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  • ICE Detention Contractors Are Reaping Massive Profits

    For every $1 that the three largest immigration deportation and prison companies donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private contractors stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue in 2026, according to damning new research. This epic payout, thanks to GOP leaders’ accelerated taxpayer spending on border enforcement and imprisonment, comes as

  • The Problem With Left Nationalism

    In recent years, after a series of strategic blunders and ideological retreats, a familiar script has reemerged on the European left. To win again, we are told, the Left must embrace what some present as a “populist” strategy: reclaim the language of nation and patriotism, turn away from so-called “identity politics,” and rally a supposedly

  • Congress Wants to Publicly Fund Lobbyists at the SEC

    House Democrats just helped their GOP colleagues advance a bill establishing a taxpayer-supported corporate lobbying committee within Wall Street’s top regulatory agency, whose only purpose would be to give an even greater voice to pro-corporate and big business concerns. Several of the lawmakers pushing the bill are heavily funded by businesses overseen by the regulator,

  • The ACLU Wants to Shrink Workers’ Speech Protections

    Back in 2024, I wrote about a curious case at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was pursuing exotic legal theories that would, if adopted by the NLRB or courts, curtail the rights of workers across the country. This included the theory that the then–general counsel of the

  • The Social Forces Behind the MAGA Coalition

    Recent debates over war, imperialism, and domestic state violence have fueled speculation about fractures in the MAGA coalition. But MAGA’s divisions may not seriously threaten the durability of Donald Trump’s image-driven politics, which spans foreign adventurism and ICE deployments and is comfortable with coercive power. Still, these fractures merit close attention — especially insofar as

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  • China’s 2D Chip Fab Leads The World – And Freaks It Out

    Faster, cooler, smaller, cheaper, they bypass US embargoes. And 2D fabs are 100% Chinese IP. The chip war we started is going as well as the Vietnam War after eight years. China’s pilot production line for 2D semiconductors (atoms-thick materials like molybdenum disulfide) is a big deal¹, especially since no other country has a commercialized The post China’s 2D Chip Fab Leads The World – And Freaks It Out first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • ICE Is at War with the United States

    The U.S. government has the world’s most expensive military waging wars around the world. It also now has a military aimed at the United States itself. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has a budget larger than any military in the world except 12. It has military weaponry and vehicles. It has military training from the The post ICE Is at War with the United States first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • Who are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab

    January 29, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using U.S. provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this little Palestinian girl who liked to dress up as a princess would now be 7 ½ years old. An Israeli Defense Force unit fired a barrage of missiles at the car in which The post Who are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab first appeared on Dissident Voice.

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  • Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.

    As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE—is coming under increasing scrutiny. A new tool, launched Thursday, follows the money making it happen. Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge

  • ICE’s Theater of War

    In the weeks since an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good, an unarmed US citizen and mother of three young children, federal officers have met protesters in Minneapolis with a tunnel vision of violence. These men have smashed car windows. Tear-gassed kids. Hauled off screaming women on their way to the doctor. Went door

  • Trump and Congress Are Coming for Our Favorite National Monuments Again

    This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A recent, non-binding opinion from the Government Accountability Office may pave the way for Congress to begin rescinding management plans for national monuments across the country, environmentalists and experts say, potentially leading to protected areas being further opened up

  • Alex Pretti Was a Hero. To These Workers, He Was a Colleague, Too.

    “Alex Pretti was one of us,” an NIH worker who asked not to be named told me over the phone. That’s a phrase I’ve been hearing a lot since Saturday, when the 37 year-old Veterans Affairs nurse was assaulted and then fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis. The circumstances of the killing—called an execution

  • Celebrating Black Military Service Is Not “DEI Shit.” It’s Essential to America’s Defense.

    This article is adapted from Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul (published January 2026 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, all rights reserved). Dwight “Skip” Johnson, 19, returned home from his shift at a General

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  • The National Committee for Gaza Management, Against Imperial Oversight

    Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures repurposed as displacement camps after Israel’s genocidal assault reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble. His wife was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. She needs urgent treatment abroad, but the Rafah crossing remains sealed.  As

  • A Walmart Worker’s Perspective on the Company

    Doug McMillon, set to retire as Walmart CEO in February 2026, has been getting extremely positive reportage in the business press in recent months. In October, the Wall Street Journal reported that since McMillon became chief executive in 2014, Walmart–once a byword for exploitative, low wage labor–had become a marvelous place to work for its

  • The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment

    Early on Saturday, January 3rd, Venezuela was attacked on behalf of oil, mineral, tech, and weapons profiteers in a regime change operation. Since then, the Trump administration has threatened Iran, Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico. What unites these threats? The U.S.’s quest for endless resource extraction to power its increasingly deadly global empire.  And it’s

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  • The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment

    Early on Saturday, January 3rd, Venezuela was attacked on behalf of oil, mineral, tech, and weapons profiteers in a regime change operation. Since then, the Trump administration has threatened Iran, Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico. What unites these threats? The U.S.’s quest for endless resource extraction to power its increasingly deadly global empire.  And it’s not slowing down. These resource wars and “operations” are emerging as the AI drive also ramps up. In July, Palantir and the Pentagon signed a 10-year, $10 billion agreement. In April 2025, Palantir won a $30 million contract with ICE — a significant development in their decade-plus-long partnership that we are now seeing play out in their increasingly militarized, unrestrained murders and abductions in Minneapolis and around the country. This increasingly inextricable partnership between AI and the war economy is throwing us into a fast track of climate and environmental chaos that threatens us all.  More The post The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • Save New START- Nuclear Arms Treaties Must Not Expire

    On 5 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) — the last remaining arms-control pact between the United States and Russia — is set to expire. Moscow offered to Washington to voluntarily extend it for a year, but Trump recently shrugged it off and told the NYT, "If it expires, it expires.” POTUS has also recently been in the headlines for saying that he doesn’t believe he is required to follow any laws except his own morality, accountable to no one. More The post Save New START- Nuclear Arms Treaties Must Not Expire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • The Murderers Among Us

    Since Donald Trump took office in 2025, ICE has murdered at least 34 people in the U.S. It has deported 623,900 people. Those are not negligible numbers. They are the beginning – mark that, the beginning – of the ethnic cleansing of America. They are the first shot across the bow of any contraption or More The post The Murderers Among Us appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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  • Who Are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab

    January 29th, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using U.S. provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this little Palestinian girl who liked to dress up as a princess would now be 7½ years old. An Israeli Defense Force unit fired a barrage of missiles at the car in which she