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Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months in jail for impeding production of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers. They’re not the only ones, they say — and are urging anyone slapped with... Read more »

US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s government. It turns out he was an opposition hooligan who destroyed a public university during the violent US-backed 2018 coup attempt. On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin,... Read more »

Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer who handled the Russian intelligence defector at the center of the scandal — and reaped considerable benefits from his proximity to the case. This September, a... Read more »

The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a dual American-Israeli citizen. But a source who’s been in contact with his family says he was not a US citizen at all. The Grayzone... Read more »

Once again, the British state is exploiting anti-democratic terrorism measures to secure convictions of Palestine Action defendants who targeted an Israeli weapons plant. UK media is currently forbidden from reporting on the trial. From October 5th, an eight-week-long trial of nine Palestine Action activists known as the Instro 10 will... Read more »

Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be more repressive than the one it forcibly replaced. The Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered the government to explain its reasoning for arresting political... Read more »

When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more disturbing revelation: the Pentagon appears to be breaking the law by paying conservative influencers to track, surveil, and propagandize Americans. Who else is involved... Read more »

A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his organization has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from the Israel-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With close ties to the Israeli government, the Fellowship is flooding conservative media with paid partnerships. One year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, The Charlie... Read more »

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the US government. See the complete files here. Eight months before a deadly... Read more »

Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to use the Mother Of All Bomb (MOAB)’s against the Islamic Republic. In the latest episode of The Target, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks... Read more »

Through its myriad of agencies, the United States government has recruited and groomed rappers from around the world to further its political interests. Washington has spent tens of millions of dollars funding, training, and promoting artists who foment public discontent, organize protests, and lead color revolutions in nations in its... Read more »

The page that is still up Westminster Synagogue sits in the exclusive Knightsbridge district of London. In the financial year 2024, it brought in a total income of £1.31 million (U.S.$1.75 million). Its “Ways to Support” page still lists appeals that go well beyond a collection plate. Two of them... Read more »

Yemen’s Ansarallah are combating Israel’s expanded military outpost project, centred in Somaliland, as it accelerated plans to control the Red Sea and overthrow Yemen’s resistance government that had bankrupted Israel’s Eilat Port. Israel lost its foothold on Mayyun Island following a Yemeni operation that ended with Sana'a taking control of... Read more »

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu draft plans to launch another attack on Iran – as oil prices continue to rise once again. In this episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the developments that have put a stranglehold on the US in... Read more »

Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their education. They want more teachers, smaller classes, decent school buildings and a public education system that works for... Read more »

Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensive aimed at capturing Bab el-Mandeb. In this Monday’s edition of The Target, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down the conflict on the ground and why... Read more »

Oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have again been struck by ballistic missiles and drones, while evidence has emerged that the US could be plotting raids into north-eastern Iranian territory. In the latest episode of The Target stream, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh looks at the incidents... Read more »

Scrambling to halt the ongoing offensive of Yemen’s Armed Forces, Israel and Saudi Arabia have strengthened ties through a joint covert campaign aimed at salvaging what remains of their supremacy in the Red Sea region. Tel Aviv and Riyadh’s losses of key military strongholds in Yemen’s Western coast, has ushered... Read more »

Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rallying call to the country today. When we pull as one, →... Read more »

In response to news that we are this year celebrating 25 years of Media Lens we have received many kind comments from readers, some of them sympathising that it must be ‘awful’ to live with →... Read more »

English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is a megastar. With over 128 million followers on Spotify, he ranks as the platform’s second most-followed artist, surpassed only by Taylor Swift. Sheeran’s official YouTube channel has more than 50 →... Read more »

A stark warning was issued to humanity via CCTV on 26 August when a tsunami-like torrent of floodwater rising as high as 130 metres destroyed Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal →... Read more »

If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made →... Read more »

‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made publicly by a British newspaper editor. Allister Heath, editor of →... Read more »

This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a long time, our alerts focused →... Read more »

On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. And now the same news organisations are burnishing Andy →... Read more »

We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of anti-semitism to undermine democratic choice and defend Israel, →... Read more »

The Republican running for Senate in Michigan is directing campaign funds toward chartered flights, a Miami car service, and BMW repairs. The post Mike Rogers Spent $100K on Private Jets and Luxury Travel Last Quarter appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries. The post The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

While Trump campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize, his war on humanity’s only home continues unabated. The post President Apocalypse appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With Democrats campaigning on ending the war, advocates want them to put their money where their mouth is and risk a lame-duck shutdown. The post Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and the years of “counterterror” surveillance that paved the way for the Trump administration’s abuses. The post DHS Was Designed as a Weapon appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The toxic exposures didn’t begin with the flames. Researchers are examining how fires affected a community already harmed by plantation agriculture, development, and colonialism. The post Long After the Maui Fires, Toxic Metals Linger in Residents’ Bodies appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Collins received tens of thousands from Lockheed during a two-month period surrounding a critical 2023 watchdog report. The post Lockheed Martin Showered Susan Collins With Cash as F-35 Program Hit Turbulence appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. The post Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution was not without precedent — it tapped into a dark and forgotten U.S. tradition. The post America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

What do melting Arctic ice, a war for farmland in Ukraine, and the panic of Gulf petro-states have in common? Arthur Snell exposes the terrifying new geography of global conflict and how humanity can adapt to survive it.... Read more »

An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom... Read more »

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash... Read more »

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and stabbing of others... Read more »

Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup... Read more »

If Donald Trump fails to end the Iran war soon, its effects could last for decades, with unpredictable consequences... Read more »

We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat... Read more »

Keen to present itself as a key EU partner on migration, Morocco pushed migrants out of sight before tourists arrived.... Read more »

What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?... Read more »

"This is interesting, because it reveals the exact value that these companies place on human life."... Read more »

"People are successfully manipulated in these ways because the wealthiest among us control the media and own all the largest platforms, which gives them a very high degree of narrative control."... Read more »

These people are such evil freaks. War profiteering should be fucking illegal.... Read more »

I have no respect for this idea that art is somehow separable from politics. ALL art is political when you live in a genocidal dystopia, because all your expression exists in relation to our freakish civilization.... Read more »

The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of Jeff Bezos. It says so much about how diseased our society has become that the most revered and respected among us are emotionally stunted man-babies... Read more »

Writing is thinking. Writing is the practice of sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of your own consciousness and transforming your thoughts and feelings into coherent, logical expression.... Read more »

They’ve been quietly constructing a cage around us this entire time in order to lock us into this capitalist dystopia forever.... Read more »

The prime minister is claiming the truth causes “harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests” because Israel is a state that can only exist on a foundation of endless lies.... Read more »

The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else.... Read more »

Την Δευτέρα 12/10 το βράδυ, στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών, 5 γυναίκες θα παρουσιάσουν το νέο μου βιβλίο (για 5 άλλες γυναίκες, των οποίων οι ιστορίες συνθέτουν μια ιδιαίτερη Ιστορία Ενός Αιώνα, 1923-2023). ΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΗ ΨΗΛΑ | Πέντε γυναίκες που μου δίδαξαν την αντίσταση στον φασισμό, στον αυταρχισμό και στον σοβινιστή... Read more »

In my 2023 book I explained Big Tech’s overweening power to shape society “technofeudalism.” In this article for Jacobin, I reply to my critics that this isn’t a moral critique but one based ona fully-fledged Marxist analysis of the dynamic of capital accumulation today. The full argument linking Marx’s political economics... Read more »

As recently as two years ago, most Chinese economists paid only lip service to Marxism and assigned Western textbooks to their students. The advent of AI has changed that, because the technology—open source and available to the smallest manufacturer for a pittance—promises to avoid the “rent trap” common to capitalist... Read more »

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has returned Homer’s epic to the centre of popular culture, a feat that must be welcomed. Many have asked me to review the film. I declined. Being Greek gives me no privileged vantage point from which to comment on a work that belongs to everyone, that... Read more »

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projections of an economic Armageddon were so absurd that they proved a monumental own goal, deemed sensationalist scaremongering. Ten years on, still smarting from the... Read more »

The very definition of an inauspicious start. The New Chancellor will push public debt further into the red to buy US weaponry that does nothing either to bolster productivity or UK’s defences. The same ol’ Home Secretary will continue practising ritualistic brutality (or vicious signalling) on refugees. Cooper will continue... Read more »

Ascribing human traits to chatbots empowers techlords. ‘Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.’  The trouble with impressive new technologies is that they have the uncanny ability to expose the awfulness of our relationship to one another, not to mention to our own selves. Now that our... Read more »

At 250, America is now producing a mindless, raw power and exponentially growing instability. The possibility of catharsis that characterized the United States at its bicentennial is hard to envisage a half-century later—to the detriment of us all._ ATHENS—On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need... Read more »

Ο Μαρκ Ρούτε, ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός της Ολλανδίας και νυν γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, πρόσφατα άφησε να διαρρεύσει μια αλήθεια που προκάλεσε αναταραχή σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Περιέγραψε τη Συμμαχία όχι ως την αμυντική ασπίδα της Ευρώπης, αλλά ως «…μια πλατφόρμα για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες να προβάλλουν τη δύναμή τους... Read more »

Your dining room sees more life than almost any other space in your home. Family dinners, holiday gatherings, homework sessions, and late night conversations all happen around that one table. Yet many homeowners leave this room untouched for years, assuming a refresh means spending thousands of dollars. The truth is... Read more »

Retraining as a personal trainer does not necessarily mean leaving your current job before you start studying. If you plan the qualification route carefully, you can fit theory work around evenings, weekends or changing shifts, then arrange practical training and assessment dates once you know what the course requires. The... Read more »

Content warning: This article contains a graphic image of injuries A Palestinian man has been shot dead and others injured during the olive harvest in the Ramin Valley as the world marks the third anniversary of the 7 October genocide. The area, which is in the Tulkarm governorate in the... Read more »

Somalia is facing a massive human catastrophe, fuelled by a combination of climate chaos and decades of foreign intervention (primarily from the US). This crisis is intensifying at a time when north-eastern Africa has become a key focus for regional powers following the US-Israeli war on Iran’s severe disruption of... Read more »

Campaigners continue to apply pressure to convince Reform-led Kirklees Council to finally reopen Dewsbury Sports Centre. The previous Labour leadership had taken the “devastating” and highly questionable decision to permanently close the sports centre in Dewsbury – one of England’s most deprived towns. For three years campaigners have been pushing... Read more »

Today, 7 October 2026, is the third anniversary of horror. However, it is not the horror that the mainstream UK media, British politicians and Israel lobbyists will tell you about. On 7 October 2023, from before dawn until well into the evening, Israel conducted the mass slaughter of its own... Read more »

The Guardian has been accused of inverting reality in its attempt to undermine the Green Party’s conference motion declaring that Zionism is (and it is) racism. The paper’s headline blared that: British Jews more likely to identify as Zionist since 7 October attacks, research finds. Percentage who feel ‘very emotionally... Read more »

Numerous public figures who want to see lasting peace in the North of Ireland have signed an open letter. The letter, to Northern Ireland secretary Chris Bryant, expresses support for the Garvaghy Road residents in Portadown. The open letter in support of Garvaghy Road residents Dear Secretary of State, We... Read more »

Content warning: This article contains distressing/ graphic images and videos of physical violence West Bank’s olive harvesting season has not yet officially started but ‘Israeli’ violence in olive groves, and theft of produce is already occurring throughout the territory Every autumn, Palestinian families return to their groves to harvest olives.... Read more »

Will Bunch @ Inquirer: Are the secrets to a Trump postelection coup locked in a White House safe? What two ex-high-ranking U.S. government officials fear about a presidential emergency should terrify all Americans. Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: Ted Cruz... Read more... Read more »

Millions took to the streets in France on Saturday (17 October), paralysing the centres of several major cities. There were widespread clashes between demonstrators and security forces. In Paris, hundreds of thousands converged on the Place de la République. The... Read more... Read more »

From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Sunday, November 08, 2026 Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Event Type: Screening Organizer/Author: JCC SF Location Details: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St San Francisco,... Read more... Read more »

For a quick summary, please see the “Green Voter Card” copied below. Please note: Many of the links to websites in the online Voter Guide are “clickable”. “Green Voter Card” State Executive Offices: Boycott the Following Races — see front-page... Read more... Read more »

