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date: 2026-04-01T03:11:00Z
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items: The Plastic Coup: How Big Oil Poisons Our DNA
items: What does this song make you feel? 👇
items: Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster
items: On the Walls of La Carpio, Refugees Tell Their Stories in Color
items: The Bund Is Back
items: Cuban journalist on the impact of U.S. sanctions
items: ‘It All Starts With Transparency’CounterSpin interview with Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week
items: Rare Wartime Protests Hit Russia Over Mass Cattle Cull
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items: UN News Today 31 March 2026
items: How museums can remember war while honouring civilian trauma and resistance
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items: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 31, 2026
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The Plastic Coup: How Big Oil Poisons Our DNA
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-04-01T03:11:00Z
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description: As we fight the daily battles of the "Great Disillusionment," corruption and unchecked greed are poisoning our bodies. Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet, a group dedicated to helping the world transition away from plastics, joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the systemic corruption wreaking havoc on our environment, our water, and our food. We are now breathing, eating, and drinking a credit card's worth of plastic every single week. Big Oil, facing a transition away from fossil fuels for energy, financially depends in our dependence on plastic. They have turned our bodies into a landfill to keep their profits soaring. We also discuss the threat of deep sea mining, the minerals war between the US and China, why everyone should read Donut Economics by the "planet's economist" Kate Raworth on how to build a sustainable economy, and why ending the "forever wars" requires a transition to renewable energies. Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't make this show without you–see you there! Show Notes: A Plastic Planet: https://aplasticplanet.com/ Follow-up study of genotoxic effects in individuals exposed to oil from the tanker Prestige, seven years after the accident https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24370900/ Sian Sutherland: "Innovating the Business of Plastics" https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/herman-daly-toward-an-ecological-economics-5-2/ Dr. Jeremy Williams: The Truth About Rare Earth Mineral Mining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMk9JapDM EV…
encoded: As we fight the daily battles of the "Great Disillusionment," corruption and unchecked greed are poisoning our bodies. Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet, a group dedicated to helping the world transition away from plastics, joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the systemic corruption wreaking havoc on our environment, our water, and our food. We are now breathing, eating, and drinking a credit card's worth of plastic every single week. Big Oil, facing a transition away from fossil fuels for energy, financially depends in our dependence on plastic. They have turned our bodies into a landfill to keep their profits soaring. We also discuss the threat of deep sea mining, the minerals war between the US and China, why everyone should read Donut Economics by the "planet's economist" Kate Raworth on how to build a sustainable economy, and why ending the "forever wars" requires a transition to renewable energies. Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't make this show without you–see you there! Show Notes: A Plastic Planet: https://aplasticplanet.com/ Follow-up study of genotoxic effects in individuals exposed to oil from the tanker Prestige, seven years after the accident https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24370900/ Sian Sutherland: "Innovating the Business of Plastics" https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/herman-daly-toward-an-ecological-economics-5-2/ Dr. Jeremy Williams: The Truth About Rare Earth Mineral Mining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8OMk9JapDM EV…

What does this song make you feel? 👇
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-04-01T03:00:00Z
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Why Trump’s ‘fantasy’ obsession with Kharg Island may lead to disaster
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-31T23:57:41Z
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subject: Iranian oil
subject: Iranian Revolutionary Guard
subject: Kharg Island
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean US President Donald Trump has been obsessed with seizing Iran’s Kharg Island for more than 35 years — way before he became a politician. In 1990, he wrote in an American newspaper that the United States should seize Kharg. Trump thinks that by seizing Kharg, he would get hold of Iranian
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean US President Donald Trump has been obsessed with seizing Iran’s Kharg Island for more than 35 years — way before he became a politician. In 1990, he wrote in an American newspaper that the United States should seize Kharg. Trump thinks that by seizing Kharg, he would get hold of Iranian oil, which he has admitted he wants badly. Either he is deliberately misleading the world or he is not well informed. Kharg is nothing more than a loading terminal. It is a small island, only about 90 sq km in size, some 28 km from the Iranian mainland. READ MORE: Trump says war could end in ‘two to three weeks’ — Iran’s Araghchi confirms no negotiations Will China join Pakistan-led efforts to mediate US-Iran peace? Other US-Israel war on Iran reports It’s main advantage is that it is surrounded by very deep waters which allows what are known as Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) to come alongside and load huge quantities of crude oil. A VLCC can easily load up to 2 million barrels of crude. At today’s price of US$116 per barrel, the value of the cargo would exceed $232 million. Kharg itself is not an oilfield. It does not produce crude. Every drop of oil which is stored in its many storage tanks are piped there from the mainland through underwater pipes. All the Iranian oil fields are on the mainland. Now that the Iranians have known well in advance that Trump might seize the island, do you know what they will do? They will turn off the spigot. No more oil flow No more oil will flow from the mainland to the island. What oil there is stored in the tanks on the island would have been loaded onto vessels which would have departed Kharg. I am willing to put a wager that if the Americans seize the island, they will not find any oil. Maybe there will be some residue left in the tanks but the amounts would be so miniscule that in law it would be known as de minimis. Trump can seize the island and I am sure the Iranians will allow him to do so. But what will happen af…

On the Walls of La Carpio, Refugees Tell Their Stories in Color
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creator: Cat Carroll
date: 2026-03-31T22:31:01Z
subject: Sources
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description: One humanitarian foundation in Costa Rica uses art to process the trauma of displacement.
encoded: One humanitarian foundation in Costa Rica uses art to process the trauma of displacement. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Cat Carroll.

The Bund Is Back
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creator: Joseph Mogul
date: 2026-03-31T22:01:15Z
subject: Sources
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subject: progressive
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description: In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early twentieth century institution.
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Cuban journalist on the impact of U.S. sanctions
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-31T22:01:11Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: cuban
subject: Democracy
subject: impact
subject: journalist
subject: now
subject: Sanctions
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subject: the
subject: u.s.
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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‘It All Starts With Transparency’CounterSpin interview with Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week
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creator: Janine Jackson
date: 2026-03-31T21:30:42Z
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description: "If we can't see the money that's going out, we can't make any evaluation on whether it's a good use of our money."
encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed Good Jobs First’s Arlene Martinez about Sunshine Week for the March 27, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327Martinez.mp3 Sunshine Week Janine Jackson: One mark of a democratic society is that we can have debates about how best to organize society. When a small group of powerful people, designated as representatives, can do things that majorities of people don’t want to happen, there’s a fundamental disconnect that we were all taught in school is the very problem that the United States was founded to address. Talking about that, giving voice to those outside of power, is a fundamental tenet of journalism. It’s why we have a First Amendment that guards the ability to speak difficult truths to power. OK, but the basics of that conversation would be that we all have access to information. If people want to change anything about our society and the ways we’re governed, transparency about what the powerful are doing is necessary, if not sufficient. Talking about transparency—what it can mean, where it’s thwarted, and what that means—is the point of Sunshine Week, a project started in 2005 by the American Society of Newspaper (now just News) Editors. It’s a living project, and one of the groups keeping it alive is Good Jobs First. We’re joined now by the group’s deputy executive director and communications director, Arlene Martinez. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Arlene Martinez. Arlene Martinez: Thanks, Janine. Glad to be here. JJ: I think of Good Jobs First as the group that stays on top of federal, state and local subsidies that companies are given for what’s often called “economic development,” and how those play out. And that includes a lot of things: corporate malfeasance, tax dodging, how these subsidized entities respect workers’ rights…. My question is, where do you fit journalism in there, and why is Sunshine Week importan…

Rare Wartime Protests Hit Russia Over Mass Cattle Cull
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-31T21:16:42Z
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How the Pentagon uses AI in warfare
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-31T20:01:38Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: now
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UN News Today 31 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-31T18:28:26Z
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description: Middle East war: WFP warns that vital food aid blockedSyria: 200,000 have fled Lebanon conflict - UNHCRUNWRA chief condemns Knesset death penalty law for Palestinians
encoded: Middle East war: WFP warns that vital food aid blockedSyria: 200,000 have fled Lebanon conflict - UNHCRUNWRA chief condemns Knesset death penalty law for Palestinians This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

