The Netherlands investigated fraud by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, which funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120 million in Western government contracts. But top Dutch officials covered up the corruption. The decade-long dirty war on Syria proved to be a cash cow for some of the most prominent US... Read more »

Red Lines host Anya Parampil explores an internal USAID report admitting the agency’s policy on Venezuela was driven by the State Department and National Security Council’s push for regime change. The report specifically investigated USAID’s attempt to use the US military to force aid through Venezuela’s border with Colombia on... Read more »

An investigation into how U.S. Special Forces trained feared Mexican drug cartels responsible for grisly murders, and how Pentagon-backed counter-insurgency in Colombia and Guatemala has bled into organized crime. (This article was first published in CovertAction Magazine.) The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has established itself as one of the... Read more »

When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. These forces helped secure victory for right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso in 2021. The people of Ecuador were hit by a surprise in the... Read more »

Violando la legislación internacional, Estados Unidos busca extraditar y encarcelar a empresarios extranjeros por sortear sus sanciones unilaterales. Los objetivos de Washington incluyen al ciudadano venezolano Alex Saab, el norcoreano Mun Chol Myong, y la ejecutiva china de Huawei Meng Wanzhou. Por Stansfield Smith Traducido por Diego Sequera (You can... Read more »

A campaign against supposed forced labor in Xinjiang has forced Uyghur workers out of their jobs while extracting a handsome payout from a US apparel company to Uyghur exile groups lobbying against China. A self-described “worker rights organization” in Washington, DC called the Worker Rights Consortium has helped direct a... Read more »

Demonstrating the power the ultranationalist Ukraine lobby has attained in Biden’s Washington, the White House has withdrawn consideration of esteemed Russia specialist Matthew Rojansky. Matthew Rojansky is the head of the Kennan Institute, a notable think tank at the US government-funded Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. Despite... Read more »

In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign businesspeople for circumventing its unilateral sanctions. Washington’s targets include Venezuelan national Alex Saab, North Korean Mun Chol Myong, and Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. (Aquí se puede leer este artículo en español.) The United States uses... Read more »

Western media coverage of Myanmar has relied heavily on organizations funded and developed by a notorious US intelligence cutout and UK Foreign Office partner. Can they be trusted? On April 11, news site Myanmar Now exposed what appeared to be the most gruesome massacre to date in the conflict-ridden country.... Read more »

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Artists Building Communities was founded by a group of low income, out of work artists when the pandemic began. They crowdfunded and built emergency tiny homes for their unhoused neighbors in Oakland. They have built seven homes since the pandemic began. Last December they teamed up with the residents of... Read more »

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By Nico Arcilla and Maren Hackmann-Mahajan Many of us spend a lot of time looking at birds, and birds also spend quite a bit of time looking at us! In light of this, we selected photos of birds looking at us for this Birdwatcher’s Corner, which we fondly call, “Here’s looking at... 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 »

On the face of it, Peter Oborne is impossible. It’s not possible to be educated at Sherborne independent school, at Cambridge University, to work as political editor of the Spectator, as chief political commentator of →... Read more »

The Insiders In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name and title, was asked to define the ‘essential qualities’ of a journalist. →... Read more »

As we saw in Part 1, in 1914 and again in 1939, millions of men and women welcomed war. Arnold Ridley and his pals did make this choice, but in reality the choice had been →... Read more »

The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. →... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

Spyros Sofos talks to Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia about their book ‘Seven Essays on Populism’ and understanding ‘the people’ as a political subjectivity, for our Rethinking Populism project... Read more »

Supporters of a Scottish independence referendum can’t just wait for governments to act... Read more »

New British foreign investment council also includes banks with billions invested in fossil fuels, a weapons manufacturer and a Tory donor... Read more »

The UK wants to be a ‘soft power superpower’, but its aid cuts threaten to undermine the tools and partnerships that make that possible... Read more »

A survey of international students and backpackers found that, since COVID-19, 60% were less likely to recommend Australia as a place to study or travel... Read more »

Rules flouted as sites promoting Unionist tactical voting spent more money on ads than the SNP, while ex-BNP ‘greens' siphoned off potentially crucial votes... Read more »

Corinne Vella, sister of Daphne Caruana Galizia, spoke on an openDemocracy panel about her sister’s struggles and the legacy of her work... Read more »

The prospective DUP leader tried to silence our journalism. We need politicians who will stand up for press freedom... Read more »

Britain’s white-collar professionals would wince at the thought that they are enablers of global corruption. New research suggests that the UK’s corruption problem is not only structural, but cultural, too... Read more »

While Labour lost council seats across the North and Midlands, it held firm in Preston. Can only municipal socialism and the ‘Preston Model’ now save the party? Aaron Bastani is joined by Matthew Brown, Labour leader of Preston council.... Read more »

