Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance. In October 2021, it seemed as though the lockdowns that still paralyzed societies from Australia to New Zealand and... Read more »

Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other “green” technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations. Ever since Belgium’s King Leopold... Read more »

The Grayzone’s Ben Norton sat down for an interview with Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada to discuss the country’s decision to leave the OAS, attempts to build an international alliance against US unilateralism, and what an anti-imperialist foreign policy looks like. (Puede leer esta entrevista en español aquí.) Transcript BEN... Read more »

  Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter Oliver Stone about his new film “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” which was recently released on SHOWTIME. Stone explores misconceptions regarding JFK’s legacy and discusses why he believes the US government refuses declassify documents related to the... Read more »

El periodista Benjamín Norton entrevistó al Canciller Denis Moncada de Nicaragua. Hablaron de su decisión de salirse de la OEA, el intento de construir una alianza internacional contra el unilateralismo de EEUU y como puede ser una política exterior anti-imperialista. (You can read this interview in English here.) TRANSCRIPCIÓN BENJAMIN... Read more »

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the November 21 mega-elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas. So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera speaks about the elections, the historic victory of... Read more »

Early in the OPCW’s Douma investigation, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the victims’ cause of death. Leaks expose how senior OPCW officials censored this explosive finding — and then targeted the inspector who raised the alarm. In the early days of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical... Read more »

A look at the database of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation reveals how the oligarch influencing the global pandemic response has bankrolled hundreds of media outlets to the tune of at least $319 million. This article was originally published by Mint Press News. Read The Grayzone’s investigation into Bill... Read more »

Nicaraguan diplomat Michael Campbell Hooker tells The Grayzone’s Ben Norton why they are leaving the Organization of American States (OAS), which he says is a “failed,” “coup-plotting” organization dominated by Washington. Campbell also responds to US attempts to discredit Nicaragua’s November elections, and explains the importance of autonomy for Indigenous... Read more »

One of the most damning assessments of COP26, the UN climate conference being held in Glasgow, came from Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist: ‘#COP26  has been named the must excluding COP ever. This is →... Read more »

In their classic book on the news media, ‘Manufacturing Consent’, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky presented a ‘propaganda model’ of how the major broadcasters and newspapers operate. Whereas the ‘mainstream’ media declare that their aim →... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the survivors of last week’s horrific mass drowning in the English Channel has claimed that British authorities refused to help them as their boat was sinking – despite their vessel reportedly being around 5km into British waters. In an interview with Kurdish broadcaster, Rudaw, Mohammed Shekha – one... Read more »

Jeremy Corbyn is taking legal action against a Tory Councillor who tweeted a doctored image of the former Labour leader supposedly placing a wreath at the scene of Sunday’s bombing in Liverpool. On Monday evening, Paul Nickerson – a Tory Councillor for the East Riding ward on Yorkshire Council –... Read more »

Today in the House of Commons, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government voted through an amendment to scrap Parliament’s anti-corruption procedures after it ruled that a Tory MP had repeatedly acted corruptly. As reported by Evolve earlier: “…following an inquiry by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone, a Committee of MPs... Read more »

Following last week’s ruling by the Parliamentary Standards Committee which found that Tory MP Owen Paterson had committed an “egregious” breach of its anti-corruption rules, Boris Johnson’s Conservative government have just voted to scrap the system which exposed his corruption. Yes, you read that correctly. On Tuesday last week, following... Read more »

This week, Boris Johnson’s Tories tried to block a move by the House of Lords which would have compelled water companies to do far more to treat the staggering 450,000 tonnes of sewage that they currently dump into our rivers and coastlines each year. The idea that any government would... Read more »

Boris Johnson’s Conservative government have succeeded in voting down an amendment designed to stop private water companies from dumping raw sewage into the UK’s waterways. The vote came as MPs were debating the final stages of the Environment Bill in Parliament yesterday evening. Lords Amendment 45 to the Environment Bill... Read more »

Yesterday evening, 265 Tory MPs voted down an amendment to stop private water companies from dumping raw sewage into the UK’s rivers and coastlines. As reported earlier today by Evolve: “Lords Amendment 45 to the Environment Bill would have placed a legal duty on water companies in England and Wales... Read more »

Research conducted by Labour MP Jon Trickett has found that a small tax on the hoarded wealth of the country’s very richest people could raise almost £100bn every single year – or a staggering £490bn over the next five years – in order to properly fund public services and fix... Read more »

The BBC’s ever-impartial Chief Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg danced the night away with Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, before facing off against him in a “rap battle”, during a 2am jolly at Tory Party Conference, it has been claimed. This is according to The Telegraph’s Dominic Penna, who portrays an... Read more »

While the US criticises authoritarianism abroad, it represses its own Black, Arab and other minority citizens through surveillance, militarised policing and incarceration... Read more »

As Bolsonaro and Lula square up for next year’s election, some Brazilians demand an alternative. But does it risk delivering more of the same?... Read more »

As the armed forces’ justice system comes under renewed scrutiny, allegations of sexual violence could be passed to civilian courts... Read more »

The WHO had warned that worldwide vaccination was vital to ward off new variants, yet here we are. Blame the latest crisis on the Global North... Read more »

