Crippling US sanctions imposed under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged Syrian civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions says. An independent United Nations expert is calling on the US to lift its crippling sanctions on Syria. Under the Caesar Act, US sanctions explicitly... Read more »

John Sullivan was at the front of the Trumpist mob in the Capitol, egging it on as he recorded the rampage. The far-right is pointing to him as proof of Antifa’s role in the riot. But leftist activists call him a dangerous provocateur and have banished him. The most dramatic... Read more »

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Brian Becker, host of The Socialist Program, about the implications of the recent Stop the Steal riot in Washington D.C. By Anya Parampil   Becker analyzes direct coordination between rioters and the police and explains why he believes the Biden Era could be... Read more »

The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile Washington and Saudi Arabia have supported al-Qaeda. The United States government has designated the main enemy of al-Qaeda in Yemen, the Houthi movement, as a terrorist organization, after... Read more »

As a UK judge rejects Julian Assange’s extradition but keeps him caged in Belmarsh prison, UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer discusses Assange’s persecution and the lies used to wage it. A UK judge has rejected a US attempt to extradite Julian Assange, citing the Wikileaks founder’s risk of... Read more »

As Venezuela elects and swears in a new National Assembly Red Lines host Anya Parampil sits down with the country’s Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, in their latest conversation since the US launched its coup attempt against his government in January of 2019. By Anya Parampil Parampil and Arreaza discuss the... Read more »

UK judge Vanessa Baraitser justified CIA spying on Julian Assange by citing a falsehood-filled CNN report. Her judgment highlighted corporate media’s enthusiastic role in a state-sponsored assault on press freedom. The British judge ruling in the US government’s extradition case against journalist Julian Assange justified a CIA spying operation targeting... Read more »

President Trump is overseeing a barbaric federal killing spree on his way out of his office, executing more prisoners in 2020 than all states combined. Reporter George Hale of NPR takes us inside the death chamber. President Trump is leaving office by overseeing a record level of federal executions, with... Read more »

For the first time, OPCW chief Fernando Arias was asked a series of direct questions at the United Nations about the cover-up of a Syria chemical weapons probe. He answered none of them. Russia’s UN ambassador asked Arias about several damning leaks, some revealed by The Grayzone, as well as... Read more »

Journal-January 13 Israel: Jewish Supremacist State A brief comment on B’Tselem’s position paper designating Israel an Apartheid state 1.      During the past two decades, many respected individuals and organizations have designated the regime Israel has established in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)—the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza—as a form... Read more »

Join Yemeni Alliance Committee, Yemen Relief & Reconstruction Foundation & Spin Film for a global virtual film screening of Hunger Ward on Jan. 16th followed by a panel discussion with U.S. House Representative Ro Khanna, U.K. Member of Parliament Andrew Mitchell, director Skye Fitzgerald from Spin Film, and others. The... Read more »

Click here to join the global online rally: https://students4yemen.carrd.co/  You and your friends can tweet or share your support for the day of action with the hashtag #YemenCantWait #DayOfAction4Yemen and the following link for the global online rally  https://students4yemen.carrd.co/ The post ‘I support the Global Day of Action for Yemen’. Will You... Read more »

December 26, 2020 THE GREEN WAR Dean Baker: “It is more than a bit annoying to hear reporters endlessly refer to China as the world’s second largest economy. It isn’t. It’s the world’s largest economy and has been since 2017. Here are the data from the International Monetary Fund. …”“…... Read more »

The post Why, despite everything, I believe in God. (Let’s hope and pray that he’s now en route, via the Sweet Chariot, to a Hamas interrogation center.) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Journal-January 10, 2021 I lost a special friend tonight. It’s a bittersweet loss.  I completed W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography.  It was my close companion the past few days, we, in intimate dialogue.  I looked forward each night after work sneaking in an hour or two just relaxedly reading its... Read more »

December 18, 2020 A MODERNISM THAT IS NOT NOISE The Library of Congress posted a 55-minute YouTube video of Aaron Diehl’s 2019 piano recital “Blues and the Spanish Tinge,” which featured pieces by Ignacio Cervantes, Robert Johnson, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Jelly Roll Morton, W.C. Handy and, most notably, Diehl’s own... Read more »

Journal-January 8, 2021 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Autobiography is conventionally chronological until he suddenly springs on the reader a chapter entitled “My Character.”  Of character in general, he says “that the sort of person a man was would in the long run prove more important for the world than what he... Read more »

Between hope and cynicism – COVID-19 Vaccines in the context of the Indian sub-continent Unprecedented is a word which gets thrown around way too often and at times callously. But for once, there is no better word to describe this pandemic than just that, unprecedented. Having lived in Kashmir though,... Read more »

David Edwards is co-editor of UK-based media watch site Media Lens and author of several books including ‘Free to be Human’, ‘The Compassionate Revolution’ and ‘Propaganda Blitz’. The following interview was conducted on email and completed 18 →... Read more »

Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: ‘You are really deeper in the heads of →... Read more »

The Roman poet Horace famously declared: ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’ It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described →... Read more »

Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, died on 30 October aged 74. In reviewing his life and career, the newspaper for which he worked for more than two decades wrote of their star reporter: →... Read more »

In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), →... Read more »

One of the most imposing features of state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature. Over and over again, the ‘mainstream’ media have to convince the public that ‘our’ government prioritises the health, welfare and livelihoods →... Read more »

We can report that the skies over South East England have been swarming with Spitfires and Hurricanes this month. Is there a war on? Well, yes. In 1991, the historian Howard Zinn described the two →... Read more »

The use and misuse of George Orwell’s truth-telling is so widespread that we can easily miss his intended meaning. For example, with perfect (Orwellian) irony, the BBC has a statue of Orwell outside Broadcasting House, →... Read more »