Keir Starmer’s bungled reshuffle has left his personal authority in tatters. Labour MP Clive Lewis joins Michael Walker to discuss whether this is an opportunity for the party’s left to have its voice heard.... Read more »

Why did Labour lose Hartlepool? If Labour MP and scandal-prone ex-frontbencher Khalid Mahmood is to be believed, the problem is that the party is ‘too woke’ for the working class. “We are seen as out of touch,” bemoaned the MP for Perry Barr, “a party captured by urban liberals, whose... Read more »

Keir Starmer’s botched reshuffle has sparked a civil war in the Labour Party. With so many enemies, can he survive? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »

A #TyskySour election special looking at the latest results in Wales, Scotland, London and the metro mayor races. With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani, Michael Gray and Harriet Protheroe-Soltani.... Read more »

Jeremy Gilbert hits the road for a musical microdose accompanying the #ACFM Trip on Folk. Connecting different strands of folk music with their various political tendencies, Jeremy looks at the communism of Woody Guthrie and the singers of the Dust Bowl era, the Vietnam protest music of Bob Dylan and... Read more »

In Hartlepool not only have Starmer’s Labour lost a seat held under Corbyn, but they’ve reduced the party’s vote share. Is this the end for a leadership with nothing to say? Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani bring analysis of initial round of results from the May 2021 elections.... Read more »

“I logged into this thing, typed into the chatbox – ‘hello’ – and somebody in America typed ‘hello’ back,” recalls writer Julia Bell of using her friend’s computer in the early nineties. “I screamed,” she says, “I was like, ‘oh my fucking god, it speaks back – this thing speaks... Read more »

In October 2014, after years of Labour complicity with austerity, writer Tariq Ali concluded that “we live in a country without an opposition”. His remarks were true of the entire continent: across Europe, social democratic parties, lacking ideas and loyalty to their former bases, were ceding ground to fiscal conservatism.... Read more »

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Sending the royal navy to Jersey to confront the French was a suitable overture to elections in Britain dominated by populist nationalism of differing variants. Boris Johnson promised “unwavering support” for the island’s government, a pledge it may find less than reassuring. In Paris, President Macron was likewise beating the... Read more »

Old adages can often come across as trite. But a trite old adage, we always need to remember, can also speak truth. Consider, for instance, the time-worn maxim that immediately comes to mind whenever we see the awesomely affluent stumble in their personal lives. Just another reminder, we tell ourselves,... Read more »

India's Ministry of External Affairs has welcomed the statement of the US government of 5th May announcing their support for a relaxation in the norms of the agreement on TRIPS, to ensure quick and affordable access to vaccines and medicines for developing countries. Delhi is “hopeful that with a consensus... Read more »

The message to lawmakers is clear: spend more on nuclear weapons.  If system capabilities are eroded such that ICBMs are cut from the triad, the commander recommends returning to that maniacally dangerous formula of keeping nuclear armed US Air Force bombers airborne and on permanent alert.  The world can look... Read more »

Reporters at major newspapers and magazines are hard to reach by telephone. Today it is increasingly hard to converse with them about timely scoops, leads, gaps in coverage, and corrections to published articles. We started an online webpage: Reporter’s Alert. From time to time, we will use Reporter’s Alert to present suggestions for... Read more »

The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000 jobs. Furthermore, the prior two months numbers were revised down by 78,000. The unemployment rate edged up to 6.1 percent, but this was entirely due to more people entering the labor force.... Read more »

We were sitting with my friend Manny Greer on the bench outside Ground Support, our favorite coffee house in Soho. Both the owner and the manager pamper us since, as soon as they see us sitting there, they bring us coffee for me and tea for Manny. It was getting... Read more »

President Biden has announced that America’s forever war in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. He says that U.S. forces will exit the country by next September 11.  That’s a good thing. And it is long overdue.  But there is one big problem with Biden’s timetable: It violates an... Read more »

In conversation with Sara Hill, Festival of Debate, Sheffield Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. ANOTHER NOW, my political science fiction novel, examines what such a world would look like through the eyes of... Read more »

Shlomo Avineri’s recent biography demolishes the charge that Karl Marx was a self-hating anti-Semite. And by dragging Marx, kicking and screaming, back into the Rhinish Jewish community that shaped him, Avineri yields new insights pertinent to today’s global challenges. Shlomo Avineri, Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution, Yale University Press, 2019. The... Read more »

Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable. The line in the sand that Europeans refuse to cross, come what may, has just been drawn. We bowed to bankers who almost blew up capitalism, bailing them out at the expense of our weakest citizens. We... Read more »

