FTC Bars X-Mode From Selling Sensitive Location Data
By Adam Schwartz / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Phone app location data brokers are a growing menace to our privacy and safety. All you did was click a box while…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Colonialism
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Editor’s Note: This marks the 12th installment in Jim Mamer’s “Missing Links” series. A former high school teacher and recipient of the National…
The Fall of Ukraine (w/ Kit Klarenberg)
On the second part of this two-part episode of Journalists for Sale, co-hosts Max Jones and Diego Ramos talk to Kit Klarenberg about the Biden admin's slow but steady abandonment…
Senate Kills Sanders Resolution Requiring Biden to Report on Israeli Human Rights Conduct in Gaza
Lawmakers from both parties overwhelmingly thwarted an effort by the progressive Vermont senator to bring some accountability to how U.S.-supplied weapons are being used by Israeli forces.
On Parenthood and Genocide
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel’s mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You)
Overspending on the Pentagon Is Stealing Our Future.
UN Rights Experts Says Alabama Nitrogen Execution May Constitute Torture
"Rather than inventing new ways to implement capital punishment, we urge all states to put in place a moratorium on its use, as a step towards universal abolition," said the…
Mother and Children Drown in Rio Grande as Texas Blocks Agents From Aiding Them
“The Texas governor’s policies are cruel, dangerous, and inhumane,” said a spokesperson for Homeland Security.
Idaho Committee Passes LGBTQ+ Book Ban on MLK Day: Rep Says It Only Bans Gay “Acts”
Idaho's House Committee on State Affairs passed HB384, a book ban targeting LGBTQ+ books. Rep Julianne Young stated it did not ban gay characters, just "acts of homosexuality," which are…
United Against Nuclear Iran: The Shadowy, Intelligence-Linked Group Driving the US Towards War With Iran
United Against Nuclear Iran, a secretive neoconservative organization with close links to the CIA and the Mossad, is trying to escalate the Israeli assault on Gaza into an Iraq-level U.S.…
The Long Quest for Reproductive Justice in Mexico: Feminist Legal Strategies and Challenges to Changing Abortion Precedent in a Federal System
By Alma Beltrán y Puga / Georgetown Journal of International Affairs As the Green Wave echoes throughout the Latin American feminist movement, the Mexican legal system has progressed accordingly. Feminist…
Israeli-Made Famine: Denial of Food Aid Could Kill 22,000 Palestinians This Month, Half of Them Children
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israeli airstrikes and ground operations continued over the…
‘No Way a Human Should Be’: Abolishing Solitary Confinement in DC
Formerly incarcerated activist Herbert Robinson speaks frankly on the trauma of solitary confinement.
World’s First Trillionaire Just 10 Years Away as Richest Men Double Their Wealth
"This inequality is no accident; the billionaire class is ensuring corporations deliver more wealth to them at the expense of everyone else," said Oxfam's interim executive director.
Massachusetts Teachers Illegal Strike Wave Rolls On
By Barbara Madeloni / Labor Notes A wildly successful, illegal three-day strike by the Andover Education Association in November has reverberated statewide for educators in Massachusetts. The lowest-paid instructional assistants…