Friday, September 18, 2026
Rep. Ro Khanna speaks at a 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign rally. Photo: Σ / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Ro Khanna and AOC Should Run for President in 2028

RootsAction and Progressive Democrats of America will launch a campaign after the midterms urging the two lawmakers to seek the 2028 Democratic nomination.
Destruction in the Beach refugee camp, Gaza Strip. Photo: Abedallah Alhaj / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Israeli Authorities Threaten to Strip Citizenship from “NAZA” Filmmakers documenting Gaza Genocide

Israel's culture minister has vowed to strip the directors of their citizenship over the film, which won a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
A Navy fighter jet approaches an aircraft carrier. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain

Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Demonstrators call for freedom in Iran at a solidarity rally. Photo: alisdare1 / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Iran: Ongoing Unlawful Execution Campaign Against Protesters

At least 60 more protesters face imminent execution, Human Rights Watch says, after summary trials relying on torture-tainted confessions.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The Israeli settlement of Peduel in the occupied West Bank. Britain has announced a ban on goods produced in settlements like this one. Photo: Avner, via Wikimedia Commons

Britain Finally bans Goods from the Israeli-Occupied West Bank

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who once led Britain's Union of Jewish Students, made the announcement in the House of Commons.

How the Loser-in-chief sabotages the midterm – better a trumped up martyr than disaster-driven...

Haranguing, bonkers and beset,/ “Victim” Trump makes his riskiest bet.
A photojournalist wearing press identification and protective gear. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Israeli Strikes Wound Journalists in Lebanon and Gaza amid “Ceasefires”

The strikes come days after ceasefires were announced in both Gaza and Lebanon.
An 1865 world map using the Mercator projection, which shrinks Africa relative to its true size. Photo: Alvin Jewett Johnson, public domain

UN Wants to Right-Size Maps; Would it have Saved Trump from Iran Catastrophe?

Juan Cole argues that map projections which shrink Africa and the Middle East help explain why Washington keeps misjudging the size of the countries it goes to war with.
The US Capitol at dusk. Photo: Sven A Rajala / CC BY-SA 4.0

The second worst MAGA Trump calamity – more than equal to its Constitutional concussion

Robert S. Becker on the deeper, still-unfolding costs of Trumpism beyond its constitutional violations.