These Women Are Trying To Humanize The Climate Crisis
It was Labor Day in 2022 when Amy Dishion received the phone call that would change her life: Her husband had died of heat stroke. “My entire life just fell apart,” Dishion said. “I lost my best...
View ArticleIn a Lost Universe (With You Know Who)
Imagine yourself in space, looking down on our world and yet unable to return any time soon. Consider it our bad luck, in fact, that Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were the two Americans...
View Article‘This Maniac Must Be Stopped’: Netanyahu Condemned Over Massive Beirut Bombing
Israel’s dropping of massive bombs in Beirut on Friday sparked a fresh wave of global condemnation against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with critics accusing him of trying to drag the...
View ArticleKansas City Tenants Launch National Rent Strike to Demand Federal Rent Cap
Tenant unions protesting dismal living conditions at two apartment complexes in Kansas City, Missouri, have voted to withhold rent on October 1 if their demands are not met — the opening salvo in what...
View ArticleReport from Beirut: Israel Is “Targeting Everyone” in Bombing Campaign,...
We get an update from Lebanon, where the death toll from Israeli airstrikes has risen to over 700 since Monday, following a series of explosions involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Beirut and...
View ArticleJudges in TikTok Case Seem Ready to Discount First Amendment
A US circuit court panel appears ready to uphold a federal law that would effectively ban the popular social media network TikTok because it’s owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. The legal attacks...
View ArticleThe BBC Is Weaponising Its Lebanon Reporting To Help Disguise Israel’s Crimes
The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds. Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Game
There’s strangely little discussion right now of the unbelievably dangerous situation in Ukraine. Joe Biden is under great pressure to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike deeper into...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to Globalization?
Globalization has been the hallmark of the economic world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Since the Great Recession of 2008, however, globalization as we knew it has been changing fast. That...
View ArticleHundreds of Unions, NGOs in Spain Call for General Strike in Solidarity With...
More than 200 trade unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Spain on Friday initiated a 24-hour general strike titled “Against the genocide and occupation in Palestine.” As part of the...
View ArticlePolitical Paradigm Shift as Sri Lanka Leans to the Left
Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been called a political earthquake. But with many having labelled the left-leaning...
View ArticleIn Austria, Communists Could Get Back Into Parliament
Rarely in Austria’s history has a general election been so unpredictable as this Sunday’s vote for the country’s federal parliament. While polls in recent months have shown a head-to-head race between...
View ArticleFor Ken Klippenstein, Against Censorship
It has been hard in recent years to get anyone remotely left of center to care about the threat of tech censorship. The matter has either become such a right-wing obsession or been taken up by various...
View ArticleDems Name and Shame Companies Paying Executives More Than They Pay in Federal...
A group of congressional Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday highlighted dozens of profitable U.S. corporations that have paid their executives more than they’ve paid in federal...
View ArticleShould You Lose Your Right to Vote if You Have a Criminal Record?
As of 2022, an estimated 4.4 million people in the United States had lost their right to vote due to felony convictions. This is equivalent to the population of Kentucky or Oregon. A report published...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty Is Always an Atrocity, Not Just for the Wrongfully Convicted
Nearly two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville gave a warning about the United States. “While society in the United States gives the example of the most extended liberty,” Tocqueville said, “the...
View ArticleHezbollah Confirms Leader Hasan Nasrallah Killed in Israeli Carpet-Bombing of...
The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, was killed by the latest Israeli carpet-bombing of Beirut’s southern Dahiya district on Friday, according to an official announcement by the...
View ArticleIsrael’s Nasrallah Assassination – More Horror Beckons
Israel’s cheerleaders are triumphalist about the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – which involved the mass slaughter of countless Lebanese civilians in Beirut. But what next? We’re...
View ArticleThe Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East (w/ Gideon Levy)
It has become quite rare to hear any meaningful accountability for Israel’s actions from Israeli citizens themselves. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is an anomaly in Israel by today’s standards, as for...
View ArticleWill Walz or Vance Tackle Issue of VA Privatization?
Amid the rhetorical fog of their game-changing presidential debate in June, Donald Trump and his then-opponent only dealt with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in passing. Former president...
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