A Utah neighborhood uses garage doors as a backdrop to display signs commenting on the Trump Administration’s performance. There is a constant need to condemn Donald Trump and his enablers in a timely manner. A group of Utahns does that... Read more... Read more »

Housing and community activists rallied in San Francisco Golden Gate Pan Handle to talk about the fight for housing and the speculators and billionaires who are driving poor, senior and working people out of San Francisco San Francisco residents are... Read more... Read more »

After a weekend of social unrest that began peacefully with protesters in Milan reacting to the high cost of living, military spending and wars that fomented a riot, the city has begun to return to a new normal. Milan (10-19)... Read more... Read more »

Channeling the voice of God, MAGA pastor Hank Kunneman told his congregation not to be fearful about the midterm elections because Trump’s prayers will not be ignored: “In secret, yes, your president, in the simplicity of his heart, prays.”... Read more »

In the first of a two part series, James travels to Lochiel, Arizona, to interview land defenders occupying a historic cottonwood known as grandmother tree in order to prevent the tree being destroyed as part of a two layer border... Read more... Read more »

Author: Danny EvansTitle: ‘Ultra-left’ anarchists and anti-fascism in the Second RepublicDate: 2016Source: International Journal of Iberian Studies, 29: 3, pp. 241–56, doi: 10.1386/ijis.29.3.241_1 ABSTRACT This article investigates the anarchist understanding of fascism during the Second Republic, and particularly during the abstention campaign of 1933, when the practice of radicals in... Read more »

Author: comité invisibleTitle: Becoming Alive, Autonomous, and ExplosiveDate: October 17th, 2026Notes: Translated by Ill Will from <frustrationmagazine.fr/rejoindre-les-lyceens-et-devenir>Source: Retrieved on 2026-10-18 from <illwill.com/becoming-alive>   Whether it’s a coincidence or a sign of the times, it is in the midst of a youth revolt and on the eve of a possible “return... Read more »

Author: John PattenTitle: An anarchist in the archiveSubtitle: Remembering Barry PatemanSource: Retrieved on October 18, 2026 from https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/w0vwm5 Our comrade Barry Pateman was at the heart of the Kate Sharpley Library for thirty-five years. My earliest memory of Barry is of him on the KSL stall at the anarchist bookfair... Read more »

Author: Emon AzmiTitle: To black anarchist menSubtitle: A short reflection. Nothing here is a new insight.Date: 10/17/2026Notes: Source: https://thatanarkatamuslim.substack.com/p/to-black-anarchist-men NOTE: For an understanding of black anarchism’s development up to our moment, check out the book Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition by Nsambu Za Suekama and Atticus Bagby-Williams. i... Read more »

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: Products of DesireSubtitle: On Loving the UnrealDate: 2019Source: <littleblackcart.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=625> [Even though the website says the book is in stock, the book publisher is no longer.]   This work features excerpts from three pieces which explore the ways a desire for the impossible changes the way we see... Read more »

Author: Ausonia CalabreseTitle: Irrelevant Features of AnarchismSubtitle: An Indigenous Review of Occult Features of Anarchism (2018)Date: 10/15/2026Source: https://ausoniacalabrese.substack.com/p/irrelevant-features-of-anarchism I have been sitting on this review for quite a while. This short book comes up quite often when combing through anarchist literature on occultism (and vice-versa). With the release of more... Read more »

Author: Grant AllenTitle: The Beauty of SexDate: April-May 1927Source: Freedom; A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, April-May 1927, page 24. <www.anarchistfaq.org/freedom/Freedom-1927-04-05.pdf> From beginning to end, there is no feeling of our nature against which asceticism has made so dead a set as the sexual instinct. It has spoken of it always... Read more »

Author: Hein Htet KyawTitle: Can Pirates Save Democracy?Subtitle: The Case for Pirate Politics and Pirate PartiesDate: December 28th, 2024Source: hackernoon.com Historically, anarchist and libertarian ideologies have often been situated outside the traditional political spectrum due to their emphasis on individualism, direct action, anti-capitalism, and the pursuit of a stateless society.... Read more »

Author: Groupe Révolutionnaire CharlatanTitle: Will 1793 Take Place?Subtitle: Destituent Remarks on the Chilean Uprising and the Yellow VestsDate: October 6th, 2026Notes: Translated by the authors and Ill WillSource: https://illwill.com/1793   First published in French in August 2026, the present article argues that the 2018–19 Yellow Vests movement in France and... Read more »

An anarchist in the archive : Remembering Barry Pateman... Read more »

Library News Part Two (Oct. 2026)... Read more »

The Commons and the Dangers of a Reactionary Derailment : Amorós in Rodrigo Mora’s Looking Glass... Read more »

Guángara Libertaria Memories... Read more »

The Jargon Libre Collections... Read more »

Sebastian “Bas” Moreel (1930-2026)... Read more »

[Leaflet about the coal industry April 1912]... Read more »

Flier for Leicester Socialist League meeting 1889 with Councillor W. Sanders of Walsall... Read more »

Instead of the Peace of the Graveyards, the Libertarian Movement Confronts Francoism [May-July 1948]... Read more »

Pakistan is providing Saudi Arabia with “whatever support is needed” to defend the kingdom amid attacks by Yemen’s Houthi group, a Pakistani military spokesman said in an interview aired Sunday, Anadolu reports. “It’s non-negotiable; it’s absolute as far as Pakistan is concerned,” Pakistan Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry... Read more »

The dispute over whether Israel’s assault on Gaza amounts to genocide has largely been settled. Amnesty International, a UN commission of inquiry and the International Association of Genocide Scholars have all reached that conclusion, as have many leading scholars of genocide. The question that remains is how the greatest political... Read more »

Egypt’s parliament has postponed for a week, until Oct. 26, a vote on authorizing military support to help defend Saudi Arabia if it requests assistance, Anadolu reports. Egypt’s parliament decided to postpone the vote during Monday’s session, which followed a similar meeting held on Sunday, reported state-run daily Akhbar el-Yom.... Read more »

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Israel has failed to comply with a US-mediated framework agreement signed in June and continues daily violations in southern Lebanon, reaffirming his country’s commitment to a diplomatic solution, Anadolu reports. Aoun made the remarks during a meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy... Read more »

Between 20 and 30 aircraft were destroyed during Iran’s war with the US and Israel, the head of the country’s state-owned flag carrier said Monday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Taher Abdolhai, CEO of Iran Air, also known as HOMA, said at a news conference that Iran needs... Read more »

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Monday warned companies and individuals against bidding for construction projects linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, citing potential sanctions, Anadolu reports. “We urge businesses and individuals not to proceed with bids for E1 construction tenders,” Miliband said in a statement.... Read more »

Extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday used penalties imposed on mosques to promote his election campaign, boasting about a fine issued to a mosque in the southern town of Tel Sheva, Anadolu reports. The move comes amid intensifying competition among Israeli political parties ahead of elections scheduled... Read more »

The UN World Food Program (WFP) announced Monday that funding shortages have forced it to cut food assistance in the Gaza Strip by around one-third, leaving half a million people without critical support as winter approaches, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the agency said it is now assisting 1.1 million... Read more »

A navy can control water. It can’t make a merchant captain sail through it. Warships stop missiles, sure, but no admiral can promise a shipping company that its crew, its cargo and its insurance cover will all survive the next voyage. That gap is the real problem in the US-Iran... Read more »

Well that was fun. In last week's welcome bit of comic relief, we got the vapid rise and rapid fall - despite requisite blonde hair, faux smile and passing resemblance to Ivanka - of "manifestly unqualified" Barbie News Reader and fake Chinese lawyer Katie Zacharia after a brutal debut. So... Read more »

New FEC filings show the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has become the dominant funder of the Senate Leadership Fund, the leading Republican Senate super PAC. Musk was responsible for 58% of the fund’s third-quarter fundraising, and his latest contributions bring his total giving to the Republican group... Read more »

A Fox News poll has revealed that corruption is a leading issue for voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with a whopping 88 percent saying they are concerned about corruption, including 60 percent who say they are “extremely concerned” about it.In response, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the... Read more »

The devastation goes on apace at the teeny toxic hands of the clowns and hacks in power (maybe not much longer?). Topping the abuses: An assault by Homeland Security (sic) thugs on the home of a duly elected (albeit female, brown, Muslim) member of Congress for imaginary crimes as a... Read more »

Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.6% in September and are up 3.7% over the past year, the fastest pace since May. Gasoline prices jumped 9.1% in September alone, accounting for over half of the monthly increase in overall prices, and are up 34% from a year... Read more »

The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the announcement that there will be a 3.6% cost-of-living (COLA) benefit increase for millions of Social Security beneficiaries next year:“Millions of Americans who rely on Social Security welcome any increase in their monthly... Read more »

The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on Social Security’s 2027 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be 3.6 percent:“Every year, Social Security’s benefits are automatically adjusted to account for inflation. This is an essential feature of the system, which prevents benefits from eroding over... Read more »

The anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the birth of a dark new world where "the unthinkable has become banal," where many thousands of damaged Palestinian children - homeless, toy-less, traumatized, unschooled, with mournful questions about a lost world -... Read more »

As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to illegally expand oil and gas drilling into long-protected Arctic public lands in Alaska, the Department of the Interior today announced a categorical exclusion that aims to exempt oil and gas exploration projects from individual review under the National Environmental Policy Act.... Read more »

“Forget justice, it’s much too expensive and time consuming. Plus if you take the government to court, you will have to spend your own money, and we are saving you from that”. That is a fair summary of the judgement by Lords Pentland and Troy and Lady Wise in our... Read more »

Tomorrow at 10am we get the judgement in our appeal against the suspension of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. We cannot have won as the appeal – held by “urgent process” – was intended to allow a judicial review before the Supreme Court meets in... Read more »

Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot. It remains quite possible the men were indeed fuel thieves, simply stealing fuel from farms. They appear to have been equipped for fuel theft and all... Read more »

I have lost faith both in Western social democracy, and in the institutions of international law. As both have been fundamental to the work of my life, this is rather a blow as I approach 70. A number of deeply shocking things have happened this past three years, not as... Read more »

On Friday we have our appeal against the suspension of the Palestine Action judicial review in Scotland. Our legal crowdfunder has been closed down by the card processors following Trump’s designation of Palestine Action as a global terrorist organisation. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/scottish-challenge-to-proscription/dashboard/ If you can, please come to the Court of Session... Read more »

I was surprised a few weeks ago to get an invitation from Yana Lantratova, Russian Federal Commissioner for Human Rights, to deliver a speech on human rights to the International Youth Festival in Ekaterinburg. It is approaching 20 years since I was last in Russia, and I tend to avoid... Read more »

UPDATE We got an expedited date to “reclaim” (appeal) against the suspension of the case, on 25 September. We shall also be reclaiming against the decision not to send the case straight to the Inner House. All parties seemed to agree there may just be time, if our appeal is... Read more »

Europe urgently needs to re-establish access to Russian oil and gas. Gas prices are high – as all UK energy consumers know – and German gas storage is at a record low for September. Gulf production is degraded, supplies are cut off and its long-term strategic stability undermined. German manufacturing... Read more »

Dr David Halpin, a redoubtable campaigner over the murder of Dr David Kelly, and a friend of this blog for over twenty years, has died. He will be missed. His sister Mary was for many years an invaluable commenter here and occasional researcher for me. Unfortunately about ten years ago... Read more »

Please complete this short survey and tell us which books or other works of literature you have taught using a Zinn Education Project people’s history lesson, and how you have used ZEP lessons to provide historical context in your English classroom.  The post What Literature Are You Teaching in Your... Read more »

Thanks to donations, we are sending Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits to teachers. These toolkits help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics. The post Voting Rights Teaching... Read more »

Join us to celebrate the Zinn Education Project’s 18th year while we are in Philadelphia for the National Council for the Teachers of English conference. The post Invitation: Dinner Reception in Philadelphia appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with Howard Bryant about his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. This class is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The post Robeson, Robinson, and Resistance: Athletes,... Read more »

Historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale discussed student organizing and state repression, and talked about their new books, High School Students Unite! and A New Kind of Youth. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The... Read more »

