- ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max BlumenthalThe ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after he returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him for his journalism... Read more »
- MI5 sought to recruit BBC leader as broadcaster investigated spy agency, leaks revealLeaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5. This June, British oligarch Damon Buffini stepped down as deputy... Read more »
- Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged ‘terrorism’ trialsAs the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors and... Read more »
- Iran ‘human rights activist’ Masih Alinejad takes credit for ICE abduction of US legal residentsA family of Iranian legal permanent residents was abducted and confined to an ICE prison after US government-backed regime change activist Masih Alinejad campaigned for their deportation. The family committed no crime, and was only targeted by Alinejad for their bloodline. A family of Iranian legal permanent residents of the... Read more »
- Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel’s handsAs the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives in Washington – and a fascist Christian goon squad in Beirut – dedicated to doing Israel’s dirty work. In late July, Lebanese daily L’Orient Today exposed... Read more »
The Grayzone
- Israel Tangled In Spiderweb As Army Braces For West Bank Explosion – Iran War Blunts ExpansionIsraeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic offensive in a desperate attempt to pressure the Iranians to open to Strait of Hormuz. In the latest episode of The Target Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh... Read more »
- VideoFrom Lionel Messi, Kanye West to Taylor Swift: Celebrities are “Protected” By Israeli Security TeamsFrom Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces. But how safe is it to entrust your life and most intimate details to agents from spying... Read more »
- Hezbollah Take Out 3 Israeli Elite Soldiers As Iran Issues Final UltimatumHezbollah have repelled another Israeli attempt to seize the strategic Ali al-Taher Hills in southern Lebanon as Iran issues a threat that it will not stand idly by and could soon escalate unless the US backs down over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Yemen’s Ansarrallah continue to advance on areas... Read more »
- US Meddling In Brazilian Elections, Preparing For Possible Military InterventionThe United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro. If that does not work and President Lula da Silva secures a fourth term in office, the groundwork is already being... Read more »
- Iran’s Covert Offensive Averts The Collapse Of Lebanon – US Aircraft Carriers InboundTehran has imposed a series of equations on the US-Israeli alliance, using covert and asymmetric warfare tactics, that may have just set in motion a series of regional shifts as Yemen’s Ansarallah led Armed Forces have continued to bombard strategic targets, in Yemen, controlled by Saudi proxy forces. In this... Read more »
MintPress News
- Video4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’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 »
- ‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’‘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 »
- 25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On IranThis 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 »
- VideoWhitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza LegacyOn 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 »
- VideoInvitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate DenialWe, 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 »
Media Lens
- Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown
Right-leaning and libertarian groups told the court that ICE engaged in illegal “ideological targeting” of the left in the Minneapolis 15 case. The post Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War
A government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties. The post Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants
Illinois law prohibits local collaboration with immigration enforcement officials, but the cops often find workarounds. The post Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - VideoPentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists
When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.” The post Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more » - VideoThe Dawn of a New Cold War
The growing tension between the United States and China boils down to a battle over resources. The post The Dawn of a New Cold War appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
The Intercept
- The Climate Wars: How Superpowers Are Carving Up the Earth | With Arthur Snell
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 » - Sex, power and backlash in Africa
An extract from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s new book Seeking Sexual Freedom... Read more » - What movements can learn from their own histories
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on memory, risk and organising beyond backlash... Read more » - Big Tech platforms under fire in inquiry into Southport mass stabbing
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 » - Brazil: How the CIA funded Catholic marches that paved the way for the 1964 coup
Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup... Read more »
openDemocracy
- Video● All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold
You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks it’s Palestine.... Read more » - VideoDon’t Let The Values Of This Dystopian Society Shape How You Live Your Life
According to the rules of our dysfunctional society, you are inadequate unless you've become a productive gear-turner for capitalism and obtained enough wealth to consume products at large volume.... Read more » - VideoIt’s Obnoxious For Westerners To Criticize The Targets Of The Western Empire
It’s crazy this even needs to be said, but if you are a westerner your ONLY job is to oppose the abuses of the western empire. Not Iran. Not China. Not Russia, Cuba or North Korea.... Read more » - VideoOur Entire Civilization Is Run By Oligarchs And Empire Managers — And Other Notes
All the top tech giants have deep ties to the CIA. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon. Facebook and Instagram are overseen by "former" CIA operatives.... Read more » - Video“What Radicalized You?”
At this point “What radicalized you?” is a much less interesting question to ask people than “Why aren’t you radicalized yet?"... Read more »
Caitlin Johnstone
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- Don’t fall for Project Smear, Mr Burnham – Unherd op-edIn 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 »
- Oh dear Andy, what an inauspicious start!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 »
- AI and the false consciousness trap – UnherdAscribing 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 »
- VideoAn Athenian View of American Democracy – Project Syndicate op-edAt 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 »
- Το ΝΑΤΟ πρέπει να πεθάνει – 24|7 NewsΟ 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 »
Yanis Varoufakis
- Football legends unite against InfantinoPressure on FIFA president Gianni Infantino is spreading beyond football’s governing bodies. A group of prominent former players has now joined the growing backlash. As a result, they are calling for major changes to the way the global game is run. In a joint statement, the football legends accused FIFA... Read more »
- ‘Lake America’: Tantrum-prone Donald Trump is renaming things againTantrum prone US president Donald Trump is threatening to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America. It’s a repeat of his weird 2025 decision to rename The Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America’. Trump is currently in the process of starting a trade war with Canada, a major ally and... Read more »
- UN nations fail to name UAE as main force behind Sudan warUN members have failed to name the UAE as the driving force behind the Sudan war despite ample evidence. At a long UN security meeting on 24 August, only Sudan’s national government named the Gulf state as the culprit. The rest — including the UAE itself — referred only to... Read more »
- Another Irish protest win as hotel cancels Israeli tech eventFollowing on soon after activists successfully got a Peter Thiel-led conference cancelled at a Wicklow hotel, campaigners have pushed another Irish venue to shut down a genocide-linked event. The Beckett Locke hotel had been set to host ‘Israeli’ cybersecurity firm Check Point Software. However, Dublin-based activists at Your Tech Their... Read more »
- Fourth Black person found hanging within a year in North CarolinaThe Black Belt Daily (BBD), an independent media outlet, reported the most recent hanging of a Black father, Demetrius Fleming, on 21 August in North Carolina. An autopsy is currently underway. Fleming’s death is the fourth hanging of a Black person in North Carolina within a year, following three others... Read more »
Canary
- ● [thessaloniki] acceptance of responsibility for the breaking of cameras at authThe Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, through statements by the rector, has announced the installation of measures and means of exclusion from the campus (cameras, turnstiles). Without any prior information from the rector’s authorities and during a dead period for the... Read more... Read more »
- ● Leverkusen (Germany): Double Act of Rail Sabotage, by Angry Birds Commando.[Note of Sans Nom: On July 11, 2026, the Angry Birds Commando issued a statement claiming responsibility for the sabotage that had just brought the Cologne-Düsseldorf line to a standstill — a heavily trafficked rail route in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s... Read more... Read more »
