New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a FY24 Executive Budget that activists say lowers home-care wages and worsens the state’s home care shortage––which is the worst in the nation.  The post New York Governor Hochul Proposes Budget Without Significant Reforms for Home Care Workers appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Democrats in the House and Senate have received thousands of emails from constituents who urged them to “stop muffling genuine concerns and start being honest about the pivotal downsides of a prospective Biden ’24 candidacy,” according to the Don’t Run Joe campaign, which is sponsored by RootsAction.org.  The post Activists Confront DNC... Read more »

Al Jazeera reports in "Pakistan mosque bombing survivors traumatised but undeterred" that: "At least 100 people killed and more than 225 wounded in a suicide attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar." The post Pakistan Bombing: An Attack on Elections? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

February is Black History Month. Many have been startled that Black officers were involved in the killing of Tyre Nichols. But some analysts have been warning that the issue is the structure and nature of police forces, not simply their ethnic composition. The post Community Control Over Police appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

physicians argue that at the height of the “tripledemic,” the federal government should have exercised its power to declare a national emergency in pediatric health while viral illness spiked in children and pediatric hospital departments were overwhelmed across the country. The declaration allows for emergency funding, regulatory flexibility, and innovation.... Read more »

Gallup has found that 38 percent of Americans postponed medical treatment in 2022, compared with 26 percent in 2021. Americans were more than twice as likely to delay medical treatment for a serious condition compared to a non-serious one. The post Economic Conditions Pushing Americans to Delay Health Care Treatment... Read more »

Peled is an activist and podcaster. His books include The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. He has argued that while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has claimed Israel didn't ethnically cleanse Palestinians in high profile interviews, some other Israeli ministers have advocated another such expulsion -- while Netanyahu says the first never happened.... Read more »

Earlier this month, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees named eight commissioners who will review President Joe Biden’s National Defense Strategy and provide recommendations for its implementation. But the Commission on the National Defense Strategy is largely composed of individuals with financial ties to the weapons industry and U.S.... Read more »

"Last week, prodded by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the main big-bank regulator of Wells Fargo, known as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), said it is looking at new ways to tame megabanks, which show signs of being 'too big to manage,' including breaking them... Read more »

MANY OF THE tens of thousands of delegates attending the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, go to these gatherings year after year on a kind of autopilot. They update their PowerPoint presentations, pack their organizational banners, and brush up their talking points. Next come the same warnings from the... Read more »

NO ONE KNOWS what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this: Alaa Abd El Fattah, arguably Egypt’s highest profile political prisoner, wrote it while on a hunger strike in his Cairo prison cell last month. It was, he explained later, “about global warming because of the... Read more »

THIS IS IT. The moment for President Joe Biden and Congress to challenge the underlying legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court and advance an aggressive climate action agenda. There will be no better moment to take this stand.... 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 »

Your next infection could be the one that permanently disables you. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th January 2023 You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and who was not? The answer was often... Read more »

What does democracy mean, under governments like this? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th January 2023 Don’t let them talk to you about freedom. This government is stripping out fundamental liberties with the speed and determination you would expect in the aftermath of a military coup. Knowing that... Read more »

Thanks to systemic and deliberate underfunding, NHS Emergency departments are now a vision of hell. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th January 2023 You have to see it to believe it. A few days after Christmas, I hit my head on a scaffolding bolt. There was lots of... Read more »

Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2022 It’s shame that has stopped me writing about it before. The shame of failing to think for myself and see the bigger picture, which is more or less my job description. Instead,... Read more »

The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th November 2022 In every conflict over the living world, something is being protected. And most of the time, it’s the wrong thing. The world’s most destructive industries are... Read more »

I believe this is the most important environmental technology ever developed. It might be all that now stands between us and Earth systems collapse. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th November 2022 So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems that... Read more »

Powerful governments have no intention of preventing climate breakdown. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2022 The chances of any one person being born were calculated by the life coach Dr Ali Binazir. He multiplied the probability of your parents meeting, mating and conceiving by the chances... Read more »

Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian November 9th 2022 There are just two actions needed to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown: leave fossil fuels in the ground and stop farming animals.... Read more »

Because Twitter threads aren’t working at the moment (thanks Elon!), I’m republishing a chain of tweets about how we should rise to the challenge of democratic collapse. By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 9th November 2022 Here’s where I think we now stand, and how we should respond. A thread.... 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 »

When he left for Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. George Santos also appears to have left a string of unpaid traffic violation fines and fees in two states, including red light, double parking, and overtime parking citations totaling thousands of dollars.The embattled serial liar and freshman New York GOP lawmaker “may... Read more »

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is pushing baseless conspiracy theories about the Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon floating over the United States – currently, over Montana – that the Pentagon is tracking, and he’s being widely mocked for his unfounded fear-mongering.Fox News host Harris Faulkner set the stage perfectly for... Read more »

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is among the economists who has been sounding the alarm about the United States’ debt ceiling, warning that if the U.S. defaults on its debt obligations, it could trigger a major financial crisis. Krugman is vehemently critical of the way in which far-right House... Read more »

Donald Trump laid the groundwork early in the 2020 election for his possible defeat by attacking voting by mail and ballot drop boxes, insisting they should be illegal while making clear if he lost the White House those proven safe and effective means of voting would be to blame.But now,... Read more »

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is again promoting the false claim that the federal government is planning to remove gas stoves from private homes, after news last month revealed once more the open-flame appliances are responsible for hundreds of thousands of cases of children’s asthma.“They’re not taking my gas stove... Read more »

In an interview with Sky News, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asserted that January 6, 2021 displayed a "peaceful transition of power" between former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden, NBC reports. According to NBC, the Sky News reporter interviewing Pompeo asked the former CIA director if... Read more »

Despite losing to Democratic now-Gov. Katie Hobbs in Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial race, far-right Republican conspiracy theorist Kari Lake remains a rock star in the MAGA movement. But Lake, once a television reporter, is incredibly polarizing. Although MAGA Republicans adore her, many of Lake’s detractors — from liberals and progressives to... Read more »

The South Dakota Republican Party is in peril after a state GOP senator's aide recently alleged that she was harassed by her boss for vaccinating her child, The Associated Press (AP) reports. This comes as some hard-right South Dakota Republicans, under the guidance of Governor Kristi Noem, actively stir up... Read more »

In the United States, religion often becomes a litmus test for politicians, especially in the Republican Party. The Religious Right has had a stranglehold on the GOP ever since the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sr., the Moral Majority and other far-right white evangelicals forced their way onto Ronald Reagan’s presidential... Read more »

On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh, near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron). This is just the latest of a staggering number of violations against Palestinian journalists, and against freedom of expression. A few... Read more »

In his annual message to the parliament of Ukraine at the end of 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine has changed the world by uniting the West and making non-alignment unpalatable. He said that Ukraine has "helped the West find itself again," that it has "united the European... Read more »

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

In the days and months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating the attacks on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after bin Ladin was murdered in his home in Pakistan in 2011, the government decided that the true mastermind of 9/11 was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. By... Read more »

One of Biden’s promises during his presidential campaign was to immediately move to end all support for the Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen. In February 2021, Biden stood at a podium at the State Department and proclaimed that the war in Yemen must end. Biden underlined the humanitarian crisis as... Read more »

Don’t expect much from the thin new GOP majority in the U.S. House – at least anything that will materially turn the ship of state from its headlong dash toward fiscal disaster. That because on the big issues that really count, the beltway lifers who dominate the GOP’s senior ranks... Read more »

On January 25, the US announced that it would send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. The M1 Abrams is the US’ primary battle tank and is among the most advanced and powerful tanks in the world. The Biden administration’s decision will be perceived as a serious escalation and as... Read more »

Another 39 were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Monthly Roundup</I>: 49 Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »

Thanks to the latest release of the “Twitter Files,” we now know without a doubt that the entire “Russia disinformation” racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push “regime change” inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. Here is... Read more »

