Jacobin
- A Minneapolis Mom on the ICE Violence She’s Witnessed
Federal immigration enforcement activity has intensified in Minneapolis in recent weeks, with large numbers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating across the city. The escalation has drawn protests, school walkouts, and sharp concern from parents, educators, and local officials, particularly after enforcement actions occurred near schools and residential areas. Jacobin’s Trey Cook spoke
- The Tech Billionaires Behind Trump’s Greenland Push
President Donald Trump started his second term with his sights set on Greenland. When Trump first proposed buying the arctic nation during his first administration, it was treated like a joke. But in a phone call last week with Denmark’s prime minister, who controls the autonomous territory’s foreign policy, the president doubled down on his efforts to seize power.
- ICE Won’t Stop Shoving Guns in People’s Faces
Last Wednesday’s murder of Minneapolis mother Renee Good at the hands of federal deportation agents has shocked the nation. Many have expressed horror and outrage that an officer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has almost no legal authority over Americans, would point a gun at and threaten a US citizen, let alone pull
- Behind Trump vs. Powell Is a Battle Over US Empire’s Future
On January 11, the Department of Justice announced that it was opening a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell for allegedly misleading Congress about the cost of refurbishments to the Fed’s headquarters. There is little reason to view these investigations as anything other than a politically motivated attack. Documents shared with the Financial
- In New York City, 15,000 Nurses Are Still on Strike
Fifteen thousand nurses across ten campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. It’s the city’s largest nurse strike in decades. Picket lines stretched for blocks at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York-Presbyterian hospitals on January 12, thronged with nurses plus Teamsters, hotel workers, and university staff showing solidarity.
Dissident Voice
- Venezuela: “War Is Peace”
After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had no wars. Except we defeated ISIS, we defeated ISIS in record time. But we had no wars. They said, “He will start a war.” I’m not going The post Venezuela: “War Is Peace” first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- Asian Solidarity with Venezuela
Speak, your lips are free. Speak, it is your own tongue. Speak, it is your own body. Speak, your life is still yours. See how in the blacksmith’s shop The flame burns wild, the iron glows red; The locks open their jaws, And every chain begins to break. — Faiz Ahmed Faiz, ‘Speak’ (Bol), translated The post Asian Solidarity with Venezuela first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- I Used to Be a Critic of the Two-Party System – Now I Wish We Had One
I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela. The senator’s reply, with my translations of his Washington-speak (in italics) provided in brackets, is as follows: I have been opposing the administration’s The post I Used to Be a Critic of the Two-Party System – Now I Wish We Had One first appeared on Dissident Voice.
The Real News Network
- ‘Blood everywhere’: Iran’s protests continue as violence rises
"You're seeing a level of violence that we've never seen in Iranian protests, both on the part of the state and on the part of protestors."
- ‘Minneapolis is the test case’: Trump threatens Insurrection Act to put down protests
“The Insurrection Act was always the plan,” warned one critic of the president.
- Searching for Gaza’s lost people
Over 11,000 Palestinians have gone missing in Gaza since October 2023. Relatives don’t know if the missing are dead or alive, under the rubble, or in Israeli detention centers.
The Progressive
- The People’s Historian
We would do well to remember the words of Howard Zinn today.
- Let Judges Reconsider Long Prison Sentences
Under current New York law, judges can’t reconsider long sentences. New legislation could change that.
- Louisiana Starbucks Workers: ‘No Contract, No Coffee!’
Baristas in River Ridge, Louisiana, are among more than 1,000 employees who have gone on strike against unfair labor practices.
Z Network
- A War without Headlines: Israel’s Shock-and-Awe Campaign in the West Bank
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. In her book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein defines “shock and awe” not merely as a military tactic, but
- When Authoritarians Play Victim (From Minnesota to Tel Aviv) It Is An Admission Of Violent Intent
Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls into question their brutal tactics is a terrorist/terrorist supporter who not only places them in mortal danger (i.e., As a rule, clad in body armor, heavily armed, and traveling in a belligerent pack) but the security and welfare of
- Greenland? Really?
It is hard to understand why Donald Trump is so anxious to acquire Greenland even if it takes military force. When he suggested this during his first administration, one of his Cabinet secretaries mused, “You just sit there and be, like, ‘Well, this isn’t real.’” Now, somehow, it is. Venezuela shows us that, other than a
Occupy.com
- Hegseth's Alleged War Crime Is the Exact Illegal Order the 6 Democrats Warned Us About
Regardless of the motive for the boat strikes in the Caribbean, the Sept. 2 strike has sparked bipartisan outrage among members of Congress who have oversight over the Pentagon.
FAIR
- ‘A Tribe of Rebels, People Who Struggle, Those Are the Stories That Rarely Get Heard’: Transcript of The Best of CounterSpin 2025
These are just a few of the void-filling conversations it's been our pleasure to host in the last year.
- What Scares Establishment Media Most Is Not Socialism But Democracy
If everyday people realize they don’t need overpaid consultants to win real change, how long can the status quo be maintained by its beneficiaries?
- ACTION ALERT: Why Didn’t NYT, WaPo Report What They Knew About Venezuelan Invasion?
Please ask the New York Times and Washington Post why they failed to report on the Venezuelan invasion and kidnapping when it could have saved lives.
Counterpunch
- The Absurdity and Barbarity of the “Immigration Debate”: Breaking Free of the “Colonial Framework”
Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed and helpless; men and women; adults and children, his agents of genocide murdered eight hundred Indigenous people. It was such a “successful” attack that Jackson feared his military superiors would not trust More The post The Absurdity and Barbarity of the “Immigration Debate”: Breaking Free of the “Colonial Framework” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- The Dog That Didn’t Bark
The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president, did not mask their motives, minimize the violence, or prevaricate – well, not much. The U.S. invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president, Trump said, half-truthfully, to gain control of its oil industry and repay American companies whose property was “stolen” by the former government. In fact, the nationalization law of 1976 was nothing like a theft. It was uncontroversial at the time, except to those who saw it as a surrender to U.S. and corporate interests. The Venezuelan government paid a billion dollars in compensation to the two major oil producers, Creole Petroleum (USA) and Shell Oil (multinational), and otherwise maintained existing service agreements. More The post The Dog That Didn’t Bark appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Roaming Charges: What a Fool Believes
It's revolting, but hardly surprising, that a woman (Kristi Noem) who thought bragging about the time she shot her puppy in the head for disobeying a command and dumped its body in a gravel quarry would advance her political career, also thinks it's entirely justified to shoot a mother of three in the head for "disobeying" confusing commands from her ICE agents. More The post Roaming Charges: What a Fool Believes appeared first on CounterPunch.org.