In Gift to Big Oil Donors, Trump Stops EPA From Combating ‘Most Terrible Environmental Threat in Human History
By Stephen Prager for Common Dreams In what the Sierra Club described as an act to “formalize climate denialism as official government policy,” the Trump administration announced Thursday that it…
From America First to America Alone
By John Feffer for TomDispatch A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power…
Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota
Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl for Project Censored Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been referring to public demonstrations against…
Inside the New Epstein Files: What the Unredacted Names Reveal About America’s Ruling Class
In this second installment of our weekly deep dive into the Epstein files, Robert Scheer and media scholar Nolan Higdon unpack a wave of newly unredacted documents that expose the…
Eight Decades Later, It Remains One World or None
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for TomDispatch Consider me an A-bomb baby. I was just a year old when, in the war my father had been part of, my country dropped…
Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
By Medea Benjamin Electric motorcycles are Cuba’s aresponse to the fuel crisis. Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke…
US Holds Secret Indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, Top Opposition Journo Claims
A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails.”
Mexico Sends Shipment of Humanitarian Aid to Cuba
Hundreds of tons of food were sent from the port of Veracruz to the island as the island faces one of its most critical challenges. Mexico also promised to send…
Believing Borders Make Us Safer Is Like Believing the Sun Revolves Around Earth
Trump’s cruel and immoral anti-immigrant frenzy rests on false economic claims.
Leading Papers Call for Destroying Iran to Save It
The New York Times and Washington Post offer facile arguments for US attacks on Iran, on the assumption that the US wants to brighten Iranians’ futures.
US Military Helping Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals
The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.
The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg
What has been happening at Fort Bragg, then, is part of the wider psychological degradation of American society, one that is controlled a by a government that has sacrificed everything…
Seth Harp Speaks on New York Times Spiking US Foreign Policy Interview With Ross Douthat
“I think the US is only the latest in a very long history of military empires,” he told Common Dreams. “This is a perspective to which New York Times readers…
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.
‘Statistics are Human Beings with the Tears Wiped Away’
The counter-top manufacturing industry doesn’t want to protect workers from harm; it wants protection from the workers it harms.