The War on Afghanistan Was Launched 25 Years Ago. It Still Hasn’t Ended.
By Emran Feroz This article was originally published by Truthout The war inaugurated a terrible new global order in which armed drones kill civilians who are neither named nor counted.…
3 Years Ago My Family Harvested Olives, Not Knowing It Would Be the Last Time
Two of my family’s olive groves fell under Israeli control and got bulldozed. The third is damaged beyond recognition. By Amna Ahmed Dmeida This article was originally published by Truthout…
Three Years Into Gaza’s Genocide, U.S. Political Rhetoric Hasn’t Translated Into Action
Mohammed Abo Matar Prism While some political candidates rose to prominence through their support for Palestine, the U.S. has not stopped backing Israel Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has…
Florida’s Lawsuit Against NYT’s Gaza Coverage Is Pure Desperation
Ari Paul FAIR Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, is taking on the New York Times for its coverage of Israel and Palestine. The legal action says less about the…
After October 7, I Learned That Movements Need Grief Spaces
Alison Avigayil Ramer Waging Nonviolence From police killings to genocide in Gaza, collective grieving practices have built lasting movement infrastructure and helped overcome alienation and burnout. Since the massacres on…
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore) | TCHR
Chris Hedges Report Jill Lepore examines the ideological roots of our Big Tech technocrats, and how tech is facilitating the elimination of the democratic gains that centuries of political struggle…
Is Palestine a Third Rail or Key to a Democratic Blue Wave?
Alex Poppe Informed Comment “Books frighten power,” Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets, said on the first day of our fiction workshop. We were at the Macondo Writers Workshop,…
Trump Illegally Withheld Lifesaving Health Research Funds: Federal Watchdog
Jake Johnson Common Dreams “Donald Trump is stealing taxpayers’ dollars that Congress set aside to improve Americans’ health,” said a group of House Democrats. An independent federal watchdog concluded on…
The Pentagon’s Secret Budget
David Vine, Counter Punch. News reports that next year’s U.S. military budget will top out at $1.5 trillion if President Donald Trump gets his way are misleading at best. The…
The Race to an AI Apocalypse: How an Obsession with Autonomous Weapons Ignores Decades of Warnings
Dan Dinello Informed Comment Science fiction’s vision of an apocalyptic future ruled by autonomous weapons is rapidly becoming our dystopian present. Suddenly, after several years of relentless momentum, the course…
He Loved Working In Concrete. Now, He’s Dying From The Chemical Exposure
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN Because he was bullied in elementary school for being Native American, James Gardner’s friends lovingly call him “NDN.” His friends and family know NDN to be a…
Rees-Mogg Says He Supports The Mass-Murder Of Children – And Liberals Fawn Over Him
Jonathan Cook Substack Tucker Carlson, a strict isolationist, wonders what UK interest was served in fighting Hitler. If that sounds unhinged, wait till you hear what Lord Rees-Mogg has to…
The Tariffs Were a Wake-Up Call. Ottawa Hits Snooze Again
Umer Azad There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with precisely the right number of carefully selected adjectives. Washington imposes tariffs.…