Diario Red, Orinoco Tribune. The release of controversial leaked audio recordings exposed a dangerous plot where transnational economic and political power prevails over the popular will. Honduras now faces the urgent need to investigate these leaks and prevent Juan Orlando Hernández’s return to consolidate a dictatorship financed by the imperial interests of the US and “Israel.” […]
Max Blumenthal The Grayzone Tapped to advise Steve Witkoff on Iran, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with any of Iran’s elected leaders. His presence consolidates military conflict as the Trump administration’s only option. The latest addition to the Trump administration’s Iran negotiation team, Nick Stewart, has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the Islamic Republic of […]
Kit Klarenberg Substack A stunning investigative report by Hebrew-language outlet Ynet has laid bare the embarrassing cataclysm not only of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but the Zionist entity’s effort throughout to end the Islamic Republic via covert and overt military and intelligence operations. Violent Mossad-orchestrated protests, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s murder, and a Kurdish invasion were intended to […]
Review of Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope, by Daniel Ellsberg, ed. Michael Ellsberg and Jan R. Thomas (New York: Bloomsbury, released 3/2/26) Peter Dale Scott Eager as I was to review this collection of Daniel Ellsberg’s unpublished writings, for days all my available time was spent in fascinated reading, as […]
“American Jews and Jews in general are safer in countries where everybody is treated equally under the law,” Peter Beinart tells TRNN. “The principle of Jewish supremacy, and Christian supremacy, and Hindu supremacy, and Islamic supremacy—all of those things are wrong.” Marc Steiner TRNN Amid Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza, its illegal annexation of land […]
Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with extraordinary minds who glance once at a page, a room or a face – and later recreate every detail with surgical […]
By TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, called on the international community this Saturday to determine whether it will allow Washington to militarily attack his country after the U.S. President, Donald Trump, said he would take control of the island “almost immediately.” “The president of the U.S. is escalating his threats of military […]
Edward Curtin Jr. “And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.”
Nate Bear Do Not Panic The UK has descended into confected hysteria over antisemitism to protect Keir Starmer and Labour from being wiped out by the Greens in local elections this week. The British establishment is well-practiced in manufacturing antisemitism hysteria, of course, having used it to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party when it got […]
In recent years, diversity has become both a touchstone for judging colleges and universities and a lightning rod for critics. Colleges seek to attract students by advertising the demographic diversity of their student bodies. And the Trump Administration is on the lookout for signs that diversity for some means discrimination for others.  Demographic diversity is […]
One crazed man holds the fate of the world in his hands and his name is Donald Trump. Can his administration, the U.S. system, the War Powers Act, Russia or anybody else stop him? asks Joe Lauria. Joe Lauria for Consortium News Donald Trump “indefinitely” extended the ceasefire with Iran on April 21 and over […]
The global economy is no longer wobbling — it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran and Russia, its economic confrontation with China, and its attempt to reassert dominance across the Western Hemisphere. The pillars that held the global system together […]
By Sasha Abramsky This article was originally published by Truthout The state’s messy primary underscores the urgent need for ranked-choice voting in California — and beyond. With just weeks until California voters cast ballots for the next governor in the primary, five candidates are clustered atop the polling, each with at least 10 percent but […]
ScheerPost Staff The war on Iran isn’t just redrawing battle lines—it’s ripping apart the architecture of global energy itself. In a stunning move, the United Arab Emirates has announced it will exit OPEC, a decision that lands like a geopolitical shockwave at the center of an already fractured oil market. Coming amid the chaos of […]
(And We Are All His Apprentices Now) Tom Engelhardt Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break.  In that context, here’s my advice […]
Chris Hedges Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Israel by Western nations, especially the United States, to sustain it. Part of this inversion is the unrelenting persecution of those who denounce the genocide — especially […]
Joshua Scheer On this World Press Freedom Day, we honor not only the courage of journalists who risk everything to tell the truth, but also the relentless work of organizations like the Committee to Protect Journalists, whose documentation continues to expose the global assault on press freedom. From arbitrary detention and criminal prosecution to forced […]
