- US DOJ relying on anonymous Israeli intel agent to convict US resident of Oct 7 participationUS 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 »
- Israel protects Mexican official wanted for mass kidnap-murder, along with accused sex criminals and fraudstersIsrael is home to droves of international criminals accused or found guilty in a second country of various crimes. Among them is Tomás Zerón, accused mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of 43 Mexican students in Ayotzinapa. This article was originally published by ¡DoNotPanic! and features additional editing by The... Read more »
- MI5 directors who plotted IRGC ‘terror’ ban exposed in leaked emailsLeaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government’s move to label the IRGC a terrorist entity as well as the UK’s adoption of the draconian National Security Act. The correspondence reviewed here offers extraordinary insight into how the... Read more »
- Court orders discovery in Blumenthal’s case against US govt, recognizes Fourth Amendment violationsA federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal’s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights. The judge framed the case as part of a wider assault on press freedom by the Trump administration. This article was adapted... Read more »
- Nicaragua banned US-sponsored coup leaders from elections, sparking corporate media meltdownIn his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place in 2027, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. The pledge was universally interpreted by Western media outlets as a total... Read more »
The Grayzone
- ● UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine SolidarityAmid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular activist and Muslim scholar arrested. Alicia Kearns, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs has called on the U.K. Home Office to detain Sayed Hussain Makke. ... Read more »
- How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEMThe most infamous arms companies manufacturing the very bombs for the United States and Israel to use in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are partnering up with the U.S. military to fund STEM mathematics programs to propagandize children in the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and others. The post... Read more »
- Iran’s Shock Strike Strategy Against US Assets Opens Multiple FrontsWhile another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the region in a much broader conflict. In the latest episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh examines the ever expanding battlefield, its impacts on oil... Read more »
- Regime Change Mission Foiled: Yemen’s Ansarallah Uncover Saudi-Mossad-CIA Espionage Network to Decapitate Resistance LeadersNewly released documents reviewed by MintPress uncover a Mossad-CIA led “espionage network” inside Yemen against Ansarallah to enable “decapitation strikes” against senior leaders including AbdulMalik al-Houthi and others – mirroring Israeli intelligence campaigns previously carried out against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Iranian officials. MintPress takes you through this spy... Read more »
- Lionel Messi’s Ties to Netanyahu, The Israeli Military and Its Elite Spying Unit 8200Lionel Messi has quietly built relationships with companies and security firms closely linked to Israel's military-intelligence establishment. From becoming the global face of Israeli AI company OrCam staffed by former Unit 8200 officers to relying on ex-Israeli operatives for personal security, MintPress investigates the football icon's connections to Netanyahu's security... Read more »
MintPress News
- ‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’‘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 »
- 25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On IranThis 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 »
- VideoWhitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza LegacyOn 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 »
- VideoInvitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate DenialWe, 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 »
- VideoMedia Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate OblivionAny 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 »
Media Lens
- ● The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media
Defense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME.” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war. The post The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - Video● Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.
In the Mississippi town where Kohen Wiley died, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now? The post Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner
Intercept reporters break down progressives’ wins and losses in Michigan and Missouri. The post The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory
The public health official faced down AIPAC — and the entire Democratic Party establishment — to beat Haley Stevens. That’s well worth celebrating. The post There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - When a President Promises a Massacre
Harkening back to colonial massacres, Trump abandons the premise of proportionality for butchery in Iran and beyond. The post When a President Promises a Massacre appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
The Intercept
- The Climate Wars: How Superpowers Are Carving Up the Earth | With Arthur Snell
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 » - Sex, power and backlash in Africa
An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom... Read more » - What movements can learn from their own histories
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash... Read more » - Big Tech platforms under fire in inquiry into Southport mass stabbing
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 » - Brazil: How the CIA funded Catholic marches that paved the way for the 1964 coup
Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup... Read more »
openDemocracy
- VideoThere Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Even In Armageddon.
There are very few things in life that I hold a rock-solid uncompromising view on, but the fact that there is beauty in everything is one of them.... Read more » - VideoALL Mainstream Western Institutions View Palestinian Lives As Worthless
"I mean, it is a bit rich watching a BBC reporter act shocked and offended by somebody saying they think Jewish lives are worth more than Palestinian lives."... Read more » - Video“I’m Not Political” Just Means “I Support The Status Quo”
Politics is pervading every aspect of our experience of life on this planet. Our only volition is in what we choose to do about this inescapable reality.... Read more » - VideoLet’s Stay Human
They’re trying to make us worse. These billionaire generative AI corporations reap profits by making us worse human beings.... Read more » - VideoToday In Dystopia: eBay CIA Gangstalkers, Shredding Rare Books To Train AI
Today in dystopia, billionaire corporations and plutocrats can hire trained CIA operatives to psychologically terrorize ordinary citizens who criticize them.... Read more »
Caitlin Johnstone
- ● The Costs of the US Blockade on Cuba
The U.S. public has been skeptical of the blockade for decades. A 2016 Pew Research Center poll revealed that 73% of Americans favored ending the blockade. More recently, a February 25, 2026 poll by YouGov shows that not even a third of people in the United States approve of the... Read more » - ● The Ceuta Crisis
The geography of the crisis seemed widely misunderstood. Ceuta has remained under Portuguese and subsequently Spanish sovereignty since 1415, remaining with Spain after Portugal regained independence in the seventeenth century. Although part of both Spain and the European Union, Ceuta occupies a unique legal position. Entry into the enclave does... Read more » - ● What the Democrats Need to Do to Defend and Strengthen Social Security
Last month, the Social Security Administration released a report finding that by 2032 the Social Security Trust Fund will be able to cover just 78 percent of the benefits of more than 70 million Americans who have earned them. In other words, if Congress does not act within the next... Read more » - Video● Resisting the Cat-Torturer in the Casa de NariñoAugust 7 will be a dark day, for it is when Colombia’s presidential turnover is set to take place. On this day, which marks the anniversary of the Battle of Boyacá – the decisive 1819 battle in which Simón Bolívar’s army defeated Spanish troops to secure Colombia’s independence – outgoing... Read more »
- ● How an 1876 Massacre of Black Men in South Carolina Turned Racial Terror into Political Power
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, its citizens commemorate a democracy more diverse, free and inclusive than it’s ever been. The path to this milestone was imperfect and paved in blood and suffering. Still, few of the revelers will likely pay heed to the anniversary of another historic event:... Read more »
CounterPunch.org
- Don’t fall for Project Smear, Mr Burnham – Unherd op-edIn 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 »
- Oh dear Andy, what an inauspicious start!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 »
- AI and the false consciousness trap – UnherdAscribing 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 »
- VideoAn Athenian View of American Democracy – Project Syndicate op-edAt 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 »
- Το ΝΑΤΟ πρέπει να πεθάνει – 24|7 NewsΟ 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 »
Yanis Varoufakis
- ● Palestine protestor cleared of criminal damage after two year trialPro-Palestine activist Paula Akpan has been cleared of criminal damage after a two-year trial. She had been charged with criminal damage after her role in a 2024 protest outside a genocide-linked bank. The financial services company Scotiabank, was one of many which held Israeli investments. On 6 July, the Good... Read more »
- ● Ex-neo-Nazi Tory candidate withdraws, but lands counter-extremism roleFormer neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine has withdrawn as a Tory candidate for the 2027 council elections in Somerset. Far-right candidate are hardly a rarity in UK politics these days. However, reports claim he has now been given an internal Conservative Party role educating people about extremism. Another Tory misstep Bonehill-Paine was... Read more »
