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Bombing Iran Is Part of the USA’s Repetition Compulsion for...
Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t le...
From Iran to Everywhere, We Live in Terror of the “Peaceful...
Donald Trump has opened the military door to an atomic apocalypse.  But it’s likeliest to come through the “Peaceful Atom Window.”The 400+ atomic power reactors (94 in the...
Iran: What did we do to deserve this?
General Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander, claimed that after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration had a plan to attack seven majority-Muslim countries over five years, starting with Iraq and...

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Thursday, 19 June 2025
Will The "No Kings" Movement Save American Democracy?
At GREEP Gathering #227 we mourn the horrific MAGA murders in Minnesota with St. Cloud resident...
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Human Rights
11 June 2025
Madleen aid vessel is a priceless message to the people and resistance in Gaza
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Several weeks before the Freedom Flotilla aid ship set sail to Gaza, Israeli drones bombed the Freedom Flotilla aid ship twice in international waters off the...
Anti-War
22 June 2025
Bombing Iran Is Part of the USA’s Repetition Compulsion for War War War
Norman Solomon
Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace...
Politics
22 June 2025
US Rep. Max Miller: Another genocidal anti-Palestinian playing the wild victim card
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller called the local police this week in his Ohio 7th congressional district in northeastern Ohio to report a "road...
Peace
21 June 2025
Sumud: The Unyielding Heart of the Palestinian Cause in Gaza
Ramzy Baroud
The profound and unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian cause. Yet, the...
Environment
18 June 2025
The acceleration of the climate crisis under Trump and the Republicans
Bob Sheak
The current administration is not a supporter of “clean energy” alternativesBrad Plumer and Harry Stevens report on the Trump/Republican...
World News
23 June 2025
Deadly Emerald Triangle Feud In Leaked Confidential Call
Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A deadly Emerald Triangle border feud between Thailand and Cambodia has worsened to include economic boycotts, frontier closures, disputed...
Op-Ed
24 June 2025
Some Nations Become Concentration Camps — And Stay That Way
Sergei Stepancev
The belief that all people are equal and want peace is comforting. But comfort does not make it true.The 20th century offered a brutal lesson: whole nations...
Conspiracy Realist
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13 June 2025
Tik Tok videos of Immigration Customs Enforcement actions
Pete Johnson
In the event the reader would like to see Immigration and Customs Enforement (ICE) in action, the most egregious videos are suppressed but can be viewed on Tik...
Cartoons
23 June 2025
Trump Bribe Blow Up
Clay Jones
Trump's Tyranny
18 June 2025
Nuclear War Ala Mode?
Philip Giraldi
One of the more interesting aspects of the expanding war between Israel and Iran is the way the media and the crowd of “experts” have avoided any...
Climate Crisis
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16 June 2025
Solar News This Week - June 15, 2025
Jay Warmke and Tim Chavez
US Solar Cell Manufacturing Grows Despite Cloudy Days AheadThe US doubled its solar cell manufacturing capacity and added 8.6 gigawatts in the first quarter of...
Election Issues
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19 May 2025
Stop SB 153 from Silencing Ohio Voters
We need your help to Stop Senate Bill 153, an attack on Ohio voters' rights and our democratic process.While the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter...
Protest Reports
Protester holding sign saying If there's money for a parade there's money for Medicaid
15 June 2025
No Kings Protest - Columbus, OH
Watch the video of Friday's Ohio Statehouse protest by 50501 for No Kings Day, June 13, 2025Video by Scot Lacy, Milo Pictures
Free Press Election Reporting
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19 June 2025
Will The "No Kings" Movement Save American Democracy?
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman
At GREEP Gathering #227 we mourn the horrific MAGA murders in Minnesota with St. Cloud resident HEDY TRIPP.We look in growing detail at the “Christian...
Everybody Knows with Dr. Bob and Dan-o
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13 June 2025
All aboard! Everybody Knows celebrates the Railroad
Suzanne Patzer
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate trains, especially older songs about trains when they really meant something! Listen to Trains Kept-a Rollin, Love...