El Movimiento de San Isidro, que se presenta como un colectivo popular de artistas que luchan por la libertad de expresión, se ha convertido en un arma clave en el asalto del gobierno estadounidense a la revolución cubana. Traducción por Diego Sequera “Mi gente necesita a Europa, mi gente necesita... Read more »

Known as “America’s leading Taiwan hand,” Richard C. Bush has helped preserve peace between Beijing and Taipei. But as Washington moved toward conflict, he suddenly shifted his position. Why did the top think tank Taiwan specialist ignore a longstanding U.S. policy that blocked any move by the Taiwanese leader that... Read more »

“The truest truism that I’ve come to understand about the nature of war is that war is trauma,” Daniel Hale wrote. This article was originally published at The Dissenter. Subscribe here. As the President Joe Biden winds down United States military involvement in Afghanistan, a conflict spanning nearly 20 years,... Read more »

A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013. The explosive findings add to a growing body of public evidence that undermines US-led efforts to blame the Syrian government, which almost led to US military intervention. Hundreds of people were killed... Read more »

Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has become a key weapon in the US government’s assault on the Cuban revolution. “My people need Europe, my people need Europe to point out the abuser,” Yotuel, a Spain-based Cuban rapper, proclaimed... Read more »

The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries,” and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist “crime against humanity.” MANAGUA, NICARAGUA – 42 years after... Read more »

As ties emerge between the US government and the suspected assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, scholar Jemima Pierre analyzes Moïse’s legacy and murder within the long history of neocolonial US intervention in Haiti. A growing number of suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have US ties.... Read more »

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Haitian activist and musician Chango Bastia about the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Bastia shares how average Haitians have responded to the news, what questions they still have about what took place, and how they feel about US attempts to intervene in their... Read more »

The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil speaks with Julian Assange’s brother and father, Gabriel and John Shipton, about their recent tour of the United States. They discuss his experience in prison as well as their reception by the US public. Anya also speaks with Dr. Cornel West about the importance of Assange’s... Read more »

Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza World Premiere Saturday June 26 Restream Sunday June 27, 2021 7pm CST  Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms  An ad-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical relief for Gaza as well as to call for an... Read more »

Break The Siege: Medical Relief for Gaza World Premiere Saturday June 26 and Re-Stream Sunday June 27, 2021 The same program will be shown two times 7pm CST Via HotHouseGlobal online streaming platforms An an-hoc committee of artists and activists have convened for the purpose of raising money for medical... Read more »

It’s apartheid, say Israeli ambassadors to South Africa “It is clearer than ever that the occupation is not temporary, and there is not the political will in the Israeli government to bring about its end.” 8 June 2021 | Ilan Baruch and Alon LielOpinion | South Africa Map of the West Bank, the... Read more »

The post Norman Finkelstein to #AlMayadeen: “There is a dramatic shift in public opinion towards Israel in the #US after the last events in #Gaza.” appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

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Most readers have probably heard about the Israeli attempts to Judaize Sheikh Jarrah.For the past few months, the Palestinians residents of the East Jerusalem have been protesting against the impending supreme court order to expel them from their homes, which would be given to Jewish settlers. The efforts to Judaize East... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: ‘One man does not assert →... Read more »

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

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

Boris Johnson has been castigated on social media after tweeting about his hopes for a “greener” future alongside a picture of him travelling by private jet from London to the G7 summit in Cornwall this weekend. Writing on Twitter, the PM said: “I’ve arrived in Cornwall for this year’s @G7... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the authors behind the short story collection has also been accused of sexual harassment by women in the European country... Read more »

President Saied’s ‘constitutional coup’ on 25 July was a dark day for Tunisian and Arab democratization... Read more »

It’s time to stop viewing people as victims of environmental breakdown, and start viewing them as an essential part of the solution... Read more »

Exclusive: ‘Pathetic’ prosecution rate criticised, amid new findings government gave many firms furlough cash despite ‘naming and shaming’ them over minimum wage... Read more »

Photographer Andrés “trifulkart” Trujillo captures the drama of the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked Colombia... Read more »

The UK's new Domestic Abuse Act puts the focus on changing perpetrators’ behaviour, but that’s not enough: major cultural change is needed... Read more »

Jamie Mackay’s ‘The Invention of Sicily’ is a wild and breezy ride through one of the most unique and alluring places in the world... Read more »

Sayyid Qutb’s ‘Milestones’, published in 1964, has been the ideological force behind a succession of violent Islamist groups... Read more »

Louisiana has approved a law that will alleviate the emotional and financial burdens for bereaved families. The rest of the US should follow suit... Read more »

When Nadia Zaman and her three small children were due to be evicted in Walthamstow last month, around 80 people gathered to support them. The eviction resistance bought Zaman some time, but now – having been temporarily rehoused in one room in Leyton – she is facing the choice between... Read more »

The government have announced double vaccinated people from the EU and USA won’t need to self-isolate on entry to England. We ask Gabriel Scally whether the move is sensible or reckless With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.... Read more »

We don’t have a social care system – we have a social care crisis. This is an uncontroversial statement. Even Boris Johnson acknowledges “the crisis in social care”.  You would be forgiven for thinking, however, that this crisis is just about elderly people in care homes. According to this view,... Read more »

During the 2020 Labour leadership election, Keir Starmer pitched himself as the ‘unity candidate’. But throughout the first year of his tenure there was almost no let-up in his crackdown on the left: censuring MPs for the mildest expressions of pro-Palestinian sentiment, sacking frontbenchers who opposed Tory foreign policy, dismissing... Read more »

