Joy to the World – by Mr. Fish Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It no...

Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under then prime minister ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Anna on Twitter asks, “Is anyone else really stressed about their future and where they are in life and what they’ve accomplished and their worth as a person?” I understand what you’re saying, but that’s mostly...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I still find myself fuming at the way ostensibly well-informed individuals can stand right in the heart of the empire denouncing its targets, as we saw in the open letter that a group of left-wing western indivi...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “ The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA ,” subtitled “Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triump...

Five activists who broke windows and threw red paint at a Barclays Bank branch in protest over Israel’s genocide in Gaza will not be sentenced as terrorists, a judge has ruled. Judge Robert Altham told a packed room at Preston Crown Court on Friday that the damage the activists caused with t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now “What radicalized you?” I dunno man maybe it was all the wars based on lies or the corporate ecocide or the live-streamed genocide or the people sleeping on sidewalks while billionaires become trillionaires or th...

Dr. Adam Hamawy says that to move forward, the Democrats must embrace an anti-war, economically progressive agenda, and abandon the categories of left vs. right. The bipartisan US-backed genocide in Gaza exposed the corruption of the political system in the United States and the hypo...

The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment rights, but of retaliating against him f...

When Dave Nellist entered parliament in 1983 as the Labour MP for Coventry South East, he became one of Westminster’s best-known socialists.  He was seen as a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage, donating more than half his salary to left-wing causes.  But within a few years, he was embroile...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I’ve been putting out more and more of these “today in dystopia” write-ups because our society is plunging into iron-fisted authoritarianism and AI-induced idiocracy so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up with how i...

Jurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday. It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the defendants. An eighth defendant, who cannot b...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Today in dystopia, police have been wrongfully arresting people based on faulty information from AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage instead of actually investigating the evidence of the crime. In an article t...

Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5. This June, British oligarch Damon Buffini stepped d...

The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The tombstone for my grandparents, Ethel and Philip Prince, and my uncle, Maurice Prince. MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — I am standing in Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Maine. In front of...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Love and cherish our world. That’s the secret to remaining both (A) deeply happy and (B) well-informed about the dystopian abuses of the empire. You don’t have to choose. You can have both. I sometimes get calle...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions. We can all see everything g...

“I don’t think we live in a functioning democracy—and that has been true for some time.” Hedges Joshua Scheer Six months into the disastrous U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the fantasy of a quick and decisive victory has collapsed. American weapons stockpiles are dwindling, energy and food pr...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The capitalist empire blames all systemic problems on the individual. The problem isn’t billionaire megacorporations polluting the planet, it’s that you drive a car. The problem isn’t that it’s getting harder an...

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism.  It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors ...