Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill.
Jonathan Cook: Cheerleading Aggression Against Iran
Month: January 2026
WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3
The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence.
Vijay Prashad: The Challenges of Post-Colonial Industry
India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this, industrial policy must address the issues of dependence and inequality.
Jeffrey Sachs: Engineering Iran’s Unrest
It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.
Spinning the Truth Until We Are All Dizzy
Stephanie Martin repeats the warnings of philosopher Hannah Arendt in the wake of the many lies told by authorities about ICE shootings in Minneapolis.
Mamdani Backs Modi Critic Jailed Without End
The NYC mayor supports dissident leader Umar Khalid, jailed five years without bail in a deliberate attempt to turn the process into punishment, writes Betwa Sharma.
Hedges Report: Is the ‘New World Order’ Really New?
Yanis Varoufakis discusses how, as U.S. hegemony dwindles, Trump and his international allies use the sham “Board of Peace” to attempt to maintain some grip on world power.
Vijay Prashad: Greenland Is Not a Prize
The U.S. has set its sights on Greenland due to its mineral wealth and strategic location. But its people — the Kalaallit — are an afterthought in Washington’s machinations.
Is the US Board of Peace Aimed at Undermining the UN?
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is being designed as an alliance like the “coalition of the willing” that fraudulently tried to legitimize the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writes Thalif Deen.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past
The Trump-McMahon education edict: You will cooperate as we destroy the tradition of intellectual exploration that has endured for a thousand years — or we will starve you.