Jacobin
- Mano Dura Comes to Costa Rica
On Sunday, February 1, Costa Ricans went to the polls to elect a new president and fifty-seven members of congress. The election, which was framed as a referendum on the outgoing administration of Rodrigo Chaves, delivered a resounding victory to his chosen successor, Laura Fernández, who secured over 48 percent of the vote. The campaign
- Trump’s Immigration Police Keep Abducting Children
On February 4, the Trump administration quietly filed a motion to end the asylum claims of one of the countless Minnesota residents being targeted by masked immigration agents throughout the state. In this case, their mark is just five years old, one of thousands of children likely to have been abducted by adults with guns since President Donald Trump’s
- Mothers Are on the Front Lines of the Nordic Care Crisis
For decades the Nordic welfare states have been held up as global exemplars of gender equality and expansive public care systems. Yet beneath this image of egalitarian modernity, cracks have begun to widen. Across Europe and North America, scholars increasingly speak of a mounting care crisis — a systemic imbalance in which society’s care needs
- At NYC’s Richest Hospital, 4,200 Nurses Are Still on Strike
The largest and longest nurses’ strike in the city’s history is continuing at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867. About 10,500 other nurses are starting to return to work today, ending the strike at three Manhattan hospitals run by Mt Sinai and at Montefiore Medical
- Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
On Thursday, the Trump administration abruptly announced that it was ending the monthslong occupation of Minneapolis and St Paul by thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol officers. Donald Trump’s scandal-ridden “border czar,” Tom Homan, said that “a significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue to the next
Dissident Voice
- Everyone Is Allowed to Protest
Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was, for that reason, declared by his employer guilty of discrimination and harassment. Robbins could have written a book on the absurdities involved in defining criticism of genocide as discrimination, and defining criticism of any military on Earth other The post Everyone Is Allowed to Protest appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- Poor Financial and Operational Performance Are Not Unique to Chicago Charter Schools
Charter schools are outsourced schools, also known as contract schools. They are privately operated, deregulated, and laser-focused on siphoning substantial sums of public money, services, and facilities from public schools. Charter schools are essentially pay-the-rich schemes masquerading as great inventions designed to close the century-old “achievement gap.” There is nothing grass-roots about them. Recognizing that The post Poor Financial and Operational Performance Are Not Unique to Chicago Charter Schools appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- The Antidote to Despair
We are living at a time of historical significance. We feel it in our bones, and it relentlessly gnaws at our consciousness. The familiar is rapidly unraveling. The transition to whatever is to come is disquieting and disorienting, and we don’t know how to respond. We cannot grasp these events because the ethical codes of The post The Antidote to Despair appeared first on Dissident Voice.
Mother Jones
- Trump Promises Billions in Aid to Gaza as Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 12 Palestinians
Donald Trump said Sunday that member states of his Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Gaza. Countries will also send thousands of personnel to “maintain Security and Peace for Gazans,” the president wrote on Truth Social. The pledge will be officially announced during the board’s inaugural meeting on
- Tom Homan: Minnesota Should Say “Thank You” for DHS Operation
On Sunday morning, Border czar Tom Homan said elected officials in Minnesota “ought to be saying thank you” to the Trump administration for making the state safer. “They were a sanctuary state,” Homan said on Fox & Friends. “Their county jails weren’t working with us across the state. So you know what? We fixed it.”
- The Adorable Patients of This Special Bat Hospital Will Warm Your Heart
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals. Venomous spiders. Deadly snakes. Jellyfish with fatal stings. But it is also home to one of the world’s cutest: the flying fox, also known as the giant
- US Military Strikes Another Boat in the Caribbean Sea, Killing 3
The United States military killed three more people on Friday in their 39th boat attack in six months, according to a tracker maintained by the New York Times. All told, the strikes by US forces have killed at least 133 people in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. President Donald Trump’s administration has
- Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times
Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October. The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration
The Real News Network
- NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike
“This has always been about getting a fair contract. We never wanted to go on strike… We want to do our jobs, we love our jobs, but we can only return when our patients are being cared for safely… with more staffing and job security.”
- Long Island Audit Reveals The Cost of Fighting ICE
Sean-Paul Reyes of the YouTube channel Long Island Audits dared to audit the facilities of Department of Homeland Security and confront ICE agents with his cameras. He explains the dangers of those actions as well as the difficulties in helping his viewers understand the importance of holding federal agents accountable.
- Massive strike at Kaiser Permanente enters third week with new unions joining the picket line
“It is not the same Kaiser… This is no longer a place to get your care. This is now an investment firm that dabbles in hospitals.”
The Progressive
- The Human Cost of Unregulated AI Tools
AI companies have a responsibility to respect human rights.
- The Equity Docket: When Only White Bloodshed Moves the Masses
What the death of Keith Porter Jr. and others killed by ICE reveal about racial politics in the United States.
- U.S. Imperialism Was Built In from the Beginning
An interview with historian Aviva Chomsky.
Z Network
- Bangladesh at the Crossroads: Elections and the Future of the World’s Eight Largest Country
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a sweeping victory in the 12 February 2026 elections, securing 212 of 300 parliamentary seats. This victory represents not merely a change of government. It is the culmination of a political process that began not with the spontaneous anger of students on the streets of Dhaka in 2024, but
- From Gaza to Cuba: How Canada Remains the World’s Most Tactful Bystander
The world is witnessing yet another manufactured humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in plain sight in Cuba. This crisis is not the result of any internal collapse or mismanagement. It is the deliberate outcome of United States policy, a policy of collective punishment designed to impose economic suffocation on an entire population to extract political change. President
- Elections 2026: Asia’s New Reactionary Playbook and the Future of Resistance
The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South continues on, but unlike their Global North counterparts like Trump, Le Penn & Farage, as bleak as the future may seem, there are green shoots amongst the concrete. On 8 February 2026 following the Thai general election, there was a paradigm shift ushering in a new era
Occupy.com
- Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
FAIR
- Like Melania Doc, WaPo Layoffs Are Another Way for Bezos to Suck Up to Trump
The Washington Post’s losses, reportedly as much as $100 million a year, are mere pocket change for Jeff Bezos.
- Ari Berman on Attacks on Voting
Some media still present changes to the electoral process that would make it harder for millions of people to vote as a matter of "election integrity."
- ‘What We’re Witnessing Is a Genocide Sustained’: CounterSpin interview with Rayan El Amine on voices from Gaza
"The only way that such a—I would call it what it is—colonial project could go unnoticed is under this project of ceasefire."
Counterpunch
- QAnon is Dead. Long Live QAnon!
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- Does Israel Really Think It Can Make Cattle of the Palestinians?
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- A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran
The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country on a journey to exile on January 16, 1979. Less than a month later, on February 11, the popular revolution triumphed and closed the book of monarchy. The day the Shah left was perhaps the happiest day in my life up to that point. I was at my university campus, Tehran Polytechnic, when the news arrived. I lit a cigarette, another bad habit of teenage years, and left the campus aimlessly just to join the joyous crowds. I had never seen an entire nation so exceptionally jubilant, deeply ecstatic, profoundly euphoric. People were holding up the front page of various newspapers, all of which read, in the largest font that could fit the page, the words “Shah Raft” (The Shah is Gone!). More The post A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution in Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.