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items: Nuclear in my backyard: A Nebraska utility is skirting the public backlash that plagues wind and solar
items: City Electric: My Mayor Muslim, My Bagel Jewish
items: Roaming Charges: Data My Eyes
items: The Beautiful Game Meets the Border Guard
items: For Native Tribes It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
items: Imaginary Peace Treaties and the Cease-Fire Illusion
items: While FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
items: UFC White House and the Billionaire Alliance Monopolizing US Politics, Sports, and Entertainment
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Nuclear in my backyard: A Nebraska utility is skirting the public backlash that plagues wind and solar
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creator: Anila Yoganathan
date: 2026-06-12T08:00:00Z
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description: Across the state, nuclear is getting a warm welcome in communities that typically oppose large-scale clean energy projects.
encoded: This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories. Applause echoed through the halls of the Gage County courthouse. The county board had just approved new, more stringent wind energy regulations, and the overflow crowd of residents couldn’t contain themselves. Few in the crowded courthouse that day in September 2020 beamed brighter than Larry Allder. The Cortland-area resident helped lead the yearslong charge against wind energy’s looming expansion into the county. “It’s been a long road,” he told The Voice News after the vote. Now six years later, another historically controversial energy source — nuclear power — could be coming. Last month, the Nebraska Public Power District, or NPPD, announced a list of four potential sites for a new nuclear power plant. Gage County, south of Lincoln on the border with Kansas, is on it. This time, though, Allder has no plans to mount an opposition. “I think that’s a great idea. I like nuclear energy,” Allder said. “I think it’s the way of the future.” Despite a legacy that often invokes fear, there are signs nuclear development won’t face the backlash that other energy sources, especially renewables, have generated for Nebraskans in recent years. “They were just trying to stick the wind turbines really close to my property, and I do not like wind energy,” Allder said. He considers the turbines to be “ugly.” More substantively, Allder thinks that wind and solar projects produce “very inefficient and very costly and very intermittent power.” Nuclear, however, he said, is “clean and it doesn’t take up much land space.” Grist spoke with leaders in the four communities identified by NPPD — Beatrice, Sutherland, Norfolk, and Brownville— and most said their communities are open to a new nuclear project. “I think the general consensus is still that we’re supportive of nuclear energy,” Madison County C…

City Electric: My Mayor Muslim, My Bagel Jewish
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-06-12T06:51:01Z
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description: After the greatest comeback in NBA finals history - 29 points! - "the greatest shot in Knicks history" - Anunoby's last-second tip-in - some divine intervention - a Pope Leo jersey - and a smudging to erase the vile Trump stench, the New York Knicks a...
encoded: After the greatest comeback in NBA finals history - 29 points! - "the greatest shot in Knicks history" - Anunoby's last-second tip-in - some divine intervention - a Pope Leo jersey - and a smudging to erase the vile Trump stench, the New York Knicks are in sight of their first title in over 50 years. "Bedlam at the Garden!" ESPN exclaimed. And across the city, now a jubilant, unified sea of orange and blue watch parties, viral chants, rare hope against hope. One fan: "The city feels alive. Thank God for the Knicks." The Knicks had won a remarkable 13 straight playoff games, last losing in April, before the seven-game finals against the San Antonio Spurs; of those, they won the first two, only to fall to Trump Disaster Syndrome - everything he touches dies - in the third. In Wednesday's nail-biter of a Game 4, they began their historic rally in the second half, chipping away at a seemingly hopeless 29-point deficit, gaining ground in the 4th quarter and, with a stunning 1.2 seconds left, taking it 107-106 after OG Anunoby gently tipped in a Jalen Brunson shot that ricocheted short. The epic win leaves the Knicks within one game of a championship they haven't won since 1973, when their city looked like this. Now, residents say, it's "electric." The Knicks' success has created frenzied joy in a city beset by high prices, traffic snafus and years of sports heartaches - amidst which long-suffering Knicks fans, says one, "have endured, a specific species of human that should be studied." They also present a unified front in a city split between baseball's Yankees and Mets and football's Jets and Giants. New Jersey will host this year's World Cup finals, but its tribute to "the beautiful game," long plagued by scandal and corruption, is already marred by a racist regime hassling, interrogating or barring players, officials, journalists and fans from Somalia, Senegal, Haiti, Iraq, Iran and other dark-skinned locales, with a looming threat of ICE goons in attendance. In cont…

Roaming Charges: Data My Eyes
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creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2026-06-12T06:02:02Z
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description: ante himself couldn't have found a better spot in Hell to deposit James Dolan, maybe the worst owner in all of professional sports (and that's really saying something), than to lock him in a box next to a farting, snoring, grunting Donald Trump as 24,000 Knicks fans jeer and boo them both, while watching his team lose to the young San Antonio Spurs, over and over again, night after night for all eternity... More The post Roaming Charges: Data My Eyes appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Cover art [detail] for Jean-Michel Jarre’s album, Equinoxe, by Michel Granger. CC BY 4.0 “Optimism is the philosophy of the past.” – Marcel Proust, The Fugitive + Dante himself couldn’t have found a better spot in Hell to deposit James Dolan, maybe the worst owner in all of professional sports (and that’s really saying something), than to lock him in a box next to a farting, snoring, grunting Donald Trump as 24,000 Knicks fans jeer and boo them both, while watching his team lose to the young San Antonio Spurs, over and over again, night after night for all eternity… Call it the revenge of Charles Oakley, one of the Knicks’ most legendary players, who Dolan, in true Trump-style, ordered armed security guards to haul out of MSG during a Knicks game, arrested, charged with assault and banished from the arena because he couldn’t handle Oakley’s spot-on critiques of Dolan’s incompetent management of the team. + Ann Coulter on Trump’s MSG escapade: Of all the selfish, narcissistic things Trump has done, attending MSG to see the Knicks play in person Monday night is the absolute worst. 20,000 attendees will be MASSIVELY inconvenienced for all the extra security, the Knicks Watch Party at the Garden is canceled, thousands of extra law enforcement officers will be required (paid for by taxpayers), traffic will be a disaster — all so he can sit in the Garden rather than watch the game on TV. Presidents ought to be willing to sacrifice once in a while. + The New York Knicks last won the NBA championship in 1973, the same year Donald Trump made his debut appearance in the New York Times: “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in New York City.” + 97% of the country could be “busted-flat in Baton Rouge,” and Knicks tickets in the nosebleed section of MSG would still be selling for $12,000 a seat… + As ESPN’s Dan Wetzel pointed out, “In many cities these numbers would be a Zillow Listing.” I checked home prices in Buffalo. Wetzel wasn’t joking… + Trump’s never been an “NBA guy…

The Beautiful Game Meets the Border Guard
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creator: Peter Bach
date: 2026-06-12T05:59:00Z
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description: You know something is amiss when a World Cup referee is denied entry to the United States while Canada and Mexico appear to present no such obstacles. That is what happened when Somali match official Omar Artan was refused entry because of “vetting concerns”. I do not know the details of the case, but after arriving at Miami International Airport on a diplomatic passport, Artan was stopped by US Customs and Border Protection. Nor was this any ordinary referee. Artan—widely regarded as Africa’s leading official—was the recipient of the 2025 CAF Men’s Referee of the Year award. He was an esteemed professional effectively shown the red card by one of the tournament’s host nations and held for eleven hours. Perhaps it was naive of him to think there would be no problems given that around eighty per cent of Somali visa applications are refused. More The post The Beautiful Game Meets the Border Guard appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Somali World Cup soccer referee, Omar Artan, who was banned from entry into the US. Photo: Omar Artan’s Facebook page. I know Pete Hegseth put his foot in his mouth and took his eye off the ball on a beach in Normandy the other day when, during a D-Day anniversary gathering, he declared: “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.” Critics described the speech as grotesque and inappropriate for such a solemn and commemorative occasion. Yet if Hegseth was trying to project an image of a vigilant and uncompromising America, events surrounding the World Cup have suggested that message is being heard rather more widely than intended. A winger receives the ball on the touchline and, with three defenders converging, pirouettes through. You know something is amiss when a World Cup referee is denied entry to the United States while Canada and Mexico appear to present no such obstacles. That is what happened when Somali match official Omar Artan was refused entry because of “vetting concerns”. I do not know the details of the case, but after arriving at Miami International Airport on a diplomatic passport, Artan was stopped by US Customs and Border Protection. Nor was this any ordinary referee. Artan—widely regarded as Africa’s leading official—was the recipient of the 2025 CAF Men’s Referee of the Year award. He was an esteemed professional effectively shown the red card by one of the tournament’s host nations and held for eleven hours. Perhaps it was naive of him to think there would be no problems given that around eighty per cent of Somali visa applications are refused. It did not end there. Aymen Hussein, the Iraqi international nicknamed Abu Tubar, was reportedly subjected to more than six hours of questioning upon arrival in the United States. He was eventually allowed entry, but Iraq’s team photographer was not. This is not how to win friends and influence people. Every footballing nation follows its team to the World Cup.…

For Native Tribes It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
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creator: Jim Goodman
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description: When the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held confirmation hearings for current Department of Interior head Doug Burgum, he made it quite clear that he viewed public lands, lands belonging to the American public, as an asset on “America’s balance sheet”. His implication was pretty clear, these public lands should be used to turn a profit. Public lands belong to all Americans and were set aside for their protection, not for profit. But, no surprise, Burgum fully supports exploitative industries like oil, gas and mining on public lands, so who’s balance sheet will benefit? At an energy conference in Houston last year he noted, “If we’re going to drill, baby, drill, then we’ve got to be asked to also mine, baby, mine.” More The post For Native Tribes It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Goutham Ganesh Sivanandam When the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held confirmation hearings for current Department of Interior head Doug Burgum, he made it quite clear that he viewed public lands, lands belonging to the American public, as an asset on “America’s balance sheet”. His implication was pretty clear, these public lands should be used to turn a profit. Public lands belong to all Americans and were set aside for their protection, not for profit. But, no surprise, Burgum fully supports exploitative industries like oil, gas and mining on public lands, so who’s balance sheet will benefit? At an energy conference in Houston last year he noted, “If we’re going to drill, baby, drill, then we’ve got to be asked to also mine, baby, mine.” So much for conservation and environmental protection of our public lands— but like most members of the current administration, using your office to extract profit wherever possible is acceptable and “smart” — protecting the public trust takes a back seat. In 2024 the President asked a gathering of oil and gas executives at his Florida estate hosted by Burgum, to raise $1 billion for his campaign, for which in return, he would roll back environmental protections requested by the oil industry. In his thinking, that’s smart, a win win, personal profit for the president and windfall profits for energy companies. But Burugm also knows there is profit to be made above ground on the public lands that cover large stretches of the Great Plains. Last month the Interior Department approved new grazing rules that revoke tribal rights to graze Bison on federal land in favor of cattle, i.e.“production-oriented livestock”. In the early 1800’s upwards of 50 million Bison roamed the Great Plains, by 1900 fewer than 1,000 were left. An organized campaign of commercial hunting, the government’s desire to subjugate the Native Tribes by exterminating their food supply and the perceived need to close the range for private catt…

Imaginary Peace Treaties and the Cease-Fire Illusion
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creator: Daniel Warner
date: 2026-06-12T05:58:48Z
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description: Did Trump really “end” eight wars? Are the underlying conflicts actually over? Lebanon remains unstable. Iran and Israel continue to exchange threats and attacks. Russia and Ukraine are still at war. The Houthis still fire missiles. Gaza remains unresolved. Kashmir remains disputed. The Democratic Republic of Congo remains violent. These claims often amount to relabelling partial stabilization, normalization, or temporary pause as a final resolution. If these wars were truly "ended" by Trump, nobody seems to have informed the combatants, civilians killed in the fighting, or the millions suffering and displaced. More The post Imaginary Peace Treaties and the Cease-Fire Illusion appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Bill Clinton mediates the handshake between Yitzak Rabin and Yassir Arafat outside the White House on September 13, 1993. Photo: White House Historical Association. “A truce [between Lebanon and Israel] that has been in effect since April 17 has never been respected,” AFP reported. So what exactly is a cease-fire worth if the fighting continues? From Lebanon to Ukraine, cease-fires are announced with great fanfare and violated with remarkable speed. Yet politicians and commentators still speak as if a truce were the same thing as peace. Donald Trump is one of the worst violators of this confusion. Trump’s claims to have ‘ended’ eight wars follow a familiar pattern. A cease-fire becomes peace, a negotiation becomes a deal, and a temporary pause in fighting becomes the end of a war. Trump’s declarations belie the underlying reality that the conflicts he refers to remain unsettled—much like a schoolyard fight is declared “over” the moment the children are pulled apart. Did Trump really “end” eight wars? Are the underlying conflicts actually over? Lebanon remains unstable. Iran and Israel continue to exchange threats and attacks. Russia and Ukraine are still at war. The Houthis still fire missiles. Gaza remains unresolved. Kashmir remains disputed. The Democratic Republic of Congo remains violent. These claims often amount to relabelling partial stabilization, normalization, or temporary pause as a final resolution. If these wars were truly “ended” by Trump, nobody seems to have informed the combatants, civilians killed in the fighting, or the millions suffering and displaced. Cease-fires are among the most celebrated and least understood achievements in modern diplomacy. They generate headlines, press conferences, handshakes, and declarations of success. (See the famous September 13, 1993, photo of Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat White House handshake from the Oslo peace process.) Many cease-fires are violated almost immediately. Some collapse within days…

While FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
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creator: Tamara Pearson
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description: The World Cup, being held in Mexico, the US, and Canada, will “unite the people,” said Canadian soccer player, Jonatha Osorio. “The world will be invading Canada, Mexico and the USA with a big wave of joy and happiness,” said FIFA president Gianni Infantino, on a glitzy summer's evening in New York. The same countries are also currently holding talks to renew the USMCA North American free trade agreement for another 16 years. The USMCA, an update to the NAFTA, is codified empire, depriving Mexico of corn sovereignty, institutionalizing the US's dominance and Mexico's structural and economic dependence, while sacrificing Mexico's rivers and soil to US and Canadian mines. More The post While FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: “Behind the Cup, graves and troops are hidden,” reads this placard, at a political action in Mexico City. Photo by Tamara Pearson. From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World Cup as it kicks off in Mexico City on Thursday. This follows hundreds of protests and actions held over the past months as FIFA and governments prioritize tourists and corporations over urgent local needs and the environment. The scoreboard and fouls: Take FIFA to forget that there is empire – The World Cup, being held in Mexico, the US, and Canada, will “unite the people,” said Canadian soccer player, Jonatha Osorio. “The world will be invading Canada, Mexico and the USA with a big wave of joy and happiness,” said FIFA president Gianni Infantino, on a glitzy summer’s evening in New York. The same countries are also currently holding talks to renew the USMCA North American free trade agreement for another 16 years. The USMCA, an update to the NAFTA, is codified empire, depriving Mexico of corn sovereignty, institutionalizing the US’s dominance and Mexico’s structural and economic dependence, while sacrificing Mexico’s rivers and soil to US and Canadian mines. The giddy glamour of the World Cup spectacle is not unity but sedation, its stadium lights obscuring the negotiated details of imperialism and the unfestive realities of barbed borders, wage apartheid, and centuries of accumulated harm. A corporate exploitation bonanza – The soccer ball is the pretext. The World Cup is actually a giant advertising campaign — experiential marketing designed to drive sales for the corporate sponsors and move mass amounts of merchandise. Behind those sales there is extreme exploitation. Adidas and the company Someone Somewhere paid 150 Indigenous Nahua embroiderers in Naupan, Puebla, 36 pesos (US$2) an hour to hand-stitch the Mexico World Cup jersey — which Adidas then sold for 4,000 pesos. Diario Cambio re…

UFC White House and the Billionaire Alliance Monopolizing US Politics, Sports, and Entertainment
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creator: Eric Draitser
date: 2026-06-12T05:56:51Z
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description: CounterPunch explores the upcoming UFC White House spectacle and the Hollywood, DC, and Gulf power brokers at the nexus of US politics, sports and entertainment. Host Eric Draitser welcomes veteran combat sports journalist Nate Wilcox, Editor-in-Chief of The MMA Draw, to the show to discuss the White House event, the mythology around Trump’s relationship with More The post UFC White House and the Billionaire Alliance Monopolizing US Politics, Sports, and Entertainment appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: CounterPunch explores the upcoming UFC White House spectacle and the Hollywood, DC, and Gulf power brokers at the nexus of US politics, sports and entertainment. Host Eric Draitser welcomes veteran combat sports journalist Nate Wilcox, Editor-in-Chief of The MMA Draw, to the show to discuss the White House event, the mythology around Trump’s relationship with the UFC and Dana White, the role of Ari Emanuel and TKO Group in monopolizing combat sports and playing all sides of the power structure, the Gulf monarchies and their projection of soft power, the overlap between entertainment, finance, and geopolitics, and so much more. The post UFC White House and the Billionaire Alliance Monopolizing US Politics, Sports, and Entertainment appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Eric Draitser.

“Competitive Authoritarianism” as a Nice Way for Academics to Not Say Fascism
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creator: Paul Street
date: 2026-06-12T05:56:44Z
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description: The phrase “competitive authoritarianism” has become a common go-to way for liberal and leftish academics, pundits, journalists, and “activists” to foolishly avoid using the scary “F-word” – fascism – to describe the exterminist Trump regime, movement, and party. Here is a summary of the phrase’s meaning and inception from National “Public” Radio’s All Things Considered last month: “Some More The post “Competitive Authoritarianism” as a Nice Way for Academics to Not Say Fascism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Markus Spiske. The phrase “competitive authoritarianism” has become a common go-to way for liberal and leftish academics, pundits, journalists, and “activists” to foolishly avoid using the scary “F-word” – fascism – to describe the exterminist Trump regime, movement, and party. Here is a summary of the phrase’s meaning and inception from National “Public” Radio’s All Things Considered last month: “Some experts say the United States is no longer a liberal democracy[1], but operating under a system called ‘competitive authoritarianism’… Competitive authoritarian countries have democratic rules and hold competitive elections, but the party in charge uses various tactics to tilt the electoral playing field in its favor to maintain power. Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard …and Lucan Way – now a professor at the University of Toronto – came up with it in 2002 to describe systems in countries such as Serbia, Kenya and Peru. ‘We never – when we coined this term 25 years ago – never imagined that we would apply it to the United States…When we began to see the Justice Department go after people who were public critics of Trump, when we began to see lawsuits against (the) media or attacks on universities that are viewed as critical of the government,’ said Levitsky, ‘all these things are raising the cost of opposition.’ …To describe these kinds of political systems, Way and Levitsky initially came up with the phrase, ‘Contested Autocracy.’ Way admits it was a ‘horrible’ term. Then, in conversation, Way’s faculty adviser, Harvard professor Timothy Colton, unwittingly provided a eureka moment. He misremembered the concept as ‘competitive authoritarianism’…‘So, we thought, “Oh my God, that was it!,” Way recalled…The term is catching on. Since President Trump took office last year, searches on Google Trends for competitive authoritarianism have spiked. It has also shown up in scores of publications, from the Ventura County Star in California to The Sco…

Wake Up and Face the Heat!
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creator: Robert Hunziker
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description: America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. “Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme Weather,” Reuters, Oct. 15, 2025. This has all the earmarks of a bad ending. Moreover, according to the World Meteorological Organization More The post Wake Up and Face the Heat! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Immo Wegmann. America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. “Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme Weather,” Reuters, Oct. 15, 2025. This has all the earmarks of a bad ending. Moreover, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), effective May 28, 2026: “The world is already smashing heat records. It’s expected to get hotter.” Our anthropogenic planet has become a virtual “heat machine.” This puts datacenters smack dab in the center of attention as “heat machines” in their own right. “The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people.” (Scientists Have Found an Alarming Environmental Impact of Vast Data Centers, CNN, March 30, 2026). More on this horror story to follow, titled: Datacenter Wars? Meanwhile, something very strange is happening with a twist that’s beyond anything in the record book of human behavior. It’s getting hotter, relentlessly hotter on a multi-year acceleration basis never seen before, but meanwhile everyday life continues to trudge along as if it’s normal, going to work, kids to summer school, trips to distant places, picknicks and barbeques, watching baseball and lazy days at the beach. On the surface it all seems so normal, nothing much to worry about, it gets hot on occasion, especially during the summer. But it’ll cool down this coming fall. But what’s happening is not normal at all. Behind the scenes and in some cases directly in front of everybody with any curiosity, a very dangerous abnormality is fast at work. The world is drying up right before our eyes. A dangerous heat syndrome is now a settled trend, higher and higher, year over year, with fos…

Duck Soup, Again
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creator: Joseph Natoli
date: 2026-06-12T05:55:37Z
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description: Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. – Marx Brothers, Duck Soup Among the many WTF questions that the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup politics flooding the land since Trump ’24 took office is surely this one: What’s Wrong More The post Duck Soup, Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Theatrical release poster L to R: Harpo, Zeppo, Groucho, Chico – Fair Use Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. – Marx Brothers, Duck Soup Among the many WTF questions that the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup politics flooding the land since Trump ’24 took office is surely this one: What’s Wrong with the American Voter? Some runner-up questions: Will there be MAGA after Trump is gone? Will Trump, alive or dead, ever be gone? Can the Democratic Party “unwoke”/”un-DEI” and what would they be then? Does factually/objectively based reportage die for good ? Does the American mind wander off into TikTok? Will Silicon Valley tech-broligarchic BS replace electoral democracy? Will Trump lackeys, propagandists and stooges be brought to trial? Will the Trump nightmare follow the destiny of Shelley’s Ozymandias: Nothing beside remains Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. I chose first the question of the American voter’s sanity. To assume that the American voter is as nuts as Trump is would amount to FOX News-like reportage. What you want to begin with is Jean Renoir’s observation that it’s a terrible thing in this world that everyone has their reasons. What is not terrible is when everyone reasons within empirical/rational methodologies, a way of knowing that has served us well since the Enlightenment. Because our reasoning has descended to an uninformed, opinionating, online “liking” level that is deaf to opposing arguments and blind to facts and evidence, we now live in a society in which not only does everyone have his or her “reasons” but each is prepared to employ violence to defend their stupidities. Why would anyone vote twice for a man who is transparently a bargain store hustler/grifter who learned the trade from his father, who was a bargain store hustler/grifter? The father made his money as a slum landlord and the son mad…

There Is No Pride in Genocide: Rome Pride Rejects Pinkwashing as Israel’s Slaughter Continues
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description: In late May 2026, Rome Pride organizers delivered a clear and courageous message: there will be no platform for complicity with genocide. Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQ+ organization, Keshet Italia, was barred from marching with its own float in the upcoming June 20 parade. The reason was straightforward and principled—Keshet refused to endorse Rome Pride’s political More The post There Is No Pride in Genocide: Rome Pride Rejects Pinkwashing as Israel’s Slaughter Continues appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Matteo Nardone In late May 2026, Rome Pride organizers delivered a clear and courageous message: there will be no platform for complicity with genocide. Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQ+ organization, Keshet Italia, was barred from marching with its own float in the upcoming June 20 parade. The reason was straightforward and principled—Keshet refused to endorse Rome Pride’s political manifesto, which explicitly condemns Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and demands a clear break from the Zionist state’s policies of occupation, apartheid, and extermination. This decision has triggered predictable outrage from Zionist quarters, who immediately cried antisemitism. But the real issue here is not prejudice—it is accountability. Pride was born as a radical act of resistance against oppression, not as a rainbow-washed corporate parade where war criminals get to fly rainbow flags while bombing children. The Abomination of Pinkwashing Israel has spent decades perfecting the art of pinkwashing—cynically parading Tel Aviv’s vibrant (and heavily subsidized) Pride scene as proof of its “liberal democracy” while maintaining the most brutal settler-colonial regime on earth. Queer Israelis may serve openly in the occupation forces, but Palestinian queers live under a double nightmare: the daily violence of military occupation and the conservative social pressures exacerbated by decades of dispossession and siege. In Gaza and the West Bank, survival itself is precarious. Israeli authorities have a documented history of blackmailing vulnerable queer Palestinians into collaboration, using their sexuality as a weapon of control and betrayal. The destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, the deliberate targeting of civilians, and the starvation campaign have made any semblance of safe queer existence impossible. Families are wiped out in entire neighborhoods, hospitals reduced to rubble, and children maimed or orphaned with no access to basic care. Over 70,000 Palestinians have be…

Capitalism’s Organic Intellectuals
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description: When we were fighting the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment or austerity programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us thought that we were up against a strategy that had been formulated mainly as a response to the social democratic compromise with capital in the Global North and to state-led developmentalist initiatives in More The post Capitalism’s Organic Intellectuals appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When we were fighting the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment or austerity programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us thought that we were up against a strategy that had been formulated mainly as a response to the social democratic compromise with capital in the Global North and to state-led developmentalist initiatives in the Global South. Of course, we knew that the intellectual inspiration for neoliberalism came from nineteenth-century classical free-market-oriented economics. What few of us realized at the time was that the neoliberal counterrevolution that took off in the late 1970s had an earlier manifestation in the early part of the twentieth century, and this had provided a theoretical and policy arsenal that the later movement drew upon. Clara Mattei’s The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way for Fascism is a masterful fusion of archival research, ideological deconstruction, and political economy that captures the post-World War I era, which was marked by acute class conflict. Although the revolution in Russia is quite familiar, less well-known is the situation in Western Europe, where there was a revolutionary challenge to capitalism, though of a less violent sort. Mattei is convincing when she documents how the role of the state in controlling all dimensions of the economy for the war effort led unwittingly to a “denaturalization” of the market economy, that is, to an unmasking of the “laws of the market” as really a political project benefiting a few that provided workers with a glimpse of a possible alternative order. Reconstructionists and L’Ordine Nuovo Focusing on the situation in Britain and Italy, Mattei details the two key responses to the revolutionary ferment. The “enlightened reconstructionist elite” sought to buy social peace by having the state take an active role in providing workers with better housing, social insurance against old age and disabilities, and great…

The Spiritual Descendants of Pancho Villa’s Revolutionary War With DuPont Spin-offs in Dinamita, Durango
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description: The struggle of the United Front of Pueblos of La Laguna in Defense of Life, Land, and Water in Durango – birth state of the legendary revolutionary, Pancho Villa– against the transnational corporation Chemours, a spin-off of DuPont de Nemours, since 2017, has reached a climax due to thuggish armed repression organized by economic, political, More The post The Spiritual Descendants of Pancho Villa’s Revolutionary War With DuPont Spin-offs in Dinamita, Durango appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Catholic bishop Raúl Vera celebrating mass at Camp El Siete in December 2023. Photo: Paulina Rocío del Moral González. The struggle of the United Front of Pueblos of La Laguna in Defense of Life, Land, and Water in Durango – birth state of the legendary revolutionary, Pancho Villa– against the transnational corporation Chemours, a spin-off of DuPont de Nemours, since 2017, has reached a climax due to thuggish armed repression organized by economic, political, municipal and state authorities, aided by the Army and the National Guard, against 28 farmers, of both sexes, and factory workers jailed in March and one woman jailed in April, on trumped up charges. This is the second major armed repression; the first occurred on March 9, 2018, also with the use of extreme violence by state and municipal police of Durango at the time, against men, women, children and elders in the ejido El Siete, in Dinamita, Durango. The United Front of Pueblos of La Laguna in Defense of Life, Land and Water is a peoples’ organization which combines 23 ejidos and rural communities[1] of Gómez Palacio[2] in the Lagunera Region of Durango since 2017, and whose main battle has been to defend their homes, families and land against the pollution from the installation of a sodium cyanide industrial megaplant in the Ejido El Siete, Dinamita, Durango, and in addition, as it has developed, to take on other agrarian and labor causes. From 2017 to the present the legitimate environmental cause the United Front raises has generated support from diverse environmental organizations from the Lagunera Ecological Region as this ecological region is known, including populations in Durango and Coahuila linked by the rivers Nazas and Aguanaval, associations for civil rights, as environmentalists and organizations for campesino struggles from other parts of the country, and including the emeritus bishop of Saltillo, José Raúl Vera López, known for his activism for social causes, have united in its collective stru…

The US and Israel Merger
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description: When Congress wants to do something that the American public would object to, it buries it. That is exactly what it did with Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee’s draft Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. A sinister, Israel-first, and AIPAC insertion to merge American military industries with the military of a More The post The US and Israel Merger appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Toa Heftiba. When Congress wants to do something that the American public would object to, it buries it. That is exactly what it did with Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee’s draft Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. A sinister, Israel-first, and AIPAC insertion to merge American military industries with the military of a country, Israel, that has been caught spying and stealing American technology. The proposed section is hidden inside a $1.15 trillion defense bill, advanced with virtually no public debate. The provision, titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” goes far beyond traditional military aid. It authorizes joint weapons co-production, bilateral research and development, technology licensing, and deep integration across artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, autonomous systems, and biotech. Most extraordinarily, it would create a permanent Pentagon executive agent dedicated exclusively to coordinating military cooperation with Israel. In advancing this legislation, members of the House and Senate are not representing their constituents; they are defying them. According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March 2026, a month into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, sixty percent of American adults now hold an unfavorable view of Israel, up seven points in a single year and nearly twenty points since 2022 — among Democrats, it’s even eighty percent. In both political parties, majorities of adults under fifty now rate Israel and Netanyahu negatively. The gulf between congressional action and public reality extends far beyond American borders. A separate Pew survey published in June 2026, spanning thirty-six countries and more than 44,000 respondents, found that a median of sixty-seven percent of people worldwide hold an unfavorable view of Israel. Unfavorable majorities exist across every European country surveyed, including Spain and Sweden at seventy-eight percent, the Netherla…

Welcome to Mexico, World Cup Fans, a Paradise for Soccer and Inequality
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description: This year’s World Cup is historic because for the first time ever it will be co-hosted simultaneously by three countries: Mexico, the United States, and Canada. However, in Mexico it will leave behind a trail of socioeconomic blows, including huge debts the government has incurred to host it. While the competition enjoys global passion, the More The post Welcome to Mexico, World Cup Fans, a Paradise for Soccer and Inequality appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Azteca Stadium (now Banorte), Mexico City. Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, Wikimedia. CC BY 4.0. This year’s World Cup is historic because for the first time ever it will be co-hosted simultaneously by three countries: Mexico, the United States, and Canada. However, in Mexico it will leave behind a trail of socioeconomic blows, including huge debts the government has incurred to host it. While the competition enjoys global passion, the tournament is structurally designed to disadvantage developing country hosts. This is not by accident. It is a deliberate design so that the world soccer tournament economically benefits the ultrarich and the Global North. For Mexico, the soccer summer festival has already pushed the country into debt and turbocharged inequalities at a time when citizens are grappling with the high cost of living worsened by the war in Iran. Mexicans are being forced to trade their rights, livelihoods, and development for investments and refurbishment of amenities for soccer tourists. Oops! They did it again… From the outside, it might seem like Mexico, the United States, and Canada are equals and good friends — close enough to cooperate and organize a global event together. But that’s just cosmetic. Here is the stark reality: the World Cup will be in Mexico, but Mexicans aren’t invited. The entry fees are out of control, plagued by dynamic pricing, speculation, and restricted access to those who can pay around 50,000 Mexican pesos ($2,870) for a ticket to the opening ceremony. This is five times the country’s minimum wage. Not only are Mexicans being shut out of the stadiums, they are also being expelled from the World Cup landscape. There is documentation of the forced evictions of street vendors and sex workers, as well as gentrification and touristification of neighborhoods and public spaces — all to meet foreign expectations of visiting Mexico as a soccer paradise, not as the unequal and violent place it truly is. Billions of dollars that could have been …

The AI Bubble Monitor: The Lay of the Land
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description: The US economy has had two major bubbles in the last three decades. There are signs that we are in the midst of a third. In the late 1990s there was a tech bubble, driven to a large extent by excitement over the potential of the Internet. This drove stock prices to a peak value More The post The AI Bubble Monitor: The Lay of the Land appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Still from Ex Machina. The US economy has had two major bubbles in the last three decades. There are signs that we are in the midst of a third. In the late 1990s there was a tech bubble, driven to a large extent by excitement over the potential of the Internet. This drove stock prices to a peak value of 43.8 times earnings (known as the price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E), according to the calculations of Nobel Prize- winning economist Robert Shiller. This bubble began to burst in March of 2000. The S&P lost almost 50 percent of its value at its trough two-and-a-half years later in October of 2002. The NASDAQ, which included all the major tech stocks, lost almost 80 percent of its value over this period. The collapse of the bubble was a huge hit to the economy and the labor market. Measured by output, the recession that took place in 2001 due to the collapse was relatively mild, but measured by employment, it was huge. Job growth turned negative in March of 2001. The economy did not get back the jobs lost for four full years. This was the longest period without job growth since the Great Depression. The weak labor market also brought the strong real wage growth of the late 1990s to an end, as the real median wage rose less than 1.5 percent from 2001 to 2007, when the next recession hit. The Collapse of the Housing Bubble The recovery from the collapse of the tech bubble was driven by the growth of a massive housing bubble, as inflation-adjusted house prices rose by 70 percent from 1996 to 2006, after being roughly flat for the prior century. Over the years from 2007 to 2010, most of this increase was reversed. The consequences were enormous. Residential construction, which peaked at 6.7 percent of GDP in 2005, fell back to just 2.4 percent of GDP in 2010. This drop of 4.3 percentage points of GDP would be equivalent to losing more than $1.3 trillion in annual demand in today’s economy. The loss of trillions of dollars housing wealth also curtailed consumption. The impa…

The Washington Post’s Double Standard: Brooke Pinto Can Party with Trump, But Janeese Lewis George Can’t Attend a Colleague’s Birthday
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description: In my story for FAIR last week, I criticized the reporting of Paul Schwartzman, and I’m afraid I’m doing so again today. Schwartzman is a solid reporter, and it can’t be easy being at the Washington Post these days… not with the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, taking a wrecking ball to the place to More The post The Washington Post’s Double Standard: Brooke Pinto Can Party with Trump, But Janeese Lewis George Can’t Attend a Colleague’s Birthday appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Jon Tyson In my story for FAIR last week, I criticized the reporting of Paul Schwartzman, and I’m afraid I’m doing so again today. Schwartzman is a solid reporter, and it can’t be easy being at the Washington Post these days… not with the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, taking a wrecking ball to the place to further ingratiate himself to President Trump (it’s working). Nevertheless, Schwartzman’s coverage of the forthcoming DC election warrants another look. For FAIR, I looked at how Schwartzman went after lefty DC mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George for the sin of attending her DC Council colleague’s birthday picnic. The colleague, Trayon White Sr., faces federal bribery charges (a case I wrote about previously). Meanwhile Schwartzman’s approach to covering the race for DC delegate, DC’s mostly nonvoting member of Congress, has been markedly different. In that race, Schwartzman lets candidate Brooke Pinto shape the narrative surrounding her partying with a figure far more toxic to DC voters than White — Donald Trump. Pinto’s top opponent — fellow DC council member Robert White, who leads in the polls — has tried to highlight the Pinto family’s ties to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. But Schwartzman isn’t having it, instead relegating the issue to a “he said, she said” situation. From Schwartzman’s May 26 story: Where to begin? While Pinto may have “acknowledged… she and members of her clan have been to Trump’s club,” that’s only half the story. It was only after I broke the story that Pinto and her family had partied at Mar-a-Lago that she acknowledged this, eventually. Before publishing my 2020 story at CounterPunch, I emailed Pinto several questions about Mar-a-Lago — including how many times she’d been there, and whether her family were members of the club — but she replied only, “I am not a member of Mar-a-Lago nor am I friends with Donald Trump or his family.” Pinto, in other words, initially went out of her way not to acknowledge her or her family’s ti…

Big Tech Built a Gig Economy That Works Against Us
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description: Recent reporting has confirmed what many working people already feel every day: companies are using personal data to decide the lowest wage someone will accept. What working people call exploitation, Silicon Valley calls innovation. The seven largest gig platforms in the United States — Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber — are using data that More The post Big Tech Built a Gig Economy That Works Against Us appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: shopblocks – CC BY 2.0 Recent reporting has confirmed what many working people already feel every day: companies are<a role="link" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb?" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb?&source=gmail&ust=1781276974438000&usg=AOvVaw1boo8k1eMEzHiSismHBkzp"> using personal data to decide the lowest wage someone will accept. What working people call exploitation, Silicon Valley calls innovation. The seven largest gig platforms in the United States — Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber — are using data that tracks how long its users stay on an app, what jobs they accept, and how urgently they need income. This algorithm calculates what the employers can pay to get the job done at the lowest rate individuals will accept. Not what their labor is worth. Not what is fair. Gig work was sold as a way to make extra money on a flexible schedule. But that’s not what it looks like today. Nearly one in four people in the U.S. now participate in some form of gig or freelance work. What was supposed to be a side hustle has become a main source of income for one third of gig workers. As layoffs rise and wages fall further behind the cost of living, more people are being pushed into this kind of work to keep up. Black people and other workers of color, who tend to be more dependent on this type of work than white people, have been especially hard hit. But these unfair practices can impact all workers. “Under surveillance wage systems, different people may be paid different wages for largely the same work, and individual workers cannot predict their incomes over time,” <a role="link" href="https://equitablegrowth.org/how-artificial-intelligence-uncouples-hard-work-from-fair…

America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied
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description: “I love the inflation.”[1]—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as little more than collateral damage in More The post America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “I love the inflation.”[1]—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as little more than collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control. We have been policed, surveilled, taxed, indebted, manipulated, censored, tracked, searched, silenced and sold out. Foreign powers are buying up our farmland,[2] <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-trump-familys-business-deals-could-open-the-door-for-future-presidents-to-profit-from-office&source=gmail&ust=1781308705797000&usg=AOvVaw3P0B-mmmnjZEph0PXpJi2r">buying favor with the Trump family,[3] weaseling their way into the White House,[4] dictating national policy,[5] and now—with the backing of the Trump administration and bipartisan support in Congress—one of America’s closest partners-in-crime may soon gain even greater access to U.S. intelligence and surveillance capabilities.[6] This is what we have come to. The swamp under President Trump has taken on a decidedly foreign flavor: any nation with enough money, leverage or strategic value to enrich the Trump family can now get its hands on a piece of the American pie—all the while, the American people continue to struggle to survive Trump’s self-enrichment schemes, broken promises, endless wars, militarized streets and vanity projects. We’re being sold to the highest bidders, and still nothing is being done to protect us. This, too, is occupation. Not merely the occupation of land, but the occupation of the Constitution itself. The contrast could not be more obscene. On June 8, 1789, James M…

ICE: the Mental Health Emergency We Can No Longer Ignore
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description: Last fall, families in Wilder, Idaho gathered for horse races when helicopters and armored trucks suddenly descended. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — armed with guns, flashbang grenades, and rubber bullets — stormed the event, terrifying children and parents alike. Agents zip-tied Juana Rodriguez’s hands — and even kept her from feeding her three‑year‑old. More The post ICE: the Mental Health Emergency We Can No Longer Ignore appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last fall, families in Wilder, Idaho gathered for horse races when helicopters and armored trucks suddenly descended. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — armed with guns, flashbang grenades, and rubber bullets — stormed the event, terrifying children and parents alike. Agents zip-tied Juana Rodriguez’s hands — and even kept her from feeding her three‑year‑old. “What happened turned our outing into a nightmare,” said the U.S. citizen. The government claimed it was targeting five people for illegal gambling. Instead, 105 people were arrested — all on civil immigration charges. Did anyone consider the children’s trauma before approving the raid? Children’s mental health is deteriorating — and children from immigrant families are especially at risk. Economic instability, bullying, and hateful rhetoric from political leaders worsen the stress. When leaders demean people based on ethnicity, religion, gender or gender identity, or immigration status, it fuels hostility by others. One in five child deaths now <a role="link" href="https://www.childrenshospitals.org/content/behavioral-health/summary/the-state-of-pediatric-suicide#:~:text=Increasing%20cases%20of%20pediatric%20suicidality,to%20children's%20hospitals'%20emergency%20rooms." rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.childrenshospitals.org/content/behavioral-health/summary/the-state-of-pediatric-suicide%23:~:text%3DIncreasing%2520cases%2520of%2520pediatric%2520suicidality,to%2520children's%2520hospitals'%2520emergency%2520rooms.&source=gmail&ust=1781276974434000&usg=AOvVaw2qDuU62mpdMIbAxx33v7PO">results from suicide. In 2021, pediatric and psychiatric associations declared a <a role="link" href="https://www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroom/2021/11/declaration-of-a-national-emergency-in-child-and-adolescent-mental-health/" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.childrenshospitals.org/news/n…

Kenya’s Protests Against the Ebola Quarantine Facility Are as Much About the Economy as They Are About Sovereignty
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description: The main news item in African media this past week has been the controversy surrounding a proposed U.S.-funded Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya. What began as a public health initiative has rapidly evolved into a politically charged national dispute. The project has triggered protests and legal action. Two people have reportedly died during demonstrations. The More The post Kenya’s Protests Against the Ebola Quarantine Facility Are as Much About the Economy as They Are About Sovereignty appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Capital FM Kenya – CC BY 3.0 The main news item in African media this past week has been the controversy surrounding a proposed U.S.-funded Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya. What began as a public health initiative has rapidly evolved into a politically charged national dispute. The project has triggered protests and legal action. Two people have reportedly died during demonstrations. The High Court, according to media reports, has ordered the government to disclose details of the agreement underpinning the facility, while public debate has expanded beyond epidemiology to questions of sovereignty, transparency and public trust. These public protests suggest that many Kenyans are not merely contesting the health facility and the U.S. imperialist conspiracy surrounding it. They are contesting the way consequential public decisions are made, communicated and justified. In this respect, the proposed facility has become a vehicle for expressing deeper anxieties about governance, accountability and state responsiveness. While sovereignty concerns have featured prominently in public debate, the controversy also reveals an important economic dimension. Kenya has already signed the Health Cooperation Framework, parts of which provide for health-data sharing arrangements that have become the subject of legal and political controversy. Narrative economics offers a useful lens for understanding Kenya’s political economy of public discontent. It argues that economic and political outcomes are shaped not only by institutions and material conditions, but also by the stories citizens construct about power, opportunity and the responsiveness of the state. This angle helps explain why episodes of public protest have become a recurring feature of Kenya’s political economy. Successive administrations have confronted major demonstrations linked to contentious political or economic decisions, and in each instance, the state’s management of dissent has itself become a…

Revolutionaries From the Heart
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description: Robert and Mabel Williams were two of the most militant organizers of the Black liberation movement in its first couple decades. Unwilling to wait for the US legal system do undo its legacy of white supremacy and consequently in conflict with civil rights groups taking that road, the Williams’ armed defense and anti-colonialist politics put More The post Revolutionaries From the Heart appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Robert and Mabel Williams were two of the most militant organizers of the Black liberation movement in its first couple decades. Unwilling to wait for the US legal system do undo its legacy of white supremacy and consequently in conflict with civil rights groups taking that road, the Williams’ armed defense and anti-colonialist politics put targets on their backs, forcing them into exile. Their story is one that, despite frequent efforts to bury it in the dustbin of history, continues to be heard and retold. Likewise, it continues to inspire. In 2025, Robert’s memoir was republished together with Mabel’s memories by the University of North Carolina’s publishing house. Titled The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity, the text includes Robert’s unpublished memoir While God Lay Sleeping and Mabel’s briefer collection of memories. Both manuscripts were submitted shortly before their deaths; Robert’s in 1996 and Mabel’s in 2014. Together they provide an important, radical and under-discussed element of the African-American movement for liberation. Both Mabel and Robert Williams grew up in Monroe, NC, a small town just south of Charlotte that is now part of the greater Charlotte, NC suburban area. An indication of its history is that a park named after the notoriously racist GOP senator Jesse Helms lies within the city limits. When Robert and Mabel were growing up there, the town was clearly segregated by skin tone and African-Americans were second-class citizens. Of course, this scenario was a relatively common (and legally defined) one across the US South and an unofficial scenario throughout most of the rest of the United States. As a youngster, Robert bristled at living under white supremacy, but had no means to express his dissatisfaction. His mother preached Christian forgiveness and acceptance while one of his uncles spoke angrily and sarcastically about forgiveness and white supremacy. It wa…

Remembering Artists From Another Time: Andre Masson
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description: Fictional Truths The cadence that belongs to the march of time- -the cadence of possibilities: Possibilities not mine but imagined in a city called Paris. Every city has had a chronicler of sway: great cities big and small have had many strollers with eyes. Paris’s history is like a voluminous waltz within moments of centrality and More The post Remembering Artists From Another Time: Andre Masson appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Artist, Andre Masson, Paris, France. Fictional Truths The cadence that belongs to the march of time- -the cadence of possibilities: Possibilities not mine but imagined in a city called Paris. Every city has had a chronicler of sway: great cities big and small have had many strollers with eyes. Paris’s history is like a voluminous waltz within moments of centrality and focus: Imagine if you try a chimpanzee atop a Parisian Metro sign. Imagine if you try, the nature of Paris that is real and elusive. There, forgotten and remembered memories pose for here and now. There is a unique cadence in every city on every planet- -Its rhythm is laced to the one or one hundred billion who have been or will be hurtled through our universe or another’s. The history of maps, are a map of men and women- -Today’s yesterdays have many maps. My day began at the former home of the dramatist Molière’s for lunch. The day partially ended at another moment- -The Surrealist André Masson hosted me for coffee, cake and a portrait session- -With links to Miro, Dali and Picasso my day became “…merrily, merrily, merrily merrily, Life is but a dream.” Another map to my future’s past. From one arrondisement to another the stroll along Rue de Rivoli followed the sounds that paths made: I heard a collective of cadences: Maybe only Paris can mimic itself each day: Theirs is history I have listened to like an imaginary clock transporting through histories I have known histories I have dreamed about. The way the streets look, as I stride, seemed to suspend time like a bridge over a real true to life folklore: The city streets feel and look like they are filled with armies of fashionable shapeshifters: In every direction, my lens follows, bending for my needs to capture what will be remembered as my Paris in that moment. Once I left Molière’s on Rue de Richelieu, Rue de Rivoli and all of the built history ahead and behind looked like massive tiered towers tossed in and around my mind like globular cluster…

In and Out of the Museum: Klaus Ottmann’s Astonishing Philosophical Art Criticism
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description: Most genres of writing are governed by some principle of unity. The novel traditionally has a plot structure; historical writing tells the story of a place or a national culture; and biographies present the life of a noted person. Even anthologies with multiple authors usually have an organizing theme: recent writing about Nicholas Poussin, say, More The post In and Out of the Museum: Klaus Ottmann’s Astonishing Philosophical Art Criticism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Jessica Pamp. Most genres of writing are governed by some principle of unity. The novel traditionally has a plot structure; historical writing tells the story of a place or a national culture; and biographies present the life of a noted person. Even anthologies with multiple authors usually have an organizing theme: recent writing about Nicholas Poussin, say, or French social history. Collections of single-author art writing are interesting case studies, for then that unifying structure often comes from the writer’s theorizing. What gathers together Charles Baudelaire’s art criticism, Roger Fry’s essays about painting, and Clement Greenberg’s writing for The Nation is, mostly, the development of their theorizing. Baudelaire contrasts the painting of his hero, Eugène Delacroix with the emerging modernism of Édouard Manet. And Fry and Greenberg define their conceptions of formalism. Reference to theorizing often unifies art writing. Arthur Danto’s numerous collections of his critical essays almost inevitably appeal to his canonical account of Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box. And readers of Michael Fried’s books on a myriad of old masters and modernists expect allusion to his contrast between the two modes of composition developed in his early, renowned critique of minimalism. A study of these examples is a good way to identify by contrast what is highly distinctive about In and Out of the Museum. The artists Klaus Ottmann admires are very varied. And so he gives each of them a distinctive, individual focus. They include Wolfgang Laib, a radically self-sufficient figure who gathers elements such as milk, pollen, rice, beeswax, and marble; Christian Marclay, who does video assemblages; Frank Stella, the abstract painter whose later works are relief sculptors; James Lee Byars, whose performances developed his longtime experience of Indian and Japanese culture; the minimalist sculptor Robert Grosvenor; Mark Rothko, the renowned abstract artist; Lawrence Weiner, who did …

The Difference Between LGBT and Queer is a Revolutionary One
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description: Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one cock at least; his husband’s cock. They’ve been married for almost twenty years, have two adopted Filipino children, a labradoodle, and a mid-century More The post The Difference Between LGBT and Queer is a Revolutionary One appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one cock at least; his husband’s cock. They’ve been married for almost twenty years, have two adopted Filipino children, a labradoodle, and a mid-century craftsman with a white picket fence in the suburbs. Joe is also an usher at the local Lutheran church, works 9-to-5 for a Fortune 500 company and votes blue no matter who. Joe is LGBT, but he isn’t Queer. Sue isn’t quite sure what the fuck she is, but she definitely isn’t straight. She fucks guys, lots of guys, sometimes more than one at a time, but she fucks girls too or really anybody willing who happens to turn her on in the right way. She uses she/her pronouns but doesn’t really consider herself to be anymore female than she does straight. She wears a dress but also wears a mohawk, six piercings, and more tattoos than she can count on two hands. She lives in a trailer on the weird side of town with two drag queens she calls sisters and a teenage runaway who calls her mom. Sue hasn’t been to church since she was molested, makes just enough cash to get by making kinky videos on OnlyFans, and wouldn’t vote for another Democrat if you paid her double. Sue has zero interest in mainstream society. Sue may or may not be LGBT, but she is definitely fucking Queer and often feels too Queer for any of those letters. This is a distinction that I feel needs to be made but nobody seems to want to make it because nobody wants to hurt anyone’s feelings. I get it, and the last thing that I want to do here is play the gatekeeper telling who can identify as what and when. But there is a very big difference between being LGBT and being Queer and that difference seems to be growing. So, I feel that a few distinctions need to be made here before we cease to be a community at all. The harsh reality is that while Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender are each specific categories of people …

Reading the Times
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description: Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the New York Times every day on paper. Yes, the paper New York Times still exists! Yikes! And the other day, at the very bottom of page seven of the first section of the Times, I noticed an article by Rebecca Dzombak More The post Reading the Times appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Roman Kraft. Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the New York Times every day on paper. Yes, the paper New York Times still exists! Yikes! And the other day, at the very bottom of page seven of the first section of the Times, I noticed <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8ef4c361-7c22-496b-9ee6-2bd5e68bd4cc?j=eyJ1IjoiY3hzYyJ9.fFDCZd86HpEg4wUdrRqIBWFdQUxLbjfFhZT671sU_AQ" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/8ef4c361-7c22-496b-9ee6-2bd5e68bd4cc?j%3DeyJ1IjoiY3hzYyJ9.fFDCZd86HpEg4wUdrRqIBWFdQUxLbjfFhZT671sU_AQ&source=gmail&ust=1781271824562000&usg=AOvVaw216Psf_LvrSnaDLeL3vF-W">an article by Rebecca Dzombak with this headline: “2025 Wildfires Were World’s Costliest Ever, Study Says, With Populated Areas Hit.” Really? The costliest fires ever? Doesn’t that catch your attention? It certainly did mine! In fact, wouldn’t it catch your attention <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/7342333b-6984-4dbc-8272-24af5c8ce94d?j=eyJ1IjoiY3hzYyJ9.fFDCZd86HpEg4wUdrRqIBWFdQUxLbjfFhZT671sU_AQ" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/7342333b-6984-4dbc-8272-24af5c8ce94d?j%3DeyJ1IjoiY3hzYyJ9.fFDCZd86HpEg4wUdrRqIBWFdQUxLbjfFhZT671sU_AQ&source=gmail&ust=1781271824562000&usg=AOvVaw1bivvFubmoeufmqZf51sYs">more than “President Said to Be Dropping Plans for Fund,” or “<a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d83887cd-6822-4c99-90a4-fe85d9ac81c2?j=eyJ1IjoiY3hzYyJ9.fFDCZd86HpEg4wUdrRqIBWFdQUxLbjfFhZT671sU_AQ" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/d83887cd-6822-4c99-90a4-fe85d9ac81c2?j%3DeyJ1IjoiY3hzYyJ9.fFDCZd86HpEg4wUdrRqIBWFdQUxLbjfFhZT671sU_AQ&source=gmail&ust=1781271824562000&usg=AOvVaw3gmgwPlkJKsgRixF5P6Jv3">In Stalemates, Trump’s Talk Meets Reality,” or, for that matter, <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/339701d3-e250-4613-a103-0488866c3cc5?j=eyJ1IjoiY…

Being Honest With Ourselves 250 Years After July 4, 1776
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description: When we want to believe a “truth” we can deceive ourselves better than any con-man can. We want to believe in the America of the dream. We want to tell our kids America is great. We want it so bad we lie to ourselves about truths that stare us in the face. So the lie More The post Being Honest With Ourselves 250 Years After July 4, 1776 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: When we want to believe a “truth” we can deceive ourselves better than any con-man can. We want to believe in the America of the dream. We want to tell our kids America is great. We want it so bad we lie to ourselves about truths that stare us in the face. So the lie becomes the truth. The Declaration of Independence is a statement of principles about government and the human rights of people that the folks that won the American Revolution proclaimed to the world were the ideas of America they were willing to fight and die for. Once they won the Revolution, the harder work of applying those principles began, and opposition went from the Tories supporting the English Empire to domestic opponents with their own interests and goals. That’s the human condition. The principles declared are pretty simple. First, the human rights of the people come from being a person, and are granted each person by nature’s god. These human rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” exist before government (there are other human rights not named that are included). The people can form a government to protect those rights. A government formed by the people must have the “consent” of the people or the government is not legit. (Without consent any government is a form of slavery.) If the government formed by the people with their consent later becomes destructive of those rights, the government is no longer legit and it is the “right or the duty of the people to alter or abolish it.” Then the people make a new government that better protects those rights. The law making power is in the people and they only delegate it to government so long as government protects the human rights of the people and no longer. Where do these principles stand as the 250th Birthday of the Declaration, July 4, 2026, approaches? A candid, honest assessment is not promising. Consent of the governed? Many people say, “What can I do, I can’t do anything, the government does what it wants and I can’t change…

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections
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description: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s political parties are now in marching order to contest the upcoming local provincial elections scheduled to be held in just over a fortnight. The French High Commission has published an initial list of 24 political groupings are running for a seat in New Caledonia’s three provincial assemblies
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s political parties are now in marching order to contest the upcoming local provincial elections scheduled to be held in just over a fortnight. The French High Commission has published an initial list of 24 political groupings are running for a seat in New Caledonia’s three provincial assemblies (North, South and the outer Loyalty Islands). The list is subject to final verification before the upcoming polls on June 28. READ MORE: Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia Other Kanaky New Caledonia political reports In New Caledonia’s Southern province, there are 40 seats to be filled. After the provincial level poll, 32 will be entitled to sit at New Caledonia’s Congress. The Southern province’s candidates, which is traditionally a pro-France stronghold, will include a “Strong and United” list headed by incumbent Provincial president and pro-France leader, Sonia Backès. The list includes leaders from several of the main components of the pro-France camp: Backès’s Les Loyalistes, Virginie Ruffenach’s Le Rassemblement-LR and New Caledonia’s MP in the French National Assembly, Nicolas Metzdorf’s Génération NC. Economy minister and mayors It also includes current local government Economy Minister Christopher Gygès, as well as pro-France mayors of Greater Nouméa cities of Dumbéa and Mont-Dore (Cynthia Jan and Nina Julié). 24 party lists presented for the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections on June 28. Video: Caledonia TV On the pro-independence side, one of its main components, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) is presenting a “Kanaky for Everyone” (Kanaky Pour Tous or KPT) list headed by a young politician, Johanito Wamytan. The list also includes Union Calédonienne secretary general Dominique Fochi. Other pro-independence parties are the Labour Party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Océanien or the Mouvement des Océaniens Indépendantistes. In the pro-independenc…

New Caledonia’s political parties finalise line-up for provincial elections
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description: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s political parties are now in marching order to contest the upcoming local provincial elections scheduled to be held in just over a fortnight. The French High Commission has published an initial list of 24 political groupings are running for a seat in New Caledonia’s three provincial assemblies
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s political parties are now in marching order to contest the upcoming local provincial elections scheduled to be held in just over a fortnight. The French High Commission has published an initial list of 24 political groupings are running for a seat in New Caledonia’s three provincial assemblies (North, South and the outer Loyalty Islands). The list is subject to final verification before the upcoming polls on June 28. READ MORE: Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia Other Kanaky New Caledonia political reports In New Caledonia’s Southern province, there are 40 seats to be filled. After the provincial level poll, 32 will be entitled to sit at New Caledonia’s Congress. The Southern province’s candidates, which is traditionally a pro-France stronghold, will include a “Strong and United” list headed by incumbent Provincial president and pro-France leader, Sonia Backès. The list includes leaders from several of the main components of the pro-France camp: Backès’s Les Loyalistes, Virginie Ruffenach’s Le Rassemblement-LR and New Caledonia’s MP in the French National Assembly, Nicolas Metzdorf’s Génération NC. Economy minister and mayors It also includes current local government Economy Minister Christopher Gygès, as well as pro-France mayors of Greater Nouméa cities of Dumbéa and Mont-Dore (Cynthia Jan and Nina Julié). 24 party lists presented for the Kanaky New Caledonia provincial elections on June 28. Video: Caledonia TV On the pro-independence side, one of its main components, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) is presenting a “Kanaky for Everyone” (Kanaky Pour Tous or KPT) list headed by a young politician, Johanito Wamytan. The list also includes Union Calédonienne secretary general Dominique Fochi. Other pro-independence parties are the Labour Party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Océanien or the Mouvement des Océaniens Indépendantistes. In the pro-independenc…

Iran Under Siege
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description: Tehran Diaries: Dispatches from Iran Under Siege. By Raha Nik-Andish. New York: OR Books, 2025, 90pp. The text of this small volume dates from April, a “yesterday” that seems eternal, because we understand so little of what is happening in Iran in wartime, and what the Iranians themselves are thinking. The writer, using a pseudonym More The post Iran Under Siege appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Tehran Diaries: Dispatches from Iran Under Siege. By Raha Nik-Andish. New York: OR Books, 2025, 90pp. The text of this small volume dates from April, a “yesterday” that seems eternal, because we understand so little of what is happening in Iran in wartime, and what the Iranians themselves are thinking. The writer, using a pseudonym for obvious reasons, is an art historian and an essayist published in the London Review of Books, among other spots. We hope for his personal security. We enter at a particularly pregnant moment, elaborated here by a three-page preface by another anonymous writer, comrade or admirer of the author. This small text was composed, as explained, during the longest internet blackout since Gaddafi sliced off service by way of Libya in 2011, when the Hillary Clinton-inspired US coup against Libya was underway. Here we are again, or rather, were when this book was composed. In an apparently unending irony, as the author writes about the current day, the blackout has eased somewhat, but the Islamic Republic posts messages on Telegram that hardly reach anyone. In a book composed under such difficulties and thus inherently problematic, something possibly decisive can nevertheless be said. The author struggles to make some sense of things and turns to an intriguing narrative technique. The text moves backward in time, chapter by chapter, through Operation Epic Fury, offering readers an intimate view of where things have been seen and experienced at the ground level. We eventually learn that he has a part-time university teaching job that pays too little to survive, and he also becomes a part-time car-share driver. Raha begins with the announcement of the Ayatollah’s assassination by the Americans and Israelis. People come out on their balconies, unbelieving, just to look around. The Basij paramilitaries, below them on the streets, immediately begin to bash anyone who is seen or heard to be celebrating. The following morning, the mosque down the street…

How violence and stigma undermine the rights of people with albinism in Malawi
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Is Maradona Soccer’s G.O.A.T.?
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description: For years, medical appointments and work obligations sent me into hundreds of New York City taxi rides. In a city where most cabdrivers trace their roots to soccer-loving nations, one detail about my background reliably sparks delight. The moment they learn I am from Argentina, many break into a grin and exclaim, “Maradona!”—a spontaneous homage More The post Is Maradona Soccer’s G.O.A.T.? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. For years, medical appointments and work obligations sent me into hundreds of New York City taxi rides. In a city where most cabdrivers trace their roots to soccer-loving nations, one detail about my background reliably sparks delight. The moment they learn I am from Argentina, many break into a grin and exclaim, “Maradona!”—a spontaneous homage to a player whose name still carries the force of revelation. Few athletes have delivered joy on the scale Diego Armando Maradona once did. I owe him a debt myself. Years ago, while leaving Bangladesh—a country where soccer devotion runs deep—a customs officer berated me for lacking a required form. His anger rose, and so did my fear of spending the night in a Dhaka jail. Then he asked where I was from. “Argentina,” I whispered. His expression softened instantly. “Maradona’s country,” he said, waving me through. Maradona’s story began far from the global spotlight. Born in 1960 in Lanús, outside Buenos Aires, and raised in a shantytown, he joined Los Cebollitas at age 8 and helped the youth team compile an astonishing 141-match unbeaten streak. He later starred for Argentinos Juniors and then Boca Juniors, where he delivered a league title. His precocity was such that the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano once observed, “By night he slept with his arms around a ball and by day he performed miracles with it.” Europe soon came calling. Barcelona paid a world record fee for him, and he rewarded the club with two trophies, both won against Real Madrid. But it was in Naples, with a struggling Napoli side, that Maradona reshaped a city’s identity. Under his leadership, Napoli won its first Serie A title in 1986 87, followed by the Coppa Italia. More silverware followed: another league championship in 1989 90 and the Italian Super Cup. A Vietnamese fan once described him as “a one-man orchestra,” adding that Maradona “could play with a team of corpses and still make them champions.” His time in Napl…

Madison Square Garden’s invasive surveillance network
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What is Up with Ivanka and Jared’s Albanian Island? – TEASER
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description: We dive into Ivanka and Jared's Albanian nightmare. What were they really up to while trying to develop a private island in Albania on protected land, and what are the ramifications of this secret operation in the broader war of democracy vs. fascism? Why are they trying to buy an island in a part of the world notorious for sex trafficking? These questions matter in light of Ivanka's brother marrying Epstein's longtime banker, and the new bombshell reporting out of the New York Times. The Times reports that the Kremlin Klown Kar (KKK) in the White House uses our tax payer-funded Situation Room–meant for sensitive national security matters–to plot the ongoing Epstein cover-up, protecting Epstein's longtime friend, convicted felon Donald Trump. Look to the show notes for a gift link of the New York Times' reporting. For this week's bonus show, Russian mafia expert Ogla Lautman helps connect the dots on what is up with Ivanka and Jared's mysterious island in Albania, a part of the world known for sex-trafficking. Should we be concerned? The Albanian people are–they're storming their own government in a growing anti-corruption movement over Jared and Ivanka's attempts to buy an ecologically protected island. We also discuss Ben Black, Leon Black's son, getting a job in the Trump administration. Both father and son are all over the Epstein files. To listen to this full episode and support our independent journalism, subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com – thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Show Notes: Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files The president's top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pVA.8Bpw._gUv6lvoFPWC&smid=url-share Situation Room Scramble Ove…
encoded: We dive into Ivanka and Jared's Albanian nightmare. What were they really up to while trying to develop a private island in Albania on protected land, and what are the ramifications of this secret operation in the broader war of democracy vs. fascism? Why are they trying to buy an island in a part of the world notorious for sex trafficking? These questions matter in light of Ivanka's brother marrying Epstein's longtime banker, and the new bombshell reporting out of the New York Times. The Times reports that the Kremlin Klown Kar (KKK) in the White House uses our tax payer-funded Situation Room–meant for sensitive national security matters–to plot the ongoing Epstein cover-up, protecting Epstein's longtime friend, convicted felon Donald Trump. Look to the show notes for a gift link of the New York Times' reporting. For this week's bonus show, Russian mafia expert Ogla Lautman helps connect the dots on what is up with Ivanka and Jared's mysterious island in Albania, a part of the world known for sex-trafficking. Should we be concerned? The Albanian people are–they're storming their own government in a growing anti-corruption movement over Jared and Ivanka's attempts to buy an ecologically protected island. We also discuss Ben Black, Leon Black's son, getting a job in the Trump administration. Both father and son are all over the Epstein files. To listen to this full episode and support our independent journalism, subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com – thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Show Notes: Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files The president's top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pVA.8Bpw._gUv6lvoFPWC&smid=url-share Situation Room Scramble Ove…

Interviewing the creator behind Iran’s viral lego videos
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Fighting for Care
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creator: Grace Mayer
date: 2026-06-11T21:50:58Z
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description: Bans on gender-affirming care leave transgender patients and health care providers with few options.
encoded: Bans on gender-affirming care leave transgender patients and health care providers with few options. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Grace Mayer.

The Equity Docket: Fast-Tracking Exclusion
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description: The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais and the subsequent redistricting by state legislatures demonstrates the expediency of modern disenfranchisement.
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Don’t Ax Proven Ways to End Homelessness
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creator: Alfredo Reyes Jr.
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description: The Trump Administration is attacking the programs that helped Americans like me.
encoded: The Trump Administration is attacking the programs that helped Americans like me. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Alfredo Reyes Jr..