Την περασμένη εβδομάδα, η Ευρώπη ανακάλυψε τα όρια της ανοχής της. Την ηθική της ραχοκοκκαλιά. Το σύνορο πέραν του οποίου θεωρεί ανυπόφορη την περαιτέρω εμπορευματοποίηση των αξιών. Την λεπτή κόκκινη γραμμή που οι Ευρωπαίοι αρνούνται να περάσουν, ό,τι και να τους τάξουν. Μπορεί να σκύψαμε το κεφάλι στους τραπεζίτες που... Read more »

Στο τρίτο «Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα» ο γραμματέας του ΜέΡΑ25 Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης απαντάει χωρίς περιστροφές στα ερωτήματα της δημοσιογράφου Μαριάνας Πυργιώτη και αναλύει θέματα της επικαιρότητας με αναφορές σε πρόσωπα και παραδείγματα. Αποσαφηνίζει ποιος είναι ο ρόλος του ΜέΡΑ25, πως έπρεπε να κινηθεί η ΕΕ εν καιρώ πανδημίας, μιλάει για το brexit και πως... Read more »

Penguin’s recent edition of the Communist Manifesto is now available on audio here and here. (Meanwhile, here is an extract of my introduction to the Manifesto – as it appeared in The Guardian. For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the... Read more »

Το 1943, εν μέσω του πολέμου, ένας σημαντικός Πολωνός Μαρξιστής οικονομολόγος, ο Μιχάλ Καλέτσκυ, άσκησε μια ενδιαφέρουσα κριτική στον Κέυνς και στον Κεϋνσιανισμό. Ήταν μια κριτική που ξαναγίνεται επίκαιρη σήμερα καθώς φαίνεται ότι, τουλάχιστον στις ΗΠΑ με την κυβέρνηση Μπάιντεν, αναβιώνει ο Κεϋνσιανισμός. Ακούμε για τρισεκατομμύρια τα οποία το αμερικανικό... Read more »

A conversation on the vision in my political science fiction novel ANOTHER NOW for an alternative world, beyond the present version of capitalism – which I call Technofeudalism. Here is a statement by Giuseppe Iannaccone on ANOTHER NOW before we had our discussion (which you can watch above): Another Now... Read more »

Την 17η Απριλίου 2021 η Κεντρική Επιτροπή του ΜέΡΑ25 συζήτησε τις θέσεις του κόμματος, και του DiEM25, για τις πολιτικές αντιμετώπισης της Κρίσης που ενέτεινε η πανδημία – και για τις οποίες αυτές τις μέρες διαβουλευόμαστε πανευρωπαϊκά. (Διάβασε και πρότεινε τροποποιήσεις εδώ στο ελληνικό κείμενο). Στην εισαγωγική μου εισήγηση, ως... Read more »

Campaigners are putting pressure on the UK to stop selling arms to Israel after 26 people in Gaza died following an airstrike. The Israeli … Read more By Jasmine Norden... Read more »

MPs on the Treasury Committee released correspondence they have received by the subjects of their inquiry following Greensill Capital’s collapse. By The Canary... Read more »

The government has failed to detail long-promised proposals to reform social care in the Queen’s Speech on 11 May. This is despite criticism coming … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

Richard Holden, the member for Durham North West, has previously told constituents not to be ‘litter tossers’. By The Canary... Read more »

Conservative Party candidate Jonathon Seed withdrew after a historic driving conviction came to light. By The Canary... Read more »

Protesters are to gather outside AstraZeneca’s Cambridge headquarters to demand the pharmaceutical firm shares its Covid-19 vaccine technology. The demonstration, organised by Global Justice … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

After a weekend of Conservative gains in elections around the country, the left has suffered losses up and down the UK. But the results … Read more By Jasmine Norden... Read more »

Jonathon Seed, the Swindon and Wiltshire Tory candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), is currently making headlines after being disbarred from the election. … Read more By Eliza Egret... Read more »

Estimated revenues surged to over two billion euros for the period from January to March, compared with 28 million euros in the same period last year. By The Canary... Read more »

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar under fire from Fine Gael TDs over teachers and gardaí being pushed down vaccine priority list  Independent.ie... Read more »

Brighid’s Diary: “I nearly cried when I saw his portraits”  Independent.ie... Read more »

Letters from America give a voice to the emigrant's plight  Independent.ie... Read more »

Disgrace of Davy: How monstrous greed ate a financial giant  Independent.ie... Read more »

Letter from the Editor  Independent.ie... Read more »

Image merchants don't cut it in a pandemic  Independent.ie... Read more »

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

Comedy in the time of Covid suggests laughter isn't the best medicine after all  Independent.ie... Read more »

Philip Ryan: Three years can be a long time in politics, Micheál  Independent.ie... Read more »

