How Serbian Students Toppled An Authoritarian
Breza Race Maksimovic and Jelena Trajčevski Waging Nonviolence With months-long blockades and nonviolent discipline, students successfully removed strongman Aleksandar Vučić. Now Serbia has to show that a country can heal.…
French student Protests Set To Continue As Macron And Lecornu Fail To Meet Demands
Ana Vračar BreakThrough News France braces for another round of mass mobilizations on October 31 as PM Lecornu and President Macron fail to meaningfully address protesters’ demands. France is gearing…
Colombia Threatens Its Caribbean Neighbor: Nicaragua
Becca Renk Foster and John Perry, Popular Resistance. When Abelardo de la Espriella was declared the winner of Colombia’s presidential elections, he announced his plan to sever diplomatic relations with…
The ‘War Of Grand Design’
Alastair Crooke, Consortium News. To preserve its supremacy, Washington is pushing Europe to the front line against Russia. Even at the risk of nuclear escalation. The paradigm shifts. The networked…
Private Prison Companies Are Pouring Money Into GOP Coffers Ahead of Midterms
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Truthout/TheAppeal ACs and executives from three of the leading private prison companies have donated close to $1.2 million to candidates, fundraising committees, and political party committees during this…
US Military Prepares For ‘Doomsday’ War On US Soil
News Desk, The Cradle. With 90-day survival plan. The Pentagon’s FORTRESS America plan calls for establishing nuclear reactors, reserves of fuel, equipment, critical munitions, and alternative supply chains for the…
As the AI Bubble Threatens to Burst, We Must Prepare to Fight a Big Tech Bailout
By Alexis Goldstein This article was originally published by Truthout As firms like CoreWeave and NVIDIA start to wobble, let’s demand that the public won’t be the one left holding…
Rachel Maddow’s Conspicuous Refusal To Cover Israelgate
Adam Johnson TRNN Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn’t MSNOW’s “foreign influence” sleuth covering it? Politics and…
Majority Of Jewish Schools In The UK Teaching Kids To “Love Israel”
Nate Bear Do Not Panic More than half of the 45 mainstream Jewish schools in the UK say a core part of their mission is teaching children to “love Israel,”…
The Two Faces Of Gadi Eisenkot, Who Could Be Israel’s PM
Dan Steinbock Informed Comment In international media, PM Netanyahu’s adversary Gadi Eisenkot has been portrayed as a centrist voice. That’s part of his track-record. But he is also the architect…
Officials of Mecca Pact Nations Gather For Talks In Tehran, Defying Trump
Juan Cole Informed Comment Al Jazeera reports that on Monday, the three members of the Mecca security pact visited Tehran. Apparently attempts had been made to have Iranian officials visit…
Tenants in a Digital Domain:
The Fallacy of AI Dominance and the Surrender of Democratic Power Nolan Higdon Substack During a September 2026 visit to Ireland, President Donald Trump declared, “We’re leading China in AI…
New Evidence Allegedly Ties Trump to 11 Sexual Assaults Related to Epstein
A new report notes several patterns of conduct that Trump and Epstein shared in recruiting victims. By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout A new report notes…
Who Are the Billionaires Behind the $304 Million Effort To Defeat California’s Wealth Tax?
Ben Poston Capital and Main A cadre of billionaires and tech elites, including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, is bankrolling the opposition to Proposition 40. The billionaire-funded political action committee…
I Am 22 Years-Old. I Have Lived Through 4 Wars. I Am Surviving A Genocide (A Story From Gaza)
Maha from Gaza 🇵🇸 Substack I lived through four wars before the age of eighteen. War has not been a choice for me, it has been a painful reality imposed…