In addition to violating the rights of a political, the story involves breaches of an embassy’s sovereignty and the surveillance of a range of journalists, human rights defenders, and politicians. Whether they were intentional targets or collateral damage in the CIA’s war on WikiLeaks, their surveillance, like that of Assange,... Read more »

A new study found medical debt among 18 percent of householders; a higher risk of acquiring medical debt fell to those without insurance as well as those with high deductible private insurance or Medicare Advantage. Medical debt also worsened social determinants of health––causing more food insecurity, inability to pay for... Read more »

"The Western media description is completely misleading, exaggerating the significance of Kharkov region advances, while ignoring Ukrainian setbacks in Kherson and Donbas. Also, Western media completely ignore the profound casualties inflicted on Ukrainian forces, when the Russian allies suffered relatively few losses. On all of these fronts, Ukraine may have... Read more »

“Despite its rhetoric, the purpose of AFRICOM is to use U.S. military power to impose U.S. control on African land, resources and labor to service the needs of U.S. multinational corporations and the wealthy in the United States. It also serves as a major boon to ‘defense’ contractors. The post... Read more »

Some public health experts expressed outrage this week after President Biden repeatedly asserted on CBS’s 60 Minutes that “the pandemic is over.”  The post The Consequences of Biden’s Claim “the Pandemic Is Over” appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"Address the problems posed by landfills in our communities. Hazardous wastes cannot be disposed of at landfills that were not designed to handle hazardous wastes. For example, oil and chemical dispersant-laden wastes from cleanup in the Gulf Coast were disposed of in many non-hazardous waste landfills. These landfills are located... Read more »

We are grass-root organizations/coalitions of communities that feel that we have been failed by our environmental and public health agencies. Our communities have lost lives and livelihoods due to failures by these agencies. The post Families Confront EPA’s Failure to Protect the Public appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Mel Buer, contributor to The Real News Network, "It will ultimately be up to the union membership to decide if the deal negotiated by their leadership is satisfactory: the tentative agreement is to be sent back to members for review, with a vote later this month." The post Membership to... Read more »

Economists Gopi Shah Goda and Evan Soltas estimate that roughly 500,000 U.S. adults are still out of the labor force due to past Covid-19 illnesses.  The post Economists Find Roughly 500,000 U.S. Adults Out of Labor Force from Covid-19 Illnesses appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over... Read more »

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?... 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 »

Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th September 2022 Soon, the focus will return, and the collapse of many people’s economic prospects will dominate once more. As winter approaches, it will become clear that our politics... Read more »

As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted? By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 22nd August 2022 This is my response to the open letter from my friend Jyoti Fernandes, published on the website of the Landworkers’ Alliance. Dear... Read more »

Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th August 2022 Democracy is the problem that capital is always striving to solve. To maintain its rates of profit, it seeks to... Read more »

The world’s most damaging farm products? Organic pasture-fed beef and lamb. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th August 2022 Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs,... Read more »

To this government, the duty of care is an abomination. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th August 2022 Has Boris Johnson ended his holiday? It’s hard to tell. He was never committed to government, even during national emergencies, as his serial absence from Cobra meetings at the beginning... Read more »

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods transform people’s lives and rebuild community. Resist the angry men trying to destroy them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd August 2022 It reminds me of the school board controversies in the United States. A small group of furious men, whipped up by the media... Read more »

Bereavement is bad enough, without a predatory phone company refusing to cancel a dead person’s account. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th July 2022 It’s sometimes called “sadmin”: tying up the affairs of someone who has passed away. There’s a lot to do, though some aspects have become... Read more »

The steps the company should take to change the way it closes accounts. By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com 25th July 2022 Following my family’s shocking experience in trying to cancel my deceased mother’s Vodafone account, and the discovery that many other people have suffered the same treatment, or worse,... Read more »

System change is – and has always been – our only realistic means of defending the living planet. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2022 Can we talk about it now? I mean the subject most of the media and most of the political class has been... 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 »

