CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou details his personal experience dealing with Trump insiders including Rudy Giuliani, to secure a pardon. He says Giuliani demanded $2 million to work on his behalf. Kiriakou also shared his thoughts with Anya Parampil on Biden’s new intelligence picks. The post Pay for pardons? John Kiriakou... Read more »

While Mexico’s progressive President AMLO challenges the Big Tech corporation’s growing censorship, Twitter Latin America’s public policy head was exposed as a right-wing political operative. A senior executive at Twitter Latin America spent years working for right-wing Mexican politicians, including the notoriously corrupt Felipe Calderón. During his tenure as president,... Read more »

In a wide-ranging interview with The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez details her government’s new Anti-Blockade Law and explains how it counteracts the impact of the US economic war imposed on her country VP Rodriguez also answered left-wing criticism of the Anti-Blockade Law and discussed her family’s... Read more »

The US national security state failed to prevent the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol. Yet instead of accountability, US intelligence officials are being emboldened via increased militarization, censorship, and surveillance. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté discuss the dangerous fallout. Rather than prioritize accountability for US intelligence officials’ failure to... Read more »

Days after a pro-Trump riot in the US Capitol, Max Blumenthal headed to DC’s “Red Zone” to report on the occupation of Washington DC by 28,000 National Guard soldiers On the periphery of DC’s heavily militarized Red Zone, Blumenthal spoke to local residents about the militarization of the nation’s capital... Read more »

After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, the incoming Biden administration invited Carlos Vecchio – a coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General’s office – to its inaugural ceremony. As Washington recovered from shock and outrage caused by pro-Trump hooligans storming the United States... Read more »

Seeking prestige and power within the military, CENTCOM chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie has deployed a series of bureaucratic and PR moves to drive the latest episode in US-Iran tensions. During the final two months of the Trump administration, a series of provocative U.S. military moves in the Middle East stirred... Read more »

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 »

“We’re joined by scholar Norman Finkelstein Read More The post TrueAnon Episode 131: Norman Finkelstein Pt. 1 appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Keir-StarmerDownload The post Keir Starmer, Der Sturmer and the Hottie Israeli Spy: What’s Going On? appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Journal-January 19, 2021): Essay Contest-$100.00 Prize I just finished reading the second of W. E. B. Du Bois’s three autobiographies, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. In this journal entry, I would want to do two things: first, propose an essay contest; and second, quote from Du... Read more »

What’s Going On?  –Anon. It was reported today that UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer hired an Israeli spy to join his Shadow Cabinet. London is aghast and abuzz. To quote the inimitable Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On? Two theories are making the rounds. Theory #1.  Starmer (pronouns: schmuck/schnook) is being blackmailed... Read more »

Odyssey Banned for Violence, Sexism; Is this the End of World Classics? At one point, in our short Read More The post The Romanian Left’s (mis)adventures in the realm of idpol and cancel culture (Part II) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Leaning left became lately a required Read More The post The Romanian Left’s (mis)adventures in the realm of idpol and cancel culture (Part I) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Excerpt: Despite all that has happened this year, I am still extremely relieved and grateful for having my loved ones by my side. The virus may have taken away many things from many people, but I thank God for the fact that my family, friends and the bonds I have... Read more »

Finkelstein comments: I have a long-time correspondent Read More The post From a clever (if idiosyncratic) correspondent appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Compiled and annotated by Yutaka Yokoyama December 29, 2020 ANTI-WESTERN BBC Africa correspondent Catherine Byaruhanga: “Nashulai … a few thousand acres on the edge of Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara National Reserve … [Nashulai is] one of the few, maybe the only community owned and operated conservancies in Kenya. Here community... Read more »

Back in 2017, before WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was silenced by Twitter, he used the platform to highlight an immutable truth: ‘The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security not national security.’ →... 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 »

The UK’s main press regulator, IPSO, have refused to take action over more than 50 national newspaper articles containing dangerous conspiracy theories, serious disinformation, or outright lies about Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, an extraordinary new report has revealed. Whilst social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter... Read more »

Our electoral system is seriously flawed. Millions of Brits live in constituencies that have almost no chance of changing hands; many groups are simply ignored by politicians; and recent Electoral Reform Society polling showed that just two percent of the British public feel they have a ‘significant influence‘ over Parliament’s... Read more »