- ● Two trans rights victories and a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘bathroom ban’The past week has been a rollercoaster for trans rights in the UK. On Friday 31 July, the High Court rejected a legal challenge to the upcoming trial of puberty-blocking medication. That same day, the court also ruled that police don’t have to perform strip searches based on ‘biological sex’.... Read more »
- ● A Guide to Your Legal Rights When a Relationship Breaks Down England and WalesNo one starts a relationship expecting it to end. When it does, the practical questions arrive fast. Who stays in the home. How the bills get paid. What happens with the children. What you are actually entitled to. The answers depend far more on your legal status than most people... Read more »
- ● Why Rising Student Housing Costs Are Reshaping University Choices in the UKA December 2024 report from Unipol and HEPI confirmed something students already knew but universities were slow to acknowledge: the maximum student loan in England is now less than the average student rent. You read that right. The government’s own financial support package doesn’t cover your highest single cost. That... Read more »
Canary
- ● Will this Struggle be Drowned in Blood? – Voltairine de Cleyre (1911)Art by Clifford Harper From ‘Regeneración’, English Section, November 11 to November 18, 1911, Los Angeles, California, edited by William C. Owen The following is the English copy of an article contributed recently by the well-known writer Voltairine de Cleyre,... Read more... Read more »
- ● 10. The Nationalist Narrative of Capitalism: A Look at Morteza Mohit’s Interview with Negah MagazineReviews and Views Volume One Nasser Paydar The main point of Morteza Mohit’s discourse in most of his writings and statements – including in the eighth volume of “Negah” – is that the immersion of several billion workers and the... Read more... Read more »
- ● Shadow Report on the Right to ConsultationThe process involves the participation of thousands of indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities. Photo by Luis Castillo A nationwide consultation is currently underway with the 69 indigenous peoples and one Afro-Mexican community regarding the proposed draft of the General Law on... Read more... Read more »
- ● What Lies Behind the 4T’s Proposed Indigenous Peoples Act Regarding Indigenous TerritoriesPhoto by Santiago Navarro F. Archive: Avispa Midia In late June, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the launch of a consultation process on the proposed General Law on the Rights of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples. According to the timeline announced by... Read more... Read more »
- ● Naomi Wolf Hypes Claim that Mamdani Stole Election; Metaxas Calls Mamdani ‘A Boil That Needs to be Lanced’Christian nationalist podcaster Eric Metaxas, a “public intellectual” turned MAGA activist, recently hosted Naomi Wolf, feminist author turned right-wing conspiracy crank, to talk about claims that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stole his 2025 election. Wolf called it “the... Read more... Read more »
🏴 Anarchist Federation
- ● Andy Durgan - Reflexions on the Spanish Revolution of 1936Author: Andy DurganTitle: Reflexions on the Spanish Revolution of 1936Date: 11 July 2026Notes: Translated by David Fagan for International Viewpoint from viento sur 201.Source: Retrieved on August 6, 2026 from https://internationalviewpoint.org/Reflexions-on-the-Spanish-Revolution-of-1936 In the vast body of literature surrounding the Spanish Civil War, it is often presented as a struggle between... Read more »
- Kevin A. Carson - The Desktop Regulatory StateAuthor: Kevin A. CarsonTitle: The Desktop Regulatory StateSubtitle: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and NetworksDate: March 2016Source: Retrieved on 8th April 2022 from kevinacarson.org Preface Like every book I’ve written since the first, this book was inspired by ideas I encountered in researching the previous one but was unable to... Read more »
- Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa - Interview of the prisoners members of Revolutionary Struggle Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis to the International Red HelpAuthor: Nikos Maziotis and Pola RoupaTitle: Interview of the prisoners members of Revolutionary Struggle Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis to the International Red HelpDate: 2019Notes: The interview is included in the book-edition of 2019, “Proclamations — Texts of Revolutionary Struggle 2003–2018”. Introduction In 2017 Red Help International sent some (30)... Read more »
- Martin Sostre - Follow the Principles that Won My FreedomAuthor: Martin SostreTitle: Follow the Principles that Won My FreedomDate: 1976Notes: The following speech, “Follow the Principles that Won My Freedom,” was delivered by Sostre in 1976 shortly after his release from prison and offers a message of revolutionary optimism about how collective action can succeed—as it did for him—in... Read more »
- Raoul Vaneigem - Abolish Predation, Become Human AgainAuthor: Raoul VaneigemTitle: Abolish Predation, Become Human AgainSubtitle: A call for the global creation of collectivities that struggle for a free and authentic human lifeDate: 2024, JanuaryNotes: Raoul Vaneigem, «ABOLIR LA PRÉDATION, REDEVENIR HUMAIN: Appel à la création mondiale de collectivités en lutte pour une vie humaine libre et authentique».... Read more »
The Anarchist Library
- Into The Valley…Into The Valley… (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026)... Read more »
- Library update (July 2026)Library update (July 2026) (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026)... Read more »
- KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026 (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library)... Read more »
- Prison KnittingPrison Knitting (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026)... Read more »
- Clara Gilbert Cole: brief notesClara Gilbert Cole: brief notes (in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 121, August 2026)... Read more »
Kate Sharpley Library: Recent documents
- ● Iranian parliament reviews bill to restrict Strait of Hormuz transit
Iran’s parliament is reviewing a draft bill that would significantly tighten state control over navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, including by banning vessels linked to the United States, Israel and other countries Tehran designates as hostile, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported Thursday, Anadolu reports.... Read more » - ● Bomb explosion aboard passenger minibus kills, injures several near Damascus: Report
Several people were killed and injured when an explosive device detonated aboard a passenger minibus in Jaramana, in the Damascus countryside, on Thursday, Syrian state media reported, Anadolu reports. State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV said the explosive device exploded inside the minibus, killing and injuring several people, but did not provide an... Read more » - ● US Federal Reserve sends $500M cash shipment to Iraq: Report
The US Federal Reserve has sent a new shipment of $500 million in cash to Iraq’s central bank, according to an Iraqi official cited Thursday by the state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA), Anadolu reports. “The US Federal Reserve sent a new cash shipment worth $500 million to the Central Bank... Read more » - ● Israeli forces shell Syria’s Quneitra countryside in artillery attack
Israeli forces shelled the northern countryside of Syria’s Quneitra province with artillery Thursday, according to state news agency SANA, Anadolu reports. It reported that “Israeli occupation forces targeted the vicinity of the village of Al-Samadaniyah Al-Gharbiyah in the northern countryside of Quneitra with three artillery shells.” The shells landed in... Read more » - ● Yemeni government forces report casualties, material losses in Houthi attacks
The Emergency Forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government said Thursday that they suffered casualties and property losses in Houthi attacks targeting several camps and other military units, Anadolu reports. The forces did not provide details about the losses or the locations targeted. “This attack comes after the security and military... Read more »
Middle East Monitor
- ● Congress Must Strengthen Farm Bill to Fight Unfolding Hunger CrisisA child hunger crisis is unfolding in plain sight: it’s very likely that more than 1.5 million children nationwide have lost food assistance in the wake of unprecedented SNAP cuts in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. While the farm bill considered by the Senate Agriculture Committee today would take a... Read more »
- ● New National Policy Agenda Offers Blueprint for Shifting and Keeping People PowerToday, Dēmos is releasing its 2026 Policy Agenda, Power Policies: How to Get and Keep People Power in the United States, which centers on nine reforms addressing the intertwined crises of economic inequality and democratic erosion. The agenda not only offers a governing roadmap for advocates looking to radically improve... Read more »
- ● Free Press Plans to Take Carr to Court in Response to Thursday's Unlawful Decision to Eliminate a Vital Limit on Media ConsolidationOn Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to eliminate the 39 percent national television-ownership cap, a statute that the agency lacks the legal authority to repeal. Free Press and allies plan to appeal this unlawful decision in court.Congress enshrined the national ownership cap in federal law; it... Read more »
- ● Sanders Introduces Bill to Guarantee Paid Vacation for U.S. WorkersSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today reintroduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America.Joining Sanders as cosponsors are Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.),... Read more »
- ● Michigan/America Is Not For Sale
Wowza, rare glimmer of good news. We take a moment to honor the stunning Michigan victory of Abdul El-Sayed, who was outspent 12-1 by his opponent's millions from establishment Dems, Zionist PACS and corporations and still managed to win even though he is a progressive Muslim who calls genocide genocide... Read more »
Common Dreams
- The Hard Right Packing of the UK Supreme CourtUnlike 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 »
- Scottish Independence: Set the Date!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 »
- Narratives of Moral Conflict: Karim Khan and Delcy RodriguezSocial 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 »
- Where Are We Going?An advert for the RNLI caught my attention because it indicated that the majority of their income comes from bequests in wills. The pitch was that, after you provide for your loved ones, you should leave money to the RNLI. I have no problem with this, having generations of lifeboatmen... Read more »
- Extreme Unionism and Res JudicataUnsurprisingly, today at the Court of Session Lord Young refused to lift his suspension or “sist” of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. He did however grant us leave to appeal against this decision. What was surprising was an extreme extension of the UK government’s argument.... Read more »
Craig Murray
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- Call to Action: Teach Voting Rights in an Age of AuthoritarianismWe 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 »
- Speak Up for the Smithsonian Exhibits and ProgramsOn July 4, 2026, the White House Domestic Policy Council issued a report attacking the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). The post Speak Up for the Smithsonian Exhibits and Programs appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
- Prentiss Charney Fellows 2026–2027We are thrilled to announce our third cohort of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2026–2027 school year. The fellowship supports a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together. The post Prentiss Charney Fellows 2026–2027 appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
- Teacher-Led Study Groups Are Communities of Resistance and HopeIn a time of censorship and political repression, teacher-led study groups are building communities of resistance and hope. The post Teacher-Led Study Groups Are Communities of Resistance and Hope appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
- Teach Truth Book GiveawayFor the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, Seven Stories Press, Haymarket Books, and One Signal Publishers donated books that address the censorship of people's history. The post Teach Truth Book Giveaway appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
Zinn Education Project
- #BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister
#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 »
Free willl
- ● From Bridge to GulfHow Mary McAleese’s post-presidential embrace of UAE institutions jars with the bridge-building that defined her presidency The post From Bridge to Gulf appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
- The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the MakingState anchoring its flagship emergency energy asset, in County Clare, to an environmental crime scene and a non-existent root of title The post The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the Making appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
- RAF deal: rough deal for truthCoveney 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 »
- €492 Indicator Fault reveals the ontology of oppressionAsymmetry cannot be replaced in an afternoon The post €492 Indicator Fault reveals the ontology of oppression appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »
- Soldiers, statute and the State: Ireland’s aid to the civil powerUse 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 »
Village Magazine
- ● Governing the Lebanese confessional state without the prime minister
The Washington framework agreement is discussed as a product of executive consensus. President Aoun signed. Prime Minister Salam endorsed. The cabinet approved. The institutional surface presents a unified Lebanese state negotiating with Israel under American sponsorship. The institutional reality is different. The framework was negotiated without the prime minister. Salam... Read more » - ● Gaza is exploited either way, through silence or stale statements
While Gaza mourns, the international community continues to turn a blind eye. On Tuesday this week, 112 members from the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families were put to rest in a mass funeral in the Sabra neighbourhood. The remains were recently recovered from the rubble of homes destroyed in 2023... Read more » - ● Can Trump reshape the situation in Gaza?
A few days after Donald Trump expressed his satisfaction with the recent agreement on Gaza, Israel made it clear that the deal fell short of its ambitions. The agreement had become possible after Hamas announced, for the first time, its willingness to hand over its weapons to the Palestinian committee... Read more » - ● Palestine, football and Europe’s selective conscience
Europe did not rediscover its soul when Palestinian blood was spilled. It did not find its moral courage when homes, hospitals, universities, archives and entire neighbourhoods were destroyed, or when families were displaced from one supposed safe zone to another, only to discover that safety itself had become a fiction.... Read more » - ● Helium diplomacy: The invisible bottleneck in the AI economy
A warning from Ras Laffan The Middle East is usually described as the engine room of the hydrocarbon economy. But it also sits quietly inside the infrastructure of the digital age. When conflict disrupted natural-gas processing in Qatar in March 2026, international attention focused on liquefied natural gas. Another, less... Read more »
Opinion – Middle East Monitor
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon. Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon. Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »
- Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce HappinessAlthough the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »
- Who Speaks for the World?Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »
- Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against RussiaEthnic 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 »
Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork
- A Few Words on Independence Day[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 »
- ‘How Many Minutes to Midnight?’: Noam Chomsky on Why National Security Has Nothing to Do With SecurityIntro 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 »
- Noam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. PresidentsChomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.... Read more »
- Noam Chomsky On The Responsibility To Act Against FascismTomorrow 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 »
- Israel & Palestine: Possible Futures — a Discussion with Noam ChomskyProfessor 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 »
Posts – ZNetwork
- ● Richard Wolff: Why Europe’s Leaders Are Provoking War with RussiaThe whole world watches as China, Russia, and their allies square off against the US and whatever allies it retains.... Read more »
- Senators urge regulator to ‘crack down on prediction markets’ amid wildfire betting
“These markets risk creating perverse incentives, undermining public trust, and commodifying human suffering in ways that warrant careful scrutiny.”... Read more » - Railroad jobs have ‘gotten worse’ since Biden and Congress blocked workers from strikingFour years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then.... Read more »
- The labor movement is divided over how to deal with AI
Some union leaders who are embracing AI are receiving pushback from rank-and-file workers.... Read more » - Hunger strikes are spreading in ICE jails amid widespread due process violations, advocates say
Immigrant rights advocates say more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations... Read more »
The Real News Network
- ● Richard Wolff: Why Europe’s Leaders Are Provoking War with RussiaThe whole world watches as China, Russia, and their allies square off against the US and whatever allies it retains.... Read more »
- Senators urge regulator to ‘crack down on prediction markets’ amid wildfire betting“These markets risk creating perverse incentives, undermining public trust, and commodifying human suffering in ways that warrant careful scrutiny.”... Read more »
- Railroad jobs have ‘gotten worse’ since Biden and Congress blocked workers from strikingFour years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then.... Read more »
- The labor movement is divided over how to deal with AISome union leaders who are embracing AI are receiving pushback from rank-and-file workers.... Read more »
- Hunger strikes are spreading in ICE jails amid widespread due process violations, advocates sayImmigrant rights advocates say more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations... Read more »
The Real News Network
- ● "Struggle for Dignity": At Least 40 Killed in Mass Protests in Pakistan-Administered KashmirIn Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a coalition of local politicians, activists and small-business leaders called the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has been leading mass protests over the soaring cost of living and the limits placed on political autonomy. In response, the Pakistani government banned the group under counterterrorism laws and ordered... Read more »
- ● Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to "Bring This to a Grinding Halt"Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, warns that “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s... Read more »
- ● "Fire Climate": Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to ControlThe Pacific Northwest is facing its worst fire season in more than 30 years. Scientists say drought, extreme heat and climate change are making wildfire seasons longer, more frequent and more destructive across the western United States. “The homes, the communities, they’re just not simply prepared for fire,” says Paul... Read more »
- ● Headlines for August 6, 2026Trump Blasts Democratic Nominee for Senate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Pledges to “Make Dobbs Permanent” Nationwide, Senate Votes to Confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz to Lead the CDC, New Mexico Sues the DOJ for “Stonewalling” State Probe into Epstein, Federal Lawsuit Accuses Trump Admin of Targeting Children... Read more »
- "This Is an ICE Murder, Too": Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in SolitaryIn the wake of a third ICE death at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, we speak with Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martín was one of the leaders of the May hunger strike at the immigration jail. Martín was transferred to Elizabeth Detention Center, New Jersey’s other... Read more »
Democracy Now!
- The ‘Rigor’ and ‘Empathy’ Ross Douthat Will Bring to 60 Minutes
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 » - mp3Vincent Southerland on Black Voting Barriers
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 » - mp3Dorothee Benz on Prairieland Protest Case
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 » - mp3Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260717.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Maine Monitor (7/15/26) This week on CounterSpin: Protests are ongoing in southern Maine, where Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was killed by an ICE agent on July 13. The Maine Monitor says folks are “expressing rage, fear and questions... Read more » - mp3Phyllis Bennis on Iran War Costs
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260710.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Washington Post (7/8/26) This week on CounterSpin: One outlet says “it’s unclear if war is back on”; another says “Trump mulls restarting war”—as though you can start and stop the harm bombs bring, to people, to power plants,... Read more »
CounterSpin
- Wall Street’s Two WingsThe 2026 US midterms may expose a broken party system as Trump, corporate Democrats and grassroots socialists prepare for a deeper class conflict. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- America’s War on an Independent WorldHow the United States is using oil, technology, transportation and the dollar system to rebuild its declining global power. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- An Economy of Unearned WealthMichael Hudson explains how finance, monopoly and economic rent have captured government, inflated asset prices and weakened the productive economy. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- The K-Shaped Collapse of the US EconomyMichael Hudson and Radhika Desai explain how Trump’s MAGA economy rests on war, debt, asset bubbles and a shrinking real economy. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- The Desperate Defense of Dollar EmpireMichael Hudson and Richard Wolff argue that the confrontation with Iran cannot be understood as another isolated Middle Eastern crisis. It is part of a wider struggle over oil, trade routes, dollar reserves and the survival of the Western-controlled financial order. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the... Read more »
Michael Hudson
- ● Rep. Max Miller Has a History of Withholding His Daughter’s Blue Bunny“Max, Can REDACTED please have her bunny back? She’s had it since birth, sleeps with it every night, carries it with her around the house… Please don’t punish REDACTED if you’re upset with me,” Emily Moreno once wrote in an email to her ex-husband, Republican Congressman Max Miller. Miller, the... Read more »
- ● A Commission Monitoring Human Rights Violations Is Concerned About the USOn Tuesday afternoon, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights convened in Washington, DC, to hear complaints about excessive use of force and suppression of freedom of expression during protests against immigration enforcement in American cities. One of those who attended and testified at the public hearing was Antonio Romanucci, a... Read more »
- ● What AI Regulation and Ownership Could BeAs an ordinary internet user, I am skeptical about AI. My colleagues and I have reported on several harmful aspects of the technology in the US: threats to democracy, its impact on the environment, mental health, the workforce, military intervention—the list goes on. While researching the gaps in conversations around... Read more »
- Video● She Followed ICE’s Advice to Self-Deport. Five Weeks Later, She Was Dead.When 27-year-old Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz took her three daughters and boarded a plane from St. Louis to Guatemala City on June 17, her friends begged her not to go. But Glendy had no other option: Her husband, Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz, who worked as a roofer and... Read more »
- ● The Deaths ICE Doesn’t CountPrisciliano Trejo Ricano spent his 29th birthday on July 10 in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center. In the privately-run facility that can hold about 1,900 detainees at a time, Trejo Ricano felt “like a number or like a placeholder.” Two days later, in a Facebook post from July 12, Trejo Ricano,... Read more »
Mother Jones
- Crypto Bill “Crafted by and for Crypto Billionaires”“The massive and hugely dangerous CLARITY Act crypto bill is coming to the Senate floor in the next week. The legislation was crafted by and for the very crypto billionaires who are pushing Trump’s anti-democratic ideas. The bill locks-in weak protections for people and the economy and greenlights Trump’s crypto... Read more »
- Peace Protesters: * Arrests in SC * Trial in NJOn Tuesday, July 28, during Elbit Out of South Carolina’s (EOSC) weekly picket outside of the Elbit Systems of America factory, "three protestors were wrongfully arrested by an off-duty North Charleston Police Department (NCPD) officer. The officer, who was acting as paid security for Elbit Systems, arrested EOSC protestors on bogus charges... Read more »
- Hospitals See Rise in Uninsured Patients After CutsAfter Republicans ended enhanced federal tax credits for people enrolled in an ACA plan, hospitals have seen a sharp rise in the number of uninsured people showing up in hospital emergency rooms and clinics. The post Hospitals See Rise in Uninsured Patients After Cuts appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
- Ultra-Wealthy’s Private Jets Were Gas Guzzling for the World CupIn an opinion piece for The Hill, Chuck Collins from the Institute for Policy Studies calls on FIFA to “ban private jets at matches and live up to its pledge to be carbon neutral by 2040… FIFA should also stop designing tournaments that span continents and cater to the ultra-wealthy... Read more »
- Iran War and Protests Outside 4 U.S. Drone Bases: “Refuse Illegal Orders”Across the U.S., “veterans, students, and community members will rally outside four U.S. military drone bases for a National Day of Action for Peace in Iran. 'Refuse Illegal Orders' will be the overlying theme, urging active duty servicemen to refuse to comply with illegal orders to fly surveillance and attack... Read more »
News Releases Archive - accuracy.org
- You Don’t Own Your Narrative Anymore — Naomi Klein and Yanis VaroufakisFrom recent deepfakes using Yanis’ image for viral gain, to his latest police harassment over events from decades ago, the discussion opens onto larger questions Naomi explores in Doppelgänger (identity, imitation, credibility, and what “truth” means when noise travels faster than institutions — and institutions still hold power) before moving... Read more »
- How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of WarA 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 BDSThe Case for BDS by Mehdi Hasan Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths used to attack the boycott movement against Israel. Read on Substack In the newest episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths around the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement – a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement that works... Read more »
- ‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of Zionism.” Naomi also reacts to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu comparing student protesters at Columbia University to Nazis, telling Mehdi that... Read more »
- Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”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 »
Posts – ZNetwork
- In DeepThe 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 »
- HotheadsSteady 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 »
- Two-Tier JusticeIt’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 »
- Reality Be DamnedThe 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 »
- Vampire CapitalThe 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 »
George Monbiot
- ● The real reason the GOP election heist will fail: pure incompetence
Many commentators have raised alarm about the ways President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are laying the groundwork to steal or contest the November midterms. According to New York Times political analyst Jamelle Bouie, however, there is a clear reason the “intricate scheme” necessary for Trump to control the... Read more » - ● Impeachment articles filed against 'unelected shadow president'
A House Democrat on Thursday introduced articles of impeachment against White House budget chief Russell Vought, accusing the Project 2025 architect and far-right ideologue of unlawfully terminating federal funds appropriated by Congress and putting the Trump administration’s political priorities over the law.Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.), who is leading the push... Read more » - ● Millions for Trump's megaparty went to the wrong bank account: report
Funding and planning for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence fell largely to two nonprofits with similar names: America250 and Freedom 250.That similarity has sowed a lot of confusion over who was in charge of which celebrations. And according to a report House Democrats released... Read more » - ● McConnell’s mysterious absence derails signature GOP bill
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ongoing absence is a mystery, with everyone from other Republican candidates to his own Kentucky neighbors baffled as to his whereabouts.“The absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell R-KY hit home for Republicans today - as the Senate Agriculture Committee failed to report out a GOP... Read more » - ● The GOP's secret anti-Trump brigade is running out of time
While a small band of congressional Republicans has become “increasingly defiant” toward President Donald Trump and shown a growing willingness to stymie his “worst instincts,” the Senate could soon become “more Trumpy.” This is according to the Economist, which on Thursday shared its assessment of Republican infighting as the midterms... Read more »
Alternet.org
- ● Iran Is a Wake-Up Call for the Defense EstablishmentAs the war in Iran has reached its fifth month, progress fails to be made and opposition continues to mount. And while President Donald Trump certainly deserves his fair share of the blame, the playbook he’s using is in no way his own. Since the Cold War, the United States... Read more »
- ● Before Hormuz, There Was Suez: What Trump Can Learn From EisenhowerReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. Oman and Iran appear close to a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially providing both an exit from the current round of fighting and the foundation for a more durable maritime order. Washington should welcome such an agreement – even... Read more »
- The New Big ThreeReprinted from The Realist Review. “The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms…” Such was the view of the English novelist Evelyn Waugh’s finest fictional creation, Guy Crouchback, in the days following the announcement of the... Read more »
- Antiwar.com’s Fight To Challenge the Iran War PropagandaThe U.S. government continues to demonstrate its knack for pursuing remarkably foolish foreign policies that have terrible consequences. Many thought that President Trump was going to rectify this problem, at least somewhat. After all, he promised to shut down the Ukraine War as soon as he moved into the White... Read more »
