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The Gospel According to Trump
Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with…
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From Campus To Bank Account: The Expanding War On Free Speech
From campus arrests to banking shutdowns, dissent is no longer debated—it’s punished. Joshua Scheer The crackdown on dissent in the United States is no longer abstract—it’s operational. What was once…
War Chokes the Food Chain: Hormuz Crisis Threatens Global Hunger Shock
UN officials warn that the U.S.–Iran conflict and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz are triggering a fertilizer collapse that could ripple into food shortages, soaring prices, and mass…
THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE OF AMERICAN PUBLISHING
STEVE WASSERMAN In January, I wrote for the Winter 2026 issue of LIBERTIES quarterly journal a lengthy consideration of the state of American publishing. LIBERTIES was founded five years ago…
Replay: Israel’s Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Christians From the Holy Land
Israel has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel…
Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected
These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025. Caitlin Johnstone…
No Peace, Only Escalation: The Push Toward Total War With Iran
As ceasefire talks collapse, retired Col. Douglas Macgregor warns that Washington is not negotiating—it’s preparing for a devastating, infrastructure-targeting war that could reshape the global order. The language of peace…
Did Iran ever Really Have a Nuclear Weapons Program?
Fariba Amini Informed Comment Interview of Dr. Mehran Mostafavi by Fariba Amini In a resolution against nuclear war initiated by philosopher Bertrand Russell and endorsed by Albert Einstein just a…
Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. Chris Hedges ScheerPost During the two years I spent writing “American Fascists: The Christian Right…
Death By Black Excellence
By Sol Elias, Black Agenda Report. Misogynoir, a term meant to name the specific violence against poor and working-class Black women is now being used as a shield for political…
Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report
As ceasefire talks hang by a thread, rising tensions over the Strait of Hormuz reveal a stark reality: escalation could trigger a global economic catastrophe—and the United States may have…
Free Speech Under Fire: Glenn Greenwald Takes on Censorship, Hypocrisy, and the Politics of Fear
Staff Glenn Greenwald dismantles the double standard at the heart of global free speech debates—rejecting censorship abroad while exposing how fear, foreign interference, and “national security” are used everywhere to…
Iran And Ukraine: Two Theaters In The Non–West’s Single War For Parity
Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is at last accomplished. First…
Trump, Sanity, and Obedience
Edward Curtin “Shameless self-willed infatuationEmboldens men to dare damnation,And starts the wheels of doom which rollRelentless to their piteous goal”– Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon Many people are saying that…
Iran Says It Won’t Negotiate With ‘Erratic’ Trump After Genocidal Threat to ‘Blow Up’ Whole Country
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Iran says it has no plans to negotiate with the US after President Donald Trump said Sunday that “the whole country is going to get…