Thursday, 2 July 2026 — The Tricontinental
Venezuela is rebuilding amid an information war that obscures the effects of sanctions, frozen assets, and decades of US economic warfare – and turns human suffering into another pretext to discredit the Bolivarian process.
Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuela), Barroco negro (Black Baroque), 1961.
Thursday, 2 July 2026 — Declassified UK
New legislation being rushed through Parliament could criminalise British journalists for simply engaging with certain state-backed groups.
The National Security (State Threats) Bill, currently in its final stages, would grant the Home Secretary powers to designate any state-backed organisation as a threat if it is judged prejudicial to the UK’s “safety and interests”.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026 — Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy
In the 1800s, economists such as Ricardo (see Principles of Political Economy & Taxation) and George (see Progress and Poverty) identified economic rent-seeking, the earning of excess profits from the ownership of land and natural resources, to be a very major problem for any economy. These profits were not from a productive activity but rather acted as a private rentier tax on those that carried out productive activities, while at the same time owners benefitted from external events such as population growth and infrastructural investments made by the government that increased rents and land values. (more…)
Wednesday, 1 July 2026 — Black Agenda Report
The Editors
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” – Frederick Douglass 1852 speech
Wednesday, 1 July 2026 — Weaponised Information
Bhaskar Sunkara invokes the courage of revolutionary workers and colonized peoples while treating the administrative planning systems they built as failed formations whose defining mechanisms must be superseded. This polemic subjects his proposed market socialism to the same historical tests imposed upon the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and Vietnam, showing that worker-run firms, public banks, and competitive markets do not abolish planning, class conflict, imperial pressure, or the struggle over investment. The record reveals neither a flawless socialist past nor a neutral market future, but a continuing battle over who controls the state, finance, land, strategic property, social surplus, and the conditions of human life. Revolutionary history must be studied critically as the indispensable archive of socialism in power—not stripped for inspiring imagery while hypothetical models claim superiority from the safety of never having existed.
Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 17, 2026
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Thursday, 25 June 2026 — Weaponised Information
Deutsche Welle turns Europe’s rearmament drive into a managerial story about procurement delays, hiding the political decision to reorganize public life around militarization. The factual record shows that NATO, the EU, Germany, and the arms monopolies are already moving vast public resources into the war economy, even as European “autonomy” remains chained to U.S. weapons capital. What appears as a technical problem is really imperialist recalibration: austerity for the people, abundance for the arsenal, and dependency disguised as sovereignty. Against this war economy, the task is to build organized resistance through anti-NATO campaigns, arms divestment, union struggle, social-budget defense, and international working-class solidarity.
Thursday, 25 June 2026 — Institute of Race Relations
Over the past two weeks, we have increased our press monitoring of far-right intimidation and racist violence. Last week, we published a ‘Dossier on a Pogrom in Northern Ireland’, which highlighted community concerns about the police response to the pogrom as well as the role that some Loyalist paramilitaries may have played in it.
Thursday, 25 June 2026 — ColdType
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Thursday, 25 June 2026 — The Tricontinental
Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.
Gerard Sekoto (South Africa), Three School Girls, early 1940s.
Thursday, 25 June 2026 — The Grayzone
Kit Klarenburg
Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone offer an extraordinary insight into the covert activities of prominent British military and intelligence veterans posted to occupied Ireland during the 1980s. Still possessed of enduring contempt for Catholics and visceral hatred for prominent Irish Republican freedom fighters, these men believe to this day that their patriotic duty remains to “keep Northern Ireland British.”
Wednesday, 24 June 2026 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The bipartisan consensus for regime change against Iran hit the wall of Iranian resistance. But Trump is forced into talks while democrats attack him from the right and expose themselves as partners in crime.
Thursday, 18 June 2026 — The Tricontinental
A profound contradiction confronts East Asia: the region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of the New Cold War. The region’s future depends on ordinary people, not war planners.
Thursday, 18 June 2026 — Radhika Desai – Geopolitical Economist
President Xi Jinping followed up his summits with Presidents Putin and Trump with his first foreign trip of the year. The destination – North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a nation of some 26 million normally portrayed in the Western media as a dangerously authoritarian state, an economic basket case, worthy of attention only for its nuclear weapons – may seem a surprise to many. However, as veteran Korea observer, Keith Bennett and Radhika Desai discuss, neither the destination nor the timing should surprise anyone with a sense of the intertwined histories of the Chinese and Korean revolutions (not to mention the Soviet) and the continuing cooperation between the two countries, founded on socialist solidarity. Nor should it surprise them that, amid the chaos unleashed on the world by a declining West, China and North Korea are quietly renewing their relations for a new phase of history, and their common history. Keith and Radhika discuss the socialist foundations of one of the most enduring international relationships of the modern era, the myths Western journalists and scholars perpetuate about North Korea, and the unexpected twist the matter of Korean reunification has taken.
Thursday, 18 June 2026 — Palestine will be free
Palestinian writer Lama Khater, who has been detained since March 23, 2026, has described harrowing abuses endured by women held in Israeli rape and torture dungeons, detailing systematic acts of beatings, strip searches, dragging, humiliation, and deprivation.
Thursday, 18 June 2026 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Al-Mayadeen published the following which is the official Iranian MOU, not what you’ll see published by BigLie Media. Point number one is extremely important as it’s not as exact as I’d prefer and thus open to abuse by the Trump Gang.
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Thursday, 18 June 2026 — Transition Protocol
Iran and the US are set to sign a memorandum of understanding this Friday, June 19, at Bürgenstock in Switzerland — and our sources say an Israeli plot to derail it may be hanging over the ceremony. In this episode, Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali, and Larry Johnson break down the breaking intel: the alleged assassination threat against an Iranian signatory, Pakistan’s blunt warning to Tel Aviv (“you’ll hear directly from us”), and why the venue was moved to a secure, Qatari-owned mountain site hosted by Pakistan.
We connect the dots the headlines are missing: the hidden oil clock and Strait of Hormuz reality (it won’t fully reopen for months because of mines), the 60-day, 14-point MOU, Iran’s strike threats that bent Donald Trump, and the deepening China–Russia–Iran alignment behind every mediated term. We also cover JD Vance and Ghalibaf as the Friday signatories, Bennett vs. Netanyahu, the $24bn in frozen Iranian assets, and the global recession/de-dollarization stakes for your wallet. Guests: Pepe Escobar (veteran geopolitical correspondent), Larry Johnson (former CIA analyst), hosted by Zulfiqar Ali. Some claims in this episode are source-based and developing; we flag verification status on screen. Transition Protocol is a serious, source-driven geopolitical and economic analysis channel focused on evidence-based breakdowns of global power shifts.
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 — Chris Hedges Report
“The destiny of Palestinians is the destiny of all humanity”: Kidnapped and tortured by the Zionists, Thiago Avila says Flotilla activists are undeterred in their support for Palestinian liberation.
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 — Strategic Culture Foundation
From Tehran’s point of view, that’s a whole new ball game. They survived everything that not one, but two nuclear powers threw at them. They have no trust whatsoever about anything coming from Barbaria.
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
It is true that the New York Knicks’ journey to a championship brought disparate communities together, but gentrification remains the norm in the city that is the capital of capital. Black people are still being displaced at a breakneck pace.
Wednesday, 17 June 2026 — Transition Protocol
Iran sent the United States a secret, coded warning — and repeated it three times through Pakistan — just as the US–Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz heads to signing. In this exclusive breakdown, Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali reveal the hidden terms behind the agreement: the ~$24 billion Washington must return, Iran’s hard red line on Israel in Lebanon, and the “bilateral” retaliation doctrine now in force.
They also reveal what almost no one is reporting — that Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi were standing directly behind the Iran–Pakistan alignment, and why insiders believe the deal is already being sabotaged before the ink dries, with war potentially resuming after the US midterms.
Guest Pepe Escobar is a veteran geopolitical correspondent with direct sources across Eurasia. Brought to you by Transition Protocol — serious, source-driven geopolitical analysis, unfiltered by corporate media.
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