Lost and Found (01 February 2023)   It used to be said that I had a steel trap memory.  But, much to my frustration and grief, it once failed me.  In response to a question after a talk I gave on the Israel-Palestine conflict, I noted that the notion of... Read more »

Full clip of Kim Johnson MP apologising "unreservedly" for her comments at #PMQs describing the Israeli government as "fascist" and calling it an "apartheid state". I understand the apology follows a meeting with the Labour Chief Whip. pic.twitter.com/uSKd9SUrGe — Ben Bloch (@realBenBloch) February 1, 2023... Read more »

Aiman Haddad is a personal friend.  He happens to be one of the decentest persons I’ve ever met.  Brilliant, honest, modest (to a fault). He has also been my Arabic translator.  I was just informed that Aiman has tied for the top honor in the “English to Arabic” category of the prestigious Sheikh... Read more »

Hi Norm, You are right in that Anatol Lieven is generally regarded as a serious and knowledgeable and objective journalist. Even Noam Chomsky quotes and cites Lieven. He is interviewed by Doug Henwood. His books are widely cited in specialist courses in university. I read his columns. His book on... Read more »

I’m grateful and honored to have been a part of this masterpiece! I almost cried reading the positive review by Chris Wright. I hope every publication reviews it, too, and as many people get a chance to read it. My thinking and outlook forever changed after reading the book several times,... Read more »

From an  international economist at a financial institution (former staff of the IMF and the World Bank)   Hi Norm, The IMF staff is working for $16 billion+ more for Ukraine. https://news.yahoo.com/bloomberg-imf-exploring-ukraine-aid-014617493.html What did the Sudanese, Somalians, Libyans, and Yemenis do? Their lives don’t matter? The western backed international financial institutions... Read more »

Of Death’s-Head Kvellers and Rosa Luxemburg By Norman G. Finkelstein   Anatol Lieven is a respected commentator on international affairs.  He is even considered by left wing authorities reliable and reasonable in his opinions.  His pronouncements on the Ukraine conflict, however, cast a dark shadow on this reputation.   In a... Read more »

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The Inspiring Outrage of Norman Finkelstein A few thoughts on the new book, “I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!”     As I was reading Norman Finkelstein’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic... Read more »

As a deadly strain of avian influenza continues to decimate bird populations around the world and spread among other animals, some scientists are warning that mammal-to-mammal transmission has emerged as a real possibility with potentially catastrophic consequences for humans.Over the past year, officials in the United States, the United Kingdom,... Read more »

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Friday joined thousands of scientists from across the globe in demanding that the American Geophysical Union answer for its decision in December to expel two climate researchers from its Fall Meeting after they staged a brief, peaceful protest urging their colleagues to engage in climate... Read more »

On the morning of January 18, agents from nine agencies, including the FBI and its local counterpart, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, descended on a section of Atlanta’s South River Forest occupied by activists. For the past two years, hundreds had lived in the section of the Weelaunee forest, in... Read more »

As some families seek restitution for the suffering caused by former President Donald Trump's family separation policy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday acknowledged that nearly five years after the policy was first enforced, 998 children have yet to be reunited with their relatives. On the two-year anniversary... Read more »

Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday responded dismissively to a reporter's question about the glaring conflict of interest posed by his family's ownership of a business that is profiting from coal waste—a toxic energy source that the West Virginia Democrat is actively promoting in the Senate."It's just our way of life,... Read more »

Ted Olson—the former U.S. solicitor-general in the George W. Bush administration who argued against basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay prisoners and defended their indefinite detention and torture—made a stunning admission Thursday: The Gitmo military commissions don't work and should be shut down, and the government should strike plea deals... Read more »

The ACLU on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against top U.S. intelligence agencies that have failed to respond to public records requests for information about a "sweeping law that authorizes the warrantless surveillance of international communications," including those of Americans. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the... Read more »

