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In 2016, Abby Martin traveled to Israel and captured footage of ordinary citizens openly endorsing ethnic cleansing and violence against Palestinians. Years later, presenting this commentary for Double Down News, she argues that what she witnessed on the ground has only...
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Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and so many others -- their words and understanding were buried by the same kinds of supremacists, the same kind of mad extremists taking a wrecking ball to the world again today.
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In this video, journalist Mehdi Hasan breaks down why the demand to recognize "Israel's right to exist" functions less as a genuine question and more as a rhetorical tool designed to shut down critical conversation about Israel's policies. He offers three key counter-arguments:
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Iran is winning the war that was started by the USA and Israel. This is now admitted even by major Western media outlets. Tehran has successfully destroyed the US military bases in West Asia (aka the Middle East), forcing the Pentagon to operate from Europe.
Many congressional Democrats seem more interested in using Trump's war on Iran to score victories in the midterms than to use what power they do have to bring it to an end.
Stan Cox
While we need a massive “big tent” resistance against this horrendous man and moment, we also need a sustained and independent mass movement against America’s bipartisan wars, its bipartisan military-industrial complex, and its bipartisan marriage to corporate power and...
Christopher D. Cook
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The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest oil shock in history, disrupting markets and driving up fuel and food prices.
No, of course not. People have rights. The concept of a state's right to exist is not recognized in any international law. The question “Does Israel have a right to exist?” is a little rhetorical trick designed to make the rights of certain people disappear, and we have an...
Matthew Cooke
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The war on Iran is part of a larger attempt by the US empire to reverse the decline of Western hegemony and recolonize the Global South. After invading Venezuela, Donald Trump wants to "take" Cuba, Greenland, and Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel is annexing the West Bank and...
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There's a strain of American Christianity that doesn't just tolerate war — it worships it. Not as a tragic last resort, but as a sacred mission, a step on the prophetic road to Armageddon. And if that sounds like an exaggeration, this 20-minute video by LJ lays out the...
What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalized, and defended.
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Human life cannot be reduced to barrels of oil, dollars of growth, or inflation points. To do so is to make mass murder manageable, calculable, acceptable.
George Cassidy Payne
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A top advisor to Donald Trump, billionaire venture capitalist David Sacks, warned that, if the war on Iran continues, "Israel could just be destroyed", or it could even use a nuclear weapon. Ben Norton explains how Washington sabotaged multiple peace deals and negotiations...
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Double Down News examines how Israel's escalating military actions are destabilizing the global economy — and how U.S. foreign policy under Trump has enabled it. From the extreme factions driving American policy to the infrastructure attacks sending oil prices soaring, the...
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From the outside, Israel looks like an impenetrable fortress. But power and permanence are not the same thing. The settler-colony is collapsing because it's as fragile as a house of cards. Here's how.
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As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues, we look at how the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence in its operations. The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used...
Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is triumphant.
Chris Hedges
Mandatory conscription makes war easier, not harder.
Ron Jacobs
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In response to the US-Israeli war, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil chokepoint on Earth, causing energy prices to skyrocket. However, Tehran is allowing Chinese tankers through, and says other ships can pass if they agree to sell oil in China's...
For decades, Western political discourse framed Israel as a democratic outpost surrounded by hostile forces. That narrative has steadily eroded. Increasingly, Israel is described—even by major international organizations—as a state engaged in systematic oppression and, in...
Ramzy Baroud
An interview with Israeli academic and activist Idan Landau, who says "as long as the US and Europe continue to insulate Israel from the moral consequences of its policies," things are likely to go from bad to worse.
C.J. Polychroniou
47 min
Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged.
22 min
The US and Israeli political / military alliance is controlled by 3 cults. It's imperative we understand their coordination strategy, and their end game -- so we can defeat their self-destructive ideology.
If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares
81 min
We should all be furious that the rest of our lives and the lives of our children will be affected by this, that our lifetimes were wasted during the great setback, so we don’t get to experience the progress that would’ve happened otherwise and that may now happen in the...
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As the war on Iran enters its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has been targeting various economic pressure points outside of its borders.
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A thorough breakdown of the US-Israel alliance — how it works, who benefits, and why it persists despite being so clearly at odds with international law and basic human rights.
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Why is the USA waging war on Iran? It's not just because of Israel. Washington wants to control the oil of the Middle East (West Asia) to maintain the petrodollar system. The Trump admin fears the dedollarization movement's challenge to the global reserve currency, which is...
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The victim suffered severe internal injuries. Israelis then rioted for the right to rape & government ministers defended soldiers & one rapist became a TV celebrity.
Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing today?
Sarah Van Gelder
79 min
Caiomhe Butterly's definitive look at the human rights situation in Palestinian refugee camps. Working as a human shield she experiences the plight of the Palestinian people first hand.
88 min
The United States of America has been at war throughout most of its 250-year existence. From the War of Independence right through to contemporary armed conflicts, the nation's armed forces have not only shaped American identity but also influenced the political decisions of...
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U.S. Army veteran and Center on Conscience and War Executive Director Mike Prysner discusses with Rania Khalek the growing resistance to a war with Iran inside the U.S. military. As Washington edges toward a possible ground invasion, active-duty troops and their families are...
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Trump's fake anti-imperialism only worked because Democrats refuse to embrace the real thing.
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Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council discusses the "war industry" driving theU.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the coordinated propaganda effort to frame the bombing campaign as a "liberation." Abdi details the chilling effects of state surveillance and...
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The British media is trying to convince you that a foreign war on behalf of Israel is in your best interests, but journalist Peter Oborne is here to break through the propaganda. This is an urgent wake-up call to expose the warmongers and reclaim the truth before the entire...
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After the US and Israel attacked Iran, Tehran's strategy of asymmetric warfare is clear: it closed the Strait of Hormuz and is attacking energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, causing global oil and natural gas prices to skyrocket, crashing stock markets, fueling...
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One week into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, and the messaging coming from the White House is consistently chaotic and contradictory. From regime change and nuclear threat to preemptive attack - the Trump administration is struggling to juggle its narrative. And...
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Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?
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The video discusses the potential global economic impact of a war between the US/Israel and Iran, as warned by Qatar's energy minister. The conflict's impact is already visible in oil and gas markets, with the Strait of Hormuz being a critical choke point for global oil and...
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The US and Israel are bombing schools and hospitals in Iran. This is not an accident. War Secretary Pete Hegseth admitted they want to unleash as much "death and destruction" as possible. Their goal is total collapse of Iran's state and society. Ben Norton explains.
We've seen this pattern before.
Tim Hjersted
5 min
“This isn’t a war! It was a preemptive strike!”
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After launching a war of aggression against Iran, Trump and Netanyahu are attacking more countries. Israel invaded Lebanon and besieged Gaza. US soldiers are fighting in Ecuador and shooting Pakistani protesters. Trump even threatened an embargo on Spain, demanding to use its...
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The US is being run by tinpot extremists who are high on their own delusions.
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The USA/Israel will fail in Iran. Just as they failed in Iraq. Afghanistan.... Vietnam.…
Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many.
Eric Blanc
Global South unites against US-Israeli war on Iran, condemning imperialist aggression. Innocent lives lost, families displaced. When will the cycle of violence end? Join the fight for peace and justice.
Brett Wilkins
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2 minutes of clips showing Donald Trump repeatedly promising to avoid starting new wars and emphasizing his role as a "candidate of peace" and "peacemaker."
40 min
The US-Israeli war on Iran is expanding into a global conflict. The European Union supports it. The UK is letting Trump use British bases. Germany and France are involved. Canada backs it. Tehran has retaliated, hitting US military bases in Gulf countries. Ben Norton explains.
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As we continue our coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, we speak with Israeli analyst Ori Goldberg in Tel Aviv. He says "there is a broad embrace of this attack" among Israelis, bringing together the country's liberal, right-wing, religious and settler groups.
“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth."
Norman Solomon
14 min
The chilling truth behind Trump's agenda.
Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, we will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not our...
Chris Hedges
9 min
Trump's administration is actively setting the stage for eternal war on a global scale, serving the interests of oil companies, the deep state, intelligence agencies, and arms manufacturers.
An anti-imperialist stance today implies the unconditional defense of Iran against U.S. and Israeli aggression, while rejecting both a pro-imperialist transition imposed from above and the regime’s attempt to monopolize anti-imperialism in order to demobilize and repress...
Maryam Alaniz
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The United States and Israel are waging a war of aggression against Iran. This is not about nuclear weapons; it's about imperialism. Trump and Netanyahu admitted they want regime change in Tehran. They want to overthrow the government and put a puppet in power, like the...
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"War on Iran has officially begun.US President Donald Trump just bombed Iran on behalf of Israel. Make America great again actually means make the Middle East greater Israel. The president of the United States is captured by Israel, compromised by an Israeli compromat...
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The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet another debacle in the Middle East, one the Congress has not approved, and the public does...
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LJ discusses the death of El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), on February 22nd, 2026, and the immediate, widespread violent retaliation across Mexico.
