Human Rights • Safety • Violence
As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
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.”
Published On: 07/23/2025
Corruption • Legal
From Truth Social to bitcoin empire: Trump’s $2 billion pivot
Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
Popular Information
Trump has the authority to take actions that will drive the price of bitcoin higher. If recent history is any guide, that is exactly what Trump will do.
Published On: 07/22/2025
Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom
AFP Journalists’ Union Warns That Its Reporters Are at Risk of Starvation in Gaza
Haaretz
Haaretz
'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.
Published On: 07/22/2025
Press Freedom
Colbert and Capitulation
Jon Passantino
Status
The optics are hard to ignore: a top-rated show, led by one of Trump’s most vocal critics, axed just weeks after Paramount settled a lawsuit with Trump and began courting conservative media figures for leadership roles in the post-merger company.
Published On: 07/19/2025
Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended
Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent
Jeff Cohen
Common Dreams
In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.
Published On: 07/19/2025
Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global
Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU
Article 19
Article 19
"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."
Published On: 07/16/2025
Democracy • Legal
Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’
Jen Rice
Democracy Docket
Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.
Published On: 07/15/2025