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Covering woke world affairs, ideas and culture with a left leaning bias.

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Debates on freedom of expression through interviews, reportage and banned literature.

The Tiananmen Square massacre must not be forgotten

5 June 2026 @ 6:33 am

Beijing is doing everything in its power to erase what happened The post The Tiananmen Square massacre must not be forgotten appeared first on Index on Censorship.

The memory that refuses to die

3 June 2026 @ 5:49 pm

A Chinese rocket factory worker who organised a protest in 1989 looks back 37 years after Tiananmen Square The post The memory that refuses to die appeared first on Index on Censorship.

Israeli police compile dossiers on critical foreign journalists

2 June 2026 @ 9:38 am

Israel has started cracking down on foreign media reporting of its harsh practices in the occupied West Bank The post Israeli police compile dossiers on critical foreign journalists appeared first on Index on Censorship.

We want our former colleague imprisoned in Belarus to walk free

22 May 2026 @ 8:06 am

Journalist Andrei Aliaksandraŭ has been in prison since 2021 on charges of treason for his kindness in helping protesters after the fraudulent election The post We want our former colleague imprisoned in Belarus to walk free appeared first on Index on Censorship.

Kurt Vonnegut’s daughter is following in his footsteps

21 May 2026 @ 10:35 am

When Slaughterhouse-Five was burned by a North Dakota school, its writer acted. Half a century later Nanette Vonnegut is also challenging book bans The post Kurt Vonnegut’s daughter is following in his footsteps appeared first on Index on Censorship.

Index on Censorship seeks new senior editor

21 May 2026 @ 8:56 am

We are looking for a great journalist who is passionate about freedom of expression The post Index on Censorship seeks new senior editor appeared first on Index on Censorship.

Reform’s TikTok videos and the Online Safety Act

20 May 2026 @ 3:59 pm

Our opposition to the legislation is that unless speech is aired in a public forum, it cannot be challenged The post Reform’s TikTok videos and the Online Safety Act appeared first on Index on Censorship.

Serbia: Solidarity with Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation following another setback in its quest for justice

19 May 2026 @ 3:00 pm

The Serbian editor was gunned down outside his apartment in Belgrade in 1999 and those responsible have evaded justice The post Serbia: Solidarity with Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation following another setback in its quest for justice appeared first on Index on Censorship.

China’s Xi is everything Trump aspires to be

15 May 2026 @ 8:30 am

The US President's praise of the Chinese leader underscores his fascination with authoritarian rulers The post China’s Xi is everything Trump aspires to be appeared first on Index on Censorship.

Indian cinema: propaganda at the pictures

13 May 2026 @ 12:22 pm

Index discusses the anti-Muslim films coming out of Bollywood The post Indian cinema: propaganda at the pictures appeared first on Index on Censorship.

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Video library and alternative news centre for people who want to change the world.

What Is Woke 2?

8 June 2026 @ 9:05 am

The term "woke" has traveled a long way from its origins in Black American vernacular, where it once meant something simple and urgent: stay alert to the racial violence that surrounds you. In...

We Face a Choice: Tyranny or Revolution

6 June 2026 @ 1:14 am

MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create systems of...

The Rise of the Global South

1 June 2026 @ 3:27 am

“Democracy” Was Never Designed to Work — but Something Better Is Emerging

28 May 2026 @ 3:51 am

Something is breaking apart in the democratic world beyond the usual scandals of corruption or periodic rise of demagogues. We are witnessing a legitimacy crisis that goes all the way down to the...

This Simple Tool for Unrigging the Economy Is Spreading. Your Town Could Be Next.

27 May 2026 @ 2:05 am

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made 1,794x the average worker at the company last year.New ballot initiatives in LA and San Francisco would force big corps like Starbucks to close pay gaps — by...

A Participatory Economy: A Post-Capitalist Model

24 May 2026 @ 1:18 am

This is a video introducing the model for a post-capitalist economy, known as a Participatory Economy (also known as ‘Participatory Economics’ or ‘Parecon’). It is intended to give a brief...

Why Fascism Fails

23 May 2026 @ 11:35 pm

Fascism keeps returning because, in moments of crisis, it makes a seductive promise: order, unity, national rebirth, a strong hand to cut through the chaos. The record of what it actually delivers...

US Defeat in Iran War Will Change the World - Now Even American Hawks Admit It!

