Spain Denies Use of Bases for US Forces Involved in War on Iran
“Spanish bases are not being used for this operation,” Spain’s foreign minister said.

Hegseth Says Iran War Isn’t Endless But Refuses to Provide Timeline for Its End
Hegseth has also indicated that the US is willing to engage in war crimes in Iran, one critic pointed out.

Prisoners in Iran Report Limited Access to Food as US-Israeli Attack Continues
“These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people,” says a scholar who was on death row in Iran.

As Security Council Stalls, There Are Other Ways to Stop US-Israeli War on Iran
Universal jurisdiction also lets other nations prosecute US and Israeli leaders for targeting civilians -- a war crime.

Texas AG Maligns Therapy That Affirms Trans Youths’ Identities as “Child Abuse”
A therapist could find their license pulled, lose the ability to take Medicaid dollars, or risk child abuse charges.

We memorize so we are not erased
Memorizing the Quran in Gaza has taken on new meaning during the genocide.

America’s Inevitable Conflict
As the midterm elections begin, U.S. society is stretching its existing polarization to a new extreme, writes Ramzy Baroud. By Ramzy Baroud Z Networ…

Sanders and Khanna Introduce Legislation to Tax Billionaire Wealth and Invest in Working Families
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to…

Chris Hedges: Hiding ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’
The film masterfully exposes the impulse towards power, death and destruction that the Israeli military embodies.  By Chris Hedges in New York Schee…

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools
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‘Everything Is Gambling Now’: War on Iran Sparks Insider Trading Fears as Bettors Cash In
Posted by Joshua Scheer As thick plumes of smoke rose over residential neighborhoods in Tehran as U.S.–Israeli airstrikes shook the Iranian capital.

Iranian death toll rises to 550+; Israel threatens invasion of Lebanon after Hezbollah strikes; 3 U.S. warplanes down in Kuwait
Drop Site Daily: March 2, 2026…

Call Grows to Impeach Trump, ‘The Most Dangerous Man on the Planet’
By Jon Queally for Common Dreams After the unprovoked bombing of Iran over the weekend by the United States and Israel—strikes that included the u…

Techno‑Authoritarianism and the Death of Counterculture: Jonathan Taplin on Power, Art, and the New American Reality
As the U.S. drifts deeper into an era shaped by concentrated wealth, surveillance technology, and political strongmen, Robert Scheer sits down with Jo…

The Assassination That Lit the Fuse: Trump’s Iran War Is Already a Catastrophe
Posted by Joshua Scheer The second day of the U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran has made one reality impossible to ignore: Washington has ignited a regio…

Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal aggression in Iran
By Craig Mokhiber for Mondoweiss Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the so…

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever
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Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster
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Applications Open for 2026 ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Germany Learns From the IDF   
The Israelis are to teach Germans how to use artificial intelligence based on the I.D.F.’s experience in Gaza, where, among other things, it used A.

The Policy of “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Finds Its Ultimate Conclusion
Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Ir…

Preliminary Notes on a Planned Decapitation
Trump has done the world a service. He has abandoned pretense and clarified the true nature of American power. There is no longer any need to manufact…

The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It
Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out f…

Escalation on the Durand Line
On Iran’s eastern flank, far from the Gulf states now in the crosshairs, another conflict continues to grow. Pakistan has declared what it now calls…

War on Iran
The Illogic of War The Trump administration reportedly cannot understand why Iran is refusing to accede to US demands that it halt uranium enrichment,…

US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes "Unprovoked", And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Iran Prepared for an Existential War. How Much Are Trump and Israel Willing to Gamble?
Iran is intensifying strikes across the region after Supreme Leader Khamenei's assassination, as Trump floats new talks and more bombing.

After a Sports Hall in Iran Was Bombed, Witnesses Describe Chaos and “Continuous Screaming”
Several hours after a bomb struck a girls’ elementary school and killed 165, a strike on the town of Lamerd killed teenagers in a gymnasium.

An enormous crime against Iran
It is the West and Arab regimes that have waged war against Tehran for decades, not the other way around.

Going to War, Again, for Israel
Blood Brothers - by Mr.