The Bureau of Land Management is misleading the American people about the nation’s wild horses and burros.Every year, thousands of wild horses and burros are chased by helicopters and ripped from their native land in terrifyingly brutal, and often deadly, roundups. After capture, they are corralled in crowded dry lot... Read more »

On August 29, eight cartons of notarized paperwork challenging 25,000 voter registrations were delivered by pro-Donald Trump “election integrity” activists to Gwinnett County’s election offices in suburban Atlanta. They were accompanied by additional paperwork claiming that 15,000 absentee ballots had been illegally mailed to voters before the county’s 2020 presidential... Read more »

A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela—due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States—could no longer ship discounted oil... Read more »

Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a scandal as Hurricane Ian approaches Florida."Gadsden County religious leaders are demanding a local commissioner and Gov. Ron DeSantis 'come forward' to address allegations that the commissioner resigned last Friday after a photo surfaced purportedly showing him wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood... Read more »

The United States Department of Justice submitted a brief to United States District Judge Raymond Dearie – the special master in the ongoing saga of former President Donald Trump's hoard of top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago – that it needs more time to procure a third-party vendor to digitize the materials."Plaintiff... Read more »

The Senate Rules Committee voted 14-1 to advance the Electoral Count Act, legislation designed to prevent another coup like the one led by defeated President Donald Trump, and Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, on January 6, 2021. Every Democrat and every Republican except the junior GOP Senator from Texas... Read more »

Fox News pundits on Tuesday urged parents to not let their kids go trick-or-treating on Halloween because, they claimed, that candy could be laced with fentanyl.The panel's discussion took place shortly after the United States Department of Justice announced that the Drug Enforcement Agency "seized more than 10.2 million fentanyl... Read more »

When former President Donald Trump went to court against the Justice Department to stall the federal investigation into classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, a district judge he appointed, Aileen Cannon, granted Trump everything he asked for, appointing a special master to review the documents for... Read more »

A Maryland couple has pleaded guilty to selling "confidential" nuclear-related secrets to a foreign country. The plans, according to a report by ABC News, were related to the propulsion capabilities of the American nuclear submarine fleet.It was the second time that Jonathan and Diana Toebbe admitted to their crimes since... Read more »

On September 21, President Biden addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Taking Territory by Force Biden opened his address by accusing Russia of violating "the core tenets of the United Nations Charter – no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor by force."... Read more »

Last May a remarkable column by Stephen Kinzer appeared in the Boston Globe. It was headlined: "Republicans Return To Their Roots As The Antiwar Party." More significantly, the subheading ran: "Since the Vietnam era, Americans have come to expect antiwar rhetoric from liberal Democrats. Cancel that." It began: "With Americans... Read more »

In the US, we proudly point to the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights that was adopted in 1791: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of... Read more »

As early as the end of April, Russia’s view of the war may already have begun evolving from seeing it as a regional war to seeing it as a wider war with the US and NATO. At that time, the voracious provision of weapons combined with training and real-time intelligence... Read more »

The New York Times is going full-bore for war in Ukraine. It is difficult to explain the yellow journalism, but the so-called "paper of record" did the same thing on Vietnam (see below). In other words, the Gray Lady is whoring again. It may be, as some allege, that the... Read more »

Five were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 14 Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »

Though Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the US is, in fact, directly involved. But who is telling the truth? On September 8, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, appeared in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. He carried... Read more »

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

If China invades Taiwan to unify it with the mainland, the United States will go to war to defend Taiwan and send U.S. troops to fight the invaders. That is the commitment made last week by President Joe Biden. Asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" if the US... Read more »

UN Confirms Atrocities on Both Sides of Ukraine War   On 29 June 2022, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a comprehensive report on human rights violations committed over the course of the Ukraine war, during the period from 24 February to 15 May 2022, titled:... Read more »

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Who Is Volodymyr Zelensky? What to Know About 🇺🇦’s President The former actor and comedian is a puppet Col Macgregor 'I think Zelenskyy is a puppet' Journalist to Putin :"What do you think about Zelensky" Putin to journalist :"he is a good actor"https://t.co/WRbXFrTerM pic.twitter.com/HFTVoDLfSf — Ignorance, the root and stem... Read more »

