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  • Israel’s ‘Sabotage’ of Peace Agreement Working Again as Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz in Response to Lebanon Assault

    Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Israel’s attempts to sabotage the peace agreement between the United States and Iran appear to be working again, with its relentless attacks on Lebanon reportedly prompting Iran to once again close the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, mere days after it reopened. “In light of the United States’ clear bad faith and breach of […]

  • The Data Center Backlash That’s Uniting America

    The passage of New York’s statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country. Nick Engelfried Waging Nonviolence The New York State Assembly made history this month by passing what could become the country’s first statewide moratorium on large new data […]

  • How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?

    Janine Jackson FAIR “One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things? The Times subhed continued that pacifying work: It is […]

  • FARA Docs: Israel Is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches

    Alan Macleod MintPress News If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are […]

  • Despite State’s Attempts To Stamp Out Opposition, Our Movements Persevere

    Austin C. McCoy, Truthout Echoes of anti-slavery and civil rights struggles reverberate through the current uprising against ICE. It is difficult to find inspiration on this Juneteenth. We are still living in difficult times. In the last year, hundreds of thousands of African Americans have lost jobs. Some state legislatures in the South — Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi — have […]

  • The Joke Is On Us

    The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin […]

  • The Plot Against Palestine Action

    British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined Jonathan Cook [First published by +972] It was virtually inevitable that, once the British government decided to actively support Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an […]

  • This Is Why Trump Was Necessary

    Nate Bear Do Not Panic Iran has forced the US into one of the biggest strategic defeats in its short, violent and bloody history. The memorandum of understanding with Iran, signed (symbolically or not), at Versailles yesterday, signalled, as I wrote earlier this week, that we’re witnessing the collapse of American hard power. After it was […]

  • UK Jury Hung in Israel Protest Case

    All of the four activists who raided a Wolverhampton arms factory were immediately released on bail after the jury was deadlocked, John McEvoy and Hanna-Johara Dokal report. John McEvoy and Hanna-Johara Dokal for Declassified UK After more than 17 hours of deliberation, a jury at Birmingham crown court on Thursday failed to reach a verdict over whether four pro-Palestine […]

  • “Don’t Worry Be Happy”: The World Cup as an International Psy-Op

    ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka Black Agenda Report FIFA uses the World Cup to present the United States as a legitimate nation, but the U.S. is a rogue state committing crimes against humanity. The call for a boycott is a call to decolonize football and to reject FIFA’s role as a broker for sportswashing. The world watched […]

  • Juneteenth Beyond the Celebration: Freedom Delayed, Freedom Denied, Freedom Still Demanded

    Joshua Scheer As Americans gather for Juneteenth celebrations across the country, it is worth remembering that the holiday commemorates not merely the end of slavery, but also the unfinished struggle for freedom that followed. Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved Black Americans that they were […]

  • Western Hegemony Unravels In Bosnia

    Kit Klarenberg Substack The May 11th resignation of Christian Schmidt, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Representative, has elicited little mainstream interest. However, his departure is an absolutely seismic development, which could shatter the brittle peace that has endured in Sarajevo since November 1995, when the Dayton Agreement was inked. Schmidt’s abrupt exit raises urgent questions about the future of Washington’s […]

  • How Capitalism Kills The Game For Poor And Working Class People

    Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. While Normalizing How Imperialism Oppresses and Kills Them. A single working mother could once take her child to a Yankees game for $40, ut today that money would not even cover the online service fees. Sporting events have been stolen from poor and working class people and are now reserved […]

  • Throughout the US-Israeli War, Iranians Refused to Be Owned

    By Elham Rahmati & Sahand Saadatmandi This article was originally published by Truthout In a war of aggression, our people refused to disappear and earned something no diplomatic text can grant or revoke. The United States and Iran announced a framework agreement earlier this week to end the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression on Iran. Whether […]

  • Israeli Foreign Agent Took Over The Charlie Kirk Show Days After His Killing

    Max Blumenthal The Grayzone Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent the last months of his life antagonizing. Erika Kirk now claims her husband supported Israel to the end, while TPUSA misrepresents his opposition to war on Iran.  […]

  • The Hidden History Of Juneteenth

    Gregory P. Downs, Black Agenda Report. Most people think Juneteenth was simply when enslaved Texans learned they were free. But that is a myth. They knew the war ended but the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took months of occupation and struggle against planters who refused to give up their human […]

  • Can The US-Iran Negotiations After The MOU Succeed? (Juan Cole & Asieh Namdar)

    Juan Cole for Informed Comment Here is the interview I gave to Asieh Namdar of CGTN on the Iran deal. U.S. Officials Say Lebanon Is Not A Part Of Iran Deal Here is the YouTube computer-generated transcript, slightly cleaned up via Claude. Asieh Namdar: For more, let’s turn to Juan Cole. He’s a Middle East expert and professor […]

  • Trump Ended His Idiotic Iran War. Good.

