The Digital Media Oligarchy: Who Owns Online News?
More than half of US visits to major online news sites from Dec. 2024 through Nov. 2025 went to outlets controlled by just seven families or corporate entities.
The Global South Needs Productive Employment
India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s has led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this trend and expand productive employment, industrial policy must address structural issues of dependence…
The Epstein Ledger
By Nolan Higdon / Substack This essay reviews the documents released over the past month. All previous reporting on this topic can be found in my Decoding Epstein. “I didn’t…
The new era of Israeli expansionism and the war economy that fuels it
By Ahmed Alqarout for Mondoweiss Israel has entered a new era of territorial expansionism and military aggression beyond the borders of historic Palestine. Its belligerent actions have accelerated across Jordan,…
American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
By Dan Dinello for Informed Comment Three thousand ICE maniacs invaded Minneapolis and rampaged through its streets, indiscriminately terrorizing immigrants and US citizens. Ordered by Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
NBA Star Stephen Curry’s Ties To Israeli Military Intelligence
Nate Bear Substack Do Not Panic American basketball star Stephen Curry is investing in tech startups run by former IDF operatives who were integral to building Israel’s digital architecture of…
Trump’s Ultimatum to Cuba: Fuel or Surrender!
Trump’s latest executive order is an intensification of the six-decade US policy which seeks to suffocate and strangle Cuba’s economy to force regime change.
Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons
Arms makers are teaming up with venture capital firms in a push to bring AI to the battlefield.
Colorado May Ask Big Oil to Leave Millions of Dollars in the Ground
State law that prioritizes public health over fossil fuel extraction could win the day for suburban activists fighting drilling plan.
‘Billionaire Boys Club’: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity
The latest batch reveals new details about Epstein’s connections to the rich and powerful, including Hollywood figures, tech billionaires, public officials and more.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo…
Lemon Arrest Shows Being Near Protesters Can Make You an Enemy of the State
The Lemon and Fort arrests ratchet up a trend by US officials, both local and national, to view reporters as accomplices to anti-government protesters.
Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York,…
How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia
By Kit Klarenberg Substack On August 25th 2025, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At…
Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op
Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal·for the Grayzone Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised…