In accusing Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI, Special Counsel John Durham offers new evidence of the fabrications behind the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory. The indictment of Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann offers new evidence that the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory that engulfed Trump’s term in office was... Read more »

Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent. Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as... Read more »

In “The Management of Savagery,” Max Blumenthal explores the Saudi connection to the 9/11 attacks, the Islamophobic US backlash, and the neocon push to destabilize the Middle East After reading the following except Blumenthal’s “The Management of Savagery,” get the latest edition here along with a free e-book. Two hours’... Read more »

The “five dancing Israelis” intrigue lives on twenty years after the September 11 attacks. But the reality behind the incident may have been more mundane. A bizarre incident in which a group of Israelis were arrested on September 11, 2001 has led to theories about the men’s role in the... Read more »

Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was formed in elite American universities, given US citizenship, trained in neoliberal economics by the World Bank, glorified in the media as an “incorruptible” technocrat, coached by powerful DC think tanks like the... Read more »

Biden’s popular and long overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered a big media meltdown that exposed its de facto merger with the military. In the wake of a remarkably successful Taliban offensive capped by the takeover of Kabul, the responses of corporate media provided what may have been the most dramatic... Read more »

The Grayzone’s Ben Norton launches his show Propaganda Today discussing US war profiteering in Afghanistan and how the CIA gave birth to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Propaganda Today is a weekly show that Ben hosts at the independent video platform Rokfin. In his first stream, he talks about corporate war... Read more »

Anti-war veterans Matthew Hoh and Danny Sjursen on the reality of the war in Afghanistan that was kept from the public. As the US establishment grapples with its defeat in Afghanistan, US veterans Matthew Hoh and Danny Sjursen explain how the war in Afghanistan was lost, Afghans suffered, and military... Read more »

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton of the Moderate Rebels podcast discuss the US military pullout from Afghanistan with journalist Pepe Escobar, who has extensive experience reporting in the country and was arrested by the Taliban twice. In the first part of the interview, we talk about the geopolitics of the... Read more »

CONTACT VIA THIS WEBSITE. IN THE SUBJECT HEADING, PLEASE WRITE: I WANT TO HELP! The post RESEARCH ASSISTANT NEEDED FOR FINKELSTEIN’S NEW BOOK appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

The disillusionment of a former admirer of Israel (G.M., from Florida) I speak as someone who grew up with so much admiration for Israel, and I have to admit, I had a lot of contempt for Palestinians. I grew up hearing how Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle... Read more »

Dear Prof. Finkelstein, Since you asked about myself, I am from Pakistan and currently live in the Hague the Netherlands, (which is where I believe your good friend Mouin Rabbani lives?) My parents were both leftist journalists. My father (Ahfaz-ur-Rahman: you can click on his name for details) went to China... Read more »

The state that cried antisemitism B. Michael | Jul. 27, 2021 | 11:51 PM |  6 Everyone condemned it, competing with one another in volume, flashing angry looks and going overboard with their castigation. They were responding to that malicious Vermont plot to deprive those masses of abominable war criminals pining for a taste... Read more »

[The correspondent prefers to remain anonymous) After reading your What Gandhi Says I bought and read Knowing Too Much, which I also found to be illuminating.  I must confess I read the book looking more for insight into domestic American politics than in American policy toward Israel and Palestine.  Jews in late 20th... Read more »

Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza World Premiere Saturday June 26 Restream Sunday June 27, 2021 7pm CST  Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms  An ad-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to call for an... Read more »

Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza World Premiere Saturday June 26 and Re-Stream Sunday June 27, 2021 The same program will be shown two times 7pm CST Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms An an-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical... Read more »

It’s apartheid, say Israeli ambassadors to South Africa “It is clearer than ever that the occupation is not temporary, and there is not the political will in the Israeli government to bring about its end.” 8 June 2021 | Ilan Baruch and Alon LielOpinion | South Africa Map of the West Bank, the... Read more »

The post Norman Finkelstein to #AlMayadeen: “There is a dramatic shift in public opinion towards Israel in the #US after the last events in #Gaza.” appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

During last week’s Tory Cabinet reshuffle, ITV political editor Robert Peston inadvertently summed up the primary function of political journalists: ‘I simply pass on’ His tweet was in reference to a ministerial source saying that →... Read more »

As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. →... Read more »

11. The BBC On The Saintly Motives For Waging War On Iraq And Libya In focusing on the grim future in April, US vice president, Kamala Harris, surely revealed far more than she intended about →... Read more »

After 20 years of Media Lens, it seems only natural that we should look back in gratitude at the support we’ve received. In response to one of our early pieces, a kindly columnist at the →... Read more »

In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. As editor →... Read more »

Recent media coverage of Israel and Palestine, not least by BBC News, has been full of the usual deceptive propaganda tropes: Israel is ‘responding’ or ‘reacting’ to Palestinian ‘provocation’ and ‘escalation’; Palestinian rockets ‘killed’ Israelis, →... Read more »

9 July will mark 20 years since we sent our first media alert – a 500-word piece on the West’s crimes against humanity. Since then, our media alert and cogitation archives have swollen to well →... Read more »

Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: ‘One man does not assert →... Read more »

We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things →... Read more »

During an interview on BBC Radio this morning, the controversial anti-trans Labour MP Rosie Duffield suggested that bisexual people are “appropriating gay culture”, and referred to an American anti-trans activist and convicted stalker – who was arrested after making threats to kill two men and shoot up a school –... Read more »

Priti Patel has been heavily criticised after assuming the guilt of a suspected People Smuggler – a statement which could amount to Contempt of Court and potentially result in the case being thrown out, should it go to trial. On Tuesday, the Home Secretary’s official government Twitter account posted a... Read more »