Reports  coming in this evening tell us that when the British army was found guilty of shooting dead at least nine and maybe ten innocent people in Ballymurphy in 1971, “Families of those killed who have campaigned for decades to clear the names of their relatives wept, hugged and applauded.”... Read more »

Ireland has always had a close personal relationship with Palestinians and the Palestinian cause.  Two peoples, a world apart seeking the same thing…simply, freedom.  A verse in a poem by James Connolly called, ‘We Only Want The Earth’ comes to mind regularly, when I think of the similarities between our... Read more »

When Queen Elizabeth makes her speech today, she will leave a number of bruised hearts among those who have interest in the British Army. Contrary to expectations, the word now is that she won’t speak of legislation to protect British army veterans.  Why is this not going to feature? A... Read more »

With a speech before Parliament, Queen Elizabeth II will promote the pardon of all security forces killings of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland. That’s Britain’s N. I. policy in a nutshell:  “Keep calm and carry on!”  Using a script no doubt provided by the Ministry of Defense, a ‘royal assent’ is to... Read more »

Nichola Sturgeon has now got  the numbers in the Scottish parliament to justify her calling an independence referendum. When will it happen? Will it ever happen, given that Boris Johnson is completely opposed to it? Closer to home, Steve Aitken has sung ‘My Way’ and retired as leader of the... Read more »

Depression is an awful affliction many people in society have to deal with.  Sometimes it is manageable and sometimes it is downright debilitating to the point a person can’t even leave their bed.  12.6% of children and young people in the North experience common mood disorders such as anxiety and depression... Read more »

 “The DUP should be led from the centre, not the extremes” – Peter Robinson. Why do Unionist First Ministers neglect to clarify or act on thoughts like this when they’re actually in office instead of waiting until they’re out of office?  Having said that, two months ago Mr. Robinson also... Read more »

Eoghan Harris appears to have plunged to earth after a life-time of verbal bombing anyone connected to Irish nationalism in even the remotest way. His involvement in a fake twitter account has lost him his job as an Indo columnist. Should we cry for him, Argentina? Across the water, they’ve... Read more »

On Wednesday the 5th May, as I reflected on the 40th Anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike in Long Kesh, I received the news that John Elliott, a distant relative and a prominent Attorney at Law in Philadelphia, USA, had died. The death of anyone is... Read more »

Fintan O'Toole: For newspaper columnists, anonymity is a betrayal  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: We cannot have proper sex education while Catholic Church controls schools  The Irish Times... Read more »

Politics and belief  The Irish Times... Read more »

Poots' big question: Can he lead the DUP and be opposed to the scientific base of public policy?  Slugger O'Toole... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Earth calling Edwin Poots – we have a problem  The Irish Times... Read more »

Education system is no ‘fluke’  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Partition squeezed out pluralism. We have to let it back in  The Irish Times... Read more »

The hidden costs of free education  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson’s gibberish may be surreal but it's also dangerous  The Irish Times... Read more »

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Ballymurphy, the UK government’s proposals to deal with legacy issues, and the dogs on the streets. By Christopher Stanley, litigation consultant. Statute of Limitations In London today (11 May 2021), the British government set out its legislative agenda by way of the Queen’s Speech to the House of Lords. Unexpectedly,... Read more »

By David Burke. The denial of justice for political gain. Next week will see the release of the long-awaited inquest report into the Ballymurphy massacre during which British soldiers killed a large number of unarmed civilians in Belfast. The atrocity took place after the introduction of internment in August of... Read more »

How I grew to see that without broad Marxism the arts and its unserious, networked and commodified lit-libs are for sale. An extract from the essay ‘Being a Marxist Poet in the Twenty-First Century’ by Kevin Higgins. More than a quarter of a century ago a man-child called Kevin retired... Read more »

By Sean Brennan. The documentary titled ‘Gun Plot’ which was shown on RTE 1 last night  was fascinating television. The RTE production team should be commended for this brilliant documentary on a very important and significant political and legal event which occurred 50 years ago but has not been properly... Read more »

By Joseph de Burca. 1. Moloney and Kinchin-White When the Kincora Boys’ Home child abuse scandal first broke, Ed Moloney was one of a number of journalists who reported details about it in the press. Now, Moloney and James Kinchin-White have teamed up to shine a light on the role... Read more »

By Professor Barry McMullin, Dr Andrew Jackson and Professor John Sweeney The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021 published by the Government in March 2021 is a very considerable improvement over the preliminary draft released in October 2020. The revised Bill benefited greatly from the pre-legislative scrutiny... Read more »

How failure to regulate for ethics created a climate where a PR man could deride transparency. By Vanessa Foran. I want to take you back a few months to a mad little incident that keeps coming back to me. “You are almost too transparent and informative”.  This is what PR man... Read more »

