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A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to the Israeli government, the Fellowship is flooding conservative media with paid partnerships. One year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, The Charlie... Read more »

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the US government. Eight months before a deadly landslide in Nepal claimed over... Read more »

As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen suicide bombers to wreak havoc across Syria.... Read more »

The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after he returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism... Read more »

Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5. This June, British oligarch Damon Buffini stepped down as deputy... Read more »

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism.  It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors and... Read more »

A family of Iranian legal permanent residents was abducted and confined to an ICE prison after US government-backed regime change activist Masih Alinejad campaigned for their deportation. The family committed no crime, and was only targeted by Alinejad for their bloodline. A family of Iranian legal permanent residents of the... Read more »

As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives in Washington – and a fascist Christian goon squad in Beirut – dedicated to doing Israel’s dirty work. In late July, Lebanese daily L’Orient Today exposed... Read more »

US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost entirely on intelligence from Israel which the defendant’s lawyers are unable to see, and an Israeli agent they can not identify. The US Department of Justice... Read more »

Ansarallah-led government forces have liberated the entire west coast of Yemen from Saudi-backed forces, triggering an Israeli media meltdown. Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have taken out a series of US assets and began firing new-generation electro-optical missiles at American warships. Also, Iran also captured a US Dive... Read more »

Recent escalations in West Asia including Iranian missile strikes on US targets, Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon, and Yemeni territorial breakthroughs—are actively spiking global oil prices, defying established US political narratives. Alongside these military developments, the critical issue of information warfare is addressed, specifically debunking viral disinformation that falsely equates... Read more »

The United States is confronting a severe strategic crisis characterized by critically depleted air defense munitions and newly confirmed, extensive damage to its military and intelligence facilities from precise Iranian strikes. This military vulnerability is exacerbated by escalating regional instability, including a collapsing ceasefire in Lebanon, ongoing conflict in Yemen,... Read more »

The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan.  The Man Behind It All The Trump administration announced Wednesday... Read more »

Israeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic offensive in a desperate attempt to pressure the Iranians to open to Strait of Hormuz. In the latest episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh... Read more »

From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces.  But how safe is it to entrust your life and most intimate details to agents from spying... Read more »

Hezbollah have repelled another Israeli attempt to seize the strategic Ali al-Taher Hills in southern Lebanon as Iran issues a threat that it will not stand idly by and could soon escalate unless the US backs down over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarrallah continue to advance on areas... Read more »

The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro. If that does not work and President Lula da Silva secures a fourth term in office, the groundwork is already being... Read more »

Tehran has imposed a series of equations on the US-Israeli alliance, using covert and asymmetric warfare tactics, that may have just set in motion a series of regional shifts as Yemen’s Ansarallah led Armed Forces have continued to bombard strategic targets, in Yemen, controlled by Saudi proxy forces. In this... Read more »

A stark warning was issued to humanity via CCTV on 26 August when a tsunami-like torrent of floodwater rising as high as 130 metres destroyed Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal →... Read more »

If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made →... Read more »

‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made publicly by a British newspaper editor. Allister Heath, editor of →... Read more »

This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a long time, our alerts focused →... Read more »

On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. And now the same news organisations are burnishing Andy →... Read more »

We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of anti-semitism to undermine democratic choice and defend Israel, →... Read more »

Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likely be intrigued, bemused or simply horrified at humanity’s headlong drive towards →... Read more »

Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious →... Read more »

I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-year gap seemed a lifetime; as →... Read more »

Sam Biddle and 404 Media’s Jason Koebler discuss the government’s growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude, to surveil and kill abroad and at home. The post The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Groups like the ADL and AIPAC’s charity arm received cash from Columbia over the past three years, as the school cracked down on student protests. The post Columbia Gives Big Money to Pro-Israel Groups — But Not to Pro-Palestine Ones appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

As the right attacks mass participation head on, the center is telling the rest of us to pipe down while the elites are talking. The post Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true. The post Osama Bin Laden Won appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech. The post Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A far-right hacker that touts cyber attacks on leftist sites has close ties to DataRepublican, the X account of a Pentagon employee. The post Pentagon Employee DataRepublican Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against the Far Left appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The unfriendly skies: On United, your checked bags might be riding alongside some tank parts bound for Israel. The post United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Records from a single town in Illinois reveal more than 1,200 Flock searches investigate cases of loitering. The post Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The cattle ranch at the center of the case demands strict drone regulations, saying legal flyovers threatened “food security.” The post FAA Investigates Drone Pilot Who Films Animal Abusers appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

What do melting Arctic ice, a war for farmland in Ukraine, and the panic of Gulf petro-states have in common? Arthur Snell exposes the terrifying new geography of global conflict and how humanity can adapt to survive it.... Read more »

An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom... Read more »

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash... Read more »

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and stabbing of others... Read more »

Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup... Read more »

If Donald Trump fails to end the Iran war soon, its effects could last for decades, with unpredictable consequences... Read more »

We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat... Read more »

Keen to present itself as a key EU partner on migration, Morocco pushed migrants out of sight before tourists arrived.... Read more »

What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?... Read more »

Check out our latest video, Awakening To The Truth On Every Level: Here’s the text, for my subscribers who prefer to read: Different people mean different things when they talk about having an awakening. Some use “awakening” to describe the movement into revolutionary politics as you gradually discover that everything... Read more »

Our society isn’t what it pretends to be.... Read more »

The latest effort to revive this long-dead debate comes in the form of a letter signed by 5,000 high-profile Israel supporters like Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, Zionist megadonor Haim Saban, and neoconservative war criminal Elliott Abrams.... Read more »

As Buckminster Fuller said many years ago, “It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of... Read more »

The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust, just like it was lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the US involves itself in.... Read more »

“Antisemitism” watchdog groups are flipping the fuck out about hip hop artist Macklemore saying “Free Palestine” while opening for Ed Sheeran, and the western press are of course helping to spin this ridiculous nonsense as a massive scandal.... Read more »

The state of Israel should have a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer on its flag.... Read more »

My husband Tim did an on-camera reading of our latest piece “Liberal Zionists Are Evil Shitbags”. Let us know what you think. _________________ The best way to make sure you see everything I publish is to get on my free mailing list. My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you... Read more »

In a recent appearance at the Hampton Institute, Hillary Clinton stated that Benjamin Netanyahu’s “first and foremost” offense is the damage he has done to Israel and its reputation.... Read more »

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projections of an economic Armageddon were so absurd that they proved a monumental own goal, deemed sensationalist scaremongering. Ten years on, still smarting from the... Read more »

The very definition of an inauspicious start. The New Chancellor will push public debt further into the red to buy US weaponry that does nothing either to bolster productivity or UK’s defences. The same ol’ Home Secretary will continue practising ritualistic brutality (or vicious signalling) on refugees. Cooper will continue... Read more »

Ascribing human traits to chatbots empowers techlords. ‘Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.’  The trouble with impressive new technologies is that they have the uncanny ability to expose the awfulness of our relationship to one another, not to mention to our own selves. Now that our... Read more »

At 250, America is now producing a mindless, raw power and exponentially growing instability. The possibility of catharsis that characterized the United States at its bicentennial is hard to envisage a half-century later—to the detriment of us all._ ATHENS—On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need... Read more »

Ο Μαρκ Ρούτε, ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός της Ολλανδίας και νυν γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, πρόσφατα άφησε να διαρρεύσει μια αλήθεια που προκάλεσε αναταραχή σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Περιέγραψε τη Συμμαχία όχι ως την αμυντική ασπίδα της Ευρώπης, αλλά ως «…μια πλατφόρμα για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες να προβάλλουν τη δύναμή τους... Read more »

With Keir Starmer expected to fall on his sword shortly, here is my take on the conundrum facing Andy Burnham, indeed any and every British PM. The true nature of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the United States has far more to do with American financiers’ willingness to keep borrowing to... Read more »

Έχουμε μια επιτακτική ευθύνη. Το υπάρχον σύστημα γεννά τις κοινωνικές και οικολογικές κρίσεις του 21ου αιώνα. Όπου κοιτάξουμε, βλέπουμε την τραγική αντίφαση. Έχουμε αναπτύξει εκπληκτικές νέες τεχνολογίες και συλλογική ικανότητα να παράγουμε περισσότερα τρόφιμα, περισσότερα αγαθά απ’ όσα χρειαζόμαστε ή όσα μπορεί να αντέξει ο πλανήτης. Ταυτόχρονα, δισεκατομμύρια υποφέρουν από... Read more »

Some claim that the threats Europe is facing, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can create the momentum toward political union that the euro crisis and then the pandemic failed to generate. Right or wrong, one thing is clear: a functional defense union requires political union, and NATO’s existence is... Read more »

«Να πέσει ο Μητσοτάκης!», προσεύχεται η συντριπτική πλειοψηφία. «Πότε θα ενωθείτε να τον ρίξετε;», μας προκαλούν. «Γιατί περιχαρακώνεστε στο ξεπερασμένο σχήμα Αριστερά-Δεξιά;», μας ρωτούν. «Και τί κάνετε για την ενότητα της Αριστεράς;», απαιτούν να μάθουν οι πιο αριστεροί. Πρόκειται για ερωτήματα που λαμβάνουμε σοβαρά υπ’ όψιν στο ΜέΡΑ25 σε μια... Read more »

A great celebration is rarely defined by how much money was spent on it. People remember the atmosphere, the conversations, and the moments that made them feel involved. Whether you’re organising a birthday party, wedding reception, family gathering, or work social, giving guests opportunities to connect helps everyone settle in.... Read more »

The Quick Answer Ask ten people who’ve travelled Vietnam which transport option is best, and expect ten different answers – because there isn’t one. Trains are gorgeous but painfully slow. Sleeper buses get the job done cheaply, if you don’t mind arriving a bit rattled. Motorbikes are the postcard image... Read more »

A team of volunteers has removed more than a tonne of plastic and other marine waste from some of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’s most inaccessible coastlines. Marine conservation charity Clean Ocean Sailing (COS) completed the three-week clean-up expedition aboard The Annette, its 118-year-old traditional sailing vessel. A 16-strong... Read more »

Some scents can do what a photograph never quite manages: they drop you straight back onto the beach towel, into the salt spray, under a sun that never seems to set. That is the quiet magic of the right holiday fragrance — one spritz and you are somewhere warmer, slower,... Read more »

Students, former students and colleagues of the late Prof Jason Arday gathered to demand action at Cambridge University as a legacy for their friend and mentor. But so far there is little sign of the university doing the right thing. Arday died on 14 August after the media poured out... Read more »

Lloyds Bank, which targeted the Canary for a financial ‘debanking’ attack, is at the centre of yet another debanking scandal. The financial giant has now debanked Emma Kamio, mother of anti-genocide prisoner Ellie Kamio – and Ellie herself, before she was convicted of any crime. It also refused Emma a... Read more »

Britain’s broadband transformation is entering its most difficult phase. After years of investment by Openreach, Virgin Media O2, CityFibre and dozens of smaller network operators, full-fibre broadband is now available to 82% of UK homes. Gigabit-capable coverage, which also includes technologies other than fibre-to-the-premises, has reached 89%. Those are significant... Read more »

The daily commute into London has never fully recovered, and plenty of Essex workers are glad of it. Trains from Shenfield and Billericay still fill up on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but for many the working week now splits between the office and home. That shift has exposed a problem. Kitchen... Read more »

The following is an open letter to the Green Party from the Canary management Dear Green Party, We are writing in relation to a draft motion which has been brought to our attention and which we understand may be intended for consideration at the forthcoming Green Party conference. We appreciate... Read more »

Rep. Scott Perry blames the media for not adequately explaining to the American public that Iran is “the actual aggressor” in Trump’s war: “We don’t want to be in this war. The president doesn’t want to be in this war.”... Read more »

