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A Wall Street Consensus Was on Display at the G7 Summit

A Wall Street Consensus Was on Display at the G7 Summit

Leaders failed to address income inequality or climate change but entertained wealthy AI and fossil fuel executives.

18.06.2026 3

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New Film Journacide Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters in Lebanon

New Film Journacide Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters in Lebanon

We’re seeing the targeting of and double-tap strikes on journalists that we've seen in Gaza, says filmmaker Seán Murray.

17.06.2026 4

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Artists Celebrate Removal of Trump’s Name From Kennedy Center as a Step Forward

Artists Celebrate Removal of Trump’s Name From Kennedy Center as a Step Forward

But workers are still being fired in violation of their union contract, says the co-founder of Hands Off the Arts.

16.06.2026 5

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DOJ Approves Another Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media

DOJ Approves Another Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media

Free press advocate Craig Aaron explains the stakes of billionaire-owned Paramount potentially acquiring Warner Bros.

15.06.2026 9

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The New School Guts Faculty and Staff as Higher Ed Intensifies Austerity

The New School Guts Faculty and Staff as Higher Ed Intensifies Austerity

“If this kind of austerity can happen at The New School, it can happen everywhere,” says professor Jeremy Varon.

12.06.2026 10

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Anti-Austerity Protests Rock World Cup Kick-Off in Mexico

Anti-Austerity Protests Rock World Cup Kick-Off in Mexico

The mothers of disappeared people have also been protesting, trying to reach the stadium, says José Luis Granados Ceja.

11.06.2026 10

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Trump Admin Is Turning Ocean Into a Gas Station and Garbage Dump, Expert Says

Trump Admin Is Turning Ocean Into a Gas Station and Garbage Dump, Expert Says

Along with dismantling vital sea monitoring, Trump aims to expand deep sea mining and loosen fishing regulations.

10.06.2026 7

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SpaceX IPO May Help Fuel Reach of Musk’s Racist Far Right Politics

Elon Musk wants government “to be the site of injection for new services from Silicon Valley,” says Quinn Slobodian.

09.06.2026 4

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Trump Told Netanyahu Not to Bomb Iran — But Israel Did Anyway

Iran and Israel exchanged fire overnight in the most serious escalation since a nominal truce was reached in April.

08.06.2026 7

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Trump’s Ex-Border Patrol Chief Joined Portugal Far Right Mass Deportation Summit

Ahead of the event, Gregory Bovino cited Nazi Germany’s lead general, Erwin Rommel, as an inspirational figure.

04.06.2026 9

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Judge Orders Reopening of Trump’s IRS Lawsuit Over Fraud and Collusion

“You can’t manipulate the courts to broom clean an illegitimate settlement,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.

03.06.2026 5

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Morale Plummets in Lebanon as Talks Fail to Halt Israel’s Ceasefire Violations

Many Lebanese people “sort of feel beholden to the regional and global powers on their fate,” says AP's Kareem Chehayeb.

02.06.2026 8

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Trump Taps Former Private Prison Executive as Interim ICE Director

David Venturella is former VP of GEO Group, whose profits soared from $32M to $254M in 2025 as ICE detention expanded.

01.06.2026 9

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Jury Awards $50 Million to Family of Woman Killed in Boeing Crash

Samya Stumo was among 346 killed in what a judge previously called "the deadliest corporate crime in US history.”

29.05.2026 10

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Ex-Nuclear Negotiator Criticizes Trump’s Push for Abraham Accords in Iran Deal

Trump threatened to blow up Oman and said Gulf states “owe” it to the US to normalize relations with Israel.

28.05.2026 10

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Wife of Hunger Strike Organizer at Delaney Hall ICE Jail Speaks Out

“Their demands are not to get better conditions. Their demands are to get freed and be heard,” Gabriela Soto said.

27.05.2026 10

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US Bombs Iranian Ships Despite Ongoing Ceasefire and Peace Negotiations

Israel is also continuing its attack on Lebanon in what journalist Negar Mortazavi says is an effort to undermine talks.

26.05.2026 10

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Trump Celebrates Colbert’s Ouster at Hands of CBS Owners Aligned with His Admin

CBS owner Paramount Skydance is now seeking another megamerger that would put more media under Ellison family control.

22.05.2026 10

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Trump Proposes Resettling More White South Africans and Blocking Other Refugees

The US president's claims that Afrikaners face racial persecution and genocide have been repeatedly disproven.

21.05.2026 10

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DOJ Says IRS Is “Forever Barred” from Investigating Trump Family Tax Returns

The Justice Department memo was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is Trump’s former personal attorney.

20.05.2026 10

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Director of E. Jean Carroll Film Says Distribution Was “Quite a Challenge”

The documentary examines Carroll’s legal fights against Trump for sexual assault and defamation.

19.05.2026 10

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USAID Cuts Could Hinder Management of Ebola Outbreak in Congo and Uganda

The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency due to the rapid spread of the deadly virus.

18.05.2026 10

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Israel Is Now Occupying 60 Percent of the Gaza Strip

In Gaza, Israel has accelerated the Nakba “10 times as viciously,” Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada says.

15.05.2026 10

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Xi Warns Support for Taiwan Could Lead to Conflict Between China and US

Congress has approved a new $14 billion arms package for Taiwan, but Trump has not yet moved it forward.