By Sean Brennan The purpose of this article is to examine Des O’ Malley’s Role in the events which are commonly known as The Arms Crisis and The Arms Trials 1970. The Arms Crisis erupted during the early hours of 6 May 1970, when a press release issued by the... Read more »

Let’s not conflate our pent-up fantasies of dancing until dawn, with more alcohol sales. By Eunan McKinney. The ‘2020 Programme for Government – Our Shared Future’, committed to the urgent establishment of a taskforce that would promote vibrant and sustainable night-time culture and economy. This 2019 initiative began its formal... Read more »

The recent announcement by the British government that it plans a 40 percent increase in the number of nuclear weapons it possesses highlights the escalation of the exceptionally dangerous and costly nuclear arms race. After decades of progress in reducing nuclear arsenals through arms control and disarmament agreements, all the... Read more »

Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe economic hardship. Even so, the disasters of 2020 were not shocking enough to jolt the world’s most powerful nations out... Read more »

Please note that improbable doesn’t mean impossible. Who would watch sports or buy lottery tickets if very improbable things could not happen? Still, the probability of five deaths (of rioters, bystanders or police) happening within a day of the Capitol Riot might be 2.6%, and perhaps be as low 0.16%. It... Read more »

Given the fact that nuclear war means the virtual annihilation of life on earth, it’s remarkable that many people continue to resist building a nuclear weapons-free world.  Is the human race suicidal? Before jumping to that conclusion, let’s remember that considerably more people favor abolishing nuclear weapons than oppose it. ... Read more »

An event revealing a great deal about the kind of government Americans want occurred this March, when members of the U.S. Congress voted on the American Rescue Plan.  This legislation, staunchly supported by the Democrats, provided federal funding for the provision of life-saving vaccines, the re-opening of public schools, expanded... Read more »

This superb speech by Venezuelan-Canadian scholar Maria Páez de Victor should soon be up on  www.NoSanctions.org , but I decided to post it here so I can spreading it around right away. **** Talk given in Webinar: US/Canada: HANDS OFF VENEZUELA, END SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA NOW! March 5th 2021 Today is the... Read more »

The world is currently engulfed in crises—most prominently, a disease pandemic, a climate catastrophe, and the prevalence of war—while individual nations are encountering enormous difficulties in coping with them. These difficulties result from the global nature of the problems.  An individual nation is unable to institute adequate measures to safeguard... Read more »

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

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

Unless vaccines go to the Global South, the virus is going to mutate. It’s already happening, you get more lethal strains... Read more »

Please Help ZNet           Source: Truthout There has been “nothing comparable in American history” to the huge outpouring of protest unleashed by the murder of George Floyd, says world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky. Even at the very peak of Martin Luther King Jr.’s popularity, the mass protests... Read more »

The U.S. will “withdraw,” but will also leave behind its assets to checkmate China and Russia. These geopolitical considerations eclipse any concern for the Afghan people... Read more »

Chomsky on Mikhail Bakunin and Power systems... Read more »

Interview on on the ways democracy has changed and been constrained in the United States... Read more »

Interview on a variety of topics... Read more »

If we do end up building a viable clean energy system through a global Green New Deal, we will therefore also succeed in advancing democracy and egalitarianism... Read more »

In a wide-ranging talk, the 92-year-old rebel with many causes discusses the role of activists, intellectuals and Joe Biden in America... Read more »

Interview on the Biden administration’s Middle East policies, explores elements of continuity and change in US policy towards the region after the Trump years... Read more »

A nightmarish combination of international capitalist greed, vaccine hoarding in the global North, and right-wing national governments has thrown India and Brazil into the deadly throes of a catastrophic COVID-19 surge. The post ‘People are dying every minute’: COVID-19 catastrophes in India and Brazil appeared first on The Real News... Read more »

In the previous two livestreams in this special series, we identified many of the maladies that plague our lives in the digital era. Now, we talk about how to fight back—and the alternatives we should be fighting for. The post What could life and media be without surveillance capitalism? appeared... Read more »

In the 1970s, a multiracial coalition of prisoners staged a collective uprising against the dehumanizing horrors of the American prison system. And the backlash paved the way for the prison-industrial complex we have today. The post How prisoners expanded the civil rights movement appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

The U.S. military markets itself to working-class and marginalized recruits who are alienated by capitalist society, then it chews them up and spits them out. That’s how the system is designed to work. The post Woke-washing the US military meat grinder appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman ever elected to Congress, demanded that President Biden take immediate and concrete action in response to Israeli forces' latest assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The post ‘American taxpayer money is being used to commit human rights violations’ in Israel, says Rep. Rashida... Read more »

