Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling the militant group “an asset” amid a media-enabled PR campaign to whitewash its image. Amid a public relations campaign to rehabilitate the Al Qaeda franchise in Syria — which rules Idlib, Syria’s... Read more »

An anti-war activist was visited by California Highway Patrol officers after posting video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bumbling comments on Israel-Palestine. The action, which AOC denies triggering, was initiated by a call to US Capitol Police. As he waited for a food delivery at his home in Los Angeles on... Read more »

After convincing itself Vietnam would grant it access for missile bases against China, the Pentagon got a hard dose of reality. When the Pentagon began gearing up for a future war with China in 2018, Defense Department officials quickly realized that they needed access to Vietnamese territory for troops armed... Read more »

The BBC’s Chloe Hadjimatheou produced a podcast serial designed to rehabilitate the White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while blaming critics for his demise. Was she a channel for a wider British intelligence operation? White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier falling to his death from the top floor of his Istanbul... Read more »

Memorialized by Western diplomats, Lokman Slim worked for US government cutouts, wished war and suffering on fellow Shias and informed on his community. Did these activities lead to his demise? On February 4, a Lebanese employee of foreign embassies and NGOs was murdered in the southern Lebanese village of Addousiyeh.... Read more »

As the Biden administration ramps up confrontation, Lyle Goldstein of Naval War College discusses how China and Russia are forging new ties. In its opening months, the Biden administration has targeted Russia and China with belligerent rhetoric, new sanctions, and continued military provocations. Lyle Goldstein of the US Naval War... Read more »

Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces. On March 21, US-government-funded Uyghur activists were caught on video disrupting a gathering against anti-Asian racism in Washington DC, barking insults... Read more »

CIJA, a taxpayer-funded outfit that collaborated with al-Qaeda, lied to entrap a British academic in a sting operation. Its goal was to discredit critics of the dirty war on Syria – and cover up its own corruption. A British academic who belongs to a prominent anti-war research group has been... Read more »

Noam Chomsky says that ongoing US claims of Russian interference are a joke — all the more so as the US continues to ravage multiple states with savage sanctions that target civilian populations and COVID-19 bullying that denies countries Cuban doctors and Russian vaccines. Noam Chomsky weighs in on the... Read more »

{{unknown}}Jerm Warfare interviews Norman Finkelstein . Read More The post Interview: Norman Finkelstein on the Holocaust Industry appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Yemen is not starving -- it is being starved.#HungerStrike4Yemen #YemenCantWait pic.twitter.com/ps5d8yfL0U — Hunger Strike Day 11 - Yemeni Liberation Movement (@LiberateYemen) April 6, 2021 A Hunger Strike by Yemeni American Read More The post Yemen is not starving — it is being starved. appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

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Earlier today, five Palestinian children reportedly aged 8-12 were detained by Israeli army soldiers after picking wild flowers, at the behest of Israeli settlers whose very presence in occupied territory is illegal. info and video via @btselem pic.twitter.com/SoaiamNHL1 — Ben White (@benabyad) March 10, 2021 Earlier today, five Palestinian children... Read more »

“The man who can center his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self,” Bertrand Russell once observed, “can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.”  It is advice that is as obvious as it is true, but still hard to... Read more »

Finkelstein comments: At the end of his classic study, Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on what caused poor whites in the American South to unleash a reign of terror after the Civil War against the newly freed slaves.  His explanation is as if not more relevant today:How is... Read more »

SIGN THIS PETITION! Israel says God gave the whole of the Land of Israel to the Jews. Every major Israeli political party says the whole of the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews. Every major political party has pledged not to withdraw from any of the Land of Israel.  ... Read more »

‘SNL’ under fire for ‘anti-Semitic’ joke Read More The post Here are the unimpeachable facts: 1) There is one Jewish supremacist state that extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River 2) About half the population of that state is not Jewish 3) That non-Jewish half has overwhelmingly not... Read more »

Finkelstein comments:  Recently, many correspondents have wondered why I was a Maoist in my youth.  That’s not so simple to explain and, anyhow, I still have ambivalent thoughts about Chairman Mao.  But that’s for another day.  Here’s an anecdote from one of my correspondents.  As it happened, he made it to... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Edwards is co-editor of UK-based media watch site Media Lens and author of several books including ‘Free to be Human’, ‘The Compassionate Revolution’ and ‘Propaganda Blitz’. The following interview was conducted on email and completed 18 →... Read more »

Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: ‘You are really deeper in the heads of →... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The leader of Scottish Labour, Richard Leonard, has dramatically resigned from his post tonight just hours after the Labour leader Keir Starmer, alongside Deputy leader Angela Rayner, held a conference call with wealthy potential donors who “warned they would not back the party while [Leonard] remained in post“. According to... Read more »

The United Nations humanitarian aid organisation UNICEF have been forced to launch a ‘domestic emergency response’ to help feed hungry children in the United Kingdom for the first time since its founding in 1946. The UN organisation has pledged tens of thousands of pounds in funding to help provide breakfast... Read more »

Despite Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish opposition party being subject to years of harassment, the international community remains silent... Read more »

Marketing company with PPE deal, pest control firm with £350m government contracts and politically connected suppliers among those claiming public funds... Read more »

Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to expose and shame the perpetrators... Read more »

Victims face a postcode lottery, with just over half of England and Wales’s police forces having adopted a training programme to deal with such abuse... Read more »

The police and judicial system are inadequate, and society often blames women themselves when they are raped, kidnapped and murdered... Read more »

For an 11th time, the French president has promised light at the end of the COVID tunnel. No wonder public anger has been stirring... Read more »

An abysmally low turnout makes clear that Sadyr Japarov is in a precarious position... Read more »

Despite the risks that it poses, predictive technology could be a force for good in refugee systems under the right legal conditions... Read more »

How the Scottish Tory leader has prised open one of the country’s oldest and deepest racist fault lines... Read more »

Keir Starmer has called on the PM to launch a full inquiry into Greensill and said “sleaze is now at heart of this Tory government”. Will the allegations stick? With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.... Read more »

In 2018 Donald Trump claimed to be “the least racist person anybody is going to meet” in an interview with Piers Morgan. Made just months after the former president called attendees at a neo-nazi rally “very fine people“, Trump’s statement was so ridiculous as to be funny. Yet such hyperbole... Read more »

Political scandal no longer seems to cut through, but is the unfolding saga around Max Greensill and David Cameron an exception? On this week’s Downstream Aaron Bastani is joined by Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund to discuss the implications of a story which is only set to grow.... Read more »

The centenary of Irish partition had once been an awaited psychological milestone for Ulster unionists. But after years of political neglect and a growing detachment from its base, big-house unionism is beginning to show signs of disintegration, with its political leaders having lost control of events amid the loyalist riots... Read more »

Prince Philip was born in 1921 to a monarchy in the grips of existential crisis. The only son of Prince Andrew and Princess Alice of Battenberg, he was in the line of succession to the thrones of both Greece and Denmark. The House of Glücksburg was particularly skilled at leveraging... Read more »

The government have announced an independent review into David Cameron and the Greensill affair. Is another white-wash incoming? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.... Read more »

A housing tribunal has ruled that a 45-year-old Filipino woman and her two sons, aged eight and 12, can be evicted from their home in the village of Croftamie, Scotland on the grounds that they have a less “durable connection with the area” than the landlord’s stepdaughter, who is due... Read more »

After a week of violence in Northern Ireland, we speak to Amanda Ferguson about the events that led to unrest among loyalist communities, and whether the peace process is in danger. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »

Since the police brutally dispersed a peaceful vigil in London last month, protests across the UK have been marked by violence. In Bristol, police hit protesters with riot shields and then beat them as they lay on the ground, causing head injuries. In Manchester, they dragged people away, stripping women... Read more »

Northern Ireland has now become the focal point of the UK’s post-Brexit crisis. While the connection between the more than a week of rioting by Protestant “Loyalists” and Brexit may not seem obvious, some, such as the Northern Ireland justice minister, Naomi Long, say the UK prime minister Boris “BoJo”... Read more »

In the early nineties, I was writing a novel about a young US military photographer in Honduras during the Contra War. I wanted one of the characters to be a science fiction reader. Since I don’t care for, or read much, science fiction, I felt I had to read at... Read more »

There is absolutely no commercial reason for the media to have dedicated so much time and space to the Prince’s death. The main commercial channel ITV, which needs eyeballs on its programmes to generate income from advertising, saw a 60 per cent drop in viewing figures after it decided to broadcast endless... Read more »

The Israeli government’s position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has been finally declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It will be made clear that Israel is a country with rule of law that knows how to investigate... Read more »

The zeal with which Washington is soliciting Turkey’s services to plot a way to normalize Afghanistan’s Taliban raises some troubling questions. Acting on Washington’s request, Turkey will be hosting high-level talks on the Afghanistan peace process this April to bring together the Afghan government and the Taliban. Turkey has appointed... Read more »