Eight and a half years ago, the UK government signed the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence – also known as the Istanbul Convention. Yet, despite the increasing prevalence of the issue, and widespread calls for them to do far more to... 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 »

From the Spanish left’s response to financial crisis against austerity, to Black Lives Matter and reclaiming the nation ‘for the people’, Natalie Fenton talks to Cristina Flesher Fominaya about her book, “Democracy Reloaded”.... Read more »

The pro-choice Biden administration is very unlikely to support the declaration, signed just two weeks before the 2020 US elections.... Read more »

Ten years after the Arab Spring uprisings, we looked at the impact on women’s rights in the Maghreb.... Read more »

One of the biggest rallies in Moscow in recent years shows that in Russia protest is alive, well and unpredictable.... Read more »

Biden’s first executive orders have done a lot, but he can’t order away all Trump’s cack-handed legacy – or silence the anger of neoliberalism’s losers.... Read more »

The number of people relying on food banks has risen to historic proportions since the start of the pandemic – but the problem didn't begin there.... Read more »

openDemocracy is training women and LGBTIQ people around the world in investigations and storytelling. Meet our inspiring current fellows here.... Read more »

Ensuring that migrants are paid properly for their work would do more good than anti-trafficking ever will.... Read more »

For many years, the elite private members’ club has sustained the outgoing US president. But is it all about to fall apart?... Read more »

“I’ve done so many different jobs in my life,” says Carl*, who works as an Amazon delivery driver, “and trust me, this is the worst job ever.” Carl is just one of countless couriers across the UK being subjected to “nightmare” working conditions as a result of increased demand during... Read more »

Government briefings suggest schools will stay closed until Easter. Is this a policy progressives should support? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Chloe Tomlinson... Read more »

Ten years ago, a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, threatening not only local monarchs and dictators but the strategic interests of the Western powers that backed them. In this series, David Wearing looks back on these events, their causes and consequences, and asks what they can... Read more »

10 years ago a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, thousands poured onto the streets of Egypt to confront a dictatorship. In this video one protestor reflects on his experience all those years ago.... Read more »

On Wednesday, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Boris Johnson said there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being ‘woke’. Yet the signature of the Tories in recent years has been a ‘war on woke’, with MPs and media outriders attacking ideas of social and economic... Read more »

Boris Johnson has announced the new covid variant may be more lethal. We ask clinical epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani how worried the public should be about this variant. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.... Read more »

Every election we hear of the “care crisis” as if it’s about to explode. But care affects us all, and not just in election cycles. And rather than an explosion, the reality of care in the UK looks more like the slow and gradual erosion of the fabric of social... Read more »

Despite the insistence of our political class, Britain and the US have little in common. One is a former settler colony, home to more than 300 million people, with an elected president, a federal system of 50 states, and a GDP in excess of $20tn. The other is a political... Read more »

It’s difficult to explain the Covid-19 pandemic to children aged five and under. Sharon*, who has worked as an early years practitioner for a decade in the greater Manchester area, says her attempts have included a lot of “drawing green blobs”.  Sharon is one of the hundreds of thousands of... Read more »

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Many Americans watched as Joe Biden marked his Inauguration Day celebration with a brief presentation before the statue of Abraham Lincoln, invoking the Civil War as an historical moment when the nation triumphed over deep division. When recalling Lincoln, many New Yorkers may remember the famous speech he gave at... Read more »

“I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed themselves,” one veteran rifleman who served two tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq between 2003 and 2011 said to me recently. “One minute they belonged and the next, they were out, and they... Read more »

With the major decline of nuclear power—the U.S. is down to 94 plants from a high of 129 and only two are now under construction—the nuclear promoters in the U.S. government and nuclear industry are pushing to let nuclear power plants run for 100 years to somehow keep nuclear power... Read more »

On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden signed numerous executive orders to undo his predecessor’s “deeply inhumane” anti-immigrant policies. These included reversing the “Muslim ban,” ensuring non-citizens are counted in the census, pulling back on the harsh deportation priorities of the past four years, and cutting off funds to... Read more »

In classical dramas, tragic figures are driven to their doom by some inexorable flaw in their character. For Donald Trump, that tragic flaw has been unbounded narcissism. For four years as president, Trump could focus on only one thing: himself. He preferred to be in front of cheering crowds than... Read more »

Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent... Read more »

