-
Why the Global South needs an industrial policy: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2026)
While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power.
-
Why the rushed Postal Service plan for mail-in voting has states in a panic
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.
-
U.S. bombs a wedding in Iran
The generals can change deployments, move ships and planes, and order another round of bombing. None of that solves Washington’s basic problem: the Iranian people have not surrendered.
-
‘Medicare for all is a system that can absolutely be built in the U.S.’
CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.
-
The USS Lincoln’s ‘leisure trip’ to Thailand: a port call of U.S. neocolonialism and femicide
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.
-
The long con of John Roberts
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.
-
A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net
The Trump administration has cut staff, funding at agencies that track foodborne illnesses.
-
Defend Cuba and Demand the Lifting of the U.S. Energy Blockade and Embargo
The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.
-
Large number of faculty at Elite U.S. Universities linked to the National Endowment for Democracy, A CIA cut-out specializing in propaganda
Many of the dissidents that the NED honors advocate for sanctions, bombing and war on their own countries. Some were even indicted for inciting insurrection or terrorist acts.
-
Seneca Nation rejects Trump’s colonial claim on Lake Ontario
Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca said that on Aug. 28, the day after Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Seneca called for the order to be rescinded and for the name to remain as it stands, reflecting the Seneca people, the other Haudenosaunee nations and all the Indigenous peoples around the lake.
-
Abolish ICE? Perish the thought, says Press
In a few short years, “Abolish ICE” has gone from a position considered far too radical to receiving serious consideration from the Democratic National Committee.
-
U.S. Canada trade war intensifies
While Trump’s gangster imperialism exacerbates the trade war with Canada, workers must not simply rally to the side of their own national capitalists, argues John Clarke.
-
Roe Kapara – Everything’s Fine (Nuke Song) [Official Lyric Video]
Roe Kapara – Everything’s Fine (Nuke Song) [Official Lyric Video]
-
The Hour of the Furnaces: Internationalism in Difficult Times
The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.
-
“Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror” – book review
Kennard’s Irregular Army alarmingly exposes the open door to violent, far-right elements in the US army. This should be connected to imperial overreach, argues Reece Goscinski.
-
Huge scandal exposes how USA uses criminals to manipulate elections in Latin America
Huge scandal in Latin America: far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to assassinate his ex-girlfriend. He oversaw disinformation campaigns for region’s conservative pro-U.S. presidents and has links to Trump admin.
-
More than 200 days under the Energy Blockade: The silent suffocation of the Cuban people
So far in 2026, Cuba has received a single shipment of oil: some 100,000 metric tons of crude donated by Russia—and nothing else.
-
U.S. slaps sanctions on left-wing groups, including Palestine Action
The sanctions mean all property and interests in property of the groups or individuals that are in the U.S. “or in the possession or control of U.S. persons” are blocked.
-
Inside the struggle to dismantle America’s greenhouse gas data
New Documents Detail Industry Efforts to Roll Back Federal Methane Regulations But Maintain Emissions Monitoring System.
-
Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions
Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore.