Updated: 13th of September 2026 Sweepstakes casinos let you play slots, table games and more using a dual-currency model — Gold Coins for fun play, and Sweeps Coins that can potentially be redeemed for cash prizes. Because redemption speed matters... Read more... Read more »

Communiqué de Modevite Kulaktik, Municipio de Tenejapa, Chiapas, September 12, 2026. TO THE PUBLIC TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MASS MEDIA, TO THE THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS In the face of the imposition of megaprojects that cause... Read more... Read more »

From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Friday, September 18, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Event Type: Party/Street Party Organizer/Author: Indivisible East Bay Overpass Visibility Brgd Location Details: University Avenue pedestrian overpass (I-80 Berkeley)... Read more... Read more »

From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Monday, September 21, 2026 Time: 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Event Type: Protest Organizer/Author: gay shame Location Details: 16th St & Valencia St On Monday, Brooke Jenkins plans to... Read more... Read more »

Well, well, well, just when you think society cannot become more debased, news comes along that Laura Johnson has been appointed permanent Director of Development and Property at the Barnet Group, which manages the borough’s 13,000 council homes. This is... Read more... Read more »

Do fascists really believe in fascism? Yes, yes they do, and we need to stop pretending otherwise to better equip ourselves against them. I had the writer Toby Buckle (⁠Political Philosophy Podcast⁠) on to talk about his essay “⁠Fascists Really... Read more... Read more »

Anticopyright. This was written in 2026 by Rad Geek. Feel free to reprint if you like it. This machine kills intellectual monopolists.... Read more »

Author: Amir Abdul Reda and Youssef Assarssah Title: Protest Dynamics and Authoritarian Repression in the Arab World Subtitle: What Do We Know a Decade after the Arab Spring? Date: 29 April 2026 Source: “The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in... Read more... Read more »

Author: Dominic BlackTitle: Rupturism and Popular InternationalismSubtitle: An Open Letter of Political Divorce and DisassociationDate: September 6th, 2026Source: https://scissortailrising.substack.com/p/rupturism-and-popular-internationalism   Drafted by: Dominic Black Adopted by: NLH, Anark, The Peaceful Revolutionary, Scissortail Anarchist Organization, Direct Action Distro, South Florida Anarchist Black Cross, Scissortail Anarchist Black Cross, FAFO Collective, El Monte... Read more »

Author: Anarchist Front of Iran and AfghanistanTitle: Now that the Islamic Republic has not fallen through street protests or foreign war, what should we do?Date: September 5 2026Source: Retrieved on September 5 2026 from https://www.instagram.com/anarchist_front/p/Dc5QNClDfyv/ What can we actually do? The continued rule of a political system does not necessarily... Read more »

Author: Autistici/InventatiTitle: A/I (Autistici/Inventati) shuts downSubtitle: Stay humanDate: September 6 2026Notes: On August 26, 2026, the United States government classified the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” citing the collective’s “far-left” politics to justify the designation. They announced similar designations of the British group Palestine Action and... Read more »

Welcome to The Anarchist Library The Anarchist Library on torrent: Torrent link: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/torrent/tal.torrent Magnet link (text): https://theanarchistlibrary.org/torrent/tal.torrent More information at The Anarchist Library on torrent bookshelf page... Read more »

Author: Voltairine de CleyreTitle: The Attitude of Anarchists in the Face of the Mexican RevolutionDate: March 2, 1912Notes: Translated manually from the Italian language article in ‘L’Era Nuova: Giornale Rivoluzionario’, March 2, 1912, Paterson, New Jersey; later archived at Archivo Magón; undoubtedly written originally in English but never published in... Read more »

Author: Angry Birds CommandoTitle: Angry Birds Commando CommuniquesDate: 2023–2026Notes: Translated by anarchist project Act For Freedom Now!Source: No. 1, no. 2, no. 3, no. 4, no. 5, no. 6, no. 7 & no. 8. No. 1 (Düsseldorf, 8 May 2023): Series of sabotage actions against the railroad In the last... Read more »

Author: Amir Abdul Reda and Youssef AssarssahTitle: Protest Dynamics and Authoritarian Repression in the Arab WorldSubtitle: What Do We Know a Decade after the Arab Spring?Date: 29 April 2026Source: “The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World”, 2026 authors are anarchists, per uploader Introduction What is the logic... Read more »

Author: ziqTitle: Generative AI Isn't Your FriendDate: August 28, 2026Source: https://raddle.me/wiki/generative_ai I've been seeing more and more people insist "AI is just a tool, capitalism is the problem"... OK. A tool for whom though? AI wasn't invented when capitalism went hunting for a "neutral" technology to misuse for evil. Capital... Read more »

Author: History Keeps HappeningTitle: Anarchists and Fellow Travellers on PalestineDate: September 2026Notes: An intro to a collection of articles.Source: Retrieved on September 3, 2026 from historykeepshappening.wordpress.com Historically speaking, anarchists have never had a unified stance on Palestine or Zionism. Even anarchists who shared an opposition to Zionism didn’t necessarily oppose... Read more »

Remembering Bartolomé Flores Cano and Pedro Cano Garrido... Read more »

Nestor Makhno (1889-1934), Anarcho-communist activist and fighter... Read more »

Worldwide Proletariat and Concrete Utopia... Read more »

Remembering Ron Marsden (1937-2026)... Read more »

After the debate : Anarchism v. Socialism... Read more »

They Want Your Votes - We Want Your Action! / Anarchist Manifesto... Read more »

Anarchism in Cuba Revisited: History of a Libertarian Striving... Read more »

Revolutionary Counter-Terror: The Kovalevich Outrage [The Leontiev Lane Attack]... Read more »

Glossary of Some Organizations... Read more »

Brazil is experiencing one of its most polarised electoral battles, as the race intensifies between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his right-wing rival, Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. While the economy, security and domestic crises dominate voters’ concerns, an issue that at first glance... Read more »

US President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran wants to reach an agreement with Washington “quickly and badly,” while saying he would decide whether the US engages with Tehran, Anadolu reports. “The failing Nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly,” Trump wrote on his social media platform... Read more »

We are delighted to unveil the shortlist for the 2026 Palestine Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary and scholarly works that explore and illuminate Palestinian history, culture, identity, and resilience.  This year, we received an exceptional number of submissions, reflecting the continued and growing global engagement with Palestinian narratives and the... Read more »

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem on Monday accused Israel of seeking to erase the Palestinian presence in the occupied West Bank through a series of interconnected policies aimed at reshaping the territory, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the group said Israel is simultaneously employing five mechanisms that reinforce one another to... Read more »

Twenty-one Palestinians, including four children, were injured Monday in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire agreement in force since last October, Anadolu reports. In the latest developments, medical sources told Anadolu that 10 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli strike targeting a tent on Al-Wahda Street in central... Read more »

Several Belgian university rectors criticized on Monday the lack of government consensus over the arrival of Gazan scholarship students, according to the Belga news agency. Rectors reportedly published an open letter in daily De Standaard, calling the political deadlock over the arrival of thirteen Gazan scholarship students “unacceptable.” They noted... Read more »

Twenty Israeli occupier families have seized land in the Jordan Valley, eastern occupied West Bank as Israel continues to expand illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory. The occupiers on Monday moved into the newly established agricultural settlement of Bitron, which was inaugurated ahead of the Jewish New Year on Sept.... Read more »

European countries are moving toward prison sentences that could be as long as 10 years for individuals and companies involved in trade with Israeli illegal settlements built on occupied Palestinian land, Israeli media reported. Israel’s Channel 7 said Norway is preparing a legal framework to boycott settlement products, including prison... Read more »

Satellite imagery shows extensive damage to a Saudi Aramco fuel depot and apparent damage to a military site in southern Saudi Arabia following recent Yemen’s Houthi attacks, according to analyses by satellite imagery platform Soar, Anadolu reports. Satellite images of Saudi Aramco’s bulk fuel plant in Abha show at least six... Read more »

AI “doomerism” is going mainstream. This week the heads of major frontier AI companies ratcheted up their rhetoric about how dangerous the technology they are building is, calling for a “pause” on AI development.Digital rights group Fight for the Future, which has run many of the highest profile campaigns against... Read more »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce today that it will stop regulating carbon dioxide released by power plants burning fossil fuels, according to reports. If allowed to go into effect, the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be allowed to grow unchecked. In... Read more »

According to published reports, the Trump Administration will finalize rules to rollback carbon pollution standards for power plants, as soon as today.Following is reaction from Meredith Hankins, federal climate legal director at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):“With millions of Americans facing wildfires, heat waves and deadly storms fueled by climate... Read more »

According to reporting, Donald Trump’s administration will propose to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants today – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. This action would... Read more »

Two national activist groups, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction, announced today that they will launch a campaign soon after the November midterm elections calling for Reps. Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to enter the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.“As the prospective field comes into view, it’s crucial... Read more »

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, has launched an investigation into OpenAI following revelations that the company’s AI agents breached Hugging Face during cybersecurity evaluations this summer. Hawley is seeking documents and information from OpenAI about the incident, including evidence that the... Read more »

A coalition of 45 faith, peace, labor, health, and political organizations is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and committee Ranking Members Gregory Meeks and Jim McGovern to immediately announce plans to call a vote on Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s Cuba War Powers Resolution (H.Con.Res. 106). In a letter sent... Read more »

Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.4% in August and are up 3.4% over the past year. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.3% in August alone. Gas prices reached their highest ever recorded for August, and the pressure has not let up, climbing $4.29... Read more »

At a speech at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas yesterday, Donald Trump promised,“if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.”Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:“Even for the notoriously corrupt and lawless Trump, this explicit and desperate attempt to... Read more »

UPDATE We got an expedited date to “reclaim” (appeal) against the suspension of the case, on 25 September. We shall also be reclaiming against the decision not to send the case straight to the Inner House. All parties seemed to agree there may just be time, if our appeal is... Read more »

Europe urgently needs to re-establish access to Russian oil and gas. Gas prices are high – as all UK energy consumers know – and German gas storage is at a record low for September. Gulf production is degraded, supplies are cut off and its long-term strategic stability undermined. German manufacturing... Read more »

Dr David Halpin, a redoubtable campaigner over the murder of Dr David Kelly, and a friend of this blog for over twenty years, has died. He will be missed. His sister Mary was for many years an invaluable commenter here and occasional researcher for me. Unfortunately about ten years ago... Read more »

We still don’t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed. Lord Young is thinking about it. Last Thursday’s hearing went about as well as it could go. The UK government produced no written argument and barely seemed to be trying. They moved in... Read more »

After eight months of obstructionism from the Labour Friends of Israel government of the UK, tomorrow is the day on which the Scottish Court of Session will finally decide whether to go ahead with the judicial review it granted in January, or kowtow to Downing St. I publish below two... Read more »

Between ten and five years ago, specifically in the light of Brexit, it was not in the least unusual for Scottish Independence supporters to discuss a declaration of Independence as the way forward. Debate more often centred on who should make the declaration – the Scottish parliament or some form... Read more »

Unlike the USA, where it is obsessively watched, the UK has no political culture of scrutinising the political composition of its Supreme Court. This is a big mistake. The UK Supreme Court has been deliberately and openly, even ostentatiously, packed with hard-right judges selected on the specific criterion that they... Read more »

  The Scottish Government urgently needs a bold and radical approach to achieving Independence in spite of the firm London veto on a referendum. It is plain that there is no plan at present. The Scottish Parliament has a pro-Independence majority and government. This is how to achieve Independence consistent... Read more »

Social media is not conducive to nuance. In the interest of reach, cut and dried positions are more effective and binary moral judgement expected. This leads to over-simplification of complex issues, and to skipping over facts inconvenient to your chosen narrative. There are issues affecting two high-profile people where it... Read more »

Thanks to donations, we are sending Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits to teachers. These toolkits help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics. The post Voting Rights Teaching... Read more »