Deep research is key to identifying ICE’s pillars of support and building the power necessary to topple them. James L. VanHise for Waging Nonviolence The ICE campaign to round up millions of immigrants is grounded in tactics designed to inspire public fear and passivity. Dressed in tactical gear and wielding deadly weapons, masked agents strive to […]
By Marianne Dhenin This article was originally published by Truthout Educators and activists are fighting for changes to a bill they say was “designed to create an atmosphere of fear.” A bill introduced in the California legislature meant to help ensure open discussion in the state’s public schools and protect teachers from attacks is facing […]
The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach. Patrick Lawrence for Consortium News You have to hand it to Sara Jacobs, the California […]
Joshua Scheer A slow bleed is underway—and most Americans are being told not to notice. As the U.S. dollar weakens, prices are creeping higher across everyday life: groceries, travel, fuel, imports. Economists call it currency fluctuation. But for working people, it functions more like a silent tax—one that shrinks purchasing power without a single vote […]
Abrahm Lustgarten for Propublica For many months, conservative lawmakers and political operatives have been targeting the scientists and lawyers behind the Climate Judiciary Project, a program meant to educate the courts about climate science, alleging that their effort constitutes a conspiracy to influence federal judges and persuade them to rule against the oil industry. Now, […]
H. Patricia Hynes for Informed Comment Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet – from the highest point of the Himalayas; to the deepest depths of the sea; to the snow of Antarctica.  They penetrate all layers of ocean and […]
For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. Sharon Lerner Propublica The calculations done by scientists at IRIS, as it was commonly known, underpin vast numbers of chemical regulations, permits and other environmental rules in the U.S. and abroad. Now the Trump […]
James Mark Leas, Substack. On Thursday, April 29, Israeli military forces illegally attacked vessels of the Global Samud Flotilla (GSF) while they were sailing on the high seas. Israeli commandos unlawfully seized 21 boats and abducted 177 flotilla participants, according to Nicole Schellekens, a Belgian GSF land-support person. On May 1, the BBC reported that Israel […]
Michelle Ellner When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness. They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment windows, families sleeping on balconies, mothers fanning infants through another airless night. They come for the line outside the pharmacy, the bus that never comes, the refrigerator gone warm. […]
The US war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of US hegemonic power. Chris Hedges The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages […]
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook Substack [First published by Middle East Eye] For decades, two irreconciliable narratives about Israel and its motivations have existed in parallel. On the one side, an official western narrative portrays a […]
Joshua Scheer This war isn’t just being fought with missiles—it’s being waged through oil markets, currencies, and corporate balance sheets. And while the world watches bombs fall, something quieter—and far more consequential—is happening: a global energy system is being weaponized in real time. This on The Geopolitical Economy Report with Ben Norton. Ben digs into […]
By Ella Fassler This article was originally published by Truthout Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time. Despite a hostile labor environment, the number of workers under a union contract in the U.S. reached a 16-year high in 2025, and public support for unions […]
Indigenous peoples say Alcatraz Island is a sacred space and symbol of Indigenous resistance, while abolitionists say the money proposed to rebuild the federal prison should go toward the local community Victoria Valenzuela for Prism Morning Star Gali grew up going to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Thanksgiving sunrise gatherings on Alcatraz Island to pay homage […]
The social safety net is frayed and full of red tape. But we learned during the pandemic that it doesn’t have to be. James Lee OtherWords Take it from a veteran who’s been homeless: Just because you see me in the streets doesn’t mean I’m not working. After their service, many veterans struggle with low-wage work, […]
Clayton Weimers for Project Censored As World Press Freedom Day (May 3) nears, it’s a good time to step back and assess how journalists and news outlets are faring in our current media climate. President Donald Trump came back to the White House and picked up right where he left off, insulting and attacking the […]
The data centers popping up across the South and Midwest don’t just pollute and raise utility bills — they keep Americans hooked on wars for oil. Melissa Garriga OtherWords Across the country, resistance to data centers is rising even as plans are steadily being made to build new ones. According to the Pew Research Center, a […]
