• Cyber Security • Democracy • Threat Management

    The Desire for Terror

    Timothy Snyder

    Thinking About

    And the defense of democracy

    Published On: 03/08/2026

  • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Violence

    Imperial Overreach (w/ Alastair Crooke)

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

    The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

    Published On: 03/07/2026

  • Culture • Disinformation • Human Rights • Russia

    ‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

    Amelia Gentleman

    The Guardian

    Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

    Published On: 03/02/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation

    Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

    Doug Bock Clark

    ProPublica

    “The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

    Published On: 02/28/2026

  • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence

    The Children of Dilley

    Mica Rosenberg

    ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

    ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

    Published On: 02/24/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Legal

    The Extortion Presidency

    Lawrence Lessig

    Lawrence Lessig

    Anthropic in the cross-hairs.

    Published On: 02/19/2026

  • The Prairieland 19 Case is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent

    Jarrod Shanahan

    Jacobin

    Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.

    Published On: 02/18/2026

  • Democracy • Economy • Human Rights

    Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance

    John Nichols

    The Nation

    The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

    Published On: 02/17/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

    Matt Gertz

    Media Matters

    Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

    Published On: 02/17/2026

  • Global • Health

    An El Niño is Brewing

    Bill McKibben

    The Crucial Years

    Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

    Published On: 02/16/2026

  • Democracy • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

    Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails

    Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS

    Truthout

    “Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

    Published On: 02/14/2026

  • Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights

    EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International

    “This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

    Published On: 02/13/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism

    Rupert Murdoch Heads West

    Karl Grossman

    FAIR

    Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

    Published On: 02/09/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation

    The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Human Rights • Violence

    Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide

    Sharon Zhang

    Truthout

    The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

    Published On: 02/01/2026

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