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has come under fierce criticism after making the highly misleading claim that those facing the impending £20 a week cut to Universal Credit could avoid the impact by simply doing “two hours extra work every week”. Speaking on BBC Breakfast, DWP Secretary... Read more »

The Labour Party have accused one of their party members of racism for sharing a social media post in support of a four-day working week and free broadband. In an official investigation letter, seen exclusively by Evolve Politics, Labour’s Investigations Team allege that the party member – who wishes to... Read more »

I wanted to write a bit about Afghanistan. I wanted to talk about the disgusting betrayal of the Afghan people by our Western governments, the US and UK chief among them. About Macron and Patel, whose prime concern is not to help people so desperate that they cling to the... Read more »

Boris Johnson has been castigated on social media after tweeting about his hopes for a “greener” future alongside a picture of him travelling by private jet from London to the G7 summit in Cornwall this weekend. Writing on Twitter, the PM said: “I’ve arrived in Cornwall for this year’s @G7... Read more »

Keir Starmer’s woes have gone from bad to worse this afternooon after an astonishing new Westminster Voting Intention poll put the Labour Party a massive 13 points behind Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party – worse figures than the 2019 General Election results. The poll, conducted by YouGov between the 3rd and... Read more »

It has become intensely clear over the past few years that politicians simply don’t reflect the wider population. Far too often our elected representatives fail to listen to the views of ordinary people, and it is little wonder that the general public increasingly feel that politics simply isn’t working for... Read more »

The huge accumulations of wealth which are hoarded by billionaires and global corporations give them vast economic power over virtually every aspect of ordinary peoples’ lives. 

 In theory, the power that they hold is held in check by elected governments – as well as a vigilant media. But this... Read more »

The Labour Right hopes that giving power back to MPs will prevent any future shift to the Left. But Britain needs more radicalism, not less... Read more »

Exclusive: Cabinet Office’s Clearing House told housing ministry to alter responses to Freedom of Information requests about fatal fire... Read more »

Boris Johnson looks set on using our health data as a bargaining chip to keep his Brexit/US trade dream alive – but what does that mean for us?... Read more »

Amid accusations of “hybrid war”, Poland and the EU have forgotten that the migrants caught up in its stand-off with Belarus are human beings first and foremost... Read more »

Amid accusations of falsifications and violations, openDemocracy speaks to election observers who monitored this week's parliamentary election in St Petersburg... Read more »

Exclusive: Government accused of ‘wasting time and taxpayers’ money’ after spending heavily on legal challenges to prevent Freedom of Information releases... Read more »

New research shows that eight Scottish shell companies hold sizeable commercial interests in an Uzbek business conglomerate linked to the country’s president... Read more »

The world must take action now to prevent a deep and lasting humanitarian crisis. But what, if anything, can be done?... Read more »

Exclusive: Conservative voters more vexed about government transparency failures than Labour voters, poll commissioned by openDemocracy finds... Read more »

Starmer’s attempt to rig the rules for any future leadership challenge is facing a backlash from trade unions, party activists and left-wing MPs. We speak to NEC member Lara McNeill about whether he can be stopped. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.... Read more »

Last week, Labour councillors on the Tower Hamlets planning committee made history for the wrong reasons. On Tuesday, Kevin Brady and Kahar Chowdhury gave developers the green light to redevelop and extend the Old Truman Brewery site on Brick Lane, turning it into a mixed-use complex including office spaces, a... Read more »

It is easy to become immune to the hypocrisy of politicians. From millionaire Tory MPs calling for austerity to Boris Johnson, our serial adulterer-prime minister with an unverified number of children, warning against family breakdown, ‘do as I say not as I do’ has become a default motto for our... Read more »

Yesterday, two new Northern Line stations were opened at Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms. Over half a decade in the making, it’s the first extension to the Northern line since Clapham Common to Morden was unveiled in 1926. As someone born and raised in Battersea, there’s something exciting about... Read more »

Six energy companies have collapsed in the past two weeks, and dozens more are expected to crumble. Will Britain face a gas crisis this winter? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »

I am tired. I am tired and I want to switch my brain off, it’s turning into mush anyway. I don’t know whether that’s a side effect from a year and a half of social withdrawal or if it is merely a sign of advancing age. Indeed, I wonder if... Read more »

The United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan last month, and the subsequent Taliban takeover of the country, triggered a tidal wave of righteous indignation from the political establishments on both sides of the Atlantic. Their stated objections to religious fundamentalism and the denial of women’s rights need not detain us for... Read more »

The first real Labour conference with Keir Starmer as leader will pitch party bosses against the left. Is there any hope of preventing a stitch up? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »

“Liberalism isn’t good enough for us,” wrote radical lesbian activist and writer Martha Shelly in 1969, “and we are just beginning to discover it. Your friendly smile of acceptance—from the safe position of heterosexuality—isn’t enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because... Read more »

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When Taliban fighters swept across Afghanistan in a little over a week and entered the capital city of Kabul on August 15, 2021, they surprised the US media, the Biden White House, and the military. Desperate to get out of the country, those who had worked with the US-backed Afghan... Read more »

The political climate created by the Global War on Terror, or GWOT, as Bush administration officials quickly dubbed it, set the stage for humongous increases in the Pentagon budget. In the first year after the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, defense spending rose by more than 10% and... Read more »

On Wednesday, thousands of Salvadorans celebrated the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence by marching in protest against President Nayib Bukele’s administration. President Bukele’s decision to make Bitcoin an officially recognized currency in El Salvador succeeded in getting a lot of attention. And that was precisely the point. The boldness... Read more »

"Neoliberalism" has been a hot topic for a few decades, but by now the word is sloppily used often enough that many claim that the word has become meaningless. However, it doesn't work that way. The word neoliberalism has a definite meaning, even if it can be a tricky one,... Read more »

