Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Penn sells out trans athletes Lia Thomas Philadelphia The University of Pennsylvania caved to pressure and struck an agreement on July 1 with the Trump administration to ban trans athletes. In exchange, the government restored $175 million in federal funds to the university. In March, Trump paused the federal funding,…
Philadelphia museum workers ready to join ranks of striking unions There can be no doubt that Philly is a union town! The essential city workers of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 are doubling down against Mayor Cherelle Parker. In a historic strike, the first in almost 40 years, D.C.…
This week on State of Play, host Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot, an independent journalist recently arrested while covering anti-ICE protests for MintPress News in Los Angeles, and Robert Inlakesh, a Middle East analyst and MintPress contributor known for his reporting on politics, repression, and empire, to examine a rapidly expanding surveillance regime…
Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Penn sells out trans athletes Lia Thomas Philadelphia The University of Pennsylvania caved to pressure and struck an agreement on July 1 with the Trump administration to ban trans athletes. In exchange, the government restored $175 million in federal funds to the university. In March, Trump paused the federal funding,…
While it continues its conflict with its neighbors, Israel is fighting another war just as intensely, spending gigantic amounts of money bombarding Europe with messaging justifying their actions, and scaremongering Europeans that Iranian nuclear missiles will soon be turning their cities into rubble. A MintPress study has found that, since it struck Iran on June…
Originally published at ScheerPost on July 02, 2025. Republished with permission. When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning. Her office…
Fourteen years ago, the talmudic and eschatological Netanyahu was questioned by the casual Dana Weiss in an interview published on the Israeli government website. At the 25th minute and 33rd second mark [1], to the question: "What is the biggest problem facing the next generation, and what must we do today to solve it?" The pugnacious…
In accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, I wish to report on behalf of my Government that on 22 June 2025 the Armed Forces of the United States exercised the inherent right of collective self-defence and advanced vital United States interests in eliminating Iran’s nuclear programme by conducting a precision…
Following Israel’s previous letters to the Security Council concerning the malign activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the outrageous letters of Iran dated 13 and 16 June 2025, Iran’s public threats to eliminate the State of Israel, in stark violation of the UN charter, and its continued attempts to achieve the means to accomplish…
July 24 — A deal brokered by Turkey for the export of grain from both Ukraine and Russia presents a political problem for U.S. imperialism and its war aims. Washington’s response: ship more weapons. The landmark deal to move hundreds of tons of grain, if it moves forward, undermines U.S./NATO . . . Continue reading…
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has a long history of supporting the global working class. This has recently included vital support for and cooperative projects with socialist Cuba that aid both countries’ people. Billboard in Cuba compares the blockade to a virus. Peoples China is trading with and aiding the Cuban economy. Direct interventions…
The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures. Despite years of public pressure and speculation, the DOJ and FBI now assert that the contents of the Epstein files primarily involve sensitive victim information and materials that, if released, could endanger innocent individuals. In…
For three years, a woman with a background in U.S. State Department cultural diplomacy and ties to intelligence-linked organizations quietly managed the membership database of Britain’s largest pro-Palestine organization. Her name is Deborah Fiorin. Hired by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in early 2018 as its Membership and Data Officer, Fiorin held unprecedented access to…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » East LA rally protests FBI attacks on immigrant activists By Fight Back! News staff June 29, 2025 Los Angeles – On June 27, community members gathered at Salazar Park at 4 p.m. for a press conference and rally demanding the charges be dropped against Alejandro Orellana and calling for…
At the NATO conference in The Hague, Netherlands, June 24-25, most European NATO members committed to a major increase in military spending, jumping from 2% to 5% of the annual Gross Domestic Product. The working class of Europe faces imminent cuts to social services, as the money spent on weapons must come from somewhere. The…
Milwaukee, WI - june 15 marked the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the day that Zionist paramilitaries began the violent removal of Palestinians from a majority of their historic homeland. Various organizations in Milwaukee, led primarily by American Muslims for Palestine and Students for...
Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers’ Summit...
The Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification, joking that it...
Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed anti-terrorism efforts at their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg...
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Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Samarkand today. In...
Plagued with rising crime and gang violence, and concerned about the threat of terrorism, Denmark has decided to employ its armed forces as border controls and guarding duties in order to release more police officers for other work.
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Nicolas Maduro was re-elected for another term of office in the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday 20 May. The majority of the reactionary opposition, with full support from Washington and Brussels, had called for a boycott, which led to a very low turnout in the middle-and-upper-class areas of the main cities. Their demand that the…
WASHINGTON – Despite widespread outrage and resistance, Hurricane Donald shows absolutely no sign of abating as it throws domestic and international politics into disarray. President Trump has been unsparing in his push to pursue his agenda, attacking opponents on both sides of the aisle without mercy while throwing convention to the wind in regard to…
MANILA – As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte enters his third year in office, his administration has earned the ignominious distinction of ushering in the country’s ranking as the deadliest country for environmental and lands rights defenders in Asia. It’s just the latest indicator of Manila’s careless, if often hostile, attitude toward the rural poor and…
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA — Reality Leigh Winner — a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and linguist, and the first person to be charged with violating the Espionage Act on President Donald Trump’s watch — has signed a plea agreement, according to the Courage Foundation. Her plea hearing has been scheduled for the morning of Tuesday,…
Former Vice President Joe Biden launched his candidacy for the American presidency on Thursday morning with the release of his first campaign video, ‘’America Is An Idea.’ The first word from the candidate’s mouth — “Charlottesville,” a town now synonymous with neo-Nazi hate in the U.S. — is the overwhelming focus of the ad, which…
A South Korean train has crossed into the North to officially launch a historic joint project to reconnect railroad tracks between the two nations. Footage of the landmark event Friday showed a red, white and blue train -- displaying a banner reading "Iron Horse is now running toward the era of peace and prosperity" --…
Amnesty International and another high-profile war monitoring group say the US-led coalition allegedly fighting the Takfiri terror group of Daesh has remarkably understated the deaths its campaign caused among civilians in the northern Syrian city of Raqqah in 2017, saying the coalition killed more than 1,600 civilians during its assault on the city. The coalition waged a…
Ever since the news broke on March 15 of two consecutive mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, corporate media has been determined to establish that suspect Brenton Tarrant acted alone in the terrorist attacks that took the lives of 50 innocent Muslim worshippers and wounded 50…
In January, MintPress was contacted by Jeannie Kamin, a contributor to the news rating site and browser plug-in “Newsguard.” As I, MintPress Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh, wrote at the time, Kamin had sent “a list of eight loaded questions that were crafted to put me on the defensive and undermine MintPress’ credibility from the get-go. Not…
KHARTOUM, SUDAN — Late Thursday evening, less than two weeks after murdering more than 100 civilian protesters, Sudan’s ruling military council tried to save face by telling a group of international reporters that those responsible for the slaughter had “deviated” from the official military plan to disperse protesters. Gen. Shams Eddin Kabashi, spokesman for the…
As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and business interests they blame for a spike in illegal logging and other resource extraction. A report released by Amazon Watch as part of its ongoing “Complicity in…
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – It seemed like a longshot, but anything was possible in the mind of an ambitious, 30-year-old Eduardo Elsztain. Elsztain, then living in New York, had landed a meeting with the wealthy Hungarian-American financier George Soros, a meeting that the bulk of media reports covering Elsztain’s rise to prominence claim was arranged…