Wednesday, 29 July 2026 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state.
Tuesday, 28 July 226 — Climate & Capitalism
Focusing on working people’s consumption diverts attention from the real climate criminals
Tuesday, 28 July 2028 — MintPress News
A newly-published academic study in “New Media and Society” has found that Google is systematically removing bad reviews of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention facilities from its platforms, including Google Maps.
Monday, 28 July 2026 — Just Treatment
Tuesday, 28 July 2026 — ColdType
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Monday, 27 July 2026 — Sonar21
For a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” powerfully captured the essence of the concept of “Mistress of the Seas,” a title Great Britain proudly bore for several centuries. For a long time, the guiding principle of the United Kingdom was to maintain a navy equal in strength to the two strongest navies of other powers combined. However, as the ancient saying goes, times change, and we change with them.
Monday, 27 July 2026 — New Eastern Outlook
Since 1945, American foreign policy has obeyed a systemic invariant: maintaining the world in a state of structural vassalage. This Pax Americana, which is nothing more than a myth shrouded in economic violence and military coercion, is crumbling.
Sunday, 26 July 2026 — The Grayzone
Leaks reveal failed journalist Paul Mason secretly advised ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his Defence Secretary and now-Chancellor John Healey, and top aides on important security matters.
Friday, 24 July 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Seyed Mohammad Marandi joins to discuss why he believes the most dangerous phase of the Iran war has just begun as Iran’s strikes become more devastating and the Trump prepares the unthinkable out of desperation. . .
Thursday, 23 July 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed The People’s Forum on July 21, ordering the New York organizing center to turn over its internal communications, membership records and finances by Aug. 7. Two other anti-imperialist groups, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, were served the same day.
Wednesday, 22 July 2026 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute.
Monday, 20 July 2026 — 38 Degrees
| A major investigation just exposed how Palantir’s NHS data platform, which cost £330 million, is a GIANT waste of money – with swathes of NHS staff barely using it because it’s so rubbish. [1] What’s more, the evidence used to ‘prove’ its benefit is apparently totally flawed and full of errors. 🤦 [2] |
Sunday, 19 July 2026 — Weaponised Information
Bill V. Mullen tears W.E.B. Du Bois away from the respectable American mythology that embalmed a communist revolutionary as a harmless prophet of racial reconciliation. His recovery reveals the color line as a world system binding slavery, colonial plunder, imperial war and capitalist exploitation—and restores the diasporic international that organized resistance across those fronts. Yet the book retreats when revolution passes from rebellion into socialist state power, treating the Soviet and Chinese experiences through an anti-Stalinist framework that too often separates emancipation from the institutions required to defend and construct it. What remains is an indispensable revolutionary recovery whose strongest evidence points beyond its weakest conclusions, toward an internationalism capable of defending socialist construction without surrendering criticism or popular power.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | July 19, 2026
Sunday, 19 July 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
In the early hours of July 17, the Pentagon bombed bridges, water pumping stations, and a railway station, while also striking the civilian airport at Iranshahr and the control tower of Iran’s only deep-water ocean port. U.S. warplanes and missiles have hit Iran every night since July 11, when the bombing resumed after President Donald Trump tore up the June 17 ceasefire agreement.
Friday, 17 July 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong
Pepe Escobar discusses Trump’s unthinkable escalation in the Iran war as Iran expands its missile & drone target back overnight. Pepe Escobar is a geopolitical analyst, independent journalist, and author.
Thursday, 16 July 2026 — Declassified UK
Andy Burnham’s foreign policy direction as the new prime minister needs little speculation.
He was effectively confirmed as the new Labour leader this week after securing more than 85% of MP nominations, leaving no room for a contest.
Thursday, 16 July 2026 — The Tricontinental
The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.
Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari (Italy), Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli with a Pupil, 1495–1500.
Thursday, 16 July 2026 — Eko
For decades, Bayer Monsanto insisted that glyphosate was safe. Millions of liters were sprayed across Europe’s farms, parks, school grounds, and gardens every year.
Wednesday, 15 July 2026 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The late Senator Lindsey Graham played the role of chief congressionalwarmonger very well. But many of his colleagues, who spoke in quieter voices, were completely aligned with his support of U.S. imperialism.
Wednesday, 15 July 2026 — Struggle / La Lucha
The parasite driving this summer’s massive foodborne illness outbreak has a unique quirk: it cannot spread directly from person to person.