In the current culture wars, the Tories have made delegitimising the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement one of their top priorities. The movement gained traction in the UK back in 2016, when protesters blocked the motorway leading to Heathrow the day after the anniversary of Mark Duggan’s murder by police.... Read more »

In the past 2 weeks we’ve seen heatwaves and wildfires in North America and extreme floods in Europe, India and China. We speak to climate scientist Simon Lewis about just how bad this could get. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.... Read more »

Boris Johnson’s shock announcement last Monday that he intends to make vaccine passports compulsory for nightclubs and “large public events” from September has understandably been greeted with consternation, and not only because it breaks the promise vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi made in January and that a government review reiterated barely... Read more »

Ash Sarkar unlocks the secrets of billionaire success that the Fortune 500 don’t want YOU to know. Hustle, grind, and mental fortitude? Nah. It’s exploitation.... Read more »

Keir Milburn, Nadia Idle and Jeremy Gilbert get on the couch to talk about therapy. Wrangling with how to square their collectivist politics with the introspective work of therapy, they wonder if people on the left are more inclined to seek such treatment, and what role physical exercise plays in... Read more »

For the past six years, the liberal-progressives who persist in trying to change the Democratic Party “from the inside” after almost 50 years of resounding failure (McGovern, Jesse Jackson, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, et. al. ad infinitum) have been bragging about reaching a pinnacle of success following the Bernie Sanders... Read more »

In late 2020 the British noticed that coronavirus cases were spiraling upward in the region of Kent. The culprit turned out to be a variant of the COVID-19 virus identified in September, Mutations in the genetic make-up, the RNA, lead to variants. They are still COVID-19 viruses, but they can... Read more »

In the days after the looting, volunteers came out to clean up the damage, sweeping up the broken glass, the detritus, and the spent bullets and shotgun shells. Bodies were being pulled out of rivers, from ditches, and elsewhere as the death toll reached over 300. “We swept up so... Read more »

America has long been a nation at war – war against foreigner nations and peoples and war among its own people.  While the wars against those foreign may have been bloodier in terms of lives lost, the wars at home have been the most vengeful. Since the nation was first... Read more »

The true status of current negotiations to reinstate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran is unknown to the American public—most of whom are tragically indifferent to the outcome. This is so even though the successful negotiation of this deal with Iran back in 2015 represents one of... Read more »

In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charging former intelligence analyst Daniel Everett Hale with five counts of providing classified information to a reporter.  The first four focused on obtaining national defense information, retaining and... Read more »

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” – Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? To say we live in bizarre times would be an understatement. How else could you explain a billionaire, who pays virtually no taxes, launching himself into space... Read more »

As I started a week’s vacation Friday evening, I happened upon a film called “Homo Sapiens” (2016) by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter that features scenes of abandoned human-built structures around the world in the process of being reclaimed by nature. The effect being that of an eschatological science fiction scenario... Read more »

After a war has ended, historians, elected officials, and faith leaders, no less than the people involved, often raise doubts over whether the outcomes were worth the many horrific costs. But mourning diminishes over time and life for the survivors goes on. Such a recovery from destruction is no longer... Read more »

On this, the 6th edition of LET’S TALK IT OVER, the whole gang (Brian Eno, Ken Loach, Yanis Varoufakis & Roger Waters, chaired as always by Frank Barat) is on stage – to chat about lessons progressives must/can learn from… football. It turned out a fun, and possibly, insightful, hour.... Read more »

«Δέσατε την χώρα στο 5ο Μνημόνιο», είχα πει στον κ. Μητσοτάκη την 9η Απριλίου του 2020. Γιατί είχα προβεί σε τόσο σκληρή δήλωση τόσο νωρίς στην πανδημία; Επειδή την προηγουμένη, δια στόματος ΥπΟικ εντός της Βουλής, η κυβέρνηση απεμπόλησε το δικαίωμα στο βέτο εντός του Eurogroup που θα ακολουθούσε, επιτρέποντας... Read more »

Χωρίς απαγορευμένες ή υπαγορευμένες ερωτήσεις. Χωρίς ταμπού θέματα ή προσυμφωνημένες ατζέντες. Συνεντεύξεις όπως πρέπει να γίνονται. Ο Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου κάνει «σκληρό μαρκάρισμα» στον Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη συζητώντας από το κίνημα BDS για το μποϊκοτάζ του Ισραήλ και το ισραηλινό απαρτχάιντ μέχρι τα ζητήματα της πανδημίας, των εμβολίων, της παγκόσμιας διάθεσής τους... Read more »

To read the interview pdf form, click here Click here for the Journal’s site. The post From the creation of DiEM25 to Technofeudalism’s takeover during the pandemic – in conversation with The Cambridge Journal of LAW, POLITICS & ART appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.... Read more »

Last week the ECB announced its new policy of ‘going green’. How can a conventional central bank do this? Only by discriminating against bonds and equities issued by companies damaging the environment that it accepts as collateral, or which it buys, in return for loans ‘greening’ its  purchase/acceptance policy. Is... Read more »

As part of the international mobilisation to apply pressure on the US government to end the persecution of Julian Assange, MeRA25 invited members of Greece’s Parliament to co-sign the letter below, addressed to President Biden. The letter reminds the US President that, as Obama’s Vice-President, he took the decision not... Read more »

This is how capitalism ends: not with a revolutionary bang, but with an evolutionary whimper. Just as it displaced feudalism gradually, surreptitiously, until one day the bulk of human relations were market-based and feudalism was swept away, so capitalism today is being toppled by a new economic mode: techno-feudalism. This... Read more »

