Analysis

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

    JULES EVANS

    Ecstatic Integration

    An emerging alliance between Tech, the Pentagon and the Christian Right

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Trump’s Biggest Corruption is Flying Under the Radar

    Chris Murphy

    Chris Murphy's Substack

    It’s all just a shameless scheme for Trump to legalize large scale bribery, and shockingly, very few people seem to have taken notice.

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

    Brett Wagner

    San Francisco Chronicle

    A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

    Published On: 03/05/2025

  • Canada • Democracy

    ‘A scary place’: Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America

    Stuart Braun

    DW

    Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United States, to work and live in Canada. He equates the new leadership with "fascism."

    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Disinformation • Safety

    How MAHA Poisons the Food Movement

    Tom Philpott

    Mother Jones

    RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.

    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    How to End the Smash-and-Grab

    The Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    Without a healthy party system, you’re basically left with either violence or autocracy as the way disagreements get resolved.

    Published On: 02/14/2025

  • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

    Memo: ‘Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries’

    Gil Duran

    thenerdreich.com

    Memo details how Elon Musk has orchestrated a stunning takeover of the U.S. government

    Published On: 02/10/2025

  • Democracy • Technology

    The Plot Against America

    Mike Brock

    notesfromthecircus.com

    Teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial intelligence systems. Civil servants who raise legal objections are being removed. Government databases are being migrated to private servers. Decision-making power is being transferred from elected officials and career bureaucrats to algorithms controlled by a small network of Silicon Valley elites.

    Published On: 02/08/2025

  • Social Media • Threat Management

    Amid Meta Policy Changes, Neo-Nazis Monetize Hate on Instagram

    Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

    globalextremism.org

    In this new more permissive online environment, an investigation by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has discovered neo-Nazi activity flourishing on Instagram, including degrading hate speech, antisemitic conspiracism, and even Nazi symbols being used to sell merchandise.

    Published On: 02/06/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse

    Dave Troy

    The Washington Spectator

    In May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 8421, the “Federal Reserve Abolition Act” which aims to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve banks” and repeals the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the law that created the Federal Reserve System. ...This bill, as designed, would end the current dollar system and introduce a new financial system rooted in a gold-backed dollar and cryptocurrencies.

    Published On: 07/30/2024

  • Human Rights • Resistance

    adrienne maree brown On Radical Imagination

    Krista Tippett

    On Being

    "It’s like, how do we get in a right relationship with change that allows us to harness and shape things, towards community, towards liberation, towards justice?"

    Published On: 07/03/2024

  • Global • Technology

    The New Propaganda War

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    If people are naturally drawn to the image of human rights, to the language of democracy, to the dream of freedom, then those concepts have to be poisoned.

    Published On: 05/06/2024

  • Social Media • Technology

    Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism

    Morgan Meaker

    Wired

    In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

    Published On: 04/09/2024

  • Safety • Threat Management

    Iran’s AI Assault on Women

    Rachel George

    Council on Foreign Relations

    Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

    Published On: 12/07/2023

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence

    Israel-Gaza war: list of journalists killed in the line of duty in Palestine, Israel and Lebanon

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Boarders

    Journalists killed in connection with their work in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.

    Published On: 11/22/2023

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