Analysis

  • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US has entered a new phase of political violence

    J Oliver Conroy

    The Guardian

    The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling.

    Published On: 06/22/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Global • Human Rights • Original • Safety

    Out of Harm’s Way

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

    Published On: 06/21/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Surveillance

    1984, but with LLM’s

    Gary Marcus

    Marcus on AI

    “Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984, George Orwell

    Published On: 06/21/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

    The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    The Three C’s of the Apocalypse

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    But sure, let's have a parade!

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    You’re Not Paranoid. The Surveillance State is Already Here

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Economy • Featured • Recommended

    Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Featured • Resistance • Safety

    Why a Professor of Fascism Left the US

    Jonathan Freedland

    The Guardian

    Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Violence

    Is Humanitarian Aid a Tool to Advance the “Trump Plan” in Gaza?

    Katherine Wilkens

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fails to meet minimum international standards for aid delivery.

    Published On: 06/12/2025

  • Democracy • Violence

    This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    At each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Featured • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    How a Small Investigative Team Is Fighting the Growing Cyber Surveillance Threat

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    The tide of sophisticated surveillance tools and their sinister applications is poised to overwhelm watchdogs, tech platforms, and regulators.

    Published On: 06/10/2025

  • Democracy • Threat Management

    Martial Law Explained

    Tim Lau, Joseph Nunn

    Brennan Center for Justice

    Martial law has been declared more than 60 times in U.S. history, mostly by state and local officials. However, the concept has no established definition.

    Published On: 06/09/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Sunday Thought

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich Substack

    To be brave and nonviolent in the face of tyranny, to be strong and restrained, to resist with our hearts filled with anger but not succumb to that anger — is terribly difficult.

    Published On: 06/08/2025

  • Recommended • Safety • Threat Management

    Trump’s Nuclear Power Obsession

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    CounterPunch

    Yet while prices and production times for renewable sources plummet, Trump and his anti-green minions have been vigorously assaulting the wind, solar and other green energy technologies.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation

    The Rule of Idiots

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

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