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The Web Of War
Zoomed out, the war machine looks like a solid black box: unknowable and impregnable. We hear the horrible sounds of bombs, and the high-pitched screech of bullets. But the patterns of their production...
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Trump is Moving Rapidly to Destroy Workers’ Rights
Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers. Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is probably job...
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Trump’s Executive Orders Build Toward Dictatorial “Unitary Executive” Power
During his first month in office, President Donald Trump has signed a plethora of executive orders that have proclaimed a dramatic expansion of the powers of the executive branch. In his latest, issued...
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Guantánamo Is The Place Where Presidents Abuse Human Rights
Like his predecessors, President Trump has plans for Guantánamo Bay. It is somewhat odd, when you think about it, that the U.S. possesses a little sliver of Cuba that our country uses as a military...
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Reinterpreting “Speak Truth to Power” in an Era of Authoritarianism and...
In a world where authoritarianism is advancing and the post-truth environment created by virtual reality and media deregulation, dominates public discourse, traditional concepts like “speaking truth to...
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New Data On Global Poverty
Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods. Jason Hickel, Michail Moatsos and Dylan Sullivan show that this data...
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The Paralysis of the Present
In 1966, an obscure book was published in Germany: Das Dritte Reich des Traums. An English translation, The Third Reich of Dreams, was published two years later but it has since fallen out of print....
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‘Battle For The Truth’: Pro-Israel Bias Inside UK Newsrooms Revealed
Journalists working at Britain’s most prestigious newspapers and TV channels have expressed concern at pro-Israel bias inside their organisations. Speaking exclusively to Declassified, half a dozen...
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From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water...
The West Asia and North Africa region is facing a water scarcity crisis. About 60 percent of the region’s population lives in areas of severe water stress. According to recent reports, the...
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Make Apartheid Great Again?
On February 7, Donald Trump issued an executive order “to address serious human rights violations occurring in South Africa.” The order charged “blatant discrimination” against “ethnic minority...
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How Trump Twisted DEI to Only Benefit White Christians
After leaving the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol earlier this month, President Donald Trump and his entourage slipped into the imposing ballroom at the Washington Hilton, where the real show...
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Civilians in Congo Suffer as Elites at Home and Abroad Jockey for Profits
During the past few weeks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lengthy conflict has been condensed into a series of violent episodes that will determine the country’s future. On January...
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‘Maduro Has Done Tremendous Damage To The Left’: An Interview With Atenea...
Atenea Jiménez is a Venezuelan sociologist and co-founder of the National Network of Communal Activists and the Campesino University of Venezuela Argimiro Gabaldón. Currently living in Spain, Jiménez...
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Decolonizing Solidarity With Dr. Mads Gilbert
Dr. Mads Gilbert joins the FloodGatePodcast with Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo to break down Israel’s systematic attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system, the targeting of medical figures like Dr. Hossam...
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Trump’s Ukraine Talks Aim To Divide Russia From China. Can he do it?
The US government’s talks with Russia are more about China than Ukraine. Donald Trump admitted he wants to “un-unite” Russia and China, in a reverse of the divide-and-conquer strategy used by Nixon and...
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In North Carolina, Winning is Not Enough–Yet
It’s November 15, 2024 and I’m in a room so packed with people that I wish I were wearing a t-shirt instead of my Carolina Federation hoodie. More than 50 lead canvassers have come to Durham to debrief...
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Climate Populism is Coming, But Not The Way Progressives Think
Recently, the concept of “climate populism” has started appearing on the radar of progressives. In a UK context, an article in the New Statesman ran the headline “It’s time for climate populism” with a...
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Germany’s Obsession With Defending Israel and Criminalizing Speech Aided...
On Tuesday evening, in the building of the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt in east Berlin, the rich allegro sounds of the first movement of Mozart’s clarinet quintet filled the halls, played by the...
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How Movements Can Make Courts Play Their Role In Defending Democracy
Courts are often seen as a last line of defense for democracy. In the month since Donald Trump took office, over 60 legal challenges have been filed against his administration’s executive actions. Yet...
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AI is Shattering Hope of a Net Zero Future
Chapters:Intro 0:00 Carbon Emissions 3:14 Water Usage 13:25 Democracy? 14:47 Credits 19:44 Resources: Avram Piltch – How to Hide AI Overviews: https://www.tomshardware.com/software… Brian Merchant,...
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