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Headlines for November 15, 2024; “He Will Make America Sick”: Trump Picks Vaccine Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Head HHS; A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts; Historian Enzo Traverso: Israel Is Using the Memory of the Holocaust to Justify Genocide in Gaza
Headlines for November 12, 2024; “Hatemonger”: Stephen Miller to Hold Key Post as Trump Pushes Mass Detention & Deportation; As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans; “American Coup: Wilmington 1898”: PBS Film Examines Massacre When Racists Overthrew Multiracial Gov’t
Headlines for November 11, 2024; “Hate Has No Place Here”: Black Americans Slam Racist Texts Promoting Slavery After Trump’s Election; “A Campaign of Genocide”: Noura Erakat Speaks to Ta-Nehisi Coates About Israel’s War on Gaza; “Complete Charade”: Qatar Withdraws from Ceasefire Talks, Middle East Prepares for Trump Presidency; Mouin Rabbani on What Really Happened in Amsterdam Between Israeli Soccer Fans & Local Residents
Headlines for November 08, 2024; Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights; “Open Celebration of the Oligarchy”: Both Dems & GOP Sucked Up to Billionaires in 2024 Election; End the Arms: Humanitarian Chief Jan Egeland Urges U.S. to Stop Arming Israel Before Trump Takes Office
Headlines for November 07, 2024; Democrats Abandoned the Working Class: Robin D.G. Kelley on Trump’s Win & Need for Class Solidarity; Fatima Bhutto: Kamala Harris’s Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is a Betrayal of True Feminism; “Communities Were Destroyed”: Mass Deportations of 1930s & ’50s Show Harm of Trump Plan, If Implemented
Headlines for September 26, 2024; NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted as Calls Grow for Him to Resign Amid Multiple Federal Corruption Probes; “Hell Is Breaking Loose in Lebanon”: Israel Rejects Ceasefire Proposal as U.N. Chief Calls for Peace; U.S. Gov’t Agencies Found Israel Was Blocking Gaza Aid. Blinken Ignored Them to Keep Weapons Flowing
Headlines for September 25, 2024; “Lebanese Civilians Are Paying the Price”: Israeli Strikes Kill Nearly 600, Displace Tens of Thousands; Green Pres. & VP Candidates Jill Stein, Butch Ware on Gaza & Fighting “Two Zombie Political Parties”; “Fuerza Mexicana”: Juan González on Chicago’s Mexican Community & How It Saved the City from Decline
Headlines for September 24, 2024; “Absolutely Terrifying”: Israel’s War Comes to Lebanon, Setting Record-Breaking Single-Day Death Toll; Climate Activists Shut Down Citibank HQ in NYC, Demand Halt to Fossil Fuel Investments; NYC Climate Week: Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo on the Need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty; Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of Supreme Court; Victim’s Family, Prosecutor Don’t Want Him to Die
Headlines for September 23, 2024; Israel Bombs Lebanon After Blowing Up Pagers in “Act of Mass Mutilation.” Is Ground Invasion Next?; “Israel Has No Right”: Al Jazeera Managing Editor Slams Israel’s Raid & Closing of West Bank Bureau; MAGA-Allied Georgia Election Board Votes to Hand-Count Ballots: Move Could Throw National Election
Labor Day Special Featuring Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the United States; Legendary Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey: One of Her Last Interviews on Strategies for Workers to Win; “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed
Headlines for August 30, 2024; From Decriminalization to Border Crackdown, Harris Defends Hard-Line Shift in 1st Interview as Nominee; No Policy Change: In CNN Interview, Harris Refuses to Condition U.S. Military Support for Israel; “Opportunity Economy”: Kamala Harris Promotes Expanded Child Tax Credit, Regulating Price Gouging; No Ban on Fracking: Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels in Shift from 2019; “Master Plan”: New Lever Podcast Series Traces How Oligarchs “Legalized Corruption” in U.S.
Headlines for August 29, 2024; Report from Gaza: Israel Kills Dozens More, Increases Forced Evacuations, Attacks Aid Truck; “They Want Palestine Empty”: Artist in Jenin Blasts U.S. Support for Israel Amid West Bank Assault; “Gender Apartheid”: Taliban Approves Law in Afghanistan Requiring Women Remain Silent in Public; Warnings of Nuclear Catastrophe as Power Plants in Russia and Ukraine at Risk Amid Escalating War
Headlines for August 28, 2024; “Trying to Repeat the Nakba”: Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades; “Five-Alarm Fire for Democracy”: New GOP Rules Could Block Election Results in Georgia and Beyond; Latino Rights Groups Urge DOJ to Investigate TX Attorney General for Raiding Homes of LULAC Leaders
Headlines for August 19, 2024; “It’s the Democratic Party’s War”: Gaza Protests Planned Throughout Week as DNC Begins in Chicago; Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers & Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC; Rev. Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson Helped Reshape Democratic Party & Paved Way for Kamala Harris; Voices from the Streets of Chicago: DNC Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire & Economic Justice; Kamala Harris Is Reaching Out to Arab American Leaders, But Will There Be Any Change in Gaza Policy?; The Exonerated: Meet Two Chicago Men Wrongly Imprisoned for Decades, on Police Torture, Death Row & More; Phil Donahue, Legendary Talk Show Host Fired by MSNBC for Airing Antiwar Views, Dies at 88
Headlines for August 14, 2024; How Elon Musk Broke with the Democrats to Spend Millions on Donald Trump’s Reelection Campaign; How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli; Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to Faith Leaders in U.S.: If You Are Silent, You Approve of Genocide
Headlines for August 13, 2024; Middle East Braces as Iran & Hezbollah Vow Retaliation for Israeli Assassinations; Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: U.S. Is Part of “Axis of Zionist Extremism”; Who Are the Venezuelan Opposition? Leonardo Flores & Alejandro Velasco Debate Election Aftermath
Headlines for August 12, 2024; “Pieces of People”: Israeli Strike on Gaza School Kills 100+, Bodies Destroyed Beyond Recognition; Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos Show Former Trump Officials Detailing Plans to Dismember Gov’t; 2024 Paris Olympics Highlights and Lowlights: From Hijab Bans to Social Cleansing to Boxing Gold; Meet Fadi Deeb, Palestinian Paralympian from Gaza Who Lost 15 Relatives in Israeli Assault
Headlines for August 09, 2024; “New Dawn” in Bangladesh? Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Sworn In as PM After Student Protests; “Uncommitted” Co-Chair Layla Elabed on Meeting Kamala Harris, Pressing VP for Arms Embargo on Israel; NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home
Headlines for August 05, 2024; Uprising in Bangladesh: Student Protests Force Prime Minister to Resign & Flee to India, 100s Killed; As Tension over Venezuelan Election Escalates, the Left Debates Who Won Contested Vote; Did Egypt Give Trump a $10 Million Bribe? The FBI Was Investigating, Then AG Barr Closed Case; “I’m So Sad for Our Country”: 9/11 Victim’s Sister Responds to Def. Sec. Austin Revoking Plea Deal
Headlines for August 02, 2024; “Simply Lying”: Marc Lamont Hill Slams Trump’s NABJ Interview, Attacks on VP Harris’s Racial Identity; Picking Shapiro as VP Would Remind Voters Kamala Harris Is Liberal, Not Progressive: Marc Lamont Hill; Prisoner Swap with Russia “Offers a Possible Pathway” to Peace in Ukraine, Says Katrina vanden Heuvel
Headlines for August 01, 2024; “A Perilous Moment” in Middle East: Iran Vows Revenge as Israel Expands Assassination Operations; Israel’s Torture & Rape of Palestinian Prisoners Defended by Knesset Members, Far-Right Mobs; Trump Questions If Kamala Harris Is Black in Hate-Filled Interview with Black Journalists at NABJ; Money War: How the U.S. Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe, from Venezuela to Iran
Headlines for July 31, 2024; Will Israel Start a Regional War? Hamas Leader Killed in Iran, Hezbollah Commander Targeted in Beirut; “Disarm the War on Woke”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Fighting Racist, Sexist Attacks on Kamala Harris
Headlines for July 24, 2024; “Terrible Mistake”: Leading Israelis Say Netanyahu’s Invite to Address Congress Rewards Bad Behavior; Not Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu’s Address to Congress, 400 Arrested; “Tragic Beyond Proportions”: Attorney Ben Crump on Sonya Massey’s Killing and Police Cover-Up; “Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied”: Video Shows Hotel Guards Kill D’Vontaye Mitchell, Yet No Arrests
Headlines for July 23, 2024; Uncommitted Movement Welcomes Biden’s Decision to Step Aside Hoping Harris Will Change Course on Gaza; Ex-Biden Staffer Who Quit over Gaza Says Kamala Harris Must “Chart a New Path” on Israel-Palestine; “The Prescription Is Ceasefire”: Israeli Public Health Leaders Sound Alarm over Polio in Gaza; Bangladesh: 174 Killed, 2,500 Arrests in Student-Led Protests over Jobs, Inequality & Corruption
Headlines for July 22, 2024; “Beating Donald Trump Is Vital”: Mehdi Hasan on Joe Biden Dropping Out, Kamala Harris, Gaza & More; How to Pick Biden’s Replacement? James Zogby & LaTosha Brown Debate Wisdom of an Open Convention; Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Remembered: Opposed Iraq War, Advocated for Juneteenth, Reparations & More; ICJ Rules Israel’s Occupation of West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza Is Illegal: Attorney Diana Buttu Explains
Headlines for July 19, 2024; In “Unity” Speech, Trump Demonizes Migrants, Spreads Lies & Embraces Authoritarianism; Milwaukee Protesters Demand Justice for Samuel Sharpe and D’Vontaye Mitchell; Bishop William Barber: Trump & Republicans Did Not Offer “Unity” at RNC, Only More Lies & Hate; The GOP Is Waging a War on Abortion Rights, But You Wouldn’t Know It If You Watched the RNC; “Justice for My Brother”: Sister of Samuel Sharpe Speaks Out After Police Killing During RNC
