Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them. This article was originally published on November 23, 2022 by COHA. Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers... Read more »

Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods. Throughout Britain’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, a lobbying group known as the... Read more »

With Kiev exposed for a lie that could have triggered a third world war, it is time to examine past deceptions that Western media promoted. A missile that exploded on Polish soil on November 15 killed two civilians and destroyed farm equipment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Western corporate media... Read more »

Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor on the World War III scare in Poland and the reported Pentagon-State Department split over Ukraine-Russia peace. After accusing Russia of firing missiles into Poland — and triggering calls from Ukraine for direct NATO military intervention — US officials are now acknowledging that Ukrainian air... Read more »

The Ukrainian government mysteriously disappeared online records of its fundraising arrangement with the FTX crypto scam just days before the scandal erupted. The initiative claims to have raised $60 million for Ukraine, but where did the money go? The demise of FTX, the fifth-biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume in... Read more »

The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war Italian police announced a series of raids against the neo-Nazi Order of Hagal organization. Accused of stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks, the group has established operational ties... Read more »

UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its “military strategy” in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war. In... Read more »

Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country’s drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President... Read more »

Western media fixates on coup supporters waving Russian flags in Burkina Faso’s capital while overlooking the long history of US and French control over the country – and its destabilizing consequences. The landlocked country of Burkina Faso has proven itself to be a valuable diplomatic and intelligence asset in the... Read more »

Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them. This article was originally published on November 23, 2022 by COHA. Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers... Read more »

Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods. Throughout Britain’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, a lobbying group known as the... Read more »

With Kiev exposed for a lie that could have triggered a third world war, it is time to examine past deceptions that Western media promoted. A missile that exploded on Polish soil on November 15 killed two civilians and destroyed farm equipment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Western corporate media... Read more »

Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor on the World War III scare in Poland and the reported Pentagon-State Department split over Ukraine-Russia peace. After accusing Russia of firing missiles into Poland — and triggering calls from Ukraine for direct NATO military intervention — US officials are now acknowledging that Ukrainian air... Read more »

The Ukrainian government mysteriously disappeared online records of its fundraising arrangement with the FTX crypto scam just days before the scandal erupted. The initiative claims to have raised $60 million for Ukraine, but where did the money go? The demise of FTX, the fifth-biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trade volume in... Read more »

The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war Italian police announced a series of raids against the neo-Nazi Order of Hagal organization. Accused of stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks, the group has established operational ties... Read more »

UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its “military strategy” in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war. In... Read more »

Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country’s drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President... Read more »

Western media fixates on coup supporters waving Russian flags in Burkina Faso’s capital while overlooking the long history of US and French control over the country – and its destabilizing consequences. The landlocked country of Burkina Faso has proven itself to be a valuable diplomatic and intelligence asset in the... Read more »

On November 15, as 90 Russian cruise missiles struck at Ukraine’s energy network, a companion US-UK propaganda blitz blamed the Russian missiles for the deaths of two workers on a farm in Poland. This was →... Read more »

Last month, the United Nations environment agency issued arguably its starkest warning yet about the climate crisis. The failure by governments around the world to cut carbon emissions means there is ‘no credible pathway to →... Read more »

In Part 1, we described how state-corporate media non-reporting of evidence relating to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines on September 26 was an example of how the truth on key issues →... Read more »

Last week, Alex Nunns, author of ‘The Candidate – Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path To Power’ and former Corbyn speechwriter, described the current assault on democracy within the Labour Party: ‘What’s happening in the Labour Party →... Read more »

The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of →... Read more »

Last February, Emily Maitlis left her role as presenter of the BBC’s Newsnight programme to join rival media group Global. In a recent speech, Maitlis made a surprising reference to Theresa May’s former communications director →... Read more »

If every single high-profile journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing heartfelt devotion to Britain’s deceased, 96-year-old monarch, it is not because she ‘served’ her country diligently in doing her ‘duty’ for 70 years. The →... Read more »

Millions of people in the UK are beset by insecurities and worries about the rising cost of living. Fuel and energy prices are escalating, variously blamed on Brexit, Covid, and the war in Ukraine. A →... Read more »

Rousseau wrote: ‘We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.’ Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists →... Read more »

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Former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has slammed her former employer over their obvious pro-Tory bias, and suggested that ‘active agents of the Conservative Party’ are working within the Corporation to influence decisions in favour of the government. Maitlis’s speech – in which she directly called out pro-government bias from... Read more »

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Prospective Prime Minister Liz Truss is a Board member of an obscure pro-privatisation think tank that wants to scrap the National Health Service and replace it with an insurance-style system. Truss, who is currently odds on to take over from Boris Johnson as Prime Minister in just a few weeks... Read more »

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Over the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the Tories and much of the mainstream media have been warning workers not to demand higher wages because it could supposedly ‘push prices up yet higher’ and cause a so-called “wage-price spiral”. However, regular Evolve readers will be entirely unsurprised to... Read more »