Since the seven Colorado River Basin states failed again this week to reach a consensus on a plan to conserve the region's dwindling water resources, environmental justice campaigners have implored officials to prioritize combating the "overuse and abuse" of water by agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations. Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New... Read more »

New police raids across Brazil on Friday followed comments by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva about the alleged involvement of his right-wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, in planning an attack on government buildings in Brasília last month. The president, who is known as Lula, told RedeTV! Thursday that he... Read more »

It is nearly 20 years since I blew the whistle on British Government complicity in torture and the extraordinary rendition programme, under which thousands of people were deliberately tortured as a systematic act of government policy. Many of them were killed. I had, and I leaked, substantial documentary evidence to... Read more »

I spoke at this meeting on Saturday and gave a broader overview than usual of the Assange case and its importance. I think it comes over fairly cogently, even though I was actually feeling pretty dizzy and faint. Jonathan Cook is, as ever, particularly worth listening to closely, and it... Read more »

A No to Nato rally at Conway Hall on 25 February, at which I was due to speak, has been cancelled after the venue received threats and abuse online that made them concerned both for staff safety and for funding. This is just another symptom of the serious threat to... Read more »

Scotland has no shortage of dreadful right wing judges, but as the very epitome of reactionary conservatism, one gobsmacking judgment from Perth Sheriff Michael Fletcher stands out. In a major rowing back of Scotland’s right to roam legislation contained in the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, Sheriff Fletcher ruled that... Read more »

Logic often appears in short supply in politics. This is because great decisions of state are not taken on the merits of the ostensible subject matter, but according to what best advances the career interest of the politicians with the power to decide. Scotland has left the European Union against... Read more »

UPDATE It is astonishing how many people are incapable of comprehending the following phrase from the article below: The account still exists and is visible online Yes, I know the account is still there. The problem is I am locked out from my account and bizarrely, when I try to... Read more »

The next morning I stayed in the Aparthotel writing, while Niels went out to the airport, to pick up the BMW 4×4 he had hired. Our destination was Halle an der Saale, near Leipzig. It was, I think, our first – and overdue – foray into the former East Germany.... Read more »

It was 2.30am in Bochum before Niels finished setting up his security and self destruct mechanisms on my new laptop, as we sat in my gloomy little box of a room in the Mercure Hotel. About a decade ago, chain hotels universally abandoned the idea of a central bright light... Read more »

Having entirely unexpected cause to become acquainted with the subject, I learn that all main railway stations in Germany have their own police stations. At Bochum, you have to walk round the outside to find a door with a buzzer, which nobody answers. Heading back into the station, I approach... Read more »

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The UK Home Office is discussing potential plans to designate the Wagner Group private military company a terrorist organization, The Telegraph reports.... Read more »

The latest report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows the US hit its lowest official unemployment rate in more than 50 years. However, the government’s reporting methods conceal a larger long-term unemployment issue.... Read more »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The latest round of sanctions imposed by Canada against Russia is "ridiculous" and Moscow will respond accordingly, Russian Ambassador in Ottawa Oleg Stepanov told Sputnik on Friday.... Read more »

Each high-profile killing by police of an unarmed Black citizen prompts calls to reform the police, with the latest calls coming after the beating death of Tyre Nichols, 29, of Memphis. But how should police reform be undertaken?... Read more »

The hospice care facility is being fined thousands after the state’s inspector reportedly found that the hospice facility did not treat their resident with dignity and did not provide her appropriate care.... Read more »

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Canadian Government has imposed Russia-related sanctions on 38 individuals and 16 entities, including MIA Rossiya Segodyna, Global Affairs Canada said on Friday.... Read more »

With Americans fretting over the detection of a high-altitude Chinese balloon in US skies, the son of former President Donald Trump has taken a page out of his father’s book and called for US citizens to shoot the balloon down. There’s just one problem: it’s over 11 miles up.... Read more »

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to China which was scheduled for February 5-6 over an alleged Chinese "spy balloon" which has been recently detected in US airspace. Beijing explained that it is a weather device that had deviated from its planned route.... Read more »

