Global
Last June, immigration officials detained an Egyptian mother and her five children and held them for nearly a year in a notorious Texas detention facility known for poor conditions — the longest detention of any family since the center reopened last year under President Trump. To expel a family to Egypt for a crime they did not commit makes a mockery of democracy.
This week, a Colorado court sentenced Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, an Egyptian citizen, to life in prison for throwing gasoline bombs at a pro‑Israel rally last year, killing one person and injuring a dozen others in Boulder, Colorado. Soliman apologized in court and condemned his own actions as contrary to “the teachings of Islam” in a statement before sentencing. He expressed sorrow for the death of the 80‑year‑old woman who succumbed to injuries sustained in the firebombing. “There are no words that can express my sadness for her passing,” Soliman said through an Arabic interpreter, according to the Associated Press.
The Cubans who used to rule Cuba would like their stuff back. I have a dog in that race. Australians who stole Australia from the Australians would like to keep it that way. Amsterdam meanwhile has figured out that advertising meat and oil kills the planet—so, nix. And let’s find out why Gavin Newsom loves billionaires, and why New York billionaires hate “tax the rich” almost as much as “Free Palestine.”
First and foremost the west needs to stop murdering people. Ending western warmongering should take priority over every other societal concern, in the same way your husband being a serial killer would be a more urgent concern than his refusal to wash dishes.
It’s a sign of a deep sickness how much more political attention is given to domestic policy in our society than the fact that our governments are butchering human beings on other continents. This is not to say that those domestic policy issues are not important; it is only to say that they aren’t as horrifyingly urgent as the way imperial core nations are actively participating in actual mass murder.
Healthcare? Very important. Immigrants’ rights? Very important. Social justice and equality? Very important. But imagine if you lived in a place where western-made bombs were tearing your family and neighbors to shreds and then catching sight of a western social media post about the supreme importance of LGBTQ issues or ending discrimination against neurodivergent people. Just pause and put yourself in those shoes for a minute.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported staggering new figures revealing the extent of the devastation inflicted by Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. As of July 1, 2025, the Israeli occupation army has committed 7,160 massacres targeting Palestinian families, highlighting a systematic pattern of violence that experts and humanitarian agencies have widely condemned as a campaign of genocide. Source: Gaza Herald, July 1, 2025.
On January 29, 2026, the IDF accepted the estimate of the Gaza Health Ministry—run by Hamas—that approximately 71,000 Palestinians were killed during the Israeli assault on Gaza. This number does not include thousands of missing residents still buried under the rubble. Source: Haaretz.
Throughout the genocide in Gaza, then‑President Joe Biden repeatedly disputed and cast doubt on the suffering and death toll reported by the Gaza Health Ministry.
What does it mean when an entire family is erased from a civil registry?
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote, in particular, is being framed as a pivotal turning point for everything from the survival of Gaza and Lebanon to the future of Iran and beyond.
To a large extent, one can understand why US corporate media is obsessed with this date.
US political power is divided between two ruling parties, each deeply embedded in an intricate system of powerful political and economic elites. For these groups, election results are decisive in shaping the overall direction of the country, but more specifically, they determine the fortunes and misfortunes of a ruling class whose very fate is tied to the corridors of power.
This 265th meeting of the Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom features voting turn out/ rights superstars ANDREA MILLER and RODNEY SADLER. Rodney will soon be going to the North Carolina General Assembly.
Then we're joined by CHRIS SAMPSON and former Green Party Presidential candidate HOWIE HAWKINS with riveting presentations one what’s left of American democracy, on proportional representation, and on the global drone warfare centering in Ukraine’s legendary fight against Russian fascism.
We then hear an astonishing, breakthrough report from the great KARL GROSSMAN on nukes in space, and from KEVIN KAMPS on the battle against the insane attempt to re-start the utterly decrepit zombie nuke at Palisades, Michigan.
With additional reports on the fights against rape culture and much more, this latest edition of the GREEP realities in Solartopia is not to be missed.
This article first appeared on Reeltime with RIchard Ades
The past year has been a scary one for Americans who believe in freedom of the press. Faced with an autocratic president who works to stifle his critics with a combination of favors, threats, lawsuits and every other means at his disposal, one media company after another has been willing to compromise its integrity.
That’s what makes Steal This Story, Please! such an refreshing experience. Co-directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (2008’s Trouble the Water), the documentary introduces us to Amy Goodman, a radio/TV journalist who absolutely refuses to compromise her own integrity.
Indeed, integrity seems to be baked into her character along with courage, stubbornness and—surprisingly for someone who takes her work so seriously—a sense of humor. All of these qualities come out in the doc, as they do in the 30-year-old news program Goodman founded and co-hosts, Democracy Now!