OPINION: Ukraine could be doomed to years of low-level conflict with Russia, with Ukrainian people paying the price... Read more »

The Musk-Twitter apocalypse is a symptom of a much bigger crisis. To avoid a bleak future we have to bring the big platforms under our control... Read more »

The families of victims on both sides of the debate have slammed the government’s plan to end criminal investigations... Read more »

OPINION: When those who oppose people’s rights turn to the law for protection, we should ask questions about power... Read more »

Singer says ‘aggressive’ South Wales Police officers got in his car and punched him – leaving him fearing for life... Read more »

Three torture survivors from Kherson, Nova Kakhovka and Kakhovka told openDemocracy what happened to them... Read more »

Zaporizhzhia, a once 700,000-strong city 40km from Russia’s front lines, remain defiant – but life is hard... Read more »

Brunswick, an adviser to UN ‘climate champions’, has been accused of ‘enabling the fossil fuel industry’s deception’... Read more »

Rishi Sunak’s failure to appoint ethics adviser means ministers are unable to comply with twice-yearly requirement... Read more »

After a by-election trouncing for the Tories, Sajid Javid is the latest MP to announce he’ll be standing down. Are MPs already fleeing from Sunak’s sinking ship? Plus, Kanye West goes full-blown Nazi and a GB News host’s defence of royal racism falls flat on Question Time. With Michael Walker... Read more »

Luxury department store Harrods has become one of the first companies to use a new anti-union law to bring in agency workers to break a strike. Around 50 uniformed security guards and CCTV operators at the store in Knightsbridge, west London took strike action in November and are planning to... Read more »

As Wales crash out of the World Cup after defeat against England, Keir Milburn and Tom Williams question their dedication to international football. After all, how can you support a national team if you don’t believe in borders? On the third episode of Pro Revolution Soccer, Keir and Tom are... Read more »

There’s been a regime change at the palace. If the extended period of national mourning in September didn’t clue you in, yesterday’s sacking – sorry, resignation – of a high-ranking member of the royal household might have done. Lady Susan Hussey, 83, godmother to Prince William, stepped down from her... Read more »

After the 2008 financial crisis, a vast number of people were booted from the formal labour market. Many of them ended up in the gig economy: Uber, Deliveroo, Fiverr. Their exploitation at the hands of these platforms is well known, but less acknowledged are the processes of racialisation that contribute... Read more »

On a 121 acre livestock farm overlooking Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, Michael Orchard is giving a video tour documenting changes he’s made to his farm in the last six months. They include the installation of a rainwater capture system, increases in plant diversity and the maintenance of infield trees and berry... Read more »

Royal Mail workers, lecturers and sixth-form teachers are all taking industrial action today. We speak to Polly Smythe about Britain’s latest strike wave. Plus, Rishi Sunak defends private schools, racism at Buckingham Palace and the  right freak out over census data. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial... Read more »

Staff at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) have won statutory trade union recognition despite alleged “intimidation tactics” used by management. A ballot by the central arbitration committee showed that 85% of workers in a bargaining unit of 90 people supported union recognition, meaning the 268-year-old society is legally required... Read more »

This week, Just Stop Oil began another fortnight of direct action on the climate emergency. The group’s actions to date have provoked fury among the chattering classes, none more so than when their activists threw tomato soup over the glass covering of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’. @novaramedia Replying to @GearRat Last... Read more »

Israelis dismiss charges of “apartheid against Palestinians” as anti-Semitic propaganda, but Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government will confirm the apartheid nature of the regime, and will provide hints of fascism, Israeli-style.  Netanyahu is not a fascist, but he is a racist and he is considering appointing to his government people who... Read more »

In the Black Lives Matter uprising of summer 2020, no city was more nationally prominent than Portland. Nightly protests drew thousands to the blocks around police headquarters, city hall and the federal courthouse. Donald Trump called Portland “a beehive of anarchists” and dispatched federal troops to the city, only fueling... Read more »

You can't call the Democratic Party's almost unanimous decision to back a strikebusting bill against railroad workers a "betrayal." It's more like the ultimate fulfillment of a project begun in 1985 with the birth of DLC designed to unshackle the party from its decades-long bond with organized labor so that... Read more »

The question over sending additional foreign troops into Haiti misses the fact that Haitians were recently subjected to such an intervention, culminating in the ongoing foreign occupation of Haiti since 2004. Similarly, the call for greater US-funding and training of the Haitian police camouflages the following fundamental realities: More The... Read more »

Order a copy of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America from the CounterPunch Store. The post The Permanent Disaster Economy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.... Read more »

Trump is a symptom and not a cause…This is a problem that goes well beyond one person. — Ian Bassin Yes, Donald Trump’s chances of being the Republicans’ 2024 presidential candidate have taken a hit. On top of and related to all his, um, legal problems, there’s the defeats suffered... Read more »

Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece topping the Sight & Sound poll will only widen the gap between elitists and popular audiences. The BFI’s Sight & Sound poll of the Greatest Films of All Time might be the only important poll or list in pop culture, if only because it’s conducted just once... Read more »

The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1914, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government paramilitaries, the betrayals of Mexican presidents and crushing poverty. “They don’t care that we have nothing,” the Zapatistas said of Mexico’s elite at the start of their first... Read more »

Steve Skrovan: Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Skrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman. Hello, David, how are you? David Feldman: Very good. Hello. Steve Skrovan: And of course, the man of the hour, Ralph Nader, is with us. Hello, Ralph. Ralph Nader: Hello,... Read more »

Αμέσως μόλις εξαγόρασε το Twitter και αυτοανακηρύχθηκε σε Chief Twit, ο Elon Musk δήλωσε πως δεσμεύεται να προστατεύσει τη φύση της πλατφόρμας ως μια «δημόσια πλατεία» όπου συζητούνται τα πάντα. Ήταν μια έξυπνη τακτική γιατί απέσπασε επιτυχώς την προσοχή του κοινού από τις πραγματικές του προθέσεις. Ο Elon Musk είχε κάθε λόγο... Read more »

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Iran’s protesters will neither submit to the fascism hidden behind the regime’s pseudo-anti-imperialism nor surrender their country to the hegemony of the United States or their economy to financialized capital. The Western left should learn from them. ATHENS – Dealing with random, unprovoked abuse is never easy. But dealing with... Read more »

The demise of Trussonomics was a welcome victory for decency and common sense in a minor battle within a broader class war. Sadly, the class that Liz Truss tried to bolster with copious tax and regulatory gifts will win this war by deploying an even nastier, blunter, dirtier weapon: austerity.... Read more »

David McWilliams and I sat down in front of a splendid, heartwarming, boisterous Kilkenomics audience to talk about Technofeudalism but also Ukraine, Britain and Europe. The ersatz audio recording is not of the highest quality (sorry!) but it is not terrible either (especially if you have a good headset). Apologies... Read more »

The other day, Michael Liebreich and I had a lively discussion on his CleaningUp podcast provoked by my call “to blow up the electricity markets”. It was fun but, of course, fell short of a comprehensive analysis of the complex issues pertaining to the political economy of electricity generation and... Read more »

Shoja Azari, is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker based in New York, working with Sherin Neshat, his life-long partner and comrade, on art projects of note and substance. Their last project is  Land of Dreams, a magnificent new film set in the United States but ever so redolent of... Read more »

Elon Musk gave a ‘show and tell’ on his controversial Neuralink venture – a brain chip technology – on 30 November. Neuralink tests its technology … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

The UK and Italy are closing in on a jet fighter deal with Japan. Reuters reported on 2 December that the deal could be … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

Singer and producer Kanye West’s descent from musical genius to fascist fanboy has hit new lows after a bizarre interview with far-right huckster and … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

Delegates from nearly 200 countries will meet in Montreal 7-19 December for a critical biodiversity conference. Their job is to hammer out a new … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is planning on forcing more chronically ill and disabled people back to work. That’s according to its … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

The minister of defence procurement Alex Chalk has confirmed that the government has ejected Elbit Systems from a £160m contract. The news follows significant … Read more By John Shafthauer... Read more »

Following the tragic and avoidable death of 2-year-old Awaab Ishak, Labour MP for Jarrow Kate Osborne has called on the government and local councils … Read more By John Shafthauer... Read more »

While the Scottish government continues to freeze people’s rents, the same cannot be said for the Tories in England. So, several groups are taking … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Once again we are being asked to believe that being elderly and posh is an excuse for being racist. In this case it’s the … Read more By Joe Glenton... Read more »

It’s tough to overstate how bad things are in Syria. According to the UN, “90 percent of all Syrians today are forced to live below the poverty line with around 12 million grappling with severe food insecurity.” The post The Secret Reason the US Is Still in Syria appeared first... Read more »

Seventy-Five years after the decision to partition Palestine, the carnage and oppression of Palestinians by Zionists promises to get much worse.  The post UN Resolution 181: 75 Years of Myth Making and False Israeli Legitimacy appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

US support for Israel is not confined to ensuring the latter has a ‘military edge’ over its neighbors, but to also ensure Israel remains the region’s only superpower, even if that entails escaping international accountability for the development of WMDs. The post Deliberate Ambiguity: Israel’s Nukes Are the Greatest Threat... Read more »

The position of Minister of National Security is a new post created specifically for Ben-Gvir. It is an appointment that will give him unprecedented power over the lives of Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as those living in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The post Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Appointment as... Read more »

Though the US investigation of Abu Akleh’s murder is unlikely to result in any kind of justice, it is a very important moment in US-Israeli and US-Palestinian relationships. The post ​​Symbolic but Significant: Why the Decision to Investigate Abu Akleh’s Murder is Unprecedented appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

