congressional candidate and longtime Trump donor who has apparently reached the conclusion that Kimberly Guilfoyle... Read more »

A Trump biographer believes the president's latest overture to Moscow is the opening move in a plan reaching far past his term.Michael Wolff said in a Tuesday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," the podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles, that President Donald Trump's recent deal to buy Russian diesel is... Read more »

Over the span of roughly three hours, President Donald Trump posted two dozen videos — and one rant about Greenland — on social media Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, a late-night barrage that left onlookers questioning the president’s mental state.The first of the two dozen videos Trump posted online... Read more »

JD Vance’s attack on Texas Senate candidate James Talarico by implying he is gay came back to haunt the vice president on MS NOW, which revived stories that Vance has repeatedly been accused of wearing eyeliner during his public appearances.Speaking to supporters at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, a fan yelled... Read more »

The Kennedy Center’s new artistic director was pressing for more authority over the institution months before he formally got the job, according to newly revealed emails.New emails provided to the Washington Post by the office of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) show Rick Canny, an entertainment-industry veteran who has advised Kennedy... Read more »

CNN commentator Scott Jennings tried to throw a lifeline to President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary on Tuesday night. Fellow Republican Ana Navarro used the moment to take a shot at him instead.On “NewsNight,” host Abby Phillip asked Jennings what he thought of Katie Zacharia’s first briefing. White... Read more »

In what marked an “unprecedented” and major “escalation” in the Trump administration’s campaign to exert more control over states’ voting processes, the Justice Department sent California a “password-protected thumb drive” and a 48-hour demand regarding the midterms, Reuters reported Tuesday night.The DOJ sent its demand to California Secretary of State... Read more »

President Donald Trump once again claimed ownership of Greenland in a late-night Truth Social boast.The post, at about 12:17 a.m. EDT Wednesday, described “Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration” getting ready to begin in “our new and beautiful Greenland.” Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, not a U.S. territory.Trump’s... Read more »

President Donald Trump has spent the past five days doing favors for Russian President Vladimir Putin, but with the midterm elections just three weeks away, Republicans are left with the political fallout.The 80-year-old U.S. president is renewing his scandal-plagued relationship with the reviled Russian dictator as American voters begin casting... Read more »

Every once in a while, someone comes along who explains the Trump phenomenon better than a thousand polls, focus groups and New York Times diner interviews ever could.Meet Eric Deters.Deters is a Kentucky attorney, former congressional candidate and longtime Trump donor who has apparently reached the conclusion that Kimberly Guilfoyle... Read more »

A Trump biographer believes the president's latest overture to Moscow is the opening move in a plan reaching far past his term.Michael Wolff said in a Tuesday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," the podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles, that President Donald Trump's recent deal to buy Russian diesel is... Read more »

Q: Claims about James Talarico being hospitalized in a mental health facility. Is this true? A: No. An Ohio mental health center rebutted false online rumors that Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, had been there as a patient. Talarico said he was off the campaign trail... Read more »

In partially repealing a Biden-era regulation that limited carbon emissions from power plants, Trump administration officials have misleadingly cast the prior administration’s policy as a threat to grid reliability. Experts say that’s unfounded. The post Trump Officials Mislead About Electrical Grid Reliability appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In several congressional races, Republican ads are claiming that Democratic candidates support "sex changes" for children or support taxpayer money being used for such surgeries. But the allegations are flawed. The post Republican Ads Distort the Facts in Claiming Democratic Support for ‘Sex Changes’ for Kids appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Multiple ads airing in Michigan attack Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for past statements he made, or positions he held, about policing and prisons. But the ads either omit context or exaggerate his past policy proposals. The post Republican Ads Attack El-Sayed for Past Comments, Positions on Policing and Prisons... Read more »

In congressional races around the country, Democrats find themselves under attack in political ads for allegedly opposing the popular tax cuts for tips, overtime and older Americans that were part of Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Many of the candidates themselves say they support those particular provisions. The post... Read more »

President Donald Trump’s remarks about the possibility that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego have sparked a firestorm of criticism, with Democrats claiming the president was either calling for a foreign adversary to attack the U.S. or portraying the destruction of two major cities as acceptable collateral... Read more »