In a case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, European groups supported criminalising women who had obstetric emergencies... Read more »

The Supreme Court is likely to overturn the landmark ruling that guarantees the right to abortion in the US. Here’s why – and what might happen next... Read more »

The Information Commissioner’s Office, headed by Elizabeth Denham until last month, is failing to stick to its own rule book... Read more »

Groups behind a Supreme Court test case that threatens the constitutional right to abortion in the US are targeting Europe and Latin America too... Read more »

Yet again, Parliament’s standards watchdog has botched the rules for MPs – proving that they shouldn’t be allowed to police themselves... Read more »

What does the UK’s politically progressive film culture look like? For a long time, the left’s answer has been social realism. Naturalistic and miserabilist, this is the semi-official British national cinema. But while that’s a proud and important heritage – including such gems as Vera Drake, This is England and... Read more »

Last week, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) announced its new treatment guidelines for depression.  From now on, it says, there will be fewer antidepressants, more treatment options and more talking therapy. While this should, in theory, be the cue for a warm welcome to more talking... Read more »

New data from South Africa has dampened any hope that Omicron is milder than Delta. Meanwhile Dominic Cummings has launched a stinging attack on Johnson’s government failing to prepare for new variants. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.... Read more »

Transgender healthcare in the UK is in crisis. Average waiting times for a first appointment at a specialist gender identity clinic (GIC, sometimes referred to as a GDC) vary between three and five years after GP referral. As of November 2021, there are currently 10,142 people languishing on the often... Read more »

Forced to work late at a luxury hotel in Glasgow in July, Caitlin Lee’s employer refused to pay for a taxi home. Walking home in the dark when the last bus failed to arrive, she was sexually assaulted. For late-night hospitality workers like Caitlin — predominately low-waged, employed on zero-hour... Read more »

Sajid Javid emerged as a bastion of equality last week as he launched an uncompromising attack on racism in this country. His target? Oximeters. Oximeters measure the oxygen levels in the blood and are used to spot dangerously low levels in Covid patients, triggering lifesaving care. But here’s the catch:... Read more »

What should political organisation in the 21st century look like? Wiggly? Lumpy? Diagonal? Something like that, suggests political theorist and author Rodrigo Nunes, who joins Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert on this additional revolutionary Microdose. Focusing on the last few decades of radical left politics, the trio reflect on on... Read more »

Students are facing disruption this week as lecturers challenge plans to cut their pensions and undermine working conditions. On tonight’s #TyskySour we speak to UCU General Secretary Jo Grady about the strike.... Read more »

This World AIDS Day, the government has published an action plan to end HIV transmission by 2030. It’s been 40 years since the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in the UK, and it’s a sign of astonishing progress that such an ambition is now considered realistic. But while rates... Read more »

It is time to take a serious look at what living in a surveillance state does to us. We can leave aside the usual question of what it looks like. Surveillance is by nature clandestine. It is a ruse. When caught in the act, it pretends to be unofficial, or... Read more »

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just ruled that a historic union vote held earlier this year among Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) was not valid. The highly publicized vote, which took place over several weeks in February and March 2021, resulted... Read more »

The so-called “Summit for Democracy” should first agree on a definition of what democracy means. Whereas etymologically we know that the definition of democracy means rule by the people, instinctively we feel that people power must be more than a slogan, that it must be concretized by genuine public participation... Read more »

The unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points in November, even though the economy added just 210,000 jobs. The drop in the unemployment rate went along with an increase in the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) of 0.4 percentage points, corresponding to a rise in employment of more than 1.1 million in the... Read more »

In my previous piece on neoliberalism I began with a rough description of neoliberalism, but mostly I worked to clear up problems specific to the general American understanding of neoliberalism. The first problem with the American understanding of neoliberalism is that in the US “liberalism” usually means welfare liberalism of... Read more »

The Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021, heard oral arguments in a case that may result in a ruling that overturns Roe v. Wade. But reproductive health isn’t just about abortions, despite all the attention the procedures get. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and... Read more »

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1938 message to Congress warned that when private power becomes stronger than the democratic state itself, we have Fascism. There are many ways to witness the intensifying domination toward a corporate state. One way is to compare exposé books in the 1960s and the present.... Read more »

Our forever wars folly started with a Defense Secretary talking about “going to war with the military you have”, not necessarily with the one you want, and some classic blather about known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Really, Don. But this was all intentional misdirection, because the “War on Terror” was... Read more »

On April 7, 2018, two Syrian Air Force Mi-8 Helicopters were spotted departing from Dumayr airbase towards the besieged Damascus suburb of Douma, which was in the final days of a years-long conflict between the Assad regime and various rebel groups, most prominently the Saudi-backed extremist faction Jaysh Al Islam.... Read more »

A message for DiEM25 members: We are on the cusp for our paneuropean movement’s second, more radical, terribly necessary phase. Are you in? DiEM25 is your movement. Existing members, please go to https://diem25.org/YESlets to let us know that you’re in. Everyone else, you can get a full membership at https://internal.diem25.org/users/sig…... Read more »