For the West, the re-rise of China is problematic, not because of its human rights record but because of its growing share of the global economy. The post Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

The main point to be taken from the results of the Israeli elections is that the lives of Palestinian have never been in more danger than they are now. The post Settler Pogroms Against Palestinians Will Become the Norm Under New Israeli Government appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

The elevated political discourse emanating from African leaders and intellectuals gives one hope that the supposedly 'poor' continent is plotting an escape from the grip of western domination. The post Liberating Africa from Poverty Requires Changing Power Relations with the West  appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

A closer inspection of Activision Blizzard’s key staff and their connections to state power, as well as details gleaned from documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Call of Duty is not a neutral first-person shooter but a carefully constructed piece of military propaganda, designed to advance... Read more »

Two features “Irish Movie Magic”  and “Padraic Colum: balladeer, poet and cultural mentor, (Dec 3)” set me thinking of a link between Colum and a scene in “The Quiet Man.” Amongst other things. Colum briefly rented a house in 1914 immediately next to the one I was later brought up... Read more »

    Perhaps you are as much a babe in the woods as myself and never heard of of  BAP – the BRITISH AMERICAN PROJECT.   Founded in the 1980s it has been described as the brain-child of Ronald Reagan, with U.S.Embassy funding amid concern about anti-American drift in the... Read more »

    My recent BLOG “Who Wrote JFK’s Speeches?” noted that his address to the Oireachtas was given 41 years to the day since Michael Collins, on the orders of Winston Churchill, bombarded his former comrades in the Four Courts with guns borrowed from the British garrison. I noted that virtually... Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald has been getting some pretty severe kicks from Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin. Par for the course, I suppose. But now the voice of a man who is friendly  – very friendly – with the Hutch gang has said she has let the Hutch family down by... Read more »

Last night BBC2 devoted more than an hour to Simon Schama’s “HISTORY OF NOW”.   He depicted Picasso’s “Guernica, praised George Orwell and spent much time attacking the Soviet Union, China and the various BETES NOIR of Britain’s current establishment. Oh and he was unsympathetic to Franco’s Fascists. He neglected the fact that... Read more »

I read recently, I think in THE TIMES of London, of two young gentlemen who in 1919 played golf with two other gentlemen, solely with the aim of seducing their wives. An aim in which they succeeded.   I do not know if either of them had heard of, and... Read more »

  The so-called ‘Troubles’ have been replaced by a new controversy with unionists and journalists railing against ‘rewriting’ history. For Unionists the conflict was about a ‘democracy beset by irrationalism terrorism.’ For Irish republicans it was a war of resistance to British repression. This book uses Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model... Read more »

This was the week when Westminster told Nichola Sturgeon No, and when Ireland’s Future crammed a thousand people into the Ulster Hall. Funny the way things happen in twos. An article in today’s Irish Times comments on how so many countries have been built on the destruction of the culture... Read more »

Thursday was a tale of two cities: Edinburgh and Belfast. Those gathered in both shared a similar goal – to govern their own country. Not really asking too much.  In Ukraine,  the Western world hails the Ukrainians . Only yesterday Britain delivered three war helicopters to add to the massive... Read more »

On Friday, an Israeli soldier killed a young Palestinian man after dropping him to the ground in Huwwara town, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said the slain young man has been identified as Ammar Hamdi Mifleh, 22, from Osarin... Read more »

On Friday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted four Palestinians while crossing a military roadblock near Tulkarem in the northern part of the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers, at the Ennab military roadblock east of Tulkarem, stopped and searched dozens of cars and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID... Read more »

On Friday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian man in the Al-Qusour area, northeast of Burqa town, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said the colonizers infiltrated the area from... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinian teenage boys near Ramallah and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, leading to protests, and fired several rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. They added that the soldiers... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians during the weekly procession against the illegal colonies in Beita and Beit Dajan towns, near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians marched, chanting against the illegal Israeli occupation, escalating violations, and colonialist activities on stolen Palestinian lands.... Read more »

On Friday, many illegal Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinians in the Tal Romedia neighborhood in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the colonizers, in front of Israeli soldiers, assaulted several Palestinians near the illegal Ramat Yishai colony, built on stolen... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources said the soldiers, stationed at the permanent military roadblock at the main entrance of the Shuhada Street in the center of the city, advanced many meters and fired many... Read more »

On Friday, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Dozens of Palestinians marched from the center of the town, chanting against the occupation and calling for ongoing resistance until liberation and independence.... Read more »

On Friday morning, many armored military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus from several areas, especially the areas around the Old City, leading to protests before the soldiers shot and seriously injured a young man and abducted another from his home. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS)... 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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Danny Shaw, professor of Latin American studies at CUNY, joins Max Blumenthal to discuss the Brazilian national elections, in which the social democratic former president and target of political persecution Lula Da Silva, faces off against right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro. Shaw assesses the implications of a Lula victory for the... 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 »

