Itamar Ben-Gvir Turns Torture Into a Public Spectacle: “Don’t Be Bothered by Their Screams”
Joshua Scheer “Don’t Be Bothered by Their Screams”: Ben-Gvir Proudly Posts Video of Police Dragging Members of the Flotilla Team Ben-Gvir himself reportedly captioned the footage, “That’s how we welcome…
The Deafening Silence Of Rockstars On Palestine
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Summer music festival season is approaching (assuming the diesel is available to run the generators), and one of the artists who’ll be gracing stages across…
Did Trump Just Create a Political Slush Fund With Taxpayer Money?
ScheerPost Staff What began as a lawsuit over leaked tax returns is now morphing into something far bigger — and far more dangerous. In this chilling breakdown, the so-called $1.776…
There is a Time for Everything, Even No News That’s Fit to Print
Edward Curtin Substack Without having read the details and having no intention to do so, I am still wondering if The New York’s Times’ advice for Sunday May 17, about…
Western leaders Play Their Part In Our Charade Democracies. Can you spot the tell?
The super-rich and their vassals are deeply invested in the system because it richly rewards them. They’ll deploy everything they can – from the media to the ‘security’ forces –…
No More Kings But Billionaires are Fine? Really?
Americans rejected monarchy 250 years ago. So why do we now defend an economic system that allows a microscopic fraction of humanity to accumulate extraordinary wealth, influence, and political power?…
The $72 Billion Power Grab: How Republicans Are Using a Budget Trick to Build Trump’s Personal Deportation Force — and How Congress Can Still Stop It
Jon Rainwater for Common Dreams You know their names. Renee Good was 37 years old, a poet, a mother of three, when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer named Jonathan…
‘Hatred Often Manifests In Violence’: After San Diego Mosque Shooting, Muslim and Anti-hate Groups Condemn Rampant Islamophobia
Sahar Fatima for Prism Muslim groups expressed pain, grief, and anger over rampant Islamophobia after a shooting at a San Diego mosque on Monday that killed three people. Two teenage…
ICC Targets Smotrich For War Crimes— He Responds by Promising More War Crimes
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich appears to have found the perfect way to answer a reported ICC arrest warrant request for war crimes: announce more war crimes. According to…
The CIA’s Cuba Ultimatum: Regime Change With a Diplomatic Smile
Joshua Scheer View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Nation Magazine (@nationmag) The CIA did not sneak into Havana this time. It landed in broad daylight. Peter…
The Medical-Industrial Complex Is Killing America While War Profiteers Get Rich
Joshua Scheer I posted an article from Truthout about Trump and healthcare, but nowhere in the piece did it mention Obama and the failure of his administration — and the…
The Nuclear Lie at the Center of U.S. Foreign Policy
Joshua Scheer “One country is sanctioned, threatened, bombed, and demonized over the fear of nuclear weapons. The other already has them — and the world is expected to look away.”…
“Without Weapons, We Can Do Anything”: Remembering Razan al-Najjar
Joshua Scheer “They called her dangerous because she carried no weapon at all — only a medical vest, courage, and the belief that Palestinian lives mattered.” In a world drowning…
The President of Peace Makes War on the Planet
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch Hey, I always suspected that Donald Trump and I, having both grown up in New York City in the 1950s and early 1960s, had something in common.…
Declassified: UK Knew NATO Expansion ‘Would Provoke’ Russia War
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how in the mid-1990s, senior British political and military officials were well-aware NATO expansion into Central and…