G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday proclaimed: “W… The post Does Israel Recognize International Law? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The bleak poll numbers might actually understate the problem, as they measure only voter discontent and not activist discontent. For months next summer and fall, Democratic activists will be needed to win over undecided voters and mobilize occasional voters." The post Team Biden Goes From Denial to Panic appeared first... Read more »

"The question now is whether Pandor and Dangor can draw energy and momentum from last week’s overwhelming parliamentary vote -- 248-91 -- endorsing expulsion (albeit temporarily) of the Israeli ambassador from Pretoria. Pandor is also asking -- alongside foreign ministries in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros, Djibouti, Colombia, Algeria and Turkey -- the International Criminal Court... Read more »

"The IDF and the Israeli government already knew when they launched their propaganda campaign about al-Shifa that Hamas had no military command and control facility hidden there because it had already found the complex kilometers away." Porter gives details about the actual Hamas HQ, citing a leak to the Jerusalem Post."... Read more »

Israel and the Israeli Defense Force have consistently put out unverified claims that Hamas runs a military “command and control center” in tunnels under al-Shifa Hospital. The post Debunking Israel’s Claims About Hamas Control Center Under Al-Shifa Hospital appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

JAFAR JAFARI, jijafari@yahoo.com, @Mayadee… The post Israel: * Killing Journalists * Are “Prisoners” Actually Hostages? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

“In 1967, while the U.S. government was escalating the Vietnam War, Kosygin met with President Lyndon Johnson in direct talks that lasted for more than a dozen hours at the Glassboro Summit in New Jersey. Twenty years later, Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the White House, where they signed... Read more »

"Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water [in Gaza], there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell!" The post Israel’s Genocide: In Their Own Words appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provided an update regarding the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.  The post Update on Al-Shifa Hospital from Doctors Without Borders  appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday proclaimed: “W… The post Does Israel Recognize International Law? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The bleak poll numbers might actually understate the problem, as they measure only voter discontent and not activist discontent. For months next summer and fall, Democratic activists will be needed to win over undecided voters and mobilize occasional voters." The post Team Biden Goes From Denial to Panic appeared first... Read more »

"The question now is whether Pandor and Dangor can draw energy and momentum from last week’s overwhelming parliamentary vote -- 248-91 -- endorsing expulsion (albeit temporarily) of the Israeli ambassador from Pretoria. Pandor is also asking -- alongside foreign ministries in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros, Djibouti, Colombia, Algeria and Turkey -- the International Criminal Court... Read more »

"The IDF and the Israeli government already knew when they launched their propaganda campaign about al-Shifa that Hamas had no military command and control facility hidden there because it had already found the complex kilometers away." Porter gives details about the actual Hamas HQ, citing a leak to the Jerusalem Post."... Read more »

Israel and the Israeli Defense Force have consistently put out unverified claims that Hamas runs a military “command and control center” in tunnels under al-Shifa Hospital. The post Debunking Israel’s Claims About Hamas Control Center Under Al-Shifa Hospital appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

JAFAR JAFARI, jijafari@yahoo.com, @Mayadee… The post Israel: * Killing Journalists * Are “Prisoners” Actually Hostages? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

“In 1967, while the U.S. government was escalating the Vietnam War, Kosygin met with President Lyndon Johnson in direct talks that lasted for more than a dozen hours at the Glassboro Summit in New Jersey. Twenty years later, Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the White House, where they signed... Read more »

"Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water [in Gaza], there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell!" The post Israel’s Genocide: In Their Own Words appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provided an update regarding the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.  The post Update on Al-Shifa Hospital from Doctors Without Borders  appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

I try to work out how much money would be needed to restore a functioning state. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd November 2023 Many names have been proposed for our pathology: Thatcherism, Reaganism, austerity, Trussonomics. But they are all synonyms for the same ideology, a doctrine hardly... Read more »

Toxic chemicals deliberately added to sewage are being spread across a vast area of farmland, with potentially catastrophic effects. We’re suing the government to stop it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2023 It’s an experiment with 8 billion test subjects, no controls and no endpoint. What... Read more »

The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th November 2023 As good citizens, we are told, we should report extremism to the authorities. It hasn’t always been clear what this term means, so we should be grateful to Michael... Read more »

Earth systems are being rushed towards their tipping points by governments that offer us nothing but chaos. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st October 2023 Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile... Read more »

War crimes have no justification, whoever commits them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th October 2023 For almost 4,000 years, some governments have insisted that if wars must be fought, there should be rules. The first known code, by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, laid down the principle on... Read more »