The Zinn Education Project’s Freedom to Teach and Learn Report documents, in educators’ own words, how the chilling effect is unfolding in schools today and how teachers are resisting. More than 610 educators from at least 43 states and Washington, D.C. responded to the survey. The post Freedom to Teach... Read more »

Resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day and all year to teach outside the textbook. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

It is essential that students know their rights: not just to pass a test, but to protect themselves. We offer FIVE ways to Teach Truth on Constitution Day. The post Five Ways to Teach Truth About the Constitution appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »

To contribute to national efforts to get out the vote and defend the elections, we encourage middle and high school teachers to focus on voting rights and the Constitution in September and October. We ask for your help to send free voting rights toolkits to educators nationwide. The post Send Free Voting Rights Toolkits... Read more »

Through the voices of survivors, journalists, and excerpts of legal depositions, Diabolical dips its toes into the world of the Epstein Files–a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, e-mails, and other records pertaining to criminal investigations undertaken by the FBI of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The records... Read more »

#BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister: We expect to implement the first phase of the plan soon and release our captives. The army is deployed in Gaza City and ready for any scenario, and if Hamas refuses, fire will resume.#GazaWar... Read more »

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For more than six decades, Jürgen Habermas defended the power of reasoned dialogue against authoritarianism, consumerism and political cynicism The post Our greatest intellectual is gone appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Councillor Seamie Moore got a judge’s parking vision seen to and avoided a fine he should have paid. The post The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resisted appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

How Mary McAleese’s post-presidential embrace of UAE institutions jars with the bridge-building that defined her presidency The post From Bridge to Gulf appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

State anchoring its flagship emergency energy asset, in County Clare, to an environmental crime scene and a non-existent root of title The post The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the Making appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Coveney and Martin lied to the Dáil on a fundamental matter of state The post RAF deal: rough deal for truth appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Asymmetry cannot be replaced in an afternoon The post €492 Indicator Fault reveals the ontology of oppression appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

Use of the army in support of the Garda rested on a mixture of custom, convenience, delegated regulations and constitutional assumption rather than explicit statutory authority, until the fuel protests and statutory panic ended all that The post Soldiers, statute and the State: Ireland’s aid to the civil power appeared... Read more »

How public cash funding Expressway shadow fleet has been exposed using the State’s own real-time tracking data The post The €1.2 billion Public Service Obligation-funded Heist appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

The Irish Times’ Pat Leahy is the establishment’s favourite storyteller The post Pat Solutions, Irish Times political editor appeared first on Village Magazine.... Read more »

A navy can control water. It can’t make a merchant captain sail through it. Warships stop missiles, sure, but no admiral can promise a shipping company that its crew, its cargo and its insurance cover will all survive the next voyage. That gap is the real problem in the US-Iran... Read more »

The paradox has acquired a second dimension, and it is written in the ruins of Gaza. Indonesia, a nation that presents itself to the world as a rising democratic power and an indispensable partner for global stability, now positions itself as a moral voice for Palestine while presiding over a... Read more »

In Herat, construction on the TAPI pipeline is advancing, raising questions about when local businesses and households might receive its gas. TOLOnews, citing Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, reported that nearly 25 kilometres of pipeline had been laid, with more of the route prepared for construction. For Afghan consumers,... Read more »

In January 2018, after a book questioned his mental fitness, the president of the United States sat down and wrote his own diagnosis. “My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” he tweeted. “I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius. And a... Read more »

There is something magnificently obscene about a civilization that treats association with a sex trafficker as a moral scandal but endorsement of a leader accused of genocide as statesmanship. Donald Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s October 27 elections exposes a truth Western imperial power has long... Read more »

What would George Orwell make of today’s debates over identity, integration, and the Muslim veil in Europe? It is an impossible question, of course. Orwell has been dead for more than seventy years. Yet one of literature’s great privileges is that it allows us to bring the dead back into... Read more »

Iran is turning to its land borders for ways to keep trade moving as the U.S. naval blockade constrains shipping. But these routes are best seen as a buffer, not a substitute for maritime trade. They can help move selected goods, give merchants more options, and support businesses in border... Read more »

The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening.  It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) during its ferocious, unremitting war in Gaza, drawing upon the interviews of 24 anonymised military and intelligence personnel.  The interviews were filmed on Tel Aviv rooftops at... Read more »

Anne Frank would be 97 years old if she were alive in 2026. We know that her life was cut short by the German Gestapo. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany bears the mark of her last days, where she bade adieu to this world for good. She became a Holocaust... Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[The following was originally published in 1995 by Covert Action Quarterly.] … Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War I to whip a pacifist country into anti-German frenzy and, incidentally, to beat down the threat of... Read more »

Intro by Tom Engelhardt: [Note for TomDispatch readers: Back in 2014, Noam Chomsky — whose voice I miss terribly in this embattled Trumpian world of ours — wrote what still seems to me to be a stunning piece not just on “the most dangerous moment in history,” the Cuban missile crisis... Read more »

Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.... Read more »

Tomorrow is Election Day, the close of the most consequential election of our lifetimes. Get out and vote, if you haven’t already, and if you’re looking to help others do the same, there are still plenty of canvassing and phone-banking opportunities. And if you’re still in doubt for any reason,... Read more »

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Hundreds rallied in downtown Ithaca for “I Am Jane Doe” after a former Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging she was gang raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers in 2024 sparked national outrage and a reopened criminal investigation.... Read more »

In Pennsylvania’s 7th District, rising prices, data centers, and the Epstein files are fueling an electorate ready for change.... Read more »

“The administration is using their power to really intimidate all of us and create chaos and fear amongst nonprofits and make funders afraid of funding them… We're not taking the bait.”... Read more »

On Mexican TV, assassination target of jailed disinformation merchant Fernando Cerimedo explains how he worked with the Bolsonaros and Meta to reduce Lula’s visibility on its platforms.... Read more »

NAZA reveals how Israel’s AI-based systems have been used to execute remote killings of thousands in Israel’s genocide.... Read more »

The company, which controls WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, claims that “technical issues” affected the reach of Lula’s presidential campaign, and rejects accusations of favoring Flávio Bolsonaro.... Read more »

Workers in White Plains, New York, won the first union at any of AutoZone’s nearly 7,000 US stores, despite an aggressive anti-union campaign. The next day, the company fired a lead organizer. Then another.... Read more »

On October 15, the Black Panther Party marks its 60th anniversary. Archivist Billy X Jennings highlights their legacy: 14 medical clinics (two still open in Seattle & Portland) and vital survival programs, like "free buses to prison... to keep the family unit together."... Read more »

In this exclusive interview, filmed backstage at the "once in forever" Power to the People Festival on Oct. 3, legendary musician and activist Tom Morello speaks with Kim Kelly about rocking out and fighting fascism.... Read more »

Hundreds rallied in downtown Ithaca for “I Am Jane Doe” after a former Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging she was gang raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers in 2024 sparked national outrage and a reopened criminal investigation.... Read more »

In Pennsylvania’s 7th District, rising prices, data centers, and the Epstein files are fueling an electorate ready for change.... Read more »

“The administration is using their power to really intimidate all of us and create chaos and fear amongst nonprofits and make funders afraid of funding them… We're not taking the bait.”... Read more »

On Mexican TV, assassination target of jailed disinformation merchant Fernando Cerimedo explains how he worked with the Bolsonaros and Meta to reduce Lula’s visibility on its platforms.... Read more »

NAZA reveals how Israel’s AI-based systems have been used to execute remote killings of thousands in Israel’s genocide.... Read more »

The company, which controls WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, claims that “technical issues” affected the reach of Lula’s presidential campaign, and rejects accusations of favoring Flávio Bolsonaro.... Read more »

Workers in White Plains, New York, won the first union at any of AutoZone’s nearly 7,000 US stores, despite an aggressive anti-union campaign. The next day, the company fired a lead organizer. Then another.... Read more »

On October 15, the Black Panther Party marks its 60th anniversary. Archivist Billy X Jennings highlights their legacy: 14 medical clinics (two still open in Seattle & Portland) and vital survival programs, like "free buses to prison... to keep the family unit together."... Read more »

In this exclusive interview, filmed backstage at the "once in forever" Power to the People Festival on Oct. 3, legendary musician and activist Tom Morello speaks with Kim Kelly about rocking out and fighting fascism.... Read more »

The prominent Guatemalan anti-corruption lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was fatally shot along with another man on Saturday at a sports center in Guatemala City. For years, Solórzano Foppa had been outspoken against Guatemala’s most powerful politicians, business leaders and companies. He was known for his anti-corruption work as head... Read more »

Israeli settlers backed by IDF soldiers brutally assaulted Palestinian olive farmers in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday. Witnesses say dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs, sticks, slingshots and guns hurled rocks at Palestinian farmers, set olive trees ablaze and drove people from their... Read more »

Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in over 140 cities across France on Saturday, demanding relief from the high cost of living, more funding for public services and improvements to deteriorating schools, among other grievances. The demonstrations were the latest — and largest — in a series of protests that... Read more »

Hundreds of Thousands March in Over 140 Cities in France on Saturday, Millions of Protesters Participate in “No Kings” Demonstrations on Saturday in the U.S., Thousands March in Tunisia Against President Kaïs Saïed, Protests Continue to Roil Albania, as Demonstrators Call for Prime Minister to Resign, Brazil’s Lula Holds First... Read more »

Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle the rise and fall of the tech worker movement, its early victories, and the repression and slide... Read more »

We’re joined by Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa as she shares the story of Estrella Diamantina González, an undocumented transgender woman and trafficking survivor from Mexico caught up in the United States’ criminal and immigration systems. This summer, after serving a nine-year sentence in a Texas men’s prison, Diamantina González... Read more »

Earlier this week, ICE confirmed it had secretly used a federal government warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, to stage and to process detentions in September, despite an order from a judge barring the site’s use until an environmental study was complete. ”ICE and this administration cherry-picks which laws it adheres... Read more »

Teenage Shooter Kills Three Children and Teacher in Bend, Oregon, Neo-Nazi Teen Allegedly Attempted Mass Shooting at Illinois Hindu Temple, But Rifle Jammed, Trump Cancels Hegseth’s Plans to Live-Stream Firing Squad Execution, Pentagon to Withhold Internal Report on Attack on Iranian School Until After Midterms, Houthis Attack Presidential Palace in... Read more »

We speak with tech journalist Paris Marx about his new book, Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires. In the book, Marx exposes the deceptive ways tech companies are taking resources from vulnerable communities in order to build massive AI data centers. “We have seen the tech... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261016.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   “Electrocution,” George Bellows (1917) Donald Trump has apparently called off plans to livestream an execution. It’s impossible to imagine that Trump—the guy who thought it was cute to post video of a tiger killing a man, video that... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261009.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Fortune (9/13/26) This week on CounterSpin: When Fortune magazine is telling you “corporations are raking in cash, but American workers are reaping less and less of the rewards,” something is afoot. The not-notoriously capitalist-critical magazine reported recently on... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin261002.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Institute for Policy Studies This week on CounterSpin: It may sound awkward, but there’s a reason that some of us refer to the lethal attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as “September 11, 2001.” It’s... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260925.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   Verso Books (2022) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media sell a lot of messages, but perhaps the overarching one is: This is how it is. You can be mad about it; we’ll give you a personal profile, maybe.... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260918.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).     Corporate Crime Reporter (8/3/26) This week on CounterSpin: FAIR, the nonprofit collective that produces CounterSpin, had a T-shirt early on that called for the “separation of press and state.” That’s still meaningful, of course, but it feels... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260911.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   HarperCollins (2006) This week on CounterSpin: Some 3,000 people died when planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. One hundred twenty-five people died at the Pentagon in Virginia, and at least 265 people were killed—passengers and... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260904.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   CCR (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: No humor intended: Listening to this show might make you a domestic terrorist. Yes, the Trump White House is trying to make anyone a “terrorist” who speaks out publicly, or co-signs silently,... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260828.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New Republic (8/24/26) This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media obscure it, almost like it’s their job, but we still understand that laws and policies land on differently situated people differently. I can believe that there are millionaire... Read more »

