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    The Grayzone

  • ● NYPD silent on high profile antisemitic hate crime investigation, FOIA records reveal
    One year since a strange hate crime marred the first hours of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new term, the NYPD is stonewalling FOIA requests about its investigation into the alleged antisemitic attack by a fedora-clad cyclist.  In the early hours of November 5, surveillance cameras captured a masked cyclist in... Read more »
  • Facing subpoenas, pro-Palestine activists refuse to testify in Fergie fishing expedition
    A pair of activists subpoenaed by Trump’s Justice Department have announced their refusal to cooperate with investigators on an apparent legal fishing expedition into pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers. They call potential imprisonment “a cheap price to pay for the defense of our movement.” Read The Grayzone’s first exclusive report on... Read more »
  • Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack
    The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it retaliation for his widely-viewed documentary on Israel’s notorious pager attacks? Israeli soldiers have looted and demolished the family home of Radwan... Read more »
  • Exclusive: FBI subpoenas pro-Palestine activists over Israeli weapons plant disruption
    Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months in jail for impeding production of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers. They’re not the only ones, they say — and are urging anyone slapped with... Read more »
  • US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’
    US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s government. It turns out he was an opposition hooligan who destroyed a public university during the violent US-backed 2018 coup attempt. On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin,... Read more »


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    Yanis Varoufakis

  • ΨΗΛΑ ΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΗ | Το νέο μου βιβλίο παρουσιάζεται αυτή τη Δευτέρα (12/9) στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής
    Την Δευτέρα 12/10 το βράδυ, στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών, 5 γυναίκες θα παρουσιάσουν το νέο μου βιβλίο (για 5 άλλες γυναίκες, των οποίων οι ιστορίες συνθέτουν μια ιδιαίτερη Ιστορία Ενός Αιώνα, 1923-2023). ΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΗ ΨΗΛΑ | Πέντε γυναίκες που μου δίδαξαν την αντίσταση στον φασισμό, στον αυταρχισμό και στον σοβινιστή... Read more »
  • VideoThe Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis (*) – Jacobin
    In my 2023 book I explained Big Tech’s overweening power to shape society “technofeudalism.” In this article for Jacobin, I reply to my critics that this isn’t a moral critique but one based ona fully-fledged Marxist analysis of the dynamic of capital accumulation today. The full argument linking Marx’s political economics... Read more »
  • AI Is Reviving Chinese Marxist Economics – Project Syndicate
    As recently as two years ago, most Chinese economists paid only lip service to Marxism and assigned Western textbooks to their students. The advent of AI has changed that, because the technology—open source and available to the smallest manufacturer for a pittance—promises to avoid the “rent trap” common to capitalist... Read more »
  • The Odyssey as AI allegory | Agamemnon’s heirs are in Silicon Valley – Unherd
    Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has returned Homer’s epic to the centre of popular culture, a feat that must be welcomed. Many have asked me to review the film. I declined. Being Greek gives me no privileged vantage point from which to comment on a work that belongs to everyone, that... Read more »
  • Don’t fall for Project Smear, Mr Burnham – Unherd op-ed
    In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projections of an economic Armageddon were so absurd that they proved a monumental own goal, deemed sensationalist scaremongering. Ten years on, still smarting from the... Read more »
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    Canary

  • The Entertainment Habits We Don’t Usually Talk About
    You’ve finally got an evening to yourself. You open Netflix, scroll through the latest releases, read a few descriptions and watch a couple of trailers. Half an hour later, you still haven’t chosen anything. So you pick up your phone for a minute. Two hours later, you’re watching a man... Read more »
  • The Best Upgrades for Everyday Driving Enjoyment
    For some drivers, horsepower is the be-all and end-all, and for others, horsepower decides very little about how much they enjoy their car on an ordinary day. Much of the driving happens in slow traffic and supermarket car parks, with the odd motorway on weekend trips. That doesn’t mean there’s... Read more »
  • The Canary issues a statement over online allegations against us
    The following is a step-by-step account of what has gone on at Canary Media Limited this year. It follows multiple online accusations against the CEO, Steve Topple, his wife, Nicola Jeffery, and several staff members. During late 2025 and early 2026, multiple staff members were either arrested or facing court... Read more »
  • How Routine and Familiarity Help People Living With Dementia
    When your loved one suffers from dementia, it is not easy to care for them. Among the most common symptoms that worsen as the condition progresses is memory loss. In the elderly, particularly in Alzheimer’s disease, the most commonly affected function is short-term memory. It is not just about remembering... Read more »
  • How to Transform Your Dining Room on a Budget: A Complete Guide
    Your dining room sees more life than almost any other space in your home. Family dinners, holiday gatherings, homework sessions, and late night conversations all happen around that one table. Yet many homeowners leave this room untouched for years, assuming a refresh means spending thousands of dollars. The truth is... Read more »

 

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    🏴 Anarchist Federation

  • ● Announcing Black Rose/Rosa Negra Locals in Austin, New York City, and Chicago
    We’re thrilled to announce the formation of three new Locals of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (BRRN)! From the Texas Hill Country, to the Great Lakes, to the Northeast, our organization is growing deeper roots and expanding our capacity to... Read more... Read more »
  • ● Burma’s internal war spills into Thailand
    The Burmese junta’s relentless aerial terror continues to target hospitals and other critical civilian infrastructure. Air-strikes on a maternity clinic, a school and residential areas in Rakhine and Kayah states on Nov. 1-2 killed 15 people, including a newborn. But the aerial campaign is increasingly spilling over... Read more... Read more »
  • ● Jack Hibbs Says The Election Of Muslim Candidates Is A Sign Of ‘God’s Judgment’ On America
    Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs says the election of dozens of Muslim candidates to political office across the country is a sign of “God’s judgment” on the nation: “You can’t have that happen and maintain a constitutional republic.”... Read more »
  • ● Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2026
    Ecosocialist Bookshelf is hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) it says. Climate & Capitalism has received... Read more... Read more »
  • ● Rep. Rich McCormick’s MAGA McCarthyite Madness
    Republican Rep. Rich McCormick is pushing his colleagues to pass legislation in the lame-duck session that he says would ban newly elected Democratic socialists from taking office—or from serving in any public office in the U.S.   Republicans engaged in a... Read more... Read more »
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    The Anarchist Library