In this episode of Radio 4’s THE GOOD READ, I found myself choosing Margaret Atwood’s treatise on debt (Payback: Debt & The Shadow Side of Wealth) for discussion with presenter Harriet Gilbert and author Patrick McGrath. In Payback, Atwood examines money lending throughout the ages and how it has been... Read more »

Η συγκλονιστική νύχτα που ο Δήμος, έστω και για λίγο, βρήκε την ακηδεμόνευτη φωνή του Το απόγευμα της Παρασκευής 3 Ιουλίου, λίγο πριν από τις 5 μ.μ., αναστέναξα με ανακούφιση. Μία εβδομάδα κλειστών τραπεζών τελείωνε. Παρά τις μεγάλες ουρές στα ΑΤΜ και την αβεβαιότητα για τη Δευτέρα που μας περίμενε,... Read more »

Mr Devine died more than 32 years after he was badly injured at the FA Cup semi-final tragedy. By The Canary... Read more »

Advanz charged £20 for packs of liothyronine tablets and this increased to £248 by 2017, the CMA found. By The Canary... Read more »

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife to meet people supported by the UK Government’s ‘plan for jobs’ scheme. By The Canary... Read more »

Dawn Butler was thrown out of parliament for calling Boris Johnson a liar because, as Curtis Daly explains, not being able to call out … Read more By Curtis Daly... Read more »

Record-shattering heatwaves have hit the northern hemisphere over recent weeks. Now, a newly-released video has brought the impact of that baking heat into sharp … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

Sky News has finally picked up on campaigning lawyer Peter Stefanovic’s video about Boris Johnson’s lies. Because on Wednesday 28 July, a Sky News … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

Content warning – this article contains references to racism, violence, and sexual violence inside the prison system Prison abolition campaigners are calling for six … Read more By Tom Anderson... Read more »

The GMB Union has pulled its funding of Labour in London. It’s because a Labour council sacked an employee who is one of the … Read more By Steve Topple... Read more »

The Olympics are currently underway in Japan, and politicians and the mainstream media are busy celebrating Team GB’s gold medals. However, there is precious … Read more By Tom Anderson... Read more »

U.S. media has called for a U.S. military intervention in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. MintPress News spoke to Haitians to ask them what they think about a possible fourth U.S. military invasion of Haiti since 1915. The post Exclusive: Haitians Reject Calls For US Military Intervention... Read more »

Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. The post Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

“You must keep out of our ranks all who do not belong to them, all mercenaries and skeptics, all who join the revolution for private gain.” -- From the Will of Palestinian revolutionary Ali Taha The post Suheila’s Story: The Two-Year Quest to Reclaim and Bury Her Martyred Husband’s Body... Read more »

The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable. The post Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

“It's striking how similar the techniques [are] that Fox News uses to frighten people about the U.S. vaccination campaign and those that The New York Times, Reuters and others use to scare people about Chinese vaccines.” -- Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting The post Corporate Media Joins the... Read more »

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb joins MIntCast to discuss Pegasus, Toka, and the global Israeli cyberspying network. The post Pegasus is Just the Tip of the Israeli Cyber Spying Iceberg, with Whitney Webb appeared first on MintPress News.... Read more »

The mainstream media's myopic focus on Israel's Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated,  even when their products present an even greater potential for abuse and illegal surveillance. The post Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of... Read more »

Lowkey is joined by Whitney Webb to examine the IDF’s military intelligence Unit 8200, which gave birth to the NSO group responsible for Pegasus Spyware, and how Israel’s national security state is merging with that of the United States to target free speech and dissent. The post Lowkey: Israel’s Entryism... Read more »

When Naftali Bennett, the first yarmulke-wearing Israeli prime minister, refers to the Bible to justify his claim to the Land of Israel, he is not referring to Jewish scripture but to Protestant religious doctrine. The post Why Opposing Zionism Is Not Anti-Semitic: The Christian Roots of Zionism appeared first on... Read more »

The thought came to me that Boris J might make the Six Counties his Falklands in a Glorious Defence of the Union, not that again ? (sigh). Carl Gustav Jung promoted an idea of collective consciousness that was intrinsic to mankind, the same fundamental truths on which all mankind could... Read more »

 Charles Haughey has been more lied about than de Valera and he may have been the second best Taoiiseach the state has had. It has been stated by an ex soccer star turned journalist that Haughey moved from a modest semi-detached house on the Howth Road to Kinsealy after using... Read more »

This blog originally appeared as a column in The Andersonstown News Micheál Martin is right about one thing: governments do not like by-elections. Why? Because people feel free to give their government a motivating kick in the bum, while at the same time not risking the downfall of said government. It’s more a case of “Hey –  you’re where you... Read more »

Have you heard? Arlene Foster is ‘joining’ the new TV channel GB News. It’s supposed to be Britain’s version of Fox News. There are signs that it may not prosper. Do you think can Arlene save it? Cork, as Corkonians will tell you, is the real capital of Ireland. The... Read more »

I It has taken less than a fortnight for Brandon Lewis’s ‘Statute of Limitations’ or what is more commonly known as an amnesty, to fall apart. When all parties in the North along with all victims groups rally against the idea of letting soldiers and paramilitaries off the hook for... Read more »

You may see some of my attempts here The first you can find is called SAINTED BEFORE HIS TIME  and is from the Irish Democrat Archive dated 8 September 2009. The others are from this BLOG site, some a recycling of pieces previously published, and others freshly minted for the... Read more »

