Kali Holloway said today, "I suspect that Dr. Angelou, an outspoken activist for the liberation of black folks, would question her placement on the same coin as a man who stole even the teeth of those he enslaved. I believe she would recognize the irony of America’s willingness to put... Read more »

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar," Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech given in New York one year before his assassination. "It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on... Read more »

The statement, titled “A Call to Eliminate ICBMs,” warns that “intercontinental ballistic missiles are uniquely dangerous, greatly increasing the chances that a false alarm or miscalculation will result in nuclear war.” The organizations urged the U.S. government to “shut down the 400 ICBMs now in underground silos that are scattered... Read more »

Amnesty International recently released a statement: “This is an anniversary that should never have been reached. Since the Bush administration, there has been agreement among national security experts and across the political spectrum that the Guantánamo prison -- a notorious site of torture and unjustifiable indefinite detention -- should be... Read more »

In the latest of a series of restrictions on people giving out free meals, the city government of Santa Cruz is targeting the group Food Not Bombs for eviction on Tuesday The post Santa Cruz Threatens to Evict Food Not Bombs appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is slated to be extradited to the U.S. for exposing documentation of U.S. government killings. Among the exposes that Assange is being prosecuted for is exposing video of the "Collateral Murder" killings by U.S. soldiers from a helicopter gunship mowing down Reuters staffers in Iraq The... Read more »

The city government of Fort Lauderdale has settled with the local chapter of Food Not Bombs after trying to hinder them from distributing free meals. This followed a series of legal victories by the group, see Courthouse News Service piece from August 31, 2021 "11th Circuit finds Fort Lauderdale limits... Read more »

"The 20-year occupation was run with massive corruption and cronyism" leading to a hollowed state which "allowed the president and his gang to betray the nation." Former president Ashraf Ghani recently denied widespread reports that he fled the country with over $100 million. The post Facing Starvation and Sanctions, How Does... Read more »

"While there is no question that Russia has contributed to tensions, the West should have understood that an attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO would spark deep, historical divisions within Ukraine and escalate Russian concerns. What is essentially a civil war has become a proxy war, a site of dangerous... Read more »

Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis... Read more »

Interview with the legendary Manuel family about the uncovering of a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children... Read more »

California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal... Read more »

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists... Read more »

“The Green New Deal is a plan that could solve so many of Texas’s problems and the problems across the country, and Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer except for more deregulation, more privatization, more austerity.”... Read more »

The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”... Read more »

A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism... Read more »

Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them... Read more »

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was... Read more »

The Police Bill would criminalise an entire minority: it’s as if nothing has been learnt from the 20th Century. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th January 2022 At last, we are waking up to the astonishingly oppressive measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, intended to... Read more »

Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th January 2022 No wonder journalists have slated it. They’ve produced a hundred excuses not to watch the climate... Read more »

The ease with which I registered my dead goldfish as a waste disposer shows how total regulatory collapse has opened the door to organised crime. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th December 2021 It’s a tragic story, with a happy ending. Until I was seven, I had a... Read more »

Border walls are as harmful to ecology as they are to humanity. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th December 2021 This is the century in which humanitarian and environmental disasters converge. Climate breakdown has driven many millions from their homes, and is likely to evict hundreds of millions... Read more »

At extraordinary speed, the government is shutting down crucial political freedoms. We must resist while we still can. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th December 2021. Whenever you watch a documentary about a dictator’s path to power, there comes a moment when you think: “Why didn’t people do... Read more »

If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st December 2021 This is proper police state stuff. The last-minute amendments crowbarred by the government into the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill are a... Read more »

Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th November 2021 They made millions from it. They threatened our health and poisoned the land. Among the filth they buried were industrial... Read more »

Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2021. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic... Read more »

Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th November 2021 Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative private interests);... Read more »

In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770...... Read more »

It's party time in the nation's capital and the Christmas spirit reigns supreme, even if the Texas Republican Party does want to secede from the Union...... Read more »

It was the end of October 2001...... Read more »

As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate...... Read more »

Martin Luther King, Jr., offered this all-too-relevant comment on his moment in his 1967 speech "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"...... Read more »

As Donald Trump gave in to the demand that the transition process to the Biden years officially begin, the administration and its fossil-fuel allies doubled down on their efforts to implement destructive environmental policies that President Biden might try to reverse...... Read more »

If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country’s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?... Read more »

In the military realm, Donald Trump will most likely be remembered for his insistence on ending America’s involvement in its twenty-first-century “forever wars” -- the fruitless, relentless, mind-crushing military campaigns undertaken by Presidents Bush and Obama in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia...... Read more »

By the end of this year, the White House will reportedly have finally brought home a third of the 7,500 troops still stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq (against the advice of President Trump’s own military leaders)...... Read more »

