Jacobin

  • What San Francisco Educators Won on Their Strike

    This winter has seen historic strikes hit the United States on both coasts. In New York City, 15,000 nurses across three of the city’s largest private sector hospital systems walked out on January 12 and stayed on the picket lines for about a month, making it the largest and longest nurses’ strike in the city’s

  • What the Conviction of Marielle Franco’s Killers Reveals

    At around 9:30 p.m. on March 14, 2018, in central Rio de Janeiro, a silver Chevrolet Cobalt pulled up alongside a car carrying the city councilor Marielle Franco, her driver Anderson Gomes, and her press officer. Franco had just finished moderating a roundtable on black women and structural change and was heading home when the

  • Columbia Student Workers Are Poised to Strike

    Columbia University has been a political flash point from the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, with the administration launching a legal and financial assault on the university in response to student Palestine protests and initiating politically motivated deportation proceedings against student activists like Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi. That conflict may now be entering

  • Robber Barons Are Doing Better Than Ever

    Canadians for Tax Fairness has found that wealth concentration in Canada has risen over the last twenty-five years, with a handful of families living large while amassing average fortunes approaching $500 million. Ordinary households, meanwhile, continue to struggle to afford bread and milk. That’s not just bad news for the Canadians and their economy but

  • A Venezuela Foreign Influence Scandal for Trump’s Circle

    At every stage in Marco Rubio’s political ascent, David Rivera has been by his side. Twenty years ago, the two Miami-raised Cuban American Republicans earned the nicknames “Batman and Robin” as they rose to power in the Florida House of Representatives. When Rubio sought the speaker’s gavel, Rivera, known as Rubio’s “enforcer,” whipped the necessary

Dissident Voice

  • “How On Earth Do You Justify That?”

    Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK, with Laura Kuenssberg On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK: ‘Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own The post “How On Earth Do You Justify That?” appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Why China Crushed Its Own Tech Giants

    In late 2020, Beijing did the unthinkable: it attacked its own champions. Trillions in market value vanished, the world’s largest IPO was halted, and entire industries were banned overnight. Western investors called it “economic suicide,” but they were looking at stock prices while China was looking at its society. This episode explains why the “Golden The post Why China Crushed Its Own Tech Giants appeared first on Dissident Voice.

  • Iran Defends Itself, All Alone, Against Two Most Violent Forces

    US President Donald Trump’s photo is set on fire during a demonstration in front of the American consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 1, 2026 IMAGE/asin Akgul/AFP/Middle East Eye US-Israel attack Iran On February 27, 2026, talking with a friend, I mentioned that the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, asked embassy staff to leave The post Iran Defends Itself, All Alone, Against Two Most Violent Forces appeared first on Dissident Voice.

Mother Jones

  • Bugs Were Supposed to be the Future of Food. Now, the Industry is Collapsing.

    This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because

  • Fake War Videos Are Degrading Our Trust in Reality

    A US aircraft carrier destroyed by Iranian missiles. American bombs leveling a nuclear power plant. The Burj Khalifa engulfed in fire. None of it happened, but that didn’t stop people from spreading fake videos online. In the days since Trump’s weekend strikes on Iran, AI-generated videos realistically depicting entirely fabricated events have been spreading like

  • Class Struggle, But Weird: The Surreal Politics of This Year’s Oscar Nominees

    This article was produced in collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, which supports independent journalists as they forward fresh narratives about inequality. Subscribe to follow EHRP’s award-winning journalism, co-published with mainstream media outlets. When we watch the news now, we often ask ourselves: what disaster movie is this? Is it the one where Americans are shot

  • US Responsible For Killing Iranian Schoolchildren, Investigation Finds. Trump Previously Blamed Iran.

    The United States is responsible for killing at least 175 people, many of them children, in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school on the last day of February, according to US officials and others familiar with the ongoing military investigation who spoke with the New York Times. The death toll was reported

  • Thanks to Trump, Petro-Imperialism Is Back

    Following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran beginning in late February, Iran has effectively halted all traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint in the Persian Gulf through which about 20 percent of global crude oil and natural gas flows. Many Americans are now experiencing the effects: skyrocketing gas prices. That’s not likely to change

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Z Network

  • US War on Iran Exposes the Hollowness of Modi’s Foreign Policy

    Two days after the United States and Israel launched attacks that killed Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and hundreds of others—including more than 160 children in a strike on a girls’ school—a United States submarine torpedoed and sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean as it was returning from participating in the multinational naval

  • Surviving a Pan-Crisis

    We are not facing separate crises, but the simultaneous collapse of multiple historical orders unfolding in the present. Not only international relations and political science scholars but also the broader communities of social sciences—and increasingly even the natural sciences—are confronting a profound and widely acknowledged crisis, which is not merely “theoretical,” “disciplinary,” or “scientific” in

  • We’re Tired of Marco Rubio Speaking for Us: A New Cuban-American Movement

    “Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles

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Counterpunch

  • Palestinian Citizen of Israel Jailed for Criticism of the War on Iran

    Earlier this month (March 2), Israeli police arrested and jailed Majd Asadi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, on charges of “incitement” and support for “terrorism.” Asadi is an opera singer and activist from Daliyat al-Karmel, a town in northern ’48 Palestine. He had written a Facebook post critical of the US-Israeli war on Iran. It appeared after Israel, aided by the CIA, assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, also killing his daughter and grandchild. More The post Palestinian Citizen of Israel Jailed for Criticism of the War on Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • The Delusion of Safety “Here”

    Without provocation, and with complete contempt for Iranian sovereignty, the U.S. and Israel bombed the country, blaming Teheran for the attacks and denying it had any right to retaliate. This kind of framing makes Orwellian double-think seem quite rational, and it's certainly understandable that even the regime's critics are uniting behind the government's war effort. No matter how much Iranian women may need to be liberated, they can't sign on to an effort that blew up dozens of little girls attending elementary school in Minab on the first day of war. More The post The Delusion of Safety “Here” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • Thank God for Global Capitalism

    If the American political system cannot restrain Trump, apparently oil traders and bond markets can. Global capitalism is once again doing what the Republican Congress, American public opinion, and the U.S. electoral system have so far failed to do. It is disciplining Donald Trump. Markets are succeeding where democratic institutions have not. More The post Thank God for Global Capitalism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

Antiwar.com

  • Israel’s Greatest Weapon Was Fear – And It Is Now Failing

    Israel’s war on Iran reveals a deeper crisis: the collapse of a psychological doctrine built on fear and invincibility. Origins of Israel’s Psychological Warfare Wars are rarely fought only on battlefields. They are also fought in the minds of societies, in the perception of power and vulnerability, and in the political imagination of entire regions.