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 • 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 • 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
Culture • Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Recommended
Hostile Takeover
Kenny Ausubel
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
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
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