On July 29th,  H.R.4373 committed to providing Israel $3.3 billion in unconditional military aid after it passed in the House in a close bipartisan vote of 217-212. The Palestinian refugee and diasporic community residing within the so-called United States is outraged by this bill that embodies all the funding mechanisms for... Read more »

In its August 2021 Update to its Tracking the Dirty Dollars Project, Sierra Club California reveals that the California Republican Party has accepted over $300,000 from the fossil fuel industry and its allies this year. This more than triples the party’s contributions since Sierra Club’s last report update in May. “Once again, Republican legislators... Read more »

Free speech and free press mean the same thing: the right to voice any beliefs or ideas, even unpopular ones — orally or on paper — without fear of being punished for it. Sometimes it’s called freedom of expression. Through history, various advances slowly won this right, which lies at... Read more »

When President Joe Biden won the White House, he promised, with a facility of unceasing boredom, that diplomacy was back.  “Diplomacy is back at the centre of our foreign policy,” he stated on February 4.  “As I said in my inaugural address, we will repair our alliances and engage with... Read more »

SPEAKERS Yanis Varoufakis: Greek MP & former finance minister of Greece and author of Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present Gillian Tett: Chairman of the US editorial board and U.S editor-at-large at the Financial Times Gillian Tett is the pioneering columnist who has spent the last decade documenting the rise of... Read more »

I must have been 6 or 7 years-old when I got whiff of the significance of Theodorakis’ music. It was around 1968 when my parents warned me not to tell anyone at school or in the neighbourhood that they owned records of his – and certainly not to admit that... Read more »

Την επόμενη Δευτέρα, 13 του Σεπτέμβρη, στις 19.30 στον Κήπο του Νομισματικού Μουσείου, παρουσιάζουν-σχολιάζουν τη νουβέλα επιστημονικής φαντασίας ΤΟ ΑΛΛΟ ΤΩΡΑ (που τόλμησα να γράψω!) ο Χριστόφορoς Κάσδαγλης (συγγραφέας) κι η Ηλιάνα Φωκιανάκη (επιμελήτρια εικαστικών τεχνών). Την συζήτηση θα συντονίσει η εκδότρια Έλενα Πατάκη. H επιστημονική φαντασία δεν είναι παρά... Read more »

My first inkling that his music was significant was when my parents warned me – I must have been 6 or 7 yrs old – that merely whistling a Theodorakis tune was an arrestable offence – such was the fear that his music caused in the minds of our fascist... Read more »

America’s liberal imperialist doctrine has been responsible for appalling carnage in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Central America. But America has also produced a liberal anti-imperialist doctrine that remains ensconced in a TV series that has been captivating US audiences since 1966. ATHENS – On February 9, 1967, hours after... Read more »

After the second world war, Greece’s countryside experienced two debilitating human surges – an exodus of villagers, then a most peculiar human invasion of its fringes. These two surges, aided by a weak state and abetted by the climate crisis, have turned the low-level drama of naturally redemptive forest fires... Read more »

Covid-19 forced billions of humans to re-assess the way we live, work and travel. Monstrous wildfires (from British Columbia to Greece and Croatia) and murderous floods (e.g. Germany) have confirmed that which we should have known: We, humans, have damaged the planet, possibly, beyond repair. Against this background, it is... Read more »

Recently, I argued that a central bank cryptocurrency can be a useful tool in the struggle to democratise money. Such a tool is, of course, not enough. The main task in democratising money is first to democratise the central bank – before deploying useful instruments like a central bank cryptocurrency.... Read more »

The history of money has been the history of the struggles to control the payment system and the money tree. Today, with control over both resting in the hands of bankers, central banks’ efforts to boost business end up amplifying inequality while failing to address either economic stagnation or the... Read more »

As we face an impending winter energy crisis, Curtis Daly explains why now is the time to renationalise the energy sector, along with much … Read more By Curtis Daly... Read more »

After facing questions about the encounter, No 10 emphasised that Boris Johnson had been ‘double jabbed’. By The Canary... Read more »

In the last few weeks, three more Bristolians have been handed long prison sentences. After clashes with the police at a Kill the Bill … Read more By Tom Anderson... Read more »

Boris Johnson scolded rich countries at the United Nations on 20 September. He told them that “the world will see, and your people will … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

An activist group is celebrating after a significant victory in its campaign against NHS privatisation. After We Own It fought against members of private … Read more By Jasmine Norden... Read more »

Richard Ratcliffe will be appealing to MPs from a giant snakes and ladders board in Parliament Square on Thursday. By The Canary... Read more »

Nabil Choucair said nothing should be done to the tower without the input of the victim’s families By The Canary... Read more »

The Metropolitan Police named Sabina Nessa, 28, from Kidbrooke, after her body was found near a community centre. By The Canary... Read more »

The Good Law project claims more than £80 million in contracts for antibody tests were awarded unlawfully. By The Canary... Read more »

As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war. ... Read more »

While the jury is still out on who committed the attacks against U.S. officials, or even whether there were any attacks at all, directed energy weapons certainly do exist. Havana Syndrome might be science fiction, but directed energy weapons are very much science fact.  The post Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy... Read more »

The Zionist narrative is arguably responsible for the welcoming and forgiving attitude the entire world has towards the horrendous, unforgivable crimes committed by Israel since its founding in 1948. The post From Glorious Millennia to Death and Destruction: Zionists Rewrite Palestine’s Story appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Even if we were to accept all the accusations against the WIV regarding their alleged subpar safety standards, none of it has any relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic unless it can be shown the WIV possessed SARS-CoV-2 in its lab before the outbreak, and there is no evidence of that. ... Read more »

“This is all part of the deliberate medical neglect policy that the Israeli occupation uses. They don't feel like they have an obligation toward Palestinian detainees and prisoners regarding their health care.” -- Milena Ansari, Addameer The post Burned in Car Fire, Falsely Accused of Terrorism, Palestinian Mother Imprisoned without... Read more »

