How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases…
PEN America Sells out. Again.
PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and American imperialism. Chris Hedges PEN America, an organization founded…
Patriot Front and What Once Was Chocolate City
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The Patriot Front’s bold incursions into U.S. cities are a sign of their burgeoning strength and of the weakness of Black movement…
The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children
Alan Macleod MintPress News PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children…
The U.S. Stick Won’t Work on Iran; Needs to Offer Carrots
Andreas Krieg, King’s College London The Conversation Iranian attacks on Gulf vessels trying to transit via Omani sovereign waters have once again pulled the region into a tit-for-tat spiral of…
At Khamenei’s Funeral, Public Censure of Talks with US
Juan Cole Informed Comment The multi-day funeral ceremonies for the assassinated leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ended this past week with four stages. On Monday, enormous crowds staged a…
Burnham’s Contrition On Gaza Is hollow. Watch What He Actually Does In Power
Jonathan Cook Substack Actions speak louder than words, as the saying goes. So far, all we have from Andy Burnham – expected to become Britain’s new prime minister in little…
The Yippies And The Power Of Counterculture
Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence. Nancy Kurshan, cofounder of the theatrical antiwar group the Yippies, discusses her new memoir. And how counterculture can revitalize our movements. Since President Donald Trump’s second…
Palestine Activists Celebrate A Win Outside The United Nations
Nuriel Vera-Degraff, The Indypendent. On May 31, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir marched down Fifth Avenue as a part of New York City’s annual Israel Day Parade. He was…
Democracy, Inequality And Social Security
Steven Hill, Democracy SOS. \America’s greatest anti-poverty program has long been the great income leveller in an unequal economy and democracy. And now it faces an existential threat. A financial…
SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News for Flock — But Won’t Stop Mass Surveillance
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Organizers across the country are using every tool in their arsenal against Flock surveillance cameras. Civil rights attorneys say a…
The Investigation Into the Minab Elementary School Bombing Is Done. Where Is It?
The Trump administration is stonewalling the public about the US’s deadliest strike on civilians in decades. By Etan Mabourakh This article was originally published by Truthout The Trump administration is…
Protesting UC Irvine’s Threatened Palestine Sanctions Against Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Committee on Academic Freedom Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, concerning threatened…
ONE CHECKBOOK. ONE CALL.
Jeffrey Wernick Buried in the Senate’s version of the defense authorization bill is a provision that changes the relationship between the American state and private industry. Section 1051 would give…
Federal Judge Schools MAGA-Friendly Supreme Court Justices on the Importance of Taking Trump’s Words Seriously
Austin Sarat Writing in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and anticipating what American life would be like under Donald Trump, M. Gessen offered some rules for surviving autocracy.…