The affected company has already filed a complaint with the police, and the restaurant where the teenage prankster was filmed has reportedly taken steps to deal with the issue.... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 8 November 2022 The UK armed the Shah’s “autocracy” and directly aided his brutal security service in the decades leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, declassified files show. “Iran is an autocracy and all power flows from the Shah”, the British Ministry of Defence... Read more »

Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 5 October 2022 The UK’s current war in Yemen is not the first time Britain has contributed to devastating the country. Sixty years ago, a coup in North Yemen prompted UK officials to begin a secret war that also led to tens of thousands of deaths... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 27 September 2022 UK participation in the Ukraine conflict is far-reaching, involving military and intelligence support, arms supplies and information warfare. But as Ukraine makes gains on the battlefield, Whitehall sees the war not only as a way to defend Kyiv but to ensure the... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 13 September 2022 70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to... 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 »

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 ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateHannah Hartig, Research AssociateAmina Dunn, Research AnalystTed Van Green, Research AnalystAndy Cerda, Research Assistant... Read more »

Americans continue to express largely negative views of national economic conditions. Today, about two-in-ten (21%) rate the nation’s economy as excellent or good, up modestly from the 17% who said this in October and the 13% who had positive views of the economy in July. Still, positive ratings remain lower... Read more »

At about the halfway point in his term, President Joe Biden’s job ratings continue to be more negative than positive. A majority of Americans (60%) disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job as president, including 41% who say they very strongly disapprove. Roughly four-in-ten (38%) say they approve... Read more »

While 64% of Republicans say GOP congressional leaders should “stand up” to Biden on matters important to their party’s voters, Democrats are more likely to say they would support efforts by leaders to find common ground. The post Republicans Leery of Compromise With Biden; Majority Want GOP To Focus on... 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 ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateHannah Hartig, 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 »

Most U.S. adults say President Joe Biden (65%) and Republican leaders in Congress (61%) will be unsuccessful getting their agendas enacted in the next two years; only about a third say the president and GOP leaders will be successful. Republicans are less confident than Democrats in midterm vote counts –... Read more »

Registered voters (95%) almost unanimously say voting is important. Smaller, but still substantial, majorities of voters say voting is convenient (81%), straightforward (76%) and exciting (63%). Americans who are eligible to vote but are not registered have less positive evaluations of voting than registered voters. A majority of those who... Read more »

It has literally nothing to do with antisemitism. The post Exactly Why and How Republicans Hate Ilhan Omar appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Tema Okun, the author of a famous (or infamous?) paper on white supremacy, speaks out decades later. The post Tema Okun on Her Mythical Paper on White Supremacy appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

A representative from America’s Frontier Fund said that a “kinetic event” in the Pacific would be very good for its bottom line. The post White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s rule faces a gauntlet of lobbyists led by the Chamber of Commerce. The post Big Business’ Plan to Block Biden’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Justice Department is calling graffiti on anti-abortion centers a threat to “reproductive health services facilities.” The post Reproductive Rights Activists Charged Under Law Intended to Protect Abortion Clinics appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Campanha nas redes sociais contra vacinas genéricas de covid-19 foi só uma parte do ataque das farmacêuticas para segurar as patentes – e atingir recorde de lucros. The post Farmacêuticas pressionaram Twitter a censurar defensores das vacinas genéricas contra covid appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Chief Cerelyn Davis also led the first police department in the U.S. that swore off the exchanges. The post Memphis Police Chief Trained With Israel Security Forces appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The new Republican majority delivered few surprises and lots of paranoid rhetoric on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The post House GOP Spends First Hearing on the Border Casting Joe Biden as an International Crime Boss appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

For years, Republicans made spurious allegations of antisemitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar for her criticisms of Israel — and Democrats joined in. The post How Democrats Paved the Way for Kevin McCarthy’s Attack on Ilhan Omar appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

U.S. Representative Jim Jordan has been unleashed as the chair of the “House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” It really is just a public relations arm of the Republican Party.... Read more »

