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…
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams After meeting with several chief executives at the White House on Friday—while also bombing Iran with Israel and threatening Cuba—US President Donald Trump said that…
By Anne Kamath and Umer Azad for Codepink The world is witnessing yet another manufactured humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in plain sight in Cuba. This crisis is not the result of…
By Joel Westheimer for Truthout lived in Argentina in the mid-1980s, just after the fall of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983. The country was taking…
By Umer Azad and Anne Kamath for Codepink For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights, and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking,…
By: Joshua Scheer In other news, Kash Patel seems to suck at his job, according to a new report obtained by the NY Post, in which former FBI agents used…
By: Joshua Scheer With the president claiming that we are in an armed conflict with the cartels — and with the AP reporting from a memo it obtained from the…
By: Staff Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally asked Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, to grant him a pardon in the ongoing corruption case against him — a move drawing…
Melissa’s original article, which inspired this podcast, is printed in full below as well. Happy Thanksgiving. In this eye-opening episode, host Joshua Scheer dives deep into the heart-wrenching realities of…
NPR All Things Considered interviewed Mark Kelly today with Kelly telling All Things Considered he thinks President Trump is “declaring that loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death.” and…
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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‘The Military-Industrial Complex Is Winning’: While Bombing Iran, Trump Says Weapons Contractors to Boost Production
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams After meeting with several chief executives at the White House on Friday—while also bombing Iran with Israel and threatening Cuba—US President Donald Trump said that…
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From Gaza to Cuba: How Canada Remains the World’s Most Tactful Bystander
By Anne Kamath and Umer Azad for Codepink The world is witnessing yet another manufactured humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in plain sight in Cuba. This crisis is not the result of…
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The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen
By Joel Westheimer for Truthout lived in Argentina in the mid-1980s, just after the fall of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983. The country was taking…
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O’ Canada, how long can your facade stand, while wielding a genocidal hand?
By Umer Azad and Anne Kamath for Codepink For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights, and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking,…
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Kash Patel Under Fire: Former FBI Agents Call Agency “Rudderless” and “All F–ked Up” in Scathing Report
By: Joshua Scheer In other news, Kash Patel seems to suck at his job, according to a new report obtained by the NY Post, in which former FBI agents used…
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No Quarter: The White House’s New ‘War’ Lets the President Kill First — and Pardon Drug Lords Later
By: Joshua Scheer With the president claiming that we are in an armed conflict with the cartels — and with the AP reporting from a memo it obtained from the…
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Netanyahu’s Pardon Bid Raises Alarms Over Rule of Law
By: Staff Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally asked Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, to grant him a pardon in the ongoing corruption case against him — a move drawing…
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Necropolitics and Healthcare: The High Cost of Life in America
Melissa’s original article, which inspired this podcast, is printed in full below as well. Happy Thanksgiving. In this eye-opening episode, host Joshua Scheer dives deep into the heart-wrenching realities of…
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Sen. Kelly Rebukes Trump and Hegseth: “They Don’t Understand the Constitution”
NPR All Things Considered interviewed Mark Kelly today with Kelly telling All Things Considered he thinks President Trump is “declaring that loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death.” and…
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