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Juan Cole Informed Comment Diesel prices are high in many markets around the world, but we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Energy analyst Ron Bousso at Reuters warns that the Hormuz crisis has taken 9 million barrels a day of petroleum off the market, and it is only a matter of time before it causes a 1970s-style energy […]
Mike Ludwig, Truthout. A Kansas activist discovered that police tracked him with Flock-style cameras after he wrote an op-ed criticizing them. The op-ed Canyen Ashworth wrote last September may have been critical of the police where he lives in Lenexa, Kansas, but it could hardly be considered radical. A racist and nonsensical police investigation into the immigration status of a […]
Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. Ometepe Island “I’m not a member of any political party, but I believe that the tourism development in our community has been beneficial for the island.” I’m standing with tour guide Luis Argeñal on the green folds of Concepción, looking out over a pastoral scene to the cloud-shrouded Maderas. We […]
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Colombia’s ex President Gustavo Petro accused the USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella. A pro-Trump US citizen and ally of drug traffickers. The United States has a long history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin America. But in […]
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout Nearly all of Rep. Jared Moskowitz’s remarks since his primary win have focused on his disgust for DSA. Conservative Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Florida) has been on a rampage against the progressives and the left after winning his primary against a Democratic Socialists of America […]
Dr. Adam Hamawy says that to move forward, the Democrats must embrace an anti-war, economically progressive agenda, and abandon the categories of left vs. right. The bipartisan US-backed genocide in Gaza exposed the corruption of the political system in the United States and the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party, which claims to represent working people. […]
Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5. Kit Klarenberg Grayzone This June, British oligarch Damon Buffini stepped down as deputy chair of […]
Robert Jensen ScheerPost Book Excerpt for This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning John Stuart Mill long ago warned that when we are so certain of the truth of an idea that we reject discussion, that idea—even if it is true—“will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.” After nearly […]
Shahram Akbarzadeh Informed Comment On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed a pact in Mecca. The joint statement declared an attack on one as an attack on all. Many labelled this as an Islamic NATO, built to deter Iran. But that framing misses the point. The pact says more about the growing concern with the […]
Chris Walker Truthout This article was originally published by Truthout For some of the inquiries, “there was little to no factual predicate justifying opening them,” the complaint states. A whistleblower complaint submitted to Congress this week alleges that Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations into supposed instances of antisemitism at Ivy League universities were done so for […]
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declining for more than ten years, has increased 34% in just two years. Conditions in the country are so bad that […]
Edward Curtin “For my sister Rita, an artist who didn’t imitate and who died on this day long ago, trying.” It is a commonplace that a steady diet of the mass media can rot the brain and so fill one’s mind with nonsense that a creative thought becomes impossible. The Internet, television, film, and miniseries […]
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Remember Bill Clinton’s famous verbal footwork during the investigation of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? When asked about whether he lied when he told his aides, “There’s nothing going on between us,” the president responded, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ […]
Regino Tirado sorts through merchandise outside his store in the Stanford Wholesale Mart. Photos by Jeremy Lindenfeld for Capital & Main. “For Lease” signs dot once-busy storefronts, where immigration raids led to a drop in foot traffic and fear among workers and shoppers. Marisa Gerber Capital and Main El seis, they call it. That day in […]
Ismael Cid-Martinez, Economic Policy Institute. The Trump-Vance administration inherited a strong labor market with record employment and wage gains. But after a year of the administration’s economic mismanagement, workers are feeling more vulnerable to the softening labor market. While the president is busy touting the stock market’s performance, working people and families are expressing…
