In its probe of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW shunned the critical investigative area of forensic pathology and censored a recommendation to pursue it. The Douma killings remain unsolved.  (This is part two of a Grayzone series. Read part one here.) In its probe of an alleged... Read more »

Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Richard Sakwa joins Pushback. Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next?... Read more »

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 »

Huge media coverage has been devoted to allegations, and now serious evidence, that a Christmas party was held at 10 Downing Street on 18 December 2020. London was then in a strict lockdown with social →... 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 »

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 »

How the EU can wrest control of the internet from big tech, and transform the digital sphere into a force for promoting its values... Read more »

British, Ukrainian MPs and trade unionists concerned by UK Foreign Office's sponsorship of Ukrainian labour liberalisation... Read more »

Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin among those named in new report criticising Britain’s weak regulation and homegrown industry aiding corruption... Read more »

To build a better future we need to confront Big Tech and reject the enclosure of the virtual... Read more »

The increasingly sophisticated tactics used by anti-abortion activists include manipulation, deception and misleading terminology. Learn more here... Read more »

Every week a journalist is killed. In more than eight out of ten cases, the killers walk free. States and the international legal system fail to deliver justice. They also fail society at large, which is left with less reliable and timely information as a result. What can we do... Read more »

Facebook won't let state oversight trump shareholder interest, so alternatives – based on common ownership and community control – are needed... Read more »

It’s one rule for the British government and another for everybody else: a lockdown for us, a party for them... Read more »

The EU’s challenge isn’t just to make Europe fit for the digital age, but to ensure that the digital age fits European laws, standards and values... Read more »

The Americas are going in two different directions on abortion. Last year Argentina joined Uruguay and Guyana in legalising abortion up to 14 weeks. The Mexican supreme court decriminalised abortion across the country in September. But just across the border in Texas, abortion after six weeks is now illegal, with... Read more »

A damning clip of Downing Street staffers joking about lockdown parties has thrown the government into crisis. Is this the scandal that could bring Johnson down? With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.... Read more »

It’s been just over a fortnight since the Omicron variant of Covid-19 was discovered in South Africa. The new variant – which some studies suggest has a higher risk of re-infection – has quickly dominated the headlines. Yet right now, we still know very little about it.  The World Health... Read more »

Ecuador once stood out on the international left as an exemplar of the ‘pink tide’ – one of a set of progressive governments that took power across Latin America in the early 21st century. With the radical economic experiment of Rafael Correa ending with his departure in 2017, a huge... Read more »

The government is currently trying to bypass basic parliamentary scrutiny by adding 18 pages of amendments to a bill that has already made its way through the House of Commons. The last-minute changes, tabled in the House of Lords by an unelected peer, will not be scrutinised line by line... Read more »

The University and Colleges Union (UCU) has voted to go on strike for the fourth time in as many years at 58 universities with more branches re-balloting for next term. The strike is expected to go on for months at some universities, particularly at Goldsmiths University and the University of... Read more »

Boris Johnson spent today posing in front of police vans & talking tough on drugs. It’s hypocritical and it won’t work. Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar discuss Britain’s failed war on drugs.... 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 »

In July 2012 Sister Megan Rice, an 82-year-old Catholic nun, and two men walked past multiple broken security cameras and into the heart of a high-security nuclear complex. Y-12 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was the birthplace of the atomic bomb and now stores enriched uranium for nuclear warheads. Although thanked... Read more »

The global COP26 agreement opened a few new doors for addressing climate change, but the omissions speak volumes. Collective commitments to reduce CO2 emissions and to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius by 2030 went missing. The pledge to phase out coal production was vetoed by India, with China’s support. Meanwhile,... Read more »

Fighting global warming is not just about providing a path to net-zero carbon emissions for all countries. It is also about figuring out how best to meet the energy needs of people across the world while working toward net-zero emissions. If fossil fuels have to be given up, which has... Read more »

