by Sharon Zhang | Mar 26, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, News, Pete Hegseth, Propaganda, War
President Donald Trump dubiously claimed on Tuesday that the U.S. and Israel have already “won” their war on Iran, blaming the media for the continuation of the war as news emerges that the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops to the Middle East. “We’ve won this war. The war has been won,” Trump said in remarks to the media on Tuesday, parroting the same claims of victory he’s asserted for…
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by Henry A. Giroux | Mar 21, 2026 | aesthetics, cruelty, Donald Trump, Fascism, Iran, Op-Ed, Propaganda, spectacle, war in Iran
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to be an antiwar candidate, boasting that, unlike his predecessors, he would end endless wars and keep the United States out of new military conflicts. Yet the trajectory of his presidency has unfolded in the opposite direction. From expanding military confrontations in the Caribbean to the escalating war with Iran…
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by Chris Walker | Mar 13, 2026 | forced patriotism, iran war, News, Pete Hegseth, Propaganda, Strait of Hormuz, War
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lashed out at the media during a press conference on Friday, bemoaning headlines he disliked and demanding that a more “patriotic press” cover the U.S.’s expanding war on Iran. During the presser, Hegseth, a former cable news personality on Fox News, appeared rattled over reporting that suggested the Trump administration was mismanaging the unauthorized war.
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by Sharon Zhang | Mar 6, 2026 | Donald Trump, Iran, News, Propaganda, War, War Crimes, White House
For several days in a row, the White House has posted videos on X of the U.S.’s strikes on Iran spliced with footage taken from video games and action movies, in a dystopic form of propaganda that treats the war like a game or like social media content to be mined. On Friday, the White House account shared a video that began with a popular meme from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas…
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by Sharon Zhang | Mar 4, 2026 | Iran, Israel, Karoline Leavitt, News, Pete Hegseth, Propaganda
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the idea that the U.S. was responsible for a strike on Saturday that struck a school in Minab, Iran, describing reports that the U.S. would target civilians in combat as “propaganda.” When asked whether the U.S. carried out the strike, Leavitt said: “Not that we know of.” She echoed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s assertion on…
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by Elisha Brown | Jan 30, 2026 | Abortion, abortion bans, Abortion Pills, Criminalization, Fetal Personhood, Florida, Indiana, medication abortion, mifepristone, misoprostol, News, Propaganda, Reproductive Rights, South Carolina, Wisconsin
Even though many legislative sessions only just convened across the country this month, efforts to restrict access to abortion pills are in full swing, particularly in states that already ban abortion. Nearly 200 anti-abortion bills have been introduced in 29 states, according to an estimate by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. “In 2026…
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