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Q: Claims about James Talarico being hospitalized in a mental health facility. Is this true? A: No. An Ohio mental health center rebutted false online rumors that Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, had been there as a patient. Talarico said he was off the campaign trail... Read more »

In partially repealing a Biden-era regulation that limited carbon emissions from power plants, Trump administration officials have misleadingly cast the prior administration’s policy as a threat to grid reliability. Experts say that’s unfounded. The post Trump Officials Mislead About Electrical Grid Reliability appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In several congressional races, Republican ads are claiming that Democratic candidates support "sex changes" for children or support taxpayer money being used for such surgeries. But the allegations are flawed. The post Republican Ads Distort the Facts in Claiming Democratic Support for ‘Sex Changes’ for Kids appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Multiple ads airing in Michigan attack Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for past statements he made, or positions he held, about policing and prisons. But the ads either omit context or exaggerate his past policy proposals. The post Republican Ads Attack El-Sayed for Past Comments, Positions on Policing and Prisons... Read more »

In congressional races around the country, Democrats find themselves under attack in political ads for allegedly opposing the popular tax cuts for tips, overtime and older Americans that were part of Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Many of the candidates themselves say they support those particular provisions. The post... Read more »

President Donald Trump’s remarks about the possibility that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego have sparked a firestorm of criticism, with Democrats claiming the president was either calling for a foreign adversary to attack the U.S. or portraying the destruction of two major cities as acceptable collateral... Read more »

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Prajwal Bhat After a federal agent shot an immigrant in New York, activists are questioning Mamdani’s handling of the NYPD and his relationship with the White House. The post A Horrific ICE Shooting Is Testing Mamdani’s Approach to Trump appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Andrea Arroyo Allegations of gang rape and sex trafficking at Cornell University highlight persistent concerns about rape culture, even years after the #MeToo movement. The post Jane Doe: Courage and Dignity appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Diana Sophia Cordoba Without full-time teachers, temperature-regulated classrooms, or school nurses, French students are turning their grievances into a national movement. The post France’s Students Won’t Back Down appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Lily Seltz, Lara-Nour Walton College sexual assault is predictable. Here's how to change that. The post The Architecture of Campus Assault appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

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David Moore The inside debate. The post The DNC Fight to Ban Dark Money in Presidential Primaries appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Candidates in 2026 are responding to an electorate that’s ready to abolish ICE, tax the billionaire class, and free Palestine. The post Democrats Are Learning a New Political Language appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

David Futrelle …even as AI courts serial real-world disasters, defaces the environment with data centers, and is not about to return your empathy in kind. The post Anthropic Wants You to Be Kind to Claude appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

John Nichols Protests like that of Macklemore on Palestine should never be silenced by billionaire owners. The post The First Amendment Applies to Concert Stages Too appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

High casualties on IDF strikes were not isolated mishaps or errors, but the result of Israeli policy that turned a blind eye to a civilian toll unlike anything it had ever seen.... Read more »

Defense Minister Israel Katz has bragged that Israel was destroying “not one house at a time,” but “the entirety of those villages.”... Read more »

The name Israel was decided on May 14, 1948 by a 7-3 vote. Most had assumed its name would be Judea; other contestants were Zion, Ever (the root of the word Hebrew), or simply “the Land of Israel.”... Read more »

Trump has attacked Iran twice, both times amid nuclear negotiations and alongside Israel. The war has made it more likely that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons, and has undermined the cause of nuclear nonproliferation across the Middle East and beyond.... Read more »

The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has taken credit for a number of recent legislative efforts on behalf of Israel, including NDAA Section 219... Read more »

After Trump banned CNN, MSNow and Politico from press access to the presidency, even Fox boycotted the White House. The press needs to show the same backbone when it comes to Gaza. Major news organizations need to boycott Israel until it opens up Gaza to international coverage... Read more »

The Supreme Court’s decision to force Palestinian politician Sami Abu Shehadeh out of the upcoming Israeli elections is the latest sign that there is no place for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state.... Read more »

After the Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law... Read more »

Indiscriminate, disproportionate bombing killed massive numbers of Gazans (as Palestinian reporters have said for 3 years); new levels of Israeli settler barbarity; more... Read more »

High casualties on IDF strikes were not isolated mishaps or errors, but the result of Israeli policy that turned a blind eye to a civilian toll unlike anything it had ever seen.... Read more »

