Being A Dissident Is A Capacity, Not A Calling
Scot Nakagawa Waging Nonviolence Gal Beckerman’s new book “How to Be a Dissident” finds that dissidence isn’t a personality type. It’s a human capacity that can be cultivated. This article…
MAGA Wants To Ban His Books. Who Was Howard Zinn?
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. Dave Zirin tells us why…
FBI Director Kash Patel’s Bizarre Sympathy for “Victims” of Bestiality Highlights the Administration’s Warped Priorities
Austin Sarat It is not often that members of the United States Senate spend time talking about bestiality. But they did on Tuesday when, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,…
Iran & Reaping the Russian Whirlwind – Interview of Touraj Atabaki
Fariba Amini Informed Comment “Russia cannot be understood with mind alone” – Fyodor Tyutchev Fariba Amini writes: Almost a century ago, many Iranians were attracted to the idea of a…
UCLA Faculty Push Back As Chancellor’s 9/11 Statement Raises New Questions About Academic Freedom
A growing controversy over a UCLA law school symposium is rapidly becoming a larger confrontation over the meaning of academic freedom, opening a broader fight over whether university administrators can…
Black Radicalism And The Return Of The ‘Subversive Negro’
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. NSPM-7 and the State Department’s international campaign against “far-left political terrorism” represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century. While…
Paper Tiger: Trump’s Lost Iran War is Making Everything More Expensive (Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole)
Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole on the Iran War and Energy Crisis for Background Briefing Here are the audio and a written transcript: Ian Masters Interviews Juan Cole on the…
Robert Kraft: The Billionaire Friend of Netanyahu Pulling The Strings Behind the Macklemore/Ed Sheeran Blow Up
Alan Macleod MintPress News The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour…
Assange Returns to X in Midst of AI Crisis
Joe Lauria Consortium News WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to X on Thursday, more than two years after his release from prison as the AI crisis dominates the headlines. Julian…
Fernando Cerimedo: Revealing Trump’s Election Interference In Latin America
Michael Fox TRNN He’s been called “MAGA’s man” in Latin America. And he is at the heart of a shocking scandal that includes “attempted femicide,” election rigging, fake news, and…
Rubio Wants To Defeat Socialism In Nicaragua, Not Restore ‘Democracy’
John Perry, Popular Resistance. After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American…
Ed Sheeran Just Learnt: Being Pimped By The Billionaires For Genocide Is A Bad Look
Jonathan Cook Substack It is hard not to be excited at the very public shaming of a major celebrity, pop star Ed Sheeran, over his agreement to remove a friend…
Trump Says ‘Big Decision’ Coming on Whether to ‘Annihilate’ Iran
Brett Wilkins Common Dreams President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is weighing whether or not to “annihilate” Iran in a renewed effort to end the illegal 201-day US-Israeli war…
Why The Corporate AI Machine Is Out of Control
Les Leopold Substack I’ve always been skeptical about technology doomsday job scenarios. Major breakthroughs can be disruptive over time, but technological change doesn’t usually destroy as many jobs, as quickly,…
‘Purge Palantir!’: Union Nurses Warn Big Tech And Big Brother Are Invading Our Healthcare System
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN On August 27, registered nurses, patients, and community allies rallied and stopped traffic in cities around the US to demand that hospitals and elected officials cut all…