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  • Collapsing Empire: US Creates New African Psyops Unit

    Kit Klarenberg Substack Independent journalist David Hundeyin has exposed the Pentagon’s new psychological operations unit targeting Africa, “Drongo Company”. Tasked with “expanding the military’s ability to influence foreign audiences” across the continent, its heavily hyped launch occurs against a backdrop of dramatically and irreversibly waning Western influence and power in every sphere across the continent. As Africans steadily rid themselves of […]

  • Genocide Deniers Call Gaza Starvation A ‘Hoax’ By Citing UNICEF—Which Reported Famine

    US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee—who last year admitted Gazans were starving—was among those noting a new global hunger report by the UN agency that reported the 2025 famine as it unfolded. Brett Wilkins Common Dreams For nearly three years, Israeli officials and their US backers have denounced United Nations agencies reporting the facts of Israel’s genocidal […]

  • It’s Not Just Delaney. Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds of Hunger Strikes.

    By Victoria Valenzuela This article was originally published by Truthout Formerly incarcerated immigrants, solidarity activists, and scholars discuss the underreported resistance in ICE jails. When Dilmer “Loba” Lovos Mendez learned about the protests inside the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, they were not surprised. While being held for two years in California immigration jails from […]

  • Türkiye and Saudi Arabia seek Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella against Israel

    Juan Cole Informed Comment The new Mecca Defense Pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signals a regional response to the new insecurity in the region provoked by the Israeli-US attack on Iran and by the Iranian response. The Iranian response has been to hold the Gulf Arab oil and gas states hostage. But the initial […]

  • Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen

    Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Popular energy can fill streets and win elections. Social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age. From the Bengal famine of 1943 to the election of the Left Front government in 1977, the communist […]

  • Somalia: On The Front Lines With Somaliland

    Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. During the last week of July, I traveled to the front lines of Somalia’s unresolved border conflict with Somaliland. The Somali secessionist state is now recognized by Israel but not by any of the UNs’ other 192 sovereign members. The Northeast State militia were holding the line. Several weeks ago, in […]

  • US War on ICC Isn’t New, Isn’t Just Coming From GOP, and Isn’t Just About Israel

    By Stephen Zunes This article was originally published by Truthout This is a disingenuous bipartisan effort to discredit the ICC and international humanitarian law as a whole. The United States has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the past few weeks alone, the Trump administration has vowed to eradicate the […]

  • The Ukraine Delusion

    Nate Bear Do Not Panic I’ve held back on writing about the Russia-Ukraine war, and this article probably won’t win me many fans. But for better or worse, I always try to tell it how I, at least, see it. And I’m tired. Tired of the liberal delusion, the hypocrisy, the childish analysis, and outright […]

  • ‘A Real Fighter’: Justin Pearson Wins US House Primary in Tennessee

    “Exactly 61 years from the signing of the Voting Rights Act, we won our primary despite a redistricting blow that cracked Memphis’ representation in Congress.” Jake Johnson Common Dreams Justin Pearson, a Tennessee state representative who rose to national prominence for his role in gun control and voting rights protests, won the Democratic primary on Thursday for a US House seat in Tennessee’s […]

  • Hiroshima 81: The Looming Risk Of Nuclear Disaster

    Peter Kuznick, Consortium News. The horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored. Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki. The following is the text of a keynote address the author delivered in Nagasaki on July 25 at an international peace conference sponsored by the Asahi […]

  • Is It (Still) Un-American to Care?

    Danaka Katovich I initially wrote this piece in 2024 during the student uprisings that took place around the United States. The content was focused on Gaza and the people who made up the movement for Palestine in the belly of the beast. I’ve rewritten some of it and replaced Gaza with Cuba. The arguments needed […]

  • The Trump Administration Has Lost 75 of 93 First Amendment Cases, Report Finds

    By Chris Walker This article was originally published by Truthout The cases involved challenges to the administration’s violations of religious freedom, the free press, and free speech. A review of court cases finds that the Trump administration has been challenged dozens of times for violations of multiple First Amendment protections since January 2025, losing in […]

  • Trump Threatens Severe “Treason” Charges Against “Leakers” in Truth Social Rant

    By Chris Walker This article was originally published by Truthout “Long term jail sentences will be sought!” Trump promised in an online post. In a Truth Social post early Thursday morning, President Donald Trump denied reporting that U.S. military munitions were being depleted due to his war on Iran, and threatened to pursue severe penalties […]

  • Faith Leaders Collectively Raise Alarm as AI and Nuclear Weapons Systems Merge

    By Jon Letman This article was originally published by Truthout As AI complicates nuclear threats, religious groups are doubling down on calls for disarmament. Eighty-one years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear landscape is dire. Experts say arms control is on “life support,” if not dead, while diplomacy and […]

  • El Cid of the Left? Abdul El Sayed, Victor in Michigan Primary, Faces Racism over his Name

    Juan Cole Informed Comment Hafiz Rasheed at The New Republic writes that the Democratic senatorial candidate for Michigan, Abdulrahman “Abdul” El Sayed, faced a barrage of racist attacks as soon as he won the primary on Wednesday. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “We don’t want the next administration, whoever, you know, God forbid you’re going to have […]

