Dems Are Right: Trump Is Undermining Democracy. So Is Their Party’s Right Wing.
Democratic mayors in some US cities have taken anti-democratic steps to subvert the will of their constituents.

Jeffries Blocks Vote on Restoring Federal Workers’ Collective Bargaining Rights
Democrats have sought a vote on restoring collective bargaining rights removed by Trump for over 1 million workers.

How to Monkeywrench a Genocide
Palestine Action, condemned as a terrorist group in the UK, has embraced property destruction as a means to undermine the arms pipeline to Israel.

“Department of War” Name Change, Which Isn’t Even Official, Will Cost $2 Billion
The move prioritizes "political theater over responsible governance,” a group of Democrats said in a statement.

WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration
Consortium News turns 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We’re…

Caitlin Johnstone: Burying the Real Epstein Story
Sometimes the biggest news story of the day is the one all mainstream news outlets are completely ignoring. It is interesting how often such instances…

ACLU Suit Targets “Dire” Conditions at CoreCivic-Run ICE Jail in California
“No human being, immigrant or not, should be subjected to these horrendous conditions,” said one of the plaintiffs.

Citizens Groups and Experts Warn Federal Officials that Recent Trump Executive Orders Would Decimate Standards for Radiation Exposure
Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal…

Venezuelans That US Sent to El Salvador Mega-Prison Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse
CECOT is “where people are sent for permanent punishment and separation,” says a human rights advocate.

Defending the Ivory Tower: Hank Reichman on the Fight for Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump
Photo Courtesy of Guest Welcome to the Scheer Intelligence podcast, where we probe the forces reshaping academia and the growing struggle to protect i…

Craig Murray: London Opposes Review of Palestine Action Terrorist Proscription
Although the U.K. government continues in its attempt to prevent a challenge to Palestine Action being labeled a terrorist group, there are numerous r…

Sierra Club Statement on Interior’s Sellout of Western Arctic
This week, the Trump administration finalized a plan to open up millions of acres of fragile landscapes in the Western Arctic to oil and gas drilling.

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
The post FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff appeared first on ProPublica.

Heavy rains flood tents in Gaza; Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear to target “narco-terrorists”
Drop Site Daily: November 14, 2025…

Chaos: The Trump Doctrine For Latin America
The US, under Trump, is unapologetically an empire operating without pretense. International law is for losers. A newly minted War Department, deployi…

Global Day Of Action In Solidarity With Colombia On Monday, November 17
Friends of the Hague Group (FOTHG), which launched in July 2025  to support multilateral efforts to end the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing ag…

AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It's Insanely Creepy
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket
Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.

‘Massive Privatization’: María Corina Machado Offers To Sell $1.7 Trillion of Venezuela’s Assets to US Corporations
María Corina Machado, the far-right Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, vowed “massive privatization”, offering to sell off $1.

Let the Sudanese People Walk Toward Peace
Backed by foreign powers, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a bloody war with devastating consequences for…

Palestine Maps in 2000 Years History
An Exhibition of Palestine maps showing Al Nakba, before and after, with other unique maps of Palestine on the 25th anniversary of Palestine Land Soci…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The post Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts appeared first on ProPublica.

You Can Count on It
The post You Can Count on It appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

Dick Cheney: Two Hearts, But Remained Heartless
Modern medical science gave Dick Cheney one of its greatest gifts when he received a donor heart in 2012 at the age of 71.  Thirty-four years earlier…

Roaming Charges: Ask the Houseman
After sweeping the elections last week, the Democrats agreed to a deal to end the shutdown that gave them almost nothing and could have been made week…

ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) helicopters will undoubtedly be circling my neighborhood looking for roofers and landscapers this “Veteran…

A Small Kingdom at the Top of the World
Nor is it helped by Trump’s habit of treating allies as optional accessories. We saw this last week with the favoritism shown to Hungary in the form…

Chris Hedges Report: The Member States Complicit In Genocide
After two years of genocide, it is no longer possible to hide complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Entire countries and corporati…

Democrats’ Treachery Ends The Shutdown
In “The Shutdown and Neverending Hostility to the Welfare State,” written just two weeks ago, this columnist made the following statement. “If t…

Civil Disobedience: Preventing Tyranny
Australian psychiatrist and author Dr. Niall McLaren believes civil disobedience presents a means of stopping domination hierarchies in a society spir…

Jonathan Cook: This Time the BBC Chose the Wrong Target
Heads have rolled at the BBC, but not due to a journalistic blunder – it makes them all the time. It foolishly deferred to the billionaires in the p…

The Media Focus On Epstein's Ties To Trump And Ignore His Ties To Israel
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

There Have Only Been 3 Criminal Indictments Against Israeli Soldiers for Gaza War Crimes in First 18 Months of War
According to internal Israeli records, the military filed just three criminal indictments for all Gaza-related offenses, part of a justice system desi…

Sunrise Launches Historic Primary Program: “It’s time to clear house”
As outrage grows over Chuck Schumer and Establishment Democrats’ refusal to stand up to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism and right-wing extremism,…

Corporate Executives Say Trump’s Economy Has Left U.S. Consumers “Under Pressure” and “Stressed”
Corporate executives are quietly acknowledging what millions of Americans already feel: Trump’s economy is squeezing lower- and middle-income famili…

Gaza: A living necropolis, with Dorotea Gucciardo
Israel continues to block medical supplies.

Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and direct…

New Data Exposes Countries Fueling Genocide in Gaza
Today, at COP30, Oil Change International released a new report, Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply, detailing the…

Israel arrests dozens in West Bank raids as settlers torch mosque; Trump signs bill ending record government shutdown; Lawmakers release 20,000 Epstein files
Drop Site Daily: November 13, 2025…

Israel killed their four children
Muhammad and Amal tell their story.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
The post “I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime appeared first on ProPublica.

Boasting of transparency, EU won't say who paid for Israel propaganda trip
Katharina von Schnurbein is being shielded from scrutiny.

Palestinians recount gang rapes by Israeli soldiers, dogs
Testimonies reflect systematic policy, rather than isolated incidents, says human rights groups.

The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

The Member States Complicit in Genocide (w/ Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
Francesca Albanese’s new report examines how 60+ countries are complicit in Israel’s war crimes and how their contributions will come back to haun…

Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic
“Since the ceasefire began, we’ve been in the first stage, still looking for our children.”…

Sometimes The Media Ignoring A Major Story Becomes The Story—And Other Notes
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How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The post How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters appeared first on ProPublica.

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
The post “Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops appeared first on ProPublica.

Livestream: Why Israel fears Zohran Mamdani
Peter Oborne discusses new book on how Britain aided and abetted Israel’s genocide. Editors discuss Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York,…

"You Have a Mother"
We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.

This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):…

America is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imp…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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…