The Age of Generative Warfare:
Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy Nolan Higdon Substack “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral…
Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz
The Iran War as America’s Very Own Suez Crisis By Alfred McCoy for TomDispatch In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling…
How the War With Iran Will Trigger a Global Financial Crisis (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged. Alongside…
The World According to Gaza
Chris Hedges Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is…
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The View From Tehran’
Sayed Mohammad Marandi speaks to CN Live! from the Iranian capital under fire from a barbaric U.S. and Israeli aggression rooted in profound ignorance of the country they seek to…
This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.
Doug Bock Clark for ProPublica David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration…
CIA Assessment: The Resistance Cannot Be Crushed
Kit Klarenberg Substack The Judaeo-American war on Iran was intended to be a lightning strike routing, fought exclusively from the air, lasting only a few days. Instead, Washington and its…
‘Serious Threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump Admin Wins First Antifa Terror Charge
Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams The government has largely won its first case bringing material-support-for-terrorism charges against protesters alleged to belong to “antifa,” which President Donald Trump designated as a…
“Cuba is where the broader aspirations of the US elite as a whole intersect”: Why the US wants to destroy Cuba
Pablo Meriguet Peoples Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a series of military and political offensives in the last several months in different corners of the…
Kiriakou: The Iran War Was Launched on a Whim — and the White House Ignored Its Own Intelligence
ScheerPost Staff War planners in Washington once spent months gaming out how a U.S. strike on Iran would ignite the region. This time, it took a whim, a whisper campaign,…
One Continuous War
Write of Return | Abu Alya On Iran, Palestine, and the Regional Zionist Order Israel is a lie. Not just because it was founded on a lie, but because lying…
The Billionaire Enclave Movement Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here
Joshua Scheer If you think the future of global capitalism looks like more deregulation, more privatization, and more billionaire capture of public life, you’re only seeing the surface. As Margaret…
These 20 Corporations Are Major Culprits in the Affordability Crisis
Typical pay at the largest low-wage employers is so low that workers can’t cover basic necessities and often have to rely on public assistance. Sarah Anderson and Reyanna James for…
A Billion-Dollar Company Poisoned Their Town, Then Moved on. Now People are Dying.
Maximillian Alvarez for TRNN Three years ago, on Feb. 3, 2023, the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history—took place in the…
Iran’s Samson Option: Gulf Oil Reprisals for Kharg Would Crash the World Economy
Juan Cole for Informed Comment President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if Tehran continued to obstruct shipping through the Strait of…