South Lebanon’s History of Resistance
Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Israeli destruction of south Lebanon, with Bint Jbeil having been apparently wiped off the face of the earth, and some of Nabatieh in ruins…
Loved Ones And Supporters Of Delaney Hall’s Striking Immigrants Rally Around The Clock Outside Detention Center
Talia Jane for Prism More than 300 people detained inside Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center are on a work and hunger strike, demanding that Gov. Mikie Sherrill visit…
We Shall Not Host Our Executioners
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Modern structures of extraction attempt to mask old systems of colonial plunder. The living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive…
Israeli Claims About An Iran ‘Threat’ Were Always A Lie. Now We Have Proof
Jonathan Cook Substack Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression –…
The Architect Making America’s Food System Legible
Robert Jensen, Resilience. Caitlin Taylor believes that a sustainable food system needs “legible” infrastructure, which is why she proposes—not entirely in jest—building slaughterhouses next to farmers’ markets. Architects and engineers…
Banking Like The Planet Depends On It
Oscar Perry Abello, for Next City. Climate First Bank hit $1.8 billion in assets by financing clean energy projects one relationship at a time. Now it wants to teach other…
Balancing Act at the New York Times: Nicholas Kristof Wrote About Israel’s Sexual Torture of Prisoners, the Next Day Isabel Kershner Penned More Unverified Rape Allegations Against Hamas
Robin Andersen The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas…
Trump Lets Big Corporations Dodge $40 Billion in Taxes as He Jacks Up Costs for Working Class
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s decision last year to withdraw the US from a global effort to rein in corporate tax-dodging has allowed major American companies to…
Federal Judge Upholds Infamously Brutal Farm Labor at Angola Prison
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout The judge’s ruling rejected a request to end the prison’s use of grueling farm labor as a disciplinary measure. In…
Global Appeal To Endorse Palestinian Right Of Return Of Refugees
Workers’ World. Please join the global appeal to organizations to endorse the Palestinian refugees’ call to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the enforcement of U.N. Resolution 194 pursuant to…
Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order
Joshua Scheer At the Vancouver Web Summit, Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté examine Gaza, the erosion of international law, AI-powered warfare, media censorship, and whether meaningful reform is still possible…
Workers, Students, and Indigenous Movements Shut Down Bolivia in Popular Rebellion
By Sam Carliner This article was originally published by Truthout The popular revolt has mounted a broader challenge to neoliberalism, austerity, and US imperialism in Latin America. For more than…
Extreme Heat Headlines Obscure The Scale Of The Crisis
Nate Bear Do Not Panic It’s been record hot in parts of Europe and Asia over the last week and this has provoked an outburst of three things that have…
California Democrats Keep Selling “Medicare for All” — While Protecting the System That Profits From Sickness
Joshua Scheer For nearly a decade, California Democrats have treated single-payer health care like a campaign hymn: sing it loudly during elections, bury it quietly once the donors call. Every…
Is Zohran Mamdani the Future of American Politics? Affordability, Socialism and the Revolt Against the Democratic Establishment
As millions of Americans struggle with soaring rents, crushing childcare costs, stagnant wages and a political system increasingly captured by wealth, a new political force has emerged from New York…