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  • Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024

    Cori Bush is running for Congress again. Bush previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri, until she was unseated in 2024 following a multimillion-dollar attack campaign run by pro-Israel groups. Bush, a community activist who participated in the 2014 Ferguson uprising over the police killing of Michael Brown, was an outspoken critic of Israel in Congress and introduced a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in October 2023. “I’m running again because the person in the seat is not meeting the moment, and he’s someone that was basically placed there … because they didn’t want someone speaking out for the people of Palestine, speaking out for human rights and civil rights,” says Bush.

  • "Abandoned By Border Patrol": Blind Refugee in Buffalo Dies in the Cold; Family Demands Answers

    The funeral for 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a disabled Rohingya refugee from Burma who was found dead after he was abandoned by Border Patrol agents miles away from his home, was held yesterday in Buffalo, New York. Local reporter J. Dale Shoemaker, who first reported on Shah Alam’s disappearance for the Buffalo news organization Investigative Post, explains what we know about the case.

  • ICE Abducts Then Releases Columbia Student After Mamdani Intervenes & Calls to Dismiss More Cases

    Federal agents detained a Columbia University student early Thursday after Department of Homeland Security officers allegedly gained access to a university-owned residence by presenting a fake missing person poster of a 5-year-old. As news broke of the student, Ellie Aghayeva, and her detention, students and community members rallied en masse demanding her release and an end to immigration enforcement on campus. Due to restrictions implemented by the university in response to pro-Palestine protests, the students were unable to protest on campus proper, but instead took to nearby streets. Aghayeva was released Thursday afternoon, shortly after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani brought up her case during a meeting with President Donald […]

  • Missing DOJ Files: As Clintons Testify About Epstein, Where Are FBI Interviews with Trump Accuser?

    As fallout from the Epstein files continues, we speak with investigative journalist Barry Levine, author of The Spider: Inside the Tangled Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Recordings of the House Oversight depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton are set to be released today and tomorrow. The Clintons were called by House Republicans to testify on their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, but Levine emphasizes that credible allegations tying either the Clintons or Donald Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities are currently limited. Meanwhile, files known to contain allegations of sexual abuse of a minor by President Trump have been withheld or removed by the Department of Justice. Levine says that the focus on the Clintons is […]

  • Headlines for February 27, 2026

    U.S. and Iran Conclude Indirect Talks With No Deal on Iran’s Nuclear Program, Pakistan Launches Cross-Border Strikes on Afghanistan, Declaring “Open War” on Taliban, Russia Strikes Cities Across Ukraine Ahead of Talks Between U.S. and Ukrainian Envoys, Hillary Clinton Tells Congressional Committee She “Never Met Jeffrey Epstein”, Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill 6 Palestinians in Latest Breach of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, ICE Agents’ Car Chase Through Newark Ends in Multi-Car Crash That Injured Children, ICE Agents Use False Pretense to Detain Columbia University Student Without a Warrant, NYC Mayor Mamdani Asks Trump to Dismiss Immigration Cases Against Pro-Palestinian Activists, Mamdani Pitches Trump on Federal Funds for […]

Fair Observer

  • For Historians, Was This a Pearl Harbor or a Suez Moment? Part 1

    [This conversation with Claude concerning the February 28 coordinated strike by the United States and Israel on Iran is the first in a series that will continue during the week.] Let me get straight to the point. I submitted the following prompt to Claude on Saturday morning: What does it mean psychologically for the American… Continue reading For Historians, Was This a Pearl Harbor or a Suez Moment? Part 1 The post For Historians, Was This a Pearl Harbor or a Suez Moment? Part 1 appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • Japan 2026: Steering a Reawakened Economic Giant Through the Narrow Strait

    Japan’s economy in 2026 feels like an ocean liner that has finally left the doldrums. For decades, it drifted in a glassy calm — low growth, near-zero inflation and a policy engine running at full throttle just to keep the ship moving. Now the wind has returned. The sails are catching. The wake is visible.… Continue reading Japan 2026: Steering a Reawakened Economic Giant Through the Narrow Strait The post Japan 2026: Steering a Reawakened Economic Giant Through the Narrow Strait appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • FO Talks: India and China Can No Longer Avoid Each Other, Militarily and Economically

    Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and Beijing-based Kiwi investor David Mahon discuss the increasingly unavoidable relationship between India and China. Despite border tensions, distrust and competing regional ambitions, neither country can afford a clean decoupling in a fragmenting multipolar world. Singh presses on security fears and India’s policy constraints, while Mahon argues that interests, not grievances, will… Continue reading FO Talks: India and China Can No Longer Avoid Each Other, Militarily and Economically The post FO Talks: India and China Can No Longer Avoid Each Other, Militarily and Economically appeared first on Fair Observer.

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Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026

    In this week’s segment, we discuss Trump administration proposals to disenfranchise voters and unconstitutionally give the federal government control over elections. But we begin with an analysis of Venezuela after the U.S. attack on that country and the kidnapping of its president.

  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution In the Aftermath of U.S. Aggression

    The Simon Bolivar Institute in Caracas, Venezuela, hosted a delegation from the International Brigade for Peace and Solidarity with Venezuela. We’re joined by one of those delegates, Jacqueline Luqman, Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. She is also a co-founder […]

  • Voting Rights Threatened by SAVE Act and Federal Election Takeover Plot

    The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act was passed in the House of Representatives and would disenfranchise millions of people, as would Trump’s plan to unconstitutionally “nationalize” elections. Cliff Albright, Co-Executive Director of Black Voters Matter, joins us from Atlanta, […]

The Guardian

  • Trump says attacks on Iran to continue until 'objectives are achieved’ - video

    Donald Trump warns in a video posted to Truth Social that combat operations in Iran are continuing and would carry on until all of Washington’s objectives are achieved. 'Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives,' Trump says Continue reading...