The context is the fraud and fiasco also known as Cop26. The frame is DiEM25’s COP-OFF video chats. And the purpose is to discuss whether there was ever a possibility of Cop26 yielding a significant prospect for a timely green transition. In this discussion Noam, Ann and I agree: Yes,... Read more »

H “Καθημερινή της Κυριακής” (7/11/2021) δημοσίευσε άρθρο του Ανδρέα Δρυμιώτη με τίτλο «Μας έχουν περάσει για ηλίθιους» στο οποίο ο αρθρογράφος επιδίδεται σε υβριστικές αναφορές τόσο σε μένα όσο και στο ΜέΡΑ25. Επειδή όμως το άρθρο αναφέρεται σε σημαντικά για το μέλλον του τόπου ζητήματα, και επειδή δημοσιεύτηκε από τον συγκεκριμένο... Read more »

On the occasion of the publication of my ANOTHER NOW in Italian (Un Altro Presente), La Stampa put to me some quirky and irreverent questions. Just in case you wanted to read them, and my answers, in the English original, here they are. Have fun! Marinetti and the Sex Pistols... Read more »

Renowned economist, politician, and author Yanis Varoufakis stopped by the Bunker to talk about his latest book, Another Now, which is an alternate history in which our world developed into a post-capitalist world after the economic crash in 2008. Yanis shared the story of how he was politicized early after the Greek civil... Read more »

There are three reasons Cop26 proved such a spectacular debacle: A planet-wide collective action problem over “free-riding”. A global coordination failure. And… capitalism! “Make no mistake, the money is here, if the world wants to use it,” said Mark Carney, the former Bank of England Governor who today serves as UN... Read more »

In this edition of THE INTERNATIONALIST, following news from the global struggle against reactionaries, Rick Wolf and I discuss the US situation (from the 8th minute onwards). Yes, it has been one year since Joe Biden came into office. While he is at COP26 making weak and unconvincing commitments on... Read more »

I must have been no older than five or six when my dad introduced me to the idea that technological progress forces the pace of history. I remember him explaining how written records coincided with humanity’s ability to smelt copper tools. Of how history accelerated when ancient smiths progressed from... Read more »

Gillian Tett, the Financial Times Chair of the Editorial Board & Editor-at-large, believes that capitalism can be fixed, through copious regulation and institutional interventions. I, on the other hand, not only think that capitalism cannot be fixed but, additionally, that capitalism has made itself irrelevant through a surreptitious transformation into... Read more »

Streaming sites like Spotify paying artists a pittance for their music is a big story at present. But one artist is fighting back. She … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

A lack of affordable housing in Wales is pushing people into homelessness. The Welsh independence movement UNDOD reported that in 2018 and 2019 nearly … Read more By Peadar O'Cearnaigh... Read more »

Presidential elections in Honduras have resulted in a decisive victory for the race’s socialist candidate. This puts to an end over a decade of … Read more By Peter Bolton... Read more »

Boris Johnson’s reforms to drugs policy will mean nothing “without radical overhaul”. That’s the warning from one campaign group – as the government looks … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Campaigners have welcomed reports that harassing women in the street or in bars and making lewd comments at them could become an offence under … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has written to Boris Johnson. By The Canary... Read more »

The boost to wellbeing from spending time among trees has been quantified for the first time in a new report. By The Canary... Read more »

Ofgem said that its usual process to transfer a failed company’s customers to a new supplier could have crippled an even larger company. By The Canary... Read more »

Unvaccinated women who suffered with coronavirus (Covid-19) during their pregnancies have told “terrifying” stories of having the virus, from being rushed to hospital to … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the Ibrahimi Mosque should be seen as nothing less than an invitation by the Zionist establishment to the Zionist radical elements to go ahead and burn the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The post With Symbolic Hebron Chanukah Visit, Israeli President Greenlights Al-Aqsa Destruction appeared first on... Read more »

Much like Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald began to be condemned by liberals only post-Trump. The liberal visceral hatred of Donald Trump has trumped rational discourse. The post What’s Left? How Greenwald, Covid and Rittenhouse Exposed a Plague Among Progressives appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Sunday’s result underscores the notion that the Venezuelan people blame the U.S. sanctions for their suffering, rather than purely pointing the finger at the government. The post Diego Sequera Discusses the Underpinnings of Venezuelan Election and Huge Maduro/Socialist Victory appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

While Washington cannot choose the president of Venezuela, it can make life impossible for officials, such as Alex Saab, who attempt to defy its sanctions regime.  The post Camila Saab Speaks Out: Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat “Kidnapped” by US Gov’t Talks to MintPress appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Three years on from the explosive Julian Assange/Paul Manafort story, we question whether the Guardian has honored its stated commitment to the truth. The post “A Lot of Mistakes”: The Guardian and Julian Assange  appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

Once a rising star on the progressive left, in recent weeks Tulsi Gabbard has pivoted hard to the right, appearing on Fox News virtually daily, espousing traditionally conservative talking points.  The post From Anti-War Progressive to Pro-Drone Militarist: Tulsi Gabbard’s Odd Political Trajectory appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

I have been questioned enough times to know that things are not going well when the officer looks at your passport and asks you questions for which the answers are written in the passport itself. The post A Chink in My Privilege: When Being White and Jewish Isn’t Enough appeared... Read more »

