• Democracy • Economy • Europe • Global

    We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

    Garrett M. Graff

    Wired

    With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking at podium

    Canada • Democracy • Economy • Global • Resistance

    O Canada

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich

    A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • 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

  • 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

  • Europe • Exile • Global • Human Rights

    How to Leave the U.S.A.

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

    The New Yorker (December 8, 2025)

    The number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

    Published On: 12/22/2025

  • Global • Health • Human Rights • Violence

    Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

    Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo

    ProPublica

    Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID “into the woodchipper.”

    Published On: 12/15/2025

  • Corruption • Global • Human Rights

    The Disturbing Return Of The Prodigal Son-In-Law

    The Big Picture and Todd Beeton

    The Big Picture

    Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.

    Published On: 12/11/2025

  • Corruption • Europe • Global • 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

  • Global • Health

    Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths

    Sharon Lerner

    ProPublica

    Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

    Published On: 11/19/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Violence

    Dark Clouds Over Venezuela

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM w/ Marianne Williamson

    The next Vietnam or Iraq could be lurking in the Caribbean…

    Published On: 11/16/2025

  • Disinformation • Global • Health • Recommended

    When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change

    David Fenton

    FrameLab

    Bill Gates was yelling and screaming at me. Turning beet red. Waving his arms. Bullying, condescending, mocking. In public, no less.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    2025 Press Freedom Predators

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the profiles of 34 press freedom predators who attacked journalists and the right to information in 2025. What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Global • Safety • Threat Management

    Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    Counterpunch

    The Ukraine war has underscored yet another “Peaceful Atom” pitfall known for decades—the threat of a rogue nation turning atomic reactors into weapons of apocalyptic mass terror...

    Published On: 10/06/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Resistance

    From the Gaza Flotilla: “I’m Here Because My Jewish Heritage Demands It”

    David Adler

    The Nation

    I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide.

    Published On: 09/30/2025

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