Venezuela Under Siege: What Should Progressives Do?
Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression…
Fetterman Backs Trump’s Insulting Comments Berating Opponents of Data Centers
By Chris Walker This article was originally published by Truthout Fetterman’s comments come as Trump describes those opposed to expanding data centers as “backwards.” Right-leaning Democratic Party Sen. John Fetterman…
Big Tech’s Debate Over “Open” and “Safe” AI Leaves Corporate Power Unquestioned
By Tim Scott This article was originally published by Truthout Two seemingly contradictory letters emerging from the AI industry point toward the same future. On July 24, 2026, an initial…
The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks
Ellen Brown In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year 2026 deficit of $2.1 trillion. Interest on the debt hit a record…
The Double Standard
Nolan Higdon Substack How the Establishment Neutralizes Economic Populism “Democratic Socialists Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone” by david_shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0. “I’ll just make it clear, there’s…
Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz
A Review By STEVE WASSERMAN Last things first: Eve Babitz is a major minor L.A. writer who died five years ago at age 78. She spent nearly a quarter-century as…
Thanks to Trump, College and University Presidents Have Accrued Even More Power on Their Campuses
Austin Sarat ScheerPost While the Trump Administration has suffered numerous defeats in its effort to punish America’s leading universities, it has succeeded in many ways in changing the prevailing culture…
Can The Economic Blockade On Iran Succeed This Time?
Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini Middle East Monitor On 24 August, the Trump administration launched an operation called “Economic Outcast”, describing it as the largest economic offensive ever undertaken against Iran’s…
Israel Is Cementing its Control Over The West Bank And East Jerusalem While The World Is Distracted
Martin Kear, University of Sydney With the world’s attention focused on the ongoing US-Iran conflict and the delicate negotiations over the fate of Gaza, it’s easy to overlook what’s happening…
The Next Election May Be Our Last
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. The Trump White House has put into…
The Looming Failure Of Operation Economic Outcast
Jeffrey D Sachs and Sybil Fares Al Jazeera Last week, Pakistan announced that it will not comply with the latest sanctions the United States imposed on Iran and will continue…
Gaza Journalists Released From Israeli Jails Say Their Jobs Made Them Targets
By Ohood Nassar This article was originally published by Truthout What happens when journalistic work itself becomes the justification for imprisonment, beatings, and insults? On August 9, 2026, Israeli authorities…
Poll: Americans Oppose Iran War, Blame it for Inflation, and Diss Trump’s Performance
Juan Cole Informed Comment A new University of Massachusetts-Amherst opinion poll, conducted August 21 – 26, finds profound American disillusionment with President Trump, with his Iran War, and with its…
Attacks On Communist Ideology Using Marxist Terminology
Leo Schwarz, The Left Chapter. Gabriel Rockhill’s book on the emergence of the “compatible” intellectual left in Western countries. Book Review: Gabriel Rockhill, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?…