The Left Is Losing Because We’re Not Confrontational Enough Leftist policies are popular, yet the progressive agenda is stalled. What’s missing is a fighting, movement-backed strategy. Congressional progressives should learn from Seattle’s Kshama Sawant. Jordan Bollag filed 20 May 2022 in POLITICS More than a year into the Biden presidency, with... Read more »

Zelensky vows Ukraine forces will return to Lysychansk  ... Read more »

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Recognising Israel's racist system of apartheid for what it is, is the first step to dismantling it. 3 questions on #IsraeliApartheid, answered 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/mVn63njHp3 — Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) July 5, 2022... Read more »

Spot of Holocaust denial here from Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk.*No evidence* Bandera's troops murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles, he says.Except of course there is. Because they did… pic.twitter.com/JwkTzY9QFJ — The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) July 1, 2022... Read more »

The win was the result of "hundreds of national and grassroots organizations, along with concerned Americans from coast to coast, working together for the health and safety of frontline communities and a livable future for the planet," said one campaigner.... Read more »

"This analysis shows that Manchin's dirty deal directly undercuts the potential carbon savings of the IRA by fast-tracking fossil fuel projects currently waiting on permits," said Fossil Free Media's Jamie Henn.... Read more »

The Tampa Bay area has long been a "sitting duck for catastrophic storm surge and has dodged several bullets," said one climate scientist. "Might not be so lucky this time."... Read more »

"Democrats want to expand Social Security and Medicare," said one advocate. "Republicans want to cut, privatize, and ultimately end both programs."... Read more »

"Why would this group bring this baseless claim?" asked the White House. "Because opponents of the debt relief plan are trying anything they can to stop this program that will provide needed relief to working families."... Read more »

What it means when we lose a publishing house.... Read more »

We should start treating menstrual products like what they are: a public good.... Read more »

"Democratic House leadership," noted one observer, is "shooting down a wildly popular messaging bill right before the midterms."... Read more »

Every research dollar, lab hour, and project report that is beholden to or biased by fossil fuel industry influence is a missed opportunity to address the climate crisis.... Read more »

The “cap” on bankers bonuses that the Tories have just removed had been set at double their annual salary. Yes, double their annual salary. So a banker on £320,000 a year could only get an annual bonus of £640,000. That has now been lifted so they will be able to... Read more »

There has been an unprecedented rush of people canceling their subscriptions to this blog the last five days. Not one person has given any reason, and where there have been messages, they have been of this unfriendly but uninformative nature. This is a real example: I wish to cancel my... Read more »

You are conditioned to believe that killing more people is a better solution than negotiating a compromise. This is despite the fact that it is self-evidently a psychopathic notion. Let me give you a homespun analogy. I have this week been dealing with an incident where somebody feels their share... Read more »

When the so-called “Leader of the opposition” opposes protest against a new unelected head of state, out of respect for the previous unelected head of state, you know you live under totalitarianism. Except almost all dictatorships do at least have the form of an election. Indeed, some of the worst... Read more »

I have just spoken to the media office of the Scottish government, and followed up with this email. I shall let you know the response. The post The Question of The Day appeared first on Craig Murray.... Read more »

No doubt millions of people felt a heartfelt attachment to the Queen, which will be displayed fully in the next few days. But the anachronistic nature of monarchy is also fully on display, in the obvious absurdities and pantomime procedure, with Heralds Pursuivant and Royals buckled with the weight of... Read more »

So the UK today gets its fourth successive Tory Prime Minister, despite the fact the previous three all crashed in failure, even in their own terms. After presiding over crippling austerity as a policy response to Gordon Brown’s massive handover of public money to the casino bankers, David Cameron’s attempt... Read more »

I have never considered myself a Marxist. I came to adulthood at the end of the one, forty year long, period in the history of Western civilisation when there was a reduction in the chasm between the rich and ordinary people. In consequence I believed that a tolerable society might... Read more »