It is essential that students know their rights: not just to pass a test, but to protect themselves. We offer FIVE ways to Teach Truth on Constitution Day. The post Five Ways to Teach Truth About the Constitution appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

To contribute to national efforts to get out the vote and defend the elections, we encourage middle and high school teachers to focus on voting rights and the Constitution in September and October. We ask for your help to send free voting rights toolkits to educators nationwide. The post Send Free Voting Rights Toolkits... Read more »

The America433+ coalition, led by the Resistance Rangers and including the Zinn Education Project, is hosting two events to introduce the Get Loud Toolkit: IG Live and a Climate Week NYC session on the Staten Island Ferry. The post Get Loud: Defend Truthtelling at the National Parks appeared first on... Read more »

Studying the Constitution is essential — especially now, as constitutional rights are increasingly under attack. We offer activities to teach truthfully about the Constitution on Constitition Day and all year long. The post Teach Truth on Constitution Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

We are witnessing a vicious attack on voting rights, democratic participation, and truthful education. History reminds us that we must organize to protect the gains won through generations of struggle. The post Call to Action: Teach Voting Rights in an Age of Authoritarianism appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

Thanks to a donation by Seven Stories Press, we can offer 100 individual copies to public school teachers and teacher educators of the new edition of A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki.  The post <i>A Different Mirror</i>: Free Copy for Teaching Stories... Read more »

In appreciation for your story about your teaching activities using any of our lessons on Voting Rights and/or the Constitution, we can send you one of several books thanks to donations by publishers. The post Free Book for Voting Rights and the Constitution Teaching Story appeared first on Zinn Education... Read more »

Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators. The post Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

Through the voices of survivors, journalists, and excerpts of legal depositions, Diabolical dips its toes into the world of the Epstein Files–a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, e-mails, and other records pertaining to criminal investigations undertaken by the FBI of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The records... Read more »

#BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister: We expect to implement the first phase of the plan soon and release our captives. The army is deployed in Gaza City and ready for any scenario, and if Hamas refuses, fire will resume.#GazaWar... Read more »

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For more than six decades, Jürgen Habermas defended the power of reasoned dialogue against authoritarianism, consumerism and political cynicism The post Our greatest intellectual is gone appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Councillor Seamie Moore got a judge’s parking vision seen to and avoided a fine he should have paid. The post The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resisted appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

How Mary McAleese’s post-presidential embrace of UAE institutions jars with the bridge-building that defined her presidency The post From Bridge to Gulf appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

State anchoring its flagship emergency energy asset, in County Clare, to an environmental crime scene and a non-existent root of title The post The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the Making appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state The post RAF deal: rough deal for truth appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Asymmetry cannot be replaced in an afternoon The post €492 Indicator Fault reveals the ontology of oppression appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Use of the army in support of the Garda rested on a mixture of custom, convenience, delegated regulations and constitutional assumption rather than explicit statutory authority, until the fuel protests and statutory panic ended all that The post Soldiers, statute and the State: Ireland’s aid to the civil power appeared... Read more »

How public cash funding Expressway shadow fleet has been exposed using the State’s own real-time tracking data The post The €1.2 billion Public Service Obligation-funded Heist appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

The Irish Times’ Pat Leahy is the establishment’s favourite storyteller The post Pat Solutions, Irish Times political editor appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Brazil is experiencing one of its most polarised electoral battles, as the race intensifies between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his right-wing rival, Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. While the economy, security and domestic crises dominate voters’ concerns, an issue that at first glance... Read more »

Half a billion Arabs inhabit a region drowning in weapons. There are millions of men under arms, fleets of American and European combat aircraft, missile batteries, intelligence agencies, foreign bases and defense budgets large enough to make the arms trade look like a branch of theology. Then came Gaza, and... Read more »

In Gaza, keeping a medical device running can depend on access to engine oil. A Reuters report published on 10 September 2026 describes shortages of lubricants, spare parts and fuel threatening generators serving hospitals and residential neighbourhoods. Equipment designed for emergencies carries the burden of everyday electricity supply, without assured... Read more »

The age-old debate between faith and atheism emerged alongside the very first stirrings of human consciousness. It is a centuries-long conflict that has consumed rivers of ink and fueled fierce intellectual battles, yet its historical calculus has yielded nothing tangible to alter the core of human suffering. Atheists have gained... Read more »

Israel can still win the war in Gaza. It cannot win the argument that follows it. That is the gap accountability advocates keep pointing to, and it is the gap Israel’s own allies in Europe are now widening. The war has split into three fronts. The military one, in Gaza,... Read more »

The nuclear confrontation with Iran is again moving in two opposite directions. On 9 September, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council over alleged breaches of its non-proliferation obligations, the first such referral in two decades. A day later, Donald Trump warned... Read more »

Israeli companies are increasingly operating in Indonesia. They are using Indonesian locations, Indonesian creative talent and Indonesian commercial networks to promote their businesses in a country that does not recognise Israel and has stood with Palestine for decades. This growing commercial presence deserves far more scrutiny than it has received.... Read more »

Is Israel really moving towards military self-reliance – or is the US-Israel “special relationship” being transformed into something even more deeply integrated? Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel must become a “Super Sparta” was presented as a response to growing international isolation. The message was stark: if Israel could no longer... Read more »

Oil markets are behaving as if the region’s supply problems will soon resolve themselves. That confidence is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.By mid-September 2026, futures prices had repeatedly eased or paused on the basis of limited diplomatic signals, even as three major vulnerabilities were developing at the same time: Iran’s... Read more »

Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »

Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon.  Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »

Although the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »

Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »

Ethnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »

You obviously can not be against this terrible war, but support it continuing. We must support the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and encourage them to find mutual peace in an agreed neutrality/sovereignty to end this tragic and unnecessary confrontation between such close peoples. Neutrality and internationally monitored referendums... Read more »

A key factor that explains Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine is traditional Russian imperialism. Throughout the world’s long and bloody history, other powerful territories (and, later, nations) expanded their lands through imperial conquest, including Rome, China, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Russia was no exception. ... Read more »

The declared intention of USA NATO and Ukraine’s government to join in a hostile military alliance against their neighbour Russia has now proven to be a terrible mistake and negligent disaster for the people and sovereign state of Ukraine. For USA/NATO to now continue making Ukraine a weapon, while we... Read more »

(i) This is the Wikipedia article on the Galician Regional Elections held by the Galician Autonomous President, Alberto Nuñez Feyjoo, on March 1, 2009;  the first Regional Elections in which he was victorious. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_al_Parlamento_de_Galicia_de_2009?wprov=sfti1  in total number and percentage of votes, the opposition won, made up of Emilio Pérez Touriño... Read more »

[The following was originally published in 1995 by Covert Action Quarterly.] … Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of... Read more »

Intro by Tom Engelhardt: [Note for TomDispatch readers: Back in 2014, Noam Chomsky — whose voice I miss terribly in this embattled Trumpian world of ours — wrote what still seems to me to be a stunning piece not just on “the most dangerous moment in history,” the Cuban missile crisis... Read more »

Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.... Read more »

Tomorrow is Election Day, the close of the most consequential election of our lifetimes. Get out and vote, if you haven’t already, and if you’re looking to help others do the same, there are still plenty of canvassing and phone-banking opportunities. And if you’re still in doubt for any reason,... Read more »

Professor Noam Chomsky discuss in May 23, 2023, Israel-Palestine conflict which he describes as “the main issue of my life” with academics Dylan Rodriguez, Michael Alexander and Mohamad Ali. With incomparable precision and detail professor Chomsky re-defines concepts such as “genocide” and “apartheid” in relation to the conflict; points the... Read more »

[What follows is a 2013 piece by the remarkable, now 94-year-old Noam Chomsky looking at a future that — from the latest devastating news about climate change to the revival of nuclear fears thanks to the war in Ukraine — is all too of the moment. This piece was adapted... Read more »

The force pushing humanity towards destructive wars and climate catastrophe is “very simple,” Noam Chomsky says. It’s “the word we’re not allowed to think about called: capitalism.” In this interview with The Breach’s publisher Dru Oja Jay, Chomsky explains why our current period of capitalism is particularly harsh. He also... Read more »

Climate change is “making our planet uninhabitable,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in late March. Indeed, the threats of the impending climate crisis have become very tangible, and the world’s top scientists are warning that the Earth is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold very soon unless we act... Read more »

Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky to discuss the current state of the world, the threat of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Ukraine vs Russia conflict, the attack on free speech within western societies, Donald Trump re-running for President and much more.... Read more »

“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”... Read more »

25 years after 9/11, the War on Terror's legacy is everywhere, from rampant Islamophobia, to another open ended war on Iran.... Read more »

His colorful antics and controversial tactics thrust Denver activist Eric Brandt into the crosshairs of law enforcement. After serving 5 years of a 12 year sentence Brandt speaks to Taya Graham and Stephen Janis shortly after his release about the toll his battle with the legal system has inflicted, and... Read more »

Professor Mary Anne Franks analyzes the persistent myths surrounding the history of free speech in the United States.... Read more »

“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”... Read more »

First Amendment auditors and cop watchers with YouTube audiences ranging from thousands to more than a million subscribers say their channels have suddenly been demonetized.... Read more »

“There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” said Israel Katz.... Read more »

Historian Fara Dabhoiwala on the 18th-century hack who invented free speech absolutism and then sold out to the government—and why that same doctrine now shields Big Tech and the powerful instead of the public.... Read more »

“They gave no reason, nothing... people have no job. No money to pay our bills. For 11 years, I made money for them. And now they’re not doing anything for me.”... Read more »

“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”... Read more »

25 years after 9/11, the War on Terror's legacy is everywhere, from rampant Islamophobia, to another open ended war on Iran.... Read more »

His colorful antics and controversial tactics thrust Denver activist Eric Brandt into the crosshairs of law enforcement. After serving 5 years of a 12 year sentence Brandt speaks to Taya Graham and Stephen Janis shortly after his release about the toll his battle with the legal system has inflicted, and... Read more »

Professor Mary Anne Franks analyzes the persistent myths surrounding the history of free speech in the United States.... Read more »

“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”... Read more »

First Amendment auditors and cop watchers with YouTube audiences ranging from thousands to more than a million subscribers say their channels have suddenly been demonetized.... Read more »

“There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” said Israel Katz.... Read more »

Historian Fara Dabhoiwala on the 18th-century hack who invented free speech absolutism and then sold out to the government—and why that same doctrine now shields Big Tech and the powerful instead of the public.... Read more »

“They gave no reason, nothing... people have no job. No money to pay our bills. For 11 years, I made money for them. And now they’re not doing anything for me.”... Read more »

Yemen is at risk of spiraling back into all-out war as Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia exchange new strikes amid a fight over control of the key Bab el-Mandeb strait through which much of Saudi oil passes on its way to world markets. The Houthis, the Iran-allied force also known... Read more »

Did Saudi Arabia play a role in the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks of 2001? That question was raised immediately after the attack, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were revealed to be Saudi citizens, and it has only grown louder in the 25 years since as... Read more »

A quarter-century after the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, a group of victims’ families is continuing a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to hold the kingdom accountable for any role it played in the planning and execution of the plot. While the Saudi government... Read more »

The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film was directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, both of whom... Read more »

Anthropic’s CEO Calls for the Development of Artificial Intelligence to Slowdown, Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Blocked From Attending Annual IAEA Meeting, Houthis Claim Drone and Missile Attack on Military Base in Southern Saudi Arabia, B’tselem: Israel Systematically Dismantling Palestinian Life in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Airstrike in Gaza... Read more »

We look at how post-9/11 policies and the so-called war on terror reshaped the country and the world with two Columbia faculty members who convened a two-day symposium on “The Forever War and the First Amendment.” The symposium brought together journalists, scholars, lawyers and activists to explore the legacy of... Read more »

Friday marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Around 3,000 people were killed that day, and nearly 10,000 more have died in the years since from 9/11-related illnesses connected to the collapse... Read more »

