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Democracy Now!

  • "Policy of Aggression": Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government

    Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba, which has been under a U.S. trade embargo since 1962. These measures have caused fuel shortages and widespread blackouts, while the cost of food and transportation has skyrocketed. “This is a massive violation of human rights,” says Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the United Nations. “It’s a massive violation of international law.”

  • "Love Forward Together": Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice

    Faith leaders in North Carolina are leading a three-day trek from Wilson to Raleigh in an event aimed at supporting “unabridged voting rights; living wages and ending poverty; welcoming immigrants,” and more. Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove spoke with Democracy Now! from the march, saying that “love is the power that can overcome fear in this moment.” As North Carolina faces a President Trump-led gerrymandering effort, Wilson-Hartgrove hopes that the event will mobilize voters across the state.

  • House Passes "Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever" in Latest Push to Help Trump Take Over Elections

    The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to require proof of U.S. citizenship in the November midterm elections. If it becomes law, it would be the “worst voter suppression bill ever passed by Congress,” according to Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “The bill really combines a lot of the worst things that Republicans want to do with regards to voting, and it comes at a time when Trump appears dead set to try to interfere in the midterm elections,” he adds. Wednesday’s vote sends the legislation on to the Republican-led Senate, where it is expected to receive a vote but unlikely to garner the 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority needed for passage.

  • Headlines for February 13, 2026

    Trump Halts “Endangerment Finding” That Gave EPA Power to Regulate Greenhouse Gases, Senate Rejects Homeland Security Funding Bill, Teeing Up Partial Government Shutdown, Trump Administration Says It’s Ending Surge of Immigration Agents to Minnesota, Marine Vet Says Feds in Minneapolis Sampled His DNA and Cloned His Phone Without Warrant, IRS Improperly Shared Taxpayer Data with DHS as Part of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, Federal Judge Orders Return of Venezuelans Deported to Notorious Prison in El Salvador, “I Felt Like an Animal”: Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia Describes Abuse in ICE Custody, High Court Rules U.K. Government’s Ban on Palestine Action Unlawful, Mexico Sends Humanitarian Aid to Cuba as U.S. Tightens […]

  • "I Was Just So Disgusted": Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic

    As we continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism. Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing. “It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorney general act in this way, especially when survivors have waited, over the course of decades, for justice,” Balint tells Democracy Now!

Fair Observer

  • When the CIA Stopped Lying, The New York Times Stopped Reporting

    Everyone should know by now that mainstream media has better things to do than home in on the truth. It’s not entirely their fault. First of all, what is the truth? Is it reported facts? Facts don’t tell a story and the media’s job is to tell stories.  If the truth isn’t a set of… Continue reading When the CIA Stopped Lying, The New York Times Stopped Reporting The post When the CIA Stopped Lying, The New York Times Stopped Reporting appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Donald Trump’s Quest for Greenland and the Future of Multilateralism

    It is unusual for a head of government, especially a president of a great power, to share private messages with other world leaders publicly. Yet, that happened recently between the US President and several of his European colleagues. The chat in question was screenshotted and posted by US President Donald Trump to several prominent political… Continue reading Donald Trump’s Quest for Greenland and the Future of Multilateralism The post Donald Trump’s Quest for Greenland and the Future of Multilateralism appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • FO Talks: Iran Is Breaking From Within, But Regime Collapse Won’t Look Like 1979

    Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with Abdullah O Hayek, a Middle East analyst and senior contributor at Young Voices, about the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Rather than predicting a dramatic collapse or a second revolution akin to the one in 1979, Hayek argues that Iran is experiencing something slower… Continue reading FO Talks: Iran Is Breaking From Within, But Regime Collapse Won’t Look Like 1979 The post FO Talks: Iran Is Breaking From Within, But Regime Collapse Won’t Look Like 1979 appeared first on Fair Observer.

Anthropocene

Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026

    In this week’s segment, we discuss conditions in Libya, the forces behind the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and the struggle to regain sovereignty after the 2011 US/NATO destruction of that state. But we begin with labor leader and activist Chris Smalls, who discusses his involvement […]

  • Chris Smalls on the Dock Worker Actions in Solidarity with Palestine

    Chris Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, the first independent worker-led union in the US and the first to successfully organize an Amazon warehouse. He joins us from London to discuss the dockworker actions at 21 Mediterranean ports attempting to shut down the shipment of military […]

  • The Assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Conditions in Libya

    Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya's assassinated president Muammar Gaddafi, was himself assassinated on February 3, 2026. What does his death tell us about Libya today? We are joined by Essam Elkorghli, a Black Agenda Report contributor and a Libyan PhD candidate at the University of Illinois […]

The Guardian

  • Ukraine and Russia to meet for second round of talks as fourth anniversary of war looms

    Hopes of success remain low after Trump points finger at Zelenskyy and as Russia keeps up hardline demands Europe live – latest updatesSenior Ukrainian and Russian officials are to meet this week in Switzerland for a second round of talks brokered by the Trump administration, days before the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.The two-day meeting, kicking off on Tuesday, is expected to mirror negotiations held earlier this month in Abu Dhabi, with representatives from Washington, Kyiv and Moscow in attendance. Despite renewed US efforts to revive diplomacy, hopes for any sudden breakthrough remain low, with Russia continuing to press maximalist demands on Ukraine. Continue reading...

  • Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show

    Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey FordJeffrey Epstein sympathized with Brett Kavanaugh during the then-supreme court nominee’s contentious 2018 confirmation and even suggested Republicans should have been harder on Christine Blasey Ford, who had accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault.Emails and text messages released by the Department of Justice show Epstein was closely monitoring the confirmation and seemed to believe that Ford’s allegation of sexual assault could derail the process. Continue reading...

  • Fertility treatment given special emphasis as Trump Rx site goes live

    Experts say discounts on IVF procedures an attempt to fulfil campaign promise but savings only a fraction of total cost TrumpRx, the US president’s much-anticipated drug discount program, went live earlier this month with coupons available for just 43 medications, including four required for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, and experts say this is probably a half-measure to fulfill Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to make IVF treatment universally accessible.“We’ve been hearing about TrumpRx for a long time,” said Dr Richard Paulson, a professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Southern California. “TrumpRx was supposed to fix all of the problems in terms of prescription drug costs and so on, and it has not […]

  • Trump’s Obama and Bad Bunny posts crystallize his political philosophy | Sidney Blumenthal

    Maga is a recapitulation of the dark side of American history that cohered into nativist nationalism a century agoDonald Trump’s posting of a video depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes was the most overtly racist act of a president since Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal civil service – or since Trump’s previous racist gesture. The racist imagery Trump posted was so egregious that the video’s misogyny representing Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as animals was overlooked. Trump’s denigration of women is implicitly assumed as business-as-usual and not newsworthy: “Quiet, piggy!” And down the memory hole are the 3m long-suppressed documents from the […]

  • Trump news at a glance: EU chief hits back after US claims of Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’

    Kaja Kallas rejects ‘fashionable euro-bashing’ by US leaders and says other countries ‘look up to us’ – key US politics stories from 15 February at a glanceThe European Union’s foreign policy chief has criticised US claims that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and rejected what she called “fashionable euro-bashing”.Kaja Kallas told an audience at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday that other countries looked up to Europe for its values, such as press freedom. Continue reading...

The Marshall Project

Aeon

  • Guarding the guardians

    Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work?- by Julien Lie-PanisRead on Aeon

Unicorn Riot

The Conversation

Inter Press Service

    Sludge

    • K Street’s Trump Boom

      From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to power.

    Yale Environment 360

    • Warming Tripled the Odds of Patagonia Wildfires

      The climate crisis inflamed wildfires that left 23 people dead in Chile and devastated forests in Argentina that host some of the world’s oldest trees, scientists have found.Read more on E360 →

    Inside Climate News

    • The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

      Nearly every Monday morning, five restorationists with Conserving Carolina guide volunteers through the steep hills of Norman Wilder Forest in Tryon, North Carolina. Armed with chainsaws, thick gloves and a pickaxe-like mattock, the group goes hunting for a wily prey: kudzu. The forest’s most prominent features have been overtaken by the invasive vine. The “Kudzu

    • New Jersey’s Balancing Act: Cut Utility Bills Without Derailing Clean Energy

      Halfway through her inaugural speech in front of thousands of New Jerseyans in late January, newly elected governor Mikie Sherrill paused to write her signature on two documents. They were her first two executive orders.  In the first “whereas” clause of the first order, Sherrill declared that “the top priority” of her administration was “to

    Amnesty International

    Grist

    Truthout

    Labor Notes

    The World – PRI

    • Students slowly return to school in Gaza

      Students in Gaza are slowly getting back to their education after more than two years of war. Israel’s strikes in Gaza destroyed or damaged almost all of the schools. Students and their families were forced to flee their homes, many faced hunger and a constant threat of death. Today, some of the students are finally returning to class. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

    • Kenya to reopen border with Somalia

      Kenyan President William Ruto has announced that the government will reopen two checkpoints along the border with Somalia, after nearly 15 years of closure. The border was closed to due attacks in Kenya by the militant group Al-Shabaab, based in Somalia. Ruto said there would be heightened security at the border checkpoints, but critics say Al-Shabaab remains a significant threat. Host Marco […]

    • In Portugal, infrastructure is collapsing under extreme weather events

      The rain on the Iberian Peninsula simply will not stop. Multiple storms have swept through in the past several weeks, causing extreme flooding along with dangerous winds. In Portugal, the government declared a state of emergency. Several people have died, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, and infrastructure meant to contain floodwaters has collapsed, bringing down part of a major […]

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