As Towns and Cities Fight Off Data Centers, Calls Grow for a National Moratorium
The battle to build new data centers has pitted communities across the country against Silicon Valley.

Pentagon Announces $8.6B Contract for Boeing to Make F-15s for Israel
The contract will provide Israel with 25 F-15 fighter jets, with the option for 25 more.

Israel wreaked havoc on Gaza landmarks
Churches, mosques and markets have all been targeted during the genocide.

WATCH: Pilger & Palestine
To mark the second anniversary of the passing of John Pilger, CN presents his 2002 documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue followed by CN’s 2…

Tensions Soar: Trump, Putin, Zelensky, and the Fragile Peace Talks That Could Collapse Overnight
By Joshua Scheer Tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the United States escalated dramatically overnight as peace talks appear to be unraveling. Just…

2025 Ranked As One of World’s Hottest Years Due to Human-Made Climate Crisis
Climate change made 2025 heat waves 10 times more likely, a new report finds.

All Security Council Members Except US Condemn Israeli Recognition of Somaliland
Somalia’s permanent representative to the UN called the move an “act of aggression.”…

Millions Across Michigan May Be Exposed to PFAS in Private Water Wells
Ahead of the curve in testing city water for PFAS, Michigan is now urging residents to get their private water tested.

U.S.–Venezuela Tensions Escalate: Covert Strikes, Oil Blockades, and the Human Toll of Sanctions
By Joshua Scheer As tensions between Washington and Caracas intensify, the Trump administration appears to be accelerating a multifaceted strategy tha…

Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies
Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America…

Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance
The U.N. special rapporteur is one of the most courageous crusaders against the genocide in Gaza. Because of this, she is blacklisted and treated as i…

The Most-Read ScheerPost Stories of 2025
Look back at a tumultuous year with a wide variety of coverage around the world.

What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?
Adegoke says Trump’s religious framing has more to do with U.S. culture wars and appeasing his base of evangelicals than seriously reckoning with is…

WATCH: Pilger & Palestine
To mark the second anniversary of the passing of John Pilger, CN presents his 2002 documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue followed by CN’s 2021 di…

WATCH: John Pilger — War, Peace & Propaganda
John Pilger died two years ago today. Here are some of the things he was saying almost a decade ago about Australia, America and Palestine at an appea…

Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year.
The post Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year. appeared first on ProPublica.

25 Investigations You May Have Missed This Year
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The Most-Read ProPublica Stories of 2025
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John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful
UPDATED: John Pilger died two years ago today on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his jo…

The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs
Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” expo…

America’s Loss of Science and Loss of Virtue
The Trump administration has issued a death warrant for science. This kills one of America’s greatest most productive avenues to GDP growth. Simple-…

Antiracism in the Age of Trump
We are today living in an era of historically ferocious political regression, a massive conservative backlash whose grievances are often more imagine…

Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth
I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post wo…

Africa Deindustrializes Due to China’s Overproduction and Trump’s Tariffs
At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly fail…

Chile’s Failure To Bury Neoliberalism Led To Pinochetista President
Stunning, though expected, on December 14, a majority of Chileans (58 per cent to 41 per cent) elected far-right Republican Party candidate Jose Anton…

The Gaza Genocide Was Not A One-Off
The architecture of extermination: Why the Gaza genocide is premeditated and repeatable. Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel…

Germany: Imprisoned ‘Palestine Action’ Activists Face Harassment
For years, Palestine activists in Germany have looked to Britain with a sense of astonishment. The state that promised Palestine to Zionist settler co…

Eastern Europe: Resistance Grows To Militarism, Israeli Arms Production
As Western European elites scramble to maintain influence amid waning backing from the Trump administration and growing domestic opposition to pro-mil…

Yemeni Resistance Leader Vows To Target Israeli Presence In Somalia
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, warned in a speech on 28 December that any potential Israeli presence…

The Israeli Government Put My Name At The Top Of An 'Antisemite' List
Reading by Tim Foley:…

30 Reasons to Donate to Consortium News
As we celebrate our 30th Anniversary of continuous publication, please consider making a $30 donation to help ensure that Consortium News persists. A…

Bearing witness to the gruesome end of Western liberalism
Corporate journalism skewered in Omar El Akkad’s award-winning book on Gaza genocide.

