by Branko Marcetic | Mar 11, 2026 | Article, Iran, Israel, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Reprint, Trump, War
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Mar. 10, 2026. It is shared here with permission.
Over the weekend, the Washington Post was the latest to publish a claim that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the threat of launching a war with Iran solo as a way to pressure Donald Trump into the disastrous war he has now embroiled the United States in. It’s at least the fifth piece of evidence now suggesting that the United States was pushed into this war by Israel, and that the very military support that Washington provides Israel has served as the mechanism to do it.
It’s tempting to see this as a deliberate way to dump responsibility for this horror show onto Israel and divert it away from the US president, who ordered it, and the US foreign policy establishment as a whole, which has salivated over a war with Iran for decades. But we have mounting evidence that Israel bears a huge amount of responsibility. Which raises the question: If Israel was indeed able to successfully trigger a US-Iran war, is any ceasefire or lasting peace possible here without Israel’s approval? This is particularly relevant to an American public that foots the bill for Israel’s war-making.
According to the Post, Netanyahu, “increasingly alarmed” that Trump might actually solve the Iran issue peacefully, repeatedly rushed to Washington over the past few months to make sure he went to war instead. A “key component of his drive to war,” reports the Post, was telling Trump that Israel would go ahead and attack Iran with or without his help, which “led Trump to believe an Israeli attack was inevitable” and that his best
by Jake Johnson | Mar 10, 2026 | Article, Economy, Economy and Inequality, Iran, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Reprint, Trump, War
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Mar. 10, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
The Trump administration is quietly pursuing a regulatory change that would strip federal nutrition assistance from an estimated 6 million low-income Americans—including nearly two million children—as it spends billions on an illegal, open-ended war on Iran that has killed more than a thousand people and plunged the global economy into chaos.
The change sought by the US Department of Agriculture would curb broad-based categorical eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Broad-based categorical eligibility allows states to automatically qualify residents for SNAP if they are already enrolled in other aid programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, thus reducing administrative hurdles and costs.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) estimated in a blog post published late last month—the day before President Donald Trump announced the joint US-Israeli assault on Iran—that gutting broad-based categorical eligibility would likely strip modest federal food aid from around 6 million people, including nearly 2 million children.
“The people losing access to food assistance from SNAP, school meals, and [the Women, Infants, and Children Program] would mainly be working families, older adults, and people with disabilities,” the think tank noted. “In other words, the change would primarily harm groups that federal and state policymakers from across the political spectrum have long sought to help: people who work but are living near poverty; older adults and people with disabilities with low, fixed incomes; and people trying to build modest savings in order to become more economically independent.”
The Congressional Budget Office has projected that restricting broad-based categorical eligibility would result in roughly $11 billion in savings over a 10-year period—or just over $1 billion a year.
The Trump administration is currently spending
by Victoria Law | Mar 10, 2026 | Article, ICE, immigration, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Reprint, Trump
This article was originally published by Truthout on Mar. 08, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
In November 2022, a long-time permanent resident of the U.S. was released from FCI Dublin, a California federal women’s prison. A probation officer had visited and approved her to stay at her mother’s home. The woman, who asked to be identified here by the pseudonym “Cristal” due to fear of retaliation, was looking forward to rebuilding relationships with her family, particularly her daughters — ages 12 and 6. “All I wanted was to spend the day with them,” she told Truthout.
She was also relieved to be out of Dublin, a notorious prison dubbed “the rape club” after decades of staff sexual abuse. At Dublin, she had been sexually harassed and verbally abused by an officer, physically assaulted by another, witnessed other officers sexually abusing women, and been subjected to retaliation.
Before her arrest, Cristal had been a long-time permanent resident of the U.S. Her conviction for drugs invalidated her green card, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a final removal order based on her felony conviction. Despite a pending application for a U visa for crime victims who have assisted law enforcement, upon her release from Dublin she was met by an ICE officer holding chains, and transported to the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), an immigration jail run by private prison corporation GEO Group in Tacoma, Washington.
Cristal’s experience is far from unique. According to records from the Bureau of Prisons, 227 people incarcerated at Dublin between April 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, had immigration detainers. A coalition of human rights organizations
by Jon Queally | Mar 9, 2026 | Article, Climate Crisis, Iran, Israel, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Reprint, Trump
by Jake Johnson | Mar 6, 2026 | Article, Iran, Politics and Movements: US, Reprint, Trump
by Jessica Corbett | Mar 5, 2026 | Article, ICE, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Reprint, Trump