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260821.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   New York Times (8/15/26) This week on CounterSpin: The US news media marked the anniversary of August 2021’s nominal withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. A New York Times story explained that Taliban flags were “flying high along... Read more »

Selling oil is one thing. Getting paid in something you can use is another. A country can run a trade surplus and still find itself holding another government’s debt, a depreciating currency or reserves vulnerable to sanctions. In this conversation with Kathleen Tyson at the David Graeber Institute, Michael Hudson... Read more »

Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson debate gold, dollar alternatives and how resource exporters can retain more of the wealth their economies produce. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

I stopped calling myself an economist in the 1970s. Debt, the balance of payments and monetary imperialism were central to what I studied, but increasingly peripheral to what the profession wanted to discuss. Catholic publications gave me space to make arguments that had little place in the academic curriculum. This... Read more »

Michael Hudson argues that the 2026 Nobel Economics Prize rewards theories that overlook debt deflation and reinforce the power of creditors. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

            I’m seeing a powerful transformation in the use of the term “holocaust” on the Internet. Long before World War II, it was a Greek-based English word for killing or massacre. It was a natural extension for its being used as a more familiar word to describe what the Palestinians... Read more »

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Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor challenge central bank independence and explain why higher interest rates could deepen an oil-driven economic crisis. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

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Can AI earn enough to pay its debts? Michael Hudson examines monopoly pricing, China’s competing models, and the risk of a taxpayer bailout. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »

Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, urging him to rescind a new policy they say violates the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children and makes them vulnerable to deportation. Under the policy, unaccompanied minors would be represented in court... Read more »

In a Truth Social post Monday, President Trump made his most direct demand yet around an ongoing fixation: get “Mexico” out of New Mexico’s name. The president has posted and spoken repeatedly about his apparently burning desire to see New Mexico redubbed “New America,” dating at least to an early... Read more »

On Monday, federal authorities announced the arrest in California of at least 11 people, and charges against 28, alleging they registered to vote as noncitizens. Months of fears around the presence of federal agents at the polls and the use of armed immigration enforcement to affect national elections appear to... Read more »

So much attention is understandably focused on whether Democrats can take back control of Congress this year. But little-noticed state legislative races could be just as consequential. If Democrats retake Congress, they can block President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda. But if Democrats retake control of the states, they can actually... Read more »

Ken Paxton’s message to voters in the home stretch of his closely contested US Senate race with Democrat James Talarico is a mystery to me. I don’t mean that I don’t understand it—I mean I don’t know what it is, because before I could listen to his remarks at the... Read more »

For all our billionaire social media leaders’ claims to be free speech warriors, they seem to have spent the last few days cracking down on it. As the midterm elections approach—a high-stakes race not only for both parties but for Silicon Valley, which faces the prospect of AI regulation under... Read more »

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Donald Trump has finally gotten... Read more »

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Most Americans feel unease or alarm about the climate crisis and, in both red and blue states, want to know how political leaders are going to fix it. But in midterm election campaigns across the US,... Read more »

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced plans to shut down a historic public golf course in Washington, DC, for 15 months so that he can remodel it into a facility capable of hosting international competitions like the US Open.  Construction to create “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf... Read more »

Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face each other in a runoff election on October 25th. The post Brazil Elections appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The documentary Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, which explores how government deregulation led to the Great Recession, has been updated and reissued. The post “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

A “People-First Foreign Policy Pledge,” signed by dozens of national organizations and foreign policy experts, calls on Congressional candidates to commit to three widely popular foreign policy positions in order to win midterm elections and deliver change. The post People-First Foreign Policy Pledge appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) faces a massive fight in the upcoming runoff presidential election. The post Lula Path Uphill But Feasible in Brazil Election Runoff appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Paul Loeb has put out an updated edition of his book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. The post “The Impossible Will Take a Little While” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

TrumpRx, the Trump administration’s prescription-drug purchasing website, creates the appearance of lowering drug prices. But are there meaningful savings? The post Realities Below the TrumpRx Surface appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Sina Toossi offered us an analysis of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations, the indirect talks involving Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and the latest statements from senior Iranian officials. The post Iran at the UN General Assembly appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Marcy Winograd writes that schools need to critically examine Zionism as a political ideology and that allowing students to question Zionism supports intellectual freedom and critical thinking. The post Challenging Zionism in Schools appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The National Security Agency announced it would undergo its most extensive restructuring in at least a decade. The post NSA Restructuring appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

From recent deepfakes using Yanis’ image for viral gain, to his latest police harassment over events from decades ago, the discussion opens onto larger questions Naomi explores in Doppelgänger (identity, imitation, credibility, and what “truth” means when noise travels faster than institutions — and institutions still hold power) before moving... Read more »

A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. But little has gone... Read more »

The Case for BDS by Mehdi Hasan Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths used to attack the boycott movement against Israel. Read on Substack In the newest episode of ‘Unshocked,’ Mehdi and Naomi debunk the myths around the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement – a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement that works... Read more »

In a conversation with Mehdi for her new contributor segment at Zeteo, called “Unshocked,” Jewish activist, academic, and author Naomi Klein calls for an “exodus from the ideological shackles of Zionism.”  Naomi also reacts to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu comparing student protesters at Columbia University to Nazis, telling Mehdi that... Read more »

Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” on the second night of Passover. The demonstration, held one block away from the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,... Read more »

Exactly 15 years ago this week, I published an article in the Guardian. It began like this: It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South... Read more »

On Wednesday, October 18, the Lever’s David Sirota hosted a live event with Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein and Palestinian-American political analyst Omar Baddar to discuss the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas and the mounting humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. David, Naomi, and Omar spoke about the historical and political... Read more »

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All over Maui, golf courses glisten emerald green, hotels manage to fill their pools and corporations stockpile water to sell to luxury estates. And yet, when it came time to fight the fires, some hoses ran dry. Why? The reason is the long-running battle over west Maui’s most precious natural... Read more »

We should get Palantir out of our public services before it becomes locked in. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th October 2026 What a world we live in. Imagine: gangs dragging civil servants off commuter trains and beating them up because they handed government data jobs to the... Read more »

Instead of taking responsibility, the government is passing crucial resilience roles to the public, and failure is inevitable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th October 2026 Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden? Then... Read more »

Air travel is on track to account for almost all our emissions by 2050. So why aren’t we working to reduce demand? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd October 2026 If a third runway is built at Heathrow, what will be the impact on the wealth of the... Read more »

The neglect and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS is a scandal of astonishing proportions. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th September 2026 I’ve spent my working life covering neglected issues. But few are neglected like the devastating chronic condition ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome). In severe... Read more »

Petromasculinity not only kills people on the road. It spills into our politics, fuelling far-right individualism.   By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th September 2026 Where is lawbreaking not just visible, but designed to be seen? Where is antisocial behaviour worn as a badge of honour? Where is... Read more »

With its determination to extract more fossil fuels and its useless adaptation plans, does the UK government have any idea what it is igniting? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th September 2026 Pinch yourself, it’s happening again. Here is a Labour government spending a vast amount of political... Read more »

Why are our prime ministers more afraid of a few wealthy people than they are of losing office? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd September 2026 Damn the electorate. They’re so impatient. No sooner do they get a new leader than they want another one. Those ingrates are... Read more »

Successive governments stonewall any talk of strategic food reserves. They side with the grasshopper against the ant. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th August 2026 When a business makes long-term plans, they call it prudence. When a government makes long-term plans, they call it communism. Any sustained state... Read more »

How capitalism stopped pretending, and became an undisguised death cult. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  5th August 2026 Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in the ashes! This, roughly... Read more »

Blame the booze. At least that’s what a Democratic candidate for a county council seat in Indiana says caused her to slur during a televised interview last week. Jamie West is running for Fayette County Council District 4. A recent interview circulating online has garnered re-shares and conversation around her... Read more »

President Donald Trump has attempted to unilaterally rename Lake Ontario into "Lake America" and the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." He lacks the legal authority to do either of these things, just as he cannot rename a state on a whim — although he is now attempting... Read more »

On Monday a photograph revealed President Donald Trump to have fresh bruises on his right hand. While the public remains in the dark as to why, one journalist speculates that Trump's brain may be addled by anything from aspirin to a stroke, at least according to one prominent journalist."The forthcoming... Read more »

The U.S. Army has released its investigation into the January 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), which killed 67 people. After comparing the Army’s findings with the NTSB’s investigation, airline pilot and YouTuber Captain Steeeve, whose real name is Steve Scheibner, has his own conclusions about... Read more »

A Black MAGA influencer has revealed that she was kicked out of a rally for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the weekend. What’s more, Thelma Louise – who has a large TikTok account where she creates content advocating for President Donald Trump – caught the incident on video, in... Read more »

Supreme Court judges don't always get along, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor illustrate that point. Appointed by Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama respectively, Gorsuch and Sotomayor sharply disagree on nearly all the most polarizing issues of the day, with Gorsuch being predictably conservative and Sotomayor just as... Read more »

A National Park Service employee revealed on Monday that the administration lied when it claimed it had to remove hundreds of "falling, dangerous, disease-infested trees" at East Potomac Park's golf course. During the hearing before Judge Ana Reyes, Dr. Kevin Griess, the superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks, was... Read more »

On Monday, the leading Republican state official in charge of Georgia’s elections rejected false claims by President Donald Trump that aimed to sow doubt about the integrity of vote-counting in the state. With early voting in the midterms already in full swing, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger assured Bloomberg... Read more »

President Donald Trump's blatant pursuit of personal profit while in office is not only upsetting activists; a number of polls have shown voters are outraged by the perceived corruption. Now one of Trump's former top advisers agreed that this has become a serious political problem for the president."Former Trump chief... Read more »

Of all of the things that Donald Trump has said publicly since returning to the White House, his threats to annihilate Iran are arguably the worst. This is not only because the repeated statements are deeply immoral and illegal – deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime – but... Read more »

Republic of Korea (ROK) leaders are having to navigate an increasingly challenging policy course to avoid having their country become entangled in an array of dangerous security problems, both in East Asia and elsewhere in the international system. The most recent example involved Seoul’s actions in Ukraine.  In late September... Read more »

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling... Read more »

On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin, a 35-year-old Nicaraguan man, was deported from the United States by ICE and, on arrival in Managua, was immediately sent to prison by Nicaraguan authorities. Reports described him as a “torture victim,” a “political prisoner,” and a “prominent figure in the anti-government protests”... Read more »

This past week, a flock of Israel supporters jetted to Jerusalem to attend this year’s “National Conservative” conference, the project led by Israeli political thinker Yoram Hazony. Days later, the offspring of neoconservatism’s godfather Norm Podhoretz, John, revealed the conceit and deception behind the “National Conservatism” project: “[Yoram Hazony] wants... Read more »

President Donald Trump reignited a fierce debate within the American right on October 10, when he made some aggressive remarks about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Zelensky could’ve settled this war many times,” Trump said. “He chooses not to. Very difficult.” Trump went on, “We said you can do whatever you... Read more »

Just after midnight on New Year’s Day 2024, a man and his two children stood near the harbor in the Danish town of Gråsten, watching fireworks over the water a short walk from the house where the children had been living. A witness later told a court in Hamburg that... Read more »

On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid political prisoners on Robben Island, and went on to serve as a judge on the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal... Read more »

That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; Those past, her nature and name is chang’d; to be Then humble to her is idolatry. ~ John Donne, Satire III Seven activists smashed their way into an engineering plant at Sandwich, Kent, before dawn on 17 June 2024. Instro Precision, the... Read more »

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In the run-up to October's election, the US president has been using diplomatic pressure to undermine Brazilian sovereignty and bolster Flávio Bolsonaro. This continues a long history of US interference. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

Some of the world's smallest states have taken their climate fight to the highest international court, shifting the debate from pleas for help to questions of human rights and state responsibility. - 2026/10 / article, 2026/10 Oceania... Read more »

Albania's Adriatic coast, concrete-free until now, is beginning to suffer from tourism-led development. Winning political support for projects seems to be easy – especially if your name is Trump. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

On Moscow's streets, signs of a nation at war are hard to see. Its effects are clearer in individual lives. The burden has fallen unevenly on Russians, reshaping fortunes and fracturing families. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

