Letter from Germany
Steve Wasserman ScheerPost An ill wind is blowing through Europe (and not only there, as we know from these last frightening years in America). It is possible to travel through…
ISRAEL KNEW ABOUT OCT 7TH BEFORE IT HAPPENED – w/ Expert Trita Parsi
Pyotr Kurzin and Trita Parsi The Iran war may be entering one of its most dangerous phases yet. Trump has rejected Tehran’s latest diplomatic off-ramp, the fallout from a tense…
Integrity in Media Is Possible
Coleen Rowley and Thomas Drake Consortium News Can the words “integrity” and “media” even be mentioned in the same breath? ask whistleblowers Coleen Rowley and Tom Drake. In the formal…
‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Investigation Reveals More Arrests Than Ever, With Quieter Tactics
Brett Wilkins Common Dreams “The detentions are happening in a flash—we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” said one immigration…
The Rise And…Rise Of ‘Color Revolutions’
Kit Klarenberg Substack It’s rather forgotten today how Washington’s post-9/11 imperial adventurism was not restricted to military intervention. A core component of the Bush administration’s “Freedom Agenda” – under the…
The German Left Won Big In Berlin, But Will It Govern?
Marc Martorell Junyent Informed Comment Her name is Elif Eralp; she is the daughter of Turkish political refugees and has a strong chance of becoming Berlin’s next mayor. Her left-wing…
AI Is Eating the Internet While Trump’s DOJ Targets Anti-War Dissent Lee Camp
The people building the AI machine know what it consumes: other people’s work. In this episode of Dangerous Ideas, Lee Camp digs into internal Microsoft documents describing a “doom loop”…
US Food Banks Under Strain as Trump Policies Drive Up Costs
Brad Reed Common Dreams Two of President Donald Trump’s signature policies—the illegal war with Iran and cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—are putting pressure on food banks throughout the…
SHAMELESS! – Ray McGovern & Prof. Rick Wolff on THE WORLD THIS WEEK
Consortium News Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu this week used the seat of world diplomacy — established to pursue peace — to spread their vile supremacist ideologies. Ray McGovern &…
Craig Murray: Four Days in Ekaterinburg
Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk One could read the super-Russophobic Guardian in Russia anytime, with no VPN. That alone is sufficient to destroy the simplistic narrative of “free West vs. authoritarian Russia.”…
The Real Reason Why Trump Invited China’s President Xi To Washington
Ben Norton Geopolitical Economy Trump’s summit with President Xi Jinping led to few results, but symbolized how the US lost its trade war. Now top US corporations want to get…
Why Didn’t Netanyahu’s Cabinet Preempt October 7 (Since It Knew About It In Advance)?
Dan Steinbock Informed Comment In his fiery speech to the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against accusations of genocide levelled against Israel, as many delegates…
Nicaragua, A True Democracy
Stephen Sefton, Tortilla Con Sal. 20 years ago, a few weeks before the decisive national elections in Nicaragua that year, 2006, the Swedish ambassador at the time gave an interview…
US Determination To Achieve Full Spectrum Dominance Not In Decline
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The trope of the United States being in a state of decline is a common one, but it should not be accepted without scrutiny. The…
“Restrictive Housing” Is Wielded as Punishment Against Trans People in Prison
By Xandan Gulley This article was originally published by Truthout I am being locked up 23 hours a day with no human interaction. I believe I am being punished for…