  • ● Firebrand Publishing Committee - The Firebrand: Vol. 3, No. 5 (March 7, 1897)
    Author: Firebrand Publishing CommitteeTitle: The Firebrand: Vol. 3, No. 5 (March 7, 1897)Subtitle: For the Burning Away of the Cobwebs of Superstition and Ignorance.Date: March 7, 1897Source: <https://libcom.org/article/firebrand-free-society-journal> A Legend A knave and a fool on an island were cast; Their ship had gone down in the hurricane’s blast. On... Read more »
  • ● K. C. Sinclair - Missing the Anti-Colonial Point of Historic Anarchist Debates
    Author: K. C. SinclairTitle: Missing the Anti-Colonial Point of Historic Anarchist DebatesDate: 2026Source: Retrieved on November 8, 2026 from historykeepshappening.wordpress.com Given that we live in a society that promotes ignorance and superficiality, perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising that current day anarchist discussions of historic inter-anarchist debates usually miss... Read more »
  • M Rizky Sasono - Anarchism and Democracy in Indonesia: An Underground Perspective
    Author: M Rizky SasonoTitle: Anarchism and Democracy in Indonesia: An Underground PerspectiveDate: October, 2022Source: "Smash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance." ed: Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau, Caroline Kaltefleiter This chapter scrutinizes musical narratives that emphasize the underground as a political space that strives for ‘democracy’, particularly the... Read more »
  • Freedom Press - Serbian anarchists: Student List “perfectly in line” with neoliberalism
    Author: Freedom PressTitle: Serbian anarchists: Student List “perfectly in line” with neoliberalismDate: 11/4/26Source: https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/11/04/serbian-anarchists-student-list-perfectly-in-line-with-neoliberalism/ On 25 October, the “Student List” won a projected 140 of 250 seats in the Serbian parliament, defeating the ruling party that has been in power for 14 years. The electoral victory comes on the back... Read more »
  • Anonymous - We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years
    Author: AnonymousTitle: We Have Fed You All for a Thousand YearsSubtitle: Travels of a Protest PoemSource: KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 122, October 2026 A Humble Reminder : To the Propertied Classes (Slightly altered from Rudyard Kipling’s Ode in praise of English Enterprise.) We have fed you... Read more »

John Kiriakou

 

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    Middle East Monitor

  • ● US senator urges Israel to allow urgent humanitarian aid into Gaza
    US Sen. Brian Schatz on Tuesday urged Israel to immediately allow rescue equipment, building materials and winter supplies into Gaza after deadly flooding affected thousands of Palestinians, Anadolu reports. Speaking on the Senate floor, Schatz said heavy rainfall over the weekend flooded more than 70,000 tents in Gaza, leaving four... Read more »
  • ● Iran denies ongoing talks with US, planned meeting in Qatar
    Iran’s top security official denied on Tuesday that Tehran was holding negotiations with Washington or planning a meeting in Qatar, rejecting US claims of ongoing diplomatic contacts, Anadolu reports. Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei described US claims about continuing negotiations or a planned meeting in Qatar as “complete... Read more »
  • ● Netanyahu, Trump reportedly clash over Iran in tense call: Report
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump reportedly clashed during a call over the weekend amid disagreements about the possibility of resuming military operations against Iran, media reports said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, citing sources familiar with the conversation, said the call focused primarily... Read more »
  • ● Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot slams Netanyahu’s ‘shameful’ Knesset speech, urges Israeli emergency government
    Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot on Tuesday denounced caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the newly sworn-in Knesset as “shameful” and “delusional,” warning that keeping him in office endangered Israel’s security, Anadolu reports. The Yashar party leader, who has been tasked with forming the next government, accused Netanyahu of... Read more »
  • ● UN condemns Houthi broadcast of video showing detained staff member making ‘forced statement’
    The UN on Tuesday condemned the Houthi group for the broadcast of a video showing one of its staff members making a “visibly forced statement” while in detention, Anadolu reports. “We issued a note yesterday in which we condemned the broadcast on the 5th of November, 2026, of video footage... Read more »
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    Common Dreams

  • ● Local Electeds, Groups Urge Democratic Leaders to Block Big Oil Immunity During Lame Duck
    Nearly 400 state and local elected officials from 30 states and the District of Columbia and more than 500 groups are urging Democratic leaders in the House and Senate to fight any effort during the lame duck session to shield fossil fuel companies from climate accountability laws and lawsuits.“We’re urging... Read more »
  • Public Citizen Opposes Senate Permitting Bill
    Next week, the U.S. Senate is set to debate and vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) (S. 5653), a compromise permitting reform deal. Ahead of the planned vote, David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement: “We appreciate the effort... Read more »
  • Statement on Google AI in School Allegedly Helping Teen Girl Plan Suicide
    Fairplay, the nation’s leading nonprofit fighting to protect kids from the dangers of Big Tech and AI, released the following statement today in response to the Emma v. Google lawsuit.Fairplay Associate General Counsel for AI and Privacy Brendan Bouffard said: “The idea of an untested AI chatbot helping a 13-year-old... Read more »
  • ACLU Applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Historic Commutation of All Death Sentences in California
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that he was moving to commute all death sentences in California, marking a historic step towards ending the death penalty in California and across the country.The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Southern California, ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial... Read more »
  • VideoWell Done, America
    Well that was a night. The glad spectacle of a newly sentient America tottering back to its capacious ideals was dubbed Orange Crush, Bluenami, a political earthquake, a wily tweak to Hegseth's coveted public execution and "one of the great acts of defiance in American history." It was both landslide... Read more »
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    Craig Murray

  • Palestine Action Supreme Court Hearing Day 2
    I woke up at 5am, and rather than dashing back to court, I made good progress on writing up the first day. The surprising lack of demand for the public gallery was probably due to the fact that you were not actually allowed in the courtroom, but only in an... Read more »
  • Palestine Action Supreme Court Hearing Day 1
    [UPDATE: this article is now complete; I published just the start yesterday.] It was a remarkably mild early November morning at 6am as I left the Chelsea Cloisters hotel to get the tube to Westminster and the Supreme Court. I had been worried because I had forgotten to pack my... Read more »
  • To The Supreme Court
    I am in London at the UK Supreme Court for Huda Ammori’s appeal against the proscription of Palestine Action. Three Jewish groups have been granted intervention rights by the Court (two of them pro-Genocide) but no Palestinian group. One of the strongest grounds to contest the proscription was that it... Read more »
  • The Crisis In Poland
    I was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw 1994-98. While that was a long time ago, I knew personally many of the people at the heart of the current crisis, such as Donald Tusk and Radek Sikorski. 1) The first thing to say about Poland is that the... Read more »
  • VideoThis Cannot Last
    Netanyahu is seeking to build a new coalition with Jewish “opposition” parties to ensure the continued exclusion of Arabs from government in Israel. It will be a long and convoluted process but I expect he will eventually succeed. In the meantime he remains in power. Next week Trump will lose... Read more »

 


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    Zinn Education Project

  • Robeson, Robinson, and Resistance: Athletes, Artists, and the Struggle for Liberation
    Acclaimed sports journalist and author Howard Bryant joined Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to talk about his recent book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America, which explores the striking parallels between the Robeson–McCarthy era and today: media complacency, attacks on civil liberties, and demands for public... Read more »
  • Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits Reaching Classrooms Across the Country
    Thanks to donations, we are sending Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits to teachers. These toolkits help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics. The post Voting Rights Teaching... Read more »
  • People’s History at English Teachers Convention in 2026
    From November 19-22, the Zinn Education Project will host a booth and workshops at the annual National Council of the Teachers of English convention in Philadelphia. The post People’s History at English Teachers Convention in 2026 appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
  • What Literature Are You Teaching in Your ELA Classroom?
    Please complete this short survey and tell us which books or other works of literature you have taught using a Zinn Education Project people’s history lesson, and how you have used ZEP lessons to provide historical context in your English classroom.  The post What Literature Are You Teaching in Your... Read more »
  • Invitation: Dinner Reception in Philadelphia
    Join us to celebrate the Zinn Education Project’s 18th year while we are in Philadelphia for the National Council for the Teachers of English conference. The post Invitation: Dinner Reception in Philadelphia appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
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    Village Magazine

  • Our greatest intellectual is gone
    For more than six decades, Jürgen Habermas defended the power of reasoned dialogue against authoritarianism, consumerism and political cynicism The post Our greatest intellectual is gone appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resisted
    Councillor Seamie Moore got a judge’s parking vision seen to and avoided a fine he should have paid. The post The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resisted appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • From Bridge to Gulf
    How Mary McAleese’s post-presidential embrace of UAE institutions jars with the bridge-building that defined her presidency The post From Bridge to Gulf appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the Making
    State anchoring its flagship emergency energy asset, in County Clare, to an environmental crime scene and a non-existent root of title The post The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the Making appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
  • RAF deal: rough deal for truth
    Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state The post RAF deal: rough deal for truth appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

 


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    Opinion – Middle East Monitor

  • ● Don’t wait for the blackout: The world needs binding rules for dangerous AI
    In recent weeks, supermarket refrigeration across Europe has been turned against the food it protects. After an earlier wave in France that hit hundreds of supermarkets, a second attack on 2 November struck stores in Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Estonia. One Swedish store reported its freezers set... Read more »
  • ● More Nobel prizes for Trump? Pakistan’s ruling clique from flattery to fallout
    There is something exquisitely revealing about Pakistan’s ruling establishment discovering that American presidents are not hereditary monarchs and congressional elections are not ceremonial inconveniences. For Field Marshal Asim Munir, Shehbaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, the Democrats’ midterm triumph threatens more than diplomatic embarrassment. It could unravel the political protection... Read more »
  • ● The sum of the humanitarian paradigm is deadly
    The discrepancy between what the international community glorifies as humanitarian aid and what Gaza is deprived of keep growing. A woman and four children were killed following heavy rains in Gaza which caused a landslide at the site in Deir al-Balah where displaced Palestinians are living in tents that offer... Read more »
  • ● Egypt’s government refuses to free political prisoners
    The Egyptian presidency’s official website highlights a decision by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi under the headline: “President Issues New Criminal Procedure Code Following Parliament’s Approval and the Removal of Grounds for Objection” (https://h1.nu/1HAfh). The presidential decision, published on 12th November 2025, has yet to take effect, more than a year... Read more »
  • The unfinished war that broke the GOP
    Trump has admitted that the war with Iran cost Republicans Congress. His vice president is already negotiating a way out of that war. The lesson for Democrats is not merely that war is bad politics, but that war without consent is unsustainable politics. On 4th November` 2026, Donald Trump acknowledged... Read more »
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    Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork

  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
  • Imperial Nostalgia and Its Perils
    Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
  • Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce Happiness
    Although the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »
  • Who Speaks for the World?
    Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »
  • Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against Russia
    Ethnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »

 


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    Democracy Now!

  • ● Meet Will Lawrence: Sunrise Movement Co-Founder Elected to Congress on Anti-Data Center Platform
    Progressive candidate Will Lawrence of Michigan has defeated Republican incumbent Tom Barrett, flipping the state’s 7th Congressional District, a closely watched swing district that includes Lansing. Lawrence, the co-founder of the youth-led climate organization Sunrise Movement, refused corporate PAC money, instead building a people-powered grassroots mobilization campaign. He focused on... Read more »
  • ● "We Have to Be Brave": Palestinian Journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh Speaks Out After Israeli Detention
    The prominent journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has been released from Israeli custody after five days in detention. He was arrested on Wednesday by armed police and Shin Bet agents who conducted a nighttime raid on his home in the Israeli city of Jaffa. Abu Shehadeh’s... Read more »
  • ● Pentagon Whistleblower Wes Bryant: Impeach Hegseth. He's a "Clear & Present Danger" to Democracy
    The House of Representatives is moving toward a vote this week on whether to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Outgoing Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth on Monday. They include violating the 1973 War Powers Resolution by continuing to attack Iran after... Read more »
  • ● Headlines for November 10, 2026
    GOP Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon Retreats from Second U.K. Base Due to Alleged Threat from Iran, Trump Raises New Election Conspiracy Theory After Democrats Sweep Midterms, Schumer Faces Pressure to Step Aside as Chris Van Hollen Hints at Run for Senate... Read more »
  • "A Crackdown on All Independent Voices": Egypt Shutters News Outlets, Prosecutes Editor Lina Attalah
    Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Egypt’s leading independent news outlet Mada Masr, faces a criminal trial this week on charges of “spreading false information,” just two weeks after being convicted of operating an unlicensed website and fined more than $50,000. A judge also ordered the publication to be shut down. The... Read more »