  • Thin-Skinned And Heavy Handed, Trump Hypocrites Like Marco ‘McCarthy’ Rubio Wrong Again

    Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Wrong Both On Cuba and Where “Terrorism” is Coming From. Those Who Challenge and Protest U.S. Policies Are Not Terrorists, and They Are Certainly NOT Paid By Other Governments. Thin skinned and heavy handed, the Trump administration apparently feels like it is being singled out by those who dissent […]

  • How the Epstein Network Is Privatizing The Government & Building Out The Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR

    Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’ Chris Hedges Report Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become […]

  • Abdul El-Sayed Won: Revisiting the Democratic Establishment’s Medicare for All Problem

    From Gavin Newsom in California to Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, the debate over Medicare for All continues to expose the tension between campaign promises, corporate influence, and the political power of the health insurance industry. Editor’s note: We are republishing this article following Abdul El-Sayed’s victory over establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate […]

  • By 60-Point Margin, Missouri Voters Reject GOP Push to Make Ballot Measures Harder to Pass

    Voters also rejected an amendment that would have gradually eliminated the state’s income tax in what one Democratic mayor said would benefit the wealthy “while raising costs on hardworking families.” Julia Conley Common Dreams The Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri was among those celebrating what he called the “TOTAL repudiation by Missouri voter of a core agenda […]

  • ‘Organized People Can Beat Organized Money’: Lawrence Wins House Primary After Harnessing Opposition to Data Centers

    Stephen Prager Common Dreams Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was not the only Michigan progressive to take down a well-funded establishment opponent in a Democratic primary on Tuesday night. In central Michigan’s 7th congressional district, Democratic voters picked William Lawrence, a co-founder of the youth-led Sunrise Movement climate activist group, to represent them over two centrist candidates—retired Navy SEAL […]

  • Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary in Major Defeat for AIPAC, Establishment Democrats

    Democracy Now Progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been declared the winner of Michigan’s closely watched Democratic Senate primary, narrowly beating out Congressmember Haley Stevens, according to the Associated Press and other news agencies. AIPAC and its affiliated groups spent as much as $46 million to help Stevens in what has become the most expensive Democratic Senate primary […]

  • The Attention Engine

    Media Manipulation, Institutional Decay, and the Strategy Behind Trump’s Grip on Power Nolan Higdon Substack “I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together” exclaimed President Donald Trump at a July 31, 2026, Cabinet meeting. Trump was responding to reports that numerous United States (U.S.) water systems, including one […]

  • Livestream: Why Israel Has No “Right To Exist”

    Eli Gerzon The Electronic Intifada Podcast Israel and Iran are unique for starkly different reasons: Israel has less of a right to exist than any other country, while Iran is the only country that has stood up against the assault on international law by the US, Israel and their allies. That is according to Craig Mokhiber’s […]

  • McCarthyism in Massachusetts

    Chris Brady The Electronic Intifada Times are tough for the academy. The message from Washington has been clear: the college campus is a new political battleground. Comply or lose federal funding. Student activists, the Gaza encampments, sympathetic faculty – anyone at the university who is perceived as advocating for Palestinian rights has put themselves at significant risk. University […]

  • Trump’s Federal Trade Commission Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”

    As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices. By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices. To understand the stakes of the debate […]

  • Whose AI? Whose Opposition?

    Will reports of foreign influence campaigns be used to discredit valid criticisms of artificial intelligence? Andy Lee Roth Project Censored Opposition to local AI data centers is bipartisan, according to a March 2026 Gallup poll, which found that majorities of Democrats (75 percent) and Republicans (63 percent) would oppose construction of an AI data center where […]

  • US DOJ Relying On Anonymous Israeli Intel Agent To Convict US Resident Of Oct 7 Participation

    Max Blumenthal and Michelle Witte The Grayzone US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost entirely on intelligence from Israel which the defendant’s lawyers are unable to see, and an Israeli agent they can not identify. That agent may be Lt. […]

  • Don Corleone Trump

    Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos Chris Hedges ScheerPost I visited Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City the day before it closed, in October, 2016. The casino had two huge white gates flanked by 2-ton white, cast-stone elephants. Its entrance […]

  • Trump’s Embarrassing Failure to Find a Scapegoat for the Reflecting Pool Disaster

    Austin Sarat When things don’t go well for President Trump, his usual response is to search for someone or something to blame. Rigged elections, weaponized prosecutions, and the deep state are some of his favorite targets. So when his plan to renovate Washington’s iconic Reflecting Pool turned into a fiasco, it was not surprising that […]

  • When ICE Detained Two Iranian Sisters, An L.A. Pastor Answered the Call

    By Jeremy Lindenfeld Capital and Main Pastor Kevin Kang had only been at Tujunga United Methodist Church for a couple of years when, in December of last year, he was asked if he could house formerly detained refugees on church grounds. Without telling his congregation, Kang called up some friends to help him clear out furniture from […]