- ● (Greece) Responsibility taken for sabotage 6 at an ATM of Optima Bank of the Vardinoyannis group in Athens by Anarchists .Responsibility taken for sabotage 6 at an ATM of Optima Bank of the Vardinoyannis group For 78 years, the murderous state of Israel has been imposing an Apartheid regime on the Palestinian territory through continuous bombing, artificial famine, imprisonment, murder,... Read more... Read more »
- Edmonton Police Shoot and Kill Man (57) (August 24, 2026)Edmonton Police Service (EPS) shot and killed a 57-year-old man on August 24, 2026. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) reports that EPS were called to the Hilton Garden Inn near Stony Plain Road and 178 Street regarding a... Read more... Read more »
- SF Lurie’s PUC Cited By Cal-OSHA For Putting LIUNA 261 Workers Lives In DangerSF Mayor Lurie’s SFPUC was cited by Cal-OSHA for putting LIUNA 261 workers in danger. The agency ED also supported a racist frame-up against these workers after they complained about the health and safety issues. SF Mayor Lurie’s PUC Cited... Read more... Read more »
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- Nathan Stephens-Griffin & Andrea Brock - Challenging academic complicity in the eco-social destruction inherent in policing: a call for saboteur criminologyAuthor: Nathan Stephens-Griffin & Andrea BrockTitle: Challenging academic complicity in the eco-social destruction inherent in policing: a call for saboteur criminologyDate: 14 August 2026Source: Justice, Power and Resistance Journal • vol XX • no XX • 1–21, Retrieved 23 August 2026 from https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jpr/aop/article-10.1332-26352338Y2026D000000077/article-10.1332-26352338Y2026D000000077.xml Abstract Building on insights from critical/green criminology,... Read more »
- Roderick McMillan - Solidarity Without Submission: Nestor, Ulysses, Ukraine and the Glory of HeroesAuthor: Roderick McMillanTitle: Solidarity Without Submission: Nestor, Ulysses, Ukraine and the Glory of HeroesSubtitle: How can anarchists fight for national resistance without condoning nationalism?Date: August 7th 2026Source: https://morewretchthansage.substack.com/p/solidarity-without-submission-nestor Greek epics make us all Cassandras, the scenes are set in divine prophecy, but their acts are only understood in hindsight, the... Read more »
- Dark Nights - About counter-information practices and a warningAuthor: Dark NightsTitle: About counter-information practices and a warningSubtitle: For Mutual Aid & SolidarityDate: 2026/08/15Notes: Posted on 2026/08/15 — 2026/08/15 by darknightsSource: Retrieved on 16/8/26 from https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/15/about-counter-information-practices-and-a-warning/ When we speak, it should be clear, to show reality and not to obscure it and/or reduce it to a spectacle. We issue... Read more »
- Flower Bomb - Intoxication CultureAuthor: Flower BombTitle: Intoxication CultureSubtitle: A Straight Edge Anarchist CritiqueDate: 06/20/2026Source: https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2026/06/20/intoxication-culture-a-straight-edge-anarchist-critique/ Most people (including many anarchists and leftists) are unaware of the role alcohol, tobacco and opiods played in building colonial empires around the world. For example a major part of the Triangular Trade between the 16th and 19th... Read more »
- Arthur Moyse - 'A splendid little war'Author: Arthur MoyseTitle: 'A splendid little war'Date: Spring 1995Notes: This text was entered manually, copying from a hardcopy of the Raven issue 29 (Volume 8 Number 1).Source: The Raven Anarchist Quarterly 29, ISSN 0951 4066 In 1895 Spain sent in 200,000 troops to quell the revolt of the Cuban people... Read more »
The Anarchist Library
- They Want Your Votes - We Want Your Action! / Anarchist ManifestoThey Want Your Votes - We Want Your Action! / Anarchist Manifesto... Read more »
- Anarchism in Cuba Revisited: History of a Libertarian StrivingAnarchism in Cuba Revisited: History of a Libertarian Striving... Read more »
- Revolutionary Counter-Terror: The Kovalevich Outrage [The Leontiev Lane Attack]Revolutionary Counter-Terror: The Kovalevich Outrage [The Leontiev Lane Attack]... Read more »
- Glossary of Some OrganizationsGlossary of Some Organizations... Read more »
- Ease up on the death notices : from the end of the working class to its reconstructionEase up on the death notices : from the end of the working class to its reconstruction... Read more »
Kate Sharpley Library: Recent documents
- US lawmakers demand release of American student held in Israel
A group of 40 US lawmakers, including six senators, demanded the immediate release of a 20-year-old American on Tuesday who is being held in an Israeli military prison, Anadolu reports. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the legislators demanded the release of Sama Safi, citing her “severe... Read more » - Another 6 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes across beleaguered Gaza Strip
Six Palestinians were killed Tuesday by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, a local medical source said, as Israel continues to violate a ceasefire that ostensibly went into effect last October, Anadolu reports. The latest casualties included two people who succumbed to injuries sustained in earlier Israeli strikes. A medical... Read more » - Omani FM says shipping route through Hormuz Strait may soon be announced
Oman is “hopeful” that a temporary shipping corridor through the Hormuz Strait will soon be announced, Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi said Tuesday after meeting his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, in Tehran. “I am hopeful we will soon announce a temporary corridor for the Strait of Hormuz and practical arrangements to... Read more » - Turkish Red Crescent continues aid efforts in Gaza
The Turkish Red Crescent is continuing humanitarian aid operations for the Gaza Strip, working to ensure assistance sent from Turkiye reaches the territory, its president said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. Speaking at Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses in Egypt’s El-Arish, Fatma Meric Yilmaz said the Turkish organization has carried out various humanitarian... Read more » - Israel issues demolition notices in refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem
Israeli forces on Tuesday evening issued demolition notices in a refugee camp north of occupied Jerusalem amid ongoing raids by Israeli forces, Palestinian authorities said. “Occupation forces are issuing demolition notices on Matar Street in the Qalandia camp,” the Jerusalem Governorate said in a brief statement without providing additional details.... Read more »
Middle East Monitor
- The Teacher Pay Penalty Remained High in 2025Teachers earned 25.2 percent less than comparable college graduates in other professions in 2025, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).The relative teacher pay penalty — which is adjusted for education, experience, and demographic characteristics — was a... Read more »
- Recreation, Conservation Groups Unite Against Forest Service Travel Rule RollbackThe U.S. Department of Agriculture recently launched a process to significantly revise its Travel Management Rule, which guides where motorized vehicles are and are not allowed on almost 200 million acres of national forests and grasslands.The USDA is proposing to flip the U.S. Forest Service’s longstanding approach to travel management... Read more »
- Trump’s Renewed Economic War on Iran Risks BlowbackRyan Costello, Policy Director with the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), issued the following statement as the Trump administration moves to intensify its economic pressure campaign against Iran following months of war and instability:“President Trump, the ultimate gambler in geopolitics, is poised to double down on a bad hand on... Read more »
- FTC Must Investigate AI Book BurningOn Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk, scanning them and then destroying the original work—including rare books. In a letter sent to the FTC, the organizations urge the... Read more »
- VideoBe Quiet, Be Quiet: We Are All On the Decoy Plane Now
Not to alarm, but everything in America - our economy, military, education, environment, health, moral fiber - is being decimated by a petty, fragile, flailing child in a fact-free bubble who just turned our foreign policy over to North Korea because its dictator "has always been nice to me." Otherwise,... Read more »
Common Dreams
- Of Judges, Juries and FascismWe still don’t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed. Lord Young is thinking about it. Last Thursday’s hearing went about as well as it could go. The UK government produced no written argument and barely seemed to be trying. They moved in... Read more »
- Scottish Judicial Review Hearing TomorrowAfter eight months of obstructionism from the Labour Friends of Israel government of the UK, tomorrow is the day on which the Scottish Court of Session will finally decide whether to go ahead with the judicial review it granted in January, or kowtow to Downing St. I publish below two... Read more »
- A Tide in the Affairs of MenBetween ten and five years ago, specifically in the light of Brexit, it was not in the least unusual for Scottish Independence supporters to discuss a declaration of Independence as the way forward. Debate more often centred on who should make the declaration – the Scottish parliament or some form... Read more »
- The Hard Right Packing of the UK Supreme CourtUnlike the USA, where it is obsessively watched, the UK has no political culture of scrutinising the political composition of its Supreme Court. This is a big mistake. The UK Supreme Court has been deliberately and openly, even ostentatiously, packed with hard-right judges selected on the specific criterion that they... Read more »
- Scottish Independence: Set the Date!The Scottish Government urgently needs a bold and radical approach to achieving Independence in spite of the firm London veto on a referendum. It is plain that there is no plan at present. The Scottish Parliament has a pro-Independence majority and government. This is how to achieve Independence consistent... Read more »
Craig Murray