Activists for political and social democracy in Ireland under British rule have always done so at the peril of their lives. Think Derry in October 1968 and January 1972 or any part of the freak six-county statelet. Persons feeding the satraps of the British State or the lesser statelet with... Read more »

                                      Snaps 1-5: DPic 1igital Camera Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 In Malta cats not only enjoy the morning, but also noon and night as well. And as  Snaps 1,2 and 3 are... Read more »

   The British are an odd people. Yesterday Labour MP Dawn Butler was ejected from the House of Commons for saying Boris Johnson has lied repeatedly. Eh? They threw her out? And if you’re protocol-sensitive, maybe stiffen your sinews. The EU is gritting its teeth and breathing hard as the... Read more »

The Israeli Agriculture Ministry has allocated $1.17 Million to illegal colonialist outposts on stolen, privately-owned Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank. Israeli daily Haaretz said the “Agriculture Ministry” said it is providing funding to groups that send volunteers for “farm work” in the illegal outposts in the West Bank... Read more »

Israeli soldiers and colonialist settlers invaded, Thursday, the archaeological site in Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Mohammad Azem, the mayor of Sebastia, stated that several army jeeps accompanied dozens of colonizers, including several officials of illegal colonies, into the site. Azem added that... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the headquarters of “Defense For Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-Palestine) in Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh city near Ramallah, in central West Bank. DCI issued a statement revealing that the soldiers violently searched its offices and confiscated computers after breaking into... Read more »

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian research and development center in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and searched it before confiscating computers, in addition to shutting it down for six months. Media sources said the soldiers smashed the main door of Bisan Center for Research... Read more »

The Israeli navy attacked, on Thursday morning, several Palestinian fishing boats in the northern part of the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, before abducting two fishermen. Zakariya Bakr of the Palestinian Fishermen’s Syndicate said the navy attacked the fishing boats with live fire and water cannons less than 3 nautical... Read more »

The Israeli occupation authorities released, Wednesday, a Palestinian fisherman who was abducted seven years ago while fishing in Gaza territorial waters. The Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Daoud Bakr, was transferred to the Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossing, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, before he was released. The fishermen,... Read more »

Israeli soldiers injured, on Wednesday evening, several Palestinians during protests in ‘Aseeda area in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town and attacked Palestinian protesters with a barrage of gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel... Read more »

RAMALLAH, July 28, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained at least 11 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to local sources. They said that Israeli forces rounded up two brothers after breaking into their houses in Ta’amreh area, east of Bethlehem. They also detained a... Read more »

More than 100 Palestinians were injured, Wednesday, when the occupation army suppressed a demonstration to condemn the Israeli forces’ killing of Shadi Omar Lutfi Salim in Beita town, south of Nablus, in northern occupied West Bank. According to the head of the Emergency and Ambulance Department at the Palestinian Red... 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 »

✔ Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/aMkRjb✔ Donate to our network: https://bit.ly/3bT0BMSThis video was produced and published on the Frank Barat YouTube channel on June 1, 2021. We republished it today to raise more awareness of the issues discussed.Description: Noam Chomsky and Imad Alsoos talk to Frank Barat about the future... 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 »

In this video, we speak with returning guest Dr. Shir Hever. Dr. Hever is an independent economic researcher, journalist and author. Dr. Hever explains how Israeli domestic politics has played a role in the recent attacks on Gaza and how the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah is a valuable asset to... Read more »

By David Burke. 1. 50-year Concerted Cover-up. The British government’s determination to absolve all British soldiers involved in killings during the Troubles means that there are now precious few opportunities to get to the bottom of what really happened during the Ballymurphy massacre and on Bloody Sunday. The Bloody Sunday... Read more »

The UK refuses to publish the Shawcross report while French Magistrate, Judge Jean Louis Bruguiere, makes the running on attributing criminality By Deirdre Younge Kingsberry case The High Court in Belfast granted permission in early July for the family of a former member of the UDA, William Kingsberry – shot... Read more »

Nor is Israel based on the rule of law By Sami Abou Shehadeh In an opinion piece published on the 24 June in the Jerusalem Post , a right-wing Israeli newspaper, the Irish ambassador to Israel, Kyle O’Sullivan, claimed that Israel is a country based “on the rule of law, on... Read more »

By Deirdre Younge. Tom Oliver, a farmer from Riverstown, on the Cooley peninsul, was kidnapped, interrogated and murdered by the IRA in July 1991. They alleged he was a Garda informant. The murder by the IRA’s punishment squad didn’t only cause devastation for his family but split the tight-knit community... Read more »

By David Burke. 1. “No other perpetrator involved would be given anonymity, for some reason Soldier F is a protected species”. In the last week, Colum Eastwood MP, the Leader of the SDLP, named ‘Soldier F’, in the House of Commons, under privilege. ‘Soldier F’ had faced murder charges for... Read more »

Detective Sergeant who made protected disclosure about under-regulated phone-tracing and then served time for harassment of DPP official, claims multiple breaches of her human rights and "systemic institutional failure", in complaint recently rejected by European Court of Human Rights The post Convicted Garda whistleblower to go back to Court of... Read more »

By Joseph de Burca. Michael Wolff has published two highly critical books of Donald Trump. Despite this, the former president granted Wolff an interview which has helped inform his latest book ‘Landslide’. In the book, Trump fulminates and groans about perceived slights and betrayals. He is particularly critical of the... Read more »