"I think our oil industry is going to grow and be maybe even more important than it was before, because now we know how to do many things by ourselves that we thought that we couldn't. And the sanctions helped us in that sense." -- Jorge Arreaza, Venezuelan Minister of... Read more »

"If anyone had a right to self-defense, it was the protesters who collectively confronted a right-wing vigilante who appeared at their protest pointing a loaded military-style rifle at them." The post The Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: A Judicial Travesty appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

First published by al maya deen English November 29, 2021, on a cold wet winters night in Belfast, victims and survivors of troubles-related atrocities met at Belfast Queen’s University Peter Froggatt Centre, to hold a public meeting entitled ‘No To Amnesty. Speaker after speaker condemned the proposal of Boris Johnson... Read more »

The other night I watched, with fascinated horror, an Open University history of Spain presented by  Simon Sebag Montefiore. It was called “BLOOD, GOLD AND THE MAKING OF SPAIN”  It  recalled how in 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella effected the clearance of the Moors who had brought learning and literacy.and wonderful art to the... Read more »

DORA – THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM ACT was passed by the British Parliament on 8 August 1914. It was designed to control  UK ports, subject civilians to the rule of military courts, and to control the press. The powers it gave the Government were extended. Allied with the Official... Read more »

Emmanuel Macron is fed up with Johnson – when they meet face to face he’s friendly and reasonable, when he gets out the door he denies  things he’s said. Macron says he’s a ‘knucklehead’. Mary Lou McDonald was in the US addressing a bunch of lawyers, and  told them we are living ‘in the dying days’ of partition.She talks about a border poll within 5-10 years. Is she kicking the can? And lastly, it’s beginning to look as if the DUP is going to settle for that  little old protocol after all – maybe they are fearing the slippage to the  left and the UUP rather than that to the right and the TUV. Time to press that button…. The post PAT +JUDE TALK ABOUT BOJO ‘KNUCKLEHEAD’, MARY LOU & US LAWYERS, AND THE DUP PREPARE FOR MAJOR SWIVEL appeared first on Jude Collins.... Read more »

                                         I recently found myself agreeing with much of what Fra Hughes had to say in his blog – (30-11-21), ‘Sinn Fein: From Revolutionary Party to Constitutional Nationalist.’ Like Fra, I once found myself asking, whether I had left Sinn Fein or if Sinn Fein had left me. And like... Read more »

In anticipation of the launch of WHAT SHAPED ME tomorrow evening  (Thursday 2 December)  at 6.30 pm in Derry Central Library, Foyle Street,  Garbhan Downey talks to Pat and me about the people we  interviewed, what they said – basically, about how seriously wonderful a book WHAT SHAPED ME is, and why y’all need to be at  Derry’s Central Library tomorrow evening at 6.30 pm to get your signed copy. Garbhan will be there too, asking some more questions. The post Garbhan Downey interviews Pat and Jude appeared first on Jude Collins.... Read more »

IN SEPTEMBER 1914 the Irish Christian Brothers launched a monthly magazine OUR BOYS which was probably the first   Periodical ever produced for Irish Youth. It was still going strong when I left St Fintan’s in Sutton in 1959. Previous to that,  and subsequently, the country was inundated with English comics with... Read more »

First published on al mayadeen Where did it all go wrong? Once the vanguard of Irish republicanism and claiming to be fighting for a free sovereign socialist 32 county Irish republic SF is now a parody of its previous incarnation. From a revolutionary party supporting a legitimate armed struggle against... Read more »

From September 1948 to June 1957 I went to St Fintan’s CBS, then on the Burrow Rd, Sutton, Co Dublin I was first in the Primary and then in Secondary when I did  my Inter Cert. As I lived near Howth Summit I used catch the Hill of Howth Tram... Read more »

Israeli sources have confirmed that the Palestinian teen has died from serious wounds; he was shot and seriously injured after he reportedly rammed soldiers at a military roadblock near Tulkarem, in northern West Bank. The Palestinian was later identified as Mohammad Nidal Younis Mousa, 16, from the Namsawi neighborhood in... Read more »

The Israeli authorities forced Sunday, a Palestinian from the Wad al-Hummus area in Sur Baher town, in the occupied capital Jerusalem, to demolish his home, allegedly for being built without a permit. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of the Bethlehem office of the Wall & Colonization Committee, said the soldiers forced... Read more »

December 5, 2021: Report from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR): On Saturday, 4 December 2021, in a crime amounting to extrajudicial execution, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a Palestinian male, who stabbed an Israeli settler in occupied East Jerusalem; even though IOF had shot and wounded him, neutralizing... Read more »

