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Attacks on Iran Show How US Support for Israel Fuels Regional Instability

1 week ago | truthout.org | Phyllis Bennis |Anton Woronczuk |Khury Petersen-Smith

There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible. By Phyllis Bennis & Khury Petersen-Smith , OtherWords Published June 19, 2025 Mourners gather around the coffins of people killed in Israeli attacks in Khorramabad, Iran, during their funeral in on June 16, 2025.
Trump EPA Drops Case Against GEO Group Over Disinfectant Misuse in ICE Jail

1 week ago | truthout.org | Sharon Lerner |Anton Woronczuk |Lisa Song

The complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged over 1,000 employee uses of the chemical without proper protection. By Sharon Lerner & Lisa Song , ProPublica Published June 14, 2025 Imprisoned immigrants are seen at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Adelanto Detention Facility on September 6, 2016, in Adelanto, California.DAVID MCNEW / AFP via Getty Images This story was originally published by ProPublica.
Organizers Fight Against Tax Breaks for Weapons Manufacturers Amid Gaza Genocide

1 week ago | truthout.org | Marianne Dhenin |Anton Woronczuk

A diverse coalition has come together in St. Louis to oppose tax exemptions granted to weapons manufacturers. Launched in March 2025 under the banner “Not Another Nickel,” the coalition argues that tax exemptions for these manufacturers rob St. Louis of funding for schools and infrastructure, contribute to local pollution, and fuel foreign wars.
Trump and Musk’s Dramatic Falling Out Displays the Hazards of Billionaire Rule

3 weeks ago | truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Anton Woronczuk

Is the Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance finally over? President Trump is threatening to cut off billions of dollars in federal contracts with Musk after the two billionaires engaged in a dramatic online feud just days after Musk called Trump’s budget bill a “disgusting abomination.” Musk appeared to back the impeachment of Trump and claimed the president is named in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
ICE Strands Migrants in Djibouti After Failing to Send Them to South Sudan

3 weeks ago | truthout.org | Julia Conley |Anton Woronczuk

The Trump administration could have sent eight migrants with deportation orders and the immigration agents who were escorting them to a facility in the U.S. after a federal judge recently barred officials from deporting them to war-torn South Sudan, where they could face persecution or torture.
Progressives Introduce “Block the Bombs Act” as Israel Escalates Gaza Genocide

3 weeks ago | truthout.org | Jessica Corbett |Anton Woronczuk

Backed by nearly two dozen House Democrats, the new bill would end the US supply of offensive weapons to Israel.
Indigenous Smoking Program Fosters Shift from Commercial Tobacco

Sep 10, 2023 | truthout.org | Ray Levy-Uyeda |Gigi Kellett |Anton Woronczuk |Cherise Morris

Ramona Bowles began smoking commercial cigarettes when she was a teenager. For decades, she smoked as many as four packs a day. Then in 2021, the Pine Hill Indian Tribe, the First People of Fort Jackson in South Carolina, launched a smoking cessation program to address high usage rates among tribal members like Bowles. The program offered peer support, accountability, and an Indigenous lens to tobacco use and consumption. Bowles is down to one and a half packs per day.
“Rich Men North of Richmond” Is a Populist Anthem Lost in Its Own Grievance

Sep 4, 2023 | truthout.org | Aaron Leonard |Anton Woronczuk |Michael Yates |Lois Weiner

The current focus of the U.S.’s never-ending culture war comes in the form of the song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” by Oliver Anthony, aka Christopher Anthony Lunsford, a former factory worker, who has been open about his battles with alcoholism and depression. Riding a wave of viral attention, “Rich Men” has now spent two weeks at the number 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.