Well over 70% of migrants arriving in small boats are eventually found by the British state to be genuine refugees seeking asylum. I know this from a quite remarkable speech by Lord Kerr. John Kerr is something of a mystery to me. I came across a video of this simply... Read more »

Swedish arms manufacturer Saab will set up a new facility in India to produce shoulder-fired rocket launchers, a company executive said Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Pointing out that some Ukrainian refugees engage in welfare fraud got the German opposition leader Friedrich Merz in hot water Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Rumours of Chinese leader Xi Jinping being ousted in a military coup recently went viral on Twitter Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

NATO has asked the military industry to speed up production of weapons and ammunition, citing shortages caused by the conflict in Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

German media claim the CIA had warned Berlin about a possible attack on Nord Stream pipelines weeks before it happened Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

President Vladimir Zelensky has urged countries worldwide to reject referendums on joining Russia in Donbass and Ukraine’s southeast Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former Polish foreign and defense minister Radek Sikorski thanked the US for the damage to Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The legal procedure for admitting the Donbass republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions to Russia requires several steps Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

US Secretary of State Blinken said Kiev can freely use Western weapons against territories “annexed” by Russia Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

NEW YORK (Sputnik) - Oil prices had their first biggest gain in nearly three weeks on Tuesday, with benchmark crude futures rising more than 2% on concerns about potential damage to offshore US energy production facilities from the start of the Atlantic hurricane season.... Read more »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese in an interview at The Economic Club in Washington said the UK and the EU will go through a difficult period economically in the next few months.... Read more »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - White House officials are quietly preparing for Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to depart from the administration after the midterm elections, Axios reported.... Read more »

If you’ve ever been told by a doctor you have the “body of someone half your age,” you might be happier – no, really. In the fields of gerontology and anti-aging meds, there’s a distinction between biological age, or the condition of our cells, and chronological age. New research suggests... Read more »

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Argentina, which has one of the largest reserves of lithium in the world, can export about 200,000 tonnes of the product in 2025, Roberto Salvarezza, head of the state company YPF Litio, said in an interview with Telam news agency.... Read more »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Senate advanced a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown on October 1 and provide some $12 billion in additional security and economic assistance to Ukraine.... Read more »

In 2021, Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, causing upwards of $75 billion in damages. Now, two weeks after Hurricane Fiona devastated portions of the Caribbean and eastern Canada, photos of sandbags shoring up sidewalks and lining exterior doors are circulating as the Tampa Bay area prepares for Hurricane Ian – this... Read more »

Give Jerome Powell credit for candor: the Fed chairman admits that his policy of increasing interest rates to fight inflation might push the economy into a recession. “No one knows whether this process will lead to a recession or, if so, how significant that recession would be,” he recently told... Read more »

Officials have reported that no injuries have been linked to the fire; however, the public is urged to steer clear as firefighters work to stop the flames.... Read more »

Phil Miller and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 29 June 2022 Exclusive: David Cameron kept bombing Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya after the UK military realised a banned terrorist group stood to gain from regime change. Part 3 of Declassified UK’s investigation into the Manchester bombing Britain’s military knew that fighters from... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 28 June 2022 MI5 and Greater Manchester Police had numerous opportunities to stop Salman Abedi gaining military experience and contacts in Libya for years before the 2017 Manchester bombing – but they gave him free rein. Salman Abedi was never detained at UK border despite... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 27 June 2022 Salman Abedi and his closest family were part of Libyan militias benefitting from British covert military support six years before he murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017. He is likely to have been radicalised by his experience. Close friend... Read more »

by Mark Curtis and Richard Norton-Taylor, Declassified UK, 8 June 2022 ‘Global Nato’. Help Taiwan ‘defend itself’. Recover the ‘whole’ of Ukraine. Promote ‘the free world’ – UK foreign policy under Liz Truss has become a series of empty slogans from a declining power desperate to remain a major one.... Read more »

by Paul Rogers and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 18 May 2022 Russia’s poor military performance in its invasion of Ukraine hardly demonstrates the need to increase the UK’s already large defence budget; if anything, it shows the opposite. Last week Russia celebrated Victory Day, marking the end of the Great... Read more »