 


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    CounterSpin

  • mp3Sina Toossi on Iran and the Midterms
      https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261106.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New York Times (11/5/26) Many people, including “liberals,” have accepted that there is no such thing as hypocrisy when it comes to US actions in other countries. What we call “universal” principles just apply differently to different people!... Read more »
  • mp3Brian Mier on Brazilian Election
      https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261030.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New York Times (10/25/26) This week on CounterSpin: You can smell what US corporate press are cooking with the New York Times headline that the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was “a blow to Brazil’s right.”... Read more »
  • mp3Adam Johnson on How to Sell a Genocide
      https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261023.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Pluto Press (2026) Disinformation has been a key part of Israel’s US-supported war on Palestinians since before October 7, 2023, but it has been amped up since. Yet as various state and media claims are proven false, it... Read more »
  • mp3Death Penalty Coverage, Domestic Violence Justice
      https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261016.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   “Electrocution,” George Bellows (1917) Donald Trump has apparently called off plans to livestream an execution. It’s impossible to imagine that Trump—the guy who thought it was cute to post video of a tiger killing a man, video that... Read more »
  • mp3Terri Gerstein on Gig Workers’ Rights
      https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261009.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Fortune (9/13/26) This week on CounterSpin: When Fortune magazine is telling you “corporations are raking in cash, but American workers are reaping less and less of the rewards,” something is afoot. The not-notoriously capitalist-critical magazine reported recently on... Read more »
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    Michael Hudson

  • ● The Trouble with Being the World’s Safe Haven
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  • The Colonial Habit
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  • Democracy with a Wealth Veto
    In this discussion with Radhika Desai, I return to a question running through my work on economic history: how have oligarchies protected their wealth against the demands of the majority? We connect the political privileges of ancient property owners with modern campaign finance and the power of creditors. The mechanisms... Read more »
  • Democracy Under Oligarchy
    Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai examine how oligarchy limits democracy through campaign finance, constitutional courts and creditor control over public policy. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
  • Colonialism Comes Back to Europe
    Colonialism comes back to Europe as Washington demands more from its allies. Hudson and Wolff discuss oil reserves, austerity and economic independence. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
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    Mother Jones

  • ● Aliya Rahman Wants To Unmask the ICE Agents Who Dragged Her From Her Car
    Aliya Rahman, the disabled Minneapolis resident dragged out of her car and detained by federal immigration agents last January, has tried over and over to get some accountability from the government that harmed her. Today, she filed an assault and false imprisonment lawsuit against the federal government—one she hopes could... Read more »
  • ● Trump Is Firmly in Jensen Huang’s Corner
    Our tech leaders’ personal scandals are now directing the future of the AI industry—and subjecting us all to potential economic downturns that affect our livelihoods.  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is the subject of probes by the FBI and his company’s board after having an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a... Read more »
  • ● Hegseth Lashes Out at Impeachment Push, Accuses Critics of “Sabotage”
    Pete Hegseth, the self-styled secretary of war, is facing articles of impeachment introduced by a member of his own party—on allegations including violating the US Constitution and directing the military to carry out illegal actions that led to mass civilian death. But in a press conference early Tuesday, the former... Read more »
  • ● Oligarchs Got Crushed on Election Day, But Still Managed to Kill California’s Wealth Tax Dreams
    America’s oligarchs fared badly overall on Election Day, but they dodged a bullet in California, and perhaps then some. California’s Prop. 40, the Billionaire Tax initiative, would have been the nation’s first-ever tax on excessive wealth, a concept Americans have supported in poll after poll. Despite its flaws, the measure... Read more »
  • ● Meet the “Thielbillies” Reshaping the Republican Party
    On four successive Monday evenings this fall, hundreds of people filed through metal detectors and past armed guards into the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, a Masonic temple in Nashville, for a very special closed-door event. Culturally, it was a world away from the cowboy-boot-clad bachelorette parties and honky-tonks of Broadway,... Read more »

 


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    News Releases Archive - accuracy.org

