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Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change
• Sep 20, 2025

Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]

The Forgotten History of Disabled Children Under Nazism
• Sep 20, 2025

The Forgotten History of Disabled Children Under Nazism

From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]

Israel’s Crimes Against the Dead and Unborn in Gaza
• Sep 19, 2025

Israel’s Crimes Against the Dead and Unborn in Gaza

“They started bombing the graves. There’s no safety for the dead even.” That is a message I got from my sister R., then 13 years old and living in Rafah, on May 14, 2021. Those words came from a child who, four months prior, had buried our father; a child who was for days under Israeli bombardment and who, like most kids in Gaza, survived several wars of aggression. Later that day I found this photo, showing the aftermath of Israel’s bombing of the Shejaiya cemetery.  

Where’s Black MAGA While Trump Wipes Black History?
• Sep 19, 2025

Where’s Black MAGA While Trump Wipes Black History?

Last summer, vying for the White House, Trump hailed himself as “the best president for the Black population.” A little more than a year later, this claim has become downright unbelievable, precisely because of what he’s done. In this video, I highlight this week’s Washington Post report on the Trump administration’s decision to remove Black […]

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