Clinically vulnerable people are among the many realities denied in the endless drive for “normality”. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October 2023 For some people, going to hospital may now be more dangerous than staying at home untreated. Many clinically vulnerable people fear, sometimes with good reason,... Read more »

The mass release and shooting of pheasants trashes our ecosystems – and our humanity. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th October 2023 It’s one of the bluntest expressions of class power in the United Kingdom. Like all expressions of class power, it has become normalised until we treat... Read more »

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the story of what it has taken away. It markets the “traditional” and “unchanging” and, in doing so, changes... Read more »

How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th September 2023 In 2010, when a high-speed rail line from London to the north – HS2 – was proposed by the outgoing Labour government, I... 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 »

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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 »

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unsealed documents containing U.S. Representative Scott Perry's (R-PA) interactions and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Politico reports. Per Politico, Perry's conversations with former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Jeffrey Clark — who was indicted alongside former President Donald Trump and 17... Read more »

Ahead of the Iowa caucuses in January, GOP mega donors who are looking to replace ex-President Donald Trump as the leading 2024 GOP nominee are "starting to run out of time" — but not giving up hope, according to a Wednesday Axios report. Some mega-donors, like Home Depot co-founder Bernie... Read more »

Even though the Trump Organization has been assigned a court monitor to watch its accounts, former President Donald Trump is transferring large sums of money out of his company's account to pay himself.The Daily Beast exclusively reported Wednesday that Trump moved $40 million from the Trump Organization's accounts to his... Read more »

Speaking in Pueblo, Colorado to promote his highly-successful “Bidenomics” fiscal program, President Joe Biden on Wednesday blasted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for “taking credit” for a major federally-funded infrastructure project despite having voted against the legislation that made it happen.“All across America,” the editorial board of the Las... Read more »

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made two major statements Wednesday at a press conference on his Biden impeachment inquiry, both of which serve to protect not the rule of law, the public’s faith in the credibility of Congress, or American democracy, but Mike Johnson.Johnson, elected Speaker by every... Read more »

Former President Donald Trump is zeroing in on a new target as his New York civil fraud trial may conclude soon with a verdict not likely to be in his favor.In a series of posts to his Truth Social account, Trump unleashed on Dawn Engoron — the wife of Judge... Read more »

Brian Swenson, who helped lead 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign as national political director, has resigned and joined former President Donald Trump's campaign, The Messenger exclusively reports. Per The Messenger, Swenson will work with Trump campaign senior advisor Susie Wiles, who he formerly worked with on US Senator... Read more »

Former President Donald Trump's proposed policy agenda for a second White House term is being met with shrugs by members of the Senate Republican caucus.On his Truth Social platform, the 45th president of the United States recently wrote that he wanted to get rid of the Affordable Care Act –... Read more »

Peggy Suzanne Judd and Terry Thomas Crosby — both of whom are on the Cochise County Board of Supervisors in southern Arizona — were indicted on two counts relating to their refusal to certify election results this week.According to the indictment, which was tweeted by Democratic election attorney Marc Elias... Read more »

While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict in Gaza from exploding into a regional war, the United States has also sent two aircraft carrier strike groups, a Marine Expeditionary Unit and 1,200 extra troops to the Middle... Read more »

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg put NATO’s hypocrisy on display while talking to reporters ahead of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on November 28. Asked by a reporter about American and European struggles to continue providing Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, Stoltenberg replied, “It’s our obligation to... Read more »

It is urgent to free the hostages in Gaza; stop the bloodshed in Israel and Palestine; establish lasting security for both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples; achieve the aspiration of the Palestinian people for a sovereign state; and establish a process of true sustainable development in the Eastern Mediterranean –... Read more »

In the weeks after October 7th, the Israeli government spent their time — and if you live in the US, your tax dollars — bombing hospitals, mosques, schools, refugee camps, and entire neighborhoods. Generations of families were wiped off the face of the earth. At one point, a Palestinian child... Read more »

This is part 2 of “Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth: Washington’s Folly From The Persian Gulf to Ukraine.”  Read part 1. THE FIRST GULF WAR – A CATASTROPHIC ERROR Confronted with the greatest opportunity for global peace in nearly a century, George H. W. Bush did not... Read more »

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. There’s a man who famously crowned himself emperor rather than submit to the otherworldly power of a pope. A new movie will soon be out on his “glories.” Napoleon Bonaparte, a military genius, embraced war and drove for total victory until his... Read more »