    Was it worth it? Of course not. But comparing his Iran deal with Obama’s or decrying the terms risks falling into the same traps as previous presidents Trita Parsi Responsible Statecraft I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA […]

  • They Tried To Deport Me, Went On Tucker’s Show, And Trump Has Ended His Idiotic War

    Joshua Scheer Editor’s Note: The following note was sent by Trita Parsi to me and many others, and it is worth both reading and watching. Parsi is responding to the latest developments around Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, the danger of Democrats repeating the bad-faith attacks Republicans used against the JCPOA in 2015, and […]

  • The Hidden History Of Juneteenth

    Gregory P. Downs, Black Agenda Report. Most people think Juneteenth was simply when enslaved Texans learned they were free. But that is a myth. They knew the war ended but the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took months of occupation and struggle against planters who refused to give up their human […]

  • Hezbollah Forces Israeli Withdrawal as Trump Scrambles for Iran Agreement

    Robert Inlakesh On this Monday’s edition of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh cuts through the corporate media’s spin on the newly agreed Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, focusing on the broader issues that will determine the deal’s viability. Following a two-month long deadlock at the negotiating table, due […]

  • FIFA Reinforces ICE Repression While Targeting Iran, Haiti And Africa

    Sara Flounders. Workers World. The stated role of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), as the World Cup tournament organizer, is to ensure that football (soccer) is accessible to everyone and that global tournaments will be “safe, welcoming and inclusive.” That is not the reality of the 2026 World Cup. The anger at FIFA’s multimillionaire […]

  • The Labour MPs Determined To Show They Represent Israel, Not The British People

    Jonathan Cook Substack Mike Tapp, a minister in the Home Office, recently posted on X a “gotcha” response to Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s criticism of the Labour government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action. In the wake of the Court of Appeal ruling this week to uphold proscription, Polanski noted the government’s authoritarian assault on civil liberties. […]

  • Over 160 Years After Abolition, Racism Still Structures US Economy

    C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout. An analysis of the formation of US anti-Black racism. More than 400 years have passed since the first white colonists arrived in North America to establish a settlement, and more than 160 years since slavery was abolished, yet structural racism is still alive and kicking in the U.S. In the interview that follows, […]

  • America’s Hidden Casualties: The Pentagon’s Iran War Numbers Still Don’t Add Up

    Joshua Scheer As the Trump administration moves toward a second ceasefire agreement with Iran and officials in Washington attempt to declare the conflict a success, new reporting suggests the human cost of the war remains far higher than the Pentagon is willing to admit. According to investigative journalist Nick Turse, the official U.S. military casualty […]

  • Maersk Still Shipping Weapons Components to Israel, Despite Claiming Otherwise

    By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout “Maersk facilitated the transport of bullets Israel used to snipe Palestinian children in the head,” said one activist. On June 8, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask off Maersk Campaign published a report with Oxfam Denmark demonstrating that Maersk has continued to ship weapons to Israel […]

  • The Trillionaire Economy

    ScheerPost Staff As Elon Musk crossed the trillion-dollar threshold following SpaceX’s historic public offering, millions of Americans received a very different economic message: their paychecks are buying less. The juxtaposition could hardly be more stark. On the same week that Musk became the first person in history to accumulate a trillion-dollar fortune, new economic data […]

  • Iran’s Soccer Team Forced to Return to Mexico Immediately After First Game

    By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout Iran’s soccer team is “the most oppressed” of the teams participating in the World Cup, said the team’s head coach. Members of Iran’s national soccer team expressed frustration about their treatment after they were told the team needed to leave Los Angeles immediately after playing […]

  • ‘Alarm’ At White House After Vance and Miller Pushed Insurrection Act, Habeas Corpus Suspension During Anti-ICE Protests

    Brad Reed for Common Dreams Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this year by Vice President JD Vance and Trump adviser Stephen Miller as the administration was forced to contend with widespread anger over its anti-immigration agenda. Among other things, the Times reported that Vance pushed for […]

  • Iranian Officials Say Psychologists Helped Craft Messages to Trump During Negotiations

    Joshua Scheer Just a few months ago, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill was reporting that the Trump administration appeared determined to force Iran into submission through military pressure, economic warfare, and demands that Tehran abandon key elements of its defense and nuclear programs. Iranian officials, meanwhile, insisted they would not capitulate and described Washington’s negotiating strategy […]

  • Everything Trump Didn’t Learn in Kindergarten

     Kenneth Carlson ScheerPost There was a time in America when the moral instruction offered to children in kindergarten sounded almost embarrassingly simple. Share. Be kind. Play fair. Clean up your messes. Say you’re sorry. Then adulthood arrived, followed by cable news, social media, billionaires with rocket ships, and eventually Donald Trump — a man who […]

