Trump Gives an Indefinite Cease-Fire to Iran. What Is This War? • Trump has two options: (1) end the war without achieving its stated aims and without victory, or (2) continue to fight this destructive and costly Middle East war.
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Live Q&A Tonight on Iran, Trump, Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire, FISA Vote and More • A recording from Glenn Greenwald's live video
Live Q&A Tonight on Iran, Trump, Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire, FISA Vote and More • Tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, live here on Substack, YouTube and Rumble: we will take as many of your questions as we can.
Trump Reverses Himself, Joins Obama and Biden in Demanding "Clean" Renewal of NSA Domestic Spying Powers • In 2024, Trump urged Congress to “KILL FISA.” With a vote upcoming this week, he now demands its renewal with no limits or safeguards, and he has ample Democratic support.
The ‘Opposition Party’ Has Done Nothing to Stop the Iran War and Much to Goad Trump Into Continuing It • When Democrats pretend to attack Trump, many clearly want more war with Iran.
Return of Our Live Q&A Segment Every Friday Night • The ability to interact with one's audience is vital to keeping journalism robust, interactive and accountable.
Debating the Iran War, Israel, Free Speech and More With The Free Press's Coleman Hughes • On topics that produce much invective and rage, we were able to navigate our radically different views with spirited passion, but with a focus on the substance of these issues.
The US and Israel Are Not Winning the War • It is possible that one day they will. But this war is not yet remotely the triumphant, quick and glorious victory American and Israeli officials assured their populations they would enjoy.
Joe Kent's Courage and Conscience, and the Craven Careerism of Tulsi Gabbard • Gabbard has endured every humiliation and jumped through every hoop to cling to her increasingly meaningless position in Washington. But today was a new low.
The Attacks on Free Speech in the West to Protect Israel: on Tucker Carlson's Program • In one democratic country after the next, including the U.S., the right of free speech is being aggressively eroded in order to shield Israel and its supporters from critique.
CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel and Its Loyalists Demand His Arrest • As the Israel Lobby gets more desperate watching the collapse of American support for their country, they also become more nakedly authoritarian to control U.S. discourse.
Iran War Supporters Invent a New and Absurd Justification: It Is All About China • Trump's principal war motivation was not human rights, natural resources, or even nuclear weapons. According to this farcical theory, it was all about China.
Trump: Iran War Is an Open-Ended, Regime-Change War, Followed by Nation-Building • The America First president vows he will play a key role in approving Iran's new leaders; the U.S. and its allies will rebuild Iran; and the war goal is to 'Make Iran Great Again.'
Support for Israel in the US Has Collapsed, Radically — and Finally — Opening the Debate • An article I wrote for Brazil’s largest newspaper documents growing opposition to Israel among Americans, and its relevance for other countries where Israel dissent is still taboo.
Debating the Ex-IDF Spokesman About the War in Iran on Piers Morgan's Show, with Mike Pence • PLUS: I asked the IDF Spokesman if Israel purposely builds its key military and intelligence command centers smack in the middle of residential Tel Aviv. Listen to his answer.
Trump Starts a Major Regime-Change War with Iran, Serving Neoconservatism and Israel • This is the definitive war of choice. It is the exact type of war that Trump and his movement spent a decade vowing to end. And the potential for destruction is infinite.
FREE SPEECH WINS: Glenn Greenwald and Guy Christensen on Censorship Faced Over Israel • A recording from Glenn Greenwald and Guy Christensen's live video
War Propaganda and Iran: The Exact Script Used for Every Failed US War Is Hauled Out Again • From Vietnam to Iran and every U.S. war in between, the same propaganda narratives are deployed, no matter how discredited and debunked they are from all the prior times they were exposed as lies.
The US is on the brink of a major new war that Trump has not even bothered explaining • Eight months after Trump insisted that Operation Midnight Hammer "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program, he has deployed the largest military presence in the Middle East since the Iraq War.
Lindsey Graham's Extreme Devotion to Israel on Full Display • Glenn examines the South Carolina senator's bizarre travel schedule to a foreign nation.
The Epstein Files: The Blackmail of Billionaire Leon Black and Epstein's Role in It • Black's downfall — despite paying tens of millions in extortion demands — illustrates how potent and valuable intimate secrets are in Epstein's world of oligarchs and billionaires.
AOC Makes Her Big Foreign Policy Debut, Then Promptly Falls Flat on Her Face • The Queens Democrat has always had serious difficulty speaking coherently on foreign policy. Despite tutoring and weeks of media promotion, it's only gotten worse.
Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State • Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.
Howard Lutnick's Blatant Lies About Epstein Ties • Glenn details the connections between the two New York financial figures.
Netanyahu Visits Trump for the Seventh Time Amid More Threats of a U.S. Attack on Iran • Will the U.S. Government base its policies toward Iran on its own interests, or fight a pointless but costly war against Israel's prime enemy in the Middle East?
Welcome Back to Substack! • I’m excited to return to the free speech platform that enabled my independent journalism to thrive, and that has since grown in so many ways.
New Article on Major Free Speech Threat • Many nations seem poised to abandon the core lesson of the Enlightenment: no human institution can or should be trusted to decree Absolute Truth and punish dissent from it