On World Press Freedom Day, Journalism Is Under Fire
Joshua Scheer On this World Press Freedom Day, we honor not only the courage of journalists who risk everything to tell the truth, but also the relentless work of organizations…
Why Power Analysis Is Key To Fighting ICE
Deep research is key to identifying ICE’s pillars of support and building the power necessary to topple them. James L. VanHise for Waging Nonviolence The ICE campaign to round up…
Amendments Protecting Pro-Palestine Speech in California Schools Face Backlash
By Marianne Dhenin This article was originally published by Truthout Educators and activists are fighting for changes to a bill they say was “designed to create an atmosphere of fear.”…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity
The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing…
The Hidden Tax: How a Falling Dollar Is Quietly Draining Working Americans While Corporations Cash In
Joshua Scheer A slow bleed is underway—and most Americans are being told not to notice. As the U.S. dollar weakens, prices are creeping higher across everyday life: groceries, travel, fuel,…
Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science
Abrahm Lustgarten for Propublica For many months, conservative lawmakers and political operatives have been targeting the scientists and lawyers behind the Climate Judiciary Project, a program meant to educate the…
The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes for Informed Comment Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet – from…
“A Huge Setback”: New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations
For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. Sharon Lerner Propublica The calculations done by scientists at…
Israeli Attack On Flotilla Violated UN Convention On The Law Of The Sea
James Mark Leas, Substack. On Thursday, April 29, Israeli military forces illegally attacked vessels of the Global Samud Flotilla (GSF) while they were sailing on the high seas. Israeli commandos…
They Film the Darkness
Michelle Ellner When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness. They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment windows, families sleeping on…
Will the Iran War Cause a Global Depression? (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report
The US war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline…
The West’s Bubble Of Illusion About Israel – And About Itself – Is Finally Being Burst
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook Substack For decades, two irreconciliable…
Oil, Empire, and the Price of War: How Energy Became the Ultimate Weapon
Joshua Scheer This war isn’t just being fought with missiles—it’s being waged through oil markets, currencies, and corporate balance sheets. And while the world watches bombs fall, something quieter—and far…
The Unions We Need Will Be Built by Workers, Not Labor Officials
By Ella Fassler This article was originally published by Truthout Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time. Despite a…