‘Deeply Alarming’: Hours Before Midterm Elections, Trump Bombs Iran’s Qeshm Island
Jake Johnson Common Dreams “There is still a chance to prevent another catastrophe, but that window may be closing. We cannot afford to let this war escalate further.” The Trump…
Capitalism Is Destroying The World. Can Socialism Save It?: A Conversation With Ben Burgis And Mike Beggs
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN With a global capitalist system that is wreaking havoc on the planet, pushing most of humanity into poverty, and enabling a small number of billionaire and trillionaire…
Federal Government Is Targeting Officials Who Are Trying to Hold ICE Accountable
Joshua Davis & Whitney K. Taylor Truthout/TheAppeal n the months leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, congressional Republicans and federal prosecutors have targeted dozens of local officials in cities…
House Democrats Want Stevens Out of Their Caucus After Her “Despicable Betrayal”
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout The Michigan Democratic Party’s chair removed Haley Stevens from the party for endorsing Abdul El-Sayed’s opponent. A growing number of…
With Rumors Of Nuclear War, The New Congress Must End The Iran Conflict To Avoid A U.S. Catastrophe
Juan Cole Informed Comment However the midterms turn out, the 120th Congress must cut off money to Trump for his ongoing Iran War. As an unresolved geopolitical issue, it threatens…
The Pounding In My Head And The Forward March Of The Machine
Nate Bear Do Not Panic It can be difficult to drag oneself away from the events of the day, step back, take stock and wonder: where is this all heading…
Reagan, Trump, and the Neoliberal Propaganda State
Gerald Sussman Counterpunch Many observers have posed the question, “How did the US end up with a psychotic president who displays no regard for truth?” A critical and historical understanding…
Chris Hedges: Israel Cannot Be Allowed to Erase Gaza’s Stories
Joshua Scheer Genocide seeks to destroy not only a people but the memory of their lives. Speaking on his Requiem for Gaza book tour, Hedges describes how he and illustrator…
Media Invents ‘Democratic Divisions’ In Michigan That Don’t Exist
Adam Johnson TRNN You may have heard that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is “having a lot of trouble putting coalition back together,” or that “Democrats struggling to unite…
After Trump Tax Cuts, Major Corporations Pay Less than Ever
Amy Hanauer Common Dreams President Trump and his allies in Congress, across two presidential terms, have broken the federal corporate income tax. They reduced the statutory tax rate to its…
Government Corruption A Top Issue For US Midterm Voters
Lauren Aratani, Portside. Harris poll for Guardian finds 76% believe officials care more about self-enrichment than helping everyday Americans. Government corruption has emerged as a top issue in the upcoming…
Letters From The American Empire
Nick Estes, Counter Punch. In the opening pages of To You We Shall Return, Lakota storyteller Joseph Marshall describes a giant with an insatiable hunger. He consumed the earth and…
A New UK Hierarchy Of Racism Will Gag Israel Critics From Westminster To The Playground
Jonathan Cook Substack Antisemitism is being weaponised once again, as Andy Burnham’s government rounds on the Jewish-led Greens and rolls out a Big Brother programme in schools Britain is firmly…
Democrats Rally Behind Abdul El-Sayed After ‘Despicable Betrayal’ by Haley Stevens
Jake Jonson Common Dreams “We know he will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire…
German Imperialism: An Urgent Explainer
Kit Klarenberg Substack The fate of Central and Eastern Europe after the People’s Democracies’ post-1989 fall cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the EU as an extension of German…