The prospect of Ukraine's likely EU accession is becoming less popular with Poles, as farmers and truckers face price collapses. And with disputes over historical memory, too, mistrust is deepening. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

Nigel Farage is surrounded by scandal and has seen his poll numbers dip. To counter Andy Burnham, Britain's populist leader marshalled his ‘People's Army' at Reform UK's annual conference. - 2026/10 / article... Read more »

This read was first published exclusively for our email subscribers on the 14th of September 2026.Get the latest from Anna Stavrianakis direct to your inbox at www.declassifieduk.org/newsletter It is now the official view of the British government that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful.  With his statement on 8... Read more »

Exclusive: Jonathan Burman was photographed in front of a burning school which was attacked by Israeli troops The post Revealed: The British man who fought for Israel in Gaza appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Satellite imagery uncovered by Declassified shows how oil has been leaking off Angola’s coast for 13 years, sickening locals and polluting their environment The post Revealed: The BP-linked oil spill leaving Angolans sick and hungry appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Exclusive: UK foreign secretary boasted about “mounting a world wide lobbying exercise” against landmark motion. The post Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Amnesty International says Conservative donor JCB is ‘part of the machinery of ethnic cleansing’ in illegal West Bank settlements The post Tories took £1.3 million from firm linked to Israeli settlements appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

Pat Finucane was murdered in Belfast decades ago. Could an inquiry finally force British intelligence to come clean? The post A lawyer was murdered. Now an inquiry must expose MI5’s role appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

The pro-Israel group does not have to declare its funders because majority of board are not Labour party members The post Why is Labour Friends of Israel not led by Labour members? appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

BP and Shell are cashing in on Venezuela’s oil and gas following the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. The post Trump kidnapped Venezuela’s president. Now Britain looks to profit appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

UK helped Gulf monarchy crackdown on dissidents to keep control over Strait of Hormuz oil route The post British soldiers interrogated detainees before mass execution appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »

The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities suspected of stealing trade secrets from American companies. The targets include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, venture capital firm... Read more »

A woman told police that British actor and comedian Russell Brand had grabbed her breasts before dragging her into a toilet at a bar and orally raping her, a London court heard on Monday. Brand, once one of Britain’s most high-profile broadcasters and the former husband of US singer Katy... Read more »

The US and China are racing to secure concrete investment deals ahead of their leaders’ meeting in Shenzhen next month, even as both sides engage in a contest over leverage in extending their broad trade agreement. Multiple sources told the South China Morning Post that intense negotiations would continue in... Read more »

US ⁠President Donald Trump on Monday said he thought someone other than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ‌should negotiate on Kyiv’s behalf as it seeks to end the war with Russia. “Maybe it’s time for Zelensky to ⁠get somebody else to negotiate,” said ‌Trump, who on October 10 had called for... Read more »

Citing national security concerns, the US government has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and any third-party services developed using the Chinese artificial intelligence model from their information systems. In a notice made public on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also barred agencies from acquiring DeepSeek... Read more »

In New York last month, US-China talks on artificial intelligence opened up a path of cooperation. This was affirmed by the Xi-Trump summit in Washington where both presidents agreed to establish a formal AI dialogue and hotline. With the next AI meeting set to happen in November, it is imperative... Read more »

Asian-Americans are laser-focused on the economy and healthcare costs and increasingly disenchanted with US President Donald Trump and his Republican Party leading into the highly consequential November 3 midterm elections, according to a survey released on Monday. While the general trend among Asian-American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) mirrors the broader... Read more »

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that opened the door for US President Donald Trump’s administration to rearrest and deport the Palestinian activist. Khalil’s lawyers asked the justices to take up his case after the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit ‌Court... Read more »

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was open to a three-way meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to China next month, with nuclear weapons on the agenda. “We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearisation,” Trump told... Read more »

A Monday article published by the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece argued that a key lesson from the Long March was the need for the party to have a strong core leadership and for its members to uphold that core’s authority. “History shows us that only with a core can the... Read more »

As China marks the 90th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory in the Long March, some young Chinese are looking to the historic journey for guidance as they face uncertainty in their lives and future. For Lyu Leiyiyi, a 22-year-old student at the Communication University of China, the spirit of... Read more »

There is “no way out” for corrupt officials no matter how senior they are, China’s top anti-corruption watchdog has warned following the downfall of a former big-city mayor who survived numerous previous scandals. This week, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced both the probe into Huang Qifan, the... Read more »

In Shenzhen, drones are banned, shiny new hotels have opened their doors and taxi drivers are carrying devices that can translate nearly 150 languages. Since President Xi Jinping announced last year that China’s southern tech hub would host Apec meetings in November, the city has done all it can to... Read more »

The owner of a Chinese kindergarten has been jailed for life after more than 200 children were poisoned by lead in the country’s worst food safety scandal for almost two decades. A total of six people were jailed by the Lanzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Gansu province on Friday for... Read more »

President Xi Jinping has pledged to “uproot sick trees” in the anti-corruption fight, according to a transcript of a speech published by the Communist Party’s flagship magazine ahead of a major party conclave later this month. The warning appeared on Thursday in the magazine Qiushi, which carried fresh details of... Read more »

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have warned of the potential risks of cross-border arranged marriages, saying some relationships lack genuine emotional foundations and can lead to financial ruin or legal trouble. Marriages can be risky when they are organised by illegal matchmaking agencies that charge high fees,... Read more »

For a decade, former Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan stood out as a political survivor while colleague after close colleague fell in China’s far-reaching anti-corruption campaign. Throughout that time, including his seven years as the megacity’s mayor from 2009 to 2016, Huang was seen as a “tumbler” in Chinese politics –... Read more »

Beijing has warned Taiwanese people against acting “two-faced” on the issue of “Taiwan independence” after television host Kevin Tsai Kang-yong attended a campaign rally for a Taipei mayoral candidate labelled a separatist by Beijing. The episode underscores the political risks facing Taiwanese entertainers working on both sides of the Taiwan... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 8 December 2025 Reform UK leads the polls in most surveys and could form the next government. What can Britons, and the rest of the world, expect? The answer is not precisely clear since Reform has said virtually nothing about what its foreign policy would... Read more »

by Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock, Declassified UK, 18 November 2025 The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the UK’s oligarchic governance system, and implores us to transform our political system This should be a pivotal moment in British history. Our political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide.  Rather,... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 November 2025 British officials are developing new ties with their Syrian counterparts complicit in recent killings, including former leading al-Qaeda operatives Last month, Keir Starmer’s special representative to Syria, Ann Snow, met defence minister Murhaf Abu Qasra in Damascus. This followed a meeting between... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 October 2025 A military agreement Britain and Israel signed in 2020 has not been modified despite Israel’s attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Defence admits. In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 30 September 2025 Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide. An Israeli pharmaceutical company that operates at the heart of the NHS has been aiding the Israeli military during... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 29 September 2025 Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths. British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour government, together with the US government under Lyndon Johnson, were complicit in... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 25 September 2025 Exclusive: Israeli air force pilot invited to speak about ‘operational frontlines’ at British charity event. The Royal Air Force museum in London hosted an event last week supporting the education of Israeli soldiers who have fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal.  The event, entitled... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 September 2025 Britain colluded with a militia in the Kosovo war whose leaders now face war crimes charges in The Hague. Will UK officials ever be held to account? On 28 April 1999, prime minister Tony Blair’s adviser John Sawers wrote a memo to... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 August 2025 Declassified files show Britain has long known of Israel’s criminality against Palestinians, as Whitehall has deepened its military, trade and diplomatic support. The parallels are remarkable.  There were “numerous reports that the Israeli authorities have prevented medical and other humanitarian assistance from... Read more »

The internet represents a fundamental shift in how Americans connect with one another, gather information and conduct their day-to-day lives. Explore the patterns, trends and statistics of internet and home broadband adoption in the United States.... Read more »

Today YouTube and Facebook are the most-widely used online platforms. Explore the demographic patterns and trends shaping the social media landscape.... Read more »

Americans today are increasingly connected to the world of digital information while “on the go” via smartphones. Explore the latest patterns, trends and statistics that have shaped the mobile revolution.... Read more »

Among adults under 30, 39% say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9% in 2020.... Read more »

How Americans get news continues to evolve as platforms emerge, like AI chatbots and email newsletters. Find out how often they get news from digital devices.... Read more »

Many Americans use social media for news: About a fifth or more regularly get news on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.... Read more »

Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ From our research The share of Americans who say they’ve cut back their spending on extras – like dining out or entertainment – in the past year.... Read more »

This report was written by Luis Noé-Bustamante, research associate; Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research; Carolyne Im, former research analyst; Gabriel Piña, senior researcher; and Joseph Copeland, research analyst. Editorial guidance was provided by Sahana Mukherjee, associate director of race and ethnicity research; and Jocelyn Kiley, director... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 200 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, 2026. A total of 5,062 panelists responded out... Read more »

The Republican running for Senate in Michigan is directing campaign funds toward chartered flights, a Miami car service, and BMW repairs. The post Mike Rogers Spent $100K on Private Jets and Luxury Travel Last Quarter appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries. The post The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

While Trump campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize, his war on humanity’s only home continues unabated. The post President Apocalypse appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With Democrats campaigning on ending the war, advocates want them to put their money where their mouth is and risk a lame-duck shutdown. The post Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and the years of “counterterror” surveillance that paved the way for the Trump administration’s abuses. The post DHS Was Designed as a Weapon appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The toxic exposures didn’t begin with the flames. Researchers are examining how fires affected a community already harmed by plantation agriculture, development, and colonialism. The post Long After the Maui Fires, Toxic Metals Linger in Residents’ Bodies appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Collins received tens of thousands from Lockheed during a two-month period surrounding a critical 2023 watchdog report. The post Lockheed Martin Showered Susan Collins With Cash as F-35 Program Hit Turbulence appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. The post Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution was not without precedent — it tapped into a dark and forgotten U.S. tradition. The post America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Near the nation’s capital, residents of Virginia’s Data Center Alley live among hundreds of gargantuan facilities—and feel the health toll.... Read more »

If we want future Good Voters, we need to teach children what’s real and what’s fake.... Read more »

Yes, there is a way to do it without violating Citizens United.... Read more »

Israeli-made documentary NAZA details the deliberate mass killing of Palestinians —and prompts political backlash from all sides.... Read more »

Affordable child care, community, and sustained investment aren’t luxuries; they’re the foundation for economic mobility.... Read more »

An interview with Ben Wikler on making democracy a top priority.... Read more »

How a loose network of individuals who track flights built a powerful tool for immigrant detainees and their supporters.... Read more »

Almost two decades ago, I watched Texas kill my partner on death row. Today, Christa Pike’s botched execution makes the case for finally abolishing capital punishment.... Read more »

Instead of leaning into the progressivism gaining traction across the country, the Democratic establishment is choosing to attack the left.... Read more »

Well that was fun. In last week's welcome bit of comic relief, we got the vapid rise and rapid fall - despite requisite blonde hair, faux smile and passing resemblance to Ivanka - of "manifestly unqualified" Barbie News Reader and fake Chinese lawyer Katie Zacharia after a brutal debut. So... Read more »

New FEC filings show the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has become the dominant funder of the Senate Leadership Fund, the leading Republican Senate super PAC. Musk was responsible for 58% of the fund’s third-quarter fundraising, and his latest contributions bring his total giving to the Republican group... Read more »

A Fox News poll has revealed that corruption is a leading issue for voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with a whopping 88 percent saying they are concerned about corruption, including 60 percent who say they are “extremely concerned” about it.In response, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the... Read more »

The devastation goes on apace at the teeny toxic hands of the clowns and hacks in power (maybe not much longer?). Topping the abuses: An assault by Homeland Security (sic) thugs on the home of a duly elected (albeit female, brown, Muslim) member of Congress for imaginary crimes as a... Read more »

Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.6% in September and are up 3.7% over the past year, the fastest pace since May. Gasoline prices jumped 9.1% in September alone, accounting for over half of the monthly increase in overall prices, and are up 34% from a year... Read more »

The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the announcement that there will be a 3.6% cost-of-living (COLA) benefit increase for millions of Social Security beneficiaries next year:“Millions of Americans who rely on Social Security welcome any increase in their monthly... Read more »