Abdulmalek, who had never so much as belonged to a political party or group, was looted of what he had saved for his family, tortured and shot to death by soldiers wearing the uniform of, and receiving their salary from, Abu Dhabi. The post Grief and Anger After UAE Soldiers... Read more »

“ I’ve seen too much not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a paycheck” -- Former British Soldier Ahmed Al-Babati The post British Soldier Arrested for Protesting Against Yemen War & Arms Support for Saudi Arabia appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

We will either be remembered as a country that took freedom and liberty for all seriously or we will be remembered as a nation of cowards who, driven by fear, were willing to deprive this group, then that group, of their freedom -- before losing that freedom entirely. The post... Read more »

Opportunities for Palestinians to celebrate as a nation are few and far between, so when news broke of the escape of six high-profile Palestinian prisoners from one of Israel’s most notorious prisons, people took to the streets in triumph. The post Why Israel’s Gilboa Prison Break has Palestinians Celebrating appeared... Read more »

Everyone’s talking about how Michael D Higgins turned down that invitation to a church service ‘marking’ the creation of the border. Nobody that I’ve come across has been concerned to find the answer to a vital question: Why? Why did Michael D say thanks but no thanks to the invite?... Read more »

Do the 81% of people who agree with President Higgins’s decision not to attend that event in Armagh – do they have a poison of anti-Britishness running through their veins? You’d have to open a lot of veins to find out, but the Indo’s Eilis O’Hanlon seems convinced people who... Read more »

: THE IRISH BULLETIN — RELEVANT TODAY! The IRISH BULLETIN , published by the elected Government of Ireland under British occupation from 1919-1921 is essential to the understanding of that period. It got a brief and sneering mention in THE IRISH TIMES (God bless the mark!) some years ago which... Read more »

OK then – let’s get this Michael D Higgins thing into perspective. Unionist anger at President Higgins’s rejection of an invitation to attend a church service in Armagh ‘marking’ the partition of Ireland and the creation of Northern Ireland is partly fuelled by shock. Normally the Irish President, like most... Read more »

This review first appeared in The Andersonstown News Last week brought pain to my TV screen, not once but twice. The first pain took the form of another footballing occasion, this time involving the Foreign Game. Alexa warbled that the Republic of Ireland was playing Portugal, in Portugal, and my heart shrank. Under Stephen Kenny as manager... Read more »

You probably never heard of an NDA or Non-Disclosure Agreement. I hadn’t heard of them until this (Saturday) morning when I looked at TMES 2, the section of THE TIMES devoted to Fashion, Showbiz and general air -headed concerns. It shouted at me –  “I was silenced – No one... Read more »

Men who want power make it simple. They make their messages short. Lenin was serious about power and he offered the masses PEACE, LAND, AND BREAD. He won enough support to establish a state that lasted three-quarters of a century, though without delivering on all the promises. Boris Johnson was... Read more »

It seems that Michael D Higgins is not the man he was: he has disappointed unionism by not attending that commemoration ceremony in Armagh. Was he right to reject it?After all, Catholic Archbishop Eamon Martin is going to it. The Zappone affair rumbles on. Matt Carthy of Sinn Féin has... Read more »

The DUP are not a bit pleased with President Michael D Higgins. Peter Weir wants to know if the President is joining Sinn Féin and the SDLP in boycotting all events marking the establishment of NEI one hundred years ago. He’s written to the President “asking if his office is... Read more »

Israeli sources have reported, Wednesday, that the police detained a Palestinian man after he allegedly rammed an Israeli colonialist settler with his car, near occupied Jerusalem. The injured woman made the allegation that two hours after she was injured. The sources said that the “incident appears to be hit and... Read more »

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed, Wednesday, that a cancer-stricken former Palestinian political prisoner who was recently released from an Israeli prison after his condition seriously deteriorated, has died at a Palestinian hospital in Ramallah, in central West Bank. The PPS stated that the detainee, Hussein Masalma, 39, from... Read more »

Israeli soldiers shot and abducted a young Palestinian man in the at-Tour town, in occupied Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the town, leading to protests, before firing rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs. They added that the soldiers shot Bassam Abu Sbeitan, with rubber-coated steel bullets in the leg,... Read more »

Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight, at least six Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank. Media sources in Ramallah, in central West Bank, said the soldiers invaded the al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of the city, and abducted a young man after storming his home and searching it. In addition,... Read more »

Israeli soldiers attacked, Wednesday, many schoolchildren in the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and detained one. Local sources said the soldiers invaded the village and were deployed near the local school, before attacking and searching several students. They added that the soldiers detained... Read more »

Israeli soldiers and a Group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers bulldozed, Wednesday, large areas of Palestinian lands near Nablus, in northern West Bank, apparently in preparation for construction of an outpost. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, stated that the... Read more »

Undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated, earlier Wednesday, into Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, and assaulted many Palestinians before kidnapping four. Eyewitnesses said the undercover soldiers infiltrated the refugee camp in a civilian truck, before jumping out of it and assaulting many young Palestinian men. They added that the undercover... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the archeological area in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of Nablus, in northern West Bank. Mohammad Azem, the mayor of Sebastia, stated that several Israeli army jeeps, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded the town before heading to the site, and closed it along with the surrounding areas. Azem... Read more »

A Palestinian Druze man with Israeli citizenship was killed in a car accident Tuesday while volunteering with the Israeli police to identify undocumented Palestinian workers. He was identified as Hosam Zghaiyir, from the town of Yarka in the northern West Bank. Israeli police ruled the incident an accident that was... Read more »

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***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 »

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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 »

✔ Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/aMkRjb✔ Donate to our network: https://bit.ly/3bT0BMSThis video was produced and published on the Frank Barat YouTube channel on June 1, 2021. We republished it today to raise more awareness of the issues discussed.Description: Noam Chomsky and Imad Alsoos talk to Frank Barat about the future... 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 »