It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or many Palestinian refugees from Gaza to Sinai is a new idea, compelled by recent circumstances. Displacing Palestinians, or as it is known in Israeli political lexicon, the ‘transfer’, is an old idea – as old... Read more »

Four more were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Weekly Roundup</I>: 12 Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com.... Read more »

In the Russo-Ukrainian war, US propaganda has exploited a time tested syllogistic sophistry. First you identify the nation at war with the individual who leads the nation. It is not Russia’s war on Ukraine, it is Putin’s war on Ukraine. Then you identify the individual with Hitler. At various times,... Read more »

Written and compiled by Yaniv Cogan and Jamie Stern-Weiner Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Fighting Amalek in Gaza: What Israelis Say and Western Media Ignore Written and compiled by Yaniv Cogan and Jamie Stern-Weiner NOV 12 READ IN APP Israel’s allies have claimed that it “is not deliberately trying to... Read more »

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Norman Finkelstein will be speaking in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, November 7. After the event, everyone is invited to join a march down to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home. Time: 9:30 pm Place: East 7th Street and Ave C. We will march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Destination: Senator Schumer’s home at 9 Prospect Place,... Read more »

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In response to the mounting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Demand Progress, Amnesty International USA, Avaaz, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), MoveOn and Oxfam America delivered nearly 1 million signatures gathered by civil society organizations at the White House today, calling on President Biden to use his influence to bring... Read more »

Last night, the Boulder Valley School District Board of Trustees, which leads a district of over 30,000 students, unanimously passed a student-drafted Green New Deal resolution after a months-long campaign by students at Fairview High School. It marks the first win for Sunrise Movement’s nationwide Green New Deal for Schools... Read more »

Climate justice leaders from organizations representing impacted frontline communities will be sending a delegation to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 28th session of the Conference of Parties, commonly referred to as the UNFCCC COP28.The frontline delegation is calling upon world leaders to pass and adhere to... Read more »

Between 2021 and 2023, the U.S. government conducted counterterrorism operations in 78 countries, according to a new report and map from the Costs of War Project at Brown’s Watson Institute. These operations include ground combat in at least nine countries and air strikes in at least four countries during the... Read more »

To be clear, we welcome the modest mercies in Gaza: the "pause" in slaughter, release of hostages, freeing of Palestinian prisoners, most stone-throwing teenagers who've been warned they'll be re-arrested if their families show "joy." But as a handful of innocents get swapped, Palestinian children, victims of a racist hierarchy... Read more »

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Tuesday that sets a statewide requirement for utilities to get all of their electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040 and invest in energy efficiency. With the governor’s signature on the Clean Energy Future bills (Senate Bills 271, 273 and 502), Michigan has codified several crucial... Read more »

Yesterday the Ohio Supreme Court denied a motion filed by petitioners in Ohio Organizing Collaborative v. Ohio Redistricting Commission to consider objections to the legislative maps adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission in September and dismissed the case. The court wrote that, because the most recent maps were approved by... Read more »

The Metals Company (TMC) has attempted to silence Greenpeace International’s ongoing protest in the Clarion Clipperton Zone by threatening the campaign group with an injunction on Saturday, November 25. Undeterred by the threats, activists climbed the ship working for the deep sea miners in the Pacific Ocean. Two activists remain... Read more »

In response to the release of the International Energy Agency report on Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions, Kaisa Kosonen, Policy Coordinator, Greenpeace International said: “This IEA report shows that if governments continue to sit back and let every oil company try to be the last one standing,... Read more »

The hack of my X Twitter account was definitely intended to reduce my reach on Palestine, it took place while the security services have possession of my electronics and access to my account, and it involved either complicity by Twitter or a security service backdoor. I have now had to... Read more »

At Saturday’s great march in support of Palestine in London, police arrested members of the Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist (CPGBML) for having a pamphlet on sale on their stall. The “illegal” pamphlet is entitled Zionism: A Racist, Anti-Semitic and Reactionary Tool of Imperialism. Just what is illegal about... Read more »

I have had BBC News on in the background for the last two hours. In that time there have been three lengthy interviews with different relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. There has not been a single interview with a Palestinian relative of a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel.... Read more »

The judgment of the Supreme Court on the illegality of deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda was given massive publicity in connection with the sacking of Suella Braverman, but in fact it is a decision of much wider significance. It also has great relevance to the coming High Court hearing... Read more »

The UK government is actively complicit in genocide in Gaza – indeed with its supply of weapons to Israel, provision of communications intelligence and aerial surveillance and participation of UK special services, I would argue it is more than complicit. The UK government is a part of committing genocide in... Read more »

