Israeli Violence Pushing West Bank to Breaking Point
Israel can maintain the illusion that overwhelming violence has pacified Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud. But military dom…

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors try to jump overboard after 250 days at sea; Third person dies after Newark ICE facility detention; Israel sets wildfires in Lebanon
Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2026…

DC Under Siege: A Year of Military Occupation
Olivia DiNucci reflects on a year of living with National Guard troops meandering around the streets, metro stations, museums and grocery stores of th…

Alito’s Assets in Fossil Fuels Have Grown by Up to $2.9 Million, Analysis Finds
Recent polling indicates that Alito has a -7 point approval rating among Americans.

How Flock Is Building America’s Private Surveillance Infrastructure
AT and AB, Left Voice Flock is building one of America’s largest surveillance networks. It represents a new tool for preserving capital’s power a…

21st-Century McCarthyism: Cuba In The Crosshairs
Guillermo R. Barreto, BreakThrough News This year we commemorate the centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro. Like few others, Fidel embodies h…

Mutiny Aboard US Carrier Abraham Lincoln Off Iranian Coast
Bruce Gagnon, Space for Peace. Recent reports indicate a serious mutiny situation aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Seven U.S. Navy personnel have pos…

Venezuela: Don’t Blame The Victim
Roger D. Harris, Francisco Dominguez, and María Paez Victor, Popular Resistance. “Nothing is easier than to be idealistic on behalf of others.” K…

Subverting Food Safety, HHS Secretary Kennedy Inflicts on US the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak Ever
Dan Dinello Informed Comment  Compromising the safety of America’s food supply, the consequences of RFK’s disembowelment of the Federal Drug Admi…

Governments must tax Big Oil's profits as UN tax treaty talks advance
As droughts and wildfires damage economies, 350.org called on governments to push for a global tax treaty that can make big oil and gas corporations p…

This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse
The post This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse appeared first on ProPublica.

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Board of Pieces
There is no ceasefire in Gaza; no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is only genocide. It changes shape and intensity but not its essence. By Chr…

Sudan Defies Simple Explanations
I remember sitting through one discussion in Nairobi where there was broad agreement as to why Sudan had collapsed. By the end, however, there was no…

The Forgotten Racial History of Alligator Alcatraz
The migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is closed, but much about it remains unresolved. There are lawsuits over detainees’ treatme…

Trump Grift vs. the Biden Crime Family
It is a bad practice for family members to profit from their ties to a vice-president or president, but there is zero evidence that Joe Biden ever did…

Word On The Street: Keep Your Coins, I Want Change
These are some photographs I have taken of street messages I have come across while walking or cycling around Portland, OR. Some are political. Some a…

Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024…

If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Weapons Maker Was Paid $533M in Taxpayer Funds to Produce Shells. It Made None.
General Dynamics has neither been held publicly accountable nor had to repay any of the money.

Report: US Burned Through $200M of Munitions in 1 Day After Trump Restarted War
A top Iranian military official said they can keep fighting the war beyond Trump’s term ending in 2029.

Censorship in LA School District Could Become National Norm, Educators Warn
Educators in the country’s second-largest school district are facing repression in the wake of a new California law.

Trump Admin Ends Anti-Corruption Rule Requiring Shell Companies Report Ownership
The law establishing the disclosure requirements was originally introduced by Marco Rubio in the Senate.

Jonathan Cook: The ‘Morbid Symptoms’ of a Dying West
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.n…

In West Bank Village, a New Israeli Order Enables Settler Attacks While Claiming to Prevent Them
The Israeli military declared the Palestinian village of Taybeh a closed military zone to "maintain order" but residents say settlers are still allowe…

Israel detains Palestinian journalist Mohamed Awad; Russia threatens retaliatory European ship seizures; Hong loses in tight primary for Wisconsin governor
Drop Site Daily: August 12, 2026…

BBC Censored Film on British Army Killing Child
Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972, reports Anne Cadwallader. By Anne Cadwallader…

Tonight at 7PM ET: Inside Israel's Lobby
Join us tonight at 7PM ET, paid subscribers get the link…

Working Families Feel the Heat of Trump’s Recklessness with Consumer Prices on the Rise in July
Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.1% in July and are up 3.4% over the past year. July’s price increase reverses the di…

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
The post Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing appeared first on ProPublica.

