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NATO Summit to take place in U.S. capital as the United States provides unconditional support for Israeli genocide.

How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?

The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.

There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty.

PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a valuable contribution to a wider understanding of the remarkable human rights activist turned Irish freedom fighter.

In order to allow for a deeper understanding of the ongoing conflict in the Congo today, this newsletter presents an analysis of the resource theft and processes of imperialism and colonialism that have long plagued this part of Africa, including the fight over raw materials that are key for the electronic age.

The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.

VA writer Andreína Chávez delves into Washington’s soft power strategies to destabilize countries in the name of Western-style “democracy.”

Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.

If we want to protect consumers from disease and price-gouging, we need to tackle the food monopolies and industrial factory farms that control our food system.

Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.

CEOs state outright that profit must come first, even as this year’s deadly heat waves providing worrying evidence of the rising climate emergency, reports John Clarke.

U.S. and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the U.S. is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.

These are dark days for the empire.

A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.

Corey DeAngelis is on a mission to demonize public schools—and promote voucher programs that benefit his wealthy backers.

Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.

A deep dive into the complexities and uncertainties surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential elections.

In a striking photograph, Otto Karl Werckmeister captured Peter H. Feist—widely regarded as the leading art historian of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)—at the sculpture garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin. Feist, dressed in a sharp blue suit, fixes his attentive gaze on the viewer, holding his camera poised at the ready.

It may be time to think the unthinkable: all the signs are pointing to the West preparing to launch a proper war in Europe. Once started it could bring, for the first time in living memory, millions of Western civilians into uniform and see the cities of the West attacked. Preposterous? Jumping the Shark? Listen to what the leaders in the West are saying. The time to stop the madness is now, not once the elites drive us into the abyss and civilians are stripped of all rights to oppose.