On Monday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin broke down the implications of his story that former President Donald Trump is turning on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) over his apparent unwillingness to step aside for him in a presidential contest."I think the last five years of... Read more »

The Office of Former President Donald Trump on Monday pushed out promotional materials for his Florida golf course.The former president's office is granted $1 million annually to navigate anything necessary to run an office for a former president. Generally, however, tax-payer funded operations aren't used to promote personal money-making schemes."I... Read more »

Books possess great power. Those who own only a few, yet return to them like old friends for wisdom, comfort and knowledge, or to revisit a special memory, know this to be true. Those of us who have many books — who read and and reread them and carefully compile... Read more »

Prosecutors investigating Flint's contaminated water crisis were pursuing a racketeering case against public officials whose austerity-driven policies caused the health catastrophe, but after newly elected Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel took over in 2019, those charges were dropped.That's according to investigative journalist Jordan Chariton and Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Charlie LeDuff's... Read more »

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema set off a flurry of furious condemnation Monday with a tweet to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day just days after she helped sink Democratic Party hopes to pass voting rights legislation.The tweet by the corporate Democrat from Arizona, stating that "today we remember the life and... Read more »

For months Virginia’s incoming Republican governor has been promising he would neither mandate masks in schools nor ban school districts from requiring them.“Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) will not outlaw local COVID-19 mandates when he takes office in January,” reported the far right wing website Daily Wire back in November.Local... Read more »

by Sophie Jacques, Dalhousie UniversityHumans are unique in their ability to develop sophisticated language abilities. Language allows us to communicate with each other and live in complex societies. It is key to our advanced cognitive abilities and technological prowess.As a developmental psychologist, I have extensively studied the role of language... Read more »

Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also... Read more »

by Timothy Zick, William & Mary Law SchoolThe seditious conspiracy charges filed against Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia, along with 10 other defendants, opens a new and significant chapter in the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Many observers have noted the absence of “seditious conspiracy” charges in... Read more »

In 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a U.S.-backed coup that ousted a pro-Russian regime in Kyiv by occupying Crimea, President Barack Obama did nothing. When Putin aided secessionists in the Donbass in seizing Luhansk and Donetsk, once again, Obama did nothing. Why did we not come to... Read more »

When Joe Biden came to office a year ago, there were a number of easy foreign policy victories he could have quickly claimed. He claimed none of them. Cuba In Cuba, all Biden had to do was keep his promise. While campaigning to be president, Biden said that he would “promptly reverse... Read more »

On Friday, January 14, about thirty members of a coalition of American and International antiwar and human rights activists gathered for a rally and demonstration at the Queens, New York, District office of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanding that she sponsor legislation to finally end US support for the Saudi war... Read more »

Russia-bashing is a bi-partisan activity in Washington. Both parties think it makes them look “tough” and “pro-America.” But while Republican and Democrat politicians continue to one-up each other on “risk-free” threats to Russia, they are increasingly risking a devastating nuclear war. It’s all fun and games until the missiles start... Read more »

Earlier this month, the country marked the one-year anniversary of the storming of the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. For one faction in America’s increasingly polarized political system, however, it was not enough to castigate the rioters for their disgraceful, indefensible conduct. It was not even enough to... Read more »

“I think one lesson in recent history,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on January 7, referring to the entry of Russian troops into Kazakhstan to save that country’s allied regime from an uprising of dissatisfied serfs, “is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult... Read more »

Washington spent two decades at war in Afghanistan. America’s troops are home, but US policy continues to punish the Afghan people. Millions could starve this winter. The Biden administration should make peace with the Taliban. Washington should restore diplomatic relations, negotiate a working relationship with the new regime, and allow... Read more »

Five people were killed, and nine more were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Five Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »

The prospects of a Russian invasion of Ukraine have resulted in high level talks in Geneva. This is the second time the Biden administration has met there to negotiate over its disagreements with Moscow, the previous time being back in June of 2021. The first set of meetings produced little... Read more »

"The last two years have demonstrated a simple but brutal truth, if we leave anyone behind, in the end, we leave everyone behind," said the secretary-general at the opening of the virtual Davos summit.... Read more »

One group criticized the Democratic senator from Arizona as "the white moderate MLK warned us about."... Read more »

To honor King we should uphold his critiques of militarism, capitalism, and racism and remember him for what he was: a radical.... Read more »

"Political corruption poisoned Flint and political corruption shielded the wrongdoers from accountability," said one critic following new revelations.... Read more »

Calling out those who have "weaponized" his words "to justify legislated white supremacy," Rep. Ayanna Pressley said King "was a radical dreamer with a bold vision for revolutionary change."... Read more »

Quite a few of these films, especially those made by independent producers outside the Hollywood system, are little-known, progressive, and deserve more recognition.... Read more »

