30 June 2026 — Naila’s Substack
On Saturday morning at around 11 am, U.S. human rights lawyer, professor and journalist Daniel Kovalik was detained by three counter-terror police officers at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, which allows border police to detain and question people they believe to be involved in “hostile state activity.”
Sunday, 5 July 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
Artificial intelligence is no longer only a technological race. It has become a contest over how economies create value, how societies organise work, and ultimately who exercises power. As the United States and China pursue sharply different AI strategies, they are also advancing competing answers to one of the defining questions of the twenty-first century: what—or who—creates value in an age of intelligent machines?
An emerging field from the theory of value
Sunday, 5 July 2026 — Global Delinquents
On June 27th, a plane ferrying a “specialized” team of “highly trained search and rescue specialists” flew into Venezuela from Damascus. Dispatched at putative Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s direct order, the 15-strong group is assisting disaster efforts launched by Caracas in response to devastating twin earthquakes. Among them are members of the notorious White Helmets. A bogus humanitarian group constructed by MI6, they played a central role in Britain’s protracted coup of Bashar Assad. Are the White Helmets similarly in Venezuela to assist regime change?
Saturday, 4 July 2026 — Liberation News Network
Friday, 3 July 2026 — Middle East Eye
Friday, 3 July 2026 — Weaponised Information
Foreign Affairs calls China, Russia, Iran, and the DPRK “worse than an axis” because the empire has no honest language for sovereign coordination outside its command. The facts show not a secret plan to conquer humanity, but a growing architecture of multipolar development, sanctions resistance, national sovereignty, security cooperation, and global-governance reform. The real fear is that the Western capitalist-imperialist world system may no longer be able to keep the Global South fragmented, dependent, and obedient. Our task is to refuse the war script before the ruling class turns its panic into policy.
Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | July 2, 2026
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Thursday, 2 July 2026 — Transition Protocol
A confidential Iranian memo — hand-carried to Riyadh by Pakistan’s Mohsin Naqvi — and one word that decides what happens next: “provoked.” Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson, and Zulfiqar Ali with what a source at the negotiating table shared just one hour before recording. Also in this episode: Qalibaf’s on-the-record refusal to negotiate until the US implements the June 17 Islamabad Memorandum · why not a single tanker has headed West in 14 days · the fuel-supply crisis Larry Johnson says forced Trump’s signature · the confirmed knockout of the Al Udeid CAOC · Hormuz fees after day 60 · Saudi Arabia’s position · and the 9-day window that opens when Khamenei’s funeral ends July 9.
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.
The New Dark Age 