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- Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online ClassesOnline classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators. The post Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
- Reimagine Resource Distribution: Creating People’s BudgetsIf you are interested in exploring participatory city budgeting with your students, or maybe you already do, request a copy of the new book Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities by Celina Su. The post Reimagine Resource Distribution: Creating People’s Budgets appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
- Send Free Voting Rights Toolkits to ClassroomsTo 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 »
- Call to Action: Teach Voting Rights in an Age of AuthoritarianismWe are witnessing a vicious attack on voting rights, democratic participation, and truthful education. History reminds us that we must organize to protect the gains won through generations of struggle. The post Call to Action: Teach Voting Rights in an Age of Authoritarianism appeared first on Zinn Education Project.... Read more »
- “Who Gets to Vote?” Curriculum WorkshopThis workshop is a part of our national call to action to teach about voting rights in an age of authoritarianism, which includes a workshop series focused on voting rights, Reconstruction, constitutional struggles, student organizing, and the long movement to expand freedom in the United States. The post “Who Gets... Read more »
Zinn Education Project
- #BREAKING | Israeli Defense Minister
#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 »
Free willl
- Our greatest intellectual is goneFor 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 »
- The Bench errs; and a Councillor chances his arm, but is resistedCouncillor 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 »
- From Bridge to GulfHow 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 »
- The Bed of Silk: A ‘Corrib Gas campaign’ in the MakingState 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 »
- RAF deal: rough deal for truthCoveney 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 »
Village Magazine
- When a kite becomes a threat: What Gaza’s children reveal about the politics of fear
There is something profoundly unsettling about a military power becoming alarmed by children flying kites: In Gaza, where childhood has already been stripped of so many of its ordinary meanings, even a kite has now entered the vocabulary of warfare. In August 2026, several kites drifted from Gaza toward Israeli... Read more » - Genocide continues, on the pretext of kites
Acting forcefully against kites is one of Israel’s latest purported security concerns. “My directive to the defence establishment and the IDF is to do everything against this lethal weapon – to strike it, to strike those operating it, to strike the place from which it was launched, to do everything... Read more » - Deprived at sea: The tribulations of the USS Abraham Lincoln
The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of goodwill and, it would seem, a disruption in resupplying warships operating in the Middle East, have become dents in a struggling war machine. This month, the aircraft carrier USS... Read more » - Bloodshed grips Egypt
Rania, 27, travelled with her husband and two children to Alexandria, northern Egypt, for a holiday on the Mediterranean coast. She never returned home alive. She was killed by a beach worker in the El-Agami area after a dispute over a seat overlooking the sea. The incident, which took place... Read more » - An unprecedented alliance challenges Palestine’s old political order
After two decades without legislative elections, the Palestinian people may finally be called upon to renew their institutions. A presidential decree has set 28 November 2026 as the date for electing the 132 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, with voting due to take place in East Jerusalem, the West... Read more »
Opinion – Middle East Monitor
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough 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 »
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough 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 »
- Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce HappinessAlthough 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 »
- Who Speaks for the World?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 »
- Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against RussiaEthnic 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 »
Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork
- A Few Words on Independence Day[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 »
- ‘How Many Minutes to Midnight?’: Noam Chomsky on Why National Security Has Nothing to Do With SecurityIntro 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 »
- Noam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. PresidentsChomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.... Read more »
- Noam Chomsky On The Responsibility To Act Against FascismTomorrow 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 »
- Israel & Palestine: Possible Futures — a Discussion with Noam ChomskyProfessor Noam Chomsky discuss in May 23, 2023, Israel-Palestine conflict which he describes as “the main issue of my life” with academics Dylan Rodriguez, Michael Alexander and Mohamad Ali. With incomparable precision and detail professor Chomsky re-defines concepts such as “genocide” and “apartheid” in relation to the conflict; points the... Read more »
Posts – ZNetwork
- The Ellison family and Israel lobby’s smearing of Mark Ruffalo shows how tedious the ‘antisemitism scandal’ script is gettingThe Ellisons openly fund and support Israel’s military. Pointing this out is not a form of hatred, and it’s getting more and more absurd to suggest it is.... Read more »
- Beyond the Wire: stopping violence without police
"Beyond the Wire...one of the beautiful things about this film is that I think it gives words, images, narratives to a feeling, to an instinct, to an inclination that I think a lot of people had, but just put words and the images to it."... Read more » - ‘The red states, we’re going to hit hard’: Canadian politicians vow to make MAGA pay for Trump’s trade war
“We can put massive pain on the US,” said Ontario Premier Doug Ford.... Read more » - ‘Lawless killing spree at sea resumes’ as US announces fresh boat bombingsWith the latest two casualties, the Trump administration’s boat bombing spree has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.... Read more »
- Video‘Katrina 2.0’: Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)“Gary and Northwest Indiana are experiencing a Katrina moment.” We speak with residents and community leaders about the ongoing energy blackout in Gary, Indiana and the conditions that led to this avoidable national tragedy.... Read more »
The Real News Network
- The Ellison family and Israel lobby’s smearing of Mark Ruffalo shows how tedious the ‘antisemitism scandal’ script is gettingThe Ellisons openly fund and support Israel’s military. Pointing this out is not a form of hatred, and it’s getting more and more absurd to suggest it is.... Read more »
- Beyond the Wire: stopping violence without police"Beyond the Wire...one of the beautiful things about this film is that I think it gives words, images, narratives to a feeling, to an instinct, to an inclination that I think a lot of people had, but just put words and the images to it."... Read more »
- ‘The red states, we’re going to hit hard’: Canadian politicians vow to make MAGA pay for Trump’s trade war“We can put massive pain on the US,” said Ontario Premier Doug Ford.... Read more »
- ‘Lawless killing spree at sea resumes’ as US announces fresh boat bombingsWith the latest two casualties, the Trump administration’s boat bombing spree has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.... Read more »
- Video‘Katrina 2.0’: Residents of Gary, Indiana fight to survive without power for 12 days (and counting)“Gary and Northwest Indiana are experiencing a Katrina moment.” We speak with residents and community leaders about the ongoing energy blackout in Gary, Indiana and the conditions that led to this avoidable national tragedy.... Read more »
The Real News Network
- Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her "Act of Solidarity" Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protesters... Read more »
- Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice WatchWe speak to journalist Aura Bogado, whose new investigation into Illinois law enforcement and prosecutorial collaboration with ICE has revealed that dozens of immigrants have been arrested and deported with the help of local officials in violation of the state’s sanctuary law. “Those are 150 individuals whose lives were very... Read more »
- U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran's Other Top Trading PartnersThe Trump administration has announced unspecified plans to further tighten sanctions on Iran, threatening other countries, including China, in the process. We speak to sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder about what he calls the “rhetorical” and “psychological warfare” of the announcement. For Iran, says Mulder, the announcement was not “really materially... Read more »
- Headlines for August 25, 2026SOUTHCOM Resumes Bombing Boats Accused of Drug Smuggling, China Calls on U.S. to “Act Rationally” as Bessent Threatens Secondary Sanctions on Iran’s Partners, Supreme Court Sides with Trump over Limits to Mail-In Voting, Trump Threatens Even More Tariffs on Canada, Deepening Trade War, Israel Bombs Gaza Water Desalination Plant, Mosque... Read more »
- In Defeat for AIPAC, Aisha Wahab Wins House Seat, Becoming First Afghan American in CongressProgressive California state lawmaker Aisha Wahab made history last week in a special election that will make her the first Afghan American in Congress. Wahab overcame a flood of attack ads from pro-Israel groups to beat her Democratic rival, Melissa Hernandez, in a race to replace disgraced Congressmember Eric Swalwell,... Read more »
Democracy Now!