Only 25% think the Fianna Fáil Taoiseach, Mr Martin, is the most influential politician in government. By Conor Lenihan. The latest opinion poll, this time from the Irish Mail on Sunday, posits more bad news for Fianna Fáil and its somewhat beleaguered leader Micheál Martin. Fianna Fáil’s opinion-poll rating continues to... Read more »

By David Burke. 1. The counter-insurgency gurus. During the period 1970-72 Brigadier (later General Sir) Frank Kitson served as Brigadier of 39 Brigade in Belfast. It is arguable that he caused more damage to relations between the British government and the Nationalist community than any other individual in the British... Read more »

Taoiseach, Tánaiste, multiple Ministers, civil service, Garda, official inquiries and EU complicit in wrecking the life of one of Ireland’s leading business representatives. How a former CEO of ISME has been shafted by the State because of two key sensitivities in Irish politics: the relationship between the Social Partners (unions and... Read more »

A recent protest, perhaps the world’s smallest that was improperly touted by the media as spontaneous, featured more wedding organisers than brides By Jed Lonstein Recently a story appeared in all the major media outlets in Ireland. It was a protest without precedent. There were no marker-scrawled placards or grim-faced... Read more »

By David Burke. 1. Where was the ‘EFGH’ Unit of Support Company of 1 Para during the Ballymurphy Massacre? Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of internment. It began on 9 August 1971. By the 11th, ten people had been murdered by paratroopers in Ballymurphy. Earlier this... Read more »

As the summer turns to rain it’s time for some fresh faces. By Conor Lenihan. In the light of the botched Zappone Envoy appointment the Covid lockdown guidelines are again under the microscope.When is a Lockdown guideline not really a line of any sort?Clearly when former Taoiseach and current Tánaiste... Read more »

Former Minister getting plum diplomatic gig inflames leadership issues in two main government parties.  By Conor Lenihan. The appointment of Katherine Zappone as an Irish diplomatic envoy has already let loose a lot of free speech – not all of it complimentary. The question is: at a very challenging time... Read more »

By David Burke. Brigadier Frank Kitson, who is still alive, ran 39 Airportable Brigade area, i.e. Belfast, as if he was a mob boss with the city his patch. He let the paratroopers under his command run riot in that domain. Some of the more decent and honourable British army... Read more »

By David Burke. 1. 50-year Concerted Cover-up. The British government’s determination to absolve all British soldiers involved in killings during the Troubles means that there are now precious few opportunities to get to the bottom of what really happened during the Ballymurphy massacre and on Bloody Sunday. The Bloody Sunday... Read more »

The former Defence Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who died yesterday, is trending on Twitter in Egypt. Whilst the state-run media praise him as a "loyal son", a "military symbol" and a "hero" of the October War, Egyptians say he has blood on his hands. Tantawi became a known face... Read more »

At a time when the voices of American and British officials, and the official media in the West in general, are loudly denouncing the lack of support for Afghan women in the recently formed Taliban government, and the failure to allocate a percentage of political representation to them, in any... Read more »

Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul international airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading amongst them: who are these people and why are they running away? In the US and other Western media, answers were... Read more »

Following complaints from prominent rights groups, US State Department spokesman Ned Price announced last Tuesday that the Biden administration is expected to withhold $130 million in military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns. President Joe Biden is thus departing from the policy of his predecessor, Donald Trump, who ignored... Read more »

A few weeks after Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz dangled the promise of a few concessions to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's illegitimate rule, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has articulated – belatedly as usual – that Israel's plan is to continue its colonisation of Palestinian territory. As if Palestinians don't know... Read more »

The Bennett-Sisi summit would not have received the attention it did in the Israeli media, on the eve of the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday last week, had it not been for the Egyptians. According to the Israeli press corps, the Egyptian officials worked hard to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Naftali... Read more »

On a recent afternoon, Lebanese cryptocurrency trader Mario Awad was sorting out the details of a $2 million deal with a high-profile customer – complete with a hotel stay and the promise of a lively night out. "I have [security] officers, politicians, media personalities, everyone is buying crypto," he told... Read more »

Zakaria Zubeidi is one of the six Palestinian prisoners who, on 6 September, tunnelled their way out of Gilboa, a notorious, high-security Israeli prison. He was recaptured a few days later. The large bruises on his face told a harrowing story of a daring escape and a violent arrest. However,... Read more »

The re-arrest of the two escaped Palestinian prisoners, Iham Kahamji and Munadil Nafayat is not the end of this event. There is no need to feel overly disappointed to the point of it overcoming us, regardless of what the coming days will reveal in terms of the details and circumstances... Read more »

In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess who was able to predict the future but unable to convince others to act upon her prophecies. The fate of Cassandra seems particularly relevant today, for there has been ample warning about three developments that threaten continued human existence—preparations for nuclear war,... Read more »

Is it possible to build social solidarity beyond the state? It’s easy to conclude that it’s not.  In 1915, as national governments produced the shocking carnage of World War I, Ralph Chaplin, an activist in the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote his stirring song, “Solidarity Forever.”  Taken up by... Read more »

The US government will (perhaps within a month) probably succeed in extraditing businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde. His “crime” was being an official envoy for the Venezuelan government as he attempted to negotiate the sale of medicines from Iran to Venezuela. US sanctions have declared such activity illegal. Saab... Read more »

By Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard,... Read more »

I reviewed Josiah Thompson’s new book in a blog post the other day. The book makes a persuasive case that there was a second shooter who killed JFL, but I don’t think it’s a slam dunk. Neither is Gerald Posner’s conclusion that Oswald acted alone. I consider it a toss-up.... Read more »