“I am not going to be talking about numbers today,” Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly told Australia’s Radio National on April 12.  This echoed suggestions from the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who had adopted the position that Australia best forget meeting any clear vaccination targets.  Having left battling... Read more »

I realize that I may seem obsessed with the topic of patents (and copyrights), but it really is a big deal, and few people seem to appreciate the issue in its larger economic context. I have written about the inefficiency and corruption associated with these monopolies for decades, but if... Read more »

The large crowd in front of the main stage became silent. The only inaudible sound which remained was that of millions of hearts beating in unison here and hundreds of kilometres away in each person’s home state. Leaders stood with their heads bowed in respect, their spirits soaring high. In... Read more »

These days it seems there are two kinds of progressives. Those who have spent months in Florida trying to rally Amazon warehouse workers to approve a union, and those on the San Francisco board of education who sought to rename certain schools after more politically correct progressive heroes. These recent... Read more »

Imagine that the coronavirus pandemic, rather than undermining confidence in the European Union, had strengthened it. Imagine that Covid-19 had persuaded EU leaders to overcome years of acrimony and fragmentation. Imagine that it had catalysed the emergence this year of a stronger, more integrated bloc to which the world looked... Read more »

Στο 3ο «Πρόσωπο με Πρόσωπο» απαντώ σε ερωτήσεις για το βασικό εισόδημα, την απάθεια, την συμμετοχική δημοκρατία, το πως μπορεί να ακουστεί η φωνή του ΜέΡΑ25, τους οικονομικούς νομάδες, το brain drain, την θητεία, το MeToo, τη σχέση κράτους-εκκλησίας κλπ  Η ιδέα απλή: Παρακάμπτουμε τα Μέσα Μαζικής Εξαπάτησης. Απαντώ, χωρίς... Read more »

As the pandemic placed capitalism in suspended animation, dividing us between the privileged who could afford to quarantine ourselves and those who risked life and limb keeping the world’s wheels turning, DiEM-TV went into action. Srecko Horvat and I began a series of livestreamed discussions with one aim in mind:... Read more »

Καλεσμένος στην εκπομπή “Brain Storming”, με την Κατερίνα Δούκα και Σταμάτη Ζαχαρό, συζητάμε για το εμβολιαστικό φιάσκο της ΕΕ, τα Self Tests, την εγκληματική διαχείριση της πανδημίας, το σχέδιο “Ηρακλής” για τα κόκκινα δάνεια και τους πλειστηριασμούς, το Εθνικό Σχέδιο Ανάκαμψης και Ανθεκτικότητας “Ελλάδα 2.0” και τέλος, για τα σενάρια... Read more »

Καλεσμένος του Γιώργου Παπαζαχαρίου στο Πρώτο Πρόγραμμα της ΕΡΤ, αναφέρομαι στην Τεχνοφεουδαρχία του σήμερα, στην υπέρβασή της (όπως την περιγράφει στο νέο του βιβλίο ANOTHER NOW, που θα κυκλοφορήσει προσεχώς και στα ελληνικά – αλλά και για την πρόταση του ΜέΡΑ25 για τη σύσταση ανεξάρτητου Σώματος Δίωξης Πολιτικού και Μεγαλοεπιχειρηματικού... Read more »

For the 3rd episode of Let’s Talk It Over Frank Barat introduces LTIO regulars Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis who will, in turn, welcome very special guests Stephanie Kelton and Naomi Klein to discuss The Austerity Doctrine in the Time of Coronavirus.  Has the pandemic ended the reign of austerity... Read more »

Ποιός θα περίμενε ότι η Ελλάδα, μετά από μια δεκαετία βαθιάς κρίσης, θα κατάφερνε το 2020 να νικήσει την πανδημία και να αποδράσει από την Χρεοδουλοπαροικία; Ας δούμε το χρονικό του θαύματος: 15η Ιανουαρίου Δυο βδομάδες πριν καν ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας κηρύξει συναγερμό για πανδημία Covid-19, ο Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης συγκαλεί ... Read more »

Covid-19 has unveiled the EU’s lack of institutions that can address a public health crisis. It has also confirmed that the EU continues to lack the institutions necessary to reduce the economic imbalances which undermine the Union, suppress investment and cause preventable economic failures that undercut the life prospects of... Read more »

Τον Ιούνιο, επιστρέφοντας από τις Βρυξέλλες, ο κ. Μητσοτάκης θριαμβολογούσε για τα 72 δις ευρώ που εξασφάλισε για τη χώρα. Σήμερα αυτά έγιναν «σχεδόν» 60 δις σε διάρκεια εξαετίας. Από αυτά, τα 12,7 δις είναι νέα δάνεια που θα εγγυηθεί το κράτος εκ μέρους μεγάλων εταιρειών, τα 9 δις τα... Read more »

