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by Binoy Kampmark / April 17th, 2026
Be wary of a company – any company – who exerts moral muscle as they create software and digital platforms that are injurious and simultaneously lauded for curing that injury. Be especially wary of Anthropic. With sagacious loftiness, it warns of the disabling dangers of the artificial intelligence (AI) frontier. Principled, it tells the Trump administration it will not partake in creating AI software that aids mass surveillance, a move that earned it an order of excommunication as a “supply chain risk”. It then goes on to create Claude Mythos Preview, a seemingly dystopian model that will, …
by Tricontinental Asia / April 16th, 2026
Gayan Prageet (Sri Lanka), What are You Trying to Hide?, 2015.
On 20 March 2026, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake made a startling revelation in parliament. He revealed that the government had declined a United States request to land two aircraft armed with anti-ship missiles at the Mattala airport in the south of the country. The president stated that the government turned down the US request to maintain Sri Lanka’s neutrality in the ongoing war on Iran.
President Dissanayake’s statement received significant attention in international media. …
Listen to Nolan Higdon as he opens up about his new book.
by Paul Haeder / April 16th, 2026
by Lee Camp / April 16th, 2026
So many people around the world are working toward peace. They want the US/Israel to stop bombing Iran and killing innocent people. They want Israel’s genocide of Gaza to end. They want to hinder Israel’s new genocide in Lebanon. They want the US not to kidnap President Maduro. They want the US not to lay siege to Cuba until its people starve.
All of those wishes or demands are lame. Sorry to say it like it is, but peace is boring and …
by David Swanson / April 16th, 2026
Nell Bernstein’s new book is called In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison. It tells us that in the United States in 2000 the number of young people held inside locked buildings was 108,800 and in 2022 it was 27,600. At least two-thirds of youth prisons and jails have been shut down. This is an enormous, dramatic, positive development in an era when most people imagine that the closest thing to good news out there is a stretch of 8 hours without any social media posts from Trump.
Bernstein also tells us that even now the …
by Gary Olson / April 15th, 2026
The United States has been at war with Iran, by one means or another, since 1979. Why? Because, in the words of Jeffrey Sachs, “Iran escaped from U.S. global hegemony.” Today, the war continues, but now we are existing within the mental delusions of Donald Trump, a psychopath who was convinced by Netanyahu that an easy victory over Iran was at hand.
During the recent negotiations in Islamabad, Netanyahu was openly bragging about talking to Vance, and we know that after April 22nd, Israel will attempt to sabotage the two-week truce. Trump must prevent it because this time Iran won’t wait, …
Supporting Independent Journalism in the Public Interest
by Mickey Huff / April 15th, 2026
Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media, despite its increasingly corporate and commercial nature, can have a positive influence on the world, especially when it operates ethically and independently in the public interest. He encouraged journalism programs at colleges across the country to turn out “more muckrakers and fewer buck-takers
Jensen championed the independent reporting of his contemporaries in his work with Project Censored, earning him accolades from luminaries such as I.F. Stone and …
Reflections on Two Big Ideas from Cedric Johnson’s After Black Lives Matter
by Joseph G. Ramsey / April 15th, 2026
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
– Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
O Blacksmith’s Hammer,
How hot and hard must you pound
To change this cold wind?
– Richard Wright, Haiku #195
Cedric Johnson’s dogma-busting intervention and sweeping conjunctural analysis After Black Lives Matter (ABLM) concludes with a broad call to “Abolish the Conditions,” outlining what he calls an “abolition of a different sort” (341). Different, that is, from the abolitionism prominent in recent years that aims to straightaway …
by John Perry and Roger D. Harris / April 15th, 2026
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up the social fabric.”
Amnesty’s new 95-page report (in Spanish, with an English summary), criticizes governments across the political spectrum for attacking what it calls “civil society organizations.” But Amnesty ignores the history of many such organizations and therefore why governments might be justified in closing them.
Here we focus on the report’s deficiencies in relation to Nicaragua, Venezuela (two NGOs interviewed in each) and Cuba (none).
by Robert Jensen / April 15th, 2026
Bill Rees likes to say that ecological footprint analysis began with an epiphany—when he was 10 years old.
Sitting down to lunch on his grandparents’ Ontario farm with relatives he had worked with that morning, the sweaty kid realized he had played a small part in raising everything on the table—beef, chicken, potatoes, carrots, and a few other items the farm had produced so far that season.