Headlines for July 17, 2024; “Politics of Hate”: Writer Jean Guerrero on Anti-Immigrant Lies and Fearmongering at RNC; Trump Is Trying to “Gaslight the Black Community” About His Racist Record: Clarence Lusane; Jury Convicts NJ Senator Bob Menendez of Taking Bribes from Egypt & Qatar; Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran; J.D. Vance Praised 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones as Truth-Teller in Private 2021 Speech; Milwaukee Immigrant Rights Advocate Slams “Sickening” Rhetoric at RNC as Trump Vows Mass Deportations; DNC Makes Moves to Lock In Biden as Nominee Early, Despite Growing Discontent Among Democrats
Headlines for July 16, 2024; J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Appalachia’s Shift to the Right: Arlie Russell Hochschild; Trump-Appointed Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Ex-President on First Day of RNC; “Genocidal Man” vs. “Fascist Man”: RNC Protesters Decry 2024 Choices, Call for Justice; “He’s a Fake”: Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism; Trump’s VP Pick, J.D. Vance, Pushed for Police to Track & Criminalize Abortions; “Blank Check” for Genocide: Court Dismisses Palestinians’ Case Against Biden Admin over Gaza War
Headlines for June 27, 2024; Kenya Protests: Police Abduct Activists as Pres. Ruto Rejects Tax Bill Linked to Foreign Debt Crisis; The Gaza Project: Investigation Details Israel’s “Unprecedented” Targeting of Palestinian Journalists; Gaza Journalist Shrouq Aila on Continuing to Report After Journalist Husband Killed in Israeli Airstrike
Headlines for June 26, 2024; “Julian Is Free”: Assange Back Home in Australia After Taking U.S. Plea Deal in “Espionage” Case; “A Big Deal”: Julian Assange’s Release Welcomed by Australian Senator After Grassroots Campaign; Julian Assange’s Release “Averted a Press Freedom Catastrophe” But Still Set Bad Precedent: Jameel Jaffer; Auma Obama, Sister of Pres. Obama, on Kenyan Police Attacks on Youth-Led Tax Protests, 22+ Killed
Headlines for June 21, 2024; “The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault; “Green Border”: Agnieszka Holland’s New Film Shows “Impossible Choices” Facing Refugees in Europe
Headlines for June 20, 2024; Meet Nadia Milleron: Her Daughter Was Killed in 2019 Boeing Crash, Now She’s Running for Congress; Pentagon Ran a Secret Anti-Vax Campaign to Undermine China at the Height of the Pandemic: Reuters; First Illinois Latina Rep. Praises Biden’s New Immigration Executive Order But Slams Border Shutdown; “Congress Is Not for Sale”: Rep. Ramirez Slams AIPAC-Led Campaign Against Jamaal Bowman in NY Primary
Headlines for June 14, 2024; Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate; Birding While Black: Christian Cooper on NYC Audubon Society’s New Name & Racist Central Park Incident; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Being a Queer Black Man in the Natural World
Headlines for June 13, 2024; Secret Recording of SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito Offers “Window” into His Conservative Ideology; ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage; From Gaza to Sudan, Number of Global Armed Conflicts Reach New Post-WWII High; Palestinian Diplomat: Gaza Ceasefire Only Possible Once Israel Commits to Ending the War
Headlines for June 12, 2024; Sarah Leah Whitson: U.S. Ceasefire Push in Gaza Is Welcome, But “40,000 Dead Palestinians Too Late”; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Convicted in Federal Gun Case, Faces Tax Evasion Trial Next; Bananas and Blood: Chiquita Ordered to Pay Colombian Families $38 Million for Backing Death Squads
Headlines for June 05, 2024; “My Journey of Loss”: Gaza Twin on Death of Mom, 14 Relatives & Continuing to Flee Israeli Bombs; “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard; Biden Limits Asylum & Shuts Down Border for Migrants Ahead of Debate with Trump
Headlines for June 04, 2024; A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count; El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump; “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President; “The Trauma Is Unimaginable”: Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo
Headlines for May 31, 2024; Guilty: Trump Becomes First Ex-President Felon in U.S. History; “Unprecedented in the History of American Republicanism”: Historian on Trump Verdict & GOP Extremism; Exclusive: USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled; “I Was Shocked”: Meet the State Dept. Official Who Quit After Report Denies Israel Blocking Gaza Aid
Headlines for May 30, 2024; “This Is a Crime”: Ken Roth on Israel’s Secret War Targeting the ICC to Derail War Crimes Charges; Univ. of Toronto Protesters Vow to Continue Gaza Encampment as Admin Demands Police Clear It; PFAS Cover-Up: How 3M Hid Risks of Forever Chemicals & “Gaslit” Scientist Who Tried to Sound Alarm
Headlines for May 29, 2024; “A Narrative of Trump Criminality”: Jury Begins Deliberations in Hush Money Case; “The North Needs to Learn from the South”: Mexico Poised to Elect First Woman President; “America’s Monster”: How a U.S. Ally Kidnapped, Killed & Tortured Hundreds in Afghanistan
Headlines for May 20, 2024; Trita Parsi on Future of Iran After President & Foreign Minister Die in Helicopter Crash; Int’l Criminal Court Seeks Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant & Hamas Leaders for War Crimes; British High Court Grants WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange the Right to Appeal U.S. Extradition; Meet Two Morehouse Professors Who Protested Biden over Gaza and Congo During Commencement Speech
Headlines for May 17, 2024; “Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism
Headlines for May 15, 2024; Defense Attorney Ron Kuby on Trump Criminal Trial & Representing Climate & Pro-Palestinian Protesters; “Stop This War Right Now”: U.S. Doctor Who Saved Sen. Duckworth’s Life in Iraq, Now Trapped in Gaza; “A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; Drop the Charges: Demands for CUNY to Divest from Israel Met by Violent Police Repression & Felony Charges
Headlines for May 14, 2024; “Displacement Has Been Weaponized”: Gaza Reporter Akram al-Satarri on Israeli Attack & Fleeing Rafah; Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s War on Gaza; “Unbuild Walls”: Detention Watch’s Silky Shah on Debunking Immigration Myths & Embracing Abolition
Headlines for May 13, 2024; “The Plan Is Genocide”: Palestine’s U.K. Ambassador Decries Israel’s Attack on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home; NYPD Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life
Headlines for May 10, 2024; 12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues; “We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met; Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ; Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine; “Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors”: Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72
Headlines for May 08, 2024; Meet Students at 4 Colleges Where Gaza Protests Win Concessions, Incl. Considering Israel Divestment; 60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Mass Rape on Oct. 7; Mistrial: Abu Ghraib Survivors Detail Torture in Case Against U.S. Military Contractor
Headlines for May 07, 2024; Fmr. Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: U.S. Pressure on Israel Is Key to Lasting Gaza Ceasefire; Report from Rafah: Israel Seizes Border Crossing, Blocking Humanitarian Aid, as Ceasefire Talks Continue; “Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism”: Police “Body-Slam” Jewish Dartmouth Prof. at Campus Gaza Protest
Headlines for May 06, 2024; “Criminal Act”: Israel Bans Al Jazeera, Largest Int’l News Org. in Gaza, Ahead of Rafah Invasion; “They Are Starving,” Says Doctor Back from Gaza; World Food Programme Warns North in “Full-Blown Famine”; Revolt on Campus: Protests over Gaza Disrupt Graduation Ceremonies as Police Crack Down on Encampments
Headlines for May 03, 2024; “This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure”: Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza; “Dead on Arrival”: Doctors Back from Gaza Describe Horrific Hospital Scenes, Decimated Health System
Headlines for May 02, 2024; “People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment; Former Brandeis President on Gaza Protests: Schools Must Protect Free Expression on Campus; Amnesty Int’l: Biden Must Halt Weapon Sales to Israel After U.S. Arms Used to Kill Civilians in Gaza; “Workers Have Power”: Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity with Palestine
Headlines for May 01, 2024; Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments; Juan González, Veteran of '68 Columbia Strike, Condemns University Leaders' Silence on Gaza Slaughter; USC Grad Student Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against University over Arrests; Reed Brody: U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can’t Prosecute Israel for War Crimes
Headlines for April 30, 2024; “We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students & Profs at Columbia Protest; In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover; Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent; Months After Israel Killed Gaza Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Airstrike
Headlines for April 29, 2024; Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege; Rabbi Alissa Wise & Israeli-Born Novelist Ayelet Waldman Arrested Trying to Bring Food to Gaza; “Lyd”: Palestinian & Jewish Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How 1948 Nakba Devastated Palestinian City
Headlines for April 26, 2024; Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment; “People Are Going to Die”: Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.; “The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule”: Author Ari Berman on America’s Undemocratic System
Headlines for April 25, 2024; Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution; Amnesty International: Global Breakdown of Int’l Law Amid Flagrant War Crimes in Gaza & Beyond; Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies
Headlines for April 24, 2024; “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel”: 100s Arrested at Jewish-Led Protest Near Schumer’s Home; Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism”; Months Ago State Dept. Panel Exposed Israeli Units’ Rights Abuses, But U.S. Arms Keep Flowing; Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to Demand Banking Giant Stop Funding Fossil Fuels; Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of “Destroying Cuban Economy” Drives Migration
Headlines for April 23, 2024; Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale; Juan González Reflects on Historic 1968 Columbia Protests & Crackdown on Gaza Solidarity Encampment; Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer
Headlines for April 22, 2024; Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country; “No Due Process”: Columbia Prof. Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests; “Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank; “Enormous Expansion of the Law”: James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing
Headlines for September 13, 2023; “A Calamity of Epic Proportions”: Death Toll from Libyan Floods Tops 6,000 in Latest Climate Disaster; “Complicit”: Columbia U. Shielded Predator OB-GYN Robert Hadden for Decades as He Assaulted Hundreds
Headlines for September 12, 2023; The World Is Undergoing “Significant Realignments”: Economist Jayati Ghosh on G20, India, China & More; Is Modi Changing India’s Name to Bharat? Jayati Ghosh on What’s Behind the Move; 50 Years After Coup in Chile: Peter Kornbluh on How U.S. Continues to Hide Role of Nixon & Kissinger; “Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine”: Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World
Headlines for September 11, 2023; Morocco: Earthquake Death Toll at 2,500; Criticism Grows over King’s Response to Humanitarian Crisis; “The Other 9/11”: Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende
Headlines for September 07, 2023; Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens “Authoritarian Forces” Around the World; Democratic Republic of Congo Faces “Worst Hunger Catastrophe” as Mineral Extraction Enriches the Few
Headlines for September 06, 2023; “A Political Prosecution”: 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with RICO Charges by Georgia’s Republican AG; “Alarming”: Biden to Supply Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine Despite Contamination Risks; Kenyan Activist at Africa Climate Summit: Fund Green Transition on Continent & Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Headlines for August 23, 2023; “They Fired on Us Like Rain”: Saudis Accused of Killing Hundreds of Ethiopian Refugees at Border; “It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
Headlines for August 22, 2023; “Notorious”: Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year; Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors; Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order; In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes to Ban Oil Drilling in Protected Amazon Lands
Headlines for August 21, 2023; A Turning Point in Guatemalan History: Bernardo Arévalo Wins in Landslide Rejection of Ruling Elite; South Africa Hosts Major BRICS Summit as Bloc Eyes Expanding in Global South to Counter Western Powers; British Columbia in State of Emergency as Climate Change Fuels Canada’s Worst Wildfire Season Ever
Headlines for August 16, 2023; Kansas to Probe Police Raid on Local Newspaper; Co-Publisher Dies from Stress Day After Raid; Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Exposes More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts; “Watershed Moment”: Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate
Headlines for August 15, 2023; Georgia Grand Jury Charges Trump & 18 Co-Conspirators with Racketeering for 2020 Election Interference; Black Voters Matter Co-Founder: Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is “Step Forward” in Defending Democracy; Why No Insurrection Charge? Ralph Nader on How Trump Could Still Be Reelected Unless DOJ Acts
Headlines for August 14, 2023; “War Zone”: Native Hawaiian Scholar Says Colonialism Set Stage for Destruction as Death Toll Soars; “This Is the Climate Crisis”: Michael Mann on Maui Wildfires & Why Disasters Are Becoming Deadlier; After Shocking Assassination, Ecuadorian VP Candidate Decries “Clear Links” Between Gov’t & Cartels
Headlines for August 11, 2023; “We’re Not Going to Die This Way”: Father Describes Jumping into Ocean with 5 Kids to Escape Maui Fire; “We’re Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan Tree; As Fires Destroy Native Hawaiian Archive in Maui, Mutual Aid Efforts Are Launched to Help Lahaina; “Unprecedented”: Fire Expert Says Climate & Native Vegetation Changes Fueled Explosive Maui Wildfires
Headlines for August 10, 2023; Horace Campbell on Opposing Military Intervention in Niger & Disastrous U.S./French Role in Africa; Why Is Ukraine Prosecuting Pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko for “Justifying Russian Aggression”?; U.S. Activists Arrested at European Air Bases Protesting U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stationed There
Headlines for August 07, 2023; Freedom vs. Compelled Birth: Dorothy Roberts on Abortion Fights in Texas, Ohio & Across the U.S.; “It’s a Way of Reparations”: Why Henrietta Lacks Settlement Matters for Bioethics & Racial Justice; Pregnant Woman’s False Arrest in Detroit Shows “Racism Gets Embedded” in Facial Recognition Technology; #SayHerName: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Black Women Killed by Police & DeSantis’s New Pro-Slavery Curriculum
Headlines for August 04, 2023; Trump & the KKK Act: Carol Anderson on Reconstruction-Era Voting Rights Law Cited in Trump Indictment; Blowback in Africa: U.S.-Trained Officer Overthrows Pro-U.S. Leader in Niger, Site of U.S. Drone Base
Headlines for August 03, 2023; “Never Again”: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Sentenced to Die. Jews Against the Death Penalty Respond; Center for Countering Digital Hate Vows to Keep Monitoring Hate Speech on X Despite Elon Musk Lawsuit; FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters
Headlines for August 02, 2023; “Presidents Are Not Kings”: Unpacking Historic Indictment of Donald Trump for Plot to Overturn Election; Conflict in Ukraine: Putin & Zelensky Dig In for Long War Amid Nuclear Risks, Global Food Disruption
Headlines for August 01, 2023; Did Western Military Presence Help Foster Coup in Niger, Where U.S. Has Drone Base & 1,000+ Troops?; Remembering Juan Ramos, Puerto Rican Activist & Leader of Philadelphia Young Lords; “A True Prophet”: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church Abuse
Headlines for July 31, 2023; ”FBI-Orchestrated Conspiracy”: Judge Orders Release of 3 of Newburgh 4 Tied to Fake NY Bomb Plot; What Did Columbia Know? Survivors of Convicted Sex Abuser OB-GYN Robert Hadden Demand Full Accountability
Headlines for July 26, 2023; Activists Demand U.S. End Korean War After 70 Years as Biden Admin Ramps Up “Nuclear Blackmail”; New Witness to Malcolm X Assassination Says He Heard Police Ask If Killer Was “With Us”; Ben Crump: Florida’s New Curriculum, Claiming “Benefits” of Slavery, Will Cause “Psychological Trauma”
Headlines for July 25, 2023; Israel’s Fight over Judicial Changes Ignores Occupation & Apartheid; 19 GOP Attorneys General Seek Private Medical Records of Patients Who Obtain Out-of-State Abortions; 100 Years of Statelessness: Kurdish Activist Walks 300 Miles from D.C. to U.N. to Demand Kurdish Rights
Headlines for July 24, 2023; DOJ Threatens to Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Installing Barrels Wrapped in Razor Wire in Rio Grande; The Intercept Reveals Border Patrol Is Caging Migrants Outdoors in Deadly Arizona Heat; “Chaos & Violence”: NYC to Pay $13M to Those Attacked by Police in 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests; Is Hollywood Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb?: Greg Mitchell on “Oppenheimer”
Headlines for July 20, 2023; “While We Watched”: New Film Spotlights Journalist Ravish Kumar’s Fight for Truth in Modi’s India; Meet the Wisconsin Teacher Fired for Protesting Ban on Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton Song “Rainbowland”
Headlines for July 19, 2023; William Arkin: CIA Is Playing “Outsize Role” in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forces; The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War
Headlines for July 18, 2023; Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat: The U.S. Is Normalizing Apartheid by Hosting Israel’s President; Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta; Historian John Womack: Unions Need to Exploit “Choke Points” in Economy to Grow Working-Class Power
Headlines for July 17, 2023; “The Heat Will Kill You First”: Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on Life and Death on a Scorched Planet; Top U.N. Human Rights Official & Fmr. Swedish FM on Palestine, Sudan & U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Headlines for July 14, 2023; “We Demand Respect”: Actors Join Writers on Strike, Grinding Film & TV Production to a Halt; What Is the Point of NATO? Historian Grey Anderson on How U.S. Has Used Alliance to Strengthen Power; U.N. Warns Pandemic, Climate & Ukraine War Have Dramatically Increased World Hunger
Headlines for July 13, 2023; Stephen Wertheim: The West Cannot Ignore Role NATO Expansion Played in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine; “Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
Headlines for July 11, 2023; “A Historic Mistake”: Swedish Peace Activist Decries Move to Join NATO & Abandon Neutrality; “Mission Creep”: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Ukraine’s Push to Join NATO & U.S. Plan to Send Cluster Bombs; Human Rights Activists Warn Climate-Induced Heat Waves Are Killing Asylum Seekers at the Border; Texas Governor Outlaws Life-Saving Water Breaks for Workers as Climate Crisis Fuels Heat Waves; Meet the TV Meteorologist Who Quit After Facing Death Threats for Explaining Climate Crisis on Air
Headlines for July 10, 2023; “Madness of Militarism”: Biden OKs Cluster Bombs for Ukraine Despite Risk of Civilian Casualties; Tennessee’s War on Trans People: Court OKs Ban on Gender-Affirming Care as AG Demands Medical Records; Meet Sarah McBride. If Elected, She’d Be the First Openly Trans Member of Congress.
