How Suing the US Government Can Empower the Climate Movement
As the youth-led climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States heads to trial, plaintiff Nathan Baring discusses the important role legal action can play within a movement.
Divide and Rule
How the Growing Rift between Peace, Climate and Social Justice Movements Is Cementing a Ruinous Status Quo.
Decriminalizing Being Human
ACLU attorney Melissa Camacho explains the gradual improvements to Los Angeles county’s barbaric jails after 50 years of fighting for better conditions.
Congressional Testimony of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
The hearing examined the federal government's role in censoring Americans, the Missouri v. Biden case, and Big Tech's collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.
‘Israel Is an Apartheid State’: Progressives Explain Decision to Boycott Israeli President’s Speech
"It's contradictory to claim to support human rights when you're arming the oppressors with billions of dollars of bullets and bombs," said Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush.
In Ukraine, US Adds to Barbaric Cluster-Bomb Legacy
Millions of people have been affected by the use of cluster munitions by the US in countries like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, even years after the wars have…
Mandatory Media Literacy Education Could Be Coming to California Schools Soon
But Will It Lead to Media Literacy Education or Corporate Indoctrination?
Sports Betting Is a Tax on Fans—And a Ticking Time Bomb
The industry’s erstwhile disavowal of gambling now seems quaint, as smartphones have made sports betting ubiquitous in professional sports—to the detriment of fans and the games themselves.
Michigan Amazon Workers Stage Largest Delivery Station Strike Yet
By Luis Feliz Leon / Labor Notes In the middle of Amazon’s Prime Day promotional sales rush, 60 warehouse workers walked out for more than three hours at its delivery…
What We Can Still Learn From J. Robert Oppenheimer
“We believe,” he wrote in 1945, “that the safety of this nation—as opposed to its ability to inflict damage on an enemy power—cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its…
Glenn Greenwald: France Descends Into Authoritarianism Following Protests
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble Following the recent protests against police in France, the French government has taken steps to implement increasingly repressive measures in the forms of mass surveillance…
Barbie Is on the Picket Line
Don’t be surprised that Margot Robbie backs the SAG-AFTRA strike—she has deep roots in Australia’s labor movement.
The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch Deliberate provocations of a nuclear rival, coups d’état, colour revolutions, broken promises, broken treaties, escalation of tensions, demonization, invective, double-standards — all this while…
The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the…