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David Futrelle — The Nation

What’s Really Behind Peter Thiel’s Panicked Move to Argentina

Some tech observers think that the Palantir overlord sees the end times coming, but his real motivation is likely much more mundane and self-interested.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Economy • Fascism • Financial • Global • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

Resistance Media

Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion IPO is a Weapon, Not an Investment

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You About the SpaceX Initial Public Offering.

Economy • Environment • Financial • Global • Health • Science

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (04/16/2026)

A Ticking Time Bomb: War and Climate Are About To Collide

The world’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is at the heart of every aspect of this emerging polycrisis - driving oil wars, climate destruction and famine.

Artificial Intelligence • Environment • Global • Health • Technology

Molly Taft — Wired

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Democracy • Global • Resistance

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

Corruption • Executive Power • Global • Violence

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

America’s Suez Crisis

Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism • Global

Garry Kasparov — The Next Move

Hungary Is America in Miniature

Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

Democracy • Executive Power • Global • Legal

Cristina Stassis — Military Times

Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December

Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December 2026.

Culture • Democracy • Fascism • Global

Jeffrey Sachs — Savage Minds

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

Environment • Global • Health • Science • Threat Management

Bill McKibben — The Crucial Years

An El Niño is Brewing

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

Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Violence

Amnesty International

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

“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."

Environment • Global • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Science

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

Global • Health • Human Rights • Violence

Amy Walker and David Gritten — BBC

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

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.

Canada • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Russia

Olga Lautman

America’s Foreign Policy Now Aligns With Russia

The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Financial • Global • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org — The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Artificial Intelligence • Economy • Financial • Global • Technology

Carole Cadwalladr — How to Survive the Broligarchy (November 16, 2025)

Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge

Yesterday, I published on the "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock

Economy • Financial • Global • Regulations

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

What Happens When the AI Bubble Blows Up on Main Street?

When this bubble bursts, the collapse won’t hit Google’s coders — it’ll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom…

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Surveillance • Technology

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

“Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

Disinformation • Environment • Global • Science

Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections — Attention to the Unseen

How Joe Rogan Misleads Listeners About Climate Change

Of all the techniques in the climate denier’s playbook, Rogan relies most heavily on conspiracy theorizing.

Environment • Global • Science • Social Justice and Equity

Nell Greenfieldboyce — NPR

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall's decades of research on chimpanzees in the wild changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals.

Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Executive Power • Financial • Global • Technology

Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur — New York Times (Gift)

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Economy • Executive Power • Fascism • Global • Social Media • Technology

Brian Barrett — Wired

All the President’s Tech CEOs

One by one, Trump asked the executives how much they were investing in the United States. One by one, they obliged, praising Trump’s leadership along the way.

Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Executive Power • Financial • Global

David D. Kirkpatrick — The New Yorker

The Number

How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?

Fascism • Global • Health • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

Doctors Without Borders

As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away

An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

Corruption • Democracy • Europe • Executive Power • Global • Human Rights • Legal

Michael Maya — Just Security

Why Hungary and Orbanism Must Never be a Model for the U.S.

Those who praise Orban and argue that Hungary provides a useful model for the United States are gravely misguided or worse.

Canada • Europe • Exile • Fascism • Global • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

Ron Williams

Out of Harm’s Way

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.

Economy • Financial • Global

Robert Reich — https://robertreich.substack.com

Trump’s Huge Tariff Hoax

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

Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

Sarah Ventre — NPR

Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace

We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

Disinformation • Global • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Scot Nakagawa — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Digital Authoritarianism

Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

Economy • Executive Power • Financial • Global

Timothy Noah — The New Republic

Trump’s Recession Has Begun

It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.

Democracy • Global

Mike Brock — https://www.notesfromthecircus.com

An SOS From American Democracy

Why the Global Democratic Community Must Respond Before It’s Too Late

Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Legal

Nader Hashemi — New Lines Magazine

Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Europe • Executive Power • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom

András Pethő — Atlantic

Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar

Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

Democracy • Digital Rights • Elections • Global • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Gretel Kahn, Marina Adami, Eduardo Suárez — Reuters Institute

Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States

Before Trump’s inauguration, the US government supported independent journalism in more than 30 countries. Most of this funding was channelled through USAID. According to a USAID factsheet recently mentioned by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.

Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Global • Threat Management

Wikipedia

Insurrection Act of 1807

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law[1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Stephanie Kirchgaessner — The Guardian

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Europe • Global

Oana Popescu-Zamfir — carnegieendowment

Russian Interference: Coming Soon to an Election Near You

Russia pursues a systematic strategy of undermining elections and influencing public opinion in the West. EU and NATO countries must recognize that Moscow often acts through agents within their own borders, and build resilience to such interference.

Democracy • Europe • Executive Power • Fascism • Global • Violence

Timothy W. Ryback — The Atlantic

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

It took Hitler 53 days. Trump's shock & awe campaign is moving at lightning speed.

Exile • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Technology

Ananya Bhasin — Committee to Protect Journalists

How an exile newsroom reports on Afghan women

After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members, they made their way to a refugee camp in Albania. Then, they got to work rebuilding the newsroom they had left behind.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Exile • Global • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Reporters Without Borders — rsf.org

New report on Russian media in exile: RSF calls for increased support amid unprecedented digital repression

Independent Russian media in exile are a vital line of defence against the Kremlin’s massive digital censorship project, which has an estimated budget of nearly 630 million euros, according to the latest report by The Fix and the JX Fund. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges European states, international donors, and tech giants to step up their support for these media outlets as they face unprecedented repression and major logistical, financial, and security challenges.

Economy • Financial • Global • Social Media • Technology

Morgan Meaker — Wired

Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism

In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Global • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management