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Moving On
Suddenly and violently, their childhoods were shattered. No child should have to live in a war zone. No child should have to bear witness to the murder of their mother. Some stopped talking. Others en...
The Defeat of Israel and the Rebirth of Palestinian Agency
If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit, and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideolo...
The Day After: Gaza’s Dawn Beyond Genocide
On Friday, October 10, 2025, the ceasefire took effect. After 735 days, tens of thousands of the two million displaced Palestinians began the painful walk home—some to rubble, others to houses b...

Editorials and Features

Wednesday, 08 October 2025
A Report from Occupied Portlandia; Trump Judge Says NO; Coup at CBS; Nuke Drone Alert
We begin GREEP Zoom by honoring Loretta Swit, MASH’s “Hot Lips” Houlihan, who has...
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Human Rights
08 October 2025
First They Came for the Immigrants
Robert C. Koehler
“Then they came for me . . .”I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news. ICE in Chicago!“More than 1,000...
Anti-War
15 October 2025
Words Are the First Weapon of War
Robert C. Koehler
I sit here at my desk, looking out the window – and see someone walking through the parking lot. This is the most ordinary of moments. I shrug quietly....
Politics
11 October 2025
Nobel Peace Prizes and Other Delusions
Philip Giraldi
On Friday morning I jumped out of bed just before 5 am Eastern US time full of fear that President Donald Trump might have become the declared recipient of...
Peace
11 October 2025
The Day After: Gaza’s Dawn Beyond Genocide
Ahmad Al-Akhras
On Friday, October 10, 2025, the ceasefire took effect. After 735 days, tens of thousands of the two million displaced Palestinians began the painful walk home...
Environment
25 September 2025
Gavin Newsom’s Lethal Nuclear Hypocrisy Must Be Reversed
Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.But it’s an infuriating radioactive lie that...
World News
11 October 2025
Buddhist Neighbors Exchange Rocket & Gunfire
Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Less than two months after President Donald Trump convinced U.S.-backed Thailand and China-assisted Cambodia to sign a peace agreement...
Op-Ed
13 October 2025
Images of ICE running wild in America
Pete Johnson
Are American's seeing the images of ICE attacking people? It would seem that the entire population would revolt. There are a brave few protesting but not...
Conspiracy Realist
06 October 2025
Revisiting Pfizer and Its Neurontin/Gababentin
Martha Rosenberg
With gabapentin risks back in the news and Trump’s friendship with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla reportedly behind new drug pricing agreements, it’s...
Cartoons
09 October 2025
ICE ICE Terrorists
Clay Jones
Trump's Tyranny
09 October 2025
The LAST American President
Greg Palast
for RawStoryOctober 9, 2025Pay attention to this professional liar:“I’m the only president in modern history who left office with a smaller...
Climate Crisis
People wading through wasit deep flood
30 September 2025
New report ranks states on climate-related health risks, clean energy policies
Nada Hassanein
Vermont, New York, Washington, New Jersey and Maine have the best combination of relatively low environmental risks and robust environmental policies,...
Election Issues
Voting booths
14 August 2025
Trump executive order on voting machines puts many Ohio counties in limbo
Nick Evans
This article first appeared on Ohio Capital JournalBuried in a March executive order from President Donald Trump is a provision that could cast doubt...
Protest Reports
People protesting
08 October 2025
The Traps of "If You Build it They Will Come"-Have Event Maps Displaced Organizing?
Paul Loeb
Haga clic aquí para españolWill the Oct 18 No Kings protests equal or surpass the 5 million who marched last June? Trump’s poll numbers...
Free Press Election Reporting
18 September 2025
Greep Zoom 238 - Sep 15, 2025 Well Regulated??, Moving To Red States, Green UKR, Health and Nukes
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman
We start with our Laureate MIMI GERMAN’s usual brilliant poetry.We hear from the dis-incarnated Jeffrey Epstein about his money laundering with Donald...
Everybody Knows with Dr. Bob and Dan-o
Bob, Tiffany and Dan with witches in the background
10 October 2025
It's the season of the witch on Everybody Knows
Suzanne Patzer
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan talk with Tiffany Boggins, the proprietor of Witchlab in Columbus and play witchy, devilish and ghostly tunes.Listen...