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One Man, One Trillion Dollars: What Happens to Democracy Now?
Joshua Scheer With the public debut of SpaceX, Elon Musk has officially become the first trillionaire in human history—a milestone celebrated by financial media as a triumph of innovation and…
The Obama Center is a Monument to the More Effective Evil
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Barack Obama bailed out the banks, deported millions, and devastated nations and millions of people through wars of aggression. The…
A Letter From Desolation Row
Edward Curtin Substack “At midnight all the agentsAnd the superhuman crewCome out and round up everyoneThat knows more than they do”– Bob Dylan “Desolation Row.” Perhaps you have noticed –…
New Threat to Netanyahu: The Collapse of Western Support
Paul Rogers for OpenDemocracy In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot down a…
TRUMP’S PRIVATE FURY: “WHY DID BIBI F#CKING DO IT?” — w/ Glenn Diesen
As reports emerged that a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was nearing completion, Israel launched a strike on Beirut—an attack that immediately raised questions about whether diplomacy was being deliberately sabotaged.…
Are You an Internationalist?
Arnold Oliver for Informed Comment Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation…
Iran: ‘No Point’ In Deal With US If Israel Remains Unrestrained
News Desk, The Cradle. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned in a statement on 14 June that there is “no point” in continuing efforts to reach a deal with…
Outrage as UK Activists Get Combined 25 Yrs for ‘Terrorism’
The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and…
Cuba In The Eye Of The Storm
Luis de Jesus Reyes, Breakthrough News. Sanctions, energy crisis, and threats of invasion. The situation in Cuba is steadily worsening. Compounding the prolonged economic crisis and deteriorating energy situation are…
John Mearsheimer & Sergey Karaganov: Nuclear Strike on Europe to Restore Deterrence
The following discussion features political scientist John Mearsheimer and longtime Russian strategist Sergey Karaganov in a conversation hosted by Glenn Diesen on one of the most alarming questions facing the…
Will The World Cup Fuel Arrests Of Homeless People In Atlanta?
Sean Keenan, Next City. As World Cup matches begin, advocates warn that Atlanta is on track to repeat the arrests, displacement, and criminalization of homeless residents that drew criticism during…
The Beautiful Game Can’t Hide The Ugly
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its…
Mohammad Marandi: Iran Didn’t Lose the War—It Changed the Middle East | Interview With Chris Hedges
Posted by Joshua Scheer As reports emerge that Washington and Tehran may be nearing a framework agreement to halt the devastating Iran war, fundamental questions remain unresolved: Has the conflict…
An MoU Is Not Peace—It Is Misleading Language That Paves the Way for More War
What an MoU means in the context of a war is confusing and misleading. Is the war over when it is signed? Or is it a pause until there is…
The Filton Four, Terrorism Laws and the Fight Over Jury Justice
Joshua Scheer The sentencing of the so-called “Filton Four” has become a flashpoint in a much larger debate about protest, direct action, terrorism legislation, and the role of juries in…