In this week’s roundup of Baltimore news we talk about burgeoning support for defunding the police, tenants’ rights, and co-ops amid Covid-19. The post Battleground Baltimore: Support For Defunding the Police Grows appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

The pandemic wiped out 70% of their business, but Baltimore's Taharka Bros' worker-owners successfully pivoted to delivery, saving their company and offering insight into how co-ops were able to weather COVID-19. The post Taharka Bros: Ice cream with a side of worker ownership appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Over 1,000 union coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on strike since April 1. New TRNN contributor Kim Kelly gives an on-the-ground report breaking down what these workers are striking for and how the community is rallying behind them. The post Striking Alabama coal miners... Read more »

After 47 years in Angola prison, Bobby Sneed was unanimously granted parole after a hearing only 17 minutes long. But the state may rip his impending freedom away at the last minute after an alleged overdose. The post After an alleged overdose days before his release, Bobby Sneed may lose... Read more »

"We have been fobbed off repeatedly by Ministers."... Read more »

Under the proposals - set out in the Queen's Speech - police forces would be handed sweeping authority to place restrictions on protests and public assembly.... Read more »

Inside the creation of a new tech workers' union.... Read more »

An estimated 11 million UK citizens don't own a passport or driving licence while alleged voter fraud rates are 0.000058%... Read more »

People know a better, Greener future is possible, says co-leader Jonathan Bartley... Read more »

Barriers such as missing phone numbers, lack of privacy and poor internet connection adversely affected medical care for some groups, says Dr Latifa Patel... Read more »

'Labour can't win it alone', according to pressure group Compass.... Read more »

The finance industry is the only one that regularly needs to be bailed out by taxpayers... Read more »

The Tories have taken a seat that has been Labour since its creation in 1974 .... Read more »

This week marks the 36th anniversary of the day the city of Philadelphia bombed its own citizens. On May 13, 1985, police surrounded the home of MOVE, a radical Black liberation organization that was defying orders to vacate. Police flooded the home with water, filled the house with tear gas,... Read more »

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed at least 26 Palestinians, including nine children, as tension in the region has escalated sharply. Hundreds were also injured by Israeli forces Monday when they stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam. Hamas responded by firing hundreds of rockets into Israel, which... Read more »

Israeli Airstrikes Kill 26 Palestinians in Gaza, Including 9 Children, Bodies of Indian COVID-19 Victims Found on Banks of Ganges River, World Health Organization Chief Blasts "Shocking Global Disparity" in Vaccine Access, U.S. Drug Regulator Clears Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine for Use in Children 12 and Older, Democrats Urge President Biden... Read more »

Extreme voting restrictions have advanced in several Republican-led states across the U.S., including in Florida, where Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a sweeping voter suppression bill that will make it harder to vote by mail, limit ballot drop boxes, impose new voter ID requirements and criminalize giving food and... Read more »

At least 85 people, mostly young girls, were killed in Afghanistan after several bomb blasts outside a school in the capital Kabul. Survivors said the bombs were timed to go off as the girls left school for the day. The neighborhood where the attack occurred is mostly populated by the... Read more »

Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second time in four days, with reports showing police fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian worshipers. Palestinians have been staging weeks of protests to block Israel from evicting dozens of Palestinians... Read more »

Israeli Forces Attack, Injure Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Amid Protests Against Sheikh Jarrah Expulsions, At Least 85 People, Mostly Schoolgirls, Killed in Kabul Bomb Blasts, As COVID Devastates India, New Surges Prompt Restrictions Across Asia; Brazil Tops 15 Million Cases, WHO Approves Chinese Sinopharm Vaccine, Adding to COVAX Arsenal, Protests Erupt... Read more »

Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of "Native Son," a novel whose searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel... Read more »

This week, four parents from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico were reunited with their children in the United States after being separated under former President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. They were the first families to be reunited on U.S. soil since the Biden administration began its reunification process. "Although we... Read more »

Amid the mass death of the coronavirus pandemic, it's easy to forget how close we came to war with Iran in 2020. Former President Donald Trump ordered the extrajudicial assassination of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and it was only dumb luck that we avoided a larger conflict. President... Read more »

Editor's Note: In this article, made available by the nonprofit Writers on the Range, writer and biologist Pepper Trail challenges the way our culture thinks about our relationship to wildfire. That’s a conversation we here at Rural America In These Times are always interested in having. In my 2017 essay... Read more »

This article is part of The Wisconsin Idea, an investigative reporting initiative focused on rural Wisconsin. On the outskirts of Mellen, Wisconsin, just across the Bad River, sits North Country Lumber—a sawmill yard full of neat, lego-brick buildings. Despite the high demand for lumber, Mellen is a small town growing... Read more »