On Sunday morning before dawn, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the occupied West Bank, ransacking homes, interrogating local residents, and abducting four Palestinians and taking them to unknown destinations. In the town of Salfit, in the northern West Bank, Israeli troops raided the family home of Mohammad Salima, whom... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, Khirbat Ibziq village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, and confiscated a Palestinian-owned tractor. Local sources said the soldiers invaded farmlands in the village and confiscated a tractor, owned by Sami Sa’ad Abu Arra, from Aqaba town. The sources added that the soldiers... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded Sunday, the family home of a Palestinian who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in occupied Jerusalem, Saturday, and abducted his brother. Media sources said the soldiers invaded Salfit, in the central West Bank, before storming and ransacking the home of Mohammad Shawkat Salima, 25, and... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, Beit Furik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before confiscating three tents, in addition to forcing the farmer out of his land. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s colonialist activities, said the soldiers invaded the as-Suwwana area in Beit Furik... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, Khirbat Hamsa Bedouin village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, before dismantling and removing three tents. Local activist Aref Daraghma stated that several army vehicles invaded the village, before the soldiers dismantled three tents, owned by Yasser Abu al-Kabbash, and confiscated them. Daraghma... Read more »

Israeli soldiers demolished, Sunday, a car repair facility in Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, for the fifth time. Ahmad Salah, a local nonviolent activist, said several army jeeps and a bulldozer invaded the city before heading towards the car repair facility and demolishing it.... 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 »

***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 ~ BOOKSstakeholder means workers and community there's no economic reason economic principle that says they that a corporation has to work solely for the benefit of shareholders in fact you can read in the business literature that you could just as well have a corporate system in which the stakeholders... Read more »

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The big day. The sun shone, marquees fluttered, caterers bustled. Everybody who was anybody was there, ‘old boys’, former nurses, family friends. The No 1 Army band heralded the arrival of the Archbishop of Dublin; His Grace was followed five minutes later by the Tánaiste and Mrs Childers. The Archbishop... Read more »

Saturday the 4th of December was the 50th anniversary of the infamous bombing of McGurk’s bar in Belfast by the UVF.  15 people were killed in the massacre. The bomb reduced the building to rubble. The attack was the most devastating atrocity suffered by Belfast since the bombing of the... Read more »

(November 2020, Village magazine) The post Facism not Fascism: the Mask. By David Langwallner. appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Saturday 4 December is the 50th anniversary of the McGurk’s Bar Massacre which, in 1971, was the greatest loss of civilian life in any single murderous attack in Ireland since the Nazi Blitz in 1941. 15 civilians including two children perished in the atrocity when Loyalist extremists planted a no-warning bomb... Read more »

Ghislaine Maxwell goes on trial in NY tomorrow. She was a key figure in a paedophile network that serviced Royalty, most notably Prince Andrew. She was the right hand of Jeffrey Epstein who was the key player in the modern iteration of a well-established vice ring which overlapped with other... Read more »

By Deirdre Younge. The post Patrick ‘Mooch’ Blair prepared a bomb at the time of the worst atrocity in the history of the Troubles in Omagh appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

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  ‘M’ is not the only person living rough in Carrick. She is the one who has had courage enough to take on the bureaucrats, media silence and the onset of savage weather. By Councillor Des Guckian I’m a (very) Independent Councillor for the Carrick-on-Shannon Electoral area. I have refused to... Read more »

Councillors and the CEO are in a standoff as to whether the legal advice needs to be fully independent or if it can be delivered via the Law Agent who normally reports to the CEO. As with O’Devaney Gardens, in Oscar Traynor Road Councillors  appear to have allowed leeway the... Read more »

Morocco has become the first Arab country to sign an open military agreement with Israel. No other Arab country has yet agreed to take such an overt step; Egypt, Jordan and other Arab countries have very secretive military relations with the occupation state. Israeli-Moroccan cooperation began in the 1960s based... Read more »

On Monday, 29 November, 2021, delegates and diplomats from the US, China, the UK, France, Russia, Germany and Iran restarted negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme in Vienna, Austria. The talks are expected to last a few weeks and are the first official meeting to discuss Iran's nuclear programme since 2015,... Read more »

Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated in the capital of Amman last week against the regime's latest deal with the Israeli enemy. Despite the fact that an estimated 60 per cent of Jordanian citizens are also Palestinians (refugees and their descendants from the 1948 Zionist mass expulsion that immediately preceded the creation... Read more »

After gas shortages in the UK have led to soaring high prices, Qatar eyes an opportunity to strengthen ties with the UK in terms of gas supply. It is clear that Qatar sees Brexit as a chance to develop huge gas investments in the UK. The Gulf state already has... Read more »

Everything in existence will be assimilated into the online world. Some things already have been. This has proven true with business, shopping, services, social life, journalism, warfare and with the recently-announced 'metaverse', perhaps even our lives. So it was only a matter of time before money itself was integrated into... Read more »

It is perfectly reasonable for Iraqi nationalists and patriots to demand that their country be free of foreign interference and patronage. This has been most vocalised in relation to corrupt governance amid increased political influence from neighbouring Iran but also perceptions of Iraq as a client state of the US.... Read more »

Three "breakthroughs" made by Abu Dhabi in the past months, call for reflection: The first was with Israel, as relations have gone beyond the normal level of opening embassies or exchanging political visits, etc, reaching the level of joint military manoeuvres in the Red Sea. This means they have reached... Read more »

Although there have been significant international and regional efforts to push for an end to the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia between the government and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), clashes between the warring sides continue to escalate. The fighting which has been going on for more than a year... Read more »