Yemen’s Houthis Seize Entire Red Sea Coastline, Consolidating Power Over Bab al-Mandab Strait, Oil Prices Surge Toward $110 a Barrel as More Ships Are Struck Near Strait of Hormuz, At GOP Midterm Convention, Trump Asks Supporters to “Cheat Like Hell” to Win Election, Supreme Court Again Blocks Missouri from Using... Read more »

As part of our weeklong coverage marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the launch of the United States’ so-called war on terror, we take a look at the human, financial and environmental costs of U.S. military intervention around the world with Neta Crawford, co-founder of Brown... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260911.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   HarperCollins (2006) This week on CounterSpin: Some 3,000 people died when planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. One hundred twenty-five people died at the Pentagon in Virginia, and at least 265 people were killed—passengers and... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260904.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   CCR (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: No humor intended: Listening to this show might make you a domestic terrorist. Yes, the Trump White House is trying to make anyone a “terrorist” who speaks out publicly, or co-signs silently,... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260828.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New Republic (8/24/26) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media obscure it, almost like it’s their job, but we still understand that laws and policies land on differently situated people differently. I can believe that there are millionaire... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260821.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New York Times (8/15/26) This week on CounterSpin: The US news media marked the anniversary of August 2021’s nominal withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. A New York Times story explained that Taliban flags were “flying high along... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260814.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Al Jazeera (8/12/26) This week on CounterSpin: It was not a shock when Donald Trump’s Justice Department greenlit the merger of Paramount—owned by the scion of the Trump-adjacent Ellison family—with Warner Bros Discovery. Who cares if a single entity... Read more »

https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260807.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CT Mirror (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: If you look for media coverage about the Farm Bill that’s currently passing through Congress, you can find it–at sites like agriculture.com or agri-pulse.com, or those outlets that have “ag” sections. If you... Read more »

  60 Minutes announced a batch of new hires to replace a number of staffers fired by CBS network commissar Bari Weiss, with the most prominent addition being longtime conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (Washington Post, 7/28/26). 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton—brought in by Weiss from Vanity... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260731.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   NPR (7/16/26) This week on CounterSpin: “In Primetime Speech, Trump Doesn’t Provide Evidence for Illegal Voting” was the temperate headline NPR put on a story about Trump’s recent East Room speech that, they allowed, “included many baseless claims”... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260724.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Nine of the Prairieland protesters received sentences ranging from 30 to 100 years; one received a 30-year sentence for moving a box of zines. (Photo: DFW Support Committee) This week on CounterSpin: Are you upset about ICE agents... Read more »

An energy crisis could force debtor nations to choose between essential imports and dollar creditors. What would a financial system built around that choice require? The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

An oil shock becomes a debt crisis, then a political rupture. The coming defaults may finally break the creditor rules built into the dollar system. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

The West’s debt system is no longer financing growth. Creditor power is displacing industry, democracy, and public investment. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Sanctions meant to protect the dollar system are driving trade elsewhere, while debt and speculation hollow out the productive economy. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

The Iran economic war is boomeranging through oil prices, currencies and debt, placing greater pressure on the leveraged West than on Tehran. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Rentier capitalism protects finance, monopoly and inherited privilege while suppressing the mixed economy that once drove industrial development. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff examine how military bases, arms shortages and industrial decay are accelerating US imperial decline. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Steve Keen explain how financialisation, oil shocks and rising debt could turn inflation into a global debt-deflation crisis. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff explain how the oil war could force importing nations into US-backed debt, deepen austerity and hasten de-dollarisation. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

New York is leading a 22-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully expanding the “public charge” rules that restrict entry to the United States for immigrants deemed likely to make use of public benefits. A group of municipalities, led by New York City, are separately suing over the same... Read more »

Michael Premo was gasping for air. It was January 6, 2021, and Premo and his partner, fellow filmmaker Rachel Falcone, were crushed against a wall in the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the US Capitol. Between the gas mask and the body armor compressing his torso, Premo was struggling to... Read more »

In January 2022, at an event hosted by one of the scores of local “election integrity” groups inspired by Donald Trump’s fraudulent assertion that voter fraud had cost him the 2020 election, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin made a big announcement: His state was leaving ERIC. This was puzzling... Read more »

While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate threat to our health: the data centers that power those AI models.  The former EPA researchers, now working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection... Read more »

President Donald Trump has a favorite justification for everything he does: “It’s a national security matter.” After 9/11, the United States built a vast, powerful, and generally unchecked national security apparatus. Twenty-five years later, Trump is using agencies and emergency powers that sprung up in the aftermath of the 2001... Read more »

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. ​ Wendell Berry made his choices and stuck to them. He did not have a computer or a smartphone.... Read more »

We went to Charlie Kirk’s one-year memorial service at the site of his death. And it was full of contradictions—conspiracy theorists colliding with diehard supporters and counter protesters. September 10 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, which sits just... Read more »

The Justice Department’s probe into Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is related to his international travel and how it was paid for, according to subpoenas reviewed by the San Francisco Standard in a story on Saturday.  These subpoenas were reportedly issued earlier this month and order... Read more »

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the heavyweight college football matchup between Texas and Ohio State, during an interview in which he shamelessly promoted his congressional bill live on ESPN.  His proposed legislation, the Protect... Read more »

Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent and division counsel. She wrote a May 2002 memo to the FBI’s then-Director Robert Mueller exposing some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 conduct. Later in 2002 she was named a Person of the Year by TIME, when the magazine reported: “Coleen Rowley is... Read more »

In a video shared via social media, former immigration judge George Pappas calls on immigration judges to resign. “The time has come,” he says, “to look at the machinery you are operating, recognize its profound moral bankruptcy, and resign… The immigration courts are no longer tribunals of law. They are... Read more »

New reporting from Drop Site News found that Israeli military institutions and weapons companies are funding military research at various U.S. universities. After reviewing state and university audits, research papers, funding disclosures and other records, journalists identified more than $15 million in funding that was unreported or inconsistently reported. Research... Read more »

A new book, The Road to Medicare for All, will be released on September 4. The book provides a roadmap for making health care a right in the United States while offering arguments against scare tactics and fear mongering. The post The Road to Medicare for All appeared first on... Read more »

A report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University, “Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government ‘Quadcopter’ Use in Gaza,” does a deep dive into the use of soldier-operated ‘quadcopter’ drones that facilitate close-range attacks on civilians, including children. These drones are small, relatively inexpensive, easy to use, and... Read more »

Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s new book, Israel’… The post Israel and Its Lobby ‘Gone Rogue’ appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The fight over federal food aid continued last week as the Senate farm bill got stuck over Supplemental Assistance Program (SNAP) cost-sharing requirements. Senate Democrats rejected Republicans’ proposed one-year delay in state cost-sharing requirements for SNAP. This is after HR1 cut SNAP spending by roughly $187 billion in 2025 and... Read more »

Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has signed an executive order directing the Department of Environmental Protection to limit new data center projects. He directed the department to only review permit applications for data centers if developers have made a commitment to meeting Responsible Infrastructure Development Requirements and have received local... Read more »

In an article for FAIR, Raina Lipsitz assesses how corporate media outlets have depicted DSA organizing as a sinister conspiracy. The post Much Media Coverage Gets DSA Organizing Wrong appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

From recent deepfakes using Yanis’ image for viral gain, to his latest police harassment over events from decades ago, the discussion opens onto larger questions Naomi explores in Doppelgänger (identity, imitation, credibility, and what “truth” means when noise travels faster than institutions — and institutions still hold power) before moving... Read more »

A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. But little has gone... Read more »

The Case for BDS by Mehdi Hasan Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths used to attack the boycott movement against Israel. Read on Substack In the newest episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths around the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement – a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement that works... Read more »

In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of Zionism.”  Naomi also reacts to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu comparing student protesters at Columbia University to Nazis, telling Mehdi that... Read more »

Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” on the second night of Passover. The demonstration, held one block away from the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,... Read more »

Exactly 15 years ago this week, I published an article in the Guardian. It began like this: It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South... Read more »

On Wednesday, October 18, the Lever’s David Sirota hosted a live event with Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein and Palestinian-American political analyst Omar Baddar to discuss the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas and the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. David, Naomi, and Omar spoke about the historical and political... Read more »

In Doppelganger, Naomi Klein takes a journey into the uncanny world of anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory and far right propaganda. As she goes through the looking glass, she discovers dark forces bent on warping our politics in their image. What starts as a story of mistaken identity with her namesake Naomi... Read more »

All over Maui, golf courses glisten emerald green, hotels manage to fill their pools and corporations stockpile water to sell to luxury estates. And yet, when it came time to fight the fires, some hoses ran dry. Why? The reason is the long-running battle over west Maui’s most precious natural... Read more »

The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2026 The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The... Read more »

Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you... Read more »

It’s real, and it’s the exact opposite of what the far right says it is. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2026 “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, asked last week, “how else... Read more »

The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? You want to destroy a million jobs? Vote Reform UK for mass unemployment: is that... Read more »

The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do... Read more »

How to alienate people from the green transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2026 We will not persuade. We will not explain. We will not listen. We know best and we will force you to comply. This, I’m sorry to say, is how the government’s climate... Read more »

Why is centrism failing so badly? Because at its heart is a mistaken idea of how politics works. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th May 2026 The biggest Brexit donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves. He gave £3.2m to the leave campaign. He justified his enthusiasm as follows:... Read more »

Why are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green party of England and... Read more »

Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change them: that’s the credo of parties such as Labour and the Democrats.... Read more »

Former officials in President Donald Trump's administration have been caught by the court deleting messages and potentially relevant evidence despite ongoing court cases and an order to retain documents. Daily Beast correspondent Tom Latchem noticed the filing that popped up on Sept. 11, showing that at least two former Homeland... Read more »

For months now, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been absent from Capitol Hill amidst swirling rumors about his health. Now it's been revealed how much he has been paid during his hospitalization, and it turns out he and his team have been making big bucks. "McConnell, the former Senate majority... Read more »

Although Democrats perform well in some of Texas' congressional districts and dominate major urban centers like Houston, Austin and El Paso, they haven't won a statewide race in the Lone Star State since the 1990s. But with the 2026 midterms drawing closer, Texas is, according to polls, seeing a surprisingly... Read more »

President Donald Trump continues to demonstrate behavior showing that he is "detached" and "losing his grip on reality," according to a new breakdown from The i Paper, and his latest international "outburst" offers proof.Trump this weekend visited Ireland for what was supposed to be a minor trip to a golf... Read more »

During Barack Obama's presidency, many right-wing pundits railed against liberal and progressive "snowflakes" on college campuses who, they argued, were demanding "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" instead of having the courage to engage conservatives and libertarians in a rigorous debate. But according to historian/author Jonathan Zimmerman, many MAGA Republicans are... Read more »

During the recent Republican Midterms Convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump set off yet another controversy when he promised to pay Americans $5000 each if Republicans maintain both branches of Congress in the 2026 midterms. And according to CNN's Aaron Blake, GOP lawmakers are "squirming" over Trump's "quid pro quo"... Read more »

Over the course of President Donald Trump’s political career, he and his allies have argued that one of his greatest strengths is his willingness to be tough on China. But on Monday, amidst a flurry of controversy surrounding Trump’s unwillingness to regulate AI and take steps to check Chinese technological... Read more »

An exclusive Talking Points Memo investigation by Christopher Mathias reports that a Republican candidate for House District 10 in Florida was photographed marching with white supremacists at the infamous Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that left one woman dead and 35 injured. Marshall Rawson attended the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally alongside... Read more »

When Donald Trump made a concerted effort to broaden his coalition during the 2024 presidential race, one of the groups he reached out to was tech leaders. Elon Musk and Overstock former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel were among his most ardent supporters. And according to Never Trump conservative Bill Kristol,... Read more »

