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openDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 17 October 2026
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Western Media Accept Trump’s Plundering of Venezuelan Oil as Business as Usual
Objections to the new Venezuelan oil plan were mostly procedural and out of concern for appearances, not driven by any principled opposition to US predation.
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Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration’s Social Media Surveillance Moves Forward. Here’s What the Court Said.
No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on noncitizens living in the U.S. Last fall…
National Security Excuses Continue To Flop As Trump Pushes Press Ban
US judge further dismantled belated and lazy national security argument offered by Trump officials to justify press ban
US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’
US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s government. It turns out he was an opposition hooligan who destroyed a public university…
Tablets Make Communication Easier Behind Bars – But Deaf People Are Left Behind
A lawsuit in Illinois charges that prisons blocking videophone capabilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
UN carbon market forces cookstove projects to protect against forest loss
Despite lobbying for an exemption, the UN regulator has for the first time made cookstove projects cover the risk that the trees they save are later destroyed The post UN carbon market forces cookstove projects to protect against forest…
We Must Move Beyond the Era of State-Sponsored, State-Celebrated Murder
Let’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.
Corporations Benefiting From Enforcement Rollback Funnelled $200M+ to Trump-Aligned SuperPAC
Corporations that have benefited from the Trump administration’s cancellation of federal enforcement actions have given $210.5 million in contributions and pledges to MAGA Inc., and other Trump-aligned Super PACs, according to a new…
New Zealand accused of breaching EU trade deal over climate rollbacks
The EU's climate trade rules face their first major test after a green group alleged New Zealand violated binding environmental provisions under its trade deal with the bloc The post New Zealand accused of breaching EU trade deal over…
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Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN
Exclusive: UK foreign secretary boasted about “mounting a world wide lobbying exercise” against landmark motion. The post Britain helped to kill ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution at the UN appeared first on Declassified UK.
Israel began Gaza genocide three years ago today on 7 October
Today, 7 October 2026, is the third anniversary of horror. However, it is not the horror that the mainstream UK media, British politicians and Israel lobbyists will tell you about. On 7 October 2023, from before dawn until well into the…
Groups Associated With India’s Far-Right Receive Millions Through US Donor-Advised Funds
Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. US non-profits whose founding leaders or organisations have been associated with India’s controversial Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)…
Jewish Labour Movement threatens Green Party with EHRC
Notorious and ultra-Zionist Israel lobby group, the so-called ‘Jewish Labour Movement’ (JLM), has threatened the Green Party with an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over its landmark motion declaring that…
Labour MPs demand police probe for Green Party’s anti-Zionism motion
Nine of the most ardent Israel lobbyists among Labour’s MPs have written to Sussex Police demanding a hate-crime investigation against the Green Party. The party’s supposed ‘crime’ is to have passed a conference motion declaring…
Journalist Under Prosecution Sues US Government For Seizing Materials
Tim Burke filed the complaint around a week after prosecutors notified a court it would seek a fresh indictment against the Florida-based journalist.
Zach Bryan smashes Sheeran’s stadium record after defying Kraft on Palestine
Country musician Zach Bryan defied ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Kraft for his concert last Friday. Singer Ed Sheeran had shamed himself by caving to Kraft and sacking rapper Macklemore for showing solidarity with Palestine. Kraft had…
Turning an Overseas Property into Rental Income
If you are an international investor looking to expand your long-term property profits, Ghana offers a stable political and financial environment that can be a strong prospect for your investment. Planning the investment from abroad…
‘Of course it’s racist’: Feinstein shows Green Party how to handle Zionism motion backlash
Andrew Feinstein has given the Green Party an example of how to handle the media and political establishment’s inevitable backlash against the party’s ‘Zionism is racism‘ motion. The motion passed convincingly yesterday despite Israel…
Labour’s Holborn candidate ‘is Zionist JLM member’
Sagal Abdi-Wali, the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, appears to be an ‘ally’ member of the ultra-Zionist ‘Jewish Labour Movement‘ (JLM). At the very least, she has extensive links to JLM, an explicitly and…
BREAKING: Greens also vote overwhelmingly to boycott Israel
As Israel lobbyists ranted and raged against the convincing passage of a motion declaring “Zionism is racism”, they presumably promptly left the Green party conference hall to whine to friendly journalists that coming out against genocide…
BREAKING: Green party passes “Zionism is racism” motion despite Israel lobby tactics
The Green party has passed a resolution declaring, rightly, that Zionism is racism. The vote passed at the party’s autumn conference today by 1022-813 votes. The result comes despite a repeat of tactics – no confidence votes and delaying…
Country star Zach Bryan wears ‘Free Palestine’ for concert at billionaire’s Gillette stadium
Country music star Zach Bryan has shown delightful contempt for billionaire Israel fanatic Robert Kraft — by wearing a ‘Free Palestine’ shirt to play at Kraft’s stadium. Zach Bryan — Blancmange v steel Kraft became internationally…
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