Defense Minister Israel Katz has bragged that Israel was destroying “not one house at a time,” but “the entirety of those villages.”... Read more »

The name Israel was decided on May 14, 1948 by a 7-3 vote. Most had assumed its name would be Judea; other contestants were Zion, Ever (the root of the word Hebrew), or simply “the Land of Israel.”... Read more »

Trump has attacked Iran twice, both times amid nuclear negotiations and alongside Israel. The war has made it more likely that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons, and has undermined the cause of nuclear nonproliferation across the Middle East and beyond.... Read more »

The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has taken credit for a number of recent legislative efforts on behalf of Israel, including NDAA Section 219... Read more »

After Trump banned CNN, MSNow and Politico from press access to the presidency, even Fox boycotted the White House. The press needs to show the same backbone when it comes to Gaza. Major news organizations need to boycott Israel until it opens up Gaza to international coverage... Read more »

The Supreme Court’s decision to force Palestinian politician Sami Abu Shehadeh out of the upcoming Israeli elections is the latest sign that there is no place for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state.... Read more »

After the Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law... Read more »

Indiscriminate, disproportionate bombing killed massive numbers of Gazans (as Palestinian reporters have said for 3 years); new levels of Israeli settler barbarity; more... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yemen’s Armed Forces say a special military operation deep inside Saudi Arabia, targeting three strategic sites with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones.... Read more »

A former Iraqi minister has warned of a new US-Israeli scheme targeting Iraq’s security and sovereignty following US envoy’s visit to Baghdad.... Read more »

Saudi Arabia’s expensive air defenses and sustained airstrikes have failed to neutralize Yemen’s resilient missile capabilities and underground infrastructure, exposing the strategic limitations of technological superiority against adaptive, decentralized warfare.... Read more »

As the Israeli regime heads toward the October 27 elections, failed wars and growing disillusionment among settlers dominate the campaigns of Netanyahu and his rivals.... Read more »

Leaked emails have revealed business and political ties between former German intelligence chief and Mossad, according to a report.... Read more »

An Aramco administrative building in eastern Saudi Arabia has been targeted, triggering a fire, Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry says amid warnings from Yemen.... Read more »

As the Israeli regime heads toward the October 27 elections, failed wars and growing disillusionment among settlers dominate the campaigns of Netanyahu and his rivals.... Read more »

Leaked emails have revealed business and political ties between former German intelligence chief and Mossad, according to a report.... Read more »

An Aramco administrative building in eastern Saudi Arabia has been targeted, triggering a fire, Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry says amid warnings from Yemen.... Read more »

Critics argue these new allegations are fabricated by the US government to justify its actions against Venezuela.... Read more »

SOUTHCOM says 4 more suspects were killed in a US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.... Read more »

The winner will be in charge of Latin America's biggest economy and a population of 214 million.... Read more »

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation cannot replace answers over children taken from their families, abused and buried far from home.... Read more »

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

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

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

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

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation cannot replace answers over children taken from their families, abused and buried far from home.... Read more »

Leaked emails have revealed business and political ties between former German intelligence chief and Mossad, according to a report.... Read more »

De Villepin cataloged a series of unilateral actions by Trump that have directly harmed European interests, sovereignty, and energy security, only to be met with a cowardly silence.... Read more »

France’s education crisis exposes declining academic standards, teacher shortages, and growing student disillusionment, while brutal police responses to student protests underscore official indifference to their legitimate demands.... Read more »

German lawmakers urge Chancellor Friedrich Merz to reach a deal with Moscow, similar to the US agreement, to obtain diesel supplies from Russia.... Read more »

Trump is enraged by Zelensky's refusal to reach a peace deal with his Russian counterpart, according to a report.... Read more »

The furious backlash erupted after Trump announced on social media Friday that he had struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call.... Read more »

Trump has announced that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to begin an immediate ceasefire in attacks targeting each other's energy facilities. ... Read more »

German lawmakers urge Chancellor Friedrich Merz to reach a deal with Moscow, similar to the US agreement, to obtain diesel supplies from Russia.... Read more »

Trump is enraged by Zelensky's refusal to reach a peace deal with his Russian counterpart, according to a report.... Read more »