The tiny village of Lützerath has been all but evicted—but an encampment of resisters from around the globe remains.... Read more »

Costa Rica is among several countries in the region that have rolled back protections for migrants and asylum seekers as people continue to make their way north in record numbers.... Read more »

A historian parses the origins of an ideology.... Read more »

Katie Paris founded Red Wine & Blue in 2019 to help suburban women engage in politics. By the end of the 2020 election, it had grown into ‘a pretty passionate fight against rightwing extremism.’... Read more »

For two decades, a Massachusetts school has been under fire for torturing disabled students with shock devices. Now, activist efforts to end the practice may soon pay off.... Read more »

The charter industry downplays the prevalence of charter schools being run for profit because the mission of for-profit companies is to maximize profits, not education.... Read more »

With a Democratic shift, the Federal Trade Commission is finally in a position to tackle the Internet monopolies it helped create.... Read more »

I saw firsthand the galvanizing effect that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade had on young women and all people who can get pregnant.... Read more »

As a deadly strain of avian influenza continues to decimate bird populations around the world and spread among other animals, some scientists are warning that mammal-to-mammal transmission has emerged as a real possibility with potentially catastrophic consequences for humans.Over the past year, officials in the United States, the United Kingdom,... Read more »

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey on Friday joined thousands of scientists from across the globe in demanding that the American Geophysical Union answer for its decision in December to expel two climate researchers from its Fall Meeting after they staged a brief, peaceful protest urging their colleagues to engage in climate... Read more »

On the morning of January 18, agents from nine agencies, including the FBI and its local counterpart, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, descended on a section of Atlanta’s South River Forest occupied by activists. For the past two years, hundreds had lived in the section of the Weelaunee forest, in... Read more »

As some families seek restitution for the suffering caused by former President Donald Trump's family separation policy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday acknowledged that nearly five years after the policy was first enforced, 998 children have yet to be reunited with their relatives. On the two-year anniversary... Read more »

Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday responded dismissively to a reporter's question about the glaring conflict of interest posed by his family's ownership of a business that is profiting from coal waste—a toxic energy source that the West Virginia Democrat is actively promoting in the Senate."It's just our way of life,... Read more »

Ted Olson—the former U.S. solicitor-general in the George W. Bush administration who argued against basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay prisoners and defended their indefinite detention and torture—made a stunning admission Thursday: The Gitmo military commissions don't work and should be shut down, and the government should strike plea deals... Read more »

The ACLU on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against top U.S. intelligence agencies that have failed to respond to public records requests for information about a "sweeping law that authorizes the warrantless surveillance of international communications," including those of Americans. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the... Read more »

Since the seven Colorado River Basin states failed again this week to reach a consensus on a plan to conserve the region's dwindling water resources, environmental justice campaigners have implored officials to prioritize combating the "overuse and abuse" of water by agribusiness and fossil fuel corporations. Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New... Read more »

New police raids across Brazil on Friday followed comments by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva about the alleged involvement of his right-wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, in planning an attack on government buildings in Brasília last month. The president, who is known as Lula, told RedeTV! Thursday that he... Read more »

Throwing away the key is what the criminal punishment system – and, by extension, the U.S. public – does to tens of thousands of people behind bars. Why does the acclaimed public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson attend to and represent those serving extreme sentences? What does Joseph G. Ramsey mean... Read more »

Fossil fuels lie at the center of contemporary life — powering, despoiling, and altering everything around us. And that includes environmentalism itself, according to anthropologist David Bond. He discusses how concepts like toxic thresholds and environmental impact assessments are an accommodation to the continued existence of the oil and petro-chemical... Read more »

Mass shootings and other forms of person-on-person violence dominate the headlines, but what less visible, and perhaps more insidious, kinds of violence exist? Barbara Chasin identifies and describes two types of violence that affect large numbers of people: organizational violence and structural violence. She also connects the dots between violence... Read more »

