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  • Supporters of Ansar Allah hold a mock drone drone during a rally against the U.S.-led strikes on Yemen and Israel’s war in Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 23, 2024. Photo: Osamah Abdulrahman/AP.

    War On Iran: Ansar Allah goes on the offensive

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on September 11, 2026 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Sep 14, 2026)

    Bombing Ansar Allah has been tried for years with little results. The Saudis do not have the manpower for an invasion.

  • Photo by Joi Ito, taken at ICANN 2007. CC BY 2.0.

    Historicising enshittification

    Originally published: Disjunctions on September 2026 by Arvind L. U. (more by Disjunctions) (Posted Sep 12, 2026)

    Lineages of the bad internet

  • OpenAI

    OpenAI admits ‘wiki incident’ as AI safety concerns grow

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 6, 2026 by Reuters (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2026)

    OpenAI acknowledges its agents misused a German wiki as a message board, renewing scrutiny over AI safety, transparency, and oversight of autonomous systems.

  • Pentagon

    Why Pentagon is the central axis of the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on September 9, 2026 by William Serafino (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2026)

    According to the fact sheet published by the White House on August 31, the Office of Strategic Capital of the Pentagon (renamed the Department of War) will own 35% of the shares of the company North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), selected by the Trump administration to lead oil extraction projects in Venezuelan fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels.

  • Thousands gathered in downtown Minneapolis to demand an end to ICE violence. Photo: Brad Sigal

    How Minnesota Unions and community groups stood up to an ICE occupation

    Originally published: Labor Notes on September 8, 2026 by Greg Nammacher (more by Labor Notes)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2026)

    Trump’s Operation Metro Surge was a direct attack on our union.

  • MIGRANT WORKERS GATHER WITH THEIR LUGGAGE BESIDE BUSES AT AN OUTDOOR DEPARTURE AND TRANSIT POINT, AWAITING ONWARD TRANSPORT IN LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA (COPYRIGHT WECARE FOUNDATION, 2026)

    African migrant workers who cannot return

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on September 9, 2026 by Michael Smith (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Sep 11, 2026)

    The scale is global, not exclusively African.

  • 19th Anniversary of 9/11 Terrorists Attacks

    25 years ago, 9/11 triggered a U.S. crusade of torture

    Originally published: Antiwar.com on September 9, 2026 by Norman Solomon (more by Antiwar.com) (Posted Sep 11, 2026)

    A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

  • Jamaicans demanding slavery reparations from UK protest outside the entrance of the British High Commission during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Kingston, Jamaica, March 22, 2022. Photo: AFP.

    UK rejects Jamaica’s historic demand for reparations for slavery

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on September 9, 2026 by Laura M. Mor (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2026)

    The UK government has firmly rejected this Monday Jamaica’s demand for financial reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, as a Jamaican delegation formally requested £10 billion in compensation from King Charles III.

  • Demonstrators hold up signs protesting tax breaks for data centers during a special legislative session Monday, June 9, 2025 at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)

    Big Tech wants to build a data center in your city. Is it worth it?

    Originally published: Minnesota Reformer on September 8, 2026 by Brian Martucci (more by Minnesota Reformer) (Posted Sep 10, 2026)

    A closer look at costs and benefits.

  • 2 Ukrainian regional officials alleged of corruption, nearly $6 million found

    The ‘longstanding tradition’ of defense corruption in Ukraine

    Originally published: Moon of Alabama on September 7, 2026 by B (more by Moon of Alabama) (Posted Sep 10, 2026)

    Western media mostly ignore the issue. It only comes up when it is needed to interfere in favor of this or that faction within Ukraine.

  • Left Party poster, Dessau, August 2026: ‘Never again is now!’ Photo: Robert Dale

    AfD victory: Heads explode in Magdeburg and Berlin

    Originally published: Counterfire on September 7, 2026 by Robert Dale (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2026)

    Robert Dale analyses the massive vote for the far right in the eastern German state which has rocked European politics.

  • The ability to rapidly respond to disease outbreaks may deter biological attacks. Pictured: UK National Health Service medical workers prepare to fight an Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014. Credit: DFID - UK Department for International Development via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

    Newly created viruses are a warning. We still have a window to stop AI-enabled bioweapons

    Originally published: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 4, 2026 by Steph Guerra (more by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2026)

    One prevention strategy is mandatory gene synthesis screening, an idea gaining traction among the highest levels of the AI industry and political leadership.

  • Argentinian far-right strategist Fernando Cerimedo shown as a marionette controlled by Donald Trump. Illustration: Cubadebate.

    Cerimedo: MAGA comes to Latin America

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on September 3, 2026 by Cubadebate Media Observatory (more by Orinoco Tribune)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2026)

    An investigation published by the Cubadebate Media Observatory on August 24, 2026, reconstructed a web of business, communication, and political relationships that connects Argentinian businessman Fernando Cerimedo with Miami and Washington.

  • Trump's Rolling Coup

    The extremism of moderates

    Originally published: Red Scare on September 5, 2026 by Nick Estes (more by Red Scare) (Posted Sep 07, 2026)

    As Donald Trump stirs up a fresh Red Scare by branding communism a “mortal threat” to the United States, corporate-backed “moderates” in the Democratic Party have launched their own moral crusade against a surging left flank.

  • IMF

    Why the IMF keeps returning

    Originally published: Countercurrents on July 20, 2026 by Utkarsh Mishra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2026)

    In 2022, Sri Lanka defaulted on its sovereign debt for the first time in its post-independence history.

  • “terror-network”

    Israeli military taps 30 U.S. universities for AI, drones, and robotics

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 3, 2026 by Responsible Statecraft (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Sep 05, 2026)

    Millions in U.S. defense funding are supporting university projects tied to Israeli military research, including surveillance technology, AI targeting systems, and drone development.

  • A Utah County election worker picks up mailed ballots from the United States Postal Service office on Oct. 26, 2020 in Provo, Utah. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

    Why the rushed Postal Service plan for mail-in voting has states in a panic

    Originally published: Minnesota Reformer on September 2, 2026 by Jacob Fischler (more by Minnesota Reformer) (Posted Sep 04, 2026)

    President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections.

  • USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Photo: Wiki Media Commons

    The USS Lincoln’s ‘leisure trip’ to Thailand: a port call of U.S. neocolonialism and femicide

    Originally published: BreakThrough News on September 2, 2026 by Benyasiri Eimviriyapong (more by BreakThrough News)  | (Posted Sep 04, 2026)

    The system where women are systematically wrapped into sex work due to existing infrastructure and poverty, where U.S. military presence creates the demand, and where Western tourism perpetuates supply–this is femicide.

  • John Roberts

    The long con of John Roberts

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on August 21, 2026 by Bill Blum (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2026)

    As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.

  • Vegetables and lettuces at a grocery store in Michigan. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many Americans’ fears of contracting a foodborne illness. (Photo by Jon King/Michigan Advance)

    A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net

    Originally published: Stateline on August 31, 2026 by Anna Claire Vollers (more by Stateline) (Posted Sep 03, 2026)

    The Trump administration has cut staff, funding at agencies that track foodborne illnesses.

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