There are 149 states party to the Genocide Convention. Every one of them has the right to call out the genocide in progress in Gaza and report it to the United Nations. In the event that another state party disputes the claim of genocide – and Israel, the United States... Read more »

It may seem hopeless, but we have to continue to hold back the tide of fascism with all our might. This letter is self-explanatory, and I think its staid legal argument brings out the absurdity of deeming me a terrorist danger to the UK. I honestly believe that I am... Read more »

This post may generate a tweet on @matthuag (which the hacked @craigmurrayorg has been renamed) because the autoposting programme interacts differently with Twitter (called a Twitter API). When my account was hacked yesterday the hacker changed the password, email address, telephone number and username. They quickly tweeted out a post... Read more »

My twitter account has been hacked. The post Twitter Account Hacked appeared first on Craig Murray.... Read more »

Former US Marine Paul Whelan was involved in a fight with another inmate inside a Russian prison, officials say Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

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Police in Ireland have launched a hate crime probe after graffiti reading “Irish lives matter” was left on a wall in Belfast Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A Russian MP has proposed to rename the Gulf of Finland in response to “provocations” from Helsinki Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

“Go f**k yourself” was Elon Musk’s message to any company that tried to “blackmail” his platform using ads as leverage Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Moscow was one vote short of staying on the OPCW Executive Council, which will be joined by Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine instead Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

French government employees have been forbidden from using WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal due to security concerns Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Russia has successfully overcome its “addiction” to Western tech imports, President Vladimir Putin told a gathering of young scientists Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Czech hockey star Dominik Hasek has slammed the NHL over supposedly not doing enough for Ukraine and allowing Russians to play Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

SKOPJE (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje, to participate in the 30th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), scheduled to be held from Thursday-Friday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.... Read more »

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A fire at a hostel in Kazakhstan's capital, Almaty, has killed at least 13 people, the city's Department of Emergency Situations said Thursday, citing preliminary information... Read more »

SIMFEROPOL, Russia (Sputnik) - Kiev authorities are preparing a military provocation against Poland in the event of a critical decline in Western support, Acting Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo has told Sputnik.... Read more »

Kissinger was considered a highly influential American diplomat who also earned widespread criticism and accusations of war crimes for his role in forming US foreign policy.... Read more »

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Members of the French government will be prohibited from using messengers not approved by the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI), including Telegram and WhatsApp, starting December 8, French media reported Wednesday.... Read more »

Quality of life has declined for much of the population of the US territory since Hurricane Maria in 2017. But many argue the roots of Puerto Rico’s problems go back much further.... Read more »

The recent suicide rate data is the highest in the US since 1941, according to the report.... Read more »

TUNIS (Sputnik) - Israel has released the sixth group of 30 Palestinian prisoners under the humanitarian pause agreement with Palestinian movement Hamas, the Al Jazeera broadcaster reported Thursday.... Read more »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said during an interview that he does not care if key US corporations stop advertising on his social media platform X in light of his endorsement of an antisemitic statement recently.... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 1 August 2023 Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953 – UK covert action in support of leading radical Shia Islamists, the predecessors of Ayatollah Khomeini. In many accounts the CIA... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 19 July 2023 The Foreign Office is largely captured by global climate polluter BP.  From Iran to Azerbaijan, Iraq to Nigeria, Russia to Venezuela, the UK prioritises the corporation’s profits over a decent foreign policy. Declassified recently revealed that BP has pumped Iraqi oil worth £15bn since the... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 16 June 2023 Jonathan Swift, the High Court judge who has just rejected Julian Assange’s attempt to halt his extradition to the US, is the government’s former top lawyer and previously defended the Defence and Home Secretaries. Jonathan Swift, the High Court judge who has... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 June 2023 The British press has quoted the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) hundreds of times in the past two years without informing readers it is funded by the UK military, US government and arms corporations, and that it’s a bastion of establishment interests.... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 14 June 2023 When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 1996, UK officials knew Pakistan was directly aiding it, but continued to arm the government in Islamabad. British policy aided Osama Bin Laden who was then setting up his terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan. In October... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 31 May 2023 As soon as Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, and with apartheid still in place, UK officials were lobbying him for their business interests in South Africa, declassified files show. British officials feared Nelson Mandela would nationalise South Africa’s... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 16 May 2023 The foreign secretary claims his role is ‘defending democracy and freedom’ around the world. In fact, he’s Whitehall’s point man for backing several of the world’s most repressive regimes, as his own tweets show. When James Cleverly was reappointed foreign secretary last... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 May 2023 The likely future foreign secretary has been attending elite gatherings in the US while courting MI6 and displaying his establishment credentials on Labour’s foreign and military policy, which is likely to be near-identical to the current government. “If I become foreign secretary... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 April 2023 Tony Blair’s visit to Egypt in April 1998 was his first trip to the Middle East since being elected prime minister the previous year.  In Cairo, Blair promoted British arms exports, attended the signing ceremony of a new energy deal with British... Read more »