- America’s Middle East Bases: An Imperial BurdenBy all conventional measures, America is losing the war with Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has survived the U.S.-Israeli regime change effort, and it seems as though the hardline factions in Iran have been empowered. They also maintain their stockpiles of drones and missiles, while the U.S. is... Read more »
Antiwar.com
- What France's far right has learned from Israel's apartheid systemThere are regular warnings that France risks succumbing to fascism. But Mussolini's Italy may not be the model that attracts the far right; it could be Binyamin Netanyahu's de facto apartheid state. - 2026/08 / editorial... Read more »
- Can capitalism save Cuba's revolution?Cuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market reform has brought no political opening. - 2026/08 / article... Read more »
- Donald Trump's Latin American proconsulsThe US once supported military coups to keep Latin America under its control. Now, a weaker left and the rise of organised crime are helping the far right assert itself. This suits the White House just fine. - 2026/08 / article... Read more »
- When the world took Ethiopia's sideMussolini's attack on Ethiopia in 1935 caused more than half a million deaths by the end of the Italian occupation in 1941. Why were the sanctions imposed on Italy only half-heartedly enforced? - 2026/08 / article... Read more »
- White Australia's ‘unprecedented act of racism'?Australians rejected the idea of creating the Indigenous Voice to Parliament advisory body in October 2023. Two years after this stinging defeat, the state of Victoria signed a treaty with its First Peoples. - 2026/08 / article, 2026/08 australia... Read more »
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
- UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement fundingCharity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers The post UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- BBC censored film on British army killing childDowning Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972 The post BBC censored film on British army killing child appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- US ammunition ship docked in Wales during Iran strikesThe Sagamore is a key vessel for keeping US bases in Britain stocked up with bombs The post US ammunition ship docked in Wales during Iran strikes appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- Chancellor wants military officer with him at TreasuryJohn Healey’s request has sparked fears about the military having too much influence over UK finances The post Chancellor wants military officer with him at Treasury appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- Revealed: Qatar and Israel top Westminster lobbying league tableExclusive: MPs have been on 165 overseas trips since general election, either funded by foreign countries concerned or by UK-based "friends" The post Revealed: Qatar and Israel top Westminster lobbying league table appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
Declassified UK
- ● China buys at least 10 more cargoes of US soybeans, traders say
China has bought at least another 10 cargoes of US soybeans, three Asian traders said on Thursday, the latest in a flurry of purchases ahead of President Xi Jinping’s expected US visit next month. State-run buyer Sinograin bought 10 to 15 cargoes on Wednesday, the traders said. At least 10... Read more » - ● DR Congo tests over 300 passengers after suspected Ebola death on boat
Congolese health authorities were screening more than 300 people travelling on a river boat intercepted near Kinshasa on Thursday after the death of a passenger suspected of having Ebola raised concerns the virus may have spread on board, officials said. Authorities deployed a mobile laboratory to the vessel after it... Read more » - ● US sanctions Cuba’s military representative in Beijing over China procurement
The United States sanctioned Cuba’s senior military representative in Beijing on Thursday, accusing him of helping procure military-related equipment from China for the island’s armed forces. Waldo Perez Cortes, Cuba’s military, naval and air attache in Beijing, was among six Cuban nationals and five entities added to the US Treasury... Read more » - ● Pool at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley shut over suspected fake lifeguard credentials
A swimming pool at a private housing estate in Hong Kong’s Happy Valley has been ordered to close after authorities discovered a lifeguard on duty was suspected of using fraudulent credentials. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said on Thursday that the lifeguard’s credentials did not match records held... Read more » - ● China confirms 2 deaths in Scarborough Shoal crash during Philippine ship chase
China honoured two coastguard personnel who died in a vessel collision in the South China Sea last year, state media reported on Thursday, marking the first official confirmation that the incident resulted in fatalities. The People’s Armed Police (PAP) on Thursday announced the latest recipients of its “Loyal Guards of... Read more »
News - South China Morning Post
- ● Why was a US Yale graduate hounded out of his job promoting Chinese culture?
In just two months, Yale graduate Edward Kuperman went from being praised by Chinese state media to being bombarded by public accusations that he was a spy. It began with a June 18 article from state news agency Xinhua, in which he was described as an eager 24-year-old sinophile who... Read more » - ● China adds US sanctions, drone curbs in trade tit-for-tat
China announced new drone supply chain export controls and counter-sanctions against seven American firms in retaliation for US trade restrictions imposed last week targeting Chinese companies. Sales to United States entities of “drones, their key components and related technologies” will be subject to “strict case-by-case scrutiny”, the Ministry of Commerce... Read more » - China jails retired defence tech overseer for 10 years in US$6.3m corruption case
A former senior Chinese defence official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting over 43 million yuan (US$6.3 million) in bribes, as China’s anti-corruption drive continues it sweep through the military sector. Zhang Jianhua, former deputy head of China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for... Read more » - Narrow escape: how ANA flight from Shanghai avoided a collision at Tokyo airport
An All Nippon Airways passenger jet took evasive action after coming close to a government inspection aircraft near Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday, in the latest aviation safety incident at the airport since a deadly runway collision in 2024. According to Japanese media reports, ANA flight NH968 from Shanghai was... Read more » - VIP, APP, PPT: Are English abbreviations harming China’s cultural confidence?
A Chinese speaker today might describe their day at work as first making a “PPT” (a PowerPoint presentation) and then having to “PS tu” (Photoshop an image). After clocking off, they might “chang K” (sing karaoke) with friends before taking the “C wei” (centre spot) in a group photo. These... Read more »
Politics - South China Morning Post
- UK ignores massacres and terrorism to deepen Syria relationsby Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 November 2025 British officials are developing new ties with their Syrian counterparts complicit in recent killings, including former leading al-Qaeda operatives Last month, Keir Starmer’s special representative to Syria, Ann Snow, met defence minister Murhaf Abu Qasra in Damascus. This followed a meeting between... Read more »
- Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocideby Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 October 2025 A military agreement Britain and Israel signed in 2020 has not been modified despite Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Defence admits. In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It... Read more »
- The Israel firms aiding the NHS and IDFby 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 »
- ‘Ruthless terror’ — When Labour aided genocide in Indonesiaby 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 »
- RAF Museum hosts fundraiser for Israeli soldiers’ ’emotional support’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 »
Articles – Mark Curtis
- ● MethodologyThe American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 196 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from July 6 to July 12, 2026. A total of 3,554 panelists responded out... Read more »
- ● AcknowledgmentsThis report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchSteven Shepard, Associate Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateAndy Cerda, Research Analyst Shanay Gracia, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research... Read more »
- ● Most Americans Favor the Death Penalty for Those Convicted of MurderWhile 68% see the death penalty as morally justified for those committing murder, 59% say it doesn't deter serious crimes – and there are wide partisan gaps on both questions.... Read more »
- ● Trump’s job approval rating is low by historical standardsTrump's job approval sits at 34%, lower than most recent presidents at comparable points, with a partisan gap of 78 percntage points.... Read more »
Pew Research Center
- ● The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social MediaDefense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME.” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war. The post The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- Video● Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.In the Mississippi town where Kohen Wiley died, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now? The post Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler. appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a WinnerIntercept reporters break down progressives’ wins and losses in Michigan and Missouri. The post The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s VictoryThe public health official faced down AIPAC — and the entire Democratic Party establishment — to beat Haley Stevens. That’s well worth celebrating. The post There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- When a President Promises a MassacreHarkening back to colonial massacres, Trump abandons the premise of proportionality for butchery in Iran and beyond. The post When a President Promises a Massacre appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
The Intercept
- Salah Sarsour Comes Home
The activist’s release from ICE detention shows a crack in the Trump Administration’s persecution of advocates for Palestine.... Read more » - WIC Use Drop Is a Warning, Not a Success Story
When families disappear from food assistance, they don’t disappear from need.... Read more » - Out of Sight and Out of Mind
The federal government’s plan will make it easier for states to institutionalize the disabled.... Read more » - The People’s Historian
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, has found the perfect biographer in Dave Zirin.... Read more » - Trump’s Attacks on Transgender Youth Are Having a Ripple Effect in Canada
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning gender-affirming care for those under the age of nineteen has no bearing in other countries—but U.S. citizens living in Canada say they’re still facing obstacles.... Read more »
The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
- ● Congress Must Strengthen Farm Bill to Fight Unfolding Hunger CrisisA child hunger crisis is unfolding in plain sight: it’s very likely that more than 1.5 million children nationwide have lost food assistance in the wake of unprecedented SNAP cuts in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. While the farm bill considered by the Senate Agriculture Committee today would take a... Read more »
- ● New National Policy Agenda Offers Blueprint for Shifting and Keeping People PowerToday, Dēmos is releasing its 2026 Policy Agenda, Power Policies: How to Get and Keep People Power in the United States, which centers on nine reforms addressing the intertwined crises of economic inequality and democratic erosion. The agenda not only offers a governing roadmap for advocates looking to radically improve... Read more »
- ● Free Press Plans to Take Carr to Court in Response to Thursday's Unlawful Decision to Eliminate a Vital Limit on Media ConsolidationOn Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to eliminate the 39 percent national television-ownership cap, a statute that the agency lacks the legal authority to repeal. Free Press and allies plan to appeal this unlawful decision in court.Congress enshrined the national ownership cap in federal law; it... Read more »
- ● Sanders Introduces Bill to Guarantee Paid Vacation for U.S. WorkersSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today reintroduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America.Joining Sanders as cosponsors are Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.),... Read more »
- ● Michigan/America Is Not For SaleWowza, rare glimmer of good news. We take a moment to honor the stunning Michigan victory of Abdul El-Sayed, who was outspent 12-1 by his opponent's millions from establishment Dems, Zionist PACS and corporations and still managed to win even though he is a progressive Muslim who calls genocide genocide... Read more »
Common Dreams
- mp3Oil and Global CapitalismThe ramifications of the US attack on Iran have been a harsh reminder of the centrality of oil to the global economy – and not just for fuel and transport. Political economist Adam Hanieh reflects on the rise of crude oil in the 20th century. He argues that the blockage... Read more »
- mp3Marion Nestle on Food Choices and Food PoliticsFood affects all of us — but while it’s a necessity for our survival, it’s also a vast, sprawling industry spanning the globe, which generates enormous profits as well as significant damage to public health and the environment. Nutritionist and molecular biologist Marion Nestle sheds light on the choices we... Read more »
- mp3Trump and the Powers of the U.S. PresidencyThe powers of the president of the United States have grown since the Cold War, expanding under both Republicans and Democrats. And many of these presidential powers – such as those laid out in the presidential emergency action documents — are unknown to the US public. Journalist Andrew Cockburn reflects... Read more »
- mp3Against Climate DoomismAs mega-fires rage around the world, why have so many people given up on the climate fight? Environmental sociologist Diana Stuart examines how fatalism about the climate emergency has been shaped by the erroneous assumption that, if we exceed 1.5C of global heating, we’ve passed the point of no return.... Read more »
- mp3Fund Drive Special: Unlikely World MakersWhen 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 »
KPFA - Against the Grain
- ● Hiroshima anniversary overshadowed by nuclear policy concerns
Hiroshima anniversary overshadowed by nuclear policy concerns... Read more » - ● Follow this ping pong ball for a new spin on city adventures
Follow this ping pong ball for a new spin on city adventures... Read more » - ● Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis named Alphabet chief scientist
Google's head of AI, Demis Hassabis, will step down from his current role to become Alphabet's chief scientist amid a reshuffling at DeepMind that will also include a key engineer's departure.... Read more » - ● US expands intelligence presence in Cuba: media
The United States has deployed additional intelligence personnel to Cuba and intensified its intelligence activities in the Caribbean country in recent months, Politico reported on Tuesday.... Read more » - ● Multiple deaths after mass shooting in rural North Carolina
A mass shooting at a rural house in Caswell County, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday morning led to multiple deaths, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.... Read more »
World
- ● Iran, Oman reach understanding on Hormuz Strait reopening deal
Iran and Oman have reached an understanding on the outlines of an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days, Saudi-based Al Hadath news channel and Al Arabiya news channel reported Thursday, both citing high-ranking sources.... Read more » - ● CGTN Poll: 83.6% urge vigilance against Japan's military expansion
CGTN Poll: 83.6% urge vigilance against Japan's military expansion... Read more » - ● What does Japan's new defense white paper really signal?
What does Japan's new defense white paper really signal?... Read more » - ● Trump hits out at munitions reports with threats to 'leakers'
Trump hits out at munitions reports with threats to 'leakers'... Read more » - ● China urges effective governance of emerging tech to fight terrorism
A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called for stronger international governance of emerging technologies to fight terrorism.... Read more »
Politics
- China reaffirms commitment to Global Development Initiative
China reaffirms commitment to Global Development Initiative... Read more » - Mainland says fishery resource survey east of Taiwan Island 'lawful'
A Chinese mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday that a fishery resource survey conducted by a mainland research team in waters east of Taiwan Island was "completely justified and lawful," describing it as a normal scientific research activity that benefits people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.... Read more » - China rejects "overcapacity" allegations
China rejects "overcapacity" allegations... Read more » - China welcomes WTO ruling against Türkiye's vehicle restrictions
China welcomes a ruling made by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which found Türkiye's restrictive measures on electric and certain other types of vehicles originating from China violate global trade rules, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.... Read more » - What does China's new 'new three' mean for the world?
What does China's new 'new three' mean for the world?... Read more »
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- ● Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & AfricaGround workers at Barcelona airport, Spain strike over conditions; journalists in Gaza rally for release of imprisoned colleagues; Misr El Amria textile workers in Egypt defy company union to strike over pay... Read more »
- ● Socialism instead of war! — Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei approved for Berlin state electionsWith the SGP on the ballot, there is a party that openly opposes the war policy of all the establishment parties and fights for a socialist perspective that places the needs of the population above the profits of the super-rich.... Read more »
- ● Michigan primary shows continued shift to the left in USThe victory of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic Senate nomination is a significant repudiation of the pro-Israel policy of the Democratic Party leadership, which has refused to condemn the Gaza genocide.... Read more »
- ● Raymond Jensen suspended from UAW, barred from ever running for office over threat to Will LehmanThe sanctions against Jensen, a paid organizer on the UAW International payroll, are a victory for Lehman's campaign and for the working class.... Read more »
- ● Cost of living rises in New ZealandWith annual inflation at 4.1 percent and increased unemployment, working-class households are sinking into debt and child poverty is rising.... Read more »
World Socialist Web Site (en)
- Learn everyday yoga from Yugouliang's grannies
In 2016, Lu Wenzhen, the resident Party secretary of Hebei's Yugouliang Village in Liangmianjing Town, Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, first arrived in the village and noticed that the elderly villagers all had the habit of sitting cross-legged on the kang, a traditional heated brick bed.... Read more » - China's summer box office tops $590 million
As of Saturday, China's 2026 summer film season had notched up cumulative ticket sales of more than 4 billion yuan, or over $590 million.... Read more » - Leitao wins final stage, Caicedo comes away with overall Qinghai title
Leitao wins final stage, Caicedo comes away with overall Qinghai title... Read more » - The hidden caisson ceiling at Beijing's Zhihua Temple – don't miss it
Featuring vibrant paintings and intricate carvings, the only remaining caisson ceiling at the Zhihua Temple in Beijing is easy to miss.... Read more » - For humanity: China's AI philosophy wins broad international backing
Chinese President Xi Jinping's advocacy for a people-centered approach to artificial intelligence – emphasizing that artificial intelligence should be a trusted, human-controlled tool for the positive, for good and for all – has won broad international support and acclaim.... Read more »
China
- ● Harnessing artificial intelligence for human good
The ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi held that people should "use things, and not be used by them." His wisdom offers a timeless framework for thinking about technology: We must amplify its benefits while sidestepping its pitfalls. The same principle underpins China's approach to AI development and governance.... Read more » - ● Five years of GDI – from concept to practice
Five years of GDI – from concept to practice... Read more » - ● As Hiroshima remembers peace, Japan moves towards remilitarization
If the Japanese government genuinely wants to commemorate the victims of the atomic bombings, it should respect its people's anti-war and anti-nuclear aspirations, uphold the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, and return to peaceful development.... Read more »
Opinion
- ● Follow this ping pong ball for a new spin on city adventuresFollow this ping pong ball for a new spin on city adventures... Read more »
- One of China's BIGGEST stars just turned five
One of China's BIGGEST stars just turned five... Read more » - Huang Yong Ping's 'Python' installation descends on Beijing museum
A monumental installation by renowned Chinese contemporary artist Huang Yong Ping has made its latest public appearance at Taikang Art Museum in Beijing, drawing wide attention from art lovers and critics alike.... Read more » - 'Dear You' director on memory, migration, and shared emotions
Chinese film "Dear You" has premiered in Thailand. Director Lan Hongchun talks about why Bangkok's Chinatown was chosen as the filming location, and how the film hopes to evoke emotional resonance for audiences in both China and Thailand.... Read more » - Shanghai sees double‑digit surge in foreign visitors this summer
Shanghai sees double‑digit surge in foreign visitors this summer... Read more »
Culture
- Xi Jinping's key remarks on China's role in global AI development
Xi Jinping's key remarks on China's role in global AI development... Read more » - Xi Jinping's key remarks on seizing opportunities brought by AI
Xi Jinping's key remarks on seizing opportunities brought by AI... Read more » - Forget the LLM leaderboard: Does the AI actually work?
Forget the LLM leaderboard: Does the AI actually work?... Read more » - China highlights global AI cooperation in new int'l case collection
China highlights global AI cooperation in new int'l case collection... Read more » - Experts: China's AI initiative features openness and collaboration
From the establishment of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) signed by 29 countries to the introduction of concrete action plans that invite the international community to joint AI development, China has pushed global AI governance from theoretical discussions to concrete implementations.... Read more »
Tech&Sci
- ● New party emerging on opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate moneyJoe Kent says he, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are hoping to build a new political movement or third party built around opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate money, with the initial goal of fielding a candidate for the 2028 presidential campaign.... Read more »
- ● How complicit media tried to sell a genocideObliterating history goes hand in hand with the corporate media’s oversight of who is given “permission to narrate,” as the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said put it.... Read more »
- ● 300 days in, Gaza is under a “ceasefire” in name only – Daily UpdateGaza: 4,000 ceasefire violations in 300 days – apparently no plan to slow down ■ West Bank under attack ■ Ben Gvir really wants his crocodiles ■ Iran, Lebanon updates ■ Israel in US politics ■ Latest on "Board of Peace"... Read more »
- Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two WeeksAdam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.... Read more »
- ‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisisAn Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- Senator J. William Fulbright Is Remembered Today Primarily for the Scholarship Program That Bears His NameBut a broader look at Fulbright’s legacy reveals him as one of the most prescient critics of militarism and the “imperial presidency”—lessons that apply more than ever today. The post Senator J. William Fulbright Is Remembered Today Primarily for the Scholarship Program That Bears His Name appeared first on Institute... Read more »
- Israeli Forces Have Killed US Citizens. Congress Wants to Deepen Military Ties.Section 219, a measure to integrate parts of the Israeli and US militaries, could provide more cover for Israeli crimes. The post Israeli Forces Have Killed US Citizens. Congress Wants to Deepen Military Ties. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- SYMPOSIUM ROUNDUP: Forging a Democracy That Works for AllA visionary exercise for progressives in an age of American fascism from our third annual Wallace Symposium. The post SYMPOSIUM ROUNDUP: Forging a Democracy That Works for All appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- VIDEO: Working Together to Advance the For All AgendaHow progressives can build a winning "For All" agenda rooted in economic justice, solidarity, and broad-based democracy. The post VIDEO: Working Together to Advance the For All Agenda appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- VIDEO: Gilded Giving 2026: Philanthropy Under Oligarchy – Report SpotlightOur Gilded Giving report is a periodic wellness check on the nonprofit sector and its ultra-wealthy funders. The post VIDEO: Gilded Giving 2026: Philanthropy Under Oligarchy – Report Spotlight appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
Institute for Policy Studies
- Senator J. William Fulbright Is Remembered Today Primarily for the Scholarship Program That Bears His NameBut a broader look at Fulbright’s legacy reveals him as one of the most prescient critics of militarism and the “imperial presidency”—lessons that apply more than ever today. The post Senator J. William Fulbright Is Remembered Today Primarily for the Scholarship Program That Bears His Name appeared first on Institute... Read more »
- Israeli Forces Have Killed US Citizens. Congress Wants to Deepen Military Ties.Section 219, a measure to integrate parts of the Israeli and US militaries, could provide more cover for Israeli crimes. The post Israeli Forces Have Killed US Citizens. Congress Wants to Deepen Military Ties. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- SYMPOSIUM ROUNDUP: Forging a Democracy That Works for AllA visionary exercise for progressives in an age of American fascism from our third annual Wallace Symposium. The post SYMPOSIUM ROUNDUP: Forging a Democracy That Works for All appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- VIDEO: Working Together to Advance the For All AgendaHow progressives can build a winning "For All" agenda rooted in economic justice, solidarity, and broad-based democracy. The post VIDEO: Working Together to Advance the For All Agenda appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- VIDEO: Gilded Giving 2026: Philanthropy Under Oligarchy – Report SpotlightOur Gilded Giving report is a periodic wellness check on the nonprofit sector and its ultra-wealthy funders. The post VIDEO: Gilded Giving 2026: Philanthropy Under Oligarchy – Report Spotlight appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
Institute for Policy Studies
- ● Global Diesel Crunch Deepens As Record US Distillate Exports Race To Supply-Starved EuropeGlobal Diesel Crunch Deepens As Record US Distillate Exports Race To Supply-Starved Europe US distillate exports surged to a record last week as global supplies tightened. Disruptions across the Gulf area and various surrounding maritime chokepoints, as well as Ukrainian one-way attack drone strikes that have paralyzed portions of Russia's... Read more »
- ● New Mexico Sues DOJ For Unredacted Epstein FilesNew Mexico Sues DOJ For Unredacted Epstein Files Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, New Mexico is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) over unredacted Epstein files, accusing the federal agency of stonewalling the state’s own investigation into alleged crimes at deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.... Read more »
- ● Change Of Plans?Change Of Plans? By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Brent prices held steady just below the $80-level, as Iran said it reached an agreement with Oman on a proposed shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s not the Iran-US deal that Trump had been eyeing, but... Read more »
- ● Hormuz Deal Shock: Iranian State Media Says US-Israeli Vessels Banned, Oil SurgesHormuz Deal Shock: Iranian State Media Says US-Israeli Vessels Banned, Oil Surges Summary Iran parliament reviews draft Hormuz plan banning US- and Israel-linked vessels. Oil rises as proposed Strait restrictions raise supply concerns. Houthis intensify attacks on Saudi oil shipping in the Red Sea. Yemen fighting escalates amid reports of... Read more »
- ● "Threat Against American Interests": US Halts Michoacán Avocado Inspections, Putting Critical Supplies At Risk"Threat Against American Interests": US Halts Michoacán Avocado Inspections, Putting Critical Supplies At Risk The US suspended avocado inspections in Mexico's Michoacán state after the US Embassy cited a "threat against American interests." Because Michoacán is Mexico's largest avocado-producing region and a top supplier to the US market, any prolonged... Read more »
ZeroHedge News
- ● Mitch McConnell shares major health update amid speculation
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shared new details about his health on Thursday after weeks of speculation."Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home," McConnell said in a statement.He thanked his friends, supporters, colleagues and constituents, along with the doctors, nurses, therapists and staff."On... Read more » - ● 'Brutal': Onlookers amazed as Ken Paxton starts chanting to cover up heckler at rally
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton started chanting "U-S-A" on stage during a rally Wednesday night in a panicked attempt to drown out a person in the crowd trying to confront him over why he gave an Epstein-style sweetheart plea deal to an admitted child molester. Paxton, President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued... Read more » - ● Bannon's profane relationship advice to reporter detailed: 'World is full of surprises'
Steve Bannon's profane relationship advice to a prominent congressional reporter was revealed Thursday in a first-person essay.Annie Karni recounted in Vogue the summer after her 2025 separation, when she couldn't stop herself from telling politicians she covered that her marriage had ended. Among the unlikeliest confidants, she wrote, was Bannon,... Read more » - ● MS NOW anchor challenges Trump over inaccurate claims: 'I dare you'
President Donald Trump attacked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed at a Las Vegas casino.On Wednesday, Trump used expletives and claimed El-Sayed "hates Jews" and "hates Israel." “These people are dangerous, and frankly, they are lunatics," he said.Trump then added, "Communism is the greatest threat to our country in its... Read more » - ● MAGA senator turns on 'degenerate' Trump candidate: 'Likely we lose this seat'
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) turned on Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) Wednesday, calling him a "degenerate sociopath" who should step aside before his abuse scandal hands Democrats a House seat.Miller, who faces domestic abuse allegations from two women, has refused to leave his reelection campaign in Ohio's 7th Congressional District.Republicans have... Read more »
Raw Story
- ● Mitch McConnell shares major health update amid speculationSen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shared new details about his health on Thursday after weeks of speculation."Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home," McConnell said in a statement.He thanked his friends, supporters, colleagues and constituents, along with the doctors, nurses, therapists and staff."On... Read more »
