Featured News

Council Estate Media: Are we really pretending the US and Israel give a damn about Iranians after they levelled Gaza?

Dialectics of Decline: The Death of Reality

Middle East Eye: Sudanese government announces return to capital Khartoum

Reuters: Trump says no more Venezuelan oil or money to go to Cuba, pushes for deal

The Guardian: Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?

The Hill Times: Climate advisers ask feds to put Net-Zero Advisory Body on ‘pause,’ say they can’t fulfill mandate in ‘skeleton state’

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• B.C. court to hear Charter challenge over religious exemptions to assisted dying law

• Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says

• Canada now approves far fewer Jordan’s Principle education requests in Ontario, tribunal hears

• Canola farmers struggle to turn profit as Chinese tariffs linger

• Carney wants to 'recalibrate' Canada-China relations with visit: PM's parliamentary aide

• Eight people arrested at a Toronto anti-immigration rally and counter-protest

• Preclearance operations in Canada are a ‘critical component’ of border strategy: U.S.

• RCAF wants more than 1,200 security personnel to protect F-35s, other planes

• ‘These are things that nobody should go through’: no end in sight to water crisis in Kashechewan First Nation

USA news:

• Family seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative state

• Federal judge blocks Trump election order, siding with Oregon, Washington

• Feds release draft long-term plans for Colorado River management

• ‘How can something like this happen:’ Fire damages oldest Mississippi synagogue; suspect in custody

• Hundreds warned to evacuate in downtown Juneau amid high avalanche risk

• Ilhan Omar Denounces ICE After Agents Block Her Tour of Detention Facility

• The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.

• Trump announces one-year 10% cap on credit card interest rates

• USDA suspending millions in financial awards to Minnesota over fraud

World News

• Cuba Vows to Defend Itself Against Trump to ‘The Last Drop of Blood’

• Devastating fires in Australian state of Victoria burn out of control

• Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

• Guard dies in freezing overnight shift at Winter Olympic construction site

• Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

• Muslim leader and wife allegedly abused, assaulted in Melbourne

• Pakistan seeks justice for environmental harm through climate litigation

• Nicaragua Arrests Dozens for Reportedly Supporting Capture of Maduro

• Thousands of Irish farmers protest EU’s Mercosur trade deal

• UK ‘pays substantial sum’ to tortured Guantánamo Bay detainee

• Yemen’s government says southern areas retaken from secessionist STC forces

What I’m Reading

• BRICS wargames: Why they matter, why India opted out

• Somaliland: Longtime Zionist Colonisation Target

• The Lies Meant to Demoralize

• The Machinery of Terror

• They Want You to “Quit Demonstrating”

• You Can't Cheer For Regime Change In Iran Without Also Cheering For The US Empire

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