It would be easy for us to assume that he was universally admired and respected by the Establishment during his lifetime. Nothing could be further from the truth.... Read more »

The battle before us is a "now or never" fight for democracy in this nation.... Read more »

"I will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father's dream," said Martin Luther King III.... Read more »

Knowledge of Kazakhstan in the West is extremely slim, particularly among western media, and many responses to events there have been wildly off-beam. The narrative on the right is that Putin is looking to annex Kazakhstan, or at least the majority ethnic Russian areas in the north. This is utter... Read more »

In my second week in Saughton jail, a prisoner pushed open the door of my cell and entered during the half hour period when we were unlocked to shower and use the hall telephone in the morning. I very much disliked the intrusion, and there was something in the attitude... Read more »

UPDATE It appears that the Guardian article on which this comment is based is factually incorrect on the price of the wine (the Guardian said the price was per bottle, which now seems to be untrue) and on the amount of gin (the Guardian says 2 bottles – as had... Read more »

This is verbatim from the official report of the UN General Assembly plenary of 16 December 2021: The Assembly next took up the report on “Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, containing two draft resolutions. By a recorded vote of 130 in favour to 2 against (Ukraine,... Read more »

In July, the Supreme Court refused to hear my appeal against eight months imprisonment for Contempt of Court by the High Court of Edinburgh. And yet yesterday they issued a judgment stating in the strongest possible terms that there should be a right of appeal in Contempt of Court cases.... Read more »

It is a simple fact that, to get any senior international job, be it at the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, NATO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or any other intergovernmental organisation, you must have the endorsement of your own... Read more »

On Thursday afternoon I was in Edinburgh High Court to get back my passport, which had been confiscated during my own court proceedings avowedly to stop me going to Spain to testify in the trial of David Morales of UC Global. He stands accused by whistleblowers in his own company... Read more »

Well, it is nice to be free again, though as I said on release, I shall never really feel free while Julian is still imprisoned and while Scotland is still part of an imperialist United Kingdom. I expect most of you have seen my release, but for those who have... Read more »

**Date for Diaries** Please join us outside HMP Edinburgh on the morning of 30 November 2021 to celebrate Craig’s release from prison. Speech from Craig. All welcome. It’s St Andrews Day – bring your Saltire. #cmcountdown #ScotlandJailsJournalists — Craig Murray Justice campaign (@cmurrayjustice) November 17, 2021 Craig Murray #CountdownToFreedom series... Read more »

Amazon is being sued by the family of a delivery driver who was killed last month when one of its Illinois warehouses was destroyed by a tornado, with the family accusing the company of placing profits over people. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The United Kingdom has begun sending light arms to Ukraine, Britain’s top military official said, though he claimed the weapons “pose no threat to Russia” after repeated allegations that Moscow is planning to invade its neighbour. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A parole hearing for Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik is set to take place this week, more than ten years after he killed 77 people and injured hundreds more in Norway’s deadliest attack since World War II. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

WhatsApp was ordered by a US government agency to spy on several foreign nationals, even though the agency had no evidence the users had committed a crime or even knew their names. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine showed dwindling effectiveness against the Omicron variant, according to a trial conducted in Israel, with one its lead researchers saying the immunization is simply “not good enough.” Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

NATO considers space increasingly important to its mission and fears potential adversaries might seek to harm its orbital assets, the alliance has announced, adding it reserves the right to declare a space attack an act of war. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

US President Joe Biden marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a speech linking the civil rights leader’s efforts to unite Americans to his own party’s voting rights legislation, all but dismissing those against it as racists. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Some of the US’ largest commercial and cargo airlines have sounded the alarm about the potentially “devastating” effects of 5G service around airports, saying the technology could effectively grind travel and shipping to a halt. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

If Russia invades Ukraine, the US will move strongly to damage Moscow’s strategic position and employ measures that take aim at the country's economy, a top White House official threatened on Sunday. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Following several sightings of drones above nuclear power plants and even the royal castle, the Swedish police and the Coast Guard are now investigating the Stockholm archipelago to established whether the drones could have come from the sea.... Read more »

Senior civil servant Sue Gray is currently leading a probe into a series of alleged parties that took place on Downing Street and at other government departments at a time when the UK was under strict COVID-19 restrictions, with the event on 20 May 2020 the most contentious of them,... Read more »

The deal -- that could be inked as early as this week -- stipulates that the former prime minister would evade imprisonment in exchange for leaving the political scene for the next seven years. Although many tweeps have vented anger at the shaping agreement, there have also been those who... Read more »

Anders Behring Breivik who murdered 77 and wounded over 150 people in a twin terrorist attack in 2011, has served 10 years of the 21-year sentence he was slapped with, the harshest punishment in Norway and referred to as a “life sentence”.... Read more »

