Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
Anne Applebaum
The Atlantic (Gift) October 27, 2025
Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.
Published On: 11/16/2025
Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Russia
Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon ?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
When we place Trump’s bizarre, unprecedented secrecy next to Epstein’s emails in which the billionaire pedophile tells European and Russian contacts that he could offer “insight” into Trump, the outlines of a deeply troubling possibility emerge.
Published On: 11/14/2025
Culture • Democracy • White Supremacy
Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint
Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton
No African American studies. No women’s studies. No queer studies. No sociology of race. No equity-focused education courses. No history courses on segregation. No public health instruction on racial disparities. No discussions of gender identity in psychology, medicine, social work, or literature.
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
Recommended • Resistance • Social Media • Technology
Civic Works: Two Projects, One Theme
George Polisner
civ.works
civ.works will be a subscriber-supported, ad-free social network that does not betray subscriber trust by selling or sharing data with marketers or sinister political operatives.
Published On: 11/07/2025
Democracy • Economy • Resistance
Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement
Peter Olney and Rand Wilson
Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)
For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.
Published On: 11/06/2025
Corruption • Legal
Follow the Money: The Epstein Files They Didn’t Want You to See
Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester
Closer to the Edge
That deal wasn’t justice; it was choreography. The money-laundering indictment that could’ve exposed his financial enablers was boxed up and buried...
Published On: 11/01/2025