Being on Medicaid a few years ago, as I “transitioned” between jobs, saved me. At the time, the stress of looking for new work, of applying for a doctorate, of maintaining a “budget” so I could occasionally leave the house and grab dinner with friends at places that didn’t have... Read more »

Claremont Institute legal scholar John Eastman is now best known for his efforts to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, but in August 2015 he was still a professor at the Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law and someone whose legal opinions the New York Times considered worthy... Read more »

Someone, finally, spoke truth to power by confronting financial gurus in their own back-yard, or at least asked them some powerful questions. The head of the International Labor Organization (ILO) courageously challenged heads of finance at a recent meeting in Geneva. “My question is: have you recanted the Milton Friedman... Read more »

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland must be added to a long series of failures of UN-convened international meetings to meet the urgent social and ecological needs of a world threatened by catastrophic climate change.  These failures include the lack of truly binding commitments to the steps needed—such as phasing... Read more »

If you think that the true focus of the recent World Series was what the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves were doing on the field, you were either living in Texas, Georgia, or on some billionaire’s space station. In the world that lies somewhere between rabid fandom and total baseball... Read more »

In the bizarro world of politics in the United States today, probably the most radical government program that exists — the one most close to a socialist idea that actually works and is popular with the vast majority of Americans — is Social Security. Established in 1936 as a pillar... Read more »

End of the year, yes, a perfect time to look back to 2021 and its betrayed, hollow promises. Here, on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, I am chatting with Phillip Adams (DiEM25’s honorary member) the motivated fiasco that was Cop26, Angela Merkel’s peculiar failure, China, Zuckerberg and, yes, my…... Read more »

Στο 6ο «Πρόσωπο με Πρόσωπο» απαντώ σε 10 νέες ερωτήσεις σας για: Το πιστεύει το ΜέΡΑ25 για τα δικαιώματα των ΛΟΑΤΚ+ στον γάμο και την τεχνοθεσία; Πως πρέπει να τιμωρούνται πολιτικοί που δεν κρατούν το λόγο τους προς το εκλογικό σώμα; Υπάρχει ανοχή της τρόικας προς την “Μητσοτάκης ΑΕ”; Ποια η... Read more »

A year that began hopefully is ending grimly. Western political elites, unable (and perhaps unwilling) to turn a deadly pandemic and climate crisis into a life-preserving opportunity, have only themselves to blame. ATHENS – The silver lining in the gloomy cloud of the pandemic was the opportunity it gave the... Read more »

Torn between inflationary jitters and fear of deflation, central bankers in the major advanced economies are taking a potentially costly wait-and-see approach. Only a progressive rethink of their tools and aims can help them play a socially useful post-pandemic role. ATHENS – As the coronavirus pandemic recedes in the advanced... 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 »

The NHS Covid Pass experienced technical difficulties on Wednesday hours after the prime minister announced a move to Plan B in England. Users reported … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

The Foreign Secretary said she recognised that the debt was legitimate. By The Canary... Read more »

Home Secretary Priti Patel’s plans to turn back migrant boats at sea have been called into question by peers. By The Canary... Read more »

Boris Johnson has ordered an investigation into claims Downing Street staff broke lockdown rules by holding a Christmas party last year. And he told … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

University of East Anglia Professor Alastair Grant has projected the reproduction rate of the new variant based on UKHSA figures. By The Canary... Read more »

Tory MPs have been recorded groaning and laughing in parliament when a Labour MP was talking about disabled people. The Labour MP shared the … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called on the PM to ‘come clean and apologise’. By The Canary... Read more »

A ruling is reported to be “shortly due” on the US appeal against a decision refusing the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This … Read more By Tom Coburg... Read more »

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed the rot at the heart of parts of the medical establishment. It shows text messages and … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

In every one of the countries the United States has intervened in over the past decades, anti-democratic means are almost always used towards anti-democratic ends, all in the name of promoting democracy. The post US Should’t Be Invited to Summit for Democracy, Let Alone Be Its Host appeared first on... Read more »