by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 10 March 2022 Amid ongoing atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine, far-right resistance groups appear to be in possession of UK-made anti-tank weapons. A Ukrainian neo-Nazi group in the besieged city of Kharkiv is said to have received anti-tank missiles made in... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 17 February 2022 A body run by the UK military has asked us to remove part of our story revealing British support for an African dictatorship. Here’s why we said no to its “formal advice” not to publish. Last week I received an email from... Read more »

by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 17 January 2022 A US government-funded agency that claims to promote democracy but which helps undermine governments independent of Washington has moved decisively into Britain’s media space since 2016. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has funded groups such as Bellingcat, Index on... 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 »

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Carroll Doherty, Director, Political ResearchJocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Political ResearchBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateHannah Hartig, Research AssociateGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAmina Dunn, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystAndy Cerda, Research Assistant... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »

Americans see capitalism as giving people more opportunity and more freedom than socialism, while they see socialism as more likely to meet people’s basic needs, though these perceptions differ significantly by party. Many Democrats say socialism meets people’s basic needs; Republicans say it restricts individual freedoms. The post Modest Declines... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Carroll Doherty, Director, Political ResearchJocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Political ResearchBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateHannah Hartig, Research AssociateGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAmina Dunn, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystAndy Cerda, Research Assistant... Read more »

Americans’ ratings of the Supreme Court are now as negative as – and more politically polarized than – at any point in more than three decades of polling. And nearly two-thirds of Democrats (64%) now say the Supreme Court has too much power, almost three times the share who said... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Carroll Doherty, Director, Political ResearchJocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Political ResearchBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateHannah Hartig, Research AssociateGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAmina Dunn, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystAndy Cerda, Research AssistantRebecca... Read more »

While the economy remains the dominant issue in this fall’s midterm elections, the issue of abortion has increased markedly in importance. More voters continue to view their midterm vote as an expression of opposition to Joe Biden than support for him. But across both parties, more voters now say Biden... Read more »

The satellite internet technology probably won't connect Iranian protesters, but Musk already got his PR coup with a two-word tweet. The post No, Elon Musk’s Starlink Probably Won’t Fix Iranian Internet Censorship appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Campanha de Lula age para tentar garantir circulação de transportes e conta com observadores internacionais para que resultados sejam respeitados. The post PT teme que donos de empresas de ônibus pró-Bolsonaro reduzam frotas para sabotar eleitor de baixa renda appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Empresa diz que perfil de analista de redes conseguiu acessar sistema, alterar senha de cliente, criar novo usuário e enviar mais de 300 mil mensagens. The post Responsável pelos SMS golpistas, Algar Telecom coloca a culpa em funcionário júnior appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

An email from the university’s general counsel seeks to steer employees around Idaho’s vague and archaic anti-abortion laws. The post University of Idaho Issues Gag Order on Abortion appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The record-setting war chest has fueled speculation about whether the governor will run for president in 2024. The post Florida Contracts Go to Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Livro ‘Um bufão no poder’ mostra como Bolsonaro construiu a falsa, mas poderosa, ideia de presença e proximidade com seguidores. The post Farofa e magia: como a extrema direita redesenhou a comunicação política appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Candidato esbanja parceria que não existe – seu contato no FBI é um policial que pediu aposentadoria após denúncia de interferência em investigação. The post Capitão Wagner esconde verdades inconvenientes sobre ex-agente do FBI usado em campanha no Ceará appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Giorgia Meloni will be Italy’s first woman prime minister — and part of a long tradition of white womanhood being central to fascism. The post It’s a Girl (Fascist)! appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Retired Gen. Keith Alexander’s company IronNet signed an agreement with a Saudi Arabia cyberwarfare institute led by the official who oversaw Khashoggi’s killing. The post Former NSA Chief Signed Deal to Train Saudi Hackers Months Before Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Along the main migration route through Mexico, mothers of disappeared Central American migrants journey north.... Read more »