Headlines for July 07, 2023; Bill McKibben: Climate Crisis Needs Urgent Action as Earth Records Hottest Temps Ever; “Double Agents”: Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work For Fossil Fuel Industry; Guatemalan Elite Tries to Overturn Democracy, But Anti-Corruption Candidate to Stay in Runoff Election; “Directly Complicit”: Shadi Hamid on How Obama Greenlighted 2013 Egypt Coup, Killing the Arab Spring
Headlines for July 06, 2023; Ukrainian Writer Andrey Kurkov Recalls Friend Victoria Amelina, Novelist Killed in Russian Airstrike; Elena Milashina Attack: Rights Groups Condemn Brutal Beating of Russian Journalist in Chechnya; Syria’s Missing: New U.N. Body Will Investigate Disappearance of 130,000 People in 12-Year Civil War; How Syria Profits from Trafficking Captagon, Highly Addictive Amphetamine Propping Up Assad Regime; Rep. Ro Khanna on Term-Limiting SCOTUS Justices, Sole “No” Vote on Pentagon Budget & Modi’s State Visit
Headlines for July 05, 2023; Under Fire: Report from Jenin Refugee Camp on Israel’s Largest West Bank Attack in 20 Years; “Inflection Point”: Uprising over French Teen’s Killing in Traffic Stop & Pattern of Racist Policing; “Time Is of the Essence”: Astra Taylor on Student Debt Relief Setback at Supreme Court, Biden’s Plan B; “Bad for Religion”: Gay Baptist Minister with Interfaith Alliance on SCOTUS Ruling on LGBTQ Rights
Headlines for June 28, 2023; SCOTUS Rejects Radical GOP Vote-Rigging “Theory,” Could Still End Affirmative Action & Debt Relief; Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber; Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by U.S. Companies as Gov’t Sued for Outlawing “Neocolonial Project”
Headlines for June 27, 2023; “Dead Men Walking”: James Risen on How the Wagner Revolt Threatens Both Putin & Prigozhin; James Risen on Why Trump’s Charges Are Different Than for Whistleblowers Targeted Under Espionage Act; “The Last Honest Man”: James Risen on How Frank Church Exposed CIA, FBI & NSA Assassinations, Abuse
Headlines for June 26, 2023; Mutiny in Russia: Nina Khrushcheva on How the Wagner Revolt Exposes Putin’s Weakness; View from Kyiv: What Does the Wagner Revolt Mean for Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria & Beyond?; Putin’s Creation: History of Russia’s Mercenary Wagner Group & Its Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin; One Year After Dobbs, Abortion Access Dangerously Limited as Support for Abortion Spikes Nationwide
Headlines for June 23, 2023; As Media Spotlights Titanic Sub, Hundreds of Migrants Who Died in Greek Shipwreck Get Scant Coverage; From Drone Strikes to Settler Attacks, Israel Intensifies Effort to “Completely Take Over Palestine”; “The Palestine Laboratory”: Antony Loewenstein on How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
Headlines for June 22, 2023; Modi’s State Visit: Biden Embraces Indian Leader Despite Rights Crackdown; Biden Calls Xi Jinping a “Dictator”: China-U.S. Relations and a Growing Multipolar World; How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League’s Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden
Headlines for June 21, 2023; NY Dems Pass Medical Debt Relief as Progressives Push to Expand Healthcare to Undocumented Residents; Minnesota Miracle: Democrats Use Supermajority to Pass Abortion, Voting, Labor, Tenant Reforms & More; DOJ Report Exposes Minneapolis Police Civil Rights Violations Amid Call for Community Role in Reforms; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Takes Plea Deal on Tax & Gun Charges, But Legal Trouble May Not Be Over
Headlines for June 20, 2023; RIP Daniel Ellsberg: “Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies; Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War; “The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner; Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal the Truth
Headlines for June 08, 2023; “Airpocalypse”: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & Pollution Link to Climate Crisis; “World’s Deadliest Wars Go Unreported”: Journalist Anjan Sundaram
Headlines for June 07, 2023; A National State of Emergency: Human Rights Campaign Sounds the Alarm over Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in U.S.; Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on “Corporate Duopoly” of Dems & GOP
Headlines for June 06, 2023; Cop City: Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Facility Despite Mass Protests & Armed Raid on Bail Fund; “Enough Is Enough”: Australian PM Throws Support Behind Movement to Free Julian Assange; Catastrophic Flooding Feared as Critical Ukrainian Dam Is Destroyed; Zaporizhzhia Nuke Plant at Risk
Headlines for June 05, 2023; David Sirota: Working Class Will Be “Deeply Harmed” by Biden’s “Big Win” on Debt Ceiling; David Sirota: Florida Lawmakers Help Ron DeSantis Shovel More Cash to Wall Street; Ed Bisch Fights to Hold Sacklers Accountable for Opioid Epidemic 22 Years After Son Died of Overdose
Headlines for June 02, 2023; Rep. Ro Khanna: Avoiding Default Was Necessary, But Debt Deal Was Passed at Expense of “Most Vulnerable”; Rep. Ro Khanna Says Sen. Dianne Feinstein Should “Step Down with Dignity”; Armed Police Raid on Bail Fund for Cop City Opponents Is Attack on “Infrastructure of the Movement”; A Sweetheart Deal for the Sacklers: Billionaires Get Immunity from Civil Lawsuits over Opioid Crisis
Headlines for June 01, 2023; Artificial Intelligence “Godfathers” Call for Regulation as Rights Groups Warn AI Encodes Oppression; “Turning His Back on Student Debtors”: Biden’s Debt Deal Ends Freeze on Loan Payments for Millions
Headlines for May 31, 2023; A Dirty Debt Deal: Biden Blasted for Backing Fast-Track Approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline; Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act as Conservative Justices Side with Polluters and Developers; Ugandan Rights Activist: U.S. Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to “Kill the Gays” Law; Erdoğan Reelected to 5 More Years in Turkey as His Government Grows More Authoritarian & Nationalist
Headlines for May 26, 2023; Seditious Conspiracy: Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Gets 18 Years in Prison for Jan. 6; “Education Leads to Liberation”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History; Spike Lee on “Malcolm X” & How Hollywood Almost Prevented Landmark Film from Being Made; Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up
Headlines for May 25, 2023; “Governing by Distraction”: Florida Union Leader Says Ron DeSantis Is No Friend of Workers; Ukraine’s Left Fights for a Future Free from Domination by Russian Tanks & Western Banks; Oxfam: G7 Countries Owe the Global South More Than $13 Trillion in Development & Climate Assistance
Headlines for May 24, 2023; Jeffrey Sachs: Bipartisan Support of War, from Iraq to Ukraine, Is Helping Fuel U.S. Debt Crisis; Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Secret Cambodia Bombing That Set Stage for Forever Wars
Headlines for May 23, 2023; “After Uvalde”: Maria Hinojosa on Guns, Grief & Community Outrage 1 Year After Texas School Shooting; Florida’s “Terrifying” Anti-Immigration Crackdown Sets Stage for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Presidential Run
Headlines for May 08, 2023; Amid Growing Anti-Immigrant Hate, 8 Killed as Driver Plows Into Group Near Migrant Shelter in Texas; The Coronation Not Seen on TV: Anti-Monarchists Arrested; Slavery & Colonization Reparations Demanded; Can Anyone Hold Justice Clarence Thomas to Account for Secret Dealings with Billionaire GOP Megadonor?; Should Sen. Feinstein Resign? Why Aren’t Media, Colleagues Talking Openly About Mental Competence?; Sister Helen Prejean on Richard Glossip’s Stay of Execution: I Believe He Will Walk Out a Free Man
Headlines for May 04, 2023; “Automated Apartheid”: How Israel Uses Facial Recognition to Track Palestinians & Control Movement; U.N. Warns Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Still Urgent as Taliban Expands Crackdown on Women’s Rights; Biden Administration Urged to Accept Afghan Families Who Have Languished in Greece for Over 18 Months; Greenpeace USA Wins Free Speech Battle Against Canadian Logging Giant’s $100M SLAPP Lawsuit
Headlines for May 03, 2023; Supreme Court: Are New Ethics Rules Needed as Gorsuch, Roberts & Thomas Face Questions over Finances?; Debt Ceiling: Economist James K. Galbraith Warns GOP Proposal Would Gut Social Safety Net; “We’re in Crisis”: Texas Democrats Demand Gun Control After Another AR-15 Mass Shooting Kills 5
Headlines for May 02, 2023; Hollywood Writers Strike: Abbott Elementary’s Brittani Nichols Decries “Gig Economy” in Streaming Era; 60 Years Ago Today: Police Attack Children’s Crusade with Dogs & Water Cannons in Birmingham, Alabama
Headlines for May 01, 2023; After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy; Daniel Ellsberg Warns Risk of Nuclear War Is Rising as Tension Mounts over Ukraine & Taiwan
Headlines for April 28, 2023; Zooey Zephyr, Montana’s First Trans Lawmaker, Speaks Out After Being Banned & Silenced by Republicans; “Rising Tide of Fascism”: Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones Warns of GOP’s Growing Embrace of Authoritarianism; “Courage Is Contagious”: Zooey Zephyr & Justin Jones on the GOP’s Silencing of State Lawmakers; “Provocative & Dangerous”: Biden to Send Nuclear-Armed Subs to South Korea as Activists Demand Peace
Headlines for April 27, 2023; Oklahoma Parole Board Denies Clemency for Richard Glossip, Rejecting Plea from State Attorney General; The Monroe Doctrine, Revisited: How 200 Years of U.S. Policy Have Helped to Destabilize the Americas; Medea Benjamin: Pentagon Leaks Show Ukraine War Is a Stalemate. Why Isn’t the U.S. Pushing for Peace?
