Jacobin

  • Working-Class Resistance Forced ICE Out of Minneapolis

    Many of us have felt overwhelmed by Donald Trump’s dizzying array of attacks on other countries, workers, marginalized communities, and our democracy. But after a year of grappling with Trump’s onslaught, the working class of Minneapolis rose to the challenge and fought back. On December 1, the Trump administration launched Operation Metro Surge, flooding “the

  • And the Oscar Goes to … Men Not at Work

    What’s a better way for a man to spend his time: building a successful business or pursuing a delusional scheme of self-destruction? In Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, supposed carpenter James Blaine “JB” Mooney (Josh O’Connor) is confident of the answer to this one. At his parents’ house for family dinner, JB’s father Bill Mooney tries

  • Hasan Piker on Why the US Empire Is in Decline

    As the post‑liberal world buckles with Donald Trump’s war on Iran, and the old certainties of American power fall away, few commentators have been as blunt about the stakes — or as darkly funny —  as Hasan Piker. In this episode of The Jacobin Show with David Griscom, Hasan joins David Griscom for a wide‑ranging

  • A Post-Order World

    If there was still any doubt about our coordinates after a decade of shocks to the normal order of things, the disorientating opening of this year has confirmed that we are not in Kansas anymore. A new geopolitics is taking form, particularly evident in the ongoing US-Israeli bombardment of Iran, in the US abduction of

  • Europe’s Far Right Want to Be American Vassals

    For years, the rising far right in Europe has wrapped itself in the language of sovereignty. Decorating itself with the national flag, it has promised to put national interests and national identity first. Its entire political vocabulary has revolved around the claim that it alone puts its own country before everything and everyone else. The

Dissident Voice

  • The US and Israel Have No Plan: Because Collapse Is the Plan

    I don’t think it’s controversial any longer to proclaim that the ruling class of the US and Israel (USrael™) are idiot psychopaths (idiopaths™). Some around the globe have noticed the two administrations sinking all of us into a possible global economic meltdown / possible nuclear war / probable really shitty 2026 don’t seem to have The post The US and Israel Have No Plan: Because Collapse Is the Plan appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Trump Orders Central Command to “Obliterate” All Military Targets on Kharg Island and Threatens to “Wipe Oil” Infrastructure

    In a major escalation of the war, Trump wrote on Truth Social last night that he ordered the US Central Command to conduct a bombing raid that “obliterated every MILITARY target on Iran’s crown jewel.” He said that “For reasons of decency, I have NOT chosen to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the island, The post Trump Orders Central Command to “Obliterate” All Military Targets on Kharg Island and Threatens to “Wipe Oil” Infrastructure appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Europe’s Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity

    When Israeli forces bombed Iran in June 2025, German Chancellor Merz praised them for doing “the dirty work for all of us.” His statement exposes the roots of Europe’s military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide and regional aggression. To sustain their “business as usual” policy toward Israel, European governments are criminalizing Palestine solidarity. The post Europe’s Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity appeared first on Dissident Voice.

Mother Jones

  • First Trump Scrapped “DEI” Coins. Now the New Dime Is Losing the Olive Branch.

    When Charles Thomson and William Barton designed the Great Seal of the United States more than 200 years ago, they were unambiguous about its meaning. A bald eagle would clutch arrows in one set of talons, symbolizing war, and an olive branch in the other, symbolizing peace. In 1945, President Harry Truman officially declared that

  • The Trump Administration Will Somehow Make $10 Billion Off the TikTok Deal

    The yearslong battle over TikTok’s ownership has concluded in a $10 billion windfall for the Trump administration. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that investors in the recently completed deal to create a US-controlled TikTok will pay the government the exorbitant sum for its role in helping broker the transaction. The fee is about

  • A Federal Judge Just Called Out the DOJ for Politically Motivated Prosecutions

    Federal Judge James Boasberg quashed two grand jury subpoenas on Friday afternoon that are part of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, finding ample evidence that the subpoenas were intended to harass or coerce Powell into lowering interest rates, with no evidence pointing toward wrongdoing. “A mountain of evidence suggests

  • The Battle Over Solar on Farmland

    “Tell me that is a gorgeous country.” Dave Rogers, an Oregon farmer, points across an expanse of green ryegrass fields. “My goodness, look at that.”  We’re walking along a stretch of land that is under contract for solar development by Hanwha Qcells, a Seoul-based firm known for opening the United States’ largest solar manufacturing facility

  • The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston

    In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting.  He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood and shot them both. Stuart’s wife, Carol, was seven months pregnant. She would

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  • No Kings: How to Win A Ceasefire, End Trumpism, and Achieve Anything/Everything Else As Well

    We win almost any social demand only when some elite figure(s) succumb and implement the sought change. We demand a higher wage, a new stop sign at a dangerous intersection, abortion rights, affirmative action, a wealth tax, an end to a war—whatever. In each case. the demand is either met or unmet when some elite

  • The Geography of Hope: Why Palestine is the Middle East’s Only Way Out

    Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but, indeed, the entire globe. This is not a conversation about a “political solution” in the narrow, bureaucratic sense. Such solutions require no particular genius: true justice can only occur when the Palestinian people

  • Punch Up: On Division, Solidarity, and Who We Fight

    Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best interests so they don’t look upward. Whether along lines of race, class, gender, immigration status, sexuality, ability, identity, or culture, the result is the same: ordinary people fighting sideways while systems of power

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Counterpunch

  • Zionist Expansion w/ Sam Kimball

    This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to journalist Sam Kimball about Israel’s illegal occupation of Syria, Zionist expansion in Lebanon, and the US/Israel war on Iran. Read Sam Kimball’s piece, Zionist Expansion: A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria. Support the CounterPunch Investigative Fund. The post Zionist Expansion w/ Sam Kimball appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • It’s Israel, Stupid!

    The second US war on Iran in less than a year has raised a burning question in popular media: What is the rationale for the war and why is it changing? Is it because negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program were not progressing? Is it because Iran was close to developing nuclear weapons? Is it because Iranian ballistic missiles were going to reach the US soon? Is it because Israel was going to attack Iran and the US took pre-emptive measures to ensure the safety of Americans? Is it because the Iranian government was violating human rights? Or is it something else? The press in the US has not been able to make sense of this changing justification. But this is curious. Was the media asleep over the past few decades? More The post It’s Israel, Stupid! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • Kill, Lie, and Cover-Up: The Shooting of Ruben Martinez

    Eleven months. That’s how long it took DHS to admit that one of its immigration agents killed Ruben Ray Martinez as he sat in his car on South Padre Island on the Gulf Coast of Texas. And even then, they lied about it, claiming that Martinez, a 23-year-old American citizen, had run over an immigration officer, hurling his body onto the hood of his car. A newly released video extracted by a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety shows that Martinez didn’t run over anyone. Like Renee Good, he was executed as he was trying to follow the conflicting orders given by Texas police and federal agents and then slandered as a potential cop killer. More The post Kill, Lie, and Cover-Up: The Shooting of Ruben Martinez appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

Antiwar.com

  • Washington’s 47-Year War Against Iran

    The irony of the Big Lie about Iran’s alleged “47-Year War On America” is that the imperatives of Empire caused Washington to take actions in the decades after the February 1979 Iranian Revolution that amounted to the opposite – a relentless five decades long Washington instigated war on Iran. First, as we showed in Part