How museums can remember war while honouring civilian trauma and resistance
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-31T18:19:55Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Auckland War Memorial Museum
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subject: Hall of Memories
subject: Museum exhibitions
subject: Oral History
subject: Scars of the Heart
subject: Second World War
subject: Sources
subject: UN peacekeeping
subject: Analysis
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: Auckland
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description: COMMENTARY: By Audrey van Ryn Museums around the world present the story of war in different ways. The Imperial War Museum in London includes military history, the Holocaust, women’s roles in the two world wars, wartime artwork and the political issues of the time. This museum records both civilian and military experiences, looking at the
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Audrey van Ryn Museums around the world present the story of war in different ways. The Imperial War Museum in London includes military history, the Holocaust, women’s roles in the two world wars, wartime artwork and the political issues of the time. This museum records both civilian and military experiences, looking at the impact of war on people’s lives. Its Crimes Against Humanity section has a continuous film about genocide and ethnic violence in our time. The Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam focuses on the Dutch experience during the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany during World War Two, and features personal stories of those who lived during that period. READ MORE: Up close and friendly with Vietnam’s war resistance Củ Chi tunnels and museum Scars on the Heart exhibition at Auckland Museum Museum’s attempt to show ‘both sides’ of the Second World War Nuclear-Free Pacific exhibition opened – calls for inspired peace and regionalism National museums in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh musealise the memory of the 1947 Partition in different, selective ways, with oral history, survivor testimonies, and personal artefacts to document the displacement and trauma of the subcontinent’s division. How does our own war museum remember war? Visitors to Auckland’s War Memorial Museum find that the top floor is dedicated to the memory of New Zealand soldiers killed in World Wars One and Two. The WWI Hall of Memories contains a sanctuary, used for commemoration. In this space are medals and badges of units in which men and women from the Auckland Province served, and British badges that acknowledge those who joined British units. Roll of honour In the WWII Hall of Memories, carved into marble is the permanent roll of honour of men and women from the Auckland Province who died in both World Wars, and in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam. The Scars on the Heart exhibition covers New Zealand’s civil wars of the 1840s and 1860s, the Anglo-Boer War,…

U.S. Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship case
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-31T18:02:28Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 31, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 31, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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César Chávez’s shadow
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creator: Tina Vasquez
date: 2026-03-31T16:21:56Z
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The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-31T15:07:57Z
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U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker
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"Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional": Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 31, 2026
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The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets
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description: The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned the accuracy of the Maven system, the artificial intelligence system used by the militar...
encoded: The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned the accuracy of the Maven system, the artificial intelligence system used by the military to speed up the process of identifying targets. “Imagine Google Earth for war, a map of war with white dots, infused with information like elevation, coordinate, what is precisely there, whether it’s friendly or foe,” says Katrina Manson, a reporter for Bloomberg News and author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. The Pentagon launched Project Maven in 2017. Google was an initial partner, but the company pulled out after over 3,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the work. The big data firm Palantir then took over the project and has run it ever since. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker
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description: A Russian tanker carrying around 700,000 barrels of crude oil has arrived in the port of Matanzas, Cuba, breaking the U.S. blockade imposed by President Trump three months ago. Fuel shortages in Cuba have caused dayslong blackouts and have bro...
encoded: A Russian tanker carrying around 700,000 barrels of crude oil has arrived in the port of Matanzas, Cuba, breaking the U.S. blockade imposed by President Trump three months ago. Fuel shortages in Cuba have caused dayslong blackouts and have brought all sectors of the country to the brink of collapse. The White House is claiming the arrival of the Russian tanker, unimpeded by the United States, does not signal a “formal change in sanction policy,” and said U.S. decisions on shipments going forward would be made on a case-by-case basis. “I think possibly what’s going on is that the administration has begun to worry that their effort to strangle the economy could push the economy over the edge and generate a mass migration crisis,” says William LeoGrande, professor of government at American University. “Who is the United States? Who gave you the authorization to say how much oil is going into Cuba or not? This is illegal,” adds Liz Oliva Fernández, a Cuban journalist with Belly of the Beast. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional”: Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court
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description: The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week on the constitutionality of President Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship. An executive order, signed on Trump’s first day back in office, declares children born to parents wi...
encoded: The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week on the constitutionality of President Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship. An executive order, signed on Trump’s first day back in office, declares children born to parents without permanent legal status would no longer be automatically granted citizenship. The policy “is deeply illegal, unconstitutional and morally wrong,” says Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. The ACLU is representing all children targeted by Trump’s executive order in a class-action lawsuit. Wofsy says roughly 5 million U.S.-born children would be affected by the order over the next 20 years. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 31, 2026
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description: Trump Drops Bunker Buster Bombs on Isfahan and Threatens to Obliterate Iran’s Energy Infrastructure, Iran Vows to Target American University Campuses in the Region After U.S. Strikes Hit Iranian Universities, Iran Strikes Oil Tanker Near Dubai and Fires Cluster Munitions at Israel, Israel’s Parliament Approves Death Penalty for Palestinians, Palestinian American Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Outside City Hall After Assassination Attempt, Socialist Filmmaker Avi Lewis Elected to Lead Canada’s New Democratic Party, MSF: Rape and Sexual Violence “Part of Everyday Life” in Sudan’s Darfur Region, At Least 70 Killed in Attack on Gold Mine in South Sudan, Mexican Officials Call for Investigation After Mexican Immigrant Dies at Adelanto ICE Jail, At Least 70 Killed in Gang Massacre in Haiti as U.N. Force Prepares to Deploy, Trump Vows to Continue Energy Blockade on Cuba Despite Allowing Russian Oil Tanker to Dock, Trump Administration Opens 401(k) Retirement Accounts to Private Equity and Cryptocurrency
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Massive Blasts at Iran’s Weapons Depot as Fifth Week of Strikes Continues | US Iran Update
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DN! Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
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creator: Ken B. Morales
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description: The post Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors. In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica. The bulk of these cases, which were closed without prosecution and known as declinations, had been referred to the DOJ by law enforcement agencies under prior administrations that believed a federal crime may have been committed. The DOJ routinely declines to prosecute cases for any number of reasons, including insufficient evidence or because a case is not a priority for enforcement. But the number of declinations under Bondi marks a striking departure not only from the Biden administration but also the first Trump term, according to the ProPublica analysis, which examined two decades of DOJ data, including the first six months of Trump’s second term. ProPublica determined the increase is not the result of inheriting a larger caseload or more referrals from law enforcement. In February 2025 alone, which included the first weeks of Bondi’s tenure, nearly 11,000 cases were declined, the most in a month since at least 2004. The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration. Some of the cases shut down were the result of yearslong investigations by federal agencies such as the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Admin…

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
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description: The post Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors. In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica. The bulk of these cases, which were closed without prosecution and known as declinations, had been referred to the DOJ by law enforcement agencies under prior administrations that believed a federal crime may have been committed. The DOJ routinely declines to prosecute cases for any number of reasons, including insufficient evidence or because a case is not a priority for enforcement. But the number of declinations under Bondi marks a striking departure not only from the Biden administration but also the first Trump term, according to the ProPublica analysis, which examined two decades of DOJ data, including the first six months of Trump’s second term. ProPublica determined the increase is not the result of inheriting a larger caseload or more referrals from law enforcement. In February 2025 alone, which included the first weeks of Bondi’s tenure, nearly 11,000 cases were declined, the most in a month since at least 2004. The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration. Some of the cases shut down were the result of yearslong investigations by federal agencies such as the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Admin…

Texas saw a $50B future in clean energy. Then the political winds shifted.
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creator: Laura Mallonee
date: 2026-03-31T08:45:00Z
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description: Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the ground threaten that momentum.
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Māori radio network says funding cuts threaten survival of iwi stations
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description: By Pokere Paewai, RNZ Māori issues reporter New Zealand’s national Māori radio network, Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori o Aotearoa, is considering litigation over a potential loss of government funding which it says threatens the survivability of iwi radio stations. Chairperson Peter-Lucas Jones (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rārawa, Ngāi Takoto, Te Aupōuri) — who
encoded: By Pokere Paewai, RNZ Māori issues reporter New Zealand’s national Māori radio network, Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori o Aotearoa, is considering litigation over a potential loss of government funding which it says threatens the survivability of iwi radio stations. Chairperson Peter-Lucas Jones (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rārawa, Ngāi Takoto, Te Aupōuri) — who was also chief executive of Far North iwi broadcaster Te Hiku Media — told current affairs series RUKU Māori radio was a right under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, not a government handout. Recent and proposed actions targeting iwi stations, implemented primarily through Te Māngai Pāho (TMP), disregarded the treaty and exposed the Crown to credible legal risk, he said. READ MORE: Other Māori broadcasting reports “This issue is not about resisting change, iwi radio stations have themselves funded transitions to digital platforms and new media without Crown support. “The issue is whether the Crown can, through an intermediary, dismantle a treaty remedy without Māori consent.” There are more than 20 iwi radio stations across New Zealand, from Te Hiku in the North to Tahu FM in the South. Stations receive funding through Te Māngai Pāho to promote Māori language and culture. Time-limited funding TMP currently has $16 million of time-limited funding, equal to almost 25 percent of their total annual funding, which is due to expire on June 30. Te Māngai Pāho said that while 2026/27 appropriations would not be confirmed until the Budget announcement in late May, the impact of this funding loss would be felt across the whole Māori media sector. “Te Māngai Pāho is consulting with the Māori media sector, including iwi radio, on the future of our funding allocations. We have requested feedback to understand how any reduction of funding will be felt across the sector. “Feedback will inform the board’s final decisions around funding allocations. We understand that the stability of iwi radio stations and content creators is threatened b…

