The Grayzone A federal court has granted discovery in Max Blumenthal’s lawsuit against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his constitutional rights.…
“Big Oil’s greed is incompatible with a livable planet and unless governments rein it in, they will make a mockery of international climate targets,” said one Oxfam campaigner. Brett Wilkins…
Joshua Scheer For much of American history, moments of political crisis have been accompanied by campaigns to silence dissent. From the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism to COINTELPRO, governments have repeatedly…
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Trump’s war on dissent. Republican-controlled House committee subpoenas BreakThrough News in effort to force outlet to turn over financial records. The Republican-controlled House Ways and Means…
By Chip Gibbons This article was originally published by Truthout Trump’s war on the left blends “war on terror” language with Cold War McCarthyism. The Trump administration’s drive to turn…
The 2026 World Cup was a lesson in how authoritarians capture what we love and how we refuse to let them. Emese Ilyés Common Dreams I inherited a few things…
Are Americans Wired for Authoritarianism? Charles Derber argues the nation’s democratic ideals have long masked an entrenched system of elite rule. As Donald Trump openly defies constitutional norms and concentrates…
By Kap Seol This article was originally published by Truthout The retail tycoon who owns Starbucks Korea, a longtime friend of Donald Trump, is stoking the country’s far right. South…
Jonathan Cook Substack While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect…
Forced to leave her home country due to political and economic repression under the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish author Ece Temelkuran sought an understanding of how a population…
Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “It is horrific. ICE needs to be disbanded. People who work for ICE are untrained. And we want them out of Biddeford,” one resident said. “Killing…
“Don’t look towards the politicians or the elected officials to be your savior,” Jenkins says. “You are your savior. Your people are your savior.” Joshua Scheer Masked white supremacists marching…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The Patriot Front’s bold incursions into U.S. cities are a sign of their burgeoning strength and of the weakness of Black movement…
Jeffrey Wernick Buried in the Senate’s version of the defense authorization bill is a provision that changes the relationship between the American state and private industry. Section 1051 would give…
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover…