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Thurghood Marshall Courthouse in New York City, where Ghislaine Maxwell is on trial for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation invovling numerous elite figures. Dan Cohen reports from the demonstration. The post ‘Media Bears a Responsibility’ – Protesters Demand Justice for... Read more »

Amid a flurry of diplomatic gestures of peace from the United States, US bombs are devastating parts of Yemen in Saudi Arabia's Operation Golden Bow. The post Talking “Peace” US Arms Saudis for Latest Attack on Yemen’s People: Operation Golden Bow appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

“They [the Israeli settlers] are not coming here to enjoy the architecture or even to feel associated with the past. No, they are looking to the future.” - Dr. Yousef Nathseh The post Israeli “Visitors” to Al-Aqsa Part of Plan for Third Jewish Temple appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

“The ‘threat’ of China is China’s existence; it exists as a major power that the United States cannot push around, cannot intimidate, and does not follow U.S. orders. That is intolerable. Any mafia don can explain that.” – Noam Chomsky The post “Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact”: Noam Chomsky... Read more »

The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence. The post Chris Hedges: The Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Is an American Satyricon appeared first on... Read more »

While the OTF presents itself as independent internet freedom activists, their funding, staff, history and choice of targets all point to the conclusion that they are a digital weapon being used against Washington’s enemies.  The post OTF – The “Independent” Internet Freedom Organization That Makes All Your Favorite Privacy Apps... 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 »

What I mean is -does Ireland have an independent foreign policy ? It seems to me that the State has lost its bearings and it is bending to the wishes of foreign powers which have nothing in common with the principles set out in the Constitution enacted by the plain people of Ireland... Read more »

This blog first appeared as a column in the Andersonstown News What is it with Boris Johnson and big projects? We all know men who drive big cars as a sub-conscious counter-balance to their lack of size in other areas. But Johnson doesn’t just get driven around in a big car. He is, in another sense entirely, a driven man.... Read more »

WHAT BLOODY MEN WERE THESE? – by Donal Kennedy Though retired and virtually under house arrest because of the pandemic I don’t watch much TV. Most programmes are shite or trite and those that are not are interrupted by advertising. I can remember when there were only two channels, both... Read more »

This  blog first appeared as a TV review in the Andersonstown News As ever, Mark Carruthers stands (why oh why do they have to stand?) clutching a sheaf of notes. “Could Christmas be cancelled?” he asks, and welcomes us to THE VIEW (BBC ONE). He has as guests Christopher Stalford (DUP) and Owen Tennyson (Alliance). The latter looks young and guileless,... 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 »

Israeli forces detained, on Thursday, dozens of Palestinian civilians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA). In the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, soldiers invaded the home of a student at the Palestine Technical University, identified as Ahmed Jamal... Read more »

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, two young Palestinian men on lands near the fence in the eastern part of southern Gaza Strip, in addition to firing live rounds at farmers in the central part of the coastal region. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed behind the perimeter fence, east of... Read more »

Israeli media sources have reported that the Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, will be heading to Cairo, Thursday, to meet with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shokri, to discuss the efforts to “maintain calm” in Gaza, and efforts for “economic development.” Israeli sources have reported that Lapid intends to hold talks... Read more »

Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Wednesday evening, many Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said dozens of soldiers and police officers invaded the neighborhood, and attacked many Palestinians, especially young men, to force them to leave, wounding at least four... Read more »

Israeli soldiers shot, on Wednesday evening, two young Palestinian men and abducted one of them, after the army invaded the southern area of Ya’bad town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town, leading to protests before the soldiers fired... Read more »

Illegal Israeli colonizers invaded, Wednesday, a Palestinian orchard near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and cut at least seventy olive trees. Fuad al-Amour, the coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees in Masafer Yatta and Southern Hebron, said the assailants came from the Mitzpe Yair colony, which was... Read more »

Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, seventeen Palestinians, including two schoolgirls, in addition to their teacher and the school’s principal, in several parts of the occupied West Bank. In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded a school in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and violently searched it, before abducting two teenage sibling girls, in addition... Read more »

Israeli sources have reported, Wednesday, that a woman was injured reportedly after a Palestinian teenage girl stabbed her in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied Jerusalem. The injured woman is a colonialist settler living in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where the Palestinians are facing displacement due to the ongoing... Read more »

Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, a Palestinian teenage boy while on his way home from school, in Teqoua town, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Local sources said the soldiers abducted Mos’ab Maher Sbeih, 17, in front of Teqoua Secondary School for Boys, when he was... 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 ~ 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 »

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 »

The decision by several governments across the globe to institute travel bans on seven African countries, starting on 27 November, due to the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, was perceived to be hasty in the eyes of some and fully justifiable on medical grounds, in the view of... Read more »

Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas's UN General Assembly speech will remain a reference for a while longer. As Israel plans further settlement expansion, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for Abbas, said that Israel's settlement expansion "will push the Palestinian leadership to accelerate its implementation of the ultimatum" announced during the... Read more »

If Libyans really go to the polls as planned, on 24 December, it will be a moment of history-making and a new reality in the conflict ravaged country. The North African country never had a president before, let alone running one in which the president is directly elected by the... Read more »

Egyptian activist and former EIPR researcher Patrick George Zaki has been released from detention after 22 months. According to Mada Masr, his mother Hala Sobhy fainted upon hearing the news that the court had ordered his release. "I'm jumping for joy!" she told AFP. "We're now on our way to... Read more »

Unsurprisingly, Palestinian Authority security forces safeguarded two Israeli settlers who entered Ramallah a few days ago. As has happened before, the incident passed largely unnoticed until the PA officers had to protect the settlers from the anger of Palestinian youths at Al-Manara roundabout, and return them safely to the Israeli... Read more »

Iran's relations with neighbouring Arab states have experienced many ups and downs in recent years. Qatar and Oman have mostly had good relations with Iran, but those with the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have been tense. Boosting ties with neighbouring states has been a foreign policy priority for most... Read more »

World leaders have been trying desperately to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+ countries: the US, Britain, China, Russia, France and Germany. The seventh round of talks in Vienna ended on Friday with very little to suggest that the main... Read more »

Israeli media is currently promoting an alternative plan for the country's leaders in the event the Vienna negotiations fail, and it is trying hard to drag Washington and European states into it. It believes that now is the right time to move Tehran away from its political positions and push... Read more »

The past few weeks have brought about an important shift in the region, represented by the visit of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed, to Turkey and his meeting with Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where he was warmly received. The two countries signed a number of agreements and... 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 »

Failing to overturn a decriminalization veto means more incarceration and more overdoses.... Read more »

Prakash Churaman spent his teen years behind bars for a crime he maintains he didn’t commit. Even after having his conviction overturned, Churaman and his supporters are still fighting to clear his name.... Read more »

In 2014, six members of Ismail Ziada's family were killed during Israeli's 51-day assault on Gaza. On Tuesday, a judge in The Hague told him he has no right to seek justice from the Israeli military officers most directly responsible.... Read more »

"There was no CBO score needed. No concern about the deficit. No mention of inflation," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman.... Read more »

In the newest episode of Art for the End Times, host Lyta Gold convenes a lively panel to discuss Naomi Novik’s Scholomance novels—basically an anti-Harry-Potter dark fantasy series where kids get eaten.... Read more »

"Americans looking for someone to blame for the pain they experience at the pump need look no further than the wealthy oil and gas company executives who choose to line their own pockets."... Read more »

Ten years after Republican Gov. Scott Walker hammered unions with the passage of Act 10, K-12 educators and organizers in rural Hortonville, Wisconsin, are feeling the squeeze. But they haven’t given up.... Read more »

