August 2026
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Boiled in the bag by William Bowles
Now what, exactly, do the ruling class expect will eventually happen as each summer the temperature creeps up a couple more degrees, the rainfall decreases even further and wild fires spread? This year Europe is expecting 100,000 deaths due to the heat, mostly the old, the sick and the very young and of course, living… Continue reading
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Thursday, 13 August 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong Former UN Weapons Inspector & US Marine Intel Officer Scott Ritter discusses the shocking developments in an alleged Iranian attempt on Trump’s life plus new details emerging on the crisis aboard the USS Lincoln as 5,000 US Sailors face the brink of catastrophe Continue reading
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What Fidel Castro Gave Us: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2026)
Thursday, 13 August 2026 — The Tricontinental The revolutionary legacy of Fidel Castro, who would have turned 100 this week, reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity. Continue reading
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Anduril: “Hyperscaling” the Worst of America’s Military Industrial Complex
Arms manufacturer “startup” Anduril, headed by billionaire Palmer Luckey, has quickly morphed into a smaller, more efficient version of legacy American arms manufacturers like Raytheon, Lockheed, and Boeing — a new model for efficiently transferring billions of taxpayer dollars into private industry based on fabricated threats and manipulative promises — all ultimately falling far short… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report August 12, 2026
Wednesday, 12 August 2026 — Black Agenda Report El-Sayed Is the Arab Obama Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The Democratic Party will recalibrate its messaging after its well-funded senate candidate in a Michigan primary lost to Abdul El-Sayed, who by his own admission is a capitalist, not a socialist, and a supporter… Continue reading
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Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel’s hands
Ultra-Zionist Lebanese banker Antoun Sehnaoui is the man behind the curtain of Beirut’s normalization talks with Israel. Continue reading
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Wilfred Burchett: One of the Greatest War Correspondents of 20th Century and First Western Journalist to Expose Horrors of Atomic Attack on Hiroshima
[This is one of two articles I have written for CovertAction Magazine on the 81st anniversary of the dropping of the two atomic bombs. The other article addresses Hiroshima pilot Claude Eatherly who expressed remorse about the dropping of the bomb and was subjected to a defamation campaign by a CIA-linked journalist-JK] Continue reading
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The EU’s Surveillance Paradox: Criticising Authoritarianism While Practising It
The EU’s contradictory rhetoric about protecting digital freedoms and implementing total control tools raises doubts about Brussels’ commitment to democratic principles and indicates a shift towards governance methods that were previously criticized as authoritarian. Continue reading
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With Karim Khan’s dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
The most important question we should be asking after Karim Khan’s dismissal last week as chief prosecutor of the ICC – the international war crimes court in The Hague – is not whether he is guilty of “sexual misconduct” against another staff member, identified as “Sarah”. Continue reading
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Review 604: Glyphosate, Fire and Science
While our recent GMWatch Reviews have focused on major developments on the GM front, a huge amount has also been happening involving glyphosate – the herbicide GM crops have helped to make the most used in the world, being responsible for more than half of all global glyphosate use and 85-95% of the use in… Continue reading
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John Stockwell Was One of the Most Important CIA Whistleblowers
John Stockwell, a CIA operative in Africa and Asia who resigned from the Agency in December 1976 and wrote a tell-all memoir, In Search of Enemies (1978), died in June 2026. With Philip Agee, Stockwell was among the most important national security and CIA whistleblowers of the Cold War era. Continue reading
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Israel ATTACKS Iran? War Now IMMINENT as Trump FOLDS | Seyed M. Marandi
Iran is on high alert again as Israel signals plans to attack in the coming days as the US plays games on retreating from war. Join us! Continue reading
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How Israelis used two elderly Palestinians as human shields — then executed them
The Israelis have been dropping the most destructive bombs on civilian infrastructure such as schools, universities, hospitals, and administrative buildings in the Gaza Strip and killing hundreds of civilians on the pretext that these civilians are being used as human shields by the Palestinian resistance. Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Iran Just Unleashed BOMBSHELL BIGGER Than a Nuke, Trump BLINDSIDED
Pepe Escobar joins for an in-depth break down of Iran’s latest bombshell for Trump as its proposed plan for the Strait of Hormuz sends a strong message as to just who is in charge of the critical waterway from here on out. This comes as Yemen intensifies its campaign against Saudi Arabia as the regional… Continue reading
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Washington Continues War on Russia & Iran: Stockpiles Low, Capacity to Harm Still High
The US continues waging war and proxy war against Iran with Iran targeting US-backed Kurdish proxies in what looks like preemptive or spoiling operations in northern Iraq; Continue reading
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UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine Solidarity
Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular activist and Muslim scholar arrested. Alicia Kearns, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs has called on the U.K. Home Office to detain Sayed Hussain Makke. Continue reading
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CNN or CIA?
Fourth estate or national security state? It is often difficult to know which one you are listening to when turning on cable news. In this series, MintPress highlights five senior media figures you might not know have extremely close links to the CIA. Continue reading
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A critical history of the European Common Defense Project: the Army that could never be
Europe’s dream of a common army was stillborn in 1954 – and keeps dying. Continue reading
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Iran’s Military Chokehold Shocks The US-Israeli Alliance -Trump Backs Down Again
Trump promised “maximum pressure.” What he got was maximum resistance. Robert Inlakesh breaks down how Iran’s strategic military capabilities have shattered the illusion of US-Israeli invincibility in West Asia, sending shockwaves through the military-industrial complex and forcing yet another humiliating backdown from Donald Trump. The hypocrisy is staggering: Washington demands disarmament from sovereign nations while… Continue reading
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Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2026)
While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age. Continue reading
