• emerging polycrisis

    Economy • Featured • Global • Health • Original • Recommended

    A Ticking Time Bomb: War and Climate Are About To Collide

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media

    The world’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is at the heart of every aspect of this emerging polycrisis - driving oil wars, climate destruction and famine.

    Published On: 04/16/2026

  • Global • Human Rights • Legal • Recommended • 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: 04/13/2026

  • a picture of flowers

    Democracy • Global • Resistance

    Flowers Bloom on Soldiers’ Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

    Published On: 04/12/2026

  • America’s Suez Crisis (w/ Alastair Crooke)

    Corruption • Global • Violence

    America’s Suez Crisis

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

    Published On: 04/11/2026

  • Viktor Orbán with Donald Trump-shaped shadow walking over an American flag

    Democracy • Europe • Global

    Hungary Is America in Miniature

    Garry Kasparov

    The Next Move

    Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

    Published On: 04/10/2026

  • A group of young Americans taking the oath of enlistment

    Democracy • Global • Legal

    Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December

    Cristina Stassis

    Military Times

    Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December 2026.

    Published On: 04/08/2026

  • Global • Health

    An El Niño is Brewing

    Bill McKibben

    The Crucial Years

    Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

    Published On: 02/16/2026

  • Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights

    EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International

    “This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

    Published On: 02/13/2026

  • Global • Health • Human Rights • Resistance

    When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • 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

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