David Rieff and Steve Wasserman discuss the physicist’s Jewish identity, left-wing politics and loyalty to the country that stripped him of his security clearance. A conversation with David Rieff and…
Ellen Brown “Most billionaires don’t park their money in making more businesses. They park their money in the stock market. That is not meaningfully investing in opportunity, it’s just investing…
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Today’s daily slop is the midterm US elections. I was reluctant to react, because, well, I didn’t want to bore myself, or you. Yet here…
Julia Conley Common Dreams The movement that led to at least 18 progressive victories in congressional races and 42 left-wing winners down-ballot “started with a man with 1% vote and…
Juan Cole Informed Comment Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, posted on X on Wednesday, “The Iranian nation handed Trump a strategic…
Chris Hedges and Norman Finkelstein The greatest injustices in the world are often masked in volumes of complex and incomprehensible legal language that are not accessible to the general public.…
Jake Jonson Common Dreams It wasn’t just a Democratic tsunami that swept the United States in Tuesday’s midterm elections—it was also an “economic populist wave” that drowned out billionaire cash.…
Jonathan Cook Substack Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. That Israel’s democratic pretensions are taken seriously…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The ugly tactics of the Republican Party in Michigan, targeting Abdul El-Sayed for his Muslim faith, were not unprecedented in American history. Catholics, Jews and other…
Editor’s note: There are plenty of stories about the ass-whooping voters just delivered to Trump and his Republican Party. Democrats are celebrating historic victories in places the warmonger-in-chief won handily,…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Last spring, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson announced he would be seeking death warrants for three of the fifty-seven inmates on Nevada’s death row. He said…
Juan Cole Informed Comment However the midterms turn out, the 120th Congress must cut off money to Trump for his ongoing Iran War. As an unresolved geopolitical issue, it threatens…
Nate Bear Do Not Panic It can be difficult to drag oneself away from the events of the day, step back, take stock and wonder: where is this all heading…
Gerald Sussman Counterpunch Many observers have posed the question, “How did the US end up with a psychotic president who displays no regard for truth?” A critical and historical understanding…
Joshua Scheer Genocide seeks to destroy not only a people but the memory of their lives. Speaking on his Requiem for Gaza book tour, Hedges describes how he and illustrator…