Rees remembers the moment as thrilling. “You know the expression, ‘You are what you eat’? As …
Letter to the Senate and the House Majority and Minority Leaders
by Bandy X. Lee / April 15th, 2026
I wish to thank all those who have worked tremendously hard to try to get out my message to the four living former commanders-in-chief that Donald Trump must be removed from his access to nuclear weapons and his command of the planet’s most powerful military for mental health reasons—please continue to do so! In the meantime, economist and influential advisor of governments Jeffrey Sachs has helped me to send the same message to Congress (this is in addition to our statement of medical concerns that the U.S. Senate requested):
Dear Senate Majority Leader Thune, Senate Minority Leader …
How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed
by Nolan Higdon / April 14th, 2026
Note: The following is an excerpt from the book MAGAcademy. By purchasing the book through Project Censored, proceeds go to support their work as a non-profit education and media literacy organization. Click Here to Purchase
“People can have a difference of opinion.” Farley, a gray-faced bureaucrat from the university’s labor relations office, repeated the phrase for what felt like the tenth time in a twenty-minute meeting. He looked like an archetype of “the administrator” that modern universities fetishize: an overweight white man in a wrinkled white button-down shirt, glasses slipping …
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air...Unreal
by Phil Rockstroh / April 14th, 2026
Is anyone else experiencing the sense that one feels when nearing the end of a pattern of life?
The previous templates no longer apply.
The old patterns seem inapplicable…jejune.
One longs for the unseen to be disclosed…The Epstein files…UFOs…There are moments in which it all feels as inchoate as dreams, yet unfolding amid moments …
by John Helmer / April 14th, 2026
Inside the Kremlin Wall there is only one man sitting or standing whose closeness to President Vladimir Putin has so excited his ambition to be rich (billion-dollar rich), and to be powerful (the next head of government), that he dares to shout from the ramparts that peace on the Ukrainian battlefield, relief of global economic sanctions, and prosperity with US investments will materialize very soon on condition that Russia puts its unquestioning trust in President Donald Trump.
Unquestioning means, for this man, never criticizing Trump for …
by Binoy Kampmark / April 14th, 2026
They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds to show for it; the brute who terrorises the staff, mocking their lack of adeptness, skill and knowledge for overcooking the pigeon or adding a touch too much salt. Hurled crockery, flying language bristling with savagery and filth. And the rituals of hazing and collective shaming.
Copenhagen’s Michelin starred restaurant, Noma, has seen much of this and more besides. It has been at the forefront of …
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / April 14th, 2026
After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems likely to give way to a new phase of the war. The ceasefire and talks have failed to end Israel’s devastating attacks on Lebanon or to negotiate international access to the Strait of Hormuz, now under Iran’s control.
The world must use this pause in the war to push for a permanent ceasefire and peace agreement, but we must also start to assess the true human cost of …
Three Structures. Three Instincts. Three Memories.
by Gordon Dumoulin / April 13th, 2026
China is often explained—but rarely observed in motion.
Its policies can be measured, its economy analyzed, its crises anticipated—yet the deeper forces that sustain and renew it across centuries, shaping its trajectory beneath the surface, remain mostly unseen.
Mountains and rivers are eternal witnesses; men pass like fleeting clouds.”
“山河永在，人如浮云。” —Li Bai (701–762), Tang Dynasty
Engaging with China is to encounter a living civilizational body, continuously regenerating through millennia of prosperity, upheaval, and renewal. Its policies, figures, and developments are visible markers, but beneath the headlines lies a deeper anatomy—structures, instincts, and memories that have …
by Charles Pierce / April 13th, 2026
The struggle for women’s equal rights is incomplete and ongoing. In parts of several African countries, girls are subjected to female genital mutilation. In several “Islamic” countries, women are still subject to male guardianship and/or confining dress-code mandates, despite the lack of support in the Quran and in Muslim practice during the time of the Prophet and the first Caliphs. Misogynist violence against women persists nearly worldwide. Even where rights have been conceded with respect to ownership and management of property, voting, holding political office, employment, et cetera; exclusionary practices …
Keeping Up With Charter School Crimes And Scandals Is Getting Harder
by Shawgi Tell / April 13th, 2026
#ANOTHERDAYANOTHERCHARTERSCHOOLSCANDAL is a regularly updated blog documenting a range of crimes and scandals plaguing the crisis-ridden charter school sector. The blog was created by the Network for Public Education and offers hundreds of mainstream news stories spanning many years and chronicling more than one can fathom.