Why do so many people who see themselves as progressive nonetheless support the state of Israel, considered an apartheid state for its treatment of the native Palestinian population? Scholar Saree Makdisi argues that the answer partially lies in the Israeli state’s cultivation of Western liberal support. He discusses campaigns designed... Read more »

A number of things are bad for your health. Is economic inequality one of them? According to Stephen Bezruchka, U.S. population health lags behind that of dozens of other countries for two main reasons: extreme economic inequality and a lack of government support directed at early life. Stephen Bezruchka, Inequality... Read more »

Work changed dramatically during the Covid pandemic. Enormous numbers of people lost their jobs, while others were able to work remotely. And then there were so-called essential workers, whose in-person jobs put them at the highest risk. In response, many of them organized, often informally. Sociologist Jamie McCallum argues that... Read more »

Can individual psychological problems be addressed without an understanding of social conditions and political factors? Silvia Dutchevici talks about critical therapy, an alternative to traditional psychotherapy that fosters discussion of structural forces and oppressive systems in relation to mental health. Silvia Dutchevici, Critical Therapy: Power and Liberation in Psychotherapy The... Read more »

Who is ultimately responsible for global warming? Most often it’s cast as a problem we’ve all created equally, whether we’re rich or poor. In recent years, some attention has been paid to the top 10% of the population, whose high consumption lifestyles — large houses, large vehicles, and frequent plane... Read more »

What does it mean to be committed to nonviolence, in one’s activism and everyday life? Kazu Haga reveals that Kingian Nonviolence is a principled way of life, one that actively confronts violence and injustice, restores relationships, and helps create what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Beloved Community. (Encore presentation.) Kazu... 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 »

The State Department Wednesday “expressed US support” for the Boluarte regime’s efforts to ensure “stability,” after the brutal killing of nearly 60 unarmed demonstrators.... Read more »

India: Tamil Nadu rural sanitation and water delivery workers demand wage rise; Pakistan: Railway workers protest delays in wage payments; Australia: Nurses and midwives at major Sydney private hospitals walk out over staffing and pay... Read more »

Spain’s ruling pseudo-left party is hypocritically distancing itself from its policy of arming the Peruvian regime with the same weapons it uses to assault strikers at home.... Read more »

In an interview Thursday night, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne insisted she would impose her pension cuts despite overwhelming popular opposition.... Read more »

In this video, Socialist Equality Party (SGP) Honorary Chairman and candidate for the Berlin state elections Ulrich Rippert speaks about the growing social divisions worldwide and the social catastrophe in Berlin.... Read more »

Teachers Jack and Sylvan spoke to the WSWS during the “Protect the Right to Strike” rally in London on February 1, 2023.... Read more »

The Department for Education is making International Monetary Fund-type “safety valve” deals with local councils facing bankruptcy, involving major cost cutting in the provision of special education needs and disability support.... Read more »

All discussions at ACAS have been about how far the CWU will go to accommodate Royal Mail.... Read more »

The latest Eurobarometer survey found that nearly 40 percent are experiencing problems paying for things, and one in two has said his or her standard of living has fallen.... Read more »

Things appear to be looking up in the good ol’ USA. With the release of Friday’s eye-popping jobs numbers, some economists appear hopeful that our country can avoid further major disruptions from the radioactive crater of an economy Donald Trump left behind two years ago. We’ll see. But none of... Read more »

The Fox propaganda network seemed weirdly super amped about the prospect of a potential terrorist crossing into the U.S. through our southern border. The outlet had earlier this week published a piece citing a supposed tip that Texas authorities had caught an “Iranian illegal immigrant on the terror watch list.” That seems like a big deal... Read more »

If you want to know how much of a disaster the new Republican majority in the house is you need only look at the Republican Party’s political officials and media and their end-of-the-world coverage of weather balloon. To hear conservatives in our country explain it, China has decided to turn... Read more »

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White nationalists—particularly Nick Fuentes and his Groyper army—have never made any bones about their intention to take over the Republican Party. So now we are able to observe them attempting to do so in real time, working to take control of the GOP apparatus on the state and local levels... Read more »

