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…
Can Israel & the U.S. Sustain Iran’s Military Power? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display. While the official White House X account…
The Real State of the Union: Epstein’s Shadow Network and the Illusion of American Democracy
The newly released Epstein files don’t just implicate a handful of powerful men—they expose an entire architecture of American power built on impunity, secrecy, and the quiet expectation that the…
The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies he United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction.…
US Argues ‘Emergency’ of Iran War Means Israel Needs 20,000+ More Bombs Without Congressional Approval
Jon Queally for Common Dreams The US State Department is hiding behind the war against Iran that was started by US President Donald Trump last week to justify an emergency…
‘The Military-Industrial Complex Is Winning’: While Bombing Iran, Trump Says Weapons Contractors to Boost Production
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams After meeting with several chief executives at the White House on Friday—while also bombing Iran with Israel and threatening Cuba—US President Donald Trump said that…
I Spoke to Families in Gaza’s Largest Tent Camp. Here’s What They Told Me.
By Eman Abu Zayed for Truthout pproximately 92 percent of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed since October 7, 2023. According to United Nations estimates, around 436,000 housing…
Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
Mohammed Samaana for Informed Comment Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics and anyone who tried to highlight the plight…
As Another Oil-Fueled War Erupts, Study Reveals Planet Heating at Unprecedented Rate
Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams Nearly a week into President Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran that is likely to increase climate-warming emissions, new research has found that the pace…