Over the past two weeks, we have increased our press monitoring of far-right intimidation and racist violence. Last week, we published a ‘Dossier on a Pogrom in Northern Ireland’, which highlighted community concerns about the police response to the pogrom as well as the role that some Loyalist paramilitaries may have played in it.
Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.
Gerard Sekoto (South Africa), Three School Girls, early 1940s.
Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone offer an extraordinary insight into the covert activities of prominent British military and intelligence veterans posted to occupied Ireland during the 1980s. Still possessed of enduring contempt for Catholics and visceral hatred for prominent Irish Republican freedom fighters, these men believe to this day that their patriotic duty remains to “keep Northern Ireland British.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The bipartisan consensus for regime change against Iran hit the wall of Iranian resistance. But Trump is forced into talks while democrats attack him from the right and expose themselves as partners in crime.
A profound contradiction confronts East Asia: the region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of the New Cold War. The region’s future depends on ordinary people, not war planners.
President Xi Jinping followed up his summits with Presidents Putin and Trump with his first foreign trip of the year. The destination – North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a nation of some 26 million normally portrayed in the Western media as a dangerously authoritarian state, an economic basket case, worthy of attention only for its nuclear weapons – may seem a surprise to many. However, as veteran Korea observer, Keith Bennett and Radhika Desai discuss, neither the destination nor the timing should surprise anyone with a sense of the intertwined histories of the Chinese and Korean revolutions (not to mention the Soviet) and the continuing cooperation between the two countries, founded on socialist solidarity. Nor should it surprise them that, amid the chaos unleashed on the world by a declining West, China and North Korea are quietly renewing their relations for a new phase of history, and their common history. Keith and Radhika discuss the socialist foundations of one of the most enduring international relationships of the modern era, the myths Western journalists and scholars perpetuate about North Korea, and the unexpected twist the matter of Korean reunification has taken.
Palestinian writer Lama Khater, who has been detained since March 23, 2026, has described harrowing abuses endured by women held in Israeli rape and torture dungeons, detailing systematic acts of beatings, strip searches, dragging, humiliation, and deprivation.
Al-Mayadeen published the following which is the official Iranian MOU, not what you’ll see published by BigLie Media. Point number one is extremely important as it’s not as exact as I’d prefer and thus open to abuse by the Trump Gang. (more…)
Iran and the US are set to sign a memorandum of understanding this Friday, June 19, at Bürgenstock in Switzerland — and our sources say an Israeli plot to derail it may be hanging over the ceremony. In this episode, Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali, and Larry Johnson break down the breaking intel: the alleged assassination threat against an Iranian signatory, Pakistan’s blunt warning to Tel Aviv (“you’ll hear directly from us”), and why the venue was moved to a secure, Qatari-owned mountain site hosted by Pakistan.
We connect the dots the headlines are missing: the hidden oil clock and Strait of Hormuz reality (it won’t fully reopen for months because of mines), the 60-day, 14-point MOU, Iran’s strike threats that bent Donald Trump, and the deepening China–Russia–Iran alignment behind every mediated term. We also cover JD Vance and Ghalibaf as the Friday signatories, Bennett vs. Netanyahu, the $24bn in frozen Iranian assets, and the global recession/de-dollarization stakes for your wallet. Guests: Pepe Escobar (veteran geopolitical correspondent), Larry Johnson (former CIA analyst), hosted by Zulfiqar Ali. Some claims in this episode are source-based and developing; we flag verification status on screen. Transition Protocol is a serious, source-driven geopolitical and economic analysis channel focused on evidence-based breakdowns of global power shifts.
“The destiny of Palestinians is the destiny of all humanity”: Kidnapped and tortured by the Zionists, Thiago Avila says Flotilla activists are undeterred in their support for Palestinian liberation.
From Tehran’s point of view, that’s a whole new ball game. They survived everything that not one, but two nuclear powers threw at them. They have no trust whatsoever about anything coming from Barbaria.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
It is true that the New York Knicks’ journey to a championship brought disparate communities together, but gentrification remains the norm in the city that is the capital of capital. Black people are still being displaced at a breakneck pace.
Iran sent the United States a secret, coded warning — and repeated it three times through Pakistan — just as the US–Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz heads to signing. In this exclusive breakdown, Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali reveal the hidden terms behind the agreement: the ~$24 billion Washington must return, Iran’s hard red line on Israel in Lebanon, and the “bilateral” retaliation doctrine now in force.
They also reveal what almost no one is reporting — that Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi were standing directly behind the Iran–Pakistan alignment, and why insiders believe the deal is already being sabotaged before the ink dries, with war potentially resuming after the US midterms.
Guest Pepe Escobar is a veteran geopolitical correspondent with direct sources across Eurasia. Brought to you by Transition Protocol — serious, source-driven geopolitical analysis, unfiltered by corporate media.
A quick reminder – our #DontIDTheInternet action starts at 7:00pm tonight.
We warned that Digital ID could come through the back door.
Now online “age verification” risks turning into a system where everyone has to prove who they are to access parts of the internet… and it won’t stop with social media.
Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for politics. Why not lock up opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy?
Mike Tapp, a minister in the Home Office, recently posted on X a “gotcha” response to Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s criticism of the Labour government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action.
Trump’s ‘deal’ with Iran represents the end of Trumps’ futile search for an off ramp from the conflict that can be tarted up to look like a victory, at least to the most credulous and loyal of his dwindling following.Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai assess this defeat and its implications for the US economy, for US politics, the dollar system and on how it will accelerate the construction of more democratic institutions of international governance.
For months, Palantir has justified its £330m contract with NHS England for the new Federated Data Platform by relying on one central claim – that Palantir software is helping hospitals get more done for patients.
Smoke rises over Beirut’s southern suburbs after a U.S. airstrike. The bombing came as Trump claimed a deal with Iran was “complete.”
Trump announced on June 14 that the United States and Iran had reached a deal to suspend the war Washington launched on Feb. 28. Hours before the announcement, U.S. bombs fell on the southern suburbs of Beirut, killing three.
Data centres are being built across the UK at extraordinary speed. Big Tech companies building them claim that data centres bring jobs and economic growth. But Foxglove has spent the last two years testing these claims – including in the courts.