22 May 2026 @ 11:13 pm

It has become so widely accepted that the US lost the war with Iran that now even American neoconservative hawks admit it. Ben Norton explains why major neocons like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol...

Trump’s Iranian Nightmare

22 May 2026 @ 2:14 am

America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of our adversaries, a...

Yes, Things Are Falling Apart. Here's What That Actually Makes Possible.

20 May 2026 @ 10:39 pm

There may be no group that ever had it so good as the Japanese plutocrats of the 1930s. In that era, the richest one percent of Japanese society captured twenty percent of national income — a...

antiwar.com

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Antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities.

We Should Not ‘Integrate’ Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!

9 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” would […]

Netanyahu Defies Trump and Strikes Back at Iran – But Can He Take on Tehran Without the US?

9 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. Israel has now responded militarily to Iran, defying Trump’s publicly expressed wishes. Israeli commentators have been explicit that Israel could not allow Iran to establish a new regional equation – one in which Tehran successfully extended deterrence over Lebanon. But by defying Trump, Israel has done more than […]

A Personal TomDispatch Farewell (of Sorts)

8 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

Editor’s Note:   Tom Engelhardt has been an important part of Antiwar.com for 22 years.     His TomDispatch site has contributed 1,469 articles to our site.   His list of authors includes many of the best in the antiwar movement.   The presence of TomDispatch articles helped make Antiwar.com what it is today. The staff of Antiwar.com sends […]

Another War for Israel We Should Never Have Gotten Into

8 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

In his highly-regarded podcast, Judging Freedom, on June 1, Judge Napolitano asked British diplomat Alastair Crooke if the Israelis really cared if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed and the U.S. economy, and by extension the world economy, suffered. Crooke replied that the billionaires who support Israel so strongly have so much wealth that many […]

Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival

8 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the conscience for the sheer suffocating scale of a seemingly endless treeless terrain overwhelmed with millions of tons of concrete and rebar. There is a distinct agonizing geometry to the destruction of buildings folded […]

War, Arrogance, and the Unraveling of US Power

5 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

The United States is not approaching collapse because it lacks power. It is approaching collapse because it has too often mistaken power for wisdom. Its armed forces remain unmatched in reach, its financial system remains central to global commerce, and its technology sector continues to shape the future. Yet these advantages can conceal a more […]

A Regional Crisis or a Protracted International Disorder?

5 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

On May 31, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam gave a televised address in which he condemned Israel’s invasion and intensified attacks on southern Lebanon as a dangerous escalation, warning that a “scorched-earth policy” will never bring security to Tel Aviv: “Israel must understand that with its scorched-earth policy, collective punishment, and the bulldozing of villages and […]

Why Trump May Actually Have Told Netanyahu ‘Everybody Hates You!’

4 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” According to Axios, this is what Donald Trump said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in “an expletive-laden call” earlier today. Trump […]

NATO Propagandists Again Proclaim That Ukraine Is on the Verge of Winning the War

4 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

NATO partisans in both Europe and the United States are perpetual optimists about Ukraine’s prospective fortunes in its war against Russia.  Lately, there has been yet another inundation of such accounts in Western news media outlets.  Many of them emphasize that Moscow’s latest military offensive against Ukrainian ground forces has come to a halt with […]

Stop Weaponizing Everything!!!

3 June 2026 @ 12:00 am

Jan Marco Müller, the European Commission official who drafted the EU’s new science diplomacy framework, just said the quiet part out loud: “Science diplomacy is not about being nice to each other.” Yes, it is, dumbass. That was the whole point. For centuries, science diplomacy worked precisely because it allowed ordinary human beings to humanize […]

alternet.org

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Journalism with an alternate far leftist edge.