Headlines for April 26, 2023; “Sing Your Song”: Remembering Harry Belafonte, Who Used His Stardom to Help MLK & Civil Rights Movement; Harry Belafonte in His Own Words on Opposing Iraq War & Calling George W. Bush a “Terrorist”; “Get Down to Business”: Harry Belafonte in 2016 on Trump, Socialism & Fighting for Justice
Headlines for April 24, 2023; Sudan: Death Toll Tops 420 as Fear Grows That Fighting Between Rival Generals Could Lead to Proxy War; What’s Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now; Sudan Will Be “Nightmare Beyond Belief” If Conflict Grows, Warns Humanitarian Leader Jan Egeland; Norwegian Refugee Council: Violence, Climate & Poverty Are Fueling Migration from Central America
Headlines for April 21, 2023; Gun Capitalism: How Lobbyists & GOP Fight Regulation & Push Gun Ownership Despite Deadly Shootings; “Colonizing Our Community”: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Explodes in Texas as Feds OK New LNG Projects; Yemen: Deadly Stampede at Charity Event Illustrates Desperation in Nation Devastated by Years of War
Headlines for April 20, 2023; “A New Jane Crow”: Abortion Advocates Brace for Supreme Court Ruling That Could Ban Mifepristone; Meet the Abortion Provider Whose Wyoming Clinic Was Firebombed & Who Worked with Slain Dr. George Tiller; Fox Pays Dominion $787.5 Million in Historic Settlement But Won’t Apologize for Election Lies
Headlines for April 17, 2023; Report from Khartoum: Civilians Killed & Trapped Amid Fighting Between Factions in Sudan’s Military; Meet Frank Mugisha: A Ugandan Activist Daring to Speak Out Against Bill to Jail & Kill LGBQT People; “Not Too Late”: Author Rebecca Solnit & Filipino Activist Red Constantino on Avoiding Climate Despair
Headlines for April 14, 2023; DeSantis Signs Six-Week Abortion Ban in Florida; Legal Fight Intensifies over Abortion Pill; Division Remains Deep in Northern Ireland as Biden Marks 25th Anniversary of Good Friday Agreement; Rutgers on Strike: Meet One of Thousands of Profs & Grad Workers Demanding Better Pay, Job Security; Cuban Journalist: U.S.-Cuba Talks on Migration Come as Ongoing Embargo Creates Economic Refugees
Headlines for April 13, 2023; “Not Giving Up”: Expelled Black Tennessee Lawmakers Are Reinstated as Movement for Gun Control Grows; Author Carol Anderson on How Anti-Blackness Drives U.S. Gun Culture & Right-Wing Assault on Democracy; The Long Haul: Millions with COVID Face Chronic Illness as Biden Declares End to National Emergency
Headlines for April 12, 2023; “Terrorism from the Sky”: Burmese Junta Bombs Civilians, Killing 100, Escalating Attack on Resistance; Filipino Activist Condemns U.S. Military Drills, Warns That War with China Would Devastate Philippines; Leaked Pentagon Docs Show U.S. & U.K. Special Forces Already in Ukraine as War Heads to Stalemate
Headlines for April 11, 2023; No Justin, No Peace: Expelled TN Rep. Justin Jones Reinstated After Unanimous Nashville Council Vote; “Devastating”: GOP Texas Gov. Moves to Pardon Man Convicted of Murdering Black Lives Matter Protester; “Spyfail” Author James Bamford: What Leaked Pentagon Docs Show About Ukraine War, U.S. Spying on Allies
Headlines for April 10, 2023; “Unconscionable”: Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson Slams Texas Ruling on Abortion Pill; Jessica Mason Pieklo: Republicans’ Anti-Abortion Moves Are Part of Wider “Authoritarian Movement”; What Is the Comstock Act? Texas Judge Cites 1873 Anti-Obscenity Law to Halt Approval of Abortion Pill; Hotline Founder on the Struggle to Preserve Access to Abortion Pills Amid Relentless GOP Attacks; Arizona Abortion Provider: Texas Ruling on Mifepristone Leaves Patients & Clinics “in Limbo”
Headlines for April 07, 2023; “A Public Lynching”: Justin Jones, Black Tennessee Lawmaker, Responds to Expulsion from State House; Palestinian Poet Mohammed El-Kurd on Israeli Apartheid, Growing Tension in Region & Raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque; Should Clarence Thomas Be Impeached? GOP Megadonor Gave Justice Free Luxury Vacations for 20 Years
Headlines for April 04, 2023; History in the Making: David Cay Johnston on Why Trump’s Arraignment May Renew American Democracy; Ari Berman on the Race That Could Decide the Fate of Democracy in Wisconsin — and the 2024 Election; Juan González on Chicago Mayoral Race: Can a Progressive, Multiracial Coalition Win?; Debate: Will Finland’s Addition to NATO Make Direct Conflict with Russia More Likely?
Headlines for March 31, 2023; Indicted: Trump Faces Criminal Charges in NY; Three Other Investigations into Ex-President Continue; Meet the Nashville ER Doctor Who Joined 1,000+ Protesters at Tennessee Capitol Demanding Gun Control; “Stop the Absurd Debate”: Parkland Father Calls for Nationwide Education Strike to Demand Gun Reform
Headlines for March 30, 2023; Bernie Sanders vs. Howard Schultz: Longtime Starbucks CEO Grilled on Company’s Union-Busting Tactics; Ex-Starbucks Worker Jaysin Saxton Describes Being Fired After He Helped Organize Union; “The Tale” Filmmaker Jennifer Fox on Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse & Finally Naming Her Abuser
Headlines for March 28, 2023; Palestinians to Pay the Price as Netanyahu Pauses Judicial Overhaul While Further Empowering Far Right; Nashville Mourns 6 Killed in 129th U.S. Mass Shooting This Year, After Tennessee Loosens Gun Laws; Randall Robinson (1941-2023) on Haiti’s Unbroken Agony, from U.S. Coups to Haiti’s “Debt” to France
Headlines for March 24, 2023; “France Is Furious”: Anger Grows at Macron for Raising Retirement Age as Millions Strike & Protest; Rep. Ro Khanna on Regulating Banks, TikTok, China, Ukraine & His Vote on the “Horrors of Socialism”; The Candidate and the Spy: James Bamford on Israel’s Secret Collusion with Trump to Win 2016 Race; Cop City: Judge Denies Bond to People Rounded Up in Mass Arrest for Opposing Police Training Facility
Headlines for March 23, 2023; A Police Killing Inside a Hospital: Ben Crump on Death of Irvo Otieno During Mental Health Crisis; “Disaster”: Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation & What’s Next
Headlines for March 22, 2023; Andrew Bacevich on China’s Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion; The U.S. Owes Iraq “Just Compensation”: Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath
Headlines for March 21, 2023; “Stop Dirty Banks”: Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion; U.N. Warns “Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking” as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops 560 in Malawi & Mozambique; Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon; War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Headlines for March 20, 2023; “Catastrophic”: Iraqi Writers Sinan Antoon & Feurat Alani Reflect on U.S. Invasion 20 Years Later
Headlines for March 17, 2023; Never Again: Human Rights Groups & Japanese Americans Warn Biden Against Jailing Migrant Families; Julian Assange’s Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New Documentary “Ithaka”; Blood and Treasure: Documenting the Costs of Iraq War from Civilian Casualties to Trillions Spent
Headlines for March 15, 2023; Jeremy Scahill on Growing Proxy War Between U.S. and Russia & Downing of U.S. Drone in Black Sea; The Nord Stream Bombing: Jeremy Scahill on Why U.S. Remains Most Likely Culprit in Pipeline Sabotage; “Catastrophic”: Trump-Appointed Judge in Texas May Restrict Abortion Pill Mifepristone Nationwide; Mexico’s Missing: 100,000+ Cases Unsolved as Leaked Military Docs Shed New Light on Ayotzinapa 43
Headlines for March 13, 2023; China’s Middle East Deal: Iran & Saudi Arabia Reestablish Relations as U.S. Watches from Sidelines; Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry Biden’s Approval of Willow Oil Drilling Project in Arctic; East Palestine Toxic Train Crash Shows Plastics Industry Toll on Planet. Will U.S. Ban Vinyl Chloride?
