You Deserve Better, Iran
By Tara Ebrahimi Substack I’ve spent the last three days obsessively refreshing the New York Times app. Every few minutes there are updates: missi…

Critics Slam Carney’s Plan to Jumpstart Canada’s Economy via Military Industry
Canada’s prime minister faces blowback for his plan to hike Canadian arms companies’ profits by 240 percent in 10 years.

This Is Not a Regime Change War. Iran Is Being Pushed Toward State Collapse.
The US and Israel have killed Ayatollah Khamenei, but they seem to have no plan for what comes next.

Rubio Says US Had to Strike Iran Because Iran Would Defend Itself If Attacked
The conflicting explanation comes as CENTCOM is reportedly calling for troops to “Be Relentlessly Lethal.”…

Francesca Albanese, Gaza, and the Military-Propaganda Nexus Behind the US-Israeli War on Iran
By Robin Andersen When the Israeli lobbying group UN Watch spread disinformation about Francesca Albanese, they were trying to silence her condemnatio…

Trump Has Made the US War Machine a Spectacle – and It’s Spectacularly Unpopular
Trump has brought the full extent of the war machine out into the open. Let’s channel public anger into organizing.

Chris Hedges: Going to War, Again, for Israel
This is not a U.S. war. This is part of Israel’s demented vision of Greater Israel, of dominating the Middle East. But Israel needs the U.S. militar…

Iran, Epstein and Human Sacrifice
Dennis Kucinich Substack Today, the Trump administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a gir…

Department of Justice Drops Defense of Trump’s Orders Punishing Law Firms
While some firms caved to Trump’s demands, a handful were vindicated with quick legal victories.

Illegal war on Iran wins applause from leading Brussels media outlet
Euractiv boss praises Trump’s belligerence.

Swiss government concedes Ali Abunimah entry ban was unjustified
Federal Council says entry ban followed unprecedented intervention by Fedpol director.

Mass funeral for children killed in school strike; Israel weighs “buffer zone” in Lebanon; Gaza food and fuel supplies dwindle
Drop Site Daily: March 3, 2026…

Hakeem Jeffries Whipping Votes Against Trump’s So-Far-Unbridled War on Iran
The House is tentatively scheduled to vote on a War Powers Resolution on Thursday.

Jeffrey Sachs: Attack on Iran Also an Assault on UN
The U.S. objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the U.N. and the internatio…

US Media Mostly Care for Iranians When They Can Be Used to Justify Bombing
US corporate media tend to humanize Iranians only when they can be portrayed as victims of their own government.

Trump’s Deportation Crackdown Is Hurting Tourism
Fear of aggressive deportation raids is deterring foreign visitors, leading to a reduction in hours for workers and lost revenue.

Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t.
The post Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t. appeared first on ProPublica…

A War That Cannot Be Won: Israel and the United States Bomb Iran
Having just formed the Board of Peace, the United States and Israel have begun the board’s first war, this time on Iran. The US-Israel attack launch…

‘Peace’ President Trump Launches another War, This time a Doozy that Could Rival Bush’s Iraq Nightmare
As Iran was in no condition to attack the US, even as Trump had assembled the largest naval armada since the launching of the invasion of Iraq in 2003…

How Deadly is a Dying Animal? Carnage in Iran Can’t Stop the Inevitable
Our political culture is naive, almost childlike, in its attachment to the “great man” theory of history, with the “evil man” as its shadow si…

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues
When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had relea…

Criminalizing Childhood: When the Justice System Fails America’s Youth
Does your community care about children? This deceptively simple question carries profound moral, social, and civic weight. Across the United States,…

Iran, Epstein & Human Sacrifice
Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through r…

If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square
In Iran, the U.S. and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the “War on Terror” and Trump’s recent attacks on allege…

Livestream: Iran Strikes Back / US Might Run Out of Interceptors / More
A recording from Lee Camp's live video…

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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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…

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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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.

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.

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…