A familiar, hand-wringing chorus of politicians and pundits are freaking out about inflation and using it to argue against passing the Build Back Better plan, but the overblown panic is little more than a political ploy.... Read more »

"There are many detainees without the profile of Aung San Suu Kyi who currently face the terrifying prospect of years behind bars simply for peacefully exercising their human rights."... Read more »

'“Trailblazer”, “Glass ceiling smasher”, “Inspiration” are just some of the descriptions of her being shared by Labour colleagues' The post Harriet Harman: a legacy of feminist leadership appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Redfield and Wilton Strategies found that 63 percent of Britons think Johnson should resign as prime minister, The post Majority of voters want Boris Johnson to quit, opinion polls show appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The news you didn’t see this week… The post Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, December 2021 appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The statement demonstrates in clear language, for the first time, that members of the Parliamentary Labour Party not only oppose the Bill, but reject its anti-refugee sentiment The post Labour MPs denounce the Nationality and Borders Bill as anti-refugee and propose reforms to welcome refugees to the UK appeared first on... Read more »

A number of journalists have reported that Number 10 won't confirm whether the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case attended the party in 2020 The post No 10 refuses to say whether man investigating the Christmas party… was at the party appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'They knew there was a party, they knew it was against the rules, they knew they couldn't admit it and they thought it was funny.' The post Boris Johnson humiliated at PMQs as he continues to insist ‘there was no party’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's... Read more »

The UK government should take responsibility for addressing the raging income inequalities and the broken benefits system which have pushed so many into poverty. The post Food banks have become the norm. But poverty should never be normal. appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

'I wonder why the latest fiasco isn't all over the front page today' The post The Sun is ridiculed for its front page and muted coverage of Downing Street Christmas Party appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Health secretary Sajid Javid was forced to cancel interviews this morning and not a single government minister came out to bat for Downing Street after the leaking of the footage The post Ministers refuse to go on radio and TV after government caught ‘lying about Christmas party’ appeared first on... Read more »

Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung has been convicted on felony charges of burglary and larceny for removing a sick baby goat from a goat meat farm in North Carolina in 2018. Hsiung is the co-founder of the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere. He was given a suspended sentence and... Read more »

In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike. Today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university. Striking student worker, Johannah King-Slutzky, accuses Columbia's administration... Read more »

During a virtual summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Biden threatened to impose new economic sanctions and other measures if Russia invades Ukraine. The talks were held amid growing tension between the two countries over the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe and Russia's deployment of tens of thousands... Read more »

Biden Warns of Economic Sanctions in Virtual Talks With Putin Amid Russia-Ukraine Tension, House Passes Massive $768 Billion Pentagon Budget, Votes Down Amendment to Stop Arms Sales to Saudis, House Jan. 6 Cmte Warns Mark Meadows Could Be Charged With Contempt if No-Show at Deposition, COVID Booster Shots Could Help... Read more »

At least fifteen lives have been saved, so far, after the nation's first supervised illegal drug injection sites opened in New York City about a week ago. The facilities provide clean needles and the opioid reversal medication Naloxone, as well as medical care and drug dependency treatment options. This comes... Read more »

In a controversial move, the Biden administration has resumed and expanded the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy that forces non-Mexican asylum-seekers who arrive at the southern U.S. border to wait in Mexico while their cases are resolved in U.S. courts — a process that can take months or even years.... Read more »

As the Biden administration faces increased pressure to address global vaccine inequity, USAID administrator Samantha Power announced a plan Monday for the United States to spend an additional $400 million to help increase vaccine access internationally. The move came days after Vanity Fair revealed a $2.5 billion plan to thwart... Read more »

The eight top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders made over $10 billion last week when their stock holdings skyrocketed after the discovery of the new Omicron variant. This comes as global public health advocates warn the world will keep seeing more coronavirus variants unless wealthy nations and vaccine manufacturers do more... Read more »