By David Burke. Internment – arrest and detention without trial – was introduced by the Stormont Government of Northern Ireland in August 1971. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and detained. Members of the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando were not targeted for arrest. The swoops were carried out... Read more »

The problem isn't Google and Facebook it's the fact that 25-year-olds find newspapers boring The post Media Commission presages renaissance, or wake appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Last May, Israel launched a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip following weeks of increased violence towards Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The violence by Israeli police was towards Palestinians who were demonstrating the decision to forcibly evict 28 Palestinian families from their homes in the neighbourhood... Read more »

The Palestinian Authority's murder of opposition figure and political activist Nizar Banat in the occupied West Bank is still reverberating around the local political, security, and media arenas. The killing of Banat was a sign of the increasing security hegemony imposed by the PA free of legal oversight by the... Read more »

Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a critic of the Palestinian Authority, or PA, condemning its corruption and its central policy of "security coordination" with Israel. His popular... Read more »

The past few weeks have seen us waking up to news of more Palestinian deaths in Gaza or another attack on the peaceful residents of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. However, yesterday, I woke to the news of another very different Palestinian death; this time it was the result of a... Read more »

Towards the end of the Trump administration last year, the US Department of Justice announced that two American citizens and one Pakistani national had been charged with the federal crime of moving US dollars to Iran on behalf of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2018 and 2019. Although... Read more »

Informed Egyptian sources have revealed specific information and exclusive details about vast secret funds controlled by the Egyptian military institution as part of its financial assets, which are not subject to any sort of supervision. These funds are not included in the general budget of the state or even the... Read more »

This week Abbas Kamel, Egypt's notorious intelligence chief, is visiting Washington to meet with US intelligence officials and several senators. The upcoming trip coincides with news that Egypt may well have played a key role in the Jamal Khashoggi assassination, after Yahoo News reported that the hit squad stopped off... Read more »

Today at dawn, Palestinians across the occupied territories were shocked to learn that a well-known activist in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Nizar Banat, had been killed by Palestinian Authority security forces. The PA Governor in Hebron, Jibreen Al-Bakri, issued a statement about the killing. He claimed that... Read more »

The international community speaks of mechanisms, while Israel is preoccupied with exploiting the need for Gaza to be reconstructed to free the Israelis held by Hamas in the enclave. Meanwhile, displaced Palestinians face yet another round of humanitarian deprivation, even as the dissociation between the experience of displaced Palestinians and... Read more »

In 1980, Venezuela’s infant mortality rate ranked 58th best in the world, far below Cuba, whose infant mortality rate was 28th that year. Infant mortality is a basic Venezuela’s infant mortality rate in 1980 was more than twice as high as that in Cuba – all according to the 2018... Read more »

Venezuela has been an important oil exporter since the 1920s. See this essay for historical details. As the chart below shows, It was not until the 1970s that big Middle east oil exporters like Saudi Arabia and Iran overtook Venezuela in oil production  ... Read more »

There’s a serious political problem in the Spanish Kingdom that seems difficult to resolve and leads to a vicious circle. Probably because of the influence  of Francoist ideology, having independence as an objective is contrary to the Spanish Constitution, (art.2 insists on “The indissoluble unity of the Nation (…),” for... Read more »

The United States and China, the world’s mightiest military and economic powers, are currently heading toward a Cold War or even a hot one, with disastrous consequences.  But an alternative path is available and could be taken. Beginning in 2018, U.S. government policy toward China turned sharply hostile, bringing relations... Read more »

Although, beginning in about 2015, nationalist political parties made enormous advances in countries around the world, more recently they have been on the wane. The nationalist surge was led by a new generation of rightwing populist demagogues who, feeding on public discontent with widespread immigration and economic stagnation, achieved startling... Read more »

FARM JUSTICE BLOGS ZSpace   ZSpace Home Page:  http://zcomm.org/author/bradwilson/  You’re here!   ZSpace List of Blogs:  This went away in a ZSpace upgrade.  I will create an index or table of contents.  FOR NOW USE SEARCH FOR “Brad Wilson.”  I think I have nearly 100 blogs at ZSpace, (and I’ve moved many... Read more »

Review of “Fallout:  The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World” In this crisply-written, well-researched book, Lesley Blume, a journalist and biographer, tells the fascinating story of the background to John Hersey’s pathbreaking article, “Hiroshima,” and of its extraordinary impact upon the world. In 1945, although... Read more »

December 6, 2020 [Chomsky responds to a question about accusations of anti-semitism which stifle debates about justice in Israel-Palestine.] I think the question we should be asking ourselves is: Have our tactics helped develop the charges of anti-semitism? There are tactics that would not encourage that development. So for example,... Read more »

The recent announcement by the British government that it plans a 40 percent increase in the number of nuclear weapons it possesses highlights the escalation of the exceptionally dangerous and costly nuclear arms race. After decades of progress in reducing nuclear arsenals through arms control and disarmament agreements, all the... Read more »

Interview on what brought Bolsonaro to power, dissects his policies and compares them to the Trump regime, and assesses what the future may hold for the troubled nation... Read more »

We have to dedicate ourselves with energy and commitment to using the opportunities that we have. Then, there is a chance that we will survive... Read more »

There is no mystery about how to extend the base: pursue policies that serve peoples’ interests, not the preferences of the donor class... Read more »

Interview on how the media landscape has changed in the age of social media, inspiring activist movements, the Republican's sharp movement toward an insane style of politics, and the dangers of the new Cold War with China... Read more »

It’s hard to garner votes with the slogan “I want to rob you. Vote for me.” That leaves only a few options. One is to prevent the “wrong people” from voting.... Read more »

Interview on why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we’re willing to fight for them... Read more »

To understand the roots of the current escalation, one must examine the U.S.-backed, foundational Israeli government policy of using strategies of “terror and expulsion” in an effort to expand its territory by killing and displacing Palestinians... Read more »

Unless vaccines go to the Global South, the virus is going to mutate. It’s already happening, you get more lethal strains... Read more »

Please Help ZNet           Source: Truthout There has been “nothing comparable in American history” to the huge outpouring of protest unleashed by the murder of George Floyd, says world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky. Even at the very peak of Martin Luther King Jr.’s popularity, the mass protests... Read more »

Striking Alabama coal miner Mike Wright says workers at Warrior Met Coal are taking their calls for fair pay and benefits to the NYC headquarters of their company's biggest investor: BlackRock.... Read more »

While many progressive causes remain widely popular, there is a serious lack of institutional power on the left and strategic coordination between political organizations. But, as veteran activist and organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. argues, that can change.... Read more »

“His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by US drones are bystanders, not the intended targets,” said Edward Snowden. “He should have been given a medal.”... Read more »

August 6 marks the 56th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, but we find ourselves fighting today for the same rights that have been methodically stripped away over decades.... Read more »

Phone calls to the outside world are a lifeline for incarcerated people. Having access to phone calls also reduces violence in prisons and prisoner recidivism rates. So why have we let prisons and private companies charge so much for them?... Read more »

Like many massage therapists, Kate from New Jersey lost her job during the pandemic. Then her employer made her choose between losing her unemployment benefits or returning to work before it was safe.... Read more »

In this week's roundup of Baltimore news, Black community space Terra Cafe won’t cave to noise ordinance NIMBYs, out of town developers try to silence Poppleton residents, and the “Free Keith Davis Jr.” movement raises the stakes with some help from DeRay Mckesson.... Read more »

PAR talks to auditors Laura Shark and Lackluster about the obstacles faced by citizen journalists who uncover police malfeasance, and why the work of auditors plays a critical role in holding cops accountable.... Read more »

Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry are taking over more of the US landscape and farming economy every year. But these rural communities in Wisconsin are fighting back.... Read more »

One user wrote: "Thank you Nigel Farage & Daily Mail for criticising the incredible work the @RNLI does to rescue migrants. Due to you highlighting their endeavours I'm now donating every month”. The post Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI backfires as charity sees donations surge appeared first on Left... Read more »

Despite ‘no DSS’ policies being unlawful under the Equality Act, a meeting of the council heard that the practice was still widespread in the city The post Council becomes first in country to pass motion stamping out DSS discrimination 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 4, July 2021 appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

"The Bill does little for electoral integrity, and much to strengthen electoral support for the government." The post Elections Bill: MPs launch probe into government ‘power grab’ appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources. The post Official Secrets Act: Tory proposals are part of a long history of suppressing journalism to hide government misdeeds appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's... Read more »

It's time to recognise the legacy of the Matchgirls strike. The post UnionDues: The campaign to commemorate one of Britain’s first strikes appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

If this is even 1,000th of the government's message for COP26, we're more doomed than we thought... The post ‘Is this a joke?’: PM’s climate spokesperson’s solution to climate crisis has people gobsmacked appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

LFF understands the Labour party is planning a summer policy spree, including fresh pledges on climate action. The post Labour pledges new climate policies after ‘disappointment’ at lack of action appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

Over 50,000 members will have a say in picking the party's next leader or co-leader. The post Green Party leadership race kicks off appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.... Read more »

More than 1,400 workers in West Virginia are set to lose their jobs this week when the Viatris pharmaceuticals plant in Morgantown shuts down and moves operations overseas to India and Australia. Workers say they've had no response to their urgent requests for help from their Democratic senator, Joe Manchin,... Read more »

We look at the life and legacy of civil rights icon Bob Moses, who recently died at the age of 86, with NAACP President Derrick Johnson, who formerly headed the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, where Moses served as field secretary for SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and helped register... Read more »

We speak with Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, about emotional testimony from four police officers who were attacked by violent and racist Trump supporters while defending the Capitol. At the opening of the House select committee hearing on the January 6 insurrection, the officers described facing down... Read more »

U.S. House Cmte. Hears Harrowing Testimony from Officers Who Responded to Capitol Insurrection, CDC Says Vaccinated People Should Wear Masks Indoors in High-Risk Areas Amid Delta Spread , Tanzania Receives 1 Million J&J COVID Vaccines, Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing U.S. Drone Program, North and South... Read more »

As the United States imposes new Cuba sanctions, citing human rights abuses, we look at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a notorious gulag that President Biden himself has called an "advertisement for creating terror." This month, the first Guantánamo Bay prisoner to be released under the Biden... Read more »

After rare anti-government protests in Cuba, Cuban Americans are speaking out to demand the U.S. government end its blockade of the island. But President Joe Biden has responded with new sanctions. We speak with Cuban American Carlos Lazo, who just led a march from Miami to the White House with... Read more »

California & New York City to Require Workers to Get Vaccine or Weekly Tests, CDC: Florida Accounts for One in Five of All U.S. COVID Cases, Study: Lifting of Eviction Moratoriums Resulted in Over 10,000 COVID Deaths, Tokyo Reports Record Number of COVID Cases as It Hosts Olympics, Protesters Denounce... Read more »

We remember the life of Bob Moses, the civil rights leader who left his job as a New York City high school teacher to register Black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s, facing down horrific violence and intimidation to become one of the icons of the movement. He died Sunday... Read more »

