U.S. militarism

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war…

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Megan Russell Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S.…

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Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, accusing President Donald Trump of being manipulated by Israel into launching a war on Iran.…

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Joshua Scheer As the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran enters its second week, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges delivers one of the most blistering indictments yet of the political class steering…

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Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…

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By Maha Hilal for Tom Dispatch In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in…

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By Charles Derber Trump’s foreign policy is coming into clearer focus, as his attacks on Venezuela and his threats against Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland, as well as Iran, have…

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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies for Codepink The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also…

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By Michelle Ellner Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece…

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