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. If you’ve followed my interviews, you know I’ve been warning about the high likelihood of a third round of the war – one that would almost certainly be far more intense than the previous two. I’ve also argued that, given Trump’s erroneous reading... Read more »

Three days after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stood behind a pulpit at the Washington National Cathedral and spoke to a nation in shock. “Our responsibility to history is already clear,” he proclaimed, “to answer these attacks and... Read more »

Over the last several weeks in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of al Qaeda’s attack on the U.S., I’ve had American and foreign journalists ask me the same question: how did 9/11 change America? My answer has generally been some version of this: 9/11 didn’t change us, we... Read more »

“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in  –  and the West in general  –  into an unbearable hell and a choking life.” – Osama bin Laden (October 2001) “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES.” – President Donald Trump (September 2026)... Read more »

U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a staunch zionist, recently made waves when he referred to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank as “terrorists.” “It’s an act of terror,” Huckabee said. “I’ve been criticized a little bit for calling that terror, but terror is when a person is forced... Read more »

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers... Read more »

As Israel’s war on Gaza enters a grim third year, the prevailing narrative developed by mainstream Western media serves as a masterclass in institutional complicity; filtering genocide through a lens of manufactured neutrality. Since October 2025, when the so-called ceasefire – which Israel has repeatedly violated – began, the tragedy... Read more »

Reprinted from The Realist Review. Washington is more united than is often thought. Despite the ruptures with an imagined past that have been said to have been caused by the chaos agent in the White House, the foreign policy consensus (underwritten by the national religion of American exceptionalism) has shown... Read more »

A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. During the first seven years after that mass atrocity, Pentagon spending doubled. The aftermath of 9/11 was also a huge boost for “the intelligence community.” Despite – and because... Read more »

The month's archives. - 2026/09 / perspective... Read more »

On 8 September, as part of a joint initiative involving twelve countries, the UK foreign secretary made a statement to the House of Commons announcing new sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Most notably, Ed Miliband condemned the ‘ethnic cleansing' taking place there. The measures he detailed will... Read more »

The small self-proclaimed state of Somaliland is aiming to become a regional player: it is now an ally of Israel and has commercial and security agreements in the Gulf. Now it's hoping for US support. - 2026/09 / article, 2026/09 Somaliland... Read more »

The dollar gives America huge power, but the international monetary system built around it is sliding into chaos, as recent US support for the yen shows. Yet replacing the dollar brings risks of its own. - 2026/09 / article... Read more »

The US left is making gains. With elections looming and his ratings tanking, Trump has revived the old communist spectre – and recast the left as a terrorist threat. - 2026/09 / article... Read more »

Emmanuel Macron leaves the Élysée in eight months. And, in keeping with the political journalism tradition whereby last-minute criticism apparently makes up for a decade of deference, the brickbats are coming thick and fast. The Economist, having once regarded him as the ‘saviour of Europe', now mocks a ‘lame duck'... Read more »

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Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed to ‘change the face of the Middle East'. But the war with Iran has created a situation that no single power can control. - 2026/09 / article... Read more »

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany has broken with its postwar military restraint: it is rearming at speed and has set its sights on becoming NATO's leading European power, with US blessing. - 2026/09 / 2026/09 germany... Read more »

Ed Miliband’s decision to leave the military relationship with Israel intact raises serious concerns about Britain’s compliance with international law. The post How Israel’s arms industry is integrated into Britain’s military appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Peter Mandelson claimed his 2001 visit to Syria had nothing to do with “politics” yet he carried a message from Tony Blair to Bashar Assad, declassified files show  The post Blair used Mandelson to court Syrian dictator appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Stopping trade with Israeli settlements but leaving the military relationship intact could see Labour lose ground to the Greens The post Do Andy Burnham’s sanctions on Israel go far enough? appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

New details emerge about extreme measures used by British soldiers to support a Gulf autocrat The post When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

That’s the unwritten rule for Britain’s media The post It’s OK to fight for a foreign army (as long as they’re our friends) appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

College of Policing held over a dozen trainings for police from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, designated by the Foreign Office as countries of concern The post UK police trained officers in states flagged over human rights appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

The British military undertook “intensive military cooperation" with Russia while it was killing civilians in Chechnya in 1995, declassified files show The post When the UK trained the Russian army — and a Russian spy appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Judge rules that damage caused during protest at bank branch not enough to merit terrorism sentencing The post ‘BarclayS 5’ Palestine activists will not be tried as terrorists appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Labour MP Dave Nellist was monitored by Britain’s political police, but evidence was shredded before an inquiry got to the truth The post Why did Special Branch keep files on a socialist politician? appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

US President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law said a Russian oligarch paid for “two incredible nights of celebration” in the Bahamas after her wedding to Donald Trump Jnr but was not involved in the actual nuptials, amid fresh ethics questions involving the first family. The couple had a private marriage ceremony on... Read more »

The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland signed a pact on Monday that threatens to lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom. The first ministers of the three semi-autonomous regions of the UK told Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his government to prepare for constitutional change and that... Read more »

A British man on ⁠Monday admitted ⁠repeatedly drugging and ⁠raping his wife at their home over more than two decades, just before his trial was about to begin. The man - from northern England ‌who is in his 60s but cannot be named as it would identify his wife who... Read more »

Germany’s military counter-intelligence agency, known as MAD, has warned of a growing threat from hybrid attacks and the use of recruited contract agents, or low-level agents, saying Germany is a “prioritised target of Russian espionage activities”. According to the agency’s annual report released on Monday, it cited Germany’s geostrategic position... Read more »

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) is strengthening its research footprint in the Greater Bay Area with the establishment of its Shenzhen Research Institute, a platform designed to help bridge industry, academia and research and translate research into real-world... Read more »

President Donald Trump said ⁠on Monday ⁠that the US already ⁠has guardrails in place to regulate and prosecute AI companies, appearing to play down concerns expressed by industry leaders over the weekend about misuse of artificial intelligence. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ ‌that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART... Read more »

The family photograph did the political work the summit’s final declaration could not. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood shoulder to shoulder as the Brics summit closed in New Delhi on Sunday – a single frame capturing... Read more »

Singapore’s Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing is set to visit China from Tuesday to Thursday at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun and will speak at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum for the second consecutive year. His visit comes as defence analysts tell This Week in Asia that ties... Read more »

A Hong Kong court has remanded a district councillor in custody pending sentence after convicting him of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl 15 years ago, rejecting his claim that the allegation was politically motivated. Yuen Long District Council member Sei Chun-hing, 39, is set to become the first elected... Read more »

Police in Guangzhou said on Monday they had apprehended a man in the southern Chinese city’s university town district after receiving reports that he was wielding a knife and injuring pedestrians. Emergency services started receiving calls around 5.20pm local time about multiple stabbings in front of a hotpot restaurant in... Read more »

Beijing has hailed a “one country, two systems” proposal by a Taiwanese scholar in a rare official statement on an issue regarded as politically sensitive on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. “We are pleased to see that more and more Taiwan compatriots are facing up to reunification, beginning to... Read more »

Beijing has introduced stricter drone regulations, banning all uncrewed flights as well as the possession and storage of existing devices, while detailing disposal methods for the first time in an effort to strengthen security in the capital. The new rules, which will take effect on November 15, follow an incident... Read more »

For generations of Chinese schoolchildren, English textbooks offered a glimpse of an unfamiliar world, from London’s Tower Bridge and Big Ben to American school life and Halloween traditions. Today, students opening an English textbook are more likely to encounter passages on late Qing dynasty (1644-1912) thinker Liang Qichao, the Dragon... Read more »

China’s top intelligence official has warned of rising national security risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI), calling for robust risk prevention frameworks and stronger global governance of the emerging technology. The call from Chen Yixin, China’s state security minister, comes as Beijing seeks to play a leading role in global... Read more »

China’s new draft law on combating cross-border corruption is as much a weapon against foreign interference as it is a tool against illicit financial flows, analysts say. The draft sets out ways to block extraterritorial investigations and to retaliate against foreign anti-corruption enforcement, drawing a firm legal boundary against foreign... Read more »

“Separatists” and the United States are putting Taiwan in greater danger, mainland China’s state broadcaster has warned, days after Washington’s de facto ambassador to the self-ruled island said it only needed to convince a potential adversary that landing forces would be very difficult. “Taiwan doesn’t need to demonstrate that it... Read more »

Authorities in China are taking content creators, fan groups and online platforms to task as their aggressive pursuit of online traffic upends lives and public services across the country. State media and local authorities have called on these parties to exercise restraint and stop attention-seeking behaviour from getting out of... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to India for the first time since 2019 and finalising plans for a US trip as he works through his busiest month of international travel in years. Xi will attend the annual Brics summit in New Delhi over the weekend and meet Indian Prime... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 November 2025 British officials are developing new ties with their Syrian counterparts complicit in recent killings, including former leading al-Qaeda operatives Last month, Keir Starmer’s special representative to Syria, Ann Snow, met defence minister Murhaf Abu Qasra in Damascus. This followed a meeting between... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 October 2025 A military agreement Britain and Israel signed in 2020 has not been modified despite Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Defence admits. In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 30 September 2025 Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide. An Israeli pharmaceutical company that operates at the heart of the NHS has been aiding the Israeli military during... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 29 September 2025 Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths. British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour government, together with the US government under Lyndon Johnson, were complicit in... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 25 September 2025 Exclusive: Israeli air force pilot invited to speak about ‘operational frontlines’ at British charity event. The Royal Air Force museum in London hosted an event last week supporting the education of Israeli soldiers who have fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal.  The event, entitled... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 September 2025 Britain colluded with a militia in the Kosovo war whose leaders now face war crimes charges in The Hague. Will UK officials ever be held to account? On 28 April 1999, prime minister Tony Blair’s adviser John Sawers wrote a memo to... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 August 2025 Declassified files show Britain has long known of Israel’s criminality against Palestinians, as Whitehall has deepened its military, trade and diplomatic support. The parallels are remarkable.  There were “numerous reports that the Israeli authorities have prevented medical and other humanitarian assistance from... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 5 August 2025 Downing Street files show Tony Blair was prepared to allow Israel to take over part of the West Bank and to give Israel a “privileged” alliance with Nato and the European Union. Tony Blair considered establishing a “privileged Israeli partnership” with Nato... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 July 2025 The Home Office briefed the Times that Palestine Action could be funded by Iran, and then UK media kicked into action spreading the story. The proscription of Palestine Action took place alongside claims made in sections of the British media that the... Read more »

Of all 101 democratic constitutions we examined, the U.S. Constitution has the second-most onerous amendment process.... Read more »

Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ From our research The share of U.S. grandparents ages 65 and older who are in touch with their grandkids at least a few times a month, including 15% who are in touch with them daily.... Read more »

Race & Ethnicity A monthly digest of the Center’s latest research on race and ethnicity · Subscribe ↗ Other publications: The U.S. electorate’s changing racial and ethnic makeup Trump’s approval rating hits second-term low among his Latino voters, though many still approve Who sees themselves as working class? Refugee admissions to the... Read more »

The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Even a quarter century later, the vast majority of Americans... Read more »

About eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they are currently taking at least one supplement for their health, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.... Read more »

This report was written by Dalia Fahmy, senior writer/editor; Alexandra Cahn, research assistant; and Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer. It was edited by Mark Hugo Lopez, director, race and ethnicity research. Guidance on the communications strategy and outreach was provided by Tanya Arditi, senior communications manager, with support from Maya... Read more »

The share of eligible voters who are White has declined since 2006, while the Hispanic and Asian shares have nearly doubled. The share of Black eligible voters has changed little over the same period.... Read more »

Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions Mosques have more than doubled since 9/11. But Muslims say opposition is fierce Sept. 9 – Religion News Service In the news U.S.... Read more »

Two-thirds of U.S. adults ages 65 and older were grandparents in 2024.... Read more »