- mp3Phyllis Bennis (2021), Matthew Hoh (2021) and Sonali Kolhatkar (2010) on Afghanistan
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 » - mp3Jessica Gonzalez on Paramount Merger, Isabel MacDonald and Steve Rendall (2008) on Islamophobia
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260814.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Al Jazeera (8/12/26) This week on CounterSpin: It was not a shock when Donald Trump’s Justice Department greenlit the merger of Paramount—owned by the scion of the Trump-adjacent Ellison family—with Warner Bros Discovery. Who cares if a single entity... Read more » - mp3Gina Plata-Nino & Crystal FitzSimons (2025) on Food Aid Cuts
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260807.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). CT Mirror (7/30/26) This week on CounterSpin: If you look for media coverage about the Farm Bill that’s currently passing through Congress, you can find it–at sites like agriculture.com or agri-pulse.com, or those outlets that have “ag” sections. If you... Read more » - The ‘Rigor’ and ‘Empathy’ Ross Douthat Will Bring to 60 Minutes
60 Minutes announced a batch of new hires to replace a number of staffers fired by CBS network commissar Bari Weiss, with the most prominent addition being longtime conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (Washington Post, 7/28/26). 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton—brought in by Weiss from Vanity... Read more » - mp3Vincent Southerland on Black Voting Barriers
https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260731.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). NPR (7/16/26) This week on CounterSpin: “In Primetime Speech, Trump Doesn’t Provide Evidence for Illegal Voting” was the temperate headline NPR put on a story about Trump’s recent East Room speech that, they allowed, “included many baseless claims”... Read more »
CounterSpin
- Bankrupting the Wrong EconomyThe Iran economic war is boomeranging through oil prices, currencies and debt, placing greater pressure on the leveraged West than on Tehran. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- The System That Cannot Admit FailureRentier capitalism protects finance, monopoly and inherited privilege while suppressing the mixed economy that once drove industrial development. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- The Bases Became the TargetsMichael Hudson and Richard Wolff examine how military bases, arms shortages and industrial decay are accelerating US imperial decline. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- The Bubble Beneath the EmpireMichael Hudson and Steve Keen explain how financialisation, oil shocks and rising debt could turn inflation into a global debt-deflation crisis. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
- The Swap-Line EmpireMichael Hudson and Richard Wolff explain how the oil war could force importing nations into US-backed debt, deepen austerity and hasten de-dollarisation. The post %%post_title%% first appeared on %%site_link%%. Read the original here: %%post_link%%... Read more »
Michael Hudson
- VideoCanada Is Spending Billions to Help Its Workers Survive Our TariffsOn Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on the US in response to the Trump administration’s newly imposed 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian imports. Senior members of Canada’s government announced a support package worth $7.5... Read more »
- VideoDeal/No Deal, Trump’s Iran ContradictionsOn March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day 180. After Trump and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran on February 28, the president predicted a quick military victory and said... Read more »
- SCOTUS Hands Trump a Temporary Win in His Crusade to Restrict Mail VotingThe Supreme Court on Monday temporarily handed President Trump a key victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting. The unsigned opinion by the court’s conservative majority, issued over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, said it was too soon for states to challenge Trump’s executive order from March 2026... Read more »
- VideoMaybe Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Work This TimeOn Monday afternoon, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US would impose all-encompassing sanctions on countries and institutions that conduct business with Iran, in an apparent attempt to end the war after most viable military options have failed. Bessent described the plan, dubbed Operation Economic Outcast, as... Read more »
- VideoIt Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate ChangeDeadly heatwaves in May smashed records in the UK, France, Spain, and parts of North Africa. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh saw April temperatures soar to 113-122 degrees Fahrenheit. A late spring heat dome in the US marked the hottest March on record, and in a 1,000-year July storm, parts of... Read more »
Mother Jones
- Farm Bill Stalls as SNAP Fight ContinuesThe fight over federal food aid continued last week as the Senate farm bill got stuck over Supplemental Assistance Program (SNAP) cost-sharing requirements. Senate Democrats rejected Republicans’ proposed one-year delay in state cost-sharing requirements for SNAP. This is after HR1 cut SNAP spending by roughly $187 billion in 2025 and... Read more »
- Governor Shapiro’s Decision on Data CentersGovernor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has signed an executive order directing the Department of Environmental Protection to limit new data center projects. He directed the department to only review permit applications for data centers if developers have made a commitment to meeting Responsible Infrastructure Development Requirements and have received local... Read more »
- Much Media Coverage Gets DSA Organizing WrongIn an article for FAIR, Raina Lipsitz assesses how corporate media outlets have depicted DSA organizing as a sinister conspiracy. The post Much Media Coverage Gets DSA Organizing Wrong appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
- Assessing the State Department’s Claims About the Monroe DoctrineThe U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating U.S. ‘dominance’ of the Western Hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions. The post Assessing the State Department’s Claims About the Monroe Doctrine appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »
- DNC Panel Just Voted for Abolishing ICE and Affirming Leahy LawOne resolution puts the DNC on record that it “urges Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people.” The resolution also “urges Democratic members of Congress to pursue civil and criminal... Read more »
News Releases Archive - accuracy.org
- You Don’t Own Your Narrative Anymore — Naomi Klein and Yanis VaroufakisFrom 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 »
- How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of WarA 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 BDSThe 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 »
- ‘Unshocked’: Naomi Klein vs the “ideological shackles of Zionism”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 »
- Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”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 »
Posts – ZNetwork
- In DeepThe numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2026 The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The... Read more »
- HotheadsSteady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you... Read more »
- Two-Tier JusticeIt’s real, and it’s the exact opposite of what the far right says it is. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2026 “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, asked last week, “how else... Read more »
- Reality Be DamnedThe policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? You want to destroy a million jobs? Vote Reform UK for mass unemployment: is that... Read more »
- Vampire CapitalThe highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do... Read more »
George Monbiot
- ● Trump's midterm plan is to do exactly what Democrats want
Republicans have previously expressed extreme nervousness about their prospects in the 2026 midterm elections. From President Donald Trump's unpopular tariffs and lack of coordination with local candidates to the ongoing controversy over his meddling in how elections are conducted, the prevailing view is that Trump is so unpopular and difficult... Read more » - ● Natalie Harp is close to Trump — but not for the reason you think
President Donald Trump’s close aide, Natalie Harp, has received harsh criticism recently, from journalists who speculate she is “unwell” to commentators who speculate the notoriously philandering Trump has an inappropriate relationship with her.“Long before Harp sprinted down the fairways of a Scottish golf course in an effort to catch up... Read more » - ● Darline Graham, endorsed by Trump, wins Republican Senate primary
Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) won her South Carolina Senate primary campaign against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), officially winning a full term in the seat once held by her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).During the campaign she was endorsed by President Donald Trump, who she vowed to staunchly support... Read more » - ● Trump deals deathblow to 100-year-old manufacturer
A Connecticut manufacturing company that has operated for more than a century is finally closing its doors after being sent over the edge by President Donald Trump’s economic policies.Its longtime owner cites “soaring business expenses and tariffs as key reasons for the decision,” reports NBC Connecticut. “Leed-Himmel Industries, a custom... Read more » - Video● Fox News 'liberal' wishes Trump had won in 2020
Mediaite reports Fox News token liberal Jessica Tarlov said the nation would be a better place if Covid had not derailed Trump’s second term.The confession might have come as a shock in her New Yorker podcast considering the enmity Tarlov has for the president, but that at least would have... Read more »
Alternet.org
- ● Why Iran Ruffles the Feathers of the United StatesStrip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you hit a raw unvarnished nerve. What truly disturbs the United States about the Islamic Republic is not its policies, its rhetoric or even its nuclear ambitions. It is... Read more »
- No Coming Back from Genocide: Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive Has BegunColombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second country in the world – after the United States – to endorse Israel’s illegal annexation of Syrian territory, Bogotá has signaled a complete reversal of Gustavo Petro’s foreign... Read more »
- An American Soldier in the Persian Gulf Sent Me a Picture. It Went Viral.Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq, support stood strong at 72%. As the war turned into... Read more »
- Why So Many Countries Around the World Quietly Root for IranReprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. I have been stunned by the number of officials from a wide variety of countries who, while hardly favoring Iran or feeling much empathy for the Islamic Republic, have privately expressed to me a huge sigh of relief over Tehran’s success in thwarting... Read more »
- ICE Wants Our EmailsWhen a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms... Read more »
Antiwar.com
- August: the longer viewThe month's archives. - 2026/08 / perspective... Read more »
- What France's far right has learned from Israel's apartheid systemThere are regular warnings that France risks succumbing to fascism. But Mussolini's Italy may not be the model that attracts the far right; it could be Binyamin Netanyahu's de facto apartheid state. - 2026/08 / editorial... Read more »
- Can capitalism save Cuba's revolution?Cuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market reform has brought no political opening. - 2026/08 / article... Read more »
- Donald Trump's Latin American proconsulsThe US once supported military coups to keep Latin America under its control. Now, a weaker left and the rise of organised crime are helping the far right assert itself. This suits the White House just fine. - 2026/08 / article... Read more »
- When the world took Ethiopia's sideMussolini's attack on Ethiopia in 1935 caused more than half a million deaths by the end of the Italian occupation in 1941. Why were the sanctions imposed on Italy only half-heartedly enforced? - 2026/08 / article... Read more »
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