On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced →... Read more »

Boris Johnson’s Conservative government are set to break one of their key post-Brexit promises after plans to decimate YOUR rights at work – including laws to slash holiday pay entitlements, bin rest breaks, and allow bosses to force you to work longer hours – were leaked following meetings between Senior... Read more »

The leader of Scottish Labour, Richard Leonard, has dramatically resigned from his post tonight just hours after the Labour leader Keir Starmer, alongside Deputy leader Angela Rayner, held a conference call with wealthy potential donors who “warned they would not back the party while [Leonard] remained in post“. According to... Read more »

The United Nations humanitarian aid organisation UNICEF have been forced to launch a ‘domestic emergency response’ to help feed hungry children in the United Kingdom for the first time since its founding in 1946. The UN organisation has pledged tens of thousands of pounds in funding to help provide breakfast... Read more »

Being working-class at university pervades almost every aspect of your experience. It becomes something that you think about every day – whether it’s an offhand comment, or an overarching feeling that you just don’t get the culture that you’ve suddenly become a part of. I existed in what was very... Read more »

It’s been just over 7 months since Keir Starmer was elected leader of the Labour Party. However, despite winning over a convincing majority of Labour members back in April, and pulling level with the Tories in the polls, the former Director of Public Prosecution’s performance since his election victory has... Read more »

The former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the Labour Party pending investigation following the release of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into antisemitism earlier today. The party said that it had taken the decision following Mr Corbyn’s official response to the EHRC report, in... Read more »

A Conservative Party Election Agent has been allowed to avoid jail after being convicted of 16 counts of electoral fraud yesterday at Southwark Crown Court in London. In the run-up to the 2018 Local Elections, Diana Danescu, 28, falsely posed as both Labour and Green Party affiliates in an attempt... Read more »

A pub owner in New Brighton, Wirral, has become so frustrated at the new government restrictions placed on the region that he has rebranded his pub to “The Three Bellends” in honour of three high-ranking Tory figures. The pub used to be called The James Atherton, named after the founder... Read more »

H MRC have made the astonishing decision to write-off at least £30,000 worth of unpaid Council Tax for the Prime Minister’s Senior Advisor, Dominic Cummings. An investigation conducted by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) – an official executive agency of HMRC employing more than 3,600 staff – found that Cummings... Read more »

To adequately respond to the ongoing crisis of democracy, we must support care and protection strategies for activists.... Read more »

The Global South must end regional inequality on its own terms – not the North’s.... Read more »

Democrats won the critical Senate runoff races. But did evangelical groups ‘cross a legal line’ in trying to keep Republicans' grip on power?... Read more »

What have we (l)earned, what are we revealing/hiding, what can we see? In three pieces.... Read more »

Like Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years of street violence.... Read more »

A community of one million people has been left out of the US’s belated national reckoning with racism. It’s time to change that.... Read more »

Although we find the censorship of the still-president of the US sympathetic and fair, we must not forget that social networks are actors with political and economic interests.... Read more »

In the France of today, it would mean democratising the response to the virus, not imprisoning it in the closed corridors of power.... Read more »

What path should pro-European UK democrats pursue in 2021?... Read more »

Imagine a purgatorial dreamscape so dazzling it blinds you to your own misery, and certainly to other people’s. Let’s call it New York City. Imagine you are living there at the end of history. Let’s call it the nineties. Not the real nineties, of course – the nineties of the... Read more »

This weekend, workers at SAGE care home in Golders Green, north London are striking. Their demands – which if met, could set a historic precedent in the private care industry – include £12 an hour, parity with NHS sick pay, better annual leave provision and recognition for their union, United... Read more »

When universities resumed teaching in September, many institutions encouraged or even demanded that students return in person, despite Covid-19 restrictions making much of student life impossible. While the first and second lockdowns saw students trapped in university accommodation; now, in the third, they are unable to even enter the rooms... Read more »

The government have once again been shamed by a footballer for failing Britain’s kids. From a botched schools policy to paltry meals, are the Tories failing a generation? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »

Nadia Idle speaks to Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran about the potency of crowds. Reflecting on their experiences in Tahrir Square and Gezi Park, they talk about feeling powerful in political demonstrations, why raves might be infantilising rather than inspiring, and how Covid-19 has put an end to free... Read more »

RuPaul has turned drag into a multi-million dollar industry and a global TV franchise, but has that meant that the art of drag has lost its claim to being punk? Ash Sarkar was joined by Divina De Campo, first runner up from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 1, to talk about... Read more »

During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result... Read more »

As events unfolded at the Capitol last week, I was repeatedly confronted with variations of the same statement: that the US is the home of democracy, that it is synonymous with democracy, that its central mission is democratic in content and form. This was repeated to such an extraordinary extent... Read more »

Boris Johnson’s late lockdown has condemned Britain to weeks of rising Covid deaths. This weekend his media outriders have focussed on making the public blame each other. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.... Read more »

Ending months of speculation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on January 10 that the Trump Administration would designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels (Ansar Allah) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO). Branding the Houthis as terrorists will make it vastly more difficult for humanitarian groups to deliver desperately needed food, fuel,... Read more »

The role of QAnon in the January 6 MAGAist insurrection is becoming clearer by the day. Most readers are familiar by now with its unofficial mascot, be-horned “supersoldier” (and perhaps future WWE Trump tag-team member) Q Shaman. In addition, at least two of the five dead were QAnon adherents. Even... Read more »

ast Friday’s New York Times included Paul Krugman’s elementarily accurate editorial observation that “Donald Trump…is indeed a fascist – an authoritarian willing to use violence to achieve his racial nationalist goals. So are many of his supporters. If you had any doubts,” Krugman rightly argued, the January 6th attack on... Read more »

