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The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room Jonathan Cook Substack The British state rigged the trial of Tony Greenstein, a secular Jewish socialist and peace activist, to get him locked up for as much as 14 years – supposedly for “inviting support for Hamas”. Fearful that the judge would punish his barrister for delivering a closing speech that properly defended him, Greenstein instead spoke directly to the jury. For half an hour, he picked apart sham charges…

Most if not all large-scale organizations resist reform. Colleges’ and universities’ institutional structure enables them to resist better than most. At most if not all large-scale organizations, management and labor incline to maintain established practices. Ingrained habits, stable and predictable procedures, and the accumulation of experience equip those working in and out of the C-suite to accomplish the organization’s official goals. Yet valuable habits, procedures, and experience can also function to deflect fresh ideas, suppress new methods, and undercut innovative arrangements – particularly those that threaten to redistribute power, downgrade roles, and take jobs. In commercial enterprises the discipline imposed…

Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Detained For 300-Plus Days. In December, a United States judge dismissed the case against detained journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias with prejudice, ruling that the U.S. government had deprived Parias of access to counsel prior to his trial. There was no other “remedy.” Parias is a father of two children in southern Los Angeles. He is known for documenting ICE operations and goes by Richard LA on TikTok. As the order to dismiss the case recounted, on October 21, 2025, ICE agents “used their vehicles to box in” Parias’s car. While attempting to break the car’s windows, the “wheels spun and…

Has anyone died of measles in the state this year? We don’t know yet. What we do know: Health bureaucrats and the media are DESPERATE to attribute deaths to measles, whatever the facts. Source link

With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win. The Iran War Is the Greatest Strategic Blunder in U.S. History Joshua Scheer Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded the Trump administration’s new campaign to strangle Iran “economic D-Day.” John Mearsheimer calls it what it really is: a desperate Hail Mary from an empire that has run out of military options. Speaking with Chris Hedges, the University of Chicago political scientist argues that Washington’s effort to cut Iran off from global trade is almost…

Cuban companies will be able to trade directly with foreign entities, a senior Cuban trade official told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview in Havana. Source link

Ibrahim Al-Marashi The Conversation The Red Sea often makes headlines as the launch site for attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure by the Houthi rebels, a political and religious group that controls much of the northern and western areas of Yemen. But the history of this vital shipping route was once defined by the passage of another dark, liquid source of energy: coffee. The Yemeni port of Mocha built its fortunes largely on coffee cultivated in Yemen’s highlands and shipped from its port to markets across the Middle East, Europe and beyond. Merchants from Arabia, India, Africa and Europe passed through its…

For too long, Venezuela has confused maintaining its sovereignty with keeping its oil in the ground even if its vast oil reserves produced neither investments nor collective well-being. But true sovereignty means establishing rules that turn those resources into prosperity for Venezuelans, including with international partners. That’s how to judge the oil deal announced by the governments of the U.S. and Venezuela. The transaction has not been fully disclosed. Reports indicate that it is a long-term energy partnership between the two governments structured with private capital and operators to develop 17 oil fields with an estimated proven potential of 65…

By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries in Minnesota. Free speech groups across the country are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration’s surveillance of social movements in Minnesota and the prosecution of the Minnesota 15, a group of activists from Minneapolis-St. Paul who face federal conspiracy charges after organizing protests against brutal immigration sweeps earlier this year.  President Donald Trump and his allies in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice Department have targeted the First Amendment-protected expression…