- ● 'Brutal': Onlookers amazed as Ken Paxton starts chanting to cover up heckler at rallyTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton started chanting "U-S-A" on stage during a rally Wednesday night in a panicked attempt to drown out a person in the crowd trying to confront him over why he gave an Epstein-style sweetheart plea deal to an admitted child molester. Paxton, President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued... Read more »
- ● Bannon's profane relationship advice to reporter detailed: 'World is full of surprises'Steve Bannon's profane relationship advice to a prominent congressional reporter was revealed Thursday in a first-person essay.Annie Karni recounted in Vogue the summer after her 2025 separation, when she couldn't stop herself from telling politicians she covered that her marriage had ended. Among the unlikeliest confidants, she wrote, was Bannon,... Read more »
- ● MS NOW anchor challenges Trump over inaccurate claims: 'I dare you'President Donald Trump attacked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed at a Las Vegas casino.On Wednesday, Trump used expletives and claimed El-Sayed "hates Jews" and "hates Israel." “These people are dangerous, and frankly, they are lunatics," he said.Trump then added, "Communism is the greatest threat to our country in its... Read more »
- ● MAGA senator turns on 'degenerate' Trump candidate: 'Likely we lose this seat'Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) turned on Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) Wednesday, calling him a "degenerate sociopath" who should step aside before his abuse scandal hands Democrats a House seat.Miller, who faces domestic abuse allegations from two women, has refused to leave his reelection campaign in Ohio's 7th Congressional District.Republicans have... Read more »
Raw Story
- VideoTrump Overstates Magnitude of Noncitizen Voting in New JerseyNew Jersey's governor announced that "a software error" in the state's motor vehicle registration system resulted in 6,600 noncitizens being improperly added to the state's voter registration list. The state's preliminary investigation found that up to 400 votes were cast by noncitizens, far fewer than the "thousands of votes" claimed... Read more »
- Trump’s Cherry-Picked Inflation BoastIn one month, from May to June, overall inflation in the U.S. dropped at the "fastest rate in more than six years," as President Donald Trump said in late July remarks. But he has repeatedly cited the statistic while wrongly suggesting that the inflation rate is now "way down" from... Read more »
- VideoRFK Jr.’s Falsehood-Filled CNN InterviewIn a contentious interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several false, misleading and baseless claims about the origins of Lyme disease and the respiratory syncytial virus, the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the science shows about autism, vaccination and acetaminophen... Read more »
- Trump’s Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney MemoPresident Donald Trump continues to insist damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of vandalism, despite a Department of Justice motion filed on July 31 that placed the blame squarely on a contractor's "botched" installation of the pool coating "and not vandalism as initially represented" by the... Read more »
- VideoPaul Distorts Fauci’s Diary Entry About COVID-19 and Wet MarketSen. Rand Paul has pointed to a line in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary to claim that the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases privately “knew” in January 2020 that the coronavirus did not come from a wet market, saying this contradicted Fauci's public statements regarding... Read more »
FactCheck.org
- VideoTrump Overstates Magnitude of Noncitizen Voting in New JerseyNew Jersey's governor announced that "a software error" in the state's motor vehicle registration system resulted in 6,600 noncitizens being improperly added to the state's voter registration list. The state's preliminary investigation found that up to 400 votes were cast by noncitizens, far fewer than the "thousands of votes" claimed... Read more »
- Trump’s Cherry-Picked Inflation BoastIn one month, from May to June, overall inflation in the U.S. dropped at the "fastest rate in more than six years," as President Donald Trump said in late July remarks. But he has repeatedly cited the statistic while wrongly suggesting that the inflation rate is now "way down" from... Read more »
- VideoRFK Jr.’s Falsehood-Filled CNN InterviewIn a contentious interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several false, misleading and baseless claims about the origins of Lyme disease and the respiratory syncytial virus, the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the science shows about autism, vaccination and acetaminophen... Read more »
- Trump’s Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney MemoPresident Donald Trump continues to insist damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of vandalism, despite a Department of Justice motion filed on July 31 that placed the blame squarely on a contractor's "botched" installation of the pool coating "and not vandalism as initially represented" by the... Read more »
- VideoPaul Distorts Fauci’s Diary Entry About COVID-19 and Wet MarketSen. Rand Paul has pointed to a line in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary to claim that the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases privately “knew” in January 2020 that the coronavirus did not come from a wet market, saying this contradicted Fauci's public statements regarding... Read more »
FactCheck.org
- ● Abdul El-Sayed's Win Is a Landmark. But the Fight Is Far From Over.Iman Abid Even though the Palestine movement is on the march, we can't afford any complacency. The post Abdul El-Sayed's Win Is a Landmark. But the Fight Is Far From Over. appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- ● Will El-Sayed’s Centrist Opponents “Vote Blue No Matter Who”?Aaron Regunberg It’s time for the Democratic establishment to take its own medicine. The post Will El-Sayed’s Centrist Opponents “Vote Blue No Matter Who”? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- ● America Gets to ChooseMichael James Schneider The Trump bar is so low it’s hard to decide. The post America Gets to Choose appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- ● Collaborating With the MAHA Movement Is a Terrible IdeaGregg Gonsalves Some pundits are pushing a strategic alliance with parts of RFK Jr.’s base. Here’s why they’re wrong. The post Collaborating With the MAHA Movement Is a Terrible Idea appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- ● America’s Third Red ScarePietro A. Shakarian Trump and the revival of “red-hunting” demagoguery. The post America’s Third Red Scare appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
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- ● New party emerging on opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate moneyJoe Kent says he, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are hoping to build a new political movement or third party built around opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate money, with the initial goal of fielding a candidate for the 2028 presidential campaign.... Read more »
- ● How complicit media tried to sell a genocideObliterating history goes hand in hand with the corporate media’s oversight of who is given “permission to narrate,” as the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said put it.... Read more »
- ● 300 days in, Gaza is under a “ceasefire” in name only – Daily UpdateGaza: 4,000 ceasefire violations in 300 days – apparently no plan to slow down ■ West Bank under attack ■ Ben Gvir really wants his crocodiles ■ Iran, Lebanon updates ■ Israel in US politics ■ Latest on "Board of Peace"... Read more »
- Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two WeeksAdam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.... Read more »
- ‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisisAn Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- ● New party emerging on opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate moneyJoe Kent says he, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are hoping to build a new political movement or third party built around opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate money, with the initial goal of fielding a candidate for the 2028 presidential campaign.... Read more »
- ● How complicit media tried to sell a genocideObliterating history goes hand in hand with the corporate media’s oversight of who is given “permission to narrate,” as the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said put it.... Read more »
- ● 300 days in, Gaza is under a “ceasefire” in name only – Daily UpdateGaza: 4,000 ceasefire violations in 300 days – apparently no plan to slow down ■ West Bank under attack ■ Ben Gvir really wants his crocodiles ■ Iran, Lebanon updates ■ Israel in US politics ■ Latest on "Board of Peace"... Read more »
- Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two WeeksAdam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.... Read more »
- ‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisisAn Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day.... Read more »
Israel Palestine News
- Democracy is for everybody, not just a majority, and definitely not just the majority.
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 » - Hidden Deprivation: Hygiene Poverty and the Limits of Irish Data
Discussions on hygiene habits typically happen around public health concerns, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently with the Hantavirus outbreak. In our day-to-day lives, adequate hygiene supports good health, while hygiene poverty - the …... Read more » - Modern Methods of Construction in 2026: A viable, sustainable solution for the housing crisis?
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 » - Youth Development as the Basis of National Resilience System in Ukraine
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 » - What Difference Would a Left-Led Government Make to Ireland?
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 »
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