Oceans are absorbing the Earth’s excess energy. That’s bad news for food systems.
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creator: Frida Garza
date: 2026-03-31T08:30:00Z
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description: As the planet traps more energy than it relea ses, the pathways for global food production are being upended.
encoded: Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a set of key climate indicators — including the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth’s temperature — to assess how global warming is progressing. In their latest report, released last Sunday, the authors decided to include a new measure: the Earth’s energy imbalance. “Climate change is often discussed in terms of the change in the global mean surface temperature,” John Kennedy, lead author and scientific coordinator of the report, said in an email to Grist. But year-to-year variations in air temperatures, caused by the weather patterns El Niño and La Niña can “hide the long-term trend” of global warming, said Kennedy. With the addition of this new key indicator, however, the WMO authors aimed to clarify the fundamental dynamics of global warming, and represent them simply. The Earth’s energy imbalance, or EEI, is a pretty straightforward concept: It’s the difference between how much energy from the sun the planet takes in and how much energy is radiated back out into space. Put even more simply, the energy imbalance, Kennedy said, is “fundamentally what climate change is.” “As long as that energy imbalance is there, the Earth will keep on warming, ice will continue to melt, and the sea level will continue to rise,” he added. As far as numbers are concerned, what the WMO found should be unsurprising to anyone following the climate crisis. Because of the greenhouse gas effect, the earth has been steadily holding on to more energy, mostly as heat, since the 1960s. And every year for the last nine years, that rate has set a new record. What’s more, the report shows where on the planet most of that heat is going. Oceans, the WMO reports, absorb 91 percent of the excess energy hanging out in the Earth’s climate. Kennedy offered that, as a key indicator of global warming, EEI provides a helpful context to better understand all the other indicators followed by the organization, such as sea…

The West’s unprecedented winter could fuel a summer of disaster
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creator: Tik Root
date: 2026-03-31T08:15:00Z
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description: Record-low snowpack and an early heatwave could mean a higher risk of drought and fire in coming months.
encoded: In Park City, Utah, skiers could find patches of grass poking through the slopes for much of the winter — a striking sign of a season that never really arrived. Now, after one of the warmest winters on record, much of the West is entering spring with snowpack at historic lows and an early heat wave that pushed temperatures into triple digits. These woes could be straight out of a climate fiction novel. But the West’s no good, very bad winter was alarmingly real. And, experts say, a worrisome combination of low snowpack and a devastating heatwave could create a summer ripe for climate disasters. “There is no analog,” Marianne Cowherd, a climate scientist at Montana State University, said of what’s happening. “There isn’t a year in the historical record we can look to for information … This limits our ability to look to the past for insight.” Much of that uncertainty stems from what’s happening to the region’s snowpack, a cornerstone of its water system. Snow accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the Northwest’s water supply and is especially critical to the ever-thirsty Colorado River Basin, which supplies seven states. But much of the region has experienced the warmest winter on record. That has meant a higher proportion of water arrived as rain, and the snow that did fall melted more quickly than usual. Snowpack is critically low, according to the federal Colorado River Basin Forecasting Center, which utilizes the federal government’s Snow Telemetry network of monitoring stations that go back half a century. “The majority of them have record low or near record low snowpack conditions,” said hydrologist Cody Moser at the center’s monthly briefing in early March. At that time, he said the upper Colorado River basin, which covers the watershed north of Lake Powell on the Colorado-Arizona border, have about 40 percent of normal snow cover. That has since dropped to 25 to 30 percent. While winter precipitation has actually been fairly average, how that water falls is importa…

Musicians Mandy, Indiana on performing through pain
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description: I love your new record (URGH)—I was curious how you pronounce it.
encoded: I love your new record (URGH)—I was curious how you pronounce it. Valentine Caulfield: You need to do the face when you do it. It’s “urgh.” Alex Macdougall: That’s how we go. But you can do it any way you’re feeling in that moment. Valentine: I’ve seen so many Americans pronounce the R, which I always think is quite funny. Alex: The name came from a few things really. This record shaped up as being much more physical than the last one. We wanted to express that in the title as something quite bodily. I think last year was pretty difficult for the band. We weren’t playing so many shows, and Val and I dealt with a lot of health issues. I think it’s partly related to a bit of that. It expresses frustration and disgust at what’s going on in the world at the moment as well. How did writing this record remotely, with members of the bands across different cities, impact the creative process for this record? Valentine: This record was much more of a collaborative effort, even though it was still written in fragmented pieces. But instead of coming almost exclusively from Scott [Fair] when it comes to the instrumental side of things, a lot of the tracks here originated from drum beats that Alex came up with or by synth parts from Simon [Catling]. But I think we’ve always worked in a way that is pretty fragmented. Actually, we finalized three tracks while all together for this album, and this is the first time we’ve done something like that. Alex: Working separately definitely doesn’t do away with the competing voices. We’re all quite passionate and care a lot about how it ends up. Our fragmented setup informed how the record ended up as well. It doesn’t really sound like four people in a room as a traditional band would be. That’s all facilitated by what you’re able to do long distance with technology. I actually think these limitations can bring about a different aesthetic. A big part of this record for me was going into a rehearsal room on my own, just hitting record and im…

Staircase to Nowhere: MAGA’s Crowning Achievement
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-03-31T06:20:36Z
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description: In a perhaps unprecedented dark time for America and the world, let us take solace in our indomitable Dear Stable Genius, who remains unwaveringly focused on taking care of shiny business: Gold social security cards like Elvis, a $400 million, lopside...
encoded: In a perhaps unprecedented dark time for America and the world, let us take solace in our indomitable Dear Stable Genius, who remains unwaveringly focused on taking care of shiny business: Gold social security cards like Elvis, a $400 million, lopsided shed/ballroom with gaudy columns but no main entrance, and of course gold toilets - which all keeps him so busy he hardly has time to threaten Iran with war crimes. What a time to be alive, barely. In actual good news, No Kings Day 3.0 drew between 8 and 12 million people, thus hovering tantalizingly close to the 3.5% of a nation's populace historically required to overthrow an authoritarian regime. So good work, patriots. The over 3,000 protests, aka per Mike Johnson "Hate America rallies," ranged from Alaska's Utqiaġvik, the country's northernmost city (7 people) to Ele'ele, Kaua'i, the westernmost, from over 100,000 in New York City to nine stalwarts on Maine's Monhegan Island. Thousands of Trump's neighbors in Palm Beach turned out, ending with a twilight march to Mar-A-Lago, or as close as they could get. Their signs were brutal: "Elect A Rapist, Expect To Get Fucked. How Many Deaths For the Epstein War? Worst President Since Trump. Criminals Belong Behind Bars, Free Balls for Members of Congress Who Lost Them, Trump Rapes Kids, Impeach Pedolf Shitler, Putin's Bitch, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. According to The Borowitz Report, Trump, furious about the large protests, argued they'd be much smaller if you subtract all Elon Musk's kids there because they hate him: "People are saying their number (was) much higher than 400, thousands, maybe millions. You take away Elon’s kids and almost no one was there." There were also "half-dozens to dozens of Americans" at One King co unter-protests, reports The Fucking News, who put the number at "many-ish...Organizers say there were barely any organizers," with attendees ranging from "a tiny number of young people to a die-hard faction of dying people." In Palm Beach, one…

Ukrainian Forces Battle Russian Offensive Near ‘Destroyed’ Pokrovsk | Ukraine Front Line Update
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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‘We’re doing something about it’ – Fiji’s health minister defends HIV response
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subject: Global
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description: By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Fiji’s Health Minister Dr Ratu Antonio Lalabalavu has defended the government’s handling of the country’s HIV crisis. HIV is surging in Fiji with at least 9000 people — or nearly one percent of the population — reported to be now infected. There are concerns that the real figure
encoded: By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Fiji’s Health Minister Dr Ratu Antonio Lalabalavu has defended the government’s handling of the country’s HIV crisis. HIV is surging in Fiji with at least 9000 people — or nearly one percent of the population — reported to be now infected. There are concerns that the real figure could be significantly higher, with global health experts saying HIV is historically under-reported. READ MORE: Other HIV in Fiji reports The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes the country has been gripped by an “escalating HIV outbreak”. The island nation declared an HIV outbreak in January last year, with the government calling it “a national crisis” and regional health experts warning that it could spread across the region. Dr Lalabalavu told Pacific Waves that despite the rising tide of infection the government’s response to the crisis had been “responsible”. “Look at the [HIV] trend and how it started, it goes way back to 2017, 2018. We are the government that recognised it and now we are doing something about it.” Budget allocation The government allocated FJ$10 million (US$4.4 million) in last year’s Budget towards initiatives designed to tackle the problem, he said. “From last year there have been government initiatives put in place to ensure that we do try and get this under control.” Fiji’s Health Minister Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu . . . “government initiatives have been put in place to ensure that we do try and get this under control.” Image: FB/Fiji Ministry of Health & Medical Services Alarming stats The Health Minister revealed some alarming HIV statistics in Parliament earlier this month. “In 2025, Fiji recorded 2003 new diagnoses, up from 1583 in 2024, with the national rate diagnosis rising to 226 per 100,000, up from 13 per 100,000 in 2019 — a 17-fold increase,” he said. “Men remain more affected, but the gap is narrowing, showing that infection is increasingly affecting women and families.” On top of that, a new trend…