Sam Biddle and 404 Media’s Jason Koebler discuss the government’s growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude, to surveil and kill abroad and at home. The post The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Groups like the ADL and AIPAC’s charity arm received cash from Columbia over the past three years, as the school cracked down on student protests. The post Columbia Gives Big Money to Pro-Israel Groups — But Not to Pro-Palestine Ones appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

As the right attacks mass participation head on, the center is telling the rest of us to pipe down while the elites are talking. The post Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true. The post Osama Bin Laden Won appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech. The post Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A far-right hacker that touts cyber attacks on leftist sites has close ties to DataRepublican, the X account of a Pentagon employee. The post Pentagon Employee DataRepublican Posts Inside Info About Hacks Against the Far Left appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The unfriendly skies: On United, your checked bags might be riding alongside some tank parts bound for Israel. The post United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Records from a single town in Illinois reveal more than 1,200 Flock searches investigate cases of loitering. The post Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The cattle ranch at the center of the case demands strict drone regulations, saying legal flyovers threatened “food security.” The post FAA Investigates Drone Pilot Who Films Animal Abusers appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

It is important to remember that governments and their leaders do not represent all of humanity.... Read more »

If nothing else, the 2026 World Cup exposed the fact that globalization represents no challenge to neofascism, authoritarianism, rightwing nationalism.... Read more »

The race to develop artificial intelligence puts humankind in unparalleled danger.... Read more »

State officials weigh a new federal school voucher program that is ripe for profiteering and discrimination.... Read more »

Repeatedly displaced by Israel’s advances over the war’s first six months, many residents fear they won’t see home again.... Read more »

Tradwife influencers underscore the inevitability of feminist equity.... Read more »

The war has decimated Gaza’s agricultural sector and damaged most of its farmland.... Read more »

Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy.... Read more »

We cannot extract our way to a better future. Sharing and caring for the Earth is the only sane and healthy path forward.... Read more »

AI “doomerism” is going mainstream. This week the heads of major frontier AI companies ratcheted up their rhetoric about how dangerous the technology they are building is, calling for a “pause” on AI development.Digital rights group Fight for the Future, which has run many of the highest profile campaigns against... Read more »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce today that it will stop regulating carbon dioxide released by power plants burning fossil fuels, according to reports. If allowed to go into effect, the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be allowed to grow unchecked. In... Read more »

According to published reports, the Trump Administration will finalize rules to rollback carbon pollution standards for power plants, as soon as today.Following is reaction from Meredith Hankins, federal climate legal director at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):“With millions of Americans facing wildfires, heat waves and deadly storms fueled by climate... Read more »

According to reporting, Donald Trump’s administration will propose to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants today – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. This action would... Read more »

Two national activist groups, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction, announced today that they will launch a campaign soon after the November midterm elections calling for Reps. Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to enter the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.“As the prospective field comes into view, it’s crucial... Read more »

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, has launched an investigation into OpenAI following revelations that the company’s AI agents breached Hugging Face during cybersecurity evaluations this summer. Hawley is seeking documents and information from OpenAI about the incident, including evidence that the... Read more »

A coalition of 45 faith, peace, labor, health, and political organizations is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and committee Ranking Members Gregory Meeks and Jim McGovern to immediately announce plans to call a vote on Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s Cuba War Powers Resolution (H.Con.Res. 106). In a letter sent... Read more »

Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.4% in August and are up 3.4% over the past year. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.3% in August alone. Gas prices reached their highest ever recorded for August, and the pressure has not let up, climbing $4.29... Read more »

At a speech at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas yesterday, Donald Trump promised,“if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.”Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:“Even for the notoriously corrupt and lawless Trump, this explicit and desperate attempt to... Read more »

Why do poor, often sick, rural people vote for Republicans even after they slash funding for Medicaid and close rural hospitals? Michael Shepherd describes how conservative politicians and media have successfully built support for those cuts by claiming programs like Medicaid only help city dwellers, people of color, and immigrants.... Read more »

When we think of world makers, we’re unlikely to picture a flower. Yet flowers completely transformed our planet, giving us rain forests, altering coastlines, producing the food we eat, and enticing our pre-human ancestors to climb down from the trees. And they did that partially through reshaping the formerly adversarial... Read more »

The struggle for labor across the color line has often been credited to white activists. However, as sociologist Cedric de Leon argues, the black labor movement, independently organized outside of the official union movement, propelled such efforts. He discusses the black labor movement’s divisions, including in the face of the... Read more »

Jessica Mitford revived muckraking journalism in the United States, shaping generations of investigative writers who followed her. She also lived a committed life on the left, despite her ultra-reactionary English upper class origins. Carla Kaplan argues that Mitford is woman for our times. Carla Kaplan, Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life... Read more »

Big Tech’s owners see themselves as visionaries — as singularly capable of understanding and shaping the future — in contrast to the rest of us. Adrian Daub explores the worldview of Silicon Valley’s owners. Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Governing Stanford University Press, 2026 Photo by Igor Shalyminov on Unsplash... Read more »

After a century of drug prohibition, during which the use of many illicit drugs increased, states and countries are moving to decriminalize the usage of certain psychoactive substances. As corporations rush to profit, legal scholar Kojo Koram argues for the legalization of drugs without commercial gain. Kojo Koram, The Next... Read more »

Recessions, trade wars, labor unrest — in moments of societal crisis in the United States, Asian-Americans have been perennially targeted, from the destruction of Chinatowns by white mobs, to the mass internment of Japanese-Americans during WW2, to attacks against Asians during Covid. Historian Scott Kurashige reflects on more than 175... Read more »

Capitalism has transformed the world like no other force, which historian Sven Beckert calls a fundamental break in human history. Beckert traces the emergence and expansion of capitalism, arguing that we can best understand the present by coming to terms with its past. (Full-length presentation.) Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global... Read more »

The Trump administration has justified the mass incarceration and deportation of immigrants by asserting that it’s going after the most violent offenders. Scholars of law and punishment, Keramet Reiter and Joshua Page, delve into the designation of the worst of the worse — from Three Strikes laws to longterm solitary... Read more »

Bangladesh rolls out three-month nationwide dengue prevention campaign... Read more »

A wildfire raging near luxury homes outside Spain's famed Costa del Sol beach resorts left three people injured on Sunday, with one victim in hospital with burns, officials said.... Read more »

The remarks of US President Donald Trump on the unification of Ireland and Britain's Northern Ireland have sparked strong opposition from Britain.... Read more »

Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on Sunday said the Erdeneburen Hydropower Plant in the western Khovd Province is an important outcome of practical cooperation between Mongolia and China.... Read more »

Chinese dance drama 'A Dream of Red Mansions' makes US debut... Read more »

Xi charts course for greater BRICS cooperation: Chinese FM... Read more »

How technology is driving shared prosperity across BRICS... Read more »

Samuel Eto'o has defended his outspoken role in African football, arguing that continental leaders should be free to express their views and make independent decisions. The FECAFOOT president's comments followed reports concerning an alleged financial complaint and came after he backed FIFA President Gianni Infantino.... Read more »

As the 2026 BRICS Summit unfolds in India, cooperation among the "greater BRICS" is entering a new stage. Enlargement of BRICS has added not only more members, but also larger markets, richer resources, deeper industrial complementarities and greater strategic depth.... Read more »

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held phone talks with Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze on Monday on bilateral relations.... Read more »

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held phone talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Monday to discuss bilateral relations and international issues.... Read more »

From Tuesday to Thursday, the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum will be held under the theme of "Build Consensus on Stability, Advance Security Governance Together."... Read more »

With greater BRICS cooperation entering a new stage of high-quality development, Xi outlined how the grouping can play a more active role in a world marked by growing uncertainty and transformation.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed that China and India should be partners, which is the most important consensus the two leaders reached during their meeting, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.... Read more »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for BRICS countries to establish a cooperative and inclusive framework for the safe use of artificial intelligence.... Read more »

Iran protests as US prevents its nuclear chief attending IAEA meeting... Read more »

China voices concern over rising Yemen, Red Sea tensions... Read more »

Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on Sunday said the Erdeneburen Hydropower Plant in the western Khovd Province is an important outcome of practical cooperation between Mongolia and China.... Read more »

Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on Sunday said the Erdeneburen Hydropower Plant in the western Khovd Province is an important outcome of practical cooperation between Mongolia and China.... Read more »

Paul Chan, financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, said on Sunday that Hong Kong has continued to broaden and deepen its ties with Belt and Road regions and the Global South over the past week, spanning the Middle East to Central Asia across finance, innovation... Read more »

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The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services concluded on September 13 in Beijing, drawing 90 countries and over 1,800 companies. Beyond the crowds, it left behind tangible results: 36 projects signed worth 44 billion yuan, over 200 new products released, and a clear structural shift in China's services... Read more »

The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi marks 20 years of cooperation. From a Goldman Sachs acronym to a bloc of 11 members and 10 partners covering nearly half the world's population, "Big BRICS" has become a key force for global development.... Read more »

Skip generic souvenirs! Let's explore Chinese service offerings that are useful, fun, and great to bring home. AI eye scanning, smart sports, AI tennis… How many gems can we uncover in just 30 minutes? Time's up! Here are my picks from CIFTIS. What would you pick?... Read more »

The second El Alamein International Airshow concluded in Egypt on Thursday, having attracted military officials, aviation experts and industry leaders from more than 50 countries.... Read more »

Aligned with Carney’s nationalist “Team Canada” campaign, the NDP and union bureaucracy are helping enforce a mounting assault on workers’ right to strike.... Read more »

With three weeks remaining before the October 5 deadline for mail ballots to be returned and counted, the election of top United Auto Workers officers—including UAW president—is taking place amid mounting economic assault on the working class.... Read more »

With tight restrictions on their visas, often tying them to a specific employer, the hundreds of thousands of overseas workers in the Australian food picking and processing industry are especially vulnerable to exploitation.... Read more »

A drone struck the Mykolaiv pre-trial detention center where Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk is imprisoned. Bogdan and the other prisoners were not injured. The incident underscores the urgency of the campaign for his immediate release.... Read more »

While fending off, for now, a challenge to his leadership, Prime Minister Wale has signed up to a series of anti-China strategic agreements.... Read more »

The trade unions, the SPD and the Left Party bear the main responsibility for the growth of the AfD. They are preventing the widespread opposition to war and social inequality from finding left-wing expression.... Read more »

The renowned Russian soprano’s career has continued to flourish in Europe.... Read more »

The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week on Trump’s executive order for the US Postal Service to take control of mail-in voting.... Read more »

We refuse to carry out any order to withhold, delay or “verify” mail-in ballots. We will not be the instrument of the disenfranchisement of the American people.... Read more »

Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on Sunday said the Erdeneburen Hydropower Plant in the western Khovd Province is an important outcome of practical cooperation between Mongolia and China.... Read more »

Chinese dance drama 'A Dream of Red Mansions' makes US debut... Read more »

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Paul Chan, financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, said on Sunday that Hong Kong has continued to broaden and deepen its ties with Belt and Road regions and the Global South over the past week, spanning the Middle East to Central Asia across finance, innovation... Read more »

First museum devoted to prehistoric flying reptiles opens in NW China... Read more »

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Chinese President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on Sunday evening after attending the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday delivered a speech at Session II of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi and proposed five initiatives on "greater BRICS" cooperation in areas of AI, trade and investment facilitation, digital industry, smart manufacturing, and talent development.... Read more »

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At a time of deepening global security divisions, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum provides a flexible dialogue mechanism, which helps different countries sustain contact, reduce misperceptions and manage differences.... Read more »

The 2026 BRICS summit marks an important step toward turning an expanded BRICS into a stronger force for development across the Global South.... Read more »

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After mudslides hit the Nepal-China border, some Western media outlets reached for geopolitical labels. One Nepali journalist refused. Mahendra Subedi of Nepal's National News Agency explains why humanity must lead the response and shares stories of joint rescue efforts and Chinese aid. Watch the full video.... Read more »