Headlines for March 10, 2023; Historian Alfred McCoy: As Tensions Rise over Taiwan, U.S. & China “Edging Ever Closer” to War; Rep. Barbara Lee on Cutting the Military Budget, Abortion Rights & Why She’s Running for Senate; “Barbaric Restrictions”: 5 Women Sue Texas After Being Denied Abortions Despite Deadly Health Risks
Headlines for March 09, 2023; “Corrupt”: DOJ Report Slams Louisville Police for Abuse, Discrimination After Breonna Taylor Killing; “Plantation Politics”: How White Mississippi Lawmakers Want to Seize Power in Majority-Black Jackson; Opposition Grows to Atlanta “Cop City” as More Forest Defenders Charged with Domestic Terrorism
Headlines for March 08, 2023; International Women’s Day: Roots in Radical History, Labor & Reproductive Rights; “Stand Up for Afghan Women”: U.N. Calls Afghanistan World’s Most Repressive Country for Women, Girls; “Women, Life, Freedom”: Iranian Women Continue Protests Amid Crackdown & Poisonings at Girls’ Schools; “Torture”: El Salvador’s Abortion Ban Condemned, Highlights Horrors Facing U.S. After Roe Overturned
Headlines for March 07, 2023; Economist Joseph Stiglitz on How War, COVID & Climate Crisis Cause Economic Crises Around the World; “Pure, Unadulterated Fascism”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Fox News, Jan. 6, GOP & 20th Anniversary of the Iraq War
Headlines for March 06, 2023; “Hopeful”: Historic U.N. High Seas Treaty Will Protect 30% of World’s Oceans from Biodiversity Loss; “Eradicating Transness”: ACLU’s Chase Strangio on GOP’s Assault on LGBTQ Rights at CPAC & Nationwide; “They All Knew”: Media Matters Files FEC Complaint That Fox News Broke Election Laws, Lied for Trump
Headlines for March 03, 2023; Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD’s Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest; Opposition Disputes Nigeria’s Election Results After Ruling Party’s Bola Tinubu Declares Victory; Meet Thelma Cabrera, the Indigenous Leader Barred from Running in Guatemala’s Presidential Election
Headlines for March 02, 2023; “Unwinnable War”? Calls Grow for Negotiated End to Ukraine War; Surviving a Pogrom: Palestinian in Huwara Decries Israeli Settler Attack as “Ethnic Cleansing”
Headlines for March 01, 2023; Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Loses Election; Candidates Backed by Police & Teacher Unions Head to Runoff; Death Toll from Migrant Shipwreck Reaches 67 While Italy Cracks Down on MSF & Other Rescue Groups; Student Debt Relief in Jeopardy as Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden’s Plan; Longest Alabama Strike Ends as Warrior Met Coal Miners Return. Record Coal Prices Help Break Strike
Headlines for February 28, 2023; “Alone and Exploited”: NYT Exposé Shows Migrant Kids in U.S. Forced into Brutal Jobs for Major Brands; Could Lula Help End the War in Ukraine? Brazil’s President Vows to Pursue Diplomacy, Won’t Arm Kyiv
Headlines for February 27, 2023; Free Speech on Trial: Supreme Court Hears Cases That Could Reshape Future of the Internet; A History of California, Capitalism, and the World: Malcolm Harris on New Book “Palo Alto”; Will the Equal Rights Amendment Finally Be Added to the U.S. Constitution 50 Years After It Passed?
Headlines for February 24, 2023; Bomb Train: Calls Grow for New Laws on Rail Safety After Toxic Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio; Outrage Soars in Occupied West Bank After Israel Kills 11, Injures 500 Palestinians in Nablus Raid
Headlines for February 23, 2023; “A War of Imperial Aggression”: How Russia’s Invasion One Year Ago Changed Ukraine & the World; Scholar Ho-fung Hung on China-Russia Relations & Whether Beijing Could Mediate Ukraine Peace Deal; Kenyan Writer: History Explains Why Much of Africa Chooses Neutrality Over West’s Support of Ukraine
Headlines for February 22, 2023; As Putin Suspends New START Treaty, Is There Still Hope for Nuclear Disarmament?; Will Trump & Allies Finally Face Jail for Election Lies? Georgia Grand Jury Recommends Indictments; Lawsuit Shows Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham Among Fox News Hosts Who Knew Election Claims Were Baseless; Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth; Guilty: Mexico’s Ex-Top Cop García Luna Convicted in U.S. Drug Trafficking Case
Headlines for February 21, 2023; Chicago Mayoral Race: Policing, Housing, Education Are Key Issues for 9 Dem. Candidates on Feb. 28; Police Murders of Fred Hampton to Laquan McDonald: Chicago Police Council Elections Are a First; Angela Davis on Assassination & Legacy of Malcolm X, Her Exclusion from AP Black Studies and More
Headlines for February 20, 2023; Biden in Ukraine on War Anniversary: Matt Duss, Medea Benjamin Debate U.S. Involvement, Hopes for Peace; VP Harris Says Russia Is Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine, But U.S. Limits Power of International Law; “Log Off”: 1 in 3 U.S. Girls Weighs Suicide. Will Congress Restrict Big Tech?
Headlines for February 17, 2023; Corporate Greed and Deregulation Fuel Threat of More Bomb Trains As East Palestine Demands Answers; Silencing Critics of Israel: Biden Pulls Nomination of Human Rights Lawyer For Decrying Apartheid; Brazilian Amazon Leader Urges Lula to Prosecute Bolsonaro for Genocide Against Indigenous Yamomami
Headlines for February 16, 2023; Syria Faces “Nightmare Situation” as Aid Stalls Amid Sanctions and Earthquake Death Toll Keeps Rising; “A Human-Made Disaster”: Kurdish MP in Southern Turkey Slams Government As Death Toll Hits 42,000; Rising U.S. Interest Rates Push Countries in Global South Toward Economic Collapse; Bomb Train: Norfolk Southern Refuses to Attend First Public Meeting on Toxic Train Derailment in Ohio
Headlines for February 15, 2023; Reporter Seymour Hersh on “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview; Guns Leading Killer of Kids: With MSU Massacre, U.S. Averages More Than One Mass Shooting a Day
Headlines for February 14, 2023; War with China Is Not Inevitable: Jake Werner on How to Defuse Tensions Between Washington & Beijing; The U.S. Has 750 Overseas Military Bases, and Continues to Build More to Encircle China; “Bomb Train” in Ohio Sickens Residents After Railroad Cutbacks, Corporate Greed Led to Toxic Disaster
Headlines for February 13, 2023; “Crisis on Top of a Crisis”: Syrians Displaced by War Now Dealing with Earthquake Devastation; U.N. Rapporteur: Lift Sanctions on Syria to Help People Rebuild After War & Devastating Earthquakes; 25 Years of V-Day: Ending Gender Violence, Fighting Tentacles of Patriarchy & New “Reckoning” Memoir
Headlines for February 10, 2023; Ralph Nader on Saving Social Security, Fighting Corporate Crime, Worker Deaths & Launching Newspaper; “The Great Escape”: Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S.