- When the UK trained the Russian army — and a Russian spyThe British military undertook “intensive military cooperation" with Russia while it was killing civilians in Chechnya in 1995, declassified files show The post When the UK trained the Russian army — and a Russian spy appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- ‘BarclayS 5’ Palestine activists will not be tried as terroristsJudge rules that damage caused during protest at bank branch not enough to merit terrorism sentencing The post ‘BarclayS 5’ Palestine activists will not be tried as terrorists appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- Why did Special Branch keep files on a socialist politician?Labour MP Dave Nellist was monitored by Britain’s political police, but evidence was shredded before an inquiry got to the truth The post Why did Special Branch keep files on a socialist politician? appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action ‘organisers’ for Israeli arms factory raidAfter 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges The post Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action ‘organisers’ for Israeli arms factory raid appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
- Can Andy Burnham make MI5 respect the Hillsborough Law?If the prime minister wants to ‘rewire’ Whitehall, then holding MI5 accountable could be his toughest test The post Can Andy Burnham make MI5 respect the Hillsborough Law? appeared first on Declassified UK.... Read more »
Declassified UK
- ● DeepSeek nears pre-IPO funding round as 2027 market debut takes shape sources
DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a new funding round that values the company at about 500 billion yuan (US$74 billion) before investment, as the Chinese artificial intelligence start-up moves closer to a potential listing on Shanghai’s Star Market, according to people familiar with the matter. The company was seeking... Read more » - ● Deadly Shah Alam brawl reignites Malaysian gang violence fears
Malaysian police are investigating a killing near Kuala Lumpur as murder after a man rammed by a car died following an armed brawl in broad daylight that was caught on camera – footage that has stirred fresh alarm over brazen street violence in the country. The fight, in which several... Read more » - ● China’s coastal regions on high alert as Typhoon Saudel cancels flights, ferries
Airports in China’s Zhejiang and Fujian provinces remained on high alert for potential delays and cancellations as Typhoon Saudel approached landfall on Wednesday, after multiple flights were cancelled in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Saudel, which entered the East China Sea early on Wednesday morning, led to 16 cancelled flights at... Read more » - ● US sanctions Chinese firms trading with Iran
The US Department of the Treasury launched targeted sanctions against some 24 entities based in mainland China or Hong Kong as part of its “Operation Economic Outcast” campaign against Iran and its enablers. See below for the original announcement: US Treasury sanctions by scmp... Read more » - ● RTHK editor gets 160 hours of community service for upskirt video
A Hong Kong court has ordered a civil servant at public broadcaster RTHK to perform 160 hours of community service after he admitted filming upskirt footage of a woman in public. Chong Tak-yin, assistant chief assignment editor at RTHK’s Chinese news and current affairs division, received the sentence on Wednesday... Read more »
News - South China Morning Post
- No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets
The South China Morning Post has launched a major data project diving into President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-graft campaign. In the second part of an accompanying series, William Zheng examines how the campaign has targeted corrupt officials outside the Chinese capital and long after retirement. It used to be an... Read more » - Xi’s 13-year corruption campaign just keeps accelerating
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption is picking up pace even after more than a decade of investigations, according to a South China Morning Post deep dive. There were 65 probes into civilian officials of vice-ministerial grade or above last year versus just 19 in 2013, when Xi took... Read more » - China’s anti-corruption legal framework is about to extend beyond its borders
China’s top legislature has reviewed a draft law aimed at combating cross-border corruption as part of Beijing’s latest efforts to expand its anti-graft legal framework beyond its borders. On Tuesday, the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law was submitted for its first reading during the 24th session of the Standing Committee of... Read more » - How China’s anti-corruption fight became Xi Jinping’s most important policy
The South China Morning Post has launched a major data project diving into President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-graft campaign. In the first part of a series accompanying the data project, Phoebe Zhang looks at how the campaign became one of the Communist Party’s most important policies. In the early years... Read more »
Politics - South China Morning Post
- UK ignores massacres and terrorism to deepen Syria relationsby 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 »
- Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocideby 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 »
- The Israel firms aiding the NHS and IDFby 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 »
- ‘Ruthless terror’ — When Labour aided genocide in Indonesiaby 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 »
- RAF Museum hosts fundraiser for Israeli soldiers’ ’emotional support’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 »
Articles – Mark Curtis
- Americans want transparency when AI is used in their healthcareAbout seven-in-ten U.S. adults (72%) say it’s extremely or very important that a doctor or other healthcare provider tells them if they’re using AI in their healthcare.... Read more »
- MethodologyThe American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 195 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from June 22 to 28, 2026. A total of 3,488 panelists responded out of... Read more »
- AcknowledgmentsThis report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/science. Primary research team Eileen Yam, Director, Science and Society ResearchGalen Stocking, Associate Director, Science and Society ResearchBrian Kennedy, Senior ResearcherGiancarlo Pasquini, Former Research AssociateEmma Kikuchi, Research Analyst Isabelle Pula,... Read more »
- Do Americans think chatbots help or hurt people using them for loneliness, depression or stress?Key takeaways: At a time of public debate and high-profile cases of chatbot use for social and mental health, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that, on balance, Americans say chatbots do more to hurt than help people who use them for loneliness, depression or stress. But sizable shares... Read more »
- From Diagnoses to Treatments, Why Americans Use AI Chatbots for HealthAmericans use chatbots for a host of health-related reasons, from helping make diagnoses on their own to learning more about information they may have gotten from a doctor. Nearly all chatbot health users find this AI information helpful.... Read more »
Pew Research Center
- Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump CrackdownRight-leaning and libertarian groups told the court that ICE engaged in illegal “ideological targeting” of the left in the Minneapolis 15 case. The post Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran WarA government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties. The post Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport ImmigrantsIllinois law prohibits local collaboration with immigration enforcement officials, but the cops often find workarounds. The post Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- VideoPentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of JournalistsWhen pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.” The post Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
- VideoThe Dawn of a New Cold WarThe growing tension between the United States and China boils down to a battle over resources. The post The Dawn of a New Cold War appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »
The Intercept
- Homeschooling Hate
The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home.... Read more » - Inside Gaza’s Eye Care Crisis
For many Palestinians in Gaza, treatable vision problems have an outsized impact on daily life due to shortages of eye care and medical supplies.... Read more » - Surviving Torture in the West Bank
For months, Palestinian journalist Majahed Bani Mfleh was held in Israeli administrative detention without charges and subjected to brutal physical violence. He’s far from the only one.... Read more » - The Lesson of America’s Broken Education Politics
Fifteen years ago, thousands of teachers marched on Washington to protest the Obama-era push to privatize public education. Has anything changed?... Read more » - Art for the People
The enduring history of the freeway murals in Los Angeles, and their future at the 2028 Olympics.... Read more »
The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
- The Teacher Pay Penalty Remained High in 2025Teachers earned 25.2 percent less than comparable college graduates in other professions in 2025, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).The relative teacher pay penalty — which is adjusted for education, experience, and demographic characteristics — was a... Read more »
- Recreation, Conservation Groups Unite Against Forest Service Travel Rule RollbackThe U.S. Department of Agriculture recently launched a process to significantly revise its Travel Management Rule, which guides where motorized vehicles are and are not allowed on almost 200 million acres of national forests and grasslands.The USDA is proposing to flip the U.S. Forest Service’s longstanding approach to travel management... Read more »
- Trump’s Renewed Economic War on Iran Risks BlowbackRyan Costello, Policy Director with the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), issued the following statement as the Trump administration moves to intensify its economic pressure campaign against Iran following months of war and instability:“President Trump, the ultimate gambler in geopolitics, is poised to double down on a bad hand on... Read more »
- FTC Must Investigate AI Book BurningOn Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk, scanning them and then destroying the original work—including rare books. In a letter sent to the FTC, the organizations urge the... Read more »
- VideoBe Quiet, Be Quiet: We Are All On the Decoy Plane NowNot to alarm, but everything in America - our economy, military, education, environment, health, moral fiber - is being decimated by a petty, fragile, flailing child in a fact-free bubble who just turned our foreign policy over to North Korea because its dictator "has always been nice to me." Otherwise,... Read more »
Common Dreams
- mp3Beckert on Global CapitalismCapitalism has transformed the world like no other force, which historian Sven Beckert calls a fundamental break in human history. Beckert traces the emergence and expansion of capitalism, arguing that we can best understand the present by coming to terms with its past. (Full-length presentation.) Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global... Read more »
- mp3Immigrant Detention and the “Worst of the Worst”The Trump administration has justified the mass incarceration and deportation of immigrants by asserting that it’s going after the most violent offenders. Scholars of law and punishment, Keramet Reiter and Joshua Page, delve into the designation of the worst of the worse — from Three Strikes laws to longterm solitary... Read more »
- mp3Ancient Trees and Fossil CapitalismFor as long as we’ve known, humans have revered ancient trees. We’ve also destroyed them, especially since the advent of colonialism and fossil fuel capitalism. Environmental historian Jared Farmer reflects on what trees illuminate about our past and potential future. And forest activist and writer Greg King discusses the decimation... Read more »
- mp3What’s Money For?We all know that we need money to survive, but most of us don’t spend much time considering its form and uses. Debt, interest, GDP, and capital just seem to follow almost natural laws. But J.W. Mason argues that we misunderstand money, and its power over our lives, at our... Read more »
- mp3Images, UFOs, and Artificial IntelligenceWhat can the weird tell us about our world of computer vision and so-called Artificial Intelligence? Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen discusses the function of the image now, when the majority of images are made by computers for other computers, with the goal of manipulating our perceptions. Trevor Paglen, How... Read more »
KPFA - Against the Grain
- ● How close are humanoid robots to becoming part of our everyday life?
