Vijay Prashad: 5 Options for Attacking Venezuela
“Let the dogs of the empire bark. That is their role: to bark,” said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2006. They are yapping now. By Vijay Pr…

Mamdani Ignited NYC’s Political Imagination. Grassroots Work Can Make It Real.
Free child care and buses will take collective action to achieve -- and a grassroots movement is gaining momentum.

With Big Tech Talking Government Backing, Has OpenAI Become “Too Big to Fail”?
Leaders at the AI company are scrambling to pacify concerns that the bubble around their company could soon burst.

As SNAP Crisis Continues, Trump Whines About Americans’ “Affordability” Concerns
Trump denied that voters’ concerns about the economy played a role in the GOP’s losses in this week’s elections.

SCOTUS Is Behaving Like “Arm of the MAGA Trump Presidency,” Says Legal Expert
Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.

An Assault on Academic Freedom
U.S. civil rights laws are being exploited to suppress pro-Palestine speech in an authoritarian assault on academic freedom, finds a report by two aca…

SCOTUS Sides With Trump on Gender Marker Passport Restrictions for Trans People
Legal experts warn this ruling could open the door to a broader assault on trans identification policies nationwide.

Americans Send a Message on Affordability as Confidence Hits New Lows
President Trump promised to lower costs on day one. Ten months into his second term, his administration now says America’s affordability crisis is a…

The US Continues Its Attempt To Overthrow The Bolivarian Revolution
Since early September, the United States has given every indication that it could be preparing for a military assault on Venezuela. Tricontinental: In…

The United States Violates The Human Right To Health
Health care activists in the U.S. have a huge struggle to get the corporate media to take the human right to health seriously. The corporate media rep…

Basis For Climate And Environmental Liberation
In the last five years, certain environmental justice groups and their agents have enjoyed the selective largesse of mainstream environmental groups a…

Reclaim Armistice Day 2025
On November 11, 1918, the guns finally fell silent. The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” marked a global sigh of relief a…

Israel violates ceasefire, attacks Palestinians at Gaza wedding
Israeli army, settlers carry out nearly 2,400 attacks in occupied West Bank in October.

Wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon; Unprecedented number of settler attacks in the West Bank; U.S. carries out 18th Caribbean strike
Drop Site Daily: November 7, 2025…

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America
As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regiona…

How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s
Behind the headlines of “civil war” and “tribal clashes,” Sudan’s collapse reveals a U.S.-engineered campaign of starvation, displacement, a…

Layoffs In 2025 Second-Highest Since 2009
A new report examining worker layoffs in the United States this year finds that the numbers through October closely resemble those seen during recessi…

Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Côte d’Ivoire
Leaked emails show the details behind talks between Cote d’Ivoire and Israel shepherded by Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein…

YouTube Deletes Hundreds of Videos Documenting Israeli War Crimes
The company cited compliance with US sanctions on three Palestinian organizations working with the International Criminal Court.

VIPS MEMO: What Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring
Russia, and possibly even China, would feel obligated to enhance military support in response to a missile, air, or even drone strike on sovereign Ven…

Israel Is Trying To Divide Gaza in Half Along the ‘Yellow Line.’ What Is It, and Is It Here To Stay?
The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is meant to be temporary according to Trump’s “peace” plan. However, the fact that those terms were…

Raining on Mamdani’s Parade?
Mamdani’s youth, charisma, humor, and incredible organizational skills led to this remarkable achievement. He worked hard and he earned it, and so d…

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech
In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in tran…

Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis.
The post Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis. appeared first on ProPublica.

Make Aristocracy Great Again: Lost Roots of Techno-Feudalism  
It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to…

Roaming Charges: The Evil Dead
The bipartisan whitewashing of Dick Cheney is as much of a perversion of US history as Trump's eliding any mention of the horrors of slavery, the inte…

Wag the Dog 2.0: Trump’s Evasive Control of the News
Trump’s Wag the Dog 2.0 controls the news cycle by continually shifting the presidential focus. There is no need for Trump to start a fake war to di…

An Ordinary Fascist
It’s a year since Trump’s election, and the liberal commentariat says it doesn’t matter what you call him, so long as you call him out. I disagr…

TDU at Fifty: From Rank-and-File Rebels to Defenders of the Establishment
In August 2023 without a strike, O’Brien went off to Mar-a-Lago to kiss Trump’s ring, and then in July of 2024 O’Brien spoke at the Republican P…

WATCH: Jill Stein on Why Mamdani Won
Jill Stein, three-time Green Party candidate for U.S. president, spoke to CN Live! about Zohran Mamdani’s election as NYC mayor and the future of U.

