Beijing Moves to Eliminate Civilian Drones, Turning the Capital Into a No-Fly Zone
ScheerPost New restrictions go far beyond banning flights: Beijing will also prohibit the possession, storage and transport of drones across the city. Beijing is moving toward one of the most…
Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
By Tamara Pearson This article was originally published by Truthout Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” Atahualpa Sofía…
This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Truthout/TheAppeal ust a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day of school. But…
Meta Wants To Build A $50 Billion Data Center In Louisiana
Kieran Spencer, BreakThrough News. A small, rural community in Louisiana is confronting what it means to become the home of Big Tech’s next industrial megaproject. Meta wants to build one…
Delcy Rodríguez Has A Gun Pointed At Her Head
Steve Ellner, Counter Punch. Does She have Options? Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through…
President Trump Wants to Give This Country A New Pledge of Allegiance
Austin Sarat ScheerPost When I grew up, the school day always started the same way, with children standing hands over their hearts, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. We said in…
Sanders Urges ‘Great Deal Maker’ Trump to Forge ‘Comprehensive’ AI Treaty With China
Jon Queally Common Dreams “In order to prevent a nuclear war, Reagan and Gorbachev negotiated a nuclear arms agreement in the 1980s. In order to prevent AI from acting independently…
Nicolás Maduro Is Not Guilty
Stephanie Weatherbee BritoandVijay Prashad Breakthrough News Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is not guilty. This is a statement of law and fact, since Maduro has not been convicted of any crime.…
Trump Terrified Of Impact On Midterms Of $6 / Gal. Diesel As His War Spirals Out Of Control
Juan Cole Informed Comment President Trump on Sunday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking at Russian diesel refineries. While these Ukrainian strikes have had an impact on global…
War Has Produced Lasting Severe Delays in Gaza’s Divorce and Custody Rulings
By Eman Abu Zayed This article was originally published by Truthout Courts in Gaza face frequent power outages and shortages of printing supplies. Some have only one computer. In a…
Oil Prices Soar to New Heights as Houthis Seize Yemen’s Red Sea Coastline
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout A top economist estimated that Trump’s Iran war has already cost the average American household an extra $1,650. Houthi forces…
Up-Close: The World’s Most Terrifying Glacier
Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. “Thwaites demise is inevitable” (Inside Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier, PBS, August 19th, 2026). Aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon: “This is Thwaites, a glacier on the edge…
Post-9/11 Surveillance Has Made The U.S. Less Free. Reversing It Won’t Be Easy, Advocates Say
Maurizio Guerrero Prism The surveillance apparatus created after 9/11 has expanded substantially during the second Trump administration, advocates say, engulfing more individuals, derailing the lives of immigrants, activists, and peaceful…
Osama Bin Trump
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but…
W.E.B. Du Bois, the Cold War and the Forgotten Politics of Black Internationalism
Joshua Scheer Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become…