  • California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves

    McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim. Robin Urevich for Capital and Main Two years ago, immigration attorney Mario Valenzuela visited a client at the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center operated by the […]

  • American Power Is Collapsing

    Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is, in so many ways, a distraction from the war, mass murder and genocide inflicted by the empire and its proxies, but it has signalled the […]

  • ICE Tries To Raid Legal Offices, Demanding Files On Migrant Children

    Katya Schwenk, The Lever The Trump administration has escalated its pressure campaign against lawyers representing unaccompanied migrant children. After freezing payments and demanding sensitive client data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents attempted to raid the offices of attorneys for unaccompanied migrant children this week, lawyers tell The Lever, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s attempt to collect sensitive data […]

  • Jeffrey Sachs: Peace at Last—or Just the Next Pause Before War?

    Joshua Scheer For weeks, the world stood on the edge of a wider regional war as the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, threatening to ignite a conflict that could engulf the Middle East and destabilize the global economy. Now, with Washington announcing that a deal has been reached with Tehran, the question […]

  • One Man, One Trillion Dollars: What Happens to Democracy Now?

    Joshua Scheer With the public debut of SpaceX, Elon Musk has officially become the first trillionaire in human history—a milestone celebrated by financial media as a triumph of innovation and entrepreneurship. But beneath the headlines lies a far more troubling story. In this analysis, journalist Ben Norton argues that Musk’s trillion-dollar fortune is not merely […]

  • The Obama Center is a Monument to the More Effective Evil

    Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Barack Obama bailed out the banks, deported millions, and devastated nations and millions of people through wars of aggression. The $850 million Obama Center is a monument to his role as the “more effective evil” in U.S. politics. “Barack Obama does not carry our burden, […]

  • A Letter From Desolation Row

    Edward Curtin Substack “At midnight all the agentsAnd the superhuman crewCome out and round up everyoneThat knows more than they do”– Bob Dylan “Desolation Row.” Perhaps you have noticed – if you have any idea who I am or give a damn – that I have slowed down my political analyses of our current situation. […]

  • New Threat to Netanyahu: The Collapse of Western Support

    Paul Rogers for  OpenDemocracy In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot down a US Army Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. At any other time, the US would have seen this as an unacceptable act of […]

  • TRUMP’S PRIVATE FURY: “WHY DID BIBI F#CKING DO IT?” — w/ Glenn Diesen

    As reports emerged that a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was nearing completion, Israel launched a strike on Beirut—an attack that immediately raised questions about whether diplomacy was being deliberately sabotaged. In this discussion, geopolitical analyst Glenn Diesen joins Mario Nawfal to examine the timing of the strike, Donald Trump’s reported anger toward Israeli Prime Minister […]

  • Are You an Internationalist?

    Arnold Oliver for Informed Comment Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation to your fellow human beings around the globe. It is worth your time to give it some thought.  To assist you we will briefly describe what internationalism […]

  • Iran: ‘No Point’ In Deal With US If Israel Remains Unrestrained

    News Desk, The Cradle. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned in a statement on 14 June that there is “no point” in continuing efforts to reach a deal with Washington if Tel Aviv remains unrestrained, a few hours after a new Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital. Translation: The Zionists’ incursion into Dahiyeh has once again shown […]

  • Outrage as UK Activists Get Combined 25 Yrs for ‘Terrorism’

    The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and dangerous to speech. Stephen PragerCommon Dreams In a decision that Amnesty International described as “completely disproportionate,” four demonstrators with the outlawed group Palestine Action were sentenced as terrorists in the U.K. […]

  • Cuba In The Eye Of The Storm

    Luis de Jesus Reyes, Breakthrough News. Sanctions, energy crisis, and threats of invasion. The situation in Cuba is steadily worsening. Compounding the prolonged economic crisis and deteriorating energy situation are new unilateral measures by the United States. It is just past 9:00 pm, and the Havana neighborhood where I live is completely dark. This part of […]

  • John Mearsheimer & Sergey Karaganov: Nuclear Strike on Europe to Restore Deterrence

    The following discussion features political scientist John Mearsheimer and longtime Russian strategist Sergey Karaganov in a conversation hosted by Glenn Diesen on one of the most alarming questions facing the world today: whether the war in Ukraine and the escalating confrontation between NATO and Russia could ultimately lead to the use of nuclear weapons. What […]

  • Will The World Cup Fuel Arrests Of Homeless People In Atlanta?

    Sean Keenan, Next City. As World Cup matches begin, advocates warn that Atlanta is on track to repeat the arrests, displacement, and criminalization of homeless residents that drew criticism during the city’s 1996 Olympics. Atlanta promises a welcoming World Cup for everyone. But just days before kickoff, homeless advocates worry the city lacks the safety net […]