Hawai‘i Has a Rare Opportunity to Reclaim Land From the US Military
By Christine Ahn & Davis Price for Truthout Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1.…
Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies for Codepink The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also…
Trump’s War on Epistemic Institutions
By Steve Macek for Project Censored Contemporary liberal democracies such as the United States depend on more than free elections andstable, functioning economies. They also rely on what are sometimes…
Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
By Ella Fassler for Truthout/TheAppeal In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived in the city’s northwest. According to a police…
Hillary Clinton Is Wrong: The Gaza Genocide Isn’t ‘Fake News’
By Aastha Uprety for Common Dreams As unconditional support for Israel becomes more of a political liability and solidarity with Palestine establishes itself as a litmus test, former Secretary of…
Holiday shoppers are flexing political power through big boycott campaigns
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Blog A new opinion poll in Israel, published in Ma’ariv, is summarized in al-Balad. It shows that if Israel has early elections, the currently…
Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences
By Eleftheria Kousta for Waging Nonviolence As Russian attacks were keeping Kyiv’s residents awake most nights this summer, a group of Ukrainians gathered outside the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide…
Lawrence Wilkerson: Why Trump Is Losing Control of MAGA and His National Security Team
In this wide-ranging interview, retired U.S. Army Colonel and former Colin Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson joins The Katie Halper Show to break down the growing fractures inside Trump’s…
How the US empire creates chaos to disrupt multipolarity
By Daniela A. Rodríguez for the Geopolitical Economy Report With the return of Donald Trump for his second term, diplomacy increasingly resembles a battlefield, rather than a paved road to…
From Caracas to Congress: Trump’s Blockade Draws Condemnation and Resistance
By Joshua Scheer This post was originally intended as a year-in-review from BreakThrough News, covering major developments in Venezuela and Latin America—from the freeing of certain drug lords to U.S.…
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Trump Claims Economic Triumph, Doubles Down on Immigrant Scapegoating
By Joshua Scheer In a nationally televised primetime address from the White House, President Donald Trump spent much of the speech defending his economic record and touting the strength of…
GOP Centrists Rock the House, Force ACA Subsidy Showdown
By Joshua Scheer Four centrist Republican members of the U.S. House broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition that will compel a floor vote…
‘Absolute Dereliction of Duty’: House Republicans Kill Venezuela War Powers Resolutions
By Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a pair of war powers resolutions aimed at reining in US President Donald Trump’s airstrikes on alleged drug-running boats…
Operation Condor: Transnational Murder Syndicate
By Kit Klarenberg for his Substack On November 25th 1975, the 60th birthday of Chile’s CIA-installed dictator General Augusto Pinochet, high-ranking representatives of the repressive secret police forces of Argentina,…