14.05.2026 10

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Trump’s FDA Chief Is Pushed Out. Acting Head Is Nonscientist Friend of Don Jr.

Mass layoffs and the loss of scientific expertise had already thrown the Food and Drug Administration in turmoil.

13.05.2026 10

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Flotilla Activist Describes Kidnapping By Israel in International Waters

Saif Abukeshek was detained for 10 days after his boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted by Israel.

12.05.2026 10

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Far Right Reform Party Saw Big Wins in UK Local Elections at Labor Party’s Cost

The Green Party also won control of several local councils, while Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign.

11.05.2026 10

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Contractors Razed a 1,000-Year-Old Indigenous Site to Build Trump’s Border Wall

Bulldozers destroyed part of a Sonoran Desert intaglio that holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.

08.05.2026 10

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GOP and SCOTUS Unleashed a “Gerrymandering Arms Race” at Expense of Black Voters

Without the Voting Rights Act, “multiracial democracy in America will be under threat forever,” reporter Ari Berman says.

07.05.2026 10

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Press Freedom Plummets in US, Reaches Crisis in Middle East and North Africa

“This isn’t just a Trump problem,” says Clayton Weimers, the North America director for Reporters Without Borders.

06.05.2026 10

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FCC Orders Early Review of ABC Licenses the Day After Trump Attacks Jimmy Kimmel

The only Democratic commissioner calls the move “the most offensive assault on the First Amendment so far by this FCC.”

05.05.2026 10

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Israel Continues to Detain Flotilla Members Intercepted in International Waters

“We saw a level of violence that I genuinely didn’t anticipate,” a flotilla member said after being detained by Israel.

04.05.2026 10

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TPS Holders Fear SCOTUS Ruling Could Send Them Back to Harm’s Way

The court heard oral arguments this week on Trump’s push to strip temporary protected status from Haitians and Syrians.

01.05.2026 20

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Civil Rights Lawyer: SCOTUS Voting Rights Ruling Is “Free Pass to Discriminate”

The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state.

30.04.2026 20

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Iran Isn’t Begging for Negotiations. It’s Setting the Terms for Ending the War.

“The [Trump] administration is desperate to find some form of an off-ramp,” says Drop Site News' Jeremy Scahill.

29.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Justice Department Is Moving to Make It Easier to Deport DACA Recipients

Rep. Delia Ramirez speaks about the administration's effort to “weaponize the court system” against immigrants.

28.04.2026 10

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Trump Administration Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads in Effort to Ramp Up Executions

“His first instinct almost always seems to be demonize someone as an enemy," said Sister Helen Prejean.

27.04.2026 10

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Musk and Silicon Valley Aren’t Libertarian. They Want to Fuse With the State.

Big Tech seeks “a closer relationship to the state than they had before,” says author Quinn Slobodian.

24.04.2026 10

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Indigenous Activists Decry “Data Colonialism” of AI Boom in Their Communities

Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.

22.04.2026 10

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Deaths in ICE Custody Surge in 2026, Averaging 1 Every Week

Advocate Setareh Ghandehari says rampant medical neglect and abuse are largely responsible for the rise in deaths.

21.04.2026 10

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International Law Is Being Used to Restrain Iran, Enable US and Israel

Western countries condemn restrictions in the Hormuz Strait more than the “clearly unlawful war,” says Maryam Jamshidi.

20.04.2026 10

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Minneapolis Woman Violently Dragged From Car by ICE Files Claim Against DHS

Aliya Rahman hopes to highlight tools that could “make mass acts of racial violence seem too expensive for these folks.”

17.04.2026 10

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Swalwell, Gonzales Resignations Could Point to Pattern of Misconduct In Congress

Congress “shouldn’t see these resignations as the end of the story,” gender justice expert Fatima Goss Graves says.

15.04.2026 20

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Former US and Iranian Negotiators Discuss Trump’s Failed Iran War Talks

As Trump vows to blockade Iranian ports, the diplomats say his “mercurial” approach makes peace talks challenging.

14.04.2026 20

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Global Oil Prices Jump After US-Iran Negotiations Fail in Less Than 24 Hours

Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports and Iran threatened to strike other Gulf ports in retaliation.

13.04.2026 10

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Close Political Ties to Trump Are Becoming Increasingly Toxic in Europe

Even far-right governments like Italy’s find it more difficult to show Trump support, scholar Nathalie Tocci says.

10.04.2026 20

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Israel Kills More Than 200 People in Deadliest Day of Resumed War on Lebanon

“The silence of states and the continued flow of weapons has only emboldened Israel,” researcher Ramzi Kaiss says.

09.04.2026 20

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Trump Budget Proposal Gives Pentagon Record $1.5T Funding, Cuts Social Programs

“It’s beyond the wildest dreams of the military-industrial complex,” says Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman.

07.04.2026 10

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Absence of Accountability for Gaza Genocide Has Enabled Israel’s War on Lebanon

There has been “no accountability whatsoever for violations of the laws of war,” says researcher Ramzi Kaiss.

06.04.2026 10

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Freed After a Year in ICE Jail, Palestinian Protester Leqaa Kordia Speaks Out

“ICE dungeons are systematically ... built to break people mentally,” Kordia said.

03.04.2026 20

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