How close are humanoid robots to becoming part of our everyday life?... Read more » - ● NASA, ESA astronauts complete spacewalk to install antenna
NASA, ESA astronauts complete spacewalk to install antenna... Read more » - ● CIA chief visits Moscow, media reports
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, CBS News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.... Read more » - ● 'Not an enemy:' Slovakia calls on EU for 'friendly' China competition
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Tuesday that the European Union (EU) should pursue "friendly competition" with China rather than treat the country as an enemy and put up barriers.... Read more » - ● China, US hold third Track 1.5 Dialogue in Beijing
China and the United States held the third Track 1.5 Dialogue in Beijing on Tuesday. The two sides engaged in candid, in-depth and constructive exchanges, and underscored that the China-US relationship is of vital importance and is currently at a critical juncture.... Read more »
World
- Cross-Strait youth exchange event opens in Shanghai
A cross-Strait youth exchange event opened on Tuesday in east China's Shanghai, bringing together about 1,000 people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, including youth representatives and people from various sectors.... Read more » - US Analyst: Global South is turning toward China
US Analyst: Global South is turning toward China... Read more » - Chinese vice president meets Indian national security advisor
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Ajit Doval, India's national security advisor and special representative on the China-India boundary question, in Beijing on Tuesday.... Read more » - China mulls law revision to boost agricultural, rural development
A draft revision to the Agriculture Law was submitted on Tuesday to a standing committee session of China's top legislature for a second review.... Read more » - China mulls draft law against cross-border corruption
Chinese lawmakers began reviewing a draft law on combating cross-border corruption on Tuesday.... Read more »
Politics
- Breaking the 'debt-trap diplomacy' myth, forging BRI's golden future
August 17, 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the first Symposium on Advancing the Development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) held in China. Over the past decade, four successive national-level symposiums have established phased strategic priorities, guiding the BRI from an ambitious vision into a mature, institution-based framework... Read more » - Argentina expands lithium mining in Andes amid its struggling economy
Argentina expands lithium mining in Andes amid its struggling economy... Read more » - China's Yiwu is becoming a must-visit for global shoppers
This summer, Yiwu International Trade Market in east China's Zhejiang Province has been bustling with overseas buyers and tourists, turning the city into a unique destination where international visitors can experience China's products, technology and manufacturing capabilities firsthand.... Read more » - China's booming film and live performance markets fuel spending
China's booming film and live performance markets fuel spending... Read more » - Planting a sun on earth: China's BEST fusion project
Planting a sun on earth: China's BEST fusion project... Read more »
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- ● Turn the National Steel Car strike into a counter-offensive by workers across North America: For class struggle, not trade warThe decisive question two weeks into the strike is whether we organize ourselves to win or allow the United Steelworkers bureaucracy to fritter away our strength until we are starved into accepting another sellout.... Read more »
- ● 26-year-old South Australian worker killed in woodchipper accidentJosh Thomson-Parkin had raised concerns about the reliability and safety of the machine in the days before his death.... Read more »
- ● Boeing engineers and technical workers reject contract, vote to authorize strikeA strike would disrupt both commercial-aircraft certification and military production under conditions of expanding US wars and preparations for conflict with China.... Read more »
- ● Oppose the US-Canada trade war! Unite the workers of the Americas against tariffs, war and dictatorship!The trade war between Washington and Ottawa is a reactionary conflict involving two capitalist ruling classes striving to advance the predatory imperialist interests of their respective nation-states. The real division is not between Canada and America, but between the working class of both countries and the corporate oligarchies that exploit... Read more »
- ● Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factoryAs well as workers’ pay demands, the company has rejected virtually all the limited claims submitted by the unions.... Read more »
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- Landscape canopy enlivens Beijing's historic Qianmen area
A Chinese-style art canopy in Beijing's historic Qianmen area has become a popular spot for photos and videos.... Read more » - 'The Odyssey' IMAX craze shows strength of China's cinema market
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey officially opens on the Chinese mainland on August 14.... Read more » - Chilean FM to visit China from August 18 to 22
Chilean FM to visit China from August 18 to 22... Read more » - Indonesian classical music meets China: A lesson in harmony
CGTN's Ioana Gomoi attended "A Musical Tapestry of the Archipelago" in Beijing, featuring Indonesia's Trinity Youth Symphony Orchestra (TRUST).... Read more » - What do we see when war is no longer about soldiers?