“They’re Putting Kids’ Lives at Risk”: How Abuse in a Tennessee Businessman’s Juvenile Prisons Remained Under Wraps
The post “They’re Putting Kids’ Lives at Risk”: How Abuse in a Tennessee Businessman’s Juvenile Prisons Remained Under Wraps appeared first…

Joe Biden Should Be Dying Of Cancer In The Hague
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Hormuz at Breaking Point and Remembering Journalists Killed in Gaza
Financial expert Brett Erickson joins Drop Site's Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim followed by Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Palestinian journalist Abubaker…

Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?
The post Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone? appeared first on ProPublica.

Two Different America's (Sic)
Hoo boy. With the approach of what bleakly promises to be "the super-Islamophobic midterms," the Bigot-In-Chief is letting his racist freak flag fly b…

PEER and Allies Push Back on FCC’s Approval of Reflect Orbital’s Plan to Light Up the Night
PEER, DarkSky International, the American Bird Conservancy, and Environment America — represented by Earthjustice — filed a formal Application for…

Resisting Trump's escalating attack on independent media
Journalist Rania Khalek says BreakThrough News won’t be forced to soften its reporting on Palestine.

Avoiding the toilet at any cost
At al-Deira displacement camp, the communal bathrooms are unsanitary, leading many women to avoid using the toilet entirely, with major health consequ…

A Note To Patrons And Subscribers
This is just a note to my patrons and newsletter subscribers to say I’m sorry I haven’t published anything these past few days.

As El Niño and heatwaves dry up fields, governments must act fast
Climate campaigners warned that record high temperatures and a strong El Niño is resulting in severe drought in many countries, hitting crop yields a…

Did California DA prosecute students to court pro-Israel donors?
Jeff Rosen has come under fire for "grave" conflict of interests.

ICE is sitting on $100 billion
Polygraph | Newsletter n°348 | 10 Aug 2026…

Gaza’s Board of Pieces
Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and…

More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.
The post More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up. appeared first on ProPublica.

Why the Iran War Won’t End Soon (w/ Alastair Crooke) | TCHR
Trump's reckless war on Iran is threatening global economic collapse — as the region breaks out into a matrix of conflagrations, Trump seemingly has…

Abdul El-Sayed deals record-breaking loss to Israel lobby
“Truly catastrophic loss for the geniuses at AIPAC” also hits Democratic establishment.

UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine Solidarity
Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular a…

$1.6 Trillion In Hidden Debt — The AI Bubble Just Got More Insane!
New column by Lee Camp…

Need a divorce? Go to the hospital.
Divorced women in Gaza must wade through a destroyed judicial system to obtain their rights.

How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the…

There Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Even In Armageddon.
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Trump's Phantom Enemies - Read by Eunice Wong
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent…

China Just Saved The World — And No One's Talking About It
New column by Lee Camp…

ALL Mainstream Western Institutions View Palestinian Lives As Worthless
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Don Corleone Trump
Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos.

How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM
The most infamous arms companies manufacturing the very bombs for the United States and Israel to use in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are partnering…

Another of Epstein's Co-Conspirators Dies Mysteriously
New column / video by Lee Camp…

Iran’s Shock Strike Strategy Against US Assets Opens Multiple Fronts
While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the re…

A.I. Wants Your Land, Water & Power / Whistleblower Reveals FBI Epstein Cover Up
Today's Lee Camp livestream…

The 3 Ways The US Gov. Aims To Crush Pro-Palestine Activism & Media
New column by Lee Camp…

Why 98 Democrats ignored voters and opposed an Israel aid cut
Polygraph | Newsletter n°347 | 25 Jul 2026…

Regime Change Mission Foiled: Yemen’s Ansarallah Uncover Saudi-Mossad-CIA Espionage Network to Decapitate Resistance Leaders
Newly released documents reviewed by MintPress uncover a Mossad-CIA led “espionage network” inside Yemen against Ansarallah to enable “decapitat…

What will end up in the GOP’s $95 billion reconciliation bill?
Polygraph | Newsletter n°346 | 18 Jul 2026…

Lionel Messi’s Ties to Netanyahu, The Israeli Military and Its Elite Spying Unit 8200
Lionel Messi has quietly built relationships with companies and security firms closely linked to Israel's military-intelligence establishment. From be…

US spent $103 billion on the Iran War in four months
Polygraph | Newsletter n°345 | 13 Jul 2026…

Iran War: Most unpopular US war in history
Polygraph | Newsletter n°344 | 22 Jun 2026…