The Transactional World of Pam Bondi
During her eight years as Florida attorney general, the cop was apparently off the beat when Bondi succumbed to the enticements of corporate lobbyists.
Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s ‘Samson Option’
It wasn’t hard to foresee that those planning and executing U.S. foreign policy, lacking all imagination and anything remotely resembling courage, would prove incapable of an orderly transition to a…
Illinois Students Who Protested Gaza Genocide Are Facing Felony Mob Charges
The state's attorney is prosecuting University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students over last April's encampments.
Israeli Snipers ‘Shoot Palestinians for Sport’
Eyewitness accounts reveal Israeli snipers are systematically targeting unarmed civilians, including children, using tactics that point to deliberate genocidal intent and a chilling policy of terror designed to annihilate a…
Cities Cut Red Tape To Turn Unused Office Buildings Into Housing
By reducing approval times and loosening requirements, they hope to ease the housing shortage crisis.
Norman Solomon: From Genocide Joe to Omnicide Joe
Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its place.
The US National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered about how much that…
Mr. President, is a Palace Coup Afoot?
By Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer / Original to ScheerPost In this week’s episode of “Playing President,” Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA veteran and briefer of five presidents, continues to make…
Israel Has Killed Over 1,000 Doctors and Nurses in Gaza
"These people, they target everyone, but I swear, this will not stop us from continuing our humanitarian work," said a Gaza hospital director injured in an Israeli strike.
Christian Nationalism Marches on With ‘Bible-Infused’ Texas Curriculum
"What we're seeing here in Texas with these lessons is a larger national push to promote the idea that American identity and Christian identity are woven together, are one in…
John Mearsheimer: Using Missiles as Diplomacy in Ukraine
By John Mearsheimer and Daniel Davis / Substack On 21 November 2024, I talked at length with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis on his podcast — “Deep Dive” — about…
Jeffrey D. Sachs: What Ails America – and How to Fix It
By Jeffrey D. Sachs / Common Dreams America is a country of undoubted vast strengths—technological, economic, and cultural—yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Trump’s…
Inside Project Esther, the Right Wing Action Plan to Take Down the Palestine Movement
The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" claims to combat antisemitism but in fact, aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade against all domestic dissent…