  • Trump says ‘likely more’ deaths of US troops to come before Iran conflict ends

    Trump cited debunked claims in video address that Iran was on verge of nuclear weapons to justify US casualtiesLatest updates: US-Israel war on IranDonald Trump recorded a new video address on Sunday, vowing to avenge three American deaths after the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and accusing the Iranian regime of “waging war against civilization itself”.The US president addressed the deaths, saying “we grieve for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, even as we continue the righteous mission for which they gave their lives” and called for prayers for “the full recovery” of five others that were seriously wounded. Continue reading...

  • Trump news at a glance: Congress divided on Iran attack as Trump appears to link operation to 2020 election loss

    US president says he is willing to speak to Iran’s remaining leadership as war spreads across Middle East – key US politics stories from 1 March 2026Republican senators have defended Donald Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran, but some Democrats, while welcoming the elimination of the Iranian senior leadership, said the case for the attack should have been made to the American public and Congress.Three US service members have been killed so far in the military operation, and Trump appeared to link the ordering of the attack to his 2020 election loss. Continue reading...

  • ‘Peacemaker’ Trump starts a war with Iran – podcast

    The US and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran on Saturday, killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Why did Trump decide (again) to attack Iran during negotiations on a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic? How does he sell a new war in the Middle East, with potential US casualties, to people at home? What happens next for Iran?In this special collaboration with Today in Focus, Annie Kelly speaks to the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour.Archive: CBS News, NBC News, PBS Newshour, CNN, Fox News Continue reading...

  • US allies and foes left scrambling as Trump catches them off-guard on Iran

    War highlights strained alliances, unfettered militaries and a Washington with renewed appetite for regime changeUS-Israel war on Iran – latest updates A joint US-Israeli operation that appeared to use nuclear negotiations as cover. Gulf leaders courting Donald Trump as he decided to launch a major Middle Eastern intervention. Europe boxed out and a G7 defence minister caught so off-guard that he was grounded in Dubai as the bombs fell. And from Moscow, a strongly worded condemnation of the missile strikes against a fellow member of the anti-US “axis of upheaval” – and little else.The war unleashed by the US and Israel on Saturday has exposed the new rules of geopolitics in Trump’s second presidency, with strained alliances, […]

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Inter Press Service

  • How Child Labour Persists Along Zanzibar’s Blue Economy

    As the tide falls on Zanzibar’s western coast, 13-year-old Asha* moves across the reef, her gown flapping in knee-deep water. She carries a plastic basin and a knife. Since dawn, Asha has been prying octopus and scaling fish for drying and selling. “I am helping my mother. I don’t want her doing everything alone,” she

  • Cuba Has its Back Against the Wall

    The crisis could scarcely be more dramatic. The US is blocking practically all oil deliveries to Cuba. The island depends on imports for all diesel, petrol and kerosine. Without diesel trucks cannot move, food cannot reach Cuban towns and hospitals will not get any oxygen. The airports are already without kerosine and several airlines have

  • UN Leaders, Diplomats Warn of Middle East Instability Following Weekend Air-Strikes in Iran

    The United States and Israel launched a joint military strike on Iran on February 28. Iran followed with military strikes on Israeli bases and on Arab Gulf states, including Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. The realized threat of a new war has caused alarm for the security situation in the Middle East and

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Yale Environment 360

  • Older Humpbacks Prove Better at Wooing Mates

    As humpback whale populations recover, researchers are gaining a richer understanding of these wondrous creatures. A new study suggests it may take years for humpbacks to learn how to successfully serenade a mate.Read more on E360 →

Inside Climate News

  • Helping Trees—and a City—Outrace Climate Change

    LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting to below zero has warmed to a balmy 55 degrees on a sunny February day.  As Matt Thomas augers a three-foot-wide hole into the ground at a city park in the shadow of downtown, Mike Hayman lets

  • Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules

    PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town. All three establishments, including the gas station, stand on the same half-mile stretch of First Street, an artery that divides the marshy floodplain of the Cedar River to the east from hundreds of

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Labor Notes

  • How We Organized a Union at Whole Foods

    There were six of us at the first meeting to form a union at Whole Foods in Philadelphia: too many to fit around the coffee shop table, a good sign, so we moved to a restaurant around the corner. We talked about disrespectful managers, low pay, and the loss of paid breaks and health care for part-timers. “I’ve seen many wonderful people come and go” in a decade at the store, said produce worker Ed Dupree. “So many of them worked hard and weren’t always treated well, especially after the Amazon acquisition.”

The World – PRI

  • Celebrating 30 years of Pokémon's "Catching 'Em All"

    Feb. 27 is Pokémon Day. That's the anniversary of the release date of the first two video games of the franchise, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green. This year is the 30th anniversary of those first releases, and Pokémon is bigger than ever. Host Carolyn Beeler marks the occasion with a brief history of Pokémon's rise to global prominence.

  • Group 'Daughters of the Donbas' memorializes children stolen by Russia

    "Daughters of Donbas: Songs of Stolen Children," is a Ukrainian musical group that seeks to give voice to the roughly 20,000 children who Russia has abducted from occupied Ukrainian territories. The project is led by a Ukrainian-Canadian singer and a young flutist who was rescued from abduction. Deutsche Welle, DW's, Arts Journalist Breandáin O’Shea reports.

  • Turkey's third-largest city is running out of water

    Izmir, Turkey, is running out of water. In the past few months, the city's reservoir hit 1% full. But most Turks don't seem to be getting the message. Water bans are done overnight and are barely noticeable. And the government seems to be having trouble making it clear that people need to conserve. So, the city is using ever-more groundwater. Ben Delico reports from Izmir.

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