  • ● Momentum Grows for Chris Van Hollen as Democratic Leader
    Newsweek reports in "Chuck Schumer’s Future in Doubt as Momentum Grows for Chris Van Hollen" that "Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is facing growing uncertainty over his hold on power as momentum builds behind Chris Van Hollen, with the Maryland senator now reportedly open to a run for majority leader."... Read more »
  • ● Veteran’s Day: “Refuse Illegal Orders”
    “We’ve seen the illegal war on Iran driving sailors to attempt suicide. This war is wrong and large majorities in the U.S. are opposed to it and to the brutal Gestapo tactics of ICE,” VFP President Susan Schnall said. ... The post Veteran’s Day: “Refuse Illegal Orders” appeared first on... Read more »
  • Assessing Election Results for Progressives and Democratic Party
    What did the midterm elections indicate about the strength of progressive activism and the future of the Democratic Party? The post Assessing Election Results for Progressives and Democratic Party appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
  • Analysis: “Unprecedented” Billionaire Tax on Ballot in California
    In California, the “most powerful Democrats––including the governor Gavin Newsom, his near-certain successor Xavier Becerra and the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass––have lined up with Silicon Valley billionaires” who’ve raised upward of $340 million to defeat the ballot measure for a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaire wealth, Norman Solomon... Read more »
  • Lessons from South Korea
    ​​Writing for The Nation, Jungmin Choi and Paul Loeb offer readers five key lessons in how to stop a potential coup attempt by President Trump, based on events in South Korea in 2024. The post Lessons from South Korea appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
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  • How Do We Beat End Times Fascism? — Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor and Yanis Varoufakis
    In this livestream taking place the day after the US midterms, Naomi Klein (author and Guardian columnist), Astra Taylor and Yanis Varoufakis discuss what the vote tells us about the far right’s grip on power, and how to break it. The far right’s richest backers are “building their arks, and... Read more »
  • You Don’t Own Your Narrative Anymore — Naomi Klein and Yanis Varoufakis
    From recent deepfakes using Yanis’ image for viral gain, to his latest police harassment over events from decades ago, the discussion opens onto larger questions Naomi explores in Doppelgänger (identity, imitation, credibility, and what “truth” means when noise travels faster than institutions — and institutions still hold power) before moving... Read more »
  • How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War
    A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. But little has gone... Read more »
  • The Case for BDS
    The Case for BDS by Mehdi Hasan Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths used to attack the boycott movement against Israel. Read on Substack In the newest episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths around the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement – a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement that works... Read more »
  • ‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”
    In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of Zionism.”  Naomi also reacts to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu comparing student protesters at Columbia University to Nazis, telling Mehdi that... Read more »
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  • Russell Brand – My Apology
    I was completely wrong about him. By George Monbiot, published on Bluesky, 7th November 2026 People have asked me how I feel about nominating Russell Brand a “hero” in 2014.I feel very bad about it. It must have piled on the pain for his victims. I apologise to them. Though... Read more »
  • Epidemic of Idiocy
    The next global pandemic could be hatching in a mink farm in Utah. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th November 2026 Could this be ground zero? Could it be the spot where the next pandemic begins? It’s certainly a candidate, not least because the chain of events that... Read more »
  • Ecological Vengeance
    Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd October 2026 However grim the trajectory might seem, I’ve always believed that sense will ultimately prevail. As the great perils of dismantling the living world become increasingly obvious, even the most... Read more »
  • The Mob
    We should get Palantir out of our public services before it becomes locked in. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th October 2026 What a world we live in. Imagine: gangs dragging civil servants off commuter trains and beating them up because they handed government data jobs to the... Read more »
  • DIY Disasters
    Instead of taking responsibility, the government is passing crucial resilience roles to the public, and failure is inevitable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th October 2026 Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden? Then... Read more »

 