Warner and Himes Gush Over Trump’s Epstein Hatchet Man Jay Clayton
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date: 2026-06-11T20:29:03Z
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description: On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to be Director of National Intelligence. Last year, former Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned Clayton to carry out Trump’s directive to inve...
encoded: On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to be Director of National Intelligence. Last year, former Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned Clayton to carry out Trump’s directive to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Democrats—an investigation that legal experts have warned could be a pretext to withhold some of the Epstein files. After the recent elections in California, Clayton also recently encouraged conspiracy theories about voter fraud saying “the American people are right to question it.” After Trump’s announcement, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said he has “great respect” for Clayton and Rep. Jim Himes (D-NH) said Clayton’s record “will make him a terrific DNI.” Both Warner and Himes have worked with Republican leadership to hand Trump warrantless surveillance powers through Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka: “No Democrat should find solace in the fact that Trump has once again named a partisan hatchet man to be the nation’s top spy. Just as Trump asked Bill Pulte to investigate Letitia James and Adam Schiff, he also has asked Jay Clayton to investigate Democrats’ ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The fact that Sen. Warner and Rep. Himes would gush so effusively over Clayton shows their clear desire to sabotage a deal on FISA privacy reforms and hand President Trump the unfettered surveillance powers that he is asking for. Both Pulte and Clayton have already shown that they will carry out Trump’s directive to weaponize the government against his political enemies. Putting either of them at ODNI at a time when Trump is asking for warrantless surveillance powers through FISA is too big of a risk.” A robust set of resources on the need for privacy reforms for FISA are available here and here, and additional background, context, polling, reform demands, resources and other information is available here. A vi…

"Our Weapon Is AI" | Iran’s Viral Meme Warriors Interviewed by Shane Smith & Andrew Callaghan
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[Renée DiResta] Propaganda: Laundering Narratives
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date: 2026-06-11T20:12:28Z
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description: Many people, when they hear the word propaganda, immediately associate it with Nazi Germany and torchlight parades or Putin reviewing the troops in Red Square. But propaganda has Roman Catholic church origins going as far back as 1622, when Pope Gregor...
encoded: Many people, when they hear the word propaganda, immediately associate it with Nazi Germany and torchlight parades or Putin reviewing the troops in Red Square. But propaganda has Roman Catholic church origins going as far back as 1622, when Pope Gregory issued a proclamation using the term to exhort the faithful to propagate the faith. Today, propaganda is disseminated far and wide through the internet. It is used by autocrats to shield themselves and their policies from public view. Bots are at work. Malicious actors spread fake news. Deceptive techniques are so sophisticated that it is sometimes difficult to separate fact from fiction. Misinformation is eroding public trust in institutions and stressing and straining democracy. Stories are planted, rumors are spread, lies are told, and narratives are laundered. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

The New Documentary ‘An Ordinary Insanity’
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date: 2026-06-11T19:41:56Z
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NYC journalist shoved, pepper-sprayed while covering NBA watch party
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date: 2026-06-11T19:24:45Z
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description: Dean Moses, amNewYork’s police bureau chief and resident photographer, was pushed by a police officer and doused with pepper spray while covering clashes between police and fans at a basketball watch party in New York, New York, on June 8, 2026.Fans ga...
encoded: Dean Moses, amNewYork’s police bureau chief and resident photographer, was pushed by a police officer and doused with pepper spray while covering clashes between police and fans at a basketball watch party in New York, New York, on June 8, 2026. Fans gathered in and around Bryant Park in Manhattan to watch Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, amNewYork reported. There was a heightened law enforcement presence that night, as President Donald Trump attended the game itself around 10 blocks away. As the night wore on — and the Knicks lost the game — some people in the crowd became disorderly and violent, blocking traffic and climbing on top of police vehicles, according to news reports. The New York City Police Department said 21 people were arrested. According to amNewYork, at one point, a crowd of people spilled out onto a street and a group of officers was surrounded. One officer “became enraged with members of the media, pushing an amNewYork photographer and screaming, ‘Get that flash out of my face.’” Moses confirmed to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he was the photographer who was pushed, saying the officer claimed he was “blinding him” with the flash. The NYPD then used pepper spray to try to push back fans and press. “He also did get myself and a few other press with the pepper spray,” Moses continued, adding that he turned his head as the irritant was fired, so it got in his hair. “They certainly knew we were press and still aimed toward us,” he said. The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment about Moses’ assault. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Israel to integrate with US military, infiltrate Albania
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-06-11T19:10:53Z
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Reporter knocked down by police, fired at with flash bang at New Jersey protest
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date: 2026-06-11T18:30:16Z
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description: Independent journalist Nick Valencia was shoved to the ground by a police officer and targeted with a crowd-control munition while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on M...
encoded: Independent journalist Nick Valencia was shoved to the ground by a police officer and targeted with a crowd-control munition while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 29, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Valencia, a former CNN correspondent, was wearing a jacket marking himself as a member of the press while covering the May 29 protest. After authorities issued dispersal orders, Valencia recorded interactions between law enforcement and demonstrators. He said he repeatedly asked officers where members of the press could position themselves to continue documenting the protest but received no clear guidance. One commanding officer told him that everyone — including journalists — was subject to the dispersal orders. “They were not acknowledging me when I said I was press,” Valencia later told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. In a video he posted on Facebook, Valencia, who was wearing a gas mask, violently chokes after chemical irritants were sprayed into the air. He can also be clearly heard shouting, “I’m press! I’m press!” as officers with shields push through the crowd. He tells one officer, “I’m independent media. I’m allowed to be here.” As state police moved to clear the area, Valencia remained out of the way, on a public sidewalk. He described on video as officers pushed demonstrators and mounted police advanced into the crowd. At one point, a flash-bang device was fired directly toward Valencia and exploded nearby. “I don’t know how I wasn’t hit,” …

Uyghur human rights activist condemns death sentences in Bangkok bombing
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creator: Pimuk Rakkanam and Shohret Hoshur for RFA
date: 2026-06-11T18:16:57Z
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description: Rebiya Kadeer tells RFA she wants scrutiny of the legal process, key evidence of 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing.
encoded: A Bangkok court on Thursday sentenced two Uyghur men to death for triggering the bomb explosion which killed twenty and injured over a hundred others over a decade ago. “The deaths and injuries caused by the attack were a terrible tragedy, and the victims and their families deserve justice,” Rebiya Kadeer of the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation (IUHRDF) told RFA. “However, justice cannot be achieved through proceedings that leave significant questions unanswered regarding due process, the treatment of defendants, and the reliability of key evidence,” Kadeer added. The Erawan shrine in Bangkok the morning after an explosion, Aug. 18, 2015. (Christophe Archambault/AFP) No group claimed responsibility for the Erawan Shrine bombing in central Bangkok on Aug. 17, 2015, but speculation called it an act of retaliation against the forced deportation of more than 109 Uyghurs from Thailand a month earlier. Shortly after the bombing, Thai police named 17 suspects. Arrested were two Uyghurs, Adem Karadag (alias Bilal Mohammed) and Yusufu Mieraili, who went on trial in 2016 for planting explosives. Both have denied all charges brought against them Upon hearing the verdict, Mieraili shouted “injustice!” in the courtroom in both English and Thai. “RIP Thailand’s justice system. I don’t accept any of this,” Mieraili added. “I didn’t do anything wrong.” Adem Karadag (alias Bilal Mohammed), left, and Yusufu Mieraili during a Feb.16, 2016, appearance at a Thai military court. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP) During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Mieraili and Karadag had been near the shrine around the time of the explosion, that they had communicated with each other by telephone, and that a taxi driver had transported them away from the area after the incident. The judges stated that although the defendants had denied committing the crime, they had failed to refute the evidence presented against them. The court granted both men 30 days to file an appeal.…

Trump calls off Iran strikes, says agreement reached to end war – June 11, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump calls off Iran strikes, says agreement reached to end war. House votes down FISA extension in bipartisan rebuke of Trump’s intel...
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This unfathomably huge fungal network keeps Earth cool and green
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-06-11T18:00:00Z
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description: Spanning 110 quadrillion kilometers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are critical allies of plants. They also transport an enormous amount of planet-warming carbon.
encoded: Even if you don’t like eating mushrooms, you’re in debt to fungi. One group of them, known as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, form vast subterranean networks of tubes called hyphae, hooking up with the roots of plants to exchange nutrients. Earth is so verdant in large part thanks to these partnerships, as this expansive infrastructure is associated with nearly three-quarters of all plant species. But because the network sprawls underground, it’s been difficult for scientists to determine just how much arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is out there. (Good luck digging everywhere on the planet and taking samples.) Scientists have developed a workaround, which has produced some astonishing numbers. Using machine learning models, they’ve estimated that worldwide, the arbuscular mycorrhizal network stretches for 110 quadrillion kilometers, almost a billion times the distance from Earth to the sun. (Scoop up just a teaspoon of soil and you might find 10 meters of fungal strands.) Every year, these fungi shuttle around 4 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 11 percent of humanity’s CO2 emissions. Because scientists have already taken thousands upon thousands of samples around the world, the researchers could train the models to build maps (you can play with them here) that predict where these fungi are more or less concentrated, even in the most remote environments. “We have started to have a clear picture of the full extent of these hidden living infrastructures that circulate carbon and nutrients in the soils beneath our feet,” said Toby Kiers, executive director of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and coauthor of the new paper, which published today in the journal Science. In this map, brighter yellow spots indicate higher densities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Courtesy of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks There are two major classes of mycorrhizal species. The ectomycorrhizal fungi grow as sheaths around a plant’s roots, espe…

UN News Today 11 June 2026
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creator: Jolina Dong
date: 2026-06-11T17:23:45Z
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description: Global refugee numbers drop for first time in a decadeTransboundary animal diseases threaten livelihoodsHeatwaves in Europe are becoming a recurring public health crisis
encoded: Global refugee numbers drop for first time in a decadeTransboundary animal diseases threaten livelihoodsHeatwaves in Europe are becoming a recurring public health crisis This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Jolina Dong.

Corporate Tax Dodgers’ Lobbying and Political Spending Records Reveal ‘Self-Reinforcing Loop’
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-06-11T17:19:20Z
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description: Today, Public Citizen released a new report analyzing the lobbying and political spending of 88 corporations that paid zero in corporate income taxes in 2025. The corporations in question were identified in a recent report by the Institute on Taxation...
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Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’ struggles
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-06-11T17:00:43Z
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subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
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description: By Stephanie Westbrook of PACBI As FIFA Men’s World Cup begins, millions around the world gather to cheer for their favorite teams. Let’s use the occasion to protest host nation the United States, the top supporter of Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime and financier of its military machine, and the US-Israeli imposed might-makes-right order. Let’s raise
encoded: By Stephanie Westbrook of PACBI As FIFA Men’s World Cup begins, millions around the world gather to cheer for their favorite teams. Let’s use the occasion to protest host nation the United States, the top supporter of Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime and financier of its military machine, and the US-Israeli imposed might-makes-right order. Let’s raise our voices against those who seek to strip us of our right to self-determination. READ MORE: 20 years of the BDS movement Ban apartheid Israel from sports World celebrates, but Gaza watches the World Cup from a distance – Al Jazeera FIFA and Trump believe a World Cup is enough to silence the cries of entire peoples. Force does not make right, and grand stadiums cannot silence history and our ongoing struggles. Israel continues its genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, bombs Lebanese cities, strikes Yemen, joins the US in attacking Iran, and extends its expansionist ambitions to Syria, Iraq, alongside US threats against the peoples of Greenland, Cuba, and Venezuela, and US-Israeli criminal interference across Latin America. It is clear that this is the agenda of one system, operating on the principle that might makes right, and that whoever holds the weapons and the money controls the narrative and the fate of people across the globe. Let’s not drop the ball during this period but escalate our efforts to isolate Israel’s genocidal settler-colonial regime and its supporters and use the World Cup to shine a spotlight on Israel’s crimes against Palestinians and FIFA’s complicity in normalising the US-Israeli might-makes-right order. Let us amplify our calls to boycott Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime and all corporations and bodies affiliated with or supporting it, foremost among them Reebok, the official sponsor of the Israel Football Association, and all those who whitewash Israeli crimes with a brand name or sponsorship deal. Sports arenas are not above politics; they are p…

Trump’s World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples’ struggles
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-06-11T17:00:43Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Boycott Israeli Apartheid
subject: FIFA World Cup
subject: Freedom and justice
subject: Israel Football Association
subject: Israeli settler colonial project
subject: PACBI
subject: Palestine liberation
subject: Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
subject: Social Media Storm
subject: Sources
subject: academic
subject: and
subject: Apartheid
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: association
subject: Boycott
subject: campaign
subject: colonial
subject: cultural
subject: Culture
subject: cup
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
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subject: Freedom
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Innovation
subject: israel
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subject: liberation
subject: Media
subject: military
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subject: people’s
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subject: storm
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description: By Stephanie Westbrook of PACBI As FIFA Men’s World Cup begins, millions around the world gather to cheer for their favorite teams. Let’s use the occasion to protest host nation the United States, the top supporter of Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime and financier of its military machine, and the US-Israeli imposed might-makes-right order. Let’s raise
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Will Congress Renew Controversial Surveillance Law? Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cindy Cohn
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T16:58:24Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: controversial
subject: Democracy
subject: electronic
subject: Foundations
subject: frontier
subject: Law
subject: now
subject: renew
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subject: Surveillance
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"Keep the Game Beautiful": Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T16:53:30Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: could
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subject: cup
subject: Democracy
subject: fifa
subject: game
subject: greed
subject: ice
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subject: now
subject: sources
subject: spoil
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subject: why
subject: World
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European Commission Invites Taliban Delegation For Migration Talks
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date: 2026-06-11T16:43:30Z
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subject: Migration
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subject: sources
subject: taliban
subject: talks
subject: watch
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World Cup Kicks Off in Mexico Amid Protests Against Austerity and Forced Disappearances
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T16:40:37Z
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FIFA’s "dynamic pricing" means major increase in World Cup ticket costs
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T16:33:08Z
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subject: cup
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subject: now
subject: pricing
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subject: ticket,
subject: World
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"World Cup of Exclusion": Games Begin Amid U.S. Visa Restrictions, High Ticket Costs & Iran War
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T16:07:59Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: costs
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subject: Democracy
subject: exclusion
subject: Games
subject: high
subject: iran
subject: now
subject: restrictions
subject: sources
subject: ticket,
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subject: war
subject: World
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Google’s new AI-fueled search bar threatens to further upend journalism industry
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creator: Negin Owliaei, Maya Schenwar, Truthout, and Ziggy West Jeffery
date: 2026-06-11T16:00:16Z
subject: AI
subject: article
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subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: aifueled
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subject: bar
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subject: google’s
subject: Industry
subject: journalism
subject: movements
subject: new
subject: Opinion
subject: Politics
subject: reprint
subject: search
subject: sources
subject: threatens
subject: upend
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"They Have Never Faced an Adversary Like Iran": Rami Khouri on Latest U.S.-Iran Strikes
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T15:52:56Z
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A history of free speech, from abolitionists to Berkeley
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creator: Michael Fox and Marc Steiner
date: 2026-06-11T15:43:43Z
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The Sycophancy Machine
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-06-11T15:00:18Z
subject: Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics
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subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: censored
subject: dispatches
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subject: Media
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description: The trope of a flattering court surrounding an individual in power commonly appears in folktales, dictatorships, and toxic corporate culture, encouraged by leaders who believe they’re too big to fail. The consequences of stifling dissent a leadership d...
encoded: The trope of a flattering court surrounding an individual in power commonly appears in folktales, dictatorships, and toxic corporate culture, encouraged by leaders who believe they’re too big to fail. The consequences of stifling dissent a leadership doesn’t want to hear can be grim, with unfortunate endings in bankruptcy, plane… The post The Sycophancy Machine appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 11, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T14:58:19Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: Democracy
subject: headlines
subject: june
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: top
subject: World
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Photojournalist struck with baton, flash damaged by federal officer
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-06-11T14:40:28Z
subject: Equipment Damage
subject: Sources
subject: assault
subject: baton
subject: damage
subject: damaged
subject: equipment
subject: federal
subject: flash
subject: officer
subject: photojournalist
subject: sources
subject: struck
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description: A freelance photojournalist, who asked not to be identified because of their immigration status, was sprayed with chemical irritants and hit with a baton by federal officers, damaging their camera flash, while covering protests outside a private immigr...
encoded: A freelance photojournalist, who asked not to be identified because of their immigration status, was sprayed with chemical irritants and hit with a baton by federal officers, damaging their camera flash, while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. The photojournalist told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that they were on assignment for a wire agency covering protests outside the facility that day. The photographer noted that they were sprayed with a chemical irritant, but could not say whether they had been deliberately targeted. While they were standing alongside fellow photographers Mostafa Bassim and Ryan Murphy, they said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers charged them. “All three of us were hit in the same rush,” the photojournalist said. “An agent came and aimed at our cameras. He hit the top of my camera, and smashed and broke my flash transmitter with his baton.” The photojournalist told the Tracker he believes the same officer struck Murphy’s hand, sending his flash flying and causing a deep gash in his middle finger, while a second sliced Bassim’s lens in half. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the sta…

Screwworm parasite ‘no longer contained in Texas’ as Trump USDA doubles down on efforts to blame Biden
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Photojournalist, camera targeted with pepper spray by federal officer
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description: A freelance photojournalist, who asked not to be identified because of their immigration status, was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on M...
encoded: A freelance photojournalist, who asked not to be identified because of their immigration status, was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 27, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. The photojournalist told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that they were on assignment for a wire agency when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer targeted them with pepper spray, aiming directly at their camera’s lens. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those dangers to those exercising protected First Amendment rights.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Trump’s MAGA 250: Administration Awards More than $100 Million in Federal Contracts to Politicized Network
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description: The Trump administration has awarded nearly $103 million in federal contracts and grants for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations to a network of politicized entities under the control of Trump administration officials and political allies, acc...
encoded: The Trump administration has awarded nearly $103 million in federal contracts and grants for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations to a network of politicized entities under the control of Trump administration officials and political allies, according to a new report released today by Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project. Of the $126 million in grants awarded to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, over 80% of the awards have gone to build out a politicized series of events, at the public’s expense, according to the report. Among the recipients of the federal grants are entities controlled or influenced by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Trump’s former campaign manager Chris LaCivita, and Meredith O’Rourke, Trump’s former presidential campaign finance director. Trump has spent the first years of his second administration turning the 250th celebrations into a celebration of his supporters and of himself — as evidenced by this weekend’s White House lawn cage match fight on Trump’s birthday. After an unsuccessful attempt to take over the bipartisan, Congressionally-authorized America 250 nonprofit, the Trump administration bypassed the entity, creating a new, opaque organization known as Freedom 250. Freedom 250 displaced America 250 as the Trump Administration’s preferred partner in the 250th anniversary celebrations, a preference made clear by actions like linking to Freedom 250 at the bottom of the White House’s landing page. Freedom 250 is also gaining financial support from a host of large corporations. Among the donors to Freedom 250, corporations that face major federal regulatory issues, including ExxonMobil, Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and United Airlines have contributed undisclosed sums with no oversight. Freedom 250, for its part, has been directly allocated at least $79 million in federal funds, with one $10 million grant dispensed to the National Park Foundation to support a “Freedom Truc…

Fired & Jailed: Attacks on Free Speech Under Trump | Ep. 1
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Will Congress Renew Controversial Surveillance Law? Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cindy Cohn
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description: A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Friday unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Section 702 allows for the warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals believed to be outside of the U.S., yet, in pr...
encoded: A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Friday unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Section 702 allows for the warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals believed to be outside of the U.S., yet, in practice, it also sweeps up and stores vast amounts of data from people inside the country, including their emails, texts and cellphone data. The FISA provision was enacted in 2008 to legalize George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program that was developed after 9/11. A bipartisan group of senators is opposing the reauthorization of Section 702 due to President Trump’s naming of MAGA loyalist Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation in May. Pulte has no known background in intelligence. He currently serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he has used his position to carry out Trump’s campaign of retribution against his political enemies. “It took this nomination of a completely unqualified guy to get enough members of Congress to really stop [Section 702],” says Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “It’s time to take a look and listen hard about the privacy protections that are needed, at a minimum, for this program to go forward.” Cohn notes that the “massive national security surveillance state that was built after 9/11 has always been a threat to freedom.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Keep the Game Beautiful”: Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup
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date: 2026-06-11T12:42:51Z
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description: “People are really, really afraid … that ICE will go and raid communities where people are watching and gathering together” to watch the FIFA World Cup, says Nelini Stamp. She is an organizer with the Our Copa campaign, a grassroot...
encoded: “People are really, really afraid … that ICE will go and raid communities where people are watching and gathering together” to watch the FIFA World Cup, says Nelini Stamp. She is an organizer with the Our Copa campaign, a grassroots initiative that aims to protect immigrant fans, center the sport’s working-class roots, and host accessible local watch parties during the World Cup. “We will keep each other safe as much as possible during these games,” says Stamp. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

World Cup Kicks Off in Mexico Amid Protests Against Austerity and Forced Disappearances
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T12:32:39Z
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description: We continue our World Cup coverage in Mexico City, where local protesters are using the global event to bring attention to their causes. A sit-in by a teachers’ union is targeting World Cup festivities. And “the mothers of disappea...
encoded: We continue our World Cup coverage in Mexico City, where local protesters are using the global event to bring attention to their causes. A sit-in by a teachers’ union is targeting World Cup festivities. And “the mothers of disappeared people have been protesting, trying to reach the stadium in the far south of the city,” says José Luis Granados Ceja, who covers Latin America for Drop Site News. Meanwhile, due to high ticket prices, “the people who love this sport are not going to be able to attend the games. They have been extraordinarily inaccessible to the population,” adds Granados Cejas. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“World Cup of Exclusion”: Games Begin Amid U.S. Visa Restrictions, High Ticket Costs & Iran War
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-11T12:22:03Z
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description: The FIFA World Cup kicks off today with two games in Mexico. This will be the biggest World Cup in history, with teams from 48 countries playing over 100 games in 16 host cities across Canada, Mexico and the United States. With a new FIFA pric...
encoded: The FIFA World Cup kicks off today with two games in Mexico. This will be the biggest World Cup in history, with teams from 48 countries playing over 100 games in 16 host cities across Canada, Mexico and the United States. With a new FIFA pricing system in place, tickets are significantly more expensive for this World Cup than for previous tournaments. And Trump’s harsh immigration policies are having another chilling effect on the games. Out of the 39 countries under either a full or partial U.S. travel ban, four — Iran, Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal — are expected to play in the World Cup. Players from the latter three countries received visa exemptions, while the Iranian team must train in Tijuana, Mexico. “This World Cup is shaping up to be one of extreme exclusion,” says author and former professional soccer player Jules Boykoff. “Working-class fans basically have no chance of buying a ticket to these games … and you have people who have chosen not to come to the United States because they fear getting scooped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Middle East Tensions Escalate As US, Iran Exchange Strikes For Second Day | US Iran Update #shorts
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“They Have Never Faced an Adversary Like Iran”: Rami Khouri on Latest U.S.-Iran Strikes
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date: 2026-06-11T12:10:48Z
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description: The U.S. struck Iran on Wednesday for a second day in a row, and President Trump is threatening more strikes. Iran has claimed it launched retaliatory missiles at a U.S. Navy fleet in Bahrain, as well as at U.S. air bases in Kuwait and Jordan....
encoded: The U.S. struck Iran on Wednesday for a second day in a row, and President Trump is threatening more strikes. Iran has claimed it launched retaliatory missiles at a U.S. Navy fleet in Bahrain, as well as at U.S. air bases in Kuwait and Jordan. Iran has also declared the complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, despite claims by the U.S. that it now effectively controls the strait. Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the U.S. strikes have rendered the ceasefire “practically meaningless.” The last time that the U.S. and Iran spoke directly was in April, but talks have been continuing through intermediaries. It is Israel, not the U.S. and Iran, that doesn’t want the war to end, argues journalist Rami Khouri. “Israel has made it clear that it’s not going to do what the U.S. tells it,” says Khouri. He adds that the U.S. doesn’t know how to get out of the war or how to “rein in” Israel. “So, I expect we’re going to see a continuation of these tit-for-tat military strikes.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for June 11, 2026
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description: U.S. Continues to Strike Iran for a Second Day in a Row, U.S. Attacks Tanker Off the Coast of Oman, Killing 3 Indian Sailors, Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank, FBI Conducts Raids of Pro-Palestinian Activists in Michigan, Anti-Immigrant Riots Continue in Belfast as Police Deploy Water Cannons to Quell Second Night of Unrest, U.S. Inflation Hits Highest Level in 3 Years Driven by Increasing Gas Prices, New Jersey Health Inspectors Find Unsafe and Unsanitary Food Prep at Delaney Hall, GAO Report Finds Sweeping Failures at ICE Jail in Fort Bliss, Texas, U.S. Measles Cases Top 2,000 for Second Straight Year, NYT: RFK Jr. Disengaged in Running Health and Human Services Department
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Democracy Now! 2026-06-11 Thursday
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Tunisian journalist Khaoula Boukrim sentenced in absentia to 4 years in prison
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-06-11T11:10:50Z
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description: New York, June 11, 2026 — Tunisian authorities should immediately overturn the four-year prison sentence imposed in absentia on prominent journalist Khaoula Boukrim, founder of local independent news website TUMEDIA, and stop using cybercrime Decree-Law 54 to prosecute journalists and critics for their reporting and expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Boukrim, who...
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Why Albania Is Fighting With Iran Right Now #politics #shorts
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Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God
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description: In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the spotlight. From the Chagos islands to the South China Sea, a string of islands have been thrust suddenly onto the frontline of geopolitics. Now a long-simmering tussle over two rocky islands is creating tension in the South
encoded: In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the spotlight. From the Chagos islands to the South China Sea, a string of islands have been thrust suddenly onto the frontline of geopolitics. Now a long-simmering tussle over two rocky islands is creating tension in the South Pacific. Ben Bohane investigates. SPECIAL REPORT: By Ben Bohane South of Vanuatu, in deep ocean teeming with fish and birdlife, lie two contested islands being fought over by Vanuatu (population 350,000) and France, which has the largest EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) in the world, totalling 11 million square kilometres. Little wonder Vanuatu is framing this as a “David versus Goliath” fight. Vanuatu calls these islands by their ancient kastom names: Umaenupne and Umaeneg. On most maps, however, they are called by what British sea captains named them: Matthew and Hunter islands. France has controlled them since 1965. READ MORE: France in the Pacific and decolonisation Other Ben Bohane articles at Asia Pacific Report France derives much prestige, wealth and a permanent UN Security Council seat thanks to its overseas territories and vast maritime domain, spread across multiple oceans. Now some politicians and security analysts in France are worried these two islands taken from Vanuatu before its independence in 1980 could prompt sovereignty claims in other jurisdictions, from Mexico to Madagascar, if Matthew and Hunter are returned to Vanuatu. Responding to a story in Le Figaro newspaper that discussed the possibility of French President Emmanuel Macron ceding these islands as a “major symbolic turning point”, French far-right politician Marie Le Pen tweeted in December last year: “Let’s be clear: national sovereignty is not negotiable and cannot be surrendered. The French people do not expect Macron’s government to carve up our overseas territories, which are real levers of power, influence and economic development, behind their backs, but to give itsel…

Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God
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description: In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the spotlight. From the Chagos islands to the South China Sea, a string of islands have been thrust suddenly onto the frontline of geopolitics. Now a long-simmering tussle over two rocky islands is creating tension in the South
encoded: In the great expanse of oceans, a number of small, remote islands are having their moment in the spotlight. From the Chagos islands to the South China Sea, a string of islands have been thrust suddenly onto the frontline of geopolitics. Now a long-simmering tussle over two rocky islands is creating tension in the South Pacific. Ben Bohane investigates. SPECIAL REPORT: By Ben Bohane South of Vanuatu, in deep ocean teeming with fish and birdlife, lie two contested islands being fought over by Vanuatu (population 350,000) and France, which has the largest EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) in the world, totalling 11 million square kilometres. Little wonder Vanuatu is framing this as a “David versus Goliath” fight. Vanuatu calls these islands by their ancient kastom names: Umaenupne and Umaeneg. On most maps, however, they are called by what British sea captains named them: Matthew and Hunter islands. France has controlled them since 1965. READ MORE: France in the Pacific and decolonisation Other Ben Bohane articles at Asia Pacific Report France derives much prestige, wealth and a permanent UN Security Council seat thanks to its overseas territories and vast maritime domain, spread across multiple oceans. Now some politicians and security analysts in France are worried these two islands taken from Vanuatu before its independence in 1980 could prompt sovereignty claims in other jurisdictions, from Mexico to Madagascar, if Matthew and Hunter are returned to Vanuatu. Responding to a story in Le Figaro newspaper that discussed the possibility of French President Emmanuel Macron ceding these islands as a “major symbolic turning point”, French far-right politician Marie Le Pen tweeted in December last year: “Let’s be clear: national sovereignty is not negotiable and cannot be surrendered. The French people do not expect Macron’s government to carve up our overseas territories, which are real levers of power, influence and economic development, behind their backs, but to give itsel…

DN! Thursday, June 11, 2026
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Chicken heads sent to Indonesian news outlet after threats over coverage of Papua documentary
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-06-11T09:40:07Z
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description: Jakarta, June 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the repeated harassment of Indonesian news site Floresa following its coverage of an investigative documentary about deforestation in Papua province caused by aggressive agribusiness expansion. On June 5, a Floresa journalist discovered three rotten chicken heads outside the outlet’s office in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara,...
encoded: Jakarta, June 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the repeated harassment of Indonesian news site Floresa following its coverage of an investigative documentary about deforestation in Papua province caused by aggressive agribusiness expansion. On June 5, a Floresa journalist discovered three rotten chicken heads outside the outlet’s office in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, in an act of intimidation that echoed the severed pig’s head delivered to leading independent news outlet Tempo last year. On the same day, eggs were thrown at a coffee shop operated by Floresa next door. The incidents followed threatening text message sent last month to editor-in-chief Ryan Dagur Flores, Floresa said. “The threats against Floresa are a frightening reminder of the intimidation Indonesian journalists regularly face,” said CPJ’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Beh Lih Yi. “Authorities must take action to show this type of harassment is unacceptable, and ensure a free and tolerant environment for the press that’s consistent with the country’s reputation as a vibrant democracy.” Floresa editor Anno Susabun said he suspected the threats were related to recent stories about the documentary film “Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme di Zaman Kita” (Pesta Babi: Colonialism in Our Time), which spotlights indigenous communities resisting the environmental and cultural impact of state-backed agricultural projects in Papua. The documentary, which has been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube, has triggered backlash and censorship from Indonesian authorities, while the filmmakers have faced intimidation and harassment. Screenings of the film have been held in about 800 locations around Indonesia and at least 50 of them have been disbanded, mostly by the military. Susabun told CPJ that, on May 13, Flores received a threatening WhatsApp message from someone claiming to be from the National Police’s Cybercrime Directorate. The message contained Flores’ personal data, including his…

Lawmaker Pushes for Ban on Special Treatment for Convicted Drug Traffickers After ProPublica Report
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creator: Keri Blakinger
date: 2026-06-11T09:00:00Z
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description: The post Lawmaker Pushes for Ban on Special Treatment for Convicted Drug Traffickers After ProPublica Report appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Rep. Norma Torres holds a printout of ProPublica’s reporting on the special treatment given to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president who was pardoned of a drug conviction. Screenshot via House Appropriations Committee/YouTube A federal lawmaker is pushing for a provision that would bar the Federal Bureau of Prisons from offering taxpayer-funded VIP perks to pardoned drug lords and child traffickers. Rep. Norma Torres, a California Democrat, introduced the measure last month as an amendment to a House appropriations bill, telling her colleagues that there “should never be preferential treatment for narco leaders.” The move comes in response to ProPublica reporting on the special treatment extended to one high-profile pardon recipient — former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was released from a federal penitentiary late last year. Less than 18 months earlier, Hernández had been sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking bribes and allowing drug traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. while he was in office. But after President Donald Trump pardoned him in December, the Central American strongman — who has long maintained his innocence — got what Torres and others have described as the “red carpet” treatment. On the day of his release, ProPublica found, Hernández had in place what’s known as an immigration detainer, a formal request for law enforcement agencies to hold noncitizens for pickup by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yet instead of holding him, the Federal Bureau of Prisons scrambled to get the detainer removed so he could walk free. Then, instead of giving him a bus ticket or airfare to get home on his own, prison officials paid a four-man tactical team overtime to drive him six hours from a West Virginia high-security facility to the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, New York, according to records and three people familiar with the situation. Read More Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan …

What federal cuts to science funding could mean for the Great Lakes
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creator: Vivian La
date: 2026-06-11T08:45:00Z
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description: Facing another round of cuts, NOAA-funded researchers worry about undermining public safety, the maritime economy, and health on the Great Lakes.
encoded: Some groups that do research and collect data on the Great Lakes are facing existential threats as the annual budgeting process for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets underway. A proposed budget request from President Donald Trump would zero out programs that scientists say are the foundation of weather observations, water quality, maritime safety, and recreation on the Great Lakes. The president wants to cut NOAA’s budget by $1.3 billion, or one-third of current funding levels, to better match priorities related to halting climate research. “The investment that we make pays off in terms of safer water, public safety, public health, as well as economic activity,” said Gregory Dick, director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, or CIGLR, a partnership between the University of Michigan and NOAA. Researchers at CIGLR work closely with NOAA to conduct work on lake water levels, ice dynamics, and harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie. Data is used by state managers, fishers, boaters, and the regional shipping industry. “That’s the kind of data that you want at your fingertips,” Dick said. “That’s what’s at risk with cuts like the ones we’re talking about.” Beyond the potential loss of this data, Dick is worried about long-term research on how climate change is affecting the Great Lakes. Water levels are fluctuating and Dick said understanding those dynamics is important for future planning geared toward development projects and the economy. Another at-risk program is the Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS, a regional network that coordinates data collection on wave heights, water temperatures, ice, wind, and more. The network makes real-time data available to the public, and it’s often used by boaters, fishers, and other people who spend time in and on the lakes. “If you want to visit a beach, if you want to take your dog and let it run in the lake, it’s really important to know beforehand if there’s a bloom there or dangerous surf…

Under Constant Drone Fire In Kherson | Ukraine Front Line Update
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CPJ calls on EU to support press freedom reform in Hungary
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date: 2026-06-11T07:04:30Z
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description: Brussels, June 11, 2026—Ahead of a meeting with Hungarian officials on June 16, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges European Union member states to encourage Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s new government to rebuild the national media landscape by fully aligning future reforms with EU law and recommendations. Magyar’s Tisza party won April elections, ousting Viktor...
encoded: Brussels, June 11, 2026—Ahead of a meeting with Hungarian officials on June 16, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges European Union member states to encourage Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s new government to rebuild the national media landscape by fully aligning future reforms with EU law and recommendations. Magyar’s Tisza party won April elections, ousting Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party after 16 years in power, and the new government has committed to rule-of-law reforms required by Brussels to unblock frozen EU funds. Strengthening media freedom and pluralism in Hungary must now also be prioritized, CPJ said. “Orbán’s capture of the Hungarian media landscape turned much of the press into de facto propaganda mouthpieces for the Fidesz party,” said Tom Gibson, CPJ’s deputy advocacy director, EU. “This restricted Hungarians’ access to information, and severely undermined Hungarian democracy, as well as the functioning of the European Union institutions. At a moment of major political change, Hungary has the potential not only to repair the damage, but also, if reform is effective, to be a model for press freedom in Europe.” In next week’s meeting, EU member states should raise the status of planned legislative reforms, or any other non-legislative measures, including those relating to: the National Media and Infocommunications Authority and the Media Council; public service media and the state-owned Media Support and Asset Management Fund; and state advertising, ownership transparency, and limits on market concentration. EU member states should also ask how media and civil society will be included meaningfully in legislative consultations. After the 2019 European elections, the European Commission established several EU-wide media reforms: the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) seeks to limit media capture in member states; the anti-SLAPP Directive aims to curb the spread of vexatious lawsuits known as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation; and the J…

Author Sarah Wang on being ruthless with revision
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creator: Bronwen Lam
date: 2026-06-11T07:00:00Z
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description: Your much anticipated debut novel, New Skin, came out in May. How did it feel to be on the precipice of something like this?
encoded: Your much anticipated debut novel, New Skin, came out in May. How did it feel to be on the precipice of something like this? It’s unreal, an act of dissociation really, which I think it has to be, in a way, because how else can you manage the enormity and unknown of it, the possibility of what will or won’t happen? I imagine it’s like facing other big or pretty crazy moments in your life, you’re just a little bit checked out in some way. That said, there have been different phases leading up to publication. Months ago, I was really anxious about publicity. Securing reviews, pitching. Are we doing this or that? What’s moving forward? Who are we talking to? All that, I find really stressful. While it can still happen at a different level once the book’s out, much of that has passed, and I’m more relaxed, starting to get excited for things like travel, being asked to do events, readings. It now feels really exciting, fun. New Skin is a darkly funny story of an immigrant mother’s plastic surgery addiction, her time as a reality TV contestant for people with botched-procedures, and her daughter’s attempts to save/escape her. With body horror having a moment, and reality TV and ICE raids in the news, the novel seems to have a kind of timeliness to it. How intentional or fortuitous is that? It’s something I’ve been thinking about as people have been saying, “It’s so timely.” I started working on this book over 10 years ago, dare I say longer, and certainly at the time wasn’t thinking that in 15 years these things were going to be a conversation. In fact, I was kind of embarrassed because it felt a little cringey like, “Oh, plastic surgery… “ The same thing with the reality TV show plot which I added several years after starting the book. This year I clocked six other novels with reality TV plots. Another aspect is immigrants and ICE, which unfortunately is in the news more recently. Since I’ve been working on this as long as I have, I think it’s actually completely random …

Vampire Planet: The Case for Letting Malibu Flood
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creator: Joshua Frank
date: 2026-06-11T06:01:25Z
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description: The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to Balboa Peninsula in ritzy Newport Beach to watch adrenaline junkies attack the Wedge – a mutant wave that ricochets off a rock jetty, forming a steep, heavy wall of water that accelerates and breaks chaotically. Only the bravest (craziest?) dare to face it down. More The post Vampire Planet: The Case for Letting Malibu Flood appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: A coastline erodes as sea levels rise. Long Beach, California. Photo by Joshua Frank. This week in the Anthropocene The first major swell of the year pummeled Southern California this week, and onlookers flocked to Balboa Peninsula in ritzy Newport Beach to watch adrenaline junkies attack the Wedge – a mutant wave that ricochets off a rock jetty, forming a steep, heavy wall of water that accelerates and breaks chaotically. Only the bravest (craziest?) dare to face it down. A wild storm system, nearly the size of the United States, took shape in the central South Pacific last week and hurled massive wave energy toward California and Baja, Mexico. It was the perfect setup to awaken the sleeping Wedge and the lore and danger that accompany the deadly break. As the big swell arrived on Tuesday, lifeguards were already rescuing daredevils from the rough waters. However, amid all the excitement, er, stoke, as we surfers call it, lies a coastline that continues to be chewed up by high tides, large swells, and rising seas. The Wedge, for example, is slowly encroaching on multimillion-dollar beachfront property, forcing the City of Newport to bulldoze mounds of sand onto the beach in hopes of fending off erosion. It’s a relentless problem that is set to worsen in the years ahead as climate breakdown continues. Of course, it’s not only this stretch of the Orange County coast that’s in danger of having its beaches swallowed by the ocean. In Long Beach, where I live, sand is continually brought in to protect pricey homes along the city’s peninsula from flooding as the ocean expands as the icebergs melt. It’s a conundrum plaguing much of California. Malibu, Dana Point, San Francisco, Seal Beach, and many other coastal cities are experiencing severe erosion, prompting them to adopt novel approaches, often trucking in sand as a stopgap to protect property. Taxpayers usually foot the bill to protect some of the country’s most expensive real estate from the wrath of climate change. …

Pesticides and Agriculture: How Organic and Conventional Farms Differ
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creator: Caroline Cox
date: 2026-06-11T05:59:51Z
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description: Many consumers assume that food labeled organic is grown without pesticides. The reality is more nuanced. Organic farmers can and do use pesticides, but the types of pesticides they use, the circumstances under which they use them, and the regulatory standards governing their use differ significantly from those in conventional agriculture. Understanding those differences matters More The post Pesticides and Agriculture: How Organic and Conventional Farms Differ appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Organic Amish farm, near Hope, Indiana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Many consumers assume that food labeled organic is grown without pesticides. The reality is more nuanced. Organic farmers can and do use pesticides, but the types of pesticides they use, the circumstances under which they use them, and the regulatory standards governing their use differ significantly from those in conventional agriculture. Understanding those differences matters because pesticides affect more than the crops on which they are applied. They can influence the health of farmworkers and rural communities, the quality of soil and water, the well-being of pollinators and other wildlife, and the amount of pesticide residue that remains on food. Pesticides are substances designed to prevent, destroy, repel, or control pests. Because they are intended to affect living organisms, they can also pose risks to people and the environment. Reducing those risks while maintaining productive farms has become one of the central challenges of modern agriculture. The differences between organic and conventional farming offer two distinct approaches to that challenge—and reveal why pesticide use remains one of the most debated issues in modern food production. What Are Pesticides? When you think about pesticides, probably insecticides come to mind first. These are products designed to kill insects. But legally, “pesticides” have a much broader definition. In the Unite States, pesticides are substances intended for “preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, or any nitrogen stabilizer.” Weed killers, rodenticides, and products to control plant diseases are all examples of pesticides. US farmers use large quantities of pesticides each year. Most government estimates are outdated, but total pesticide use on US farms is about 600 million pounds per year. Some pesticides are used on both organic and conventional farms, but the typ…

Under the Flight Paths
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creator: Peter Bach
date: 2026-06-11T05:58:45Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: I lie in bed listening to the birds in the trees. Living with a true artist means no art on the bedroom walls, only in the studio. In the background is the hum of London traffic. Above all this, the first passenger jet of the morning. I have recounted this before—the birds, trees, traffic and More The post Under the Flight Paths appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I lie in bed listening to the birds in the trees. Living with a true artist means no art on the bedroom walls, only in the studio. In the background is the hum of London traffic. Above all this, the first passenger jet of the morning. I have recounted this before—the birds, trees, traffic and planes of London. London is home to as many as 1.5 million wild birds and more than 300 species. Even in the eaves above the bedroom window they nest. It also contains some eight million trees—almost one for every resident—including oaks, planes, birches, sycamores and horse chestnuts, making it one of the world’s largest urban forests. I am also writing beneath some of the world’s busiest air corridors. Some Londoners can identify aircraft types from sound alone. On a clear day, more than a thousand will cross the sky. Seeing a commercial airliner every few minutes is entirely normal. We are forever peering upwards. So are the birds. This particular morning, a single robin has much to say: “The misery heaped on Lebanon deserves a mention.” “As for Tony Blair?” says a blackbird, cocking its head at the wrong angle. “Board of Peace?” nods the robin. “Bored of peace, more like,” corrects the blackbird. Cars are less sympathetic, except for the music. I hear the Daft Punk track Veridis Quo play loudly through the window of a black Audi. I see a drummer with all his kit clamber onto a red doubledecker bus. If vehicles spoke, what would they say? “All day long I go up and down this bleeding road.” (Amazon van.) “Got another bod in the back.” (Ambulance.) A series of terrible attacks in London appeared to point towards a broad eruption of anti-Semitism in the capital. Authorities later alleged that several of the most high-profile incidents—including the torching of ambulances and attacks on two Jewish Londoners—had in fact been orchestrated by a single Iraqi-Iranian man operating at a distance—the violence outsourced through FaceTime and distributed…

Beached Arguments: Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and European Immigration
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-06-11T05:48:15Z
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description: Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, “personality”, Pete Hegseth proves to be a marvel of sheer stupidity. It’s not that one cannot be provocative on matters of discomfort, teasing the political consciousness and prodding the sensitive. Immigration, and what makes it More The post Beached Arguments: Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and European Immigration appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: U.S. Secretary of Defense – Public Domain Waxworks have nothing to say, but when incarnated in the form of former Fox News anchor and, at a pinch, “personality”, Pete Hegseth proves to be a marvel of sheer stupidity. It’s not that one cannot be provocative on matters of discomfort, teasing the political consciousness and prodding the sensitive. Immigration, and what makes it up, is a point of energetic disquiet in Europe, and a figure insisting on raising it is bound to add a spoke to the news cycle. But to do so in the fashion of the US Secretary of War, as he likes to be known as, was something else. The speech, given at the Normandy American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, was to commemorate the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944 to liberate Western Europe from Nazi German occupation. “Eighty-two years ago today, the survival of Western civilization hung in the balance. Dark forces had swept across Europe. Hitler boasted that his [coastal defensive] Atlantic Wall was impenetrable. But our enemy made a fatal miscalculation: they underestimated the unbreakable will of the American fighting man”. He was not to confine himself to the heavily accented theme of American greatness. A contrast was in the offing. Western nations had become comfortably and dangerously complacent. “We forgot that freedom is not free. We forgot that peace is not wished into being. It is bought with purpose, with honor and with strength. The men who landed on these beaches knew this; the question we ask ourselves is, do we?” Examples of such complacency and wilful amnesia were offered. “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” he declared darkly. “Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion?” Only the previous day, US Vice President JD Vance had thought it appropriate to make a few choice remarks on British domestic politics and last year…

“I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” Redux
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creator: John G. Russell
date: 2026-06-11T05:47:23Z
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description: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.” – President Donald J. Trump, May 2026 Trump is Melania without the olive-green Zara jacket[1]: He cares about nothing. When asked about rising gas prices in March, he More The post “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” Redux appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Sebastian Enrique “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.” – President Donald J. Trump, May 2026 Trump is Melania without the olive-green Zara jacket[1]: He cares about nothing. When asked about rising gas prices in March, he responded, “If they rise, they rise. I don’t have any concern about it.” Asked about the suspension of “peace” talks with Iran in June, he said, “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less.” In December 2025, at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he stated that “I’m not concerned about anything that Israel is doing” in Gaza. On May 27th, he announced, “I don’t care about the midterms.” Trump’s promiscuous indifference is exceeded only by the pathological know-nothingism he deploys to evade responsibility for his crimes. What Trump does care about is personal aggrandizement. He cannot refrain from talking about his ballroom, his triumphal arch, his reflecting “pond,” his delusional “extreme intelligence,” and ultimately himself. In his own eyes, he sees himself as a master builder – after all, it’s in his genes, an expression of his “stable genius.” A deluded modern-day Ramesses II, he erects monuments to himself, plastering his face and name everywhere, from the Kennedy Center to $1 coins and $250 commemorative bills. In his second term, Trump’s scowling face now drapes down from banners on three federal buildings (Labor, Justice, and Agriculture) that represent institutions degraded in his wake. His face will soon adorn “limited-edition” U.S. passports, though, to borrow Mr. T’s favorite phrase, one pities the fool who applies for one and advertises their idolatry – and idiocy – to the world for the next ten years. Then again, if the SAVE Act passes, possessing one may be a strategic move on their part to ensure that, come November, they are not disenfranchised at the midterms, a…

Tennessee’s Ban on THCA
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description: In the wake of the passage of the 2018 farm bill legalizing hemp, the Volunteer State saw an explosion in sales of intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid products. Tennessee has not legalized marijuana or medical marijuana, leaving the field wide-open for psychoactive edibles, gummies, and beverages derived from hemp. That state of affairs sparked blowback from lawmakers, More The post Tennessee’s Ban on THCA appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by pariwat pannium In the wake of the passage of the 2018 farm bill legalizing hemp, the Volunteer State saw an explosion in sales of intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid products. Tennessee has not legalized marijuana or medical marijuana, leaving the field wide-open for psychoactive edibles, gummies, and beverages derived from hemp. That state of affairs sparked blowback from lawmakers, who began attempting to ban hemp-derived intoxicating substances back in 2022, amidst complaints about a “Wild West” hemp scene in the state. Last year, legislators finally managed to pass a measure to rein in the sector, House Bill 1376, which goes into effect on July 1. That bill transfers the regulation of hemp cannabinoid products from the Department of Agriculture to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission and allows sales at businesses with liquor licenses for either on- or off-site consumption, as well as by hemp cannabinoid manufacturers with a retail outlet on the same premises. But those products will contain less than 0.3 percent total THC because the new law includes THCA, which transforms into THC when burned, and synthetic cannabinoids in calculating permissible THC levels. As the bill’s summary puts it, “This bill instead specifies that THCa is not a HDCP [hemp-derived cannabinoid product] and defines THCa as the precursor of delta-9 THC. This bill also specifies that a synthetic cannabinoid is not a HDCP and defines ‘synthetic cannabinoid’ to mean a substance with a similar chemical structure and pharmacological activity to a cannabinoid, but that is not extracted or derived from hemp plants, or hemp plant parts, and is instead created or produced by chemical or biochemical synthesis.” Industry experts estimated that the new law will wipe out 75 percent of hemp sales, calling it a “death blow” for the state’s hemp industry. One lawmaker, Rep. John Crawford (R), said there is a hemp cannabinoid wholesaler in his district who will likely be forced out of business. “I…

Building Unity for Progressive Change
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description: A steering committee led by the South African Communist Party convened the ‘Conference of the Left’ in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, from 29 to 31 May 2026. The event united trade unions, social movements, intellectuals and political groups under the theme ‘Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power’, providing a strategic platform to advance collective More The post Building Unity for Progressive Change appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Claudio Schwarz A steering committee led by the South African Communist Party convened the ‘Conference of the Left’ in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, from 29 to 31 May 2026. The event united trade unions, social movements, intellectuals and political groups under the theme ‘Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power’, providing a strategic platform to advance collective responses to the challenges facing the South African working class and the ongoing crises in the global order. The gathering highlighted the need to understand challenges facing working people within the broader context of global capitalism and its persistent patterns of domination, exploitation and inequality. As progressive forces worldwide face increasingly complex issues, the conference offered an opportunity to develop a shared perspective, strengthen solidarity and coordinate transformative strategies. The contradictions of contemporary capitalism Within this framework, the conference noted that economic growth often coincides with worsening material deprivation, reduced social protection and greater precarity for most people worldwide. Wealth and economic power are increasingly concentrated, while millions face declining living standards, no secure employment and limited opportunities for advancement. The growing influence of financial capital over productive investment has shifted the global economy towards short-term gains at the expense of long-term social development. These consequences are severe. Widespread poverty, unemployment, and social exclusion have fostered the rise of right-wing extremism, xenophobia, and reactionary nationalism. As conditions worsen, working people are increasingly exposed to narratives that redirect legitimate frustrations toward migrants, foreign nationals, and other vulnerable groups. This fragmentation undermines unity and distracts from the structural causes of deprivation and inequality. Contemporary capitalism has also intensified the eco…

Wake Up, America: All Humans Are Equal
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description: Suddenly my cynicism vanished and things started making sense. America started making sense, from past to present. I was already in the process of writing this column – hey, the nation’s 250th birthday is coming up – and had never felt more lost. Where, where, where am I going with this? What am I trying More The post Wake Up, America: All Humans Are Equal appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Luke Stackpoole. Suddenly my cynicism vanished and things started making sense. America started making sense, from past to present. I was already in the process of writing this column – hey, the nation’s 250th birthday is coming up – and had never felt more lost. Where, where, where am I going with this? What am I trying to say? My words had no core, no soul. I felt like I had given myself the random rubble of a bombed-out building to write about. Then a friend sent me a link to a New York Times opinion piece. I decided to give it a quick read. I don’t necessarily trust the Times. It can be smugly wrong. But I took a look – it was by literary critic A.O. Scott – and I couldn’t stop reading it. He had found our country, it seemed, beginning with these 35 simple words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” To which Scott added: “No matter how many times you’ve read it before, it’s worth reading again. Each idea flows from the previous one, and a comprehensive argument takes shape.” Ah, the Declaration of Independence. So easily dismissed with a shrug, with a smirk, followed by a quick glance at our history, then a glance toward the Oval Office, a glance at Palestine, a glance at Iran. This is just a feel-good lie, right? But Scott goes on, pointing out that these simple words, “don’t appeal to precedent, tradition or any other external authority, but to the evidence of our own eyes. Human equality is not aspirational: It’s obvious.” The words’ lasting significance isn’t due to the deep truths they pull from humanity’s philosophical depths, but rather, Scott notes, the opposite: “Its writers said so much more than they meant. The genius of the document lies not in the original, local intentions that might be excavated from it, but in the meanings that later generations have projected onto …

The Propaganda Triad
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description: In the words of Morgan State University Journalism and Communications Professor, Dr. Jared Ball: “How do you know what you know? And, why do you like what you like?” This necessitates a discussion of how the empire’s propaganda functions from a materialist standpoint. Two models have been established in media studies, the Hypodermic Needle–developed by More The post The Propaganda Triad appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: In the words of Morgan State University Journalism and Communications Professor, Dr. Jared Ball: “How do you know what you know? And, why do you like what you like?” This necessitates a discussion of how the empire’s propaganda functions from a materialist standpoint. Two models have been established in media studies, the Hypodermic Needle–developed by Harold Lasswell in the 1920s, and the Two-step Flow of Communication–instituted by Paul Lazarsfeld et al., and further elucidated in 1955 in collaboration with Elihu Katz. Lasswell’s theory postulates that media messaging is “injected” into the populace in the manner of a simultaneous mass inoculation. Lazarsfeld’s update of that model suggests that the masses are not passively influenced by Media directly, but that Opinion Leaders are–who then impel the rest of us to accept our beliefs. This supposedly explains how ideas are transferred within a given population: Media > Opinion Leaders > Broader Population. In essence, there are two steps–involving people–that happen to create mass influence. The problem with both of these models is how media gets defined–or not defined at all–for the public. Every experience is rooted in material reality, either naturally occurring objects like trees or minerals, or human-made items derived from them, like wooden chairs or smartphones. “Media” is not organic matter. Nothing is natural about its presence in our lives. There are people who create all the media that influences us. Once we situate them at the start of the value chain as people, and not an innocuous void, this produces a third (or originating) step. In other words: The Producers > The Obscurants > The Acceptance. All three steps involve a human-generated process, unlike Lasswell’s one-step, and Lazarsfeld’s two-step models. Primordial Step: The Producers The Producers are people in control of society’s productive forces who create reality for the purpose of developing mass belief in a material phenomenon. These people h…

The Monarchical President
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description: As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on our nation’s founding ideals within the context of where we are as a country politically. The 13 colonies revolted against More The post The Monarchical President appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image Library of Congress. As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on our nation’s founding ideals within the context of where we are as a country politically. The 13 colonies revolted against a monarchy, with the aspiration to establish a government devoted to Enlightenment principles of human rights. This fledgling country was founded on the ideals of protecting “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Essential to this ideal, the framers based the idea of government on the consent of the governed, establishing that governments derive their power to rule from the people, not from a king or despot. The colonists despised monarchy, having risked their lives fighting for independence and autonomy. Consequently, when the newly independent states created their first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, there was no executive branch. The people feared that a strong central government would threaten citizens’ rights. That weak government failed, so a new framework of government was created that included a President. Under the Constitution, this executive would be constrained by Congress. Congress issues orders, and the President executes them. Two hundred and fifty years later, our country is facing a crisis. Donald J. Trump is acting more like a monarch than an elected executive. Three examples of this include: keeping standing armies on the streets during peacetime, the President’s attempts at taxation without representation, and interfering with the judicial system. One of the many grievances the colonists had against King George was their accusation that he was maintaining standing armies in their streets to enforce British law, intimidate the colonists, and infringe on their liberty. The king imposed this without the consent of colonial legislatures. President Trump has engaged in similar acts. For e…

Salute to the Constitution
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description: A song for the Fugs’ upcoming reunion concerts in Woodstock, New York. Oh, sometimes the Ship of State seems to face a shaky fate But you know our Ship of State always has an eternal mate in the United States Constitution Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! We keep the U.S. free from any monarch dingaling or authoritarian More The post Salute to the Constitution appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: A song for the Fugs’ upcoming reunion concerts in Woodstock, New York. Oh, sometimes the Ship of State seems to face a shaky fate But you know our Ship of State always has an eternal mate in the United States Constitution Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! We keep the U.S. free from any monarch dingaling or authoritarian king! Hallelujah! Our nation shall never fall! It’s strong and wide enough for All!! Sing! Sing! Sing! America’s coming through! Sing! Sing! Sing! Surviving all the way Coast to Coast, and Sea to lustrous Sea! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! We keep the U.S. free to sing We banish ANY DINGALING!!! who would try to be our king!!!!!!! UPBEAT INSTRUMENTAL BREAK So hip hip hooray! for the Constitution!! & Don’t you worry about the U.S.A. or any any rival Our Constitution guarantees our survival! Hallelujah! for a million tomorrows! And no more authoritarians and their sorrows! Hall-e-lu-jah! The post Salute to the Constitution appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Ed Sanders.

‘No One Should Be Left Behind’
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description: After an Israeli drone strike killed journalist Amal Khalil, her community mourns and celebrates a voice of south Lebanon.
encoded: After an Israeli drone strike killed journalist Amal Khalil, her community mourns and celebrates a voice of south Lebanon. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Santiago Montag.

Photojournalist hit with wooden board while covering New Jersey protest
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description: Photojournalist Angelina Katsanis was struck in the knee and injured by a wooden board while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 30, 2026.While seeking medical attention at the scene, she left ...
encoded: Photojournalist Angelina Katsanis was struck in the knee and injured by a wooden board while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 30, 2026. While seeking medical attention at the scene, she left behind her equipment bag containing around $10,000 worth of camera gear and her keys, which was stolen. The New Jersey attorney general announced June 4 that an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant, Darryl Brown, had been charged in connection with the theft. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. According to multiple news reports and an online fundraiser posted on her behalf, Katsanis — on assignment for The Associated Press — was covering the protest on the front line when she was hit in the knee by what was described as a six-foot-long two-by-four. Katsanis told The New York Times that she didn’t know who threw the board. The blow caused a serious injury that made it difficult for her to walk, but Katsanis fled the area as a line of New Jersey State Police advanced. She left behind the equipment bag, which also contained a keychain with an Apple AirTag — clearly labeled with her name and contact information. “I knew if I didn’t run, I would be more severely hurt,” the photojournalist told the Times. “I ran or hobbled pretty far — the adrenaline kicked in.” She sought assistance from medics at the scene, who provided her with a wheelchair. With the help of other journalists, she went back to the front line and negotiated with police in riot gear to let her through to retrieve her bag and seek f…

Photojournalist’s equipment stolen after injury at New Jersey protest
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description: Photojournalist Angelina Katsanis’ equipment bag was stolen after she was injured covering a protest outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 30, 2026.New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Office of ...
encoded: Photojournalist Angelina Katsanis’ equipment bag was stolen after she was injured covering a protest outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 30, 2026. New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability announced June 4 that Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Sgt. Darryl Brown had been charged in connection with the theft. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. According to multiple news reports and an online fundraiser posted on her behalf, Katsanis — on assignment for The Associated Press — was covering the protest on the front line when she was hit in the knee by a wooden board, suffering an injury that made it difficult to walk. She fled the area as a line of New Jersey State Police advanced, and left behind her equipment bag. It held a camera, two lenses, six external storage cards, six external batteries and other gear, as well as a keychain with an Apple AirTag — clearly labeled with her name and contact information. She sought assistance from medics at the scene, who provided her with a wheelchair. With the help of other journalists, she went back to the front line and negotiated with state police in riot gear to let her through to retrieve her bag and seek further medical care, in a scene captured on video. However, the bag was no longer there. “I checked my AirTag and the bag was already on a highway pretty far away at that point,” Katsanis, who was treated at a nearby hospital, told The Associated Press. “Right away, I had a feeling it was the police becaus…

When Bitcoin was worth $200
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Journalist shoved repeatedly by New Jersey State Police at protest
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description: Independent journalist Marcos Quinones was shoved at least twice by state police while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 31, 2026.Protests outside the Delaney Hal...
encoded: Independent journalist Marcos Quinones was shoved at least twice by state police while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 31, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Quinones told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that on May 31, the first night of an enforced curfew, he was shoved by state police at least twice, despite wearing his press credentials and following officers’ orders. “It was definitely targeted. I haven’t seen very many people get within arm’s distance of them and not get shoved or assaulted in some kind of way,” Quinones said in an interview. Quinones felt that police officers treated members of the press the same as protesters. “As soon as you come within arm’s distance of them and you’re not wearing a uniform, people are a target in their eyes,” he said. Asked whether his experiences at Delaney Hall would change the way he covered protests, Quinones told the Tracker that he would be maintaining a two-meter distance from the nearest police officers when he was reporting in New Jersey. “Jersey is not the place you want to get in trouble,” he said. The New Jersey State Police Office of Public Information did not respond to an emailed request for comment. In a statement posted to X early May 30, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport wrote that state police were clearing the area outside Delaney Hall because a small number of people were blocking the pathway for law enforcement vehicles. It did not address the use of force against members …

[episode cut] Dean Spade’s Vision: Fostering Connection in Chaotic Times
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Donald Trump and a Joyless World Cup
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description: No nation has ever cast a shadow over the World Cup quite like the United States, the primary host of the 2026 games.
encoded: No nation has ever cast a shadow over the World Cup quite like the United States, the primary host of the 2026 games. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Dave Zirin.

Videographer pushed down by officer at New Jersey immigration protest
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description: Independent videographer David Snow was shoved to the ground by a police officer while documenting a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on June 7, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney...
encoded: Independent videographer David Snow was shoved to the ground by a police officer while documenting a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on June 7, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police and city officers in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Snow told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that before entering the protest area on June 7, officers with the Newark Police Division initially refused to allow him to bring in his equipment bag. He said officers requested to search its contents, which he refused, and eventually permitted the bag after he agreed not to put his gas mask inside it. Once inside, Snow documented Newark police making arrests and using force via his YouTube channel, The Exposure Report. Snow, who was wearing a visible press credential, knelt with his camera to get a better angle. Then, an officer ran toward him, grabbed both his shoulders and shoved him to the ground. “That was targeted at me as a member of the press so I wouldn’t capture what was happening there, because they were being extremely aggressive and violent,” Snow said. “I landed on my butt. I didn’t get hurt. I just got back up and continued to do my job.” A week earlier, Snow was also knocked down by police. The Newark police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On June 8, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka released a statement that officers were dispatched to Delaney Hall after receiving reports that people were blocking access to the facility. Baraka also asserted that responsibility for security at the immigration detention…

Videographer downed by police at New Jersey immigration protest
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description: Independent videographer David Snow was shoved to the ground by New Jersey state police wielding riot shields while documenting a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark on May 31, 2026.Protests outs...
encoded: Independent videographer David Snow was shoved to the ground by New Jersey state police wielding riot shields while documenting a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark on May 31, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Snow told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that on May 31, he was documenting a largely peaceful protest after demonstrators had been directed to leave Newark’s curfew zone. Suddenly, ICE officers, and state and Newark police advanced on the crowd from multiple directions. Snow captured the events live on his YouTube channel, The Exposure Report. In the video, police shout, “Move! Get out of the way!” Officers then run into the crowd and start pushing people. “I’m press! I’m going, I’m going,” says Snow, who is holding camera equipment and wearing a visible press credential. Still, state police strike him with their shields, knocking both him and his gear to the ground, temporarily cutting off the view of the livestream before Snow quickly grabs his phone, which was not damaged. “They basically pummelled me into the floor with their shields,” Snow later says on the live video, out of breath. “They were trying to get me away from my phone. I was able to retrieve it. I’m OK.” Snow, who sustained minor scrapes and bruises in the scuffle, said law enforcement then gave conflicting demands as they boxed protesters and journalists into a police kettle, a crowd-control tactic that confines people within a restricted area and prevents them from leaving. Snow was held inside the kettle f…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 10, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 10, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Azerbaijani prosecutors seek up to 16 years in prison for defendants in Toplum TV case
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description: New York, June 10, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to drop charges against journalists and other individuals associated with leading independent news outlet Toplum TV after prosecutors on June 8 requested prison terms of up to 16 years on charges related to receipt and use of foreign funds. “The outrageous prison...
encoded: New York, June 10, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to drop charges against journalists and other individuals associated with leading independent news outlet Toplum TV after prosecutors on June 8 requested prison terms of up to 16 years on charges related to receipt and use of foreign funds. “The outrageous prison terms sought by prosecutors for nine individuals whose work was linked to Toplum TV make it crystal clear that President Ilham Aliyev’s media crackdown is about instilling a climate of fear and retaliating against bold reporting,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Azerbaijan should immediately drop the case against Toplum TV and free more than two dozen journalists and media workers wrongly held behind bars.” The nine defendants — who include journalists, a journalist trainer, project managers, and the founders of media outlets — face multiple financial crime charges and are accused of acting as an “organized criminal group” to obtain and use Western donor funds, in violation of Azerbaijani legislation, for four closely connected organizations: Toplum TV; the nonprofit Institute for Democratic Initiatives (IDI); Fakt Yoxla, a fact-checking platform run by IDI; and Third Republic Platform, a political group. Prosecutors requested the following sentences for the listed individuals: Alasgar Mammadli, Toplum TV founder and media lawyer – 15 years Mushfig Jabbar, Toplum TV video editor – 14 years Farid Ismayilov, Toplum TV reporter – 13 years Elmir Abbasov, Toplum TV social media manager – 13 years Ali Zeynal, IDI journalist trainer – 15 years Ramil Babayev, IDI project coordinator – 14 years Ilkin Amrahov, IDI project coordinator – 14 years Akif Gurbanov, IDI chairperson and Third Republic Platform spokesperson – 16 years Ruslan Izzetli, Third Republic Platform co-founder – 16 years. Police raided the offices of Toplum TV and IDI and arrested most of those listed above in March 2024. Abbasov re…

Azerbaijani prosecutors seek up to 16 years in prison for defendants in Toplum TV case
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description: New York, June 10, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to drop charges against journalists and other individuals associated with leading independent news outlet Toplum TV after prosecutors on June 8 requested prison terms of up to 16 years on charges related to receipt and use of foreign funds. “The outrageous prison...
encoded: New York, June 10, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to drop charges against journalists and other individuals associated with leading independent news outlet Toplum TV after prosecutors on June 8 requested prison terms of up to 16 years on charges related to receipt and use of foreign funds. “The outrageous prison terms sought by prosecutors for nine individuals whose work was linked to Toplum TV make it crystal clear that President Ilham Aliyev’s media crackdown is about instilling a climate of fear and retaliating against bold reporting,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Azerbaijan should immediately drop the case against Toplum TV and free more than two dozen journalists and media workers wrongly held behind bars.” The nine defendants — who include journalists, a journalist trainer, project managers, and the founders of media outlets — face multiple financial crime charges and are accused of acting as an “organized criminal group” to obtain and use Western donor funds, in violation of Azerbaijani legislation, for four closely connected organizations: Toplum TV; the nonprofit Institute for Democratic Initiatives (IDI); Fakt Yoxla, a fact-checking platform run by IDI; and Third Republic Platform, a political group. Prosecutors requested the following sentences for the listed individuals: Alasgar Mammadli, Toplum TV founder and media lawyer – 15 years Mushfig Jabbar, Toplum TV video editor – 14 years Farid Ismayilov, Toplum TV reporter – 13 years Elmir Abbasov, Toplum TV social media manager – 13 years Ali Zeynal, IDI journalist trainer – 15 years Ramil Babayev, IDI project coordinator – 14 years Ilkin Amrahov, IDI project coordinator – 14 years Akif Gurbanov, IDI chairperson and Third Republic Platform spokesperson – 16 years Ruslan Izzetli, Third Republic Platform co-founder – 16 years. Police raided the offices of Toplum TV and IDI and arrested most of those listed above in March 2024. Abbasov re…

Lawsuit Seeks to Stop SpaceX Land Deal From Destroying Texas Wildlife Refuge
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description: Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to SpaceX. In exchange for these lands, SpaceX is giving...
encoded: Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to SpaceX. In exchange for these lands, SpaceX is giving 683 acres to the Service. Under the law, any exchanges of wildlife refuge lands must result in net conservation benefits to both the individual refuge where land will be exchanged and the wildlife refuge system as a whole. The wildlife habitat that SpaceX has sought to take ownership of has been degraded by SpaceX’s expanding operations and failed rocket launches. In its decision last week, the Fish and Wildlife Service chose to give those lands to SpaceX in exchange for fewer acres of private lands, the majority of which will be added to a separate wildlife refuge. This land deal resulting in the loss of more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge is one of the largest exchanges of land in the refuge system’s history outside the state of Alaska. “Our protected public lands are being gifted for the benefit of the world’s richest man, who could trash them while playing with his exploding rockets,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge was built by decades of conservation work and funded by millions of taxpayer dollars to protect our vulnerable wildlife like ocelots and piping plovers. We’re not letting Trump and his political cronies lock the American people out of Texas’ cherished public lands just to give Elon Musk another payday.” Today’s lawsuit alleges that the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 by taking action that will permanently reduce and degrade the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. In approving the transfer, the Service also violated the National Historic Preservation Act by giving away hundreds of acres of a National Hi…

Somali ref gets hero’s welcome upon return home
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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UN News Today 10 June 2026
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description: UN chief Guterres calls for no more attacks and no more excuses in Middle EastHundreds of thousands of students without access to exams in SudanStudents from El Salvador and Thailand are chosen to launch their countries’ first satellites
encoded: UN chief Guterres calls for no more attacks and no more excuses in Middle EastHundreds of thousands of students without access to exams in SudanStudents from El Salvador and Thailand are chosen to launch their countries’ first satellites This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Edouard De Bray.

