Austin C. McCoy, Truthout Echoes of anti-slavery and civil rights struggles reverberate through the current uprising against ICE. It is difficult to find inspiration on this Juneteenth. We are still living in difficult times. In the last year, hundreds of thousands of African Americans have lost jobs. Some state legislatures in the South — Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi — have […]
In the second episode of Zeteo’s three-part series, Mehdi breaks down how the World Cup has historically been used by fascists to cover up their records of torture, genocide, and more.
Conservationists go after Big Ag, Wyoming becomes an unlikely protector of women, Pennsylvania calls a spade a spade, and transgender Idahoans flush out a bathroom bill.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks—webs of ultrathin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun, according to […]
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin […]
British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined Jonathan Cook [First published by +972] It was virtually inevitable that, once the British government decided to actively support Israel’s mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an […]