Austin Sarat ScheerPost When the Congress of the United States appropriates funds for a particular purpose, it is the president’s job to expend those funds as directed by Congress. Seems…
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…
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The State Department’s 100-page report on Cuba’s “campaign of…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Judges write like judges. The opinions they produce are for lawyers, law professors, and other judges, not for ordinary citizens. Reading them is hardly a pleasant or…
Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for…
News Desk The Cradle Washington is seeking congressional approval for a nuclear energy pact with Saudi Arabia that does not include safeguards aimed at preventing the development of an atomic…
H. Scott Prosterman Informed Comment The winds of political change are blowing within Israel. A refreshing development is the emergence of the “A Place for Us All” Party, an alliance…
By Earle J. Fisher This article was originally published by Truthout Tyrin Johnson’s killing is part of a larger militarization unfolding in Memphis, Tennessee, under Trump. I met Tyrin “Ty”…
Alex Poppe Informed Comment Former USAID Administrator Samantha Power established the Democracy Delivers Initiative to support emerging democracies. When a reformer was elected to office, Democracy Delivers surged attention, support,…
The Trump administration is stonewalling the public about the US’s deadliest strike on civilians in decades. By Etan Mabourakh This article was originally published by Truthout The Trump administration is…
ScheerPost Staff The latest NATO summit was presented as a demonstration of Western unity. Instead, according to economist Jeffrey Sachs, it revealed something far more dangerous: an alliance increasingly consumed…
Ben Soodavar, King’s College London The Conversation (The Conversation) – Less than a month after a ceasefire was signed between the US and Iran, conflict has returned to the Middle…
David DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Calls Iranian Leadership ‘Scum’. The president said Iran would get hit hard again and threatened to destroy civilian infrastructure. President Trump said on Wednesday that the ceasefire…
“Negotiators keep talking if they want, but I don’t see it,” Trump said on the status of future discussions. By Chris Walker This article was originally published by Truthout “Negotiators…
Trump’s Freedom 250 shadow organization was a vehicle for soliciting political donations, a new report contends. By Tyler Walicek This article was originally published by Truthout Trump’s Freedom 250 shadow…