Image description This cartoon begins by depicting a smiling person holding a shopping bag and standing in front of a counter with a big … Read more By Ralph Underhill... Read more »

An organisation that represents police officers is kicking off about people sharing videos of arrests and other police interactions on social media. It’s calling … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Keir Starmer has been leading the Labour Party for just over a year. And judging by the latest opinion polls, this means that a … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Thousands of British Gas staff are waking up today without a job simply for refusing to sign away their rights. The company told workers … Read more By Kerry-anne Mendoza... Read more »

Six asylum seekers are claiming that their accommodation at the facility breached their human rights, and could amount to false imprisonment. By The Canary... Read more »

Facebook has allowed politicians to use a loophole on the platform to “deceive and harass” their citizens, according to a Guardian investigation. Company internal documents … Read more By Jasmine Norden... Read more »

Minnesota police shot and killed a Black man on Sunday, as the trial for the officer accused of killing George Floyd continues in Minneapolis. … Read more By Jasmine Norden... Read more »

In the UK, if you’re found guilty of something that is deemed an imprisonable crime, you’re sentenced to a period of time in prison, … Read more By Eliza Egret... Read more »

On 9 April, when writing in Byline Times about British loyalist rioting in the north of Ireland, Otto English (Andrew Scott) wrote: The roots … Read more By Peadar O'Cearnaigh... Read more »

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

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

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

Emergency passports granted to 1,010  Independent.ie... Read more »

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Trust scientists, not the teachers, on reopening  Independent.ie... Read more »

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

The Irish Times’s Kathy Sheridan is not one bit happy with Sinn Féin this morning (someone get smelling salts for Virginia, please).   Sinn Féin, she says, is collating information about voters in the South. Worse still, they’re allowing that information to be placed in a US-hosted domain. Some of its... Read more »

Thurs 8 April 2021 Sir,  In his letter to your paper (‘United Ireland?’ 8 April 2021), Noel McDermott states  “The test for whether or not a united Ireland is possible must be that the various communities of Northern Ireland can co-exist together without rancour”.   Article 1.1 of the Good Friday... Read more »

I The DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson was on RTÉ the other night explaining that the British Government must do more on issue of the NI Protocol and that the Unionist people of the North felt betrayed by Boris Johnson.  Yes, those “plain speaking” people of Ulster, as referred to in Jeffrey’s... Read more »

In the South, they’ve loosened lockdown from a tight 5 kilometre limit to something much looser. Pat explains all and how it has impacted his emotional system. What about Jeffrey Donaldson’s barbed comments on the Southern government and their attitude to the DUP’s woes? Are the DUP the authors of... Read more »

With the death of the Duke of Edinburgh came the inevitable outpouring of condolences and scenes of respect for him, and that’s fine.  The British were his people, they were in essence his subjects as a member of the Royal family.  The North Korea style wall-to-wall television coverage of his... Read more »

This TV review first appeared in The Andersonstown News First, a confession: I’m not sure I’ve watched a single TV cop show – certainly no British TV cop show – since Dixon of Dock Green (inquire of Granny, Virginia, please). So I’m a late and reluctant convert to Line of Duty (BBC ONE) which the world and his... Read more »

After the passing of Prince Philip, Civic Unionism called for a halt to all protests as a mark of respect.  They later called for the resumption of ‘protests’ after a period of mourning…fair enough I suppose.  I’m no Unionist, however, I do understand when a community feels they have to... Read more »

Seven nights of violence from Loyalist thugs and paramilitaries, many of them children, some as young as twelve if not younger.  Vital buses burning on the Shankill, bus services suspended, the peace gates being breached and all leading up to the sixth night of the loyalist rioting.  The extent of... Read more »

OK – all those loyalist riots: will they result in a. change to the Protocol? Will it make everyone who attended Bobby Storey’s funeral be penalised, will it get the attention of Britain to the plight of unionism? And were there really 2,000 ‘marching men’ at Bobby Storey’s funeral? Nelson... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Prince Philip - asylum-seeker and citizen of nowhere, but rich and white  The Irish Times... Read more »

‘The new tribe of Anglo-Irish’  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: I got a mortgage at 24 – unthinkable for today’s young adults  The Irish Times... Read more »

Passports and citizenship  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people  The Irish Times... Read more »