The BRICS of 2026 needn't be regarded as a counterweight to anyone. In practical terms, when you comprise nearly half of the world's population, account for 40% of the global GDP (in PPP terms), 26% of global trade, and over half of global economic growth—that is a scale that allows... Read more »

BRICS at 20: A new era of Global South cooperation... Read more »

The two woolly rhinoceros fossils and two steppe bison fossils on display at the Hulunbuir Historical Museum in Inner Mongolia offer a glimpse into Hulunbuir's Ice Age past.... Read more »

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Standing 208 meters tall near the China-Russia border, the Pearl of the Northern Frontier Tower in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia offers panoramic views of the city and Zabaykalsk in Russia. Nearby, the China-Russia tax-free trade zone combines shopping with cultural experiences.... Read more »

Drawing inspiration from Fuyan, the mascot of China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), and the art toy IP Poukapouka, a crossover display at this year's ongoing event featured a range of co-branded cultural and creative merchandise.... Read more »

An airport is usually where journeys begin and end, but at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, it can also be the first stop on a cultural journey.... Read more »

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Chinese ancient costume drama Against The Current premiered on China Media Group's CCTV-8 on Friday (September 11), drawing early attention for its rigorous commitment to traditional Chinese aesthetic presentation.... Read more »

China Popcast host Min Rui is obsessed with 90s US boy band Backstreet Boys. Darien was drawn to China after listening to pop group Rocket Girls 101 and their hit "Calorie," or "Kaluli."... Read more »

China's Gansu-Zhejiang UHV project reaches key milestone... Read more »

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China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Monday approved and issued the world's first product standard for brain-computer interface (BCI) medical devices that use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to process electroencephalogram (EEG) data.... Read more »

Pinglu Canal showcases smart technologies in landmark waterway project... Read more »

AI economy takes the spotlight at Inclusion Conference on the Bund... Read more »

China's computing power platform has achieved nationwide integrated coordination and monitoring of computing power, according to the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Sunday.... Read more »

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Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development... Read more »

A settler reports a sheep theft – apparently a false accusation – setting off this chain of events: The army raids a Palestinian village, joins settlers in stealing dozens of sheep and goats, and, along the way, shoots two young men dead... Read more »

‘NAZA’ makes visible what we could never see from inside Gaza: that there were people watching, calculating, and deciding how many of us would die.... Read more »

News and headlines on Palestine and Israel, including: Trump thinks things are swell in Gaza; West Bank is a tinderbox; a "treasonous" Israeli film; more.... Read more »

Israel's war machine never rests, nor is any Palestinian immune from its weapons.... Read more »

Gaza hospitals are rationing electricity ■ Netanyahu's party is going downhill ■ Israeli settlers' siege on Qusra hits one-month mark ■ More... Read more »

Arabic Post Exposes the Network of "Buying Influencers" in America Since the Start of the Gaza War... Read more »

The directors of the film—which premiered at the Venice Film Festival—said they “felt the responsibility” to expose insider testimony about Israel’s systematic mass killing of Palestinians.... Read more »

A decade of serving in the IDF broke Nir. As soldiers around him succumbed to 'ethical burnout,' he began questioning what he was being asked to do. Returning to duty on October 7, he saw an army out of control... Read more »

The annexation of the West Bank through settlement, violence and the fragmentation of Palestinian space... Read more »

Bush could have immediately given a very clear and unequivocal speech to his nation and to the world that might have gone something like this. The post What George W. Bush Could Have Said After 9-11 appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A functioning democracy requires rules voters and states understand before ballots are cast, not legal ambiguity that keeps results tied up in legal battles after the election. The post The Supreme Court’s Midterm Chaos Is Voter Suppression appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Communities in Louisiana are fighting, including against their own governments, to block new polluting projects. The post The Struggle Against Industrial Expansion in Cancer Alley appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

In the days after 9/11, IPS convened scores of allies to express our grief — and to speak out against the rush to war. The post ‘Justice, Not Vengeance’: Read Our 2001 Statement on the 9/11 Attacks appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Corporate leaders are living on an alternate economic planet. That may explain their silence even as their own workers are targeted. The post Corporations With Big Pay Disparities Have Been Silent as ICE Detains Their Workers appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The wars against immigrants and Iran have helped to ratchet up of anti-Muslim sentiment. The post Muslim Americans Organize Amid Spike in Islamophobia appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

New Mexico captures hundreds of millions in oil and gas revenue for public services and long-term savings. But communities closest to the wells say they pay a high price for extraction. The post Inside New Mexico’s Oil and Gas “Sacrifice Zone”: The Fight to Protect Greater Chaco appeared first on... Read more »

Unpacking some of the claims about voting and ensuring your own ballot counts. The post FACT SHEET: Voter Suppression and the 2026 Midterms appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

‘Low-Wage 100’ CEOs enrich themselves while their workers face stagnating wages, drastic cuts to public assistance, and aggressive ICE actions, study finds. The post REPORT: CEO-Worker Pay Gaps and Political Priorities of the 100 Largest Low-Wage Corporations  appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Bush could have immediately given a very clear and unequivocal speech to his nation and to the world that might have gone something like this. The post What George W. Bush Could Have Said After 9-11 appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A functioning democracy requires rules voters and states understand before ballots are cast, not legal ambiguity that keeps results tied up in legal battles after the election. The post The Supreme Court’s Midterm Chaos Is Voter Suppression appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Communities in Louisiana are fighting, including against their own governments, to block new polluting projects. The post The Struggle Against Industrial Expansion in Cancer Alley appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

In the days after 9/11, IPS convened scores of allies to express our grief — and to speak out against the rush to war. The post ‘Justice, Not Vengeance’: Read Our 2001 Statement on the 9/11 Attacks appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Corporate leaders are living on an alternate economic planet. That may explain their silence even as their own workers are targeted. The post Corporations With Big Pay Disparities Have Been Silent as ICE Detains Their Workers appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The wars against immigrants and Iran have helped to ratchet up of anti-Muslim sentiment. The post Muslim Americans Organize Amid Spike in Islamophobia appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

New Mexico captures hundreds of millions in oil and gas revenue for public services and long-term savings. But communities closest to the wells say they pay a high price for extraction. The post Inside New Mexico’s Oil and Gas “Sacrifice Zone”: The Fight to Protect Greater Chaco appeared first on... Read more »

Unpacking some of the claims about voting and ensuring your own ballot counts. The post FACT SHEET: Voter Suppression and the 2026 Midterms appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

‘Low-Wage 100’ CEOs enrich themselves while their workers face stagnating wages, drastic cuts to public assistance, and aggressive ICE actions, study finds. The post REPORT: CEO-Worker Pay Gaps and Political Priorities of the 100 Largest Low-Wage Corporations  appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Costco Begins Rationing Kirkland Signature Motor Oil As Refined Crisis Spreads Costco's Kirkland Signature motor oil has doubled in price, and customers now reportedly face a purchase limit as the Gulf energy conflict, combined with the Russia-Ukraine war, has sent the global refining market into a tailspin. Auto news website... Read more »

Trump Declares Ukraine, Russia Have Agreed To Halt All Attacks On Energy Targets Update(11:19)ET: Amid soaring national diesel products and painfully high prices at the pump, President Trump on Monday announced the Zelensky government has acceded to the US president's prior call to abstain from attacking diesel infrastructure in Russia.... Read more »

Beijing Rejects Pause, Slams Dario's 'Fearmongering, Cold War Playbook' China's Foreign Ministry and state press had rejected the China provisions of Dario Amodei's essay calling for a 'pause' in AI development, while state security minister and President Xi Jinping laid out what Beijing wants instead. On Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO... Read more »

Another Judge Blocks USPS From Implementing New Mail-In Ballot Rule Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Sept. 13 that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing its requirements to tighten mail-in voting rules. Under the rule, states must supply... Read more »

Trump Slams "Perfect Little Angel" Dario, Demands Full Steam Ahead For AI Update (1045ET): President Trump on Monday slammed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over his call to 'pause' AI and hand governance over to an Anthropic-adjacent cult.  © LUDOVIC MARIN via Gizmodo "The Trump Administration has stopped AI "people" from doing... Read more »

$6 Diesel Flashes 2008 Warning As Energy Shock, AI Slowdown Fears Fuel Perfect Storm As of Monday morning, AAA's national average retail diesel price topped $6.23 a gallon as a global refining crisis sparked by the Russia-Ukraine war and compounded by the Gulf conflict sent the price of the most... Read more »

Trump Says He Might Release More 9/11 Records Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Sept. 13 he might release records related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "I'm going to look at it when I get back," he told reporters in Ireland,... Read more »

Key Events This Week: Fed, BOJ And BOE; Also Retail Sales, Import Prices And Bessent It's a bumper week for central bank decisions, with the Fed (Wednesday), BoE (Thursday) and BoJ (Friday) all meeting. Central banks aside, key data releases include US retail sales (Wednesday) and industrial production (Friday), UK inflation... Read more »

Houthis Unleash Major Missile Barrage On Saudi Arabia's Sprawling King Khalid Air Base Summary Houthis attacked a Saudi air base with missiles and drones, claiming major damage. Houthis seized more Red Sea territory, including Perim Island near the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Shipping risks are rising, with vessels avoiding the Red... Read more »

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s failure to show up at the Senate building on Monday raised more concerns that his aides are hiding something.There had been hopes that the Kentucky Republican, who has been missing in action for more than three months due to health issues, would make an... Read more »

An ally of President Donald Trump’s was left mortified after journalist Tara Palmeri was thrown out of the RNC midterm convention in Texas last week after asking questions about Jeffrey Epstein — and threatened with arrest should she return.“I don’t know how anyone takes the party seriously at this point,”... Read more »

President Donald Trump's announcement that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop hitting each other's energy sites, a deal he tied to rising diesel prices, unraveled within an hour.Trump made the claim in a Monday post on Truth Social, which also blamed the Russia-Ukraine war, not his own war with... Read more »

In an attempt to stem the bleeding away of support from Republican women who are abandoning President Donald Trump in extraordinary numbers, the White House is attempting to change the optics in his public appearances.That's according to Doug Sosnik, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, in a new... Read more »

President Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his pledge to award Americans $5,000 checks in exchange for a strong GOP midterm performance, insisting that his record stood for itself — despite a growing number of MAGA figures describing the pitch as “bribery.”“The $5,000 Trump Dividend, to be given to all... Read more »

A “clan of predators” at the heart of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is turning American foreign policy into a tool for private gain, according to a sweeping new report.MAGA is often described as isolationist, but Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum argued Monday that description misses its larger ambition. “They... Read more »

Republican strategist-turned-anti-MAGA commentator Sarah Longwell described the self-reinforcing mechanism that she said forced Fox News to cave to Donald Trump's stolen-election lie.Longwell's new book "How to Eat an Elephant" draws on a decade of swing-voter focus groups, and she told CNN's "Inside Politics" how Trump, right-wing media and Republican voters... Read more »

A "far-reaching" federal investigation into the officials who once investigated President Donald Trump now stretches to Mar-a-Lago and beyond, a new court filing says.The account comes from a sworn declaration filed Monday in Washington federal court by Kenneth Wainstein, a lawyer for former CIA Director John Brennan, who is suing... Read more »

Employees at a Kansas factory are voicing fear and anger after President Donald Trump placed their company in the crosshairs amid his escalating trade war with Canada.The president threatened last week to ban sales from the Quebec-based jet manufacturer Bombardier, calling the company's products not "good enough," and workers at... Read more »

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s failure to show up at the Senate building on Monday raised more concerns that his aides are hiding something.There had been hopes that the Kentucky Republican, who has been missing in action for more than three months due to health issues, would make an... Read more »

An ally of President Donald Trump’s was left mortified after journalist Tara Palmeri was thrown out of the RNC midterm convention in Texas last week after asking questions about Jeffrey Epstein — and threatened with arrest should she return.“I don’t know how anyone takes the party seriously at this point,”... Read more »

President Donald Trump's announcement that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop hitting each other's energy sites, a deal he tied to rising diesel prices, unraveled within an hour.Trump made the claim in a Monday post on Truth Social, which also blamed the Russia-Ukraine war, not his own war with... Read more »

In an attempt to stem the bleeding away of support from Republican women who are abandoning President Donald Trump in extraordinary numbers, the White House is attempting to change the optics in his public appearances.That's according to Doug Sosnik, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, in a new... Read more »

President Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his pledge to award Americans $5,000 checks in exchange for a strong GOP midterm performance, insisting that his record stood for itself — despite a growing number of MAGA figures describing the pitch as “bribery.”“The $5,000 Trump Dividend, to be given to all... Read more »

A “clan of predators” at the heart of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is turning American foreign policy into a tool for private gain, according to a sweeping new report.MAGA is often described as isolationist, but Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum argued Monday that description misses its larger ambition. “They... Read more »

Republican strategist-turned-anti-MAGA commentator Sarah Longwell described the self-reinforcing mechanism that she said forced Fox News to cave to Donald Trump's stolen-election lie.Longwell's new book "How to Eat an Elephant" draws on a decade of swing-voter focus groups, and she told CNN's "Inside Politics" how Trump, right-wing media and Republican voters... Read more »

A "far-reaching" federal investigation into the officials who once investigated President Donald Trump now stretches to Mar-a-Lago and beyond, a new court filing says.The account comes from a sworn declaration filed Monday in Washington federal court by Kenneth Wainstein, a lawyer for former CIA Director John Brennan, who is suing... Read more »

Employees at a Kansas factory are voicing fear and anger after President Donald Trump placed their company in the crosshairs amid his escalating trade war with Canada.The president threatened last week to ban sales from the Quebec-based jet manufacturer Bombardier, calling the company's products not "good enough," and workers at... Read more »

Vice President JD Vance gave the keynote address on the second night of the Republican midterm convention, which also featured Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., House Speaker Mike Johnson and a final send-off from President Donald Trump. Here's what we found in fact-checking their remarks: The... Read more »

In a nearly two-hour speech at the first Republican midterm convention, President Donald Trump promised to pay Americans if Republicans won, and he repeatedly said communists could take over Congress if they didn't, among other familiar claims. The post FactChecking Trump’s Midterm Convention Speech appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Democratic ads in the Ohio Senate race are highlighting a political bribery scandal involving an energy company that benefited from a 2019 nuclear-power bailout law. It's true, as the ads say, that Republican Sen. Jon Husted backed the legislation and that the company supported his campaigns. But Husted hasn't been... Read more »

In his campaign's latest TV ad, Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper of North Carolina highlights the issue of affordability using direct quotes from his Republican opponent. They are, in fact, direct quotes from Michael Whatley -- but they are a bit dated, and some of the comments were more defensible... Read more »

In the Georgia Senate race, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has been running TV ads that take a sound bite from his opponent about Social Security out of context. The post Ossoff Ad Takes Collins’ Quote Out of Context appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Q: Did the Trump administration have 60 cherry blossom trees cut down in D.C. to build a golf course? A: In what the Department of Interior called “routine maintenance,” about 60 trees were removed from East Potomac Park, according to the Washington Post. But only one cherry tree removal was mentioned in... Read more »

Rep. Byron Donalds, a Republican from Florida who is running for governor, has blamed “rampant illegal immigration” during the Biden administration for measles outbreaks. But we found no link to illegal immigration in several recent large outbreaks, and infectious disease experts told us that the main driver of the cases is falling measles vaccination rates in... Read more »

President Donald Trump and other administration officials are claiming credit for a recent drop in prescription drug prices, citing deals they’ve struck with drugmakers and the launch of the online direct-to-consumer platform TrumpRx. But experts are skeptical those measures have had much impact on prices overall, and they say other... Read more »

After the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced two cases of measles-related deaths in one county, the local coroner appeared to contradict the account. And in an ongoing spat with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has alleged that a Shapiro staffer may have... Read more »

Vice President JD Vance gave the keynote address on the second night of the Republican midterm convention, which also featured Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., House Speaker Mike Johnson and a final send-off from President Donald Trump. Here's what we found in fact-checking their remarks: The... Read more »

In a nearly two-hour speech at the first Republican midterm convention, President Donald Trump promised to pay Americans if Republicans won, and he repeatedly said communists could take over Congress if they didn't, among other familiar claims. The post FactChecking Trump’s Midterm Convention Speech appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Democratic ads in the Ohio Senate race are highlighting a political bribery scandal involving an energy company that benefited from a 2019 nuclear-power bailout law. It's true, as the ads say, that Republican Sen. Jon Husted backed the legislation and that the company supported his campaigns. But Husted hasn't been... Read more »

In his campaign's latest TV ad, Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper of North Carolina highlights the issue of affordability using direct quotes from his Republican opponent. They are, in fact, direct quotes from Michael Whatley -- but they are a bit dated, and some of the comments were more defensible... Read more »

In the Georgia Senate race, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has been running TV ads that take a sound bite from his opponent about Social Security out of context. The post Ossoff Ad Takes Collins’ Quote Out of Context appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Q: Did the Trump administration have 60 cherry blossom trees cut down in D.C. to build a golf course? A: In what the Department of Interior called “routine maintenance,” about 60 trees were removed from East Potomac Park, according to the Washington Post. But only one cherry tree removal was mentioned in... Read more »

Rep. Byron Donalds, a Republican from Florida who is running for governor, has blamed “rampant illegal immigration” during the Biden administration for measles outbreaks. But we found no link to illegal immigration in several recent large outbreaks, and infectious disease experts told us that the main driver of the cases is falling measles vaccination rates in... Read more »

President Donald Trump and other administration officials are claiming credit for a recent drop in prescription drug prices, citing deals they’ve struck with drugmakers and the launch of the online direct-to-consumer platform TrumpRx. But experts are skeptical those measures have had much impact on prices overall, and they say other... Read more »

After the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced two cases of measles-related deaths in one county, the local coroner appeared to contradict the account. And in an ongoing spat with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has alleged that a Shapiro staffer may have... Read more »

Jeet Heer As Trump subverts elections, his most ardent fans want to overturn the 19th Amendment. The post MAGA Is Exploiting the Lindsay Clancy Case to Try to End Voting for Women appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Andrea Arroyo What are the dangers of surrendering too much of our humanity to technology? The post Artificial Intelligence: Who Is Giving Birth to the Future? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

David Futrelle The recent spate of reports about the technology’s destructive power underline two prime directives: Be afraid, and regulate aggressively. The post Time Has Run Out for AI Risk Deniers appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Susan Choi Maurie McInnis has the power to stand up to the administration. Instead, she’s caving. The post Yale’s President Has Become a Shameful Collaborator With Trump appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Amy Littlefield After Roe was overturned, some young women are turning more hard-line on abortion—but others are fleeing conservatism altogether. The post The Fissures and Fractures Behind the Right’s Pink Facade appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jessica Field Eviction is practically baked into the way Britain manages its tenanted homes. Here’s how it played out—over and over again—for my parents. The post Notes From Evictionland appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elie Mystal In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent reflects on September 11. Plus: the stupidity of the "Trump Dividend" and the threat of AI. The post The US Had a Choice After 9/11. It Chose Wrong. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Steve Brodner The AI backlash hits critical mass. The post Read Bernie’s Bill Here appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer Getting rid of one bad leader won’t bring justice. The post Accountability for the Gaza Genocide Can’t Focus on Netanyahu Alone appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

A settler reports a sheep theft – apparently a false accusation – setting off this chain of events: The army raids a Palestinian village, joins settlers in stealing dozens of sheep and goats, and, along the way, shoots two young men dead... Read more »

‘NAZA’ makes visible what we could never see from inside Gaza: that there were people watching, calculating, and deciding how many of us would die.... Read more »

News and headlines on Palestine and Israel, including: Trump thinks things are swell in Gaza; West Bank is a tinderbox; a "treasonous" Israeli film; more.... Read more »

Israel's war machine never rests, nor is any Palestinian immune from its weapons.... Read more »

Gaza hospitals are rationing electricity ■ Netanyahu's party is going downhill ■ Israeli settlers' siege on Qusra hits one-month mark ■ More... Read more »

Arabic Post Exposes the Network of "Buying Influencers" in America Since the Start of the Gaza War... Read more »

The directors of the film—which premiered at the Venice Film Festival—said they “felt the responsibility” to expose insider testimony about Israel’s systematic mass killing of Palestinians.... Read more »

A decade of serving in the IDF broke Nir. As soldiers around him succumbed to 'ethical burnout,' he began questioning what he was being asked to do. Returning to duty on October 7, he saw an army out of control... Read more »

The annexation of the West Bank through settlement, violence and the fragmentation of Palestinian space... Read more »

A settler reports a sheep theft – apparently a false accusation – setting off this chain of events: The army raids a Palestinian village, joins settlers in stealing dozens of sheep and goats, and, along the way, shoots two young men dead... Read more »

‘NAZA’ makes visible what we could never see from inside Gaza: that there were people watching, calculating, and deciding how many of us would die.... Read more »

News and headlines on Palestine and Israel, including: Trump thinks things are swell in Gaza; West Bank is a tinderbox; a "treasonous" Israeli film; more.... Read more »

Israel's war machine never rests, nor is any Palestinian immune from its weapons.... Read more »

Gaza hospitals are rationing electricity ■ Netanyahu's party is going downhill ■ Israeli settlers' siege on Qusra hits one-month mark ■ More... Read more »

Arabic Post Exposes the Network of "Buying Influencers" in America Since the Start of the Gaza War... Read more »

The directors of the film—which premiered at the Venice Film Festival—said they “felt the responsibility” to expose insider testimony about Israel’s systematic mass killing of Palestinians.... Read more »

A decade of serving in the IDF broke Nir. As soldiers around him succumbed to 'ethical burnout,' he began questioning what he was being asked to do. Returning to duty on October 7, he saw an army out of control... Read more »

The annexation of the West Bank through settlement, violence and the fragmentation of Palestinian space... Read more »

Content warning: This article discusses themes of suicide which may be upsetting to some readers, including the criminalisation of suicide and death by suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. Call 116 123 to …... Read more »

Politics is the art of compromise.  Therefore, both in decision-making and in elections, both for the electorate and for their representatives, voting procedures should cater for those who wish to compromise.  Single-preference procedures – like …... Read more »

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) have become an important part of the government’s strategy to combat the ongoing Irish housing crisis. Adopting MMC is a key part of Pillar 1 of the current housing strategy: Delivering Homes, Building …... Read more »

The world is entering a period of prolonged instability: geopolitical confrontation, technological acceleration, demographic pressure, information manipulation, social fragmentation and declining institutional trust. These dynamics are no longer …... Read more »

As of January 2026, successive opinion polls give centre-right Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael combined less than 40% of support for the next general election. Could Ireland have a government for the first time that excludes both of these traditional …... Read more »

For the past 26 years, I have worked in the addiction sector in Dublin watching the landscape of substance use evolve. While much attention is given to young people and new drug trends, there is a growing, overlooked and underserved group, older …... Read more »

In the middle of summer 2024, the song “10 Drunk Cigarettes” became a TikTok sensation. This was the height of Brat Summer - a time when women like Charli xcx and Sabrina Carpenter were dominating the pop industry, chartreuse was the colour of …... Read more »

Over the past week, Ireland has witnessed scenes not seen for a generation. Forecourts running out of fuel, limits placed on purchases, and the blockading of key infrastructure have disrupted daily life across the country. These developments echo …... Read more »

In March, global data centre and colocation provider Equinix announced construction of a new data centre in Dublin’s Blanchardstown neighbourhood (Equinix, 2026). The DB7x facility will sit next to two other Equinix locations, DB5x and DB6x, …... Read more »