Israel passes extreme death penalty law targeting only Palestinians
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date: 2026-03-30T23:36:16Z
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description: By Minnah Arshad of Zeteo Israel’s Parliament has approved a one-sided death penalty measure to execute Palestinians. It is one of the most extreme laws in the nation’s history, and will exacerbate the far-right government’s illegal system of apartheid. Some members of the Knesset, including ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, were seen wearing noose
encoded: By Minnah Arshad of Zeteo Israel’s Parliament has approved a one-sided death penalty measure to execute Palestinians. It is one of the most extreme laws in the nation’s history, and will exacerbate the far-right government’s illegal system of apartheid. Some members of the Knesset, including ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, were seen wearing noose pins in the Knesset yesterday, and celebrating with champagne on live TV after the bill passed. READ MORE: ‘Dangerous escalation’: World reacts to Israel passing death penalty law Other Palestine genocide reports Ben-Gvir said hanging is “one of the options,” as is execution by the electric chair or euthanasia. The law was passed with 62 votes to 48 in its final reading. The bill drew international condemnation ahead of its passage, including from the European Union, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and Amnesty International. Human rights groups have vowed to challenge the bill in Israel’s Supreme Court. The legislation, which has garnered broad public support in Israel, authorises executions for “terrorists” who kill “with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel,” according to Haaretz — effectively ensuring it won’t apply to any of the settlers who routinely murder Palestinians. ‘Confessions’ by torture In military courts in the occupied West Bank, execution by hanging will now be the default punishment for terrorism. Only Palestinians are tried in these courts, and 96 percent of people are convicted, though cases are largely built on “confessions” extracted through torture. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians condemned the bill yesterday ahead of the vote as an “extreme escalation in Israel’s genocidal policies against Palestinians”. “The progression of the legislation marks not just a profoundly unjust and illegal act of discrimination under international law, but a far more sinister escalation of Israel’s apartheid legal systems,” the center wrote. I…

NYT Covers Iran War With No Reporters in Iran
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creator: Drew Favakeh
date: 2026-03-30T22:21:51Z
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description: The New York Times' lack of on-the-ground coverage in Iran has directly resulted in slower coverage and confirmation of US/Israel culpability for deadly strikes.
encoded: The New York Times (2/26/26) was able to present a range of Israeli views on attacking Iran; relying mainly on telephone interviews, it’s harder to get a cross-section of Iranian opinion about being attacked. Since the US and Israel first attacked Iran in late February, it has been easy to spot the stark difference between the New York Times’ distant coverage of Iran and its up-close and personal coverage of Israel. Multiple Times employees are reporting from and currently living in Israel. These include reporters Isabel Kershner, Aaron Boxerman, Gabby Sobelman, Natan Odenheimer, Ronen Bergman, Adam Rasgon, Johnatan Reiss and Raja Abdulrahim, as well as Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger. They routinely report stories that center Israeli citizens, as in “How Israelis Feel About Another Potential War With Iran” (2/26/26). First-hand Times reports have Israelis taking “Shelter as Sirens Warn of Incoming Missiles” (2/28/26), feeling “Tense But Relieved That Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Dead” (3/1/26) and celebrating “Purim Amid Iranian Missile Attacks” (3/4/26). They also have penned stories on Iranian missile strikes in Israel mere hours after they took place (3/1/26, 3/18/26). Many articles have been based primarily on statements from Israeli officials (3/1/26, 3/3/26, 3/11/26, 3/19/26) and US officials (3/2/26, 3/7/26). Other articles have centered on the perspective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and what would benefit him (2/28/26, 3/14/26, 3/18/26). Meanwhile, the Times has no reporters based in Iran, as its editors admitted in two Q&A-style articles (3/9/26, 3/16/26). Instead, the paper has largely relied on its Visual Investigations team (3/12/26) and reporters based elsewhere to cover Iran, including correspondents in Israel, the US, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, South Korea, England, France and Germany. The Times reporters who most often quote Iranian voices—like Farnaz Fassihi, Parin Behrooz (both based in the US) and Ye…

Who’s really behind ‘Iran-backed’ cell attacking Europe?
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-03-30T22:06:48Z
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subject: Europe
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Trump’s Phoney War on Narcoterrorism
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creator: Jordan Liz
date: 2026-03-30T21:11:27Z
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subject: progressive
subject: sources
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subject: war
description: The Shield of the Americas sets a dangerous agenda for the Western hemisphere.
encoded: The Shield of the Americas sets a dangerous agenda for the Western hemisphere. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Jordan Liz.

CNN crew assaulted and briefly detained while covering Israeli outpost in West Bank
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date: 2026-03-30T20:33:32Z
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description: Washington, D.C., March 30, 2026—Israeli soldiers detained and assaulted a CNN crew on March 26 in the village of Tayasir in the northern West Bank, where the journalists had arrived to document settler violence and the establishment of a new illegal settler outpost. Within minutes, Israeli soldiers pointed their rifles at the crew of media...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 30, 2026—Israeli soldiers detained and assaulted a CNN crew on March 26 in the village of Tayasir in the northern West Bank, where the journalists had arrived to document settler violence and the establishment of a new illegal settler outpost. Within minutes, Israeli soldiers pointed their rifles at the crew of media workers, demanded that they cease filming, put CNN photojournalist Cyril Theophilos in a chokehold, damaged a camera, and detained the journalists. They were released two hours later. “This constitutes a clear infringement on journalists’ right to document and report on the escalating settler violence taking place in the West Bank,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Israeli authorities have an obligation not only to hold the perpetrators of this incident to account, but to open swift investigations into all cases of rampant rights violations against journalists, local and international alike.” CNN reported that one soldier’s stated justification for his actions was to protect the illegal outpost and as an act of revenge for the death of settler Yehuda Sherman, who was killed in a collision with a Palestinian vehicle on March 21. Jeremy Diamond, CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent who was targeted in the attack, confirmed that this soldier has since been dismissed. In response to CPJ’s request for information regarding the event, Military spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani stated that “the behavior and statements of the soldiers in this case do not reflect the [Israel Defense Forces] and do not represent the expected conduct of IDF soldiers. An investigation will be initiated.” Israeli military chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has since suspended the operational activities of the battalion that perpetrated the detention and assault, withdrawing the unit from their station in the West Bank, and assigning them to undergo training “aimed at reinforcing its professional and ethical foundations.” This content originally appeared on…

This Canadian journalist is in Iran to show the sides of war corporate media won’t
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez and Dimitri Lascaris
date: 2026-03-30T19:36:45Z
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Rep. Himes Sides With Trump on Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
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date: 2026-03-30T19:10:00Z
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description: Today, The Hill reported that Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged that many of his Democratic colleagues plan to flip their votes against renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillan...
encoded: Today, The Hill reported that Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged that many of his Democratic colleagues plan to flip their votes against renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because they do not trust the Trump administration with the law's sweeping warrantless surveillance powers. Despite those concerns, Himes is continuing to push for renewal and against any votes on privacy protections. The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka: "Donald Trump has shown he will abuse every inch of power we give him. So you would think that given an opportunity to check his authority and protect Americans, Democrats would jump at the chance. But instead, Rep. Jim Himes is failing his critical role as an overseer of intelligence agencies and using his political power to lobby his fellow Democrats in service of the Trump administration domestic surveillance agenda. It is unforgivably cynical and reckless for Rep. Himes to make it easier for this administration to spy on Americans, especially at a time when Government agencies’ have made it clear that they intend to supercharge surveillance with AI, and when their misuse of these powers is horrifically on display." Section 702 allows the government to collect hundreds of millions of communications of foreign targets, which routinely sweeps in with conversations with and the private data of Americans. Privacy groups are broadly calling for reforms before any reauthorization, including requiring a warrant before government agents search through FISA databases knowingly in pursuit of information about people in the United States, and recently Demand Progress further led over 130 organizations in demanding Congress close the data broker loophole, which allows federal agencies to purchase Americans' private data without a warrant and feed it into AI-powered surveillance systems. Section 702 is set to expire April …

Nerdeen Kiswani speaks out after assassination plot against her
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Trump declares ‘Cuba is finished’ while letting Russian oil tanker break illegal US blockade
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A New History, and Pre-History, of Rightwing Media
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description: A.J. Bauer’s new book ‘Making the Liberal Media’ takes a long view of conservative ire toward the mainstream press.
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Ugandan journalist missing, forced into van after radio show
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description: Kampala, March 30, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately disclose whether they have detained journalist and activist Mukose Arnold Anthony and to ensure his safe return, following his forcible disappearance in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Sunday. “The brazen seizure of Mukose Arnold Anthony in broad daylight, outside a radio...
encoded: Kampala, March 30, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately disclose whether they have detained journalist and activist Mukose Arnold Anthony and to ensure his safe return, following his forcible disappearance in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Sunday. “The brazen seizure of Mukose Arnold Anthony in broad daylight, outside a radio station, is an appalling abuse of human rights and media freedom,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “Ugandan authorities must urgently reveal the journalist’s whereabouts and ensure that journalists can work without fear of being arrested or disappearing.” At about 1 p.m. on March 22, men in plainclothes pushed Mukose, program director with the online outlet Alternative Digitalk, into a Toyota Noah minivan waiting outside the main gate of Metro FM 90.8, according to media reports. Eyewitnesses told those outlets that the men identified themselves to Mukose as security officers. Ugandans have nicknamed the vehicles “drones” because of the speed with which they drive off with those they have picked up. The Independent magazine cited Mukose’s lawyer Kato Tumusiime as saying that operatives from the multi-agency Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force took his client to his house, which they searched, and seized electronic devices. A police search certificate, shared online by Eron Kizza, another lawyer for Alternative Digitalk, showed that the police took Mukose’s ID card, passport, a modem, laptop and two smart watches from his house on March 29, in his presence. Mukose had just finished a live broadcast where he discussed the Constitutional Court’s March 17 ruling that nullified several sections of the Computer Misuse Act and criminal defamation in the penal code, which have frequently been used by authorities to target journalists and activists. Uganda’s police and military have long been accused of conducting enforced disappearances. Human Rights Watch has alleged that the Joint Anti-Terrorism…

Rewiring the Airwaves
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creator: Hana Salah
date: 2026-03-30T18:01:06Z
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description: How journalists in Gaza restored FM broadcasts without transmission towers.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 30, 2026
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creator: KPFA
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 30, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Headphones or speakers for this one? 🎧🔊
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While She Was in Labor, the Hospital Put Her in Zoom Court
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-03-30T17:09:00Z
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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Coalition Sues Trump EPA Over Illegal Repeal of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
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date: 2026-03-30T17:05:30Z
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description: A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plan...
encoded: A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Since EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) took effect in 2015, they’ve driven down dangerous mercury pollution from power plants by more than 90%. The standards have also delivered significant public health benefits, lowering the risk of cancer, heart and lung disease, and premature death. The following is a statement from the coalition challenging the repeal in court: “The repeal of these protections will mean more asthma attacks, emergency room visits, and premature deaths. This administration is not just rolling back rules, it is eliminating the monitoring infrastructure needed to know what is coming out of these smokestacks in the first place. It is allowing coal plants to spew out more neurotoxic mercury into our air and food supply, while simultaneously keeping the communities most at risk in the dark about how serious that threat is. This is a betrayal of the EPA’s core mission.” The repeal of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards follows a two-year exemption from the protections that the Trump administration granted to many coal plants, even though, according to the EPA’s own record, 93% of US coal capacity had already met or were on track to meet those standards. Since the Trump administration gave the country’s dirtiest coal plants a free pass, sulfur dioxide emissions have increased 18% nationally and neurotoxic mercury emissions have risen 9%. The sulfur dioxide spike was the second-largest single-year jump by percentage since EPA began publishing this data 30 years ago. Today’s lawsuit also challenges EPA’s rollback of real-time continuous emissions monitoring at power plants, which would have given communities accurate real-time data on the pollution they’re breathing and a stronger tool for e…

Paradox of Power: Judgment of Gender and Modern Warfare
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-03-30T16:49:51Z
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description: First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with educator and author Allison Butler to talk about her latest book: The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture. Allison dissects this seeming contradiction of both centering and s...
encoded: First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with educator and author Allison Butler to talk about her latest book: The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture. Allison dissects this seeming contradiction of both centering and silencing women. We dive into some history to orient us in the present, consider the intersections of womanhood, the women in service to patriarchy, and more. Next up, Dr. Shir Hever comes back on the show this time to give a perspective on the war on Iran that you won’t likely hear, even in alternative and independent media. Shir prompts us to consider what the actual goals of the war are through understanding modern warfare, the US/Israeli relationship, and the paradoxical stability of totalitarianism staring at us from this current apocalyptic war. The post Paradox of Power: Judgment of Gender and Modern Warfare appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Voices of protest at No Kings march in NYC
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T16:34:13Z
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subject: Voices
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"The Institutions Have Not Collapsed": Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War
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date: 2026-03-30T15:53:40Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: kadivar
subject: not
subject: now
subject: prof.
subject: resilience
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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UN News Today 30 March 2026
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creator: Dianne Penn
date: 2026-03-30T15:43:59Z
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subject: UN News
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subject: News
subject: podcasts/un
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subject: today
description: UN peacekeeper killed in Israeli-Hezbollah clashes in Lebanon Yemen: UN envoy decries Houthi decision to attack Israel Transform inefficient food systems on Zero-Waste Day
encoded: UN peacekeeper killed in Israeli-Hezbollah clashes in Lebanon Yemen: UN envoy decries Houthi decision to attack Israel Transform inefficient food systems on Zero-Waste Day This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Dianne Penn.

Report from Beirut: "Hearts Are Very, Very Heavy" After Israeli Strikes Target Journalists, Medics
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T15:42:06Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘very
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subject: are
subject: beirut
subject: Democracy
subject: from
subject: hearts,
subject: heavy
subject: israeli
subject: Journalists
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subject: now
subject: report
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: target
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Iranian And Israeli Oil Facilities In Flames As Strikes Continue | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-30T15:33:27Z
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subject: europe/rl
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subject: flames
subject: free
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subject: iranian
subject: israeli
subject: oil
subject: radio
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: update
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Iranian And Israeli Oil Facilities In Flames As Strikes Continue | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-30T15:33:27Z
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subject: europe/rl
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subject: flames
subject: free
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subject: Strikes
subject: update
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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The FBI’s return to Ecuador is nothing new
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creator: Marc Becker
date: 2026-03-30T15:27:59Z
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subject: Ecuador
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subject: International
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subject: Policing
subject: Politics
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description: This story originally appeared in NACLA on Mar. 27, 2026. It is reprinted here with permission. When Ecuador’s government announced on March 11 that the FBI would open a permanent office in the country, officials presented the move as a necessary...
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NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot
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date: 2026-03-30T15:22:44Z
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"People Are Rising Up": Voices of No Kings Protests from NYC to Denver
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T15:11:43Z
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subject: up”:
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No Kings: Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at St. Paul Rally
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T15:08:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: baez
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subject: joan
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subject: now
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 30, 2026
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date: 2026-03-30T15:03:59Z
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“The Institutions Have Not Collapsed”: Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T12:54:04Z
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description: As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key export hub in the Persian Gulf. President Trump’s comments come as 3...
encoded: As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its second month, President Donald Trump has said he wants “to take the oil” and seize Kharg Island, Iran’s key export hub in the Persian Gulf. President Trump’s comments come as 3,500 U.S. troops began arriving in the region on Friday, with The Washington Post reporting that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of potential ground combat in Iran. According to a consortium of human rights groups in Iran, nearly 1,500 Iranian civilians, including at least 217 children, have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. Iranian scholar Ali Kadivar says the increased targeting of residential areas, schools and hospitals in recent days shows that regime change is no longer the main goal, if it ever was. “These recent attacks on civilian infrastructure makes the war look more like a war on Iran as a nation-state,” says Kadivar, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and an associate professor at Boston College. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from Beirut: “Hearts Are Very, Very Heavy” After Israeli Strikes Target Journalists, Medics
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T12:46:16Z
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description: We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Beirut as Israel vows to expand its invasion of Lebanon and occupy much of the country. This comes as an Israeli strike targeted a marked press car in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing Ali Shoeib of...
encoded: We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Beirut as Israel vows to expand its invasion of Lebanon and occupy much of the country. This comes as an Israeli strike targeted a marked press car in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing Ali Shoeib of Al-Manar TV, reporter Fatima Ftouni of Al Mayadeen TV, and her brother, freelance cameraman Mohamed Ftouni. Israel’s military said it had targeted Shoeib, accusing him of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative, without providing evidence. The World Health Organization says nine paramedics were also killed Saturday in five separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, bringing the total number of health workers killed by Israel in March to 51. Such brazen killings are an attempt by Israel “to break the will of a people in a moment of deep vulnerability,” says Younes. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-30T12:38:20Z
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description: New York police say they foiled an assassination attempt against Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani. She describes the terror of finding out about the plot and why it reflects the “impunity” with which Zionist groups hav...
encoded: New York police say they foiled an assassination attempt against Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani. She describes the terror of finding out about the plot and why it reflects the “impunity” with which Zionist groups have targeted pro-Palestine voices. “It really made me feel even more vulnerable than I already do as a Palestinian activist,” says Kiswani, co-founder of the group Within Our Lifetime. A New Jersey man, Alexander Heifler, has been arrested and charged with plotting to firebomb Kiswani’s home in Brooklyn. Investigators say Heifler was a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, a New Jersey-based group founded in 2024 that describes itself as a revival of the Jewish Defense League, a pro-Israel group designated by the FBI as a terrorist organization. “It’s truly shocking, what they’ve been able to get away with,” Kiswani says of extreme Zionist groups like the Jewish Defense League. “It’s just been ignored for far too long, so it’s good to finally have some accountability.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“People Are Rising Up”: Voices of No Kings Protests from NYC to Denver
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description: One of the largest No Kings protests on Saturday took place in New York City, where tens of thousands marched to protest the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and more. Democracy Now!’s A...
encoded: One of the largest No Kings protests on Saturday took place in New York City, where tens of thousands marched to protest the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and more. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was in the streets and spoke to many demonstrators. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