Shouldn’t kids learn about real day-to-day financial tools before they learn about volatile blockchain currencies that may not make it?... Read more »

Sixty years ago, Southern governors also sent people North to create pressure on ‘liberal’ communities. It backfired.... Read more »

‘Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971,’ now on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, reckons with institutional racism and celebrates Black contributions, on and off screen.... Read more »

The true costs of war are hidden from the public because the reality is too horrific to accept.... Read more »

In his latest book, journalist Chris Hedges wants you to know—and feel—the horrors of armed conflict.... Read more »

With their homes, businesses, and church destroyed, villagers in Moschun are sowing the seeds of a new life.... Read more »

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has achieved a new low by using people seeking asylum as a political prop. This cruelty is taking place to “own the libs” and make those lefties realize what life is like for MAGA states along the southern border.... Read more »

In 2020, young voters saved the country from a second Trump term, and then helped put two Democrats from Georgia into the U.S. Senate.... Read more »

The win was the result of "hundreds of national and grassroots organizations, along with concerned Americans from coast to coast, working together for the health and safety of frontline communities and a livable future for the planet," said one campaigner.... Read more »

"This analysis shows that Manchin's dirty deal directly undercuts the potential carbon savings of the IRA by fast-tracking fossil fuel projects currently waiting on permits," said Fossil Free Media's Jamie Henn.... Read more »

The Tampa Bay area has long been a "sitting duck for catastrophic storm surge and has dodged several bullets," said one climate scientist. "Might not be so lucky this time."... Read more »

"Democrats want to expand Social Security and Medicare," said one advocate. "Republicans want to cut, privatize, and ultimately end both programs."... Read more »

"Why would this group bring this baseless claim?" asked the White House. "Because opponents of the debt relief plan are trying anything they can to stop this program that will provide needed relief to working families."... Read more »

What it means when we lose a publishing house.... Read more »

We should start treating menstrual products like what they are: a public good.... Read more »

"Democratic House leadership," noted one observer, is "shooting down a wildly popular messaging bill right before the midterms."... Read more »

Every research dollar, lab hour, and project report that is beholden to or biased by fossil fuel industry influence is a missed opportunity to address the climate crisis.... Read more »

Over the past half century, the US economy has undergone a profound change: wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a few, inequality has skyrocketed, and insecurity has reigned. And yet it’s a story mainly downplayed by mainstream pundits and the media. Noam Chomsky, arguably the most important public... Read more »

In “Polishing the Mirror,” the influential spiritual seeker and teacher Ram Dass shares his insights into human consciousness and awakening. The post Fund Drive Special: Ram Dass on “Polishing the Mirror” appeared first on KPFA.... Read more »

The history of slavery in the United States casts a pall over our present. Berkeley-based documentary filmmaker Frances Causey illustrates how and why that is in a compelling and personal work, that traces four centuries of racial oppression in the United States. The post Fund Drive Special: The Living Legacy... Read more »

Renowned mycologist Paul Stamets talks about mushrooms, human health, bee populations, psychoactive fungi, and more. (Image by Alan Rockefeller.) The post Fund Drive Special: Mushroom Expert Paul Stamets appeared first on KPFA.... Read more »

As the world rushes headlong into the climate emergency, what might a liberatory approach look like, that would avert ecological disaster while making another world possible? Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese have laid out one vision for eco-socialism that takes on the difficult question of how to plan society in... Read more »

What do neoliberal policies and institutions do to people’s ability to care well for others? According to Sarah Clark Miller, caregivers experience moral precarity and moral injury, brought on by the fact that they can’t care for loved ones in ways that are consistent with their ethical principles. Maurice Hamington and... Read more »

With the passage of time, some things are remembered and others forgotten. In the case of Central America, argues historian Aviva Chomsky, amnesia has been consciously fostered. The long history of United States support for repressive regimes and policies often vanishes in discussions about contemporary violence in Central America and... Read more »

Various explanations have been offered for what’s been called an anxiety epidemic among university students, but Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou believes a crucial causal factor is financialization, the way the financial sector and its logic has permeated our social, economic, and individual lives. He sees signs of optimism in the proliferation of... Read more »

