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    Safety • Threat Management • Violence

    The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

    Judd Legum and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

    Published On: 04/07/2026

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    Culture • Democracy

    Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

    Jeffrey Sachs

    Savage Minds

    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.

    Published On: 04/07/2026

  • Secretary of War Pete Hegseth answers questions as President Donald Trump

    Corruption • Disinformation • Recommended • Violence

    Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

    Nick Turse

    The Intercept

    The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.

    Published On: 04/01/2026

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    Democracy • Featured • ICE • Resistance • Threat Management

    An Urgent Message to Indivisible

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

    Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

    Published On: 03/31/2026

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    Corruption • Disinformation • Recommended

    A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

    Jeremy Kohler

    ProPublica

    A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.

    Published On: 03/30/2026

  • 2021 coup white house usa

    Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Featured

    The Next Coup Attempt

    Timothy Snyder

    Timothy Snyder (04/04/2026)

    As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

    Published On: 03/29/2026

  • American protestor

    Democracy • Featured • Resistance

    “No Kings,” No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

    Dr Stacey Patton

    Dr Stacey Patton

    Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

    Published On: 03/28/2026

  • ICE agents

    Democracy • ICE • Violence

    “ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...

    Published On: 03/27/2026

  • Journalists stand atop a fuel tanker as they cover a nearby fire following an overnight airstrike

    Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance

    Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

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    CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

    Published On: 03/19/2026

  • Corruption • Surveillance • Technology

    Gaza: The World’s Most Obscene Real Estate Deal

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media

    Techno fascism, genocide and Trump’s “Board of Peace”

    Published On: 03/10/2026

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Threat Management

    The Desire for Terror

    Timothy Snyder

    Thinking About

    And the defense of democracy

    Published On: 03/08/2026

  • Culture • Personal Resilience • Resistance

    The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

    David Marchese

    The New York Times (Gift)

    "I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."

    Published On: 03/07/2026

  • 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

  • Global • Human Rights • Legal • Violence

    The Real Epstein Bombshell Isn’t at DOJ: It’s at Treasury

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media (February, 7, 2026)

    There is another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.

    Published On: 03/06/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Recommended

    They Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It.

    Craig Unger

    Craig Unger (February 24, 2026)

    Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and has now lead to war.

    Published On: 03/02/2026

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