The Democratic and Republican parties are both viewed unfavorably by majorities of Americans. And while most adults say they feel at least somewhat well-represented by at least one of the two parties, a quarter (25%) say neither party represents the interests of people like them even somewhat well. Reflecting dissatisfaction... Read more »

Americans’ negative feelings about politics today and elected officials extend to their views about the quality of the people who run for office and the reasons why they do. For the most part, these feelings don’t differ much across party lines – although dissatisfaction with the choices Americans have in... Read more »

Americans’ dissatisfaction with politics extends to their views of presidential campaigns, both present and past. Only about a third (35%) say they are satisfied with the people who will be running for president next year. Looking back at recent presidential campaigns, sizable majorities say they were not informative, too long... Read more »

Americans have long believed that major political donors and special interests have too much influence on politics and that ordinary people have too little influence. Most see voting as the best way for average Americans to impact the direction of the country. But the belief that there is too much... Read more »

Americans express highly negative views of elected officials – and have grown increasingly pessimistic about their congressional representatives over the past several years. In fact, views of Congress, congressional leadership, the current and former president, and the vice president are all underwater. When asked about various aspects of the job... Read more »

The U.S. public’s views of both the Republican and Democratic parties are more unfavorable than favorable, with a record number of Americans (28%) now expressing unfavorable views of both parties. Yet most Republicans and Democrats characterize their own party in positive terms, saying that it respects democracy and governs honestly... Read more »

While trust in the federal government hovers near a historic low, public views of Congress, the Supreme Court and the president also are quite negative. However, people’s ratings of the job performance of their own congressional representative – in contrast with views of Congress as a whole – are more... Read more »

In evaluating the current and future state of politics in the United States, Americans express largely negative views. And trust in the federal government, which has been low for nearly two decades, hovers near record lows. Only 4% of Americans now say the political system is working extremely or very... Read more »

The public sees a number of specific problems with American politics. Partisan fighting, the high cost of political campaigns, and the outsize influence of special interests and lobbyists are each seen as characteristic of the U.S. political system by at least 84% of Americans. Yet 63% also say that “ordinary... Read more »

“Few people ... have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger.” The post Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100 appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

I challenged the Texas Republican on how far his unconditional support for Israel goes. The post Ted Cruz: “I Condemn Nothing That the Israeli Government Is Doing” appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

As the word “ceasefire” gains currency in Congress, some lawmakers are coupling their calls for peace in Gaza with conditions that cannot be met. The post Some Politicians Calling for a “Ceasefire” Are Not Actually Calling for a Ceasefire appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The indictment for the brazen murder-for-hire plot brings more heat onto India for its alleged transnational assassination program. The post India Accidentally Hired a DEA Agent to Kill Sikh American Activist, Federal Prosecutors Say appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

“I think this is a ridiculous position to put us in,” said Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of the negotiations. The post Bipartisan Plan to Trade Immigrant Rights for Ukraine Money Is Sinking Fast appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

As the fragile truce between Hamas and Israel continues to yield the release of hostages and prisoners, Israel is vowing to escalate the war. The post Prisoners, Propaganda, and the Battle Over the Gaza War Narrative appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Intercept has learned of around half a dozen events coordinated with Israeli officials during recent weeks — some of them hastily organized. The post With Ceasefire Calls Growing, Israeli Military Launches Closed-Door “PR Blitz” on Capitol Hill appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Republicans who orchestrated the Georgia commission to remove elected DAs said they will keep fighting to see Fani Willis removed. The post Georgia Supreme Court Blocks GOP Attack on Trump Prosecutor — For Now appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The senator’s comments came ahead of a Democratic caucus discussion about placing conditions on $14 billion in military aid to Israel. The post Bernie Sanders May Push Vote on Conditioning Aid to Israel in Coming Weeks appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

When insurance companies routinely violate the Affordable Care Act's requirement for no-cost contraceptive options, it's an affront to reproductive autonomy, writes Raegan McDonald-Mosley.... Read more »

As this issue of The Progressive goes to press, Israel’s war in Gaza begins another grim chapter.... Read more »