In Comoros, journalist arrested for report on jailed ex-president’s health
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description: Dakar, 10 June 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Comorian authorities to release journalist Toufé Maecha who was arrested on Monday at his home in the capital, Moroni, over his reports in La Gazette des Comores about the ill-health of a jailed former president. “Comoros authorities should refrain from cavalierly arresting journalists for their...
encoded: Dakar, 10 June 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Comorian authorities to release journalist Toufé Maecha who was arrested on Monday at his home in the capital, Moroni, over his reports in La Gazette des Comores about the ill-health of a jailed former president. “Comoros authorities should refrain from cavalierly arresting journalists for their reporting and instead recognize the importance of publishing news on matters of public interest,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Comorian authorities must promptly release Toufé Maecha and guarantee journalists’ ability to inform the public without hindrance.” The privately owned newspaper’s publishing director El-Had Saïd Omar was also arrested by gendarmes, or military police, on June 8, at the outlet’s offices. He was questioned and released on Tuesday, before returning to the gendarmerie on Wednesday for further questioning. On Tuesday, public prosecutor Saidatte Fatuma Said Boina said in a video that a judicial investigation had been opened against Maecha for his publications between May and June likely to “disturb public order and undermine social peace.” On June 8, Maecha published extracts from a report by a team of doctors appointed by the Attorney General to diagnose the cause of former president Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi’s poor health. They concluded that Sambi has heart disease, which requires a specialist X-ray that cannot be performed on the island, Maecha reported. The ministry of information said on Tuesday that Maecha had published “specific elements of a confidential medical report, the possession and publication of which are strictly regulated by law.” It said the medical details were published “even before they were transmitted to the Prosecutor.” Several prominent figures have called on Comorian President Azali Assoumani to allow the medical evacuation of 68-year-old Sambi, who has been in detention since 2018 and was given a life sentence in 2022 for high t…

New Website Tracks AI Dark Money Campaign Spending
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date: 2026-06-10T16:17:49Z
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description: On Wednesday, Demand Progress launched AI Money Watch, a new website that tracks campaign spending from Leading the Future, an AI Super PAC bankrolled by co-founders from OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz. AI Money Watch launches as President Donald Trum...
encoded: On Wednesday, Demand Progress launched AI Money Watch, a new website that tracks campaign spending from Leading the Future, an AI Super PAC bankrolled by co-founders from OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz. AI Money Watch launches as President Donald Trump, his Big Tech allies and congressional leaders are once again trying to push legislation that would ban states and localities from enforcing laws that regulate AI. Visit AI Money Watch Leading the Future is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars on elections to kill regulatory safeguards for AI. They are doing this by spending money to support anti-AI safeguard candidates and attacking pro-AI safeguard candidates. AI Money Watch uses public FEC filings to show how much Leading the Future is spending on elections across the nation and lets Americans spread the word on X and Instagram. The website also flags which candidates have been endorsed by Leading the Future. “AI Money Watch cuts through the dark money blizzard and shows you how some of the biggest names in AI are trying to buy politicians who will kill AI safeguards and attack anyone who dares to fight back,” said Demand Progress Action AI Policy Advisor Colin McGlynn. “AI chatbots have been accused of flirting with children, discouraging people in distress from seeking help and even offering instructions on how to plan a mass shooting—and billionaire AI CEOs are doling out millions to kill any safeguards that would stop this. With AI Money Watch, Americans can see which candidates the biggest AI Super PAC is buying, who they are trying to stop and how much they are spending.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Who’s Afraid of Chris Smalls?
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-06-10T16:00:31Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Torture, abuse, sexual violence: Freed Gaza flotilla activists speak
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Gabriele Nunziati’s case against Agenzia Nova begins
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date: 2026-06-10T15:01:41Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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"I Was Just Forced to Resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory": Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T14:43:49Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Climate
subject: Democracy
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Trump Admin Guts Vital Ocean Monitoring, Treats Sea as "Gas Station and a Garbage Dump"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T14:42:10Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: admin
subject: and
subject: Democracy
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subject: garbage
subject: gas
subject: monitoring
subject: now
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The Shocking Secrets of MSG’s Surveillance Machine: Noah Schachtman on Knicks’ Owner James Dolan
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T14:38:32Z
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subject: Sources
subject: ‘shocking’
subject: Democracy
subject: dolan
subject: james
subject: knicks8217
subject: machine?
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subject: noah
subject: now
subject: owner
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subject: Surveillance
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Report from Tehran: Amid More U.S./Iran Bombing, Trump Warns Iran Is "DEAD…Will Pay the Price"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T14:36:12Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: amid
subject: bombing
subject: dead8230will
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subject: from
subject: iran
subject: more
subject: now
subject: pay
subject: price
subject: report
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subject: tehran
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 10, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T14:33:41Z
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subject: World
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Agency photojournalist targeted with pepper spray by federal officers
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-06-10T13:21:09Z
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description: EPA Images photojournalist Olga Fedorova was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026.Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility b...
encoded: EPA Images photojournalist Olga Fedorova was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Fedorova told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that she was standing near independent photojournalist Mostafa Bassim and other members of the press when they were all doused with a chemical irritant. “That was the most quintessential, undeniable instance of targeting someone,” she said, noting that officers purposefully aimed at the journalists’ cameras and into their ear canals. “The agent was waiting to do this,” Fedorova continued. “Pepper spray is supposed to be used as self-defense, not to torture us.” Fedorova said that their experience that day was far from an isolated incident. “Every day, I think, every single member of the press was doused in pepper spray, like completely, completely covered in pepper spray,” she added. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those dangers to those exercising protected First Amendment rights.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Dat…

“I Was Just Forced to Resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”: Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T12:49:43Z
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description: We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forced to resign from NASA’s Jet Pr...
encoded: We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forced to resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) after 15 years at his “dream job.” In an immense loss to the government’s capacity to monitor and assess atmospheric conditions, the JPL has lost about 30% of its staff since President Trump took office for the second time, says Kalmus, who warns that the dismantling of federally funded scientific infrastructure comes as rising global temperatures put the Earth in “extreme danger.” “We’re on this escalator towards warmer and warmer and warmer temperatures, and world leaders are not doing anything about it.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump Admin Guts Vital Sea Monitoring, “Tears Out the Eyes and Ears of Science”: David Helvarg
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-10T12:39:51Z
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description: We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’s closure, pr...
encoded: We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’s closure, proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook for Trump’s second administration, involves the decommissioning of a vast network of ocean floor sensors that collect data on marine ecosystems, ocean currents and global climate data, protecting the world’s oceans and providing critical information about extreme weather. In their place is the increasingly unregulated expansion of resource extraction driven by the fossil fuel industry, “essentially developing the ocean for offshore oil drilling and mining — basically, as a gas station and a garbage dump.” Helvarg, the author of Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp, also discusses “the world’s other forest crisis”: the loss of over half of kelp forests to warming ocean temperatures, throwing coastal ecosystems deeply out of balance. “We have an ocean,” adds Helvarg. “It’s full of life. It’s at risk. And we need to better understand the other 71% of our blue marble planet to protect it — and not to let a few individuals and corporations destroy it.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

The Shocking Secrets of MSG’s Surveillance Machine: Noah Shachtman on Knicks’ Owner James Dolan
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date: 2026-06-10T12:29:04Z
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description: James Dolan, the billionaire owner of New York City’s Madison Square Garden and its affiliated sports teams, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers, is under fire after a bombshell investigation by Wired magazine revealed the inner...
encoded: James Dolan, the billionaire owner of New York City’s Madison Square Garden and its affiliated sports teams, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers, is under fire after a bombshell investigation by Wired magazine revealed the inner workings of the arena’s extensive surveillance network. Dolan employs facial recognition technology to track and profile arena attendees. This reportedly included a trans woman who, according to a former security staffer, was targeted solely due to her gender identity, as well as lawyers who have been banned because their firms are involved in lawsuits against him. Dolan’s “spy machine” feeds information to Madison Square Garden’s sizable security forces, who operate beyond the arena itself, “acting as a kind of second ersatz police force in Midtown Manhattan,” explains Noah Shachtman, one of the authors of the Wired investigation. “It captures everyone, and some people get labeled as threats, even when they’re clearly not.” Dolan’s blacklist also extends to his other venues, including Radio City Music Hall, also in New York City, and Sphere, in Las Vegas. Even for those who never step foot in Madison Square Garden, Shachtman says, the system there “isn’t an outlier. It’s a model.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from Tehran: Amid More U.S./Iran Bombing, Trump Warns Iran Is “DEAD…Will Pay the Price”
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description: After the downing of an Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, the United States and Iran have begun trading missile and drone strikes in the most serious escalation of hostilities since the April ceasefire agreement. President Trump pos...
encoded: After the downing of an Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, the United States and Iran have begun trading missile and drone strikes in the most serious escalation of hostilities since the April ceasefire agreement. President Trump posted on social media Wednesday morning that Iran has taken “too long to negotiate a deal” and would now have to “pay the price!!!” For more, we speak to Mohammad Eslami at Tehran University, who says Trump’s “lies and broken promises” have shattered Iranians’ trust in a diplomatic solution. “Every night, there are lots of peoples chanting all around the street against Trump. And also, … unfortunately, many of them are chanting against negotiation with Donald Trump,” he says. “Right now they are asking the Iranian [forces] to retaliate.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for June 10, 2026
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description: Trump Says Iran Is Taking Too Long to Negotiate a Ceasefire Deal and Will Now Have to “Pay the Price”, Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 13 People in Southern Lebanon, U.N. Report: Armed Groups in Gaza Have Beaten, Maimed and Executed Dozens of Palestinians, Kenyan Police Forces Fatally Shoot a Man During Protest Against U.S. Ebola Facility, World Cup Referee from Somalia Returns Home After U.S. Denies Him Entry, Anti-Immigration Riots Roil Belfast as Firefighters Escort Immigrant Families from Their Homes, Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Alabama from Executing Inmate by Nitrogen Gas, House GOP Approves $70 Billion to Fund Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, AP: Trump Admin Separated Dozens of Immigrant Children from Their Parents for a Second Time, Epstein’s Former Assistant Groff Testifies Before House Oversight Committee, Trump Family Promotes Commemorative Coins for White House UFC Fight, Progressive Candidate Platner Overwhelmingly Wins Maine’s Democratic Primary for Senate, GOP Congressmember Nancy Mace Loses GOP Primary for Governor of South Carolina, Republican Steve Hilton Advances to General Election in California’s Gubernatorial Race
encoded: Trump Says Iran Is Taking Too Long to Negotiate a Ceasefire Deal and Will Now Have to "Pay the Price" Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 13 People in Southern Lebanon U.N. Report: Armed Groups in Gaza Have Beaten, Maimed and Executed Dozens of Palestinians Kenyan Police Forces Fatally Shoot a Man During Protest Against U.S. Ebola Facility World Cup Referee from Somalia Returns Home After U.S. Denies Him Entry Anti-Immigration Riots Roil Belfast as Firefighters Escort Immigrant Families from Their Homes Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Alabama from Executing Inmate by Nitrogen Gas House GOP Approves $70 Billion to Fund Trump's Immigration Crackdown AP: Trump Admin Separated Dozens of Immigrant Children from Their Parents for a Second Time Epstein's Former Assistant Groff Testifies Before House Oversight Committee Trump Family Promotes Commemorative Coins for White House UFC Fight Progressive Candidate Platner Overwhelmingly Wins Maine's Democratic Primary for Senate GOP Congressmember Nancy Mace Loses GOP Primary for Governor of South Carolina Republican Steve Hilton Advances to General Election in California's Gubernatorial Race This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-06-10 Wednesday
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Israel’s State-led Policy of Ethnic Cleansing in Occupied West Bank
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What You Need to Know About How Tear Gas Harms Kids
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encoded: Mindan Ocon poses for a photo with her daughter, Angelise Ocon, 3, at their family home in Portland, Oregon, on March 9. Protests at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility have turned the street outside Ocon’s affordable housing complex into a battlefield of stinging smoke and pepper spray. Ocon has relied on air purifiers and taking her daughter into the bathroom to hide from tear gas, and she’s prepared to use gas masks given to her by community members if it gets worse. Leah Nash for ProPublica In city after city, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has been met by protests and rallies from members of the local community opposed to the White House’s deportation policies. Federal agents from the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have repeatedly attempted to break up and drive back these crowds through the use of airborne irritants like tear gas and pepper spray, which can cause an array of immediate reactions — from eye pain to shortness of breath to nausea and vomiting — intended to temporarily disable their targets. DHS has defended its use of these weapons on crowds and said that it “does NOT target children,” but after reviewing news accounts, lawsuits and officer-worn body camera footage, as well as verifying incidents by interviewing more than 40 victims or witnesses, ProPublica recently identified more than six dozen instances in which children had been harmed by tear gas and pepper spray. Here are five things you should know about how these airborne weapons have been used during Trump’s immigration crackdown and how their use has particularly harmed children. Dozens of children have been harmed by tear gas deployed by immigration agents. So-called less lethal weapons like tear gas and pepper spray were developed to inflict severe pain and debilitate adult combatants and rioters, but ProPublica identified 79 children across the country since 2025 who have been harmed by these chemicals after they we…

UN officials urge Russia to free Indigenous climate advocate
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description: Daria Egereva and her colleague have been jailed for six months. A growing chorus of voices wants them released at a court hearing Thursday.
encoded: Ten U.N. officials are calling on Russia to immediately release Daria Egereva, an Indigenous international climate advocate, and her colleague Natalia Leongardt, both of whom have been jailed for six months on terrorism charges, ahead of a key court hearing this week. Egereva, who is Indigenous Selkup from Russia, is co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, which represents Indigenous peoples’ perspectives at United Nations gatherings. Russian authorities arrested her and Leongardt on December 17, just weeks after Egereva returned from the COP30 climate conference. Leongardt, a former intern at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, has spent her career working on educational programs for Indigenous peoples in Russia. The two face accusations of participating in a terrorist group due to their past involvement in the Aborigen Forum, an informal network of Indigenous advocates that the Russian government shut down two years ago. But U.N. experts say they’re concerned the arrests are reprisals for participating in U.N. meetings and are part of a broader shift in Russia to crack down on civil society freedoms including Indigenous activism. “We urge your Excellency’s Government to immediately and unconditionally release Ms. Egereva and Ms. Leongardt from detention, to drop all charges against them as stemming from their peaceful human rights activities, and to ensure that they are able to continue their legitimate human rights work and their cooperation with the United Nations’ bodies and mechanisms without fear of intimidation or reprisals,” read the letter from the U.N. officials, who included the U.N. special rapporteurs for the environment, Indigenous peoples, and human rights in the context of climate change. Their letter, sent in April, was made public last week by the U.N. Russian officials do not appear to have responded. Egereva and Leongardt are expected to appear in court on Thursday in Moscow, where they could be sentenced to as lon…

Crimea In Crisis: Shortages And Transportation Collapse As Ukraine Strikes Back #shorts
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Musician Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) on always developing and changing
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description: You didn’t perform live until Sub Pop signed you. What was it like stepping on stage for the first time with essentially no experience of performing in public?
encoded: You didn’t perform live until Sub Pop signed you. What was it like stepping on stage for the first time with essentially no experience of performing in public? I was horrified and so petrified. I was always a behind-the-camera person, someone who liked making art, but liked to do it in private, develop and polish it until it was finished. Whereas performance is the opposite. It is like, just see what happens, get out there and do your thing. But there was also a part of me that wanted to do that. I was obsessed with records, and with these performers that I love so much. It was just overcoming that fear of being judged, or fear of being thought of as stupid or messing up. I didn’t want to make a mistake in front of people. After a while, you get very accustomed to it. And sometimes the mistakes are what lead you to an interesting idea. You just sort of have embraced them all. I think I’m the only person that I know who has a job where, when you mess up, people clap more for you. You have been a musician, making and releasing albums for over 20 years. How has the relationship with your own music changed over time? It is constantly changing. As performers, we’re always eager to have new music to play, but the audience isn’t always as excited about it as we are. So, we end up playing our older material a lot. And I’ve, over the years, found different ways to play some songs. If you get tired of playing one or you don’t have anything emotional to bring to it anymore because you just played it too many times, you put it away for a little while. Then maybe you’ve lived or gone through something, and you’re different when you play it again. It’s an interesting relationship. Some of them you forget what they’re really about, or their meaning is revealed to you in a different way because you’re different. It’s an ongoing thing. What part of your songwriting process would you never recommend to other artists? The whole thing, probably. I don’t know. It’s the thing that I love…

Thousands Forcibly Recruited and Detained in DR Congo
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The Battle of Socorro, New Mexico and the Uprising Against AI Data Centers
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description: If there is any place on the map that captures the depth of the global revolt over AI data centers, it might well be little Socorro County, New Mexico. Located astride the Rio Grande and almost smack dab in the center of New Mexico, at first glance, rural Socorro County seems an unlikely center for More The post The Battle of Socorro, New Mexico and the Uprising Against AI Data Centers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo: Kent Paterson. If there is any place on the map that captures the depth of the global revolt over AI data centers, it might well be little Socorro County, New Mexico. Located astride the Rio Grande and almost smack dab in the center of New Mexico, at first glance, rural Socorro County seems an unlikely center for the rebellion. But at a May town hall, matters of environment and climate change, gaping economic inequality and creeping oligarchy, local land use, legacies of the nuclear weapons age and space exploration, democratic governance and transparency, and then some all boiled over in a lively, memorable meeting fit for the history books. The occasion was Canadian company Green Data’s proposal, in possible partnership with Socorro-based New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (better known as New Mexico Tech), to build a massive data center on 10,000-plus acres of land owned by the public university. Last January, unbeknownst to locals, the New Mexico Tech administration signed a letter of intent with Green Data to explore a possible deal. In Spanish, Socorro means “help,” and in a fitting display of wordplay, data center opponents outside New Mexico Tech’s Macey Conference Center on May 19 distributed buttons and t-shirts with the words “S.O.S. Socorro.” Interviewed inside the Macey Center as locals waited for the town hall to commence, resident Beaumont Chrismer immediately raised the water question that is unnerving Socorro and New Mexico, as drought emergencies are declared and supply restrictions implemented. Consequently, residents of Socorro County and across the Southwest are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of a hyperscale data center moving into their neighborhood. The facilities require water-often lots of it-to cool their systems. “Water is life in the Southwest, as you know, and stocks of water have been continuously depleting due to drought,” Chrismer said. James Boswell, who lives south of the village of San Antonio, described the…

What Free Tibet Means to a 17-Year-Old Tibetan in America
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To the Destruction of the World Wide Web
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description: Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history. — the NY Times, May 26, 2026 One could not invent a more diabolical conspiracy for mass mind control than the one playing out openly, daily, everywhere there is a personal computer or screen-phone and a signal connecting users to the digital matrix. The More The post To the Destruction of the World Wide Web appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Astronaut Dave Bowman shuts down or “kills” rogue AI/supercomputer Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history. — the NY Times, May 26, 2026 One could not invent a more diabolical conspiracy for mass mind control than the one playing out openly, daily, everywhere there is a personal computer or screen-phone and a signal connecting users to the digital matrix. The conspiracy is all-encompassing, world-girdling. It is where this machine envelops the human brain, in the moment of contact between the ape and the screen, that interests me. Fascinating is the ape’s repetitive stroking of the device, head bent as in prayer – the demented stillness of an animal caught in the tractor beam of the controllers who operate the matrix. Absorption into the system of control has nothing to do with the content it offers. The whirligigs of color and lights, the swirl of music, the chatter of talking heads: all irrelevant, so long as the device is gripped, the screen glows, the user stares and is stilled, and control is maintained through entertainment and entrainment. By now, deep into the age of digital megamachine authoritarianism, as inhuman-scale monopolies run by oligarchs manipulate what we know and think and how we govern, it should be clear to all that the liberation of humankind from this soft tyranny requires not only the toppling of the oligarchs but the take-down and annihilation of the World Wide Web that has served their purposes for too long. The Web, spun by a cabal of techno-fascists, has already ensnared billions in mental slavery – go to any continent and watch the apes of all colors a-stroking. Ever expanding under the direction of the techno-fascists, the Web now seeks to trap the few remaining souls on Earth yet beyond its ambit. To paraphrase Diderot (or is it Montaigne? Voltaire?), the world will not be free until the last tech bro is strangled with the entrails of t…

Five Big Takeaways From the May Jobs Report
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description: The May Jobs report was stronger than most people, including me, had expected. The 172,000 jobs created is not exactly earth-shattering, but in a context where immigration has been largely shut off and the labor force is barely growing, it is a lot. Plus, the two prior months’ data was revised up, so the average More The post Five Big Takeaways From the May Jobs Report appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Luis Villasmil The May Jobs report was stronger than most people, including me, had expected. The 172,000 jobs created is not exactly earth-shattering, but in a context where immigration has been largely shut off and the labor force is barely growing, it is a lot. Plus, the two prior months’ data was revised up, so the average over the last three months is 188,000. That looks pretty good, but the separate household survey looks less good. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, which by historical standards is low, but it’s almost a full percentage point higher than the 3.4% low hit in the spring of 2023. More striking is that the rate did not fall given the rapid job growth reported in the establishment survey. The household survey actually showed a small drop in employment. To be clear, the surveys often are not aligned, so this discrepancy is not especially striking, but it is worth noting. Anyhow, I have five main takeaways from the May report. 1. Jobs are growing far faster than the breakeven rate 2. Wages are not keeping pace with inflation 3. Workers are still reluctant to leave jobs 4. Job-killing AI is not visible in the data 5. Self-employment is lagging Good Job Growth, but Heavily Concentrated The entire 172,000 job growth came from three sectors: leisure and hospitality, local governments, and healthcare and social services. These sectors added 70,000 jobs, 55,000 jobs, and 47,200 jobs, respectively. To be clear, other sectors added some jobs. Construction added 17,000 jobs, manufacturing added 7,000 jobs, but with sectors like finance and wholesale trade losing jobs, the net outside of these sectors was zero. The job growth in the healthcare and social services sector was not surprising. It has been adding jobs at a rapid pace throughout the recovery. This is the story of aging baby boomers needing more care. Most of the growth in the social service category is home healthcare aides. This growth will likely continue. The growth in local gov…

Why Bats Matter to Desert Ecosystems
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description: Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on nectar, they are also performing one of the most important ecological services in arid landscapes: pollination. For agave plants—long-lived, slow-growing succulents that define much of Mexico’s desert ecology—bats More The post Why Bats Matter to Desert Ecosystems appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Lesser Long-nosed bat at a shaving brush tree flower. Photo: Xochitl Castaño. CC BY 4.0. Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on nectar, they are also performing one of the most important ecological services in arid landscapes: pollination. For agave plants—long-lived, slow-growing succulents that define much of Mexico’s desert ecology—bats are not just occasional visitors. They are essential partners in reproduction. This relationship is a classic example of mutualism, in which two species depend on each other for survival. Nectar-feeding bats gain a high-energy food source in agave that sustains their long-distance movements. In contrast, agaves rely on those bats to transfer pollen between flowers, ensuring fertilization and genetic diversity. The consequences of this exchange extend well beyond the desert; it helps shape ecosystem resilience, influences the future of agriculture, and even affects the production of tequila and mezcal. The Interdependent Relationship Between Bats and Agave Plants Agave plants are adapted to environments where water is scarce, and weather conditions can be extreme. Many species store energy in their thick, spiny leaves for years, sometimes decades. When the agave plants are ready to reproduce, they send up a single flowering stalk that can tower above the surrounding landscape. This bloom is both spectacular and final. After flowering and setting seed, the plant dies in most agave species. Because each agave has only one opportunity to reproduce, successful pollination is critical. The flowers open at night, when temperatures are cooler, and there is less evaporation. They are large, pale, and highly visible in low light, and they release a strong, musky scent that can travel long distances. These traits are not random. They are signals evolved specifically to attract nocturnal pollinators—most importantly, bats. “Bats are …

Climate Change Kills Homeowner’s Insurance
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description: The climate catastrophe not only kills people with fires and floods, it also bankrupts them by annihilating their homes – many uninsured. Why no insurance? Because of climate change – a perfectly horrible repeating loop. Our inside the Beltway gang may not know about the climate catastrophe, but insurance companies sure do – they know More The post Climate Change Kills Homeowner’s Insurance appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Roger Starnes Sr The climate catastrophe not only kills people with fires and floods, it also bankrupts them by annihilating their homes – many uninsured. Why no insurance? Because of climate change – a perfectly horrible repeating loop. Our inside the Beltway gang may not know about the climate catastrophe, but insurance companies sure do – they know which way the wind blows, and it blows toward a hotter, more inhospitable and downright dangerous planet. By May 22, per the National Interagency Fire Center, “18 uncontained large fires are currently burning nationwide,” requiring over 5000 firefighters to contain them. “So far this year, 29,023 fires have burned more than 2.3 million acres nationwide…the [California]Santa Rosa Island Fire…has grown to 18,379 acres. Evacuations are in effect on fires in Southern California and the Southwest, where the Seven Cabins Fire in New Mexico has burned 17,116 acres.” This agency does not speculate about how many of these numerous blazes are due to climate change, but an informed guess would put that at a big percentage. And who’s making that informed guess? Homeowner’s insurance companies, where, according to the New York Times November 19, 2025, climate change has sent premiums skyrocketing, home values falling and moderate-income owners screwed. As has been well publicized, many homes in Pacific Palisades that burnt to the ground in the 2025 Los Angeles-area inferno lacked homeowner’s insurance. They had none because companies like Allstate were busily cancelling policies over the past few years, precisely because they understood very well the climate that capitalism damaged would cause costly disasters, and they didn’t want to be on the hook for them. This happens not just in California but also especially in Florida, Louisiana and Texas; and homeowner’s insurance cancellation is very likely soon coming to a district near you. Four ways climate change impacts home insurance were noted by the Environmental Defense F…

Investigating the Foolish: The AUKUS Public Inquiry is Announced
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description: Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country indifferent, even scoffing, about the need for an inquiry into its merits. Unsurprisingly, both the US and UK inquiries have found much to merit the project – Australian taxpayer money has sluiced More The post Investigating the Foolish: The AUKUS Public Inquiry is Announced appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Matt Hrkac – CC BY 2.0 Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, that most draining, useless and even pernicious of security pacts, Australia has been the only country indifferent, even scoffing, about the need for an inquiry into its merits. Unsurprisingly, both the US and UK inquiries have found much to merit the project – Australian taxpayer money has sluiced and soothed the submarine industrial base of both countries – but have also expressed concern about their respective production rates of nuclear-powered submarines. While the first pillar of the agreement promises, with mighty emptiness, that the Royal Australia Navy will receive three Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs), with the possible opportunity to acquire a further two, the prospect of their timely arrival looks increasingly doubtful. The recent developments at the Shangri-La Dialogue held in Singapore that these will be hand-me-downs from the US Navy already suggests the lack of regard Australian personnel and their slavish representatives are held in. Add to this a joint as yet undesigned UK-Australian SSN design that will use US technology, the chances that a fleet of these expensive hulks finding their way into the hands of Australian sailors looks damnably remote. With the Canberra mandarins and political governors insisting that no official inquiry be conducted into AUKUS, it has fallen to those keen on a public inquiry to take up the mantle. The crowd-founded AUKUS Public Inquiry, coordinated by the Australian Peace and Security Forum (APSF), will be led by a number of commissioners, spearheaded by former federal environment minister and frontman for Midnight Oil Peter Garrett. Former MPs, retired military and naval officers (these include former chief of the Australian Defence Force Chris Barrie), strategists and academics, human rights lawyers and union leaders promise to feature in this inquiry into the unpardonably foolish. In remarks made on launching the in…

We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us Donald is a Red
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description: U.S. President Donald Trump, Reuters reports, is “looking into” a US government stake in leading artificial intelligence firms. “There’s something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public,” Trump says. This isn’t his first such initiative. Since beginning his second term, Trump has announced 15 such “equity stake” deals More The post We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us Donald is a Red appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain U.S. President Donald Trump, Reuters reports, is “looking into” a US government stake in leading artificial intelligence firms. “There’s something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public,” Trump says. This isn’t his first such initiative. Since beginning his second term, Trump has announced 15 such “equity stake” deals between the US government and various companies, at least ten of which have so far been formally consummated. This time, though, his logic differs somewhat. He’s justified previous “equity stake” agreements on alleged national security concerns and on a supposed economic need to create jobs by “reshoring” industries which have moved production to other countries in recent decades. This particular proposal feels more like the basis for some kind of “Universal Basic Income” scheme, or at least for funding increased welfare state entitlements, and doesn’t seem to differ markedly from a proposal by openly “socialist” US Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to seize equity in AI firms for a “Sovereign Wealth Fund.” So, let’s talk about Trump and “socialism.” “Socialism,” he said in a 2019 speech, “promises prosperity but delivers poverty. Socialism promises unity but delivers hate and division. Socialism promises a better future, but always returns to the darkest chapters of the past.” “Socialism” suffers from too many, and too incompatible, definitions — ranging from direct worker ownership of businesses, to welfare statism financed through heavy taxation of those businesses, to the government ownership of those business as a supposed proxy for those workers — but Trump’s points are fair ones with regard to, at least, the latter two types. Yet Trump frequently argues those points with himself … and loses, agreeing that he was wrong in that speech. When it comes to actual policy, he’s arguably the most “socialist” American president since Franklin D…

God’s Laboratory: On Science in the Service of Myth
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description: Scientists have located the Garden of Eden. It is in Botswana. This was reported not in the theology section of any publication but as a science story, because it emerged from genetic research — mitochondrial DNA analysis tracing the migration patterns of early Homo sapiens back to the Okavango Delta. The researchers were doing real More The post God’s Laboratory: On Science in the Service of Myth appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Jon Tyson Scientists have located the Garden of Eden. It is in Botswana. This was reported not in the theology section of any publication but as a science story, because it emerged from genetic research — mitochondrial DNA analysis tracing the migration patterns of early Homo sapiens back to the Okavango Delta. The researchers were doing real science. They were reading real data. And somewhere in the journey from data to headline, the entire epistemological project went quietly off the rails. To search for where Eden was is to grant Eden the status of a historical fact. The myth is allowed to set the research question, which means that whatever empirical answer comes back gets absorbed into the mythology rather than challenging it. The Garden of Eden was not in Botswana. It was not anywhere. It is a story — a profound and psychologically resonant story, one that names something real about the human experience of self-consciousness and historical existence — but a story nonetheless. When science goes looking for it, science has already lost the argument before the first data point is logged. I say this as someone who finds the underlying science genuinely interesting. The mitochondrial research on human population bottlenecks and migration patterns out of sub-Saharan Africa is important work. The Okavango Delta may well have been a refugium — a stable habitat that sustained human populations during a period of climatic stress. That is a meaningful scientific claim, and it stands on its own. The moment you call it Eden, you have handed the keys of your laboratory to Genesis. The Bear and the Apple I was reminded of a piece I read some years ago about the origin of apples. The article placed their origin in Kazakhstan, in the Tian Shan mountains, where the wild ancestor of the domestic apple — Malus sieversii — still grows. This is also real science, and fascinating. The mechanism of dispersal involves bears. Bears eating apples, wandering further from the orc…

The American Plan and the 2026 Elections
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description: Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / From California to the New York island,” but, in fact, the conversion of vast public resources and wealth to private property is one of the defining dynamics of American history. The political economist Thorstein Veblen called this process “The American More The post The American Plan and the 2026 Elections appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Element5 Digital. Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / From California to the New York island,” but, in fact, the conversion of vast public resources and wealth to private property is one of the defining dynamics of American history. The political economist Thorstein Veblen called this process “The American Plan:” the conversion of public resources into private hands as fast as possible. It started with the “legal seizure” of native lands and resources. Then in the last century the federal government began giving away our information highways. New technology, same result. Far from promoting the growth of democracy, the American Plan has consolidated wealth and power in the hands of a few. Not surprisingly, the rich regularly convert their private wealth into political power by buying (or renting) politicians and manipulating public opinion, a process the SCOTUS has the gall to call “free speech.” Thanks to Roberts court gutting of the last vestiges of limits on campaign spending and the concentration of media in the hands of a few billionaires, the buying of voters’ minds is on steroids during the 2026 election. In the past, a local newspaper like the Manchester Daily Union or later newspaper chains like Hearst publications tried to shape political events, but their influence was restrained by time and geography. Now media are instant and ubiquitous. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, for instance, spent nearly $130 million in their primary fight for a seat in the U.S. Senate, the single largest amount of money ever spent in a statewide primary. That’s just the start. Pundits predict that the victor will spend another $250 million to win the Texas seat this November. This massive political spending, mainly for access to the airwaves and social media, suggests that the 2026 election is likely to represent an extreme case of Citizens United feeding the media monopolies who profit from a broadcast licensing system that turns the …

‘Tell Everyone I Love Them”
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description: Is war simply part of human nature? It’s been absurdly “ordinary” throughout my lifetime, and continually expanding its power and psychological reach. And unless you’re in the middle of it – unless you’re digging for a dead child beneath a bombed building – war is just an abstract horror. It’s necessary. It’s what keeps us More The post ‘Tell Everyone I Love Them” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Alexandru Acea Is war simply part of human nature? It’s been absurdly “ordinary” throughout my lifetime, and continually expanding its power and psychological reach. And unless you’re in the middle of it – unless you’re digging for a dead child beneath a bombed building – war is just an abstract horror. It’s necessary. It’s what keeps us safe. Glory, glory hallelujah. “You ask: What is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory – victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” Hmmm . . . This is Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill, speaking in 1940, just as World War II has opened its jaws. In that context, yes, his words make sense, but the paradox hiding in those words – the speech titled “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” – is that with victory there may be no survival either. The Good War gave us, of course, the nuclear bomb. It gave us much of the military hell that’s happened in my lifetime. It also gave us, along with a multi-trillion-dollar annual global military budget, a sense of eternal necessity to be ready for the next evil monster who wants to get us. That’s it? We’re stuck with pending war, and actual war, from now on . . . until we blow up the planet? I don’t believe that at all, but I started digging back into history to get a fuller sense of what others thought. Who are we? As Steve Taylor, writing some years ago in Psychology Today, noted: “Our view of human nature determines our view of the human race’s future. If we believe that human beings are innately warlike, then there is no reason for us to believe that our future holds anything else but more of the chaos a…

For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal
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description: Solar provides more than twice the share of electricity it did five years ago.
encoded: Solar energy just provided more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time on record — marking a milestone for the rise of renewables in America. While gas and nuclear plants still lead the country’s energy mix, solar contributed 12.8 percent of the nation’s electrons in May, according to an analysis of government data by Ember, an energy think tank. Coal, meanwhile, provided just 12.2 percent. Just five years ago, solar was less than half of its current levels and coal was at 20 percent. “Overtaking coal for the first month on record shows just how far solar has come, from a niche contributor to the third-largest and fastest-growing source of power in the U.S. electricity system,” said Nicolas Fulghum, senior data analyst at Ember, in a press release. “From Texas to California, markets across the U.S. are betting on solar to meet rising power needs.” The turnaround comes even as political headwinds have shifted against renewable energy. Last summer, Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which rolled back enormous swaths of former President Joe Biden’s landmark climate change legislation, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. And President Donald Trump has actively sought to hinder renewable energy development, even offering to pay at least one oil company $1 billion to stop building its offshore wind projects. The latest electricity data comes the same month that the Trump administration announced $700 million in funding for investments in the coal industry. It included money for what would be the country’s first new coal-fired power plants in 13 years — sourced from funds previously dedicated to reducing the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, not deepening it. “Today we’re taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal,” said Trump, who campaigned on the coal-friendly slogan ‘dig, baby, dig.” Ember’s analysis found that coal generation in May wa…

Hellas within Me is a Very Beautiful Young Woman: The Music of Mikis Theodorakis
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description: Prologue Mikis Theodorakis was an internationally recognized Greek symbol of resistance to capitalism and foreign influence in Greece. When I left Greece for the United States in 1961, he was 36 years old. He was supporting communism, which the United States considered enemy of enemies. Indeed, the Cold War, 1945-1989, mirrored the irrational hatred plutocrats More The post Hellas within Me is a Very Beautiful Young Woman: The Music of Mikis Theodorakis appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Mikis Theodorakis in the Netherlands, 1972. Wikipedia Commons. Prologue Mikis Theodorakis was an internationally recognized Greek symbol of resistance to capitalism and foreign influence in Greece. When I left Greece for the United States in 1961, he was 36 years old. He was supporting communism, which the United States considered enemy of enemies. Indeed, the Cold War, 1945-1989, mirrored the irrational hatred plutocrats had for the Soviet Union that, officially, had adopted communism as state ideology and policy. This international weaponization of class conflict became history with the return of the Soviet Union without its empire back to Russia in 1989-1990. Communism and Greece Communism brought civil war to Greece. It started in 1943 and ended with the defeat of the communist resistance forces in 1949. The British and Germans sparked this vicious struggle of the Greeks killing Greeks. Illiterate communists in the village I was born, Valsamata, in the Ionian island of Cephalonia, assassinated two brothers of my father and they almost killed my father as well. Why? I really don’t know. My father and his brothers owned a few small pieces of land from which they raised wine, olive oil, wheat, barley, hay and lentils. We also had small flocks of goats and sheep as well as a few chickens, a donkey, a mule, a dog and more than one cat. Did the killers of my uncles think their murders helped communism? I cannot answer this question, though civil wars like the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE, are irrational slaughterhouses. They automatically divide people ready to commit atrocities. Reason, national identity, family relationships, speaking the same language, worshipping the same gods / god and having the same history take a vacation. In the 20th century, the Germans and the British did not want the Greeks to realize they were the descendants of fabulous ancient Greeks and institutions like democracy, science, gorgeous architecture, art and advanced technology. Or that …

‘Where did our votes go?’: Ask electors in Bengal’s New Town where BJP polled 97% votes in a Muslim majority booth
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description: In Booth 164 of West Bengal’s Rajarhat New Town, the assembly election result has sparked questions among local residents, opposition leaders and political workers. When Alt News visited the constituency and spoke to voters, several of them described the result as absurd and impossible. The CPI(M)-ISF alliance candidate Saptarshi Deb received just one vote from […]
encoded: In Booth 164 of West Bengal’s Rajarhat New Town, the assembly election result has sparked questions among local residents, opposition leaders and political workers. When Alt News visited the constituency and spoke to voters, several of them described the result as absurd and impossible. The CPI(M)-ISF alliance candidate Saptarshi Deb received just one vote from Booth 164. TMC candidate Tapash Chatterjee secured five votes, while BJP candidate Piyush Kanodia, who won the seat, got 637 of the 656 votes polled. Booths 164 and 165 are located in a locality known as Musalman Para, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood. In the neighbouring Booth 165, which draws voters from the same locality and, in many cases, even from the same families, Kanodia received 32 votes, compared to Deb’s 299 and Chatterjee’s 290. In sharp contrast, in 164, where 88% of the electors are Muslims, BJP polled 97% of the votes. Locals told Alt News that the result of Booth 164 was difficult to reconcile with the area’s political and demographic profile. The Extra Round of Counting that Flipped the Result The results for New Town were declared on May 5, a day after the rest of West Bengal’s election results. The results were mired in controversy from the very beginning as the seat underwent 18 rounds of counting instead of the pre-notified 17 rounds. There were a total of 330 polling stations in the constituency, including 10 auxiliary booths. Each counting round was supposed to consist of the tallying of 20 EVMs. Accordingly, candidates expected 17 rounds of counting — 16 rounds involving 20 EVMs each and a final round involving the remaining 10 EVMs. Why did the need for an extra round of counting arise? The 18th round can be linked to 52 additional votes being recorded on the EVM at Booth 164 on the polling day. There, voting was suspended for nearly two hours after polling agents noticed that the EVM displayed 52 more votes than had actually been cast. A polling agent told Alt News that although…

Trump/Musk Try to Help Russia Invade America via Alaska Tunnel
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description: Think of the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a marriage between the Russian mafia in the West and the Russian mafia in the East. Now, there's talk out of Moscow that Trump has agreed to build a literal tunnel connecting Alaska to Russia, with Elon Musk's help. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman of the Trump Tyranny Tracker joins us to ring the alarm on this MAGA-backed project, an insane move right when Russia's own neighbors are digging trenches to protect themselves from Putin. So many crimes, so little time to cover them all. That's exactly why Gaslit Nation is joining forces with Olga and the Trump Tyranny Tracker. Together, we'll connect the dots and help you stay grounded against Steve Bannon's deliberate demoralization strategy of "flooding the zone with sh*t." We are up against a global kleptocracy enabled by opportunists across corporate America, the mainstream media, and elite law firms. None of us can do this work alone, which is why Andrea and Olga are partnering up. We're here to make covering this horror show more sustainable, build real civic power, and carry each other through the chaos to stay vigilant and fight back. We also look at why the liaison for Trump's ballroom project took a trip to Moscow. Was he in search of a bribe? Is the ballroom just another Kremlin money-laundering scheme? For this week's bonus show, out Thursday, made with love and rage for our listeners who make our independent journalism possible, out later this week, we look at Jared and Ivanka's mysterious Albanian island–what are those two up to? Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Find your community at GaslitNation.Substack.com or Patreon.com/Gaslit Show Notes: Join Gaslit Nation's Songwriting Workshop June 22nd at 4pm ET with Leslie Nuss. Be sur…
encoded: Think of the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a marriage between the Russian mafia in the West and the Russian mafia in the East. Now, there's talk out of Moscow that Trump has agreed to build a literal tunnel connecting Alaska to Russia, with Elon Musk's help. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman of the Trump Tyranny Tracker joins us to ring the alarm on this MAGA-backed project, an insane move right when Russia's own neighbors are digging trenches to protect themselves from Putin. So many crimes, so little time to cover them all. That's exactly why Gaslit Nation is joining forces with Olga and the Trump Tyranny Tracker. Together, we'll connect the dots and help you stay grounded against Steve Bannon's deliberate demoralization strategy of "flooding the zone with sh*t." We are up against a global kleptocracy enabled by opportunists across corporate America, the mainstream media, and elite law firms. None of us can do this work alone, which is why Andrea and Olga are partnering up. We're here to make covering this horror show more sustainable, build real civic power, and carry each other through the chaos to stay vigilant and fight back. We also look at why the liaison for Trump's ballroom project took a trip to Moscow. Was he in search of a bribe? Is the ballroom just another Kremlin money-laundering scheme? For this week's bonus show, out Thursday, made with love and rage for our listeners who make our independent journalism possible, out later this week, we look at Jared and Ivanka's mysterious Albanian island–what are those two up to? Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Find your community at GaslitNation.Substack.com or Patreon.com/Gaslit Show Notes: Join Gaslit Nation's Songwriting Workshop June 22nd at 4pm ET with Leslie Nuss. Be sur…

Latest Paris court ruling triggers polarised reactions in New Caledonia
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description: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A recent ruling by a French court to drop all charges against pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin and 13 others in their alleged role in the May 2024 civil unrest in New Caledonia has triggered a barrage of emotional reactions from across the French Pacific territory’s political chessboard. Last
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A recent ruling by a French court to drop all charges against pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin and 13 others in their alleged role in the May 2024 civil unrest in New Caledonia has triggered a barrage of emotional reactions from across the French Pacific territory’s political chessboard. Last week, a court in Paris said they had based their decision on “insufficient” evidence — amounting to a “no case to answer” — for all of the 14 accused. The Public Prosecution has since appealed the decision, saying “further investigation” was still required. READ MORE: Case dismissed for pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin Other Kanaky New Caledonia political reports But on the local scene, the highly-sensitive case remains a tense and polarising subject, as New Caledonia’s electoral campaigning for the local provincial elections is now in full swing, two years after violent political unrest took place, causing 14 deaths and more than 2 billion euros (NZ$3.9 billion) in economic damage, mainly caused by arson and looting. Pro-independence FLNKS party (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), one of the main components of the pro-independence movement, is now headed by Téin as president. Briefly reacting to the Paris ruling, FLNKS said it was “relieved” that “French justice has done its job” and welcomed the decision “with a lot of humility”. Defence lawyers had earlier pointed to a case that initially had attempted to “muzzle” Téin and his co-accused. ‘Red judges’ But reactions from political groups that want New Caledonia to remain part of France have denounced what they term a “biased” decision. New Caledonia’s pro-France MP in the French National Assembly, Nicolas Metzdorf, lashed out on social networks at what he calls “the red judges”. “As long as justice is not delivered, nothing can be totally repaired in New Caledonia. A whole people was harmed and those responsible must be taken to account”, he said, while …

World Cup 2026: Why Pacific Island Teams Keep Missing Out
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Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for our heart of darkness
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description: COMMENTARY: By Mark Naglazas Trying to get my head around Pete Hegseth’s bonkers, deeply offensive D-Day memorial speech in which the US Secretary of War drew an equivalence between the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy — the largest seaborne invasion in history — with illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Europe. “Sadly, today, different European
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Mark Naglazas Trying to get my head around Pete Hegseth’s bonkers, deeply offensive D-Day memorial speech in which the US Secretary of War drew an equivalence between the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy — the largest seaborne invasion in history — with illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Europe. “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies — beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria,” Hegseth told those gathered at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. “Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion, or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” he said. READ MORE: Hegseth says Europe is being ‘invaded by dangerous migrants’ Other war on Iran reports “The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for was merely temporary.” Most of the blowback against this speech has been in Hegseth’s staining the memory of a noble sacrifice of the Allies with a contemporary political reference. But what is truly appalling and completely nuts is the comparison of illegal immigrants to Nazis. Hegseth says that America saved Western civilisation, which has some truth, But Nazism didn’t come from outsiders: it came from the belly of Western civilisation. Crowning glories but . . . Germany was one of the crowning glories of the West yet it murdered six million Jews and waged a war that killed many more. The Allies were saving Europe from itself. Ironically, while Hegseth was shooting his big fat mouth off in France over in Germany a member of a neo-Nazi party so far to the right that even the booming extremist Alternative for Germany have condemned them has narrowly lost a mayoral election Saxony. Soon we won’t be laughing at Mel Brooks’ famous song “Spingtime for Hitler”. It’s happening in Germany now (even Chancellor Merz is worried) All …

Mark Naglazas: Blaming immigrants when we need to look inside for our heart of darkness
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description: COMMENTARY: By Mark Naglazas Trying to get my head around Pete Hegseth’s bonkers, deeply offensive D-Day memorial speech in which the US Secretary of War drew an equivalence between the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy — the largest seaborne invasion in history — with illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Europe. “Sadly, today, different European
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Mark Naglazas Trying to get my head around Pete Hegseth’s bonkers, deeply offensive D-Day memorial speech in which the US Secretary of War drew an equivalence between the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy — the largest seaborne invasion in history — with illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Europe. “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies — beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria,” Hegseth told those gathered at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. “Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion, or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” he said. READ MORE: Hegseth says Europe is being ‘invaded by dangerous migrants’ Other war on Iran reports “The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for was merely temporary.” Most of the blowback against this speech has been in Hegseth’s staining the memory of a noble sacrifice of the Allies with a contemporary political reference. But what is truly appalling and completely nuts is the comparison of illegal immigrants to Nazis. Hegseth says that America saved Western civilisation, which has some truth, But Nazism didn’t come from outsiders: it came from the belly of Western civilisation. Crowning glories but . . . Germany was one of the crowning glories of the West yet it murdered six million Jews and waged a war that killed many more. The Allies were saving Europe from itself. Ironically, while Hegseth was shooting his big fat mouth off in France over in Germany a member of a neo-Nazi party so far to the right that even the booming extremist Alternative for Germany have condemned them has narrowly lost a mayoral election Saxony. Soon we won’t be laughing at Mel Brooks’ famous song “Spingtime for Hitler”. It’s happening in Germany now (even Chancellor Merz is worried) All …

Torture, Abuse, Sexual Violence: Israel’s Horrific Treatment of Gaza Flotilla Activists
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Acontecer | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
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Is Gaza Heading Toward a New Kind of Famine?
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creator: Nourdine Shnino
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description: The World Central Kitchen suspended most of its meal distribution in Gaza, cutting off an essential lifeline.
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Anti-Transgender Rhetoric Fuels Violence
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description: Amid disproportionate violence against transgender Americans, anti-transgender rhetoric endangers them further.
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Tech CEOs have the power to ruin the economy
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-09T22:01:40Z
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Growing Danger in the South China Sea
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date: 2026-06-09T21:04:12Z
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When AI started to work for itself
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What Donald Trump and Madison Square Garden’s owner have in common
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Higher education must not become a research arm of militarized power
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creator: Henry A. Giroux
date: 2026-06-09T19:18:49Z
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description: This article was originally published by Truthout on June 08, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themsel...
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Report details how climate crisis fuels crop failure risk in global breadbaskets
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on June 09, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The climate emergency is sharply increasing the risk of crop failure in regions that produce an outsized share...
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The man behind Trump’s counterterrorism strategy
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VICE Inside: Will World War III Start in the South China Sea? | ft. Alex Waterfield
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 9, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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CPJ welcomes conviction of 2 men for attack on Iran International journalist in London
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description: London, June 9, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the conviction of two Romanian men found guilty of wounding journalist Pouria Zeraati in London in 2024 in a carefully planned attack that prosecutors said was linked to the Iranian state. Zeraati, a prominent news presenter for the Persian-language broadcaster Iran International, was stabbed three times...
encoded: London, June 9, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the conviction of two Romanian men found guilty of wounding journalist Pouria Zeraati in London in 2024 in a carefully planned attack that prosecutors said was linked to the Iranian state. Zeraati, a prominent news presenter for the Persian-language broadcaster Iran International, was stabbed three times in the leg close to his southwest London home on March 29, 2024, and subsequently needed hospitalization. His attackers immediately fled the U.K. On June 5, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court found Nandito Badea, 21, and George Stana, 25, guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The two men, who denied the charges, will be sentenced on July 3. A third man accused of involvement, David Andrei, was arrested in Romania but could not be extradited to the U.K. “The evidence presented in this trial was deeply chilling, showing the level of planning and extended surveillance that preceded Pouria Zeraati’s stabbing. This was a targeted, deliberate, and funded attack, and while it is welcome news that two men have been convicted for conducting it, those who ordered it must also be held accountable,” said Fiona O’Brien, CPJ’s director for Europe and Central Asia. “The level of threat to Iranian journalists in the U.K. — and to their families back in Iran — has only risen since 2024, so it is also vital that the U.K. government steps up its response to this kind of transnational repression.” In a statement, Frank Ferguson, head of the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said evidence presented in court showed the defendants were “not acting on impulse, but were recruited, funded, and directed to carry out violence.” He said the convictions demonstrate “the seriousness of an offense designed to silence a journalist through intimidation and violence.” While the trial judge has yet to determine whether Zeraati’s attack was linked to Iran, London’s Metro…

Lebanon: ethnic cleansing in the South
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Taliban Security Forces Fire On Afghan Women’s Rights Protesters #shorts
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‘Donald Trump’s Policies Are Hurting Social Security’: Statement on the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report
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description: The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report:“This is the first Social Security trustees report that begins to take Donald Trump’s second term policies into account: A ...
encoded: The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report: “This is the first Social Security trustees report that begins to take Donald Trump’s second term policies into account: A tax bill that largely benefited the wealthy, economy-wrecking tariffs, a needless war with Iran, and hostility to immigrants. All of these have reduced the amount of money going into Social Security, weakening the system’s finances. Despite Trump’s damaging policies, Social Security remains fully affordable if the wealthy are required to contribute their fair share. Congress has only two options to address the projected shortfall: Bring more money into Social Security, or cut benefits. Any politician who refuses to raise revenue, including by making the wealthy pay their fair share into Social Security, is telling us that they support benefit cuts. The American people, including Republicans, are overwhelming in their opposition to even a penny of benefit cuts. Support for means-testing and other benefit cuts (even if paired with revenue increases) is a betrayal of the American people. Social Security’s future is on the ballot. Any of the U.S. Senators elected this November could become the deciding vote. Accordingly, all of them should tell the public how they would vote. This is particularly important for Republican candidates, given that Speaker Mike Johnson just announced plans to ‘adjust and fix’ Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid next year. That’s DC-insider speak for ‘cut benefits.’ Outrageously, Johnson claims this is necessary to reduce the federal deficit — even though Social Security is an earned benefit that doesn’t add a single penny to the deficit! As the Trustees Report plainly states, if there is insufficient revenue, Social Security benefits will be automatically cut. Johnson’s ‘solution’ is to cut them sooner (and likely by a larger amount) instead of making his billionaire donors pay their fair s…

From Mussolini to mass incarceration: Why Gramsci matters today
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Congress Must Act Now to Protect Social Security—Make the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share
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description: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance, regarding the Trustees’ reports on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released today.The report states that the Social Security Trust Fund is able to p...
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Why New Yorkers "Thunderously Booed" Trump at Knicks-Spurs Game: Sportswriter David Zirin
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date: 2026-06-09T14:58:35Z
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Photojournalist rammed by federal officer at New Jersey protest
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date: 2026-06-09T14:58:28Z
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description: Freelance photojournalist Madison Swart was shoved to the ground by a federal officer while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026.Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22,...
encoded: Freelance photojournalist Madison Swart was shoved to the ground by a federal officer while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Swart and other journalists told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker the protests followed a consistent pattern, with a period of calm until law enforcement vehicles tried to exit the facility, when protesters would attempt to block them from leaving and to see whether any detainees were being moved. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would then advance to push back the demonstrators and make arrests, before calm would resume. “So it was a lot of waiting and then, all of a sudden, they got the order, so they all whipped out their batons — the dramatic kind where you flick it and it extends long,” she said, referring to expandable batons. “That’s when you know that they’re going to move forward.” Swart said she was standing to the side, far from the protesters, and had been in roughly the same position for nearly an hour, while clearly identifiable as a member of the press, when an officer singled her out. “There was just one agent who got his baton and then full-force rammed into me, and I fell to the floor,” she said. “I’ve never had that happen before. I’ve never fallen in the field.” She told the Tracker she believes it was deliberate. “I don’t know if it was because I was using flash or because he knew who I was,” she told the Tracker. “They knew my presence was there, I made it pretty obvious.” She said that she stayed on the grou…

Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO
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SpaceX IPO Could Make Musk a Trillionaire at Your Expense in "Massive Wealth Transfer": Eric Gardner
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"The Word ‘Ceasefire’ Has Lost Its Meaning"
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 9, 2026
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UN News Today 09 June 2026
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description: UN chief Guterres urges maximum restraint amid Middle East escalationDR Congo: UN teams battle Ebola virus in frontline city Gazans trapped between Israeli attacks and Hamas brutality, says independent rights probe
encoded: UN chief Guterres urges maximum restraint amid Middle East escalationDR Congo: UN teams battle Ebola virus in frontline city Gazans trapped between Israeli attacks and Hamas brutality, says independent rights probe This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

The quiet push to shield pesticide makers from lawsuits
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description: Industry-backed pesticide immunity laws are advancing nationwide, raising fears that farmers and families harmed by pesticides could lose their right to seek justice.
encoded: In April 2026, California farmer Terri McCall stood on the steps of the Supreme Court at a rally protesting pesticide use, telling the story of how her husband and dog both died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a disease she believes was caused by pesticides. Her husband, Jack, had used Roundup for more than three decades on their 20-acre ranch before dying of cancer in 2016. Over 57,000 pesticide products are currently registered for use in the United States, ranging from powerful chemicals used in conventional agriculture, to common insect repellents approved for use on children. Scientific evidence is accumulating that some of them are linked to illnesses ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s disease. But beginning in 2024, a powerful coalition of chemical manufacturers and industry groups launched a coordinated national effort to pass “immunity laws,” bills designed to shield companies from potential legal claims tied to harms from their pesticide products. Over the past three years alone, industry lobbyists attempted to pass pesticide immunity legislation in 15 different states. The battle over ‘failure to warn’ At the center of the industry’s lobbying effort is a key legal question: What responsibility do pesticide companies have to warn users and consumers about potential health risks from their products? In many states, individuals can currently bring “failure to warn” claims if they believe a company withheld information about harms associated with a pesticide. The chemical makers advocating for pesticide immunity laws argue that companies should be protected from those lawsuits as long as they use labels approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But opponents say that standard is dangerously inadequate. There are longstanding concerns about the EPA’s pesticide review process. For example, the official EPA labels for glyphosate still do not carry a cancer warning, despite mounting evidence that it may cause cancer and other groups like the World Health …

Why New Yorkers “Thunderously Booed” Trump at Knicks-Spurs Game: Sportswriter David Zirin
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description: President Trump on Monday attended the third game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The San Antonio Spurs beat the New York Knicks, who hadn’t lost a game since late April. The crowd booed when Trump was shown ...
encoded: President Trump on Monday attended the third game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The San Antonio Spurs beat the New York Knicks, who hadn’t lost a game since late April. The crowd booed when Trump was shown on the jumbotron. “This was supposed to be a day about the Knicks. It was supposed to be a celebration of New York,” says Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation and host of the Edge of Sports podcast. “And instead it was about one authoritarian, malignant narcissist.” Anticipation for the FIFA World Cup is “joyless,” adds Zirin. “This is the first time that travel warnings are being issued to fans coming here. Even warnings are being issued to people who live in the United States by immigration groups because of the threats of ICE being at the stadiums.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Tech-Driven Prosperity & Right-Wing Racist Politics”: Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO
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description: Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deeply reliant on state contracts” ...
encoded: Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deeply reliant on state contracts” as the U.S. government then becomes reliant on Musk. “It’s not about demolishing the government,” Slobodian says of his work with DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency that Musk led for the Trump administration. “It’s about making the government more compatible, ready for the kind of products that Musk offers, and to make him then an indispensable part of the infrastructure.” Slobodian goes on to warn that Musk’s wealth is helping to fuel his anti-immigrant, racist political ideology. “We really should be worried about the possibility of those things to live together: tech-driven prosperity and right-wing racist politics.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

SpaceX IPO Could Make Musk a Trillionaire at Your Expense in “Massive Wealth Transfer”: Eric Gardner
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description: Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is set to go public this week targeting a $1.8 trillion valuation, potentially making it the largest initial public offering in history. It is also projected to make Elon Musk, already the world’s ...
encoded: Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is set to go public this week targeting a $1.8 trillion valuation, potentially making it the largest initial public offering in history. It is also projected to make Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, the world’s first trillionaire. The nonprofit newsroom More Perfect Union has released a new report from business reporter Eric Gardner called “We Uncovered a Hidden Wealth Transfer in the SpaceX IPO. You’re Holding the Bag.” It details how Musk convinced Nasdaq to forgo the usual waiting period to include SpaceX in its index fund, potentially exposing retirement savers to what many professional investors believe will be an overinflated stock price. While Musk and early investors are positioned to see their wealth skyrocket, the SpaceX IPO could hurt these regular investors, says Gardner. “He has essentially financially engineered the IPO as a massive wealth transfer from everyday investors to insiders,” Gardner says of Musk. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“The Word ‘Ceasefire’ Has Lost Its Meaning”: Lylla Younes on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of South Lebanon
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description: Israel is continuing to carry out attacks on Lebanon amid ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran to end the war. Iran is maintaining its demand that Lebanon be included in a ceasefire deal. Lylla Younes, an investigative journalist based in B...
encoded: Israel is continuing to carry out attacks on Lebanon amid ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran to end the war. Iran is maintaining its demand that Lebanon be included in a ceasefire deal. Lylla Younes, an investigative journalist based in Beirut, says President Trump’s claims that he wants peace with Iran are “absurd” because the United States continues to support “Israel’s aggression in southern Lebanon.” She argues that “an angry phone call between Netanyahu and Donald Trump is ultimately meaningless” as long as Israel is granted “impunity and arms.” Younes also talks about reporting she did for Drop Site News on the ethnic cleansing in Ain Arab, a village in southern Lebanon. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for June 9, 2026
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description: Trump Again Claims He’s Nearing a Deal with Iran, as Tehran Says U.S. and Israel Broke Ceasefire, Israel Bombs Lebanese City of Tyre After Ordering All Residents to Flee, Israeli Strike on Gaza Refugee Camp Kills 8-Year-Old Palestinian Leaving School, Nigeria’s Military Says It Has Freed 360 People Abducted by Boko Haram, Progressive L.A. Councilmember Nithya Raman Advances to November Runoff Against Incumbent Mayor Bass, Trump Formally Nominates Former Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Immigrant from Republic of Georgia Dies in Louisiana ICE Jail, New Jersey Gov. Sherrill Says ICE Strictly Limited Her Inspection of Delaney Hall, Trump’s “Border Czar” Tom Homan Threatens Surge of Immigration Agents to New York, NYC Mayor Mamdani Pushes Back Against Border Czar Homan’s Threats, Federal Judge Rules Against Trump’s $100,000 Annual Fee on H-1B Visa Applications, Trump Loudly Booed During Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden
encoded: Trump Again Claims He's Nearing a Deal with Iran, as Tehran Says U.S. and Israel Broke Ceasefire Israel Bombs Lebanese City of Tyre After Ordering All Residents to Flee Israeli Strike on Gaza Refugee Camp Kills 8-Year-Old Palestinian Leaving School Nigeria's Military Says It Has Freed 360 People Abducted by Boko Haram Progressive L.A. Councilmember Nithya Raman Advances to November Runoff Against Incumbent Mayor Bass Trump Formally Nominates Former Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche as Attorney General Immigrant from Republic of Georgia Dies in Louisiana ICE Jail New Jersey Gov. Sherrill Says ICE Strictly Limited Her Inspection of Delaney Hall Trump's "Border Czar" Tom Homan Threatens Surge of Immigration Agents to New York NYC Mayor Mamdani Pushes Back Against Border Czar Homan's Threats Federal Judge Rules Against Trump's $100,000 Annual Fee on H-1B Visa Applications Trump Loudly Booed During Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-06-09 Tuesday
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Abhishek Banerjee threatened to kill BJP supporters? No; video clipped, context distorted
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description: A seven-second video is doing rounds on the social media, where TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee allegedly threatens to assault BJP supporters once the Opposition Bloc, INDIA, comes to power. In the viral clip, Banerjee can be heard saying, “Je dinke Mamata Bandyopadhyay aar INDIA Alliance er Sarkar hobey nah, baritey dhukey maarbo”. (The day Mamata […]
encoded: A seven-second video is doing rounds on the social media, where TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee allegedly threatens to assault BJP supporters once the Opposition Bloc, INDIA, comes to power. In the viral clip, Banerjee can be heard saying, “Je dinke Mamata Bandyopadhyay aar INDIA Alliance er Sarkar hobey nah, baritey dhukey maarbo”. (The day Mamata Bandyopadhyay and INDIA Alliance’s government is formed, we will enter (their) houses and beat (them).” X user Gourab posted the video on May 31, 2026. (Archive) Remembering that famous THREAT of Criminal, Chor Drama-Artist Abhishek Banerjee (Kingpin of infamous Diamond Harbour Model) -when he loudly asserted to “Thrash & Murder (BJP Supporters) by entering their houses, the day when Mamata Banerjee & INDI alliance’s Govt will be formed”… pic.twitter.com/t176TD9qhi — Gourab | গৌরব | (@gourabsays) May 30, 2026 Alt News received multiple requests to authenticate the video. Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was assaulted by a mob while he was on his way to visit the family of a TMC worker allegedly murdered by BJP activists in Sonarpur, on May 30. Once video clips and news of that incident started surfacing, this video, where Abhishek Banerjee is apparently seen threatening his political opponents, also started to gather steam. The same X user, Gourab, posted this video while commenting to an X post by TMC spokesperson Tanmoy Ghosh on May 30 condemning the attack on Abhishek Banerjee. কিরে চোর-ডাকাতদের মুখপাত্র ; Remember that famous Threat of Ur Master Abhishek Banerjee (The Kingpin of infamous Diamond Harbour Model) on – How he will “kill & murder BJP supporters, leaders by entering their houses” !! Today Karma showed him Mirror pic.twitter.com/9C28BEuTCo — Gourab | গৌরব | (@gourabsays) May 30, 2026 Many other social media users across various platforms also started to share the video in question, making it go viral. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check A simple reverse image search using a few keyframes of th…

He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
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encoded: Mark McAfee, CEO and founder of Raw Farm Sarahbeth Maney for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A white Ford pickup truck broke through a thick curtain of fog one morning in February, winding its way down a muddy farm road in California’s Central Valley. From it emerged a 64-year-old dairyman, burly and tan, who left the engine running as he lumbered toward me with open arms. “You must be Mark,” I said, warning him I wasn’t one for hugging. “I’m a hugger,” he said, pulling me in anyway. “I feel like I’ve known you for a lifetime.” I had spent the past couple of weeks corresponding with Raw Farm founder Mark McAfee, who’d filled my inbox with messages and PowerPoints extolling the virtues of his most important, and controversial, product: It is delicious. It makes you feel good (the gut-brain serotonin and dopamine cycle). It’s great for asthma and literally saves lives. He was talking about raw milk, which, if you trust 150 years of bedrock science, offers little reason to consume. By definition, it has not been pasteurized, the simple process of heating milk to kill off harmful bacteria. Before the practice was widely adopted a century ago, thousands of babies died each year from illnesses linked to contaminated dairy. Today, most scientists and health experts agree that raw milk has no significant, proven nutritional benefits over its sanitized counterpart, cannot treat or cure disease and subjects its consumers to over 100 times the risk of foodborne illness, which can be especially dangerous for young children. And yet, McAfee’s farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, is pulling in about $30 million a year, meeting a growing demand from customers who say they want food that hasn’t been robbed of health benefits by industrial processing. Once drawing a fringe crowd, raw milk has been thrust into the mainstream in recent years by a potent mix…

