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The ‘Red Scare’ Repression of ICE-Watch Activists

Elizabeth Vos — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:00:05 +0000

Free-speech advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools and libraries in Minnesota, reports Mike Ludwig. By Mike Ludwig Truthout Free speech groups across the country are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration’s surveillance…

It’s OK to Fight for a Foreign Army (if It’s Friendly)

Elizabeth Vos — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:00:34 +0000

That’s the unwritten rule for Britain’s media, writes Des Freedman. By Des Freedman Declassified UK The death of a British national, Bradley Townsend, killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russian forces, has been widely reported in the media. “British…

War in the Twilight

Elizabeth Vos — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:00:19 +0000

The question is not whether a president is strong enough to exercise power, but whether the president is restrained enough to obey the laws he has sworn to uphold, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano A failed war does…

The US Bombed a Wedding in Iran. It’s Not the First Time

Elizabeth Vos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:00:43 +0000

The latest U.S. bombing of a civilian wedding celebration follows a sordid history of America bombing weddings, writes Medea Benjamin. By Medea Benjamin Substack On Sept. 1, an American missile slammed into a home in the small Iranian fishing town of…

Chris Hedges: Becoming the Stranger

Elizabeth Vos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:04:19 +0000

The road to fascism, as Ece Temelkuran writes in Nation of Strangers, was constructed over the last six decades of neoliberal assault. We have arrived at the terminus. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost We are becoming strangers. Strangers in our own countries.…

Israel’s Blueprint for the West Bank

Michele Steinberg — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:00:53 +0000

Do not look away. The events in the small Palestinian town of Qusra, south of Nablus are the story of the future of the West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud. By Ramzy Baroud Z Network If you want to understand the bleak…

Plaguing the Americas With Misery in the Name of Liberty

Elizabeth Vos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:00:19 +0000

While Simon Bolivar has been right for 200 years, the U.S. is not doomed: it can and must stop exploiting, impoverishing and killing its neighbors, writes Medea Benjamin. By Medea Benjamin Z Network Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America,…

Chris Hedges: The Next Election May Be Our Last

Elizabeth Vos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:00:16 +0000

Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The Trump White House has put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the…

Vijay Prashad: ‘Vietnam in the Field of Culture’

Elizabeth Vos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:00:33 +0000

When imperialism turns knowledge, technology and art into instruments of submission, radical traditions teach another lesson. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In January 1968, 470 delegates from seventy countries gathered in Cuba for the Cultural Congress of Havana. They…

Hedges Report: ‘Biggest Strategic Blunder in US History’

Michele Steinberg — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:00:22 +0000

With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win, says John Mearsheimer. By Joshua Scheer ScheerPost Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded the Trump administration’s…