BORD PLEANÁLA:  O’BRIEN REVERTS TO RAY BURKE ERA LEGISLATIVE ETHOS Media ignore Department of Housing’s disarray over how to appoint a new Chairperson to guide discredited planning appeals body By J Vivian Cooke and Michael Smith Ireland’s crisis-raddled planning appeals board, An Bord Pleanála (ABP), is an independent, statutory, quasi-judicial... Read more »

There was that nervous anticipation as we sat down in the Point. It’s Bob Dylan after all. And at 81 he is still challenging. There’s none of that reverence that bordered on the mawkish that greeted Leonard Cohen. But Leonard had almost become a legacy act. While Bob was still... Read more »

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The Man in Room Fourteen In one crucial respect, is like everyone else. He’s a working diagnosis about whom we know both far too much and nothing like enough The man in room fourteen spends twenty four hours either going to the toilet or not going at all; is never... Read more »

The post What SIPO wants, if anyone cares anymore. By Michael Smith. appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Mr Cogito Considers The Side Effects after Dr. Janusz Crawczyk   Baldness and shortness of breath a sudden urge to vomit on coats your own and other people’s. Drymouth, brittle nails, a tendency to be not very good at driving fork-lift trucks and to become even worse at pole vaulting... Read more »

The post Those who’re letting mass-abuser George Gibney off the hook need accountability – not excitable podcasts, and not even justice appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

The post Rory O’Sullivan reviews Turner at the National Gallery of Ireland appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Readers of my columns will know that I've never been a big fan of the United Nations because of its sheer inability to hold too many of the world's most prolific human rights offenders to account. At times, its silence on such matters has been deafening. It was with huge... Read more »

Jordan Peterson has long been a controversial figure, subject to attempts to suppress him from various sides. Much of that controversy is not wholly negative: his stand against Canada's Bill C-16 – which obligates the use of Trans individuals' pronouns in a clear example of compelled speech – was noble,... Read more »

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has been tumultuous, to say the least. Twitter Verification has been rolled out and everyone interested in the service can pay $8 a month to get verified and receive benefits, such as the coveted blue tick, with a potential for higher visibility and reach on... Read more »

The Israeli government is portraying itself as being worried about international delegitimisation at the UN. As the UN General Assembly Fourth Committee on Decolonisation passed the resolution "Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories including East Jerusalem" on... Read more »

Qatari security stopped two British football fans and asked them not to enter Al Bayt Stadium to watch the game between Team USA and their country's national team because they were dressed like crusaders, telling them that such gear is offensive. The Times of London reported the football governing body,... Read more »

Azerbaijan's announcement that it's going to open an embassy in Israel came as no surprise. It reflects the strong ties between the two countries for nearly three decades in the political, security and military fields. While there is an Israeli Embassy in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, the latter only had... Read more »

In April last year, Israel reeled and railed against a Human Rights Watch report in which the Zionist State was revealed to be committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution; both are akin to crimes against humanity. The hard-hitting HRW report was called "A Threshold Crossed". It detailed how more... Read more »

The European Union (EU) is supposed to have a common regional policy, particularly in relation to its immediate neighbourhood, which includes the entire North African region. Such a policy is assumed to represent the bloc's response, as a whole, to regional issues, including that of security. And the bloc does... Read more »

I am not a football fan, but I have been watching the FIFA World Cup in Qatar with extreme joy, unmatched by anything else in this sad time for the Arab world. While others watched skilful players and teams, I watched history happening before our eyes at the first such... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

World-renowned philosopher Noam Chomsky commented on Turkey’s use of chemical weapons against Kurdistan. Chomsky said that the Turkish state would not accept investigations into allegations of the use of chemical weapons in northern Iraq, nor would they accept investigations into previous and more recent crimes. Noam Chomsky spoke to Medya... Read more »

Protests have been raging in Iran since mid-September in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in a hospital in Tehran after being arrested a few days earlier by Iran’s morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic theocratic regime’s dress code for women. Protesters... Read more »

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh, and we are broadcasting from downtown Cairo, Egypt, just in front of the Nile. We look now, though, at... Read more »

Russia’s war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear weapons. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, continue to believe that they can defeat the Russians... Read more »

Russia’s war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear weapons. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, continue to believe that they can defeat the Russians... Read more »

This week voters will be reshaping Congress in ways that will have profound effects for the future of the country and the world at large. Indeed, this year’s midterm elections are particularly momentous, as Noam Chomsky highlights with his typical brilliance in an exclusive interview below for Truthout. Chomsky is institute... Read more »

World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky returns to The Chris Hedges Report to continue their discussion on contemporary fascism, the war in Ukraine, and the tasks of the left in a time of ecological and political crisis. You can watch the first part of this two-part interview here.... Read more »