On Friday, January 15th, two activists drove eight hours from Eugene, Oregon, to a remote corner of public land in Nevada, where they pitched a tent in below-freezing temperatures and unfurled a banner declaring: “Protect Thacker Pass.” You’ll be forgiven if you’ve never heard of the place—it’s seriously in the... Read more »

To paraphrase an old saw, imbecility travels halfway around the world before sanity gets its shorts on. An old friend in Geneva sent me a link to a January 11 Susan Collins op-ed in the Bangor Daily News. It reads like the diary entry of a tone-deaf pre-adolescent. Collins laments... Read more »

If I were a transgender person and a bunch of Lefties dared lecture me that the exploitation of factory workers by capitalists is more important than my daily struggle tο function as a transgender person, I would tell them to get lost. No one has the right to tell those... Read more »

Is public debt a bomb about to explode taking us down? Or is fretting about public debt a tactic for preparing public opinion for a new austerity drive that will cause debt to grow even faster? Read my debate with Todd G. Buchholz organised by pairagraph.com (see here for the... Read more »

Η Κυβέρνηση εν μέσω πανδημίας είχε τέσσερις υποχρεώσεις. Πρώτον, αξιόπιστη διαχείριση της πληροφόρησης για την πανδημία και αξιόπιστα μέτρα από τη μια μεριά, δεύτερον, ενίσχυση του Εθνικού Συστήματος Υγείας, τρίτον, οικοδόμηση ενός αποτελεσματικού δικτύου κέντρων μαζικών τεστ αρχικά που μετά θα μετατρέπονταν σε κέντρα μαζικών εμβολιασμών και θα έμεναν ως «προίκα» στην πρωτοβάθμια... Read more »

It is with considerable amusement that I follow the international oligarchy’s anxiety to prevent Andrés Arauz from winning the presidential election. I say amusement because they have chosen to damage his standing by painting him as a threat to the independence of Ecuador’s central bank – of which Andres was... Read more »

In this keynote, organised by the Economics Research Council, I shall discuss, and re-assess, the deeper forces leading to Brexit. Moving beyond the myth of it as the manifestation of some British idiosyncrasy, I shall trace its causes in a fundamental incompatibility between British and Continental capitalism which the financial... Read more »

Greece says there's a case for a Covid vaccine passport which would allow people to travel freely within the EU. But @yanisvaroufakis is concerned it could encourage governments – and businesses – to demand more of our personal informationhttps://t.co/WCHBTof5Ev — BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) January 18, 2021 LISTEN TO THE... Read more »

As we approach our fifth anniversary, DiEM25 will mark the milestone with an updated Manifesto, reflecting upon the lessons learned and the new facts on the ground. In addition, we are working to put together, for the first time, DiEM25’s vision for each of our countries. You can download now... Read more »

“Κάποτε, το άκουσμα της λέξης «μετανάστες» έφερνε στο νου συμπατριώτες μας που ξενιτεύονταν για να ζήσουν όσους έμεναν πίσω. Όσο για το άκουσμα της λέξης «πρόσφυγας», ο νους μας πήγαινε αυτόματα στους ξεριζωμένους της Μικρασίας, του Πόντου, των κατεχόμενων της Κύπρου. Οι λέξεις αυτές που κάποτε προκαλούσαν συγκίνηση, σήμερα, στη... Read more »

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The US has re-joined the Paris Agreement and committed to climate action. But experts and activists warn challenges remain. On the first day of … Read more By Jasmine Norden... Read more »

More than 500 cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) have reportedly been confirmed among Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) staff in Swansea. With a total … Read more By Aaliyah Harris... Read more »

A banner hangs off a prominent Bristol bridge. “Glad Colston’s gone. Drop the charges”, it reads. Meanwhile, bus stops have been subvertised with: “10,000 … Read more By Eliza Egret... Read more »

The team examined fossilised remains of a tiny jaw bone and claw which suggests the T-Rex’s cousins were around three-feet long when they hatched. By The Canary... Read more »

When news of the G7’s imminent arrival in Cornwall was announced, there was an outpouring of support from the media and various NGOs. Surprisingly, … Read more By Emily Apple... Read more »

Matt Hancock’s arrogance seems to know no bounds. Because on Sunday 24 January, he lied about the UK’s vaccination programme, live on TV. But … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

The one-year anniversary of the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19) passed last December. But following the approval of multiple vaccinations from several different pharmaceutical companies, … Read more By Peter Bolton... Read more »

In the latest instalment of the Tory blame game, the government has blamed individual airports for the shocking scenes at Heathrow. Meanwhile, home secretary … Read more By Sophia Purdy-Moore... Read more »

Garret Miller allegedly posted photos and videos that showed him inside the Capitol building on January 6. By The Canary... Read more »

Michael Clifford: Hurt caused by Mother and Baby Homes report must be addressed  Irish Examiner... Read more »

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

It'll all be over by... Easter?  Independent.ie... Read more »

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

Tomás Ó Sé: 'To hammer the Dublin hammer, Mayo must risk getting nailed'  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 »

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

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

There is more and more talk of the disintegration of the UK. But hold! Who is this we see galloping to the rescue? Why it’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Hooray! Irish people are used to being identified as boozers – but in fact research indicates that English... Read more »

 Between 1916 and 1922 democratic Ireland, though almost totally unarmed, won a brilliant victory. All wars involve propaganda, which, properly understood, means the publication of messages. The word has come  to be understood as lying. Within weeks of arranging the execution of the leading Insurgents of Easter Week, Britain’s General Maxwell... Read more »

In 1921, Edward Carson warned his successor as the political leader of Ulster Unionism, James Craig: “From the outset let us see that the Catholic minority have nothing to fear from Protestant majority.” Contrary to Carson’s advice, Craig was to boast in 1934 of having created in Belfast “a Protestant... Read more »

Workhouses and the enforced breaking up of families by the state, “reformatories” and Industrial Schools long pre-dated  Britain’s partial withdrawal from Ireland. Father Joe MacVeigh, whose blogs I admire, seems to have taken his cue from Fintan O’Toole and  The Irish Times, from Eoghan Harris and the Sunday Independent, Colm... Read more »

The Covid 19, British-variant strain is causing havoc among the population, damage to the economy and distress to the rest of the world. It is believed this new mutation, which developed in the British Isles, may be up to 30% more dangerous when it comes to survival rates and up... Read more »

As Pope Francis discovered during his short visit to Ireland in August 2018, the Irish Catholic Church is in crisis. This is partly as a result of the Child abuse scandals, the cover-up by bishops, the Magdalene laundries, the Tuam babies scandal and the other shocking reports of abuse in Mother and... Read more »

This TV review first appeared in the Andersonstown News I’ve never felt drawn to Tommy Tiernan. Don’t ask me why – probably blind prejudice on my part. Or maybe his smart-arse manner. But THE TOMMY TIERNAN SHOW (RTÉ) has converted me. In a medium awash with same-old chat-shows, THE TOMMY TIERNAN SHOW is truly different. The setting is... Read more »

FORMER BRITISH CHANCELLOR PROVIDES ADDITIONAL REASONS TO SIGN ONE IRELAND PETITION The nineteenth social-media video (6 minutes) by the Irish National Caucus on its One Ireland Petition and on England’s Partition of Ireland recruits the assistance of an unlikely source—a former Tory British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. VIDEO #.19. TO... Read more »

 The British army will be sending 100 medics to help with the Covid fight in NEI. Should we be grateful? In 1974,  Paddy McElhone (24) was shot dead by the British army outside Pomeroy. Yesterday he was found to be an innocent victim. Why did it take so long? And... Read more »

100 million is too few. Biden should aim higher on vaccinations.  The Washington Post... Read more »

SNP and Scottish nationalism  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homes  The Irish Times... Read more »

The SNP and Scottish nationalism  The Irish Times... Read more »

Scotland and Quebec  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Nicola Sturgeon’s staunch ally in her push for independence – Boris Johnson  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Assault on US Capitol showed Trump where his market is  The Irish Times... Read more »

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

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

It is more than a bit bizarre that the New York Times can run a major piece about the lack of access of developing countries to Covid vaccines and never once mention the vaccines developed by China, Russia, or India. The piece is very useful in highlighting the fact that... Read more »

I wonder if the Washington Post lists mind-reading abilities as a requirement for its economic reporters. They so often feel the need to do it. The latest is a piece about the response of Republicans in Congress to President Biden’s proposed rescue package. At one point the piece tells us:... Read more »