I fully support the right of the People to overthrow their own government. I draw the line at the government currently in power overthrowing the next government before it takes office, thus denying the People the privilege to overthrow it when it, inevitably, betrays them. More The post Roaming Charges:... Read more »

Following the January 6th neofascistic attacks on Capitol Hill, Americans are quickly waking up to the realities of growing extremism on the right. There is now a large share of reactionaries in this country who are drawing false equivalencies between Antifa and Black Lives Matter on the left, and the... Read more »

I can’t mention her name, because she is a child. Twelve at the time, she was too young to legally work, but not too young to be forced to be a parent. She was a student of mine, and I remember, just a few years ago, playing the bridge game... Read more »

The best use of the New York Times is usually catching up on the CIA’s talking points for the day. However, back in June of 2019 it published a surprisingly hard hitting article on Joe Biden’s history of crafting and promoting the odious bill that created the modern militarized police... Read more »

At the rate we’re vaccinating against covid in the U.S., it will take 10 years for the entire population to receive shots. To counter this, on January 12, the Trump regime announced that it would expand vaccination, regardless of whether second doses are available. Biden had earlier said he would... Read more »

Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia Cold War politics... Read more »

Έχει ενδιαφέρον: Καιρό τώρα, κύκλοι του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ μας λένε ότι πρέπει να πάρουμε θέση. Είμαστε υπέρ του προοδευτικού μετώπου; Κι όταν χτες απάντησα διεξοδικά, θυμίζοντας ότι από την 9η Μαΐου το ΜέΡΑ25 καλεί σε παλλαϊκή προοδευτική συστράτευση εναντίον της κυβέρνησης Μητσοτάκη, ξάφνου… σιωπή. Ούτε ένα μέσο προσκείμενο στο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ, ούτε... Read more »

Η βιωσιμότητα της κοινωνίας πλήττεται καθημερινά από την κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη. Κανείς προοδευτικός άνθρωπος δεν μπορεί να αμφιβάλει για αυτό. Όπως δεν μπορεί να αμφιβάλει ότι μόνο μια παλλαϊκή συστράτευση μπορεί να αντιμετωπίσει αποτελεσματικά κυβέρνηση που, παρά την πανδημία, εμμένει στο αρχικό της σχέδιο να επιταχύνει την αναδιανομή του εναπομείναντος πλούτου... Read more »

Πώς μια επιτροπή οικονομολόγων επηρεασμένων από τη σκανδιναβική έκδοση της σοσιαλδημοκρατίας του 1990 μετεξελίχθηκε στον «λαγό» του 5ου Μνημονίου Εισαγωγή Όταν πρωτοδιάβασα την Έκθεση της Επιτροπής Πισσαρίδη διέκρινα την εγγύτητα του κεντρικού της σκεπτικού με την εκδοχή της σοσιαλδημοκρατίας που ξεπήδησε από τις σκανδιναβικές χώρες, ιδίως τη Δανία, στις αρχές... Read more »

Two days after a UK judge blocked the US request to extradite Julian Assange, we discussed this decision and what it means for the future of journalism and freedom of speech. The discussion took place at 5pm GMT on 6th January 2020... Read more »

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In a reaction to a throwaway line of mine in this interview relating to my new book ANOTHER NOW, Timothée Parrique wrote this piece. I find it hard to disagree with anything of substance he wrote. I was not even upset that Timothée (who clearly has not read my book) misrepresented... Read more »

Το 2020 αφήνει πίσω του ανοικτές πληγές, διαλυμένα όνειρα, φόβο. Αφήνει όμως και μια ανέλπιστη ελπίδα. Ξεσκεπάζοντας μυστικά που μας καθήλωναν, η πανδημία που στιγμάτισε το 2020 μας άνοιξε τα μάτια σε δυνάμεις και δυνατότητες που είχαμε ξεχάσει ότι είχαμε. Το 2020 είδαμε ότι οι κυβερνήσεις δεν είναι αδύναμες. Ότι... Read more »

I am Yanis Varoufakis with a message for the New Year from DiEM25. 2020 leaves behind much debris – pain, fear, broken lives, smashed dreams. But, we also owe a debt of gratitude to 2020: It has helped expose seven fundamental secrets. We used to think of governments as powerless.... Read more »

Organised by Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic as part of the University of Geneva Lecture Series on ‘Contemporary World of Geo-economics’, I was honoured with an invitation to deliver a long lecture on the pressing need for new international financial institutions to address crushing global imbalances and inequalities. Watch the video... Read more »

A Tory MP seems to think vaccinating high-risk populations is an act of wokeness. At least if her response to Labour’s Zarah Sultana is … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has revealed that the UK’s College of Policing has provided training for international forces that have been accused of … Read more By Sophia Purdy-Moore... Read more »

Not content with creating chaos and misery across the country, the Tory government upped the disaster ante on Friday 15 January. Because transport secretary … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Nick MacWilliam, in conjunction with Alborada Films, is releasing a new documentary this week, Santiago Rising. The film takes place on the streets of … Read more By Carole Concha Bell... Read more »

The scenes of violence in Washington on 6 January have attracted a mountain of commentary in media from across the political spectrum. The general … Read more By Peter Bolton... Read more »

Conservationists have been raising the alarm about the potential transmission of coronavirus (Covid-19) from humans to other great apes since the virus shook the … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

Data, including from UK-based academics, found temperatures globally were almost 1.3C above pre-industrial levels. By The Canary... Read more »

The UK has barely left the EU and already the Tory government has effectively backtracked on two promises it made in relation to Brexit. … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

Peers have forced through an amendment to the spycops bill to curtail the use of child spies by the police and security services. The … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

Dangerous missteps on the Walk of Doom  Independent.ie... Read more »

Nphet is fallible, but it's the best tool we have  Independent.ie... Read more »

No bailing Martin out of FF's denial of reality  Independent.ie... Read more »

