Consortium News Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu this week used the seat of world diplomacy -- established to pursue peace -- to spread their vile supremacist ideologies. Ray McGovern & Rick Wolff. Watch the replay. Two genocidal maniacs portray themselves as the leading lights of the Middle East and the world from the podium of ["]

Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk One could read the super-Russophobic Guardian in Russia anytime, with no VPN. That alone is sufficient to destroy the simplistic narrative of "free West vs. authoritarian Russia." I was surprised a few weeks ago to get an invitation from Yana Lantratova, Russian Federal Commissioner for Human Rights, to deliver a speech on human rights to ["]

Ben Norton Geopolitical Economy Trump's summit with President Xi Jinping led to few results, but symbolized how the US lost its trade war. Now top US corporations want to get into the Chinese market. That's why Trump invited them to his White House dinner. China's President Xi Jinping was invited to Washington this September, where ["]

Dan Steinbock Informed Comment In his fiery speech to the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against accusations of genocide levelled against Israel, as many delegates walked out and hundreds of protesters rallied against him across Manhattan. After Netanyahu had downplayed Israeli settler violence, rejected Gaza genocide and presented a number of misrepresentations, ["]

Stephen Sefton, Tortilla Con Sal. 20 years ago, a few weeks before the decisive national elections in Nicaragua that year, 2006, the Swedish ambassador at the time gave an interview about her appreciation of the political situation in the country. During the conversation, the ambassador expressed her opinion that the intervention of the World Bank and ["]

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The trope of the United States being in a state of decline is a common one, but it should not be accepted without scrutiny. The U.S. faces crises but remains dangerous, powerful, and single-minded in its determination to achieve full-spectrum dominance over the world. The claim that the United States is ["]

By Xandan Gulley This article was originally published by Truthout I am being locked up 23 hours a day with no human interaction. I believe I am being punished for being transgender. Ever since Donald Trump returned to office, the LGBTQIA community's human rights have been disregarded and we've had little protection against incursions from ["]

By Brian Dolinar This article was originally published by Truthout Organizers discuss how they are fighting new women's prisons in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Note: This article describes verbal abuse and harassment of incarcerated women. As abolitionists across the United States push for decarceration, a backlash has emerged in the form of new prison construction, ["]

Alan Macleod MintPress News AMunich-based "anti-Semitism expert" organizing political action helping restrict pro-Palestine protests across Germany is a former Israeli spy, MintPress can reveal. Since October 7, 2023, Guy Katz, professor of international management at Munich University of Applied Sciences, has become one of the leading figures in German politics on the subject of Israel ["]

Jake Johnson Common Dreams "The president and his administration have gone from breaking the law to trampling it," said a former White House special counsel. The White House recycled material from President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign for a new taxpayer-funded ad that aired nationwide this past weekend, just weeks before the high-stakes November midterms. The 30-second black-and-white ad features Trump walking ["]

Glen Stellmacher Prism This is Part 4 of Prism's series "The ASTI Files." On the shore of the mighty Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon, sits the small city of Vancouver, Washington. It was there in 2007 that Gil Kleiman, a Brooklyn native and former Israeli National Police spokesperson, stood in front of a crowd of ["]

Emma Jacobs Waging Nonviolence The climate movement needs the kind of leverage that comes from shutting down the economy -- and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers. Climate activists engaged in nonviolent direct action are used to the rinse and repeat of arrest: handcuffs, short trip to jail, a misdemeanor charge and ["]

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. The Roots of U.S. Domestic Repression. The "Antifa summit" and the NSPM-7 represent another institutional step toward consolidating fascism in the United States by criminalizing opposition to fascism itself. The U.S. State Is a "State of War" -- George Jackson, Blood in My Eye On July 16, 2026, U.S. Secretary of ["]

By Leah Ida Harris This article was originally published by Truthout Patients describe serious harms, including high coercion and a systematic lack of due process. Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump's mental health policy, and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Wes Moore have also increasingly embraced coercive approaches to ["]

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams "We must end the terror in our communities created by the fascist administration in Washington and here in Texas""I will never stop standing up and speaking out for our community." Misael Ramos, a democratic socialist running for City Council in Austin, was arrested by Texas troopers on Saturday morning for protesting US Immigration and Customs ["]

Juan Cole Informed Comment In the first seven months of 2026, Turkiye generated 61% of its electricity from renewable sources. Since hydro and solar generation have seasonal peaks, that rate may not be maintained through the end of this year, but renewables are anyway central to the country's grid now. In July, solar electricity generation soared to 15% ["]