Ed Sheeran Wants His Music to Be About Unity. But Silence Is Also a Political Choice
Joshua Scheer Ed Sheeran says he has never wanted to be a political musician. He wants his concerts to be about “unity, not division” and “humanity, not politics.” But after…
Inside Gaza’s Death Trap Of Collapsing, Bombed-Out Buildings
Mohamed Al-Astal Mondoweiss Amr Adas pulls the remains of his family’s clothes from the rubble of the Al-Sa’ada building, friends steadying him so he doesn’t collapse. The structure fell onto…
Macklemore & Zionist Gatekeeping
Council Estate Media By Council Estate Media It’s been a problem for the longest time. Someone says something Zionists don’t like and they’re immediately cancelled. Even worse, it’s the type…
Insider Trading Proves 9/11 Foreknowledge
Kit Klarenberg Substack On September 12th 2001, chaos reigned supreme. Yet, as governments the world over struggled to make sense of the previous day’s catastrophe, and before a motive was…
The ‘Anti-Terrorist State’ Has Captured Latin America
Manuel Tufró Open Democracy Twenty-five years ago, four simultaneous suicide attacks on U.S. soil claimed 2,977 lives. Most of the victims were people who worked in the World Trade Center’s…
The Arab States and the US-Israeli War on Iran
Ali Abootalebi Informed Comment The Arab states have long suffered from weak political legitimacy and ineffective governance. Authoritarian rule remains pervasive. According to Freedom House, no Arab country is currently…
Arab Americans Feel Betrayed After Michigan Grants $1 Million to Israeli Military Contractor
By Ali Harb This article was originally published by Truthout Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of…
The Ultimate Betrayal Of Alex Saab
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. And the Fate of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan People. The United States got its hands on Alex Saab a second time in order to…
Modernisation Does Not Mean Capitalism
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West. It requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of…
Being A Dissident Is A Capacity, Not A Calling
Scot Nakagawa Waging Nonviolence Gal Beckerman’s new book “How to Be a Dissident” finds that dissidence isn’t a personality type. It’s a human capacity that can be cultivated. This article…
MAGA Wants To Ban His Books. Who Was Howard Zinn?
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. Dave Zirin tells us why…
FBI Director Kash Patel’s Bizarre Sympathy for “Victims” of Bestiality Highlights the Administration’s Warped Priorities
Austin Sarat It is not often that members of the United States Senate spend time talking about bestiality. But they did on Tuesday when, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,…
Iran & Reaping the Russian Whirlwind – Interview of Touraj Atabaki
Fariba Amini Informed Comment “Russia cannot be understood with mind alone” – Fyodor Tyutchev Fariba Amini writes: Almost a century ago, many Iranians were attracted to the idea of a…
UCLA Faculty Push Back As Chancellor’s 9/11 Statement Raises New Questions About Academic Freedom
A growing controversy over a UCLA law school symposium is rapidly becoming a larger confrontation over the meaning of academic freedom, opening a broader fight over whether university administrators can…
Black Radicalism And The Return Of The ‘Subversive Negro’
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. NSPM-7 and the State Department’s international campaign against “far-left political terrorism” represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century. While…