American capitalism is premised on many lies. None is more pernicious than the lie that it's possible to deserve great wealth. This lie is the most necessary one—if people stop believing it, the entire system will crumble. This is “The Big Lie,” and it makes a lie about a single... Read more »

As a citizen of the Nez Perce, or Nimíipuu, which means the People, I look at gold mining as a symbol of broken promises. In 1855, when my ancestors entered into a treaty with the United States, we ceded millions of acres in what eventually became Idaho, Oregon and Washington.... Read more »

The April union election loss at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama has been treated in the media as a signal event for the labor movement in the Biden era. But what exactly it signaled remains subject to debate. Kim Kelly is a freelance writer who covered the Amazon... Read more »

President Joe Biden struck an urgent note during his address to Congress on April 28. "We have to prove democracy still works," he said. "That our government still works—and can deliver for the people." To those familiar with the history of the New Deal, the echoes are clear. As was... Read more »

In this special episode, we talk with three veterans about how the military and the class system (in the U.S. and around the world) go hand in hand. How does the military market itself to the poor and marginalized (and why is that marketing so effective)? How does our broken... Read more »

In July 2020, a month after protests over racial injustice and police violence set the AFL-CIO headquarters on fire, America’s largest union coalition formed a “Task Force on Racial Justice” as a signal that it was taking the issues seriously. A subcommittee of that task force was charged with producing... Read more »

An interview on The Radical Imagination with Pastor Jonathan Hartgrove and host Jim Vrettos. Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash The post Christian Nationalism’s Re-branding of Jesus first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

Transcript Jussi: Welcome Michael. I just give a brief overview of the agenda and then I get back to you with a few questions. I just show you this picture, what we want to do today is this: Today we will get a long-term view on money debt and the... Read more »

The first lecture at the prestigious Southwest University, Chongqing, China: Global U, youtube channel, posted on 21 April 2021, video, Wen Tiejun’s account of Michael Hudson’s Ten Lectures Global U weixin channel, an account of Hudson’s Ten Lectures. Global U weixin channel, article, Hudson’s talk in Macau Michael Hudson’s Ten... Read more »

Nearly half a millennium ago Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince described three options for how a conquering power might treat states that it defeated in war but that “have been accustomed to live under their own laws and in freedom: … the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside... Read more »

An interview with Australia’s Renegade Economists. Karl: Listeners, it’s time to discuss with Professor Michael Hudson, the author of ‘The Bubble and Beyond’, ‘Forgive Them Their Debts’, ‘Super Imperialism’ and so many others. We’re lucky to have Michael with us yet again to continue our series of interviews and, Michael,... Read more »

Ibrahima: Good morning or good evening, depending on where you are located and welcome to the Henry George School. My name is Ibrahima Drame and I’m the director of education. It’s a great honor to have you with us today for another joint webinar co-organized with the International Union for... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts Cross posted from Paul’s site. Out of habit, American economists worry about federal debt. But federal debt can be redeemed by the Federal Reserve printing the money with which to retire the bonds. The debt problem rests with individuals, companies, and state and local... Read more »

Vrettos 2021 The Radical Imagination episode February 10, 2021 Vrettos: 1.  We’re waiting to see how the rhetoric of the new Biden administration will play out in actual policies. Hudson: Biden’s long political career has been right-wing. He’s the senator from Delaware, the country’s most pro-corporate state – which is... Read more »

22/01/2021 Oscar Brisset: Welcome to the first event of the Oxford Economics Society for this academic year. I’m Oscar, the Co-President of our society, and I’m glad to welcome you back for another term of exciting discussions. Although we were hoping last term to be back in-person by January, due... Read more »

Researchers have long known that the coronavirus is airborne, lingering in floating particles that spread whenever an infected person coughs, sneezes, or simply exhales. It’s the reason public health authorities have been urging schools to improve ventilation as part of their reopening plans: Bringing in more clean outside air can... Read more »

In an unusual move for a party leader, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday directly inserted himself in the issue over voting rights, taking a lead role in the latest Senate hearing on the For the People Act, the most consequential elections reform bill since the Voting Rights Act of... Read more »

In March 2020, the ACLU of Southern California sued the Department of Homeland Security to get people vulnerable to COVID-19 out of Adelanto, an immigration detention center east of Los Angeles. Among them was Martin Vargas Arellano, a 54-year-old Mexican citizen who suffered from diabetes, high blood pressure, and hepatitis... Read more »

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is poised this week to become the highest ranking elected Republican woman in the House of Representatives, as the beneficiary of the GOP mutiny against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Cheney, the chair of the House Republican conference, dared to acknowledge reality: Donald Trump lost the election... Read more »

