By Wyatt Reed – The Grayzone

A pair of activists subpoenaed by Trump’s Justice Department have announced their refusal to cooperate with investigators on an apparent legal fishing expedition into pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers. They call potential imprisonment “a cheap price to pay for the defense of our movement.”

Continue reading “Facing subpoenas, pro-Palestine activists refuse to testify in Fergie fishing expedition”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The Pentagon’s estimate for the cost of the Iran war is now over $47 billion, 25% higher than its estimate from July, according to data obtained by Reuters, though the true cost of the conflict is significantly higher since the US War Department’s numbers leave out the cost of damage to US bases. Continue reading “Pentagon Estimates the US Has Spent Over $47 Billion on Iran War, But True Cost Is Much Higher”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US military is sending an additional Patriot missile system to Israel to beef up the country’s air defenses as part of preparations for a potential US-Israeli attack on Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday night. Continue reading “Report: US Sending an Additional Patriot System to Israel To Prepare for Potential Attacks on Iran”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

A six-year-old Palestinian girl died on Tuesday after being shot by Israeli forces in the al-Mawasi tent camp in southern Gaza, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. Continue reading “Israeli Gunfire Kills Six-Year-Old Girl in Southern Gaza”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Israeli quadcopter drones dropped incendiary bombs on a displacement camp in Gaza City’s eastern Shuja’iyya junction on Sunday night, setting fire to tents and displacing more than 800 Palestinians, local sources have told the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Continue reading “Governments have normalized injecting the population with non-human genetic code that shortens lifespans by turning their bodies into lethal protein factories.”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Israeli media reported on Sunday that an “unprecedented confrontation” is unfolding between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, as the army chief is resisting an order to take unspecified military action related to Iran ahead of Tuesday’s Knesset elections. Continue reading “Israeli Media: IDF Chief Resisted Netanyahu Order for Military Action Related to Iran”

By Emran Feroz and Murtaza Hussain – Drop Site News

A private intelligence firm working for the United Arab Emirates compiled a database of thousands of Facebook users living inside the country—using their social media activity, including likes of news outlets critical of the UAE—to identify what the firm described as “hostile” individuals during a broader crackdown on political expression in the country. Continue reading “UAE Paid Swiss Intelligence Firm to Compile Database of “Hostile” Facebook Users”

By Wyatt Reed – The Grayzone

The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it retaliation for his widely-viewed documentary on Israel’s notorious pager attacks?

Continue reading “Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US and the UAE have both launched airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab in northern Somalia’s Puntland region in recent days amid clashes in the area between al-Shabaab and local Puntland forces. Continue reading “US and UAE Launch Airstrikes Against al-Shabaab in Northern Somalia”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US military has been scaling back its presence at bases across the Middle East, and the US has ordered staff reductions at multiple diplomatic posts in the region, NBC News reported Wednesday, amid growing signs that the US and Israel may be preparing to launch another attack on Iran. Continue reading “Report: US Troops and Diplomats Evacuating Posts Across the Middle East”

By Jeremy Scahill, Peiman Salehi, and Ryan Grim – Drop Site News

The U.S. and Israel are preparing to resume attacks on Iran, according to senior Iranian officials and a U.S. official, and may even launch operations before next week’s Israeli elections. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life, and the Israeli press is rife with reports that he is looking for a way to exploit the Iran standoff to his advantage. In the U.S., President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are at historic lows, and the midterm elections are less than two weeks away. Continue reading “The War Tehran Believes Is Coming”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel was “committed” to “eliminating” the Iranian government and that he spoke about the idea in his recent conversation with President Trump. Continue reading “Netanyahu Says He Discussed ‘Eliminating’ the Iranian Government With Trump”

By Wyatt Reed – The Grayzone

Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months in jail for impeding production of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers. They’re not the only ones, they say — and are urging anyone slapped with a similar subpoena to seek free legal counsel.

Continue reading “Exclusive: FBI subpoenas pro-Palestine activists over Israeli weapons plant disruption”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

A Saudi airstrike hit a civilian home in Yemen’s northern Saada province on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including seven children and one woman, according to the Health Ministry within the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni government, as the US-backed Saudi bombing campaign continues to have a devastating impact on Yemeni civilians. Continue reading “Saudi Airstrike on Civilian Home in Yemen Kills 10, Including Seven Children: Health Ministry”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US military has drawn up new strike plans against Iran that include potentially using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” according to a report from CNN. Continue reading “US Considers Using ‘Mother of All Bombs’ Against Iran”

By Julian Andreone and Ryan Grim – Drop Site News

During her tenure as Florida Attorney General, Sen. Ashley Moody led an investigation into the work-release program that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to engage in sexual encounters while imprisoned for soliciting underage girls for prostitution. After nearly two years of probing, she concluded no wrongdoing. Now Moody, a Republican, is up for reelection in a tight race for a Florida Senate seat against Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, and she has received $50,000 from individuals connected to Epstein. Continue reading “After Ashley Moody Epstein Probe, Donors Linked to Him Poured Money Into her Senate Campaign”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The Israeli military has now killed more than 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza since signing a so-called ceasefire deal just over one year ago in October 2025, according to numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, as it has continued constant violations of the agreement. Continue reading “Israel Has Killed Over 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza Since Signing So-Called Ceasefire Deal”

By John Perry and Becca Renk Foster – The Gray Zone

US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s government. It turns out he was an opposition hooligan who destroyed a public university during the violent US-backed 2018 coup attempt.

Continue reading “US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’”

By Trita Parsi

If you read one thing today, make sure it is this:

In a stunning piece published by the head of one of Israel’s most prominent think tanks, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman describes the reality of Israel’s new security doctrine: Continue reading “Israel’s New – and Terrifying – Security Doctrine”