How to Take an Election Without Breaking the Law
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,…
‘Sadistic and Cruel’: Democratic Lawmakers Rail Against $20 Million for ICE’s Electric Shock Gloves
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…
US Military Morale In The Middle East In The Overflowing Toilet
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Military Families Speak Out For Their Loved Ones….Again and Again and Again. Rotten food, no room in the incoming missile shelters, confiscation of alert…
Europeans Flock To Chinese EVs Amid Heat Waves, Iran Crisis
Neil Thompson Informed Comment Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have continued to make inroads into Western European markets in the first five months of this year according to data from Schmidt…
With Crocodile Moats for Palestinians, Zionism drops its Mask
Yoav Litvin The New Arab Since 7 October, 2023, the Israeli government has experienced a sense of relief. It believed it no longer needed to pretend to care about Palestinians…
Thatcher Warned In 1989 Of A Climate Crisis. She Did Nothing. Nor Will Her Successors
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever…
Iran ‘Human Rights Activist’ Masih Alinejad Takes Credit For ICE Abduction Of US Legal Residents
Michelle Witte The Grayzone A family of Iranian legal permanent residents was abducted and confined to an ICE prison after US government-backed regime change activist Masih Alinejad campaigned for their…
EPA Punts Microplastics Monitoring as Scientists Warn of Health Impacts
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Trump’s administration omitted microplastics from a list of pollutants for local utilities to monitor in drinking water. If you’ve ever…
Fidel Castro at 100: Reflections on His Life and Legacy
Fidel Castro’s revolution began in hope, hardened into authoritarianism and endured as an audacious rebuke to American empire. Steve Wasserman ScheerPost Nearly seventy years ago, Herbert Matthews of The New…
Censorship in Los Angeles School District Could Become National Norm, Educators Warn
By Marianne Dhenin This article was originally published by Truthout Educators in the country’s second-largest school district are facing repression in the wake of a new California law. Teachers in…
How Flock Is Building America’s Private Surveillance Infrastructure
AT and AB, Left Voice Flock is building one of America’s largest surveillance networks. It represents a new tool for preserving capital’s power and wealth. In 2017 Garrett Langley, along…
21st-Century McCarthyism: Cuba In The Crosshairs
Guillermo R. Barreto, BreakThrough News This year we commemorate the centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro. Like few others, Fidel embodies human dignity and the defense of principles as unyielding values…
Mutiny Aboard US Carrier Abraham Lincoln Off Iranian Coast
Bruce Gagnon, Space for Peace. Recent reports indicate a serious mutiny situation aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Seven U.S. Navy personnel have possibly been killed and several others injured in…
Venezuela: Don’t Blame The Victim
Roger D. Harris, Francisco Dominguez, and María Paez Victor, Popular Resistance. “Nothing is easier than to be idealistic on behalf of others.” Karl Marx, 1858 Under cover of night, the…
Subverting Food Safety, HHS Secretary Kennedy Inflicts on US the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak Ever
Dan Dinello Informed Comment Compromising the safety of America’s food supply, the consequences of RFK’s disembowelment of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the…