Punching Them While They’re Down”: US & Israel Bomb Iran’s Schools and Hospitals With “No Stupid Rules of Engagement
Ben Norton for Geopolitical Economy Report The United States and Israel are intentionally devastating civilian areas in Iran, brutally bombing schools, hospitals, and residential neighborhoods, in an attempt not only…
Israel’s Goal in Iran Is Not Just Regime Change, but Complete Collapse
Kate McMahon for Mondoweiss After decades of disastrous wars in the Middle East, the U.S. may have finally learned one lesson: regime change is exceedingly difficult. Removing a head of…
‘That Was Done by Iran,’ Trump Lies as More Evidence Shows US Was Behind School Massacre
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams. US President Donald Trump baselessly claimed over the weekend that Iran was behind the strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed more than 160…
“We’re Gonna Make a Ton of Money”: The Ugly Truth Behind the Iran War
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the war surrounding Iran widens and global energy markets jitter, the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz have once again become the world’s most…
‘The Situation Is Scary’: Global Economic Chaos as Trump’s Iran War Sends Markets Diving
Brad Reed for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war against Iran is sending shockwaves across the global economy in the form of skyrocketing oil prices and diving…
A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk
By Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung for Tomdispatch.com – “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw…
Israel’s Descent Into Madness: MJ Rosenberg on Gideon Levy’s Warning
ScheerPost Staff In his latest Substack column, longtime analyst and former Hill staffer MJ Rosenberg turns his attention to a chilling new reality inside Israel—one captured with brutal clarity by…
These Women Exposed Prison Sexual Abuse. Now ICE Wants to Deport Them.
Victoria Law for Truthout In November 2022, a long-time permanent resident of the U.S. was released from FCI Dublin, a California federal women’s prison. A probation officer had visited and…
“AIPAC Is Toxic”: Illinois Races Expose a Shifting Democratic Landscape
Joshua Scheer The shift comes amid growing criticism of the pro-Israel lobby. Senator Chris Van Hollen recently telling a Jewish audience at a J Street conference that the actions of…
‘Your Tax Dollars Being Used to Raise Your Gas Prices’: US-Israel Bomb Major Iranian Oil Depots
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In what was described as a “major escalation” of an attack already denounced as an illegal war of choice, the US-Israeli military coalition bombed major…
‘Intentional Chemical Warfare’: Toxic Black Rain in Tehran After US-Israel Bomb Oil Facilities
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In the wake of infernos unleashed across portions of Tehran the night before, the people of Iran’s capital woke up Sunday to the hideous sight…
‘Advocates Know How to Fight Attempts to Repress Black History’: CounterSpin interview with Naomi Bethune on anti-Black history
Janine Jackson for FAIR Janine Jackson interviewed American Prospect‘s John Lewis writing fellow Naomi Bethune about anti-Black history for the February 27, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly…
Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own
Zachary Levenson for Truthout Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between…
Trustless Government; A Protocol Upgrade for a Constitutional Republic
By Jeffrey Wernick This article proposes a constitutional upgrade: Decentralize the verification of political power the way Bitcoin decentralized the verification of money. The Trust Problem The biggest problem in…