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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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    RSF
    Reporters Without Borders

    Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

    Published On: 05/05/2025

  • The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

    LUKE O’BRIEN
    Mother Jones

    Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Trump signs orders targeting two ex-officials who criticized him

    Steve Holland
    Reuters

    U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

    Published On: 04/10/2025

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    David A. Graham
    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power

    Christopher Armitage
    The Existentialist Republic

    Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America

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    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

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    Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

    Published On: 10/26/2025

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    Understanding Hybrid Civil War

    Published On: 10/26/2025

  • Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money

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    The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.

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