By Jim Mamer A few days ago (5-9-26), ScheerPost ran an article titled Gavin Newsom, A Candidate Fit for Dystopia. The title seemed curious to me because it suggested that…
Gregory Shupak for FAIR In the wake of the temporary US/Iran ceasefire, hawkish commentary in leading American newspapers advanced the premise that the US can dictate terms to Iran in…
Mickey Huff for Project Censored Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media, despite…
By Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, Orinoco Tribune. An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill. I met Gabriel Rockhill by chance, but not by accident. We were introduced by Helen Yaffe, a dear friend…
Nate Bear Don Not Panic In his televised address last night Trump said the US was going to continuing attacking Iran for another two or three weeks and would bomb…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
ScheerPost Staff As Washington sinks deeper into confrontation with Iran, one of the most consequential signs of internal rupture yet has emerged: a senior national security official leaving his post…
Chris Hedges Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is…
ScheerPost Staff In a blistering breakdown of U.S. media complicity, Glenn Greenwald dissects what he calls one of the most brazen propaganda stunts of the new Iran war: CNN’s Jake…
ByJanine Jackson for FAIR CounterSpin interview with Rayan El Amine on voices from Gaza Janine Jackson interviewed Nation guest editor Rayan El Amine about voices from Gaza for the February…
The New York Times and Washington Post offer facile arguments for US attacks on Iran, on the assumption that the US wants to brighten Iranians’ futures.
Newsom Isn’t the Dystopia — Trump Is
By Jim Mamer A few days ago (5-9-26), ScheerPost ran an article titled Gavin Newsom, A Candidate Fit for Dystopia. The title seemed curious to me because it suggested that…
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For US Commentators on Iran, Mass Murder Is Magic
Gregory Shupak for FAIR In the wake of the temporary US/Iran ceasefire, hawkish commentary in leading American newspapers advanced the premise that the US can dictate terms to Iran in…
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We Need ‘More Muckrakers and Fewer Buck-Takers’
Mickey Huff for Project Censored Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media, despite…
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I Support Cuba Because I Am on the Side of Humanity and Life: An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill
By Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, Orinoco Tribune. An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill. I met Gabriel Rockhill by chance, but not by accident. We were introduced by Helen Yaffe, a dear friend…
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Escalating To Catastrophe
Nate Bear Don Not Panic In his televised address last night Trump said the US was going to continuing attacking Iran for another two or three weeks and would bomb…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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War, Silence, and a Resignation Washington Can’t Easily Dismiss
ScheerPost Staff As Washington sinks deeper into confrontation with Iran, one of the most consequential signs of internal rupture yet has emerged: a senior national security official leaving his post…
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The World According to Gaza
Chris Hedges Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is…
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Greenwald: CNN Is Running Iraq‑War‑Level Propaganda for the Iran War
ScheerPost Staff In a blistering breakdown of U.S. media complicity, Glenn Greenwald dissects what he calls one of the most brazen propaganda stunts of the new Iran war: CNN’s Jake…
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Why Corporate Media Needed to Misrepresent Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s kind of politics terrified an elite that thrives on keeping the 99 Percent divided and conquered.
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‘What We’re Witnessing Is a Genocide Sustained’:
ByJanine Jackson for FAIR CounterSpin interview with Rayan El Amine on voices from Gaza Janine Jackson interviewed Nation guest editor Rayan El Amine about voices from Gaza for the February…
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Leading Papers Call for Destroying Iran to Save It
The New York Times and Washington Post offer facile arguments for US attacks on Iran, on the assumption that the US wants to brighten Iranians’ futures.
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