One year since a strange hate crime marred the first hours of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new term, the NYPD is stonewalling FOIA requests about its investigation into the alleged antisemitic attack by a fedora-clad cyclist.  In the early hours of November 5, surveillance cameras captured a masked c...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I keep thinking about a talk I listened to by Julian Assange back in 2017 where he warned that one day AI could be used to facilitate the propaganda interests of the powerful by manipulating news media a...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claims that anyone who opposes Trump’s war with Iran is being blinded by Satan. Like, the actual, literal devil character from the Bible. During an incredibly sycophant...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now It is said that history is written by the victors, but what’s interesting is that this is also true of the present story. Those who are winning the capitalism game get to set the narrative about what is ...

Joshua Scheer Defeating Donald Trump at the ballot box will mean little if Democrats preserve the corporate rule that helped bring him to power. The ballots have been counted. The danger now is that Democrats will mistake a repudiation of Donald Trump for permission to keep serving the billion...

Joshua Scheer In this live Q&A, Chris Hedges examines the midterm results and warns that a Democratic victory alone will not extinguish the forces driving American fascism. He discusses the fight against corporate control within the Democratic Party, the influence of the Israel lobby and w...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon is acting like it’s absurd for American voters to have gotten it into their heads that Israel had something to do with the Iran war that’s costing them so much money. Ask...

Chris Hedges and Norman Finkelstein The greatest injustices in the world are often masked in volumes of complex and incomprehensible legal language that are not accessible to the general public. The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is one horrific example of how the world’s highest legal i...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Vice President JD Vance made the surprising admission on social media that Trump administration’s war with Iran was what caused the massive Democratic Party sweep of the midterm elections, stating plainly ...

There has been much debate in Britain in recent years about symbols of empire – pulling down statues, or returning museum artefacts.  But we rarely talk about the fact that British foreign policy is still run by the same institutions which ran the empire.  The Secretary of State for Bus...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The New York Times has published a story about a supposed Iranian plot to use chemical weapons which nobody actually believes. Not even the perpetually war-horny New York Times tries to frame this as a re...

The Supreme Court will hear this week from lawyers for Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori that the group’s proscription should be quashed. It will be the last legal opportunity to challenge the ban in Britain, with the fate of thousands arrested for allegedly supporting the group hangin...

Joshua Scheer Genocide seeks to destroy not only a people but the memory of their lives. Speaking on his Requiem for Gaza book tour, Hedges describes how he and illustrator Joe Sacco interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had escaped to Egypt, documenting the destruction through the people ...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The propagandists of the American press have been uncritically describing recent US airstrikes on Iran as “defensive” despite the US being the clear aggressor in this ongoing conflict, and despite the United...

The same racist, Zionist logic that justified the Gaza genocide is now making it impossible for the Jewish opposition to reach a deal with Palestinian parties to oust Netanyahu.

Ministers in Tony Blair’s government were prepared to use cluster bombs in their intervention in Sierra Leone’s civil war in 2000, declassified files show. The “consensus seemed to be ‘so be it’, despite the widespread concerns over UXBs [cluster weapons]”, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) official ...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The most significant political reality of our time is also the most under-discussed political reality, and it can be summed up as follows: There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we c...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now As CENTCOM meets with Trump to plan more Iran strikes, the war propaganda is dumber than it has ever been. Fox News is running stories about an Iranian “plot” to kill US military personnel in the middle...

Chris Hedges: Bearing Witness to Gaza’s Destruction Joshua Scheer Reading from his new book, Chris Hedges brings forward the voices of Palestinians who have endured displacement, hunger and the killing of their loved ones. Their testimonies form a devastating record of Gaza’s destructi...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The viral Red Baron Pizza worker and his $500,000 fundraiser is not a feel-good story, it’s a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed. If you haven’t seen ...