From Ersatz Fear to Epic Fury
How Media Glorification of Vigilantes and Militarism Can Backfire Mischa Geracoulis for Project Censored On December 22, 1984, Bernie Goetz—“the subway vigilante”—shot four unarmed Black teenagers on a New York…
“Without Weapons, We Can Do Anything”: Remembering Razan al-Najjar
Joshua Scheer “They called her dangerous because she carried no weapon at all — only a medical vest, courage, and the belief that Palestinian lives mattered.” In a world drowning…
Pete Hegseth “War Crimes Secretary” Called Out
ScheerPost Staff As the Trump administration’s war on Iran spirals deeper into civilian bloodshed and media complicity, activists with CODEPINK are demanding answers that Washington and corporate media seem determined…
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…
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…
US War Machine Is Built on Decades of Lies. The Assault on Iran Is No Exception.
Trump’s endless falsehoods about the Iran war build on a long history of US military mythmaking. Scott Kurashige for Truthout he first casualty of war is the truth. This truism…
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…
How Western Media Sanitises And Sells The Crimes of Empire
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Yesterday The Associated Press said it was going to start using words which accurately reflect reality. The news agency announced, after much deliberation and a…
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…
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…
A History of Iran Propaganda
CounterSpin from FAIR This week on CounterSpin: House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Brian Mast declared of Iran: “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American both at…
The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
Edward Curtin “One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it — it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.”Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Anyone…
Lies Of Omission As Fresh American War Crimes Loom
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Substack The US has amassed the largest military force in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq almost 23 years ago and is poised…
The Carefully Contrived Spontaneity of the “Shocking” Epstein Files Release
By Edward Curtin for Behind the Curtin Whenever a “scandal” like the Epstein files dominates the news, we can be certain that it is meant as a distraction from something…
How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia
By Kit Klarenberg Substack On August 25th 2025, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At…