The U.N. Human Rights chief said on Thursday that Haiti's use of lethal force against gangs was disproportionate and likely unlawful, saying its actions, including drone strikes, accounted for more than half of this year's killings and injuries. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

As strikes and mass protests rock Ecuador, three Canadian mining projects are caught in the crosshairs: SilverCorp's El Domo, DPM Metals' Loma Larga and Atico's La Plata project. Protesters are demanding all three environmental licenses be canceled. Full article: www.biv.com/news/resourc...

George Monbiot shows that Gaza is facing not just genocide but ecocide. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Charlie Angus tells how Canada’s justice department consistently blocked truth-telling in the cases brought by survivors from St. Anne’s residential school in Fort Albany.

Trump and his minions seem determined to revive the worst applications of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, from the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine to Teddy Roosevelt’s “big-stick” diplomacy in the early 20th century.

Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Plan: A Rubber Stamp of Legitimacy on Israel’s Subjugation of Palestine

Jonathan Cook: How the media tears up its own rulebook to hide Israel's atrocities

“The silence that greeted Trump’s remarks—in contrast to the laughter that accompanied his first UN address—suggests that the world has moved beyond either shock or amusement...quietly constructing alternative [global] institutions and partnerships.” leonhadar.substack.com/p/trumps-un-...

Trump’s cuts have systemic consequences: "The cuts and dismantlings that define Trump’s second term do not weaken single institutions in isolation. They set off cascades that leave the entire system more fragile.”

I join allies from around the world who welcome this week’s ruling that found no basis for the charges brought against the #SantaMarta5 water defenders in El Salvador.

WHEN SATIRE BECOMES A CRIME Next they came for the comedians.

I highly recommend subscribing to the Drop Site News daily update (via Substack). It's a good way to keep track of Israeli attacks in Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen and Qatar, along with news from other places often ignored in mainstream media.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Heather Cox Richardson on the importance of remembering history in times like these.

Power, Risk, and the Architecture of Abandonment Trump's "provocations—dictatorship as promise, kingship as fantasy, declarations that his voters need never return to the polls—are not slips of the tongue. They normalize the idea that democratic limits are disposable when power is on the line."

Charlie Kirk's assassination: a dark, cold winter is coming

Draw The Line for people, for peace, for the planet Global Days of Action for systemic change on issues of debt, migration and ecology are set for Sept. 19-21. In Canada, several networks focus on Saturday, Sept. 20 – a National Day of Action.

The War Trump Wants The United States did not stumble into a firefight with Venezuela. Trump chose it.

A good, long read, relevant not just to Canadian NDP supporters. breachmedia.ca/the-ndps-unt...

Stop Measuring Marches. Start Building Power. Useful suggestions here for organizing resistance.

September 6, 2025 "...a new level of unhinged..."

Trump is doing what his predecessors have done for decades: attacking supposed “terrorists” (or drug-traffickers or migrants: no proof). Could a direct strike against President Maduro be next?

Umm … it’s pretty stupid.

Cruelty as Policy: How the machinery of deportation erodes families, rights, and the fabric of democracy.

September 4, 2025 (Thursday) "…the fight over vaccines illustrates the difference between freedom from government overreach and freedom to build a life that is not cramped by preventable obstacles."

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

U.S. claims to have bombed a supposed “drug vessel” in the southern Caribbean are met with considerable scepticism and calls for action to stop an invasion.

Chris Hedges: The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.

HCR share Chicano history with a focus on the murdered journalist, Rubén Salazar.

Israel uses the "double-tap" strike in Gaza. Read the full investigation by Yuval Abraham, in partnership with Local Call. www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...

August 23, 2025

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

"If you take the current Hamas figure of just over 62,000, you are telling the public that 97% of Gazans are still alive. This is lethally absurd." www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/18/o...

On the road to authoritarianism, Heather Cox Richardson describes "a whole factory of red flags." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-19-...

Please write to Guatemalan and Canadian government officials to demand the immediate release of Leocadio Juracán, land defender detained yesterday. I worked with Leocadio in May 2022 and March 2023 in communities threatened with expulsion.

TAKE ACTION: Email officials to demand release of CCDA’s Leocadio Juracán

Detienen a Leocadio Juracán, dirigente campesino y exdiputado. El Comité Campesino del Altiplano (CCDA) considera que su detención es un acto de criminalización y judicialización contra quienes defienden la tierra y el territorio.

Jeremy Skahill, Drop Site News: Senior Hamas Official to Trump: We Are Ready to Make a Fair Deal

Texas tries to limit the voting impact of racialized minorities.

Knowing our history strengthens our resistance today. Charlie Angus on the struggles against fascism in Canada in the 1930s.

Who Benefits from Free Trade? 515 U.S. corporations, that's who.

“Western publications that have recently carried “genocide” editorials...have devoted virtually no space to measures that governments should take against Israel to stop the genocide...as though they are saying “Yes it’s a genocide but what can we do about it?” newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

“There is nothing to eat.” open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

On Friday, Venezuela welcomed home 252 young men and seven children after a complex prisoner swap negotiated with the United States and El Salvador.

MAGA and the Threat to Our Kids open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

A two-day meeting this week in Bogotá ended with renewed commitment by countries of the Global South to pursue accountability for Israeli abuses in Gaza.

Medea Benjamin: Stop Israel’s Dystopian “Humanitarian City” Plan—Before It’s Too Late

Dan Rather: “The right-wing media machine is now dominating our media ecosystem, and truth is the victim.” steady.substack.com/p/got-a-spar...