An interview with Phyllis Bennis, peace activist and director of the New Internationalism Project.... Read more »

A drama teacher was placed on leave for assigning Tony Kushner’s iconic play.... Read more »

The dehumanization, concentration, and separation of one people from another too often has had devastating consequences.... Read more »

Bombs and missiles are not the only tools to confront evil and violence in our world, writes publisher Norman Stockwell.... Read more »

Just like the attempts to ban discussion of race and gender in U.S. classrooms, Israel aims to censor historical truths.... Read more »

Education technology powered by artificial intelligence appears to make classrooms more equitable, but the tech may do more harm than good.... Read more »

Orisanmi Burton's new book looks at the legacy of the prison rebellions of the 1970s and their impact on the anti-carceral movements of today.... Read more »

In response to the mounting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Demand Progress, Amnesty International USA, Avaaz, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), MoveOn and Oxfam America delivered nearly 1 million signatures gathered by civil society organizations at the White House today, calling on President Biden to use his influence to bring... Read more »

Last night, the Boulder Valley School District Board of Trustees, which leads a district of over 30,000 students, unanimously passed a student-drafted Green New Deal resolution after a months-long campaign by students at Fairview High School. It marks the first win for Sunrise Movement’s nationwide Green New Deal for Schools... Read more »

Climate justice leaders from organizations representing impacted frontline communities will be sending a delegation to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 28th session of the Conference of Parties, commonly referred to as the UNFCCC COP28.The frontline delegation is calling upon world leaders to pass and adhere to... Read more »

Between 2021 and 2023, the U.S. government conducted counterterrorism operations in 78 countries, according to a new report and map from the Costs of War Project at Brown’s Watson Institute. These operations include ground combat in at least nine countries and air strikes in at least four countries during the... Read more »

To be clear, we welcome the modest mercies in Gaza: the "pause" in slaughter, release of hostages, freeing of Palestinian prisoners, most stone-throwing teenagers who've been warned they'll be re-arrested if their families show "joy." But as a handful of innocents get swapped, Palestinian children, victims of a racist hierarchy... Read more »

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Tuesday that sets a statewide requirement for utilities to get all of their electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040 and invest in energy efficiency. With the governor’s signature on the Clean Energy Future bills (Senate Bills 271, 273 and 502), Michigan has codified several crucial... Read more »

Yesterday the Ohio Supreme Court denied a motion filed by petitioners in Ohio Organizing Collaborative v. Ohio Redistricting Commission to consider objections to the legislative maps adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission in September and dismissed the case. The court wrote that, because the most recent maps were approved by... Read more »

The Metals Company (TMC) has attempted to silence Greenpeace International’s ongoing protest in the Clarion Clipperton Zone by threatening the campaign group with an injunction on Saturday, November 25. Undeterred by the threats, activists climbed the ship working for the deep sea miners in the Pacific Ocean. Two activists remain... Read more »

In response to the release of the International Energy Agency report on Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions, Kaisa Kosonen, Policy Coordinator, Greenpeace International said: “This IEA report shows that if governments continue to sit back and let every oil company try to be the last one standing,... Read more »

How does capitalism tap into our desires with the promise of objects to satisfy us? Yet when we possess them, the urge for something new reemerges. Geographer Jared Marguiles attempts to explain that paradox by looking at some of most endangered, and coveted, species in world: cacti. He examines the... Read more »

How can people be moved from sympathy to solidarity with an oppressed group? Juliet Hooker considers how the legendary writer and activist Ida B. Wells and Harriet Jacobs, whose slave narrative was the first authored by a woman in the U.S., balanced grief and grievance in an effort to mobilize... Read more »

It’s the most important program combating food insecurity in the United States – and it originates from aid to the agricultural and food processing industries, not poverty alleviation. Christopher Bosso argues that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP — formerly known as food stamps — has survived for almost... Read more »

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

What role have historians, and the discipline of history itself, played in how historical events unfold? Priya Satia contends that historians were key architects of British imperialism, that history enabled empire in fundamental ways. She also contests the notion that history unfolds in a linear and progressive fashion, and discusses... Read more »

Revolutionaries in one country can inform and inspire rebels in another. Kevin A. Young examines the impact of Vietnamese and Chinese revolutionary strategies on El Salvador’s guerrillas in the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s. Among other things, he describes how conceptions of “prolonged popular war” were adopted and adapted by the FPL, the... Read more »

The pandemic highlighted the vital importance of care work—whether childcare, nursing home care, medical care or schooling – and the struggles many people face to get sufficient care. Would more public investment solve the crisis? Historian Premilla Nadasen argues that the problem lies with contemporary capitalism itself, as care has... Read more »

Our regularly scheduled programming is preempted from 6am to 9pm (PST) today for a special fundraiser. During this one-day event, we air old and new broadcasts that demonstrate the richness of the Pacifica Radio Archives and how important it is that we ensure their preservation and accessibility. We appreciate your... Read more »

Why is the aging of populations framed as a crisis? What settler-colonial and capitalist logics are at work, and how are older people viewed and treated as a result? Sandy Grande delineates and critiques mainstream frameworks; she also advances a decolonial perspective that draws on indigenous attitudes toward elders and toward... 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 »

Over two centuries after his defeat at Waterloo and death in exile, Napoleon Bonaparte continues to inspire the French Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Visa-free travel throws a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a “closed” and “bad-for-business” Beijing Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

David Arakhamia, the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary bloc, admits Kiev's dependency on the West and lack of a coherent strategy Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Import dependency is strategically risky when it comes to military needs, especially with regional wars spreading across the world Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

US President Joe Biden is emblematic of a political system that favors and protects flawed leaders Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Trans athletes keep smashing women’s competitions, but you can’t call it out for what it is Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Israel has been unable to achieve any meaningful victories against the Palestinian militants Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

American observers are finally snapping out of “magical thinking” about Moscow’s defeat Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

For India, Russia’s significance both as a geopolitical heavyweight and bilateral partner remains unquestioned Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was booed by the crowd upon arriving at a London cathedral for the Queen’s celebration 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 »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva Download the Spanish translation Descargar la traducción al español de este artículoDownload the Portuguese translation Baixar a tradução em português deste artigo In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Prabir Purkayastha “This steep rise in electricity prices is the other side of the story of the so-called market reforms in the electricity sector that have taken place over the last 30 years.” Download the Spanish translation Descargar la traducción al... 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 »

Schumer’s speech, which was warmly received by Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the mainstream press, is an incitement to more intense repression of pro-Palestinian student groups and anti-genocide protesters.... Read more »

The wrist-slap punishment for the death of Caes Gruesbeck shows the government is an enabler for the trillion-dollar company, which views workers as replaceable machines.... Read more »

The UAW and Blue Cross Blue Shield announced a "verbal agreement" to end the 11-week strike without meeting workers' demands... Read more »

The pseudo-left is seeking to bolster illusions in Labor and the union bureaucracy, the very forces in Australia that are supporting and facilitating Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.... Read more »

De Niro denounced Apple and the organizers of the Gotham Film and Media Institute for removing criticism of former president Donald Trump and the film industry.... Read more »

The one-day national strike by Telecom workers powerfully demonstrated their determination to fight the Wickremesinghe government’s austerity measures.... Read more »

With the death toll in Gaza exceeding 15,000 and the horror of Israel’s war of annihilation made even more clear by on-the-spot reports during the bombing lull, and worldwide protests against the genocide continuing unabated, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is seeking to present himself as an evenhanded advocate for both... Read more »

Tens of thousands of highly exploited Thai agricultural workers remain in Israel as the Netanyahu government has intensified its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.... Read more »

A new documentary draws a detailed portrait of the founder of the Rolling Stones without offering much insight into his life and times.... Read more »

Why is the media ignoring Trump's direct threats to our Constitution? Donald Trump keeps threatening our nation’s democracy in no uncertain terms, and yet the nation’s media insists on treating his proclamations as spectacle, when they’re not outright ignoring him. Take Trump’s fascist declaration that his potential next administration would... Read more »

Elon Musk telling advertisers to “go fuck yourself,” with a specific callout to Disney’s Bob Iger, is getting all the attention.  Elon Musk in response to advertisers like Disney pulling their ads on Twitter/X: “Don’t advertise…go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear?“ pic.twitter.com/p5FRQlBcAj— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 29, 2023... Read more »

You can read more great Ukraine coverage by both staff and community members here. The list of reasons why assisting Ukraine is good for the United States is a long one. There’s the immense damage to the Russian military, the revitalization and expansion of NATO, the restoration of America’s position as... Read more »

Hunter Biden wants to testify to the House Oversight Committee in public, not behind closed doors. He’s watched as his associates have given private depositions only for Republicans to leak misleading and outright false accounts of their answers, and the president’s son doesn’t seem interested in being a victim of... Read more »

In an infamous article from 1922, The New York Times introduced the United States to a rising German politician by insisting that "Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded." It would be nice to think that in the intervening century the nation’s largest media outlets have... Read more »