I just finished Josiah Thompson’s excellent new book on the JFK assassination: Last Second in Dallas (University Press of Kansas, 2021). Near the end of the book he describes how the scene of the crime, Dealey Plaza, looks to him in 2020. He reflects that “the case itself has been... Read more »

In 1980, Venezuela’s infant mortality rate ranked 58th best in the world, far below Cuba, whose infant mortality rate was 28th that year. Infant mortality is a basic Venezuela’s infant mortality rate in 1980 was more than twice as high as that in Cuba – all according to the 2018... Read more »

Venezuela has been an important oil exporter since the 1920s. See this essay for historical details. As the chart below shows, It was not until the 1970s that big Middle east oil exporters like Saudi Arabia and Iran overtook Venezuela in oil production  ... Read more »

There’s a serious political problem in the Spanish Kingdom that seems difficult to resolve and leads to a vicious circle. Probably because of the influence  of Francoist ideology, having independence as an objective is contrary to the Spanish Constitution, (art.2 insists on “The indissoluble unity of the Nation (…),” for... Read more »

Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine... Read more »

We have an enormous responsibility today to prevent the kinds of conflicts that are coming, that are brewing, that are developing... Read more »

“You can’t overestimate: we have maybe a decade or two, that’s it, in which we can decide to get the heating of the environment under control. If we don’t do it, we’re finished.”... Read more »

Interview on a many topics, including the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media... Read more »

Please Help ZNet           Source: Truthout Twenty years ago this week, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, whose origins date back to 1979 when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in the United States. Shortly... Read more »

The 92-year-old leftist sees meaningful progress in news coverage... Read more »

Discussion on the organization of a new economy... Read more »

The significance of the IPCC report is beyond reasonable doubt. As to whether the necessary measures will be taken? That’s up to us... Read more »

The 92-year-old leftist sees meaningful progress in news coverage... Read more »

This summer, TRNN reported on rural Wisconsinites’ fight against Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry. Since then, things have gotten even more heated on the ground in Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties.... Read more »

'It doesn't matter if a Democrat or Republican is president, our immigration system is designed for cruelty towards and dehumanization of immigrants,' said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.... Read more »

There’s no such thing as a ‘good’ prison, but the stark differences between US and Cuban prisons show just how deliberately inhumane the American carceral system is.... Read more »

The hosts of the Police Accountability Report take a deep dive into the ongoing efforts to prosecute a popular Black police chief for a 2014 accident investigation involving two parked cars. The latest ruling in the case by an appeals court reveals yet another example of how America's criminal justice... Read more »

In this week’s round-up of news, teachers respond to Jamaal Bowman’s proposal, nonprofits can soon apply for ARPA funds, and the Baltimore Police get some more money.... Read more »

The Real News Network Executive Producer and host Eddie Conway talks to Nicole Carty of PowerLabs and filmmaker, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about the ways the Occupy movement changed the world and laid the groundwork for a multitude of new movements.... Read more »

Police entered the home of two Texas men with guns drawn, claiming the door was open and that they smelled marijuana. But an investigation shows that the officers lied on their own report, and now the victims want these cops held accountable.... Read more »

In Part 1 of the mini-documentary series State of Injustice, executive produced by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, filmmakers Roger Glenn Hill and Brian Douglas investigate the killing of Luke Stewart and the fight to hold the Euclid PD accountable for their actions.... Read more »

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, much of the US political and pundit class paid lip service to the importance of ‘shared sacrifices.’ TRNN’s Jaisal Noor and Sam Sacks of Means TV ask: Will the US draw on that same spirit of shared sacrifice to fight COVID-19 and climate change?... Read more »

The news you didn't see this week... The post Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, September 2021 appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'Last year Weetabix’s profits went up by almost 20% to more than £81 million'. The post Weetabix engineers strike over fire and rehire plans that could see them lose up to £5,000 a year in wages appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

“What general secretary can be considered a success when you’ve lost nearly 150,000 members and when the party’s in disarray as a result of a purge?” The post EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says Labour general secretary David Evans has ‘destroyed community organising’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's... Read more »

Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour's one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say. The post Keir Starmer faces growing backlash over plans to scrap Labour leadership rules that... Read more »

'I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.' The post Boris Johnson cannot... Read more »

“We’ve lost over 100,000 members, some people say 150,000, that’s the army that goes out and fights the elections for us”. The post EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says ‘Labour Party’s purge is having a severe impact on mental health of members’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive... Read more »

Labour’s response to the profoundly changing economic landscape requires an inspiring vision and bold leadership, writes Sonny Leong. The post From Zoom to Boom: Labour needs economic policies designed for a rapidly changing world appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Social justice campaigners have taken legal action against the DIT in a dispute involving government allegedly signing trade negotiation rights in secret. The post Campaigners take government back to court over redacted post-Brexit trade deal papers appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

A backbench rebellion over fallout over plans to scrap benefit payment uplift has been rejected, saving Johnson from a potentially humiliating Commons’ showdown The post Tory heavyweights’ revolt to block Universal Credit cut rejected appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

We look at a new Reuters special report examining corruption and the drug trade in Honduras, which human rights groups say are pushing tens of thousands of people to flee the Central American country for the United States. "People really describe feeling that their life has become unlivable in Honduras,"... Read more »

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has criticized the United States for intensifying its embargo at a time when Cuba is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. "The Biden administration policy toward Cuba today has been the Trump administration policy toward Cuba," says Carlos Fernández de Cossío, director general for... Read more »

World Leaders Address Climate Crisis, Pandemic at UNGA as Guterres Warns World "On Edge of Abyss", House Dems Pass Bill to Avert Gov't Shutdown, Raise the Debt Limit, But Fate in Senate Is Precarious, Cori Bush and Elizabeth Warren Intro Eviction Ban Bill as Housing Activists Rally in D.C., J&J... Read more »

