The Imperial Core
Hundreds of immigrants detained at the ICE jail known as Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike for nearly two weeks. They are protesting the conditions at the jail, including spoiled food that has had maggots in it, overcrowding…Read more
Date: 2026-06-04
Source: Democracy Now!
House Votes 215-208 to Approve Resolution Seeking to End Trump’s War on IranRep. Rashida Tlaib Advances Resolution to End U.S. Involvement in Israel’s War on LebanonLebanon Agrees to Extend U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire with IsraelTrump Says U.S. Bombed Iran on Tuesday, Contradicting Rubio’s Claim That Iran War is…Read more
Date: 2026-06-04
Source: Democracy Now!
Calls are growing for the interim U.S. attorney in Chicago, Andrew Boutros, to resign over his handling of the “Broadview 6” case — six individuals charged with federal crimes for protesting outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE jail in September. The remaining charges against four of the Broadview…Read more
Date: 2026-06-03
Source: Democracy Now!
After widespread bipartisan outcry, the Justice Department says it is permanently abandoning plans for a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Widely branded as a “slush fund,” it was expected to reward President Donald Trump’s supporters, including those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The fund was…Read more
Date: 2026-06-03
Source: Democracy Now!
The Global South
This edition features 17 publishers from various countries in the Global South, as well as the Amílcar Cabral Foundation of Cape Verde and the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. These texts highlight the importance of the Russian Revolution and Lenin’s legacy for anti-colonial struggles, particularly for the liberation…Read more
Date: 2026-06-02
Source: Tricontinental
The images in this dossier, edited by Tricontinental’s art department, highlight the work of Kinjo Minoru, an Okinawan sculptor who honours the generations that have resisted war and occupation. For decades, Kinjo has carved the atrocities committed during and after the World Anti-Fascist War (widely known as…Read more
Date: 2026-06-02
Source: Tricontinental
The Twenty-Seventh Art Bulletin (May 2026) Listen to ‘Por Qué Cantamos / Canción Nueva’ (Why Do We Sing / New Song), from A Dos Voces (In Two Voices), a collaboration between Mario Benedetti and Daniel Viglietti that pairs Benedetti’s…Read more
Date: 2026-05-31
Source: Tricontinental
As healthcare infrastructure and health workers were actively targeted throughout the genocide in Palestine, a group of Gaza students participated in an international virtual cross-cultural exchange. What began as an academic space quickly became something else. Health conversations could not remain theoretical – they were shaped by lived…Read more
Date: 2026-05-29
Source: Peoples Dispatch
Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi emphasized that, despite its recent failures, the UN remains the “most authoritative and legitimate body in the multilateral security system” and a cornerstone of the rule-based international order. He underlined the need for its revival and revitalization, with timely reforms to address problems the…Read more
Date: 2026-05-28
Source: Peoples Dispatch
The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. There is now a mountain of evidence before humanity: Gaza has become not merely a place under siege but…Read more
Date: 2026-05-28
Source: Peoples Dispatch
The Chamber of Deputies approved, in two rounds, on Wednesday, May 27, the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that ends the 6×1 schedule and establishes a weekly work schedule of 40 hours distributed over five working days and two days of paid rest. The text now…Read more
Date: 2026-05-28
Source: Peoples Dispatch
Sidney Amaral (Brazil), Mãe Preta ou A Fúria de Iansã [Black Mother or the Fury of Iansa], 2014. Dear friends, Greetings…Read more
Date: 2026-05-28
Source: Tricontinental
AI can now rapidly generate large volumes of ‘paper analyses,’ but much of this content is merely fluent text with an academic tone. They look like…Read more
Date: 2026-05-22
Source: Tricontinental
AI can generate a text that ‘looks like a summary’ in seconds, but the real problem is not whether the model can write, but that many…Read more
Date: 2026-05-22
Source: Tricontinental
Built by Global South popular movements, IARAA is an open-source AI for agroecology — drawing on knowledge bases validated by grassroots farmers to break with Big Tech’s digital extractivism.Read more
Date: 2026-05-22
Source: Tricontinental
Style is not a preference. It is a specification. Without one, the machine writes in a single voice. Every large language model (LLM) produces prose with the same tells. The contrast rhetoric (‘X isn’t just Y, it’s Z’), the deluge of dashes, the rule of three, the smooth…Read more
Date: 2026-05-22
Source: Tricontinental
This report applies the Digital Sovereignty Index framework to assess digital sovereignty capabilities across BRICS members, highlighting diverse growth paths and shared hurdles in technology, infrastructure, policy and resources.Read more
Date: 2026-05-08
Source: Tricontinental
Why Scanned PDFs Are a Problem Plenty of academic papers, historical documents and official records exist only as scanned images, page after page of locked‑up pixels…Read more
Date: 2026-05-08
Source: Tricontinental
Labor & Working Class
Donald Trump named Springfield, Ohio, as his first target for mass deportations. He claimed Haitian immigrants there were eating pets. We went to Springfield to hear the real story from the people who live there. It turns out the city’s decline isn’t new — and that its causes aren’t what…Read more
Date: 2026-05-28
Source: More Perfect Union
Trump used to say that Big Tech is a horrible thing for our country. Now, he’s cozy with Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Silicon Valley. What changed? We analyzed all the donors to Trump’s inauguration and uncovered a massive corruption and influence-buying scheme. The post We Investigated Hundreds of…Read more
Date: 2026-03-02
Source: More Perfect Union
America’s largest meat producers are reportedly fixing prices. Tyson, Hormel, and Cargill are using a little-known technology—Agri Stats—to share secret data and make your groceries more expensive. It’s one of the biggest conspiracies in corporate history. The post This is the Biggest Food Scandal in History appeared first on…Read more
Date: 2024-08-20
Source: More Perfect Union
The fast fashion revolution is making huge brands like Zara and Shein—and their shareholders—rich. Meanwhile, we get worse clothes with no pockets and textile landfills you can see from space. The post It’s Not Just Shein: Why Are ALL Your Clothes Worse Now? appeared first on More Perfect…Read more
Date: 2024-07-11
Source: More Perfect Union
Just 4 companies control almost all the fertilizer in America. Now the Kochs are planning a billion-dollar merger to drive up prices for farmers—and suffocate rural America—even more. The post This Billionaire Family is Suffocating Rural America appeared first on More Perfect Union.Read more
Date: 2024-07-08
Source: More Perfect Union
West Asia
Under National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, religious Jewish activists are seeking to assert ‘sovereignty’ over Al-Aqsa, Islam’s third holiest siteRead more
Date: 2026-06-04
Source: The Cradle
The US Air Force presence has caused major revenue losses at the airport and is prompting speculation that a return to war against Iran is imminentRead more
Date: 2026-06-04
Source: The Cradle
The US and Israel are both turning to AI to create propaganda campaigns promoting unpopular wars and military interventions among the publicRead more
Date: 2026-06-04
Source: The Cradle
The Lebanese resistance has been using FPV drones equipped with night-vision, and has recently managed to accurately target air defense systems and detection radarsRead more
Date: 2026-06-04
Source: The Cradle