Featured News

Al Jazeera: US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970

CBC News: Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting

Common Dreams: Israel Can Only Deter the Global Sumud Flotilla by Stoping Its Genocide in Gaza

Peoples Dispatch: Workers announce Europe-wide blockade if Israel assaults Sumud Flotilla

rabble: Unifor convention re-elects Lana Payne as national president

Working Class Storytelling: Told to Leave, No Place to Go (Thanks to JM Hatch for the submission)

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Carney says there's hope for trade deals with U.S. but 'don't expect white smoke'

• Chinese students take Ottawa to court over study permit delays

• Halifax mayor under investigation for allegedly breaching municipal code of conduct

• Parts shortages, snarled supply chains are sidelining Canadian vehicles and troops in Latvia: documents

• Poilievre calls for federal government to end temporary foreign worker program

• Sask. RCMP arrest 16 people, including self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Canada’

• To fight hail damage, Alberta insurers take to the skies

• Two former Liberal cabinet ministers in line for top diplomatic posts, sources say

• ‘Unsuitable for police service’: 3 Saskatoon cops fired following off-duty gathering

USA news:

• Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research

• DC mayor Bowser signs order aligning city with Trump’s federal police takeover

• Epstein Survivors Begged Trump to Release Their Files. He Called It a “Hoax.”

• Florida’s Surgeon General Just Said He Will Eliminate “All Vaccine Mandates”

• Leak Confirms Chicago Military Action

• Many of the Epstein case files that were just released by a House committee were already public

• New Report Says Max Security Prison Compound Must Close, Citing Inhumane Conditions

• On Trump’s Orders, Missouri Republicans Plan to Gerrymander a Black Lawmaker Out of Office

• Why is the Bad River Band suing the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources?

World News

• Acting Thai government moves to dissolve parliament

• At least 15 dead, more than a dozen injured, in funicular accident in Lisbon

• Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

• Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers

• Greece: Strike against tightened disciplinary law and 13-hour day

• Israeli attacks disabled 21,000 Palestinian children in Gaza war, UN says

• Israeli police arrest 13 during protests demanding prisoner exchange

• Mexico Enacts Sweeping Ban on 35 Highly Dangerous Pesticides

• One in Four People Lack Access to Clean Drinking Water: UNICEF, WHO Warn of Deepening Disparities

• Smotrich vows to annex 82% of West Bank, threatens to dismantle PA

• UNIFIL says Israeli drones drop grenades near peacekeepers in Lebanon

What I’m Reading

• a word on pinkwashing and liberal moralism!

• Carney’s troubling silence on women and gender

• Exposing Jewish Exceptionalism In Canadian Media

• Gaza Threatened With Eradication: A City on the Brink of Chaos

• How a Century of Anti-Communism Cleared the Way for Trump’s Authoritarianism

• ‘If they had killed me, it would have been better’

• Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage