The Gospel According to Trump
Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with…
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From Campus To Bank Account: The Expanding War On Free Speech
From campus arrests to banking shutdowns, dissent is no longer debated—it’s punished. Joshua Scheer The crackdown on dissent in the United States is no longer abstract—it’s operational. What was once…
Replay: Israel’s Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Christians From the Holy Land
Israel has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel…
Free Speech Under Fire: Glenn Greenwald Takes on Censorship, Hypocrisy, and the Politics of Fear
Staff Glenn Greenwald dismantles the double standard at the heart of global free speech debates—rejecting censorship abroad while exposing how fear, foreign interference, and “national security” are used everywhere to…
Trump, Sanity, and Obedience
Edward Curtin “Shameless self-willed infatuationEmboldens men to dare damnation,And starts the wheels of doom which rollRelentless to their piteous goal”– Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon Many people are saying that…
Liz Theoharis, Supreme Horror?
TomDispatch TomDispatch authors don’t usually have much in common with Donald J. Trump, but here’s an exception. TomDispatch regular Liz Theoharis recently visited the Supreme Court to hear a case…
Collapsing Empire: Hezbollah Crushes ‘Greater Israel’
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 8th, the Zionist entity struck a demonic blow to the heart of Beirut, dropping 1,000 pound bombs in densely packed residential areas, killing untold civilians…
With 38,000+ Dead, Women and Girls Make Up Over Half of Those Killed in Israel’s US-Backed War on Gaza: UN
“Not a single combatant among them,” said one human rights activist. “Further confirmation that over 90% of the victims are innocent civilians.” Brad Reed for Common Dreams Israel’s yearslong assault…
Free Yousof Azizi!
By The Yousof Azizi Defense Committee, Popular Resistance Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April…
From Stockton to Palestine: Interconnected Struggles and Prisoner Solidarity Against Israel’s Execution Policy
Kevin Cooper Our human rights are not negotiable. They never have been, and never will be. Each and every human being has a universal right to life, no matter what…
Starmer’s Go-To Excuse: ‘I Was In The Dark’. Don’t Believe It. He’s Deeply In The Loop
From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was…
In Dead of Night, Johnson Tries—But Fails—to Ram Through Domestic Spying Bill for Trump
The president and GOP House speaker wanted a 5-year extension of a despised domestic spying bill. Instead, they got just two weeks. “Now, they will have to fight in daylight…
Starbucks Is Bargaining Backwards, Baristas Say
Jenny Brown for Labor Notes. Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon…
Labor Rights Activists Navigate What César Chávez Sexual Abuse Allegations Mean For Their Movement
Michelle Zacarias for Prism A month after the explosive New York Times investigation into the rape and sexual misconduct allegations against Latino labor rights organizer César Chávez, immigrant and labor…
Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics,’ Level Villages
Jason Ditz for AntiWar.com Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction inflicted on…