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Iranian Officials Say Psychologists Helped Craft Messages to Trump During Negotiations
Joshua Scheer Just a few months ago, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill was reporting that the Trump administration appeared determined to force Iran into submission through military pressure, economic warfare, and…
Everything Trump Didn’t Learn in Kindergarten
Kenneth Carlson ScheerPost There was a time in America when the moral instruction offered to children in kindergarten sounded almost embarrassingly simple. Share. Be kind. Play fair. Clean up your…
California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves
McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim. Robin Urevich for Capital and Main…
American Power Is Collapsing
Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is,…
ICE Tries To Raid Legal Offices, Demanding Files On Migrant Children
Katya Schwenk, The Lever The Trump administration has escalated its pressure campaign against lawyers representing unaccompanied migrant children. After freezing payments and demanding sensitive client data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Jeffrey Sachs: Peace at Last—or Just the Next Pause Before War?
Joshua Scheer For weeks, the world stood on the edge of a wider regional war as the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, threatening to ignite a conflict…
One Man, One Trillion Dollars: What Happens to Democracy Now?
Joshua Scheer With the public debut of SpaceX, Elon Musk has officially become the first trillionaire in human history—a milestone celebrated by financial media as a triumph of innovation and…
The Obama Center is a Monument to the More Effective Evil
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Barack Obama bailed out the banks, deported millions, and devastated nations and millions of people through wars of aggression. The…
A Letter From Desolation Row
Edward Curtin Substack “At midnight all the agentsAnd the superhuman crewCome out and round up everyoneThat knows more than they do”– Bob Dylan “Desolation Row.” Perhaps you have noticed –…
New Threat to Netanyahu: The Collapse of Western Support
Paul Rogers for OpenDemocracy In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot down a…
TRUMP’S PRIVATE FURY: “WHY DID BIBI F#CKING DO IT?” — w/ Glenn Diesen
As reports emerged that a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was nearing completion, Israel launched a strike on Beirut—an attack that immediately raised questions about whether diplomacy was being deliberately sabotaged.…
Are You an Internationalist?
Arnold Oliver for Informed Comment Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation…
Iran: ‘No Point’ In Deal With US If Israel Remains Unrestrained
News Desk, The Cradle. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned in a statement on 14 June that there is “no point” in continuing efforts to reach a deal with…
Outrage as UK Activists Get Combined 25 Yrs for ‘Terrorism’
The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and…
Cuba In The Eye Of The Storm
Luis de Jesus Reyes, Breakthrough News. Sanctions, energy crisis, and threats of invasion. The situation in Cuba is steadily worsening. Compounding the prolonged economic crisis and deteriorating energy situation are…