Over 160 Years After Abolition, Racism Still Structures US Economy
C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout. An analysis of the formation of US anti-Black racism. More than 400 years have passed since the first white colonists arrived in North America to establish a…
America’s Hidden Casualties: The Pentagon’s Iran War Numbers Still Don’t Add Up
Joshua Scheer As the Trump administration moves toward a second ceasefire agreement with Iran and officials in Washington attempt to declare the conflict a success, new reporting suggests the human…
Chris Smalls Talks Class-Consciousness, International Solidarity In ‘When the Revolution Comes’
Adryan Corcione Prism In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Smalls worked at an Amazon warehouse in the Staten Island borough of New York City. With…
Maersk Still Shipping Weapons Components to Israel, Despite Claiming Otherwise
By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout “Maersk facilitated the transport of bullets Israel used to snipe Palestinian children in the head,” said one activist. On June…
The Trillionaire Economy
ScheerPost Staff As Elon Musk crossed the trillion-dollar threshold following SpaceX’s historic public offering, millions of Americans received a very different economic message: their paychecks are buying less. The juxtaposition…
Iran’s Soccer Team Forced to Return to Mexico Immediately After First Game
By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout Iran’s soccer team is “the most oppressed” of the teams participating in the World Cup, said the team’s head coach.…
The U.S. And Iran Have Struck A Deal To Open The Strait Of Hormuz, But Israel May Prevent An End To The War
Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss According to reports, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and formally end the fighting between the…
‘Alarm’ At White House After Vance and Miller Pushed Insurrection Act, Habeas Corpus Suspension During Anti-ICE Protests
Brad Reed for Common Dreams Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this…
Iranian Officials Say Psychologists Helped Craft Messages to Trump During Negotiations
Joshua Scheer Just a few months ago, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill was reporting that the Trump administration appeared determined to force Iran into submission through military pressure, economic warfare, and…
Everything Trump Didn’t Learn in Kindergarten
Kenneth Carlson ScheerPost There was a time in America when the moral instruction offered to children in kindergarten sounded almost embarrassingly simple. Share. Be kind. Play fair. Clean up your…
California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves
McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim. Robin Urevich for Capital and Main…
American Power Is Collapsing
Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is,…
ICE Tries To Raid Legal Offices, Demanding Files On Migrant Children
Katya Schwenk, The Lever The Trump administration has escalated its pressure campaign against lawyers representing unaccompanied migrant children. After freezing payments and demanding sensitive client data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Jeffrey Sachs: Peace at Last—or Just the Next Pause Before War?
Joshua Scheer For weeks, the world stood on the edge of a wider regional war as the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, threatening to ignite a conflict…
One Man, One Trillion Dollars: What Happens to Democracy Now?
Joshua Scheer With the public debut of SpaceX, Elon Musk has officially become the first trillionaire in human history—a milestone celebrated by financial media as a triumph of innovation and…