Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was…
Edward Curtin “For my sister Rita, an artist who didn’t imitate and who died on this day long ago, trying.” It is a commonplace that a steady diet of the…
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN In 2024, at the height of Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, one of the most widespread waves of college campus protests since the Vietnam War…
Wealth flight is a Mirage. There are More Billionaires and Multi-Millionaires than ever before Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost Despite the hyperbolic predictions, there has been very little wealth flight under Mayor…
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Yemen’s Ansarallah launches deadly precision strikes on Saudi Arabia’s proxy forces as the blockade on Saudi Ports tightens the noose on an already suffering global oil…
Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. As the climate crisis intensifies, bringing extreme weather events, fires, droughts and flooding to our communities, and governments refuse to take effective action, a growing…
Coase, Property Rights, and the AI Debate Everyone Is Having Backwards Jeffrey Wernick The AI debate has settled into two camps. One says the technology is too dangerous to distribute,…
Adam Johnson TRNN As progressive, DSA, and DSA-adjacent candidates win primaries throughout the US, corporate media is rushing to prop up their favorite “centrist” and “moderate” critics—who, ostensibly, are just…
News Desk, The Cradle. President Trump said US consumers should not complain about ‘paying more’ for gasoline due to his war on Iran. US oil reserves have fallen to the…
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US median wealth…
The new defense agreement among Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan highlights how Israeli aggression is compelling the region to reconfigure its alliances and serves as the latest evidence of the…
Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Smoke, heat, storms. As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else. One morning, when…
“He absolutely needs to be impeached, removed, and locked up,” said one progressive critic, calling the president “a completely unhinged lunatic.” Jessica Corbett Common Dreams In yet another remark that…
The first attempt broke the rules and lost. The second one follows them. Jeffrey Wernick The Justice Department has sued thirty states to force them to turn over voter files,…
Jessica Corbett Common Dreams Democrats in both chambers of Congress this week have joined rights advocates in forcefully denouncing plans for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to spend up to…