Veterans are a prominent symbol in U.S. politics, evoking patriotism and military might. The right recruits them and they populate the police, private security, and often militia groups. But the struggles of veterans, and those currently working for the military, should be of concern for the left, argues Suzanne Gordon... 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 »

This afternoon, Israeli forces killed three young Palestinians they say were part of an armed cell, spraying their car with 80 bullets. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Outspoken comments from a number of senior Republican figures over the past week show they are now happy to ditch Donald Trump Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Bitterness and face-saving are not valid reasons for allowing thousands to die because NATO is embarrassed at how the Afghanistan war ended Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The US should look back at the Soviet-era experience and get genuine Russia experts to advise Biden on foreign policy Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Beijing has put in motion deals with Argentina and Ecuador, two countries the US regards as being in its sphere of influence Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

No bodies have been found at a ‘mass grave’ at an Indigenous school in Canada, but there has been no dialling back in the uproar it prompted Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

30 years after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, not everyone is still optimistic over the fully federal Europe project Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

After Covid and COP26, the new threat facing humanity is ‘the quantum apocalypse’, apparently Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Pakistan’s relations with China will only get stronger in the future 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 »

Less than two days before the expiration of a Thursday strike deadline set by the International Association of Machinists (IAM), the union announced a “new” contract identical to the one that members rejected by 60 percent two weeks ago.... Read more »

This statement was issued by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee, which has been established by railroad workers to organize and unify their struggle independently of the union apparatus.... Read more »

Washington’s plan to deploy naval forces to Alexandroupoli, a key port for the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine, is intensifying tensions between Greece and Turkey.... Read more »

This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio.... Read more »

Former officer Shaun Lucas was responding to a call about a possible fight when fatally shot 31-year old Jonathan Price... Read more »

The labour board ruling testifies not just to the ruthless profiteering of energy corporations but the function of state institutions ostensibly aimed at guarantee workplace protections and the trade unions who support them as tools of the corporate elite.... Read more »

The event will be held Saturday, at 3pm (GMT-3), on the eve of elections which mark the highest point of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Brazil in four decades.... Read more »

As Brazil’s fascistic president Bolsonaro declares he will accept no result other than his victory in Sunday’s election, the PT’s only appeal against a coup has been to the financial markets and the US embassy.... Read more »

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s trip to the Gulf states last weekend and his handshake with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have finally exposed the German government’s human rights platitudes as a pure imperialist propaganda tool.... Read more »

On Tuesday, buses began to arrive in Crimea carrying Russian conscripts called up during the mobilization. For some of these soldiers, training is apparently going to consist of a couple of days sleeping on cots, and whatever tips they could pick up in transit. Those troops immediately got a ceremony—a... Read more »

At this point, we have probably all heard of “indicted for seven damn years now” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's brave efforts to dodge a process server trying to serve him with a subpoena. But hearing about it is not enough. It's important to also make fun of him, because Jeebus, this... Read more »

John Fetterman has been running a very solid campaign based on policy promises and remedies. The very simple idea is that Fetterman wants Pennsylvanians to consider voting for him to become their next senator. He is hoping that the ideas he puts forth and policy promises he makes will appeal to... Read more »

In support of the state’s near-total ban on abortion, which took effect in August, the University of Idaho sent a memo to staff last week warning employees not to provide birth control pills or reproductive health services. According to the memo, shared by the Idaho Press, under Idaho’s new law,... Read more »

We’re just six weeks away from the midterm elections, and we have seen a huge influx of young people registering to vote because they're angry about the Supreme Court’s destruction of abortion rights in June. As Daily Kos’ Kerry Eleveld wrote this month: Ideally, heading into the final stretch of a... Read more »

Roger Stone—the guy who kisses former President Donald Trump’s ass at every turn, has a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back, and takes his style cues from Judge Doom of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? fame—now claims documentary footage of him isn’t actually him, but a “deepfake” instead. In footage... Read more »