Privacy groups are pushing Big Tech to notify users about federal surveillance after anonymous ICE critics were exposed.By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Privacy groups are pushing Big Tech to notify users about federal surveillance after anonymous ICE critics were exposed. Lawmakers and privacy advocates are demanding answers from the Trump […]
Today, trans and gender-nonconforming survivors continue a legacy of resistance that goes back longer than we may know. By Gabriel Arkles This article was originally published by Truthout Today, trans and gender-nonconforming survivors continue a legacy of resistance that goes back longer than we may know. Over the past year, we have seen the Trump […]
From January 30 to now – millions of us have answered the call of turning our backs on the war economy. National Shutdowns are essential in building a movement of love and care of people in response to 250 years of genocide, slavery, exploitation, and dehumanization. The brutality we saw ahead of the first shutdown in January […]
The new $2.9 million contract with Penlink PLX allows Trump’s Homeland Security Task Force to intercept, aggregate, and analyze calls, texts, and web activity to track people’s movements Maurizio Guerrero for Prism Despite serious concerns raised by dozens of federal legislators about the potential misuse of location technologies to violate rights, the Department of Homeland […]
By October Krausch This article was originally published by Truthout Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation. Hundreds of immigrant men at North Lake Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, began a hunger strike on April 20 in an […]
There is a script already written for the coming catastrophe—and the people in power are rehearsing it. Soon, as supply chains fracture and food disappears from entire regions, we’ll be told this famine was inevitable. A tragic side effect. The unfortunate cost of war. But don’t believe it. This isn’t a hurricane. It isn’t a […]
As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across the country. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would set their sights on her city. Urbina had fled Nicaragua in 2022 and legally […]
Chris Hedges The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people and failed to recognize the deep revolutionary spirit that pervades Iranian culture. Rather than inciting Iranian people against their government, the US-Israeli war on Iran has united the population. Rather than promoting democracy in Iran and empowering the […]
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams Dozens of Democrats in the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives helped the GOP send a key spying bill to the Senate on Wednesday, earning sharp condemnation from the diverse movement that has called for privacy reforms. The House voted 235-191 in favor of the bill released last week by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has been trying for […]
The former head of Mossad, once central to Israel’s security doctrine, now argues the country’s greatest threat lies not abroad—but in the unchecked violence and policies unfolding at home. Joshua Scheer A rare critique has emerged from within Israel’s own security establishment. Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo—a veteran intelligence figure who once helped shape the […]
Joshua Scheer Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has delivered a rare rupture in official Washington’s script: accusing Israel of carrying out a genocide in Gaza—and acknowledging that the United States is not a bystander, but a participant in its outcome. Speaking to Bloomberg, Sherman pointed directly to the policies of Israeli Prime […]
Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani Middle East Monitor The strangest feature of the Iran war is not that both sides have leverage. It is that neither side can fully use the leverage it has. That is the defining reality of the conflict as it moves through its uneasy post-ceasefire phase. Washington has the naval power to sustain […]
The Grayzone Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from mounting an effective defense. Since the retrial of six Palestine Action (PA) activists […]
Marc Steiner for TRNN Sharif Abdel Kouddous has reported from war zones and disaster areas across the world—from Egypt, Syria, and Libya, to Iraq, Algeria, Haiti, and the United States—but nothing compares to what he’s seen in Gaza. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Abdel Kouddous about the impossible task of […]
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 negotiations, with a faith in the power of Washington’s military might that was hard to justify by the previous course of the war. A Washington Post editorial […]
Nate Bear Do Not Panic The American tech giant behind the most popular tax filing software in the US allows employees to wear their IDF uniforms to work and also permits them to take months off the job to fight Israel’s wars. Last month, Tom Yacobi, a data analyst at financial tech giant Intuit, whose […]