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  • Video● CNN anchor fact-checks GOP rep in real time using Trump's own words
    Outgoing U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter lost his seat in the Georgia primary while running for the Republican nomination against Sen. Jon Ossoff, but he was beaten in the primary by his even more MAGA opponent Rep. Mike Collins (who then went on to fail against Ossoff in the general election).But... Read more »
  • ● ‘Stealing’: Trump family faces fresh scrutiny as investigators close in
    Democrats seeking to hold President Donald Trump accountable for what they view as his political misconduct and failures are considering another impeachment push, but say they have a different strategy this time than what they did in 2019 and 2021. This time around, they are planning on following the money... Read more »
  • ● Fox exposes ‘get off my lawn’ crisis that could kill the GOP
    On Tuesday, Fox Business warned its conservative audience of a crisis imperiling the GOP. Electoral losses like the historic blue tsunami that hammered Republicans last week revealed that a vital group is “abandoning the GOP” due to its own missteps. What’s more, the issue comes as new forces threaten to... Read more »
  • ● Trump was taken for a ride by Brazil: WSJ
    President Donald Trump was reportedly taken for a ride by a Brazilian beef billionaire in a futile attempt to lower food prices for American consumers."Imports have drifted between 10 percent and 15 percent of the overall U.S. beef supply over the past decade, rising with the demand for fast-food burgers,"... Read more »
  • ● Trump suffers unanimous court defeat over illegal firing of VOA chief
    An appeals court panel has ruled that Kari Lake, the former agency head tapped by President Donald Trump, acted illegally in firing Michael Abramowitz from his post as Voice of America director, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday. In its ruling, the three-judge panel gave... Read more »
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  • ● Trump Renews Designation of Nicaragua as an ‘Extraordinary Threat’
    On November 3, President Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency.” The “emergency” is due to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in Nicaragua.” Supposedly, this emergency began in November 2018, has persisted for... Read more »
  • ● Will Republicans Learn Their Lesson From the ‘Disastrous’ Midterms?
    Politicians break campaign promises with hardly any hesitation and usually they get away with it. Americans have come to put up with broken promises for so long, they hardly even seem to notice. Last week, however, voters noticed. They showed the Republican party just how angry they were over President... Read more »
  • Democrats, Please Take Note: Peace Is Good Politics
    Voters across the United States were loud and clear on Tuesday in their historic drubbing of Trumpism. The election was a decisive rejection of Trump’s war on Iran and its staggering costs at home. While savoring their victory and the historic opportunity to restore America’s constitutional order, the Democrats should... Read more »
  • Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves
    The 1984 British movie Threads opens with ordinary scenes in Sheffield, England, where a young couple learns they are expecting a baby. The story of their personal life is intertwined with the news of a growing conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, centered on Iran. We next... Read more »
  • A Billion Dollars and the Men Who Ran Israel’s Wars
    The weapons a country fights with, the software that aims them, and the officers who command them were for a century things a state owned and could not put up for sale. That arrangement is coming apart. One by one these assets are being bought by private companies, financed through... Read more »
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  • Cameroon: ghost workers in the AI machine
    African states want to develop AI attuned to local needs and cultures. But for educated young Africans, the reality of the AI revolution looks more like poorly paid, precarious work for Western firms. - 2026/11 / article... Read more »
  • A chill in Uzbekistan's cultural spring
    Since the death of its iron dictator a decade ago, Uzbekistan is keen to rewrite its image through the arts. But beneath talk of intellectual openness, propaganda is still rife and new taboos are emerging. - 2026/11 / article... Read more »
  • Nature gains legal rights in Spain
    A lagoon on Spain's Mediterranean coast is the first ecosystem in Europe to gain legal personhood, and now it's taking its polluters to court. But it's up against bureaucracy and local economic interests. - 2026/11 / article... Read more »
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  • How British foreign policy is frozen in the ruins of empire
    The impact on people who live under dictators propped up by Britain is immense. British voters have almost no say in what’s going on. The post How British foreign policy is frozen in the ruins of empire appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
  • Palestine Action ban to be appealed at Supreme Court
    Jewish Leadership Council and Community Security Trust allowed to intervene in landmark case and seek to ‘expand the justification for proscription’, lawyers for Huda Ammori say The post Palestine Action ban to be appealed at Supreme Court appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
  • Britain was prepared to use cluster bombs in Sierra Leone
    Cluster bombs “should be used if deemed necessary”, the Ministry of Defence said as it intervened in the country’s civil war in 2000, declassified files show. The post Britain was prepared to use cluster bombs in Sierra Leone appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
  • The murder MI5 wants to hide
    Almost 30 years after Sean Brown was kidnapped from a football club, British intelligence is still censoring files that could help solve his murder The post The murder MI5 wants to hide appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
  • UK boosts Saudi support after it kills Yemeni civilians
    Wes Streeting once called for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia. Now he’s helping its air force bomb Yemen. The post UK boosts Saudi support after it kills Yemeni civilians appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
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  • ● Jim Jordan elected House Republican leader after crushing midterm defeat
    House Republicans on Tuesday elected the congressman Jim Jordan as their new leader, turning to an outspoken conservative to steer the party after a crushing midterm defeat that handed Democrats control of the chamber. Jordan, 62, defeated outgoing House Majority Leader Steve Scalise in a contest that pitted calls for... Read more »
  • ● Senior US soldier arrested in UK over suspected espionage for Russia
    ⁠A senior US ⁠Army soldier was arrested in ⁠Britain on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence, British police said on Tuesday, after the US removed aircraft from British military bases over a separate apparent threat from Iran. FBI Director Kash Patel ‌said the arrest of the 41-year-old man related to “allegations... Read more »
  • ● Canada’s Carney to raise election meddling concerns in talks with China’s Xi
    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that he would stress the importance of “non-interference in our affairs by China” when he meets President Xi Jinping later this month. A 2025 public inquiry into allegations of election meddling identified China as “the most active perpetrator of foreign interference targeting... Read more »
  • ● UK court overturns Trinidad and Tobago law criminalising gay sex
    Trinidad ⁠and Tobago’s law criminalising ⁠consensual sexual relations between ⁠male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights. Jason Jones challenged the Caribbean nation’s ‌Sexual Offences Act – which made “buggery” and... Read more »
  • ● After fridge hacks, home appliances could be next, EU cyber chief warns
    After recent attacks on supermarket fridges, home appliances could be next, the EU’s cyber chief said on Tuesday, as he urged Europe to invest more to counter growing cyber threats. Supermarkets in at least 12 European countries were hit by cyberattacks in October and November, with France the worst affected.... Read more »
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  • ● China warns against fake spy claims after jealous public servant frames rival
    A Chinese state employee who falsely accused a colleague of spying for Beijing after losing out on a coveted overseas posting has been penalised by the Ministry of State Security. The country’s top intelligence agency made the rare decision to shed light on the case using its social media account... Read more »
  • ● China’s top general targets PLA arms in call for joint military-civilian corruption watch
    China’s most senior general has called for joint efforts by military and civilian officials to combat corruption within the People’s Liberation Army, specifically targeting the development of major weapons systems. General Zhang Shengmin, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a former PLA anti-corruption chief, made the remarks in... Read more »
  • C-17, Il-76 and Y-20 equals: an aviation moment in the skies over China
    China has been the backdrop for a rare aviation moment in the past few days, with the world’s three core strategic heavy-lifting aircraft operating within the country. Several large US military transport aircraft were spotted landing in Shenzhen over the weekend, widely seen as preparation for US President Donald Trump’s... Read more »
  • 14 dead, dozens injured in northern China high-rise building fire
    Fourteen people died and dozens more were hospitalised after a fire broke out in a high-rise building in northern China on Sunday. The fire erupted at around 5pm in the Haosheng International Apartment building in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province, according to the Yingze district government. It was... Read more »
  • The US must stop blaming China for problems at home: former envoy Cui Tiankai
    The United States should not blame China’s rise for its own problems and should not expect that these can be solved by changing presidents, China’s longest-serving former ambassador to Washington has said. “China’s development has never aimed to replace or challenge the US – it never has. Naturally, I also... Read more »


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  • How frightening would Nigel Farage’s foreign policy be?
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 8 December 2025 Reform UK leads the polls in most surveys and could form the next government. What can Britons, and the rest of the world, expect? The answer is not precisely clear since Reform has said virtually nothing about what its foreign policy would... Read more »
  • Gaza reveals how Britain is run, and why we must change it
    by Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock, Declassified UK, 18 November 2025 The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system This should be a pivotal moment in British history. Our political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide.  Rather,... Read more »
  • UK ignores massacres and terrorism to deepen Syria relations
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 November 2025 British officials are developing new ties with their Syrian counterparts complicit in recent killings, including former leading al-Qaeda operatives Last month, Keir Starmer’s special representative to Syria, Ann Snow, met defence minister Murhaf Abu Qasra in Damascus. This followed a meeting between... Read more »
  • Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocide
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 October 2025 A military agreement Britain and Israel signed in 2020 has not been modified despite Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Defence admits. In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It... Read more »
  • The Israel firms aiding the NHS and IDF
    by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 30 September 2025 Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide. An Israeli pharmaceutical company that operates at the heart of the NHS has been aiding the Israeli military during... Read more »

 


