Ukraine’s Ultranationalist War On History
Kit Klarenberg Substack Over the past two decades, hardline Ukrainian ultranationalists have waged an ever-escalating war on history at home and abroad, with dramatic, world-changing consequences. In the country itself,…
The Roots Of Capitalism Run Through Slavery
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history. Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation…
White Supremacy And Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations. And as a belief…
How Universities Should Respond To Revelations That The Trump Administration’s Antisemitism Charges Were a Sham
Austin Sarat ScheerPost At the start of his second term, President Trump opened fire on some of America’s most prestigious universities. His administration cut off or threatened to cut off…
AIPAC Loses Yet Another House Race It Poured Millions of Dollars Into
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout AIPAC funneled money into opposing a candidate who has barely mentioned Israel on the campaign trail. AIPAC has lost yet…
The Fight For Sovereignty In The Shadow Of A Data Center
Wolfgang Bronner, Black Agenda Report. North Nashville’s Reckoning. Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it…
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic To Defund Charities
When the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on controversial fraud charges, the storied civil rights organization faced a major threat to its lifeblood — the…
Washington ‘Unlikely To Restart’ Large-Scale Hostilities Against Iran
News Desk, The Cradle. Bessent said that illegal US sanctions are a replacement for a war of aggression that has failed to break Tehran. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told…
Turkiye’s Red Notice To Interpol Against Netanyahu: Struggle Over Syria
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Turkish government has become an ever greater thorn in the side of the expansionist, far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. On Friday, Turkish Justice…
Can The Israeli Military Be Trusted To Investigate Itself? Evidence Shows Genuine Accountability Is Rare
Shannon Bosch, Edith Cowan University The Conversation Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it’s an “outrage” the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have decided not to open a criminal investigation into…
From Lionel Messi, Kanye West to Taylor Swift: Celebrities are “Protected” By Israeli Security Teams
Alan Macleod MintPress News From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former…
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Unskilled Work’: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Nickel and Dimed’ 25 Years Later
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN In her 2001 masterwork Nickel and Dimed, the late Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to report on the daily realities working people in America face trying to get…
Why So Many Countries Around The World Quietly Root For Iran
Trita Parsi Substack It’s not about Iran. It’s the threats that an unchecked America poses to others I have been stunned by the number of officials from a wide variety…
ADC Files Federal Lawsuit Against DHS And CBP Over Unconstitutional Targeting Of Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after he returned from a reporting trip to…
Diesel: The Netanyahu-Trump War on Iran Threatens Shortages, Price Spike
Juan Cole Informed Comment Diesel prices are high in many markets around the world, but we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Energy analyst Ron Bousso at Reuters warns that the Hormuz…