Analysis

  • 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

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

    UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals

    UN Human Rights Office

    un.org

    Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Europe

    The US Right Is Coming for the UK—With Crypto in Hand

    Peter Geoghegan

    Democracy for Sale

    Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and how authoritarian tech fantasies are becoming political reality

    Published On: 06/04/2025

  • Economy • Global • Technology

    Why Climate Action is Unstoppable

    Al Gore

    Ted Talks

    In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

    Published On: 06/04/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Human Rights

    Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women

    Laura Bates

    The Guardian

    When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself

    Published On: 06/03/2025

  • Democracy • Featured

    Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

    Ava Kofman

    The New Yorker

    The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Featured • Technology

    The Dark Lord of Silicon Valley

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy

    Peter Thiel enters the chat.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended • White Supremacy

    What was the German Enabling Act?

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Surveillance • Technology

    Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

    Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik

    The New York Times

    Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics...

    Published On: 05/30/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Safety

    The Case Against Leaving Trump’s America

    Ross Barkan

    New York Magazine

    Fleeing is a cheap, ego-flattering maneuver; it helps no one. This is not the late Weimar period or Nazi Germany.

    Published On: 05/21/2025

  • Featured • Recommended • Resistance • Safety

    Staying with the Trouble

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

  • Featured • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    The Rise of State Media in Trump’s America

    Olga Lautman

    olgalautman.substack.com

    The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

    Published On: 05/15/2025

  • Economy

    Trump’s Huge Tariff Hoax

    Robert Reich

    https://robertreich.substack.com

    A big lie is at the heart of Trump’s tariffs

    Published On: 05/13/2025

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