HELSINKI (Sputnik) – More than 40% of Finnish citizens oppose the accession of their country into NATO, according to a Kantar TNS poll for the national newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.... Read more »

The US media constantly paid attention to the visits of now-former President Trump to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he liked to spend all his free time playing golf away from the spotlight, spending almost as much time on the fairway in four years as Obama did in eight.... Read more »

Since the 2020 election, many GOPs and conservative activists have complained that media platforms intend to silence their voices following the social media ban of ex-President Donald Trump. Later allegations claimed that Twitter along with other major platforms has increasingly blocked conservative content, using policy violations as a pretext.... Read more »

Carbonado, or black diamonds, are extremely uncommon and only typically found in Brazil and Central Africa. Their carbon isotopes and high hydrogen levels have prompted several cosmic origin theories, including meteoritic impact, a diamond-bearing asteroid, or even an ancient supernova explosion.... Read more »

Shocking revelations continue to come from the highly-anticipated upcoming documentary "Secrets of Playboy," which includes interviews with models, girlfriends, employees, and friends of the late media mogul. The movie is expected to be released next week.... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 December 2021 Two current ministers and two recent justice ministers have been funded by an opaque transatlantic right-wing group which includes members of the intelligence community. Declassified finds eight current Conservative parliamentarians are associated with the organisation. The group, known as... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 2 December 2021 Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan – the former foreign minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in parliament. Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett,... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 1 October 2021 The Conservative Party has refused to grant investigative media outlet Declassified UK access to its annual conference, which will hold a session titled “Is free speech in peril?” Declassified’s chief reporter Phil Miller will not be allowed into the ruling party’s gathering when... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 September 2021 Britain has long trained and supported Pakistan’s military intelligence establishment despite Islamabad aiding Taliban operations in Afghanistan – where 457 British soldiers were killed Last week, British foreign secretary Dominic Raab made his first trip to Pakistan after the botched withdrawal... Read more »

By Phil Miller and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 25 August 2021 Britain’s regime change operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been catastrophic. A key reason is that UK policy has no moral consistency — friends and enemies are interchangeable over time, based purely on short-term pragmatism and rarely... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 July 2021 A controversial Whitehall body — the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund — has used large amounts of money from the British aid budget to support the opposition in Syria. Declassified outlines the extent of this funding for the first time. The UK... Read more »

By Naser Shaker, Mark Curtis and Phil Miller, Declassified UK, 6 July 2021 Britain has a secret detachment of up to 30 troops in Yemen, where they are training Saudi forces amid the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, Declassified has discovered. The British personnel are said to be based at Al-Ghaydah... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 30 June 2021 Britain’s Middle East minister James Cleverly is regularly refusing to provide answers to written questions posed to him by members of parliament, especially on UK arms exports to Israel, contravening House of Commons rules. James Cleverly has been accused of breaking the... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 June 2021 Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is about to establish a second fighter squadron with Qatar, an authoritarian Gulf state accused of supporting extremist groups across the Middle East which the UK itself opposes and says promote terrorism. UK/Qatar squadron will be established... Read more »

The 2021 political typology divides the public into nine groups. The assignment of individuals to one of the nine groups is based on their responses to 27 questions about social and political values. The table below lists the items used in the construction of the typology groups. Items included in... Read more »

Young, liberal, discontented Democrats Outsider Left are the youngest typology group, making up 10% of the public. Holding liberal views on most issues and overwhelmingly voting Democratic, they aren’t particularly enamored with the Democratic Party – though they have deeply negative views of the GOP. Nearly half of Outsider Left... Read more »

Immigration hard-liners with critical views of the economic system Very conservative and overwhelmingly Republican, Populist Right hold highly restrictive views about immigration policy and are very critical of government. But, in contrast to other parts of the GOP coalition, their criticism extends well beyond government to views of big business... Read more »

Mixed political views, low interest in politics Stressed Sideliners are generally disconnected from politics and the two major parties, voting at lower rates than most other typology groups. Although Stressed Sideliners make up 15% of American adults, they were just 10% of 2020 voters due to their relatively low turnout... Read more »

Young and politically cross-pressured: Conservative on economics and issues of race and gender, less so on immigration, social issues On issues ranging from the size of the federal government to views about business, gender and race, Ambivalent Right hold many views that are largely consistent with core conservative values. Yet... Read more »

Staunchly conservative on all issues; deeply loyal to Donald Trump Faith and Flag Conservatives are highly religious, politically engaged and both socially and economically conservative. They favor a robust role for religion in public life and a smaller role for government in society, and they hold that a strong American... Read more »