The solidarity work for Palestine in Britain faces challenges linked to the presence of Boris Johnson, "the enthusiastic Zionist" as he describes himself, at the head of the government, accompanied by the extremist, Priti Patel, the Minister of Interior, who was expelled from a previous government after holding meetings with... Read more »

Amid all the flag-waving, chants of “USA, USA,” and other nationalist hoopla that characterize mainstream politics in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that most Americans favor global governance.  Although a great many Americans do feel a sense of identification with the U.S. government, a majority also... Read more »

Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the United States can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the U.S. military. This May, the Pentagon asked Congress to fund... Read more »

On September 10, 2021, during an important diplomatic meeting that occurred by telephone, U.S. President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping affirmed the necessity of a better relationship between their two nations.  According to the official Chinese summary, Xi said that “when China and the United States cooperate, the... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

The voice within had some nice words but little substance. In the streets, tens of thousands of protesters, mostly young, were desperately calling for real steps to save the world from looming catastrophe... Read more »

Interview on climate change and the young activists working hard to fight it... Read more »

If you want a choice not to wear a mask, that’s okay, stay home, don’t endanger others... Read more »

The signs of collapse of the social order are too numerous and familiar to review once again. To a large extent, it can be attributed to the impact of the one-sided and vicious class war of the past 40-plus years... Read more »

Turning to the U.S., a mere 60 percent of voters regard global warming as an urgent problem for government. It is only the most urgent problem that humans have ever faced... Read more »

Or Will Rich Corporations Trash the Planet?... Read more »

Please Help ZNet         Source: IIEA According to Professor Chomsky, we live in a unique historical moment, confronted by an array of severe challenges, some so severe that “failure to address them soon will effectively terminate organised human society, with mass destruction of other species as well”.... Read more »

Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the morality of Ireland’s tax regime and whether the human race can avoid the twin catastrophes of global warming and nuclear war... Read more »

Noam Chomsky notes, there is plenty of room for despair in America right now. But he insists that, despite it all, we have ample reason for hope... Read more »

In this week’s news roundup, Maryland cops call overtime “EASY MONEY,” a chat with Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, the latest on Nick Mosby’s $1 homes initiative, and more.... Read more »

An Arizona man who was dragged out of car during a traffic stop filed a complaint against the officers for use of excessive force. What happened when PAR investigated is a cautionary tale about nationwide efforts to hold police accountable.... Read more »

After years of relying on fresh produce from a local urban farm, Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood is rallying together to save their farm from the city’s eviction notice.... Read more »

Voter suppression is a grave threat to democracy in places like Wisconsin. But you can't mobilize voters to fight back unless the communities whose votes are most suppressed know that their vote can matter.... Read more »

The American Indian Movement activist—often called America's longest-incarcerated political prisoner—has been jailed 44 years after being dubiously convicted of murdering two FBI agents.... Read more »

The members of the United Auto Workers appear to have voted overwhelmingly for “one member, one vote.” If the result holds, it will be a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions.... Read more »

Workers sacrificed a hell of a lot during the pandemic, and they are fighting back against companies and wealthy executives looking to squeeze them for more. But today’s labor unrest has also been building for decades.... Read more »

Little legislative movement in Maryland over the past two years has left people who use drugs more vulnerable and even less safe.... Read more »

After a yearlong battle, Indian farmers have forced Narendra Modi to repeal his neoliberal farm laws. The movement that took on Modi and won is a powerful blow against India’s ruling Hindu nationalists.... Read more »

'Raab seemingly thinks he’s the justice secretary in Minority Report where only future crimes are of interest.' The post Dominic Raab ruthlessly mocked for bizarre claim that police ‘don’t investigate crimes a year after they’ve been committed’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Britain is ‘nowhere near’ meeting climate targets, officials warn. The post COP26: Government must ‘walk the talk’, says climate advisors appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Anneliese Dodds highlighted a £70m cut to disability benefits on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The post Labour urges government to come clean over alleged hidden disability benefit cut appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Government's hate crime strategy in the spotlight as new report shows rising levels of sexual orientation and transgender identity abuse. The post Homophobic and transphobic hate crime soared during pandemic, report finds appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

It has been suggested the right-wing ‘Counter Conference’ was cancelled due to lack of support. The post ‘Epic karma’: Plug pulled on Nigel Farage’s anti-cancel culture conference appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The clip in which the research was cited, containing serious flaws, has been viewed more than 2 million times. The post GB News platforms ‘misleading research about vaccines’ which is watched more than 2 million times appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'One of the aims of privatisation was to separate production and retailing of energy but that is not how it turned out.' The post Prof Prem Sikka: Why the privatisation of the UK energy market has been a disaster appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The comments were made by Sir Desmond Swayne The post Tory MP slammed after saying ‘voters have a right to elect a misogynist or racist’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Although the Tories held the seat, they did so with a significantly reduce majority from nearly 19,000 to 4,478. The post Old Bexley and Sidcup: Labour receives biggest increase in vote share in any parliamentary by-election since 2016 appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

We go inside a notorious ICE jail at the height of the pandemic to see how people held there spoke out against dangerous conditions, and faced retaliation before they were ultimately released with no notice. Their story is captured in a new documentary called "The Facility." It investigates the inhumane... Read more »

