The ‘Anti-Terrorist State’ Has Captured Latin America
Manuel Tufró Open Democracy Twenty-five years ago, four simultaneous suicide attacks on U.S. soil claimed 2,977 lives. Most of the victims were people who worked in the World Trade Center’s…
FBI Director Kash Patel’s Bizarre Sympathy for “Victims” of Bestiality Highlights the Administration’s Warped Priorities
Austin Sarat It is not often that members of the United States Senate spend time talking about bestiality. But they did on Tuesday when, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing,…
Trump Says ‘Big Decision’ Coming on Whether to ‘Annihilate’ Iran
Brett Wilkins Common Dreams President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is weighing whether or not to “annihilate” Iran in a renewed effort to end the illegal 201-day US-Israeli war…
Massie Moves to Force Impeachment Vote Against Hegseth, Citing Civilian Deaths
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout The Republican lawmaker cited incidents like the US’s elementary school massacre in Minab, Iran, early in the war. Rep. Thomas…
Trump Plans New Sale of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Which Keeps Using Them to Massacre Gazans
Brett Wilkins Common Dreams The Trump administration is preparing to send Israel tens of thousands of 2,000-pound bombs, The Washington Post reported Tuesday—a move that would rank as the largest…
‘Major Win’ for Democracy as Supreme Court Rejects Trump Attack on Mail-In Voting
Jon Queally Common Dreams The US Supreme Court on Monday night rejected a bid by the Trump administration to keep onerous US Postal Service rules for mail-in ballots in place,…
‘Actively Malevolent’: Trump EPA to Eviscerate Rules on Planet-Heating Pollution From Power Plants
Stephen Prager Common Dreams In what environmental advocates describe as “another gift to the fossil fuel industry,” the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions…
President Trump Wants to Give This Country A New Pledge of Allegiance
Austin Sarat ScheerPost When I grew up, the school day always started the same way, with children standing hands over their hearts, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. We said in…
Trump Terrified Of Impact On Midterms Of $6 / Gal. Diesel As His War Spirals Out Of Control
Juan Cole Informed Comment President Trump on Sunday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking at Russian diesel refineries. While these Ukrainian strikes have had an impact on global…
Oil Prices Soar to New Heights as Houthis Seize Yemen’s Red Sea Coastline
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout A top economist estimated that Trump’s Iran war has already cost the average American household an extra $1,650. Houthi forces…
Osama Bin Trump
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but…
Have the US, Israel and Saudis lost the Battle of the Narrows?
Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what…
Exploiting Tragedy to Promote War, Hegseth Falsely Claims That Iran ‘Cheered on 9/11’
Stephen Prager Common Dreams “What haunts me,” said one anti-war activist, “is how little accountability there has been for those who lied us into war—and how those same lies are…
Trump’s Favorite Midterm Candidate
Robert Reich Substack Friends, With the midterm races officially beginning this week, a big question hanging over the Republican Party is how Trump will allocate his giant stash of super…