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  • A picture of Trump with the writing: The enemies Trump has created

    Democracy • Disinformation • Recommended • Russia

    The Enemies He Created: Trump’s Paranoia Spiral

    Jim Stewartson

    MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

    Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

    Published On: 04/12/2026

  • a picture of flowers

    Democracy • Global • Resistance

    Flowers Bloom on Soldiers’ Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

    Published On: 04/12/2026

  • "ICE Out” day of protest on January 23, 2026

    Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.

    Sarah van Gelder

    Truthout

    The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

    Published On: 04/12/2026

  • America’s Suez Crisis (w/ Alastair Crooke)

    Corruption • Global • Violence

    America’s Suez Crisis

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

    Published On: 04/11/2026

  • A picture of Paolo Zampolli, Melania and Donald Trump in Mar-a-lago

    Corruption • Human Rights • ICE

    Could a former Brazilian model be the whistleblower Melania is afraid of?

    Julie K Brown

    The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

    The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.

    Published On: 04/10/2026

  • Viktor Orbán with Donald Trump-shaped shadow walking over an American flag

    Democracy • Europe • Global

    Hungary Is America in Miniature

    Garry Kasparov

    The Next Move

    Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

    Published On: 04/10/2026

  • golden dome usa

    Safety • Threat Management • Violence

    The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

    Judd Legum and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

    Published On: 04/07/2026

  • President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper gun while speaking with reporters

    Culture • Democracy

    Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

    Jeffrey Sachs

    Savage Minds

    When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

    Published On: 04/07/2026

  • An image of Sam Altman with multiple facial expressions

    Artificial Intelligence • Surveillance • Technology

    Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?

    Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

    The New Yorker

    New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

    Published On: 04/06/2026

  • Secretary of War Pete Hegseth answers questions as President Donald Trump

    Corruption • Disinformation • Violence

    Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

    Nick Turse

    The Intercept

    The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.

    Published On: 04/01/2026

  • Illustration of American congress being puppeteered by a mystery figure

    Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom

    From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

    A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

    Published On: 03/31/2026

  • U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the White House

    Corruption • Democracy • Surveillance

    Is the Barr Family Blocking The Epstein Investigation Because It Would Expose What’s Being Built Right Now?

    Kait Justice

    Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice

    Three threads, fifty years, a 1973 Sci-Fi novel and the architecture of a sovereign class that answers to no one.

    Published On: 03/31/2026

  • Joseph Schwartz presidential Pardon

    Corruption • Disinformation

    A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

    Jeremy Kohler

    ProPublica

    A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.

    Published On: 03/30/2026

  • 2021 coup white house usa

    Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation

    The Next Coup Attempt

    Timothy Snyder

    Timothy Snyder (04/04/2026)

    As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

    Published On: 03/29/2026

  • American protestor

    Democracy • Resistance

    “No Kings,” No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

    Dr Stacey Patton

    Dr Stacey Patton

    Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

    Published On: 03/28/2026

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