How the U.S. Security State Expanded, Even After Snowden Revelations
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
By Vijay Prashad Republished from theTricontinental: Institute for Social Research During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival)
Ray McGovern Republished from Consortium News Despite widespread rejection and ridicule in Western media of Donald Trump’s peace proposal on Ukraine being “dead on arrival” in Moscow, there was Trump’s…
Under Scrutiny: Hegseth Stands Firm While Experts Question Potential War-Crime Violations
By Joshua Scheer This is a breaking story, and more details should follow. However, needless to say, when people get accused of a war crime, I guess this is one…
‘A New Form of Genocide’: Gazans Feel Little Relief from Israeli Strangulation Since the Ceasefire
By Tareq S. Hajjaj Republished from Mondoweiss It’s been nearly two months since the ceasefire was reached in Gaza. Hopes were high among the 2 million Palestinians in the besieged…
Randy Fine Flips Out Over Brooklyn Prayer Video — Greenwald Explains What Happened
By Joshua S As support for Israel dips, some pro-Israel hardliners are pivoting—trying to turn Americans’ anger toward Muslims instead. Here’s Glenn Greenwald on Randy Fine’s over-the-top reaction to a…
Suspect in National Guard Shooting Brought the CIA’s Shadow War Home
By Emran Feroz Originally Published by Truthout. After two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C. last week, several U.S. pundits and politicians were quick with their descriptions of…
As California Limits Water Use, People in Prison Face Punishment for Showering
By Steve Brooks & Olivia Heffernan , Originally Published on Truthout As droughts, extreme heat, and other climate disasters increasingly plague California, people throughout the state have been subject to…
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
By Michelle Lynn Kahn for The Conversation Neo-Nazis, like these in Orlando, Fla., organize on social media today but were early adopters of precursors to the internet in the 1980s.…
Great Powers and the People: The Divergent Paths of the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions
By Mehmet Rakipoglu Published for the Informed Comment Blog The Arab revolutionary wave that began in 2011 presents two of its most significant, yet fundamentally divergent, case studies: Egypt and…
ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid
By Brett Wilkins | Originally Published at Common Dreams In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an “unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,” a federal immigration officer fired pepper…
From Helen Thomas to Today: Questioning Authority and Exposing Hypocrisy
By: Joshua Scheer, SP Columnist I woke up this morning to a tweet from Drop Site News that inspired me to post, but I had no idea what to write.…
Majority of Democrats, Independents Want Leaders to Fight GOP Attacks on AI Rules
By Brett Wilkins Republished from Common Dreams A poll published Friday revealed that a majority of Democratic and Independent US voters want congressional Democrats to fight GOP efforts to block…
Trump’s Illegal Boat Strikes Recall Duterte’s “Drug War” Mass Killings
By: Marjorie Cohn Republished from Truthout ublic outrage is mounting over the Trump administration’s September 2 “double tap” strike, in which the U.S. military bombed a small boat for a…
The Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one phrase
Morgan Marietta Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee originally published at The Conversation The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship.…