Jake Johnson for Common Dreams. US President Donald Trump baselessly claimed over the weekend that Iran was behind the strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed more than 160…
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the war surrounding Iran widens and global energy markets jitter, the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz have once again become the world’s most…
Brad Reed for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war against Iran is sending shockwaves across the global economy in the form of skyrocketing oil prices and diving…
By Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung for Tomdispatch.com – “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw…
Yakov M. Rabkin for Informed Comment Much of the discussion surrounding the current war on Iran focuses on its potential outcome for the United States. One of the most frequently…
ScheerPost Staff In his latest Substack column, longtime analyst and former Hill staffer MJ Rosenberg turns his attention to a chilling new reality inside Israel—one captured with brutal clarity by…
Victoria Law for Truthout In November 2022, a long-time permanent resident of the U.S. was released from FCI Dublin, a California federal women’s prison. A probation officer had visited and…
Joshua Scheer The shift comes amid growing criticism of the pro-Israel lobby. Senator Chris Van Hollen recently telling a Jewish audience at a J Street conference that the actions of…
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In what was described as a “major escalation” of an attack already denounced as an illegal war of choice, the US-Israeli military coalition bombed major…
Jon Queally for Common Dreams In the wake of infernos unleashed across portions of Tehran the night before, the people of Iran’s capital woke up Sunday to the hideous sight…
Janine Jackson for FAIR Janine Jackson interviewed American Prospect‘s John Lewis writing fellow Naomi Bethune about anti-Black history for the February 27, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly…
Zachary Levenson for Truthout Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between…
By Jeffrey Wernick This article proposes a constitutional upgrade: Decentralize the verification of political power the way Bitcoin decentralized the verification of money. The Trust Problem The biggest problem in…
The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display. While the official White House X account…
The newly released Epstein files don’t just implicate a handful of powerful men—they expose an entire architecture of American power built on impunity, secrecy, and the quiet expectation that the…
