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On June 12, 2025, for the first time after more than twenty years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors passed a resolution declaring that Tehran was breaching its non-proliferation obligations. The day after, on June 13, Israeli warplanes began a campaign of bombing Tehran and other major Iranian cities. With the help of their proxies inside the country, they assassinated top military commanders, killed leading nuclear scientists at their residence along with their families... Читать дальше...

Another Lucy with the football moment has occurred in the United States. Less than 1% of the Epstein file information has been released, and what was offered to the public emptied out all the black ink cartridges in the greater DC area. This, in a long line of dashed liberal dreams, whether it be Special Counsel investigations, the hope of criminal charges when new administrations come in.........any number of just wait a bit and your patience will be rewarded aspirations. More

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week after a recent flight.  Writing on X, she called for abolishing TSA: “I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation More

Last week, Lauren Boebert’s cynically-named “Pet and Livestock Protection Act” passed the House of Representatives on a narrow, largely party-line vote. Five Democrats broke ranks and voted for it (Gleusenkamp Perez – WA, Cuellar – TX, Gonzalez – TX, Costa – CA, and Gray – CA), while four Republicans broke ranks and voted against it More

It never was easy to be Adam Raskin, an uncommon radical, and the youngest of four brothers born to Mildred and Sam who left the Communist Party in ’48—two years before he arrived in the world, which was in Huntington, Long Island. In 1950, my parents were still communists and remained communists until they died. More

Education was sold as a guarantee for decades. A college degree represented stability and a future for those who followed the rules of a country that claims to reward preparation. That promise has collapsed under the weight of debt and a labor market where software can eliminate entire careers instantly. The system encouraged people to More

As the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza raged with images of unbearable human suffering dominating screens worldwide, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania felt an unshakeable need to do something. An artist facing tumultuous times cannot help but be pulled in. For Hani, as a filmmaker out of the Middle East, the tragedy of Gaza hit More

The lonely figure trudged across the frozen, bare field. The soil was rock hard. The wind bit at his face, too cold even for the geese cutting across the sky. It was Christmas Day. At the far end of the field stood an elderly Scandinavian man, who greeted him gently: “Merry Christmas.” “I don’t really More

During a press conference on Dec. 11, 2025, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced there was good news on the state of the economy. “Inflation as measured by the overall CPI has slowed to an average 2.5% pace,” she said, referring to the consumer price index. “Real wages are increasing roughly $1,200 dollars for More

If anyone doubted that the rich would use their control of the media to push their agenda and silence dissent, CBS removed it with its decision to censor the scheduled 60 Minutes broadcast on CECOT prison. CECOT is the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent a number of the people More

Back in February, newly-confirmed Secretary of Health and & Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to reverse decades of industry capture of the public health agencies. Yet, recent moves by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) strongly suggest more of the same: faster approvals with less evidence of safety and effectiveness resulting in More

The technology imposed upon us is not free; it entails costs beyond the money we spend on personal purchases or the increase in public-utility bills. It becomes firmly entrenched in our lives before the realization that people are being killed for us to have it takes hold. Just like the piano keys of the 18th More

The first time I heard Rahsaan Roland Kirk was in the winter of 1972. A friend was playing his newly-released record titled Blacknuss. It was a revelation. As I listened, I realized that the world was on that record, if not all of it then certainly much of it. The beautiful and the ugly; the More

[Editor’s Note: This article is the first installment of “Does Your Community Care About Children?”, a four-part series by Colin Greer and Reynard Loki. The series examines overlapping crises facing vulnerable youth in America—and the opportunities to create systems of care, safety, and empowerment. At its heart lies a moral and civic question: Does your community More

Paul Wines helped to kick in the door of the warehouse and heard a sound like a freight train crashing through town. A blaze fueled by leather goods and other flammable materials burst through the opening in an instant, momentarily stunning Wines, then on his first big call with the all-volunteer Walton Community Fire Department More

It has become a wallowing cringe.  The extolling of multi-culti values, the incessant self-praise of diversity, variety and cosmopolitanism, only to then impose, in the name of such values, a restrictive regime of speech, language and conduct seemed suitable to – who else? – the jerky authorities.  In diversity we must oppress; in variety we must police.  The More

Absent a last minute legislative fix, the end of enhanced subsidies in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will present immediate shocks to the US health care system. Insurance premiums will rise considerably for tens of millions of people. As this crisis nears, here are just some of the notable numbers to keep in mind. 2222 More

Now I know that there are many more things in heaven and earth than I’ve dreamt of. I never expected to find a Baptist-inspired project that enthusiastically defends gender and sexual diversity, socialism, and the Cuban Revolution. Yet that was precisely what I found at the Martin Luther King Center in Cuba when I visited More

In 11 wide-ranging chapters covering history, social policy and the economy, David Matthews grounds his thesis in the following. Anti-capitalist reforms protect the working class from the market, help the ruling class and prefigure a socialist society. In The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy Under Capitalism (Monthly Review Press, 2025), the author focuses on Britain to More

Ooph. What a year. We were tempted to skip our annual tradition of tallying up top inequality victories and pretend like 2025 never happened. Instead we decided that in dark times like these, lifting up signs of hope is more important than ever. In 2025, we found those signs outside Washington. In fact, federal-level tax More

One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled “Twenty Theses for Liberation.” Noam didn’t agree with every word, nor did any of its co-signers, not even those who contributed, as Noam did, to its actual words. All the co-signers including Noam More

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of More

Truthful Fiction: Memorials and Monuments If you could see what my eyes hear: You might hear the irrepressible whispers by Robert Frost. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening lends More

In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from trees in the Southern states. The year before, bluesman Lead Belly had recorded Scottsboro Boys, a ballad chronicling the prosecution of nine Black teenagers falsely accused of rape. More

“The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping.” –Blade (1998) Since the COVID-19 apocalypse, I’ve worked as a professional road warrior—over five years of sitting in my car on graveyard shifts in lonely industrial areas, packing a pistol and hoping for a boring night. “Security Officer” is the term I use on those rare More