Why Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Ring Fatally Hollow
Intro by Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York,…
How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia
By Kit Klarenberg Substack On August 25th 2025, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At…
Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op
Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal·for the Grayzone Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised…
Kidnapping a President: Leonardo Flores on Trump’s War Against Venezuela
Posted by Joshua Scheer In this episode of Informed Rant, host Joshua Scheer speaks with Venezuelan‑American analyst and CodePink organizer Leonardo Flores about one of the most explosive geopolitical stories…
ICE Is Not the Only Problem. Border Patrol Has Acted With Impunity for Decades.
By Monika Langarica for Truthout The idea of a “border crisis” has long been used by both Republicans and Democrats to justify harsh immigration policies. From Biden’s sweeping asylum processing…
The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen
By Joel Westheimer for Truthout lived in Argentina in the mid-1980s, just after the fall of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983. The country was taking…
HerStory: Feminism is the Route to Peace
By H. Patricia Hynes for Informed Comment Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist and impassioned advocate for nature, founded in her later years an institute through which she launched Roots and…
Scapegoating Turns America’s Streets Into a Shooting Range for ICE and Border Patrol
By Frederic H. Decker for Common Dreams I don’t remember ever hearing federal officials so quickly, in unison, blame the victim as after the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis…
Freedom Under Siege: Trump’s War on Speech, Schools, and Truth
By Jim Mamer Academic freedom means that the political, religious, or philosophical beliefs of politicians, administrators, and members of the public cannot be imposed on students or faculty. Inside Higher…
Europe in Panic: Trump’s Power Play Shakes the World Order
Posted by Joshua Scheer For decades, the Western Alliance has been treated as a permanent fixture of global politics — a transatlantic bond forged in the ashes of World War…
Venezuela Opens Oil Sector as Washington Tightens Grip
Posted by Joshua Scher Venezuela’s National Assembly has approved a sweeping overhaul of the country’s hydrocarbon law, dramatically rolling back state control over the oil industry while the Trump administration…
Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All
By: Megan Russell for Codepink Over the past month, Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu and Bilibili have begun dismantling the myth of the “American dream,” replacing glossy imagery with…
War, Truth, and the Cost of Denial
On today’s episode of Scheer Intelligence, Robert Scheer sits down once again with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern for a rare, unvarnished look at the war in Ukraine, the collapse…
Exclusive: Trump May Launch Strikes on Iran — Regime Change, Not Nukes, Is the Goal
By Joshua Scheer A Drop Site News exclusive reports that senior U.S. military officials have informed the leadership of a key Middle Eastern ally that President Donald Trump could authorize…
Trump’s New Trade War Isn’t About Trade — It’s About Regime Power
Posted by Joshua Scheer Donald Trump is taking his economic threats international. Fresh off Davos, Trump launched an unprecedented attack on Canada, threatening to impose a 50% tariff on all…