Stalwart Republicans, supporters of Trump – with reservations Staunchly conservative and overwhelmingly Republican, Committed Conservatives hold pro-business views traditionally associated with the Republican Party, have favorable attitudes about international trade and favor a limited role of government. Their approach to international relations centers on engaging with U.S. allies and maintaining... Read more »

As in previous political typologies, the groups that form the Democratic coalition are largely united in support for a robust role of government and a strong economic and social safety net, as well as in their skepticism about corporate power. However, there are notable differences across the coalition around views... Read more »

The Republican-aligned groups in the political typology are united by shared preferences for a smaller role for the federal government, a strong U.S. military and a rejection of the view that the country needs to do a great deal more to address racial inequities. But when it comes to several... Read more »

Worried an aggressive new rule could cut into providers’ earnings, key members of Congress including Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal are helping private industry weaken the administration’s position in federal court. The post Congressional Democrats Join Republicans to Undermine Biden Administration’s Surprise Medical Billing Rule appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Projeto que enfraquece proteção ambiental na capital baiana foi sancionado em novembro, sem nunca ter aparecido na ordem do dia da Câmara Municipal. The post Lei que tramitou na surdina em Salvador favorece interesses imobiliários de Carlos Suarez, ex-dono da OAS appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Social Security is inflation-adjusted, so benefits are going up 5.9 percent to keep the purchasing power of retirees the same. The post 2021’s Inflation Proves How Incredibly Valuable Social Security Is for Americans appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

George Nader also cultivated key Trump advisers on behalf of his Gulf clients, prosecutors say. The post UAE Adviser Illegally Funneled Foreign Cash Into Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Powell’s reappointment is threatened by Democrats calling for more aggressive action by the Federal Reserve on climate. The post Jerome Powell Calls Fed’s Role in Addressing Climate “Limited” appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Um homem me seguiu em Balneário Camboriú. The post Os detalhes da ameaça appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide" shows how Asia’s ascendance will not be any less chaotic than that of the West. The post New Novel Glimpses the Dangers Facing the Impending “Asian Century” appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Kabul-based journalist Masood Shnizai discusses the devastating effects of the ongoing U.S. sanctions against Afghanistan. The post Is Biden in the Midst of a World Historic Crime Against Humanity? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Alimentados por Bolsonaro, 30% dos pais desconfiam da vacina infantil contra covid. Até Trump já pulou desse barco. The post Bolsonaro se isolou como o maior líder antivacina do mundo appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to the Build Back Better Act’s funding for disabled people leads me to believe that the state he represents must have something against people like me.... Read more »

Despite Elon Musk’s “visionary” meme rhetoric, Tesla has engineered a practice of ignoring legitimate safety complaints and punishing those who make them.... Read more »

We’re hearing quite a bit about the filibuster these days because it is what is keeping Democrats from passing essential voting rights legislation.... Read more »

Despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s opposition, the Chicago Teachers’ Union was able to secure better protections against COVID through democratic organizing.... Read more »

New studies highlight the far-right movement seeking an end to U.S. democracy.... Read more »

Under a bill passed into law in 2019, U.S. diplomats are now legally obligated to help U.S. businesses gain access to overseas markets.... Read more »

There must be a sincere attempt to improve the rules of the game to ensure fair competition.... Read more »

New numbers shed light on how the U.S. military rains terror from above.... Read more »

Throughout her nearly 100 years of life, the beloved actor stood up for racial equity, gender justice, and animal rights.... Read more »

"The last two years have demonstrated a simple but brutal truth, if we leave anyone behind, in the end, we leave everyone behind," said the secretary-general at the opening of the virtual Davos summit.... Read more »

One group criticized the Democratic senator from Arizona as "the white moderate MLK warned us about."... Read more »

To honor King we should uphold his critiques of militarism, capitalism, and racism and remember him for what he was: a radical.... Read more »

"Political corruption poisoned Flint and political corruption shielded the wrongdoers from accountability," said one critic following new revelations.... Read more »

Calling out those who have "weaponized" his words "to justify legislated white supremacy," Rep. Ayanna Pressley said King "was a radical dreamer with a bold vision for revolutionary change."... Read more »

Quite a few of these films, especially those made by independent producers outside the Hollywood system, are little-known, progressive, and deserve more recognition.... Read more »

It would be easy for us to assume that he was universally admired and respected by the Establishment during his lifetime. Nothing could be further from the truth.... Read more »

The battle before us is a "now or never" fight for democracy in this nation.... Read more »

"I will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father's dream," said Martin Luther King III.... Read more »

The experience of trans people has burst into the mainstream in the last decade, although the struggles of gender variant people are nothing new. Jack Halberstam talks about the politics of categorization, generational differences, radical vs. single-issue politics, and anti-trans feminism. (Encore presentation). Resources: Jack Halberstam, Trans* A Quick and... Read more »

