Jacobin
- Silicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther Right
The offices of Arion Press, the last vertically integrated bookmaker in the United States, are tucked into a museum-like building with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a clear summer weeknight, and I’m here for a happy hour for local writers and publications — which in San Francisco typically means tech writers and
- Long Before MAGA’s White Grievance, There Was Bernie Goetz
On December 22, 1984, a pale, dweeby, thirty-seven-year-old white man named Bernhard Goetz boarded a subway car bound for Lower Manhattan. After taking a seat close to four rambunctious black teenagers — nineteen-year-olds Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, and Troy Canty, and eighteen-year-old James Ramseur — Goetz started glaring in their direction. One of these teenagers,
- Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Live in a Society With No “Kill Line”?
This morning, the Guardian’s Amy Hawkins offers a delightful split-screen portrait of global consciousness, highlighting two trends playing out in parallel on US and Chinese social media. On US platforms like TikTok and Instagram, “young people are diving into the joys of Chinese culture — from drinking hot water to playing mahjong — all under the banner of
- Thousands of Colorado Meatpacking Workers Are on Strike
When Deborah Rodarte arrives for her shift at the Swift Beef Co. plant outside Greeley, Colorado, owned by JBS USA, the first thing she does is gear up. Donning a hard hat and protective equipment, including a layer of metal mesh meant to keep knives from cutting through to the skin, she heads to the
- Javier Bardem Was a Bright Spot at the Oscars Last Night
“No to war and free Palestine,” said Spanish actor and Oscar presenter Javier Bardem, who’s a mensch and a lefty stalwart. He got a big cheer from the audience at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony last night, probably because it was a relief to hear the most direct political statement of the evening. And quite
Dissident Voice
- The U.S. Has Lost the War. What’s Next?
Any objective observer knows that the U.S. has lost the war in Iran, a war fought for Israel. It’s obvious that the U.S. had no overall plan; now it only reacts to Iranian moves and is reduced to endless, ineffective bombing and murdering school children. In one sense, we’re seeing what would have occurred if The post The U.S. Has Lost the War. What’s Next? appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- Massachusetts: Highest Court Says Charter School Must Comply With State Public-Records Law
Charter schools are privatized education arrangements that continually insist on being called “public” while routinely avoiding many public laws, standards, and requirements. Charter school operators have always wanted to be both public and private for self-serving reasons—public so that they can seize public funds and private so that they can remain unaccountable. Dr. Michael Mindzak The post Massachusetts: Highest Court Says Charter School Must Comply With State Public-Records Law appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- The Age of Human Arrogance, Part IV
There comes a moment in every age when humanity must confront the mirror it has spent centuries avoiding. That mirror does not flatter us. It reveals a species that has mastered the sciences of destruction while neglecting the simple art of living. It reveals a creature that speaks of peace while perfecting the machinery of The post The Age of Human Arrogance, Part IV appeared first on Dissident Voice.
The Real News Network
- Paul Coates: The US is killing people in Cuba
“We have a moral responsibility to join the Cuban people—people of conscience around the world, but especially Black people and people of African descent—because when [Africa] called [Cuba] came.”
- ‘Serious threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump admin wins first antifa terror charge
“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one legal advocate said.
- Freedom for Immigrants launches interactive map to track U.S. detention centers and connect families to resources
The new tool compiles information about ICE facilities and offices, resource providers, and news and updates sourced from the larger community
The Progressive
- How Movements Survive
In her new book, Molly Crabapple shares the history of the Jewish Bund.
- The Caregiver Who Can’t Afford Health Care
More than three million people work as home and personal caregivers, but with low wages and changes to tax credits, many of them cannot afford health insurance.
- Silence Is Surrender
If democracy is to hold, local police must resist.
Z Network
- Quelling the Polycrisis
Unpredictability is a core feature of the polycrisis. There is much speculation about what will come next in the world order, but there are scant grounds for predicting anything beyond more polycrisis. This commentary offers neither a prediction nor a plan, but a perspective on what might begin laying the basis for quelling the polycrisis.
- The Philosophy and Politics of Habermas
Among the many things that remain of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on 14 March 2026, are two things: firstly, that the crisis of capitalism – a word the social-democratic master philosopher hardly used – is the normal state of affairs; secondly, that Jürgen Habermas retained a strong belief in reason, particularly in
- Triple Rejection: Neither the US-Israel, Nor the Mullah Regime, Nor the Shah
What is being experienced in Iran today is not a crisis of regime, but a cracking of a state ontology. This crack is not merely a fracture created by palaces, mullahs, generals, or foreign intervention plans. It is deeper, older, and more rooted. What is cracking is the very way the state has established itself
Occupy.com
- Democrats' Last Major Obstacle to Defeating MAGA for Good
Americans are done with MAGA. But they’re not quite ready to get behind Democrats.
FAIR
- Leading US Papers Defend the Indefensible in Iran Aggression
Editorials in three of the United States’ most prominent newspapers offered varying degrees of support for the US/Israeli aggression against Iran.
- A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.
- ‘Even with Congressional Authorization, the War Would Still Be an Act of Aggression’: CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on US/Israeli Iran aggression
"Those who start the war are responsible for all horrors that take place within the context of that war."
Counterpunch
- To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription
The Trump White House is refusing to rule out a draft, and also won’t rule out sending current all-volunteer troops into Iran, and look at the hue and cry that has arisen from the likes of former Trump backer Rep.Margery Taylor Greene: “Not my son! Over my dead body!!!!” With conscription, most mothers and fathers would be saying the same thing. More The post To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Roaming Charges: Muscle For Brains
The Iran war is a war of choice. But that doesn’t tell us much, does it? All wars are wars of choice. The questions are: was it a necessary choice? Was it a good choice? Was it a rational choice? Were the consequences considered? Who made the choice and why? We still don’t know the answers to these questions. More The post Roaming Charges: Muscle For Brains appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz
Just as Egypt snatched a diplomatic victory from the jaws of military defeat in 1956 by shutting the Suez Canal, so Iran has now closed off the Middle East’s other critical choke point by firing its Shahed drones at five freighters in the Straits of Hormuz (through which 20% of global crude oil and natural gas regularly passes) and at petroleum refineries on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf. Iran’s drone strikes have blocked more than 90% of tanker departures from the Persian Gulf and shut down the massive Qatari refineries that produce 20% of the world supply of Liquified Natural Gas, sending natural gas prices soaring by 50% in much of the world and by 91% in Asia — with the price of gasoline in the U.S. heading for $4 a gallon and the cost of oil likely to reach a staggering $150 per barrel in the near future. Moreover, through the conversion of natural gas to fertilizer, the Persian Gulf is the source for nearly half the world’s agricultural nutrients, with prices soaring by 37% for urea fertilizer in markets like Egypt and threatening both spring planting in the northern hemisphere and food security in the global south. More The post Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz appeared first on CounterPunch.org.