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  • ● Local Electeds, Groups Urge Democratic Leaders to Block Big Oil Immunity During Lame Duck
    Nearly 400 state and local elected officials from 30 states and the District of Columbia and more than 500 groups are urging Democratic leaders in the House and Senate to fight any effort during the lame duck session to shield fossil fuel companies from climate accountability laws and lawsuits.“We’re urging... Read more »
  • Public Citizen Opposes Senate Permitting Bill
    Next week, the U.S. Senate is set to debate and vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) (S. 5653), a compromise permitting reform deal. Ahead of the planned vote, David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement: “We appreciate the effort... Read more »
  • Statement on Google AI in School Allegedly Helping Teen Girl Plan Suicide
    Fairplay, the nation’s leading nonprofit fighting to protect kids from the dangers of Big Tech and AI, released the following statement today in response to the Emma v. Google lawsuit.Fairplay Associate General Counsel for AI and Privacy Brendan Bouffard said: “The idea of an untested AI chatbot helping a 13-year-old... Read more »
  • ACLU Applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Historic Commutation of All Death Sentences in California
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that he was moving to commute all death sentences in California, marking a historic step towards ending the death penalty in California and across the country.The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Southern California, ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial... Read more »
  • VideoWell Done, America
    Well that was a night. The glad spectacle of a newly sentient America tottering back to its capacious ideals was dubbed Orange Crush, Bluenami, a political earthquake, a wily tweak to Hegseth's coveted public execution and "one of the great acts of defiance in American history." It was both landslide... Read more »
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  • mp3● Gaza, Yemen, and the Profits of War
    A vast circuit of tax payer dollars has flowed to the weapons industry, or directly to Israel, to pay for the bombs that have rained down on Gaza, ultimately enriching tech billionaires and private equity firms in the West. Similarly in Yemen, the Saudi war on that country has led... Read more »
  • mp3Reining in Trump’s Repressive NSPM-7
    The Trump administration has built a vast infrastructure of surveillance and prosecution against critics and protestors, justified and enabled by National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.  Shilpa Jindia and Nora Benavidez discuss how to put the breaks on what is likely the largest apparatus of repression in U.S. history. Shilpa Jindia... Read more »
  • mp3Jared Kushner and the Reshaping of the Middle East
    The allegations are explosive: that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia set up a secret fund for Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, to finance proxy wars hidden from democratic oversight. Journalist Matthew Cole delineates his claims involving, among others, autocratic Gulf leaders, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, and the disgraced mercenary Erik... Read more »
  • mp3Wealth, Power, and the Trump Administration
    It’s no mystery that the fortunes of the very rich have soared under this administration, but the concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few is a hallmark of capitalism itself. Economist Rob Larson returns to discuss wealth and power in the United States, as well as the... Read more »
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    This month marks the 100th anniversary of the arrest of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and his incarceration in a fascist prison. Jordan Camp argues that Gramsci’s writing on the so-called southern question was the kernel for an alternate tradition of anti-authoritarianism and anti-fascism, reformulated by thinkers like C.L.R... Read more »

 