U.S. and Israel Attack Iran as Trump Announces Regime Change War
In this special Drop Site News broadcast, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim speak with Iranian-American analyst Hooman Majd and Ali Abunimah of Electronic…

“Small Children Who Knew Nothing of Politics or Wars”
A scene of devastation in Minab, Iran, as parents waited to know the fate of their young daughters after the bombing of a girls' elementary school kil…

Saving lives at a time of slaughter
For much of the ongoing genocide, Baker Abu Safia was the only surgeon in northern Gaza.

Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout
War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic T…

The US Is Ruled By Psychopaths — The Real Reasons They Just Bombed Iran
New column by Lee Camp…

Trump Made No Case for War on Iran
The case for each U.S. war in the Middle East over the past 35 years has had progressively weaker rationale and international support. The aggression…

WATCH: The World This Week — Aggression on Iran
Scott Ritter joins The World This Week to discuss the U.S. and Israel’s war of aggression to overthrow the Iranian government with no credible ratio…

US, Israel launch war on Iran as public support collapses
A historic polling shift reveals Americans increasingly backing Palestinians over Israelis.

Fuck Everyone Who Made This War Possible
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
The post Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms appeared first on ProPublica.

Ribbital: Democracy As Something We Do, Not Just Have
Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a popul…

Paramount Skydance’s Takeover of Warner Bros. Is Bad News for Workers, Consumers, and Free Expression
On Thursday, the Warner Bros. Discovery board decided to abandon its plans to sell the company to Netflix in favor of a Paramount Skydance bid.In addi…

Israel kills as heavy rains flood Gaza during Ramadan
Two Palestinian teenagers shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, settlers in West Bank.

Was Epstein's Boss Working For Israel?! Here Are The Facts
New episode of Unredacted Tonight…

If Iran Kills US Troops, The Blame Rests Solely On The US And Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:…

The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See
Reaper Madness - by Mr.

Epstein, Chomsky, & The Politics of Betrayal (Chris Hedges w/ Briahna Joy Gray)
Chris Hedges returns to Bad Faith to engage in a spirited debate about how to act now that liberal incrementalism has led to incremental fascism.

No Bro This War Will Be Completely Different, Bro
Reading by Tim Foley:…

The Suicidal Folly of a War with Iran [VIDEO]
Full Text:…

Trump Setting Up A $1.5 Trillion Money-Laundering Machine!
New column by Lee Camp…

The Predatory Hegemon (w/ Stephen Walt) | The Chris Hedges Report
The abandonment of international allies treaties and norms, Stephen Walt argues, will slowly ostracize the United States and leave the country behind…

If You Think The US Wants To Bring Democracy To Iran, Watch What They're Currently Doing To Iraq
Reading by Tim Foley:…

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King?
The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "…

Iran Must Be Stopped — Here's Why
A 1-minute column by Lee Camp…

SCOTUS Blocking of Trump’s “Emergency” Tariffs Is a Small But Meaningful Check on a Lawless President
Today, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement sweeping tariffs was unlawful…

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection
A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The pos…

New Unredacted: The One Epstein Revelation That Can't Be Spoken
Check out the new episode of Unredacted Tonight…

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg
There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of…

Democratic leaders offer ICE reforms — and record funding
Polygraph | Newsletter n°335 | 9 Feb 2026…

The Chomsky-Epstein Files: Unravelling a Web of Connections Between a Star Leftist Academic & a Notorious Pedophile
Analyzing over 3800 emails and texts involving the academic, MintPress News has uncovered a deep, years-long friendship between leftist intellectual N…

Biden sold Israel $22 billion in weapons. US taxpayers paid for most of them
Polygraph | Newsletter n°334 | 3 Feb 2026…

House boosts military budget as Pentagon extends failed audit streak to 30 years
Polygraph | Newsletter n°333 | 23 Jan 2026…

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi 
Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime cha…

How much aid has the US given Israel?
Polygraph | Newsletter n°332 | 20 Jan 2026…

War is Trump’s answer to the affordability crisis
Polygraph | Newsletter n°331 | 9 Jan 2026…