We've got another press dive into the world of House Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy, and once again, it manages to be darkly, unintentionally hilarious. The political press just cannot help but paint every politician's personal acts of revenge as Machiavellian strategery, weaving a grand basket of complications around an... Read more »

At this moment (9 AM ET, Tuesday) Hurricane Ian is still passing over Cuba as a Category 3 storm. As with many strikes on Cuba, we may not get a very good picture of damage there, but in the last day both the path and the power of this storm have altered.... Read more »

New Jersey Democrat Jim Florio, a congressman who was elected governor on his third try in 1989, died Sunday at the age of 85. Florio, who was the Garden State’s first Italian American chief executive, overcame fierce opposition to push through a semi-automatic weapons ban and a plan to reallocate... Read more »

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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. Follow … The post Leicester Riots: When Hindu Nationalism Came to Britain appeared first on... 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. Follow … The post New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System appeared... Read more »

The UN’s secretary-general is speaking truth – about inequality — to our world’s leaders. The post A Voice at the United Nations the World Needs to Hear appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Why poor neighborhoods are often hotter than rich neighborhoods — and what to do about it. The post Can’t Beat the Heat? Blame Inequality appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The planet is running out of resources, and humanity is living beyond its means. The post Isn’t It Time to Challenge the Growth Paradigm? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

We expected Charles to get the crown. We didn’t expect him to make a billion-dollar fortune first. The post The First Billionaire To Become UK’s King appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, a reluctant billionaire, puts company in trust devoted to address ecological crisis. The post Making Earth the Shareholder appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The unionization trend in the video game industry continues with workers at an Activision Blizzard King studio. The post Not Playing Around: Video Game Testers Aim to Unionize appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

With our allies, we've prepared a legal brief to support the Wayúu people’s rights to water, health, and food sovereignty in Colombia. The post IPS Brief: Mining Companies Use Trade Agreements to Attack Indigenous Rights in Colombia and Beyond appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

International organizations appeal to Colombia's highest court over human rights violations at one of the largest open pit coal mines in the world. The post Colombian courts must not be undermined by shadowy international tribunals, say campaigners appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

As we address the climate emergency, what lessons can we extract from Gorbachev's efforts to transform the Soviet Union? The post Learning from Gorbachev’s Failures appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

US news media need to not only acknowledge inflicting racist harms, but take seriously the idea of repairing them. The post Alicia Bell and Collette Watson on Media Reparations appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

For corporate media, being a paid flack for the police in no way disqualifies you to offer analysis of law enforcement. The post Sumayyah Waheed on CNN’s Copaganda Hire, Chris Becker on Inflation Coverage appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Please ask CNN to explain why a person who misrepresents the evidence on the causes of crime trends should be offered as an expert. The post ACTION ALERT: Crime Claims of CNN’s New Police Expert Don’t Hold Up to Facts appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

News media missed an opportunity to interrogate the media outlets and politicians who repeatedly invoke the white replacement idea. The post Matt Gertz and Eric K Ward on White ‘Replacement’ Theory appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The film Powerlands covers Indigenous people around the world, and the resource extraction stealing their water, minerals and homelands. The post Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso on Indigenous Resistance, Alex Vitale on the End of Policing appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The corporate media narrative on Israel/Palestine makes it hard to make sense of the recent assault by Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip. The post Ahmad Abuznaid on Palestine Human Rights Crackdown, Andrew Perez on Dark Money Donation appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

We have some questions about the US government's claim that this time, they're really bringing stability and security to Central America. The post Azadeh Shahshahani on Central America Plan, Jon Lloyd on Facebook Disinformation appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Alex Jones' lawyer says talking about his white supremacism would "distract from the main issues." What are the "main issues" about Jones? The post Angelo Carusone on Alex Jones Trial, Karl Grossman on Nuclear War appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

This week on CounterSpin: The crises we face right now in the US—a nominally democratic political process that’s strangled by white supremacist values, a corporate profiteering system that mindlessly overrides human needs to treat the environment as just another “input”—are terrible, but not, precisely, new. People have fought against these... Read more »