57 min
PlasticPills dissects the concept of “hyperreal fascism”, arguing that it's a modern iteration of fascism characterized by the aestheticization of politics. This new form of fascism operates through an overproduction of images and a blurring of reality, making it difficult...
“No modern nation has ever equaled the crushing offensive power attained by the German war machine in 1939. No modern nation was broken and smashed as was Germany six years later.” - D. Eisenhower
Nicolas J.S. Davies
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With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments...
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During the 1970s and 80s across Latin America, US backed military dictatorships built a shared system to identify, track, kidnap, torture, and erase their political opponents.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an overtly pro-colonialist speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he praised "the great Western empires" and said North America and Europe should unite to recolonize the Global South. Ben Norton reports on the increasing...
“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me. “The difference is that people here don’t pull back from the obstacles but try to overcome...
Shane Burley
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The USA is waging a new cold war on China, and trying to recruit countries in the Asia-Pacific region to join it. Vietnam refuses, and is making plans for a potential second war with the United States. Ben Norton explains the complex geopolitics of Southeast Asia and the US...
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The Donald Trump administration has imposed an extreme oil blockade to prevent Cuba from getting fuel from any country. Marco Rubio wants to collapse the economy, causing millions of civilians to starve and suffer in order to overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government. Ben...
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The latest tranche of the Epstein files contains more than three million documents - the largest release of its kind. In what appears to be a clumsy attempt at a cover-up by the US Department of Justice, the sloppily redacted names of high-profile perpetrators have failed to...
It is time for each state to immediately review and suspend all ties with Israel. Their military, strategic, political, diplomatic, economic, relations – both imports and exports – and to make sure that their private sector, insurers, banks, pension funds, and universities do...
Francesca Albanese
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One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions - from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media - has raised alarm about the expansion of the president’s power.
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The United States is waging medieval economic war. Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran is "designed to collapse its already buckling economy", boasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Ben Norton explains how the US is trying to suffocate Iran, Venezuela, and...
Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power
Tim Hjersted
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Donald Trump's attacks on longtime US "allies" have forced Western leaders to admit their warmongering foreign policy was hypocritical. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said the truth in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos: the "rules-based order" was "false"...
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers
Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.
Stockholm University Communications Office
How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
Jackie Summers
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Nepal has emerged as the blueprint for Gen Z activism worldwide. While covering youth movements, AJ+’s Anna Kook noticed that from Madagascar to Indonesia, organizers are looking to Nepal for inspiration on how to use social platforms to challenge power and mobilize their...
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This happens when times start getting tough. People hunt for solutions. People hunt for blame. Inevitably someone takes advantage of our vulnerability and sells us poison as the cure, sells us the idea that if we drink the poison, our enemies will suffer. It has happened...
The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
Tim Hjersted
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This letter is a result of a joint effort between myself and the "Grans United", a working group within the "Omas Gegen Rechts" (Grannies Against the Far Right) movement.
48 min
Trump’s Board of Peace serves as a multidimensional attempt to maintain international dominance in the face of China’s rise — but is there anything "new" about Trump's colonialism?
20 min
The Donald Trump administration is waging a war against all multilateral institutions and international law itself. He withdrew the US from most global organizations and created a "Board of Peace" as an alternative to the UN that is entirely controlled by the USA. Ben Norton...
Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts, mass noncompliance, & withdrawal of labor—by contrast, operates at the level Friedrich...
Rachel Hoopsick
The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
Tim Hjersted
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder
"How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted?"
Jake Johnson
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab
Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Qasim Rashid
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.
Chris Hedges
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.
Chris Hedges
15 min
In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter
If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.
Tim Hjersted
19 min
So-called "peace president" Donald Trump has bombed 10 countries, more than any other US leader. He attacked 7 countries in 2025 alone. Now he wants to raise the USA's military budget to $1.5 trillion. Ben Norton explains how the self-declared "peacemaker" is waging war...
Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
Mary Papenfuss
13 min
Norm Finkelstein discusses the dire situation in Gaza, highlighting the seizure of territory by Israel, the blocking of reconstruction aid, and the severe lack of humanitarian aid, clean water, and medical facilities.
Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
24 min
Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a civil rights leader. He was a Christian witness who understood the true cost of following Christ in a world ruled by injustice, violence, and corrupt power.
22 min
The time has come, I can no longer remain silent. The current US administration is perpetrating a fascist takeover of our democracy, and Big Tech CEOs and companies are complicit. It's time to reckon with the inextricable ties between the companies we turn to for innovation...