‘Serious Threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump Admin Wins First Antifa Terror Charge
Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams The government has largely won its first case bringing material-support-for-terrorism charges against protesters alleged to belong to “antifa,” which President Donald Trump designated as a…
“Cuba is where the broader aspirations of the US elite as a whole intersect”: Why the US wants to destroy Cuba
Pablo Meriguet Peoples Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a series of military and political offensives in the last several months in different corners of the…
Kiriakou: The Iran War Was Launched on a Whim — and the White House Ignored Its Own Intelligence
ScheerPost Staff War planners in Washington once spent months gaming out how a U.S. strike on Iran would ignite the region. This time, it took a whim, a whisper campaign,…
One Continuous War
Write of Return | Abu Alya On Iran, Palestine, and the Regional Zionist Order Israel is a lie. Not just because it was founded on a lie, but because lying…
The Billionaire Enclave Movement Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here
Joshua Scheer If you think the future of global capitalism looks like more deregulation, more privatization, and more billionaire capture of public life, you’re only seeing the surface. As Margaret…
These 20 Corporations Are Major Culprits in the Affordability Crisis
Typical pay at the largest low-wage employers is so low that workers can’t cover basic necessities and often have to rely on public assistance. Sarah Anderson and Reyanna James for…
A Billion-Dollar Company Poisoned Their Town, Then Moved on. Now People are Dying.
Maximillian Alvarez for TRNN Three years ago, on Feb. 3, 2023, the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history—took place in the…
Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg Would Crash the World Economy
Juan Cole for Informed Comment President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if Tehran continued to obstruct shipping through the Strait of…
Cuba Announces the Start of Talks with the United States
Pablo Meriguet for Peoples Dispatch Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reported at a press conference that talks are currently underway between his government and officials from the US government. According to…
This Is What Fascist Politics Sounds Like in America
Joshua Scheer When Donald Trump told a radio audience that there is “something wrong” with the “genetics” of Muslim immigrants, it did not land as an accidental slip, nor as…
As His Iran War Drives Up Oil Prices, Trump Orders Restart of California Offshore Drilling
Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams State leaders and environmental advocates responded with outrage after the Trump administration on Friday ordered the restarting of a California pipeline that caused one of…
GOP Farm Bill Set to Unleash Pesticide Use and Strip Animal Welfare Protections
Michael Arria for Truthout The “Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026” that is coming up for a House vote this spring is yet another GOP-led assault on the…
DAY 14: WAR ON IRAN
U.S. bombs Kharg Island military targets and announces deployment of 2,500 Marines to the region as the war completes two weeks of destruction. Joe Lauria for Consortium News Attack on…
Freedom for Immigrants Launches Interactive Map to Track U.S. Detention Centers and Connect Families to Resources
Alexandra Martinez for Prism A national immigrant advocacy group is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand…
‘They Were All I Had’: Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters Killed by Israeli Bombing
Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams A grieving Lebanese father said he buried his parents, four young daughters, and other relatives on Friday after they were killed by an Israeli airstrike—one…