Taken to the cleaners by the People Who Matter  Independent.ie... Read more »

No magic involved, just money and science  Independent.ie... Read more »

The treasure I uncovered on Level 5  Independent.ie... Read more »

Micheál Martin’s challenge is to put some more ‘orange’ into his Shared Island dialogue  Independent.ie... Read more »

The truth, the Woulfe truth, and nothing but  Independent.ie... Read more »

Girls deserve the truth: that boys can't always be trusted  Independent.ie... Read more »

The Mother and Baby Homes scandal rumbles on. Why was so much pain inflicted on so many people? Was, as Micheál Martin suggests, society to blame, rather than the State or Church? And Donald Trump – is he now a busted flush? Or is he still a danger to politics... Read more »

CAVEAT LECTOR means Reader Beware. MEA CULPA means Through my Fault. And it’s my fault for accepting the written word of  Eoghan Harris printed in the Sunday Indpendent on January 10. The words quoted were from Sebastian Haffner a German born in 1907 who fled with his German Jewish wife... Read more »

2016 saw a seismic shift in our politics. The unlikeliest of victories paved the way for months and indeed years of social and political upheaval. Everyone had an opinion. Politics had never been more divided. Cities were divided. The Nation was divided. It was about immigration. About taking back control.... Read more »

I’m obliged to the SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’S star commentator, Eoghan Harris (11 January) for confirming my opinion of himself and George Orwell. “Orwell’s” real surname was Blair (a surname of a latter day fake.) Orwell was never down and out though he faked it in London, Paris and Wigan. He was,unbalanced... Read more »

Today in the Dáil, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin will apologise  on behalf of the state for the Mother and Baby Homes scandal. The fact that these Homes operated at a time when Michéal Martin at best was running around in short trousers and more likely didn’t exist doesn’t seem to... Read more »

LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES (London) in March 1985 . Warning: Slightly toned down by the Editor. From Mr Donal Kennedy “Sir, Your meandering leader (March 2) following the devastation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s barracks n Republican Newry touches on the truth at three points. Murder is murder; words... Read more »

What a  “tim’rous” beastie is the IRISH TIMES when dealing with history!  And what a doughty warrior when considering powerless infants!  Ireland’s British-controlled “Paper of Record” might with justice be described as THE IRISH TIMES and MORNING HEROD. (That’s Herod the Infant -Killer. Not  to be confused with any Heroic figure)... Read more »

    This week  the topics for discussion were blindingly obvious- Trump and Brexit. Can Trump be impeached and thus barred from running for office again? And are the various Republican politicians sincerely shocked by the invasion of the Capitol, or just rats getting off a sinking ship? Then there’s Brexit... Read more »

Bishop Donal McKeown was on Sunday Politics  with Mark Carruthers yesterday, talking about the transfer tests.  He used to be the president of St  Malachy’s College, but he told Mark that he was no longer an educationalist, “just a bishop”.  Mmm. Ever so slightly fake modesty there. But that aside, the... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland's extraordinary culture of mutual trust still exists amid pandemic  The Irish Times... Read more »

Midlands Misadventure – Frank McNally on New York writer Spalding Gray’s ill-fated trip to Westmeath  The Irish Times... Read more »

Pro-Trump mob’s assault on US democracy  The Irish Times... Read more »

An exponential problem  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s insurrection has been advertised for months  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: If we must endure, please hit Covid on the head  The Irish Times... Read more »

Brexit – now and then  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: British will soon pick at the scab that will form over Brexit  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Trump has unfinished business. A republic he wants to destroy still stands  The Irish Times... Read more »

With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is ridicule. It looks like President Biden will propose a robust stimulus package of well over... Read more »

There is no doubt that bureaucratic bungling and authoritarian practices slowed China’s response to the coronavirus. A New York Times piece documents many of these failings. But, it is a big step to go from the evidence presented in the article to the assertion in the first paragraph: “Beijing acted... Read more »

The approach of the end of the year seems a good time to sum up thoughts. My comments here will not be news to regular readers, but may be to others. Also, this exercise is helpful for me to keep my thoughts clear. (I also expect to take next week... Read more »

A few weeks ago I had exchanges with people on Twitter in which I argued against across the board payments to individuals. I was concerned that these were likely to come out of other provisions (most importantly unemployment insurance) in the pandemic relief package. Since most people have actually not... Read more »

The Washington Post tells us that 7.7 million first doses of vaccines have been shipped to date (two million shots have been given), with a target of 16 million by the end of the year. This is warp speed? By comparison, we manage to get over 170 million flu shots... Read more »

It is more than a bit annoying to hear reporters endlessly refer to China as the world’s second largest economy. It isn’t. It’s the world’s largest economy and has been since 2017. Here are the data from the International Monetary Fund. Source: International Monetary Fund. As the chart shows, China’s... Read more »

That is the implication of a major piece on how the coronavirus vaccines are leading to greater worldwide inequality since rich countries have reserved the vast majority of the 2021 supplies of the leading U.S.-European vaccines. While this is, in fact, a serious problem, as my co-authors and I have... Read more »

When Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey, at the last minute, insisted on adding language to the pandemic rescue package, stripping the Fed of emergency powers, I was among those screaming “No Deal.”  I have not always been a huge fan of the Fed, but I felt this plan was a deliberate... Read more »

David Dayen, at The American Prospect, raises the question of why we didn’t do more planning, five, or six months, ago to ensure that when we had safe and effective vaccines, they could quickly be produced in huge quantities. Now we are being told that it won’t be until the... Read more »

Noam Chomsky,Noam chomsky Videos,videos,video,Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

The New York Times recently noted that South Korea would be “offering monthly allowances of 300,000 won, or about $274, for every newborn and infant up to the age of 1 starting in 2022. Expectant couples would get a 2 million won cash bonus starting next year, along with increased... Read more »

With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is ridicule. It looks like President Biden will propose a robust stimulus package of well over... Read more »

(This is a compilation of Dean Baker’s quick-take analysis over Twitter. Follow @DeanBaker13 on Twitter to get his quick-take analysis of government data immediately upon release.) The pandemic has led to a real flip in price trends. Rent, medical care, and education had been sectors with higher inflation. This is no longer the... Read more »

The resurgence of the pandemic had a major impact on the economy last month, as we saw in the December jobs report. This means that we are likely to see some of the pandemic-specific price effects that occurred in the spring, although they will not be as pronounced, since the... Read more »

The pain from the recession is heavily concentrated among the long-term unemployed. The economy lost 140,000 jobs in December, all of which can be attributed to a plunge in restaurant employment of 372,000. Other sectors highly sensitive to the pandemic, such as hotels and recreation, also lost jobs. The unemployment... Read more »

(The monthly Employment Situation is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, January 8th at 8:30 AM Eastern Time.) Soaring coronavirus infection rates are likely to be the main story in the employment report in December. Fear of the pandemic, coupled with new state and local restrictions, has... Read more »

MarketWatch See article on original site Many are hoping that when Trump — one of the most divisive US presidents in the past century or more — leaves office, the historically elevated levels of partisanship in US politics will at least begin to subside. But the opposite is vastly more... Read more »

Washington DC — In response to Surprise Medical Billing legislation inserted into the omnibus spending and COVID relief bill introduced December 21st (passing on December 22nd), CEPR Co-Director Eileen Appelbaum issued the following statement: “We commend Congressional leaders for passing a spending and relief package that includes legislation to end... Read more »

CEPR sprang into action this year to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning with proposals for a government stimulus and safeguards to ensure that working people are supported, and continuing with pressure to stop the US Treasury from blocking a global COVID response. As we head into 2021 and the... Read more »

Michelle Boorstein @ The Washington Post: For some Christians, the Capitol riot doesn’t change the prophecy: Trump will be president. Andy Towle @ Towleroad: QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Vows to File Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden on His First Day in Office. Brad Reed @ Raw Story: Secret... Read more »

Jan Markell thinks that God may have allowed President Donald Trump to lose and be replaced by Joe Biden because we are in the End Times: “An anti-Israel administration [will] be in power when this Gog-Magog Ezekiel 38-39 invasion happens. That doesn’t mean it’s going to happen tomorrow, though it... Read more »

Despite the fact the President Donald Trump has less than a week left in his presidency, some of his most ardent supporters continue to hold regular prayer calls in which they ask God to perform a miracle that will allow Trump to remain in office. A group of these activists... Read more »

Robert Rundo, the founder of the infamous U.S.-based neo-Nazi fight club known as the Rise Above Movement, penned an essay on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, calling on white supremacists to stay strong in the coming days. Rundo published the article on his Media2Rise website, which acts as an alternative... Read more »

Addy Baird @ BuzzFeed: Trump Has Become The First President Ever To Be Impeached Twice, This Time For Inciting A Deadly Insurrection. David Corn @ Mother Jones: Sponsors of the Pre-Attack Rally Have Taken Down Their Websites. Don’t Forget Who They Were. Travis Gettys @ Raw Story: Pro-Trump activist claims... Read more »

Day Gardner proclaims that President Donald Trump did not incite the insurrection at the Capitol, “the Media, now owned by the left, VP-Elect Kamala Harris, Senators Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and many others did. They are the real culprits. They ALONE incited all that happened on January 6, 2021.” Arizona... Read more »

QAnon-supporting Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado appeared on “The Victory Channel” Tuesday, where she argued that last week’s MAGA insurrection at the Capitol shows why she should be allowed to carry a gun in Congress. Boebert was a vocal supporter of the so-called Stop The Steal effort and was... Read more »

Ashley Parke, Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker @ The Washington Post: Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol. Katherine Stewart @ The New York Times: The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage. Kelly Weill @ The Daily Beast: This Far-Right Militia Went All-In... Read more »

You will have to forgive us if we don’t quite believe Rick Wiles’ newfound concern about the dangers of attacking one’s political enemies and advocating violence against them. Mychal Massie declares that “President Trump will always be my president. I will never again support any insider the Republican Party promotes.... Read more »

Trump incited his supporters to violently storm the Capitol Building in Washington DC in an attempt to revive his failed efforts to overturn the results of the election. Five people are dead as a direct result of the attack, including one police officer (ironically a Trump supporter) who was beaten... Read more »

It’s clear that technical departments within the UN sometimes have their work corrupted by the US government and its allies. Consider recent reporting by the Grayzone on OPCW whistleblowers who exposed manipulation of an investigation into alleged chemical weapons use in Syria in 2018. Or recall an example from further... Read more »

One of the reasons people may get duped into seeing Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López as a victim is his trial which began in 2014, when he finally went to jail after supporting a fourth US-backed attempt to violently overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Overthrowing the late Hugo Chavez (who was... Read more »

Defense of the Easily Defensible By Dave Markland In 2018 Haymarket Books published Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-revolution and Anti-imperialist Rhetoric. Its focus is on left journalists and analysts like John Pilger and the late Edward S. Herman who have committed the inexcusable sin of being overly suspicious of United... Read more »

Abstract [A Rough Draft of a Work-in-progress.] The idea of machines which are almost identical to human beings has been so seductive that it has captured the imaginations of the best minds as well as laypeople for at least a century and half, perhaps more. Right after Artificial Intelligence (AI)... Read more »

Back in 2016, while campaigning for president, Donald Trump discovered a useful tactic for drawing the votes of disgruntled blue-collar workers: denouncing the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs and promising to restore them.  At a rally in hard-hit Ohio, he assailed the Democrats and assured his listeners that he would... Read more »

