The Nature Theater of the United States
Edward Curtin There are unconscious actors among them and involuntary actors; the genuine are always rare, especially genuine actors.”– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra It is well known that Shakespeare…
Chris Hedges on ‘Requiem for Gaza’ and the Erasure of Palestinian Life Jimmy Dore Show
On The Jimmy Dore Show, Dore asks journalist Chris Hedges why he sees Gaza as a turning point for the rest of the world. Drawing on interviews he and cartoonist…
Stephen Miller and the Fascist Grip on American Power
Henry Giroux Counterpunch Marx famously observed that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” With Stephen Miller’s elevation to the highest corridors of political…
Leaked Emails: MI5 Sabotaging Law Limiting Agency’s Ability To Lie To Public
Kit Klarenberg The Grayzone Britain’s MI5 faces scrutiny for deceiving the public and the courts about its connections to the Manchester Arena bomber and its protection of a violent neo-Nazi…
COP31: Saudi Arabia Tries to Block 1.5°C Overshoot Talks
Juan Cole Informed Comment Matteo Civillini at Climate Home News reports that the Arab bloc at the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya, Turkiye, led by Saudi Arabia, is attempting…
The Needle Moves, But The Struggle Continues
Vijay Prashad CounterPunch Europe’s streets remain aflame with a population angry about how their war economies have utterly ignored their own people. Across the Atlantic, a fierce mobilisation in Brazil…
Israel Resumes Its Lethal Assaults On Gaza’s Healthcare
Aseel Saleh, BreakThrough News. With new massacre at Nasser Medical complex. The health facility was subjected to several airstrikes, raids, and sieges during Israel’s genocidal aggression on Gaza, which has…
Trump Ready To ‘Hold Off’ Attack On Iran
News Desk, The Cradle. Favors economic warfare. Gulf monarchies support Washington’s economic siege of Iran while Israel lobbies for renewed military aggression. US President Donald Trump has signaled to senior…
‘Duffy Lied’: Air Traffic Controllers Refute Trump Transportation Secretary’s Ground Stop Explanation
Brett Wilkins Common Dreams “I’ve spoken with 60 air traffic controllers tonight about what Sean Duffy said at the White House today,” said one journalist. “None of them are buying…
Will the Victorious Democrats Embrace Left Politics or Class Politics?
Les Leopold Substack “The biggest divide in this country is not left vs. right. It’s top vs. bottom. Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other instead of…
Aid Organizations In Gaza Are Pulling Back, Leaving Hundreds Of Thousands Of Palestinians Without Food
Tareq S. Hajjaj Mondoweiss Using scraps of wood and plastic her children collected near their tent in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, Heba Dweima, 41, lights a fire…
How Brazilians Pulled Off Lula’s Surprise Win
Carla Habif Waging Nonviolence This article originally appeared in Waging Nonviolence on Nov. 11, 2026, and is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Editor’s note — In three…
How Trans Rights Fared In The 2026 Midterm Elections
Sarah Prager Prism andidates who supported trans rights were largely more successful than those who used anti-trans strategies in the Nov. 3 midterm elections. While focusing on trans issues backfired…
After the Midterms, Which Way Forward for DSA?
Maryam Alaniz and James Dennis Hoff Left Voice The midterms exposed an important contradiction: millions want a break with the status quo, yet the elections strengthened the grip of the…
1.4 Million People in Gaza Live In Tents. Winter Storms Can Be A Death Sentence.
By Shahad Ali This article was originally published by Truthout Making unlivable conditions even more dire, flooding in Gaza is just the first disaster of a long winter to come.…