In its early days, the internet appeared to hold the promise of a new form of communication not driven by the profit motive. Yet the sordid state of the internet today was not inevitable, according to scholar Jessa Lingel. Instead, she argues, a process took place — similar to the... Read more »

How does political ideology work in Cuba? What is ideology anyway? Katherine Gordy [1] argues that socialist ideology in Cuba, far from constituting a static, abstract canon of beliefs, is practiced and produced by people at all levels of Cuban society. She also comments on Fidel Castro’s espousal of Marxism... Read more »

Great powers rise and fall. But when their power wanes, as Britain’s did in the early 20th century and the U.S. is arguably waning now, who shoulders the costs of their decline? Is it elites or those on the bottom? Sociologist Richard Lachmann, who died in September, discusses what the... Read more »

A protracted but determined struggle to defeat an airport construction project produced an extraordinary victory. In the face of brutal police repression, Isabelle Fremeaux, Jay Jordan, and others created an autonomous zone and prevented the construction of a massive international airport on 4,000 acres of fields, forest, and wetlands in... Read more »

Trusted, impartial and independent? Or largely unaccountable and part of the Establishment? Sociologist Tom Mills considers the evidence on the enormously influential British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC, which is much revered by progressives in the United States and elsewhere. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Tom Mills, The BBC: Myth of a Public... Read more »

What has capitalism done to and with time? How does it regulate and discipline workers from the standpoint of time? And what would a principled struggle to take back time — to reappropriate it — look like? Engaging with the ideas of Marx, E. P. Thompson, and others, Bryan D.... Read more »

Program guests’ insights sometimes have to be left out of the final, edited interviews because of time constraints. This potpourri of previously unaired remarks addresses colonial-era policing in New York City (Ben Brucato [1]); the expansive nature of police power (Mark Neocleous [2]); grand juries as a tool of state... Read more »

There have been numerous exposés of the conditions in factory farms, where livestock are crammed together by the hundreds of thousands. But anthropologist Alex Blanchette argues that animal agribusiness, rather than being a sordid, exceptional case, has represented the cutting edge of capitalist industry for more than one hundred years.... Read more »

Dozens of flights have been canceled across the US on Christmas Eve due to Covid staff shortages with thousands of passengers stuck at the airports and others forced to cancel holidays altogether. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A Democrat member of the US Congress was carjacked and robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight in South Philadelphia. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pennsylvania) was not physically harmed, but her car and possessions were taken. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Amazon has announced a limit to the number of at-home Covid test kits per customer as demand surges amid a rise in cases since the discovery of the Omicron variant. Walgreens and CVS also introduced purchase limits. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

President Joe Biden will make a public statement on the anniversary of the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, the White House said. This comes after former President Donald Trump said he would hold a public event on that day. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Pfizer’s Paxlovid tablets against Covid have been given emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The first pill treatment of this kind, it can be prescribed to high-risk patients aged 12 and older. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former New York Times reporter and outspoken critic of the US response to the Covid pandemic Alex Berenson is suing Twitter for suspending his account, claiming the platform “acted on behalf of the federal government. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former President Donald Trump has said he was “very close to going the other way” on issuing a pardon for Julian Assange or Edward Snowden before he left the White House, ultimately deciding not to grant clemency to either. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

US life expectancy in 2020 has suffered an almost two-year drop, with the pandemic being one of the main drivers of excess death, newly released official data has shown. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

One of the wealthiest people in the US, the $5.2 billion-worth tech executive Jeff T. Green, has announced his split from the Mormon Church which, in his words, is “actively and currently doing harm in the world”. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Black Lives Matters’ signature call to decrease spending on the police is doing those of us on the left a disservice. It’s massively alienating, and is distracting the movement from focusing on even more pressing issues. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A series of articles on the BBC website over the past few weeks highlighting concerns over Beijing’s assistance to Sri Lanka shows how the British government is worried about its own fading influence. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Michela Morellato spent months getting flirty texts from the US military’s top man in Africa, before he was finally fired. The case showed how there’s a heavy price to pay for those who receive unwanted sexual advances. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A woman has successfully sued her mother's GP for allowing her to be born with spina bifida. This type of ruling paves the way for a future of medicine marred by endless litigation and mistrust between doctors and patients. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

America may have got to the Moon first, but now, with much more than simply bragging rights at stake, Beijing and Moscow are joining forces to gain the first lunar foothold of the 21st century. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

France seems intent on using its Council of the European Union presidency to tighten its slipping grip on Africa and to catalyze increased European integration. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Thailand was always considered the ‘go-to’ overseas destination for gender-change surgery, but not anymore. India is going through an "exponential rise" in patients. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Basic income has been tried successfully countless times. So why the hell isn’t the US government implementing it? Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Six decades ago, the US started spraying toxic herbicide across Vietnam, killing and disabling millions of people. RT speaks to a man who has dedicated his career to repairing the horrific legacy left behind by his country. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Assaults on UK officers hit around 80 per day in early 2021, statistics released by the PA news agency found, with police warning that Covid was used “as a weapon” by spitting at constables. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Most Britons are sometimes afraid to express their political or social views for fear of a negative response, though two-thirds are still unaware what the phrase “cancel culture” means, a new poll from YouGov has revealed. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

London Underground is facing the longest strike in the rail service’s history, with the train drivers’ union planning staff walkouts every weekend until summer 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The NHS is set to provide children in England with life-changing treatment for peanut allergies in a European first after the UK’s medical service signed a deal for the “pioneering” oral medication after a successful study. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he was “a little too undiplomatic” when he described Britain’s unvaccinated as “idiots” who put unnecessary strain on the NHS with their “irresponsible” decision not to get vaccinated. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

London’s Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the English police watchdog over claims that, during 2020, the force mishandled alleged parties in Downing Street that were in violation of Covid restrictions. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The UK has recorded 106,122 new Covid-19 cases in a 24-hour period. The figure marks the first time daily case numbers have exceeded 100,000 in the UK, and is the highest registered by British officials since the pandemic began. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The European Commission has confirmed that travelers from the UK will be charged a €7 ($7.92) visa fee from next year and forced to pre-register their details before being allowed to enter Schengen EU nations. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Workers in Wales now face fines for unnecessary trips to their jobs but can freely enjoy pub crawls and social life, according to controversial new legislation aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Elliott Negin ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science. In a secret video recording made public in late June, a top ExxonMobil lobbyist—Keith McCoy, who was fired soon afterward—not only conceded that the oil giant’s support for... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by John Pilger Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) When I first saw Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, in 2019, shortly after he had been dragged from his refuge... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War began, including 20 separate... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post Miko Peled is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by CT Staff Lisa Pease is the author of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Read more at Questioning The Mainstream Narrative of The RFK Assassination With Lisa Pease... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Erika Schelby Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions. Here in the U.S. Southwest, we are trapped between the extremes of a decades-long megadrought and sudden violent flooding.... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by CT Staff Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online.... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of... Read more »

Members of the Single Union of Workers of the Judiciary of Mexico City took over some court offices to press their demands, while a last-minute settlement averted a strike by snowplow operators and heavy equipment workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.... Read more »

Dr. Steenshorne is one of the millions of human beings internationally whose lives have been tragically cut short by capitalist governments’ criminal policies to allow the highly infectious and deadly coronavirus to rampage unchecked through the population.... Read more »

The press spokesmen for German capitalism seem determined to wage its third war against Russia or the Soviet Union in little more than a century.... Read more »

With ranks thinned by sickness, the remaining workers are being forced to labor long hours as the automakers seek to extract every ounce of profit.... Read more »

The underlying disgust has been deepened by outrage over the rising toll of working-class COVID infections, hospitalisations and deaths.... Read more »

Fighting against efforts by the police and media to cover up the first police killing of 2022, Marquetta Williams, wife of James, recently spoke with the World Socialist Web Site.... Read more »

The concerted push by the Western media for the Chinese government to drop its COVID-zero policy takes on another dimension as global corporations grapple with mounting supply chain breakdowns.... Read more »

The latest briefing from the charity paints a devastating picture of the world capitalist order reporting that the unprecedented accumulation of wealth by the world’s elite is contributing to the death of one person every four seconds.... Read more »

The WSWS spoke to educators, parents and students nationwide about conditions in their schools and their thoughts on the most recent collective actions of educators and students across the US and globally.... Read more »

“RT to thank the men and women in blue on #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay,” Kevin McCarthy tweeted from his account earlier this month. The very produced one minute and nine second-long video featured the Republican House minority leader riding bikes with law enforcement and handling memorial wreaths. The tweet, dated Jan. 9, ends with... Read more »

Unfortunately, here in the United States, we tend to be inundated with wellness advice that basically sums up to: Do more, try harder, and be better. There’s much to be said about how capitalism ingrains itself so deeply into our personal lives that we experience, say, a difficult period or... Read more »

Tax filers in 2022 will face the same frustrations and delays that have characterized tax season for years now, heightened by the pandemic. Treasury officials recently spoke to reporters in a conference to begin the process of lowering taxpayers’ expectations. The IRS, they told reporters, is dealing with the pandemic and the... Read more »

It doesn't get any more dimwitted than this. Last week, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas claimed that Democrats' focus on protecting the right to vote was in response to a "manufactured crisis." To support that claim, he pointed to a Pew Research Center poll conducted just after the November 2020 presidential election... Read more »

