Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Trump attorney sues Greenpeace over Dakota Access in $300 million racketeering case

“They are apparently trying to market themselves as corporate mercenaries willing to abuse the legal system to silence legitimate advocacy work.”

Rejecting ‘brazen’ interference in Trump criminal case, New York DA sues Jim Jordan

Bragg is seeking to bar Jordan from enforcing the subpoena and from demanding testimony from anyone else, including the district attorney himself.

What’s stopping media from calling Las Vegas killer a ‘terrorist’? His whiteness

Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances.

The Anti-Empire Report #154: Happy New Year

Best wishes for the new year to all my dear readers in the United States and around the world.

Rest In Peace, Dan Berrigan – Just As You Lived

Daniel J. Berrigan lived his life true to his calling, literally practicing what he preached.

Is this the beginning or the end of a new Cold War?

The United States and our friends in Europe have a new chance to make a clean break from the three-way geopolitical power struggle between the United States, Russia and China that has hamstrung the world since the 1970s.

4 Minnesota cops fired after appearing to kill handcuffed man on video

Recorded on cellphone video physically abusing a handcuffed and motionless man for several minutes, four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday for needlessly causing...

Trump declares April a month of action on sexual assault

“This includes supporting victims, preventing future abuse, and prosecuting offenders to the full extent of the law,” a statement from the White House read.

My long-lost conversation with John Lewis on his vision of nonviolence

In this never-before-released interview, the late civil rights leader and congressman talks systemic racism, permanent warfare, extreme poverty and nonviolence as a way of life.

The ‘Private Property’ Chokehold on Equality

How extraordinary that the glaring oppression of private property remains the invisible elephant in the room. Who doubts how many huge “private” fortunes accumulate by passing huge liabilities from “externalities” (pollution, waste, disease, ruinous landscapes) onto public shoulders? Hold manufacturing liabilities to impeccable business logic, not what lobbyist influence-peddling frees them to get away with. How long can the commons survive when our most affluent free-loaders are not only “too big to fail” but “too immune to pay their own way”?