Trump’s Phantom Enemies
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…
Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
Edward Curtin By Edward Curtin and Sophie Michel “A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” – A Chinese Proverb The…
Bought, Not Seized: How the Third-Party Doctrine Turned the Fourth Amendment Into a Commodity
The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to spend $125 million on access to a vast commercial database containing personal information on millions of Americans—including names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…
One Judicial Opinion Should Be Required Reading Before the Midterm Elections. It’s Portrait of the Trump Administration Is Deeply Disturbing
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…
Ukraine: America’s Enduring Proxy War on Russia
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…
Trump approves 30-year Nuclear Enrichment Deal with Saudi Arabia ‘Without Safeguards’: Report
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…
Oman’s Foreign Minister To The West: You’ve Been Containing The Wrong Country
Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. In a Le Monde op-ed, Oman’s Badr al-Busaidi argues the West’s decades-long policy of “containing” Iran was always misguided. And that the true threat comes from Tel…
US Troops Always Die For The US Alone
Nate Bear Do Not Panic In the wake of the death of three American troops on a base in Jordan following a retaliatory attack by Iran, I’ve seen a lot…
The Chris Hedges Report: Is Iran Becoming Another ‘Forever War’?
The Chris Hedges Report. The Trump administration has embroiled the United States in another quagmire, similar to the Vietnam War and recent wars in the Middle East, by going to…
Regime Change Mission Foiled: Yemen’s Ansarallah Uncover Saudi-Mossad-CIA Espionage Network to Decapitate Resistance Leaders
Robert Inlakesh and Ahmed AbdulKareem MintPress News Newly leaked documents reveal that while the Yemeni Armed Forces escalated their military campaign and Red Sea Blockade against Israel during the genocide…
Why Trump’s Allies in Israel & AIPAC’s on the Hill are in Trouble
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…
An Urgent Blueprint For ‘How to Close a Camp’
Britta Shoot Prism Journalist John Washington’s new book explains how fighting and closing detention centers is critical in the larger battle to stop immigration enforcement Since the start of President…
Tyrin Johnson Is Dead. Memphis Is Occupied. This Is Militarized “Public Safety.”
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”…
Charles Derber: Trump Didn’t Create America’s Authoritarianism—He Exposed It
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…