The Great Dicktator – by Mr. Fish Chris Hedges ScheerPost By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandio...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the “ everyone is twelve now ” theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and u...

Chris Hedges  and  John J. Mearsheimer For all of President Trump’s recent threats to “annihilate Iran,” the reality is that the United States is running out of both options and time to resolve this US- Israeli-initiated war. The US has made overtures toward renewing a hot war, but it has no...

Declassified journalists have been banned from the Labour Party’s annual conference for the third year in a row. The event in Liverpool next week is the first under new prime minister Andy Burnham and is traditionally an opportunity for reporters to question politicians. But three De...

The UK government’s new sanctions on Israel have resulted in zero arms export licences being revoked or suspended, it can be revealed. Earlier this month, Ed Miliband announced a fresh range of measures against Israel including a ban on trade with illegal settlements. The foreign se...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the littl...

Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be more repressive than the one it forcibly replaced. The Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered the government to explain its reasoning for ...

Andy Burnham’s decision to send a Royal Air Force plane to Saudi Arabia for “defensive” aerial refuelling in the kingdom’s war against the Houthis has a familiar ring to it. His words echo those of his predecessor. Keir Starmer provided the same support “to aid self-defence” of the USS Harr...

Camden Council’s investments in Palantir, the controversial AI company with ties to the Israeli military, have increased by over 1,200% since October 2023. The council’s overall holdings in companies complicit in Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights have risen in value by almost 30 perce...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. We tend to underestimate the consequences of...

Is the public entitled to know exactly where Oxford University invests billions of pounds of its endowment – and if that includes firms profiting from Israeli military operations? This is the question now facing a tribunal, following a legal challenge brought by an Oxford climate scientist a...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflict...

A pre-inquest review opened today into the killing of three British citizens working as security consultants for World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza. James ‘Jim’ Henderson, 33, James Kirby, 47, and John Chapman, 57, were among seven aid workers killed in a series of Israeli drone strikes on ...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity. The Caitlin Johnstone project is actually run by...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Julian Assange is officially back on Twitter , restoring to the world an important voice we were robbed of by the US empire’s years-long campaign to silence the WikiLeaks founder via lifelong imprisonment f...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now There are some truly psychopathic ghouls in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, but as of today I am convinced that US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is the absolute worst of them. As Isr...

Royal Air Force (RAF) refuelling planes supported US strikes on Yemen that the Pentagon  assessed “more likely than not” resulted in 281 civilian casualties, it has emerged. Britain’s involvement in the operation “may make them complicit in war crimes,” Human Rights Watch told Declassified ...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now As American rapper Macklemore becomes a frontline for renewed mainstream discourse about Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Israel apologists have been falling all over themselves to circulate the demonstrably fals...

When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more disturbing revelation: the Pentagon appears to be breaking the law by paying conservative influencers to track, surveil, and propag...