On September 15, UN investigators ( the so called “Mission”) published a 411 page report  about the human rights situation in Venezuela.[1]  Part 1 of my analysis of the report focused on its gross dishonesty about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. The Mission reviewed his career since 2000 but never mentioned... Read more »

Unlike their elected riulers, most Germans don’t want to be part of the nuclear ‘theater’ Trump, once again doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, wants to pull US troops out of Germany because Germany doesn’t spend enough on “defence”. The German population tend to like it but don’t... Read more »

The proposed hate crime clauses of the Scottish Crime Bill are being redrawn because of claims they will criminalize ‘legitimate acts of expression’. Climbdown on the Scottish Hate Crime Bill: a small setback for those who believe that attacking freedom of speech is the way to deal with prejudice and... Read more »

The fate of the planet depends on whether we can put in place just transition policies for workers and communities that will be negatively impacted by the decline and shuttering of the fossil fuel industry... Read more »

Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck... Read more »

Global problems of this scale require global cooperation... Read more »

I think both Trump and Trumpism will remain with us for a long time, both the individual himself and the poisonous currents he has unleashed... Read more »

A Landmark Lecture by Noam Chomsky... Read more »

Ask yourself what can be done effectively, not what makes you feel righteous... Read more »

Once Trump is fully removed, the work will be to move forward to construct the better world that is within reach... Read more »

Both Trump and Trumpism will remain with us for a long time, both the individual himself and the poisonous currents he has unleashed... Read more »

Trump still has two months to wield the wrecking ball that has already diminished the United States, harmed the world and severely threatened the future. His penchant for wrecking everything he did not create, whatever the cost, is hard to miss. He might decide to go for broke... Read more »

A single dad goes camping with his kids and ends up in handcuffs; Then, PAR talks with Otto the Watchdog, a cop watcher who says he has been targeted for harassment for his First Amendment activities. The post One frightening story reveals the true cost of rural overpolicing appeared first... Read more »

Trump's attempted coup and increasingly violent supporters are only a surprise to those without a grasp of the U.S.'s racist history, says historian Gerald Horne. The post Yes, this kind of thing happens in America appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Brandon Scott won his mayoral election. Now he's tasked with getting a city in the midst of crisis running again as progressive demands for bold action grow. The post Can newly elected Brandon Scott be the mayor Baltimore needs? appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

In a society increasingly driven by science and technology, world religions and the communities they inspire remain a rock-solid political force. In this series, faith leaders explore the intersection of religion and the politics of climate change. The post Faith and the Fight Against Climate Change appeared first on The... Read more »

Forty years ago, Eddie Conway spoke to fellow prisoners at the Maryland Penitentiary as part of the “Say Their Own Word” program, which he helped organize as an inmate. A free man now, Conway reflects on the program and the ongoing struggle against the carceral state. The post TRNN’s Eddie... Read more »

Local leaders react to the insurrection that happened just 45 minutes away in Washington. D.C.; why a move to end home detention fees might not go far enough; and a "spy plane" that has been flying in Baltimore (ostensibly to solve crime) is headed for St. Louis. The post Battleground... Read more »

While a mob of insurgent Trump supporters headed for D.C., Black community organizers and progressive voters fueled Democrats' Senate wins in Georgia. What now? Will the left be caught between the right-wing devil and the deep Blue sea? The post After Dems win GA and right-wing insurgents storm DC, progressives’... Read more »

Four were killed and 26 arrested as hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, temporarily halting the Senate as it prepared to certify the presidential election results. The post Congress rebuffs Trumpist insurrection, certifies Biden’s win appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Republicans continue their attempts to subvert election results and DC braces for more violence from the Proud Boys. The post Dems win Senate control as Trump supporters stage insurrection in D.C. appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Like Ireland, Wales needs independence to fully play its part in the world.... Read more »

The 2008 Climate Change Act was world leading at the time but it needs an update.... Read more »

Sunak has workers rights, environmental standards and financial regulation in his sights.... Read more »

John McDonnell said Labour's policy would shift political gravity away from London.... Read more »

A Spanish court ruled they were workers and so entitled to social security payments.... Read more »

Could you do your job and teach kids at the same time?... Read more »

43% of Brits would take a late-night jab.... Read more »

A Twitter post shared a a 'pitiful' amount of food from a free school meal bag meant to last for 10 days... Read more »

Events in Cardiff yesterday brought the protests following George Floyd's death sharply back to mind, writes Raoul Walawalker... Read more »

As the United States breaks all records for coronavirus cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns another 92,000 could die in the next three weeks as complaints grow over the slow distribution of COVID vaccines. Across the country, hospitals are overflowing, and ICU beds are in short supply.... Read more »

We look at the fight for accountability after a white supremacist mob attacked the U.S. Capitol and as President Trump is impeached for a historic second time for his incitement of violence. Supporters who took part in the January 6 attack — including current police officers — have been arrested... Read more »

The House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, and Trump will end his term in office with the distinction of being the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.... Read more »

Donald Trump Impeached for Second Time After Inciting Insurrection at U.S. Capitol, More Capitol Insurrectionists Arrested as FBI Warns of Continued Domestic Terror Threat, 20,000 National Guard Troops Deploy to Washington, D.C., for Inauguration, Democrats Demand Probe into Whether GOP Lawmakers Helped Rioters Scope Out Capitol, Trump Claims to Oppose... Read more »

As Los Angeles County reports record COVID-19 infections, overflowing hospitals and record death tolls, we look at how Indigenous communities there are among the hardest hit in working-class neighborhoods, where many are essential workers. "Indigenous people, we don't have the privilege to stay home and not go to work," says... Read more »

