All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown ScheerPost“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the…
America Is Losing the World—and It Doesn’t Know How to Stop
Joshua Scheer The so-called ceasefire is already cracking—and anyone paying attention knows why. In this wide-ranging and unsettling conversation, retired U.S. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson pulls back the curtain on a…
US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter
Hank Kennedy for FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) During World War II, cartoonist Bill Mauldin was summoned to a meeting with Gen. George S. Patton. Mauldin’s Stars and Stripes…
When Flotillas Fight for Life, Not Empire
Olivia DiNucci for Codepink Flotillas have historically been fleets of military vessels—tools of empire designed for swift offensive or defensive operations at sea. The images they evoke are ones of…
A New Homelessness Strategy Is Sweeping California
By Marisa Kendall, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Maybe the way out of California’s homelessness crisis is to prevent it in the…
From Risk to Target: The New Reality for Journalists in War Zones
Joshua Scheer As Journalists Are Killed, the World Looks Away We reported on one of these deaths yesterday. Today, there are more. The killing of journalists—already at record levels—continues at…
Ice’s Israeli Spyware Expansion Signals A New Era Of Domestic Surveillance
Zero-click phone hacking tools once used abroad are now confirmed inside the United States — raising urgent civil liberties concerns. ScheerPsot Staff In a quiet but deeply consequential admission, U.S.…
Philadelphia’s Abolition School Taps The ‘radical Potential’ Of Political Education
Officially known as the W.E.B. Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, the organization grounds local organizers in historical knowledge, theory, and rigorous analysis Adryan Corcione Prism Political education plays a…
Why the Ceasefire is Doomed
Chris Hedges It is highly unlikely, unfortunately, that the ceasefire agreement brokered by Pakistan will endure. This is due to two principal impediments. First, Israel is adamantly opposed to a…
Big Oil Cashed In While War Sent Prices Soaring
ScheerPost Staff It’s All About The Oil As ordinary people paid more at the pump, fossil fuel executives were cashing out. A new analysis reported by The Wall Street Journal…
“Locked and Loaded”: Hegseth Says Trump’s War‑Crime Warnings Were Dead Serious
Joshua Scheer THE SICKNESS IS REAL — AND THE EMPIRE IS SHOWING ITS END: Pete Hegseth openly acknowledged that the threat to obliterate Iran’s civilian infrastructure—its power plants, bridges, and…
100 Strikes in 10 Minutes: Lebanon Bombed as Gaza Burns and Journalists Are Killed
Joshua Scheer Al Jazeera English reports that Israel has carried out one of its most intense assaults on Lebanon since March 2, unleashing a rapid and coordinated wave of airstrikes…
Israel Has Buried Gaza in Rubble, But Our Love for the Land Will Always Survive
Hend Salama Abo Helow for Truthout Ihave never chosen to adopt the title of “refugee,” yet it keeps haunting me. It is scribbled on my Palestinian national identification card and…
Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction
Negin Owliaei for Truthout Somehow, in a war already bent on turning Iran into a failed state, Donald Trump’s threats against the country have become increasingly disturbing. For days now,…
Blair’s Latest Deceit-Riddled Column Vilifies The UK Left To Justify Genocide
Jonathan Cook Substack Tony Blair, the man who led Britain into a disastrous and illegal war on Iraq more than 20 years ago based on false information, is still very…