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
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
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
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