As the House votes to impeach President Trump, the FBI warns there could be a repeat of the violent insurrection he encouraged on January 6, with Trump loyalists planning to hold armed protests nationwide ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration. We speak with Timothy Snyder, a historian of fascism, who says... Read more »

House to Impeach Trump as GOP Shows Signs of Backing Removal, FBI Warned of "War" Ahead of U.S. Capitol Assault as Military Issues Joint Condemnation, 3rd Lawmaker Tests Positive for COVID-19 After Insurrection as Dems Call Out GOP Links to Riot, Law Enforcement Probes Officers Involved in Capitol Riot as... Read more »

A federal judge has granted a stay of execution for Lisa Montgomery, who was set to become the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, but the Trump administration is appealing the decision. Two men are also scheduled to die this week. Since July, when the Trump... Read more »

Democrats in Congress are pushing ahead with impeachment following the violent insurrection that killed five people at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The single article of impeachment against President Trump cites his incitement of insurrection and accuses him of subverting and obstructing the certification of the 2020 election. This... Read more »

Illinois is poised to eliminate the use of cash bail in the state’s carceral system following the passage of the Pretrial Fairness Act by the state legislature on January 13. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who has said he favors ending cash bail, is expected to sign the bill into law.... Read more »

The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is a major nonprofit that boasts of its more than 40 years of “tireless pursuit of justice for animals.” When it comes to the pursuit of justice for working humans, however, its own employees say that it is badly failing the test. In mid-December,... Read more »

President-elect Joe Biden has repeatedly pledged that, in contrast to President Trump, his administration will act swiftly and effectively to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. But so far, the incoming president has said nothing about whether he will reverse a key Trump administration action at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that’s... Read more »

On January 6, we witnessed the vast double standard for how Black Lives Matter protest is treated versus how white-supremacy-as-mob is treated. This wasn’t just a matter of police refraining from mass beating and arresting participants in the pro-Trump storming of the Capitol: Numerous police appear to have actively supported... Read more »

This piece was adapted from an essay originally published in Guernica magazine. I hadn’t thought much about public wailing before my uncle’s funeral. His sudden death from a heart attack in 1990 shocked our community, because for many people Uncle F’s life seemed immune to tragedy. He was the kind... Read more »

In the 2018 midterm elections, two members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were elected to the House of Representatives: Rashi­da Tlaib in Michigan’s 13th dis­trict, and Alexan­dria Oca­sio-Cortez, in New York’s 14th dis­trict. To mark the occasion of the most socialists entering the House for the first time in... Read more »

Editor's Note: This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. When most people think of country music, they envisage plaid-wearing, guitar-strumming artists like Johnny Cash or Dolly Parton. They rarely think of Black men like Charley Pride. Pride, who died on December... Read more »

In this special episode, we talk with three representatives of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades—Jim Williams (General Vice President), Kellie Morgan (Political Director & Community Organizer, District Council 77), and Salvador Herrera (Director of Organizing, District Council 88)—about labor's fight to pass the PRO Act. We break... Read more »

At Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, the incoming president promised: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” The speech, authored in part by right-wing white nationalist Steve Bannon, blamed not just Trump’s usual specters of “crime and gangs and drugs” for this havoc, but also poverty,... Read more »

Ross Welcome to Renegade Inc. However you look at it, 2020 was a train wreck. So as we look forward to 2021, we wanted to get political and economic insight from two friends of the show. Chris Williamson and Michael Hudson share their views on what we can look out... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar discuss rent and rent-seeking, i.e., unproductive economic activity, in the US and China mainly but including the Russian, Iranian and Brazilian economies. In the first 15 minutes, an overview from Michael Hudson explains what happened in the US economy once jobs and manufacturing were offshored... Read more »

Upcoming – A Conversation with Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar Date: Wednesday December 16th 2020 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am EST Free registration:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-hard-look-at-rent-and-rent-seeking-with-michael-hudson-pepe-escobar-tickets-132721723247 In this interactive seminar organized jointly by the Henry George School and the International Union for Land Value Taxation, Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar will unpack... Read more »

DEC 4, 2020 Is it time for a debt jubilee? Steve Keen and Michael Hudson have both been arguing for a debt jubilee for some time. Now, as COVID-19 hits the poorest hardest, and leaves those with money better off than before, is this the right time to write off... Read more »

An interview with Paul Jay. Transcript Paul Jay Hi, I’m Paul Jay and welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. Donald Trump has tried very hard to make this election about his pre-pandemic economic record, which is supposed to be a success story. Of course, he ignores the fact the cyclical upswing of... Read more »

An interview on Odd Lots, Bloomberg In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, you heard a lot of talk about the US becoming like Greece unless the budget deficit were brought under control. However, these warnings proved to be unfounded. That being said, there are risks of a different... Read more »

In discussion alongside Steve Keen – always enlightening. Photo by Sigrid Wu on Unsplash The post Capitalism’s Charade Continues first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

Grumbine 2020` Macro N Cheese – Episode 88 Michael Hudson  (00:02): The money that you pay for debt service to a bank isn’t spent back into the economy. The bank bond holders are basically the 1% of the economy. They’re rich enough that they’re not going to take all this... Read more »

Inspiration for The Great Transformation in the postwar monetary breakdown Karl Polanyi’s formative years in the aftermath of World War I were a period of monetary turmoil. The United States became a creditor nation for the first time, and demanded payment of the war debts that Keynes warned were unpayable... Read more »

On Friday October 23, the State Department quietly decided to halt all “training programs related to diversity and inclusion.” For department employees, it was a fitting bookend to a presidential administration that has been hostile to the idea of diversity and uninterested in challenging the stereotype of US diplomats as “pale, male,... Read more »

This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, he knew he... Read more »

Dozens of major companies, from Amazon to Walmart, have rushed to distance themselves from President Donald Trump following last week’s mob attack on Capitol Hill. Some have done the same with other GOP politicians who behaved despicably by parroting the president’s election fraud lies, and then officially (and opportunistically) taking... Read more »

