• Legal • Recommended • Resistance • Violence

    ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder

    David Dayen

    The American Prospect

    As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues (August, 2025)

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • Global • Violence

    The List of Countries Trump is Threatening With War Keeps Growing

    Jonah Valadez

    The Intercept

    President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

    Published On: 01/06/2026

  • 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

  • Corruption • Recommended

    Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil

    Stephen Prager

    Common Dreams

    “Paul Singer’s shady purchase of Citgo has everything to do with this coup.”

    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

  • Democracy • Featured • Legal • Violence

    The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

    Julian Borger

    The Guardian

    Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas.

    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

  • Human Rights • Resistance

    Buddhist monks and their ‘peace dog’ are walking across the US and captivating the nation along the way

    Via AP

    Independent

    While Buddhism has branched into a number of sects over the centuries, its rich tradition of peace activism continues

    Published On: 12/30/2025

  • Resistance • Safety • Violence

    Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

    Sonali Kolhatkar

    Truthout

    Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Resistance

    The Disappearing Thin Red Line

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    For decades, Republicans have relied on a rebranded cycle of political marketing—Silent Majority, Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, MAGA—all designed to divide voters along emotional fault lines while stealthily consolidating wealth and power at the top.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • 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

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