Former aide: Trump just openly bragged about his corruption and media ignored it

9 June 2026 @ 6:42 pm

President Donald Trump is bragging about his corruption but the media is not reporting it, according to Trump’s former communications director.“Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught,” Anthony Scaramucci posted on X on Tuesday. “A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.”He then summarized Trump’s replies as being “1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care.”Scaramucci concluded, “That�

CNN fact-checker tears Trump apart over gas prices

9 June 2026 @ 6:26 pm

President Donald Trump keeps insisting that gas prices aren’t especially high. What many Americans see at the pump tells a different story, and CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has the numbers to prove it.As recently as Tuesday, Trump claimed that the price of gas is “not very high, relatively speaking. I mean, it’s lower than during the Biden administration.”Trump was not especially specific, but Dale is.According to AAA, today’s average gas price is $4.16. That is lower than the peak number during the Biden administration, $5.02, which occurred after Russia attac

Cognitive expert exposes ‘sundowning’ sign in Trump’s latest public humiliation

9 June 2026 @ 6:26 pm

President Donald Trump's disastrous trip to the NBA Finals was not just a public humiliation for him, because according to one cognitive health expert, it also showed a dire sign of his potential "sundowning" cognitive decline for the entire world to see.Amid the New York Knicks' historic run, Trump opted to return to his hometown of New York City to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday evening. The decision turned into a nightmare for all involved: Trump was booed mercilessly when he was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem; fans had to arrive ho

Trump threw a 'live hand grenade' into the GOP agenda

9 June 2026 @ 6:12 pm

Congress has been locked in an ongoing battle over the reauthorization of a key national security tool that has been repeatedly frustrated by Republican infighting. Now with the extension deadline looming on Friday, Capitol Hill insiders say that President Donald Trump has tossed a “live hand grenade” into the process that threatens to blow it up altogether. “This is not a problem between Senate Democrats and Republicans,” declared Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) on Tuesday. “This was the administration throwing a live hand grenade into a critical reauthorization 10 days out.” Th

Trump's new Fed chair could send him into a rage

9 June 2026 @ 6:09 pm

One point of contention between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was Powell's refusal to follow Trump's demands to lower interest rates. Now, Trump's replacement will be forced to tell him he will likely follow the same path. The Economist reported on Tuesday that unlucky chairman Kevin Warsh "has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate." The report called it "ironic" that Warsh's life is going to be miserable as Trump demands lower rates, even as annual inflation

Most Americans think the future looks worse under Trump

9 June 2026 @ 5:56 pm

In the face of rising gas prices caused by President Donald Trump’s decision to launch war with Iran, a sizeable majority of Americans expect that the problem will only continue to get worse. According to the Hill, a new poll shows that nearly two out of three U.S. voters think the cost of gas will continue to rise over the coming year. “The survey, released Monday by Reuters/Ipsos, found that 59 percent of 4,531 respondents said that gas prices wil

MAGA election denier raises alarms with rapid advance at Trump DOJ

9 June 2026 @ 5:48 pm

After President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, MAGA attorney Kurt Olsen was a prominent figure in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. Trump ultimately failed: Biden was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2021. But Olsen, 16 and one-half months into Trump's second presidency, is serving in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via the Southern District of Florida. And according to NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly, MAGA critics are alarmed by Olsen's rapid advancement at DOJ."An election denier who tried to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss is facing scrutiny

Eye-popping letter from deep red Trump country blasts president as 'low-IQ idiot'

9 June 2026 @ 4:53 pm

President Donald Trump’s performance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — where he cut the interview short and blasted the moderator as “crooked” — was widely criticized, with many noticing his habit of attacking women reporters.Among those who noticed was a resident in deep red Trump country: Florida’s The Villages, known as the “largest retirement community in the world,” where nearly seven out of 10 county residents voted for Trump in 2024. One resident recently told

Trump lawyer hit with massive lawsuit over 'bizarre' foreign spying scheme: report

9 June 2026 @ 4:37 pm

A lawyer who previously worked within President Donald Trump's business empire has gotten caught up in a massive new lawsuit, according to The Daily Beast, alleging that he was involved in a "bizarre international spying escapade."Breaking the story on Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Ted Kittila, a "prominent Republican attorney" who previously worked for Trump's Truth Social company, has been hit with a $120 million lawsuit accusing him of "fraud, civil conspiracy, and extortion on behalf of agents of an abusive foreign regime."

Inside FIFA's 'embarrassing charade' to give Trump a bogus 'peace prize'

9 June 2026 @ 4:25 pm

After Venezuelan then-President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in Caracas and the Trump administration installed leftist Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, opposition leader María Corina Machado tried to curry favor with Trump by offering him her Nobel Peace Prize (which was merely symbolic, as it cannot be transferred under Peace Prize rules). But Machado wasn't the first person to offer Trump a symbolic "peace prize": before that, in December 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered Trump the inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize." In the Daily Beast, reporter Leigh Kimmins details

adbusters.org

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The critique of consumerism and corporate media in media.