Whose perspective does a war film take? In many Hollywood films about the Iraq War, the camera follows the soldiers. Viewers see the battlefield, their missions and their struggles. War is often told as a story of heroes and enemies.... Read more »
China
- How China's GGI and GDI are shaping global development and cooperation
How China's GGI and GDI are shaping global development and cooperation... Read more » - How the Yangtze River Delta rose as China's growth engine
How the Yangtze River Delta rose as China's growth engine... Read more » - USMCA undermined as Washington overrides its own pact
"They asked too much and offered too little," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said of the final American terms.... Read more » - The PLA in Xizang: From liberation to prosperity
In conclusion, separatist narratives about Xizang's "independence," like those in Four Rivers, Six Ranges, distort history and ignore the region's true transformation.... Read more » - Agreements with China: A step forward for Ecuador's development
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa concluded his visit to China with the signing of several agreements covering healthcare, education, trade, the digital economy, green development, new energy, and other areas. These instruments open up new development opportunities and could generate significant benefits for Ecuadorians. Their success will depend on effective implementation... Read more »
Opinion
- 21st Changchun Film Festival kicks off
The 21st Changchun Film Festival is officially underway in Jilin Province. Opening under the theme "New Era, New Cradle, New Force," the flagship six-day event celebrates Changchun's historical legacy as the birthplace of modern Chinese cinema, while shining a bright spotlight on emerging talent.... Read more » - Chicago concert bridges Chinese, Western musical traditions
Chicago concert bridges Chinese, Western musical traditions... Read more » - China joins forces with Kazakhstan for inaugural AI Film Festival
Kazakhstan's first international film festival dedicated to artificial intelligence, the Astana AI Film Festival, will be held this October.... Read more » - Haifeng's Piano: An autistic pianist's tenacious path to independence
"I must become the pillar of our home – unshakable and standing strong." These are not the words of a middle-aged man shouldering the weight of a family, but of Shu Haifeng – a young man whose hands were once so frail they could not form a simple thumbs-up, and... Read more » - The Hype – One table, one world
In this episode of THE HYPE — One table, one world, we pull up a chair to explore how the buzzworthy film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East uses a humble dinner table to shake up global storytelling.... Read more »
Culture
- China sends SEO satellite into orbit
China sends SEO satellite into orbit... Read more » - China launches new satellite
China launched a new satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Monday.... Read more » - China's fishing boats return to sea as summer moratorium ends
Fishing ports along China's eastern and southern coasts came alive on Sunday as tens of thousands of fishing vessels set sail for a new fishing season following the end of the South China Sea's three-and-a-half-month summer fishing moratorium. Specially licensed boats have also resumed operations in parts of the East... Read more » - China, Solomon Islands advance seaweed blue carbon cooperation
China, Solomon Islands advance seaweed blue carbon cooperation... Read more » - Twelve critically endangered giant shovelnose ray pups born in Sanya
Twelve critically endangered giant shovelnose ray pups born in Sanya... Read more »
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- El-Sayed’s GOP Opponent Attended 3 AIPAC-Hosted Fundraisers in 1 DayMike Rogers' events were in Los Angeles — thousands of miles from home. He was slated to attend a fourth AIPAC fundraiser on Monday, while his allies are seeking ways to obscure AIPAC’s support from public view...... Read more »
- Israel making Lebanon a burned out hellscape and US paying for itUS aid is allowing IDF to systematically blow up villages, spray herbicide, shoot white phosphorus — making the land uninhabitable in the south... Read more »
- What the ‘Iran Experts’ Didn’t Tell the White HouseThe war is the culmination of decades of fearmongering by a squad of media conglomerates, hawkish think tanks, and Iran "experts" [many of them Israel partisan] who have active since the late 1990s...... Read more »
- War On Iran: – Borg Concedes Loss Of Control In Middle EastAt least a part of the U.S. foreign policy borg has come to the conclusion that the U.S. has lost its primary role in the Middle East. There seems to be little appetite to regain the position. Here are some of these voices...... Read more »
- Flashback: The role of the Israel lobby in Jon Ossoff’s ascendanceSenator Ossoff (D-GA) began his political career by helping to defeat Georgia’s first Black woman to be elected to Congress. She had been targeted for removal by the Israel lobby…... Read more »
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- VideoRestorative Justice is the Proven Alternative Our Children NeedPunitive systems funnel students — especially Black ones — into immiseration and incarceration. The post Restorative Justice is the Proven Alternative Our Children Need appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Congress Finally Passed a Housing Bill. It Isn’t Enough.The ROAD to Housing Act fails to address the commodification of housing driving our affordability crisis. The post Congress Finally Passed a Housing Bill. It Isn’t Enough. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Co-op Bookstores Advance Economic Democracy in the Literary SpaceA visit to Bol, the first worked-owned bookstore in Washington, DC. The post Co-op Bookstores Advance Economic Democracy in the Literary Space appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Trump Moves to Scale Back US War Drills in Korea. We Should Support That.While any diplomatic overture from Trump should be viewed with skepticism, we should welcome a chance to advance peace. The post Trump Moves to Scale Back US War Drills in Korea. We Should Support That. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Pundits Call It Socialism, but Many Americans Call It Common SenseA new generation of progressives and self-described democratic socialists argue the economy should work for everyone, not just the billionaire class. The post Pundits Call It Socialism, but Many Americans Call It Common Sense appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
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- VideoRestorative Justice is the Proven Alternative Our Children NeedPunitive systems funnel students — especially Black ones — into immiseration and incarceration. The post Restorative Justice is the Proven Alternative Our Children Need appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Congress Finally Passed a Housing Bill. It Isn’t Enough.The ROAD to Housing Act fails to address the commodification of housing driving our affordability crisis. The post Congress Finally Passed a Housing Bill. It Isn’t Enough. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Co-op Bookstores Advance Economic Democracy in the Literary SpaceA visit to Bol, the first worked-owned bookstore in Washington, DC. The post Co-op Bookstores Advance Economic Democracy in the Literary Space appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Trump Moves to Scale Back US War Drills in Korea. We Should Support That.While any diplomatic overture from Trump should be viewed with skepticism, we should welcome a chance to advance peace. The post Trump Moves to Scale Back US War Drills in Korea. We Should Support That. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
- Pundits Call It Socialism, but Many Americans Call It Common SenseA new generation of progressives and self-described democratic socialists argue the economy should work for everyone, not just the billionaire class. The post Pundits Call It Socialism, but Many Americans Call It Common Sense appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »
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- ● Pitch For Defense Treaty And Moving US Military To Israel Is InsanePitch For Defense Treaty And Moving US Military To Israel Is Insane Authored by Jennifer Kavanagh via Responsible Statecraft, On August 18, Israel bombed a non-operational Syrian air base, reportedly to derail Turkish plans to deploy military forces to the installation. The move drew swift condemnation from the United States,... Read more »
- ● This Is The Income A Family Needs To Live Comfortably In Every US StateThis Is The Income A Family Needs To Live Comfortably In Every US State Here’s the short version of what it takes for a family of four to live comfortably in 2026 by state: In Massachusetts, you’d need nearly $330,000 a year - the highest figure in the entire country.... Read more »
- ● DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confiscated more than 47 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and almost 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2025. Just two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose.... Read more »
- ● Scandal-Plagued KPMG To Cut Australian Workforce Following Government Contract SuspensionScandal-Plagued KPMG To Cut Australian Workforce Following Government Contract Suspension A major consultancy firm under fire for misconduct in its audit business is cutting its local workforce following a suspension from applying for new government contracts. KPMG’s U.S. headquarters at Two Manhattan West. Photo via Emily Louick Photography and Entropy... Read more »
- ● Is ICE Investigating Ilhan Omar? Trump 'Truths' Report On Withheld Fraud-Probe RecordsIs ICE Investigating Ilhan Omar? Trump 'Truths' Report On Withheld Fraud-Probe Records President Donald Trump drew fresh attention to a long-running controversy on Sunday when he reposted a Just the News article on Truth Social headlined "ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing 'enforcement proceedings.'"... Read more »
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- ● Outrage as Trump official refuses to name source of U.S. beef: 'Why not?'