At a sentencing hearing Tuesday, whistleblower Daniel Hale faces at least nine years in prison for leaking classified information about the U.S. drone and targeted assassination program. During his time in the Air Force from 2009 to 2013, Hale worked with the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations... Read more »

“Yemen is in a catastrophic state,” says Kawthar Abdullah, an organizer with the Yemeni Alliance Committee. “I have family there. Every day when I call and talk to them, the reality on the ground is far worse than it is ever portrayed.” Abdullah, who is based in New York, is... Read more »

The morning my mother died was cold and dark, and the snow fall outside was frenzied and piling high. I’d put my headphones on in the night to block out the loud hiss and moan of my mother’s oxygen machine. I was tired. Less than six months after founding the... Read more »

The Biden administration came into office promising a return to both climate action and diplomacy after years of confrontation and denialism under Trump. But when it comes to China, unfortunately, the administration has endangered both diplomacy and climate action by presiding over a reflexive bipartisan belligerence. Since taking office, the... Read more »

The street demonstrations that broke out all over Cuba on July 11 are an unprecedented event in the more than 60 years since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. But why now? This essay explores the historic, economic and political factors that help to clarify the causes of Cuba’s July... Read more »

On July 24, more than 600 Frito-Lay workers in Kansas who had been on strike for three weeks finally signed a new union contract. The contract, won at great personal cost for the striking factory workers, came with a modest 4 percent wage increase, and the right to at least... Read more »

On June 5, the temperature in Eau Claire, Wis., shot up to 97 degrees. Local media reported the first heat wave of the season as breaking record highs, damaging roads, and threatening residents with heat-related illnesses or even death. Less than 35 miles east of Eau Claire, over 1,400 incarcerated... Read more »

land • back noun1. The ongoing movement to return land to the stewardship of Indigenous peoples. What is the goal of the landback movement? Beyond its explicit demand, landback is about transforming settler-colonial relationships to land; restoring the language, culture and sovereignty of tribal communities; and dismantling white supremacy. Landback... Read more »

In these heady days of progressive proposals for massive increases in the federal budget, such as the Democrats’ recently announced $3.5 trillion human infrastructure package, a timely paper has reopened an old debate with a new proposal for a guaranteed national income, in the form of a negative income tax... Read more »

President Joe Biden’s stimulus packages do not fulfill his promise to “build back better.” We must demand more. All the stimulus packages, from the first (under former President Donald Trump) to the most recent (Biden’s American Rescue Plan), have one thing in common: They attempt to restore the order that... Read more »

An interview with the Positive Penger group. Jussi: So welcome all and welcome Michael. Good to have you here again. How are you? Hudson: It’s good to be back. Jussi: Our pleasure as usual. Let me just introduce you shortly first. I think most people know quite a lot about... Read more »

Understanding of the dollar’s world role is dominated by the ideas of ‘dollar hegemony’ and ‘US hegemony’. In this paper, based on our extensive past work, we reveal how these ideas are ideologies, not theories. In their place, we reveal an understanding one that is theoretically sound and accords with... Read more »

Published by Sage Journals Abstract Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy of feudalism—the landlords, bankers, and monopolists extracting economic rent without producing real value. However, that reform movement failed. Today, the finance, insurance,... Read more »

Why is the Fed buying corporate junk bonds and debt but won’t buy out student debt? Michael Hudson on theAnalysis.news with Paul Jay. Paul Jay Hi, I’m Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. Thank you to everybody who has clicked the donate button. And if you haven’t, maybe you might do... Read more »

In this wide-ranging discussion on the Moderate Rebels podcast, Hudson addresses US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, the policies of the Joe Biden administration, Beijing’s economic model, cryptocurrencies, and dedollarization – the potential end to the dollar as the global reserve currency. Transcript Ben Norton 0:03 Hello everyone, I’m Ben... Read more »

The Radical Imagination episode with guests Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: April 21, 2021 (transcribed May 3, 2021):  Jim Vrettos:
 So, Michael, Jonathan. Thank you so very, very much for being here. Jonathan, you’re from… We’re looking at you from North Carolina there and Michael is in Queens. You’ve both... Read more »

An interview on The Radical Imagination with Pastor Jonathan Hartgrove and host Jim Vrettos. Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash The post Christian Nationalism’s Re-branding of Jesus first appeared on Michael Hudson.... Read more »

Transcript Jussi: Welcome Michael. I just give a brief overview of the agenda and then I get back to you with a few questions. I just show you this picture, what we want to do today is this: Today we will get a long-term view on money debt and the... Read more »

The first lecture at the prestigious Southwest University, Chongqing, China: Global U, youtube channel, posted on 21 April 2021, video, Wen Tiejun’s account of Michael Hudson’s Ten Lectures Global U weixin channel, an account of Hudson’s Ten Lectures. Global U weixin channel, article, Hudson’s talk in Macau Michael Hudson’s Ten... Read more »

Before Georgia voted for Joe Biden, the biggest upset in recent state politics came when Democrat Lucy McBath became the first Black person to represent Newt Gingrich’s former congressional district. Georgia’s Sixth District, home to the affluent northern suburbs of Atlanta, was long a bastion of deep-red Republicanism, represented by... Read more »

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Take a look around your home and you’ll likely find plenty of goods that traveled by cargo ship to your doorstep. A set of IKEA plates made in China. A dresser full of... Read more »

The US government has summarily expelled migrants and asylum seekers at the Southern border almost 1 million times since March 2020. At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration invoked an obscure public health authority to implement a sweeping order, known as Title 42, that effectively sealed the... Read more »