CPJ welcomes Polish prosecutors’ renewed commitment to Ziętara murder case
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description: Berlin, June 9, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes that Polish prosecutors are preparing for a new trial in the 1992 disappearance and presumed murder of investigative journalist Jarosław Ziętara, after a court recently transferred the case to national prosecutors in Krakow for further evidence-gathering. Hearing dates have yet to be announced. On May 25,...
encoded: Berlin, June 9, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes that Polish prosecutors are preparing for a new trial in the 1992 disappearance and presumed murder of investigative journalist Jarosław Ziętara, after a court recently transferred the case to national prosecutors in Krakow for further evidence-gathering. Hearing dates have yet to be announced. On May 25, the regional court in Poznań ordered prosecutors to supplement the evidence, including by reviewing former state security files, after an appeals court last December overturned the 2022 acquittal of Mirosław R., also known as “Ryba,” and Dariusz L., pseudonym “Lala.” The appeals court found the evidence sufficient to convict the two men of kidnapping Ziętara and aiding in his murder, stressing that the journalist had been targeted because of his reporting on powerful business interests, and sent the case back for retrial. In an interview with CPJ, Eryk Stasielak, head of the Krakow Department of Organized Crime and Corruption at the National Prosecutor’s Office, said that a separate investigation continues into those who may have ordered the killing, including possible links to politicians, organized crime figures, and security service members. “The upcoming retrial of Jarosław Ziętara’s murder case offers Polish authorities a long-overdue chance to uncover the full truth and finally move this case toward full accountability,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. “More than three decades after Ziętara’s disappearance, prosecutors must ensure that every lead is fully investigated. Bringing to justice all those who planned, ordered, or carried out this crime would send an important signal to Polish journalists that crimes against them will not go unpunished.” Stasielak told CPJ that prosecutors are convinced Ziętara was killed because of his reporting. “He was investigating connections between business figures, organized crime, and politicians, and was preparing an article when he was killed…

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
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encoded: Collage by Alex Bandoni/ProPublica. Source images: Westend6, JHVEPhoto, Jean Catuffe and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images. In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old Anant Ambani, son of one the richest men in Asia. On the other was Donald Trump Jr. For months, the Trump administration had been on the offensive against the sprawling Ambani energy empire, placing it at the center of an escalating tariff campaign against India. But after Trump Jr. touched down, the two men toured the Ambanis’ private zoo, and at night they performed a Gujarati folk dance, grinning as they moved together to the music. Four months later, an obscure Texas startup called America First Refining announced that it had received a nine-figure investment from the Ambanis’ company. The deal puzzled numerous energy investors familiar with the project, which aims to build the first major new oil refinery in the U.S. in about 50 years. The company is run by a serial entrepreneur with a history of bankruptcy and lawsuits alleging fraud. After more than a decade of failed attempts to raise money, blown deadlines and rebrands, it had been floundering. America First Refining’s unexpected breakthrough came after it forged a previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr., who secretly acquired a stake in the startup, according to records and seven people familiar with the company. The new details reveal the role the president’s son has played in a theme of Trump’s second term: overseas investors with interests before the administration putting money into the Trump family’s business interests. Over the past year and a half, Trump Jr. has amassed a fortune from stakes in companies ranging from crypto startups to a drone business to a firearms retailer. Some firms tied to the president’s son have received contracts or other support from the federal government, part of what critics describe as a run of Trump…

DN! Tuesday, June 9, 2026
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‘Sodomised’ and ‘tortured’ – family of Fijian man allegedly beaten by police speaks out
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description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Warning: This story contains detailed accounts of alleged police and military brutality, including torture and sexual assault. The Fiji Police Force has acknowledged that 12 officers were present during a raid involving Kinoya resident Sakiasi Ose Radravu, who his family claims was severely beaten, resulting in his death. His
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Warning: This story contains detailed accounts of alleged police and military brutality, including torture and sexual assault. The Fiji Police Force has acknowledged that 12 officers were present during a raid involving Kinoya resident Sakiasi Ose Radravu, who his family claims was severely beaten, resulting in his death. His family alleges that on the night of April 23, the 32-year-old was “tortured” in his home by both police and military officers — and beaten within an inch of his life. He died five days ago, on June 4, with police stating that the autopsy report shows the cause of his demise was “a pre-existing medical condition”. READ MORE: 12 officers under investigation for Radravu’s death, linked to pre-existing medical condition Autopsy reveals cause of death Fiji police confirm murder probe launched into death of man in military custody Other Fiji police reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-129044 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sakiasi-Ose-Radravu-FT-400tall.png" alt="A smartphone with an image of Sakiasi Ose Radravu is held up by his partner Patrica Baleturaga" width="400" height="600" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sakiasi-Ose-Radravu-FT-400tall.png 400w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sakiasi-Ose-Radravu-FT-400tall-200x300.png 200w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sakiasi-Ose-Radravu-FT-400tall-280x420.png 280w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /> A smartphone with an image of Sakiasi Ose Radravu is held up by his partner Patrica Baleturaga at their home in Kinoya. Image: Sophie Ralulu/The Fiji Times However, Radravu’s aunt Elizabeth Kabuyawa told RNZ Pacific that they are seeking a second autopsy on the body, due to concerns about a possible cover-up. RNZ Pacific has seen a copy of the death certificate, which lists the main cause of death as sepsis and complications…

Bengal BJP MLA forces Muslim woman to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ at welfare scheme event
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description: A video featuring BJP MLA from Barrackpore, Koustav Bagchi, pressuring a Muslim woman to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ in a government-organised programme for the newly launched women’s welfare scheme, Annapurna Yojna, has gone viral. The incident took place on June 3, 2026, during the inaugural ceremony of BJP’s women’s welfare scheme, […]
encoded: A video featuring BJP MLA from Barrackpore, Koustav Bagchi, pressuring a Muslim woman to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ in a government-organised programme for the newly launched women’s welfare scheme, Annapurna Yojna, has gone viral. The incident took place on June 3, 2026, during the inaugural ceremony of BJP’s women’s welfare scheme, Annapurna Yojna, organised in Sukanta Sadan in Barrackpore, an event attended by Bagchi. A video circulating on social media captures the MLA engaging with a Muslim woman seated in the front row of the auditorium. In a seemingly light-hearted tone, Bagchi asks the woman, BJP desh theke tariye dicche na toh? (“The BJP is not driving you out of the country, is it?”). He then follows up by asking, “Is BJP good or bad?” As the woman in question replies in her feeble voice, Bagchi demands, “BJP is giving Rs 3000; therefore, you have to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’” and then keeps coercing the woman to chant ‘Jai’ as he said, ‘Bharat Mata ki’. Surrounded by a crowd and visibly under pressure, she said, “Jai”, after being repeatedly prompted. But Bagchi did not stop there; he thereafter asked her to chant ‘Vande Mataram’. He instructed, “Now say, ‘Vande Mataram’”. The woman succumbed and said very softly, putting her head down, “Vande Mataram”. Bagchi said, “One has to say this. We are Indians. We have to behave like one”. He is Kaustav Bagchi, BJP’s MLA from Barrackpore. Two Muslim women came to submit forms for Annapurna Bhandar, where he insults them and stereotypes them. pic.twitter.com/do4qjeHVi3 — Kamru Choudhury (@Kamru_Choudhury) June 4, 2026 On June 3, a post was made from Bagchi’s official Facebook page stating that he attended the inaugural ceremony of the “Annapurna Yojna”. What was particularly disturbing about the incident was the imbalance of power dynamics. Within a month of BJP assuming power in West Bengal, a Muslim woman — an applicant for a state welfare scheme — was publicly pressured by an elected MLA to…

A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One
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creator: Abe Streep
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description: The post A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260330-Gordon-bridger-inspection-3x2_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=1149" alt="An illustration depicting a firefighting aircraft flying against a textured yellow sky. Below the aircraft, stylized red and orange flames lick upward, with a technical inspection checklist form showing faintly inside the background of the fire."> Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Records obtained by ProPublica, USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt. A little over a year ago, Sen. Tim Sheehy floated an audacious proposal to reshape the way the federal government fights wildfires. It called for expanding the use of private planes and helicopters to quickly attack blazes while also eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s rigorous airworthiness inspections for those aircraft. The idea stood to benefit Sheehy, a Montana Republican, personally. Before running for Congress, he founded and ran an aerial firefighting company called Bridger Aerospace, which is known for its scoopers, aircraft built to retrieve water from lakes or oceans and drop it onto fires. Since 2021, the Forest Service has paid Bridger more than $235 million for use of its scoopers, according to public records. Sheehy’s ownership of Bridger is well known, but what hasn’t been reported is that the same month the proposal leaked, a Forest Service inspector had discovered a crack in a wing of an aircraft Bridger had presented as ready for service. The scooper had failed the very inspection Sheehy sought to eliminate. Forest Service inspectors have flagged problems with Bridger’s scoopers for years, according to sources and documents obtained by ProPublica under the Freedom of Information Act. The records were heavily redacted by the agency, including the problem that the inspector discovered last April. But a former government official with direct knowledge of the inspection told ProPublica it had rev…

Oil On The Beach But No Fuel For Cars: Tourist Season Opens In Crimea #shorts
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The World Cup is one wildfire away from an air quality disaster
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description: FIFA says it's prepared for "climate-related risks" but doesn't appear to have a plan for wildfire smoke, which can be harmful to players and fans.
encoded: Last month, nearly a dozen wildfires erupted across southern California, sending plumes of smoke and particulate matter into the air. Public health officials in Los Angeles issued a multiday air quality advisory for the county, warning of “potential direct smoke impact” and advising everyone who could see or smell smoke to “avoid unnecessary outdoor exposure and to limit physical exertion.” The red zone on the map included Los Angeles Stadium — also known as SoFi Stadium — one of the venues for the World Cup, soccer’s marquee event, which begins on Thursday. Between June 12 and July 10, Los Angeles will host eight games and is expected to draw tens of thousands of fans and scores of players. As dry, hot, conditions persist, more fires are possible and smoke could once again loom over the stadium. The same risk exists for a number of the 15 other World Cup host cities. But, despite the documented health impacts of smoke exposure, FIFA, the international governing body for soccer, doesn’t appear to have a plan if the air quality deteriorates. “FIFA has basically almost done nothing,” said Nicholas Watanabe, a professor of sport and entertainment management at the University of South Carolina. “They are lagging behind even minor leagues in North America.” The National Women’s Soccer League, or NWSL; the Canadian Football League; and the NCAA, which oversees college sports, all have at least some guidelines outlining what to do if the Air Quality Index reaches certain thresholds. Other leagues — from Major League Baseball to the Women’s National Basketball Association — have postponed games because of wildfire smoke, notably when plumes spread across Canada and North America in June 2023. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sandy-Fire-CA-May-2026.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sandy-Fire-CA-May-2026.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https:…

Louisiana lawmakers rush to support an industry they ‘do not know a lot about’
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description: A bill to boost a wood-pellet industry plagued by pollution violations sailed through the Legislature.
encoded: A bill aimed at increasing the number of wood pellet mills in Louisiana has sailed through the state’s Legislature — despite some lawmakers, including the bill’s sponsor, acknowledging they know little about the controversial industry. State Representative Chuck Owen, a Republican from Vernon Parish in west Louisiana, said he proposed House Bill 670 in February shortly after learning about the industry, which exports about $1 billion worth of pellets from Louisiana each year. Nearly all the production comes from two British-owned mills in central and north Louisiana that emit large — and sometimes illegal — quantities of air pollutants linked to cancers and other serious illnesses. Owen, whose district spans one of the state’s most timber-rich regions, said the goal of his bill is to make Louisiana a “premier location for wood pellet manufacturing.” The legislation gives a state agency, Louisiana Economic Development, broad direction to develop new incentives for pellet manufacturers, potentially including new tax breaks, state-funded workforce training programs, and port upgrades tailored to the industry’s needs. It also instructs state regulators to streamline permitting for pellet mills and review environmental and public safety rules that “impose unnecessary burdens on this emerging industry.” For Owen, talking during a meeting ahead of the vote, the rationale behind expanding pellet manufacturing is simple: “We have a lot of trees in Louisiana, and north of Bunkie, that’s about all we have,” he said, referring to a town in central Louisiana. “There’s a market craving wood pellets, and I think we should get further into it.” But when a fellow legislator asked him to describe one of the mills and “what exactly it produces,” Owen admitted he was only vaguely familiar with it. “I do not know a lot about it,” he said. “No, sir, I do not. I know they’ve had some struggle in recent years, but I know that they’re there.” Despite that uncertainty, Louisiana’s House and …

Photographer Polina Ganz on the creative power of vulnerability
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description: How has your formal education in Paris changed your artistic practice?
encoded: How has your formal education in Paris changed your artistic practice? Before I started doing my bachelor’s in product photography, I took photography less seriously. It was more of a hobby. I also learned how to speak about my work. Since my photography is pretty specific, it’s sometimes hard for people to understand where I’m coming from. What has learning to talk about your work helped you understand about it? Something that seems obvious to me is not [necessarily] obvious to the observer. And explaining the obvious is hard, especially if it’s something that is so deeply rooted within a person. Getting to these roots that are my not visual references but things that I’ve experienced, that are subconscious, something that I’ve been carrying for years but have never expressed. Maybe it was hidden away, very subtle, but somehow it came through and became vulnerable. I think the state of vulnerability is where you start understanding yourself better. When you present your work, [sometimes] someone notices something that you have not taken into consideration, and you’re like, “Oh, this maybe was not accidental. Maybe it’s supposed to be there.” from A dream that I can still remember What is something that someone else noticed in your work that you had not noticed? I have always worked with black and white. This exhibition on Saturday is the first time I’m exhibiting color. I [had not thought] about the reason why I used black and white. It started [when I shot on] film. It was the only thing at my disposal. When I started shooting digitally, I stuck with [black and white]. But people kept asking me, “Why is it so dark? Why are your images so dark?” To me, black and white did not equal darkness. It was just unsaturated, very stripped to the bone. [But] since people of different ages and backgrounds [had said] that, I started to think: Why do [my photos] have this kind of eerie feel to them? That was an interesting conversation with myself. I don’t [even] want people to…

Small is Still Beautiful: The True Political Realignment
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description: We’ve heard a lot about political realignment since the Donald Trump era began, but even more now that we’re confronted with the brutality and chaos of his second term. Some have tied political realignments to social and economic class, or to degree of formal education, or to some other demographic factor, like whether you live in an urban or rural area. There is also, apparently, a growing political divide between men and women. More The post Small is Still Beautiful: The True Political Realignment appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair We’ve heard a lot about political realignment since the Donald Trump era began, but even more now that we’re confronted with the brutality and chaos of his second term. Some have tied political realignments to social and economic class, or to degree of formal education, or to some other demographic factor, like whether you live in an urban or rural area. There is also, apparently, a growing political divide between men and women. But for all the headlines and hand-wringing, we’ve yet to hit upon the political realignment we need. If we must have a one-dimensional political spectrum, then it ought to be organized around and addressed to the degree of centralization, not to a constantly shifting collection of niche cultural issues and made-up reality TV-style fights between Washington politicians. Batting around meaningless identity categories is not a viable politics or a substitute for one, and hopefully Americans are tired of it. Real political culture and discourse cannot revolve around whether a system or a given policy conceives of itself as left or right, which are quite literally empty indexical terms. At the risk of stating the obvious, “left” and “right” have not retained stable definitions or referents across time and place within the context of the political. Because of this, the sides are much more like pro sports teams than they are proxies for competing philosophies. Americans are frustrated with the identitarian theater precisely because it has no interest in apprehending power as it actually manifests in our political and economic system. The question should be whether decision-making power is concentrated in institutions so large, remote, and opaque that the masses of ordinary people have no way to change their functioning or behavior. This is the substantive core of an alternative politics that incorporates a size or scale thesis: that once institutions exceed the human scale, opportunities for either participation …

The Dwindling Arsenal and the Twilight of the Western Shield
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description: The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of modern warfare. As Ukrainian air defenses struggled against what Kyiv described as one of the largest aerial barrages of the war—involving 73 missiles and more than 650 drones—the international conversation predictably gravitated More The post The Dwindling Arsenal and the Twilight of the Western Shield appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: SM 3 Block IIA interceptor missile launched from the Aegis Ashore in Hawaii. Photo: US Army. The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of modern warfare. As Ukrainian air defenses struggled against what Kyiv described as one of the largest aerial barrages of the war—involving 73 missiles and more than 650 drones—the international conversation predictably gravitated toward familiar, well-worn tropes: political willpower, legislative financial packages, and the strategic calculus of the Kremlin. Yet, the true crisis facing Western security architecture is not one of diplomatic resolve or moral courage. It is a crisis of raw arithmetic. From outside the transatlantic bubble, the arithmetic is even starker. The strategic ledger no longer balances. As Russia increasingly shifts toward sustained aerial bombardment amid stalled ground advances, and Ukraine expands its own long-range drone strike capability deep into Russian territory, the war is steadily mutating into an industrial contest of production endurance rather than territorial maneuver. Concurrently, a quiet tremor has rippled through the defense establishments in Washington and Brussels following a devastating assessment published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Emerging data indicates that during the intense naval and aerial deployment in the recent Middle Eastern conflict, U.S. forces expended an unprecedented amount of their most advanced munitions, including hundreds of Tomahawk missiles, alongside hundreds of Patriot and THAAD interceptors. CSIS notes that some these interceptor lines produce only dozens of units per year, making this single campaign equivalent to multiple years of output. To put that figure in perspective: a campaign lasting just over a month absorbed multiple years of the entire production capacity of America’s premier precision munitions lines. This convergence of ev…

“Can I Be Frank?” is the Most Important Show in New York Right Now
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creator: Laura Flanders
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description: If I’d gone to see Morgan Bassichis’s show “Can I Be Frank?” when I meant to, when it premiered at La Mama in 2024, or even at the SoHo Playhouse last summer, when it won two Obie Awards, or even if I’d gone earlier this [ . . . ] The post “Can I Be Frank?” is the Most Important Show in New York Right Now appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: If I’d gone to see Morgan Bassichis’s show “Can I Be Frank?” when I meant to, when it premiered at La Mama in 2024, or even at the SoHo Playhouse last summer, when it won two Obie Awards, or even if I’d gone earlier this run – its third – back at the SoHo Playhouse, starting May 21,¹ I would have felt far less loss this year. Morgan’s work brings back friends — ancestors, allies, friends, lost comrades — and re-populates the air with them. Elizabeth and I walked home through downtown streets thick with their beloved spirits. Can I tell you to get to the Playhouse before “Can I Be Frank?” ends on June 27th because it will make you feel better, and less alone? Yes. Go. Morgan Bassichis wrote and performs “Can I Be Frank?” around the work of performance artist, comedian, and songwriter Frank Maya; work that was carefully archived and posted by one of Maya’s ex-lovers, the choreographer, Neil Greenberg. Thus, one act of loving remembering begets another, and Bassichis’s work begins. Maya was among the first openly gay comedians on network television; the first to appear on MTV’s “Half-Hour Comedy Hour”, and the first to star in his own half-hour special on the Comedy Channel. He died of AIDS-related complications in August 1995 at age 45, at the edge of what Bassichis calls “mainstream fame”, and just months before the release of the protease inhibitors that would have kept him alive. Funny, tender, relentless — Bassichis does whatever it takes to make their audience laugh from the moment the spotlight snaps on (including brilliant on-going gymnastics with his microphone cord). The New Yorker’s not wrong to call their work “fiercely hilarious,”² but hilarity doesn’t begin to cover what happens in that theater. <p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3286382&post_id=200890354&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=bznw&token=ey…

Defeats in the Middle East, One Place at a Time
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creator: Mel Gurtov
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description: President Donald Trump hates to lose, but he is on a losing streak in the Middle East—not just in Iran, where his illegal, unprovoked war has been a strategic and diplomatic disaster, but also in Gaza, Lebanon, and the US Congress. Israel’s military is out of control in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump surely doesn’t mind More The post Defeats in the Middle East, One Place at a Time appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Kyle Glenn. President Donald Trump hates to lose, but he is on a losing streak in the Middle East—not just in Iran, where his illegal, unprovoked war has been a strategic and diplomatic disaster, but also in Gaza, Lebanon, and the US Congress. Israel’s military is out of control in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump surely doesn’t mind that happening in Gaza, except that his prized Board of Peace is powerless to remake the strip into a showcase of peace and prosperity. In Lebanon, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu don’t see eye to eye on strategy, obstructing Trump’s desperate hope for an agreement with Iran that will take the war out of the public eye. And in the US Congress, Trump has just watched as Republican defectors have given the anti-Iran war members an unprecedented victory, putting further pressure on Trump to find an exit. Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to seize control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in violation of the US-brokered cease-fire agreement of last October that had already given Israel 53% control up to the demarcation line. With Hamas refusing to disarm, Netanyahu said in a televised broadcast: “We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60% of the territory in the strip. You know, we were at 50, we moved to 60. My directive is to move to … 70%.” CNN reports that “Throughout the eight months of the ceasefire, Israeli forces have continued to open fire on Palestinians within range of the “yellow line” splitting the strip, and carry out airstrikes deeper inside western Gaza, killing more than 900 Palestinians since the truce began.” Where is Trump’s Board of Peace, you might ask? It’s supposed to be leading the way to a new era in Gaza. Well, it’s moribund—it hasn’t met since its first meeting in February, it hasn’t spent a dime despite Trump’s claims of major donations, and it is powerless as Israel extends the occupation and the population experiences a food crisis…

Women Face the Greatest Climate Risks But Are Critical to Climate Action
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description: The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to access health care, education, employment, and other necessities. Women in rural communities are especially vulnerable because many depend directly on agriculture and natural resources to support their families. As extreme weather events become More The post Women Face the Greatest Climate Risks But Are Critical to Climate Action appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to access health care, education, employment, and other necessities. Women in rural communities are especially vulnerable because many depend directly on agriculture and natural resources to support their families. As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, these existing pressures are becoming harder to navigate. As the United Nations has noted, the climate crisis is not “gender neutral.” Women, girls, and children are 14 times more likely to die during extreme weather disasters than men, facing higher rates of displacement and structural inequalities that limit their access to information, mobility, and resources. “An estimated 4 out of 5 people displaced by the impacts of climate change are women and girls. Acute disasters can also disrupt essential services, including <a href="https://www.unfpa.org/press/unfpa-report-finds-sexual-and-reproductive-health-women-and-girls-missing-most-national#:~:text=UNFPA%20report%20finds%20sexual%20and%20reproductive%20health,climate%20change%20on%20maternal%20and%20newborn%20health." rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unfpa.org/press/unfpa-report-finds-sexual-and-reproductive-health-women-and-girls-missing-most-national%23:~:text%3DUNFPA%2520report%2520finds%2520sexual%2520and%2520reproductive%2520health,climate%2520change%2520on%2520maternal%2520and%2520newborn%2520health.&source=gmail&ust=1780843924108000&usg=AOvVaw20H0JPpMh8SrZU0KEhOaHw">sexual and reproductive health care, compounding the negative impacts for women and girls,” stated the United Nations. How the Climate Crisis Is Affecting Women and Girls Extreme weather disasters push many women and girls into increasingly precarious situations almost overnight. The torrential rains in Pakistan in 2022 <a href="https://www.redcross.org.u…

Investing in Care: A Public-Private Model for Youth Opportunity
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description: If we are to understand the conditions facing vulnerable children, we have to begin with a difficult truth: poverty remains the central force shaping their lives. It is not the only factor, but it is the most consistent one—structuring access to health, education, safety, and opportunity from the earliest years onward. Children, by definition, are More The post Investing in Care: A Public-Private Model for Youth Opportunity appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Gautam Arora If we are to understand the conditions facing vulnerable children, we have to begin with a difficult truth: poverty remains the central force shaping their lives. It is not the only factor, but it is the most consistent one—structuring access to health, education, safety, and opportunity from the earliest years onward. Children, by definition, are dependent. Their well-being is tied to the systems that surround them—family, school, community, and public institutions. When those systems are strained by poverty, the effects are not marginal. They are often paralyzing. Barriers to opportunity—whether in the form of underfunded schools, unstable housing, environmental hazards, food insecurity, or lack of healthcare—are not experienced as abstract policy failures. They are lived constraints that narrow what a child can imagine for their future. Research has repeatedly shown that childhood poverty affects educational attainment, physical health, mental health, and long-term earnings potential. Children raised in economically unstable households are more likely to experience chronic stress, lower academic performance, and reduced social mobility. These patterns are not isolated outcomes. They reinforce one another across time. It is tempting to respond to this reality with calls for sweeping transformation—to eliminate poverty altogether or radically redesign the systems that produce inequality. But in the absence of such transformation, the question remains: what can be done now? The answer may lie in a more grounded approach. If we cannot yet abolish poverty, we can still confront it—carefully, persistently, and in the details. We can examine where harm occurs, where opportunities are blocked, and where support is insufficient. And we can begin to build systems that respond not in fragments, but with coherence and intention. From Fragmentation to Comprehensive Services One of the defining features of current approaches to child welfare is fragmentat…

War, What Is It Good For?
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description: Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United States, the greatest power on Earth from the moment it defeated Nazi Germany and imperial Japan in World War II, has never again actually won a war of any significance (or More The post War, What Is It Good For? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Jeff Kingma. Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United States, the greatest power on Earth from the moment it defeated Nazi Germany and imperial Japan in World War II, has never again actually won a war of any significance (or even come close). And that’s true despite the fact that it’s distinctly been the numero uno power on this planet for the last century-plus, with by far the most powerful and wildly over-funded military that has fought any number of wars during these decades, always against seemingly far less powerful adversaries. Of course, in the atomic age, wars between imperial great powers, as in World War I and World War II, are no longer truly conceivable. Still, over more than a century of great-powerdom, my country has certainly fought a remarkable number of wars, some for endless years, without a single victory (not one!), which is no small… well, I can’t use the word “accomplishment” (but feel free to add whatever word you think might be appropriate). From the Korean War in the early 1950s (at best a draw) to Vietnam (Cambodia and Laos) in the 1960s and 1970s, a distinct loss (despite the slaughter of literally millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians, and 58,000 Americans); from the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, both of which ended in dismal defeat (Afghanistan after 20 years of combat!), as did the full-scale Global War on Terror launched by President George W. Bush; and, in the era of Donald Trump, from the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean (where more than 60 random boats have been blasted out of the water) to the bombing of Somalia and Nigeria, and now the devastating air and naval war on Iran, the United States, despite its weaponry, has proven incapable of actually impressing its will on lesser powers in …

Notes on the Latest Jobs Report
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description: Last year the major anomaly in the labor market seemed to be that we were seeing very weak job growth and only a limited rise in the unemployment rate. The most plausible explanation was that the Trump administration’s immigration policies had sharply curtailed the pace of labor force growth, with the number of jobs needed More The post Notes on the Latest Jobs Report appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Hennie Stander Last year the major anomaly in the labor market seemed to be that we were seeing very weak job growth and only a limited rise in the unemployment rate. The most plausible explanation was that the Trump administration’s immigration policies had sharply curtailed the pace of labor force growth, with the number of jobs needed to keep the unemployment rate stable now in the range of 20K to 60K. In the last three months we seem to be seeing the opposite story. The economy added 172,000 jobs in May, after adding 214,000 jobs in March and 179,000 in April, for an average of 188,000 jobs a month — yet the unemployment rate has remained unchanged at 4.3 percent. The household survey actually shows a modest loss in employment of 141,000 over these three months. The establishment survey is much larger and less erratic, so it is likely giving us a better picture of the state of the labor market. Nonetheless, the disparity in the surveys is striking. Health Care, Local Government, and Leisure and Hospitality are Big Job Gainers The health care and social services sector continued to be a big job gainer, adding 47,200 jobs. Local governments had a surge of 55,000 new jobs, the largest gain since March of 2024. Most of these jobs — 43,500 — were not in education, which lessens concern over seasonal adjustment issues. The leisure and hospitality sector added 70,000 jobs, with 48,000 of these coming in restaurants. These three sectors together accounted for all the job growth in May. Job Growth in the Goods Sector Remains Weak There was some limited growth in all three components of the goods sector. The logging and mining sector added 4,000 jobs, 3,100 of which were the support activities for mining, which is primarily the oil and gas industry. Employment in the sector is still down by 5K from the year-ago level. The surge in oil and gas prices is an inducement to increased drilling, but the gains will be limited if the industry does not believe prices will …

Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point
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creator: Bruce Schneier – Jon Penney
date: 2026-06-09T05:45:26Z
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description: Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration More The post Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. Reports cite a range of complicated factors for the restraint, from apathy to technology-induced incapacity. But as public policy and law and social science experts, we believe students aren’t protesting for a very simple reason: They are afraid. They are self-censoring and disengaging from campaign activism to avoid punitive measures. In law and social science, we call this impact a chilling effect – the behavioral tendency for people in face of a threat to self-censor and restrain their activities for self-protection. It’s increasingly clear to us that these impacts are not incidental or ancillary to Trump administration policy. Rather, the chilling effects are the point. This is the closest thing to a consistent governing strategy in Trump’s second term. The broader chill of Trump threats Chilling effects can be subtle, but today they are everywhere. And it’s not just students who are chilled by Trump administration threats. Professors are censoring themselves in lectures and rewriting syllabuses. Researchers are stripping grant applications of words that might attract federal scrutiny, or abandoning the topics entirely. Media outlets are modifying their news coverage to avoid Trump lawsuits or sanctions. Law enforcement and regulatory agencies are refusing to investigate Trump-aligned actors inside or outside government, and major national law firms are declining cases challenging Trump administration policies. Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books and other progressive subj…

B-52s Over Chicago
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date: 2026-06-09T05:37:20Z
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description: The live broadcast of Saturday’s friendly between the US and German national soccer teams in Chicago was quite the eye-opener for international fans unfamiliar with the military’s typical role at US sporting events. Even this former American, who is all too familiar with the phenomenon of color guards and flyovers at football and baseball games, More The post B-52s Over Chicago appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Carrie Borden. The live broadcast of Saturday’s friendly between the US and German national soccer teams in Chicago was quite the eye-opener for international fans unfamiliar with the military’s typical role at US sporting events. Even this former American, who is all too familiar with the phenomenon of color guards and flyovers at football and baseball games, was taken aback on Saturday: those were not the standard sleek fighter jets flying in tight formation and trailing red-white-and-blue plumes that US spectators have come to expect, but lumbering B-52s, aka Stratofortresses, those infamous bringers of death and destruction to Indochina 60 years ago. In fact, two of the countries participating in this year’s World Cup have experienced B-52 “flyovers” of this latter sort far more recently: Iraq and Iran. What on earth were the organizers of pre-game activities on Saturday thinking? Apparently, there is something of a tradition of B-52 flyovers at Soldier Field, but did they consider even for a moment what the world outside of US borders might think of this Dr. Strangelove moment? I’m assuming there will be no military flyovers at US matches during the actual World Cup itself, but I could be wrong. The mind boggles just at the thought of a hypothetical match between Iran and the US in the knockout phase of the World Cup; add in a B-52 flyover and we have the ultimate post-modern World Cup version of the spontaneous British-German “troop friendlies” between the trenches in Flanders during the Christmas Truce of 1914. If I were a sports journalist, I’d continue with musings on what will happen in the unlikely event that Iran survives the group phase. With their first two games in Los Angeles, they’ve set up their base in Tijuana, as they apparently do not have permission to spend the night on US soil. But what happens if they make it into the Round of 32? And what of the undeclared US/Israeli war on Iran? Would a ceasefire hold for the duration of Iran’s pa…

The Surprise Only Our Leaders Didn’t See Coming
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description: The unexpected finally happened, and we may be the better for it. The small Caribbean Island of Mamboland, for many years ruled by a pair of despotic brothers, had had enough of the offenses of its neighbor to the North, the government of Jollyland, and decided to invade it. Not only for the abuses that More The post The Surprise Only Our Leaders Didn’t See Coming appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Illustration by By Paola Bilancieri. The unexpected finally happened, and we may be the better for it. The small Caribbean Island of Mamboland, for many years ruled by a pair of despotic brothers, had had enough of the offenses of its neighbor to the North, the government of Jollyland, and decided to invade it. Not only for the abuses that the neighbor had carried out for many years against the Mamboland population, but equally unacceptable, for the abuses against its own population. The government of Mamboland cites among the many transgressions carried out by the government of Jollyland, starting wars without justification and in clear violation of international law; invading a country and taking prisoner its president and his wife for trial in the U.S.; trying to undermine democratic governments; and supporting dictatorships. When not starting an illegal war, the government of Mamboland states that the government of Jollyland is responsible for supporting genocidal policies against whole populations, in clear violation of international humanitarian law. In another set of actions against a foreign people, the government of Jollyland is also responsible for imposing a blockade on Mamboland and depriving its people of basic electricity and other essential supplies, with excuses that would sound silly if silliness were a strong enough word. The cruel prosecution and wrong imprisonment of many people of its immigrant population -including children who, in many cases, are pitilessly separated from their parents- is another example of policies that are not only wrong but cruel. Immigrants are cast as criminals without reflecting that Jollyland is a nation of immigrants, and that immigrants have made a vital contribution to the progress of this country. What else can one expect of a government that makes of universities its enemies, and curtails their capacity to determine its own laws and regulations? The weaponization and use of the Department of Justice to persecute a…

Te Kuaka advocacy group calls for NZ transparent, independent ‘Pacific foreign policy’
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-06-09T01:32:41Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand policy research and advocacy group released a detailed blueprint today for a fresh “independent” Te Tiriti and Pacific-based approach to foreign policy, and called for greater transparency in election year. The current coalition government has “radically shifted New Zealand’s longstanding foreign policy traditions” — including by moving the country
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand policy research and advocacy group released a detailed blueprint today for a fresh “independent” Te Tiriti and Pacific-based approach to foreign policy, and called for greater transparency in election year. The current coalition government has “radically shifted New Zealand’s longstanding foreign policy traditions” — including by moving the country away from a principled defence of its independent values to “unquestioning support” for the actions of the Trump administration, said Te Kuaka spokesperson Dr Marco de Jong. “New Zealand’s slide under this government towards a tightly aligned, militaristic foreign policy is not inevitable,” he added. READ MORE: Other Aotearoa New Zealand foreign policy reports Other Te Kuaka reports Te Kuaka — a group made up of academics such as Dr de Jong and Dr Arama Rata, and lawyers with expertise in international and constitutional law like Fuimaono Dylan Asafo and Gabriella Brayne — released a policy brief, “A Foreign Policy Alternative for the 2026 New Zealand Election”. The group refers to the need to revitalise “an independent, Te Tiriti-based, Pacific-centred, internationalist foreign policy”. Last year has witnessed “tumultuous developments in world affairs” such as Israel’s genocide in Gaza, US aggression in Venezuela, and US and Israel waging war on Iran. Independent values Te Kuaka’s policy brief says the current government “has radically shifted New Zealand’s longstanding foreign policy traditions”, including by moving NZ away from a principled defence of its independent values and interests towards total, unquestioning support for the actions of the Trump administration. The brief calls for: greater transparency around trade agreements; a War Powers Act to ensure parliamentary authorisation for going to war,; shifts in New Zealand’s approach to the Pacific towards non-militarisation; NZ intervention in support of South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) genocide case against Is…

Te Kuaka advocacy group calls for NZ transparent, independent ‘Pacific foreign policy’
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creator: APR editor
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description: Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand policy research and advocacy group released a detailed blueprint today for a fresh “independent” Te Tiriti and Pacific-based approach to foreign policy, and called for greater transparency in election year. The current coalition government has “radically shifted New Zealand’s longstanding foreign policy traditions” — including by moving the country
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand policy research and advocacy group released a detailed blueprint today for a fresh “independent” Te Tiriti and Pacific-based approach to foreign policy, and called for greater transparency in election year. The current coalition government has “radically shifted New Zealand’s longstanding foreign policy traditions” — including by moving the country away from a principled defence of its independent values to “unquestioning support” for the actions of the Trump administration, said Te Kuaka spokesperson Dr Marco de Jong. “New Zealand’s slide under this government towards a tightly aligned, militaristic foreign policy is not inevitable,” he added. READ MORE: Other Aotearoa New Zealand foreign policy reports Other Te Kuaka reports Te Kuaka — a group made up of academics such as Dr de Jong and Dr Arama Rata, and lawyers with expertise in international and constitutional law like Fuimaono Dylan Asafo and Gabriella Brayne — released a policy brief, “A Foreign Policy Alternative for the 2026 New Zealand Election”. The group refers to the need to revitalise “an independent, Te Tiriti-based, Pacific-centred, internationalist foreign policy”. Last year has witnessed “tumultuous developments in world affairs” such as Israel’s genocide in Gaza, US aggression in Venezuela, and US and Israel waging war on Iran. Independent values Te Kuaka’s policy brief says the current government “has radically shifted New Zealand’s longstanding foreign policy traditions”, including by moving NZ away from a principled defence of its independent values and interests towards total, unquestioning support for the actions of the Trump administration. The brief calls for: greater transparency around trade agreements; a War Powers Act to ensure parliamentary authorisation for going to war,; shifts in New Zealand’s approach to the Pacific towards non-militarisation; NZ intervention in support of South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) genocide case against Is…

The train the changes everything – the Silk Road railway beats blockade
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-06-09T01:00:51Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean In 1904, a British geographer named Halford Mackinder stood before the Royal Geographical Society in London and delivered what would become the most prophetic warning in the history of geopolitics: “Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the World.” Mackinder’s insight was deceptively simple.
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean In 1904, a British geographer named Halford Mackinder stood before the Royal Geographical Society in London and delivered what would become the most prophetic warning in the history of geopolitics: “Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the World.” Mackinder’s insight was deceptively simple. The world’s greatest landmass — Eurasia and Africa combined, what he called the World Island — contained resources, populations and industrial potential that dwarfed anything that maritime powers could master. READ MORE: China built the railway Iran needed — America’s strategy is obsolete How the US naval blockade has bled Iran of nearly $6bn in oil revenues — but rail may change this Other war on Iran/ceasefire reports The only thing preventing a land-based power from dominating was geography. The Heartland — that vast Central Asian interior was inaccessible to navies. No fleet could project power into the steppe. But railways could unlock it. Mackinder was watching Tsarist Russia’s railways push southward through Central Asia and issuing a warning to Britain: if any single power ever consolidated the Heartland by rail, British naval supremacy would become irrelevant. The world’s oceans, which made Britain great, would become a moat around a fortress someone else owned. Britain took the warning seriously. Keeping Eurasia divided America, inheriting Britain’s role as the guardian of the maritime order, built its entire grand strategy around preventing exactly this — keeping Eurasia divided — contested, and dependent on American-controlled sea lanes. For 70 years, it worked. Xian. The ancient capital of China. The city where the original Silk Road began 2000 years ago, where camel caravans loaded with silk, spices, and porcelain departed westward into the vast Central Asian steppe, threading through kingdoms and deserts toward Isfahan in Persia. Today, freight trains depart from Xian’s modern logistics termi…

From Mussolini to Mass Incarceration: Why Gramsci Matters Today
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date: 2026-06-09T01:00:25Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Paying the price for US-Israeli wars – and NZ’s shameful stance over genocide
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date: 2026-06-09T00:24:23Z
subject: Anti-war protest
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subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Global oil crisis
subject: Global oil prices
subject: Israeli genocide
subject: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
subject: Sources
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description: COMMENTARY: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Today the US and/or Israel have been attacking Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Venezuela. The US is also strangling Cuba with an illegal economic blockade, threatening Greenland and preparing for war against China. History shows that US invasions kill, injure and destroy ordinary people’s lives, homes, essential infrastructure — and

A Special Kind Of Loathsomeness
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-06-08T23:07:55Z
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description: Bad Men Behaving Badly Chap. 746: 'Cause it's not awful enough we have to endure the racist crap spewing from our home-grown jackasses, the rest of the world bore grim witness to it as dunk-tank Christofascist Pete Hegseth chose a D-Day remembrance to...
encoded: Bad Men Behaving Badly Chap. 746: 'Cause it's not awful enough we have to endure the racist crap spewing from our home-grown jackasses, the rest of the world bore grim witness to it as dunk-tank Christofascist Pete Hegseth chose a D-Day remembrance to flip the script on World War 2, trash European allies for not being fascist enough, and liken (good-guy) Allies landing at Normandy to an "invasion" of brown people "with "dangerous ideologies." Fact: "This is repulsive and confused, unless you're a Nazi." Speaking of: Last week, under cover of darkness, "shameful" Senate Republicans pushed through a "Secure America Act" (sic) gifting yet more billions to keep out more of the swarthy hordes Pete's so scared of. Without making any of the reforms Dems had demanded, they added to last year's obscene $191 billion gift to DHS another $75 billion for ICE and $65 billion for CBP, 4 to 7 times their previous budgets, with most allocated to expand detentions, deportations, facilities, goons - not, as it could, to fund free childcare for over a million kids, groceries for over 10 million households, a year of SNAP benefits to 31 million people, health care tax credits for a year etc etc ad nauseum. Their wise leader, meanwhile, was throwing tantrums on TV - "Dude is losing his shit" - because a reporter dared ask for evidence of his flood of unhinged claims. And greasy, self-proclaimed Secretary of War (Crimes) Pete lurches along on his unholy quest to turn America into a white nationalist theocracy. A blood-lusting warmonger though (because?) he never saw combat, he acts the macho, racist buffoon at every turn. He posts klutzy videos of himself working out; in one, he prances in a t-shirt that reads, "This Is War." (No, this is reality TV). Sporting Crusader tattoos - Deus Vult, but whose God wills it? - he stripped 180 faiths from those the military recognizes - all the Christian ones remain - "a religious purge dressed up as paperwork (telling) thousands of service members th…

‘Our Kids Are Not Free’
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creator: Courtney Blackmer-Raynolds
date: 2026-06-08T22:26:35Z
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description: Laws across the country targeting transgender people are driving families to relocate.
encoded: Laws across the country targeting transgender people are driving families to relocate. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Courtney Blackmer-Raynolds.

Journalist, press freedom advocate Cristian Herrera Nariño killed in northern Colombia
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date: 2026-06-08T22:17:34Z
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description: Bogotá, June 8, 2026—Colombian authorities must swiftly investigate the killing of journalist and press freedom advocate Cristian Herrera Nariño, determine if he was targeted for his work, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. On Saturday, June 6, gunmen on a motorcycle shot Herrera outside his home in the northwest...
encoded: Bogotá, June 8, 2026—Colombian authorities must swiftly investigate the killing of journalist and press freedom advocate Cristian Herrera Nariño, determine if he was targeted for his work, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. On Saturday, June 6, gunmen on a motorcycle shot Herrera outside his home in the northwest city of Cúcuta on Colombia’s border with Venezuela. Security camera <a href="https://x.com/ELTIEMPO/status/2063370521014579252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2063370521014579252%7Ctwgr%5E99e023a76a447281aba2908646882892f5372b8f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eltiempo.com%2Fcolombia%2Fotras-ciudades%2Fasi-fue-la-vida-de-cristian-herrera-periodista-judicial-en-cucuta-que-fue-asesinado-hablaba-sin-miedo-de-narcotrafico-politicos-y-corrupcion-3562665">footage shows Herrera standing next to a parked vehicle then collapsing on the pavement. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital, according to news reports. “This is the second journalist to be killed in Colombia in a month. Clearly, the government is not providing journalists with even the most basic safety measures,” said Cristina Zahar, Latin America program coordinator, in São Paulo. “CPJ calls on the authorities to bring both Cristian Herrera’s and Mateo Pérez Rueda’s killers to justice.” Herrera was editor of the online news outlets Cúcuta al Rojo Vivo and Cúcuta Real and often reported on government corruption and criminal groups involved in extortion, kidnappings, drug trafficking and human smuggling in the border area. Herrera was also a board member of the Bogotá-based Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) and worked as a part-time security consultant for the Cúcuta mayor. Following death threats stemming from his reporting, Herrera briefly fled to Chile in 2004. He returned to Cúcuta and since 2014 had received at least 17 death threats, prompting the government’s National Protection Service to provide him …

‘No Internet for You!’
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creator: Mike Ervin
date: 2026-06-08T22:10:14Z
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subject: The Progressive
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subject: sources
subject: the
subject: you
description: Rule delays deprive people with disabilities from accessing essential services.
encoded: Rule delays deprive people with disabilities from accessing essential services. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

Photojournalist, other press targeted with chemical irritant at New Jersey protest
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-06-08T21:29:55Z
subject: Sources
subject: assault
subject: chemical
subject: irritant
subject: jersey?
subject: new
subject: other
subject: photojournalist
subject: press
subject: Protest
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subject: targeted
subject: with
description: NurPhoto Agency photojournalist Neil Constantine was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026.Protests outside the Delaney Hall fa...
encoded: NurPhoto Agency photojournalist Neil Constantine was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Constantine told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he was documenting that day alongside freelance photojournalist Madison Swart and other press when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers sprayed the gaggle of journalists with chemical irritants. The officers were using a more potent form of chemical irritant, Swart said, describing it as a stronger, law-enforcement-grade product above pepper spray but not fully tear gas. “There was a gaggle of press photographers and we all got sprayed in that same moment. It was totally unnecessary,” she told the Tracker. She added that the officers seemed to be deliberately aiming at their cameras. View post on Instagram In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those dangers to those exercising protected First Amendment rights.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: I…

Can Platner overcome personal scandals?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-08T19:55:13Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: can
subject: Democracy
subject: now
subject: overcome
subject: personal
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subject: scandals,
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Can Platner overcome personal scandals?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-06-08T19:55:13Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: can
subject: Democracy
subject: now
subject: overcome
subject: personal
subject: platner
subject: scandals,
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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CPJ shares safety guidance for journalists covering the 2026 FIFA World Cup
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date: 2026-06-08T19:36:06Z
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subject: committee
subject: covering
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subject: cup
subject: fifa
subject: for
subject: guidance
subject: hispanic
subject: Journalists
subject: national
subject: press freedom
subject: protect
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subject: shares
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subject: the
subject: World
description: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) offered recommendations for journalists preparing to cover the 2026 FIFA World Cup during a June 4 webinar hosted by NAHJ‘s palabra. The discussion featured José Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas, and was moderated by Tamoa Calzadilla, palabra’s managing editor and publisher. Zamora outlined key considerations for managing...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) offered recommendations for journalists preparing to cover the 2026 FIFA World Cup during a June 4 webinar hosted by NAHJ‘s palabra. The discussion featured José Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas, and was moderated by Tamoa Calzadilla, palabra’s managing editor and publisher. Zamora outlined key considerations for managing physical, digital, legal, and immigration-related risks as journalists prepare to report on one of the largest media events in history across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The webinar, “Mundial 2026 y Libertad de Prensa: Cobertura Segura, Derechos Legales y Riesgos Periodísticos,” was part of palabra’s “palabra por palabra” training series for journalists. Read palabra’s article in English here and in Spanish. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Freelance photojournalist targeted with pepper spray by federal officers
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-06-08T19:09:13Z
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subject: assault
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subject: freelance
subject: officers
subject: pepper
subject: photojournalist
subject: sources
subject: spray
subject: targeted
subject: with
description: Freelance photojournalist Madison Swart was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026.Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility be...
encoded: Freelance photojournalist Madison Swart was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Swart told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that the protest and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers’ response were so chaotic that it was hard to recall everything that happened to her. “So much pepper spray was deployed,” she said, noting that the irritant used appeared to be a stronger, law-enforcement-grade product. “It’s above pepper spray, but it isn’t tear gas.” Swart said that day was her first experience being sprayed with a chemical irritant, as she consistently keeps her distance from skirmish lines and tries to make eye contact with officers, so they are aware that she is press and not a protester. “And I did that in that moment, to kind of let them know of my presence and to just see that I wasn’t a protester, I’m separate,” she told the Tracker. “But there was a gaggle of press photographers and we all got sprayed in that same moment. It was totally unnecessary. “I felt like it was targeted because it was aimed at my camera.” View post on Instagram In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the fiel…

Who’s afraid of Chris Smalls?
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez
date: 2026-06-08T19:00:30Z
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subject: Sources
subject: Working People
subject: ‘who’s
subject: afraid
subject: and
subject: chris
subject: economy
subject: ice
subject: inequality
subject: israel
subject: Labor
subject: movements
subject: Palestine
subject: People
subject: podcast
subject: Politics
subject: smalls
subject: sources
subject: Unions
subject: working?
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Report: China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies if Beijing invades
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-06-08T18:53:18Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
subject: Sources
subject: allies
subject: asia
subject: beijing
subject: china’s
subject: could
subject: distract,
subject: free
subject: invades
subject: maritime
subject: outposts
subject: radio
subject: report
subject: sources
subject: South China Sea
subject: taiwan’s
description: Experts say South China Sea buildup is linked to Taiwan, but the report’s scenario is unlikely if war breaks out.
encoded: Chinese outposts in the South China Sea could be sacrificial lambs—ultimately lost, but formidable enough to bog down foreign forces as Beijing executes a swift military takeover of Taiwan, a Taiwanese government report reviewed by Radio Free Asia revealed. Beijing’s maritime outposts could provide enough distraction during a critical 48 to 72 hour window—just enough time for Beijing to conduct amphibious landings and set up a blockade, said the report, commissioned by Taipei’s Mainland Affairs Council, the government body responsible for China policy and cross-strait relations, and conducted by the Institute for National Defense and Security Research. Experts told RFA that although the Chinese buildup in the South China Sea is likely connected to Taiwan, a democratic island which Beijing considers to be its territory, the scenario discussed in the report lacks adequate substantiation through high-level simulation. “The report’s headline figure of a 48-to-72-hour delay is its own estimate, not something validated by any rigorous test like an open wargame,” Ray Powell, executive director of Stanford University’s SeaLight maritime transparency project, told RFA. Powell said the logic in the report does however “make sense.” “Distributed, expendable outposts do complicate an adversary’s planning,” he said. “But a complication is not necessarily a roadblock, and the routes that matter most for Taiwan run through the Bashi Channel and the Philippine Sea, not the South China Sea.” Land reclamation The report was heavily focused on Antelope Reef in the Paracel Islands, where China has reclaimed about 600 hectares (1,480 acres) of land. The development forms part of Beijing’s broader “active defense” strategy, integrating reclaimed islands into a regional defense network designed to fragment potential U.S. intervention routes and transform the South China Sea into a protected operating zone for Chinese submarines, the report said. <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/ZB…

The election interference evidence no one is talking about
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creator: Taya Graham and Stephen Janis
date: 2026-06-08T18:28:36Z
subject: Inequality Watch
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Sources
subject: video
subject: Voting Rights
subject: ‘one
subject: about
subject: and
subject: election
subject: Elections
subject: evidence
subject: ice
subject: inequality
subject: interference’
subject: midterms
subject: movements
subject: Politics
subject: rights
subject: sources
subject: talking
subject: the
subject: Video
subject: voting
subject: watch
description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2279674671-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on June 03, 2026 in Washington, DC. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images" data-attachment-id="344119" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/the-election-interference-evidence-no-one-is-talking-about/gettyimages-2279674671" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2279674671-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1706" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="GettyImages-2279674671" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on June 03, 2026 in Washington, DC. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2279674671-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1"> Battles over ICE funding, super PAC money, and the limits of congressional power on Capitol Hill reveal the groundwork being laid for a new kind of election interference in the 2026 midterms.
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Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies
type: item
creator: Molly Redden
date: 2026-06-08T18:15:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: Administration
subject: coal
subject: companies
subject: criminal
subject: environment
subject: gop
subject: Investigation
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subject: propublica
subject: Regulation
subject: senators
subject: sources
subject: trump
description: The post Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia Shuran Huang/The New York Times/Redux Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. The investigation examined potential criminal violations of the Clean Water Act by the multistate mining operations largely run by Justice’s son, Jay, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter. The criminal probe was a significant escalation in the yearslong effort to police serial pollution offenses by Virginia-based Southern Coal and dozens of affiliated mining operations controlled by the family. In the past decade, Southern Coal and other Justice corporations have racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and have been sued repeatedly by state and federal prosecutors over their failure to properly follow environmental laws at their mining sites. The investigation shuttered by the Trump administration was a joint effort by prosecutors and investigators with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Virginia to probe whether the incessant violations of antipollution laws had risen to the level of criminal behavior, people familiar with the matter said. People familiar with the investigation told ProPublica that prosecutors believed they had a strong case. They initially had the blessing of Robert Tracci, President Donald Trump’s top official in the Western District of Virginia, to move forward. But in recent months, as prosecutors battled the Justice companies in court over subpoenas for records, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General shut down the probe. At the time, Todd Blanche still headed the office, before assuming the role of acting attorney general in April. “They were told ‘pencils down,’” a person familiar with the …

Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi
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creator: Dickey Kundol, Tenzin Dhonyoe and Tawang for RFA Tibetan
date: 2026-06-08T18:09:19Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: dalai
subject: delhi
subject: free
subject: knee
subject: lama
subject: left
subject: new
subject: radio
subject: sources
subject: surgery
subject: Tibet
subject: undergoes
description: Tibetan spiritual leader had full knee replacement surgery on his right knee in New York in 2024.
encoded: NEW DELHI, India — The Dalai Lama has undergone surgery on his left knee on Monday, his personal physician confirmed. Dr. Tsetan D. Sadutshang, the Tibetan spiritual leader’s longtime personal physician, appeared in a video statement from New Delhi, where the Dalai Lama, 90, is recuperating following the procedure. “Today, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama had a very successful knee surgery on his left knee, and his right knee was done in New York in 2024," Dr. Sadutshang said. “I am here to relay this message to all the Tibetans and devotees inside Tibet and around the world.” Residents pray for the successful knee surgery of the Dalai Lama at the Dharma Centre on June 8, 2026 in Ladakh, India. (Ladakh Buddhist Association via RFA Tibetan) It was publicly announced Thursday that the Dalai Lama would depart Friday from his home in Dharamsala, India to travel to New Delhi to “undergo medical treatment on his left knee.” The Tibetan spiritual leader was seen waving from the front passenger seat of a black sport utility vehicle as he was sent off by well-wishers gathered at the airport before his flight. In the video statement, Dr. Sadutshang said that the Dalai Lama “is out of recovery post-surgery, and he is back in his room,” and conveyed thanks to the medical workers at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. Prayers for the Dalai Lama’s recovery took place in the Indian cities of Ladakh, Dharamsala, New Delhi, Gangtok, and Mundgod. “We pray for the successful knee surgery of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” Kunzang Yangdol of the Women Wing of Ladakh Buddhist Association told RFA. She said that women in different villages chanted Buddhist mantras “from 5:00 AM with the hope that His Holiness heals well.” In 2024, the Dalai Lama underwent a total knee replacement on his right knee at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Tibetans gathering outside the hospital and his Manhattan hotel bearing Tibetan khata scarves and flowers, praying for his swift recovery. The Dalai Lam…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 8, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-06-08T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: evening
subject: june
subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

UN News Today 08 June 2026
type: item
creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-06-08T17:12:05Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: june
subject: News
subject: podcastsun
subject: sources
subject: today
description: As Middle East crisis erupts again, IAEA’s Grossi urges engagementAid agencies rush to help Philippines earthquake victims: WFPWith UN climate talks underway, it’s time to deliver: UNFCCC
encoded: As Middle East crisis erupts again, IAEA’s Grossi urges engagementAid agencies rush to help Philippines earthquake victims: WFPWith UN climate talks underway, it’s time to deliver: UNFCCC This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Under Ghana’s President Mahama, near-total impunity for attacks on 17 journalists
type: item
creator: Evelyn Okakwu
date: 2026-06-08T17:11:07Z
subject: Ahmed Hussein Suale Divela
subject: Akwasi Agyei Annim
subject: Angel Broadcasting Network
subject: Angel TV
subject: Asaase Radio
subject: Attacked
subject: ATV Ghana
subject: Beaten
subject: Carlos Lorlornyo Atsu Calony
subject: Channel One TV
subject: Charles Awuah Mensah
subject: Citi FM
subject: Class Media Group
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Dokurugu Alhassan
subject: Gabriel Kwasi Oppong
subject: Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
subject: GhanaWeb
subject: GHOne TV
subject: Gideon Nana Peprah
subject: Henry Atta Kotei
subject: Henry Fynn Emil
subject: Jacob Adu-Baah
subject: Jonas Zodzi Voergborlo
subject: Joy News
subject: Kofi Adede
subject: Kwabena Agyekum Banahene
subject: Lawson TV
subject: Oseikrom Dawuro
subject: Oyerepa Radio
subject: Oyerepa TV
subject: Sally Martey
subject: Samuel Addo
subject: Sources
subject: Tahiru Apiliye Ibrahim
subject: Vida Wiafe
subject: Zaa Multimedia
subject: ‘one
subject: abc news
subject: addo
subject: adede
subject: adubaah
subject: agyei
subject: agyekum
subject: ahmed
subject: akwasi
subject: alhassan
subject: Ángel
subject: annim
subject: apiliye
subject: asaase
subject: atsu
subject: atta
subject: attacked,
subject: attacks
subject: atv
subject: awuah
subject: banahene
subject: beaten
subject: Broadcasting
subject: calony
subject: carlos
subject: channel
subject: charles
subject: citi,
subject: class
subject: committee
subject: corporation
subject: dawuro
subject: divela
subject: dokurugu
subject: emil
subject: for
subject: fynn
subject: gabriel
subject: ghana

Under Ghana’s President Mahama, near-total impunity for attacks on 17 journalists
type: item
creator: Evelyn Okakwu
date: 2026-06-08T17:11:07Z
subject: Ahmed Hussein Suale Divela
subject: Akwasi Agyei Annim
subject: Angel Broadcasting Network
subject: Angel TV
subject: Asaase Radio
subject: Attacked
subject: ATV Ghana
subject: Beaten
subject: Carlos Lorlornyo Atsu Calony
subject: Channel One TV
subject: Charles Awuah Mensah
subject: Citi FM
subject: Class Media Group
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Dokurugu Alhassan
subject: Gabriel Kwasi Oppong
subject: Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
subject: GhanaWeb
subject: GHOne TV
subject: Gideon Nana Peprah
subject: Henry Atta Kotei
subject: Henry Fynn Emil
subject: Jacob Adu-Baah
subject: Jonas Zodzi Voergborlo
subject: Joy News
subject: Kofi Adede
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The Election Interference Evidence No One Is Talking About
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Iran hits Israel to enforce its "red line" on Lebanon
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News That Didn’t Make the News: Science Communicators and AI Data Centers
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description: First up, Professor Dave explains. Science communicator Dave Farina joins the show to talk about the emergence of science communicators at a time when science denial is reaching ever soaring heights. Dave discusses the lure and prevalence of erroneous ...
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Peru Votes for President Amid Trump’s "Unprecedented Program of Aggression" Against Leftists
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Graham Platner’s Billionaire-Bashing Message Resonates in Maine Senate Race, Despite Controversies
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Iran Warns Israel over Attacks on Lebanon After Iran, Israel Exchange Strikes: Trita Parsi
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 8, 2026
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Satellite pics reveal Vietnamese construction boom in disputed Spratly chain
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description: Despite reclamation and aggressive construction on 27 Spratly features, Hanoi can’t catch up to China, experts say.
encoded: Vietnam is building military and maritime infrastructure at 27 sites across at least 18 reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia revealed. The improvements include ports, runways, military facilities and communications arrays that will improve Hanoi’s maritime and airspace awareness, experts told RFA. “Hanoi is likely hoping that this development will deter Chinese action against Vietnamese economic activity at sea, including fishing and offshore oil and gas,” Harrison Prétat, deputy director of the Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, or AMTI, told RFA. The Spratlys are a strategically critical and heavily contested archipelago comprising more than 100 small islands and reefs claimed wholly or in part by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei. The region is vital for global trade and is rich in fishing grounds and potential oil and gas reserves. No single nation holds universally recognized sovereignty over the islands. Hanoi’s Objectives Over the past decade, claimant nations — most notably China and, more recently, Vietnam — have engaged in extensive dredging and construction as a means to increase their footprint in the disputed territories and to bolster their claims. Vietnam has been particularly aggressive in reclamation efforts, creating an additional 534 acres (216 hectares) of land across the archipelago over the past year, according to AMTI. This was in addition to the 2237 acres (905 hectares) it had already reclaimed over the past five years. The new reclamation areas undertaken in the second half of 2025 are on a much smaller scale as reclaimable areas become more scarce. More than one project is active on some of Vietnam’s holdings in the Spratlys, including Cornwallis South Reef, Alison Reef and East London Reef. Vietnamese construction at 27 sites across at least 18 reefs in the disputed Spratly Island includes land reclamation, dredging and airstrip …

CPJ, partners urge EU to push Egypt on rights and press freedom reforms
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations on Monday, expressing concern over Egypt’s failure to show meaningful progress on human rights, democracy, or the rule of law, despite the European Union presenting such progress as a key condition of the €5 billion (US$5.75 billion) macro-financial assistance (MFA) package...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations on Monday, expressing concern over Egypt’s failure to show meaningful progress on human rights, democracy, or the rule of law, despite the European Union presenting such progress as a key condition of the €5 billion (US$5.75 billion) macro-financial assistance (MFA) package provided to the North African country. Published ahead of the EU-Egypt Association Council meeting on June 15, the statement raises concerns over the state of human rights and press freedom in Egypt. Among the issues raised was Egypt’s continued imprisonment of journalists. At least 18 were behind bars in 2025 alone, cementing the country’s position as one of the world’s most prolific jailers of journalists. The statement also pointed to the Egyptian authorities’ pattern of retaliatory arrests targeting journalists and their family members. Most recently, on June 3, political commentator Ahmed Douma received a one-year prison sentence over his criticism of conditions inside Egypt’s prisons. The signatories urged the EU and its member states to seize the upcoming Association Council meeting as an opportunity to hold Egypt accountable and ensure that outstanding concerns are prominently reflected in the European Commission’s first annual report on the implementation of the 2025 macro-financial assistance operation for Egypt. Read the full letter in English and Arabic. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Iran’s Economic Crisis: Families Sell Belongings to Survive
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More than 325 Organizations Affirm Support for Medicare for All
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description: Today, more than 325 organizations including labor unions, advocates for seniors and people with disabilities, women’s rights organizations, and more, released an open letter to those seeking to reform the health care system, laying out why now is the...
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Tell us about your experience with school vouchers
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Peru Votes for President Amid Trump’s “Unprecedented Program of Aggression” Against Leftists in Region
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description: Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and leftist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez. Peruvian election ...
encoded: Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and leftist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez. Peruvian election officials say final results could take up to a month to confirm. Peruvian economist and public policy expert Gustavo Guerra-García Picasso says “democracy has been undermined” by Fujimori and her right-wing coalition, and that “reforms must be implemented quickly to restore a presidential system with checks and balances.” We also speak with historian Greg Grandin, who situates the Peru election in a wider battle between right and left across Latin America — with the Trump administration conducting “an unprecedented program of aggression” against leftists. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Graham Platner’s Billionaire-Bashing Message Resonates in Maine Senate Race, Despite Controversies
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date: 2026-06-08T12:23:24Z
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description: Voters are casting ballots in primary elections Tuesday in Maine, one of a handful states that could decide which party controls the Senate after this year’s midterm elections. Democrats believe they have their best shot in years to unse...
encoded: Voters are casting ballots in primary elections Tuesday in Maine, one of a handful states that could decide which party controls the Senate after this year’s midterm elections. Democrats believe they have their best shot in years to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins, but their presumptive nominee has been mired in controversy. Graham Platner is a 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine veteran who entered the race as a populist progressive. Democratic Governor Janet Mills, who was urged to run by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, suspended her campaign in April amid polls predicting Platner would easily beat her — though she remains on the ballot. Platner’s past, however, has cast a shadow on his campaign. The initial controversies focused on offensive posts Platner made on Reddit years ago and on a tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, which he has since apologized for and covered up. In recent weeks, sexually explicit text messages came to light that Platner had sent to women after getting married in 2023. The New York Times then reported that several women who had dated Platner recalled “unsettling” and abusive behavior by him, which he has denied. For more, we speak with Kim Villanueva, national president of the National Organization for Women PAC, which supports Mills in the primary, and Maine resident Shay Stewart-Bouley, executive director of Community Change, Inc., who says Platner is speaking to people’s material concerns and that voters may be “forgiving” for his “messy” personal life. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Iran Warns Israel over Escalating Attacks on Lebanon After Iran, Israel Exchange Strikes: Trita Parsi
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description: Iran and Israel exchanged fire overnight in the most serious escalation since a U.S.-Iranian truce was reached in April. Iran launched a wave of missiles at northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli attacks near Beirut on Sunday. Israel respo...
encoded: Iran and Israel exchanged fire overnight in the most serious escalation since a U.S.-Iranian truce was reached in April. Iran launched a wave of missiles at northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli attacks near Beirut on Sunday. Israel responded with attacks on Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran, Tabriz and Isfahan. This comes as peace talks appear stalled between the United States and Iran, largely over Iran’s insistence that any agreement must include Lebanon and halt Israel’s attacks on that country. President Donald Trump has also repeatedly expressed frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and reports from NBC News and The New York Times indicate the Pentagon is growing increasingly concerned over Israel spying on U.S. officials. “I was not surprised by the Iranian attack on Israel,” says analyst Trita Parsi, who notes that Iran’s leaders want to “extend their deterrence” to Lebanon. “What is perhaps a bit surprising is … that the Israelis defied Trump’s expressed wishes.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Iranian missiles seen in the sky over Israel
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Headlines for June 8, 2026
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description: Iran Says It’s Halting Attacks on Israel After Both Countries Exchange Fire, Israeli Strikes Hit Beirut Despite a U.S.-Brokered So-Called Ceasefire, Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Seven Palestinians in Gaza, Russian Drone Hits Nuclear Fuel Facility Near Chernobyl, Killing 3 People, Hegseth Uses D-Day Anniversary to Attack European Immigration Policies, Saying Continent Facing New “Invasion”, Federal Lawsuit Seeks to Block White House UFC Event Set for Trump’s 80th Birthday, Trump Storms Out of Interview with NBC News’s Welker After She Questions Him About Slush Fund, Ex-“60 MInutes” Anchor Pelley Claims Bari Weiss Wanted to Push False Narratives on Renee Good’s Killing, New Jersey Boosts Legal Funding for Immigrants Held at Delaney Hall ICE Jail, Hunger Strikers at Adelanto ICE Jail Moved to Solitary Confinement After Talking to Lawmakers, 12 Injured as Gunfire Erupts at Toledo, Ohio, Street Festival, Brussels Warns Albania That Jared Kushner’s Luxury Resort Could Violate EU Environmental Rules
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Democracy Now! 2026-06-08 Monday
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[Full Uncut Conversation] Dean Spade’s Vision: Fostering Connection in Chaotic Times
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Iran, Israel Exchange Fresh Strikes As Trump Pushes For Talks
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May Pik: Waking up from a Zionist nightmare, let’s carry the spirit of Sumud
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description: May Pik is a Jewish woman now living in Aotearoa. She gave this perspective on growing up in Israel and why she moved to New Zealand as a talk at a recent national hui of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) in Rotorua. COMMENTARY: By May Pik The Israeli narrative is mostly told through the
encoded: May Pik is a Jewish woman now living in Aotearoa. She gave this perspective on growing up in Israel and why she moved to New Zealand as a talk at a recent national hui of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) in Rotorua. COMMENTARY: By May Pik The Israeli narrative is mostly told through the perspective of Zionist talking points, making it uncomprehensible as to how a people that went through genocide can turn into the perpetrators of another. Today, I want to tell another narrative — the story of brainwash and indoctrination I was exposed to growing up in Israel. I want to be clear that I do not in any way excuse the people of Israel for their part and responsibility. Yes, I was indoctrinated, used and manipulated by my country and its government, but I also had the obligation to question my upbringing, to think for myself, to break away, speak out and stand for justice. READ MORE: Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire: Analysts Death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza rises to at least 72,980 Other Gaza reports That remains my obligation, and that is why I wanted to speak here today. This knowledge can make us better prepared in fighting against Zionists and their ambassadors. Looking back I can see how my history was heavily tied to Zionism, yet growing up I didn’t know what the word Zionism meant. My maternal grandmother, named Ziona (from the word Zion), arrived in Palestine in 1933 on a ship as a nine-month-old baby. My maternal grandfather grew up in Jerusalem to a religious family, going seven generations, but converted to Zionism and joined the notorious “Stern Gang”, a Jewish terrorist group, at age 16. My mother was born in 1957 and grew up in a poor developing town in the desert, to a patriotic, proud family. She met my dad, a new immigrant from South Africa, a young Zionist eager to start a new life away from apartheid — a bit ironic. They met as two young 20-year-olds in the beautiful village of Ayn Hawd, a Palestinian v…

What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks
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description: The post What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260605-measles-testing-us-5x2-1.jpg?w=1149" alt="A collage overlays a black-and-white photo of a wooden sign reading “Measles testing” in a scene with a Texas flag in the background. Illustrations of genetic sequences and branching diagrams surround the sign, with red banners highlighting various DNA configurations that are labeled with locations and dates from Texas and Utah."> Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Source image: Julio Cortez/AP Photo. To read this story, visit our website. The post What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks appeared first on ProPublica. This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by Nat Lash.

