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Henry A. Giroux — LA Progressive (04/24/2026)

When Gangster Capitalism Becomes Government

Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it.

Artificial Intelligence • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Violence

Ken Klippenstein

Death by A.I.

New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings.

Corruption • Executive Power • Global • Violence

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

America’s Suez Crisis

Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

Democracy • Executive Power • Impacts • Safety • Violence

Judd Legum and Noel Sims — Popular Information

The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

Corruption • Disinformation • Executive Power • Violence

Nick Turse — The Intercept

Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

“ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later

The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...

Disinformation • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Violence

CPJ Staff — CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

Disinformation • Economy • Press Freedom • Violence

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

Imperial Overreach (w/ Alastair Crooke)

The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

Democracy • Europe • Fascism • Violence • White Supremacy

Gloria Horton-Young — She Who Stirs the Storm (January 21, 2026)

The Perfect Storm

When warnings are everywhere, and still no one moves.

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence

Mica Rosenberg — ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

The Children of Dilley

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS — Truthout

Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails

“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Violence

Amnesty International

EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

Corruption • Disinformation • Financial • Human Rights • Violence

Sharon Zhang — Truthout

Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide

The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Ron Williams

Let's Never Forget Who We Are

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Violence • White Supremacy

Isaac Stanley-Becker — The Atlantic (Gift)

Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

Ta-Nehisi Coates — Vanity Fair

The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

Democracy • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

Robert F. Worth — The Atlantic (Gift)

Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Resistance • Violence

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Increasing Calls From the Public Saying “Fight or Resign”

Elected officials who refuse to use their power should lose it.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Nick Turse — The Intercept

U..S. Military Willing to Attack "Designated Terrorist Organizations" Within America, General Says

“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

Global • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

David Adler — The Nation

From the Gaza Flotilla: “I’m Here Because My Jewish Heritage Demands It”

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.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano — The Nation

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

Gustavo Arellano — L.A. Times

Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever, 55 years later

No one was around when I finally got to Salazar’s niche, in a section of the cemetery called the Alcove of Time. A simple bronze plaque included the accent over the “e” in “Rubén,” which his Times byline never had. Instead of Spanish wine, I brought a flask of mezcal — I don’t think he would have minded the stiffer drink in this 2025.

Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Clint Smith — The Atlantic

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

We must make a record of those forces that seek to erase us and erase our histories so that future generations know we did not simply accept it. Our ancestors’ words remind us that we never have.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

Haaretz

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

'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.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Reporters Without Borders

Six months of Trump’s war on the press

This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Freedom of the Press Foundation

LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.

Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

BrieAnna J. Frank — USA Today

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

Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

Cyber Security • Human Rights • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Laura Bates — The Guardian

Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women

When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself

Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Irene Khan — United Nations Human Rights Council

UN Human Rights Council Report: Journalists in exile

The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

Democracy • Executive Power • Violence

THOM HARTMANN — The Hartmann Report

Reichstag Fire 2.0: Will Trump Use a Crisis to Kill Democracy?

There’s a long history of leaders using national emergencies to raise their popularity, expand their own power, overwhelm opposition politicians, scapegoat minorities, suspend constitutions and elections, and provide a legal façade for ending or weakening democracy.

Democracy • Europe • Executive Power • Fascism • Global • Violence

Timothy W. Ryback — The Atlantic

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

It took Hitler 53 days. Trump's shock & awe campaign is moving at lightning speed.

Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Michelle Nicholasen — The Harvard Gazette

Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon

Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns