ICE and Data Centers Aren’t New, But Face Growing Pushback as They Intertwine
By Austin C. McCoy This article was originally published by Truthout A New Jersey township ordinance is the first in the US reflecting the link between the deportation regime and…
The Floods Of The Future Won’t come One At A Time
Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean…
Australia’s Plan To Adopt Definitions Of Racism Would Enforce Zionism
Alana Lentin, Mondoweiss. In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its…
Calls Grow For Gov. Gavin Newsom To Commute Death Sentences In California
As Newsom’s term comes to an end, exonerees, victims’ families, and international coalitions are calling on the governor to commute the state’s remaining 578 death sentences Victoria Valenzuela Prism During…
Court Makes It Clear That the White House Is Not Donald Trump’s Plaything
Austin Sarat ScheerPost More than fifty years ago, New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller was accused of having an “edifice complex.” He pled guilty. In an appearance in September 1970 at…
The Free Market Creates Freedom: Do You Believe It?
Charles Derber Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from Charles Derber’s newest book, Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People. Readers can also listen…
The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts
Edward Curtin Throughout all the news cycles over the years, you can count on a continuity in U.S. government/media propaganda and strategy. Make a time capsule, fill it with today’s…
Collapsing Empire: US Creates New African Psyops Unit
Kit Klarenberg Substack Independent journalist David Hundeyin has exposed the Pentagon’s new psychological operations unit targeting Africa, “Drongo Company”. Tasked with “expanding the military’s ability to influence foreign audiences” across…
Genocide Deniers Call Gaza Starvation A ‘Hoax’ By Citing UNICEF—Which Reported Famine
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee—who last year admitted Gazans were starving—was among those noting a new global hunger report by the UN agency that reported the 2025 famine as…
It’s Not Just Delaney. Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds of Hunger Strikes.
By Victoria Valenzuela This article was originally published by Truthout Formerly incarcerated immigrants, solidarity activists, and scholars discuss the underreported resistance in ICE jails. When Dilmer “Loba” Lovos Mendez learned…
Türkiye and Saudi Arabia seek Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella against Israel
Juan Cole Informed Comment The new Mecca Defense Pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signals a regional response to the new insecurity in the region provoked by the…
Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Popular energy can fill streets and win elections. Social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and…
Somalia: On The Front Lines With Somaliland
Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. During the last week of July, I traveled to the front lines of Somalia’s unresolved border conflict with Somaliland. The Somali secessionist state is now…
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US War on ICC Isn’t New, Isn’t Just Coming From GOP, and Isn’t Just About Israel
By Stephen Zunes This article was originally published by Truthout This is a disingenuous bipartisan effort to discredit the ICC and international humanitarian law as a whole. The United States…