In addition to this blog, there also exists a small army of writers, critics, researchers, and bloggers out there exposing crimes and scandals in charter schools. Yet it is clear that more blogs and more full-time workers are needed to keep up with the …
by Ellen Brown / April 13th, 2026
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
— Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)
In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny. As James Corbett documented in recent …
Corporate Beneficiaries and a Targeted Society
by Roger D. Harris / April 13th, 2026
In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions regime, the US has merely adjusted its application through licensing mechanisms, leaving the core structure of coercive measures fully intact.
Reuters reported “US lifts some Venezuela sanctions,” followed by news of sanctions being further “eased.” Both NBC News and ABC News likewise reported sanctions “eased,” while …
by Visualizing Palestine / April 11th, 2026
A record number of Palestinian children were held in Israeli military detention at the end of 2025, and a record proportion of these children were held without charge. Following the International Day of the Palestinian Child (Sunday, April 5) and ahead of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (April 17), this visual summarizes what they experience.
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#FreeTheChildren, a coalition-based initiative, is raising awareness of the systematic abuses Palestinian children face in Israel’s military detention …
by Heather Stroud / April 11th, 2026
This is a war against all of humanity and so long as the human spirit has the capacity to resist oppression, to see through the fog of lies – to value truth, liberty and love – there will always be those who rise-up and resist.
Those who commit evil do not like having a spotlight shone on their activities, anymore than they like those who oppose them. Controlling the narrative therefore becomes critical to their agenda for waging a war. Resistance movements, leaders, governments to be overthrown, or countries to be occupied, are first demonised and then proscribed as terrorist.
Re-reading Alistair …
by Bruce Lerro / April 11th, 2026
It is easier go back home than to have constantly to be building a new one. This potential god does away with anything familiar with anything cherished. The gate opening on all possible combinations is far more powerful determinant of life’s destiny than the desperate nostalgia for the loss of oneness in the womb.
Reality is a seedless phenomenon engaged in the task of creating the seed. Once the seed is created, realty will be able to repeat itself in all the singular variations peculiar to the individuals involved in that repetition. …
or, 21st Century Common Sense, Part 7
by Ted Glick / April 11th, 2026
“It is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in active solidarity with the struggles of people of color. Also essential, particularly in this critical election year, is conscious work among other white people who have been so infected with the ideas of white supremacy that they’ll support a white, corrupt, billionaire-loving fascist before they’ll support a Black, Brown or Indigenous, working-class fighter for justice for all. Breaking more white people away from, or beginning to question, MAGA ideology and practice is very strategic in 2026.”
This is from …
by David Edwards / April 11th, 2026
Given the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how the great and the good of corporate politics and media would react if the US or Israel ever decided to use nuclear weapons. Could they, even then, break out of their lock-step deference to power, reclaim their souls, and say something humanly honest about that ultimate moral abomination? This week, it looked …
Congress’s to-do list as it returns to Washington
by Kevin Martin / April 11th, 2026
Reasonable people wonder if it was a coincidence the escalation (and now fragile ceasefire) of the massively unpopular, senseless, illegal US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran occurred while Congress was away from Capitol Hill for two weeks. Maybe so, but speculation aside, it soon won’t matter, as Congress returns to Washington to resume legislative business Tuesday, April 14.
In the wake of President Trump’s monstrous nuclear threat to obliterate Iran’s civilization, calls for his removal from office are rising, understandably. Doing so via the 25th Amendment, which would require Vice President J.D. Vance and the spineless supine …
by Binoy Kampmark / April 11th, 2026
In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to enable conflict to continue. War as cosplay and camouflage. Under such fragile conditions, military objectives can still be pursued with a ruthlessness offensive to international law, custom and common sense.
Seeing as Israel was a central, if not the central power in pushing the crime of aggression on February 28 against Iran, wooing with seductive voice and lurid promise a deranged egoist in the White …
by Valeriy Krylko / April 11th, 2026
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Europe should remember the term “Blitzkrieg” well. Translated from German, it means “lightning war.” That is exactly what Hitler called his plan to attack the Soviet Union in 1941. At that time, the mobilized Nazi war machine, having previously crushed France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, became hopelessly bogged down in the vast Russian expanse. We all know how that ended.
There were attempts at the infamous blitzkrieg …
by Michael K. Smith / April 10th, 2026
We are the dust beneath your feet. We are the flowers that never bloom.
— beggars in Bombay
Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one’s writings on the topic are more unsettling than Jonathan Kozol’s. He is among our greatest and most eloquent dissenters. He writes not from studied objectivity but with an impassioned conviction that sears the conscience and haunts the soul. His books, once read, stay with you; his insights, once seen, can never again be unseen. Horrors we once attributed to happenstance …