It Is Easy To Miss The Cloud Reflections
Listen to a reading of this poem (reading by Tim Foley):…

Dismissing Criminal Prosecution of Boeing is Outrageous, Unconscionable
A federal judge in Texas today dismissed a criminal conspiracy case against Boeing over two crashes of its 737 Max jetliner that killed 346 people. Ro…

US: Millions Face Soaring Health Costs as Subsidies Expire
The US Congress’ failure to extend public subsidies for private health insurance threatens the right to health and financial security of millions of…

Trump Administration Appears Worried About Losing War Powers Vote Today
CEPR’s Director of International Research Jake Johnston made the following statement today: For at least two months administration sources have been…

New Survey: Grassroots Democratic Base Sends Post-Election  Warning to Party Leaders
A new survey conducted by Our Revolution, the nation’s largest progressive political organizing group with more than 8 million members, finds that a…

Venezuelan Oil — American Gangster Politics
The slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” write Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares. But the objective re…

Can Trump Impose Taxes on Americans?
Questions before the Supreme Court ask if Congress delegated away to the president the power to tax under the rubric of tariffs. If it did, was that d…

Israel declares Egypt border area a closed military zone; Mass graves in El-Fasher; Pelosi retires; Senate to vote on Venezuela war
Drop Site Daily: November 6, 2025…

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The post Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts appeared first on ProPublica.

Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That.
The post Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That. appeared first on ProPublica.

No end to genocide
The ceasefire agreement simply means that Israel is able to do whatever it wants.

Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

How America Left Their Own to Die in the '73 Chilean Coup (w/ John Dinges) | The Chris Hedges Report
John Dinges dives deep into the real story of two American journalists who were killed in Chile in the aftermath of the CIA-backed military coup of Sa…

Morocco Is Profiling and Imprisoning Young People to Crush Gen Z Protests
Police are targeting Moroccan youth based on their appearance amid mass anti-corruption protests over government underfunding of healthcare and educat…

How CCTV footage of Maccabi riots in Amsterdam went missing
Dutch authorities have tried to explain why two criminal cases involving Israeli football hooligans were dismissed from prosecution. Their statements…

Mamdani takes New York City as Democrats romp to victory across the country; 40 killed in Sudan drone strike; Israeli strikes continue
Drop Site Daily: November 5, 2025…

Fatema Al Harbi: The Arab Working Overtime to Defend Israel’s Genocide
Fatema Al Harbi built her career defending Israel’s actions in Gaza, partnering with Israeli intelligence-linked groups and spreading propaganda tha…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The post Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. appeared first on ProPublica.

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
The post What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard appeared first on ProPublica.

Ireland teams up with agency promoting Israel's drones
Dublin’s defense of Palestinian rights rings hollow.

Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

I give birth in two months
The news of my pregnancy was a shock, but I have come to see it as a blessing.

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In The Shadow Of The Empire
The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.

Taxpayers bankroll military contractors’ buybacks and dividends
Polygraph | Newsletter n°321 | 3 Nov 2025…

They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent aut…

Chris Hedges on Bad Hasbara: The Dingo Ate Your Integrity
Matt and Daniel are joined by Chris Hedges, to cover his unceremonious cancellation by the National Press Club of Australia, and the consolidation of…

Chris Hedges Gives the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (GOOD AUDIO): 'Requiem for Gaza'
Chris Hedges recently gave the Edward Said memorial lecture to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

Arms companies pay shareholders more cash than they generate
Polygraph | Newsletter n°320 | 30 Oct 2025…

The Death House
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fas…

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide
From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech H…

Big profits, rare losses among the top military contractors
Polygraph | Newsletter n°319 | 24 Oct 2025…

Nobel “Peace” Prize of Shame & the UK/Israeli Crackdown, with Tadhg Hickey
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey joins Mnar Adley to expose Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel “Peace” Prize farce and the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestin…

Israel still holds thousands of Palestinians hostage
Polygraph | Newsletter n°318 | 15 Oct 2025…

US has spent at least $38 billion on Israel since October 2023
Polygraph | Newsletter n°317 | 10 Oct 2025…