Now seems to have turned into http://abillionpeople.org/.

sosmath.com

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Great resource for the maths, beginner to advanced.

bootply.com

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Bootstrap in your browser, rapid html and css.

notonthehighstreet.com

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Off the high street, unique with a twist gift store.

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PC hardware reviews, news & recommendations.

Intel CPU Shortage to Worsen in 2H2019

13 March 2019 @ 12:30 am

According to a recent report by Digitimes, Intel’s CPU supply shortage will continue to worsen through the 2H2019 as demand for entry level and mainstream notebooks such as Chromebooks and Core i3-based notebooks continue to increase without the proper increase in supply to sustain the growth. Supply shortages in 3Q2018 began impacting major notebook vendors […]

The Best CPUs of 2019

19 February 2019 @ 1:18 am

The CPU, or Central Processing Unit, along with the motherboard is generally considered the most important core component of any PC. The reason for this is that the combination of the CPU and the motherboard determines what other components can be used with the system. As a result, this makes the decision of which CPU […]

AMD Announces Radeon VII Packing Vega II, 16GB HBM, $699 Pricepoint

13 January 2019 @ 7:30 am

At CES 2019, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa SU spoke on several products at their keynote and while many users were disappointed that AMD did not announce a rumored $250 GPU that would give GTX 1080 class performance, AMD did surprise the world by announcing the world’s first 7nm GPU for the consumer market. Rather than […]

Nvidia Announces Support for Adaptive Sync (FreeSync) Displays on GeForce Graphics Cards, What It Means For AMD

13 January 2019 @ 7:14 am

In a stunning move from Nvidia earlier this week, the GPU company announced that they would finally begin supporting adaptive sync functionality on AMD FreeSync monitors. Previously, Nvidia graphics cards were only compatible with their proprietary G-Sync system, which is technically a slightly better implementation of adaptive sync monitor technology when compared to FreeSync however, […]

Nvidia Unveils its RTX 2060 Priced at $349 Packing 6GB of GDDR6 at CES 2019

11 January 2019 @ 2:48 am

With the launch of Nvidia’s 20-series GPUs seemingly an eternity ago, Nvidia has finally announced a January 15th release date for their Geforce RTX 2060. The new graphics card uses the same GPU core as the GTX 2070, the TU106, though is cut down featuring 1920 CUDA cores, 240 tensor cores, 30 RT cores, 120 […]

Microsoft Adds Update Pausing Feature on Windows 10 Home

8 January 2019 @ 5:16 am

Generally speaking, always being up to date on the latest Windows patches is a pretty good thing. Updating your system will not only fix bugs and add new features, it also includes security patches that prevent hackers from having their way with your system. While there are plenty of benefits to having the latest updates, […]

ASUS Announces Massive ROG Mothership GZ700 Gaming Laptop

8 January 2019 @ 4:00 am

CES 2019 is chock-full of weird hardware, but the ASUS ROG Mothership GZ700 is definitely takes the cake as one of the craziest gaming laptops available. Name ROG Mothership GZ700 Processor Intel® Core™ i9-8950HK Operating system Windows 10 Home Windows 10 Pro (ASUS recommends Windows 10 Pro) Display 17.3” FHD (1920×1080) IPS-level panel, 144Hz, 3ms, […]

Razer Blade 15 Now Packing Nvidia GeForce RTX Graphics

8 January 2019 @ 3:53 am

Following Nvidia’s announcement of the new mobile GeForce RTX 20-series GPUs, Razer wasted no time announcing updates to their Blade 15 gaming laptop. Starting at $1,599, the Razer Blade 15 packs either an 15-inch Full HD (1920×1080) 144Hz display or a 4K (3840×2160) touch display with full 100% Adobe RGB color support. The laptop also […]

T-Mobile OnePlus 6T Receives New Software Update (Build: A6013_34_181228)

6 January 2019 @ 11:14 am

If you’re a T-Mobile OnePlus 6T owner, good news! T-Mobile has recently released a new software update, Android 9.0 Build Number: A6013_34_181228. According to the software version details, the new update “Enables support for additional domestic roaming partners”. In order to update, simply swipe up from the Home screen and tap Settings. From there, scroll […]