No Kings: Rep. Omar, Sen. Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at Massive St. Paul Rally
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description: An estimated 8 million people took part in anti-Trump protests across the United States on Saturday as part of the No Kings movement, with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown animating many part...
encoded: An estimated 8 million people took part in anti-Trump protests across the United States on Saturday as part of the No Kings movement, with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown animating many participants. One of the largest rallies took place in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where federal immigration agents killed U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January. Rally speakers included Congressmember Ilhan Omar, Governor Tim Walz, Senator Bernie Sanders, actor and activist Jane Fonda and others, as well as a performance by Bruce Springsteen. We air highlights from the rally. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Ali Kadivar: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Is “Defining Moment” for the Whole Global Order
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description: “These are all war crimes — and this is an American president threatening war crimes over and over publicly.”
encoded: One month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, we speak with the Iranian American sociologist Ali Kadivar, who says the leadership in Tehran is consolidating its power and adopting more hard-line positions amid the conflict. He also warns that Trump’s threatened strikes on Iranian electricity and desalination infrastructure would constitute war crimes and likely push oil above $200 a barrel, risking global recession, while any seizure of Kharg Island would expose U.S. troops without producing a decisive result. “These are all war crimes — and this is an American president threatening war crimes over and over publicly,” says Kadivar. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 30, 2026
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description: “No Kings” Protests Draw 8 Million People for the Largest Single Day of Protests in U.S. History, Trump Boasts About Regime Change in Iran as 3,500 U.S. Troops Arrive in the Middle East, U.S. Officials Say Iran Fired Missiles and Drones at Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Israeli Strikes Kill Three Journalists in Southern Lebanon, Israeli Airstrikes Kill Six Palestinians in Gaza, Israeli Police Prevent Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from Entering Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, Pope Leo Rebukes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth During Palm Sunday Mass, FBI and NYPD Say They Thwarted Arson Attack on Home of Prominent Palestinian-American Activist, Trump Says White House Ballroom Will Be a “Shed” Over Military Bunker, Bank of America to Pay $72.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Hundreds of Epstein Survivors, Homeland Security Shutdown Is Now Longest in U.S. History, Sen. Bernie Sanders Rallies Support for New York City Tax on Millionaires
encoded: "No Kings" Protests Draw 8 Million People for the Largest Single Day of Protests in U.S. History Trump Boasts About Regime Change in Iran as 3,500 U.S. Troops Arrive in the Middle East U.S. Officials Say Iran Fired Missiles and Drones at Air Base in Saudi Arabia Israeli Strikes Kill Three Journalists in Southern Lebanon Israeli Airstrikes Kill Six Palestinians in Gaza Israeli Police Prevent Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from Entering Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday Pope Leo Rebukes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth During Palm Sunday Mass FBI and NYPD Say They Thwarted Arson Attack on Home of Prominent Palestinian-American Activist Trump Says White House Ballroom Will Be a "Shed" Over Military Bunker Bank of America to Pay $72.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Hundreds of Epstein Survivors Homeland Security Shutdown Is Now Longest in U.S. History Sen. Bernie Sanders Rallies Support for New York City Tax on Millionaires This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-30 Monday
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New Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks
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description: The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for...
encoded: The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center for Food Safety <a href="https://us.cisionone.cision.com/c/eJwszs2u2yAQxfGnMbuJMB6-FizuJq8RjYchobWxC26j-_ZVqm7_R0f65WQCo3ZK0uw9Bhet9-qV0BJbE1bSoWSD0XqnzUyGUK-4YFQ1uchkeSGkss6Pec7z4sJiIrrsJtSjZvlZf8FOdZM-wPuAbEvMAcaP2J63z6C29Lquc0zL12Tuk7m_3-8bS7ukl6OX48iDilzft6M_J3MvdZMxmTuXAaeMq3LNAmcX2c-rHg2oZWBqLB3e1FttT6BG2_eoA2Cnzi8w2riHCwHN7cxF7ZIrQZdNaAjUnP6Fx_8wLV_GYohW9bTR7y5tQs3Hvh8td6F9fGBqXB_B55ztgrNmB4EsAdq4QrDMII681WVlb0X9SeZvAAAA__8RpXeZ" rel="noopener noreferrer" >analyzed the level of risk the EPA permitted for both currently approved and legacy pesticide active ingredients. The analysis found that pesticides have been allowed on the market with a cancer risk as high as one in every 100 people exposed, a far greater level than the EPA’s benchmark of a one in a million chance of developing cancer. Over the last 40 years, the EPA has approved 200 active ingredients that are “likely” or “possible” carcinogens. The Center for Biological Diversity analysis <a href="https://us.cisionone.cision.com/c/eJwsjr1uwyAURp8GNiLzDwNDFr9Cx-garm1aMCk4kfr2lauu53yfdFIQLqrJUAzcWuWM19bSPdgoF7-Y5FBPcVq400lKITh4njx3luZgfAQdJShYF_7gPHFpnBRemWSImkZO-JW_WYVcsA9mrVNRrz45Nj79sd0uQUvYz_M5iLwTMRMxL7mVtuUIJeU39pHPn1vrGxHzs7etQx1EzHi8c29HxeOE8tgRyrlfi7RedoZcXh3Z2dgH9OP2TCutmDKwjgVhIMsp_IHHPyDyLrRyXtMeCrw6HkRNsdXajtQR6rgS6Dg7Yr3OSUvFp2iYAw1Mab8wp2NkaMDqaV2i1UjfQfwGAAD__5ZKb2s" rel="noopener noreferrer" >examined pesticide product labels for all currently approved pesticide products. The EPA has instituted cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 pesticide labels (1.4%) containing an active ingredient that the agency has designated a “likely” human carcinogen. And the agency has instituted cance…

Daughter of slain Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos calls release of convicted mastermind “an insult” to justice
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description: Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño was only 14 when her father, 38-year-old Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, was killed on November 24, 1988, while covering the war between the Peruvian army and leftist Shining Path guerrillas in a violent ambush near the town of Huanta. After nearly four decades of fighting to find her father’s killer, Sharmelí found justice in...
encoded: Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño was only 14 when her father, 38-year-old Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, was killed on November 24, 1988, while covering the war between the Peruvian army and leftist Shining Path guerrillas in a violent ambush near the town of Huanta. After nearly four decades of fighting to find her father’s killer, Sharmelí found justice in 2023 when former army intelligence chief turned-politician Daniel Urresti Elera was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to kill Bustíos. However, that justice was short-lived. In February 2026, a ruling from Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal, the country’s highest court, saw Urresti walk free on March 3 and announce his return to politics. The Tribunal based its decision on a controversial amnesty law approved last year by Peru’s Congress, which states that war crimes and crimes against humanity can only be prosecuted if they occurred after July 1, 2002. The Bustíos family plans to appeal the ruling. “We had been told to prepare ourselves for such a ruling, but it still came as a shock,” said Sharmelí. “It was announced on February 20, my father’s birthday. He would have been 76 years old. I was indignant. It was an insult not just to our family but to all the people who were assassinated during the war.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="640" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bustios.png?w=1024" alt="A photo of Hugo Bustíos Saavedra taken minutes before he was killed in November 1988. (Photo: Caretas)" class="wp-image-576995" style="width:358px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bustios.png 1482w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bustios.png?resize=300,187 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bustios.png?resize=768,480 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bustios.png?resize=1024,640 1024w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bustios.png?resize=570,356 570w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uplo…