Managing a two-tier health system  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Why does the West not have the humility to learn from Asia's Covid success?  The Irish Times... Read more »

State needs to stop taking schools for granted  The Irish Times... Read more »

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***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.  Noam Chomsky***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.  Noam Chomsky***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

***Noam Chomsky QUOTES ~ARTICLES ~ VIDEO ~ BOOKSAvram Noam Chomsky[a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,[b][c] social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",[d] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor... Read more »

Nikki McCann Ramirez @ Media Matters: White nationalists praise Tucker Carlson’s full embrace of their “replacement” conspiracy theory. Bob Brigham @ Raw Story: Mike Pence quietly adds hate group leader to advisory board of his new organization. Christopher Mathias@ HuffPost: The Military Says It’s Confronting Extremism. A Prominent White Nationalist... Read more »

Tony Perkins continues to ask God to allow gridlock to descend upon Washington, D.C., in order to thwart President Joe Biden and his agenda. Josh Bernstein has a banner on his website claiming that he’s the target of “10,000+ attacks a week.” What on earth does that even mean? Rachel... Read more »

When most people hear the name Ricky Skaggs, they most likely think of the famous country and bluegrass musician. What is less well known is that Skaggs has long had a deep affiliation with the modern-day “prophetic” Christian movement and close ties to movement leaders like right-wing pastor Rick Joyner,... Read more »

Right Wing Watch reported earlier this month that Liberty Counsel Mat Staver was using his new TV show to promote anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. Staver is still at it. “They’ve been planning this for years,” says the subject line of an email he sent Monday. The message inside continued: Long before COVID, a... Read more »

From QAnon adherents to full-blown white supremacists, far-right extremists appear to be uniting in their quest to undermine the COVID-19 vaccine. As the Biden administration has steadily improved the scale and efficiency of the vaccine rollout over the past few months, administering more than 2 million shots a day since... Read more »

Angered by being banned from various social media platforms for ceaselessly spreading conspiracy theories and disinformation about the 2020 presidential election, religious-right activist and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell decided to create his own social media platform, which he promised would be a bastion of free speech. With his new Frank... Read more »

Asawin Suebsaeng @ The Daily Beast: Trump Curses Out ‘Son of a B*tch’ McConnell at GOP Donor Event for Not Completely Destroying Democracy. Chauncey DeVega @ Salon: Leaked video reveals a GOP plan to intimidate Black and brown voters in Houston. Robert O’Harrow Jr., Andrew Ba Tran and Derek Hawkins... Read more »

Even though Joe Biden has been in the White House for nearly three months, Greg Locke continues to insist that “you have lost your ever-loving mind” if you believe he’s the legitimate president. Wayne Allyn Root says that “Joe Biden is either insane; or he doesn’t care about the lives... Read more »

Despite being promoted as the “spark” that would make the “whole world tremble,” Sunday’s “White Lives Matter” rallies were little more than a spectacular bust. Planned as the first major white supremacist rally since the 2018 “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C., the “White Lives Matter” rallies saw... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s clear that technical departments within the UN sometimes have their work corrupted by the US government and its allies. Consider recent reporting by the Grayzone on OPCW whistleblowers who exposed manipulation of an investigation into alleged chemical weapons use in Syria in 2018. Or recall an example from further... Read more »

One of the reasons people may get duped into seeing Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López as a victim is his trial which began in 2014, when he finally went to jail after supporting a fourth US-backed attempt to violently overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Overthrowing the late Hugo Chavez (who was... Read more »

Defense of the Easily Defensible By Dave Markland In 2018 Haymarket Books published Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-revolution and Anti-imperialist Rhetoric. Its focus is on left journalists and analysts like John Pilger and the late Edward S. Herman who have committed the inexcusable sin of being overly suspicious of United... Read more »

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

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

U.S. policy might help create a more serious challenge by confrontational and hostile acts that drive Russia and China closer together in reaction... Read more »

The dire challenges we face have no borders. Global heating, pandemics, disarmament will be dealt with internationally, if at all... Read more »

Photo by Adham Ayesh/Shutterstock   David Barsamian: Let’s talk about historical memory. The 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Tribunal for high ranking Nazis was just marked. Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor and Supreme Court Justice, said, “We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants... Read more »

Global problems of this scale require global cooperation... Read more »

Whatever the fate of the individual, Trumpism will not be so easily contained. Its roots are deep... Read more »

Trump didn’t win the working class, the Democrats lost it; it’s urgent that progressive organizing focus on the working class and unions – human civilization depends on it... Read more »

“The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty” Presented by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute... Read more »

In this blockbuster episode of “The Marc Steiner Show” (now premiering every Tuesday), we talk to Congressman John Sarbanes about the attack on voting rights, and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis about the Poor People’s Campaign and the fight for a just future. The post How militarism eats the poor and... Read more »

A crucial bill that just passed in the Maryland legislature will give prison inmates serving life sentences a stronger chance at parole. The post The parole system is broken appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Miners at Warrior Met Coal sacrificed and made concessions when the company they worked for went bankrupt in 2016. Now that the mines are more productive than ever and bringing in more profits, they’re being asked to give up more. The post Coal miners in Alabama are striking for their... Read more »

In this week’s roundup of Baltimore news: A controversial security deposit bill, Amazon donates what Bezos makes in four seconds to a local community garden, and a Prince George's County mayor calls out the governor. The post Battleground Baltimore: Freedom? appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

PAR has three positive updates on cases we've recently covered. We update the case of an Ohio cab driver who was tasered while waiting for a customer, a Texas resident arrested for drugs found in a car he just purchased from a police auction, and the activist grandmother who faced... Read more »

We will soon know the results of the historic Amazon union election in Bessemer, Alabama. Whatever the outcome, though, workers and organizers have already achieved a remarkable feat by breaking the grip of anti-unionism in the South. The post Amazon workers in Bessemer have overthrown decades of anti-union culture appeared... Read more »

This week, @thatonequeen joins the professors for a conversation about love—love of self, love of community, and love of one’s fellow humans—and all of the obstacles that arise in the process of giving or receiving this love when a person doesn’t fit within certain “norms.” The post Bob the Drag... Read more »

The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war on Yemen has entered its seventh year. Jaisal Noor speaks to Iman Saleh, who has been on a hunger strike since March 29 to highlight U.S. complicity in the conflict. The post 400,000 children could die if Yemen blockade isn’t ended appeared first on The Real... Read more »

Slavery never ended in the United States, it just got absorbed into the prison system under the 13th Amendment. This horrifying “loophole” has enabled multinational corporations to exploit prison slave labor for profit. The post How megacorporations exploit US prison labor appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Our roundup of the progressive news you might have missed...... Read more »

"When did we stop caring about honesty and integrity? That is what today's Opposition Day motion on lobbying is about," Rachel Reeves MP says.... Read more »

Almost no NHS prescriptions for medical cannabis are being issued, despite the UK being the world's biggest producer.... Read more »

Robinson's comments were described as a 'falsehood' by one MP.... Read more »

Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised...... Read more »

Following a union campaign, Tomahawk repaid a 'loan' from its own workers. But the saga is a sign that staff should take control.... Read more »

Pictured: One of the new spoof ads in Herne Hill, South London.... Read more »

The seven-year long process of privatising the museum has left some workers exposed.... Read more »

A union is warning the tech giant against using corporate spies and Alabama-style tactics in the UK... Read more »

A scathing new report by the Capitol Police's internal watchdog reveals officials knew Congress was the target of the deadly January 6 insurrection, yet officers were instructed to refrain from deploying more aggressive measures that could have helped "push back the rioters." Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports domestic terrorism incidents... Read more »

The Biden administration has unveiled plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The War in Afghanistan has killed more than 100,000 Afghan civilians and over 2,300 U.S. servicemembers and has cost the U.S. trillions of dollars. The announcement comes just... Read more »

Biden Announces U.S. Will Withdraw Its Troops from Afghanistan by September 11, Protests Continue After Police Killing of Daunte Wright as His Family Demands Justice, Derek Chauvin Murder Trial Continues with Defense Calling Its First Witnesses, Iran Ramps Up Uranium Enrichment Following Natanz Attack and Amid Talks on 2015 Nuclear... Read more »

We look at President Biden's nomination of Kristen Clarke to become the first Black woman to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the conservative smear campaign against the veteran civil rights lawyer. The far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson has devoted at least five segments to attacking Clarke's... Read more »

We get the latest on the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, with Minneapolis-based civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong. She says prosecutors in the case have successfully chipped away at the "blue wall of silence" by getting current police officials to... Read more »

Protests continue in the Minneapolis area after a white police officer shot and killed a 20-year-old Black man, Daunte Wright, during a traffic stop Sunday in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. The deadly shooting took place about 10 miles from where former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial... Read more »

Brooklyn Center Police Chief Claims Officer Mistook Gun for Taser in Killing of Daunte Wright, Prosecution Rests Case in Murder Trial of Minneapolis Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin, U.S. to Pause Use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Reports of Rare Blood Clots, WHO Warns of Exponential Rise in COVID-19 Cases,... Read more »

