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Brazil Takes Over Mexico’s Embassy As Peru Severs Diplomatic Ties
On 25 January 2026, Brazil declared that it had taken over the diplomatic representation of Mexico in Peru. This was not out of the blue however, as a political rift between Mexico and Peru had been present since November of 2025, when Mexico’s President,
South Africa’s Currency Weakness And Economic Reform Moves Signal Contested Path To Inclusive Growth
The government’s announcement of proposed changes to its flagship Black Economic Empowerment policy, which aims to address structural inequality, coincided with the rand’s sharp decline against a stronger U.S. dollar this week, reflecting investor
Iran, Bunker Busters, and Empire First
When it comes to the dangerous misgovernance of our tottering American Republic, there is no more deadly combination imaginable than: The sweeping unchecked powers of the imperial presidency. A $1 trillion per year war machine which is organized mainly for
The Coming Air and Missile War With Iran
Reprinted from The Realist Review. President Trump has assembled the largest concentration of U.S. Air and Naval power in the Middle East since Iraq was attacked in 2003. Dan Grazier, a retired Marine officer and senior fellow at the Stimson Center notes that
Wars and rumors of wars: Iran edition
An attack on Iran
The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe
By George Yancy for Truthout Back in 2016, I was asked what I thought about Donald Trump. Even back then, I saw him as an aspiring fascist, and I responded: Simply put. He is a conduit through which white America expresses its most vile desire for white
Israel and American Hawks are pushing US to Iran War with Catastrophic Consequences
By Hugh J. Curran for Informed Comment It seems clear that Israeli proponents of conflict in the Middle East, as well as supporters in the US media and politics, are determined to take America to war with Iran. This observation was forcefully stated by the
Fired for Doing Journalism? Inside the Crackdown on Student Press at UT Dallas
For ScheerPost’s Academic Freedom Project, we are looking to speak with both professors and student journalists covering what’s happening on their campuses and the attacks on the freedoms we hold dear. We understand there is a distinction between academic
A Dangerous Equation: Trump’s Iran Plans and the Democrats Who Expect to Benefit
Posted by Joshua Scheer Recent reporting suggests that former President Donald Trump privately envisions a bold “regime change” in Iran, seeing it as a historical legacy project. Sources indicate he has pressed military planners for contingency strategies that
Lies Of Omission As Fresh American War Crimes Loom
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Substack The US has amassed the largest military force in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq almost 23 years ago and is poised once again to commit mass murder and gleefully perpetrate an astonishing amount of war crimes.
Abby Martin on the Democratic Party, Imperialism & the Crisis of the U.S. Left)
Posted by Joshua Scheer We did an amazing podcast with the incomparable journalist Abby Martin, but this clip started playing through my phone speakers and it was pretty brilliant and on point, as to be expected. It’s from the Turbulence Podcast, where Abby is
SCOTUS Tariff Ruling to Ease Solar Prices, as even GOP Voters Boost Sun Power
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment Although President Trump calls solar and wind power a “scam,” falsely alleges that they drive up electricity costs (the opposite is true), and has placed obstacles before new wind and solar farms, his position is a loser both
After Supreme Court Kills Tariffs, Trump Plots ‘15% Tax Out of YOUR Pockets to Feed ...
By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams Shortly after the US Supreme Court on Friday ruled against President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs, the Republican announced plans for a 10% global import tax under another law. By
Economist: Trump’s Tariffs Already Failed at ‘Bringing Back Jobs’
For BreakThrough News’ The Socialist Program Economist Richard Wolff cuts through the noise to explain what the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s tariffs really means — not just for the administration, but for an
Resistance101: Forging a New Movement for Palestine in Italy DOCUMENTARY
With little sign that the genocide in Gaza is abating, dockworkers in Italy’s major port cities have taken matters into their own hands. Organizing strikes and mass demonstrations, they are moving to block the shipment of arms to Israel — a direct rebuke to
The Sun, Enlightenment, and the Dark Side of Modern Technology
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The Surprising Science of Walking and Testosterone
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Abuses in Cameroon After US Deports Third-Country Nationals
Cameroonian authorities are arbitrarily detaining non-Cameroonian nationals deported from the United States and detaining and abusing journalists who tried to interview them. But US President Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t seem to care. In January and
Chris Hedges: The Suicidal Folly of a War with Iran
The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet another debacle in the Middle East, one the Congress has not approved, and
Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individuals on the unchecked inhumane treatment and deplorable conditions inside U.S. jails, detention centers, and prisons. But as a result of the Trump
‘More Chaos’: Trump Hammered for Plan to Double Down on Tariffs After Supreme Court Ruling
President Donald Trump defiantly vowed to continue slapping tariffs on imported goods on Friday after the US Supreme Court overturned the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs he implemented last year. In a press conference held hours after the Supreme Court
‘Colonial Apartheid Regime’: Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ & Plans For Gaza
Journalist Jeremy Scahill says the Trump administration’s vision for the Gaza Strip is of a continued “colonial apartheid regime” with Israel and U.S. interests controlling the lives of millions of Palestinians in perpetuity. “Palestinians are being told that
DoJ Released Much More on Epstein’s Israel Ties—But Media Still Aren’t Much Interested
Late last month, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) published 3.5 million pages about convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. On top of the grotesque and horrifying photos and that appear to offer more evidence of systemic and widespread child
North Korea: Party Congress Set to Bolster Repression
(New York) – North Korea’s ninth Party Congress started on February 20, 2026, amid escalating repression of young people, strict control of information, and widespread forced labor, Human Rights Watch said today. The Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea is
Haiti Criminal Groups Trafficking Children Amid State Collapse
A new United Nations report details how criminal groups in Haiti are exploiting the near-total absence of the state, as well as widespread hunger and violence, to recruit children who then face abuse. These criminal groups traffic children by using threats and
Anniversary of Fatal Italy Shipwreck Comes Amid New Tragedies
In the early morning hours of February 26, 2023, the Summer Love shipwrecked off the coast of Calabria, Italy. At least 94 people, including 35 children, died in what is known as the Cutro shipwreck. According to survivors, the boat was carrying up to 250
Mercury Latest Trump Rollback of Environmental Protections
US President Donald Trump’s administration today rolled back another air-pollution protection, this time for one of the most toxic substances on earth: mercury. The action reverses then-President Joe Biden’s decision in 2024 to reduce the levels of allowable
AOC’s First Encounter With the Gaffe Industrial Complex
Last Friday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed the Munich Security Conference about the threat posed to democracy by growing income inequality. It’s like Cannes for international security, where even the name of the location is a counterargument. By
Defying repression, new protests push Iranian regime back
Tens of thousands protested across Iran Feb. 17-18 to mark the 40-day commemoration of the massacre of more than 7,000 protesters at the hands of the bourgeois clerical regime. “This flower that was cut down has become a gift to the homeland” and “if one