On Saturday, Colonial Pipeline, a company that runs large fuel storage and transfer facilities, announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack. In such attacks, hackers seed victim computers with malicious software to steal or encrypt files. Then, true to the name, the hackers hold the information ransom, threatening to... Read more »

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two weeks after the United States began its first coronavirus lockdown in March 2020, then-President Donald Trump instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to reimburse cities, counties, and tribes for 75 percent of... Read more »

On Monday, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, appeared on Fox News to talk about plans for school reopening. Appearing on The Story With Martha McCallum for an exclusive interview, Weingarten was asked when schools could move to teaching in person fully. She said Fox News... Read more »

Queer Americans are finally protected from health care discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday. The move is a direct reversal of Trump-era policies and comes nearly a year after the Supreme Court interpreted sex-based discrimination to... Read more »

A year ago today, just two months into the pandemic, I wrote a Recharge headlined “The Radical Roots of Mother’s Day as a Pandemic-Fighting Movement,” a historical view long before “vaccine surplus” was a conceivable news story (and for much of the world, it still isn’t). I wrote then that for... Read more »

"Shortly after the Maidan uprising of 2013 to ’14 brought in a new government, Ukraine began whitewashing Nazi collaborators on a statewide level. In 2015, Kyiv passed legislation declaring two WWII-era paramilitaries -- the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) -- heroes and freedom fighters... Read more »

It "started with Israeli racists chanting 'death to Arabs' in Jerusalem and progressed as Israeli authorities insisted on going ahead with more ethnic cleansing in the Shaikh Jarrah neighborhood (considered a crime against humanity by international law) and progressed as the same racist authorities denied rights of native Christians and... Read more »

"While it is true that Supreme Court magistrates have historically represented oligarchic interests and that the new Legislative Assembly was democratically elected -- though the process was plagued by violations to the electoral code on part of the president and his New Ideas party -- this does not justify an... Read more »

"U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he had not made a decision on whether the U.S. would support an Indian and South African initiative at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to waive Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to facilitate the production of COVID-19 related vaccines and therapeutics... Read more »

"Upon taking office, Biden promised a 'foreign policy for the middle class,' tacitly acknowledging that the debacles of the past decades have badly served all but the few. Keeping that promise requires profound rethinking. By reversing some of Donald Trump’s most egregious follies -- returning to the Paris climate accord... Read more »

Eight million households in the United States lack bank accounts because the existing system of privately owned banks doesn't offer accessible and affordable financial services. But the U.S. Postal Service can serve as a solution. A growing political movement highlights how the Postal Service could offer a public option for... Read more »

"If the U.S. government is successful in securing Assange’s extradition and prosecuting him for his contributions to public interest reporting, the same precedent could be applied to any journalist anywhere. The possible implications of this case simply cannot be understated. It is the very future of journalism and press freedom... Read more »

The report finds "a pattern and practice of racist police violence in the U.S. in the context of a history of oppression dating back to the extermination of First Nations peoples, the enslavement of Africans, the militarization of U.S. society, and the continued perpetuation of structural racism." The post International... Read more »

"The United States, every year, takes $2,170 from every man, woman, and child for wars and war preparations, while Russia takes $439, China $189, and Iran $114." The post U.S. Military Spending Still Dwarfs China, Russia, Iran… appeared first on accuracy.org.... 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 »

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

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

The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th May 2021 Any residual argument for Scotland to stay within the United Kingdom meets its counter-argument in Boris Johnson. Westminster politics has always been the preserve of a remote enclave,... Read more »

Far from holding the government to account, as it claims, most of the media was fast asleep while massive scandals brewed. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th April 2021 How does Boris Johnson get away with it? How does he lie and cheat and break the rules with... Read more »

The Science Museum’s new exhibition on climate breakdown is funded by an oil company. What could possibly go wrong? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st April 2021 Taking money from fossil fuel companies today is like taking money from tobacco firms in the 1990s. The damage public institutions... Read more »

How I became a human plague – and stumbled into one of the most astonishing scientific stories I’ve ever encountered. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th April 2021 Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of... Read more »

At last people are waking up to the fishing industry’s devastating impacts. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th April 2021 When the BBC made a film about the crisis in our oceans, it somehow managed to avoid naming their greatest cause of ecological destruction: the fishing industry. The... Read more »

I won’t be writing my Guardian column for a few weeks, as I’m trying to finish my book about feeding the world without devouring the planet. Normal service will resume in April.... Read more »

Some falsehoods about the pandemic are so dangerous that they should be banned. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th January 2021 Why do we value lies more than lives? We know that certain falsehoods kill people. Some of those who believe such claims as “coronavirus doesn’t exist”; “it’s... Read more »

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

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