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  • ● On Strike for a Different Spain
    Spain will see a general strike on Wednesday, following mass protests around housing. The post On Strike for a Different Spain appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • ● Veterans in Crisis Need More Than a ‘Thank You’
    This Veterans Day, we must stop military adventures that harm our own soldiers as much as our perceived enemies. The post Veterans in Crisis Need More Than a ‘Thank You’ appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • Ten Ways Congress Could Defund War to Fund Climate Solutions
    The affordability and climate crises are interconnected, and spending on the Pentagon makes both worse. The post Ten Ways Congress Could Defund War to Fund Climate Solutions appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • The Midterms Were a Populist Blowout
    Voters rejected Trump’s billionaire-backed politics and attacks on working people. The winners need to show that a different kind of politics can deliver. The post The Midterms Were a Populist Blowout appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • Is the Far-Right Wave Receding?
    But there is a deeper dissatisfaction with democracy that the far right continues to exploit. The post Is the Far-Right Wave Receding? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
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  • ● On Strike for a Different Spain
    Spain will see a general strike on Wednesday, following mass protests around housing. The post On Strike for a Different Spain appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • ● Veterans in Crisis Need More Than a ‘Thank You’
    This Veterans Day, we must stop military adventures that harm our own soldiers as much as our perceived enemies. The post Veterans in Crisis Need More Than a ‘Thank You’ appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • Ten Ways Congress Could Defund War to Fund Climate Solutions
    The affordability and climate crises are interconnected, and spending on the Pentagon makes both worse. The post Ten Ways Congress Could Defund War to Fund Climate Solutions appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
  • The Midterms Were a Populist Blowout
    Voters rejected Trump’s billionaire-backed politics and attacks on working people. The winners need to show that a different kind of politics can deliver. The post The Midterms Were a Populist Blowout appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
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  • ● Department Of Labor Floats Stricter Rules For Unemployment Benefits
    Department Of Labor Floats Stricter Rules For Unemployment Benefits Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,The Department of Labor is proposing stricter rules for Americans trying to get unemployment benefits.To receive unemployment compensation (UC) benefits under the proposed rules, people would have to carry out a minimum of five... Read more »
  • ● Pathway To Citizenship For DACA? Trump Directs DHS Chief To 'Work With Democrats' On Immigration Reform
    Pathway To Citizenship For DACA? Trump Directs DHS Chief To 'Work With Democrats' On Immigration Reform Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Monday that President Trump instructed him to work with Democrats on immigration reform, a day after President Trump told "60 Minutes" that his mass deportation campaign may have... Read more »
  • ● "Could Be First Shoe To Drop": AI Power Stocks Tumble As SoftBank's Write-Down Deepens Bubble Fears
    "Could Be First Shoe To Drop": AI Power Stocks Tumble As SoftBank's Write-Down Deepens Bubble Fears GE Vernova and Bloom Energy shares plunged Tuesday after SoftBank Group disclosed a $3.7 billion charge tied to power equipment procurement. We asked whether this write-down, cancellation, or "revised procurement strategy" in the AI... Read more »
  • ● Houthis Mount Another Large Missile Assault On Riyadh & East-West Pipeline
    Houthis Mount Another Large Missile Assault On Riyadh & East-West Pipeline On Tuesday the Houthis launched another major missile salvo deep inside Saudi Arabia, however Saudi authorities have yet to acknowledge the fresh attack, or to publicly assess possible damage - though there are reports of missile alerts in the... Read more »
  • ● Hegseth Overhauls Military Education To Forge Warriors, Not Bureaucrats
    Hegseth Overhauls Military Education To Forge Warriors, Not Bureaucrats Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJ Media,Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not going to bend to the Democrats or weak-kneed appeasers. He is still aggressively implementing his America First agenda.On November 9, the Department of War issued a press release... Read more »
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  • Video● CNN host backs MAGA rep into a corner over his war excuses: ‘Voters do not agree’
    Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) tried to argue on CNN that the war with Iran must continue because Iran is a grave threat, only to be reminded by anchor Brianna Keilar that President Donald Trump's war instigated that threat in the first place.Carter acknowledged voters don’t agree with the Iran war... Read more »
  • ● Stephen Miller's kiss of death lands from inside the White House
    And now, it’s Miller Time.Let’s just get this out of the way right off the top: Stephen Miller is a vile white nationalist piece of garbage who has done more to destroy the lives and the spirit of hard-working immigrant Americans than anyone in the nation’s history. He is profoundly... Read more »
  • ● Newly elected Republican vows pro-Diddy investigation: 'I'm the most talked about'
    Rep.-elect Anthony Constantino (R-NY) vowed to look into the damage done to imprisoned music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ reputation as he stood by his call for President Donald Trump to pardon him and free him.Constantino spoke with TMZ on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a week after using his election-night victory... Read more »
  • ● Trump loyalist Jim Jordan wins battle to lead House Republicans
    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) defeated House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Tuesday to become the next House minority leader. Jordan won the closed-door, secret-ballot election by a vote of 106 to 73, according to CNN’s Manu RajuThe victory puts one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest congressional... Read more »
  • ● White House insiders combating foreign influence op in Trump’s ear 'every day': report
    As President Donald Trump continues to seek an exit to his deeply unpopular war against Iran, a foreign leader has been calling him “every day” to urge him to resume the fighting, and war skeptics inside the White House are scrambling to push back, an insider told the Financial Times.The... Read more »
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  • Video● CNN host backs MAGA rep into a corner over his war excuses: ‘Voters do not agree’
    Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) tried to argue on CNN that the war with Iran must continue because Iran is a grave threat, only to be reminded by anchor Brianna Keilar that President Donald Trump's war instigated that threat in the first place.Carter acknowledged voters don’t agree with the Iran war... Read more »
  • ● Stephen Miller's kiss of death lands from inside the White House
    And now, it’s Miller Time.Let’s just get this out of the way right off the top: Stephen Miller is a vile white nationalist piece of garbage who has done more to destroy the lives and the spirit of hard-working immigrant Americans than anyone in the nation’s history. He is profoundly... Read more »
  • ● Newly elected Republican vows pro-Diddy investigation: 'I'm the most talked about'
    Rep.-elect Anthony Constantino (R-NY) vowed to look into the damage done to imprisoned music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ reputation as he stood by his call for President Donald Trump to pardon him and free him.Constantino spoke with TMZ on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a week after using his election-night victory... Read more »
  • ● Trump loyalist Jim Jordan wins battle to lead House Republicans
    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) defeated House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Tuesday to become the next House minority leader. Jordan won the closed-door, secret-ballot election by a vote of 106 to 73, according to CNN’s Manu RajuThe victory puts one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest congressional... Read more »
  • ● White House insiders combating foreign influence op in Trump’s ear 'every day': report
    As President Donald Trump continues to seek an exit to his deeply unpopular war against Iran, a foreign leader has been calling him “every day” to urge him to resume the fighting, and war skeptics inside the White House are scrambling to push back, an insider told the Financial Times.The... Read more »
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  • Explaining the U.S. Defense Agreement with Greenland and Denmark
    Under the terms of a new defense agreement between Greenland, Denmark and the United States, Greenland remains a self-governed territory of Denmark with the right to declare its independence in the future. The U.S. did not "get” Greenland, nor does it now "own" Greenland, as President Donald Trump has misleadingly... Read more »
  • VideoWright’s Misleading Claims About Electricity Prices in Red vs. Blue States
    Energy Secretary Chris Wright has blamed high electricity prices in Democrat-led states on climate policies. Prices do tend to be higher in blue states than red states, but climate policies at most explain a modest portion of the price difference. The post Wright’s Misleading Claims About Electricity Prices in Red... Read more »
  • VideoThe 2026 FactCheck Awards
    As fact-checkers, we watch a lot of ads in the lead-up to elections, and we only write about a fraction of them. Some of them are downright bizarre. As we first started doing 20 years ago -- just for fun -- on Election Day, we're giving out pretend awards to... Read more »
  • Common Themes in the 2026 Midterms
    Over the course of this election, we've monitored key toss-up congressional races, fact-checking false claims and distortions of the facts on a host of topics. But some issues have loomed larger than others. The post Common Themes in the 2026 Midterms appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
  • In Kansas, Both Sides Twist the Facts in Accusations of Protecting Pedophiles
    In Kansas’ tight Senate race, ads from Democratic and Republican outside groups are accusing the other party’s candidate of having protected pedophiles. In both cases, the attacks are misleading or unsupported by the evidence. The post In Kansas, Both Sides Twist the Facts in Accusations of Protecting Pedophiles appeared first... Read more »
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  • Explaining the U.S. Defense Agreement with Greenland and Denmark
    Under the terms of a new defense agreement between Greenland, Denmark and the United States, Greenland remains a self-governed territory of Denmark with the right to declare its independence in the future. The U.S. did not "get” Greenland, nor does it now "own" Greenland, as President Donald Trump has misleadingly... Read more »
  • VideoWright’s Misleading Claims About Electricity Prices in Red vs. Blue States
    Energy Secretary Chris Wright has blamed high electricity prices in Democrat-led states on climate policies. Prices do tend to be higher in blue states than red states, but climate policies at most explain a modest portion of the price difference. The post Wright’s Misleading Claims About Electricity Prices in Red... Read more »
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