Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Featured • Russia
America’s Foreign Policy Now Aligns With Russia
Olga Lautman
Olga Lautman
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...
Published On: 12/07/2025
Disinformation • Economy • Featured
The Dells’ $250 “Investment” Accounts for Kids Is Scammy Billionaire Philanthropy Theater
Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton
Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.
Published On: 12/06/2025
Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Recommended • Technology
The Authoritarian Stack
A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org
The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
Published On: 12/05/2025
Corruption • Europe • Global • Recommended • Russia
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, Joe Parkinson
The Wall Street Journal
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
Published On: 11/28/2025
Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Social Media
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Robert Booth
The Guardian
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
Published On: 11/27/2025
Culture • Personal Resilience • Recommended • Violence
If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking timebomb
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
The Guardian
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.
Published On: 11/26/2025
Economy • Recommended
What Happens When the AI Bubble Blows Up on Main Street?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
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…
Published On: 11/26/2025
Democracy • Resistance
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
Many Republicans saw that Trump was in decline, possibly rapid decline, and that their future lay not in the slavish deference we've seen for nine years but in separating themselves from him.
Published On: 11/25/2025
Featured • Health • Human Rights • Threat Management
Another COP wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice
Genevieve Guenther
The Guardian
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope
Published On: 11/24/2025





