• 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

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    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

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    Counterpunch

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    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

  • Democracy • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom

    America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

    Published On: 09/05/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

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    Bioneers

    At this hinge moment when the climate emergency demands an immediate systemic civilizational overhaul, this retrograde counter-revolution is working to drill, baby, drill, make feudalism great again, and colonize Mars.

    Published On: 08/06/2025

  • Economy • Global

    Media coverage of Trump’s tariffs has grown more skeptical – but not nearly skeptical enough

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    Press Watch

    The tariffs are not the product of serious policymaking. They are the irrational and capricious result of Trump’s delusional thinking.

    Published On: 08/01/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Recommended • Violence

    Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International

    Their unequivocal findings add to the inescapable call for participating states to recognize Israel’s action against Palestinians in Gaza for what it is: genocide.

    Published On: 07/28/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    AFP Journalists’ Union Warns That Its Reporters Are at Risk of Starvation in Gaza

    Haaretz

    Haaretz

    'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.

    Published On: 07/22/2025

  • Disinformation • Global • Threat Management

    Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

    Mark Hertsgaard

    The Nation

    Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

    Published On: 07/18/2025

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