The Mocha Monopoly: How Yemen’s Dominance Of The Global Coffee Trade Birthed The Houthi Rebels
Ibrahim Al-Marashi The Conversation The Red Sea often makes headlines as the launch site for attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure by the Houthi rebels, a political and religious group…
Free Speech Groups Sound Alarm on “Red Scare” Repression of ICE Watch Activists
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries in Minnesota. Free speech…
John Mearsheimer and Chris Hedges: Trump’s Economic War on Iran Is a Desperate ‘Hail Mary’
With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win. The Iran War Is the…
Journalist Shot By ICE Could Lose Arm
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Detained For 300-Plus Days. In December, a United States judge dismissed the case against detained journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, ruling that the U.S. government…
The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid And The Collusive International Silence
Dan Steinbock Informed Comment Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement. With the collusion of the Israeli…
The British State Has Lost The Argument, Even As It Rigs The Trials Of Genocide Opponents
The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the…
Israel Restricts Cooking Gas Into Gaza, So We Must Burn Toxic Plastic to Cook
By Nour Abo Aisha This article was originally published by Truthout The vile fumes saturate our food with their smell. Our daily inhalation of toxic burned plastics is slowly killing…
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights Critique Of ‘An Open Letter To Iran’s Political Prisoners’
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism. Which obscures the fact that…
Skip Target For Back-To-School Shopping, Teachers Tell Parents
Brooklyn Crawford, People’s World. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in collaboration with the AFL-CIO, has launched a nationwide campaign calling on teachers, parents, and communities to boycott Target for…
Kids in Gaza Sought Joy in Flying Kites. Israel Threatens to Kill Them for It.
By Shahad Ali This article was originally published by Truthout Many Palestinian parents have had to stop their children from playing with one of the few toys they have left.…
End of Protected Status Puts Thousands of Somali Immigrants at Immediate Risk
By Jamila Osman This article was originally published by Truthout “I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said. After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal…
“Beyond Critical” US-Israeli Munitions Depletion Revealed As Iran’s Response To D-Day Begins
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News US President Donald Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ is following home as the daunting reality of America’s dwindling Strategic Petroleum Reserves becomes inescapable. In this episode of The…
Chris Hedges Answers His Readers: Resistance In An Age of Collapse
“I won’t stop resisting. you can’t use the word ‘hope’ if you don’t resist.” Joshua Scheer In this wide-ranging Q&A, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges answers questions directly from his…
Trump’s Alt-Right Pro-Israel Strategist Behind Palestine Action Ban is former British Intelligence
Mnar Adley MintPress News The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian…
Turkiye: 51% New Vehicles are Electric, 60% Power From Renewables, Amid Hormuz Energy Shock
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the world a jaw-dropping $330 billion in extra petroleum and fossil gas import costs…