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian, has died of cancer at the age of 64, and we look back on her work, through interviews on her land and in the Democracy Now! studio. Allard co-founded the Sacred Stone Camp on Standing Rock Sioux land in April 2016... Read more »

Former U.S. attorney general and longtime human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark has died at the age of 93, and we look back on his life. Clark was credited as being a key architect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He served as... Read more »

For four decades, the basic deal between big American corporations and politicians has been simple. Corporations provide campaign funds. Politicians reciprocate by lowering corporate taxes and doing whatever else corporations need to boost profits. The deal has proven beneficial to both sides, although not to the American public. Campaign spending... Read more »

Watching on Zoom late last week as an NLRB official spent hour after hour pulling paper ballots out of a cardboard box and hollering “NO” at high volume was excruciating. But it was not the most excruciating part of losing a big campaign like the Amazon union drive in Bessemer,... Read more »

On April 9, the National Labor Relations Board announced the results of a mail ballot certification election that concluded on March 29 for workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama. With 3,215 votes cast, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) was defeated with at least 1,608... Read more »

Last Thursday, around 1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, went on strike. According to the union, the United Mine Workers of America, a tentative bargaining agreement has now been reached with the company, but workers must still vote on whether or not to ratify it.... Read more »

U.S. government scientists warned Wednesday that despite temporary drops in planet-heating emissions due to shutdowns triggered by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, "levels of the two most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020." The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also said that... Read more »

On March 27, President Joe Biden's Secretary of State Tony Blinken issued a curious tweet. "We are deeply concerned by growing signs of anti-democratic behavior and politicization of the legal system in Bolivia," he wrote. "The Bolivian government should release detained former officials, pending an independent and transparent inquiry into... Read more »

On March 31, a group of worker centers, unions, community groups and policy organizations in Illinois officially formed a new coalition, Stable Jobs Now, that aims to dramatically shift the power balance between workers and bosses by eliminating “at-will” employment—the practice that allows employers to fire their employees on a... Read more »

For most countries, trying to successfully tax multinational corporations in the age of global capital is like trying to fight a nuclear superpower’s army with a local militia: It’s a mismatch. Companies with armies of accountants and a relaxed metaphysical understanding of the concept of “location” can shop for international... Read more »

crit•i•cal race the•o•ry noun 1. An analytical framework to critique institutionalized white supremacy. Pioneered by legal scholars, critical race theory is continuously evolving but remains rooted in an ethical commitment to human liberation. The framework emphasizes that race is socially constructed and intersects with other identities, such as gender. Proponents... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

This article is based on Chapter 1 of Cold War 2.0. The Geopolitical Economics of Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial Capitalism (Dresden, ISLET: in press; Chinese translation 2021). © 2020. All rights reserved. Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being... Read more »

Ross Welcome to Renegade Inc. However you look at it, 2020 was a train wreck. So as we look forward to 2021, we wanted to get political and economic insight from two friends of the show. Chris Williamson and Michael Hudson share their views on what we can look out... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar discuss rent and rent-seeking, i.e., unproductive economic activity, in the US and China mainly but including the Russian, Iranian and Brazilian economies. In the first 15 minutes, an overview from Michael Hudson explains what happened in the US economy once jobs and manufacturing were offshored... Read more »

In this interactive seminar organized jointly by the Henry George School and the International Union for Land Value Taxation, Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar will unpack one of the most destructive features of our economic system and the many different ways it drives wealth inequality. They will also focus on... Read more »

As the partisan bias of the Senate, which favors sparsely populated states with overwhelmingly white populations, has been more broadly recognized, statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico has become a rallying cry for Democratic activists. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has already approved DC’s effort, voting in... Read more »

Just 10 miles away from where the state of Minnesota is prosecuting former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, officer Kim Potter, who is white and a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, force, killed a 20-year-old Black man. Last weekend, Daunte Wright was... Read more »

Senate Democrats made the case Tuesday for canceling some student debt, noting that debt forgiveness would stimulate the pandemic-battered economy, help close the racial wealth gap, and aid families who have put off homeownership, child-rearing, or retirement. But Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the chair of the Senate subcommittee that held the hearing... Read more »

They have super-yachts, wine cellars, multiple homes, home movie theaters, private safe-rooms, and family office suites. The secluded world of the super-wealthy is one that most people only experience through compulsively watchable TV shows like Succession and Gossip Girl. But a new book from Mother Jones Senior Editor Michael Mechanic,... Read more »