The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on Social Security’s 2027 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which will be 3.6 percent:“Every year, Social Security’s benefits are automatically adjusted to account for inflation. This is an essential feature of the system, which prevents benefits from eroding over... Read more »

The anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the birth of a dark new world where "the unthinkable has become banal," where many thousands of damaged Palestinian children - homeless, toy-less, traumatized, unschooled, with mournful questions about a lost world -... Read more »

As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to illegally expand oil and gas drilling into long-protected Arctic public lands in Alaska, the Department of the Interior today announced a categorical exclusion that aims to exempt oil and gas exploration projects from individual review under the National Environmental Policy Act.... Read more »

We live in a time, says Brazilian political philosopher Rodrigo Nunes, where it feels like things cannot go on as they are — while at the same time, we can’t imagine anything else. Nunes discusses how such sentiments have fueled the ascendancy of the far right around the world and... Read more »

Elites, especially in tech, in recent years have overtly espoused the repugnant idea that extreme social inequality is not only inevitable but desirable. Acclaimed historian Kim Phillips-Fein argues that there is a long US tradition promoting wealth inequality that has once again moved from the shadows into the mainstream. And... Read more »

How should we organize while the planet is burning and authoritarianism is intensifying? Chris Dixon reflects on lessons for the present, drawn from decades of activism on the left – for a moment where interest in left politics has grown significantly, yet while the organizational infrastructures of the left are... Read more »

What was the most powerful technology introduced into schools in the past century? You might answer the computer, or something like Zoom, or even the slide projector. But scholar Antero Garcia argues that it was the humble yellow school bus. Buses have been central to the struggle to desegregate education.... Read more »

Longtime activist Annie Leonard discusses the rich tradition of protest in this country and why we need to defend it, in the face of anti-protest laws, SLAPP suits, and diktats from the Trump administration. Donate in support of Against the Grain and KPFA The post Fund Drive Special: The Power... Read more »

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez argues that our immigration laws were put in place first to protect enslavers, and later elites more broadly, from the insurgent radicalism of migrants, starting with the Haitian Revolution. She looks at the modern construction of immigration control both as a type of counterinsurgency and labor... Read more »

The history of African American antifascism is often overlooked, from Ida B Wells-Barnett’s struggle against lynchings to activism against police violence and the carceral state today. In our increasingly authoritarian times, scholar Jeanelle Hope discusses what we can learn from the black antifascist tradition. The post Fund Drive Special: The... Read more »

American education has long been a battleground, but struggles over what students learn has become particularly intense right now, when teaching about racism has been prohibited in multiple states. Sociologist Nikki Khanna reflects on what’s missing, including key episodes from US history – from the United States attempts to starve... Read more »

Canadian physician Gabor Mate discusses the maladies that are the norm in our society — how stress and trauma, accentuated by the divisions of class, gender, and race, damage our lives and bodies. Donate in support of Against the Grain and KPFA The post Fund Drive Special: Gabor Mate on... Read more »

Graphics: China's engagement in global governance... Read more »

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajic met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Podgorica on Sunday. Both sides expressed willingness to further deepen bilateral relations and expand practical cooperation.... Read more »

Flames that killed four Canadian soldiers and left 19 people in critical condition began with a smoldering grass ‌fire that quickly grew in an Alberta base's training area where personnel were carrying out exercises, officials said on Sunday.... Read more »

Data centers lead to major political, environmental dilemmas in Mexico... Read more »

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Sunday that China stands ready to work with Tajikistan to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.... Read more »

Ephraim Matindi Hinga has lived through almost a century of change. From the transformation of Kenyan society to the challenges of growing old in a rapidly changing world, his life offers a window into a generation whose contributions built the foundations on which younger generations stand.... Read more »

October is observed globally as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with campaigns promoting early detection, prevention and treatment. But in parts of the world, access to screening and medical care remains a challenge.... Read more »

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Cetinje, a city near Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, on Saturday, expressing Montenegro's willingness to deepen friendly relations and practical cooperation with China.... Read more »

An online survey conducted by CGTN across its global platforms found that 90.71% of respondents agreed that international media should use the term "war criminal shrine" more explicitly when reporting on the issue, in order to alert the world to the resurgence of Japanese militarism.... Read more »

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Monday that China stands ready to strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Belarus and fully unleash the potential of their Agreement on Trade in Services and Investment.... Read more »

With Israel lowering the threshold for preemptive action and Washington and Tel Aviv once again aligning over Iran, the risk of renewed escalation across the Middle East is growing.... Read more »

President Xi Jinping's key quotes on ecological protection... Read more »

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Monday announced a "large-scale judicial operation" to hold accountable those involved in recent violence, as the government moved to restore order after nationwide protests over the weekend spiraled into some of the worst street unrest the country has seen in years.... Read more »

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng co-chaired the 30th session of the committee for regular meetings between the Chinese and Russian heads of government, together with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, on Monday via video link.... Read more »

China has decided to optimize and adjust its export control measures on certain drone-related items, with the new rules taking effect on November 18, 2026, according to a government announcement on Monday.... Read more »

China has decided to impose export controls on items including tunnel boring machines, and to optimize and adjust export control measures on dredger-related items, with the rules set to take effect on November 18, 2026, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.... Read more »

Chinese President Xi Jinping's four principles for the constructive participation of all parties in resolving hotspot issues in Africa offer important practical guidance for addressing regional challenges, including the current situation in the Horn of Africa, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday.... Read more »

Put on your headphones and click the link to step into the Long March.... Read more »

Ulanqab steps up building green computing hub... Read more »

Today, AI value is concentrated in a few closed-source giants, and platform companies collect high rents by controlling ecosystem gateways. The Chinese approach instead supports a thriving open source ecosystem.... Read more »

Discussions over the renminbi's exchange rate has intensified as global economic imbalances widen. An International Monetary Fund policy paper published in April said imbalances had widened again after more than a decade of decline. Against this backdrop, the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, issued a detailed statement on... Read more »

China has rolled out a raft of new property policies over the past two months covering the home-sales system, mortgage interest subsidies, and housing provident fund rules, aiming to reduce the sector's high leverage and unlock housing demand.... Read more »

A new railway corridor: How Nanning links Chinese and ASEAN markets... Read more »

China and Europe are building new connections in aerospace – from skies to stars. On the one hand, their deep industrial partnership is scaling global civil aviation to new heights. On the other hand, scientific collaboration is opening new possibilities for space exploration and deepening our understanding of the Sun-Earth... Read more »

In this episode of BizTalk, CGTN's Guan Xin speaks with Zlatko Lagumdzija, former prime minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, about China's development and its role in global governance.... Read more »

Foreign diplomats explore Ningxia's specialty industries... Read more »

China has prioritized talent training and workforce skill development in recent years, achieving both impressive quantity and a high degree of quality in personnel trained.... Read more »

Defence Minister Theo Francken is accelerating plans for a military-trained police force with a remit to crush social disorder.... Read more »

The protests in Albania and France are part of an international wave of class struggle that has also swept through other countries, such as Spain and Belgium. Everywhere, the anger of young people and workers is directed against the same trends: austerity, social inequality, police repression, militarisation and war.... Read more »

Ukraine attacked Russia with more than 1,000 drones overnight Saturday, in the largest bombardment of St. Petersburg since the Second World War.... Read more »

The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Richie Respek, a New York-New Jersey port trucker and founder of the Pier Trucker Facebook group, about the long hours, unpaid labor and deteriorating working conditions drivers face.... Read more »

Labor’s curriculum “de-cluttering” has resulted in a dramatic decline in drama enrolments in New South Wales schools.... Read more »

Amid rising discontent over deteriorating conditions and continued real pay cuts under the Albanese Labor government, the National Tertiary Education Union is seeking new three-year enterprise agreements with university managements across Australia.... Read more »

After earlier demonstrations drew millions, organizers narrowed Saturday’s events to electoral appeals, as Trump escalated his attacks on democratic rights.... Read more »

After helping elect an AfD state parliament president in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right AfD and Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW dined together with the AfD at an event hosted by the far-right Compact magazine, and agreed to collaborate on joint motions.... Read more »

Despite massive state repression, India’s far-right BJP government has failed to stamp out a wave of youth-led protests against its purge of millions of rural poor and working-class voters from the electoral rolls.... Read more »

Graphics: China's engagement in global governance... Read more »

China's GDP grows 4.5% YoY in Q3... Read more »

China's GDP expands 4.6% YoY in first three quarters... Read more »

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajic met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Podgorica on Sunday. Both sides expressed willingness to further deepen bilateral relations and expand practical cooperation.... Read more »

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Sunday that China stands ready to work with Tajikistan to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.... Read more »

The Double Ninth Festival, which falls on this Sunday, is a traditional festival that celebrates the long-standing Chinese tradition of respecting, caring for, and honoring the elders.... Read more »

'Half a Quilt' story continues to inspire local development... Read more »

The offline exhibition of the 140th China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, is underway, attracting large numbers of buyers from around the world.... Read more »

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Cetinje, a city near Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, on Saturday, expressing Montenegro's willingness to deepen friendly relations and practical cooperation with China.... Read more »

Exclusive with Botswana's President Duma Gideon Boko... Read more »

China's industrial upgrading provides a durable basis for higher living standards. The policy task is to make its benefits reach a wider population through better employment, stronger household incomes and affordable products. Public perceptions of the economy will improve as these changes become more evident in daily life. Strengthening household... Read more »

History mirrors a nation's past and future. If a country forgets the crimes it committed and even denies or whitewashes aggression, how can it truly value peace? When constitutional revision, military expansion and nuclear possession dominate public debate while honest reflection is suppressed, how can one be sure it won't... Read more »

Shen has long exploited the political slogan of "confronting the mainland to protect Taiwan," politicized the Shanghai-Taipei City Forum and indirectly promoted separatist claims associated with the "two-state theory."... Read more »

Nine decades later, the experience of the Long March still offers a lesson in how to respond when circumstances change: When established approaches no longer work, progress depends on the courage to rethink, adapt and find a new path.... Read more »

Every standard co-developed, every teacher trained, every young person who finds decent work – these are the rings in the trunk, the record of what has been grown together. When the ideas, visions and initiatives grow into a forest across the region, it will offer shelter to generations to come.... Read more »

Historical revisionism was never marginalized in Japanese politics or society; on the contrary, it has often gained support at the highest levels of government.... Read more »

No ethnic culture is marginalized or eliminated; instead, all ethnic heritages achieve coexistence, mutual prosperity and common progress.... Read more »

China Quest: As We Age... Read more »

China Media Group (CMG) hosted a national short and medium-length drama conference in Shanghai on October 18 and unveiled an initiative to support high-quality productions.... Read more »

25th China Shanghai International Arts Festival raises the curtain... Read more »

As crisp autumn air settles in, chrysanthemums burst into full bloom across China, heralding the arrival of the Chongyang Festival, or the Double Ninth Festival – celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the traditional Chinese calendar. Carrying deep cultural significance, this festival centers on nature, health... Read more »

Health Talk | The secret to longevity... Read more »

Street dance has breathed new life into intangible cultural heritage.... Read more »

As autumn settles over Beijing, this next article under "China, Soft Focus" series explores the season through the eyes of Tang Dynasty poets and their timeless verses. From the soft autumn light of daytime to the illuminated waterfront at night, the story captures two sides of Beijing's autumn landscape.... Read more »

The fourth Liangzhu Forum opened Sunday in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, to discuss challenges in cultural heritage conservation and paths to deepen international cooperation.... Read more »

Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, a multiple-time Grammy nominee, recently made her debut in Beijing, bringing her distinctive blend of Indian classical music, contemporary rhythms and musical experimentation to Chinese audiences.... Read more »

How can a 19th-century classic speak to audiences in 2026? CGTN goes behind the scenes of the original Chinese musical Jane Eyre to discover how Charlotte Brontë's timeless masterpiece is being reimagined for the contemporary stage.... Read more »

Satellite internet links Arctic, Antarctica, Qinghai-Xizang Plateau... Read more »

In the CGTN documentary Breaking Through, García explores how China found a new way forward in the global automotive industry.... Read more »

At an off-shore site 170 kilometers east of Shanghai, a launch team is facing a race against time. Can they pull it off?... Read more »

COP17 opens in Armenia for global progress review... Read more »

From smart manufacturing to global markets: How Liuzhou makes it work... Read more »

The offline exhibition of the 140th China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, is underway, attracting large numbers of buyers from around the world.... Read more »

Ulanqab steps up building green computing hub... Read more »

Biodiversity summit urges stronger global action ahead of COP17... Read more »

Graphene anti-corrosion coatings protect cross-sea bridge in China... Read more »

The award-winning Irish novelist faces possible arrest if she enters the UK. Yet, Britain has welcomed the ex-commander of Syria’s al-Qaeda offshoot with open arms, writes Fatima Bhutto.... Read more »

Nachala movement set up a makeshift outpost as part of a push to resettle Gaza; Likud Party official attended the event, while local authorities demanded immediate police action. Police and the military have so far made no effort to remove the activists... Read more »

There is no conscience. There is no humanity. There are only leaders who watch and do not act. The genocide continues.... Read more »

Israel continues to imprison her without charge or trial. Her lawyers have not been able to visit her. Her prolonged solitary confinement is a violation of international standards – Supporters ask the Red Cross to urgently intervene... Read more »

The proposal, often referred to as Section 219, would go far beyond agreements with Washington's closest allies... Read more »

“If she was Israeli, this image would be front-page news,” said one observer.... Read more »

Mike Huckabee’s family is offering trips to Israel so tourists can ‘hear from top officials,’ even though he’s the ambassador. Meanwhile, he’s done little for U.S. victims of Israeli violence.... Read more »

As Israel continues to squeeze Gaza, settler violence dominates West Bank; Trump endorses war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to remain Prime Minister in next week's election... Read more »

Rabbi Dov Lior claims Palestinian land belongs to Jews, says harvesting olives demonstrates ownership, according to Israeli Channel 13... Read more »

Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, OR city council about a proposal to increase an existing tax on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps. The post Increasing Portland’s CEO Pay Surtax Would Boost Revenue and Encourage Narrower Pay Gaps appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The world we want now and for future generations is one where we are safe, healthy, and cared for. Let’s work together to make it ours. The post Climate Week NYC 2026: War and the Climate Crisis Demand International Solidarity From Our Movements appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences. The post The Plundering Oligarch You Haven’t Heard Of appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Data shows that New York City has grown richer since the pandemic, but the gains have flowed overwhelmingly to the top. The post New York Is Getting Richer. Most New Yorkers Aren’t. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The embrace of AI and maximalist content production at the expense of human-crafted reporting threatens the future of journalism. The post Cutting Local Journalists, McClatchy Embraces AI Content appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Democracy can’t just be something to ask people to defend. We have to rebuild the places where people actually practice it. The post People Won’t Defend a Democracy They Haven’t Experienced appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The military's publicly subsidized grocery stores save service members an average savings rate of 25 percent. The post VIDEO: A Successful Public Option for Groceries Already Exists: Military Commissaries appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

New York City’s $100 tickets for 1,000 residents offered a small experiment in economic democracy — and an effort to keep the tournament within reach of the working class. The post Can the US Open Still Be the ‘People’s Slam’? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The mid-century height of the potluck is long gone, but some towns are keeping the flame alive. The post Our Town, Our Table: The Community-Building Power of a Shared Meal appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, OR city council about a proposal to increase an existing tax on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps. The post Increasing Portland’s CEO Pay Surtax Would Boost Revenue and Encourage Narrower Pay Gaps appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The world we want now and for future generations is one where we are safe, healthy, and cared for. Let’s work together to make it ours. The post Climate Week NYC 2026: War and the Climate Crisis Demand International Solidarity From Our Movements appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences. The post The Plundering Oligarch You Haven’t Heard Of appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Data shows that New York City has grown richer since the pandemic, but the gains have flowed overwhelmingly to the top. The post New York Is Getting Richer. Most New Yorkers Aren’t. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The embrace of AI and maximalist content production at the expense of human-crafted reporting threatens the future of journalism. The post Cutting Local Journalists, McClatchy Embraces AI Content appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Democracy can’t just be something to ask people to defend. We have to rebuild the places where people actually practice it. The post People Won’t Defend a Democracy They Haven’t Experienced appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The military's publicly subsidized grocery stores save service members an average savings rate of 25 percent. The post VIDEO: A Successful Public Option for Groceries Already Exists: Military Commissaries appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

New York City’s $100 tickets for 1,000 residents offered a small experiment in economic democracy — and an effort to keep the tournament within reach of the working class. The post Can the US Open Still Be the ‘People’s Slam’? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The mid-century height of the potluck is long gone, but some towns are keeping the flame alive. The post Our Town, Our Table: The Community-Building Power of a Shared Meal appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Iran's New Defense Minister Is A Veteran Arms Industry Chief, Vows Tech Expansion Via The Cradle Tehran appointed a new Defense Minister, military industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi, on Sunday during a vote of confidence at an open session of the Iranian parliament. Akhlaghi received 237 votes in favor and 15... Read more »

Another Nor'easter Brews In Atlantic, Putting Mid-Atlantic In Potential Crosshairs Meteorologists are monitoring the risk of a coastal storm developing off the southeastern US early next week, raising concerns about a storm similar to the powerful nor'easter that hit the US East Coast in late September. The potential threat comes... Read more »

'Operation Protect The Vote': Feds Arrest 28 Foreign Nationals In California Monday For Illegal Voting Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Federal agents arrested more than two dozen foreign nationals across California on Monday, for fraudulently registering and voting in U.S. elections. Specifically, the 28 suspects are being charged... Read more »

Trump Favorable On Trilateral Meeting With Xi, Putin: "I Would Do It" Zelensky Should Get Out of the Way, Trump Suggests President Trump has once again put Zelensky in his place, in a Monday afternoon exchange with reporters he actually again suggested that the Ukrainian leader needs to be booted from... Read more »

Intifada For All... Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com, "The Dems are a total mess of cluster B psychopathology. They will continue to humiliate themselves & alienate the normal population." - JD Haltigan on X Looks like the punishments will continue across the pond until morale improves. France on... Read more »

Houthis Target More Saudi Airports, Aramco Sites As US Issues Urgent Alert For 12 Mideast States Embassies in the Middle East - and broadly the State Department - have issued warnings that the Iran and Yemen conflicts may soon escalate unpredictably, including a blanket new travel alert covering for no less... Read more »

44% Of Americans Have Trouble Paying For Basic Necessities As Lifetime Cost Of The American Dream Tops $5 Million Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse Blog, How did we get to a point where nearly half of the entire population is struggling to even pay for the most... Read more »

Trump Admin, US Businesses 'Need To Be Wary' Of AI Espionage, Intelligence Chief Warns Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned that both the Trump administration and American companies "need to be wary" of foreign espionage with the rise of artificial intelligence... Read more »

Geothermal Just Undercut Solar-Plus-Storage In Sunny Nevada Geothermal has long been the clean, firm power source that was always a few breakthroughs away from being cheap enough to matter. Numbers buried in a Nevada utility filing suggest that day may have arrived. Joel Edwards, co-founder and CTO of geothermal developer... Read more »

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a secret trip to Israel on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the country's elections, according to a new report from Axios, citing "two sources with knowledge."Hegseth's trip came just days after President Donald Trump endorsed Netanyahu for re-election. Trump has... Read more »

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has been facing personal and increasingly threatening attacks from Republicans, following her remarks at the University of Chicago that she hopes Democratic investigations of Trump will be a “deterrent” to young people joining the administration.Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, she clarified what she meant... Read more »

A federal judge said her family was “freaking out” over media reports about death threats, hours after President Donald Trump called her a “crazed lunatic.”U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes made the remark Monday afternoon at a hearing in a lawsuit that seeks to stop Trump’s overhaul of East Potomac Golf... Read more »

President Donald Trump faced a round of ridicule Monday after abruptly changing his tune during a tense exchange with a reporter after failing to realize she worked for a MAGA-friendly news outlet.The awkward moment unfolded when Trump challenged a reporter questioning him about the Iran war and unrest in France,... Read more »

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is on the verge of setting what one legal expert described as an "especially dangerous" precedent. Earlier this month, the DOJ executed a search warrant on the Washington, D.C., residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has been a frequent critic of the Trump administration.... Read more »

Vice President JD Vance came under fire Monday after claiming he was unaware of reported military failures surrounding a deadly Iranian attack that killed six American service members. The alarming admission left two prominent CNN commentators questioning whether he was being truthful or simply uninformed.The criticism erupted during CNN’s “The... Read more »

President Donald Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of not wanting the Russian invasion of his own country to end.This came after he was confronted about easing Russian sanctions, part of his effort to import diesel into the country to avert a rapidly escalating fuel crisis... Read more »

When John Dickerson announced he was leaving CBS in October 2025, it was less than a month after David Ellison took control of Paramount, CBS’s parent, and appointed Bari Weiss to overhaul the news division.Weiss was, more or less, an opinion writer with no television news experience. Evening news anchor... Read more »

Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sparked outrage Monday after acknowledging that the Trump administration’s voter fraud crackdown could mistakenly sweep up American citizens.McCotter, the DOJ’s second in command, made the startling admission in a news conference discussing the department’s efforts to identify suspected illegal voters ahead of next month’s... Read more »

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a secret trip to Israel on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the country's elections, according to a new report from Axios, citing "two sources with knowledge."Hegseth's trip came just days after President Donald Trump endorsed Netanyahu for re-election. Trump has... Read more »

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has been facing personal and increasingly threatening attacks from Republicans, following her remarks at the University of Chicago that she hopes Democratic investigations of Trump will be a “deterrent” to young people joining the administration.Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, she clarified what she meant... Read more »

A federal judge said her family was “freaking out” over media reports about death threats, hours after President Donald Trump called her a “crazed lunatic.”U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes made the remark Monday afternoon at a hearing in a lawsuit that seeks to stop Trump’s overhaul of East Potomac Golf... Read more »

President Donald Trump faced a round of ridicule Monday after abruptly changing his tune during a tense exchange with a reporter after failing to realize she worked for a MAGA-friendly news outlet.The awkward moment unfolded when Trump challenged a reporter questioning him about the Iran war and unrest in France,... Read more »

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is on the verge of setting what one legal expert described as an "especially dangerous" precedent. Earlier this month, the DOJ executed a search warrant on the Washington, D.C., residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has been a frequent critic of the Trump administration.... Read more »

Vice President JD Vance came under fire Monday after claiming he was unaware of reported military failures surrounding a deadly Iranian attack that killed six American service members. The alarming admission left two prominent CNN commentators questioning whether he was being truthful or simply uninformed.The criticism erupted during CNN’s “The... Read more »

President Donald Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of not wanting the Russian invasion of his own country to end.This came after he was confronted about easing Russian sanctions, part of his effort to import diesel into the country to avert a rapidly escalating fuel crisis... Read more »

When John Dickerson announced he was leaving CBS in October 2025, it was less than a month after David Ellison took control of Paramount, CBS’s parent, and appointed Bari Weiss to overhaul the news division.Weiss was, more or less, an opinion writer with no television news experience. Evening news anchor... Read more »

Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sparked outrage Monday after acknowledging that the Trump administration’s voter fraud crackdown could mistakenly sweep up American citizens.McCotter, the DOJ’s second in command, made the startling admission in a news conference discussing the department’s efforts to identify suspected illegal voters ahead of next month’s... Read more »

Democratic ads in multiple congressional races are accusing Republican candidates of “gutting Medicare,” voting for “huge cuts to Medicare” and “cheering on Trump’s attack on Medicare.” Several ads cite President Donald Trump's major domestic policy law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But the law's changes to Medicare are narrow in... Read more »

An ad from a Democratic-aligned super PAC claims Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan "voted to raise Alaskans' healthcare costs by $1,800 and on that same day voted to give himself a $500,000 taxpayer-funded payout." But that's not the whole story, and the ad leaves the false impression that Sullivan received that... Read more »

Q: Claims about James Talarico being hospitalized in a mental health facility. Is this true? A: No. An Ohio mental health center rebutted false online rumors that Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, had been there as a patient. Talarico said he was off the campaign trail... Read more »