“War of the entire people”: Venezuela's Grassroots Rise to Resist Trump's Naval Blockade
After withstanding a decade of sanctions, Venezuela’s communes are prepared to face Trump’s illegal naval blockade and U.S. plans for economic asp…

Epstein and Leviathan: How the Financier Opened Doors to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak Amid Israel's Offshore Gas Fight
Epstein advised on U.S. role in Israeli energy as Ehud Barak sought foreign partners to save gas monopoly.

Burgum’s Offshore Wind Halt of Questionable Legality
The Secretary of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) abrupt cessation of all leases for major offshore wind electric generation facilities under…

Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous
The post Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous appeared first on ProPublica.

How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina
The post How GOP Lawmakers’ Power Transfers Are Reshaping Everything From Utilities to Environmental Regulation in North Carolina appeared first on…

They Feign Concern About Pro-Palestine Chants In Order To Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protests
Reading by Tim Foley:…

The Least Among Us: The Elemental Heart of the Story
This holiday season, writes John Pavlovitz, "it’s a Herculean task to let our hearts be light." Daily, we confront the afflictions of an impossibly…

Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Decline and Fall
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.

Elon Musk Could Save 15 Million Lives — But He Won't
New column by Lee Camp…

Livestream: Israel's expanding "yellow line" of death
Maha Hussaini says “every day felt like my last” as she documented atrocities in Gaza. UK arrests people for saying “Globalize the Intifada” a…

Israel blocks entry of eye drops for blind people in Gaza
Despite the October ceasefire, thousands could develop conditions affecting their vision.

How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)
Anand Giridharadas explains how the elite continuously find ways to screw you, with either good or cynical intentions.

Wowza: Food Fight Clean-Up In Wingnut Aisle 47
In what was dubbed a "grievance Olympics," "conference of clowns" and "Wrestlemania with Podcasters," the noxious mucky-mucks of MAGA assembled for th…

Gutted Gaza buildings a last resort for families seeking shelter
Structures on the verge of collapse in Gaza City’s al-Rimal endanger those living inside and near them.

Why I'm The Most Censored Person You Know
It's time I revealed my true crime.

Stop Picking On Poor Little Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:…

“This Has Redefined Israel's Global Identity”: Israeli Weapons Industry Bullish After Genocide
Drop Site News obtained audio of this months weapons conference in Tel Aviv…

Trump’s Energy Emergency Orders Should Prevent Morgan Stanley’s Electricity Exports
In a formal protest filed today with the U.S. Department of Energy, Public Citizen challenged an application to export electricity by the Wall Street…

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects in US
Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact thes…

“We never feared drones until they killed Omar"
In September, a U.S. drone strike in Somalia killed Omar Abdillahi, a well-known clan leader local officials and residents say had supported the local…

Notes On Bondi Beach And Free Speech
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Israel Is Preparing for a Permanent Presence in Gaza, Satellite Images Reveal
Since the ceasefire, Israel has constructed at least 13 new military outposts inside Gaza, consolidated existing military infrastructure, built roads,…

Rebranding Genocide - Read by Eunice Wong
The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

1 in 10 voters want a bigger military budget, 8 in 10 senators voted for one
Polygraph | Newsletter n°329 | 19 Dec 2025…

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown
Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence infl…

Senate votes on military spending vs. arms industry cash
Polygraph | Newsletter n°328 | 18 Dec 2025…

Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report
As American hegemony transforms into something that will be determined by “the forces of historical contingency,” how can regular people fight bac…

The US-Backed Destruction of Sudan—Explained!
A Crisis Decades In The Making…

Dissecting The NY Times' Pro-War Propaganda Dumpster Fire
New column from Lee Camp…

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza
Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Ga…

Congress ignores public opinion, approves $901 billion military bill
Polygraph | Newsletter n°327 | 12 Dec 2025…

House votes on military spending vs. arms industry cash
Polygraph | Newsletter n°326 | 12 Dec 2025…

Israel's Connection to The JFK Assassination!
New Unredacted Tonight - watch for free…

Congress should reject the $901 billion military policy bill
Polygraph | Newsletter n°325 | 10 Dec 2025…

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting MintPress staff & anti-genocide organizers 
MintPress exposes how Stop The Hate UK, an Israel-aligned group, is driving efforts to intimidate journalists and pro-Palestine organizers. The post S…

Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances
Journalist Ahmed Kaballo joins Mnar Adley to examine Sudan’s civil war, UAE’s gold operations, US pressure in Africa, and the rise of the anti-imp…

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS to Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Alan MacLeod charts…