Jacobin
- Trump’s SEC Is Moving to Silence Investor Whistleblowers
The Trump administration has effectively silenced a successful financial whistleblower recruitment program that encouraged industry insiders to report white-collar crimes and led regulators to return $1.5 billion in ill-gotten gains to investors. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates stock and bond markets, has declined to award a single dollar to whistleblowers in the first
- Mohammed Harbi Was Algeria’s Revolutionary Historian
Reflecting on his pathbreaking history of Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN), first published in 1980, the Marxist historian and Algerian militant Mohammed Harbi wrote that his main goal had been to “avoid any confusion between the historical specificity of Algerian society and that of global capitalism.” At the same time, he explained, the book, which
- Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Last June, the International Criminal Court experienced operational disruptions after Microsoft blocked the official email account of its chief prosecutor following US sanctions. The action revealed the return of an old pattern. Systems once imagined as open, neutral channels of communication harden into privately controlled switches, capable of halting entire institutions for a single policy
- Palestinians Have the Right to Return to Their Homeland
After Human Rights Watch blocked a report concluding that Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right of return constitutes a crime against humanity, two senior staff members — Omar Shakir and Milena Ansari — resigned. Together, they made up Human Rights Watch’s Israel–Palestine team. The organization says the report has merely been “paused.” In this interview,
- Real Estate Brokers Are Profiting From Warehouse Sales to ICE
Over the past several weeks, Trump immigration officials have been prospecting for empty warehouses to retrofit as “mega” detention centers for the tens of thousands caught up in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation dragnet. The lucrative deals to acquire the warehouses are being quietly facilitated by a handful of powerful, politically connected real
Dissident Voice
- Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Electric motorcycles are Cuba’s response to the fuel crisis. Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Trump’s blockade of the island—especially now that the U.S. is choking off oil shipments. “You can’t imagine how it touches every The post Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- Revisiting India and Pakistan Perpetuated Animosities
Leaders to See the Mirror History exists on facts of life and shallowness of a nation’s history are the inept and egoistic leaders. In wars, logic fails to define foes and friends. India and Pakistan have an enriched history to blame games for their failure to preserve freedom, security and the ideological foundation of their The post Revisiting India and Pakistan Perpetuated Animosities appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- KIPP Charter School Closures
Two Atlanta, Georgia charter schools that are part of the notorious KIPP Charter Schools Network (KIPP Soul Primary School and KIPP Soul Academy) will be closing at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. At least 122 staff will lose their jobs and hundreds of stunned parents and students will be forced to fend for The post KIPP Charter School Closures appeared first on Dissident Voice.
Mother Jones
- This “Fish-Fluencer” Telling ICE to Fuck Off Is the Best Thing You’ll Watch Today
Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown. “I don’t feel comfortable putting out fishing content when, you know, our neighbors are getting kidnapped by goons on
- Pam Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Survivors
The House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on oversight of the Justice Department devolved into insults and chaos on Wednesday. One telling example: whether Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration would apologize to survivors who were named, unredacted, in the department’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. Among the documents released late last month, the Justice Department
- MAGA Absolutely Cannot Let Bad Bunny Go
It has now been several very long days since the Super Bowl and Bad Bunny’s raucous, joyous, extremely popular halftime show, stuffed with celebrities, heartfelt tributes to Puerto Rico and Latino culture, and a pointed listing of most countries in the Americas. Meanwhile, as one cannot help but be aware, at the same time on
- DHS Shot Her and Called Her a “Terrorist.” New Videos Show Something Different.
Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum in October—as a “domestic terrorist.” Federal prosecutors shared three videos on Tuesday evening after a federal judge ruled last week that the footage and other evidence could be made
- The GOP’s “Show Us Your Papers” Bill Is the Latest Effort to Help Trump Take Over Elections
The Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday passed a new version of the SAVE Act, a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans. The House passage of the new bill,
The Real News Network
- Israel just started legalizing its annexation of the West Bank. Here’s what that means.
The Israeli government recently took radical steps to change the legal status quo in the West Bank. Here’s what these changes mean and how they set the stage for annexation.
- Inside the right-wing movement pushing Alberta to secede from Canada
Trump officials have repeatedly met with secessionist leaders from the province, which has large oil and gas deposits.
- Israel’s US-backed assault on Gaza set stage for collective punishment in Cuba, AOC says
“This is a new kind of era of depravity opened up,” said the congresswoman. “There was this stated commitment on human rights—that innocent civilians were almost exempt from the rules of war, from blockades.”
The Progressive
- Why Democrats Should Be Resisting AI
If Big Tech is already working overtime to block meaningful safeguards, why not meet the moment by standing clearly on the side of consumers, parents, and workers?
- In Limbo Once Again
The Trump Administration has canceled, or tried to cancel, Temporary Protected Status for eleven countries, endangering the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of TPS recipients.
- ICE’s Mistreatment of People with Disabilities
Advocates document a ‘pattern of neglect’ toward the most vulnerable.
Z Network
- Rank-and-File Rebellion: Teamsters in Dallas, LA and OC Organize to Dump O’Brien!
Rank-and-file Teamsters in large Dallas, Los Angeles and Orange County locals have organized delegate slates in a grassroots movement to dump Sean O’Brien in 2026. If elected, the combined 42 delegates would attend this summer’s 2026 International Brother of Teamsters (IBT) Convention set to be hosted in Las Vegas where they would back the Richard Hooker
- Bad Bunny, Good Neighbor
For thirteen minutes on the most-watched stage in American culture, Bad Bunny made the United States feel expansive, uncontained, Caribbean rhythm–centered, and alive with a sense of belonging that crossed borders without asking permission. As a Venezuelan-American, I felt chills from the very first second to the last. I was a child again, asleep across
- Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Trump’s blockade of the island—especially now that the U.S. is choking off oil shipments. “You can’t imagine how it touches every part of our lives,” she sobbed. “It’s a vicious,
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.
Counterpunch
- Will Cuba Survive?
Since the triumph of their revolution in 1959, Cubans have infuriated U.S. leaders with their specialized genius in overcoming catastrophe, whether it take the form of a hurricane, flood, invasion, hijacking, chemical attack, biological attack, or economic warfare. Between disasters, they eat, drink, dance, and make merry. More The post Will Cuba Survive? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Calling BS on DHS Insistence on Masked ICE and Border Patrol Agents
This private army operating under the authority of Trump and his Constitution-savaging executive orders, with its gratuitous violence and willful blowing-off of hundreds of court orders issued by federal district and even appellate courts, has no valid or defensible justification for hiding its “agents’” identities by wearing masks, refusing to have attach numbers and name patches on their military-style uniforms. These federal goons are no different from municipal police or activated units of the US National Guard, who do not wear masks asnd are required to be identifiable (though some bad ones do try to hide names or badge numbers). Even soldiers in war are required to wear identifying numbers , names and “dog-tags.” More The post Calling BS on DHS Insistence on Masked ICE and Border Patrol Agents appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Trump’s blockade of the island—especially now that the U.S. is choking off oil shipments. More The post Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba appeared first on CounterPunch.org.