Integrity in Media Is Possible
Coleen Rowley and Thomas Drake Consortium News Can the words “integrity” and “media” even be mentioned in the same breath? ask whistleblowers Coleen Rowley and Tom Drake. In the formal…
UCLA Faculty Push Back As Chancellor’s 9/11 Statement Raises New Questions About Academic Freedom
A growing controversy over a UCLA law school symposium is rapidly becoming a larger confrontation over the meaning of academic freedom, opening a broader fight over whether university administrators can…
Fast Food Got Worse While Prices Exploded — Here’s How McDonald’s Broke the System
Joshua Scheer McDonald’s used to once sold the illusion that capitalism could at least give working people something cheap, a meal for people who didn’t have much money or much…
Super-Intelligent AI Won’t Kill Us. Dumb Billionaires Are Doing That All By Themselves
It is extremely difficult for ordinary people, myself very much included, to assess what is at stake with the rapid advances in AI. But then again, as becomes clearer by…
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI ‘Could Kill Us All’ This Decade
Jon Queally Common Dreams “Most tech geeks don’t resign from their roles because…the tech they’re building could end humanity,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, running for US Senate in Michigan. An…
The New Red Scare Is A Dangerous Distraction From The GOP’s Failures
A.J. Schumann Inequality.org The attempt to revive the McCarthyist witch hunts of yesteryear is, at its core, a reaction to the working-class rightfully demanding its fair share of the economic…
Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Iran Is Bringing Down the American Empire
“I don’t think we live in a functioning democracy—and that has been true for some time.” Hedges Joshua Scheer Six months into the disastrous U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the fantasy…
Abdul El-Sayed Won: Revisiting the Democratic Establishment’s Medicare for All Problem
From Gavin Newsom in California to Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, the debate over Medicare for All continues to expose the tension between campaign promises, corporate influence, and the political power…
Inside The Longest Refugee Protest In History
For over 670 days, refugees trapped in a UN camp have maintained a daily sit-in in the Sahara Desert to demand basic human rights. Editors Note: For more than 670…
No, Israel Does Not Have ‘A Right To Exist’
Craig Mokhiber, Mondoweiss. Quite the contrary, actually. Unlike the Zionist claim that “Israel has a right to exist,” my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity…
Masked, Protected and Growing Bolder: The White Supremacists Marching Through America
“Don’t look towards the politicians or the elected officials to be your savior,” Jenkins says. “You are your savior. Your people are your savior.” Joshua Scheer Masked white supremacists marching…
How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases…
Tech Oligarchs Are Helping DHS Set Up Authoritarian Surveillance State, Report Says
Maurizio Guerrero Prism Abetted by surveillance tools created by a power-hungry tech oligarchy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is laying the groundwork for an authoritarian state that is dismantling…
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Francesca Albanese: “The World Is Not Sleeping—It Is Looking Away”
In When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine, the UN Special Rapporteur speaks with Chris Hedges about Gaza, international law, media complicity, and why she believes silence…
Former CIA Analyst: Trump’s Iran Deal Was a Surrender—Now Washington Wants to Rewrite It
Joshua Scheer As Washington celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson argues that the real story is unfolding thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf. In this…