Tuesday marks 10 years since the state of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis for a crime many believe he did not commit. He was put to death despite major doubts about evidence used to convict him of killing Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, including the recantation of seven of the... Read more »

We speak with California Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about border guards whipping Haitians, U.S. immigration policy, raising the refugee cap, investigating the full 20 years of the War in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq.... Read more »

Democrats are still divided over President Biden's sweeping $3.5 trillion spending plan to expand the social safety net, increase taxes on the rich and corporations, improve worker rights and combat the climate crisis. Senate Democrats are hoping to use the budget reconciliation process to pass the bill, but this will... Read more »

U.S. Border Patrol Agents on Horseback Whip Haitian Asylum Seekers, Biden to Raise U.S. Cap on Refugee Admissions to 125,000 Per Year, Fears Grow of Coronavirus Superspreader Event at U.N. General Assembly, U.N. Leader Calls for Countries to Meet $100 Billion Climate Fund Commitments, Student Activists to Lead Global Climate... Read more »

More than a dozen civil society groups in India have written an open letter to Johnson & Johnson and the U.S. government, urging the pharmaceutical giant to cancel export of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine doses to rich countries and instead focus on distributing them in the Global South. "The 600 million... Read more »

We look at the attack on reproductive rights in the United States, as the Department of Justice sues Texas over a new law that bans abortions after six weeks into a pregnancy. The law makes no exception for rape or incest and allows anyone in Texas to sue patients, medical... Read more »

Over the summer, Max traveled to Wisconsin to report on a crucial struggle that has been largely ignored by corporate media. Residents of rural Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties in western Wisconsin have been embroiled in battles over the proposed construction of industrial "hog factories" in their communities, which would... Read more »

On July 30, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) began an around-the-clock sit-in on the Capitol steps. Acting more like an organizer than an elected official, Bush was protesting the expiration of the eviction moratorium that offered protection to more than 11 million renters during the pandemic. On August 3, when the... Read more »

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, after 20 years of brutal occupation, should just be the beginning. The United States must also end the disastrous “War on Terror,” including the bombing campaigns targeting Somalia and Yemen. And it must also put a stop to the brutal sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, Iran... Read more »

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Wisconsin Examiner. On the highway between Fort McCoy—where thousands of Afghan refugees have been temporarily living for the last month—and the city of Sparta, a hand painted sign in blue and white says “Fuhrer Biden,” except the “i” in Biden is... Read more »

CHICAGO—His shift on the strike line over, James Walsh lingers on the sidewalk to wave his picket sign amid a deafening racket of passing truckers and drivers hammering their horns in support. “I think we got a chance,” Walsh said last week. “We are emptying out their shelves,” he added... Read more »

I’m sorry to say that we have reached the point at which it is finally appropriate to say, “It’s time for some game theory.” The Democratic Party—a loose collection of natural enemies knitted together only by their shared refusal to say racial slurs in public—has managed to pull off a... Read more »

A decade has passed since activists first camped in New York’s Zuccotti Park as part of Occupy Wall Street, calling attention to our wildly inequitable—and undemocratic—financial and political systems. The protests soon spread across the United States. But despite the punditry and analysis Occupy provoked, its legacy remains murky. While... Read more »

When Occupy Wall Street was evicted from its home base in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, by the NYPD in a paramilitary-style operation under cover of the night with a press blackout, the obituaries were being written. The day before, Occupy Oakland, which vied with New York as the... Read more »

As unprecedented natural disasters ravage the United States, while federal commitments to climate finance have lagged, the Massachusetts legislature is poised to make a statewide commitment to global climate initiatives. A bill winding its way through the Massachusetts House and Senate could make the state the first in the nation... Read more »

Mr. Soros has expressed his ideological fury at the prospect of not being able to make the kind of easy money off China that he was able to siphon off when the Soviet Union was carved up and privatized. On September 7, 2021, in his second mainstream editorial in a... Read more »

In a Financial Times op-ed, “Investors in Xi’s China face a rude awakening” (August 30, 2021), George Soros writes that Xi’s “crackdown on private enterprise shows he does not understand the market economy. … Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has collided with economic reality. His crackdown on private enterprise has been... Read more »

The 3rd in a 10 part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong. The post Global Financial Empire 3 first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

The 2nd in a 3 part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong. Photo by Scott Gummerson on Unsplash The post Global Financial Empire 2 first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

A 3 part lecture series for the Global University for Sustainability, Hong Kong. Photo by Ilona Frey on Unsplash The post Global Financial Empire 1 first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

President Biden put a popular flag-waving wrapping for America’s forced withdrawal from Afghanistan in his 4 PM speech on Monday. It was as if all this was following Biden’s own intentions, not a demonstration of the totally incompetent assurances by the CIA and State Department as recently as last Friday... Read more »

An interview with the Positive Penger group. Jussi: So welcome all and welcome Michael. Good to have you here again. How are you? Hudson: It’s good to be back. Jussi: Our pleasure as usual. Let me just introduce you shortly first. I think most people know quite a lot about... Read more »

Understanding of the dollar’s world role is dominated by the ideas of ‘dollar hegemony’ and ‘US hegemony’. In this paper, based on our extensive past work, we reveal how these ideas are ideologies, not theories. In their place, we reveal an understanding one that is theoretically sound and accords with... Read more »

Published by Sage Journals Abstract Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy of feudalism—the landlords, bankers, and monopolists extracting economic rent without producing real value. However, that reform movement failed. Today, the finance, insurance,... Read more »

At a virtual live event hosted by Mother Jones on Wednesday, former US Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) confirmed that he is considering a run for Texas governor—in large part due to his concern for voting rights. “[It’s] no secret, I’m thinking about running for governor,” he told Mother Jones’ Ari Berman.... Read more »

