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The U.S./EU/NATO’s Regime change playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
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Attorneys criticize arrest of Milwaukee Judge Dugan as ‘bad for justice’
After a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge was arrested on Friday for obstructing justice and harboring an individual, legal experts fear a potential chilling effect.
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Russia rejects Trump’s freeze of the war in Ukraine
The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.
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‘The fact that she had that miscarriage was enough to justify arresting her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Tariff negotiations and the farmers
ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.
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They are making Venezuela’s economy scream: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2025)
U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?
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Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar
The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.
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U.S. backs Israel’s ban on UNRWA Gaza aid operations at ICJ
Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.
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Trump is the symptom, U.S. imperialism is the disease
U.S. Peace Council Statement
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The Genocide in Palestine Is Powered by Zionism, Not “AI”
We keep hearing that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “AI-powered.” Many pundits warn that this marks a new era in warfare, the first time that “automated” war has been waged. Foreign Policy declares that “AI Decides Who Lives and Dies.” Vox reports that “AI tells Israel who to bomb.” The Washington Post claims “Israel offers […]
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Tough on Institutions, not Individuals: Resisting Militarism in Engineering Schools
The scale and pace of the genocide in Gaza is accelerated by the direct and indirect contributions of American universities.
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The Trump Tariffs and the U.S. Labor Movement
A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was established to do this—he sees tariffs as a way for the U.S. to get even.