1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (533+ words) Juan Cole Informed Coment On Friday, the UN General Assembly, in a non-binding resolution, voted almost unanimously for the adoption of maps that show the true size of Africa rather than continuing to use the Mercator projection, which makes Greenland…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (955+ words) A familiar spectre is haunting the nation — that of communism. Or so one might conclude from the Republican Party’s increasingly frantic rhetoric. Following a string of wins by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in congressional primaries from New York…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (295+ words) Melina Abdullah Los Angeles Sentinel It’s been a long dark night And I’ve been waitin’ for the morning It’s been a long hard fight But I see a brand new day dawning I’ve been looking for the sunshine You know,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (746+ words) Dwight Hua’s roommate knocked on his door at 5:30 a.m. on May 22, saying there was a notice for nearly 50,000 people in their city of Garden Grove, California, to evacuate due to the danger of a deadly chemical explosion at a nearby…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (351+ words) President Donald Trump was accused over the weekend of exploiting an energy crisis of his own creation to make the case for what he dubiously characterized as “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela, a country that the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1846+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded the Trump administration’s new campaign to strangle Iran “economic D-Day.” John Mearsheimer calls it what it really is: a desperate Hail Mary from an empire that has run out of military options. “The fact…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (610+ words) scheerpost.com Pakistan’s Fresh Proposals to End U.S.-Iran Conflict Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Iran on August 24 has ignited new hope for a negotiated end to the the ongoing conflict in the Middle…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1041+ words) In this wide-ranging Q&A, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges answers questions directly from his readers and viewers about the crises defining our age: the genocide in Gaza, the disastrous war with Iran, the collapse of the Democratic Party, Trump’s…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (914+ words) Mnar Adley MintPress News The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (496+ words) Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Trump is trying to destroy Canada’s auto industry and move it south to the US. US President Donald Trump threatened on 24 August to impose 50 percent tariffs on additional Canadian products after Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford…...