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken it on her shoulders to rally for the needs of America’s most at risk: the “average white male.” The Mr. America, who no one cares about and lobbies for because “his problem is being white and male.” How can we as a nation all... Read more »

The Biden administration’s task force has since last October reunited more than 100 additional children with their parents, U.S. officials tasked with putting back together families cruelly ripped apart by the Trump administration said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement coincided with the two-year anniversary of the administration’s creation of the Family Reunification Task Force.... Read more »

As conservatives across the country make moves to ban abortion and limit access to reproductive rights, some hospitals are also making restrictions of their own. But what’s surprising is that these restrictions are coming in a state where abortion is legal at all stages. As one of six states in... Read more »

The Republican Party can be summed up in the lies and abusive bigotries of many of its elected officials. One of the most overrated of those officials is Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Ron clearly wants to run for president of the United States and has gone about it by attacking marginalized groups... 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. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to … The post Tavistock Et Al, Black Cars, Torn Jeans and LGBTQ: Social Engineering, Mind Manipulation appeared... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity’s March... Read more »

World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The “climate emergency” is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic". The post Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is... 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. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to … The post Davos 2023: Fragmenting the World appeared first on Global Research.... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (desktop version) To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and … The post When Technology Buried Science in a Shallow Grave. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” appeared first... Read more »

The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate capital to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green Agenda. That has its roots well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine. The post How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post COVID-19 Vaccines: Proof of Lethality. Over One Thousand Scientific Studies appeared... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Historical Analysis of the Global Elite: Ransacking the World Economy Until... 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). Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. *** In late January, … The post War Fever: after Ukraine, Taiwan? appeared first on Global... Read more »

IPS will host a critical virtual press conference highlighting key findings from a new report and featuring the insight and perspectives of key New Mexican environmental justice and Indigenous leaders. The post PRESS CONFERENCE: Join IPS and NM leaders 2/2 at 9 AM MT on “Why New Mexico Needs a... Read more »

The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 -- a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn. The post Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

IPS joins an international coalition condemning the assassination of environmental leaders in Honduras. The post Open Letter: Protect Honduras’s Endangered Environmental Activists appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Organizaciones internacionales piden al gobierno salvadoreño que retire los cargos contra Defensores del Agua detenidos el 11 de enero [TEXTO EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO] The post 251 Organizations from 29 countries call on Salvadoran government to drop the charges against leading Water Defenders arrested on January 11 appeared first on Institute... Read more »

Billionaire fortunes have shriveled a bit over the past year. Billionaire power hasn’t. The post A ‘Down’ Year for Our Deepest Pockets? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Economic growth is killing the planet. How do we engineer an alternative? The post From the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The report includes country-by-country data on wealth inequality and the revenue possibilities of national wealth taxes. The post New Institute for Policy Studies Report Finds That an Annual Wealth Tax on the World’s Richest Could Raise $1.7 Trillion Globally appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

An annual wealth tax on the world’s richest could raise $1.7 trillion globally. The post Report: “Extreme Wealth: The growing number of people with extreme wealth and what an annual wealth tax could raise” appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

How community-led energy solutions can benefit the Land of Enchantment — and the country. The post REPORT: New Mexico at a Crossroads: False Solutions or a Just Transition? appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War. The post Shelby Green and Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Shutoffs & Profiteering appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Engaging with posts on social media is a meaningful way of supporting journalism organizations you are sympathetic to. The post Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford. The post Michael Mechanic on Underfunding the IRS appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

"The same forces that were at play in the '60s to remove Lumumba are at play today in terms of keeping the Congolese from advancing." The post ‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’ appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future. The post Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Another company silently snuck a forced arbitration clause into its terms of service—and that company is the New York Times. The post NYT Moves to ‘Stack the Deck of Justice’ Against Its Subscribers appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions. The post David Sirota on Accountability Journalism appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

There's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right." The post Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown, Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection. The post Best of CounterSpin 2022 appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »