‘A Media System Built on Profit Is Incredibly Fragile’
CounterSpin interview with Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. the First Amendment Janine Jackson Janine Jackson: When FAIR started in 1986, US news media were harming people through nightly stories blaring…
Strait Of Hormuz Closure Brings Empire To Brink
Kit Klarenberg Substack Since the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran erupted, the Strait of Hormuz has remained stubbornly closed. Despite Donald Trump’s dire threats, Tehran has brought maritime traffic to…
The Theft of Bodily Autonomy Is Central to the Authoritarian Playbook, and Texas Has Been Its Proving Ground
Texas houses the country’s only family detention centers and has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the U.S., but it is also home to powerful reproductive justice and…
We Need Honest Journalism About the US-Israel War on Iran
Ramzy Baroud for Common Dreams US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether…
Trump’s War on Iran Is Ending Where U.S. Empire Usually Ends: Negotiating With the Enemy It Failed to Break
ScheerPost Staff If current negotiations hold, the most revealing outcome of Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran will be painfully familiar: after threats, bombardment, brinkmanship, and the usual promises of strategic…
Iran Rejects Trump’s Claims of Talks, Calls it Fake News
Abdul Rahman for Peoples Dispatch Iran dismissed reports and claims of any ongoing talks with the US, calling them fake news and repeating that its position “regarding the Strait of…
Levy: Israel’s Long Sought Iran War Is Now America’s Burden
ScheerPost Staff Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Drew Trump Into a War Long Sought by Israel Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy argued on Democracy Now! that the expanding war on Iran reflects…
‘We Won’t Die for Israel’: Military Members Seek a Way Out as U.S. War Expands
In recent interviews on Clearing the FOG, Margaret Flowers highlights a sharp rise in military personnel seeking conscientious objector status, speaking with Mike Prysner of the Center on Conscience and…
People Die While Companies Profit
Rebecca Gordon for Tom Dispatch The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional…
ICE Raids and Medicaid Cuts Put Both Caregivers and Their Patients at Risk
Eleanor J. Bader for Truthout Sixty-five-year-old Kristy Madden works to coordinate government-funded assistance for disabled people and others in need of in-home care. But while she loves her job, she…
“His Morality Is Bestiality”: Iran War Pushes Russia and China Toward Strategic Reckoning
ScheerPost Staff As the war around Iran widens, its consequences are no longer confined to the Middle East. In a wide-ranging discussion, Gilbert Doctorow and Glenn Diesen argue that the…
Palaver and Parable: Trump’s Babble
“All lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest” – “The Boxer,” Paul Simon Listening to Donald Trump is like staring at a record…
César Chávez’s Shadow
Tina Vásquez Prism Revelations that the co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union sexually abused young girls and women, including fellow civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, has set off a…
Behrooz Ghamari on War, Sovereignty, and the Failure of Imperial Strategy
Joshua Scheer When Washington and Tel Aviv escalated military pressure on Iran, many in the West appeared to assume the same old script would unfold: rapid destabilization, internal collapse, and…
Israeli Military Analyst: “Israel Is Chaos Agent of the West”
ScheerPost Staff In a striking conversation on Katie Halper’s program, Israeli historian and anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Zabner delivers one of the bluntest assessments yet of how Israeli power is being…