Headlines for February 09, 2023; Syrian Doctor Warns War-Torn NW Syria Faces Humanitarian Catastrophe as Earthquakes Kill 19,000+; “Continuous Insanity”: Syrian Dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh on 12 Years of War & Earthquake Relief; Banned by Putin: Editor at Russian Outlet Meduza on Censorship, Eroding Freedoms & Ending Ukraine War
Headlines for February 08, 2023; Biden Condemns Police Murder of Tyre Nichols as Congressional Push for Police Reform Remains Stalled; Matt Duss on Biden’s State of the Union & the Risks of an Anti-China Consensus in Washington; Rep. Delia Ramirez to Biden: Further Militarizing the Border Is Not the Answer to Immigration; Have Movements Pushed Biden to the Left? Rep. Delia Ramirez & Economist Dean Baker Respond to SOTU
Headlines for February 07, 2023; Over 5,000 Dead in Turkey and Syria as Earthquakes Devastate Region Filled with Refugees Fleeing War; COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd
Headlines for February 06, 2023; U.S. Downs Chinese Balloon as Blinken Cancels Summit & U.S. Expands Military Presence in Philippines; War as Crime of Aggression: Reed Brody on Prosecuting Putin & Probing Western Leaders for Other Wars; Kimberlé Crenshaw on Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality & the Right-Wing War on Public Education
Headlines for February 03, 2023; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Khalil Gibran Muhammad & E. Patrick Johnson on the Fight over Black History; “We Want to Be Treated Like Human Beings”: Evicted Asylum Seeker in NYC Requests Housing, Job Permits
Headlines for February 02, 2023; “No More”: At Tyre Nichols Funeral, VP Harris, Rev. Sharpton Join Family, Demand Police Accountability; Atlanta’s “Cop City” Moves Ahead After Police Kill 1 Protester & Charge 19 with Domestic Terrorism; “All That Breathes”: Oscar-Nominated Doc About Brothers Saving Birds Amid Delhi’s Ecological Collapse
Headlines for February 01, 2023; Howard Prof. Justin Hansford & Abolitionist Andrea Ritchie on Tyre Nichols & Calls for No More Police; Standoff at NYC Hotel: Asylum Seekers Protest Relocation & Demand Their Right to Shelter in City
Headlines for January 31, 2023; Asylum Seekers Refuse to Leave Manhattan Hotel, Citing Inhumane Conditions at Brooklyn Shelter; “Elite” Police Units Face More Scrutiny as Memphis SCORPION Unit Disbanded over Tyre Nichols Death; Rikers Jail Whistleblower Decries Collapse of LGBTQ+ Unit Meant to Protect Trans Detainees; Marxist Economist Richard Wolff on How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich & Powerful
Headlines for January 30, 2023; “An Intolerable Situation”: Rashid Khalidi & Orly Noy on Israeli Colonialism & Escalating Violence; Tyre Nichols: Video of Fatal Police Beating in Memphis Spurs New Demands for Police Accountability; “Every Community Has a Tyre Nichols”: New Jersey Activists Demand Justice for Carl Dorsey
Headlines for January 27, 2023; Memphis BLM Activist: Tyre Nichols’ Killing Is Part of Police Brutality Crisis Facing Black Residents; Tyre Nichols’ Parents Remember Son as “Beautiful Soul” & Describe Video of Beating by Memphis Police
Headlines for January 26, 2023; “20 Days in Mariupol”: Meet the Ukrainian Filmmaker Who Risked His Life Documenting Russian Siege; Biden Proposes Renters Bill of Rights as Landlords Make Record Profits; Housing Advocates Want More
Headlines for January 25, 2023; As Germany & U.S. Agree on Tanks for Ukraine, German MP Accuses U.S. of Pushing Berlin into Proxy War; Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight: Peace Activist Frida Berrigan Demands Nuclear Disarmament; “Lacks Educational Value”? Critics Slam Florida’s Rejection of AP African American Studies Course
Headlines for January 24, 2023; As Asian Americans Reel After Mass Shootings in California, Will Congress Take Any Action on Guns?; Jeremy Scahill: Biden & Trump Scandals Point to Deeper Problems with Overclassification of Gov’t Docs
Headlines for January 23, 2023; Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal
Headlines for January 20, 2023; U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn on Freeing Julian Assange, the Working Class, Brazil, Peru & Ending Ukraine War; Atlanta Police Kill Forest Defender at Protest Encampment Near Proposed “Cop City” Training Center; Keenan Anderson: BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Demands Justice for Cousin’s Death After LAPD Tasing
Headlines for January 19, 2023; Defeated GOP Candidate in New Mexico Arrested over Shootings at Homes of 4 Democratic Officials; Azerbaijan Blockades Nagorno-Karabakh Region, Angering Armenia & Raising Specter of a New War; “Out of the Lab and Into the Streets”: Meet Earth Scientist Fired After Engaging in Climate Protests
Headlines for January 18, 2023; Roe v. Wade at 50 (Almost): What Abortion Access Looks Like After Constitutional Right Overturned; End Medical Debt: Fight Grows to Stop Hospitals from Suing Patients, Garnishing Wages, Ruining Credit; Elite Capture: Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
Headlines for January 17, 2023; Rep. Ro Khanna on CA Flooding, Big Oil’s Climate Denial, Debt Ceiling, Assange & Possible Senate Bid; From Infiltrating Wikipedia to Paying Trump Millions in Golf Deals, Saudis Whitewash Rights Record
Headlines for January 11, 2023; Peru: Death Toll Tops 40 as Security Forces Crack Down on Protests over President Castillo’s Ouster; New York Nurses Strike for More Staff & Better Pay as Hospital CEOs Make Millions, Cut Charity Care
Headlines for January 10, 2023; At Summit in Mexico, AMLO Urges Biden to End U.S. “Disdain” for Latin America; Rosewood Massacre: Families Mark 100 Years Since White Mob Razed Black Town & Killed Black Residents; “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free”: Civil Rights Leader Ben Jealous on His New Memoir
Headlines for January 09, 2023; Bolsonaro Backers Storm Brazil’s Key Gov’t Buildings in Jan. 6-Style Attempt to Oust Lula from Power; Biden Visits Border But Doesn’t Meet with Asylum Seekers as Administration Cracks Down on Immigration; Harvard Faces Outcry for Rescinding Post to Ex-Head of Human Rights Watch over Criticism of Israel
Headlines for January 06, 2023; Two Years After Jan. 6, Capitol Attack Casts Long Shadow Over GOP That Allows Extremism to Fester; “We Need Ceasefires Everywhere”: Bishop William Barber’s Message of Peace for Ukraine & the World
Headlines for January 05, 2023; Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy: Israel’s New Far-Right Gov’t Entrenches Apartheid System with U.S. Support; Chaos in the House: Is This Just the Beginning of a Far-Right Attempt to Make Congress Dysfunctional?
Headlines for January 04, 2023; Did Kevin McCarthy Open the Door for Pro-Insurrectionist Republicans to Block Him as House Speaker?; David Dayen: Biden Will Need to Use Executive Action for Democrats to Get Things Done in 2023; Should Football Be Banned? Former NFL Player Donté Stallworth & Sports Reporter Bill Rhoden Weigh In
Headlines for January 03, 2023; “Return to Democracy”: Brazil Swears In Lula as President, as Far-Right Bolsonaro Flees to Florida; “Brazen” Fraud: David Cay Johnston on How Trump’s Tax Returns Show He Fleeced U.S. & Enriched Himself
Headlines for December 28, 2022; Supreme Court Keeps Title 42, Causing Rise in Deadly Human Trafficking & Blocking Asylum Seekers; “Abject Failure” in Buffalo: Blizzard Death Toll Rises as Activists Slam City’s Failed Prep, Response; “Tired of the Apologies”: Workers, Flyers Say Southwest Airlines Meltdown Was Decades in the Making
Headlines for December 27, 2022; “A Criminal Act”: Taliban Government Bars Women from University, Working for NGOs in Afghanistan; Pandemic Poverty: Ray Suarez on How COVID-19 Set Back Low-Income Workers in the U.S., Especially Women
Headlines for December 21, 2022; Major U.N. Biodiversity Deal Recognizes Indigenous Rights But Lacks Critical Enforcement Measures; Human Rights Stain, Public Health Farce: Title 42 Tied to 13,000 Murders, Rapes, Kidnappings in Mexico; U.S.-Venezuelan Relations Thaw After Years of Harsh Sanctions Helped Worsen Economic & Migrant Crisis; Six Charged in Atlanta with Domestic Terrorism for Protesting “Cop City” Training Facility
Headlines for December 20, 2022; In Historic First, House Committee Urges DOJ to Criminally Charge Trump for Jan. 6 Insurrection; “No One Is Above The Law”: Calls Grow for Trump to Be Charged to Avoid Another Coup Attempt
Headlines for December 19, 2022; As Title 42 Nears End, El Paso Declares Emergency over Influx of Asylum Seekers; Judge Orders Philly DA to Disclose All Evidence in Mumia Abu-Jamal Case. Could It Lead to New Trial?; Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara Is at Center of Growing European Parliament Bribery Scandal
Headlines for December 16, 2022; A Massacre in Peru: Death Toll Tops 17 as Protests Mount After Ouster & Jailing of President Castillo; A 21st Century Resource War: Emira Woods on How Racism, Extraction & Militarism Are Devastating Africa; Biden, Like Trump Before Him, Derails Effort to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen
Headlines for December 15, 2022; Women’s Rights Activist on Protests Sweeping Iran, the Intensifying Gov’t Crackdown & Executions; Why Has Qatar Jailed a World Cup Whistleblower? The Brother of Abdullah Ibhais Speaks Out
Headlines for December 14, 2022; Indict Us Too: Daniel Ellsberg & Cryptome’s John Young Demand U.S. Drop Charges Against Julian Assange; Slash the Pentagon Budget in Half & Abolish ICBMs: Dan Ellsberg on How to Avoid Nuclear Armageddon; Mumia Should Be Freed: A Sitting Trial Judge in Arkansas Appeals to Philly Judge to Drop Charges
Headlines for December 13, 2022; Biden Hosts Summit of 49 African Leaders to Counter China & Russia’s Growing Power Across Continent; AZ Governor Builds Illegal “Border Wall” of Shipping Containers & Razor Wire. Why Isn’t Biden Stopping It?; Kyrsten Sinema Leaves Democratic Party. Is It Enough to Save Unpopular Senator’s Reelection Plans?