Today marks the 93rd birthday of world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky, who spoke with Democracy Now! from his home in Tucson, Arizona, and said he finds hope in the activism of young people "to create a much better world than the one we have." Chomsky is among... Read more »

A dispute over whether the university can permanently replace striking student workers is coming to a head this week.... Read more »

Bill LaPlante's nomination is just the latest spin through the revolving door between the Pentagon and the military industry.... Read more »

Donald Trump is no more of a threat to democracy than the U.S. Constitution itself.... Read more »

Overshadowed by larger strikes, the Ironworkers picket line stretches into its third month.... 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 »

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 president Donald Trump’s media company scored a coup over the weekend, announcing it had landed $1 billion in investment. But the public might never know who has funded Trump’s media dreams, creating a potential conflict of interest on a colossal scale. And even before the deal was announced, the... Read more »

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Three hours outside Johannesburg, the gravel road to John Hume’s home slices through grasslands tinged a parched amber hue as the winter dry season fades. The former hotel mogul owns the world’s largest privately held rhino... Read more »

The select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol plans to move forward with contempt proceedings against Mark Meadows, Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff.  For the past week, Meadows has danced around the possibility of cooperating with the committee, supplying it with documents and signaling... Read more »

Remember that cult of personality who selfishly had his supporters commit an almost-coup about a year ago because he couldn’t accept that he lost? Well, it seems he’s still the de facto leader of the Republican party. As Georgia heads for a gubernatorial election, a new poll of likely Republican... Read more »

The Biden administration’s decision Monday to skip the Winter Olympics in Beijing, as part of a so-called “diplomatic boycott,” was historic—if a bit anti-climactic. The move had been telegraphed since November, when Biden publicly said that it was under consideration, and the pseudo-boycott will not exclude US athletes from competing,... Read more »

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A few years ago, Erica Prather, the national outreach representative for Defenders of Wildlife, and her partner allowed every piece of plastic they used for an entire year to pile up in their... Read more »

Soon, a year will have passed since thousands of enraged Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, many of them brutally attacking law enforcement agents, desecrating the halls of Congress, and sending lawmakers and the vice president fleeing for their lives. The historic assault on the peaceful transfer of power in... Read more »

When I heard the news that the incredibly stupid-looking Nathan Bedford Forrest statue in Nashville, Tennessee, was finally taken down after two decades, I thought back to a moment in the John le Carré novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, when the Communist mole (name withheld) says that his decision to... Read more »

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was cold and near sundown at the Langley, British Columbia, airport Friday afternoon as Shaun Bradley Heaps in his signature shorts greeted a team of fellow pilots returning from an emergency mission delivering... Read more »

"The world simply cannot afford to continue war business as usual. The costs of arms races prevent us from addressing numerous very real threats -- climate break-down, nuclear arms, poverty, a lasting pandemic, an increasingly fragile food supply. We have to realize that military power games only guarantee eternal insecurity... Read more »

"Had the prosecutors been allowed to move on their memo and bring felony charges against key Purdue Pharma executives and proceeded in a full out prosecution of the company and its high ranking executives and owners, the epidemic could have been limited, saving tens of thousands of American lives. But... Read more »

"The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals was just in granting a new trial to African American defendant Tim Gilbert following his conviction for aggravated assault and other charges. Not only was Gilbert judged by an all-white jury in a county that is 11 percent African American, but that jury made... Read more »

"For nearly seven years, U.S.-supported Saudi forces have unlawfully targeted civilian objects and infrastructure via indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks that have killed and injured thousands of civilians in Yemen. These aerial bombardments include myriad war crimes and have exacerbated the catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The unlawful blockade imposed by the Saudi-led... Read more »

"Recent tensions over the Ukraine are raising the possibility of a full return to the Cold War between the two powers, the United States and Russia. What is often overlooked in this emerging crisis is that it began with a U.S. provocation against Russia. In 1990, the U.S. government promised... 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 »

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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 »