On Wednesday, a House select committee heard from Oren McNelly, executive counselor of the Social Security Administration. On the committee was none other than the world’s worst theater-goer, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado. Boebert attacked the agency, saying that the backlog of cases is proof that Social Security workers are... Read more »

House Speaker Mike Johnson pretended Wednesday that Republicans have any basis at all for moving forward on impeaching President Joe Biden, and that this is a serious inquiry. Johnson soberly intoned that the Republicans understand “impeachment requires time … You don’t rush something like this.” YouTube Video Meanwhile, House Republican... Read more »

As the Senate rolls very, very slowly toward a bipartisan move to override Sen. Tommy Tuberville's blanket hold on hundreds of top-level military promotions, it seems Tuberville is finally beginning to realize that he's pushed his fellow senators too far on this one. That seems the best interpretation of Tuberville's... Read more »

The story was ridiculous enough on the surface: A 20-year-old woman showed up at a Texas school board meeting and insisted that a kiss depicted in a specific children’s book had set her on the path to a pornography addiction that left her depressed and suicidal within two years, at... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article … The post The Dublin Riots and BLM – A Comparison of Reactions appeared first... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article … The post NATO Further Postpones Ukraine’s Membership appeared first on Global Research.... Read more »

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All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article … The post US Military Aid to Ukraine May be Postponed Until After 2024 Elections... Read more »

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All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article … The post The End of US Nuclear Superiority. Scott Ritter appeared first on Global... Read more »

Mais uma vez, a OTAN deixa claro que o regime de Kiev não é realmente uma prioridade. Numa declaração recente, o chefe da aliança enfatizou a posição de não avançar no processo de adesão enquanto houver conflito com a Rússia. … The post OTAN adia ainda mais a adesão da... Read more »

As autoridades ​​de Kiev continuam a espalhar narrativas infundadas sobre o conflito, prevendo que as hostilidades tendem a expandir-se para outros territórios na Eurásia, uma vez que o conflito se tornou supostamente numa “guerra de recursos”. Embora exista um risco … The post Oficial militar de Kiev acredita que o... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name. To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article … The post The Dublin Riots: The Aftermath appeared first on Global Research.... Read more »

The recent electoral victories of Javier Milei in Argentina and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands suggest that the world has not yet reached peak populism. The post The Return of the Far Right appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A new map and report explore the challenges for a green and digital transition. The post Mapping the Impact and Conflicts of Rare-Earth Elements appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Collins breaks down the true cost of billionaire philanthropy — and how some key measures could help put charitable donations back in the hands of actual active charities that need them the most. The post Inequality Expert Chuck Collins Discusses the Business of Billionaire Philanthropy on Scripps News’s Giving Tuesday... Read more »

Electric air taxis aren’t going to save the world. Really taxing the rich, on the other hand, could. The post Our Rich: Fooling Themselves and Fouling Our Planet appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

A quick FAQ on the agreement between Israel and Hamas to release hostages and pause the fighting. The post The ‘Humanitarian Pause’ in Gaza Proves Diplomacy Works. Now We Need a Real Ceasefire. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Hwang Sok-Yong's novel Mater 2-10 chronicles Korean resistance to--and collaboration with--Japanese occupation. The post Telling the Complex History of Korea’s Occupation appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Every year that members of Congress vote for budget boosts to this agency with no strings attached, they choose to spend untold billions on war with no accountability. The post Pentagon Fails Its Sixth Audit appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

How the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence — while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill. The post Revealing the True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

If activists succeed in stopping the Hanscom expansion, it will be the next “shot heard ’round the world” on a warming planet. The post The Climate Justice Shot Heard ‘Round the World: No New Private Jet Infrastructure appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Argentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.” The post Mark Weisbrot on Argentina’s Javier Milei appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Cable news coverage of victims, war crimes and context show a double standard when it comes to US allies versus official US enemies. The post For Cable News, a Palestinian Life Is Not the Same as an Israeli Life appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future. The post Scott Burris on US v. Rahimi appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The Republican-held House could push to ban TikTok completely, on the grounds that it allows too much criticism of Israel. The post ‘Free Speech’ Fans Call for Censoring TikTok as Chinese Plot to Make Israel Look Bad appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Shouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency? The post Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” The post Raed Jarrar on Biden & Saudi Arabia, Joe Torres on Tulsa Massacre appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production. The post Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on. The post Christopher Bosso on Food Assistance, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

    This week on CounterSpin:  In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations... Read more »