(2025-01-29). Labour defence secretary caught smearing university students at massive arms dinner. thecanary.co On 28 January, Labour Party defence secretary John Healey spoke at the annual ADS dinner. The dinner, held at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane, is a major lobbying and networking event for the arms industry. Healey used his speech to criticise student campus protests over arms trade involvement in their universities. …
(2025-01-28). Gold, Guns & Genocide: How the UAE Profits from RSF War Crimes in Sudan. democracynow.org 
As U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres renews his call for an immediate halt to fighting in Sudan between the country's military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, we speak with New York Times correspondent Declan Walsh about how the conflict is being fueled by the illicit gold trade. He reports that Sudan's gold riches are being smuggled out of the country by both sides in order to pay for the drones, guns and missiles that have killed tens of thousands of people since the start of the civil war in April 2023. Much of that wealth is ending up in the United Arab Emirates, which backs the R…
Over the last few years, and especially since Oct. 7, 2023, the word "Zionism" has dominated public discourse. Those who consider themselves Zionists wear the word as a badge of pride, while critics employ it disparagingly. Yet, too few of those using the word today truly understand Zionism or its history. The reality is that, …
Holocaust survivors on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Nazi Germany exterminated over 1 million Jews and other minority groups between 1940 and 1945. The commemoration comes as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles worldwide and far-right forces gain strength across Europe and the United States. For more, we speak with Israeli American historian Raz Segal, who says the academic field of Holocaust studies has a blind spot when it comes to Israel and its actions in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the genocidal assault on Gaza. "Since Octob…
The world's wealthiest man Musk posted on his social media platform X a series of puns about members of 
While picking up a Golden Globe for his hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, its writer and creator Richard Gadd told the assembled Hollywood audience that a number of people had asked him why he thought the show had been such a success. In it, Gadd plays a version of himself, Donny, a failing comedian working in a Camden pub, trying to make sense of being sexually abused by a man he admires in the industry, and becoming the subject of vulnerable stalker Martha — who he comes to both need and loathe. | Gadd said he felt "people have been crying out for something that kind of spoke to the painful inconsis…
At a news conference Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his threats against Gaza, Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal as he continues to push an agenda of extreme U.S. imperialism. Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern calls Trump's comments "outrageous," "ridiculous" and, ultimately, a distraction from his planned abandonment of social services. We also discuss social networking behemoth Meta's announcement that it is ending its fact-checking program, in what's being seen as a capitulation to Trump and conservative media disinformation campaigns, and how P…
The New York Times had a lengthy piece giving a story on how the Democrats lost the support of working-class voters over the last three decades. The essence of the argument is that working-class voters were angered by Democrats' support of "free trade" and the bailouts of the financial industry in the financial crisis. While 
The On Thursday, The New York Times