It’s hard not to be appalled and scared by the reality denial of Donald Trump’s followers. Their willingness to insist an election was stolen, with no evidence whatsoever, is difficult to understand for those of us who like to think that people respond to facts and logic. I don’t have... Read more »

Representative Peter DeFazio, along with seven House co-sponsors, introduced the “Wall Street Tax Act” today. This bill would impose a tax of 0.1 percent of sales of stocks, bonds, options, and other derivatives. According to the Congressional Budget Office, it would raise almost $800 billion over the course of the... Read more »

I have repeatedly raised the point that media accounts routinely use the term “free trade” when they can more accurately say simply “trade” or trade policy. It is amazing to me that this practice continues. We saw it yet again in a NYT article on how many Republicans continue to... 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 »

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,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 »

PDF | Press Release Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Dean Baker, Sarah Rawlins, Karen Conner, Aiden Lee, Simran Kalkat, and Matthew Sedlar for their assistance. Overview The overall union membership rate increased by half a percentage point in 2020, rising to 10.8 percent of all employed (Table 1).... Read more »

It is more than a bit bizarre that the New York Times can run a major piece about the lack of access of developing countries to Covid vaccines and never once mention the vaccines developed by China, Russia, or India. The piece is very useful in highlighting the fact that... Read more »

I wonder if the Washington Post lists mind-reading abilities as a requirement for its economic reporters. They so often feel the need to do it. The latest is a piece about the response of Republicans in Congress to President Biden’s proposed rescue package. At one point the piece tells us:... Read more »

The American Prospect See article on original site On Monday, President Biden announced his intention to name Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s next director, earning a rare, unqualified cheer from the party’s left flank. Despite serving in the minority on the FTC, Chopra has... Read more »

The union membership rate rose by 0.5 percentage point to 10.8 percent in 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports today. Figure 1 There were marked upswings in the unionization rate across sectors, in a year otherwise marked by staggering job loss and a global health crisis. While the number... Read more »

An open letter to President Biden on financial disclosures: January 21, 2021 Dear President Biden: In the past few weeks, your nominees and appointees have begun to release their Personal Financial Disclosures outlining their previous private sector work. From Blackstone and Gilead, to Palantir and Facebook, to Raytheon Technologies and... Read more »

Trump should be removed from office ASAP CEPR News for January 14, 2021 To get the CEPR News email bimonthly, please sign up here. Want a Better Budget? Send Money, Now! The Biden administration will need to activate every tool in the shed to deal with the urgent needs of... Read more »

Slate See article on original site Over four years, federal workers were ignored, subjected to retaliation, and fired for articulating politically inconvenient truths or standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s attacks against the public. By all accounts, that is set to change under President-elect Joe Biden. But while... Read more »

It’s hard not to be appalled and scared by the reality denial of Donald Trump’s followers. Their willingness to insist an election was stolen, with no evidence whatsoever, is difficult to understand for those of us who like to think that people respond to facts and logic. I don’t have... Read more »

Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian Liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders Announces Run for Governor of Arkansas. Pilar Melendez @ The Daily Beast: Right-Wing Activist Banned From Airline for Not Wearing Mask Is Charged in Capitol Riots. Colby Hall @ Mediaite: Rudy Giuliani Sued for Over $1 Billion By Dominion for... Read more »

Greg Locke declares that President Joe Biden is a liar, an imposter, and a false prophet whose presidency is “demonic and false.” Tom Gilson argues that when it comes to the issue of character, Biden is no better than Donald Trump: “Biden seems better than Trump. He’s smoother. More publicly... Read more »

Republican officials in Pennsylvania and Georgia are responding to Democratic victories in 2020 with new efforts to make voting more difficult, and they’re being cheered on by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who called it “some of the best news” of the year so far in his “Washington Watch”... Read more »

The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins—who pushed former President Donald Trump’s false claims about a stolen election and urged state legislators and U.S. senators to overturn the results—is now mischaracterizing the Biden administration’s first-day move to reverse Trump’s unconstitutional efforts to rig the 2020 U.S. census in favor of Republicans.... Read more »

Right-wing pastor and self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman used his sermon Sunday to lash out at those who have dared to call him a false prophet for repeatedly proclaiming that Donald Trump would win the 2020 election and serve a second term in office. Citing a passage from Proverbs 6 that... Read more »

Chuck Lindell @ The Austin American-Statesman: Texas Supreme Court: Alex Jones, InfoWars can be sued by Sandy Hook parents. Lachlan Markay @ Axios: Trump ally Matt Schlapp got $750k in unsuccessful pardon push. Colby Hall @ Mediaite: Newt Gingrich Tells Hannity that Democrats Want to ‘Exterminate’ Republicans. David Badash @... Read more »

Mario Murillo says that any Christian leader who congratulates President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be complicit in “the evil that comes upon this nation.” That is bad news for Richard Land, who recently wrote an open letter to Biden: “Mr. President, please allow me to congratulate... Read more »

Steve Turley, a religious-right author and podcaster who celebrates the rise of right-wing nationalism and authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, devoted the latest episode of his podcast to mocking the inauguration of President Joe Biden as “pathetic” and “embarrassing.” Turley called Biden’s inauguration an “abject disaster” and touted Steve... Read more »

While Joe Biden was being inaugurated as president Wednesday, MAGA “life coach,” Trump-cultist, and proudly amoral right-wing broadcaster Brenden Dilley was using his daily livestream program to lament that former President Donald Trump had not been “nearly as authoritarian as we hoped he would be” during his term in office.... Read more »

Two related events—the 75th anniversary of the January 24, 1946 UN General Assembly Resolution 1 (which established a commission to plan for the abolition of nuclear weapons) and the January 22, 2021 entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (designed to finally implement that... 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 »

It is time to impanel a citizens’ tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others... Read more »

Whether Trump will survive the error of judgment that turned major power centers against him is unclear. He may well do so... 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 »

Prisons and jails are hotbeds of coronavirus contagion—for incarcerated people and staff, but also for the wider community. Prioritizing them for vaccinations is a humanitarian and public health necessity. The post Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both cruel and dangerous appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

In this week’s round-up of Baltimore news: We mourn the loss of Dante Barksdale, local leaders push to reopen, and recycling is back. The post Battleground Baltimore, Jan. 22 appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Known for his role in the Occupy Denver movement and his controversial, even profane, manner of exercising his First Amendment rights, Eric Brandt has been arrested roughly 200 times while protesting police brutality and advocating for reform. But he's also quietly racked up key victories in court. The post The... Read more »

When police roll out the red carpet for far-right insurgents and reserve tear gas and rubber bullets for Black, Indigenous, and social justice protestors, what is to be done? The post From Standing Rock and J20 to the US Capitol: Who gets treated like the enemy? appeared first on The... Read more »

Join the TRNN team as we break down Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, Donald Trump's exit, and what lies ahead. The post So, now what?: TRNN’s Post-Inauguration Livestream appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Reclaiming the radical legacy of MLK and the unknown millions who made the civil rights movement is a constant struggle. Now, more than ever, we must take up that struggle and carry on that legacy. The post MLK Day 2021: The monsters are here, but the movement lives on appeared... Read more »

In this week’s round-up of Baltimore news: The Baltimore Teachers Union protests expanded school reopenings; plenty of police misconduct; and some City Council bills of note. The post Battleground Baltimore, Jan. 15 appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Democrats impeached Trump but if they fail to deliver meaningful relief for millions of struggling Americans, the party of insurrection will come roaring back. The post Democrats have the power but the insurrectionists are here to stay appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

With COVID-19 still raging and Biden's inauguration around the corner, Warnock and Ossoff win big in Georgia, Trumpist insurgents storm the U.S. Capitol, and Democrats and Republicans seethe with internal strife. What’s next? The post Neo-fascists found their voice in Trump. Where will the left’s voice come from? appeared first... Read more »

As Andrew Davies resumes his role as leader of the Welsh Tories, we look at a few facts about him.... Read more »

We are still in the midst of the worst health and economic crisis that impact those on the lowest incomes hardest.... Read more »

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The UK's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation has caused unintended consequences for farmers... Read more »

The quarantine's failures led to a second wave in Melbourne which killed hundreds.... Read more »

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Wealthy peoples' capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than income tax.... Read more »

The Home Office job ad pointed out its legal duty to eliminate victimisation.... Read more »

In areas like Burnley, nearly 10% of working-age adults work but rely on Universal Credit.... Read more »

Workers at the Hunts Point Produce Market in New York City have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract, ending a week-long strike that captured national attention and galvanized the community behind the essential workers at the Bronx-based business. Some 1,400 members of the Teamsters Local 202 union walked off the... Read more »

We look at how COVID-19 has increased economic inequality with anti-poverty campaigner Reverend William Barber, who delivered the homily at the official inaugural prayer service. Barber says President Joe Biden's focus on unity cannot come at the expense of major reforms needed to fight systemic racism, poverty, environmental destruction and... Read more »

President Joe Biden has promised swift action on the pandemic, the economic crisis and more, but much of his agenda hinges on whether he can get enough support in the Senate, where an unprecedented number of bills in recent years has required a 60-vote supermajority in order to overcome filibusters.... Read more »

U.S. Tops 25 Million COVID-19 Cases as Biden Restricts Travel to U.S., Warns "Things Will Get Worse", Deborah Birx Says Trump WH Had "Parallel" COVID Data as Biden Admin Faces Multiple Vaccine Challenges, Pandemic Takes Heavy Toll on Children and Students' Physical and Mental Health, Bernie Sanders Says Senate Dems... Read more »

After President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, pressure is growing from Indigenous leaders and environmental groups for the new administration to do the same with the Dakota Access pipeline, the controversial project that sparked the historic Standing Rock... Read more »

We look at the fight to save tribal elders and Native language speakers as the pandemic rips through Indian Country, with Indigenous communities facing woefully inadequate healthcare, lack of governmental support, and the living legacy of centuries of colonialism. Native Americans have died from COVID-19 at twice the rate of... Read more »

On his first full day in office, President Joe Biden unveiled a 198-page national plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic as the U.S. death toll tops 410,000. He signed 10 executive orders to create a new national COVID-19 testing board, to help schools reopen, to mandate international travelers to quarantine... Read more »

Joe Biden Unveils National Strategy to End COVID-19 Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci Describes "Liberating Feeling" of No Longer Working for Trump, As U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies Dwindle, Tens of Thousands Face Canceled Appointments, China Builds Quarantine Facility to Isolate New Cases; Fire at India's Serum Institute Kills 5, Biden Seeks... Read more »

One of the most remarkable moments from Wednesday's inauguration ceremony came from poet Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet in U.S. history to speak at a presidential inauguration. The 22 year-old read "The Hill We Climb," a poem she finished right after the riot at the Capitol earlier this month. We... Read more »

LAKE WORTH, FLA.— Hundreds of families—many of them poor farmworkers, jobless during the Covid-19 pandemic—gathered in the parking lot of the Farmworker Coordinating Council of Palm Beach County (FWCC) on November 4, 2020, just 10 minutes from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. The temperature had reached into the 80s by... Read more »

Since President-elect Joseph Biden clinched the Democratic nomination, progressive analysts have generated a rich literature on how he should govern. While this is valuable, the intense focus on Biden as the lead actor in the drama distracts us from the Left’s own agency to shape the outcome of his presidency,... Read more »

Editor’s Note: In the following essay, the author embarks on a study of the Black food culture in the small South Carolina town of Cool Spring, to which she was introduced by a horticulturalist and former student named Glindian. The piece is excerpted from Gillian Richards-Greaves’s “The Intersection of Politics... Read more »

This story first appeared in Labor Notes. In December the leadership of the United Auto Workers reached a settlement with the Justice Department that opens the door to election of top union officers by referendum vote of the membership. That might well end more than 70 years of one-party control... Read more »

Politicians, pundits, CEOs and think tank staffers have spent the past 10 months effusively praising the heroism and sacrifice of essential workers. “I’m not alone in being grateful for the work you are doing,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos declared in a March 2020 open letter to the company’s workers who... Read more »

Production workers at Cargill Turkey were unfairly dismissed on April 17, 2018, while trying to unionize. Listeners will probably recognize the name Cargill: Based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, Cargill is the largest privately held corporation in the United States. And Cargill’s reach is truly global, with operations around the world focusing... Read more »

However inspiring you found yesterday’s presidential inauguration probably comes down to how you feel about the military. This may sound odd. Donald Trump was the one who came into office bristling with martial symbolism and macho bluster, while Joe Biden and Kamala Harris arrived on gentle breezes of rhetoric about... Read more »

The Democratic Party platform now states clearly that “we fundamentally believe health care is a right for all, not a privilege for the few.” And following the Senate races in Georgia, Democrats will now take control of both houses of Congress along with the presidency. So the question is, now... Read more »

