Image via Wikipedia
Haymarket Martyrs:
BBC In Our Time- The Guardian
- People fleeing Sudan civil war face ‘dire and deteriorating’ conditions in refuge city
- Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid
- What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?
- UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’
- South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs
- Canada erects giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign as spat with Trump over name escalates
- Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez defends ‘endless’ benefits of her oil deal with Trump
- Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?
- Trump announces new US oil agreement with Venezuela
- Venezuelan opposition up in arms over reports US wants big stake in oil and gas
- Talking Points Memo
- Clyburn: Let’s Add Four
- Time To Relax About Whether Abdul El-Sayed Can Win Michigan
- All the Massive Public Health Failures Under RFK’s HHS, Ranked
- Trump Appeals Newest Block on His Attempt to Take Over Mail-In Voting
- Wyoming GOP Governor Decries ‘Aggressive’ Election Monitoring by Trump DOJ
- Trump’s Mail-in Voting Executive Order Is Ready to Begin Its Trip Back to SCOTUS
- Donald Trump Wants to Get to the Bottom of Who Screwed Up the Midterms
- Maybe Trump’s Fraud Czar Should Be Looking at Florida
- The Many Extremists in Mike Collins’ Orbit Have Come to Define His Campaign
- Dem Guvs Renew Vow to Fight for States’ Right to Administer Their Elections in Wake Of SCOTUS Mail-in Voting Decision
- The Intercept
- Western North Carolina Pleaded for Hurricane Help. It Got ICE Instead.
- Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.
- Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA
- “They Want People Scared”: Former Palestine Action Member Blasts Trump’s Terror Sanctions
- Trump Admin Said She Was Lying About Stillbirth in ICE Custody. New Evidence Points to Lack of Prenatal Care.
- A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block Trump’s Border Wall
- Palestinians Asked for Help Against Settlers. Israelis Detained Palestinian Workers Instead.
- It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones
- Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown
- Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War
- France24
- Flash flood in Grand Canyon National Park leaves about 15 missing
- Middle East Live: US strikes Iran for first time in a month as Tehran retaliates against Jordan base
- US Treasury bars certain journalists from G20 meeting in North Carolina
- US forces strike Iranian launchers on Larak island in Strait of Hormuz
- Trump says NBC journalist to be reported to FCC for ‘punishment’ over endorsement coverage
- French LGBTQ rights leader hospitalised after ‘despicable homophobic attack’ in Paris
- Niger junta puts down mutiny with help from Russia's Africa Corps
- NASA launches new space telescope
- Iceland rejects EU accession talks
- Week in pictures: devastating floods in Nepal, death of Dolly Parton and a tornado in France
- Media Matters For America
- Republican C-Span caller says Trump is "oblivious to the situation most Americans are facing right now."
- Cleta Mitchell: "We had three networks that didn't cover the president's speech. I want to know what their relationship is with China."
- CNN and MS NOW consistently connected prolonged power outage in Gary, Indiana, to race and poverty, while broadcast news rarely did, and Fox did not
- Media Matters weekly newsletter, August 28
- The delusional right-wing media figures declaring victory in Iran
- Over 7 days, Fox News spent only 1 minute covering rising diesel prices caused by Trump’s Iran war
- Right-wing media repeated Trump administration claims that over 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote — now that “inflated” number is falling apart
- On MAHA Media Hub, guest claims that if people "eat vitamin A foods, take daily cod liver oil, keep your kids well nourished, you will weather measles just fine"
- Greg Bovino: "The threat to your nation is your run-of-the-mill illegal alien," not "the worst of the worst"
- Marc Thiessen on El-Sayed saying he's not a member of the DSA: "Did you know that KSM wasn't a member of Al-Qaeda? Technically, he never pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden."
- Currently Reading
- Recently Read
- Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
- The Making of the English Working Class
- Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961
- Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
- The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
- The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
- The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy: 1945-75 by Kattenburg, Paul M. (1980) Paperback
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
- American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Parallel Narratives 