  • Holocaust Denial = Genocide Denial

    H. Scott Prosterman Informed Comment Holocaust denial is a horrible dynamic of the far-far right, which seeks to justify National Socialist (Nazi) philosophy, and deny that millions were killed because of who they are. It is an unconscionable “school of thought,” popular among people who didn’t get much out of school. Now an ugly parallel […]

  • Gaza’s “Peace Plan” Is Written in Blood

    Joshua Scheer President Donald Trump calls his Gaza agreement a “major milestone” toward peace. For Palestinians living beneath Israeli aircraft and beside an ever-advancing military boundary, that triumphal language bears little resemblance to reality. Israel killed 18 Palestinians on Sunday in one of the deadliest days since the supposed ceasefire began, while survivors described attacks […]

  • Ukraine for Hire: How Kyiv Became the West’s Imperial Enforcer

    Joshua Scheer Ukraine’s role in the Western war machine is expanding far beyond its borders. After years of serving as Washington and NATO’s proxy against Russia, Kyiv is now accused of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, assisting armed groups seeking to undermine sovereign governments in Africa’s Sahel and collaborating with forces […]

  • Nicaragua To Raise Its Voice For Palestine In Another Landmark Case

    Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. Nicaragua Condemns Attacks. “Nicaragua expresses its unchanging solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people, who continue to face suffering, occupation, destruction and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist government of Israel and its occupying forces,” reads a statement from Nicaragua’s government released on July 29th. The declaration condemned Israel’s renewed attacks, calling them an […]

  • Inside The Longest Refugee Protest In History

    For over 670 days, refugees trapped in a UN camp have maintained a daily sit-in in the Sahara Desert to demand basic human rights. Editors Note: For more than 670 days, refugees abandoned in Agadez, Niger, have pleaded for international protection, healthcare and an education for their children—and they urgently need the world’s help. https://x.com/refugeesniger […]

  • Plans To Bring Waymo To Washington, D.C., Worry Ride-Share Drivers

    Eddie Velazquez Prism Municipal lawmakers in Washington, D.C., want to bring autonomous vehicle services to the nation’s capital, a move that ride-share drivers and other workers say would significantly inhibit their ability to provide for their families during troubling economic times. City Council is considering a bill that would allow companies such as Waymo, which operates a self-driving […]

  • Are Copwatchers Journalists? Provocateurs? Or Something Else?

    Is copwatching a form of citizen journalism, or is it just provocation masquerading as accountability? We debate and discuss your questions with (in)famous copwatcher Long Island Audit. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis TRNN Police auditors, better known as “copwatchers,” have become both famous and notorious for using cell phone cameras and YouTube channels to monitor police activity, […]

  • Fauci Took the Fifth 111 Times. What Is Washington Still Hiding About COVID?

    Anthony Fauci was once presented as the unimpeachable voice of science. Now, confronted with questions about gain-of-function research, the Wuhan laboratory and what government officials knew about COVID-19’s origins, he has invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern joins Robert Scheer to examine the newly released documents, the intelligence agencies accused […]

  • FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications

    Jeremy Busby & Isabella Lucia Maitino  Truthout/TheAppeal Congress is grappling with the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial program that allows the U.S. government to surveil foreigners and the individuals that correspond with them, including Americans. Its proponents say it’s vital to national security, but civil liberties advocates say it’s […]

  • In Support Of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

    Robin D. G. Kelley, Substack Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University of California, Irvine. On May 15, 2024, Nakba Day, she put her body on the line to protect students from […]

  • Venezuela, Memory, And The Long Arc Of US Imperialism

    Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state. The U.S. subordination of the Venezuelan state did not occur in a vacuum and cannot be discussed without mentioning the awful toll imperialism has taken on people all over the world. The list of […]

  • Iran’s Shock Strike Strategy Against US Assets Opens Multiple Fronts

    Robert Inlakesh Mint Press News While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the region in a much broader conflict. In the latest episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh examines the ever expanding battlefield, its impacts on oil […]

  • The World’s Silence On Gaza Once Headlines Fade

    Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The tapering off of news coverage on the US-Israeli genocide has done little to abate the violence. In fact, its permanence is precisely what allows the world to look away. Some catastrophes disappear because they end. Others disappear because they continue for so long that the world grows accustomed […]

  • Neoliberalism To Trumpism: The Re-Normalization Of White Supremacy As State Ideology

    Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. The crisis of late-stage capitalism has stripped away the liberal disguise. And revealed white supremacy as the official ideology of the U.S. state. To understand the current historical moment, it is not enough to catalog the reactionary policies of the Trump administration. One must understand the deeper ideological logic that makes […]

  • Leaked: How Britain Exploits US Empire

    Kit Klarenberg Substack Donald Trump entered the July 7th/8th NATO summit having recently condemned the alliance as a “paper tiger” over its collective failure to abet the calamitous Zionist-American war on Iran, repeatedly threatened to withdraw US forces from Europe, with reveries of Greenland’s annexation still abounding. He left boasting of the intense “love” and “unity” within NATO, while praising member states for their reaffirmed commitment […]