Subjects Archives: Empire

For days, the world watched as California burned. Cars set ablaze, crowds being flash-banged, rubber bullets flying, smoke in the air as protesters and reporters run for cover, gasping for air and hurrying to put their masks on. The scenes on the ground gripped us all.

An Israeli official said Tel Aviv received a “clear green light” for the attack from Washington.

IDF troops have raided the Madleen, a sailboat that was carrying aid intended to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has said the Israeli regime kidnapped her and other pro-Palestinian activists in international waters while they were aboard the Gaza-bound Madleen aid ship.

“The standoff on the streets of Los Angeles,” warned critics, “shows how truly eager Trump and his administration are to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on the president’s domestic foes.”

Israel’s own actions since June 1 have proved that Israeli forces do indeed deliberately fire upon starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid. Israel lied. Again.

Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and hosts the show ‘Palestine Files’. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.

Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.

Trump deploys 2,000 troops to LA amid anti-ICE protests. Governor Newsom calls it a political stunt: “They want a spectacle. Don’t give them one.”

The victims had gathered in hopes of finding food for themselves and their families, following a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade of the territory. At least 31 people were killed; one Palestinian was also killed by Israeli fire the same day at another distribution site in central Gaza.

By threatening to defund Digital Equity Act programs, Trump has declared war on a program that benefitted many of his own supporters.

Programs that create opportunity, equity, and stability are being dismantled to make way for budget cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy.

An international observer in Venezuela’s May 25 elections reflects on the country’s democracy and explains why solidarity with the Bolivarian Process is more urgent than ever.

Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.”

CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.

Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.

In its February 24th earnings call with the financial press, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner reported a 3.2 percent spike in carryout orders during the previous quarter, combined with a 1.4 percent decrease in deliveries.

The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.

THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.

Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.