Headlines for December 12, 2022; “We Are Fighting for Freedom”: 2022 Nobel Laureates from Ukraine, Russia & Belarus in Their Own Words; “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power”: New Film on Radical Voting Activism in 1960s Alabama
Headlines for December 09, 2022; “A Vindication for Agitation”: Dave Zirin on How Brittney Griner’s Supporters Secured Her Freedom; “A Personified Weapon of Mass Destruction”: Ex-Arms Trafficking Inspector on Freed Russian Viktor Bout; Sarah Leah Whitson on Growing Saudi-China Ties & Holding MBS Responsible for Jamal Khashoggi Murder
Headlines for December 08, 2022; Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Is Ousted & Arrested in Latest Episode of Peru’s “Enduring Crisis”; “Russia Is Losing the War”: Russian Marxist Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine & What Comes After Putin; Supreme Court Weighs Voting Rights Case Based on Fringe Theory That Could Upend Democracy
Headlines for December 07, 2022; “The People Have Spoken”: Sen. Warnock Wins in Georgia in Victory Over GOP Voter Suppression Efforts; Futuro Media Probes Deadly U.S. Border Policy & NY Drug Trafficking Trial of Mexico’s Former Top Cop
Headlines for December 06, 2022; Jeffrey Sachs: A Negotiated End to Fighting in Ukraine Is the Only Real Way to End the Bloodshed; Pegasus Spyware Maker NSO Group Sued in U.S. Court by Central American Journalists; Publishing Is Not a Crime: NYT, The Guardian & More Urge Biden Admin to Drop Charges Against Assange; Warnock vs. Walker, Round 2: Georgia Breaks Voting Records in Senate Runoff Election
Headlines for December 05, 2022; Abandoned? Meet a Student Suing Yale for Pressuring Those with Mental Health Needs to Withdraw; The Jailscraper vs. Chinatown: NYC Residents Fight Construction of World’s Tallest Jail
Headlines for December 02, 2022; Inside Israel’s Cover-up & U.S. Response to Murder of Palestinian American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; The New McCarthyism: Angela Davis Speaks in New York After Critics Shut Down Two Events
Headlines for December 01, 2022; Oath Keepers Founder Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy for Plotting to Violently Overthrow U.S. Gov’t; David Dayen on Rail Contract Bill, Respect for Marriage Act, Debt Ceiling & What a GOP Congress Means; Rights Advocates to NYC Mayor Adams: You Can’t Arrest Your Way Out of Housing & Mental Health Crisis
Headlines for November 30, 2022; “Enough Is Enough”: Rail Workers Decry Biden’s Push to Impose Strike-Breaking Labor Deal; Striking Univ. of California Grad Students Speak Out on Nation’s Largest-Ever Higher Education Strike; Meet Puerto Rican Journalist Bianca Graulau, Featured in Viral Bad Bunny Video on Injustices in PR
Headlines for November 29, 2022; Abdullah Al-Arian on First Middle East World Cup & Western Media’s “Orientalist Outlook”; “Sportswashing & Greenwashing”: Ex-Soccer Player Jules Boykoff on Qatar Hosting World Cup; NYC DA Asks Judge to Drop Murder Charges Against Domestic Abuse Survivor Tracy McCarter
Headlines for November 28, 2022; From Xinjiang to Shanghai, Protests Grow in China over COVID Restrictions After Fatal Apartment Fire; Will Missouri Stay Execution of Kevin Johnson, Case Tainted by Racism, or Let Daughter Witness Death?; “A Forgotten Conflict”: Sahrawi Activists Slam Moroccan Greenwashing Amid Western Sahara Occupation
Headlines for November 23, 2022; Defiance in Iran: Despite Crackdown, Anti-Government Protests May Grow into “Nationwide Revolution”; Noam Chomsky on Legacy of Radical Historian Staughton Lynd, Who Protested Korea, Vietnam & Iraq Wars; Filipino Climate Activist Yeb Saño on COP27, Climate Reparations & Philippines’ New President Marcos
Headlines for November 22, 2022; Family of British-Egyptian Political Prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Their Struggle for His Freedom
Headlines for November 21, 2022; U.N. Climate Summit Agrees to Historic Loss and Damage Fund But Rejects Calls to Phase Out Fossil Fuels; “An Act of Hate”: 5 Dead in Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ Club on Eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance; World Cup in Qatar Is “Deadliest Major Sporting Event” in History, Built on a Decade of Forced Labor
Headlines for November 18, 2022; “A Near-Death Experience”: U.K.-Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Almost Dies on Prison Hunger Strike; “Fossil Fuels Fund Dictatorships”: Ukrainian Climate Activist Suspended from COP27 over Russia Protest; Ukrainian Climate Scientist Says Fossil Fuels Enabled Russian War in Ukraine; Exiled Russian Environmentalist: Russia’s Uranium Sales to U.S. & Europe Help Putin Fund Ukraine War
Headlines for November 17, 2022; Indigenous Activists Tom Goldtooth & Eriel Deranger on the Link Between Colonialism & Climate Crisis; Amazon Leader Welcomes Climate Vow from Brazil’s Lula to End Deforestation with Indigenous Help; Amazon Leader Welcomes Climate Vow from Brazil’s Lula to End Deforestation with Indigenous Help
Headlines for November 16, 2022; Who Should Pay for Climate Crisis? Global South Demands “Loss and Damage” from Wealthy Nations; “Climate Collateral”: How Military Spending Fuels Environmental Damage; “A Carbon Bomb”: Movement Grows Against EACOP East African Pipeline Funded by France’s Total & China
Headlines for November 15, 2022; Hossam Bahgat on the “Full-Scale Human Rights Crisis” in Egypt as Country Hosts COP27; Vanessa Nakate Condemns Fossil Fuel Lobbying at U.N. Climate Talks as Global Warming Devastates Africa
Headlines for November 14, 2022; “No Climate Justice Without Human Rights”: Groups Protest Inaction, Repression at U.N. Summit in Egypt; Biden & Xi Meet in Bali; Could This Help Cool U.S.-China Tensions & Reduce Risk of a Military Clash?; Greenpeace: As Egypt Hosts COP27, Country’s Agricultural Sector Ravaged by Impact of Climate Crisis
Headlines for November 11, 2022; Delia Ramirez: Illinois Elects First Latina Congressmember; Ran on Medicare for All, Immigration Reform; Ranked-Choice Voting Backed in Midterm Ballot Measures, May Help “Crash-Proofing Our Democracy”; “Carbon Billionaires”: Oxfam Calls for Taxing Rich Who Profit from Emissions Fueling Climate Crisis
Headlines for November 10, 2022; Democrats May Lose U.S. House Because New York Dem. Leaders Were Too Focused on Defeating the Left; Progressive Prosecutors Win Key Races Despite GOP Attacks on Criminal Justice Reform; The Story of Baby O: Rebecca Nagle on the Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Native Sovereignty
Headlines for November 09, 2022; Too Close to Call: Control of Senate Hinges on Races in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona & Nevada; Georgia: Warnock-Walker Senate Race Could Head to Runoff; Gov. Kemp Defeats Abrams; “Abortion Rights Are Deeply Popular”: Voters Back Reproductive Freedom in State Ballot Initiatives; Robert Reich: Democrats Can No Longer Compromise with “Authoritarian” Republicans; Democratic Socialist Summer Lee’s Victory in Penn. Gives Progressives a Boost in House
Headlines for November 08, 2022; Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Sister Speaks Out at U.N. Climate Summit as Pressure Grows on Egypt to Free Him; Sunrise Movement on Midterm Election: If GOP Takes Congress, Climate Action Will Be Stalled, Reversed; Indigenous Voters Helped Democrats Carry Arizona in 2020. Now Their Voting Rights Are Under Attack; Report from NH: Could GOP Conspiracy Theorist General Don Bolduc Defeat Sen. Maggie Hassan?; Election Protection Force Fights Voter Suppression: Racist Poll Workers, Vigilantes, Missing Ballots
Headlines for November 07, 2022; Why Is AIPAC Spending Millions to Beat Summer Lee, a Democratic Socialist Running for Congress in PA?; Voters to Decide on Abortion, Marijuana, Ranked-Choice Voting & Prison Labor in 2022 Midterm Ballot Initiatives; Musk Fires Half of Twitter’s Workforce; Rights Orgs Urge Boycott of “Superspreader of Misinformation”
Headlines for November 04, 2022; From Terrorist Backer to Kingmaker: Itamar Ben-Gvir & Israeli Far Right Help Netanyahu Regain Power; Meet the New Yorkers Welcoming Asylum Seekers Bused to City After Hostile Reception at U.S. Border; Dept. of Homeland Security Ramps Up Efforts to Police Online Speech on Ukraine, COVID & Afghanistan
Labor Day Special Featuring Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the United States; “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train”: Remembering the People’s Historian Howard Zinn at 100
Headlines for September 02, 2022; Historian of Radical Right: Biden Is Correct, Trump Poses Existential Threat to Future of Democracy; L.A. Ballot Measure Would Let Unhoused People Stay in Hotels Past Pandemic Amid Deepening Homeless Crisis
Headlines for September 01, 2022; Nina Khrushcheva & Katrina vanden Heuvel Remember Mikhail Gorbachev as Reformer Committed to Peace; “Zombie Ice”: Greenland’s Melting Glacier to Raise Sea Levels Nearly 1 Foot, Double Previous Estimate; “No Tech for Apartheid”: Google Workers Push for Cancellation of Secretive $1.2B Project with Israel
Headlines for August 31, 2022; “We Can’t Go It Alone”: Jackson, Miss., Mayor Lumumba on Water Catastrophe in Majority-Black City; Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno: Climate Crisis Impact Worse in Black Cities Facing Disinvestment; “Total Terror” in Iraq: Muqtada al-Sadr Supporters Fight Rivals in Baghdad Amid Political Deadlock; “Freedom Dreams”: Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on 20th Anniversary of His Book & Why Movements Matter
Headlines for August 30, 2022; Jeffrey Sachs: “Dangerous” U.S. Policy & “West’s False Narrative” Stoking Tensions with Russia, China; Double Standard: Afghan Refugees Still Seeking to Enter U.S. as Biden Admin Opens Door to 68,000+ Ukrainians; First Gen Z Congressmember? Maxwell Frost on Guns, Palestine, Cuba & Reaching Trump Voters in Florida