In partially repealing a Biden-era regulation that limited carbon emissions from power plants, Trump administration officials have misleadingly cast the prior administration’s policy as a threat to grid reliability. Experts say that’s unfounded. The post Trump Officials Mislead About Electrical Grid Reliability appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In several congressional races, Republican ads are claiming that Democratic candidates support "sex changes" for children or support taxpayer money being used for such surgeries. But the allegations are flawed. The post Republican Ads Distort the Facts in Claiming Democratic Support for ‘Sex Changes’ for Kids appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Multiple ads airing in Michigan attack Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for past statements he made, or positions he held, about policing and prisons. But the ads either omit context or exaggerate his past policy proposals. The post Republican Ads Attack El-Sayed for Past Comments, Positions on Policing and Prisons... Read more »

In congressional races around the country, Democrats find themselves under attack in political ads for allegedly opposing the popular tax cuts for tips, overtime and older Americans that were part of Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Many of the candidates themselves say they support those particular provisions. The post... Read more »

President Donald Trump’s remarks about the possibility that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego have sparked a firestorm of criticism, with Democrats claiming the president was either calling for a foreign adversary to attack the U.S. or portraying the destruction of two major cities as acceptable collateral... Read more »

A political action committee affiliated with President Donald Trump. The post MAGA Inc. appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Democratic ads in multiple congressional races are accusing Republican candidates of “gutting Medicare,” voting for “huge cuts to Medicare” and “cheering on Trump’s attack on Medicare.” Several ads cite President Donald Trump's major domestic policy law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But the law's changes to Medicare are narrow in... Read more »

An ad from a Democratic-aligned super PAC claims Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan "voted to raise Alaskans' healthcare costs by $1,800 and on that same day voted to give himself a $500,000 taxpayer-funded payout." But that's not the whole story, and the ad leaves the false impression that Sullivan received that... Read more »

Q: Claims about James Talarico being hospitalized in a mental health facility. Is this true? A: No. An Ohio mental health center rebutted false online rumors that Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, had been there as a patient. Talarico said he was off the campaign trail... Read more »

In partially repealing a Biden-era regulation that limited carbon emissions from power plants, Trump administration officials have misleadingly cast the prior administration’s policy as a threat to grid reliability. Experts say that’s unfounded. The post Trump Officials Mislead About Electrical Grid Reliability appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

In several congressional races, Republican ads are claiming that Democratic candidates support "sex changes" for children or support taxpayer money being used for such surgeries. But the allegations are flawed. The post Republican Ads Distort the Facts in Claiming Democratic Support for ‘Sex Changes’ for Kids appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Multiple ads airing in Michigan attack Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for past statements he made, or positions he held, about policing and prisons. But the ads either omit context or exaggerate his past policy proposals. The post Republican Ads Attack El-Sayed for Past Comments, Positions on Policing and Prisons... Read more »

In congressional races around the country, Democrats find themselves under attack in political ads for allegedly opposing the popular tax cuts for tips, overtime and older Americans that were part of Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Many of the candidates themselves say they support those particular provisions. The post... Read more »

President Donald Trump’s remarks about the possibility that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego have sparked a firestorm of criticism, with Democrats claiming the president was either calling for a foreign adversary to attack the U.S. or portraying the destruction of two major cities as acceptable collateral... Read more »

A political action committee affiliated with President Donald Trump. The post MAGA Inc. appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »

Joan Walsh Former senator Sherrod Brown is leading in most polls, but a tidal wave of spending may prop up the struggling incumbent. The post Will the GOP’s Big Money Save Jon Husted in Ohio? appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Harrison Stetler, June Loper Joining forces with the “yellow vests,” youth demonstrators are raising the alarm in a country falling to the far right. The post The Specter of Lepenism Looms Over France’s Social Crisis appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Katrina vanden Heuvel He’s not the only progressive doing it. The post James Talarico Is Preaching a Gospel of Pluralism appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Jeet Heer And, somewhat shockingly, so are Democratic elites. The post Even Republicans Are Waking Up to Trump’s Corruption appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

André Carrilho In your face. The post ICE appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Tisya Mavuram The mayor has been able to put difficult questions about policing on the back burner—until now. The post Mamdani Can No Longer Avoid the Issue of the NYPD appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Bijan Stephen On her new album, Music, Fashion, Film, the musician embraces rock. The post The Genius of Charli XCX appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Elizabeth Spiers The party's silver-haired establishment is caught up in an existential culture war. The post Why Democratic Leaders Keep Waging War on the Young appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

Oliver Egger My great-great-grandfather was the namesake of an infamous institution for the disabled. From long-neglected records of the property, the lives of forgotten people were uncovered. The post My Family’s Dark, Hidden History With Institutionalization appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »

The award-winning Irish novelist faces possible arrest if she enters the UK. Yet, Britain has welcomed the ex-commander of Syria’s al-Qaeda offshoot with open arms, writes Fatima Bhutto.... Read more »

Nachala movement set up a makeshift outpost as part of a push to resettle Gaza; Likud Party official attended the event, while local authorities demanded immediate police action. Police and the military have so far made no effort to remove the activists... Read more »

There is no conscience. There is no humanity. There are only leaders who watch and do not act. The genocide continues.... Read more »

Israel continues to imprison her without charge or trial. Her lawyers have not been able to visit her. Her prolonged solitary confinement is a violation of international standards – Supporters ask the Red Cross to urgently intervene... Read more »

The proposal, often referred to as Section 219, would go far beyond agreements with Washington's closest allies... Read more »

“If she was Israeli, this image would be front-page news,” said one observer.... Read more »

Mike Huckabee’s family is offering trips to Israel so tourists can ‘hear from top officials,’ even though he’s the ambassador. Meanwhile, he’s done little for U.S. victims of Israeli violence.... Read more »

As Israel continues to squeeze Gaza, settler violence dominates West Bank; Trump endorses war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to remain Prime Minister in next week's election... Read more »

Rabbi Dov Lior claims Palestinian land belongs to Jews, says harvesting olives demonstrates ownership, according to Israeli Channel 13... Read more »

The award-winning Irish novelist faces possible arrest if she enters the UK. Yet, Britain has welcomed the ex-commander of Syria’s al-Qaeda offshoot with open arms, writes Fatima Bhutto.... Read more »

Nachala movement set up a makeshift outpost as part of a push to resettle Gaza; Likud Party official attended the event, while local authorities demanded immediate police action. Police and the military have so far made no effort to remove the activists... Read more »

There is no conscience. There is no humanity. There are only leaders who watch and do not act. The genocide continues.... Read more »

Israel continues to imprison her without charge or trial. Her lawyers have not been able to visit her. Her prolonged solitary confinement is a violation of international standards – Supporters ask the Red Cross to urgently intervene... Read more »

The proposal, often referred to as Section 219, would go far beyond agreements with Washington's closest allies... Read more »

“If she was Israeli, this image would be front-page news,” said one observer.... Read more »

Mike Huckabee’s family is offering trips to Israel so tourists can ‘hear from top officials,’ even though he’s the ambassador. Meanwhile, he’s done little for U.S. victims of Israeli violence.... Read more »

As Israel continues to squeeze Gaza, settler violence dominates West Bank; Trump endorses war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to remain Prime Minister in next week's election... Read more »

Rabbi Dov Lior claims Palestinian land belongs to Jews, says harvesting olives demonstrates ownership, according to Israeli Channel 13... Read more »

AI for Everyone? A Critical Look at Ireland's AIready.ie Platform Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly appearing in news headlines from warnings about job losses and ethical concerns, to fears about the unchecked power this technology could …... Read more »

Content warning: This article discusses themes of suicide which may be upsetting to some readers, including the criminalisation of suicide and death by suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. Call 116 123 to …... Read more »

Politics is the art of compromise.  Therefore, both in decision-making and in elections, both for the electorate and for their representatives, voting procedures should cater for those who wish to compromise.  Single-preference procedures – like …... Read more »

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) have become an important part of the government’s strategy to combat the ongoing Irish housing crisis. Adopting MMC is a key part of Pillar 1 of the current housing strategy: Delivering Homes, Building …... Read more »

The world is entering a period of prolonged instability: geopolitical confrontation, technological acceleration, demographic pressure, information manipulation, social fragmentation and declining institutional trust. These dynamics are no longer …... Read more »

As of January 2026, successive opinion polls give centre-right Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael combined less than 40% of support for the next general election. Could Ireland have a government for the first time that excludes both of these traditional …... Read more »

For the past 26 years, I have worked in the addiction sector in Dublin watching the landscape of substance use evolve. While much attention is given to young people and new drug trends, there is a growing, overlooked and underserved group, older …... Read more »

In the middle of summer 2024, the song “10 Drunk Cigarettes” became a TikTok sensation. This was the height of Brat Summer - a time when women like Charli xcx and Sabrina Carpenter were dominating the pop industry, chartreuse was the colour of …... Read more »

Over the past week, Ireland has witnessed scenes not seen for a generation. Forecourts running out of fuel, limits placed on purchases, and the blockading of key infrastructure have disrupted daily life across the country. These developments echo …... Read more »

A Lebanese lawmaker from Hezbollah's political wing has warned the Beirut government against giving in to US dictates, stressing such an approach will place Lebanon in jeopardy.... Read more »

The WFP is cutting food aid to over 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza due to funding shortages amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on the besieged strip.... Read more »

A Palestinian prisoners’ rights group says Israeli prison guards have violently assaulted female Palestinian detainees and forcibly removed their headscarves.... Read more »

President Aoun warns that Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon undermine efforts to end the occupation.... Read more »

Yemeni armed forces have carried out a missile attack on a military camp of Saudi-backed forces in the country’s eastern province of Shabwa, killing at least 53 militants.... Read more »

A young Palestinian man who was injured during his abduction by Israeli forces has succumbed to his wounds while in the regime’s custody.... Read more »

Israeli opposition figures dismiss prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newly unveiled “security doctrine” out of hand.... Read more »

President Aoun warns that Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon undermine efforts to end the occupation.... Read more »

Yemeni armed forces have carried out a missile attack on a military camp of Saudi-backed forces in the country’s eastern province of Shabwa, killing at least 53 militants.... Read more »

An incident at one of Canada’s busiest military training bases in Alberta caused a large fire and left some killed and injured, according to Canada’s defense minister.... Read more »

Colombian authorities detain an Israeli settler, known as “The Banker,” after confirming an Interpol Red Notice.... Read more »

Iran has strongly condemned Colombia’s opening of an embassy in occupied al-Quds, calling the move a violation of international law and Palestinian rights.... Read more »

Mark Carney has warned that the US is seeking to divide Canada to gain greater control over the country, as Alberta prepares to vote on a path toward separation.... Read more »

Venezuela's democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro pleads not guilty in a New York court to fabricated torture charges lodged by US prosecutors following his abduction.... Read more »

Critics argue these new allegations are fabricated by the US government to justify its actions against Venezuela.... Read more »

SOUTHCOM says 4 more suspects were killed in a US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.... Read more »

The winner will be in charge of Latin America's biggest economy and a population of 214 million.... Read more »

Mark Carney has warned that the US is seeking to divide Canada to gain greater control over the country, as Alberta prepares to vote on a path toward separation.... Read more »

Iranian authorities advised compatriots against undertaking unnecessary trips to the three European countries or remaining in zones affected by unrest.... Read more »

France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has allowed local mayors to impose partial curfews after a weekend of violent protests across the country.... Read more »

The unrest left nearly 1,000 law enforcement officers injured and resulted in approximately 2,400 arrests, according to official figures.... Read more »

The Iranian foreign minister urges Macron to heed the French public’s demands.... Read more »

US President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that Kiev was launching attacks on diesel refineries in Russia despite knowing it was “seriously hurting the world diesel markets.”... Read more »

French locals said the vast destruction of buildings and streets reminded them of war scenes.... Read more »

Iran warned Macron that those who fuel crises through sinister alliances may ultimately face the consequences of their actions.... Read more »

The Iranian foreign minister urges Macron to heed the French public’s demands.... Read more »

US President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that Kiev was launching attacks on diesel refineries in Russia despite knowing it was “seriously hurting the world diesel markets.”... Read more »