One evening in March, Nann, a 20-year-old medical student in eastern Myanmar, sat in bed with her phone and composed a Twitter message to Beyoncé. “Dearest @Beyonce, #Myanmar people love you & your music” she wrote first. But this wasn’t your usual fan mail: Nann wanted the musician and global... Read more »

Joe Biden did not mince words last week when he announced a series of executive initiatives to address gun violence. “Enough prayers,” he said. “Time for some action.” That action included a number of Justice Department mandates aimed at curbing the carnage, including issuing guidance for states that want to... Read more »

Deadly viruses don’t much care what’s in your wallet, but socioeconomic privilege and access to wealth do wonders when it comes to not just surviving a plague but cashing in on it. Having spent more than a year prior to COVID working on a new book about American wealth in... Read more »

A new bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency to do much more to regulate PFAs, a class of artificial chemicals that never fully break down and have made their way into waterways and food systems. The PFAs Action Act, introduced today by Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Fred Upton... Read more »

Today, the Food and Drug Administration recommended a “pause” in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine after six women who ranged in age from 18 to 48 reported suffering from a severe form of blood clot after receiving the shot. The news was a major blow to the Biden... Read more »

""Magnus of the Tucson PD really wants you to think of him as a reformer. But while he was tweeting about how he would never allow this kind of in-custody police killing that he had witnessed in the 8:46 second killing of George Floyd, the chief’s men had done the Kenosha... Read more »

"In 1981, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iraqi reactor at Osirak and many in the U.S. cheered it on as a way of allegedly stopping Iraq from acquiring nuclear weapons. Khadduri was working at the time on the Iraqi nuclear program and says the effect was exactly the opposite. The Iraqi... Read more »

    "Israel is granted an effective green light for its illegal actions and dangerous war mongering whilst the U.S. government has time and again backed it. Just a few months ago South Africa's emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, urging incoming President Biden, to end the USA's 'pretence over Israel's... Read more »

"Within 24 hours of the defeat of the union at Amazon appearing likely, non-union workers at Amazon went on a wildcat strike in Chicago. So while it may appear that workers at Amazon were defeated, they are still on the march as the strike in Chicago shows." The post Amazon... Read more »

 As the Biden administration assesses the U.S. government's use of drones to kill people, a grassroots global campaign -- BanKillerDrones.org -- was launched on Friday, declaring its "commitment to achieving an international treaty that will ban weaponized drones and military and police surveillance." The campaign is being launched on the 12th anniversary of... Read more »

"For almost two decades the United States has been bullying (and funding) military and police forces to its south to enforce its immigration priorities, effectively turning other countries' borders into extensions of the U.S. one. In the process, Mexico's forces have regularly been deployed on that country's southern border, and... Read more »

"As the Biden administration assesses U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Colville is facing sentencing on Friday morning for entering the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia to protest such policy. Colville's sentencing -- the last one of the activists to be sentenced -- will be conducted by phone on Friday,... Read more »

"Prosecutors were compelled to bring charges against Chauvin because the whole world had seen him kill Floyd. After massive protests erupted following the horrifying video of Chauvin’s torture of Floyd -- now known to have lasted nine minutes and 29 seconds -- the MPD [Minnesota Police Department] fired Chauvin and prosecutors... Read more »

"See the letter the coalition of groups just sent to the Biden administration and news release. The letter states: "We are deeply concerned that prior to the CNN report, no U.S. official in the new administration had explicitly publicly acknowledged the six-year-old, Saudi-imposed blockade -- much less criticized it. U.S. special envoy for... Read more »

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

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

The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”... Read more »

A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism... Read more »

Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them... Read more »

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was... Read more »

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

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

Lessons from the New Deal point the way forward in the era of Covid-19... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th November 2020 Where there is chaos, the government will multiply it. Where people are pushed to the brink, it will shove them over. Boris... Read more »

A crucial link in the food chain has been forgotten by the government, exposing us to a potential disaster after the Brexit transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2020 A few days ago, I carried out a small experiment. I sent almost identical requests to two... Read more »

Unless Biden fights big money, he could pave the way for someone even worse than Trump. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th November 2020 It brought a tear to the eye and a hand to the heart. Joe Biden, in his acceptance speech, called for unity and healing.... Read more »

Privatisation, outsourcing, packed classrooms and a total government failure to make them safe expose schools to deadly levels of infection. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th November 2020 Does anyone in power care? Shocking revelations about the government’s handling of the pandemic are either ignored or dismissed. The... Read more »