A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage.On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was asked which countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up beef imports. The question came amid Trump's plan to allow... Read more » - ● Trump midterm convention panned for 'glaring' oversights: 'This is going to suck'
Online critics are pointing out glaring oversights after the Republican National Convention posted the schedule for President Donald Trump's midterm convention.On Tuesday, a schedule made the rounds on social media that showed that Trump and Vice President JD Vance will headline the first night of the convention in Dallas on... Read more » - Video● Trump biographer reveals why Jared Kushner will never get chewed out by his father-in-law
A biographer revealed why President Donald Trump would never chew out Jared Kushner, who recently met with a foe of the administration.During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, author Michael Wolff revealed that Trump is "slightly intimidated" by his son-in-law. Wolff explained the relationship while responding to co-host Joanna Coles'... Read more » - Video● Trump's schedule raises major question about who's running the country: analyst
President Donald Trump's official daily schedule was so light that it raises questions about who is actually running the country, a political analyst argued.During a Tuesday episode of The David Pakman Show, progressive political commentator David Pakman walked through the president's published itinerary. Pakman argued that almost none of it... Read more » - Video● 'How was that her answer?' Jen Psaki floored as Darline Graham flubs softball question
Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) has managed to embarrass herself yet again when asked about a basic policy issue, MS NOW's Jen Psaki reported on Tuesday evening.Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, was appointed to serve out the remainder of his term, and was nominated to serve a... Read more »
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- ● Outrage as Trump official refuses to name source of U.S. beef: 'Why not?'A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage.On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was asked which countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up beef imports. The question came amid Trump's plan to allow... Read more »
- ● Trump midterm convention panned for 'glaring' oversights: 'This is going to suck'Online critics are pointing out glaring oversights after the Republican National Convention posted the schedule for President Donald Trump's midterm convention.On Tuesday, a schedule made the rounds on social media that showed that Trump and Vice President JD Vance will headline the first night of the convention in Dallas on... Read more »
- Video● Trump biographer reveals why Jared Kushner will never get chewed out by his father-in-lawA biographer revealed why President Donald Trump would never chew out Jared Kushner, who recently met with a foe of the administration.During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, author Michael Wolff revealed that Trump is "slightly intimidated" by his son-in-law. Wolff explained the relationship while responding to co-host Joanna Coles'... Read more »
- Video● Trump's schedule raises major question about who's running the country: analystPresident Donald Trump's official daily schedule was so light that it raises questions about who is actually running the country, a political analyst argued.During a Tuesday episode of The David Pakman Show, progressive political commentator David Pakman walked through the president's published itinerary. Pakman argued that almost none of it... Read more »
- Video● 'How was that her answer?' Jen Psaki floored as Darline Graham flubs softball questionSen. Darline Graham (R-SC) has managed to embarrass herself yet again when asked about a basic policy issue, MS NOW's Jen Psaki reported on Tuesday evening.Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, was appointed to serve out the remainder of his term, and was nominated to serve a... Read more »
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- VideoThe NRSC’s Weak Ties Between Brown and Deadly Interstate Crash in OhioIn the Ohio Senate race, a Republican ad blames former Sen. Sherrod Brown for a deadly crash in April on an Ohio interstate in which an immigrant was charged with vehicular homicide. But there’s no evidence of any tie between Brown's votes on immigration, as the ad suggests, and the... Read more »
- Trump’s ‘No Tax on Tips’ Claim Doesn’t Add UpThe White House has provided no federal data to support President Donald Trump's claims that because of his "no tax on tips" policy, “440,000 tipped workers” in Nevada “saved an average of $10,000 on their taxes,” and “130,000 tipped workers” in Georgia “saved an average of more than $7,000 on... Read more »
- VideoKennedy Distorts Stat in Celebrating Obesity DropIn recent public appearances, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said obesity dropped 3% "in the last year" and suggested the Trump administration deserves at least some of the credit. One poll shows obesity falling by about that much — but the decline happened over several... Read more »
- Americans for ProsperityA conservative/libertarian "social welfare" group with a related hybrid PAC and nonprofit, all backed by Charles Koch. The post Americans for Prosperity appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
- American Bridge 21st Century/AB PACA liberal hybrid PAC that conducts opposition research and runs ads to aid Democratic candidates and organizations. The post American Bridge 21st Century/AB PAC appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
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- VideoThe NRSC’s Weak Ties Between Brown and Deadly Interstate Crash in OhioIn the Ohio Senate race, a Republican ad blames former Sen. Sherrod Brown for a deadly crash in April on an Ohio interstate in which an immigrant was charged with vehicular homicide. But there’s no evidence of any tie between Brown's votes on immigration, as the ad suggests, and the... Read more »
- Trump’s ‘No Tax on Tips’ Claim Doesn’t Add UpThe White House has provided no federal data to support President Donald Trump's claims that because of his "no tax on tips" policy, “440,000 tipped workers” in Nevada “saved an average of $10,000 on their taxes,” and “130,000 tipped workers” in Georgia “saved an average of more than $7,000 on... Read more »
- VideoKennedy Distorts Stat in Celebrating Obesity DropIn recent public appearances, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said obesity dropped 3% "in the last year" and suggested the Trump administration deserves at least some of the credit. One poll shows obesity falling by about that much — but the decline happened over several... Read more »
- Americans for ProsperityA conservative/libertarian "social welfare" group with a related hybrid PAC and nonprofit, all backed by Charles Koch. The post Americans for Prosperity appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
- American Bridge 21st Century/AB PACA liberal hybrid PAC that conducts opposition research and runs ads to aid Democratic candidates and organizations. The post American Bridge 21st Century/AB PAC appeared first on FactCheck.org.... Read more »
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- Why the Democrats’ Path Back to Power Runs Through the Kitchen TableErica Etelson, Jared Abbott A unique new messaging study underscores the supremacy of economic populism in rural America and beyond. The post Why the Democrats’ Path Back to Power Runs Through the Kitchen Table appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- The Genocide in Gaza ContinuesMaisara Baroud The tragedy, unabated, falls off the front page. The post The Genocide in Gaza Continues appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- Pramila Jayapal at the PanAmerican CongressRep. Pramila Jayapal The Trump administration’s “Donroe” Doctrine promotes a flawed and failed policy of US intervention in the hemisphere. The post Pramila Jayapal at the PanAmerican Congress appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- The Dangerous Summer of Food RecallsKatrina vanden Heuvel Will they lead to a food safety reckoning? The post The Dangerous Summer of Food Recalls appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
- State Farm Is Embroiled in Scandal—and Things Just Got WorseJ.C. Hallman The insurance giant has been in a legal battle in Oklahoma over allegedly systematic attempts to bilk policyholders. Newly released court documents show the depth of the problem. The post State Farm Is Embroiled in Scandal—and Things Just Got Worse appeared first on The Nation.... Read more »
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- El-Sayed’s GOP Opponent Attended 3 AIPAC-Hosted Fundraisers in 1 DayMike Rogers' events were in Los Angeles — thousands of miles from home. He was slated to attend a fourth AIPAC fundraiser on Monday, while his allies are seeking ways to obscure AIPAC’s support from public view...... Read more »
- Israel making Lebanon a burned out hellscape and US paying for itUS aid is allowing IDF to systematically blow up villages, spray herbicide, shoot white phosphorus — making the land uninhabitable in the south... Read more »
- What the ‘Iran Experts’ Didn’t Tell the White HouseThe war is the culmination of decades of fearmongering by a squad of media conglomerates, hawkish think tanks, and Iran "experts" [many of them Israel partisan] who have active since the late 1990s...... Read more »
- War On Iran: – Borg Concedes Loss Of Control In Middle EastAt least a part of the U.S. foreign policy borg has come to the conclusion that the U.S. has lost its primary role in the Middle East. There seems to be little appetite to regain the position. Here are some of these voices...... Read more »
- Flashback: The role of the Israel lobby in Jon Ossoff’s ascendanceSenator Ossoff (D-GA) began his political career by helping to defeat Georgia’s first Black woman to be elected to Congress. She had been targeted for removal by the Israel lobby…... Read more »
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- El-Sayed’s GOP Opponent Attended 3 AIPAC-Hosted Fundraisers in 1 DayMike Rogers' events were in Los Angeles — thousands of miles from home. He was slated to attend a fourth AIPAC fundraiser on Monday, while his allies are seeking ways to obscure AIPAC’s support from public view...... Read more »
- Israel making Lebanon a burned out hellscape and US paying for itUS aid is allowing IDF to systematically blow up villages, spray herbicide, shoot white phosphorus — making the land uninhabitable in the south... Read more »
- What the ‘Iran Experts’ Didn’t Tell the White HouseThe war is the culmination of decades of fearmongering by a squad of media conglomerates, hawkish think tanks, and Iran "experts" [many of them Israel partisan] who have active since the late 1990s...... Read more »
- War On Iran: – Borg Concedes Loss Of Control In Middle EastAt least a part of the U.S. foreign policy borg has come to the conclusion that the U.S. has lost its primary role in the Middle East. There seems to be little appetite to regain the position. Here are some of these voices...... Read more »
- Flashback: The role of the Israel lobby in Jon Ossoff’s ascendanceSenator Ossoff (D-GA) began his political career by helping to defeat Georgia’s first Black woman to be elected to Congress. She had been targeted for removal by the Israel lobby…... Read more »
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- Democracy is for everybody, not just a majority, and definitely not just the majority.
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 » - Hidden Deprivation: Hygiene Poverty and the Limits of Irish Data
Discussions on hygiene habits typically happen around public health concerns, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently with the Hantavirus outbreak. In our day-to-day lives, adequate hygiene supports good health, while hygiene poverty - the …... Read more » - Modern Methods of Construction in 2026: A viable, sustainable solution for the housing crisis?
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 » - Youth Development as the Basis of National Resilience System in Ukraine
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 » - What Difference Would a Left-Led Government Make to Ireland?
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 »
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