Litigation Initiated Against Unfair Pacifica Election Process

A legal process was begun this week against the just-concluded Pacifica elections for national and local board members under the new, improperly-imposed Bylaws. A motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent the certification of the election results, citing irreparable harm if the process proceeds, was denied by a judge in L.A. Superior Court. However, the underlying legal challenge, seeking an "order to show cause" and demand for documentation, as well as [...]

End the US-Israeli War on Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen

Regional Round-up from Drop Site News      Iran is pushing a seven-day roadmap to end the war with the U.S., as Iranian officials held meetings with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The plan, which Tehran said was transmitted via mediators, calls for an end to hostilities on all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon, the release of at least $12 billion in frozen [...]

“The Constitution Lies in Tatters on the Floor”

Lawrence Wilkerson Interviewed by Ralph Nader https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/shooting-wars-and-trade-wars (Excerpts) Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel. Over his 31 years of service, Col. Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, and Special Assistant to Gen. Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Wilkerson also served as Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War [...]

The Role of “Friendship” and Bromance in International Affairs

The Politics of Getting Around Things: Geopolitics as Couples Therapy By Peter Bach [Excerpts] https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/20/the-politics-of-getting-around-things/      Imagine Trump and Xi disappearing into a room for an hour and emerging with the gentlest of smiles to announce that the United States and China had agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons—with Russia and North Korea waiting in the wings to get rid of them too. I suppose the most famous political [...]

Techno-Fascists Monopolize Broadcast News & Tinseltown

Ellisons to Take Over CNN/HBO along with CBS; Warner Bros. along with Paramount from press reports The Ellison family is poised to control one of the world’s largest media conglomerates following a legal settlement with statecleared a significant hurdle to the sale of Warner Bros. AGs. It Discovery to Paramount Skydance. [The news was greeted with a protest at the gates of Paramount’s Hollywood studios. A judge must still sign off on [...]

USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training

After months of student opposition, USC has said it will not renew its contract with the U.S. Navy. By Jackson Mills Daily Trojan photo byyKaijel Mairena USC will end its cadaver contract with the U.S. Navy on Sept. 24, according to a statement from the Keck School of Medicine to Annenberg Media.  USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training. , Under the contract, [...]

Letter to the Editors

Dear Change Links: I am writing in the hopes that it may influence some people at the recent No Kings and other protests I have attended. I think it is very important to demonstrate opposition to what our government is doing. As a disabled veteran, I am very concerned especially about the wars the US is waging or financing, and about the militarism at our so-called Department of War. But I think [...]

Which Side Are You On?

The Struggle for Democracy, Diversity and Transparency at Pacifica by the Pacifica Mission Coalition https://pacificamissioncoalition.com/ DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation, Inc.  communication nor an official communication of any of the five Pacifica Foundation, Inc. Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio). Opinions and facts alleged in this article belong to the author(s) only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect [...]

Paper Tiger

The Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies​ According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s [...]

Ortega, Elections, and the Context Western Media Won’t Print

Has Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega really abolished elections? by Richard Balzano, The New Hampshire Gazette https://popularresistance.org/ortega-elections-and-the-context-western-media-wont-print/ “Crackdown.” “Democratic backsliding.” “Authoritarian grip.” Journalists persecuted, opposition parties crushed—and now, according to the latest eruption from the Western press, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has abolished elections. The peripheral left offers another interpretation: Ortega is preventing U.S.-backed political organizations implicated in subversion from participating in elections, while Nicaragua has restricted media organizations with subversive ties to [...]

Resist Rubio’s McCarthyite Attacks on Cuba, the Black Freedom Struggle, and the Left

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) At a recent international gathering of right-wing states and parties, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, angling to run again for US president as a MAGA hard-liner this time, delivered a speech and a 100+ page document attacking Cuba, the Black freedom struggle in the US, and anything to the left of MAGA, as violence-prone communists intent on subversion. This new McCarthyism seeks to [...]

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