Even if you’ve never heard of California’s San Joaquin Valley, you’ve likely benefited from its existence. Its nut groves, fruit and vegetable fields, and industrial-scale dairy operations contribute mightily to the US food supply. So it’s bad news for eaters that the valley has emerged in recent decades as a site... Read more »

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Biden administration will relocate the headquarters of the federal Bureau of Land Management back to Washington, DC, as part of a broader effort to “rebuild and strengthen” the agency after years of “upheaval” under President... Read more »

It’s happening again. On Sunday, Politico reported that Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is opposed to her colleagues’ plan to regulate the price of prescription drugs—and voiced her disagreement at a recent meeting at the White House with President Joe Biden.  Democrats have little margin for error on virtually anything that... Read more »

A few days ago, Time released its annual list of the 100 “most influential people.” As lists go, Time’s has always been a contingent one—as coveted as it is debated and criticized. But this year’s has some absolute powerhouses. Many deserve amplifying on all channels. Among them are the trailblazing... Read more »

Following special counsel John Durham’s indictment last week of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann for allegedly lying to an FBI official, a host of Trump cultists and Trump-Russia scandal denialists have hyperbolically suggested that this single charge proves Donald Trump’s false claim that Russiagate was a hoax whipped up by his... Read more »

In recent weeks, the GOP-controlled Texas legislature has passed some of the country’s most unpopular and divisive policies: a six-week ban on abortion enforced by citizen bounty hunters; a prohibition on teaching students about “critical race theory” and the 1619 Project; and a sweeping voter suppression law targeting communities of... Read more »

This story was originally published by Huffpost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. New laws liberalizing the hunting and trapping of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies might warrant putting the animals back under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and... Read more »

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s namesake business appears to be picking up—and one or more additional Trump associates may soon be in legal jeopardy because of a cache of documents recently uncovered by investigators.  Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer for the Trump Organization,... Read more »

"While President Biden's UN speech promised some additional humanitarian assistance globally... many of his actions internationally -- other than withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan -- have been downright awful." The post Behind Biden’s Rhetoric of Peace at UN: U.S.’s 750 Bases Around the World appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The world is at a crossroads as to war in space. President Biden has not pulled back on the Trump-initiated U.S. Space Force which Trump demanded to 'have American dominance in space.' The post Generals: Space War “All But Inevitable” as U.S. Blocks UN Effort to Stop Weaponization of Space... Read more »

"With the tenth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, it is clear that the movement was far from a failure." Gupta was the only journalist to cover Occupy across the country, reporting from 41 occupations in 26 states over the course of a year. He says Occupy Wall Street influenced the... Read more »

"The Pentagon's and Biden administration's efforts to cover-up the truth about the slaughter of 10 civilians in Kabul on Aug. 29, seven of them children, is simply an example of the on-going cover-up of killer drone atrocities that have been perpetrated by every U.S. administration since the first U.S. drone... Read more »

Beginning Sept 18, 2001, letters bearing the date "9-11-01" and the words "Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great" were mailed to members of Congress and others. They spread fear across the country. Congress was closed down for a period. Then, amid this state of panic, the Patriot... Read more »

Lindorff reported on a leaked transcript of a conversation with both Trump and Attorney General William Barr talking to governors referring in glowing terms to the way the Obama administration had crushed the Occupy movement. The post 10 Years on — How Occupy Wall Street Ended: Clampdown by Obama that Trump... Read more »

"West Africa has just experienced its fourth attempted coup in just over a year, and seven coups over the last 13 years were carried out by African troops trained by the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). One was directly carried out by AFRICOM forces -- Operation Odyssey Dawn against Libya in... Read more »

Protests had erupted nationwide after the blatant theft of the November 2017 presidential elections by Juan Orlando Hernández, who had previously orchestrated an illegal takeover of the country’s Supreme Court in order to obtain permission to run for a consecutive second term, in violation of the Honduran constitution. State security... Read more »

"Twenty years of war has only benefited the weapons industries while making the world less secure. We oppose any threat of further attacks on Afghanistan, 'over the horizon' or by troops on the ground. Official counts indicate that more than 241,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan... Read more »

Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis... Read more »

Interview with the legendary Manuel family about the uncovering of a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children... Read more »

California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal... Read more »

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists... Read more »

“The Green New Deal is a plan that could solve so many of Texas’s problems and the problems across the country, and Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer except for more deregulation, more privatization, more austerity.”... 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 »

The Conservatives promised that communities could reshape their own towns. As the shocking case of Totnes shows, it’s a con. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th September 2021 Among the most important democratic questions is how the land surrounding us is used. Is it providing homes we can... Read more »

Earth systems could tip before 2050. We urgently need more stringent climate targets. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th September 2021 If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath... Read more »

We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st September 2021 Dig for victory: this, repurposed from the Second World War, could be the slogan of our times. All over the world, governments are using the pandemic and the environmental crisis... Read more »

The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th August 2021 Everyone is to blame for the catastrophe in Afghanistan, except the people who started it. Yes, Joe Biden... Read more »

Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th August 2021 The human tragedy is that there is no connection between what we know and what we do. Almost everyone is now at least vaguely aware that we face the... Read more »

Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th August 2021 We have a slow food movement and a slow travel movement. But we’re missing something, and its absence contributes to our escalating crisis. We need a slow ecology movement, and we... Read more »

Do new technologies make autocrats impossible to overthrow? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th July 2021 Democracy depends on an equality of arms. If governments acquire political weapons unavailable to their opponents, they become harder to dislodge. They now possess so many that I begin to wonder how... Read more »

Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st July 2021 There’s more below the surface than we thought. Something even worse than the water companies’ disgusting habit of filling our rivers with raw sewage. After a deep dive... Read more »

Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th July 2021 What’s remarkable is not that a water company knowingly and deliberately poured billions of litres of raw sewage into the sea to cut its... Read more »