The world was shocked by images of Haitians whipped by U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback as they sought refuge. Thousands were soon deported, but dozens are now detained in an ICE jail in New Mexico where they face inhumane conditions and lack access to legal services. We speak with... Read more »

As the Supreme Court looks poised to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban and possibly overturn Roe v. Wade, we speak to The Nation's Amy Littlefield about her investigation into the Christian legal army behind the Mississippi law as well as anti-trans laws across the country. She also critiques the mainstream... Read more »

Biden Administration to Reinstate and Expand Trump-Era "Remain in Mexico" Policy, Amid Record COVID-19 Surge, Germany to Exclude Unvaccinated From Public Life, Biden Says Lockdowns Not Needed to Combat Looming Winter Surge of COVID-19, Omicron Variant Traced to Manhattan Anime Convention Attended by 50,000+, Congress Passes Stopgap Spending Bill After... Read more »

On the same day France celebrated the induction of American-born singer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon, far-right xenophobic writer and pundit Éric Zemmour announced he will run for president of France in the upcoming April 2022 election. Many have pointed out the contradiction in these opposing... Read more »

We speak to Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, about the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday, in which the conservative majority on the court seemed to indicate that they support upholding the restrictive Mississippi law that bans abortion starting at just 15 weeks of... Read more »

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court indicated it would uphold a restrictive Mississippi law that bans abortion starting at just 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case threatens to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. We feature excerpts from the two hours of oral arguments and... Read more »

Supreme Court's Conservatives Signal Support for Mississippi Anti-Abortion Law , U.S. Detects Omicron Coronavirus Variant in California, U.N. Chief Blasts "Travel Apartheid" as Nations Deny Entry to Africans Over Omicron Variant, Russia Expels Some US Ambassadors as Blinken Warns Russia Against Invading Ukraine, Burmese Military Helicopters Attack Villagers in Region Where... Read more »

As December 1 marks World AIDS Day, we look at the pandemic that preceded COVID-19 and how recorded deaths of complications from the coronavirus this year have surpassed those of HIV/AIDS in the United States. The head of UNAIDS has warned the COVID-19 pandemic may result in an increase in... Read more »

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, a law passed in 1849 would outlaw nearly all abortions in the state.... Read more »

Boebert’s Islamophobic attacks are a threat not just to Ilhan Omar, but to all Muslims in America. It’s time that she faces consequences for her racist actions.... Read more »

Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the UN climate talks. Not so fast.... Read more »

Amid mounting concern about the Omicron variant, Biden declared U.S. support for a Covid-19 vaccine patent waiver. But new documents from Geneva tell a different story.... Read more »

Even the friendliest Democratic officials are cowards. The labor movement needs to save itself.... Read more »

Gathered outside Chicago's flagship El Milagro taqueria, workers remembered those who died from Covid-19—and celebrated a victory that granted them Sundays off.... Read more »

EPA data shows that in some parts of the United States, the growing season is 50 days longer now than it was 1895.... Read more »

Starbucks is trying to crush a groundbreaking organizing drive. A closer look at the company reveals a board of directors stacked with anti-worker executives.... Read more »

A conversation with Sarah Lazare, the co-author of the leftist noir novel, Testimony.... Read more »

Thanks to all our Patreon supporters, we are now up to …. 67 patrons! Please support my work. This is an important interview. Michael Hudson Interviewed on Kevin Barrett’s Truth Jihad Radio, 11/15/21 Kevin Barrett: Welcome to Truth Jihad Radio, the radio show that wages the all-out struggle for truth... Read more »

On a tangent here with George Galloway. Starts from 14.30. Please support my new Patreon page. It’s as good as selling books! Leon Trotsky: “Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.” Leon Trotsky was a very famous Russian indeed. A key figure in the Bolshevik... Read more »

I was glad to see Ayanna Pressley make clear over the weekend what a travesty has occurred, explaining that she had to oppose the infrastructure bill because House leaders did not honor the agreement that they had made: “We have been clear from the onset that any vote on the... Read more »

  Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party? Please support my new Patreon page. I now have 46 patrons. Thank you! History has been rewritten almost daily this week, almost immediately as it occurs. A Wall Street Journal editorial on November 4 spun its view of what is... Read more »

An interview on The Zero Hour to discuss the newly-released third edition of the 1971 book, Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire. ESKOW: … The premise of your book, which has just been reissued, is something that I think a lot of people nebulously grasp parts of but don’t... Read more »

To view this content, you must be a member of Karl's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source The post Post Corona Super Stimulus first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

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Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia. Hudson has published a new, third edition of his book Super Imperialism that updates his analysis for the 21st... Read more »

The updated and expanded 3rd edition of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire is now available. This highly respected study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception. Forensic detail reveals how the world’s core... Read more »

Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. Bob Dole, who represented Kansas in Congress for 27 years, died Sunday at the age of 98. “Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep,” the Elizabeth Dole Foundation wrote in a public statement. “He had served the United States of America... Read more »

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, a controversial state law banning almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Through their lines of questioning, the court’s six conservatives strongly indicated that they’re likely to overturn—or at least gut—the court’s seminal ruling... Read more »