The first time I got involved in politics in a real way was the 2008 presidential election. A friend of mine convinced me to volunteer to make calls in support of this junior senator from Illinois named Barack Obama. I must admit, as much as I loved the idea of playing... Read more »

Transferring from a full-time private Islamic school with only about 20 children in my grade to a public school with over 300 students was definitely a culture shock for me. But what I felt more was the number of stereotypes and expectations present when I did. Today the small town... Read more »

This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit, tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale shouldn’t have tempted the fates.  We have a goal! A worthy goal. So what, oh what could we do to mitigate the chances... Read more »

The infamous “antifa buses” hoax that hit multiple rural and exurban communities in the summer of 2020 was in many regards a series of comical events, with pickup-driving, banner-waving, gun-toting “Patriots” swarming their towns in futility because they believed an army of black-clad leftists were en route to lay waste... Read more »

Yet another Republican lawmaker has drawn a comparison between the Holocaust and vaccine mandates prompted by the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic. Yet another “apology” has been issued for such comments. And if history is any indicator, when the public handwringing period cools and the performative apologies from the offending party end, nothing will change, really. There... Read more »

It’s an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector. The post Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO... Read more »

Few people, in a massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation, choosing, rather, to embrace a mythic fabrication intended to sugarcoat the bitter fruit that has resulted from the murder of the one man capable of leading a mass movement for revolutionary change in the US.... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). *** First posted on Global Research on July 19, 2021 . Introductory … The post Pfizer Inc. “Fraudulent Marketing”: “Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement... Read more »

Note: All Global Research articles are now accessible in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website Drop Down Menu on the top banner of our home page.   First published on August 26, 2020.   ***   Author’s Note This … The post The Vaccinated vs. the Unvaccinated: Those Who... Read more »

Bastille 2022 pertains to the restoration of fundamental rights. It seeks to reverse the criminal COVID-19 agenda which in the course of the last two years has triggered economic, social and political chaos Worldwide, coupled with bankruptcies, unemployment, mass poverty and despair. The post “Bastille 2022”: Building a Worldwide Movement... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Martin Luther King: Encountered in Algeria… appeared first on Global Research.... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Redefining the Meaning of Life and Death appeared first on Global... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Video: US Space Militarization Plans Are Same Old “Gunboat Diplomacy” appeared... Read more »

Presidential executive action to cancel up to $50,000 in student debts would increase Black wealth by 40 percent. The post Student Debt Cancellation is a Racial Justice Issue appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

King looked beyond our borders — not only at injustice, but how people worked together to end it. It’s an example we need today. The post Martin Luther King, Jr., Internationalist appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

King’s “Testament of Hope” sounds as relevant today as the day it was published. The post Dr. King Remained Hopeful. So Can We. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Even small increases in the price of gas can generate protests, like in Kazakhstan. But actually, we're not paying anywhere near enough for gas. The post Protests at the Pump appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The gridiron game has a penalty for illegal holding. We need one for hoarding. The post College Football Coaches Making $25,000 a Day? Let’s Sideline This Lunacy! appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Today’s ‘utopians’ have reserved heaven on Earth for the richest among us. The post Worshiping Markets, Genuflecting to Grand Fortune appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it's too late? The post The “Selling” of Degrowth appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

One year after the January 6 insurrection, is the United States on the verge of break-up? The post The End of Us appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

When I think of January 6, I remember the overwhelming helplessness — a familiar feeling to residents of the Capitol. The post January 6 Showed Why D.C. Deserves Statehood appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

We are a long way from understanding the full meaning of Guantánamo. But we can get the remaining detainees out. The post Pardiss Kebriaei on Guantánamo Prisoners appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The loss of an information source—a particular place for debate, for conversation, on issues relevant to you—is incalculable, but very real.  The post Craig Aaron on Local Journalism, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Each aspect of Chinese propaganda complained about in Battle at Lake Changjin is routinely employed by US media, and have been for years. The post Beijing’s Movie War Propaganda—and Washington’s appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

This annual round-up reflects all the conversations we hope have offered a voice that might help you interpret the news you read. The post Best of CounterSpin 2021 appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

This week on CounterSpin, we talk about the recent Honduran election and signs of hard-won hope in that country. The post Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Election appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Libraries aren't just a meaningful reality, but a meaningful symbol of the fact that there is a thing called the public interest. The post Caleb Nichols on Defending Public Libraries appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

A small group of people, willing to confront entrenched ideas and power, really can make change in the public interest. The post Ralph Nader on Journalism and the Public Interest appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol. The post Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection, Vera Eidelman on Anti-Protest Laws appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

This can be a turning point, if more of us understand that history isn't something that happens to us, but something we DO. The post Carol Anderson on White Supremacy vs. Democracy appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »