10+ hour, 50+ min ago   (762+ words) Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly. During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary…...

19+ hour, 31+ min ago   (759+ words) The U.S. is measurably less free than it was when the government launched its war on terror 25 years ago, according to the most comprehensive global index of civil liberties. The most worrisome aspect of this backsliding, advocates and scholars warn, is…...

19+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1762+ words) Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become a radical internationalist late in life. As historian…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (764+ words) Jon Wilson Informed Coment On October 27, Israelis go to the polls in an election fraught with debate about ancient history. The country’s right-wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has concrete plans to extend sovereignty over much of the West Bank and…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (394+ words) Within any mass movement there exist political currents representing bourgeois and working-class forces and various nuances in between. In the case of this particular movement, which found inspiration from the Civil Rights struggles, bourgeois feminists, personified by Steinem, dominated the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (699+ words) And a reaffirmation of the UN charter and international law. Chinese President Xi Jinping underlined the need for stronger international coordination for common security in West Asia and a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and international law. Xi demanded external…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (647+ words) Neil Thompson Informed Comment Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Egypt since 2016, amid deepening economic and security ties between Beijing and one of Washington’s major Arab allies. Egypt’s government said the two sides agreed…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (435+ words) But the story doesn’t end with Steinem. Norton connects the Cold War propaganda apparatus to CIA interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Italy and Indonesia, the enormous human toll of U.S. post-9/11 wars, and the cultural institutions and intellectuals allegedly enlisted to…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1135+ words) Kit Klarenberg Substack Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 - 2021 the German government surreptitiously funnelled millions into a highly discriminatory project facilitating expansion of Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank. Under its auspices, public money and knowledge production were…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (242+ words) The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Sunday urged Americans to push back on the vision of the future being presented by the oligarchs who run the artificial intelligence industry. In an interview with MeidasTouch, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas)…...