Trump’s Unconscionable United Nations Rant
Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Donald Trump threatened Iran with annihilation from the seat of diplomacy on the East River Tuesday. And then dismissed the real threats of AI as a…
The Espionage Act Monster: How Washington Crushes Those Who Expose Its Crimes
Whistleblowers are often celebrated in retrospect, but rarely protected when they actually expose the crimes and abuses of powerful institutions. That contradiction sits at the heart of this remarkable discussion…
Top Nepal Court Demands Answers After Gov’t Arrests Analyst For Sharing Grayzone Exposé
Wyatt Reed The Grayzone Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be…
Iran Launches Surprise Attacks On US Bases As Trump Covers Up Soldier Casualties
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Iran’s IRGC has been striking various US targets and an average of two to three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on a daily basis, as…
Zionists Meltdown Over Macklemore & Free Speech With Bob Scheer, Moe Tkacik & Kate Levin
Katie Halper Show Moe Tkacik is the investigations editor of the American Prospect. Earlier in her career she worked for the Wall Street Journal, co-founded the feminist site Jezebel and…
The Oil Shock Iran Could Trigger In The Next War
Mohammad Amin Ahmadi Informed Comment What was Iran trying to achieve by closing the Strait of Hormuz? The obvious answer is to put pressure on the United States. But there…
Stop Pretending This Is A Democracy
Jim Mamer ScheerPost You can have democracy or you can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but you cannot have both. Ralph Nader Quoting Supreme Court…
Leaked: Britain’s Sham Conviction Of Hashim Thaci
Kit Klarenberg Substack On September 16th, The Hague’s Kosovo Specialist Chambers found former Kosovo Liberation Army chief Hashim Thaci guilty of cruel treatment, arbitrary detention, torture and the murder of…
Germany De-Industrialised Itself For Ukraine, And Trump’s Oil Donors Profited
Nate Bear Do Not Panic I heard a statistic the other day that the output of Germany’s energy-intensive industries – things like cement, glass, steel – have collapsed 20% in…
Climate Breakdown Imperiling Coral Reefs: “Rainforests of the Sea”
H. Patricia Hynes Informed Comment No longer can we conceive of the climate crisis as an issue solely of higher temperatures and extreme storms, without also centering on the cascade…
Gas Costs 4 Freakin’ Cents In Iran — Literally
Lee Camp Substack We live closer in time to the T. Rex than the T. Rex lived to the Stegosaurus. Certain facts you see online make you immediately think, “Eh,…
El Sayed: “Coward, Fraud” Mike Rogers & GOP were Jonesing for War with Iran . . . Until Diesel Prices Soared
Jessica Corbett Common Dreams With US President Donald Trump’s approval rating tanking—largely due to his illegal war on Iran and the resulting economic fallout—Michigan’s Republican US Senate candidate, Mike Rogers,…
The National Security Exception Was Never Going to Stop at Prosecuting Muslims
For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system targeting Muslims. It now reaches activists, immigrants, and the left. By Sufia Khalid This article was originally published by Truthout…
There Are No Data Centers On Public Lands; That Might Change
Sharon Zhang, Truthout. Trump Is Considering Building 12. The Trump administration quietly fast-tracked a data center project in Nevada earlier this year. The Trump administration is reportedly considering a dozen…
Banning CNN, MS Now, And Politico From The White House Is Trump’s Most Brazen Attack On the First Amendment
Austin Sarat The principle is simple. Just like politicians are not supposed to pick their voters, government officials don’t get to pick the reporters who cover them. If they did,…