After nearly a year and a half of telling their constituents that it’s their constitutional right to ignore coronavirus guidelines and public health restrictions, it seems to be dawning on leaders in the Republican Party that letting a deadly and very infectious disease run rampant through their states and localities—not... Read more »

The Real Facebook Oversight Board is coming after the company again. Demonstrators from the non-profit backed civil society group showed up outside of Facebook’s DC office on Wednesday morning bearing body bags to make the case that “Facebook Kills”—a play on Joe Biden saying earlier this month that disinformation on... Read more »

Jake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politicians touting the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. But when he’s not in front of the camera, Tapper enjoys blurring... Read more »

In September 2009, Matt DeHart says he found some curious files on a dark web server he maintained as part of his association with Anonymous, the loosely affiliated hacktivist collective that came to notoriety over its attacks on the Church of Scientology. The files, which he later claimed showed evidence of the... Read more »

Americans sure are angry these days. Everyone says so, so it must be true. But who or what are we angry at? Pandemic stresses aside, I’d bet you’re not especially angry at your family. Or your friends. Or your priest or your plumber or your postal carrier. Or even your... Read more »

Until the discovery of insulin a century ago today by two Canadian researchers who injected a pancreatic extract into a diabetic dog and watched its blood sugar drop, diabetes had been deemed fatal. Kids and adults “most often died within days to months,” Dr. Chris Feudtner of the University of... Read more »

"The current eviction protections in New York State, enacted through the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (CEEFPA), protects most tenants from eviction, but only if they submit a hardship declaration form. These state protections are set to expire on August 31 and must absolutely be extended to prevent... Read more »

Gibbons has said: "Hale’s crime is exposing the human rights abuses of U.S. drone strikes, including that during a given time period nearly 90 percent of those killed by drone strikes were not the intended target."  The post Drone Whistleblower to be Sentenced Today appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

He said today: "More sanctions is another step into deepening draconian Trump Cuba policy, another step into betrayal of Biden-Harris Cuba campaign policy, which attracted many progressive and democratic socialist votes in line with large public support to renew the progress of Barack Obama-Raul Castro full diplomatic relations. It's a blatant unilateral dismissal of the overwhelming global UN vote to... Read more »

Samatar recently wrote the piece "Somalia’s toxic political and security order: the death knell of democracy" for The Conversation: "In 2006, after a decade-and-a-half of cruel civil war, the Union of Islamic Courts, a homegrown alliance of religious leaders, terminated 15 years of warlords’ terror and tyranny. They pacified Mogadishu... Read more »

Garrido recently wrote the piece "A Marxist Analysis of the New Socialist Tide in Latin America" for The International. Garrido notes that about 20 years ago, there was a "Pink Tide" of left-wing victories in Latin America, but was followed by right-wing governments: "Brazil saw the emergence of Michel Termer after the illegitimate, U.S.... Read more »

Aviva Chomsky writes: "It’s true that Central America is indeed plagued by poverty, violence, and corruption, but if Biden were willing to look at the root causes of his root causes, he might notice that his aren’t the solutions to such problems, but their source" The post Is Biden Obscuring... Read more »

  Silverstein said today: "Two major media exposes in the New York Times and Washington Post have shone a light on the damage done by Israeli cyber-hacking companies to human rights around the world. The Post story, published in collaboration with Amnesty International's Pegasus Project, details a massive corporate spying... Read more »

"The emerging California public banks have the potential to address a host of economic, social, and ecological crises, and public banking efforts across the country are looking to California’s cities and regions to lead the way. State and local governments need public financial infrastructure to recapture the public’s money being extracted... Read more »

"Contrary to President Biden’s uninformed or intentional mischaracterization of recent protests in Cuba that the Cuban government is denying the needs of its citizens to 'enrich themselves,' Cuban President Diaz Canal Bermudez has proactively convened government officials and Cuban citizens to assert national sovereignty and assume responsibility for informing the... 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 »

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

Our team uncovers the remarkable, but scarcely understood, truth about river pollution. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st July 2021 There’s more below the surface than we thought. Something even worse than the water companies’ disgusting habit of filling our rivers with raw sewage. After a deep dive... Read more »

Our rivers and seas are being transformed into open sewers by greedy business and useless governments. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th July 2021 What’s remarkable is not that a water company knowingly and deliberately poured billions of litres of raw sewage into the sea to cut its... Read more »

How the media stoked the climate crisis. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2021 Yes, we should rake over the coals. And the oil, and the gas. Democratic accountability means remembering who helped to stoke the climate crisis. We should hold the fossil fuel companies to account.... Read more »

A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th June 2021 It is hard to believe it’s happening again, even harder to believe that so few people seem to know... Read more »

People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd June 2021 How big would our housing crisis be if it were not for second homes? It’s a question almost no... Read more »

Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th May 2021 Every week, governments’ headline announcements save the planet, and every week their smallprint unsaves it. The latest puff by the G7 is a classic... Read more »

The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th May 2021 Once again, through gross neglect, the government is in danger of snatching defeat from the... Read more »

When we get ripped off by con artists, in most cases we no longer have any recourse. It’s the result of disastrous political choices. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th May 2021 It was a classic insulation scam. The conman had targeted a vulnerable elderly person, discovered a... Read more »

The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcome. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th May 2021 Any residual argument for Scotland to stay within the United Kingdom meets its counter-argument in Boris Johnson. Westminster politics has always been the preserve of a remote enclave,... Read more »