Tyranny or Revolution
We face a choice. Tyranny or revolution. Chris Hedges MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and…
Itamar Ben-Gvir Turns Torture Into a Public Spectacle: “Don’t Be Bothered by Their Screams”
Joshua Scheer “Don’t Be Bothered by Their Screams”: Ben-Gvir Proudly Posts Video of Police Dragging Members of the Flotilla Team Ben-Gvir himself reportedly captioned the footage, “That’s how we welcome…
Did Trump Just Create a Political Slush Fund With Taxpayer Money?
ScheerPost Staff What began as a lawsuit over leaked tax returns is now morphing into something far bigger — and far more dangerous. In this chilling breakdown, the so-called $1.776…
The Gospel According to Trump
Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with…
Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. Chris Hedges ScheerPost During the two years I spent writing “American Fascists: The Christian Right…
Free Speech Under Fire: Glenn Greenwald Takes on Censorship, Hypocrisy, and the Politics of Fear
Staff Glenn Greenwald dismantles the double standard at the heart of global free speech debates—rejecting censorship abroad while exposing how fear, foreign interference, and “national security” are used everywhere to…
We Should Not Fear The Tyrants; The Tyrants Should Fear Us
In our society, we do not push psychopaths off the ice when nobody is looking. In our society, we let them rule the world. Caitlin Johnstone If there were a…
Kuwait Arrests Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin for Reporting the Truth
Joshua Scheer There are moments when the mask slips—when the language of “national security” is exposed for what it is: a weapon used to silence truth. The arrest and ongoing…
US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter
Hank Kennedy for FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) During World War II, cartoonist Bill Mauldin was summoned to a meeting with Gen. George S. Patton. Mauldin’s Stars and Stripes…
Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these…
Surveilling Swine
By Edward Curtin “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which…
Here Is Bernie Sanders on Cutting Off Arms to Israel
Joshua Scheer Here is Bernie Sanders discussing cutting off arms to Israel. “In the last year, I must confess, I’ve been thinking a lot about American history—about the men and…
The Most Dangerous Country
From 2003 to 2026 and Beyond David Bromwich for Tom Dispatch The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the…
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…
Inside The Independent Ink: Mr. Fish on Free Expression, Censorship, and the Fight for an Unmuzzled Press
ScheerPost Staff At a moment when American institutions are sprinting away from dissent as if truth were radioactive, The Independent Ink remains one of the rare spaces where artists and…