• Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Violence

    Spheres of Influence

    Anne Applebaum

    Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

    This is a criminally short-sighted policy. For seventy years, American prosperity and influence have been based on a network of allies who worked with us, not because they were coerced, but because they shared our values.

    Published On: 01/06/2026

  • Recommended • Resistance • Threat Management • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Antidote to Fear is Courage

    Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud

    In These Times

    These documents imply that the ​“terrorists” are the brave teachers, neighbors, librarians, and community members blowing whistles, protecting students, keeping books on shelves, advocating for trans rights, and organizing for economic and social equity.

    Published On: 01/06/2026

  • Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Violence

    America the Rogue State

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony.

    Published On: 01/05/2026

  • Corruption • Recommended

    Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil

    Stephen Prager

    Common Dreams

    “Paul Singer’s shady purchase of Citgo has everything to do with this coup.”

    Published On: 01/05/2026

  • Democracy • Featured • Legal • Violence

    The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

    Julian Borger

    The Guardian

    Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas.

    Published On: 01/03/2026

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation

    The Threat from America

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy

    The next days and weeks are a test. What, if anything, will survive the blast zone of what is not just a military campaign but a targeted disinformation strike?

    Published On: 01/03/2026

  • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech

    The New York Times

    The New York Times (Gift)

    "I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope."

    Published On: 01/01/2026

  • Health • Human Rights • Violence

    Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

    Amy Walker and David Gritten

    BBC

    INGOs run or support most of Gaza's field hospitals and primary healthcare centres, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilisation centres for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities.

    Published On: 01/01/2026

  • Human Rights • Resistance

    Buddhist monks and their ‘peace dog’ are walking across the US and captivating the nation along the way

    Via AP

    Independent

    While Buddhism has branched into a number of sects over the centuries, its rich tradition of peace activism continues

    Published On: 12/30/2025

  • Resistance • Safety • Violence

    Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

    Sonali Kolhatkar

    Truthout

    Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • Culture • Health • Resistance

    Trump’s Christmas message: “Scum” wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

    Published On: 12/26/2025

  • Europe • Exile • Global • Human Rights

    How to Leave the U.S.A.

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

    The New Yorker (December 8, 2025)

    The number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

    Published On: 12/22/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Recommended • Technology • White Supremacy

    Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda

    Ben Makuch

    The Guardian

    Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology.

    Published On: 12/21/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Recommended • Violence

    Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    The files seem to have been his breaking point. Breaking point in the loyalty of so many right-wingers, and maybe a mental breaking point for him. I welcome what belated, flawed, imperfect version of justice may yet come.

    Published On: 12/20/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Threat Management

    The Slow Release of the Epstein Files Is Psychological Conditioning

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The public is being shown just enough to know the truth, and to understand that nothing is going to happen.

    Published On: 12/20/2025

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    Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology.

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    Pinochet Is Smiling in His Grave

    Any resistance that Chileans bring to the streets must be accompanied by an equally valiant attempt to imagine our way out of this crisis.

  • 11/26/2025

    If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking timebomb

    That once you are raped, once your body is taken against your will, once you are invaded and dominated your body ceases to be your own.