As the Democrats take control of the White House and both houses of Congress amid overlapping national crises, labor leaders say it is now more critical than ever that Washington deliver significant material gains for the working class. Democrats partly owe their recent electoral victories in places like Nevada, Arizona,... 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 »

This story was originally published by The Guardian and and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The melting of ice across the planet is accelerating at a record rate, with the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets speeding up the fastest, research has found. The... Read more »

The Biden administration will resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced today. “It’s important that our notes…reflect the history and diversity of our country,” Psaki said at a press conference, “and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would... Read more »

Here is the fabulous produce box we get each week from Manassero Farms. Doesn’t it look delicious? I deliberately oversaturated the photo to give it a bit of a painterly feel, which maybe worked and maybe didn’t. Your thoughts?... Read more »

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) announced Monday that he won’t seek reelection in 2022. One reason he chose to retire, he said in announcing his decision, is because “it has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy.” But if Portman didn’t like... Read more »

It is rare for me to disagree with Ezra Klein quite so vigorously, but this is just wrong, wrong, wrong: Democrats mocked [Donald Trump’s] “I alone can fix it” message for its braggadocio and feared its authoritarianism, but they did not take seriously the deep soil in which it was... Read more »

Sometimes raw data can point you in two different directions at once. Take poverty, for example. CBPP has the details here, but the basic story is that over the past half century we’ve spent a lot of money on social welfare benefits for the poor and it’s made a big... Read more »

More than three years after Donald Trump tweeted into existence a ban against transgender service members, his successor has reversed it.  On Monday morning, President Biden repealed the controversial order ahead of the swearing-in of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “Allowing all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform is... Read more »

Here’s the officially reported coronavirus death toll through January 24. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.... Read more »

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One afternoon this past December, a package arrived at Mora Valley Community Health Services in northern New Mexico. The rural clinic, which serves a county of 4,521 people, is nestled beside a pasture with a flock... Read more »

“Tom Vilsack has made a career of catering to the whims of corporate agriculture giants -- some of whom he has gone to work for -- while failing to fight for struggling family farmers at every turn,” said Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “America needs an Agriculture... Read more »

"The war is only possible because Western countries -- and the United States and Britain in particular -- continue to arm Saudi Arabia and provide military, political and logistical support for the war. The Western powers are active participants and have the power to stop the world's most acute human... Read more »

The Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons went int… The post Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Now in Force: What Does it Mean? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

AP reports: "Carlos Vecchio, [Trump-backed opposition leader Juan] Guaidó's envoy in Washington who the U.S. recognizes as Venezuela’s ambassador, tweeted photos of himself at Biden's inauguration. The invitation to attend was touted by Venezuela’s opposition as evidence the Biden administration will continue its strong support and resist entreaties by Maduro... Read more »

As thousands of troops were deployed to Washington, D.C. during Joe Biden's inauguration, Rev. Silvester Beaman gave the benediction, saying: "We will make friends of our enemies. We will make friends of our enemies. The post Will Biden Continue Bombings? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"Hesse’s past work defending Google and enabling Amazon’s acquisitions create irresolvable conflicts of interest that must disqualify her from serving in a Biden administration’s DOJ antitrust division or Federal Trade Commission." The post Leading Big Tech Lawyer May Head Biden Antitrust appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The trend of the past dozen years is away from ground wars in favor of air wars. This often means more killing, more injuring, and more making people homeless, but with an even higher percentage of all that suffering concentrated on the non-U.S. side. We need to know whether Blinken... Read more »

"One thing is certain: the failure to prevent the Capitol attack is not because of a lack of police powers or anti-terrorism measures. Still, some people have wasted no time hijacking the moment to advocate new domestic terrorism legislation. A lawmaker in the solidly Democratic state of Maryland has proposed... 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 »

The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”... 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 »

Long Covid is devastating the health and lives of many thousands of people, and highlights the terrible neglect of patients with chronic conditions such as ME/CFS. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd January 2021 Perhaps to a greater extent than at any point since the first world war,... Read more »

It is hard to imagine how the government’s handling of the pandemic could have been more catastrophic.   By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th January 2021 Here’s the chilling, remarkable thing that should be inscribed on everyone’s minds: there is no plan. This week, I asked the government’s... 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 »