Read the full letter Daniel Hale wrote to the Judge. Paul Jay Hi, I’m Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. I’ll be back in just a few seconds with Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg. Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg are great inspirations for me, and I know for millions around the world.... Read more »

Since the mid-1990s, the United Nations has been launching global climate summits — called COPs — which stands for Conference of the Parties. Last year was the 26th annual summit and took place in Glasgow. COP26 was supposed to be “a pivotal moment for the planet,” but the outcomes fell... Read more »

A new interview with former Guantánamo detainee Mansoor Adayfi reveals shocking details about DeSantis's past.... Read more »

After being held and searched for an hour over a busted tail light, a Kentucky man faces years in prison because police claim he had trace amounts of drugs on a dollar bill in his wallet.... Read more »

Capitalist profiteering is the real driver of the inflation crisis, and raising interest rates only passes the costs onto workers already overwhelmed by personal debt and stagnant wages.... Read more »

Republicans won big in Florida, and the Democrats are missing opportunities to fight back.... Read more »

Beleaguered workers on the nation’s freight railroads have been fighting for a contract for three years and were prepared to strike in December, but Biden and Congress just pulled the rug out from under them.... Read more »

Pruitt-Igoe was not proof of Cold War logic or the “inevitable” failures of planned housing. It was an organized sabotage—and a clandestine site for radiological weapons experimentation.... Read more »

Over 1000 CNH Industrial workers have been striking since May, and they're ready to fight on into the new year for a decent contract.... Read more »

The massive walkout at California’s flagship public university system is the largest strike in the US in recent years, and it’s now in its third week. Jacobin spoke with striking grad student workers at UC Riverside and UC Irvine.... Read more »

Ten years later, the Fight for $15 campaign has won $150 billion in wage increases for 26 million workers, but the struggle continues as the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25, and a third of US workers make less than $15 an hour.... Read more »

Sajid Javid is standing down as an MP. He won't be missed. The post Sajid Javid’s 10 worst moments as a Tory MP appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

“Many of my colleagues will be thinking ‘Do I want to do much more of this? Do I want to go down to Electoral defeat?" The post Tory MP admits it’s ‘almost impossible for the Conservatives to win the next election’, warning more MPs will quit appeared first on Left... Read more »

"Is that the best you can do, cheese and fish fingers?" The post Jacob Rees-Mogg mocked after comments resurface promising ‘savings on cheese and fish fingers’ as food prices soar appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The 13.8% swing from Tory to Labour, is the sixth biggest between the parties since 1945, and more than the 12.7% in Wakefield in June. The post Tories thrashed in Chester by-election, suffering their worst result since 1832 appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The average household bill has seen a rise in its food bills of £210 in those years, with poorer households disproportionately affected. The post Brexit has added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, new research reveals appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

"There was a study done by the Bank of International Settlements recently about the risk of wage induced inflation across Western economies and they said wages right now represent  either no risk or actually negative figures" The post RMT’s Eddie Dempsey takes apart idea that giving people pay rises causes... Read more »

The UK faces being stuck in the middle of a looming trade battle between the USA and the EU on subsidies for electric vehicle production The post The UK automotive industry is suffering as a result of Brexit appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

“What he’s putting in front of our members no union, no worker would accept.” The post CWU’s Dave Ward takes apart Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson on BBC Breakfast appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

“So you only have aspiration if you went to private school eh?" The post Rishi Sunak suggests those who can’t afford to send children to private school lack aspiration appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

When high school students in Rockland County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over protests that she was “too radical.” But the students persevered, and Angela Davis addressed a packed church Thursday night. “I talked about... Read more »

More than six months since the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while reporting in the occupied West Bank, “there is still no accountability in what happened,” says journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous. He is the correspondent on a new Al Jazeera documentary for the program “Fault Lines” that... Read more »

Senate Votes to Impose Contract on Rail Workers, Rejecting Paid Sick Leave, Supreme Court to Keep Biden Student Debt Relief Plan on Hold as It Considers Challenge, Biden Says He Is Prepared to Meet Putin Under Certain Conditions, Benjamin Netanyahu Coalition Deal Puts Far-Right Party in Charge of Illegal Settlements,... Read more »

New York Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that police and emergency medical workers will start hospitalizing people with mental illness against their will, even if they pose no threat to others. Rights groups and community organizations have slammed the move as inhumane and are demanding better access to housing... Read more »

With a new Congress being sworn in next month, Democratic lawmakers have a busy lame-duck session during which they will try to pass as many bills as possible before losing their majority in the House of Representatives. The Senate has just passed the historic Respect for Marriage Act in a... Read more »

Jurors in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election, resulting in the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Kelly Meggs, who led the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers, was... Read more »

House Passes Bill to Block Rail Strike at Urging of President Biden, House Democrats Elect Hakeem Jeffries to Head Party, China Moves to Lift Some COVID Restrictions as Protests Continue, Russian Lawmakers Approve Expanding Anti-LGBTQ Law, Palestinian Activist Arrested After Filming Israeli Solider Assaulting Israeli Activist, U.S. Citizen Faces Extradition... Read more »

Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board has voted to extend a contract with LUMA Energy — the private U.S.-Canadian corporation that took over the island’s power grid and is widely denounced by residents on the island for its inconsistent service and high prices. The privatization of Puerto Rico’s power grid, supported... Read more »

The largest higher education strike in U.S. history has entered its third week in an effort to secure livable wages, more child care benefits, expanded family leave and other demands. Some 48,000 academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses are on strike, including teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate... Read more »

Reports of widespread labor exploitation and safety hazards cast a dark shadow over the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.... Read more »

Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class.... Read more »

The midterms showed that rural voters must be an integral part of the Democratic strategy if they want to win in 2024.... Read more »

We spoke to strikers in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh about their fight to bring the multi-billion dollar company to the bargaining table.... Read more »

After the midterm elections, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.... Read more »

By banding together to demand justice on the job, essential workers paved the way for a resurgence of labor unrest—and showed how to create a crisis for capitalism.... Read more »

After the midterms, Congress will have more socialists than ever—while progressive policies won across the country. The Left will have to use its power to take on the anti-democratic GOP.... Read more »

An interview about the midterms with reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross.... Read more »

To reverse their dismal midterm election performance, Florida Democrats need to embrace working people, the environment and Unite Here.... Read more »

Questions from almayadeen TV, Lebanon. Mohammad Itmaizeh 1 – In light of the conditions that Europe is experiencing, in terms of high energy prices and the repercussions on the industrial sector, like the closure of factories and the high cost of production. In your opinion do European countries have the... Read more »

Cross posted from La Tribune Diplomatic International. French version Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Your analysis of Mesopotamian times and the wise rule of Emperors embodied by the practice of the Jubilee (compared to the predation of oligarchies) resonate with the Islamic economic theory which forbids riba (meaning usury) and imposes that banks... Read more »

The Real Progressives Live with Michael Hudson on The Destiny of Civilization [00:00:06] Luke Parcher: All right. For those who might not know me, I’m Luke Parcher, I’m a student and activist. I volunteer with Real Progressives. I’m on our leadership team and I also do a show on Sundays... Read more »

Germany has become an economic satellite of America’s New Cold War with Russia, China and the rest of Eurasia. The article this talk was based on: Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine.... Read more »

Some follow up comments to my appearance on the Ralph Nader show. I am looking forward to our next Q&A session with Patreon Plus supporters this Friday. Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash The post We Do Read Comments: Re Nader first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

Cross-posted from Pepe Escobar’s The Cradle. It is impossible to track the geoeconomic turbulence inherent to the “birth pangs” of the multipolar world without the insights of Professor Michael Hudson at the University of Missouri, and author of the already seminal The Destiny of Civilization. In his latest essay, Professor... Read more »

The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has been... Read more »

RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR EP 465 TRANSCRIPT, September 17, 2022. Tom Morello: I’m Tom Morello and you’re listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Steve Skrovan: Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Skrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman. Hello, David. David Feldman: Hello, Steve.
Steve... Read more »

Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar. Multipolarista · Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis Transcript BEN NORTON: Hey everyone,... Read more »

So. Much. Prayer. Kicking off debates, woven into speeches, and emanating from pulpits serving as campaign pit stops, God is everywhere in the Senate runoff between Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Trump-backed challenger Herschel Walker. I grew up in the Southern Bible Belt, and even I’m blown away... Read more »

On Friday, President Joe Biden dropped a tweet that in one fell swoop urged political leaders to condemn antisemitism, white supremacy, and Holocaust denialism.  The simple statements, which neatly fit into Twitter’s 280-character limit, came one day after Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars... Read more »

Manhattan prosecutors on Friday flatly accused Donald Trump of helping executives at his companies commit tax fraud. The allegations came during closing arguments of a trial in which the ex-president’s businesses are charged with allowing key employees to reduce their taxable salaries while simultaneously providing them with off-the-record benefits—like company cars and apartments.... Read more »

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has long been known Ozzy Osbourne has a taste for bats. But now it seems the mammals are also fans of his. Bats greet each other with death metal growls, scientists have discovered, and... Read more »

During closing arguments on Thursday in the criminal tax fraud case against Donald Trump’s companies, Trump’s attorneys did their best to blame everyone but Trump himself. They told the jury that the alleged fraud was the fault of rogue employees, some of whom had been employed by the Trump family for... Read more »

The North Atlantic right whale isn’t doing well. There are fewer than 350 of these stocky baleen whales believed to be left in the wild—and the numbers are shrinking. In the last six years, vessel strikes, entanglements in fishing gear, or unknown causes have killed or injured at least 92... Read more »

On October 3, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West (now Ye) attended Paris fashion week wearing a shirt that said “White Lives Matter.” Three days later, the Twitter account associated with the Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee (ranking member: Jim Jordan) tweeted, “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” When Ye... Read more »

On Wednesday, outgoing North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn made a bizarre final speech on the House floor, jamming at least eight alpha male podcasts worth of toxic masculinity into a minute and 22 seconds.  “It used to be a rite of passage in this country for young men to be... Read more »

In 2014, Herschel Walker delivered a speech to a group of National Guard members in Wichita, Kansas, about overcoming hardship to build resilience and achieve success. Walker, now the Republican nominee for US Senate in Georgia, explained how he sought treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder,... Read more »

A new study finds that vaccination rates may be 17 percent higher in cities with paid sick leave policies compared to cities without such policies.  The post Study Links Paid Sick Leave and Higher Vaccination Rates appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

In his latest article "Ukraine War Evolves: Slouching Toward Armageddon", Professor Falk harkens back to the Yalta Agreement on maintaining spheres of influence, and how a self-censoring Western media has propogated state propaganda as the US continues to torpedo any attempts at a resolution to the conflict. The post U.S.... Read more »

Elder's team documented high levels of PFAS draining into the water at Honolulu earlier this year. The post Predicted Spill of Toxic Foam in Hawaii Highlights Dangers appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Philip Schellekens argues that reported Covid-19 mortality rates suggest that the pandemic has been "mild" in developing countries––but further examination leads to exactly the opposite conclusion. The post Global Covid Mortality Rates Obscure Actual Loss of Life appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"Two things everyone needs to understand: 1) It is BECAUSE they always counted on Biden/Congress forcing a deal down workers' throats that rail carriers saw no reason to bargain in good faith for 2-plus years or to change the profit-maximizing practices that have blown up the supply chain. So, if... Read more »

"The idea that a society would be so inhumane as to provide free euthanasia to the poor or emotionally troubled instead of providing for everyone's welfare is a society in collapse" The post Free Euthanasia to the Poor: “A Society in Collapse” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Brian Castrucci spoke to the Institute for Public Accuracy about the politics of health in the U.S. "Elected officials have a greater influence over your health than your doctor. The prescription for better health in this nation is policy. Yet every policy we have about health is about pills and... Read more »

"With the prince now shielded from legal action stemming from his regime’s human rights abuses, he will feel far more comfortable traveling to the U.S. and Europe – anywhere he could have faced judicial accountability", writes journalism professor at New York University and fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now, founded... Read more »

Criminal Russian regime fired missiles which target not only Ukrainian civilians but also landed on NATO territory in Poland. Latvia fully stands with Polish friends and condemns this crime." The post The NATO Charter Is Not a Suicide Pact appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

MANY OF THE tens of thousands of delegates attending the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, go to these gatherings year after year on a kind of autopilot. They update their PowerPoint presentations, pack their organizational banners, and brush up their talking points. Next come the same warnings from the... Read more »

NO ONE KNOWS what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this: Alaa Abd El Fattah, arguably Egypt’s highest profile political prisoner, wrote it while on a hunger strike in his Cairo prison cell last month. It was, he explained later, “about global warming because of the... Read more »

THIS IS IT. The moment for President Joe Biden and Congress to challenge the underlying legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court and advance an aggressive climate action agenda. There will be no better moment to take this stand.... Read more »

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?... 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 »

I believe this is the most important environmental technology ever developed. It might be all that now stands between us and Earth systems collapse. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th November 2022 So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems that... Read more »

Powerful governments have no intention of preventing climate breakdown. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2022 The chances of any one person being born were calculated by the life coach Dr Ali Binazir. He multiplied the probability of your parents meeting, mating and conceiving by the chances... Read more »

Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian November 9th 2022 There are just two actions needed to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown: leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop farming animals.... Read more »

Because Twitter threads aren’t working at the moment (thanks Elon!), I’m republishing a chain of tweets about how we should rise to the challenge of democratic collapse. By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 9th November 2022 Here’s where I think we now stand, and how we should respond. A thread.... Read more »

Here’s how it happened before – a mass extinction caused by fossil fuel burning. It will happen again unless we step back from the precipice. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd November 2022 Budleigh Salterton, on the south coast of Devon, sits above the most frightening cliffs on... Read more »

Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th October 2022 Before we decide what needs to change, let’s take stock of what we have lost. I want to... Read more »

Why is life treated as less valuable than the depiction of life? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th October 2022 What does it take? How far must we go to alert other people to the scale of the crisis we face? Only one answer is clear: further than... Read more »

An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th October 2022 As a founder member of the “Anti-Growth Coalition”, I’m delighted to discover how fast it has, ahem, been growing. From small beginnings on the political margins, our grouping, according to... Read more »

The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th October 2022 Some of it is easy to understand. Liz Truss, a hollow vessel filled with secondhand ideas by the dark-money thinktanks, believed their... Read more »