Hubert Harrison, the Greatest Civil Rights Activist You’ve Never Heard Of

Source: The American Prospect
by Naomi Bethune

“Understanding history is tricky. Classes in grade school are generally uneven and whitewashed, if not outright sanitized. Fewer and fewer students are studying it in college at all. Textbooks focus on a select few figures who are painted as defining social movements, particularly those who are looked back on as favorable, or even palatable. In many cases, the more revolutionary commitments of America’s greatest trailblazers are often reduced to a footnote, if not omitted completely. I myself encountered this phenomenon recently when I was working on my contribution to the Prospect Patriots issue, a profile of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), one of the country’s first muckrakers and a courageous civil rights activist.” (08/01/26)

https://prospect.org/2026/08/01/hubert-harrison-civil-rights-activist-brian-kwoba/

Steve Trinward

FIFA drops plan to sell stakes in the World Cup after backlash

Source: United Press International

“FIFA dropped Friday a plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors after severe backlash from worldwide soccer confederations. President Gianni Infantino had revealed earlier this week a plan to create FIFA Forward Enterprise, which would have offered a 20% stake to private investors in the $20 billion venture. … Finding investors for FFE would have been handled by Thrive Eternal — an investment firm owned by Joshua Kushner, who is the brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. But the move was widely panned. The Union of European Football Associations said its 55 national teams would boycott all upcoming FIFA competitions ‘so long as these proposals remain alive.'” (07/31/26)

https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/Soccer/2026/07/31/fifa-drops-ffe/2911785547844/

Thomas L. Knapp

The Housewives Underground: A Video Commentary

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation

“Jacob expands on his recent article ‘The Housewives Underground,’ which is about the new book The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery by Kaitlyn Tiffany.” (07/31/26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpS5b4nDTHw

Thomas L. Knapp

Section 219: More Than a Defense Provision – The Battle Over the Future of US-Israel Relations

Source: Antiwar.com
by Peter Rodgers

“Somewhere in the thousand-plus pages of America’s annual National Defense Authorization Act sits a provision that started out as Section 224 and later became Section 219 in the House version. On paper it looks straightforward: expand technological and defense cooperation between the United States and Israel. In practice it has turned into one of the more revealing fights in current U.S. politics. The reactions on both sides make clear that this is not really about joint research projects or sharing a few more technical papers. It has become a proxy for bigger arguments about how far American security commitments should go, what role Israel should play in Washington’s strategy, and where the Republican Party is headed on foreign policy.” (07/31/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/peter_rodgers/2026/07/30/section-219-more-than-a-defense-provision-the-battle-over-the-future-of-us-israel-relations

Thomas L. Knapp

Hundreds of flights cancelled as workers strike at Canada’s WestJet

Source: BBC News [UK state media]

“Flight attendants at Canada’s second-largest airline WestJet have gone on strike during one of the busiest summer holiday weekends in the country. As of early Sunday morning, 309 flights have been cancelled, according to the airline. The industrial action centres on issues related to pay, specifically compensation for work they do when the plane has yet to take off – known as ground pay in the airline industry. … Flight attendants and WestJet have been engaged in contract negotiations since September 2025.” (08/02/26)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq568j06zgxo

Thomas L. Knapp