"Trump should be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, committed both as a private citizen and public official," argues Jeremy Scahill. "But if we want to claim that our system…
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter As the new year began, ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons stated during a broadcast segment that he expected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would…
Alfred McCoy takes you to a planet where things are only getting hotter in so many ways, not just nuclear.
Biden's immediate abandonment of his 2020 vow to turn the Saudis into "pariahs," and his increasing support for the regime, shows the core deceit of U.S. propaganda.
Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team's second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.
Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams The push to reform the U.S. Supreme Court got a significant boost Wednesday as the Congressional Progressive Caucus voted to officially endorse the Judiciary…
If he is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting.
Women who apply for welfare often have to identify who fathered their children and when they got pregnant, among other deeply personal details. State governments use that information to pursue…
The Carlson inquest points to the NSA’s oversized powers to spy domestically.
Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Daniel Hale exposed the widespread and indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war. For his heroism, he faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these…
U.S. citizens derive no benefit, but instead suffer great loss, from endless war in the Middle East. But their interests are irrelevant to decisions of bipartisan Washington.
What is exceptional about America is its culture of sadism.
US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
