Democracy dies without a free press.

“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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    The Atlantic

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    Published On: 04/22/2025

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    Great uprisings are often both carefully prepared for and essentially unpredictable. It's as if the fuel has been gathered for a bonfire but a lightning strike suddenly ignites it.

    Published On: 03/01/2025

    Published On: 03/01/2025

  • Energy Transfer’s High Stakes Legal Attack on Greenpeace

    Janine Jackson
    FAIR Counterspin

    ...this case is one of the most extraordinary examples of abuse of the US legal system that we have encountered in at least the last decade. And anyone who is concerned about protecting free speech rights, or is concerned about large corporations abusing their power to silence their critics, should be paying attention to this case, even though it’s happening in North Dakota state court." -- Kirk Herbertson, EarthRights International

    Published On: 02/28/2025

    Published On: 02/28/2025

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    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Is Humanitarian Aid a Tool to Advance the “Trump Plan” in Gaza?

    Katherine Wilkens
    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fails to meet minimum international standards for aid delivery.

    Published On: 06/12/2025

  • Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests

    BrieAnna J. Frank
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    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

    Anne Applebaum
    The Atlantic

    At each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Martial Law Explained

    Tim Lau, Joseph Nunn
    Brennan Center for Justice

    Martial law has been declared more than 60 times in U.S. history, mostly by state and local officials. However, the concept has no established definition.

    Published On: 06/09/2025

  • Sunday Thought

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    Robert Reich Substack

    To be brave and nonviolent in the face of tyranny, to be strong and restrained, to resist with our hearts filled with anger but not succumb to that anger — is terribly difficult.

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