On Saturday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted a holiday-themed family photo to his Twitter account. The image featured a decorated Christmas tree, Massie’s smiling wife and kids, and seven guns that appear to be a mix of semi-automatic rifles and machine guns. “Merry Christmas!” he wrote. “Santa, please bring ammo.”... Read more »

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A swathe of pollutants and indicators of poverty have been linked to changes in the ratio of baby boys to girls born to millions of parents. A study of half the US population and the entire... Read more »

Donald Trump had a plan to steal the 2020 election: he wanted GOP-controlled legislatures in key states Joe Biden won to override the will of their state’s voters and appoint their own electors for Trump, which Vice President Mike Pence would count when Congress met on January 6, nullifying Biden’s... Read more »

A judge in Michigan set a $500,000 bond each for James and Jennifer Crumbley, who have been charged with manslaughter after their 15-year-old son killed four students with a semiautomatic handgun at Oxford High School. Ethan Crumbley faces murder and terrorism charges. The Crumbley parents were supposed to turn themselves... Read more »

Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department under Donald Trump, played a key role in Trump’s conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. And new evidence obtained by the House committee investigating the January 6th insurrection suggests he was working more closely with the White House than was... Read more »

This story was originally published by Nexus Media News, a nonprofit news service covering climate change. To describe the pollution in his neighborhood, Christopher Chavez appeals to the senses: “There are the days where you can see it, and then, there are the days you can smell it.”  The 34-year-old... Read more »

On Tuesday, 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley allegedly used a semiautomatic pistol to kill four students and wound seven other people at Oxford High School in Michigan. He faces murder and terrorism charges and will be tried as an adult. On Friday morning, Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald announced that her office... Read more »

"The Biden administration’s decision to sell $650 million in air-to-air missiles and related equipment to Saudi Arabia is a violation of President Biden’s pledge to treat Saudi Arabia as a 'pariah' and to end the sale of weapons that can be used in its brutal war in Yemen, a conflict in... Read more »

"The groups explain: "Under a Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program now underway, more than 30 million seniors and disabled who chose traditional Medicare could be placed into largely investor-owned Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs) without the beneficiaries’ understanding or consent. We must not allow hedge fund managers to... Read more »

“The Honduran people voted against corruption, bad government, and demonstrated their power. They voted in historic numbers -- 3,221,264 million voters (62 percent of eligible voters) participated, giving Xiomara Castro Zelaya an early lead with the majority of votes at 53.44 percent. If the lead holds, Castro Zelaya is the winner... Read more »

The post “Momentous” Election in Honduras Amid “Fear of Fraud and Unrest” that Fuels Desperate Migration appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The Washington Post reports: "Three major retailers helped flood two Ohio counties with addictive opioids, a federal jury said Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind verdict that could serve as a possible indicator for thousands of cities and counties that blame the companies for part of the nation’s opioid crisis. The post... Read more »

Activists participating in the “Don’t Look Away” campaign urge U.S. elected representatives to demand more information and accountability regarding the drone attack that killed the Ahmadi family members. They also are calling for the U.S. government to give immediate reparations to the Ahmadis and for the United States to “unfreeze”... Read more »

"In October 2021, DeJoy implemented changes in delivery standards for first-class mail that slowed down delivery throughout the nation on a permanent basis. DeJoy has since warned against 'unrealistic expectations from the users of the system.' Millions of Americans expect a first-class Postal Service today and in the future, and... Read more »

"They are called 'this generation’s Agent Orange' -- the open fire pits operated on over 230 U.S. military bases across Iraq and Afghanistan during our wars there. Every kind of waste -- plastics; batteries; old ordnance; asbestos; pesticide containers; tires; biomedical, chemical and nuclear waste; dead animals; human feces; body... Read more »

"As the cream of Nicaraguan society was celebrating Christmas 1974 at a glittering cocktail party, the unthinkable happened. Masked gunmen from the Sandinista National Liberation Front burst in, killed the host and took the other guests hostage. In exchange for their lives, the dictator Anastasio Somoza gave the Sandinistas one... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st December 2021 This is proper police state stuff. The last-minute amendments crowbarred by the government into the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill are a... Read more »

Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th November 2021 They made millions from it. They threatened our health and poisoned the land. Among the filth they buried were industrial... Read more »

Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2021. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic... Read more »

Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th November 2021 Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative private interests);... Read more »

What the rich nations owe the poor is not climate aid or climate loans. It’s climate reparations. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th November 2021 The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the... Read more »

Almost everything being said by powerful governments at COP26 is a distraction from the crucial task: keeping fossil fuels in the ground. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd November 2021 In some respects, preventing climate breakdown is highly complicated. But in another, it’s really simple: we need to... Read more »

Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th October 2021 There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When... Read more »

To avert environmental disaster, we need sudden and drastic change. Impossible? No, it has been done before. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th October 2021 Fatalism creeps across our movements like rust. In conversations with scientists and activists, I hear the same words, over and again: “We’re screwed.”... Read more »

Gangs of thugs rampage through the countryside. Yet the police look the other way, and the government does nothing. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th October 2021 Something is going badly wrong in the countryside. For years, despite abundant video evidence, bloodsports enthusiasts have intimidated and attacked people... Read more »