One Capitol Police officer was caught taking a selfie with a member of the white supremacist mob that overtook the US Capitol building last week. A second officer has been suspended for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and directing insurrectionists around the building rather than handcuffing them. The... Read more »

On Thursday night, President-elect Joe Biden outlined the first portion of his administration’s two-step plan to contain the coronavirus and revive the struggling American economy. A key emphasis of his proposal is to give immediate, individual relief to Americans suffering in the pandemic-induced recession.  The so-called American Rescue Plan that... Read more »

Before a mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks stood on the ellipse near the White House and gave the pro-Trump crowd who had gathered there his enthusiastic encouragement for their movement to challenge the election. “I’ve got a message that I need you to take... Read more »

A yearslong investigation by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General found that then–Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his senior staff rushed forward a family separation that the government was completely unprepared to implement. The combination of intentional cruelty and unintentional incompetence detailed in the report combines to create... Read more »

This is a small lake in Sumapaz National Park in Colombia. I don’t know if it’s a permanent lake, or just one that appears during the rainy season and then dries out. But it was very pretty when I was there.... Read more »

The brute stupidity and utter selfishness of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have once again come into sharp focus. But nestled into the more familiar allegations of wasting tax-payer money in the latest report are the surprising appearances of former President Barack Obama and an “unpleasant” bathroom mess. The Washington... Read more »

"Expanding the U.S. government’s already bloated surveillance state will only bring more terror and harm to the same communities that Trump targeted with his racist policies and rhetoric." The post You Can’t Fight Fascism by Expanding the Police State appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

  "Said Kovalik: 'While making her name by penning a Pulitzer-prize award-winning book inveighing against the evils of genocide -- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide -- Power went on as Obama’s ambassador to the UN to actually help facilitate quite possibly the greatest slaughter of innocents in... Read more »

"Boyle argues for impeachment as an immediate remedy to address 'the seditious storming of the Capitol' as well as to prevent Trump from 'further illegal activities, like attacking Iran.'" The post Threats of Impeachment, Wagging the Dog as Pompeo and Facebook Join in Targeting Iran appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would 'guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.'" The post Abolish the Electoral College? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Following the Capitol Hill riot which delayed Congress certifying the Electoral College results, Donald Trump was banned by Twitter, Facebook and other big tech corporations. Google removed the far-right user-friendly platform Parler from its mobile app store and Apple threatened the same. The post Trump’s Twitter Suspension Raises Calls for... Read more »

"In the years following, we have 'invested' a great deal more money into Ukraine -- for questionable returns. But the affair has not seemed to have clouded Nuland's career prospects. Smart, well-connected, and well-liked, she, like many of her fellow neocons, seems to move from strength to strength in this... Read more »

"Because of these state winner-take-all laws, presidential candidates only pay attention to the concerns of voters in closely divided battleground states." The post Can We Make the Electoral College Representative? Two Proposals appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Citing harsh federal prison conditions in the United States, a British district court judge rejected the United States government’s extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The post WikiLeaks: While Upholding U.S. Government’s Core Arguments, British Judge Rejects Assange Extradition appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The Guardian just published a piece by Archbishop Desmond Tutu titled "Joe Biden Should End the U.S. Pretence over Israel’s ‘Secret’ Nuclear Weapons: The cover-up has to stop -- and with it, the huge sums in aid for a country with oppressive policies towards Palestinians." The post Desmond Tutu: Biden Should... Read more »

A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism... Read more »

Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them... Read more »

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was... Read more »

Can we imagine a better future? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?... Read more »

He has done nothing but campaign for reelection since he became president... Read more »

Lessons from the New Deal point the way forward in the era of Covid-19... Read more »

Interview on the lessons we're learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed... Read more »

The fact that a large sector of the economy, the healthcare industry, sees a potential bonanza here … that’s a win for them.”... Read more »

Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia... Read more »

Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th November 2020 Where there is chaos, the government will multiply it. Where people are pushed to the brink, it will shove them over. Boris... Read more »

A crucial link in the food chain has been forgotten by the government, exposing us to a potential disaster after the Brexit transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2020 A few days ago, I carried out a small experiment. I sent almost identical requests to two... Read more »

Unless Biden fights big money, he could pave the way for someone even worse than Trump. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th November 2020 It brought a tear to the eye and a hand to the heart. Joe Biden, in his acceptance speech, called for unity and healing.... Read more »

Privatisation, outsourcing, packed classrooms and a total government failure to make them safe expose schools to deadly levels of infection. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th November 2020 Does anyone in power care? Shocking revelations about the government’s handling of the pandemic are either ignored or dismissed. The... Read more »

England’s response to the coronavirus pandemic now relies on unskilled teenaged call centre workers, taking the place of experienced clinicians. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th October 2020 Until a working vaccine is released and widely used, our best hope of controlling Covid-19 is testing, tracing and isolating... Read more »

The huge amount of public money spent on test and trace has been wasted by incompetent private contractors and executives, with devastating results. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st October, 2020 If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the scale of what has been done... Read more »

The government retreats for billionaires, while smashing down our doors. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th October 2020 The question that divides left from right should no longer be “how big is the state?”, but “to whom should its powers be devolved?”. In his conference speech last week,... Read more »

The BBC amplifies the voices of billionaires, and shuts down those who challenge them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th October 2020 They don’t want balance, they want possession. The oligarchs who own the newspapers will never accept the BBC, because it does not belong to them. However... Read more »

World summits and politicians’ promises are not taking us closer to environmental salvation, but further away. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 30th Septeember 2020 It’s the hope I can’t stand. Every few years, governments gather to make solemn promises about the action they will take to defend the... Read more »