DN! Monday, June 8, 2026
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A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record.
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description: The post A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Jesse Costa/WBUR, Alyssa Sieb via Nappy, PatrickRich via Flickr. On the day 5-year-old Lens Joseph was killed by a Boston Public Schools bus last year, the driver had already struck a postal truck, ignored a stop sign and missed several stops, prosecutors said. When he got to Lens’ house, he dropped him off on the wrong side of the street and then ran over the kindergartner as he crossed in front of the bus. Transdev, a multinational company that has been the city’s sole bus contractor since 2013, hired and trained the driver of the bus that killed Lens. Yet a federal safety database shows no sign that the company was involved in the April 2025 crash. WBUR and ProPublica found at least 60 fatal Transdev crashes in the last decade, but the federal database shows only 18 under the company’s name. That means 42 fatal crashes are not identified as Transdev’s. This missing information is important because the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which oversees commercial motor vehicles, relies on it to pinpoint unsafe companies. But the process the agency uses to collect information is faulty: It identifies only a fraction of a company’s fatal crashes. As a result, the full safety record of Transdev, one of the largest private operators of public transit in the U.S., remains a secret to regulators, the public and the local government agencies that might award it a contract. “That is a serious, serious gap in safety,” said Peter Kurdock, general counsel with Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a nonprofit that promotes transportation safety and has pushed for improvements in crash data for years. “And it’s a serious, serious shortcoming when it comes to the regulation of these carriers by FMCSA.” Help Further Our Reporting on Bus Crashes If you are a current or former FMCSA employee, or someone in the industry with information about the agency or the safety of school buses, transit buses or motor coache…

Why are so many Democrats going quiet on climate change?
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description: The common wisdom says it's a losing issue. Evidence suggests it actually helps Democrats.
encoded: As the midterm elections approach, something strange has happened: Democratic politicians who once talked about climate change as the defining crisis of our time now barely mention it at all. The phrase has begun disappearing from their speeches, social media posts, and podcast appearances. The main exception is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who has given some version of his “Time to Wake Up” speech on the dangers of climate change more than 300 times over the past decade and a half. He’s accused “climate hushers” of pushing the party to stop talking about the overheating planet. If you had to pinpoint the moment that “climate hushing” began, the 2024 presidential election would be the obvious contender. After President Donald Trump beat former Vice President Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, Democrats were left scrambling to figure out where they went wrong. One popular theory was that they were too busy harping on social justice and planetary problems at the expense of everyday concerns voters cared more about, like the rising cost of living. Whitehouse, however, sees global warming as a piece of that conversation, rather than a distraction from it. “Climate change is right now raising costs for families across the country through higher property insurance premiums, grocery and electric bills, and health care expenses,” Whitehouse said in a statement to Grist. The idea that talking about climate change is a liability for Democrats has become conventional wisdom. Last year, the Democrat-aligned think tank Searchlight Institute issued the advice “Don’t say climate change.” A recent op-ed in The New York Times concluded, “When it comes to climate change, for now, it might be better to say nothing at all.” An early draft of the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy report of the 2024 election, released under pressure in May, posited that messages about climate change and shifting to green energy “created anxiety among workers in traditio…

Becoming a farmer is hard. This Michigan program wants to help.
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description: “Nobody gets into farming for sane reasons, other than the sanity of knowing where your food comes from,” said one student at the Great Lakes Incubator Farm, which gives aspiring farmers a place to experiment without risk.
encoded: As the U.S. faces an aging farmer population, communities are looking for ways to shore up the next generation of growers. But high upfront costs, access to land, and a shifting climate can make entry into the field feel out of reach for many people looking to get into the business. Tucked on farmland at the southern edge of Traverse City, Michigan, one program wants to solve some of these problems by letting aspiring farmers learn by doing. The Great Lakes Incubator Farm attracts students from all over the country. Over the course of seven months, a three-student cohort learns about topics like pest management, how to drive a tractor, and what to include in a farm business plan. “Nobody gets into farming for sane reasons, other than the sanity of knowing where your food comes from and just general health,” said Rachel Greenberg, a 33-year-old student farmer from Indianapolis. “The challenges are pretty never-ending.” Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 2000w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&quality=75&strip=all 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?resize=160%2C90&quality=75&strip=all 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-is-a-gardening-show-4.jpg?resize=150%2C84&quality=75&strip=all 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" height="1125" width="2000" l…

Tsunami advisories issued in Pacific after 7.8 Philippines earthquake
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description: By RNZ Pacific reporters and Mark Rabago The US Tsunami Warning Centre has issued advisories for parts of the Pacific following a massive earthquake off Mindanao in the Philippines. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck at a depth of 63km truck off the coast of Sarangani province on Monday morning, rocking many parts of Mindanao and
encoded: By RNZ Pacific reporters and Mark Rabago The US Tsunami Warning Centre has issued advisories for parts of the Pacific following a massive earthquake off Mindanao in the Philippines. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck at a depth of 63km truck off the coast of Sarangani province on Monday morning, rocking many parts of Mindanao and triggering a tsunami warning. READ MORE: Live updates at Rappler: Magnitude 7.8 Mindanao earthquake Other Philippines disaster reports The tremor caused damage to infrastructure, and prompted evacuations and school class suspensions. The US warning centre has tsunami waves forecast to be less than 0.3 meters above the tide level for the coasts of: American Samoa Chuuk FSM Fiji French Polynesia Guam Hawai’i Kiribati Kosrae (FSM) Marshall islands Nauru New Caledonia CNMI Palau Papua New Guinea Pohnpei (FSM) Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis Futuna Yap The US Tsunami Warning Centre says government agencies responsible for threatened coastal areas should take action to inform and instruct any coastal populations at risk in accordance with their own evaluation, procedures and the level of threat. Stay out of water A tsunami advisory remains in effect for the Marianas — the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and Guam. Authorities are warning of hazardous ocean conditions and strong currents along coastlines. The first tsunami-related sea level fluctuations could reach Guam from 12:45 pm local time, before spreading northward across the Northern Marianas, with estimated arrival times of 12:54pm in Rota, 1:02opm in Tinian and 1:04pm in Saipan. Officials cautioned that actual arrival times may vary and that the first wave may not be the largest. Forecast impacts include sea level changes of up to one foot above and below normal tide levels, minor flooding in some beach and harbour areas, and strong and unusual currents in harbours, bays and nearshore waters. Hazardous conditions could persist for several hours or longer, the advisory s…

Actor and musician Ella Hunt on the power of honest expression
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description: Let’s talk about your album. It’s your first full-length album, but you’ve been making music since childhood. Can you tell me about how that’s evolved over time?
encoded: Let’s talk about your album. It’s your first full-length album, but you’ve been making music since childhood. Can you tell me about how that’s evolved over time? I have been making music since childhood. I think what’s differentiated this moment in my musical evolution from moments and releases past is that this felt like the first time where I wrote a body of work, and where the songs felt like they were siblings that demanded a birth order and a family portrait. I think, also, I’m in a lovely spot as an artist now, where I’ve gotten to soak up a lot of the advice of my musical mentors. I started making music very young and playing local festivals as a child, just me and the piano. And up until my early 20s, my experience of making music really was just me at the piano. Then you moved to New York. That’s when I met Thomas Bartlett [musician Doveman], who is now my husband. At the time, we were great friends and we were making music together. We were friends for about a year before anything romantic happened. But, in that time I met a lot of my musical heroes, partly through Thomas, but also just the kind of downtown New York music scene. I met Martha and Rufus Wainwright, and Beth Orton, Laurie Anderson, and Anohni and the Johnsons. Ella Hunt by Olivia Nikkanen I was kind of awestruck by accidentally tripping into musical heaven. I started to dip my toe into playing with some of the amazing musicians that I was meeting through Thomas, but it really wasn’t until I started making this album that I had the confidence to actually ask them to play with me in a band setting. And I think it’s really brought it together in a way where I now feel like the music sounds like how I imagine it in my head. Well, sometimes that takes a lifetime, so well done. I’m still working on it. Look, I don’t feel like a finished product in any sense of the word. And frankly, I would go back again, and again, and again, and redo, and redo, again, and again, and again. But at a certain point …

Musician Carla Dal Forno on embracing vulnerability
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description: Your album is called Confession. Do you find it difficult to confess unsavory or embarrassing things through your music?
encoded: Your album is called Confession. Do you find it difficult to confess unsavory or embarrassing things through your music? Music is so private while you’re creating it, and you have to block out the knowledge that it’s going to be public one day. It’s such a good space to really take a look at uncomfortable feelings. I like to use songwriting to practice being direct. I guess I’m quite good at admitting my own vulnerabilities. When you’re making something and you feel vulnerable, it’s a really good sign that you’re onto something real, and that it might connect with other people as well. Not that that’s so much a consideration when I’m making the work, but I think I’ve learned to recognize that sign, that feeling of exposure, vulnerability, whatever you want to call it, as a good instinct to follow. You’ve said you were initially intrigued by lyrical abstraction on this album, but why did you decide to go in a different direction? When I got back in the studio, I had just had a baby. I just thought, I need a break. I don’t want to do something that’s too difficult; I don’t want to do any personal excavation. I just tried to write these songs that felt a bit removed, and nothing was working for me. I spent three months coming up with all these different demos, and nothing was feeling important enough to invest in. One day I was mucking around on a guitar and the words to “Going Out,” which is the first track that I wrote for this album, just started coming out of my mouth. I felt really interested in this story and this experience that I was articulating, and it gave me so much more motivation to finish the song. At that point I was like, “Okay, this album is not going to be what I imagined it to be.” Do you keep a diary or a notebook when you’re generating lyrics? I did start keeping a diary. When I first started this album, I had writer’s block. I couldn’t come up with any lyrics that I liked. I read somewhere that the key to unlocking writer’s block is just to write…

What is Wrong with the American Left: the Abandonment of Class
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description: The founding insight of the socialist tradition was that the central conflict of modern society is a relation, not a sentiment, between those who own the means of production and those who own only their labor. That relation, and not any catalog of identities, was the ground on which the left proposed to build a majority and to extend democracy into the economy. This frame, which even the revisionists who broke with Marx on tactics kept intact, the new new left has largely walked away from, and it did so with intellectual help. More The post What is Wrong with the American Left: the Abandonment of Class appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: A Tradition That Forgot Itself I write these essays not as an enemy of the left but as someone who believes it has lost the thread of its own best tradition. That tradition is the democratic socialism of Eduard Bernstein, who tied the classless society to the ballot rather than the barricade, and of Michael Harrington, whose The Other America forced a prosperous country to look at its own poor. That tradition began with a sharp diagnosis. Karl Marx argued that capitalism rests on a class relationship in which those who own the means of production extract surplus value from those who own only their labor power. One did not have to accept the inevitability of revolution to accept the centrality of class, and Bernstein did not. He kept the analysis and changed the method, betting that universal suffrage could be turned into economic democracy. That bet defined what the old left stood for. It was not merely taxing the rich and redistributing the proceeds, the liberal project of John Stuart Mill and later John Maynard Keynes, but democratizing economic decision making itself. The New Deal and the Great Society were humane achievements, yet they were state capitalism for the benefit of the many and left the boardroom intact. The democratic socialist asked a harder question: who decides what gets built, where capital flows, and whose work disappears? Put most simply, the socialist project was about extending democracy into the economy. We accept that the people should govern the state, that no king or boss may rule a polity by private right. The socialist asked why the same principle stops at the factory gate, why the firm that shapes a person’s waking life should remain a little monarchy exempt from the democratic rule we demand everywhere else. Robert Dahl made exactly this argument in his Preface to Economic Democracy, reasoning that if democracy is justified in governing the state it must be justified in governing economi…

Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it
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description: America’s 2025 National Security Strategy calls for gaining control of the world’s oil trade. Toward this end, Donald Trump’s Oil War aims at depriving Iran, Iraq and its neighboring OPEC countries of their sovereignty over whom they may sell their oil to, just as he has done to Venezuela. There is no remorse for the collateral damage being caused by the disruption in energy trade that is plunging most of the world’s economies into depression. Such reckless (and wreckful) behavior conforms to the letter of what psychologists call a sociopath. More The post Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair America’s 2025 National Security Strategy calls for gaining control of the world’s oil trade. Toward this end, Donald Trump’s Oil War aims at depriving Iran, Iraq and its neighboring OPEC countries of their sovereignty over whom they may sell their oil to, just as he has done to Venezuela. There is no remorse for the collateral damage being caused by the disruption in energy trade that is plunging most of the world’s economies into depression. Such reckless (and wreckful) behavior conforms to the letter of what psychologists call a sociopath. The Mayo Clinic applies this term to “a person [who] consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to purposely make others angry or upset and manipulate or treat others harshly or with cruel indifference. They lack remorse or do not regret their behavior.” To cap matters, “people with antisocial personality disorder [who] often violate the law, becoming criminals. They may lie, behave violently or impulsively …” This diagnosis can readily be applied to any nation aspiring to empire by conquest. But U.S. foreign policy has carried it to new extremes. Just as sociopaths lack a sense of right and wrong (and fight against any such moral values constraining their abusive behavior), U.S. diplomats have rejected the United Nations Charter’s body of international laws of war that ban attacks on civilians. American weaponry and missile guidance systems are serving religious and ethnic genocide from Ukraine to the Middle East as Ukrainian, Israeli and various Wahabi al-Qaeda client armies have been recruited to serve as America’s foreign legions. Trump’s impulsive, aggressive and manipulative demands, accompanied by bullying violence, violate the most fundamental laws of international behavior that formerly were considered to be the essence of civilization. The UN Charter’s rule not to interfere with the s…

Trump May Be Serious About ‘Taking Over’ Cuba
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date: 2026-06-08T05:58:51Z
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description: The US, with Donald Trump as president, has become a bizarre place. The country is at the moment in a sort of lull in a major war that Trump and his Israeli sidekick Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran over three months ago—not quite a cease-fire, but not full-blown war. Nearly $50 billion dollars spent on More The post Trump May Be Serious About ‘Taking Over’ Cuba appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Planet Volumes. The US, with Donald Trump as president, has become a bizarre place. The country is at the moment in a sort of lull in a major war that Trump and his Israeli sidekick Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran over three months ago—not quite a cease-fire, but not full-blown war. Nearly $50 billion dollars spent on it, and the global economy is reeling from the shutdown of one-fifth of the world’s supply of oil and natural gas, and Trump still can’t explain why the war was necessary and how and when he’s going to end it….if he can. Even weirder, Trump’s war was launched even as the US has left Venezuela in chaos in the wake of his Jan 3 “shock and awe” attack on that country’s capital, followed by a midnight raid by US Special Forces who killed 32 Cuban soldiers guarding Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, whom they then kidnapped, spiriting him and his wife Celia Flores away to Manhattan. There, they face spurious drug smuggling charges in a US federal court. As if that weren’t enough, Trump is now threatening to “take over Cuba,” the island nation whose economy has collapsed because of Trump’s blockade of all oil shipments. So is Trump, America’s least popular president in his second term since G.W.Bush, going to invade Cuba? With Trump, it’s hard to know, but his recent actions and threats are ominous. First, to provide a pretext for his threatened assault and kidnapping in Cuba, he has had his ever-compliant Department of “Justice” indict 94-year-old Raúl Castro, the frail and ailing younger brother of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel. Raúl was the vice president in 2008 when Fidel stepped down as Cuba’s president for health reasons. Raúl became acting president and then president until stepping down in 2018. The US indictment lodged against Raúl, who is no longer a Cuban leader, is based upon the dubious allegation that as Minister of Cuba’s armed forces he “gave the orders” to two Cuban Air Force MiG fighter jets to down two civilian US …

Trump and Netanyahu: The Odd Couple
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description: “He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This may be one of the most revealing statements Trump has ever made—not for what it says about Netanyahu, but for what it reveals about Trump’s psychology. It was intended as a display of strength. Instead, it More The post Trump and Netanyahu: The Odd Couple appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image Wikipedia. “He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This may be one of the most revealing statements Trump has ever made—not for what it says about Netanyahu, but for what it reveals about Trump’s psychology. It was intended as a display of strength. Instead, it exposed the opposite. Trump has built a political persona around hyperbole, self-aggrandizement, and declarations of superiority to cover up for an oversized inferiority complex, he only knows its extent. When he insists that Netanyahu is acting at his command, he is projecting an authority he does not possess. The louder the boast, the more apparent the insecurity beneath it. If there is one lesson since the election of Trump, it is that Netanyahu, not Trump, has consistently dictated the pace of America’s wars in the Middle East. Trump may occupy the White House, issue ultimatums, and proclaim himself the master negotiator, but the facts on the ground tell a different story. Again and again, Netanyahu acts, and Trump adjusts. For years, Netanyahu worked relentlessly to pull the U. S. into another made-for-Israel war, this time against Iran. Successive administrations, despite their deference to Israel, stopped short of falling for the scheme. Trump, however, proved far more susceptible to the influence of his Israel-first donors and to Netanyahu’s chicanery. Yet he continues to portray himself as the one calling the shots. Last week, Trump proudly recounted a phone call in which he supposedly instructed Netanyahu to halt a planned Israeli attack on Beirut. It took little time after Trump’s statement for Israel’s defense minister to announce that military operations “will continue under all circumstances.” True to that pledge, Israel launched fresh attacks on hospitals and villages in southern Lebanon, killing and wounding civilians despite the so-called Trump’s war cessation. Two days later, on Wednesday, June 3, Lebanese an…

Trump’s Cruel Medicaid Work Requirements: Can States Mitigate the Damage?
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description: The Trump administration’s appetite for cruelty and its wanton disregard for wasting taxpayer funds has shown itself again – this time in its proposed regulations for implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s (OBBBA) Medicaid eligibility requirements. But as new details emerge, there are some possible ways that states could protect eligible populations from losing More The post Trump’s Cruel Medicaid Work Requirements: Can States Mitigate the Damage? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Trump administration’s appetite for cruelty and its wanton disregard for wasting taxpayer funds has shown itself again – this time in its proposed regulations for implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s (OBBBA) Medicaid eligibility requirements. But as new details emerge, there are some possible ways that states could protect eligible populations from losing health care. The proposed regulations, which were officially released on June 3, require many individuals with serious illnesses or medically complex situations to prove they are unable to meet work requirements. This upends months of guidance to states from an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services that has informed the tens of millions of dollars they have already spent building information systems to collect and confirm individuals’ eligibility for Medicaid in time for the January 1, 2027 start date of the new regulations. Based on advice from administration officials, state health departments hired staff, upgraded technology and developed systems to manage eligibility to determine which individuals are working and which will have work requirements waived based on their medical condition. But those efforts will now be superseded by the nearly 400-page long proposed regulations, and information systems will have to be reconfigured to conform to the changes. It should be noted that there is something deeply ironic about an administration that professes an aversion to bureaucracy releasing a 400-page proposal that gives states guidance on how to oversee new bureaucratic systems. Defining “Medically Frail” The Trump administration’s work requirements for disabled, near-poor individuals to qualify for Medicaid go well beyond what the OBBBA requires. Many seriously ill individuals or those with medically complex situations will be required to prove they are too disabled to work – a Catch-22 proposition for a population that may be too physically compromised…

Genocide the Non Profit Industrial Complex and the Democratic Party
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description: Over the past couple of years, a hybrid type of activist has emerged in Washington, D.C. To get a paycheck and pay the bills, they toil away inside the non-profit industrial complex – made up of non-profit organizations generally aligned with the Democratic Party. Then they have side gigs, where they go on Substack and More The post Genocide the Non Profit Industrial Complex and the Democratic Party appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Over the past couple of years, a hybrid type of activist has emerged in Washington, D.C. To get a paycheck and pay the bills, they toil away inside the non-profit industrial complex – made up of non-profit organizations generally aligned with the Democratic Party. Then they have side gigs, where they go on Substack and podcasts and rip away at the beast, without mentioning their employment with the public interest group in question. In the May/June 2026 edition of the Capitol Hill Citizen, we interviewed one of these public interest warriors – Aaron Regunberg. During the day, Regunberg works on climate change for Public Citizen. At night, he goes on podcasts and speaks out on topics Public Citizen dares not touch. While Regunberg has repeatedly condemned Israeli genocide in Gaza, Public Citizen has not. On March 19, 2026, Public Citizen put out a press release titled – $200 Billion for Trump’s Iran War is Grotesque Beyond Words. But Public Citizen has said nothing that we could find about the billions the Biden and Trump administrations have been shoveling to Israel to commit Israel’s genocide in Gaza. And that’s true for most of the inside the beltway public interest groups – with few exceptions. We asked Regunberg – Why is that? “Liberal groups might be scared of running up against the Democratic establishment,” Regunberg told the Capitol Hill Citizen. Might be scared? Just this week, Public Citizen held its annual gala at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. And the keynote speaker? AIPAC recipient and friend and defender of the nuclear power industry Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island). In a Capitol Hill Citizen front page article in the May/June 2026 issue – Big Tech Campaign to Fast Track Nuke Energy – our reporter Peter Castagno laid out how Senator Whitehouse and Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) “were the primary architects of the legislative architecture that the Trump administration has since used for maximal deregulation.” (Early in its e…

AI is a Public Resource: You Should Own Half of It
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description: Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world. It will profoundly affect the life of every man, woman and child in our country. It will bring — and is already bringing — unimaginable changes to our economy, our democracy, our emotional well-being, our environment and how we More The post AI is a Public Resource: You Should Own Half of It appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Aerps.com Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world. It will profoundly affect the life of every man, woman and child in our country. It will bring — and is already bringing — unimaginable changes to our economy, our democracy, our emotional well-being, our environment and how we educate and raise our children. Further, there is a very real fear that as A.I. becomes smarter than humans it could eventually function independently, with potentially catastrophic consequences. The question, then, is not whether A.I. will change the world. It will. The question is: Who will own and control that future? Who will benefit from it, and who will be hurt by it? Will A.I. be used to make life better for working families? Will it enrich our quality of life? Will it help us eliminate poverty, extend life expectancies and solve the climate crisis? Or will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed A.I., with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today? That is the choice before us. Let us be clear. Artificial intelligence was not created out of thin air. The data and language used by generative A.I. tools didn’t just pop into Sam Altman’s head or Elon Musk’s imagination. A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations, images and ideas spanning generations. That is not just the opinion of Bernie Sanders. According to Mr. Altman, the head of OpenAI, A.I. models were trained on our “collective experience, knowledge” and “learnings of humanity.” For the most part, tech oligarchs have fed this knowledge into their A.I. models without permission, without acknowledgment, without compensation. In other words, the creative work of millions of people — writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scie…

An Impeachment Drive Can Lead to Trump’s Resignation
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description: Public support for the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump is growing by the day. A March 9, 2026, Task Force report by the New York City Bar – dominated by powerful corporate lawyers – was titled “The Crisis Deepens: Congress Must Act Now to Address Escalating Abuses of Executive Power.” The recommendation – Immediate Impeachment of More The post An Impeachment Drive Can Lead to Trump’s Resignation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by David Everett Strickler. Public support for the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump is growing by the day. A March 9, 2026, Task Force report by the New York City Bar – dominated by powerful corporate lawyers – was titled “The Crisis Deepens: Congress Must Act Now to Address Escalating Abuses of Executive Power.” The recommendation – Immediate Impeachment of Donald Trump. I don’t recall a division on such a serious domestic policy stand between citizen groups, allied with the Democratic Party on one side and the public and a major corporate bar association on the other side. Several leaders of national progressive citizen groups are counseling delaying such a drive until after the election in anticipation of a Democratic Party victory in both the House and the Senate. This mirrors what the feeble Democratic Party leadership (Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer) are telling their increasingly restless rank and file in the House and Senate (see the April 11, 2026 article in the New York Times by Annie Karni, “Democrats Warm to Idea of Removing the President”). Meanwhile, as Trump’s illegal and erratic daily behavior and executive dictates worsen the wrecking of our country, the present majority of Americans favor impeaching Trump and removing him from office is nearing 60 percent. Consider the pluses for launching an Impeachment drive supported by the people focused on Capitol Hill and a Congress controlled by the Republicans, who are likely to block any vote or formal Committee hearings. 1. It is a great campaign issue – tying together in an authentic way – see Res.1155 – all of Trump’s vicious shredding of the people’s health, safety and economic benefits and constitutional freedoms. Majorities despise openly corrupt Trump, whose support in polls is slumping, but many voters also don’t trust or believe in the wavering Democratic Party, which can’t come up with a credible compact that addresses the needs of the people and a set of political commitments embodied in …

Trump Steals National Park Service Money for Vanity Projects in DC
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description: The most corrupt president and cabinet in U.S. history are now stealing fees from national parks and federal recreational lands and waters to fund Trump’s D.C. vanity projects. These fees were never intended to be used to turn the White House and Capitol grounds into a Mar-a-Largo billionaires club – especially as federal parks, lands, More The post Trump Steals National Park Service Money for Vanity Projects in DC appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: G. Edward Johnson – CC BY 4.0 The most corrupt president and cabinet in U.S. history are now stealing fees from national parks and federal recreational lands and waters to fund Trump’s D.C. vanity projects. These fees were never intended to be used to turn the White House and Capitol grounds into a Mar-a-Largo billionaires club – especially as federal parks, lands, and waters in Montana and across the nation continue to degrade. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/03/trump-officials-divert-national-park-service-fees-fund-july-4-celebration/" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/03/trump-officials-divert-national-park-service-fees-fund-july-4-celebration/&source=gmail&ust=1780769335663000&usg=AOvVaw2XO5VI0iauCe6vI6u9gPbP">Washington Post broke the news this week showing where these narcissistic miscreants will spend the funds intended for maintenance of our national parks and federal recreation sites. Here’s a partial list: White House – $330 million; East Wing (that no longer exists) “modernization” – $300 million; National Mall fountains – $47 million. White House helicopter landing pad on the South Lawn – $5 million; Fountains in front of White House – $12.9 million; Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (now being litigated as an illegal renovation) – $9.2 million. As reported: “The restrictions come as the agency has struggled to maintain normal operations after the administration cut its staff by roughly a quarter, or 4,000 people, according to National Parks Conservation Association figures. Last year, a smaller staff meant longer lines, temporary closure of campgrounds, fewer tours and closed bathrooms.” National parks have a maintenance backlog of some $11.6 billion, including nearly a billion dollars in deferred maintenance and $2.5 billion in strategic maintenance priorities for Yellowstone and $200 million in Glacier. A…

Israel’s Futile War in Lebanon Deepens
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description: Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington. The war’s increasing savagery is a reminder of how hollow the More The post Israel’s Futile War in Lebanon Deepens appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: IDF 162nd Division on the Israel–Lebanon border. Photograph Source: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit – CC BY-SA 3.0 Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in southern Lebanon, a cause of concern even for those in Washington. The war’s increasing savagery is a reminder of how hollow the exhortations by the Netanyahu government seem following the official cessation of hostilities against Hezbollah in November 2024. Israel’s pre-emptive war on Iran, commencing on February 28 with the full and criminal connivance of the United States, took place alongside an incursion into southern Lebanon that has become a burgeoning invasion ostensibly to create a chunky buffer against Hezbollah’s attacks. Presumably, the wishful thinking here was to eliminate Iran as a threat, thereby removing Hezbollah’s most ardent patron and sponsor. At the time, coteries of commentators and Israeli leaders lavished praise on the country’s technical and military achievements, forgetting the central point that Hezbollah remains an idea as much as a physical movement, a deep well rather than defined, terminable cul-de-sac. Ideas, which can only really be battled by better ones, prove sleekly stubborn before tanks, missiles and jets. From March, the southern part of Lebanon was subjected to infrastructural degradation, population displacement and the wholesale destruction of villages, all on the spurious premise that the security of Israeli settlements near the border will be somehow improved. In April, in the long cast shadow of the Iran War, another ceasefire was brokered between Israel and Lebanon, with another extension to the truce for another 45 days agreed to mid-May. This farcical theatre has taken place amidst ongoing IDF operations which have, as of June 1, displaced over a million Lebanese and seen more than 3,300 deaths. Israel has …

Cancelling Billionaires: a Review
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description: Cancelling Billion: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Dundurn Press It’s a bit difficult for me to read this book. That’s not the fault of the book, it’s well written and presents a solid case. It’s just that when you’ve seen Hamlet More The post Cancelling Billionaires: a Review appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Cancelling Billion: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Dundurn Press It’s a bit difficult for me to read this book. That’s not the fault of the book, it’s well written and presents a solid case. It’s just that when you’ve seen Hamlet 50 times, the 51st might be a bit anticlimactic. The basic story is one that, in my old age, I have seen many times. The rich are getting an ever-larger share of society’s income and wealth. The size of their fortunes does not in any plausible sense correspond to their contributions to society. In fact, as McQuaig and Brooks (MB) show, it often stems from corrupt deals. This is told with a Canadian accent as the authors are both Canadian. This introduces those of us south of the border to some fresh villains, like retail pharmacy baron David Katz and hedge fund billionaire Conrad Black, rather than the usual accounts of Zuckerberg, Musk, Ellison and the rest. They also point out that the rich have managed to reduce their tax burden over the last half century, leaving a larger share to be borne by the middle class and poor, often in the form of reduced public services. MB also give a good account of the evidence that higher taxes on the rich and less inequality are associated with better outcomes on a wide range of metrics most of us care about, such as health, education, democracy, gender equality, and environmental quality. The book also has a discussion of various other efforts to tax the rich in addition to the wealth tax they push. I think they are a bit overly dismissive of the evasion/avoidance problem. The rich might be awful people, but they do care about their money. When it comes to finding ways to hang on to it, they can be very creative or at least hire people who can be very creative. As a genuine libertarian (some do exist) explained to me many years ago, if you have a 90 percent top tax bracket, you are paying people 90 cents for each dollar of …

Lim Tean: Why standing on the wrong side of history cost Germany its UNSC seat
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Germany learnt to its huge cost and embarrassment last week that supporting Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East leads only to opprobrium from the international community. A country which had been a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for decades lost in its bid
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Germany learnt to its huge cost and embarrassment last week that supporting Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East leads only to opprobrium from the international community. A country which had been a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for decades lost in its bid for re-election to Portugal and Austria. It is a great setback for Germany which aspires one day to be a permanent member. READ MORE: Did Germany lose its UNSC seat because of support for Israel? Germany’s UN defeat: What went wrong? Why Germany wants a seat at the UN Security Council Other Palestine at UN reports Germany may not want to admit it, but the defeat was in every way tied to its unstinting support for Israeli genocidal operations and policies in Gaza. If America is Israel’s staunchest supporter, then Germany comes second. A “universal morality” has enveloped the world. It is a morality that does not condone genocide or the stealing of other peoples’ lands, as Israel has done for decades. It is a morality which demands the creation of a Palestinian State so that the Palestinians are not refugees in their homeland. Lesson to Israel supporters Let Germany’s defeat be a lesson to all those nations who support Israel. Don’t be foolish and stand on the wrong side of history. Germany built its postwar identity on Never Again. It atoned. It paid reparations. It taught its children the truth. For that, it deserves credit. But atonement is not a blank cheque. The Holocaust was more than 80 years ago. The sins of fathers cannot be visited upon their children forever — and acknowledging past wrongs cannot become the excuse for ignoring present ones. That isn’t moral courage. That is moral cowardice in a noble disguise. Gaza is burning. Lebanon was devastated. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has spoken. And Germany looks away. Did support for Israel cost Germany a UN Security Council seat? Video: DW News Routine rotatin…

Lim Tean: Why standing on the wrong side of history cost Germany its UNSC seat
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Germany learnt to its huge cost and embarrassment last week that supporting Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East leads only to opprobrium from the international community. A country which had been a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for decades lost in its bid
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Germany learnt to its huge cost and embarrassment last week that supporting Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East leads only to opprobrium from the international community. A country which had been a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for decades lost in its bid for re-election to Portugal and Austria. It is a great setback for Germany which aspires one day to be a permanent member. READ MORE: Did Germany lose its UNSC seat because of support for Israel? Germany’s UN defeat: What went wrong? Why Germany wants a seat at the UN Security Council Other Palestine at UN reports Germany may not want to admit it, but the defeat was in every way tied to its unstinting support for Israeli genocidal operations and policies in Gaza. If America is Israel’s staunchest supporter, then Germany comes second. A “universal morality” has enveloped the world. It is a morality that does not condone genocide or the stealing of other peoples’ lands, as Israel has done for decades. It is a morality which demands the creation of a Palestinian State so that the Palestinians are not refugees in their homeland. Lesson to Israel supporters Let Germany’s defeat be a lesson to all those nations who support Israel. Don’t be foolish and stand on the wrong side of history. Germany built its postwar identity on Never Again. It atoned. It paid reparations. It taught its children the truth. For that, it deserves credit. But atonement is not a blank cheque. The Holocaust was more than 80 years ago. The sins of fathers cannot be visited upon their children forever — and acknowledging past wrongs cannot become the excuse for ignoring present ones. That isn’t moral courage. That is moral cowardice in a noble disguise. Gaza is burning. Lebanon was devastated. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has spoken. And Germany looks away. Did support for Israel cost Germany a UN Security Council seat? Video: DW News Routine rotatin…

Abby Martin: Iraq, Iran, Venezuela—US Wars for Oil Won’t Stop
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 7, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Russian Strikes Hit Spent Nuclear Fuel Facility Near Chernobyl #shorts
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Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700 million to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal
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description: The president announced plans for two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia, using the Defense Production Act.
encoded: President Donald Trump is using wartime presidential authority to hand $700 million to coal-fired power plants in the U.S., the latest move by the president to bolster what he called “clean, beautiful coal,” despite it being the dirtiest of fossil fuels. “Today, we’re taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal,” he said at a press conference on Thursday. Trump is using the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era statute used to accelerate American industrial output in times of national need, to provide grants to more than a dozen existing coal plants across the U.S., including facilities capable of exporting coal. “As a result of the $700 million investment that I’m announcing today, we will protect 14 coal plants and 42 coalmines, a tremendous number, and build two new coal plants and one massive new export terminal,” Trump said. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="cartoon mascot of a lump of coal wearing a hard hat, safety vest, and boots" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 2000w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&quality=75&strip=all 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?resize=160%2C90&quality=75&strip=all 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/coalie-featimg.jpg?resize=150%2C84&quality=75&strip=all 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" height="1125" width="2000" loading="lazy" de…

Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel
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description: Asia Pacific Report A South Auckland-based cultural studio founded by Fijian artist-curator Vasemaca (FKA Ema) Tavola has hit back at a spate of pro-Israeli propaganda in her homeland with a bold new banner design championing “Fijians for Palestine”. Tavola’s practice is aligned with the “politics of decolonisation and indigenous feminisms, motherhood, and histories of BIPOC
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A South Auckland-based cultural studio founded by Fijian artist-curator Vasemaca (FKA Ema) Tavola has hit back at a spate of pro-Israeli propaganda in her homeland with a bold new banner design championing “Fijians for Palestine”. Tavola’s practice is aligned with the “politics of decolonisation and indigenous feminisms, motherhood, and histories of BIPOC art and activism in the Global South”. Her Vunilagi Vou studio has posted this message in response to public reactions over Israel opening its first embassy in Oceania in Fiji last week in the face of protests in three cities — Suva, Auckland and Wellington: READ MORE: Palestine supporters stage pickets in 3 cities in Fiji, NZ protesting against new Israeli embassy Rabuka rules out military involvement with Israel in Mideast conflicts Other Fiji, Pacific ties with Israel reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-128933 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vasemaca-Tavola-VV-300tall.png" alt="Fijian artist-curator Vasemaca Tavola " width="300" height="349" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vasemaca-Tavola-VV-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vasemaca-Tavola-VV-300tall-258x300.png 258w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Fijian artist-curator Vasemaca Tavola . . . “A free Palestine is inextricable from a free West Papua.” Image: Vunilagi Vou “The inspiration struck and this new mini banner emerged. Born from the hideous task of monitoring the Facebook comment section from people boldly declaring mis-/disinformation, Zionist propaganda and outright hate speech in my own Fijian community, I wanted to perform a creative act that could neutralise the sadness of this moment. “The French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) famously said, ‘the act of sewing is a process of emotional repair’ and the sentiment has been the lifeblood of this ongoing series of min…

Crime Doesn’t Pay, But US Government Grants Do
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description: Samcam’s former home in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, daubed with graffiti labelling him a “murderer.” Photo: Confidencial. InSight Crime, a think tank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Crime Doesn’t Pay, But US Government Grants Do appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Samcam’s former home in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, daubed with graffiti labelling him a “murderer.” Photo: Confidencial. InSight Crime, a think tank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Crime Doesn’t Pay, But US Government Grants Do appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Roger D. Harris - Kelly Nelson.

The Reality of Defeat
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description: In justifying the American attack on Iran a few weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted it had nothing to do with nukes, ballistic missiles or the shooting of unarmed, youthful protesters: “When someone tells me for 47 years that they want to kill us, I think I am going to take them at their word.” If the 45-year-old former TV anchor remembered the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, it was via epigenetic inheritance. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post The Reality of Defeat appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: In justifying the American attack on Iran a few weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted it had nothing to do with nukes, ballistic missiles or the shooting of unarmed, youthful protesters: “When someone tells me for 47 years that they want to kill us, I think I am going to take them at their word.” If the 45-year-old former TV anchor remembered the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, it was via epigenetic inheritance. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post The Reality of Defeat appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Stephen F. Eisenman.

Albanians protest Ivanka Trump’s luxury resort
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 6, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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CounterPunch.org 2026-06-06 17:51:09
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AI Backlash
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creator: Ralph Nader
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description: In a program devoted to the topic of AI, Ralph welcomes first, Tyson Slocum, director of the energy group at Public Citizen, who tells us about the local backlash against the construction of data centers. Then New York Times climate writer, David Walla...
encoded: In a program devoted to the topic of AI, Ralph welcomes first, Tyson Slocum, director of the energy group at Public Citizen, who tells us about the local backlash against the construction of data centers. Then New York Times climate writer, David Wallace-Wells, explains how the Big Tech CEOs did not count on human beings possibly rising up against them and their machines. Tyson Slocum is director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, covering the regulation of petroleum, natural gas and power markets. He serves on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s “Energy & Environmental Markets Advisory Committee,” and frequently intervenes before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) representing the interests of household consumers. The basic question is they (Big Tech companies) are developing essentially governmental powers— governmental powers— not market powers or corporate powers. They’ve reached a level now where they are our government, the corporate government. And we have to escalate our urgencies to that level. It’s more than just the hour is late. The hour is over. So we have to go back and respond with a completely unprecedented level of public interest, standards, etc., including whether this technology (AI) should be allowed at all. Ralph Nader I definitely see that we are in a speculative bubble. That bubble will burst. And folks within the AI industry, like Sam Altman, have been very clear where they have publicly said, when the bubble breaks, we expect to get a financial bailout because our AI applications are so important to the national interest. Tyson Slocum And the backlash to data centers isn’t just about, oh, I’m concerned about my power rates going up or I’m concerned about the noise or the water usage. It’s also a civil rights and human rights issue where people are saying, I don’t like this vision that Big Tech is laying out for us that is going to be produced in this building down the street from our community. Tyson Slocum David W…

Ukrainian Drones Reach St. Petersburg During Forum #warinukraine #russia
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Federal agency to open tens of thousands of acres of Colorado wilderness to oil drilling
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description: Wildlife habitat, endangered animals, and recreation could all be at risk in the state’s biggest public land sale in modern history.
encoded: A federal agency will offer tens of thousands of acres in northwestern Colorado that the nation’s largest elk herd relies upon for migration, foraging, and winter habitat to oil and gas companies for lease in the state’s biggest such sale in modern history. More than 100 parcels included in a June 16 lease sale by the Bureau of Land Management encompass elk, pronghorn, and mule deer migration corridors that extend into southern Wyoming. Many sit in Moffat County, which bills itself as the “Elk Hunting Capital of the World” and relies on the pastime in part for its economic stability. About two-thirds of the acreage in the 156,000-acre lease sale is just south of Dinosaur National Monument, a remote park that’s among the country’s over 40 certified International Dark Sky Places — areas with exceptionally dark night skies. Tourism officials in Moffat, who saw inquiries drop by more than half this spring, voiced concern that bright lights and truck traffic that accompany fossil fuel extraction could imperil this hard-won designation. “Things like that could put that status in jeopardy,” said Tom Kleinschnitz, the county’s director of tourism. “In the long run, I think it’s important to keep these areas as pristine as possible.” The record June lease sale contradicts the Bureau of Land Management’s stated strategy for the national monument, as well as the 2024 amendments to area plans for northwestern Colorado that strengthened habitat protections for ungulates like elk and deer and at-risk birds such as the Gunnison sage-grouse. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/california-governor-race-becerra-chevron-gas-prices-refineries-oil.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="The illuminated sign outside a Chevron gas station in Los Angeles displays the price of gasoline." class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/california-governor-race-becerra-chevron-gas-prices-refineries-oil.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w,…

U.S. Should Invest in People, not Wars
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description: Our nation’s tax dollars are being poured into violence abroad while families here struggle to survive.
encoded: Our nation’s tax dollars are being poured into violence abroad while families here struggle to survive. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Ashley Panelli.

DEWA ALIT & GAMELAN SALUKAT (rehearsal in Ubud, Bali)
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Fear In Latvia As Military Drones Bring Ukraine War To NATO’s Eastern Border
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LA SYMPHONIE DE SÉGRIÈS 2026 • official teaser
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Case dismissed for pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin
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description: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A court in Paris has dropped all charges against pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin and 13 others in their alleged role in the May 2024 civil unrest in New Caledonia. In announcing their ruling on Friday in Paris to French national media, the panel of judges said they had
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A court in Paris has dropped all charges against pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin and 13 others in their alleged role in the May 2024 civil unrest in New Caledonia. In announcing their ruling on Friday in Paris to French national media, the panel of judges said they had based their decision on “insufficient” evidence (amounting to a “no case to answer”) for all of the 14 accused. The ruling came after almost two years of investigation on this case, which followed the grave civil unrest that broke out in New Caledonia mid-May 2024. READ MORE: Other Kanaky New Caledonia political reports At the time, Téin was the leader of a group called CCAT (Field Action Coordinating Group) which was set up by pro-independence party Union Calédonienne a few months earlier. Public prosecutors had alleged at one stage that CCAT was an “organised structure” and that its “order givers” had carried out a plan to “destabilise (New Caledonia’s) economic, administrative and public State services.” Following the latest ruling, Public Prosecution has lodged an appeal. In June 2024, Téin and other CCAT leaders were arrested in Nouméa and flown to mainland France, where they served pre-trial jail terms of up to one year. Téin was allowed to return to New Caledonia in December 2025. Elected FLNKS president In August 2024, while he was still jailed in Mulhouse, mainland France, he was elected in absentia as president of New Caledonia’s FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front). The case, meanwhile, continued to be investigated, based on crime-related allegations ranging from being accomplice to murder attempt, destruction of goods and property, armed theft for cases alleged to have been committed in June 2024. What was at the beginning a series of peaceful protests to oppose attempted changes to voter eligibility rules at local provincial elections later degenerated into riots and violent unrest, mainly in the capital Nouméa and its surr…

An Impeachment Drive Can Lead to Trump’s Resignation
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description: By Ralph Nader June 5, 2026 Public support for the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump is growing by the day. A March 9, 2026 Task Force report by the New York City Bar – dominated by powerful corporate lawyers – was titled “The Crisis Deepens: Congress Mus...
encoded: By Ralph Nader June 5, 2026 Public support for the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump is growing by the day. A March 9, 2026 Task Force report by the New York City Bar – dominated by powerful corporate lawyers – was titled “The Crisis Deepens: Congress Must Act Now to Address Escalating Abuses of Executive… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

Colombia’s pro-Trump candidate accused of stealing election
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Our Victories Will Not Be Erased
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description: As a queer ordained minister, I’ve seen firsthand the weaponization of religion by conservatives to attack LGBTQ+ rights.
encoded: As a queer ordained minister, I’ve seen firsthand the weaponization of religion by conservatives to attack LGBTQ+ rights. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Irene Monroe.

Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model [EXCERPT]
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Israeli strike on Gaza leaves family burned alive in their home
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When State Disaster Response Fails w/ Dr. Nadine Ortega
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description: In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native More The post When State Disaster Response Fails w/ Dr. Nadine Ortega appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots mutual aid disaster recovery. Dr. Ortega breaks down the socio-economic and historical conditions that have led to the recent Kona Low flooding on O’ahu and the 2023 Lahaina, Maui fires, which have disproportionately affected Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and other immigrant communities. She shares stories about the importance of cross-class and interethnic organizing when state-run disaster response fails. Visit Tagnawa.org for more information. The post When State Disaster Response Fails w/ Dr. Nadine Ortega appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by CounterPunch Radio.

Journalist Aleksey Seregin detained in Russia’s Mari El Republic
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date: 2026-06-05T19:09:50Z
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description: New York, June 5, 2026—Russian authorities must immediately release journalist Aleksey Seregin and stop silencing independent voices in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday. On June 4, law enforcement officers in Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of Mari El Republic in western Russia, detained Seregin after beating him, confiscating his phone, and searching his...
encoded: New York, June 5, 2026—Russian authorities must immediately release journalist Aleksey Seregin and stop silencing independent voices in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday. On June 4, law enforcement officers in Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of Mari El Republic in western Russia, detained Seregin after beating him, confiscating his phone, and searching his home. The authorities took him for questioning to the local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee, the law enforcement agency in charge of pretrial investigations. Seregin will be detained for at least 48 hours, according to independent, Russia-focused news outlet The Insider. According to independent news outlet 7×7, a regional newsroom, Seregin is being prosecuted for “justifying terrorism” because of a 2024 comment in a Telegram chat about former Soviet air force general Dzhokhar Dudayev, who led the Chechen independence movement in the 1990s and was killed in 1996. The authorities claimed the comment “justified illegal armed groups in Chechnya in the 1990s.” “The detention of journalist Aleksey Seregin in Russia is further evidence of the authorities’ determination to crush what remains of independent local journalism in the country,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Russian authorities must immediately release Aleksey Seregin and stop suppressing information they deem inconvenient.” A source familiar with Seregin’s case told CPJ on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal that his detention is retaliation for his journalism. He faces up to seven years in jail under Part 2, Article 205.2 of Russia’s Criminal Code. Seregin previously worked with multiple regional media outlets. Since 2017, he has been running the Telegram channel “Nothing Will Happen in Mari El,” which has over 860 subscribers and where he covers local issues, including trials, corruption, human rights, and the environment, and posts updates about local residents who h…

Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges
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description: The post Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Logos of organizations under the Addiction Recovery Care umbrella are on display at ARC’s career services office in Louisa, Kentucky. Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader Timmy G. Robinson Jr., founder and owner of what was once Kentucky’s largest drug addiction treatment company, was criminally indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. The indictment, filed in the Eastern District of Kentucky, charges Robinson with fraudulently selling millions of dollars of the same IRS tax credit to two companies. Robinson “devised a scheme” to “unlawfully enrich himself” by selling those tax credits to two parties, the indictment says. Robinson is also charged with two counts of money laundering for spending the proceeds of the fraudulent sale. Robinson has resigned as CEO of ARC, company spokesperson Vanessa Keeton said Thursday. Robinson, 50, founded the company in 2012 after becoming sober and telling people he felt called by God to help people in the state with addiction. ARC, which at one point operated more than 40 drug treatment centers around the state, has been under FBI investigation for Medicaid fraud since July 2024. That investigation is ongoing, the FBI confirmed on Friday. The Lexington Herald-Leader, in partnership with ProPublica, reported in April firsthand accounts from former ARC employees and clients who said they were told by ARC to falsely bill Medicaid, or witnessed others billing for services that were not actually provided. The company said at the time that it “has never knowingly or fraudulently billed Medicaid for services, and there is no evidence that the organization encouraged employees to falsify group notes for billing purposes.” Robinson’s attorney, Kent Wicker, said he and his client were surprised to learn an indictment had been placed over a “dispute with some investors that is now pending in a civil courtroom.” That dispute escalated earlier this year, when ARC was sued by two companies to w…

"The colonizer mind cannot beat a liberated one. They can kill and destroy, but they can’t win."
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“Warehousing Human Beings” ⎸ The Intercept Briefing
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 5, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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The New School investigates student leaders who voted to strip Hillel of funding over genocide complicity
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description: This story originally appeared in Prism on June 04, 2026. When members of The New School’s Student Senate were faced with a report detailing how Hillel International was providing material and logistical support to Israel’s atrocities i...
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"Fascism is here," says Hasan Piker
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Russian drone injures Ukrainian journalist Olha Kalinovska near front line
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description: New York, June 5, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a recent Russian attack in Ukraine that injured Olha Kalinovska, a war correspondent with the privately owned Ukrainian broadcaster Channel 5. “The Russian attack that injured Ukrainian journalist Olha Kalinovska once again highlights the considerable risks journalists face while covering Russia’s war in Ukraine amid the widespread use of...
encoded: New York, June 5, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a recent Russian attack in Ukraine that injured Olha Kalinovska, a war correspondent with the privately owned Ukrainian broadcaster Channel 5. “The Russian attack that injured Ukrainian journalist Olha Kalinovska once again highlights the considerable risks journalists face while covering Russia’s war in Ukraine amid the widespread use of drones,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law and must be able to report safely on the war.” On June 3, Kalinovska was reporting on civilians living in the village of Pokrovske, in the Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine — less than nine miles from the front line — when a Russian fiber-optic drone hit the military car she and two members of the Ukrainian military were in. Fiber-optic drones are not piloted via GPS signals or radio control, and are immune to electronic jamming. “The drone … was flying right at us,” Kalinovska told the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, a local advocacy and trade group. “It was 50 meters [164 feet] away. The driver maneuvered, managed to turn the car around. We quickly opened the door and literally fell onto the asphalt. And at that moment, when we were falling out, there was an explosion.” Kalivoska suffered a concussion and her hearing was temporarily damaged due to the blast, she told the union. “Luckily, the drone flew into the net stretched in front of the [car’s] windshield, and not into us,” she wrote on Facebook. Kalinovska was wearing “press” markings but told CPJ that the drone probably did not see them. In September 2025, Kalinovska suffered a concussion after a car transporting ran into a mine near the city of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region. At least 21 journalists and media workers have been killed while working in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. In over four…

We’ll Make Our Home In the American Land
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description: Exciting news, patriots! After cancelling his OG concert, Dear Leader will now celebrate our 250th birthday with "the Greatest Rally, EVER!" featuring the "fabulous" 83-year-old Lee Greenwood and “a fine and highly dignified gentleman," himself. Also,...
encoded: Exciting news, patriots! After cancelling his OG concert, Dear Leader will now celebrate our 250th birthday with "the Greatest Rally, EVER!" featuring the "fabulous" 83-year-old Lee Greenwood and “a fine and highly dignified gentleman," himself. Also, for some reason, "prune-face" Bruce Springsteen and a gazillion A-list performers are holding two concerts to honor America's "songs that shaped us." Reviews call it "a rare gift" in music history, but they're all losers and lunatics. Taking time off from nodding off (again) in a meeting, Trump as predicted has finally cancelled his much-hyped “Freedom 250 concert of has-beens and never-weres after almost all nine acts bailed; poor Vanilla Ice, reportedly the only, desperate act still ready to go on. The concerts were set to kick off his equally-fab-sounding Great American State Fair, a "once in a generation...State Fair like no other" - "Dive into the fun and feel the energy" - hosting carnival rides, "hands-on partner activations" from each state, and daily workshops with titles like Land & Prosperity, Family Life and Community Support, Everyday Health and Well Being with MAHA Monday, and Faith, Values, and Inspiration. Trump was his usual chivalrous self in defeat after the concert went down in tacky flames. "We don't want singers with no talent, but big fees to put you to sleep," he wrote. "We’ve told them all to stay home." Instead, he giddily announced “a Rally to end all Rallies!" in "magnificent Washington D.C, now totally beautified." Because, "All we want is you, me, a few speakers, and the Greatest Music ever played, the same Music you have listened to for years!" it will feature die-hard Lee Greenwood (again), with "one of the Greatest Hits of All Time," his 1984 God Bless the U.S.A, after which he will introduce "a fine and highly dignified gentleman known as President DONALD J. TRUMP!” There's more: The "amazing" opera singer Christopher Macchio, who has just 571 listeners on Spotify, will join in. "Not s…

North Carolina Democrats Propose Changes to Block GOP Power Transfers and Secrecy
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encoded: The North Carolina legislature, where Democrats recently introduced three bills to reform the state’s courts and protect the separation of powers between its branches of government Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina introduced a trio of constitutional amendments this week aimed at protecting traditional powers of the state’s governor and reforming oversight of its court system. The effort was prompted in part by ProPublica’s reporting, including an investigation that found that over nearly a decade, Republican lawmakers had pushed through law after law shrinking the powers of North Carolina’s governor, always a Democrat during that time. At a press conference on Wednesday, the bills’ sponsors readily acknowledged that the initiatives are unlikely to pass, at least in the current legislative session: Republicans hold majorities in North Carolina’s House and Senate. But in proposing the measures as changes to the state constitution, the group of eight Democrats said their goal was to make them less vulnerable to the persistent partisan warfare that has engulfed the narrowly divided swing state. Republicans “won’t always be in the majority,” said Rep. Phil Rubin, the primary sponsor of one bill. “And when they’re not, they’re going to suddenly think these are great rules. So let’s do them now.” Republican leaders in the House, Senate and court system did not respond to requests for comment on the bills. Experts have long maintained that Republican power grabs have thwarted the will of North Carolina voters, removing the Democratic governor’s control or partial control over numerous boards, entities and executive prerogatives and leaving him the nation’s weakest. (Republican officials have defended the shifts, pointing out that voters also elected a GOP legislative majority.) Rubin’s measure would bar the legislature from stripping away additional gubernatorial powers, as well as block majority leaders from what he called “governm…

Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko sentenced to third prison term
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description: Berlin, June 5, 2026—A court in Russia’s southern Altai Krai on Wednesday convicted Maria Ponomarenko, an imprisoned correspondent for the independent news outlet RusNews, of using violence against prison staff and sentenced her to an additional 22 months behind bars. The ruling marks the third prison sentence given to Ponomarenko, who has been detained since April 2022...
encoded: Berlin, June 5, 2026—A court in Russia’s southern Altai Krai on Wednesday convicted Maria Ponomarenko, an imprisoned correspondent for the independent news outlet RusNews, of using violence against prison staff and sentenced her to an additional 22 months behind bars. The ruling marks the third prison sentence given to Ponomarenko, who has been detained since April 2022 and convicted on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military in February 2023, and on separate charges of using violence against prison staff in March 2025. With this new sentence, and the two previous ones — of six years and 22 months, respectively — she now has two years and three months left in prison. Ponomarenko was one of the first Russian journalists to be detained following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 for her critical coverage of the war. “By handing down a third sentence to Maria Ponomarenko, the Russian authorities are demonstrating their cynical determination to crush her, having already pushed her to breaking point during her imprisonment,” said CPJ program coordinator Gulnoza Said. “Russian authorities should immediately stop persecuting Ponomarenko and release her, along with all other jailed journalists.” During a May 25 court hearing, Ponomarenko said the new charges against her stemmed from an incident in which a prison employee had touched her shoulder; she said she stepped aside, pushed his hand away, and asked him not to touch her. According to the journalist, the employee then allegedly slammed her face against a table, threw her to the ground, knelt on her back, and dragged her by the hair. During the same hearing, Ponomarenko said she had repeatedly requested a transfer from a rat-infested cell wrought with constant noise and dust from nearby construction work. She said the conditions aggravated her claustrophobia and headaches, and caused suicidal thoughts. At a March 24, 2025, hearing, Ponomarenko spoke about a recent suicide attempt,…

CPJ: Israel’s ‘mistake’ claim fails to justify deadly October 2023 attack on Lebanon journalists
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description: New York, June 5, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists rejects comments by Israel’s ambassador to France, Joshua Laurent Zarka, characterizing the October 13, 2023 Israeli strikes that killed Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists a “mistake.” His remarks fail to justify why Israeli forces attacked a clearly identifiable group...
encoded: New York, June 5, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists rejects comments by Israel’s ambassador to France, Joshua Laurent Zarka, characterizing the October 13, 2023 Israeli strikes that killed Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists a “mistake.” His remarks fail to justify why Israeli forces attacked a clearly identifiable group of journalists in southern Lebanon. On Thursday, in an interview with France 2, Ambassador Zarka claimed that the Israeli military believed the journalists were “terrorists,” despite extensive documentation that they were visibly marked as press, operating openly on a hill, and had been stationary at their location for an extended period while carrying out their reporting. The attack, which involved two strikes hitting the same location, killed Abdallah and wounded journalists from multiple international outlets. “The Israeli ambassador’s explanation fails to answer the central question in this apparent war crime: why did Israeli forces repeatedly strike a group of journalists who were plainly identifiable as members of the press,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “The journalists wore PRESS markings, remained in the same location for an extended period, and carried out their work in plain sight. Israeli authorities must release all evidence supporting their claim that Israeli soldiers misidentified the journalists and make public the full findings of their purported investigation.” The double-tap Israeli attack in southern Lebanon on the group of seven journalists was the first instance CPJ documented of Israeli forces deliberately targeting journalists following the outbreak of war on October 7, 2023. Abdallah was killed in the attack and Agence France-Presse photojournalist Christina Assi was gravely wounded, resulting in the amputation of her right leg. Five other journalists were also wounded: Thaer Al-Sudani, Elie Brakhya, Dylan Collins, Carmen Joukhadar, and Maher Nazeh. In March 2024, an …

UN News Today 05 June 2026
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description: Lebanon crisis: Needs soar as UN launches new funding appealIn Somalia, food is running out fast, reports WFP Haiti’s people fleeing harrowing violence, warns migration agency
encoded: Lebanon crisis: Needs soar as UN launches new funding appealIn Somalia, food is running out fast, reports WFP Haiti’s people fleeing harrowing violence, warns migration agency This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Dr. Adam Hamawy on Gaza and running for Congress in New Jersey
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Hasan Piker on Being Banned from U.K., Traveling to Cuba & Supporting Candidates Critical of Israel
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Adam Hamawy, Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary Calling for End to Israeli Aid
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CPJ, partners condemn journalist arrests, assaults at Delaney Hall immigration detention center
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations issued a statement Friday condemning the May 31 arrest of at least three journalists who were covering protests near the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Law enforcement used crowd “kettling” to circle a group of press and protesters, preventing their movement. Police allowed...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations issued a statement Friday condemning the May 31 arrest of at least three journalists who were covering protests near the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Law enforcement used crowd “kettling” to circle a group of press and protesters, preventing their movement. Police allowed some journalists to leave, but three were arrested and held overnight, according to multiple reports. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is investigating dozens of other cases of assault against journalists at protests near Delaney Hall since detainees launched a hunger strike and work stoppage on May 22. Authorities also damaged journalists’ equipment in five incidents, and one local county sergeant has been charged with theft of a journalist’s camera bag. The statement was led by CPJ, Free Press, the National Press Photographers Association, and Freedom of the Press Foundation, and joined by 14 other organizations. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

As ebola virus spreads, we see the terrifying effects of Trump dismantling USAID
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 5, 2026
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All Media is Mar-a-Lago Face: The Beauty of Authoritarianism – TEASER
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description: We need to talk about the "creator economy" and the stylish influencers pushing disinformation and misinformation directly into our feeds. The more glossy you are, the more attention you get–and attention is the new currency. That is the same ethos of the princess-haired women swanning around Mar-a-Lago. It's a deliberate dumbing down of society. When gloss replaces the time-intensive grind of investigative journalism, the autocrats and oligarchs who push this strategy distract and confuse us, and ensure important voices who can't win a Sephora Hunger Games get shut out. In this week's bonus show, Gaslit Nation also covers the chilling expansion of America's police state, focusing on the horrifying conditions at the Delaney detention center in New Jersey. Inmates are on hunger strike to demand basic human rights, mirroring the brutal history of political prisoners under Stalin's regime. We must raise our voices, pressure our elected officials (like Governor Mikie Sherrill), and refuse to look away. Do not let the Mar-a-Lago face creator economy and the attention-hungry gatekeepers confuse and wear you down. Stay grounded in your moral force and amplify the truth. Listen to the full episode on Patreon and support our independent journalism. Shape the show and raise your voice at the Gaslit Nation Salon Monday at 4 PM Eastern. Look out for exciting announcements this coming Monday with a special sneak peak exclusively for our Patreon supporters. Can't make it? Listen to the recording later only on Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. Show Notes: Opening clip: Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath & EdTech https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dFgGnY87MGw Clip: Editor Sara Hadir spreading Ryan Grim's disinformation https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYxFSFvIvfL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Watch Andrea Chalupa's journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones https://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/mr-jones/# Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timoth…
encoded: We need to talk about the "creator economy" and the stylish influencers pushing disinformation and misinformation directly into our feeds. The more glossy you are, the more attention you get–and attention is the new currency. That is the same ethos of the princess-haired women swanning around Mar-a-Lago. It's a deliberate dumbing down of society. When gloss replaces the time-intensive grind of investigative journalism, the autocrats and oligarchs who push this strategy distract and confuse us, and ensure important voices who can't win a Sephora Hunger Games get shut out. In this week's bonus show, Gaslit Nation also covers the chilling expansion of America's police state, focusing on the horrifying conditions at the Delaney detention center in New Jersey. Inmates are on hunger strike to demand basic human rights, mirroring the brutal history of political prisoners under Stalin's regime. We must raise our voices, pressure our elected officials (like Governor Mikie Sherrill), and refuse to look away. Do not let the Mar-a-Lago face creator economy and the attention-hungry gatekeepers confuse and wear you down. Stay grounded in your moral force and amplify the truth. Listen to the full episode on Patreon and support our independent journalism. Shape the show and raise your voice at the Gaslit Nation Salon Monday at 4 PM Eastern. Look out for exciting announcements this coming Monday with a special sneak peak exclusively for our Patreon supporters. Can't make it? Listen to the recording later only on Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. Show Notes: Opening clip: Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath & EdTech https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dFgGnY87MGw Clip: Editor Sara Hadir spreading Ryan Grim's disinformation https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYxFSFvIvfL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Watch Andrea Chalupa's journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones https://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/mr-jones/# Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timoth…

Month-old video falsely viral as Hindu girl raped in front of father in Bangladesh
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description: This story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature. A 28-second video is viral on social media where a man and a woman... The post Month-old video falsely viral as Hindu girl raped in front of father in Bangladesh appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: This story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature. A 28-second video is viral on social media where a man and a woman can be seen crying inconsolably. Users claim that the woman, a Bangladeshi Hindu, was brutally raped in front of her father. The video captures both of them purportedly breaking down as she recounted the harrowing incident. The video also shows the woman displaying her torn clothes while saying, “Look at my situation, see what they have done with me” in Bengali. Radharamn Das, vice-president of ISKCON Kolkata, posted the video on May 29, 2026. His post was viewed 2,34,000 times and reposted 4,900 times at the time of writing. (Archive) <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-315934" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-173525-733x1024.jpg" alt="" width="733" height="1024" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-173525-733x1024.jpg 733w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-173525-215x300.jpg 215w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-173525-768x1073.jpg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-05-173525.jpg 816w" sizes="(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px" /> Several X users shared the video with the same claim. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check The reader must note that at no point in the video are either the woman or the man heard mentioning rape. Alt News ran a reverse image search of some keyframes of the viral video. This search led us to a fact-check article dated May 24, containing the same video. Published by a Bangladeshi web portal called ‘Bangla Stream‘, the report stated that the video, originally from Comilla in Bangladesh, was being falsely shared across Facebook, with the claim that it was filmed after a rape incident in Barishal. <img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-…

CPJ alarmed by new prison recording from Reza Valizadeh in Iran’s Evin Prison
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by jailed Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh’s latest harrowing report of physical pressure, psychological abuse, and the denial of critical medical care inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. A recently released voice memo, obtained and aired by CBS News, offers a rare firsthand account of conditions inside the prison. In...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by jailed Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh’s latest harrowing report of physical pressure, psychological abuse, and the denial of critical medical care inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. A recently released voice memo, obtained and aired by CBS News, offers a rare firsthand account of conditions inside the prison. In the recording, Valizadeh said detainees are “deprived from real medical services” and subjected to “physical pressure and mental torture.” His remarks come amid longstanding concerns about his deteriorating health. “Journalist Reza Valizadeh’s recording from prison is a powerful cry for help and a stark reminder of the dangers faced by journalists wrongfully detained in Iran. His account raises urgent concerns about his health and treatment in custody,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “We urge U.S officials to use every available diplomatic channel to secure his release and welfare, and call on Iranian authorities to immediately investigate allegations of abuse and release him without delay.” Valizadeh, a former Radio Farda journalist and dual Iranian-American citizen, has been imprisoned in Iran since September 2024 on charges linked to his journalistic work. He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison. Following his temporary transfer from Evin Prison after a June 2025 military strikes by Israel on the facility, CPJ documented concerns from family members regarding unsanitary detention conditions, polluted water, contaminated food, and the lack of proper medical treatment, all of which reportedly worsened Valizadeh’s chronic asthma and other health issues. The United States must intensify diplomatic efforts to secure Valizadeh’s freedom, while pressing the Iranian government for transparency and accountability regarding his reports of mistreatment in detention and the need to access urgent medical care. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was auth…

Hasan Piker on Being Banned from U.K., Traveling to Cuba & Supporting Candidates Critical of Israel
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description: The British government earlier this week barred left-wing political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from entering the U.K. ahead of several speaking events. The Home Office said it was canceling their travel permits because “thei...
encoded: The British government earlier this week barred left-wing political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from entering the U.K. ahead of several speaking events. The Home Office said it was canceling their travel permits because “their presence in the U.K. may not be conducive to the public good.” Piker and Uygur, who are related, are both outspoken in their criticism of Israel. While the government did not cite a specific reason for the ban, some lawmakers and pro-Israel groups had accused the two of promoting antisemitism, which they reject. “I find what the British government did here to be objectionable. I find it to be disgusting. I also find it to be terrifying,” Piker tells Democracy Now! “I think it’s a sign that we’re … headed down a very different — dare I say, fascist — direction in the Western world.” Piker also discusses his participation in a recent humanitarian mission to Cuba, for which he is reportedly under investigation by the Trump administration, and his support for progressive and antiwar candidates in this year’s midterm elections. “We don’t have a lot of time. Fascism is here,” Piker says. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Congress Doesn’t Understand AI
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Adam Hamawy, Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary Calling for End to Israeli Aid
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description: We speak with Dr. Adam Hamawy, the former U.S. Army combat surgeon who just won the Democratic nomination in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. He is now the heavy favorite to win the Democratic-leaning district in November and, i...
encoded: We speak with Dr. Adam Hamawy, the former U.S. Army combat surgeon who just won the Democratic nomination in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. He is now the heavy favorite to win the Democratic-leaning district in November and, if elected, would become New Jersey’s first Muslim member of Congress. Hamawy is an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights and volunteered in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal assault on the territory. He has been endorsed by prominent progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who credits Hamawy with saving her life after her helicopter was shot down in Iraq in 2004. “I was running on something very simple: that we should be spending on healthcare, not bombs,” Hamawy tells Democracy Now!, criticizing the $1 trillion Pentagon budget. “We need to be spending some of that right here at home to restore our nation, to fund universal healthcare like Medicare for All, to fund tuition-free public college, to rebuild our roads and bridges, to address the housing crisis.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for June 5, 2026
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description: Senate Approves $70 Billion in Additional ICE and Border Patrol Funding, Hezbollah Rejects Extension of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire Between Israel and Lebanon, WFP Warns Strait of Hormuz Closure Has Pushed Millions More into Hunger, Israeli Strike on Gaza Leaves Family of Five Burned Alive in Their Home, Trump Administration Scraps Ocean Sensors That Track Climate Change and Predict Storms, Trump Administration Seeks More Control Over Scientific Research Grants, White House Announces $700 Million in Federal Funds for Coal Industry, Lawmaker Grills Marco Rubio over Trump’s Apparent Naps at Public Events, Kalshi Reports Disgraced Former Congressman George Santos for Insider Trading, Democrats Oppose Rule Change Allowing Crypto and Private Equity Investments in Pension Funds, Residents of Monterey Park, California, Vote to Ban Data Centers, GOP Congressman Wins Uncontested New Jersey Primary Even Though He Hasn’t Been Seen in Months, Pam Bondi Testified Todd Blanche “Was in Charge” of “Entire Release” of Epstein Files, Peruvians March Against Keiko Fujimori Ahead of Presidential Vote, Warning of Return to Dictatorship, Colorado Appeals Court Reverses Homicide Convictions of Paramedics in Elijah McClain’s Death, Marjane Satrapi, Author of Comic Memoir “Persepolis” About Life in Iran, Dies at 56
encoded: Senate Approves $70 Billion in Additional ICE and Border Patrol Funding Hezbollah Rejects Extension of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire Between Israel and Lebanon WFP Warns Strait of Hormuz Closure Has Pushed Millions More into Hunger Israeli Strike on Gaza Leaves Family of Five Burned Alive in Their Home Trump Administration Scraps Ocean Sensors That Track Climate Change and Predict Storms Trump Administration Seeks More Control Over Scientific Research Grants White House Announces $700 Million in Federal Funds for Coal Industry Lawmaker Grills Marco Rubio over Trump's Apparent Naps at Public Events Kalshi Reports Disgraced Former Congressman George Santos for Insider Trading Democrats Oppose Rule Change Allowing Crypto and Private Equity Investments in Pension Funds Residents of Monterey Park, California, Vote to Ban Data Centers GOP Congressman Wins Uncontested New Jersey Primary Even Though He Hasn't Been Seen in Months Pam Bondi Testified Todd Blanche "Was in Charge" of "Entire Release" of Epstein Files Peruvians March Against Keiko Fujimori Ahead of Presidential Vote, Warning of Return to Dictatorship Colorado Appeals Court Reverses Homicide Convictions of Paramedics in Elijah McClain's Death Marjane Satrapi, Author of Comic Memoir "Persepolis" About Life in Iran, Dies at 56 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-06-05 Friday
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World Environment Day: What is the environmental impact of war?
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These Republican Lawmakers Challenged Abortion Bans. Then They Faced Backlash.
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description: The post These Republican Lawmakers Challenged Abortion Bans. Then They Faced Backlash. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: North Dakota state Rep. Eric Murphy at home planning a day of canvassing in his Grand Forks district. Murphy, an incumbent Republican, faces a contested primary election from conservative challengers after he introduced a bill to expand abortion access last year. Dan Koeck for ProPublica If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why. Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to expand the window of pregnancy in which women could access abortion. The state legislature had banned it for almost everyone from the moment of conception. Tied up in court, the ban hadn’t yet gone into effect. But Murphy wanted to lock in a less restrictive law, making abortion accessible up to 15 weeks and even later for women whose doctors deemed it a medical necessity. To convince his fellow legislators, he read out loud from two ProPublica stories about women in Texas who died without lifesaving care. “Physicians felt compelled to follow the law,” he said in a hearing, “and both women died so that an inane law could be followed.” A conservative colleague had warned him not to file the bill, Murphy told ProPublica, recalling the man’s words: “I can no longer protect you from who’s going to come after you.” There was some truth to that sentiment. At least four Republican state lawmakers who challenged severe abortion restrictions lost support from anti-abortion groups and key party allies and went on to lose primary elections, ProPublica found. The blueprint in those races was remarkably similar. Opponents either embraced stricter abortion policies or avoided the issue altogether. Anti-abortion organizations campaigned against the incumbents, party endorsements shifted to their opponents and activists worked to turn out voters in low-participation primary elections. In some of the races ProPublica examined, lawmakers who replaced abortion-ban reformers went on to support even stricter abortion legislation. In So…

No Petrol, Long Queues: Fuel Crisis Hits Russia-Occupied Crimea #shorts
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DN! Friday, June 5, 2026
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Your local park is bringing in the green (and by that, we mean money)
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creator: Matt Simon
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description: A new report finds that for every dollar invested in parks, cities reap $3 in economic benefits. Here's how.
encoded: In an increasingly divided nation, Americans agree on at least two things. For one, politicians across the political spectrum are scrambling to get more housing built, which happens to be an accidentally powerful way to fight climate change. And two, Americans love their parks: A recent poll found that 88 percent of them visited one in the past year. Nearly 90 percent of people who voted for Kamala Harris, and 80 percent of those who voted for Donald Trump, consider these spaces critical infrastructure in their communities. That alone should encourage elected officials to build as many of them as possible. But a new report finds another, potentially even more motivating, factor for American cities: For every dollar invested in parks and recreation, communities reap $3 in local economic benefits each year. “You really do get so much goodness out of them,” said Will Klein, director of parks research at the Trust for Public Land, which produced the report. “People are healthier, people connect with each other. They drive business activity, especially for small businesses.” Parks aren’t as much about land as they are about people. In an increasingly commodified world, they’re one of the few remaining public places where folks can roam without the pressure of spending money. That makes them a critical kind of “third place,” somewhere to gather beyond the workplace and the home. Whereas people must pay a premium to use a gym, they can use a park or rec center for free. This brings huge benefits, and cost savings, to public health. The new report notes that the United States spends $5.3 trillion annually on health care. Physical inactivity, which greatly increases the risk of chronic problems like cardiovascular disease, costs the country more than $200 billion a year. “Our polling this year showed that the most popular place in America in 2025 to run around and play and exercise are parks and public spaces, much more popular than private gyms,” Klein said. “That physical …

In the Smoky Mountains, a volunteer effort aims to document every species — before it’s too late
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description: For citizen scientists, counting lichens and bugs and other tiny species is one way to monitor climate change in America's most biodiverse national park.
encoded: A gentle shower fell as four people in rain gear made their way deep into a spruce-fir forest high in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ducking beneath bright green underbrush and stepping away from the road, a hush took over. Just a few steps in, they came across an aging yellow birch tree covered in moss. But it wasn’t just moss. James Hollinger, a retired computer scientist turned amateur lichen scientist, leaned closer and spotted a rare, spongy lichen that has been documented about a dozen times in the park. As far as he knows, it does not appear in any botanical guidebooks. “So, we could, right here right now, come up with a common name for it,” Hollinger said excitedly, as fellow volunteer and lichenologist Laura Boggess unfolded her magnifying lens. Counting carefully, she found more than 17 other moss and lichen species on just one side of the tree. Every square foot of the Smokies teems with life that most visitors never notice: lichens clinging to bark, fungi hidden in fallen logs, and salamanders darting beneath damp leaves. Scientists and volunteers say paying attention to those small creatures — and returning often enough to notice when they change — has grown increasingly urgent as climate change alters the park’s ecosystems and federal agencies see deep cuts that threaten long-term monitoring and biodiversity research. Hollinger, Boggess, and the others in the group call themselves the Gang of Retirees in Search of Life’s Diversity, or “GRISLD.” Not all are retired — Boggess is beginning a teaching job at Warren Wilson College in the fall — but they share a habit of spending hours moving deliberately through remote corners of the park, documenting species few people will ever see. Connected through a listserv and their keen interest in the Smokies’ rich biodiversity, the group quietly contributes to a long-running project called the all taxa biodiversity inventory, or ATBI, conducted in partnership with the park. <img decoding="async" src="https:/…

Founder and mixed-media artist Kelsey Armstrong on knowing when to stop
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description: I know Haricot Vert was inspired by your time in Paris. What’s the lore there?
encoded: I know Haricot Vert was inspired by your time in Paris. What’s the lore there? My whole wall was collaged as a kid. It was an art form I didn’t even know was a thing; I just started doing it as a kid. I ended up meeting a French man when I was in high school and we fell in love. He was my first love. We were together until college came around. How did y’all meet? He was my exchange student. Oh my God. Romantic. We would exchange back and forth. I would go to France, he would come to Florida. It was just a beautiful high school experience, but it was long distance so it was very hard. I decided to go to school in Paris so I could be closer to him. I ended up moving to Paris, we [broke] up. So I moved on with my life and started really focusing. I was majoring in business and marketing because that’s what my parents wanted me to do because it makes money or whatever. I started combining my creative mind with a business sense. When I graduated, I decided that I didn’t want to live in France anymore. I started working for French companies in marketing. During that time I had a mentor who believed in me and pushed me to believe in myself. I started experimenting like, “I love collage. How could I make this a product that people want? I love jewelry. What if I combine jewelry with collage?” I just kind of got obsessed with this idea. I would spend every waking hour I wasn’t at my other job working on this concept in my room. I was pouring resin in my room. Once COVID hit, I was like, “You know what? I’m going to take this really seriously. I’m just going to do it. I’m going to erase the imposter syndrome and just go for it.” Sure enough, I started on Instagram. I kept posting and then eventually one post went viral and then another one and then another one. I ended up moving into a studio after things started going viral because my house was literally boxes everywhere, packing supplies. Then my boyfriend at the time was like, “I think it’s time for you to find a space.” B…

Walking the Migrant Trail
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description: There is nothing like walking quietly with a group of committed people through the hot Arizona desert to bring home the deadly reality faced by migrants coming to the U.S. through its southern border. Thousands of migrants have made this journey over the years. Forced into the Sonoran desert by the inhumane U.S. Prevention Through Deterrence policy and hunted by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), they have endured blazing heat and scarcity of water and shade as they have desperately sought asylum and a better life. Some have made it through, but many have not. Over 8000 migrant deaths have been recorded over the past 30 years. And there are many more whose bodies have not been found. More The post Walking the Migrant Trail appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo courtesy of Ken Jones. There is nothing like walking quietly with a group of committed people through the hot Arizona desert to bring home the deadly reality faced by migrants coming to the U.S. through its southern border. Thousands of migrants have made this journey over the years. Forced into the Sonoran desert by the inhumane U.S. Prevention Through Deterrence policy and hunted by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), they have endured blazing heat and scarcity of water and shade as they have desperately sought asylum and a better life. Some have made it through, but many have not. Over 8000 migrant deaths have been recorded over the past 30 years. And there are many more whose bodies have not been found. Twenty-three years ago, a small group of activists in the Tucson area got together and initiated the Migrant Trail Walk. At the time, they thought they could put an end to this murderous policy by raising public awareness about it. That hope faded, but the walk has continued every year as a way of bearing witness to the suffering and loss of life that have ensued. This year, in late May, I joined 40+ activists on this week-long 75-mile walk. What I experienced was a physical challenge, but still only a solidarity gesture towards the migrants. We had support vehicles that carried water and food, shade canopies, port-o-potties, and medical assistance, along with air conditioned cars for people to get into when the walk in the heat proved too much. We camped out together, kept each other safe, and were well organized with radio communications, planned rest stops, and allies who visited and were on call. Most of all, we were not being hunted down by Border Patrol, with its ceaseless patrol cars, check points, drones, planes, blimps, surveillance towers, motion detectors, and god knows what else. Photo courtesy of Ken Jones. But the walk was also much more than just a physical thing. It was a spiritual journey focused explicitly and continuously on the migrants for…

Iran Strikes US Military in Kuwait, Major Media Fail to Provide Key Detail
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description: Major news outlets have reported on the US and Iran exchanging attacks overnight and early morning on June 3, 2026. Headlines capture the fact that Iran simultaneously attacked both Kuwait and Bahrain, noting that at least one Indian national was killed, with numerous injuries reported. More The post Iran Strikes US Military in Kuwait, Major Media Fail to Provide Key Detail appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by David McLeod. U.S. Marines roll into Kuwait International Airport in light armored vehicles and M-998 high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles after the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait, 27 February 1991. U.S. National Archives, Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files. Public domain. Major news outlets have reported on the US and Iran exchanging attacks overnight and early morning on June 3, 2026. Headlines capture the fact that Iran simultaneously attacked both Kuwait and Bahrain, noting that at least one Indian national was killed, with numerous injuries reported. Take a look at sampling of the headlines from major media outlets: AP: Iran strikes Kuwait’s main airport and kills 1 as ceasefire is tested again BBC: One killed and dozens injured in Iranian drone strikes on Kuwait airport FOX: US ally Kuwait condemns ‘brutal and ongoing Iranian attacks’ after airport was hit WaPo: Iranian attack leaves 1 dead, dozens injured in Kuwait One could be forgiven for thinking that Iran attacked these countries unprovoked based on the headlines and top-level details. A little reading reveals that, in fact, the US and Iran exchanged attacks with each side pointing the finger at the other for instigating the escalation. Let’s leave aside for the moment the fact that the US and Israel waged this war of choice and that they are indisputably the aggressors based on that antiquated notion called international law. Instead, let’s focus on some critical fact, including those being ignored in most of the reporting. 1. The US attacked Qeshm Island, one of two strategically vital Iranian islands in the Strait of Hormuz. Some analysts have claimed that Iranian missiles central to Tehran’s Hormuz strategy are in a large underground facility on the island. US claims that the strikes were in retaliation for Iranian strikes on Kuwait and Bahrain. 2. Iranian drones and missiles were launched at bot…

Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought
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description: The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing at a patchwork of solar panels lined up behind a chain-link fence. “This has to be it,” declares Colby, balancing a large camera on his lap, hoping it doesn’t bounce off as we traverse a series of bumps and divots. We are in this land of scorching sun and heat, searching for a large Amazon solar installation in San Bernardino County, California. This is the home of the desert tortoise and Joshua trees, but more recently, it’s become a plaything for greedy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. More The post Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Colby Groves, documenting Amazon’s Baldy Mesa solar project. This week in the Anthropocene The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing at a patchwork of solar panels lined up behind a chain-link fence. “This has to be it,” declares Colby, balancing a large camera on his lap, hoping it doesn’t bounce off as we traverse a series of bumps and divots. We are in this land of scorching sun and heat, searching for a large Amazon solar installation in rural San Bernardino County, California. This is the home of the endangered desert tortoise and Joshua trees, but more recently, it’s become a plaything for greedy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In 2014, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon connected its Baldy Mesa solar-and-storage project, which helps to power the company’s nearby data centers, to the electrical grid, earning accolades for its use of renewable energy. It’s the first of its kind in California. Despite its gargantuan size, the project faced very little opposition, as is often the case with such “green” projects. As we step out of the car, we immediately hear the loud hum of a football-field’s worth of batteries, powered by solar panels that surround us in every direction. The entire setup is connected to the grid by towering transmission lines. Altogether, this sprawling array covers 1,500 acres of Mojave Desert habitat, almost twice the size of New York City’s Central Park. Baldy Mesa’s impact on this delicate ecology is stark and tangible. Where Joshua trees once stood, Lego-like blocks of batteries the size of shipping containers now buzz and radiate heat. Where coyotes once scampered and desert tortoises burrowed, solar panels now blanket the landscape. Amazon avoided controversy by relocating 153 doomed Joshua trees, but the fact remains, there’s not a single Joshua tree where these photovoltaic panels now sit. This particular Amazon Web Services (AWS) facility is an AI-driven machine-learning …

The Myth of the K-Shaped Economy
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description: The corporate press has a new obsession, the so-called K-shaped economy. This metaphor is meant to describe a system in which one group of people, represented by the top, inclining line of the K, watches their fortunes rise as the other group’s fortunes fall. The idea is that Americans who are already doing well financially are doing better, while conditions worsen for those already struggling to make ends meet. More The post The Myth of the K-Shaped Economy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: An example of a K-shaped recession during COVID-19. Image Source: US Chamber of Commerce – Public Domain The corporate press has a new obsession, the so-called K-shaped economy. This metaphor is meant to describe a system in which one group of people, represented by the top, inclining line of the K, watches their fortunes rise as the other group’s fortunes fall. The idea is that Americans who are already doing well financially are doing better, while conditions worsen for those already struggling to make ends meet. The problem is that when we use this letter K shorthand, we lose almost all of the information that’s important to analyzing the broader problem, and we therefore help an extremely concentrated ruling class hide the truth of what has happened. First, the group following the upward path on the K is extremely small and shrinking every day, and this group is assisted and enabled at every turn by the power of the state. And the declining group is not roughly half of us, but is in fact the overwhelming majority of people, fed to the wolves by our system. The K gives the false impression that about half are moving up while about half are moving down. Thoughtful, politically literate people should stop talking about a “K-shaped economy” that doesn’t exist. This way of explaining current economic conditions obscures deeply structural and historical relations of domination; it pretends these results are a merely neutral divergence in outcomes, roughly evenly split amongst the population; and it further advances the absurd notion that the prevailing state of affairs is some kind of post-pandemic anomaly. Instead of “K-shaped economy,” we would do much better to call it an extraction economy or a rentier economy, perhaps an oligarchy. But whatever we call it, it is far worse than is conveyed by the shape of the letter K. The K metaphor suggests something like two equally split and structurally neutral paths one could take, when these results show our political-econo…

Borders, Ballgames and Global Players
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description: The upcoming June 14 vote on limiting Switzerland’s population to 10 million is a daily reminder here in Geneva that nativist populism remains a powerful political force. In France, Marine Le Pen continues to build support on anti-immigration politics. Nigel Farage pushes similar anxieties in Britain. The AfD does the same in Germany. Donald Trump’s More The post Borders, Ballgames and Global Players appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Victor Wembenyama at 2025 NBA Cup. Photograph Source: Daiei Onoguchi – CC BY 4.0 The upcoming June 14 vote on limiting Switzerland’s population to 10 million is a daily reminder here in Geneva that nativist populism remains a powerful political force. In France, Marine Le Pen continues to build support on anti-immigration politics. Nigel Farage pushes similar anxieties in Britain. The AfD does the same in Germany. Donald Trump’s version is familiar: build walls, tighten borders, send ICE into cities. Across much of the West, hostility toward foreigners has become ordinary politics. Which is why the recent announcement of the National Basketball Association’s All-NBA First Team was so striking. At the very moment politics is warning against outsiders, American sports is celebrating them. Four of the five players selected to the NBA’s top team were born outside the United States. The city game has gone global. (The phrase city game for basketball was popularized in Pete Axthelm’s The City Game, his classic account of New York basketball in the late 1960s.) Chosen by a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters covering the league, the All-NBA First Team included: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder, from Canada; Nikola Jokić of the Denver Nuggets, from Serbia; Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs, from France; Luka Dončić of the Los Angeles Lakers, from Slovenia. Only Cade Cunningham of the Detroit Pistons was American. Four of the league’s five best players were born abroad, representing four countries and starring in four different American cities. That is not symbolic. It reflects a broader reality. As of the 2025–26 season, 135 NBA players were born outside the United States, the highest number in league history. They come from 43 countries across six continents. Roughly one in four players in the NBA is now international. Now, for those who are not basketball fans, allow me to briefly explain the importance of basketball in the United Stat…

Immigrant Detainees are Striking Against Environmental Injustice
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description: On Memorial Day, shortly after the tear gas deployed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement dissipated, community members outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall began to cover their faces for a different reason: the stench of sewage drifting down Doremus Avenue. “Nobody wants to be out there. It’s stinky,” X Braithwaite, an environmental justice organizer at Ironbound More The post Immigrant Detainees are Striking Against Environmental Injustice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: ABC7NY, YouTube screenshot. On Memorial Day, shortly after the tear gas deployed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement dissipated, community members outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall began to cover their faces for a different reason: the stench of sewage drifting down Doremus Avenue. “Nobody wants to be out there. It’s stinky,” X Braithwaite, an environmental justice organizer at Ironbound Community Corporation, told me over the phone. “It’s a public health hazard.” Delaney Hall is New Jersey’s largest immigration detention facility, reopened by the Trump administration in May 2025. One year later, detainees began a hunger and labor strike to protest the horrific conditions of the for-profit facility, located on toxic land with extensive air and water pollution. Delaney Hall is located in Newark’s “Chemical Corridor,” an I-3 heavy industrial zone. The city permits the I-3 zone for industrial development and “uses that are incompatible with and even harmful to residents.” And yet, over 800 detainees are forced to reside in the middle of this corridor. Even after some detainees agree to sign voluntary departure documents, they are kept at Delaney for an additional two to three months. Many are forced to work at the facility for less than $1 per day, while the facility operator, GEO Group, makes record profits. “We feel vulnerable and, in a way, kidnapped – detained without justification – not to mention that we are being tortured physically and psychologically due to the poor food resources in these detention centers,” reads a letter signed by over 300 detainees. Those on strike are demanding a meeting with Governor Mikie Sherrill, the immediate release of the young, elderly, and those with medical conditions, and, ultimately, freedom for all. Many of the immigrants at Delaney were taken at immigration hearings or ICE check-in appointments, while pursuing pathways to legal status. Others were racially profiled and arrested on the street. A recent investigation by The…

Israel’s Uprovoked and Unanswered Attack on the USS Liberty
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description: In the fall of 2003, Alexander Cockburn and I were in Los Angeles for a long weekend shortly after our book, The Politics of Antisemitism, came out. Few bookstores would put it on their shelves, not even the now shuttered Midnight Special in Santa Monica, a venue where we’d both appeared several times to vibrant More The post Israel’s Uprovoked and Unanswered Attack on the USS Liberty appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: The listing USS Liberty, a day after it was attacked by Israeli gun and torpedo boats. Photo: US Navy. In the fall of 2003, Alexander Cockburn and I were in Los Angeles for a long weekend shortly after our book, The Politics of Antisemitism, came out. Few bookstores would put it on their shelves, not even the now shuttered Midnight Special in Santa Monica, a venue where we’d both appeared several times to vibrant audiences. We’d started our book tour with a talk in the Mission District of San Francisco, normally a safe space for the promotion of heretical opinions, where we were confronted by a group of four or five Zionist miscreants, who, in a scene out of a Marx Brothers movie, denounced us as “journalistic jihadis” and flung rotten vegetables at us, not very accurately. I recall a squishy eggplant being tossed so wildly that it splattered against a display for the Oprah Book Club. Who says there’s no Providence in this world? A few weeks later, Bill and Kathy Christison and I were shot at as we drove back to Santa Fe following a talk outside Taos, the bullet creasing the roof of the Christisons’ car. Bill, the old CIA hand, didn’t flinch, as I cowered spinelessly in the backseat. These were tense times, with much of the country still sweating out the post-911 fever, angry, paranoid, impotent. In LA, we had to rent our own venues, first a small art gallery in Venice and the next afternoon a coffee shop in Silver Lake. Both gigs were well-attended and went off without incident, prompting Alex to ask if I thought we might be “losing our Mojo.” “We haven’t played Orange County, yet,” I said. “Maybe we can pick up a black cat bone and some John the Conqueror root to get our Mojo rising again before we hit Yorba Linda.” The following evening, we met Gore Vidal at a venerable Italian eatery in old Hollywood, off Sunset Boulevard. The restaurant, Vidal explained, was just down the block from the Hacienda Arms (now called the Piazza del Sol), location of the House of Fra…

Freedom Flotilla Italia Makes Powerful Stop on the island of Procida: The Ghassan Kanafani Brings Hope and Resistance to the Island
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description: This past weekend, the small and beautiful island of Procida offered a warm, heartfelt, and deeply moving welcome to the Freedom Flotilla Italia and its proud vessel, the Ghassan Kanafani. The arrival of the boat marked a powerful and symbolic moment of solidarity as part of the national campaign “100 Ports, 100 Cities,” a mission More The post Freedom Flotilla Italia Makes Powerful Stop on the island of Procida: The Ghassan Kanafani Brings Hope and Resistance to the Island appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Procida per Una Palestina Libera — stop the Genocide This past weekend, the small and beautiful island of Procida offered a warm, heartfelt, and deeply moving welcome to the Freedom Flotilla Italia and its proud vessel, the Ghassan Kanafani. The arrival of the boat marked a powerful and symbolic moment of solidarity as part of the national campaign “100 Ports, 100 Cities,” a mission sailing along the Italian coast to keep the world’s attention fixed on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, raise vital funds for one of the last functioning hospitals in the besieged Strip — Al Awda Hospital — and remind everyone that the Palestinian people continue to endure an illegal occupation on their ancestral land. The boat takes its name from Ghassan Kanafani, a legendary Palestinian writer, journalist, and revolutionary activist who dedicated his life to the cause of his people. Kanafani was assassinated in 1972 in a car bomb attack carried out by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut, along with his 16-year-old niece Lamees. His powerful words and unwavering commitment to Palestinian liberation continue to inspire generations across the world. Naming the vessel after him is both an act of remembrance and a declaration of resistance. Photograph Source: Procida per Una Palestina Libera — stop the Genocide The Ghassan Kanafani arrived on May 30 at Marina Grande in Procida, where it was generously hosted by the Porto Turistico and received a warm and enthusiastic welcome from a large crowd of local residents, including representatives of both the old and new administrations. The following day, on May 31, the boat set sail from Marina Grande toward the port of Chiaiolella, escorted by a beautiful mini-flotilla of local boats and the wonderful young people of Procida paddling alongside in kayaks. The participation was heartfelt, unifying, and deeply moving — a true expression of solidarity from the island. The Ghassan Kanafani was again generously hosted at the Chiaiolella by the…

Saving the Planet Depends on Asia
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description: Early adopters pay a premium for their embrace of innovation. If you bought one of the first electric cars in the United States, you had limited range, long charging times, and very little infrastructure to support you on anything but the shortest journeys. If you’d held out just a little bit longer, you could have spent a lot less money and gotten a lot more vehicle. More The post Saving the Planet Depends on Asia appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: A 50 MW photovoltaic solar power station built in Shanxi Province in 2017. Photograph Source: Planet Labs – CC BY-SA 4.0 Early adopters pay a premium for their embrace of innovation. If you bought one of the first electric cars in the United States, you had limited range, long charging times, and very little infrastructure to support you on anything but the shortest journeys. If you’d held out just a little bit longer, you could have spent a lot less money and gotten a lot more vehicle. Foot-draggers, in other words, can reap a lot of benefits, whether as a result of ignorance (not knowing about a new product), fear (of making a mistake), or strategic patience. But too many foot-draggers could doom innovation. Public policy is often designed to reward early adopters and light a fire underneath the foot-draggers. During the Biden years, EV buyers could receive a tax rebate, and the administration invested money into the expansion of charging stations. As a result, consumers rejiggered their cost-benefit analyses, and for a short period demand exceeded supply. As more companies went into the EV business, the United States, at least briefly, began to move away from the combustion engine. The Paris Agreement was supposed to create an overall environment to shape such Green public policies. Unfortunately, the Paris targets were voluntary, which meant that countries could make grand statements of commitment while dragging their feet in reality. The ubiquity of “Green-dragging”—the slow-walking of carbon-reduction strategies—has produced the inevitable results: steadily increasing global emissions, the spiraling costs of loss and damage, and a general skepticism that international cooperation can ever really tackle a problem of such magnitude. Then along came Donald Trump, who has proudly proclaimed his climate denialism. To the delight of the fossil fuel companies that poured money into his reelection campaign, the president has pledged to extract every bit of oil, gas, a…

The Donald’s Dictionary
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description: A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from congressional representation; a lost tribe. Audit: Something bad that happens to other people. “Beautiful:” an adjective, best used to modify “missile strikes”. Ceasefire: arabic; when less than a thousand children in Gaza are More The post The Donald’s Dictionary appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from congressional representation; a lost tribe. Audit: Something bad that happens to other people. “Beautiful:” an adjective, best used to modify “missile strikes”. Ceasefire: arabic; when less than a thousand children in Gaza are killed in a week. Climate change: archaic; often thought to be used in connection with car air conditioning in the 1950s that provided separate air flows to the front and back seats. Civil rights: in physics, a state of being that disappears when surrounded by money. “Deranged scumbag:” diplomacy; any foreign state official of color. Epstein: German for “a terrific guy.” (Dieser Epstein ist wunderbar.) “Open the Fuckin’ Strait:” Attributed to Thomas Jefferson (1804) in correspondence over the Barbary Coast. Gaza: any piece of land or territory where international law does not apply. Gerrymander: an ancient burial ground for any ethnic grouping that opposes White Christian Nationalism. Ghislaine: a person mentioned in Ripley’s Believe It or Not for having generated six million pages of documentary evidence in a pedophilia case brought against her, and only her, in 2022. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead”: from the doxology; often sung at funerals in southern Florida, usually on the ninth fairway. “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything:” Latin; attributed to Pope Clement VII in 1527 A.D. Graham, Lindsey: a jester; any court figure with little self-worth. Greenland: an altered state of consciousness; any bad reaction to mescaline. “Grocery prices, energy prices, airfares, mortgage rates, rent and car payments are all coming down, and they’re coming down fast:” a rap song popular in the 2020s, chanted especially by billionaires confronted by beggars. Hegseth: in Danish mythology, the god of Onanism. Hillary: a legal expression; meaning a model prisoner. Inflation: in magic; anything that only goes down.…

The Power Company Started the Fires, So Why Does the Media Blame Mayor Karen Bass?
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description: Hypocritically, MSNOW and CNN express outrage at Donald Trump’s takeover of CBS. But do they serve another segment of the oligarchy? Advertisers, some of whom are cozy with the oligarch’s employee, Donald Trump? Is this why a parade of white men on Morning Joe and CNN programs blamed the Eaton Fires on Karen Bass and More The post The Power Company Started the Fires, So Why Does the Media Blame Mayor Karen Bass? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Angeles National Forest firefighters during initial attack of the Eaton Fire. Photo by Christian Ruiz, US Forest Service. Hypocritically, MSNOW and CNN express outrage at Donald Trump’s takeover of CBS. But do they serve another segment of the oligarchy? Advertisers, some of whom are cozy with the oligarch’s employee, Donald Trump? Is this why a parade of white men on Morning Joe and CNN programs blamed the Eaton Fires on Karen Bass and not the Southern California Edison Company? Is it because Southern California Edison Company spends millions on advertising in the Los Angeles media market. It’s bad enough that MSNOW uses the late Maya Angelou to advertise its product after firing Joy Reid, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Tiffany Cross, who said she was fired for offending Joe Scarborough. But now Bloomberg’s David Drucker, a Morning Joe regular, who said that Bass’s problems were “myriad,” failed to mention the power company’s role. They continue to blame Bass. According to The Independent: The federal government has filed two separate lawsuits against the Southern California Edison Company, alleging that the power firm’s infrastructure sparked two wildfires, including the devastating Eaton Fire. In January, the Eaton Fire scorched nearly 14,000 acres in Los Angeles County and killed 19 people. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but the Justice Department says the deadly blaze “ignited from faulty power infrastructure or by sparks from faulty power infrastructure owned, maintained, and operated” by the utility company. “But for Edison’s negligence, these fires would not have started,” Bill Essayli, the acting US attorney in Los Angeles, said at a press conference. CalMatters commented: Wind and brush are forces of nature, not politics, and absolve Bass of responsibility for the fires. Karen Bass is no more responsible for the Palisades fire than former mayors Richard Riordan was for the Northridge Earthquake or Eugene Schmitz for the San Francisco earthq…

When Sanctions Stop Working
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description: After having accused five Chinese refineries of buying Iranian oil, the US Treasury on 24 April put them on its ever-growing list of sanctioned companies. On the face of it, routine enough. For decades Washington has asserted the right to decide who can trade with the rest of the world, and everyone else has acquiesced More The post When Sanctions Stop Working appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Theo Bickel After having accused five Chinese refineries of buying Iranian oil, the US Treasury on 24 April put them on its ever-growing list of sanctioned companies. On the face of it, routine enough. For decades Washington has asserted the right to decide who can trade with the rest of the world, and everyone else has acquiesced to its diktats for fear of being shut out of an international financial system tethered to the dollar. But this time it didn’t go according to plan. Beijing, which had previously limited itself to verbal protests and discreet workarounds, rejected the sanctions and announced that Chinese courts would prosecute any company that complied with them. In justified its stance by citing the need to ‘safeguard the country’s sovereignty, security and development interests’. In other words: to prevent US sanctions from disrupting energy flows that have become essential to the regional economy. The targeted refineries supply several countries with petrol and jet fuel. Blacklisting them would weaken the supply chains of a continent that functions as one vast integrated production system: Gulf hydrocarbons, Chinese and South Korean components, Vietnamese and Bangladeshi assembly lines. Within this network of interdependence, a prolonged disruption of energy flows – already weakened by tensions around the Strait of Hormuz – could rapidly throw the entire production apparatus into disarray. Faced with this risk, Beijing is hardening its tone, especially now that it possesses ways of mitigating the impact of US financial sanctions: a cross-border payment system and the growing use of yuan-denominated settlements in the oil trade, agreements between central banks and projects for interoperable digital currencies. China’s calculations have therefore changed: a power struggle with the US has become less costly than a lengthy disruption of commercial flows. The episode deals a further blow to a sanctions regime that is being used ever more often and …

Republicans Want Cyanide Bombs on Public Lands
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description: Trump’s bombing of Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen, Caribbean boats, and Somalia (Council on Foreign Relations info) has torn to shreds his “political brand” opposing foreign military adventures, promising “no wars” in campaign speech after campaign speech after campaign speech. Now, his administration is taking “bombing” one step further into the wilderness, over hill, over More The post Republicans Want Cyanide Bombs on Public Lands appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Brittani Burns. Trump’s bombing of Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen, Caribbean boats, and Somalia (Council on Foreign Relations info) has torn to shreds his “political brand” opposing foreign military adventures, promising “no wars” in campaign speech after campaign speech after campaign speech. Now, his administration is taking “bombing” one step further into the wilderness, over hill, over dale, through bush, through briar (Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) right here on U.S. soil. Cyanide bombs are back in style after being banned by the Biden administration. “The Bureau of Land Management last month quietly lifted its total ban on the use of so-called cyanide bombs on public land and said deployment of the spring-loaded devices used to kill coyotes and other predators will now be considered on a “case-by-case” basis.” (BLM, USDA Agree to Renew Use of ‘Cyanide Bombs’, E&E News by Politico, May 8, 2026) Cyanide bombs or “M-44s have been and are used on certain state and private lands in Texas, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Nevada, and West Virginia. In Colorado, M-44s are used only on private land. Oregon, Washington, and California have banned M-44s everywhere, including on BLM lands within their borders.” (Trump Administration Resurrects Archaic Poison Bombs No One Wants, Animal Wellness Action, May 22, 2026) Cyanide bombs are designed to kill coyotes, red foxes, gray foxes, and feral dogs that prey on sheep, poultry and newborn cattle. “But coyotes, foxes and feral dogs are not all that M-44s kill. According to Wildlife Services’ own records, they also kill at least 150 nontarget species including cattle, sheep, goats, guard dogs, bird dogs, pet dogs, grizzly bears, black bears, endangered Mexican wolves, northwestern gray wolves, bald eagles, golden eagles, falcons, other hawks, vultures, including endangered California condors, owls, ravens, crows, raccoons, opossums, skunks, sundry species …

Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!)
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description: Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a More The post Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!) appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have been beyond inconceivable, no less watchable on TV, in the United States of America. Had someone written up such a plot with Osama bin Laden and crew in the cast of characters, it would have been treated as the worst kind of unpublishable science fiction. But, of course, it did indeed happen and, in some strange sense, in its wake (an all-too-appropriate word under the circumstances), our world did indeed seem to flip upside down. That was, of course, after President George W. Bush responded early that October by — god save us! — invading Afghanistan (which, at least to me, was a shock and a half in its own right) and launching his disastrous “Global War on Terror.” Sometime in the weeks that followed, my memory (not exactly trustworthy at almost 82 years of age) is that I saw an article deep inside the print New York Times (which, by the way, I still read daily on actual paper) noting that U.S. soldiers were by then fighting in parts of Afghanistan where the troops of the Soviet Union had struggled endlessly (and lost badly) during that imperial power’s disastrous Afghan war of the previous century, which did indeed help take it down. And that, too, in some grim fashion, stunned me. Talk about mistakes that history had all too clearly signaled should never happen again (and again and again)! I was at the time (even if barely) online and so I copied that piece into an email and sent it out with a note to a small set of friends. And somehow that began the process that led to TomDispatch. I soon realized that, thanks to the online world, I could actually read around the globe — the British Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, etc. — and that out t…

The Trumpers Are Taking Over the Media: We Can Do Something Other Than Whine
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description: It is terrible to see Bari Weiss, under orders from Trumper owner David Ellison, dismantle 60 Minutes and the rest of CBS News. CBS was never close to being a paragon of unbiased reporting; the rich always had a disproportionate voice, but the network, and especially 60 Minutes, did much excellent investigative reporting. The Weiss-Ellison More The post The Trumpers Are Taking Over the Media: We Can Do Something Other Than Whine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image Source: CBS News – Public Domain It is terrible to see Bari Weiss, under orders from Trumper owner David Ellison, dismantle 60 Minutes and the rest of CBS News. CBS was never close to being a paragon of unbiased reporting; the rich always had a disproportionate voice, but the network, and especially 60 Minutes, did much excellent investigative reporting. The Weiss-Ellison team is explicitly saying that this will no longer be the case under their leadership. Any investigative reporting this crew does will most likely be on Donald Trump’s political opponents. And the material they present will likely be as distorted as the lies that Trump spouts on a daily basis. The problem goes well beyond CBS. The Ellison family is also planning to take over CNN through its acquisition of Warner Bros., the parent company. The Trumper trio of Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk own TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, and X, respectively. They do not hide their efforts to use their control of these social media platforms to push their political agenda. And it goes beyond just outright control. Trump and Brendan Carr, his chair of the Federal Communications Commission, have said that they would use the federal government’s regulatory powers to punish outlets that broadcast material they don’t like. Trump used this threat to extract tribute from both ABC News and CBS News (pre-Weiss) over absurd lawsuits. All in all, this is a really bad story. But there are things that can be done other than whine. First, the Ellison’s takeover of Warner is not a done deal. People can protestthis monopolization of both movie production and news. Even Trumper politicians can be forced to respond to public pressure. Note the seeming retreat from Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for his criminal friends. Giving tax dollars to Trump’s chosen criminals was too much for people to stomach, and the Republicans in Congress were forced to nix it. There are also a large number of independent outlets t…

Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival
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description: The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the conscience for the sheer suffocating scale of a seemingly endless treeless terrain overwhelmed with millions of tons of concrete and rebar. There is a distinct agonizing geometry to the destruction of buildings folded More The post Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the conscience for the sheer suffocating scale of a seemingly endless treeless terrain overwhelmed with millions of tons of concrete and rebar. There is a distinct agonizing geometry to the destruction of buildings folded upon themselves. The angles, lines and shapes of neighborhoods have been completely warped, creating a jarring unnatural landscape of ruins, where once familiar streets, blocks and landmarks are now unrecognizable. The steel and mortar that once housed generations of families, communal memories, bustling markets, and schools full of children eager to learn, have been leveled into a desolate sea of gray. The human spirit cannot comprehend the reality of tens of thousands of Palestinians entombed beneath mountains of pulverized concrete. The very air of Gaza carries the heavy toxic dust of war and of extinguished lives. To gaze upon the ruins, is to confront not only its physical erasure, but the malign systematic campaign of the Israeli regime to wholly erase Palestinian ethnic, cultural and national identity—the very definition of genocide. Systematic and indiscriminate aerial campaigns have decimated entire family units across multiple generations, erasing entire family lineages. These attacks not only erase collective histories, they inflict profound trauma and deep psychological scars upon survivors. The level of death, destruction and scale of human suffering is unparalleled in modern history. Survivors of this holocaust must navigate a daily visceral reality. Each day is a battle for survival against Israeli atrocities, extreme spatial restrictions and the distress of living among the collapsed skeletons of their destroyed homes and memories. Because the oppressive realities of daily life rarely break through the filter of the legacy media, the public remains largely insulated …

The Trump Regime’s Concentration Camps Aren’t Just for Immigrants
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description: Those still in denial that the Trump47 regime is fascist – worse than merely “authoritarian” or oligarchic – might want to look at the administration’s United States Counterterrorism Strategy (hereafter “USCS”), issued four weeks ago. Written primarily by Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s Christian fascist and Hungarian-American “senior director of counterterrorism,” the document makes clear the regime’s desire to exterminate domestic More The post The Trump Regime’s Concentration Camps Aren’t Just for Immigrants appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Those still in denial that the Trump47 regime is fascist – worse than merely “authoritarian” or oligarchic – might want to look at the administration’s United States Counterterrorism Strategy (hereafter “USCS”), issued four weeks ago. Written primarily by Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s Christian fascist and Hungarian-American “senior director of counterterrorism,” the document makes clear the regime’s desire to exterminate domestic dissent through state terror. “We Will Find and Kill You… Left Wing Extremists” In this dark paper’s cover letter, Trump channels Orwell by promising “Peace through Strength” and says this to “terrorists of any kind”: “[you] will not be allowed any safe harbor here at home” and “if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, We Will Find You and We Will Kill You.” Who are these “terrorists of any kind”? Across the USCS, three top terrible culprits are identified and intermeshed with each other: the classic (“legacy”) post-9/11 menace of Islamo- terrorism/jihadism, with no distinctions made between Sunni and Shia; Latin American “narco-terrorism,” supposedly allied with jihad; and domestic “left-wing extremism,” the latter charged with a nefarious “ideological” and “civilization”-weakening war on “traditional American values.” NSPM-7: Targeting Thoughts Ideas “Antithetical to Freedom and the American Way of Life” The USCS targets a fearsome menace, tied in with global threats, and identified broadly with criticism of US society/culture: “ideologies antithetical to freedom and the American way of life.” Gorka invokes a specter haunting “our sacred homeland:” “violent left-wing extremists who have adopted radical ideologies antithetical to the principles upon which our Republic was founded.” It’s important to understand how broadly the fascists atop the US state frame the “radical left” ideas they describe as a grave danger to Americans’ security. What are these “radical ideologies antithetical to the principles upon which our Republic …

On Seeing Will Self Again
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description: I hadn’t realised how much I’d missed hearing Will Self until he reappeared. While I was sorry to learn he had been unwell, I found myself unexpectedly delighted by two recent TV appearances: first in an interview filmed [ . . . ] The post On Seeing Will Self Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Will Self on Question Time. (Screegrab.) I hadn’t realised how much I’d missed hearing Will Self until he reappeared. While I was sorry to learn he had been unwell, I found myself unexpectedly delighted by two recent TV appearances: first in an interview filmed at his south London home, the window open for health reasons; then on a Sunday morning broadcast, where his independent trains of thought darted about like sticklebacks through the mossy rocks of everyone else’s Sunday consensus. I remembered why I liked him. I recalled seeing him on a train once with his children. We were travelling back to London. I was with the artist and our own children, and although he may never have noticed us—we were at the far end of a long carriage—I clocked him at once. Coming from Broadstairs, it felt Dickensian. Yet what stayed was the kind of father he was. Not having really known my own, I have always been curious about how other men inhabit the role, and what I saw that day was a man wholly engaged in it. I had still not read much of his fiction, though I did enjoy Great Apes. The idea alone of a writer called Will Self had always been appealing, and not just to me. Before I had seen a photograph of him, I had half-suspected he might be fictitious. Then I felt certain I had, in fact, seen him before I left for America: tall, in a rain-darkened overcoat, somewhere near the French House on Dean Street, moving through Soho like a figure from a memory in the making. Or was it in a shadowy squat in Kings Cross? Then, when I returned to Britain five years later, curious to see how the culture had changed, Will Self seemed to function as a cultural barometer, registering every shift in atmospheric pressure. A few years later he was fired from a job after another journalist, writing for the Express, reported that he had been snorting heroin in the lavatory of John Major’s election campaign jet, Self having decided that with so much security around he should probably vanish his drugs. …

How Stone Tools, Fire, and Language Paved the Highway to Artificial Intelligence
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description: Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet ideas have not always circulated across the globe at lightning speed. Looking into deep time allows us to view our current mode of existence from a broader perspective and to discern More The post How Stone Tools, Fire, and Language Paved the Highway to Artificial Intelligence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Acheulian bifacial tools (hand-axes) from Burnham Beeches, Bucks. Image Source: This file comes from the Wellcome Collection, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom – CC BY 4.0 Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet ideas have not always circulated across the globe at lightning speed. Looking into deep time allows us to view our current mode of existence from a broader perspective and to discern patterns of change that may offer insights into our species’ possible trajectories in the future. We can begin by trying to identify the conditions under which humans developed complex symbolic communication, which is considered unique in the animal kingdom. Today, we have succeeded in transposing incredibly complex digital languages, beyond the grasp of the human mind, into computerized systems capable of processing, storing, and sharing all kinds of information with the push of a button or a click of a mouse. Human <a href="https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BMXJAdnUwV-2BnQoyEg-2BN5TXz4Qt4ve775UEH0ojRLKXzFJgz0dp446QMYetvsYdk-2B-2B9DklhpsFda5SHg2Y5bsxAY9pbt-2Fw1CIQwjNqWtQXAMRsi-2Bt2M3FX4L5705al28fLQ-3D-3D4e6j_pb-2B40bGv8VszgSLSxZSae2hniLAOGi35ajohLqdIu8wIVCP-2FjsifAGPrnz8TzLY-2Bdpph-2BJclWEAF1gWkBDsknMk9nkKNbJRiufa6AOjJ7cYK1tCwscqPaNQIYzLSs3lbZaL-2FMtnjoNuqKpWr8jp-2Bpfl4fE22RIfVDJM6a2WDajju-2BEZ3yQwNAZ8UQVFzYFMjkLttcwdn-2BWd1N-2BUMh4-2BfvqHYIBx6ca7n25SNxWkR1yrRsJpQCirila-2Bv8MqgfKxduOaHLCmEvgAib0UFO0s9ckGUaszOSr-2B8zbuPyhGN92aUofq-2Biknf0VbkeqVG1sG9eEJatcExBgIC3WX65DSB3tlIMFsiAqpBOVhwvyenKahyBNKdKfRbbwd2-2F6JV2I9zp6FDI7l2Lv6vAYtDyj-2BzwtvvfMuOn8jMA7-2Bjtb5WAIEeknwQ4zilWENGzLpIrr65N3Yi9fZAYS8L-2BHaIABAs7NaDXAU9Ww9Deb2M8yB5sfIVK12rJV0WDNDx4SPSmoN-2BdAaH8l525y6hGN-2B8N1iAhY0-2FqwOqLTgrDu-2FvF7M3VDFx2T-2Fuov-2BYzpn9qpMehbxg8UIPsKky-2BVgCwWk4itzeOYDuXUucK277JY…

The Palestine Industry: The Rats of Gaza and the Opportunists among Us
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description: It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza. Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin—who was killed along with all of his sons during the ongoing Gaza genocide. I asked her a simple question: what do More The post The Palestine Industry: The Rats of Gaza and the Opportunists among Us appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Ash Hayes. It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza. Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin—who was killed along with all of his sons during the ongoing Gaza genocide. I asked her a simple question: what do Gazans want? My purpose was to gather raw testimonies from her neighbors to weave into a letter to a European official whose country is active in pursuing justice for Palestinians. I chose this approach to bypass clichéd political discourse and avoid the pitfall of speaking on behalf of those enduring genocide and famine. Palestinians in Gaza are entirely capable of speaking for themselves. The responses, however, reframed my entire approach. While I am deeply tied to my community in Gaza, I had anticipated a direct focus on macro-political language—on statehood, rights, and global justice. Instead, I was met with the visceral reality of immediate physical survival. “We want a life… we want a dignified life,” she said. “A dignified life with food, water, and even the ability to breathe. One feels so suffocated. We need so many things… so, so many things. We need psychological support, financial support, and moral support.” Another neighbor said: “They (Israel) fight us with everything, absolutely everything; even when we are sleeping in our beds .. the mosquitoes drain us. Insects and rats are all around us, fleas, and the heat is killing us. There are no fans and there is no electricity.” Yes, many spoke about Karameh (dignity), hurriye (freedom), and Haq al-Awda (the Right of Return), but these broad political and social rights were almost always tied directly to the everyday struggle for education, for water, for basic medical care, and—against rats. The rats. This is the recurring nightmare in the minds of Gazan parents who find themselves unable to protect their children even from rodents. Nearly two million Palestinians remain displaced in horrific con…

It Matters the Transcendence We Choose (and We’d Better Choose)
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description: The Machine is virtually impossible to resist, not least because it is found both around us and within us. –Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity ….my belief in the profanity of technology is not widely shared. While there are many astute critics of the Machine…it appears that many spiritual leaders and thinkers are More The post It Matters the Transcendence We Choose (and We’d Better Choose) appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Katja Ano The Machine is virtually impossible to resist, not least because it is found both around us and within us. –Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity ….my belief in the profanity of technology is not widely shared. While there are many astute critics of the Machine…it appears that many spiritual leaders and thinkers are as swept up in the Machine’s propaganda system as anyone else. They have bought into the Myth of Neutral Technology, a subset of the Myth of Progress. –Ibid To literalize the Great Mother as material wealth…To reduce to the level of material wealth the abundant energy that supports an ever-expanding universe is to reduce Nature, the Great Mother, to her material body, matter (mater) and then to take possession of it. –Robert Bly/Marion Woodman, The Maiden Tsar: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine The central question I address in my writing is directed at those of us who were brought up to think of our liberalism as a positive identity, an assumption I believe is hard-to-impossible to let go of. Left unchallenged, it requires our complicity with the destructive tendencies of unregulated end-stage capitalism. Although we reflexively dismiss any critique from rightwing extremists, can we take to heart criticism from those whose opinions we supposedly respect, from the ones who bravely speak for the underclass and the left out who describe our moral deficiency differently? A few examples may suffice: Malcolm X (“the [white] liberal…in posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor…is more deceitful than the conservative…”); Martin Luther King, Jr. (“I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate…who is more devoted to “order” than justice”); and Assata Shakur ( “As far as I am concerned, the word “liberal” is the most meaningless word in the dictionary”) Self-identified “pariah” Hannah Arendt wrote of “the liberals’ political philosophy according to which the mere sum of individual interests adds up to…

If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It
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description: “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.” — Donald Trump Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it. We are losing ground economically. We are losing credibility abroad. We are losing tourists, workers, stability, trust, More The post If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Sean Ferigan “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.” — Donald Trump Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning. If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it. We are losing ground economically. We are losing credibility abroad. We are losing tourists, workers, stability, trust, constitutional guardrails, and whatever remained of the illusion that the government answers to “we the people.” The tourism economy is taking a hit, with international visitors increasingly reluctant to come to the United States. Even migration—the lifeblood of America’s economic growth, innovation, labor force and national renewal—is now moving in the wrong direction. Fewer people are coming in, more Americans are leaving, and by some estimates the country has already crossed into negative net migration. That is not the mark of a nation “winning.” It is the mark of a nation people are increasingly choosing to escape. Even the looming World Cup—normally an economic windfall for tourism, travel and hospitality—is being shadowed by the administration’s immigration crackdown, detention protests and threats to disrupt international travel at key airports. That is what happens when a nation treats visitors, immigrants and dissenters as threats first and human beings second: people stop coming, businesses suffer, and fear becomes official policy. The economy, despite the administration’s relentless victory laps, is flashing warning signs: downgraded growth, strained consumers, rising costs, depleted savings, and policy chaos that leaves families, small businesses and entire industries guessing what fresh disruption tomorrow will bring. We are being worn down by the losses. Meanwhile, the man who promised to end wars has presided over their continuation and expansion. The man who promised to bring prices down has helped drive uncertainty up. The man who promised to drain the swamp has turned government into a spoils syst…

Privatization and Climate Risk Will Expand the US Flood Insurance Gap
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description: A Moody’s white paper released last week highlights growing concerns about flood insurance protection gaps — apprehensions amplified by a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report proposing to make insurance even more unaffordable. The report points out that the number of homeowners who are inadequately covered is much larger than believed due to outdated FEMA More The post Privatization and Climate Risk Will Expand the US Flood Insurance Gap appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Flooding of the Pudding River, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Photo:Jeffrey St. Clair. A Moody’s white paper released last week highlights growing concerns about flood insurance protection gaps — apprehensions amplified by a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report proposing to make insurance even more unaffordable. The report points out that the number of homeowners who are inadequately covered is much larger than believed due to outdated FEMA flood maps and a reliance on past data to predict future risk. Moody’s looks at what would happen county-by-county in three simulated scenarios to determine the amount of uninsured damage: a “1-in-100-year” (1 percent probability) flood scenario, a “1-in-500-year” flood, and a “1-in-100-year flood” in an intermediate-emissions scenario by 2050. In the first scenario, some counties in coastal states such as Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas would face the worst damage, around $5 billion, with the uninsured damage at $375 billion nationwide. In the second scenario, rivers would overflow and heavy rains would seep into neighborhoods that normally don’t experience flooding, expanding damage beyond the coast into 11 more states, including Pennsylvania and Illinois. Under this scenario, uninsured losses would increase to over $1 trillion. While this all sounds pretty grim, just wait. The third scenario accounts for a “1-in-100-year” flood under RCP 4.5, a middle-of-the-road climate model used by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This model assumes the world doesn’t do nothing, but doesn’t do everything to stem the climate crisis. Under RCP 4.5, global emissions would peak around 2040 before stabilizing, ultimately leading to a temperature increase of approximately 2.4°C. In this scenario, uninsured losses from a “1-in-100-year” flood scenario would increase 25 percent to around $472 billion. Scientists agree we’re no longer in the worst-scenario — RCP 8.5, which assumes the world…

It’s Possible to End Corporate Influence on Politics
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description: More than 15 years ago, the Supreme Court removed limits on corporate political spending in its notorious Citizens United decision, ushering in an era of unprecedented influence by moneyed interests. As a result, a small group of ultrawealthy donors have skewed the political system to their advantage — and today, social scientists link the growing gap between rich and poor to that More The post It’s Possible to End Corporate Influence on Politics appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Taylor Nicole More than 15 years ago, the Supreme Court removed limits on corporate political spending in its notorious Citizens United decision, ushering in an era of unprecedented influence by moneyed interests. As a result, a small group of ultrawealthy donors have skewed the political system to their advantage — and today, social scientists link the growing gap between rich and poor to that seminal 2010 decision. Federal attempts to overturn the ruling by amending the U.S. Constitution or legislating against corporate spending have repeatedly failed. But now several states are experimenting with new ways to get this flood of corporate money out of politics. The state of Hawaii just passed a first-of-its-kind law redefining corporations as entities that aren’t allowed to spend money in elections anywhere within the state. The effort could kick off a powerful state-by-state pushback that succeeds where federal efforts failed. This simple idea is the brainchild of Tom Moore, senior fellow for democracy policy at the Center for American Progress. “It’s not regulation; it’s redefinition,” Moore told me. “States create corporations, and they give powers to all the corporations that operate within their states.” So if the federal government and the Supreme Court enable corporations to influence elections, states can counter that merely by changing the definition of a corporation. And that’s precisely what Hawaii did. Effective starting July 2027, corporations doing business in the state are redefined to “not include the power to spend money or contribute anything of value to influence elections or ballot measures.” The novel approach is well-protected against legal challenges. Moore explained that, “the Supreme Court has said consistently for 200 years that [the power to define corporations] is a matter of state law, that the federal courts don’t have anything to do with that.” The impact of this on Hawaii’s politics are likely to be monumental. “Basically, in…

Wages Haven’t Kept Up and Working Families Are Paying the Price
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description: For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no longer keeps pace with the real cost of living. Today, even full-time work at the federal minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to rent a market-rate two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country. And More The post Wages Haven’t Kept Up and Working Families Are Paying the Price appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no longer keeps pace with the real cost of living. Today, even full-time work at the federal minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to rent a market-rate two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country. And too often, politicians have intervened to keep it that way. For example, I live in Oklahoma, where the state minimum wage has been tied to the federal rate of $7.25 an hour since 2009. As a result, a full-time minimum-wage worker here earns about $15,000 a year before taxes — below the poverty line for an individual and wholly inadequate to survive. This problem did not happen by accident. In Oklahoma, some state lawmakers introduced bills to raise the minimum wage year after year — only to see those proposals die without a hearing or a vote. In 2014, the legislature went even further, passing a law that prevented cities and towns from raising local wages, even if local voters and community leaders supported the change. That meant Oklahomans who wanted to see workers earn a fair wage were left with one remaining option: taking the issue directly to the people. Again and again, voters in red, blue, and purple states alike have passed measures to raise their minimum wages. In the last decade or so, voters have approved minimum-wage increases in about a dozen states, including Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Washington, plus D.C. In early 2024, Oklahomans turned to the state’s initiative petition process as well. Over 150,00 voters signed a petition to place State Question 832 on the ballot. If approved, SQ 832 will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over several years and then index future increases to the Consumer Price Index after 2030. Yet even as Oklahomans moved toward a vote, politics intervened. Oklahoma Gov…

Trump is Forcing Coal Pollution on Consumers and Communities
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description: Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? In one of the most perverse Big Government moves ever, last year President Trump proclaimed an “energy emergency.” Since then he’s unilaterally ordered five electric utilities to re-open, or keep open, their old, coal-burning power plants. These coal plants are toxic bombs that continuously spew mercury, carbon More The post Trump is Forcing Coal Pollution on Consumers and Communities appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Vedrana Filipović Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? In one of the most perverse Big Government moves ever, last year President Trump proclaimed an “energy emergency.” Since then he’s unilaterally ordered five electric utilities to re-open, or keep open, their old, coal-burning power plants. These coal plants are toxic bombs that continuously spew mercury, carbon dioxide, and a mix of other killer pollutants into our air, water, and bodies. Mercury emissions are especially vicious, causing early death in adults and permanent IQ damages to fetuses and children. Even the president’s own health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has excoriated mercury pollution from coal-fired utilities as “<a role="link" href="https://www.newsbreak.com/rey-wabwile-347255831/4599532977087-sec-kennedy-mercury-is-absolutely-it-s-the-most-powerful-neurotoxin-we-know-of-in-the-universe" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsbreak.com/rey-wabwile-347255831/4599532977087-sec-kennedy-mercury-is-absolutely-it-s-the-most-powerful-neurotoxin-we-know-of-in-the-universe&source=gmail&ust=1780609039713000&usg=AOvVaw21gZP_1EkkQps8Ry91IWuh">the most powerful neurotoxin we know of in the universe.” That’s why people have rebelled against the greed of coal barons in past years, finally replacing their deadly fuel with wind power, solar, and other renewable energy sources — which also lowers consumers’ electric bills. So why push to re-impose a horrific corporate poison that the people have already rejected – and that progressive utilities have moved beyond? Crass corruption, that’s why. For hailing dirty coal as “beautiful,” while demonizing and defunding clean energy, Trump has been showered with millions of dollars from old-line coal profiteers. And never underestimate vanity — he even got a custom bronze trophy from the polluters, hailing him as the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.” After America began replacing coal with …

Charles Manson: All-American
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description: Charles Manson was an archetypal American in a manner similar to Donald Trump. Both men convince(d) others to do things against their better sense, moral training and counter to their own interests. The particular charisma Manson and Trump project is one that is based in the amplification of people’s fears while creating an illusion of More The post Charles Manson: All-American appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Boyd Rice (right) and a man who only identified himself as “White” protesting for Charles Manson after he was denied parole – Public Domain Charles Manson was an archetypal American in a manner similar to Donald Trump. Both men convince(d) others to do things against their better sense, moral training and counter to their own interests. The particular charisma Manson and Trump project is one that is based in the amplification of people’s fears while creating an illusion of their difference. Charles Manson was considered above conventional morality and something of a demigod by his followers and supporters; Donald Trump is placed above the law by his followers, with some genuinely believing he is a prophet and spiritual figure placed in the White House for godly purposes. More to the point, both men are sociopaths with minimal regard for the rest of humanity. Although Manson seemed to consider money only as a means to an end, Trump’s obsession with money borders on worship. Both enjoy(ed) and manipulate(d) power. In a new book titled Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders, the author Claudia Verhoeven expands the above comparison to Trump to include much of the entire culture of the United States. Indeed, she makes a convincing argument that Manson is the USA, just like Nixon, Trump, rock and roll, and Hollywood are; not all of its culture, but as much a part of it as influenced by it. Ignorant and brash, insightful and confused, religious and blasphemous. It’s a bold statement that has more than a kernel of truth in it. After all, Manson was not the first or the last US resident to use the nation’s foundation in white supremacy to further his vision and Donald Trump will most likely not be the last. The book itself is a critical exploration of the so-called Helter-Skelter history of the Manson family murders in Los Angeles in 1969, the formation of the family and the aftermath of those murders. For those who are either unfamiliar with the …

On the Fifty-Ninth Year of the Naksa
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description: On June 5, 1967, over six days, some three hundred thousand Palestinians were driven from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. For roughly half of them it was a second expulsion in under twenty years. The official account calls it a war Israel had no choice but to fight. Menachem Begin admitted otherwise: the More The post On the Fifty-Ninth Year of the Naksa appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Israeli soldiers expelling the residents of Imwas – Public Domain On June 5, 1967, over six days, some three hundred thousand Palestinians were driven from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. For roughly half of them it was a second expulsion in under twenty years. The official account calls it a war Israel had no choice but to fight. Menachem Begin admitted otherwise: the Egyptian troop movements, he said, “do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us,” and Israel chose to strike first. What the war secured was the territory Israel still occupies today. Palestinians called that June the Naksa, the setback. Fifty-nine years later, it is not something we look back on but something we still live inside — what Mahmoud Darwish called an extended present. We write as Palestinian mental health professionals, in Palestine and in the shatāt. We know from our work that dispossession is never only a matter of borders and demography. It is a wound to the psyche, to a person’s sense of who they are and where they belong. Forced displacement does not end when the trucks stop. It lives on in the body, in the family, and in the children of the people it first uprooted. And the harm is deliberate. What the Zionist entity pursues is not only land but the murder of the Palestinian soul, the slow unmaking of a people’s inner life. In the prisons, the United Nations Secretary-General’s report on conflict-related sexual violence verified rape and genital violence against Palestinian men, women, and children in Israeli custody, and for the first time listed Israel’s forces among those credibly suspected of such crimes. Inside the lands taken in 1948, Palestinian citizens of Israel face the same logic: Bedouin homes demolished by the thousand in the Naqab, people arrested over a post or a protest, grief and solidarity treated as offenses. To live through all of this and then be told your suffering cannot even be spoken is an injury in itself. Our profession has no right to …

Emperor of Iceland, Titan of the Tutu
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description: With a first name that advertises its kinship with marauding Nordic forbears and sporting a rakish diacritic at the start of the patronymic that follows, the pianist Vikingur Ólafsson got a head start on his brand right [ . . . ] The post Emperor of Iceland, Titan of the Tutu appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Ensemble of the Staatsballett Berlin in George Balanchine’s choreography of Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C. Photo: Carlos Quezada. With a first name that advertises its kinship with marauding Nordic forbears and sporting a rakish diacritic at the start of the patronymic that follows, the pianist Vikingur Ólafsson got a head start on his brand right from the get-go—perhaps at the baptismal font soon after his birth in February of 1984. That brand now belongs to one of Iceland’s biggest musical exports, though Ólafsson is not exactly right up there with Björk, the wraith-like pop star and actor who has tallied some 40 million global record sales. The pianist’s 2019 album with the lapidary title, Johann Sebastian Bach, has pushed into six-figure territory for CDs and LPs; more impressive still, the total number of streams is reported to be beyond a billion. Ólafsson’s Goldberg Variations followed in 2022 and approached the 100 million mark. These Bachian offerings take their place in a diverse discography that runs from the baroque past to the minimalist present, from Jean-Philippe Rameau (a couple of years older than Bach) to Philip Glass (at nearly 90, still composing—and thumbing his nose at Donald Trump). These smartly conceived and scrupulously executed albums are issued on classical music’s most prestigious label, Deutsche Grammophon. Go to that venerable company’s website and you will be treated to a masterclass in hyper-curation. There, the algal-green of Ólafsson’s velvet suit counterpoints with the splendid species of Icelandic moss on which he lies. His collar has been turned up so as to protect his pale neck from the sub-Arctic wind, even though not the slightest breeze appears to ruffle his meticulously coiffed brown hair, as lush as the Nature’s pillow that it touches. Turned onto his shoulder and towards the visitor, he makes bedroom eyes through round, professorial spectacles that want to, but won’t let themselves, glint in the northern-latitude light. T…

Deleting Government Data: The Trump Administration Memory Hole
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description: Since day one of his second term, Donald Trump has been waging a war against information, government data collection and the public’s right to know. And yet over a year later, the White House is still finding new ways to delete inconvenient facts. Most recently, CBS News reported that the Justice Department has deleted press More The post Deleting Government Data: The Trump Administration Memory Hole appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Jon Tyson Since day one of his second term, Donald Trump has been waging a war against information, government data collection and the public’s right to know. And yet over a year later, the White House is still finding new ways to delete inconvenient facts. Most recently, CBS News reported that the Justice Department has deleted press releases having to do with the January 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol. As CBS framed it, “The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to revise the history of the assault on the Capitol.” Given Trump’s commitment to pardoning or commuting the sentences of those who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential elections, these latest actions may come as no surprise. Nonetheless, the actions would appear to be tied to the administration’s drive to create a $1.7 billion slush fund to compensate its political allies who were supposedly “targeted” by the Biden Justice Department. While this plan has run into some legal and political headwinds of late, the Trump administration’s delete-the-evidence strategy serves a purpose. As CBS noted, the Justice Department removed releases detailing convictions against far-right groups like the Proud Boys – several of which were recently vacated by request of the administration. The Justice Department, it should be noted, is proud of its work to memory hole the January 6 crimes: “We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes…. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.” Destroying CFPB There are other ways they are purging inconvenient information from the previous administration. From the start, the Trump administration made no secret of its intention to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the independent agency established under the Dodd-Frank Act that enforces consumer protection laws. The Trump administration’s actio…

Unfamiliar: the New World of Espionage
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description: Parts of the new Netflix spy thriller, Unfamiliar, from Germany will probably look and feel familiar to long-time fans of The Avengers from the 1960s, which features Jonathan Steed and Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg, wi [ . . . ] The post Unfamiliar: the New World of Espionage appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Still from Unfamiliar. (Netflix.) Parts of the new Netflix spy thriller, Unfamiliar, from Germany will probably look and feel familiar to long-time fans of The Avengers from the 1960s, which features Jonathan Steed and Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg, with women’s dresses and men’s suits made by the hip French designer, Pierre Cardin. Unfamiliar is set in the present day and takes place mostly in Berlin, but it’s also situated in languid Morocco and evil Eastern Europe. It’s so new – it aired first in the US in February 2026— that there’s not much about it online and what’s there isn’t helpful. Created by longtime British writer, Paul Coates, the six episodes in the series follow the machinations of Simon and Meret Schäfer (Felix Kramer and Susanne Wolff), a dangerous husband and wife team who once worked for the BND, the German Federal Intelligence Service, but who can’t go straight and stay out of trouble. Part of the appeal of the first few episodes is the mystery surrounding the characters, so there’s suspense galore. At the start, it’s not clear who the good agents are and who the bad agents are, though it gradually becomes obvious that the Russians are the really bad ones. With Putin as the new tsar, that’s all too believable. Simon and Meret shoot to kill. They break laws, but viewers are supposed to regard them as essentially good people who are forced to do bad things to keep their little family together. Simon is a doctor who delivers babies; he also works as a chef in their upscale restaurant and hires minorities. Meret is “drop-dead gorgeous” to borrow an outdated expression that’s probably sexist. She can’t stop herself from fucking who she wants to fuck for personal gain and to save her marriage and her husband. The camera pans over her face loving and adoringly even when it’s black-and-blue and spattered with blood and bruises. There’s nothing really working class or radical about Unfamiliar, but I like it because it updates the Avengers and turns the…

Remembering Artists From Another Time: Joan Miró
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description: Truthful Fictions At times, the entire country of Spain feels as if Europe and Africa’s loins are shrink-wrapped into one remarkable experience: To be surrounded by the inimitable scorched earth, again: The Sun of Justice beds the El Solano: I am naked to the mind–My DNA remains in full view splayed for all to see. Giants, More The post Remembering Artists From Another Time: Joan Miró appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain. Photo: Richard Schulman. Truthful Fictions At times, the entire country of Spain feels as if Europe and Africa’s loins are shrink-wrapped into one remarkable experience: To be surrounded by the inimitable scorched earth, again: The Sun of Justice beds the El Solano: I am naked to the mind–My DNA remains in full view splayed for all to see. Giants, art history’s gargantuas make for imaginary possibilities: They appear in my sky like jellyfish spanning seven oceans: A mercurial day in a human’s life is near. The cumulative effect from ageless experiences is near an end. One day, I realized Madrid is home to every chiaroscuro shadow I dreamed for: My intentions as in marriage are sincere: I stood face to face with the hotel’s ten-foot window: My eyes imagined a patterned sweeping view of Madrids’ city circle: I was on the phone with a well regarded New York art dealer of particular character: A gadfly of sorts to most but with me a sonorous revelation of intrigue; A chess piece (possibly a pawn) in the beginnings of America’s abstract expressionism- -the beginnings of modern America: The education of all things relevant to who I am feels self taught: The art dealer told me stories that altered my views, my understandings of mountains- – It was not unlike …White Elephants atop the horizons: Madrid, imagined by me, ferried among the streets many likenesses to John Singer Sargent’s “El Jaleo.” My art dealer, hidden and costumed like Kiplings’ Peachey in The Man Who Would Be King, among them: The entire Spanish population flamencoing in the blackness of the city. I made pictures. The personal becomes emotional for many reasons: The autopilot in me was shifting speeds. I found more experiences truly kissing the eyes I imagined: Salvador Dali, e.g., was a wish that only partially manifested. Without hesitation, I dream more surreal than I might imagine–and again: Before I sun-tanned atop a hotel retreat in Mallorca: I was in a frenzied state of mi…

The Department of Interior Board of Land Appeals Vacates the BLM’s Decision to Slash and Burn 560,000 Acres of Habitat in Utah’s Indian Peak Watershed
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description: The Interior Board of Land Appeals vacated the BLM’s decision authorizing cutting and burning 560,000 acres of mainly pinyon-juniper woodlands and sagebrush habitat in southwest Utah in response to an appeal by Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Wildlands Defense, and Native Ecosystems Council. The Indian Peak project area covered 674,532 acres within Beaver and Iron More The post The Department of Interior Board of Land Appeals Vacates the BLM’s Decision to Slash and Burn 560,000 Acres of Habitat in Utah’s Indian Peak Watershed appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Northern Goshawk. Photo: USFWS. The Interior Board of Land Appeals vacated the BLM’s decision authorizing cutting and burning 560,000 acres of mainly pinyon-juniper woodlands and sagebrush habitat in southwest Utah in response to an appeal by Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Wildlands Defense, and Native Ecosystems Council. The Indian Peak project area covered 674,532 acres within Beaver and Iron counties near the Nevada border. The BLM wanted to log, masticate (grinding), chain, crush, roller mulch, and burn 570,000 acres, in a futile attempt to grow more grass for cows, but most likely the trees would have been replaced by an invasive and highly flammable weed that is native to Russia called cheatgrass as has happened throughout the West. The BLM stated in their Environmental Assessment that the Indian Peak project area is a priority for protection due to concerns about habitat conditions for greater sage-grouse, upland big game species, and wild horses. Pinyon Jays Pinyon-juniper woodlands provide important habitat for many bird species, such as pinyon jays and bird density increases as woodlands progress into old growth. Since the number of birds in North America has decreased by 30% or 3 billion birds in the last 50 years, mainly due to loss of habitat, the last thing our government should be doing is cut down and burn 560,000 acres of pinyon juniper woodlands right next to a similar project directly to the south on the Forest Service’s Pine Valley Ranger District. Pinyon Jays, a species whose population is catastrophically plummeting – in significant part due to federal agency projects just like this Indian Peak wildlife habitat destruction and fragmentation project. Pinyon Jays have been petitioned for ESA listing. Pinyon jay populations have declined by over 4 million birds in the last 50 years, from 5.1 million to just 755,000 in the last 50 years making them the fastest declining bird species in North America. The pinyon jay is a unique, social, bird that tr…

Gaza Catastrophe
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description: Gaza Catastrophe is a highly-researched analytical document of the ongoing Israel’s Genocide of Gaza that had begun on October 2023. It is a timely publication by Gilbert Achcar. He argues that not only is the current Genocide exceeding the 1948 catastrophe—Nakba for Palestinians who lost their homeland. But the Genocide also represents the conclusion of More The post Gaza Catastrophe appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Gaza Catastrophe is a highly-researched analytical document of the ongoing Israel’s Genocide of Gaza that had begun on October 2023. It is a timely publication by Gilbert Achcar. He argues that not only is the current Genocide exceeding the 1948 catastrophe—Nakba for Palestinians who lost their homeland. But the Genocide also represents the conclusion of Israel’s far-right systemic policies against Gaza over the last few decades. The intense brutality of the neofascist/neo-Nazi coalition government of Israel and the scope of the onslaught have been implemented with US participation and the full support of several European countries—the UK, France, Germany, and Italy—and some non-European countries—India. This review seeks to clarify Achcar’s goals, critique, and reflections. He explores three goals: analyzing Israel’s assaults on Gaza since 2007, when Hamas won the parliamentary elections to rule the Strip; putting the Genocide in historical perspective; and reflecting on and fleshing out the various strands of the tragedy locally, regionally, and globally. The goals also include critique of: Hamas’ Islamically inspired struggle; Israel’s shift to the far-right; and Western liberalism and its failure. The Organizational Plan Gaza Catastrophe comprises 3 parts. Part I, “Reflections on the Gaza Genocide and its World-Historical Significance” introduces the book. Part II, “Background to the Catastrophe,” contextualizes the Hamas attack on Israel after the highly-secured border between Israel and Gaza was breached by Hamas fighters. It is a collection of essays regarding the Genocide that the author penned since 1994. Part III, “Gaza, Nakba, Genocide,” collects articles written by the author from October 7, 2023, through the first year of the Genocide. The book concludes with an Epilogue, titled, “Enter Trump,” written in February 2025. An Appendix, a “Statement on Antisemitism and the Question of Palestine,” is a letter-statement initiated and drafted by Achcar with Ra…

War, Economic Crisis, and Discontent in Putin’s Russia
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creator: Ashley Smith
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description: As this article was being prepared for publication, the Russian state designated those associated with the website Posle as a “foreign agent.” Russia’s “foreign agent” law is highly repressive, and places the editors at significant risk of criminal prosecution and other threats to their basic civil rights. Russia’s law is a model of what Human More The post War, Economic Crisis, and Discontent in Putin’s Russia appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: As this article was being prepared for publication, the Russian state designated those associated with the website Posle as a “foreign agent.” Russia’s “foreign agent” law is highly repressive, and places the editors at significant risk of criminal prosecution and other threats to their basic civil rights. Russia’s law is a model of what Human Rights Watch has identified as a critical tool in the authoritarian playbook. “The primary target of these laws are civil society and media organizations” whose activities are “aimed at influencing public policy…[and] organizing public debates, events, rallies and demonstrations.” Thus, among other purported sins, the Putin regime has based its decision on Posle’s alleged “promotion” of “LGBT relationships”. This is part of a broader attack on democratic rights internationally. It has its own parallels in the U.S., as the authoritarian creep has been escalated by Trump. Tempest stands in unconditional solidarity with Posle and its editors. We see in Posle fellow “agents”, not of any state, but of a democratic project of international solidarity which is the antidote to a future of unbridled capitalist barbarism. Ashley Smith:The U.S. and Israel have expanded their joint genocidal war on Gaza into Lebanon and Iran. They expected a quick victory, but it has turned into yet another disastrous forever war. The Iranian regime has launched asymmetrical warfare; it has struck the region’s oil infrastructure, shut down the Strait of Hormuz, and thereby disrupted the flow not only of oil but also petrochemicals, fertilizers, and helium, which is essential for the manufacture of microchips. While stagflation threatens every corner of the world economy, it appears that Russia has benefited from the war: President Trump has lowered sanctions on Russia oil and increased fossil fuel prices have poured profits into Putin’s coffers. Is this an accurate assessment? What impact is this having on the Russian economy? Posle: Indeed, in the short …

An Anarchist Defense of the Cuban Revolution
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description: ” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from everywhere…the United States should dismantle its bases, withdraw its troops, stop its incessant political meddling, and More The post An Anarchist Defense of the Cuban Revolution appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: ” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from everywhere…the United States should dismantle its bases, withdraw its troops, stop its incessant political meddling, and abolish the CIA. It should also end all foreign aid—which is simply a device to coerce the American taxpayer into subsidizing American exports and favored foreign States, all in the name of “helping the starving peoples of the world.” -Murray Rothbard “I ask only one thing: Leave us in peace to better our country’s economic situation, to put our planning into effect, to educate our young compañeros. This doesn’t mean we do not feel solidarity toward nations that are struggling and suffering… But it is up to those nations to decide what they want, and if they choose other regimes than ours, that isn’t our business… I ask nothing: neither dollars, nor assistance, nor diplomats, nor bankers, nor military men—nothing but peace, and to be accepted as we are! We are socialists, the United States is a capitalist nation, the Latin American countries will choose what they want. All the same, at a time when the United States is selling wheat to the Russians, Canada is trading with China, de Gaulle respects Ben Bella, why should it be impossible to make the Americans understand that socialism leads, not to hostility toward them, but to coexistence?” -Fidel Castro The shit is going down in Cuba and it’s going down fast and hard; blackouts, fires, crowds in the streets; the whole shebang. In some respects, this isn’t unusual. The shit has gone down in Cuba before. In fact, this isn’t even the first time the communist island nation has found itself isolated and surrounded by enemies on all sides. Predicting Cuba’s supposedly imminent collapse has become something of a cottage industry among the think ta…

Searching for the Way Forward
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description: Many activists moved from organizing mass demonstrations and direct actions against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza to organizing militant demonstrations and direct actions against ICE and for immigrant rights. Today, with a lull in both of these mass movements, activists are asking what are the next steps in building a movement against imperialism in its More The post Searching for the Way Forward appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Many activists moved from organizing mass demonstrations and direct actions against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza to organizing militant demonstrations and direct actions against ICE and for immigrant rights. Today, with a lull in both of these mass movements, activists are asking what are the next steps in building a movement against imperialism in its manifestations of foreign wars and militarism, as well as internal policing and surveillance. One of the ways to search for such answers is to review the history of American protest, reform and revolutionary movements and organizations. Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries / The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (University of Georgia Press, 2025) is a worthy addition to the multitude of books examining the upsurge of the Long Sixties. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) had a relatively short but impactful organizational life. The individuals who formed the League in Detroit in 1969 had worked together as early as 1961, and then more concretely after some of the group traveled to Cuba and met with the exiled African American Robert Williams, an advocate of armed self-defense for Black Americans. The story of the LRBW has previously been told by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Sorkin in their book Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (1975) and the documentary film Finally Got the News (1970). Both of these have merit. Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman, tells the story of the LRBW through interview with forty former members of the LRBW largely done in 2017, supplemented by a few earlier interviews. There are valuable lessons to be gained from this book. Perhaps foremost is the emphasis on evaluation of conditions and study of Marxism to address those conditions. LRBW member William “Mitch” Mitchell, reflected on the lessons from the 1967 Detroit Rebellion: They had a curfew and Black people had to be in the house from seven P.M.…

Radiation Exposure Rule Changes to Increase Cancer Rates
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description: Among the hundreds of Trump White House executive orders (EO), No. 14300 directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken its long-standing radiation exposure rule, “Standards for Protection Against Radiation. Based on the EO, an upcoming NRC rule change calls for setting a radiation exposure “threshold” or level below which your exposure to ionizing radiation More The post Radiation Exposure Rule Changes to Increase Cancer Rates appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Dan Meyers. Among the hundreds of Trump White House executive orders (EO), No. 14300 directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken its long-standing radiation exposure rule, “Standards for Protection Against Radiation. Based on the EO, an upcoming NRC rule change calls for setting a radiation exposure “threshold” or level below which your exposure to ionizing radiation “would not count” or would be considered “never to have occurred.” The proposed NRC exposure rules will be 5-100 times less protective than current law, and will likely be based on the archaic “Reference Man” standard, the grossly outdated radiation risk model. “Reference Man” represents a young adult male, and so the standard both ignores and denies the greater harm exposure to the fetus, to infants, to children, and to women, done by a given radiation exposure. The EO would impact people in thousands of communities surrounding the 94 operating nuclear reactors in the United States by increasing exposure to radiation from routine offsite emissions: from reactors, nuclear weapons facilities, nuclear material transport systems, and nuclear waste sites. Forty citizen organizations, including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility, wrote to federal officials warning of public health consequences of Trump’s EO. The joint letter points out sharply disproportionate impacts on women and children from weakening existing radiation exposure standards and calls for strengthening them. But vested interests in the nuclear industry want to save money by attacking the basis of NRC regulation, the “Linear No Threshold” or LNT risk model. Decades of published peer-reviewed research support the LNT model, including the authoritative National Academy of Sciences report “Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, VII Phase 2” (BEIR VII), as well as many studies of nuclear industry and nuclear weapons production workers. One industry-sponsored “Petition for Rule-making” appealed to…

Visual artist and photographer Yasmina Hilal on telling stories at the end of the world
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description: Can you share a bit about your decision to be home in Lebanon making work? What was that journey and how do you have the will to keep creating?
encoded: Can you share a bit about your decision to be home in Lebanon making work? What was that journey and how do you have the will to keep creating? Just being here is a form of resistance—accepting that I’m not going to run away or leave my home. It’s important to me to be here and tell stories rather than be somewhere I don’t relate to. I’m not going to photograph someone else’s culture. And it’s not only about the stories; it’s about being around people who understand me and understand the pain we all go through collectively. There’s such a strong community here, and that’s what’s beautiful. We push each other to make things. When I moved back, my storytelling became so much stronger, because these are real stories of real people. Before, I was trying to live some sort of American Hollywood dream, and then I realized, no, this is not for me. You learn technique, but storytelling comes from within. Father I pray for my daughter There’s a concept Adam Curtis wrote about called hypernormalisation, this idea that we’ve all accepted a fake version of the world because the real one is too complex to deal with. That seems to speak directly to what you’re describing, both in America and in Beirut, in different ways. That’s the whole illusion of the United States. Underneath the surface, something much darker is happening, but people just keep going. Everyone is in their bubble; they don’t see what’s outside, what’s really happening. I’ve experienced it directly. When I was working in America during the revolution here in Lebanon, I was crying a lot, and my boss told me I was too sensitive, too much. But they’re desensitized. Their reality is just the veneer. It’s a lack of empathy, a complete inability to see outside your own perspective. The danger is that you stop being able to feel what’s actually happening, to yourself or to anyone else. And once you lose that, what are you making? What are you living for? Hajj N2oula -Tripoli Has your relationship to reality shifted sinc…

Abby Martin: The Ruling-Class War on Our Minds
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Save Our Endangered Kelp Forests
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description: Warming waters are imperiling the world’s oceans.
encoded: Warming waters are imperiling the world’s oceans. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by David Helvarg.

Gaza’s Athletes Under Fire
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description: Israel’s war on Gaza has devastated organized sports in the enclave.
encoded: Israel’s war on Gaza has devastated organized sports in the enclave. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hana Salah.

A Cuban American immigration story
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The AI Dilemma: War, Jobs, Power & Humanity | w/ Aza Raskin
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Journalists encounter chemical irritants, blocked access at New Jersey protests
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description: Protests broke out in late May 2026 in Newark, New Jersey, outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditio...
encoded: Protests broke out in late May 2026 in Newark, New Jersey, outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. The Department of Homeland Security has denied the allegations of detainee mistreatment. Federal officers and then state and local police responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. Journalists on the ground described being exposed to chemical irritants fired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and New Jersey State Police, being forced to pull back from the protest area and otherwise being impeded from documenting the protests. Although these incidents do not constitute official press freedom violations under the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s criteria, we’ve provided a roundup of them below, organized by date (our reporting on the formal press freedom violations we cataloged in Newark in May is here). This roundup will be updated as additional incidents are verified. To date, law enforcement agencies have not responded to multiple requests for comment. To learn more about how the Tracker documents and categorizes violations of press freedom, visit our FAQ page. May 26, 2026 Ben Ackman, on assignment for the New Jersey Monitor, told the Tracker he was indirectly exposed to pepper spray used by ICE and was unable to work for about 30 minutes while flushing the irritant from his eyes. Also that day, he was shoved by an agent. Photojournalists Mostafa Bassim of Turkey’s Anadolu Agency and Olga Fedorova of the European Pressphoto Agency were standing together when federal officers targeted them with pepper spray, aiming at their camera lenses and then spraying into both journalists’ ears when they turned their heads. Bassim also told the Tracker that the officer targeted the spray at a vent in his gas mask. Photographer David “Dee” Delgado, who was on assignm…

[Allen Ginsberg] A 100th Birthday Garland for Allen Ginsberg
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description: Political activist Abbie Hoffman, speaking at the Jack Kerouac Festival in 1982, said that the social movements of the 1960s would not have happened without the cultural revolution of the 1950s. Poet Allen Ginsberg was the spokesman for the Beat Genera...
encoded: Political activist Abbie Hoffman, speaking at the Jack Kerouac Festival in 1982, said that the social movements of the 1960s would not have happened without the cultural revolution of the 1950s. Poet Allen Ginsberg was the spokesman for the Beat Generation literary movement, and a powerful voice for civil rights, free speech, and the peace movement, his entire life. Ginsberg and Kagyu Tibetan lineage holder, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founded Naropa Institute – now University in Boulder, Colorado. Allen’s Buddhist meditation practice and poetics entailed keen observations of the ordinary. We’ve gone into the AR Archive, and recordings from a few musical performances in celebration of his one-hundredth birthday. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

U.S. and European white nationalists convene for “Remigration Summit”
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Rural communities in Bolivia seize oil field
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Photojournalist engulfed with irritant at New Jersey immigration protest
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description: Freelance photojournalist Jonathan Fernandes was pepper-sprayed by a federal officer while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026.Protests outside the Delaney...
encoded: Freelance photojournalist Jonathan Fernandes was pepper-sprayed by a federal officer while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Fernandes told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that on May 26, officers were shoving protesters and journalists to make way for law enforcement vehicles coming through the facility’s driveway. One officer, holding a large can of pepper spray, deployed a stream of the irritant at the crowd. “He goes in a line from the protesters to the press with the pepper spray. That was targeted,” Fernandes said. “He didn’t really care about press rights; he just sprayed us anyway.” The pepper spray seeped beneath Fernandes’ goggles, temporarily blinding him for about five minutes while he rinsed his eyes. The resulting pain and disorientation sidelined him from the job for nearly 40 minutes. “It was an ‘us versus them’ mentality,” he said. “Like, ‘Anybody who gets in our way, we’re just going to spray them.’” The day before, Fernandes was thrust backward by an officer with a baton. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those danger…

Trump threatens to blow up Oman
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Hegseth trains flabby troops for Iran war
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Photojournalist thrown backward by baton-wielding officer at New Jersey protest
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description: Photojournalist Jonathan Fernandes was thrust backward by a federal officer with a baton while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026.Protests outside the Del...
encoded: Photojournalist Jonathan Fernandes was thrust backward by a federal officer with a baton while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Fernandes told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that officers were pushing back a crowd of protesters and media when he was thrown back by an officer lunging at him with a baton. Fernandes, on assignment for Documented New York, was wearing visible press credentials. “I was not in anyone’s way at all,” he said. “He could see my badge, that I’m holding a camera and not participating in any way.” At a protest outside Delaney Hall the following day, Fernandes was pepper-sprayed by a federal officer. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those dangers to those exercising protected First Amendment rights.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

These Dems oppose Iran deal, ‘dream’ about Israel
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“We will never leave”: Defying Israeli ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon
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Voters in California city become first in US to approve permanent ban on data centers
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 4, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 4, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Fired and Jailed: Attacks on free speech under Trump
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description: Transcript The following rushed transcript may contain errors. It will be updated as soon as possible. Michael Fox: Okay. One, two. Okay. Yeah, we’re good. All right, I will start it off. Marc Steiner: Okay, you want to start i...
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Iran deters Trump’s aggression – Max on Judging Freedom
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Photographer jostled by officer at New Jersey immigration protest
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date: 2026-06-04T17:47:13Z
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description: Photojournalist Ben Ackman was pushed by a federal officer while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detenti...
encoded: Photojournalist Ben Ackman was pushed by a federal officer while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Ackman told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that as ICE tried to clear the path for law enforcement vehicles to leave the facility, he was pushed out of the way. He was also pinned up against a car as he photographed protesters. “It seemed to me that it was just because I was in the way,” said Ackman, who was wearing press credentials at the time. “It didn’t seem like anyone was targeting me because I had a camera.” A couple of days earlier, Ackman was shoved by an ICE officer chasing a protester and hit with pepper spray in his eyes. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those dangers to those exercising protected First Amendment rights.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Photojournalist shoved by federal officer at New Jersey immigration protest
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description: Photojournalist Ben Ackman was pushed by a federal officer while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detenti...
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Photojournalist sprayed in the face with irritant at New Jersey protest
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description: Photojournalist Stephanie Keith was pepper-sprayed by federal officers while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigra...
encoded: Photojournalist Stephanie Keith was pepper-sprayed by federal officers while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. On May 25, Keith was on assignment for Getty Images, photographing ICE operations alongside a group of other credentialed journalists with cameras. Federal agents made eye contact with the journalists before dousing them with pepper spray. Keith’s face was coated in the irritant. “There was literally no respect or no accord for the fact that we were nonthreatening and just standing there doing our jobs,” Keith told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. She immediately went home to wash the pepper spray from her body. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover these violent riots and remind journalists that covering unlawful activities in the field does come with risks,” the statement read. “Our officers take every reasonable precaution to mitigate those dangers to those exercising protected First Amendment rights.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Warner’s Continued Collaboration with Trump Threatens Democracy
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date: 2026-06-04T17:05:37Z
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description: After Bill Pulte’s appointment, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has conspicuously failed to join the chorus of Democrats and Republicans calling for reforms to FISA that would protect privacy and democracy itself. Pulte’s history of weaponizing the government...
encoded: After Bill Pulte’s appointment, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has conspicuously failed to join the chorus of Democrats and Republicans calling for reforms to FISA that would protect privacy and democracy itself. Pulte’s history of weaponizing the government against President Donald Trump’s political enemies was jarring enough to move previous opponents of FISA privacy protections, like Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), to explicitly call for “reforms to ensure Americans’ privacy and rights are protected.” On the other hand, Warner, who is negotiating with Republicans and the Trump administration to renew FISA, has only commented on how bad Pulte is and notably stopped short of saying anything about FISA reform. This is particularly telling considering Warner’s history of promising future reforms to get FISA renewed and failing to deliver. The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka: “Sen. Warner’s opposition to Bill Pulte masks the fact that he is still the Democrats’ chief advocate for handing over unchecked spying powers to the Trump administration. Pulte obviously must go, but he’s also proof that this administration is eager and willing to use the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as a weapon. If Trump pulls Pulte, he can easily appoint another eager goon to fill the slot. By focusing on Pulte and not broader reforms, Sen. Warner is not standing up for Americans or the Constitution, he is disguising his work to engineer warrantless mass surveillance against us. We know this because he’s been doing it publicly for months. An unprecedented, bipartisan movement is demanding privacy reforms but Sen. Warner’s machinations threaten to derail this progress and hand Trump the surveillance powers he needs to threaten Americans and democracy itself for the rest of his administration.” A robust set of resources on the need for privacy reforms for FISA are available here and here, and additional background, context, polling, ref…

Voices from Delaney Hall
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date: 2026-06-04T17:03:06Z
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‘Huge win for the Constitution’ as House finally passes Iran war powers resolution
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UN News Today 04 June 2026
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description: Lebanon: peacekeeper dies in ongoing escalation despite ceasefire deal AI data centre water needs massively under-estimated, say UN scientists Unsafe food kills 1.5 million people each year; children most at risk: WHO
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Photographer for Turkish news agency targeted with pepper spray
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description: Mostafa Bassim, a photojournalist for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026.Protests outside the D...
encoded: Mostafa Bassim, a photojournalist for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, was targeted with chemical irritants by federal officers while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 26, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Bassim and other journalists told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker the protests followed a consistent pattern, with a period of calm until law enforcement vehicles tried to exit the facility, when protesters would attempt to block them from leaving and to see whether any detainees were being moved. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would then advance to push back the demonstrators and make arrests, before calm would resume. He said that he was wearing personal protective equipment, including goggles and a gas mask, but that with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers’ tactics, it didn’t make a difference. “Based on previous experience, maybe they will pepper-spray you in the face and, when they realize you’re a journalist, they move on. But this time, it’s different. They see you, they realize you’re press, and first they pepper-spray your lens,” he told the Tracker. Bassim noted that he was reporting alongside multiple other members of the press who received the same treatment. He added the tactic works: His lens was coated and the photos taken immediately after were almost entirely obscured. One of the officers deliberately targeted him a second time. “He came back, and he can see me wearing a gas mask, so he pepper-sprayed first into my gas mask,” Bassim said. “I didn’t move, and then …

CPJ joins 15 other organizations urging Turkey to release reporter İsmail Arı
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 15 other press freedom and human rights organizations Thursday in calling on Turkish authorities to release İsmail Arı, a reporter for the leftist daily BirGün, who has been in detention since March 21. His trial will begin in Ankara on June 5. Arı was indicted in mid-May on charges...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 15 other press freedom and human rights organizations Thursday in calling on Turkish authorities to release İsmail Arı, a reporter for the leftist daily BirGün, who has been in detention since March 21. His trial will begin in Ankara on June 5. Arı was indicted in mid-May on charges of spreading disinformation and violating confidentiality, and he could face up to six years in prison if found guilty. This is the second joint statement that CPJ has participated in asking for the journalist’s release. The signatories asked the Turkish authorities to “immediately and unconditionally release” Arı at the June 5 hearing, repeal Article 217/A — the so-called disinformation law — “in its entirety,” and “bring all legislation regulating freedom of expression into line with Turkey’s international obligations.” Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba’s Crisis, U.S. Sanctions and Family Separation
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"Notes from an ICE Chaser": Tracking Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign on the Ground
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Voices from Delaney Hall: Family and Community Members Demand Release of Loved Ones from ICE Jail
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Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for "Remigration Summit"
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 4, 2026
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Photojournalist struck with baton, lens destroyed at New Jersey protest
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description: Mostafa Bassim, a photojournalist for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, was struck with a baton by a federal officer, damaging his camera lens, while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026.Protest...
encoded: Mostafa Bassim, a photojournalist for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, was struck with a baton by a federal officer, damaging his camera lens, while covering protests outside a private immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Bassim told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he arrived at the detention facility shortly before nightfall. He said that even before he was able to start documenting the scene, federal officers noticed his camera and began shining high-powered lights directly at him. “The second they see you with a camera they just start doing that to you,” Bassim said. The protests, he said, had a consistent pattern: a period of calm until vehicles tried to exit the facility. Protesters would attempt to block the cars from leaving and to see whether any detainees were being moved; Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would advance to push back the demonstrators and make arrests. “Then it’s calm again for an hour or so and then clashes again,” he told the Tracker. But that night, he added, officers were particularly aggressive. “From the first time they started clashing with people — and they pepper-sprayed a lot of people — they would specifically pepper-spray the camera or the vent, if you’re wearing a gas mask,” Bassim said. During the second clash, officers continued to spray chemical irritants at the crowd and strike people with batons. As things calmed, Bassim said, the ICE officers near him began to move back. “I was looking at the other side to see if there’s still something going on on the…

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba’s Crisis, U.S. Sanctions and Family Separation
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description: The Trump administration five months ago launched an energy blockade against Cuba, coming on top of the over six-decade-long embargo, the longest in U.S. history. The expanded U.S. sanctions have exacerbated the island’s economic crisis,...
encoded: The Trump administration five months ago launched an energy blockade against Cuba, coming on top of the over six-decade-long embargo, the longest in U.S. history. The expanded U.S. sanctions have exacerbated the island’s economic crisis, forcing Cubans to live with rolling blackouts, inflation and shortages of basic goods. “The situation there is dire,” says Cuban American historian Ada Ferrer. “It has been for quite some time, and it’s gotten worse and worse over the last five months.” Acknowledging the devastating effects the U.S. embargo has on the island, Ferrer says the Cuban government’s priority “is not the well-being of the Cuban people.” She points out that despite the current deterioration of the industry, Cuba continues to invest in tourism, “ignoring sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, education, health — all of which are in horrible decline.” Ferrer also discusses her new book, Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Notes From an ICE Chaser”: Tracking Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign On the Ground
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description: Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino led the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdowns in Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Bovino was eventually removed from his position in January after immigration ag...
encoded: Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino led the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdowns in Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Bovino was eventually removed from his position in January after immigration agents under his command killed 37-year-old VA nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. We speak with Amanda Moore, a reporter who focuses on far-right extremism and state violence. She spent months following Bovino and the immigration crackdown in the United States for Mother Jones and other outlets. “[Border Patrol] would snipe us with rubber bullets from rooftops by the detention centers,” says Moore. We also get a comment from reporter Charles R. Davis about other right-wing figures in the Trump administration. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for “Remigration Summit”
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description: Hundreds of far-right activists gathered in Portugal on Saturday for the annual “Remigration Summit” advocating for the mass deportation of immigrants. Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and white nationalist leader...
encoded: Hundreds of far-right activists gathered in Portugal on Saturday for the annual “Remigration Summit” advocating for the mass deportation of immigrants. Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and white nationalist leader Jared Taylor were VIP guests alongside elected officials from Germany and Spain’s far-right parties. In an interview ahead of the event, Bovino cited Nazi Germany’s lead general, Erwin Rommel, as an inspirational figure. “Remigration is basically the policy response to the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory,” says Charles R. Davis, a journalist based in Vienna, Austria. Davis explains “great replacement” as a theory that there is a “global elite plot, typically by Jews,” to replace white people in Europe and North America with immigrants. “It’s an argument for mass deportations,” not just of recently arrived immigrants, but of “those who were allowed in over the last hundred years who were not really, as they see it, European or American,” says Davis. “This is basically rooted in Nazi ideology.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Tiananmen protest student leader Wang Dan: ‘It’s about survival’ | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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Voices from Delaney Hall: Family and Community Members Demand Release of Loved Ones from ICE Jail
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description: Hundreds of immigrants detained at the ICE jail known as Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike for nearly two weeks. They are protesting the conditions at the jail, including spoiled food that has had maggo...
encoded: Hundreds of immigrants detained at the ICE jail known as Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike for nearly two weeks. They are protesting the conditions at the jail, including spoiled food that has had maggots in it, overcrowding and inadequate medical care. Detainees are also forced to work for around $1 per day. In retaliation against the strike, guards at Delaney Hall have reportedly beaten participants, and family visitation was temporarily suspended. The strikers are demanding their release from the ICE jail and that the most vulnerable populations are freed first. Detainees’ family members, along with immigration advocates and anti-ICE protesters, have been rallying outside Delaney Hall since the strike began. Democracy Now!’s María Taracena was outside Delaney on Tuesday. She spoke to a detainee who had just been released, a community organizer, a lawyer and family members who were waiting to visit their loved ones inside the ICE jail. Police have erected barricades half a mile around Delaney Hall, “making it more and more difficult to go and visit those who are on labor and hunger strike,” says Natalie, a New Jersey mutual aid organizer with the group Eyes on ICE. “I was trying to see my father. He recently got put in,” says the daughter of a man being held in Delaney Hall. She is struggling to find legal support for her father. “He does not deserve to go to another country when he belongs in this one.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for June 4, 2026
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description: House Votes 215-208 to Approve Resolution Seeking to End Trump’s War on Iran, Rep. Rashida Tlaib Advances Resolution to End U.S. Involvement in Israel’s War on Lebanon, Lebanon Agrees to Extend U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire with Israel, Trump Says U.S. Bombed Iran on Tuesday, Contradicting Rubio’s Claim That Iran War is “Over”, Israeli Airstrikes Kill Nine Palestinians in Gaza, British Government Bans Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from Entering U.K., Trump Nominates Todd Blanche as the Next U.S. Attorney General, Trump Signs Executive Order Making It Easier to Fire 8,000 Highly Paid Government Workers, Rural Communities in Bolivia Seize Oil Field, Calling on President Paz to Resign, Thousands Demonstrate Against Chilean Far-Right President Kast, Labor Protests Rock Mexico City Days Before World Cup, Protests Erupt in Albania over Massive Resort Development Linked to Jared Kushner
encoded: House Votes 215-208 to Approve Resolution Seeking to End Trump's War on Iran Rep. Rashida Tlaib Advances Resolution to End U.S. Involvement in Israel's War on Lebanon Lebanon Agrees to Extend U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire with Israel Trump Says U.S. Bombed Iran on Tuesday, Contradicting Rubio's Claim That Iran War is "Over" Israeli Airstrikes Kill Nine Palestinians in Gaza British Government Bans Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from Entering U.K. Trump Nominates Todd Blanche as the Next U.S. Attorney General Trump Signs Executive Order Making It Easier to Fire 8,000 Highly Paid Government Workers Rural Communities in Bolivia Seize Oil Field, Calling on President Paz to Resign Thousands Demonstrate Against Chilean Far-Right President Kast Labor Protests Rock Mexico City Days Before World Cup Protests Erupt in Albania over Massive Resort Development Linked to Jared Kushner This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-06-04 Thursday
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Kuwait Releases Video Of Deadly Attack On Airport
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In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
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encoded: A rural area off Highway 14 just north of the small town of Moorcroft, in eastern Wyoming They were pillars of their church, congregants in a little-known denomination that sets itself apart from the world and teaches that even the most unconscionable acts can be wiped away — not just forgiven, but forgotten and never spoken of again. So it went in a rural Wyoming church, where a man was accused of sexually abusing young girls hundreds of times in the pews during Sunday services. Though the preacher knew of the abuse, he never reported it to police, local prosecutors said. Instead, he told the man to seek therapy. In Minnesota, a man from the same faith admitted that he began entering the bedrooms of his daughter and son at night around the time each of them turned 12. He and his siblings grew up in the church and were sexually abused themselves, and then he repeated the abuse with his own children. And in Washington state, preachers knew a member of their congregation had sexually abused several young boys. Instead of reporting him to police, they allowed him to ask for forgiveness, according to a family member, and he continued to sexually abuse children. He was later found guilty of raping the 9-year-old son of a church member and sentenced to life in prison. The abusers and victims all belonged to the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, or the OALC, a Scandinavian-rooted revivalist church that teaches its followers that heaven is reserved just for them. To get there, according to current and former members, they must follow a strict doctrine, which emphasizes asking for forgiveness for their sins and says that being forgiven by a fellow church member washes away those sins. What’s more, the church teaches that once a perpetrator is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing — including the victim — can be accused of harboring an unforgiving heart. Those who have left the church, as well as some who are still with it, say this means the burden of sin shifts from…

DN! Thursday, June 4, 2026
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I Got Access to Hundreds of Teacher Misconduct Complaints in California — and You Can Too
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description: The post I Got Access to Hundreds of Teacher Misconduct Complaints in California — and You Can Too appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Anna Vignet/KQED I was a new reporter at KQED in 2021 when former elementary teacher Joseph Brian Houg was sentenced to more than three decades in prison for sexually abusing 10 students. He’d taught at the same San Francisco Bay Area school for more than two decades. Were there warning signs? I soon discovered parents on social media saying they had complained to school administrators for years about Houg. I also knew that schools could release such complaints if they were substantiated or if teachers were disciplined. So I filed public records requests with Houg’s school — something anyone can do. I received 43 pages of records within a few months showing that parents had reported Houg to the principal at least four times since 2009. They complained about him for asking students to strip down to their underwear in his classroom in order to try on costumes for a play he was directing, and for coming into their changing room. They also complained about his touching boys’ chests or stomachs and tapping one boy on the butt. I learned that the principal had twice warned Houg to stop touching students. But he was allowed to keep teaching. (The principal said in a deposition that while Houg’s actions crossed professional boundaries, they were not reported to her as sexual.) Over the next two years, I reported on similar cases of teachers remaining in the classroom after complaints of unwanted touching. Another Bay Area elementary school, in Benicia, reported a teacher to the state’s licensing body after he resigned due to accusations of misconduct. He was hired by another school, and his educator license remained in good standing until he was criminally charged. (He is currently fighting those charges.) This raised a whole different set of questions for me: Should these teachers have been allowed to keep teaching in new schools? How much about a teacher’s disciplinary history did potential employers know? And what was the state’s responsibility for acting on, and sharing…

Blood in the well: One town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it
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creator: Maddy Lauria
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description: Residents of a Pennsylvania town took on a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. They won — but little may change.
encoded: When Trish Leigey’s taps started running brown and foul in late 2019, she had an uneasy suspicion about what was tainting the once-clear mountain water. Tests later confirmed her hunch. Bovine DNA had infiltrated drinking water supplies in rural Loganton, Pennsylvania — contamination her lawyers linked to Nicholas Meat and its practice of spreading liquefied animal waste on nearby fields. That may not have surprised many of Leigey’s neighbors. Most of them were well aware of the desiccated animal parts occasionally strewn across local roads. Not many gave a second thought to trucks spraying a cocktail of blood, urine, water, and other slaughterhouse refuse over local farmland. But few wanted to accuse the company of wrongdoing, given that it employs over 425 people — about as many people in all of Loganton — and by some estimates processes 10 percent of the state’s beef. Leigey, a single mother who works three jobs, decided she had to speak up, for herself, her family, and her neighbors. “I just want a simple life,” she said. “I don’t feel like I should have to be emotionally, mentally, financially, and physically exhausted because some millionaire wants to dump blood on fields because it’s a cheap way to dispose of it. It’s not right.” <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cleaning-up.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=2048 2048w, https://gri…

No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill
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creator: Ayurella Horn-Muller
date: 2026-06-04T08:30:00Z
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description: The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it'll only make things pricier.
encoded: Nearly six years ago, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the president signed a piece of bipartisan legislation introduced to phase out the rampant use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are potent greenhouse gases commonly used in commercial cooling equipment in grocery stores and air-conditioning systems. At the time, he praised the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, created in line with an international agreement to tamp down widespread use of the “super pollutant,” as something that would benefit U.S. manufacturers working to produce alternative and less environmentally harmful refrigerants. The Environmental Protection Agency would then spend the next four years under former President Joe Biden working to implement a series of rules to help enforce the law, which set the goal of phasing out production and use of the pollutants by 85 percent by 2036. Now, Trump has reversed his position. At a White House press conference last month, he announced the administration would be loosening two of the EPA’s refrigerant rules, delaying the deadline required for grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to begin reducing their use of hydrofluorocarbons, and exempting transport companies from repairing HFC leaks in refrigeration equipment. Flanked by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and a handful of the country’s biggest grocery chain executives, the president assailed both the rule and the very law he signed, promising Americans the move would have no environmental consequence and bring down supermarket bills. Trump estimated that U.S. businesses and families will save more than $2.4 billion under the new rule changes, while expressing his desire to get rid of the underlying law altogether. “Thanks to today’s reforms, the American people have lower grocery prices, cheaper transportation of goods, lower costs of air conditioning at no detriment to our country,” Trump said. There’s just one problem — that’s just not true. Economists and former E…

Musician Andy ‘Red’ PK on not being afraid of hard work
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creator: Giliann Karon
date: 2026-06-04T07:00:00Z
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description: Which came first? The solo songwriting or collaborating with others?
encoded: Which came first? The solo songwriting or collaborating with others? I started collaborating first, kind of by a long shot. All my siblings play music. We spent many years and many hundreds of hours, just in our parents’ basement, playing Sublime and Weezer covers. All rotating on instruments. When we were kids, my brother Elliot was the natural frontman. He was the charismatic one. He’d write songs, and we’d back him up on those. I moved to Chicago in 2020, right at the start of the pandemic. Once things started to open up a little more towards the end of 2021, I started playing in other people’s bands, at first as a way to meet people and make friends, and also just experience playing music with people who were not my siblings. That was a huge deal to me, and I quickly knew I wanted music to be the new big thing in my life. Around that time, I’d started dabbling in writing songs, but I didn’t have a band or anyone to help me play them. I was very shy about it. Horse Like Me was my first time recording my songs in a studio. I did it with two of my best friends, Seth Engel and Nick Levine. They definitely took on a mentor/guide role for me because it was my first time in a studio environment, and they’ve lived and breathed that lifestyle for decades. I’ve learned so much from them, and I’m still learning. What’s interesting about releasing these songs now, years after first working on them, is realizing how different things feel. I have a consistent band these days, and none of them play on the record. Horse Like Me was my first real experience leading a project while collaborating. I’d spent a lot of time playing on other people’s songs, so I had a strong sense of what it meant to support someone else’s vision and lift it up. That’s still one of my favorite roles to play. It was a huge learning experience to start writing songs, playing them with other people, and bringing their creative voices into my work. It was a lot of stumbling around, retrying things, and fi…

It’s Time to Abolish the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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creator: Melvin Goodman
date: 2026-06-04T06:10:22Z
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description: Now that Donald Trump has established himself as the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush can breathe a sigh of relief. After all, it was Bush the Younger who used the 9/11 attacks to engage in decades of illegal and unneeded warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan at great cost to American national security. And it was Bush the Younger who established the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that did nothing to strengthen national security. More The post It’s Time to Abolish the Office of the Director of National Intelligence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Now that Donald Trump has established himself as the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush can breathe a sigh of relief. After all, it was Bush the Younger who used the 9/11 attacks to engage in decades of illegal and unneeded warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan at great cost to American national security. And it was Bush the Younger who established the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that did nothing to strengthen national security. With the appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, this is the opportunity to assess the role of the office and examine the new director. Pulte, who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has no background whatsoever in national security, defense, or intelligence. Pulte was chosen to replace Tulsi Gabbard for one simple reason: he is just as revenge-minded as the president of the United States. He is now in a position to weaponize the intelligence community against Trump’s political opponents. The position as DNI is his reward for being the leading voice in Trump’s campaign to oust then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as well as Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Pulte used his privileged access at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to lead Trump’s campaign against Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. He will remain as director of the FHFA, where he has fired dozens of staffers, including the internal watchdog investigators. Pulte is simply the latest in the long line of Trump’s miserable personnel moves in the field of intelligence. In Trump’s first transition team in 2016, Mike Rogers, who formerly chaired the House Intelligence Committee, was removed for being insufficiently zealous in pursuing the case against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump’s appointments to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel) were mediocre, and Tru…

Ukraine Bolsters Defenses Along Belarus Border Amid Concerns Of New Invasion
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date: 2026-06-04T06:00:37Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Will TSA Looting End Before Hell Freezes Over?
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creator: James Bovard
date: 2026-06-04T06:00:18Z
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description: For more than a decade, TSA agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. Since it was created almost 25 years ago, TSA has often been criticized for targeting antiwar activists, Green Party members, or prominent leftists. TSA even has a secret watchlist for people who are “publicly notorious” – especially if they are notorious for criticizing TSA. Such targeting is especially painful when it leads to cleaning out your wallet or your purse. More The post Will TSA Looting End Before Hell Freezes Over? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Transportation Security Administration – Public Domain For more than a decade, TSA agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. Since it was created almost 25 years ago, TSA has often been criticized for targeting antiwar activists, Green Party members, or prominent leftists. TSA even has a secret watchlist for people who are “publicly notorious” – especially if they are notorious for criticizing TSA. Such targeting is especially painful when it leads to cleaning out your wallet or your purse. More than 10,000 travelers have been stripped of their money by TSA agents since 2014. But the feds almost never bother filing criminal charges against the victims of asset forfeiture. TSA considers itself generous when it “permits the passenger to continue on to their destination” – after taking away their money. Since 2019, the Institute for Justice, a non-profit constitutional law firm, has been fighting this TSA abuse. Their class action lawsuit was finally got a hearing in federal court in Pittsburgh in February but no decision has been announced. The case is spearheaded by Dan Alban, America’s forfeiture knockout champion. “TSA has secret policies that tell its screeners that they must seize travelers’ cash,” says Alban. TSA partners with Drug Enforcement Administration, whose forfeiture program unofficial motto is, “You make it, we’ll take it.” TSA and DEA agents automatically confiscate the cash of any domestic traveler they detect with more than $5,000 — their magic threshold for money being “suspicious.” In August 2019, 57-year-old Rebecca Brown was flying out of Pittsburgh International Airport while carrying a Tupperware container with her father’s life savings — $82,373. Her 79-year-old father was showing signs of mental decline and was worried about keeping so much cash in hi…

A Great Leap into Reality: Venezuela Today
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creator: Chris Gilbert - Cira Pascual
date: 2026-06-04T05:59:42Z
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description: Today, among numerous Venezuela solidarity activists and fellow travelers in the Global North, Alex Saab’s extradition to the United States last week has become a similar symbolic breaking point. For them, the case is definitive proof that the Bolivarian Process has crossed an unforgivable line. Yet it is both revealing and bizarre that the measuring stick of the Venezuelan revolution could become a single figure. In fact, their outsized reaction can only be understood if we consider that the #FreeAlexSaab campaign constituted much of these activists’ only practical engagement with Venezuela, and many mistakenly believed Saab (though objectively more like Meng Wanzhou than Che Guevara) to be an emblematic 21st-century revolutionary. More The post A Great Leap into Reality: Venezuela Today appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: What we know of what is going on…confirms the revisionist orientation of the present policy…gains are in the process of being liquidated. As far as foreign policy is concerned … United States imperialism is denounced less and less. Its interventions in the life of other peoples are frequently even seen as “positive.”… The struggle against the bourgeois right is scarcely mentioned. Who wrote these lines? Is it one of the many international left voices denouncing the current Venezuelan government? The similarities are striking, but in fact, this was the French Maoist Charles Bettelheim, resigning in 1977 from the Franco-Chinese Friendship Association. In effect, it was an “hasta aquí” (washing one’s hands) moment from an intellectual heavyweight almost fifty years ago. Along with China’s new “revisionist” policies, which he thought were pro-capitalist, Bettelheim disliked the crude propaganda being used to denounce the Gang of Four, including Jiang Qing, to whom Mao himself had been married. How could revolutionaries so celebrated in one moment be so harshly condemned in the next? Does all of this sound close to home? In fact, both Bettelheim’s observations and his complaints seem uncannily similar to those of many concerned Venezuela watchers today. The View from the Core Today, among numerous Venezuela solidarity activists and fellow travelers in the Global North, Alex Saab’s extradition to the United States last week has become a similar symbolic breaking point. For them, the case is definitive proof that the Bolivarian Process has crossed an unforgivable line. Yet it is both revealing and bizarre that the measuring stick of the Venezuelan revolution could become a single figure. In fact, their outsized reaction can only be understood if we consider that the #FreeAlexSaab campaign constituted much of these activists’ only practical engagement with Venezuela, and many mistakenly believed Saab (though objectively more like Meng Wanzhou than Che Guevara) to be an embl…

The Nakba Was Not a Setback. It Was a Blueprint. And It Never Ended.
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creator: Monadel Herzallah
date: 2026-06-04T05:58:26Z
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description: I was seven years old in Amman, Jordan, when the Naksa broke through our television screen. I had just finished second grade. I didn’t yet have the words — occupation, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing — but I had my grandparents’ stories. The forced departure of 1948. The iron key to a house they never saw More The post The Nakba Was Not a Setback. It Was a Blueprint. And It Never Ended. appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. I was seven years old in Amman, Jordan, when the Naksa broke through our television screen. I had just finished second grade. I didn’t yet have the words — occupation, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing — but I had my grandparents’ stories. The forced departure of 1948. The iron key to a house they never saw again. The certainty, unshakeable as faith, that they would return in a week. A week became 78 years. That is the first thing you need to understand about the Naksa: it did not come from nowhere, and it did not end in 1967. It was the second chapter of a catastrophe that began in 1948 and has never stopped accelerating. Today, as we mark 59 years since the June War, we are watching its latest chapter unfold in real time — not through grainy newsreel footage, but in live streams, percentage points, and body counts that the world has learned to scroll past. We cannot afford to scroll past. What the Naksa Actually Was The Six-Day War gave Israel control over the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights — roughly 20,000 square kilometers, three times what it controlled after 1948. For the Israeli state, this was military triumph. For Palestinians, it was a land theft with body counts attached. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics puts Arab casualties between 15,000 and 25,000 killed, 45,000 injured, and 300,000 Palestinians displaced — most of them pushed into Jordan. Israeli losses: 650–800 killed, 2,000 injured. That asymmetry is not a footnote. It is the story. One side had a modern military and an expansionist project. The other side was a population being removed from its land.¹ East Jerusalem was occupied and annexed in everything but official language. For the first time, Israel controlled what it calls ‘Greater Jerusalem.’ From that moment, the settlement enterprise launched — first in the West Bank and Gaza, then everywhere, consuming land, water, and the possibility of a con…

The Dowsing Rod of Race
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creator: Troy Nahumko
date: 2026-06-04T05:55:53Z
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description: How a Thoroughly Debunked Idea Refuses to Die, and Why 400 People Paid €150 to Eat Dinner With It in Porto Hal had been dowsing for thirty-one years and he was not about to apologize for it. The rod was aluminum, custom-bent, wrapped at the handle with electrical tape the color of old mustard, and More The post The Dowsing Rod of Race appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Rinus – CC BY-SA 3.0 How a Thoroughly Debunked Idea Refuses to Die, and Why 400 People Paid €150 to Eat Dinner With It in Porto Hal had been dowsing for thirty-one years and he was not about to apologize for it. The rod was aluminum, custom-bent, wrapped at the handle with electrical tape the color of old mustard, and he held it with the practiced looseness of a man who had achieved genuine expertise in something that does not actually exist. He claimed to have found water in seven states. He had located two septic tanks and what he maintained, against considerable skepticism from the relevant authorities, was a pre-Columbian burial site somewhere outside Flagstaff, Arizona. A ‘find’ that turned out, upon excavation, to contain a 1977 wood-paneled Chrysler Town & Country Wagon filled with approximately four hundred Budweiser cans. He remained convinced. The rod had spoken. Discrepancies between the rod and reality were, in his considered view, reality’s fault. He had grudgingly upgraded from a pager to a blogspot website sometime in the first decade of the new millennium. He had testimonials. He had a yellowed certificate from the American Society of Dowsers, which is a real organization, real since 1961, which holds an annual convention in Vermont, which the state of Vermont has never once attempted to stop. He charges $200 for a residential consultation and $500 for commercial properties, and he had, over three decades, held this second job — a modest one, sustained by the durable human preference for a confident man with a stick over a hydrologist with a computer model and a three-week turnaround time. He was, by his own reckoning, being systematically suppressed. Canceled by bookworms. The scientific establishment didn’t want you to know what he knew. They had their instruments, their peer review, their gleaming academic consensus — and what had any of that ever found that a good man with a fervent belief and a properly calibrated rod couldn’t…

Cuba’s Health Miracles While Under Blockade
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creator: Nuvpreet Kalra
date: 2026-06-04T05:55:24Z
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description: Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact that this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine. The vaccine stops the progression of cancer by developing the patient’s immune system More The post Cuba’s Health Miracles While Under Blockade appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by MJ Haru. Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact that this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine. The vaccine stops the progression of cancer by developing the patient’s immune system to fight off cancer cells. This has proven to significantly prolong people’s survival. Since 2013, the vaccine has been monitored, trialled, and tested on more than 1,300 patients. Over a ten-year period, patients survived a median of 76.6 months, with 20% of all patients who were given VAXIRA experiencing unexpected long-term survival. Last year, VAXIRA was awarded the Technological Innovation Prize in Cuba for its contribution to healthcare in Cuba. This is an incredible feat for humanity and the battle against cancer – and it is being done by a country facing the longest and most severe blockade in history. In 2011, Cuba developed CIMAvax, which remains the world’s only approved lung cancer vaccine. This vaccine works to induce the immune system to stop the growth of cancer cells and slow the progression of tumors. This vaccine has already treated more than 5,000 people across the world and many more thousands in Cuba itself. Given the immense significance of the vaccine, the United States agreed to a special arrangement to trial the vaccine in the US. The Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York has been running clinical trials with CIM since 2018. They have run the first clinical trials of CIMAvax in the United States. The very same nation that is imposing a genocidal blockade on Cuba is also benefiting from the historic breakthroughs in healthcare. These major developments in medicine to treat cancer are not Cuba’s only awe-inspiring health achievements. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba produced five vaccines: Ablada, Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Soberana Plus, and Mambisa. Cuba had one of the lo…

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen’s Warning to Democrats
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creator: Melvin Goodman
date: 2026-06-04T05:53:14Z
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description: Last month, the Democratic National Committee belatedly released its autopsy of the 2024 election that failed to explain why the party was crushed in the election. The Democrat’s report never mentioned a key issue that contributed to Donald Trump’s victory: Israel and Gaza. Fortunately for the Democrats, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has courageously stood More The post Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen’s Warning to Democrats appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Maryland GovPics – CC BY 4.0 Last month, the Democratic National Committee belatedly released its autopsy of the 2024 election that failed to explain why the party was crushed in the election. The Democrat’s report never mentioned a key issue that contributed to Donald Trump’s victory: Israel and Gaza. Fortunately for the Democrats, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has courageously stood up and lambasted the Democrats for their complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians as well as their continued support for unlimited military assistance to Israel. In an oped that appeared in the New York Times last week (“The Hard Truths My Party Needs to Face”), Van Hollen excoriated the Democrats for the “hypocrisy and complicity in the gross violations of the values we profess to hold dear.” These violations included complicity in “ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, or what human rights organizations and scholars have determined to be genocide in Gaza.” Van Hollen should have referred to the fact that several of these organizations and scholars were Israeli. Van Hollen was specific regarding the changes that need to be made, particularly with regard to arms supplies. He wants the United States to “enforce the same terms and conditions” for Israel that are applied to other countries that receive U.S. arms. Van Hollen argued that Israel must also “comply with international law and U.S. policy” in using U.S.-provided weapons systems, and that the United States must expand sanctions on Israelis who threaten Palestinians on the West Bank. He warned that “voters won’t trust any Democratic presidential candidate who does not have a record of moral and strategic clarity on these issues.” There is a belated realization among Democrats that the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to ending the Israeli occupation and achieving two states with full political and legal rights for all. Van Hollen is not naive about the “strong resistance” that …

Why Big Carbon Offsets Often Fail
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creator: Rachel Rose Jackson
date: 2026-06-04T05:50:36Z
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description: The voluntary carbon market, or VCM, has been promoted as a tool for businesses, governments, and other entities to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offset credits from projects that purportedly reduce or remove carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. In theory, these credits allow buyers to compensate for emissions by paying another More The post Why Big Carbon Offsets Often Fail appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: USG plant and Weyerhaeuser export docks, lower Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The voluntary carbon market, or VCM, has been promoted as a tool for businesses, governments, and other entities to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offset credits from projects that purportedly reduce or remove carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere. In theory, these credits allow buyers to compensate for emissions by paying another actor for carrying out activities that are meant to reduce emissions elsewhere. This can include projects ranging from forest conservation to renewable energy and ecosystem restoration worldwide. Yet the reality of the VCM is far more complex and fraught with structural challenges than most outsiders realize. A 2025 report by Corporate Accountability analyzing the world’s largest carbon offset projects found widespread structural failures, revealing that even projects promoted by the market’s leading registries often fail to deliver the promised emissions reductions reliably. These challenges are systemic, spanning multiple registries, sectors, and project types, including forest conservation projects under REDD and REDD+ frameworks, large-scale hydropower and wind energy, cookstove and household efficiency initiatives, and industrial emissions reduction projects. The failures are neither isolated nor accidental but appear to reflect recurring patterns across the voluntary carbon market. Verra, the largest registry in the VCM, continues to dominate the market despite repeated exposure of flaws in its projects. Many other registries, including the Gold Standard Impact Registry, Climate Action Reserve, and the American Carbon Registry, also host projects with questionable integrity. Across these registries, independent ratings agencies have rated many projects as having a moderate to low likelihood of delivering the promised emissions reductions, meaning that tens of millions of carbon credits may not represent real emi…

Faultlines in a New Epoch of Crisis
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creator: Ashley Smith
date: 2026-06-04T05:50:15Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: We have entered a new epoch of global capitalism. It is characterized by crisis, imperial rivalry, authoritarian nationalism, and episodic, explosive resistance from below. The Trump administration’s brief year of misrule has brought all these to a head, particularly with its war on Iran. That war has put a definitive end to Washington’s imperial order More The post Faultlines in a New Epoch of Crisis appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Zoshua Colah. We have entered a new epoch of global capitalism. It is characterized by crisis, imperial rivalry, authoritarian nationalism, and episodic, explosive resistance from below. The Trump administration’s brief year of misrule has brought all these to a head, particularly with its war on Iran. That war has put a definitive end to Washington’s imperial order of free trade globalization that it constructed within its bloc after World War II and expanded globally after the Cold War. Now the U.S. is a predatory imperialist state out for its own interests against nominal allies, rivals, regional powers, and subject nations. Trump’s rise to power, like that of other authoritarian nationalists, did not come out of the blue. The electoral successes of the Right are the product of capitalism’s multiple crises and the establishment parties’ inability to overcome them. Their failure has triggered political polarization to the right and left. Given the revolutionary Left’s decline and reformist parties’ incapacity to deliver when in power, the new Right, in the form of authoritarian nationalism, has been the principal beneficiary. But their program of austerity, bigotry, and scapegoating has also failed to address capitalism’s systemic crises, undercutting their ability to secure hegemony and impose stable rule. As a result, political instability is the order of the day throughout the world. These conditions have triggered wave after wave of resistance from below. But so far this resistance has been episodic and unable to win, largely because of the decomposition of class, social, and political organizations to sustain struggle and pose an alternative to the establishment parties and the Right. Nonetheless, these struggles open opportunities to rebuild the infrastructure of resistance, cohere a militant minority, and reconstruct a revolutionary Left for the 21st century. Capitalism’s global slump Capitalism is beset by multiple systemic crises from climate cha…

The Hand-Me-Down Alliance: Australia, AUKUS and Op-Shop Submarines
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description: One can never accuse the Australian political palette of being too demanding, let alone attentive. When it comes to matters of defence, that palette is happy to be deceived, remaining credulous to the notion it is sensitive to good taste and observant of flavours. When it comes to alliances, this especially so. As for the AUKUS agreement, More The post The Hand-Me-Down Alliance: Australia, AUKUS and Op-Shop Submarines appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: The Department of War, Navy Cmdr. Erik Wells – Public Domain One can never accuse the Australian political palette of being too demanding, let alone attentive. When it comes to matters of defence, that palette is happy to be deceived, remaining credulous to the notion it is sensitive to good taste and observant of flavours. When it comes to alliances, this especially so. As for the AUKUS agreement, it was clear that the Australian establishment was simply incapable of tasting anything in the way of the rancid or putrid. Of the three participating countries in this doomed ménage à trois – the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia – it was the last of the trio that has been left providing the most while receiving the least. Centred on two pillars of poor understanding and unequal exchange, the AUKUS agreement is mouldering in unenviable disgrace. The first pillar envisages (dare on use the current tense?) the purchase of SSNs (nuclear-powered submarines) of the Virginia-Class from the United States that may run into three boats, possibly even two additional ones. According to the fatuous and vacuous Australian Submarine Agency’s assessment, the “acquisition will eliminate any capability gap and increase the 3 nations [sic] (Australia, UK and US) ability to deter aggression and contribute to peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific”. Eventually, the SSN-AUKUS, a hybrid of UK design, US technology and Australian gristle, will also be added to the fleet, a prospect bound to give few joy. But the docile and the doltish in Canberra do not seem alert to the grumbling mood in Washington that any transfer of these hulks would only take place on exclusive American terms. Doubt about Australian worthiness in using such boats in a war with China if called upon (call it want of skill, call it reluctance); and doubts about the rate of productionback home (the annual rate of two Virginia SSNs remains tardily elusive), has made the very idea of conveying …

A Free Market Approach to Healthcare: Lower Costs and Better Outcomes
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description: With many left-of-center types coming up with their plans for reforming healthcare, in the event the Democrats retake the White House in 2028, I thought I would once again throw out my free-market schemes. If nothing else, a little clear thinking should help the debate. We all know healthcare is tremendously expensive. Part of this More The post A Free Market Approach to Healthcare: Lower Costs and Better Outcomes appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Laurynas Me With many left-of-center types coming up with their plans for reforming healthcare, in the event the Democrats retake the White House in 2028, I thought I would once again throw out my free-market schemes. If nothing else, a little clear thinking should help the debate. We all know healthcare is tremendously expensive. Part of this is because it costs a lot to pay the people, doctors, nurses, technicians, and others, to provide care for patients. However, a big part of the cost is the money we pay for things, specifically drugs, and medical equipment and devices. What we pay for the services can only be reduced by paying people less. That would be okay with highly paid hospital administrators, and also doctors, who earn on average more than $360,000 a year. It would not be okay for most people lower down the pay ladder, many of whom struggle to get by already. We can and should look to limit profits, but they are only <a href="https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid=19&step=2&isuri=1&categories=survey#eyJhcHBpZCI6MTksInN0ZXBzIjpbMSwyLDNdLCJkYXRhIjpbWyJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIiwiU3VydmV5Il0sWyJOSVBBX1RhYmxlX0xpc3QiLCIyNTEiXV19" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid%3D19%26step%3D2%26isuri%3D1%26categories%3Dsurvey%23eyJhcHBpZCI6MTksInN0ZXBzIjpbMSwyLDNdLCJkYXRhIjpbWyJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIiwiU3VydmV5Il0sWyJOSVBBX1RhYmxlX0xpc3QiLCIyNTEiXV19&source=gmail&ust=1780427951206000&usg=AOvVaw01HjC74GkfITvPAEroGdrl">around 5% of what is spent on healthcare services. There is also the cost of insurance, but I’ll get back to that. Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Are Not the Free Market But the big story that fans of free markets everywhere should be focused on is the money we pay for things like drugs and medical equipment. This year we’ll <a href="https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid=19&step=2&isuri=1&categories=underlying#eyJhcHBpZCI6MTksInN0ZXBzIjpbMSwyLDNdLCJkYXRhIjpbWyJjYXRlZ29yaWVzIiwiU3VydmV5Il0sWyJOSVBBX1RhYm…

The Top Charities Aren’t What You Think
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description: For the past four years, we have compiled a list of the twenty public charities in the United States that took in the most donations. We build our rankings by pulling contribution information from the tax returns of the largest donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsors and universities in the U.S. and then combining that with Forbes’ More The post The Top Charities Aren’t What You Think appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Katt Yukawa For the past four years, we have compiled a list of the twenty public charities in the United States that took in the most donations. We build our rankings by pulling contribution information from the tax returns of the largest donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsors and universities in the U.S. and then combining that with Forbes’ list of the top-fundraising non-DAF, non-university charities. The most recent year available now is 2024. In 2024 (as in 2021, 2022, and 2023), DAF sponsors fared phenomenally well. DAF sponsors accounted for eleven of the top 20 charities, including every spot in the top five. These eleven DAF sponsors brought in more than $67 billion in donations, 74 percent of the $91 billion total brought in by the entire group. And the five largest sponsors together brought in more than $51 billion, well more than half of the total. Some of the operating nonprofits on our list — such as the United Way and the Salvation Army — sponsor DAF programs as well, but we didn’t categorize them as sponsors because their DAF programs are tiny compared to their other fundraising. In addition, neither our list nor Forbes’ list include religious organizations, as they are not required to make their financial information public. What are DAFs, anyway? Every year, operating charities struggle harder for funds while wealthy donors pump more and more money into intermediary giving vehicles called donor-advised funds, or DAFs. And, thanks to a lack of adequate oversight, DAFs are ripe for mistreatment by donors and for-profit companies alike. Donors can put money into a personal DAF account and get a tax deduction for it, because they’re technically giving to a public charity. The charitable organization managing the DAF, which is called a sponsor, then gives the donor almost unlimited advisory privileges to recommend grants out of the DAF. But DAFs have no payout requirement, so their assets can legally sit for years — or even forever — without moving …

What Jefferson and Madison Would Have Thought About ‘Rededicating’ the US to God
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description: Thomas Jefferson’s official presidential portrait, painted around 1800 by Rembrandt Peale. White House History via Wikimedia Commons Thousands of Americans prayed on the National Mall on May 17, 2026, during “Rededicate 250”: a day-long rally to “come together in prayer and worship ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday,” as organizers described it. U.S. House Speaker More The post What Jefferson and Madison Would Have Thought About ‘Rededicating’ the US to God appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Thomas Jefferson’s official presidential portrait, painted around 1800 by Rembrandt Peale. White House History via Wikimedia Commons Thousands of Americans prayed on the National Mall on May 17, 2026, during “Rededicate 250”: a day-long rally to “come together in prayer and worship ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday,” as organizers described it. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of many Republican politicians and conservative Christian leaders to speak, led a prayer to “rededicate the United States of America as one nation under God.” Planned by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership, the rally prompted criticism that it blurred the lines separating church and state. According to the Pew Research Center, 73% of adults agree that religion should be kept separate from government policies, and only 19% of Americans say the United States should stop enforcing that principle. But figures allied with the Trump administration have challenged the premise that the U.S. government should be – or was meant to be – separate from religion. In 2023, Johnson remarked that “The separation of church and state is a misnomer … it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote. It’s not in the Constitution. And what he was explaining is they did not want the government to encroach upon the church – not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on our public life.” As a scholar of American legal and religious history, I have written extensively about the development of religious freedom in the U.S., and the origins of the separation of church and state. Two of the Founding Fathers shaped American views on these topics more than any other: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Yet their views have also become lightning rods for controversy as the “wall” between church and state comes under scrutiny. My 2024 book, “The Grand Collaboration,” seeks to answer several questions: What was Jefferson’s and Madison’s understanding of religious freedom? And w…

Rebellion From Below Threatens Overthrow of Bolivia’s New Rightwing Government
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description: As of June 1, 2026, Bolivian Indigenous and working people had been massively protesting for more than two months against repressive measures imposed by the government of conservative President Rodrigo Paz, in office since November 8, 2025. Bolivia’s Parliament eliminated taxation of the very wealthy. Paz’s Decree 5503, issued in December, ended longstanding fuel subsidies More The post Rebellion From Below Threatens Overthrow of Bolivia’s New Rightwing Government appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Getty and Unsplash+. As of June 1, 2026, Bolivian Indigenous and working people had been massively protesting for more than two months against repressive measures imposed by the government of conservative President Rodrigo Paz, in office since November 8, 2025. Bolivia’s Parliament eliminated taxation of the very wealthy. Paz’s Decree 5503, issued in December, ended longstanding fuel subsidies and instituted privatization measures. Subsequently, fuel prices skyrocketed. Poor-quality fuel damaged cars and trucks. His government enacted Law 1720 in April; it allowed small farmers’ land holdings to qualify as collateral for bank loans. Bankers and wealthy landowners would consequently be able to absorb small bits of land into larger tracts to further mining and industrial-scale agriculture. Small farmers would lose protections for land ownership established by land-reform legislation in 1953. Chaotic times A firestorm of opposition emerged. On April 8, Indigenous peoples in Pando and Beni Departments, in the Amazonian lowlands, began a 600-mile march to Bolivia’s capitol, La Paz. Already, the country’s major labor federation, the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB in its Spanish initials) was demanding higher salaries, better pensions, lower gasoline prices, and limits put on privatization – and that President Paz resign. Together, the Indigenous marchers and COB protesters assembled in La Paz on May 4. The COM represents powerful miners’ unions and unions representing rural teachers, healthcare employees, transportation workers, and farmers. Some 70 unions were on hand. The alliance between the FSTMB, a federation of mine workers’ unions, and the CSUTCB, a federation of small farmers’ unions, was emblematic of renewed unity. Highway blockades appeared in La Paz and nearby El Alto and extended along highways connecting La Paz with Oruro in the Amazonian North. As of May 29, 100 points of blockade were active in six departments. Now essential goods are not arriving…

37 years on, Chinese government still fails to accept responsibility for the Tiananmen Massacre
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Newfangled Robo-Death Warfare Headress, 2026!
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[episode cut] PRIDE: Sarah Schulman on How to Build Solidarity
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Mexican journalist Roxana Guzmán abducted from home by armed men in Veracruz
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description: Mexico City, June 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately investigate the abduction of journalist Roxana Berenice Guzmán Rodríguez, establish the motive and ensure she is freed unharmed, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Guzmán, the founder and editor of the Facebook-based news website Pulso Informativo del Sureste, was taken by unidentified armed men on Tuesday...
encoded: Mexico City, June 3, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately investigate the abduction of journalist Roxana Berenice Guzmán Rodríguez, establish the motive and ensure she is freed unharmed, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Guzmán, the founder and editor of the Facebook-based news website Pulso Informativo del Sureste, was taken by unidentified armed men on Tuesday in Nanchital, a town in the eastern Mexican coastal state of Veracruz, according to a statement by the state’s prosecutor’s office, which added that state authorities opened an investigation into the kidnapping. “The brazen kidnapping of Roxana Guzmán in broad daylight is shocking even in Mexico, which holds the abysmal status of being the country with the highest number of disappeared journalists in the world,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “The alarming incident once again reveals how criminal violence and impunity continue to make Mexico the deadliest country for journalists in the western hemisphere, and it is imperative that authorities in Veracruz ensure Guzmán’s return to her family and bring her attackers to justice.” A video shared widely on social media on Tuesday morning shows how an unidentified man used a heavy tool to break down the door of Guzmán’s residence while a second unidentified male pointed a gun and threatened Guzmán and her family. According to news reports and the prosecutor’s office’s statement, she was taken shortly after. Her whereabouts are unknown and it is not known if the attackers demand a ransom for her release. Guzmán’s website Pulso Informativo del Sureste publishes mostly local news, including recent stories on infrastructure, traffic accidents, issues with power and water and, occasionally, minor crime in Nanchital and its surroundings. The website has approximately 21,000 followers. According to the Veracruz State Commission for Attention to and Protection of Journalists (CEAPP), Guzmán had not recently reported any threa…

A Living Archive Of Lebanon
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description: As Israel continues to bomb and occupy southern Lebanon, researchers and archivists are documenting the country’s history—and paving the way for reconstruction.
encoded: As Israel continues to bomb and occupy southern Lebanon, researchers and archivists are documenting the country’s history—and paving the way for reconstruction. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Paul Hefel-James.

Heterosexuality During Wartime
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description: The straights, as people like to say, are not OK.
encoded: The straights, as people like to say, are not OK. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Sarah Jaffe.

70% land takeover of Gaza. What comes next for Israel? Ghada Karmi’s 45-second answer.
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No vigils: Hong Kong’s Victoria Park silent on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary
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description: Since National Security Law went into effect, the government silenced the yearly protest that once drew 180,000.
encoded: Read the original version of this story on RFA Mandarin. Hong Kong’s Victoria Park is now much quieter on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and residents told Radio Free Asia that they find it jarring. The park had once been the epicenter of peaceful democratic resistance as hundreds of thousands turned out for yearly candlelight vigils to remember the victims of Chinese government’s June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now on that day, pro-China showcases are held in the park, and there’s no mention of the massacre in local media anymore. “It is not that the Hong Kong media are unaware of June 4, nor is it that they lack the necessary information; rather, they simply do not dare to touch the subject anymore,” a veteran media professional closely monitoring press freedom in Hong Kong, identified only by his surname Chen, told RFA. On that day in Beijing, the military, on orders to clear Tiananmen Square of pro-democracy protesters, shot and killed hundreds of them, if not thousands. The Chinese government has since expunged the incident from the public record, and it heavily censors public discussion on the subject. A year after the bloodshed, people gathered to remember the victims in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, at the time still a British colony. The park became ground zero for annual commemorative events, and even though the city reverted to Chinese control in 1997, the gathering thrived, as Beijing had agreed to preserve the civil liberties of Hong Kong residents. At its peak in 2019 attendance reached approximately 180,000. But this all changed in 2020. The government banned the June 4 vigil that year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That same year the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law went into effect, allowing the city’s Beijing-aligned government to begin rolling back freedom of expression and other rights. The 2021 event was again cancelled due to the pandemic, but from 2022 onward, authorities used the security…

‘Debases the democratic process’: Sotomayor pens scathing dissent as Supreme Court allows racist Alabama map
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‘Disturbing trend of lawlessness’: UN experts denounce Trump’s coercive brutalization of Cuban people
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 3, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – June 3, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Egypt sentences commentator Ahmed Douma to one year in prison
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description: Washington, D.C., June 3, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the release of Egyptian political commentator Ahmed Douma, who was handed a one-year prison sentence on Wednesday over his criticism of conditions inside Egypt’s prisons. “The sentencing of Ahmed Douma for writing about prison conditions is a stark violation of the right...
encoded: Washington, D.C., June 3, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the release of Egyptian political commentator Ahmed Douma, who was handed a one-year prison sentence on <a href="https://eipr.org/press/2026/06/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%B3-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%BA%D9%84-%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%87-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86">Wednesday over his criticism of conditions inside Egypt’s prisons. “The sentencing of Ahmed Douma for writing about prison conditions is a stark violation of the right to free and safe expression. No journalist should face prison for sharing firsthand experiences or expressing critical opinions,”said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Douma and stop weaponizing the country’s legal system to quash public debate.” A Cairo court convicted Douma on charges of publishing “false news and rumors inside and outside the country that would disturb public order” over social media posts and an article he wrote for the London-based news website The New Arab. In the piece, Douma describes his personal experience as a political prisoner, arguing that imprisonment has become a central tool of control for several governments across the region and the world. Douma was arrested on April 6, 2026, at the Supreme State Security Prosecution headquarters following a six-hour interrogation and held for nearly two months in pre-trial detention. He was sentenced despite <a href="https://eipr.org/press/2026/06/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D8%BA%D8%AF%D9%8B%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-…

UN News Today 03 June 2026
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description: Gaza killings, turmoil and misery continue, warns OHCHRLebanon: fear and uncertainty haunt war-torn communities 24 million people in the Sahel urgently need aid: OCHA
encoded: Gaza killings, turmoil and misery continue, warns OHCHRLebanon: fear and uncertainty haunt war-torn communities 24 million people in the Sahel urgently need aid: OCHA This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Photographer requires stitches after baton strike at New Jersey protest
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description: Photojournalist Ryan Murphy required stitches after a federal officer hit his hand with a baton, slicing open his finger, while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May ...
encoded: Photojournalist Ryan Murphy required stitches after a federal officer hit his hand with a baton, slicing open his finger, while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 28, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Murphy told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker he was photographing clashes between ICE officers and protesters when he turned away to capture an image of a demonstrator being pepper-sprayed in the face. “Out of nowhere, I was just hit with a baton in my left hand,” Murphy said. “I can say I was clearly identified as press, and I’m pretty sure that he saw that and knew that.” Murphy, who was on assignment for Reuters, said the baton struck him on the hand holding his camera flash, sending the equipment roughly 20 feet across the street. Although the flash sustained only cosmetic damage, Murphy realized his hand had taken the brunt of the blow. Blood rushed down his arm, and his middle finger suffered a deep cut. Colleagues provided Murphy with first aid before he drove himself to the hospital, where he received several stitches. Earlier in the day, Murphy said an ICE agent kicked his flash while it was on the ground. He also recalled being struck on the back of his elbow, though he was unsure what caused the impact, and said an officer pointed a stun gun at him. The injury has made it difficult for Murphy to continue working. “My hand is not very useful at the moment,” he said. The day before, he was also hit with a baton and pepper-sprayed. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone…

Viral video of SRH owner Kavya Maran in tears after SRH loss is two years old, not recent
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description: A video, showing Kavya Maran, co-owner and CEO of the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), is viral on social media, where she is seen breaking down in tears, followed by... The post Viral video of SRH owner Kavya Maran in tears after SRH loss is two years old, not recent appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video, showing Kavya Maran, co-owner and CEO of the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), is viral on social media, where she is seen breaking down in tears, followed by clapping. According to social media users, Maran was reportedly crying after SRH lost the crucial eliminator clash against the Rajasthan Royals on May 27, which resulted in their exit from the tournament. Posting the clip, several users pointed out that Kavya Maran’s team, Sunrisers Leeds, from the UK’s The Hundred cricket league, had signed Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed in March this year — a move that had sparked controversy and drawn criticism from former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, among others. It is to be noted that the IPL had not featured any Pakistani cricketer since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, until Ahmed’s inclusion in the Sun Group-owned franchise. X user (@smitadeshmukh) posted the clip on May 28, writing that she “felt for the team”, but could not discount the fact that its owner had bought a Pakistani cricketer who had insulted the Indian armed forces. Since then, the post has gathered more than 82,000 views. (Archive) I feel for the team, but can’t forget the owner who kept on pitching for a Pak player, who has insulted our armed forces, for her Hundred franchise. Cry as much, but glad to see her out. Go to UK for Hundred. pic.twitter.com/i6sNxvHPDb — Smita Deshmukh (@smitadeshmukh) May 28, 2026 Several X users, like (@Mamtasulaniya), (@drona_17), (@varunavi17), (@Santosh13298329) and others also circulated the viral clip, claiming that it was shot after SRH suffered their exit from this year’s edition of the IPL. Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4 Click to view slideshow. “Maha Sports”, a Marathi sports news outlet, also posted the viral clip on Facebook and Instagram, where it has seen significant traction. At the time os writing this article, the post had gathered around 8 lakh views on Facebook, and close to 9 lakh views on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maha Spo…

Photojournalist hit with baton, doused with irritant at New Jersey protest
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description: Photojournalist Ryan Murphy was struck in the leg with a baton and pepper-sprayed by federal officers while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 27, 2026.Protests ou...
encoded: Photojournalist Ryan Murphy was struck in the leg with a baton and pepper-sprayed by federal officers while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 27, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. Murphy told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he was walking through the protest when an ICE officer hit the back of his leg with a baton. “He full-on targeted me and hit me full on with his baton, and I looked at him and said, ‘I’m press,’” said Murphy, who added that the officer apologized. Murphy, who was on assignment for Reuters, was wearing press credentials and carrying his cameras at the time. “He didn’t seem to care, he was just throwing his baton everywhere, being super aggressive.” Murphy said he witnessed an officer strike a protester in the face with a baton. He was also pepper-sprayed — in situations that were both targeted at him and other media or during periods when he was caught in the cross fire. “It seemed pretty indiscriminate that they were just kind of blanketing people with pepper spray, just pointing in a general direction and just letting it rip,” said Murphy, who felt the sting of the irritant until the next morning. “My entire shirt was stained orange.” The next day, his hand was struck with a baton, requiring stitches. In a statement emailed to the Tracker on June 1, DHS said anyone who obstructs law enforcement or disrupts its operations would be prosecuted. It did not address its use of force against members of the press. “We remind members of the media to exercise caution as they cover t…

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 3, 2026
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date: 2026-06-03T15:59:17Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The Government Tried to Villainize Us: "Broadview 6" Defendants Speak Out After Charges Dropped
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date: 2026-06-03T15:31:36Z
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"Broadview 6" Charges Dropped; Chicago Federal Prosecutors Under Fire
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date: 2026-06-03T15:22:47Z
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Arson attack targets Italian journalist Adriano Cappellari after mob-related threats
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-06-03T15:11:47Z
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description: Berlin, June 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Italian authorities to swiftly complete their investigation into an arson attack targeting journalist Adriano Cappellari, as well as ongoing threats against him, in a thorough and transparent manner and bring all perpetrators to justice. Cappellari, a contributor to the regional daily Il Giornale di Vicenza...
encoded: Berlin, June 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Italian authorities to swiftly complete their investigation into an arson attack targeting journalist Adriano Cappellari, as well as ongoing threats against him, in a thorough and transparent manner and bring all perpetrators to justice. Cappellari, a contributor to the regional daily Il Giornale di Vicenza and local fortnightly L’Altopiano, was targeted in an arson attack at his home in Enego, in the northern Italian province of Vicenza on the night of May 30-31. Shortly after the journalist returned home and was alone, a masked individual entered the property and left an incendiary device near the entrance, sparking a fire that damaged the house. Investigators later found Molotov cocktail remnants and unexploded gas canisters at the scene. No injuries were reported. A threatening letter left at the scene demanded that the journalist cease his reporting and included references to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and anti-mafia priest Don Maurizio Patriciello, who has been under police protection for years. “This serious arson attack on Adriano Cappellari is a stark reminder of the dangers journalists face when reporting on organized crime and other matters of public interest in Italy,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. “Authorities must complete their investigation in a swift and thorough manner, hold those responsible to account, ensure Cappellari’s safety, and send a clear message that violence and intimidation against journalists will not be tolerated.” The attack follows months of threats linked to Cappellari’s reporting on the situation in Caivano, near Naples, southern Italy, a neighborhood plagued by organized crime, and on Patriciello. Cappellari had previously received anonymous letters, including one in February warning that he would be silenced if his reporting continued. Italian authorities have opened an investigation, while government officials, including the prime minister, …

MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte Tapped to Be New U.S. Spy Chief, Led Efforts to Target Trump Critics
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date: 2026-06-03T15:09:42Z
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"Fraud on the Court": Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion
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date: 2026-06-03T15:06:21Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 3, 2026
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Tiananmen protest student leader Wang Dan: ‘It’s about survival’ | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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State police pull photographer from news car during New Jersey protest
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description: A photojournalist for WNBC TV was pulled out of a news vehicle by New Jersey State Police while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 29, 2026.Protests outside the De...
encoded: A photojournalist for WNBC TV was pulled out of a news vehicle by New Jersey State Police while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its treatment of detainees in Newark, New Jersey, on May 29, 2026. Protests outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility began May 22, when many detainees went on a hunger strike. Members of Congress, state and local lawmakers and rights groups have alleged dire conditions at the facility. Federal officers responded to the protests with chemical irritants, physical force and arrests, as did state police in the days that followed. The Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of detainee mistreatment. In a video report from the scene, WNBC reporter Checkey Beckford said that at around 10 p.m., state police in riot gear started moving in to push the crowd back, eventually deploying a chemical irritant. Beckford and two photojournalists — both of whom were wearing press credentials — were sitting in their news vehicle, with the WNBC placard in the window. “We thought we were in a safe area. We moved away from the main protest area and thought we would be fine. And then when state police started moving in, in riot gear, we thought we would stay in the vehicle because we didn’t want to deal with tear gas,” Beckford reported. Beckford said that troopers “pulled one of the photojournalists in my car out and ordered myself and another photojournalist to get out of the car. We did that, started running, we were in the middle of tear gas.” She added, “We had masks on, but they didn’t really do much to help us, and so we ran through tear gas and continued running until we were able to get out of it.” The New Jersey State Police Office of Public Information did not respond to an emailed request for comment. In a statement posted to X early May 30, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport wrote that state police were clearing the area outside Delaney Hall because a small number of people w…

The Government Tried to Villainize Us: Broadview 6 Defendants Speak Out After Charges Dropped
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date: 2026-06-03T12:54:17Z
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description: We continue our coverage of the fallout from the dropped federal case against the “Broadview 6,” six people who attended a protest outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE jail in September. They were later indicted for conspiracy to ...
encoded: We continue our coverage of the fallout from the dropped federal case against the “Broadview 6,” six people who attended a protest outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE jail in September. They were later indicted for conspiracy to impede a federal agent, despite many not having met prior to appearing together in court. “I didn’t find out that I had been indicted until a month after this happened,” says Kat Abughazaleh, who was not arrested at the protest, but weeks later, as she was running for Congress. Michael Rabbitt, a Democratic ward committeeperson in Chicago, says that when he received a text informing him about a warrant for his arrest, “I actually thought it was a scam. I honestly didn’t think it was real.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Appalling Misconduct”: Chicago Federal Prosecutors Under Fire; “Broadview 6” Charges Dropped
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description: Calls are growing for the interim U.S. attorney in Chicago, Andrew Boutros, to resign over his handling of the “Broadview 6” case — six individuals charged with federal crimes for protesting outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE ja...
encoded: Calls are growing for the interim U.S. attorney in Chicago, Andrew Boutros, to resign over his handling of the “Broadview 6” case — six individuals charged with federal crimes for protesting outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE jail in September. The remaining charges against four of the Broadview 6 were recently dismissed after the case collapsed in court due to widespread prosecutorial misconduct. “This DOJ has completely corrupted the grand jury process,” says attorney Chris Parente, who represented one of the Broadview 6. “When they decide that they want to get a political indictment through, they will do whatever it takes, even acting in an unethical way.” Parente, himself a former federal prosecutor, says federal prosecutors heavily misrepresented the case and forced an indictment despite the grand jury initially voting against it. What’s “even worse,” he adds, is the U.S. attorney’s subsequent cover-up of the prosecutors’ conduct, refusing to release the grand jury transcripts for months and later redacting and withholding full pages from the judge who ordered their release. “As a former federal prosecutor, your job is not to win any case. It’s to do the right thing. And I’ve never seen a case like this, where from the jump they did the wrong thing at every single turn.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte Tapped to Be New U.S. Spy Chief, Led Efforts to Target Trump Critics
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description: In “yet another deeply alarming appointment,” President Donald Trump has picked major Trump campaign donor Bill Pulte to replace former Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, the nation’s top spy c...
encoded: In “yet another deeply alarming appointment,” President Donald Trump has picked major Trump campaign donor Bill Pulte to replace former Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, the nation’s top spy chief who reports directly to the president. Pulte is “not somebody who has any of the requisite experience for this incredibly important office,” says Matt Platkin, a former attorney general for New Jersey. Pulte is also expected to continue in his other high-level positions as chair of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and chair of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he is accused of abusing his power to pursue political prosecutions against Trump’s enemies. We also speak to Harvard Law School professor Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge, about legal challenges to Trump’s mass deportation campaign, particularly involving widespread abuses committed by DHS and ICE. “What we’re seeing now is an effort for the courts to catch up to those abuses, and they are. Legislation is going to be needed to make this even more clear,” says Gertner. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Fraud on the Court”: Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion
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description: After widespread bipartisan outcry, the Justice Department says it is permanently abandoning plans for a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Widely branded as a “slush fund,” it was expected to reward President Do...
encoded: After widespread bipartisan outcry, the Justice Department says it is permanently abandoning plans for a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Widely branded as a “slush fund,” it was expected to reward President Donald Trump’s supporters, including those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The fund was announced in May as part of a settlement in Trump’s personal lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax data. That case was recently reopened, after dozens of former federal judges filed a motion alleging that Trump’s actions were “collusive.” As Nancy Gertner, one of the judges who joined the motion, explains, “What happened in this case was, essentially, Trump was suing himself. There was no question that Trump was on both sides of the 'v.'” Gertner and her fellow judges are represented by attorney Matt Platkin, who says, “It is illegal for the president to ask for any IRS audit to be opened or closed. That is a federal crime.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Broadview 6” Defendants Kat Abughazaleh & Michael Rabbitt on ICE Protest & Prosecutorial Misconduct
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description: Part 2 of our conversation with Kat Abughazaleh & Michael Rabbitt. They were indicted for protesting last year outside the Broadview ICE jail during Trump’s so-called “Operation Midway Blitz” crackdown. During a recent court hearing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office admitted federal prosecutors committed misconduct during the grand jury proceedings and, in a stunning move, the U.S. attorney’s office dismissed the charges against the four who had been indicted.
encoded: Watch Part 2 of our conversation with Kat Abughazaleh and Michael Rabbitt, two of the “Broadview 6” who were indicted for protesting last year outside the Broadview ICE jail during Trump’s so-called “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration crackdown. During a recent court hearing, the U.S. attorney’s office admitted federal prosecutors committed misconduct during the grand jury proceedings and, in a stunning move, the U.S. attorney’s office dismissed the charges against the remaining four defendants. Charges had already been dropped against two others. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for June 3, 2026
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description: Iran Launches Missiles and Drones at Kuwait and Bahrain in Retaliation for U.S. Attacks, Israel Kills at Least Eight People in Southern Lebanon, Israeli Forces Kill at Least Four Palestinians in Gaza, Trump Picks MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence, Pentagon Hires Jan. 6 Insurrectionist for Counterterrorism Role, DOJ Kills $1.8B Anti-Weaponization Fund, But Trump’s IRS Settlement Remains, Former Border Patrol Chief Bovino Attends Anti-Immigrant Summit in Portugal, New Jersey Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Private Prison Company GEO Group, SCOTUS Allows Alabama to Adopt New GOP-Friendly Congressional Map, CBS News Fires “60 Minutes” Correspondent Scott Pelley, MAGA-Supporting Republican Steve Hilton Leads California Governor’s Race, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Advances to Runoff, Challenged by Reality TV Star and City Councilmember, Deb Haaland Advances in Bid to Become New Mexico’s First-Ever Indigenous Governor, Trump-Backed Gubernatorial Candidate Loses GOP Primary in Iowa, Dr. Adam Hamawy, Who Volunteered in Gaza, Wins Democratic Nomination for New Jersey House Seat
encoded: Iran Launches Missiles and Drones at Kuwait and Bahrain in Retaliation for U.S. Attacks Israel Kills at Least Eight People in Southern Lebanon Israeli Forces Kill at Least Four Palestinians in Gaza Trump Picks MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte to Serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence Pentagon Hires Jan. 6 Insurrectionist for Counterterrorism Role DOJ Kills $1.8B Anti-Weaponization Fund, But Trump's IRS Settlement Remains Former Border Patrol Chief Bovino Attends Anti-Immigrant Summit in Portugal New Jersey Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Private Prison Company GEO Group SCOTUS Allows Alabama to Adopt New GOP-Friendly Congressional Map CBS News Fires "60 Minutes" Correspondent Scott Pelley MAGA-Supporting Republican Steve Hilton Leads California Governor's Race L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Advances to Runoff, Challenged by Reality TV Star and City Councilmember Deb Haaland Advances in Bid to Become New Mexico's First-Ever Indigenous Governor Trump-Backed Gubernatorial Candidate Loses GOP Primary in Iowa Dr. Adam Hamawy, Who Volunteered in Gaza, Wins Democratic Nomination for New Jersey House Seat This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-06-03 Wednesday
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New North Korea-Russia bridge opens soon, satellite images reveal | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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Maher Nazzal: I walked through Palestine
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description: After years away, I have finally returned to Palestine, not just to visit but to reconnect with the land, the people, the memories, and the reality lived every day, writes Maher Nazzal. COMMENTARY: By Maher Nazzal Walking into Palestine is not just a journey across geography, it is a confrontation with memory, identity, and everything
encoded: After years away, I have finally returned to Palestine, not just to visit but to reconnect with the land, the people, the memories, and the reality lived every day, writes Maher Nazzal. COMMENTARY: By Maher Nazzal Walking into Palestine is not just a journey across geography, it is a confrontation with memory, identity, and everything you were told, and everything you discover for yourself. The first thing that stays with you is the wall. It does not feel like a distant structure you read about in reports; it rises suddenly into your view, stretching across the landscape like a scar that refuses to fade. Concrete slabs stacked high, covered in layers of paint, messages, names, grief, humour, and resistance. It divides not only land, but daily life. On one side, movement feels controlled, measured, observed. On the other, life continues stubbornly, beautifully, and painfully. The borders are not just lines on a map. They are checkpoints, gates, pauses in time. You wait. You are asked. You move forward or you don’t. People pass through them with a kind of practised patience that comes only from living a life where waiting is normal. And yet, even there, you see dignity in the eyes, in the silence, in the quiet determination to continue. But Palestine is not defined by its restrictions. It is defined by its people. People who greet you as if you have always belonged there. People who carry history in their voices without needing to announce it. People who laugh in ways that refuse to be diminished. There is warmth that does not depend on comfort — it exists even in hardship. You hear stories in taxis, in shops, at doorways, in fields. Stories of loss, yes, but also of endurance, education, love, and return. And then there are the trees. Olive trees are older than nations. Their trunks twisted like they have been holding secrets for centuries. Some stand alone on rocky hillsides, others form quiet groves that feel almost sacred. They do not move quickly. They do not nee…

Ukrainian Drones Hit St. Petersburg Oil Terminal Ahead Of Putin’s Economic Forum #warinukraine
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This Cold War Mystery Has Not Been Fully Resolved
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Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns
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description: The post Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Newly appointed Beaumont ISD Superintendent Sandi Massey speaks during a school board meeting in Beaumont, Texas. Danielle Villasana for ProPublica No state has taken over as many local public school districts as Texas. Just since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. Four of those came this spring. At least another 10 are at risk of takeover, including, as of last week, the Austin Independent School District. And to lead some of these districts, Texas is turning to a cadre of officials with ties to Mike Miles, the man the education agency chose in 2023 to oversee the Houston school district, the state’s largest. Miles is also a close ally of Mike Morath, Texas’ powerful education commissioner. Already, at least two of these new district leaders have started to adopt policies similar to the contentious reforms Miles has pursued in Houston. He has touted improved test scores under his charge. Houston ISD had no F-rated campuses and fewer D-rated campuses in the state’s latest ratings compared with previous years. But Miles has also sparked widespread protests in response to the district’s rigid adherence to scripted lessons and repetitive testing, the firing of principals and teachers, mass school closures, and the conversion of schools into charters. Miles did not respond to requests for comment from the Texas Observer. Houston ISD officials, in a statement to the Observer, said the district did not achieve better ratings by maintaining the status quo but “made difficult decisions” to improve academic performance, noting the majority of its campuses are now rated A or B. These school districts whose new leaders have connections to Miles should prepare for “upheaval and chaos,” warned an elected Houston school board member. “If anything doesn’t align with improving test scores, it will be taken away,” said Maria Benzon, who was elected in November to the Houston ISD board but is not permitted to serve under the…

DN! Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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Lawmakers Demand Answers After the White House Initiated a $620M Loan to a Firm Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
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description: The post Lawmakers Demand Answers After the White House Initiated a $620M Loan to a Firm Tied to Donald Trump Jr. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Donald Trump Jr. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A group of lawmakers demanded answers from the White House this week following a ProPublica investigation revealing that a top aide to the president intervened to secure a $620 million Pentagon loan to a startup linked to the president’s eldest son. ProPublica’s reporting “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence peddling that superseded this process, enriching the President’s son at the expense of U.S. national security and taxpayer dollars,” wrote the group of Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii as well as Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado and Mike Levin of California. Read More The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. Last year, the Pentagon announced the loan to Vulcan Elements, a small North Carolina startup, about three months after Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took a stake of undisclosed size in the rare-earth magnet company. Interviews and Defense Department records reviewed by ProPublica show that the request to lend to the firm was made by Peter Navarro, who serves as the president’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing and is a friend of Trump Jr.’s. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was considering funding at the time, Vulcan’s was the only deal initiated by a top aide to the president, an official at the Pentagon who was not authorized to speak publicly told ProPublica. After defense officials got the White House request, they asked Pentagon staff to move at an unusually rapid pace, said another person who was involved in the deal at the Pentagon but not authorized to speak about it. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said. In their letter, addressed to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the lawmakers asked a series of questions about Navarro’s involvement in the deal, including whethe…

A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford
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description: The post A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images via IRS and Flickr. On any given night, thousands of people sleep on the streets in Portland, Oregon. They seek shelter in tents, bushes and overpasses in a city that has struggled with one of the worst housing crises in the country. Portland, like many cities, has raced to increase its supply of affordable housing by turning to a federal program that’s existed since the 1980s: the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. It provides up to $15 billion worth of tax credits a year nationally to help developers build apartments. Portland supplemented the federal construction money with local dollars, creating incentives that were hard to turn down. But to meet the affordability requirements, all the developers needed to do in most cases was put rents within reach of someone earning 60% of median income, an earnings threshold that equates to about $75,000 annually for a family of four. It turns out that this amount of rent is now close to what the typical Portland landlord charges without any subsidy. The result of the federal tax credit has been a glut of apartments costing renters on the order of about $1,400 a month for a one-bedroom. That’s a manageable outlay for a family making $75,000 but nearly half the monthly income of someone who earns $35,000 at the local minimum wage. Nearly 2,000 of Portland’s subsidized units sat vacant and unused at last count, as The Oregonian and Willamette Week have reported. The same situation has repeated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver. Economists and other academic researchers have been warning for decades that this was precisely the sort of problem that the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit was likely to create. Studies have concluded that the program, which currently supports nine out of every 10 subsidized units built in America, is an expensive and ineffective way to house people who can’t afford it. Researchers have said it doesn’t subsidize housing deeply enoug…

New York backtracked on its climate goals. Here’s why.
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description: Lawmakers wanted to lead the energy transition, but Governor Kathy Hochul is worried about the cost of ditching natural gas.
encoded: Last week, New York became the first state in the country to weaken a mandatory climate law passed by its own legislature. The change comes at the behest of Governor Kathy Hochul, a moderate Democrat who has often criticized climate action for increasing consumer costs. After months of backroom negotiation, the legislature reached a deal that weakens the 2019 law in several different ways — most notably by giving the state an additional decade to meet legally-required emissions targets. The original law, one of the most ambitious in the U.S., required the Empire State to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent before 2030. (The state used its 1990 emissions as the baseline for comparison, per standards set by the United Nations.) Thanks to the law’s uniquely strict accounting rules, the only way for the state to meet this target was to shift away from natural gas, which provides most of the state’s electricity and almost all its heating fuel. But as the 2020s progressed, New York failed to wean itself off of gas. The reason for that depends on who you ask. Some argue that President Donald Trump’s attacks on renewable energy have slowed the state’s progress, and others believe that state politicians have backed natural gas when they could have invested in more clean energy. Either way, the state fell way behind schedule, and it stood no chance of meeting its 2030 goal without dramatic action that would have taxed or banned consumption of fossil fuels. Besides delaying the 2030 deadline by 10 years, the deal will also change the law’s accounting to give less weight to natural gas, and it will slow the rollout of a cap-and-trade system, which would force polluters to bargain with each other to stay below a hard limit on total emissions. Hochul has defended these changes as an attempt to protect New Yorkers from rising costs, blaming Trump for the state’s slow progress. She has warned that meeting the state law’s ironclad emissions target — something a court o…

Nebraskans are taking a hard look at data centers
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description: Residents and officials are finding ways to slow down the development rush.
encoded: This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories. Standing before the Otoe County Board and a room of neighbors, Wynee Benedict ticked through a long list of concerns. Do we have enough water for them? Who pays for their power? What if they create a heat island? The source of Benedict’s worries: data centers. Since learning earlier this year that their county, south of Omaha and a little east of Lincoln, could become home to a new data center, Otoe residents have been abuzz with questions and concerns like Benedict’s, leading some residents to call for a temporary ban on the industry. That’s effectively what the board did last month, voting to suspend the permits needed for a new data center for up to a year, according to commissioner Chuck Cole. The pause is intended to give county officials more time to study how the developments fit into the county’s future plans and to update its regulations accordingly. Around the country, opposition to data centers is growing. The massive, resource-guzzling buildings needed to power artificial intelligence and our digital infrastructure have emerged as a galvanizing issue. Local governments from California to Maine have adopted or are considering temporary bans. And at least 14 states so far this year have weighed statewide moratoriums. Elsewhere in Nebraska, Madison County set requirements for data centers to get a special permit, which allows added oversight and public input. In Gage County, the planning and zoning commission will hold a hearing on a data center moratorium later this month. And more will likely follow suit thanks to a recent change in state law forcing counties to make a decision on certain development projects within a specific amount of time, said Jon Cannon, executive director of Nebraska Association of County Officials. The goal, according to the bill’s supporters, w…

Biden’s clean drinking water plan is being rebranded as MAHA
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description: The EPA is distributing billions authorized under the Biden administration while reducing overall funding levels and promoting the work as part of the Make America Healthy Again initiative.
encoded: The Trump administration is promoting multibillion-dollar funding packages to help states and disadvantaged communities secure clean drinking water as part of its promise to “Make America Healthy Again.” There’s just one catch: The federal dollars were previously promised under a climate and infrastructure law passed by Congress during the Biden administration. Last month, the EPA announced a $1 billion commitment to address drinking water contaminated by PFAS, a class of synthetic compounds commonly referred to as “forever chemicals.” Two days later, it announced $2.9 billion to help track down and replace lead pipes, which can leach lead — a potent neurotoxin that can cause irreversible cognitive, cardiovascular, and reproductive harm — into drinking water. “The Trump EPA is committed to Make America Healthy Again by ensuring clean air, land, and water — and by taking on PFAS,” said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in a statement. In a separate statement, EPA Assistant Administrator Jess Kramer said that the “Trump EPA is committed to tackling lead exposure” and that the funds “will help protect current and future generations across America by accelerating local efforts to find and replace toxic lead pipes.” But both funding streams were appropriated well before Trump took office. Congress originally passed the bipartisan infrastructure law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA, in 2021, promising to deliver more than $50 billion over five years to revamp the nation’s water infrastructure — the largest investment of its kind since the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Billions of dollars for lead pipe removal and PFAS contamination were tucked into the Biden-era law and scheduled to run out this year. Approximately $15 billion of those funds were set aside specifically for removing lead service lines, which deliver drinking water to homes and businesses. For the past five years, the EPA has been distributing these funds based on the sha…

Rabuka rules out military involvement with Israel in Mideast conflicts
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description: By Jake Wise in Suva Fiji will not be “militarily involved” in any of the conflicts currently involving the State of Israel, says the country’s prime minister. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka made this reassurance yesterday, saying Fiji’s relationship with Israel would remain focused on development co-operation and strengthening bilateral ties, not military engagement. Israel’s new
encoded: By Jake Wise in Suva Fiji will not be “militarily involved” in any of the conflicts currently involving the State of Israel, says the country’s prime minister. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka made this reassurance yesterday, saying Fiji’s relationship with Israel would remain focused on development co-operation and strengthening bilateral ties, not military engagement. Israel’s new embassy in Fiji — the first opened in Oceania — was officially opened yesterday with protesters against the diplomatic mission just across the street in the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC). READ MORE: Questions over regional tensions and public protests were raised in Fiji over Israeli embassy Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate across the road from new Israeli embassy Palestine supporters stage pickets in 3 cities in Fiji, NZ protesting against new Israeli embassy Fijian PM Rabuka rejects criticism over new Israeli embassy Other Fiji, Pacific ties with Israel reports “We don’t want Israel in our country,” declared Shamima Ali, chair of the Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and an organiser of the Fijians For Palestine protest, reports Mai TV. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-128880" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Suva-protest-FJTV-680wide.png" alt=""There is no doubt. It is a genocide in Gaza" banner at the Fiji protest" width="680" height="408" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Suva-protest-FJTV-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Suva-protest-FJTV-680wide-300x180.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> “There is no doubt it is a genocide in Gaza” banner at the Fiji protest. Image: FijiOne TV screenshot APR Protesters in New Zealand also picketed the Fiji High Commission in Wellington and the Fiji Consulate in Auckland. Rabuka said Fiji’s interest in the partnership was based on development opportunities and the long-standing relationshi…

Actor, photographer, and musician Jena Malone on accepting that we’re only human
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encoded: How are you? Great. A little behind. My son’s home and he wanted a thousand things. And I was like, “No, I have to shower.” You might see cats. You might see kids. I have a play date arriving at noon. I don’t know. We just don’t know. But whatever. I love when things just naturally work out. Maybe that’s a good place to start: How do you balance creative projects and parenthood, and how have things changed since becoming a mom? I feel like it’s a subject that could be studied in depth for one hundred years, and we still wouldn’t know… Obviously the body changes a lot. The brain changes a lot through that beautiful fire alchemy of becoming a parent, becoming a mother. You lose, like, 10% of your gray matter in your brain or something. I have this poetic hunch that by the loss of that gray matter, it allows an elasticity or an eagerness of the brain to want to build muscle where there had been none before. So I feel like my ability to multitask and jump into going from zero to one hundred is better than it’s ever been. Prior to kids, if I was going to be in a creative space, it would take up my whole day. Maybe three weeks. I would get so lost and people wouldn’t hear from me. It was such a luxurious self-exploration. But the caveat to that is that it was hard for me to let it go. It was hard for me to oscillate, to go from creation into errands, or creation into work meetings. I was not being the best client sometimes—as an actor, or whatever I was doing, if I was creating music or I was writing. I would just fall off and everyone would be like, “Well, Jena’s gone from the world now.” span class=”highlight”>Whereas now I feel like if I get 15 minutes and I have even the smallest burst of, “This is a creative space for me,” I utilize it. I jump in 125%. I set a timer. I’m in. Let’s go. And then it’s sucked out, like an extraction. It’s easy to romanticize what you don’t have or what you have lost. The sort of luxurious languidness of stepping into a space for weeks an…

After America
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description: While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global power. As President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it’s becoming increasingly clear that U.S. military might is no longer capable of subduing even a mid-sized power like Iran, much less holding the rest of the world in its thrall. More The post After America appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Tim Mossholder. While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global power. As President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it’s becoming increasingly clear that U.S. military might is no longer capable of subduing even a mid-sized power like Iran, much less holding the rest of the world in its thrall. Amid all the drama of air raids, drone strikes, and naval blockades, there are deeper geopolitical forces at play that lend a lasting historical import to events in the Persian Gulf — dynamics best seen by comparing two newspaper editorials with revealing similarities despite the 80 years separating their publication. Writing in 1942, during some of Britain’s darkest days in World War II, the editors of the venerable London Times looked far beyond the relentless German attacks on their forces in Egypt or the Nazi U-Boat sinkings of Royal Navy ships in the Atlantic to predict their empire’s future with an uncommon prescience. With its contradictory motto of “Imperium et Libertas” (Empire and Liberty), the vast British Empire, which still covered a quarter of the globe, had already become what those editors called “a self-liquidating concern.” Once the “temporary circumstances” that had allowed Britain’s ascent — naval dominance, industrial preeminence, and “the relative weakness of rival states” — faded, that empire’s “ultimate reliance on coercion” could no longer hold. Ready for self-governance, Britain’s many colonies, the editors suggested, would soon begin breaking away and so eclipse the empire. And that prediction couldn’t have been more accurate. Within five years of that editorial’s publication, the British Empire had already started to break apart. Writing in a May 2026 edition of the New York Times, contributing editor Christopher Caldwell made a strikingly similar prediction about the future of U.S. global he…

My Discovery of Howl!
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description: In the fall of 1957, I began visiting the student bookstore at the University of Missouri where the table with books of the Beat Generation, buoyed by the victory in San Francisco from the Howl trial, changed the course [ . . . ] The post My Discovery of Howl! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: In the fall of 1957, I began visiting the student bookstore at the University of Missouri where the table with books of the Beat Generation, buoyed by the victory in San Francisco from the Howl trial, changed the course of my life. I purchased Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems, mostly because of me scanning the introduction by William Carlos Williams. That day I also purchased some issues of “Evergreen Review,” (especially the one about the San Francisco Renaissance), and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot. My experience at the MU bookstore helped make me obsessed with bookstores and I began to spend as much time as I could savoring their sacredness. In my own life, reading “Howl” was an epochal event. It was to me at 18 what Poe had been at 15, except that Ginsberg was an energizer whereas Poe tended to calm one down. I instantly sensed that the Beats were urging us onto an intoxicating mix of spontaneity and scholarship, and not to be afraid to experiment both in our lives and in our art. When I returned to my hometown on weekends, I would chant whole sections of “Howl” to my drinking buddies as we drove aimlessly around at midnight drinking beer, an experience described in “A Book of Verse” in Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volume I. The house in which I had been raised was next to a farm, with cows and even a bull that tended to gather along the fencerow by our lawn. On visits home from college, I would literally shout-scream sections of “Howl” at the cows and bulls as I danced back and forth in front of them. My boyhood home on Cemetery Hill in Blue Springs, Missouri was located next to a farm, and there were cows and even a bull that hung out against a fence right on our property line. I was so excited by “Howl” that on visits home from Missouri University, I strode out near the fence and shouted out lines from the poem to the cows and bull: I was particularly impressed with the opening words, “I saw the best minds of my generation…” and when I hitchhiked the ne…

When ICE Ramped up Enforcement, US‑Born Workers Didn’t See Any Economic Gains
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description: President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to strengthen the labor market. His immigration platform – including a pledge to conduct the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history – was central to that promise. “For too long, Washington ignored how mass illegal immigration artificially suppressed wages, hurting working-class Americans – especially young men,” wrote Treasury More The post When ICE Ramped up Enforcement, US‑Born Workers Didn’t See Any Economic Gains appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to strengthen the labor market. His immigration platform – including a pledge to conduct the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history – was central to that promise. “For too long, Washington ignored how mass illegal immigration artificially suppressed wages, hurting working-class Americans – especially young men,” wrote Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on X in July 2025. “But under President Trump, we now have a secure border, a blue-collar wage boom, and major investments from trade deals.” The labor market tells a different story. In the first year of Trump’s second term, unemployment rose, hiring slowed and wage growth stagnated. The construction sector was hit particularly hard. We’re scholars of labor markets, immigration and public environmental policy who have examined how these economic trends can be traced to the mass deportation campaign of Trump’s second term. Notably, while areas with heavier ICE enforcement saw a drop in employment among immigrants, there was no increase in either employment or wages among U.S. citizens. A chilling effect on immigrant workers Using data from October 2023 through November 2025, we looked at employment rates and wages for immigrant and U.S.-born workers in places that experienced sudden spikes in ICE arrests and compared them to places that did not. In the regions where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramped up its activity, we found a significant drop in the employment rate among likely undocumented immigrants who were neither detained nor deported. This was especially notable in sectors where such workers are heavily represented – such as agriculture, construction, manufacturing and wholesale markets – where we found a 4% drop in the employment rate. These immigrants appeared to be staying home out of fear, a concern that’s widespread. In a Pew Research survey from summer 2025, 43% of foreign-born respondents said they feared d…

Arrogance Has Been on the Table by the US for a Very Long Time
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description: Vijay Prashad was interviewed by K. Swaminathan, Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF), Tamil Nadu, India, May 2026. K. Swaminathan: What is the fundamental difference between the wars waged by hereditary monarchs in the past to expand their kingdoms and the wars waged today by democratic governments against other countries? Vijay Prashad: Hereditary monarchs reported More The post Arrogance Has Been on the Table by the US for a Very Long Time appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Vijay Prashad was interviewed by K. Swaminathan, Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF), Tamil Nadu, India, May 2026. K. Swaminathan: What is the fundamental difference between the wars waged by hereditary monarchs in the past to expand their kingdoms and the wars waged today by democratic governments against other countries? Vijay Prashad: Hereditary monarchs reported largely to themselves and not to their own populations, although they could not fight wars that did not have some popular support and benefit. But there was no real need to inculcate support for these wars and there was no equality amongst peoples, so no expectation that they would have any input for the wars. After the emergence of a democratic consciousness, governments that claim to be democratic must provide governance that addresses the needs of the people and provides benefits to the people. Theoretically, decisions are not to be made by governments without the mandate or consent of the people. What happens, however, is that governments – in the name of national security or international terrorism – wage wars without seeking the mandate or consent of their populations, and so these wars are only made ‘popular’ through the manipulations of the press and of public opinion. That makes most of these modern imperialist wars ‘undemocratic’. KS: Today, the United States is responsible for most of the wars taking place around the world. What are the reasons behind America’s military offensive? What advantages does the United States gain from these wars? VP: The United States has attempted to manage a world system to the advantage of multinational capital, rooted in the United States and its Western allies (including Japan and South Korea). The system allows these firms to go into the Global South, steal resources and labour for under their value, and use these regions as markets for substandard industrial goods. The use of the dollar as the international cu…

What Claudia Sheinbaum Has Achieved for Mexico
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description: In less than two years, Mexico’s first woman president has instituted numerous social welfare improvements, while her rhetoric on foreign policy – even if her actions have in some cases lagged – consistently supports Global South nations such as Cuba and Venezuela, as they face barbaric assault from the world’s hyper-capitalist, would-be hegemon, the U.S. More The post What Claudia Sheinbaum Has Achieved for Mexico appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Eneas De Troya – CC BY 4.0 In less than two years, Mexico’s first woman president has instituted numerous social welfare improvements, while her rhetoric on foreign policy – even if her actions have in some cases lagged – consistently supports Global South nations such as Cuba and Venezuela, as they face barbaric assault from the world’s hyper-capitalist, would-be hegemon, the U.S. Claudia Sheinbaum gave Mexico the women’s well-being pension, universal education scholarships, “In-Home Healthcare Outreach,” worker rights and wages enhancements, which, among other things, upped the minimum wage, gender equality protections, universal healthcare expansion and constitutional enshrinement of social rights. These are not minute or insignificant contributions to the well-being of ordinary people. Each of these improves life immensely. Taken altogether, they add up to a social welfare revolution for Mexico’s poor and middle class. According to Stephanie Brewer, writing for the Washington Office on Latin America on October 1, 2025, Sheinbaum aims to expand her excellent predecessor’s, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO’s) ruling party’s agenda. This plan is called the “Fourth Transformation.” Scheinbaum’s first annual report “demonstrated continuity in government priorities and showed that [AMLO’s party] MORENA’s policies have brought progress in poverty reduction.” Brewer adopts a critical tone toward some of AMLO’s policies, saying, “a year later, we can conclude that Sheinbaum has not changed course on these [supposedly regressive for democracy] policies.” This article, cleaving to a U.S. media platitude in re AMLO, worries about the separation of powers, as if here the American model, which has failed so miserably in the arena where AMLO combated poverty, even when all those powers were quite separate, were some sort of holy grail. Maybe for some people it is. But for a country like Mexico, experiencing not merely extensive poverty but actual widespre…

Not Much to See: The Release of the UFO Files
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description: These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary. The human mind is obsessed by the need for a rounded explanation. In place of that arises a form of mysticism, even superstition. What More The post Not Much to See: The Release of the UFO Files appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Albert Antony These are always occasions of anticipation and even celebration for the tinfoil hatters and those keen to spot the internal plot, the thriving fifth column and anything that could risk being seen as ordinary. The human mind is obsessed by the need for a rounded explanation. In place of that arises a form of mysticism, even superstition. What cannot be explained must be otherworldly. Few better tests for this proposition can be found in the discussion about unidentified objects of aeronautical import. May saw the release of two tranches of records (May 8 and May 22) on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), a distinctly more cautious term for what is known in the popular vernacular as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). This was done at the insistence of President Donald Trump, who claimed on Truth Social in February that “tremendous interest” had been shown in the matter, undisguised code for revealing his own keenness in the matter. The quotidian, the banal, the prosaic – these are terms no UAP pundit or card-carrying follower wants to know. But the reality remains that the files, as with previous declassified material, can often be put down to the explicable, even if a shade of doubt exists over sightings, photography and film. The Pentagon states that the archived materials document “unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.” The best some commentators can do about the unusual material is to suggest that “something” is taking place, which is as non-committal as you can get. What is interesting in these file drops is the signal change of heart in the Pentagon about UAPs. James Hibberd, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, suggests that the US government wants a share of a genre made famous by the entertainment industry. “The Pentagon has gone from denying UFOs are a thing to dumping documents, photos and video concerning ‘anomalous’ phenomena.” But Hibberd w…

Project Hail Mary: a Review
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description: A couple of weeks ago I came across an image — NASA, James Webb Space Telescope — showing a small quadrant of black sky packed with what looked like a milky scatter of light. The caption said each one of those smears was a galaxy. Not a star. A galaxy. The patch of sky captured More The post Project Hail Mary: a Review appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Sterling Dee – Public Domain A couple of weeks ago I came across an image — NASA, James Webb Space Telescope — showing a small quadrant of black sky packed with what looked like a milky scatter of light. The caption said each one of those smears was a galaxy. Not a star. A galaxy. The patch of sky captured is roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length — and it contains thousands of galaxies, some seen as they existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. I sat with that for a while. Galileo moved us off the center of the universe, and postmodernism finished off God, and here was this image doing something quieter and more devastating than either — just showing us how many rooms there are in the house, and how small ours is. We live, apparently, in a multiverse. Verily, man has never felt so small. It seemed, in its way, the most alienating image I had ever seen. Which is why, a few days later, watching Project Hail Mary, I found myself unexpectedly moved. Because the film is, at its core, a direct answer to that image — a story about two specks of consciousness in all that darkness, finding each other. The Film and the People In It Project Hail Mary (2025) is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller — the duo behind The LEGO Movie and 21 Jump Street — and stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher with a PhD in alternative biology who wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there, or why. The answer turns out to be: something is eating the sun. A microorganism called astrophage is feeding on solar plasma and the projections are terminal — within thirty years the sun will have lost somewhere between fifteen and twenty percent of its warmth. The tears of Grace’s middle school students are, as he comes to understand, entirely justified. There is something worth pausing on in the astrophage conceit. The sun — which we have spent the last century treating as an infinite resou…

Democrats Are Using Skyrocketing Energy Costs as a Classic “Shock Doctrine” to Roll Back Climate Policies Under the Guise of “Affordability”
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description: The current reactionary politics of skyrocketing energy costs are following the classic pattern of Naomi Klein’s book “Shock Doctrine”. Klein wrote to explain how disasters were used to enact radical rollback policies that are unthinkable and could never be supported in normal times. Klein argued that neoliberal economic policies are implemented by exploiting crises like More The post Democrats Are Using Skyrocketing Energy Costs as a Classic “Shock Doctrine” to Roll Back Climate Policies Under the Guise of “Affordability” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The current reactionary politics of skyrocketing energy costs are following the classic pattern of Naomi Klein’s book “Shock Doctrine”. Klein wrote to explain how disasters were used to enact radical rollback policies that are unthinkable and could never be supported in normal times. Klein argued that neoliberal economic policies are implemented by exploiting crises like wars, natural disasters, and economic collapses, a strategy she calls “disaster capitalism”. Klein contends that political actors use the chaos of these “shocks” to push through unpopular policies like privatization and deregulation, which benefit corporations at the expense of the public, who are too distracted to resist I saw this in action this week in Trenton and Albany. The climate rollbacks in both States promote the status quo and stoke even more corporate profits and mask rigged energy markets, see: + A Third Of Your Electric Bill Is Pure Corporate Profit + PJM Is Engaging In Enron Tactics Yesterday, following the talking points of the corporate lobbyists, NJ legislators openly mocked renewable energy policies, as they rolled back clean air and environmental justice policies and proposed to reopen old gas power plants and build more fossil gas power plants to feed the energy demands of the “inevitable” AI data center beast, see: + NJ Democrats Are Turning Back The Clock On Climate, Clean Air, And Environmental Justice The Committee went on to release a bill to promote new nuclear power plants, see: + Sherrill Nuclear Power Promotion Bill Up Tomorrow In Trenton Last week, NJ Gov. Sherrill threw DEP’s climate driven coastal flood rules under the bus. Corporate Democrats are using the “affordability” slogan to roll back climate and energy policies and reward corporate clients. Gov. Sherrill was following NY Gov. Hochul’s lead. Just days before, Gov. Hochul gutted NY’s climate law. Governor Hochul’s state budget rolled back several key provisions of New York’s l…

Indonesia’s Sovereignty at Risk: The Consequences of the ART Agreement with the United States
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description: More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti doctrine, announced during the 1964 Independence Day speech, Sukarno argued that a truly independent nation must achieve three things: political sovereignty, economic self-reliance, and cultural dignity. He believed that former colonial powers would More The post Indonesia’s Sovereignty at Risk: The Consequences of the ART Agreement with the United States appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti doctrine, announced during the 1964 Independence Day speech, Sukarno argued that a truly independent nation must achieve three things: political sovereignty, economic self-reliance, and cultural dignity. He believed that former colonial powers would continue to dominate newly independent countries through economic dependency and political pressure, even after formal colonialism had ended. Today, many Indonesian scholars and activists believe those warnings are becoming reality once again through the newly signed Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) between Indonesia and the United States. Negotiated throughout 2025 and finalized in Washington, D.C. in February 2026, the agreement is scheduled to take effect in May 2026. Supporters present ART as a modern trade agreement designed to reduce tariffs and improve economic cooperation. Critics, however, argue that it represents a deeper restructuring of Indonesia’s political and economic sovereignty in favor of U.S. strategic interests. At the center of the debate is a simple question: does ART create an equal partnership, or does it reinforce an unequal relationship in which Indonesia is expected to adapt to the priorities of a more powerful state? An Unequal Partnership On paper, ART covers familiar elements of contemporary trade agreements: tariffs, digital trade, export rules, investment regulations, security coordination, and implementation mechanisms. Yet the deeper concern raised by critics is that the agreement is not genuinely reciprocal. Instead, it establishes a framework in which Indonesia must align many of its economic and geopolitical policies with those of Washington, while the United States assumes few comparable obligations. One of the most controversial provisions reportedly requires Indones…

Talking About the Brazilian Dictatorship to a Young Student
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description: I received these questions by email from a public school student, who did not authorize me to disclose his name. I am copying what I replied to the young man, based on my experience. What was your daily life like during the military government in Brazil? Did the dictatorship affect any aspect of your daily More The post Talking About the Brazilian Dictatorship to a Young Student appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: I received these questions by email from a public school student, who did not authorize me to disclose his name. I am copying what I replied to the young man, based on my experience. What was your daily life like during the military government in Brazil? Did the dictatorship affect any aspect of your daily life or that of your family? Terrible. Everyday life was a nightmare. I went to live in a boarding house, where I sheltered a persecuted comrade, which was extremely risky because if he were caught, we would both be arrested, tortured, and killed. I was able to shelter clandestine comrades, hiding them from the police and the owner of the boarding house as well. As if that weren’t enough, in the same room where I slept, there was a mimeograph under my bed (an object that reproduced documents, which for us was like a small printing press). I tell this story in my novel “A mais longa duração da juventude” (translated into English by Peter Lownds under the title “Never-Ending Youth”). Was there any news story that made an impression on you during the military dictatorship? If so, which one? Many things left a mark on me. One of the most serious was the massacre, known as the Granja São Bento case, where a friend of mine was murdered. Six people were killed at once, whom the dictatorship called “terrorists.” Among them was Soledad Barrett, about whom I wrote the novel “Soledad no Recife”, and who returns in another novel, “Never-Ending Youth”. Did you hear about the people who were persecuted by the military regime? Yes. We communicated through clandestine pamphlets (small mimeographed texts) that reported on those killed and tortured by the dictatorship. We also communicated through what we were told at our “meeting points” – a “meeting point” was a place where subversives would gather. The maximum time allowed to stay at the place was five minutes. Otherwise, we had to leave quickly, without looking back. The latecomer could have been arrested and could have “given …

Congress Needs to End These Illegal Wars
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description: This should not be a news flash to anyone, but the Trump Administration is out of control when it comes to war (and many other things, like ruining the economy, our judicial and electoral systems, as well as the landscape of the nation’s capital). Congress needs to do its job and rein in the executive More The post Congress Needs to End These Illegal Wars appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by EV. This should not be a news flash to anyone, but the Trump Administration is out of control when it comes to war (and many other things, like ruining the economy, our judicial and electoral systems, as well as the landscape of the nation’s capital). Congress needs to do its job and rein in the executive branch. In the next few days, the House of Representatives needs to, ahem, represent the interests of the American people and vote in favor of two War Powers Resolutions, on Iran and Lebanon. The first should be a no-brainer. Congress has come close, several times now, to passing an Iran War Powers Resolution, and it was poised to pass in the House two weeks ago, before Republican “leadership” twice postponed the vote. They can’t keep kicking the can down the road forever, with even some of Trump’s loyalists on Capitol Hill expressing increasing frustration with the illegal, deeply unpopular US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. A vote on U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks’s House Concurrent Resolution 86 is expected on Wednesday, and it should pass, putting the House on record as opposing Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war. It would also send a strong signal of opposition to any supplemental funding bill to pay for the war. Two weeks ago the Senate advanced its version of an Iran War Powers Resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 185, on a procedural vote, and it may proceed to a final vote this week, and if not, it should soon. Both the House and Senate votes will likely be close, and mostly along partisan lines. Assuming they do pass, Trump would probably veto the measures, and there likely would not be anywhere near the two-thirds votes required in both chambers to override the veto. Still, Congress would be on record opposing a war it did not authorize, and representing the will of its constituents rather than weapons contractors making a killing, literally and figuratively, off these wars. Iin Trump’s first term, Congress passed War Powers Resolutions to stop US invo…

Forest Service Tries to Illegally Shrink “Aecure Habitat” in huge Deforestation Project Spurring Lawsuit to Protect Grizzlies
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creator: Mike Garrity
date: 2026-06-03T05:03:45Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘huge
subject: aecure
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Deforestation
subject: environment
subject: forest
subject: grizzlies
subject: habitat
subject: illegally
subject: lawsuit
subject: project’:
subject: protect
subject: service
subject: shrink?
subject: sources
subject: spurring
subject: tries
description: Grizzly bears were put on the Endangered Species List in 1975 — 51 years ago. They will not be recovered until bears from the Northern Continental Divide and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem can connect to provide crucial genetic exchange to prevent irreversible inbreeding. Yet, despite having a legal mandate to recover the species, the Forest More The post Forest Service Tries to Illegally Shrink “Aecure Habitat” in huge Deforestation Project Spurring Lawsuit to Protect Grizzlies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Grizzly in Yellowstone. Photo: NPS / Jim Peaco. Grizzly bears were put on the Endangered Species List in 1975 — 51 years ago. They will not be recovered until bears from the Northern Continental Divide and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem can connect to provide crucial genetic exchange to prevent irreversible inbreeding. Yet, despite having a legal mandate to recover the species, the Forest Service continues to log, burn, and build roads in critical connectivity corridors. The Larabee Hat logging and burning project is located in just such a critical wildlife corridor and will destroy the secure habitat grizzlies require for survival. That’s why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Council on Wildlife and Fish is challenging the project in federal court. The deforestation is planned on the Helena Ranger District running from the Continental Divide headwaters of the Little Blackfoot River to Elliston, Montana. The project encompasses 43,158 acres (67 square miles) and would bulldoze 16.8 miles of new roads to log 17,696 acres, including 3,120 acres of clearcuts, 706 acres of non-commercial logging and 13,791 acres of intentional burning. These “landscape scale” projects, which the Forest Service is conducting across the West, seriously impact a number of threatened and endangered species, including grizzly bears, which cannot recover without secure habitat. Yet the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest secretly decided to shrink the longstanding definition of grizzly bear secure habitat without telling the public or providing opportunity for review and comment. For decades, science has established that secure habitat patches must be at least 2,500 acres in size and at least 1/3 of a mile from a road to give an individual female grizzly adequate space to safely forage for 24-48 hours without crossing or venturing near motorized routes since most grizzlies are killed within 1/3 mile of roads We won a c…