Over $100 Billion Lost to Oil and Gas Price Spikes in First Month of Iran War, 350.org Analysis Shows
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description: One month after the start of the Iran war, new analysis from 350.org shows that over $100 billion has been siphoned from ordinary people to oil and gas companies due to soaring energy prices.In addition to the horrific loss of human life, campaigners ...
encoded: One month after the start of the Iran war, new analysis from 350.org shows that over $100 billion has been siphoned from ordinary people to oil and gas companies due to soaring energy prices. In addition to the horrific loss of human life, campaigners say the crisis highlights how dependence on fossil fuels enriches the few at the expense of the many. The analysis estimates that rising oil and gas prices have already cost consumers and businesses an additional $104.2–$111.6 billion. Impacts have been sharp and immediate, from textile factory layoffs in Bangladesh, to fuel rationing in Kenya, to a looming recession in the United States. The 350.org analysis calculates losses from price spikes using weighted oil and gas price averages over the first month of the war, combined with global consumption levels and adjustments for uncertainty, such as reduced demand and rationing in response to rising prices. It does not yet include wider knock-on effects, such as rising fertiliser and food costs, declines in economic output and employment, or broader inflation driven by fossil fuel price volatility. As a result, the true economic damage is likely significantly higher than the losses from oil and gas prices alone. The $111 billion lost to higher oil and gas prices alone could instead build enough solar power to supply around 40 million households in high-consumption countries, or about 150 million households in lower-consumption contexts. This figure is also roughly equivalent to current annual international climate finance—public and private funding provided by developed countries to developing countries under the UN Climate Convention and the Paris Agreement. Anne Jellema, Chief Executive of 350.org, said: “On top of the incalculable suffering of families and communities torn apart by the war, ordinary people around the world are paying an extraordinary price through fossil fuel-driven energy spikes. Over $100 billion has gone straight into the pockets of fossil fuel com…

Deafening silence about the Israeli Dimona nuclear double standard
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-30T10:32:22Z
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description: ANALYSIS: By Ronny P. Sasmita The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint US-Israeli bombing operations. Yet the world, filtered through the dominant lens of Western media, continues to be fed a singular narrative: the latent danger of Iran’s uranium enrichment, perpetually described as being “one step away” from
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Ronny P. Sasmita The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint US-Israeli bombing operations. Yet the world, filtered through the dominant lens of Western media, continues to be fed a singular narrative: the latent danger of Iran’s uranium enrichment, perpetually described as being “one step away” from a nuclear warhead. Amid economic sanctions, UN Security Council resolutions and preemptive military strikes that have devastated Iran’s civilian and military infrastructure, there exists a deafening silence surrounding the Middle East’s most tangible arsenal of weapons of mass destruction: Israel’s nuclear stockpile. READ MORE: Al Jazeera’s defence editor Alex Gatopoulos explains how things stand in the war on Iran Trump says wants to take Iran’s oil — Kuwait power site hit Other US-Israel war on Iran reports In reality, the region’s security architecture is not threatened by a nuclear capability that might exist in the future, but by one that has existed for more than six decades. In Israel’s Negev desert stands the Dimona complex — a black box untouched by International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, immune to sanctions and maintained as one of the international community’s most tightly guarded open secrets. This contradiction represents perhaps the most blatant manifestation of global double standards, preserving Israel’s nuclear privilege above international law. History shows that Israel’s nuclear ambitions were not merely a reaction to external threats but part of a broader geostrategic design to secure regional hegemony. Since David Ben-Gurion articulated the post-Holocaust doctrine of “Never Again,” nuclear capability has been framed as the Samson Option — a last-resort deterrent ensuring Israel can devastate the region if its existence is threatened. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Al Jazeera English (@aljazeeraenglish) Bombshell deception Yet this privilege did not emerge organically. It was constru…

Deafening silence about the Israeli Dimona nuclear double standard
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-30T10:32:22Z
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description: ANALYSIS: By Ronny P. Sasmita The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint US-Israeli bombing operations. Yet the world, filtered through the dominant lens of Western media, continues to be fed a singular narrative: the latent danger of Iran’s uranium enrichment, perpetually described as being “one step away” from
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Ronny P. Sasmita The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint US-Israeli bombing operations. Yet the world, filtered through the dominant lens of Western media, continues to be fed a singular narrative: the latent danger of Iran’s uranium enrichment, perpetually described as being “one step away” from a nuclear warhead. Amid economic sanctions, UN Security Council resolutions and preemptive military strikes that have devastated Iran’s civilian and military infrastructure, there exists a deafening silence surrounding the Middle East’s most tangible arsenal of weapons of mass destruction: Israel’s nuclear stockpile. READ MORE: Al Jazeera’s defence editor Alex Gatopoulos explains how things stand in the war on Iran Trump says wants to take Iran’s oil — Kuwait power site hit Other US-Israel war on Iran reports In reality, the region’s security architecture is not threatened by a nuclear capability that might exist in the future, but by one that has existed for more than six decades. In Israel’s Negev desert stands the Dimona complex — a black box untouched by International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, immune to sanctions and maintained as one of the international community’s most tightly guarded open secrets. This contradiction represents perhaps the most blatant manifestation of global double standards, preserving Israel’s nuclear privilege above international law. History shows that Israel’s nuclear ambitions were not merely a reaction to external threats but part of a broader geostrategic design to secure regional hegemony. Since David Ben-Gurion articulated the post-Holocaust doctrine of “Never Again,” nuclear capability has been framed as the Samson Option — a last-resort deterrent ensuring Israel can devastate the region if its existence is threatened. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Al Jazeera English (@aljazeeraenglish) Bombshell deception Yet this privilege did not emerge organically. It was constru…

“Don’t Let Fascists Steal Your Time”: Andrea’s Tribute to Her Uncle Phil
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-30T10:04:00Z
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description: "We're not going to get the liberation we all crave on a soul level without risk." Andrea reflects on why, now more than ever, we must follow our hearts and refuse to let fear, or Steve Bannon, that Jabba the Hutt of American politics, live rent-free in our heads. Being brave, taking risks: that's how we win. In this special excerpt from last Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon, Andrea honors her beloved uncle, Phil Bourne. "Uncle Phil" was the founding dean of the University of Virginia School of Data Science, earned more than 100,000 citations on Google Scholar, championed the collaboration between the liberal arts and STEM as essential to the future of education, and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the "Ten Simple Rules" series. Honor Uncle Phil's memory by reaching out to your loved ones and saying what's truly in your heart. We do not have as much time here as we think. Don't let the fascists steal that time from you. Bethany McKee, founder of the Outreach Committee, a group that meets to discuss how to deal with the MAGA cultists in our lives as they awaken to their own self-destruction, will host today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4 p.m. ET. You can find the Zoom link at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you. Join us for an evening honoring the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't make this show without you–see you there!
encoded: "We're not going to get the liberation we all crave on a soul level without risk." Andrea reflects on why, now more than ever, we must follow our hearts and refuse to let fear, or Steve Bannon, that Jabba the Hutt of American politics, live rent-free in our heads. Being brave, taking risks: that's how we win. In this special excerpt from last Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon, Andrea honors her beloved uncle, Phil Bourne. "Uncle Phil" was the founding dean of the University of Virginia School of Data Science, earned more than 100,000 citations on Google Scholar, championed the collaboration between the liberal arts and STEM as essential to the future of education, and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the "Ten Simple Rules" series. Honor Uncle Phil's memory by reaching out to your loved ones and saying what's truly in your heart. We do not have as much time here as we think. Don't let the fascists steal that time from you. Bethany McKee, founder of the Outreach Committee, a group that meets to discuss how to deal with the MAGA cultists in our lives as they awaken to their own self-destruction, will host today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4 p.m. ET. You can find the Zoom link at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you. Join us for an evening honoring the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't make this show without you–see you there! This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation a…

DN! Monday, March 30, 2026
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
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creator: Jeremy Kohler
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description: The post A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed — watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles and wheeling herself down the hallways of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit. Coulson had been admitted to Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January 2016, after Parkinson’s disease left her at risk of choking when she swallowed. That April, the facility’s operations were taken over by Skyline Healthcare, a New Jersey-based company that was buying up nursing homes across the country. Medical records for the retired cardiac nurse, then 71, were marked “NPO” — nothing by mouth. Then that September, a nursing assistant found Coulson unresponsive and hanging off the side of her bed, her skin ashy and her breathing shallow. She was taken to a hospital in a coma and died several days later. The chief cause of death was aspiration pneumonia, according to her death certificate. “The doctors said they found scrambled eggs in her lungs,” said her daughter Melissa Coulson. Coulson’s death and the circumstances surrounding it led her family to file a lawsuit against Skyline and its owner, the New Jersey businessman Joseph Schwartz, alleging that cost-cutting at Hillview left Coulson without the care she needed. It was one of several lawsuits tied to patient outcomes as Schwartz’s empire expanded and then unraveled, with much of the chain collapsing by 2018. Schwartz didn’t contest the case, and a judge in 2020 awarded nearly $19 million in damages. Coulson’s family has never been able to collect. Schwartz had by that time relinquished all of his property in Arkansas, so there was nothing left in the state for the family’s lawyer to try to seize, nor was there enough information about assets he may hold in other states. Coulson’s civil action was one of several efforts to hold Schwartz accountable for what happened at his nursing homes. In perhaps the most sweeping move, federal prosecu…

Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash
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creator: Joseph Winters
date: 2026-03-30T08:45:00Z
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description: A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
encoded: Frappuccino lovers, rejoice: Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s according to an announcement made in February by Starbucks, the waste hauler WM (formerly known as Waste Management), and three recycling groups called The Recycling Partnership, GreenBlue, and Closed Loop Partners. In a press release, they said that more than 60 percent of U.S. households can now recycle cold to-go cups in their curbside recycling bins. This makes the cups eligible for one of GreenBlue’s special labels featuring the familiar chasing arrows triangle and the words “widely recyclable.” “To-go cups are entering a new era of recyclability,” the release said. However, there’s a catch. Just because a product can be collected for recycling doesn’t mean it actually gets recycled. To imply otherwise is to conflate two very different numbers: the access rate and the real recycling rate. The former describes the number of people who are told they have “access” to a recycling program for a given product. The latter — the amount of plastic that is ultimately turned into new things — is what really matters, from an environmental standpoint. There’s not much evidence to suggest that the recycling rate for plastic cups is above 1 or 2 percent. “This is one of those situations where statistics can be very misleading,” said Alex Jordan, a plastics researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. “They can pull a statistic that would make the public think that all these things are being recycled, but unfortunately even if you clean and dry and put your recycling in the recycling bin and it gets picked up, the overwhelming likelihood is that it ends up in a landfill or being burned for energy generation.” Jordan is one of several experts across government, academia, and industry who question the feasibility of recycling plastic cups. Polypropylene, the type of plastic Starbucks’ cups are made from, is ubiquitous in packaging and foodware but not in recycling facilities. It’s often …

With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock
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creator: Ayurella Horn-Muller
date: 2026-03-30T08:30:00Z
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description: The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.
encoded: Against the backdrop of a looming global energy crisis, rising food insecurity, and the increased frequency and intensity of heat, hurricanes, and floods fueled by global warming, Florida’s governing bodies have had a consequential, but unsurprisingly counterproductive, month. At the beginning of March, the state legislature passed a bill blocking local governments from adopting or enforcing “net-zero” policies. The bill, which was sent to Ron DeSantis’ desk, is expected to be signed by the governor in the coming days and would impact commitments made by more than a dozen cities from Tallahassee to South Miami to lower emissions and energy costs. Then, last Monday morning, DeSantis signed Senate Bill 290, or the “Florida Farm Bill,” into law. The bill passed with a 94-10 vote in the House and a unanimous vote by the Senate. Among the biggest climate rollbacks of the new legislation, which goes into effect July 1, is the provision that now preemptively bans cities and counties throughout the state from outlawing gas- and diesel-powered tools, such as tractors, lawn mowers, and leaf blowers. “If you want to use different stuff, fine, it’s a free country,” DeSantis said before signing the bill in Sebring, Florida. “But I like the gas-powered better. I just think it’s more reliable.” According to Brooke Alexander-Goss, the Organizing Manager at Sierra Club’s Florida chapter, there are at most seven municipalities in Florida that actually have bans against gas-powered lawn tools, like leaf blowers and chainsaws; no municipalities in the state have prohibited the big gas- and diesel-powered machines that farmers use on a daily basis. “They’re pinpointing something very, very specific, and it’s not even something we’ve seen or heard of,” Alexander-Goss said. “It’s just another example of the legislature overstepping and wanting to take over local control, which obviously opens the door for more of that in the future.” Farmers and ranchers in the state are celebrating the w…

Middle East Conflict: Rhetoric, Actions Flout Laws of War
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-03-30T07:26:07Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Rights & Wrongs: Getting From Here To There
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Regime change: What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements
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description: ANALYSIS: Introduced by Robert Reich From time to time, I post transcripts I’ve come across of particularly insightful conversations. Here’s one that’s particularly relevant to the US “No Kings” Day protests at the weekend. Recently, The Conversation hosted a webinar in which executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice
encoded: ANALYSIS: Introduced by Robert Reich From time to time, I post transcripts I’ve come across of particularly insightful conversations. Here’s one that’s particularly relevant to the US “No Kings” Day protests at the weekend. Recently, The Conversation hosted a webinar in which executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Oliver Kaplan, associate professor at Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Shattuck is the former president of Central European University in Hungary, where he defended academic freedom against a rising authoritarian government. Kaplan is the author of Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves. This interview has been condensed and edited for print. READ MORE: ‘No Kings’ protests erupt across the US, with a Minnesota focus BETH DALEY: What is an authoritarian regime, and what are their characteristics? JOHN SHATTUCK: The authoritarian, often referred to as a “king,” is the ideal role from the point of view of the king, but certainly not from the point of view of the people. Authoritarian characteristics include centralised unlimited power, the opposite of democracy; no accountability and no rule of law; no independent courts; no checks and balances on how the king operates; rule by fear and coercion, and when necessary, in order to carry out the king’s orders, rule by by force. There are no individual rights or civil liberties except those the king decides to allow those who are loyal to him to have, at least until he decides to take them away. That’s a nutshell informal description of an authoritarian regime. A special threat today is that an authoritarian can emerge from a democratic election, and, indeed, a democratic election can be used to turn a weak democracy into an authoritarian regime. But when this happens, it opens the door to…

The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics
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creator: Walden Bello
date: 2026-03-30T06:00:45Z
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description: In the United States today, life expectancy is falling as suicides, drug addiction, alcoholism, and heart disease are inexorably on the rise, contrary to the trends in other First World countries. One thing is clear. The terribly expensive and massively inefficient system of politically protected private health system is not equipped to deal with the “deaths of despair” and other manifestations of the health crisis in the richest country in the world. More The post The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Miscalculation of the Century: Trump’s Iran Adventure
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creator: Vijay Prashad
date: 2026-03-30T06:00:44Z
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description: Last year, in July, the United States and Israel bombarded Iran’s nuclear energy and nuclear research facilities over twelve days. After a few days, the two belligerent powers—who had no United Nations authorisation for this war of aggression—opened the door for a ceasefire. At that time, believing that this might very well be the basis for a full negotiation, the Iranian government led by Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei agreed to the terms set out: an immediate end to the strikes and no escalation. The missile launchers went quiet, but the deal was very fragile. There was no long-term peace agreement, no binding enforcement or monitoring mechanisms, no settlement on the nuclear issues, and no agreement to end US and Israeli sabotage and attacks on Iran More The post The Miscalculation of the Century: Trump’s Iran Adventure appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Miscalculation of the Century: Trump’s Iran Adventure
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creator: Vijay Prashad
date: 2026-03-30T06:00:44Z
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subject: iran
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description: Last year, in July, the United States and Israel bombarded Iran’s nuclear energy and nuclear research facilities over twelve days. After a few days, the two belligerent powers—who had no United Nations authorisation for this war of aggression—opened the door for a ceasefire. At that time, believing that this might very well be the basis for a full negotiation, the Iranian government led by Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei agreed to the terms set out: an immediate end to the strikes and no escalation. The missile launchers went quiet, but the deal was very fragile. There was no long-term peace agreement, no binding enforcement or monitoring mechanisms, no settlement on the nuclear issues, and no agreement to end US and Israeli sabotage and attacks on Iran More The post The Miscalculation of the Century: Trump’s Iran Adventure appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Thanks to Trump, the Cruel Hand of Exploitation is Invisible No More
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creator: Laura Flanders
date: 2026-03-30T05:56:52Z
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description: We’ve always had inequality. Go back to feudal Europe — the peasant bound to the lord’s land, the serf who could not leave, the villager whose labor fed a castle he would never enter. The hierarchy was absolute, brutal, and barely concealed. But it was also local. The feudal lord and the peasants he exploited breathed the same air and walked beneath the same trees. Even the most distant king knew that peasants had pitchforks, because kings had felt the sting of them. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in England. The Jacquerie in France in 1358. The German Peasants’ War of 1524. The powerful have always, eventually, been reminded that proximity to the people they exploit carries consequences. More The post Thanks to Trump, the Cruel Hand of Exploitation is Invisible No More appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Country’s Major Demographic Problem: Too Few or Too Many People?
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-03-30T05:55:34Z
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description: A weather person who told us to bundle up for the cold weather, but also be sure to drink plenty of fluids to protect against the heat, would not be taken very seriously. That is roughly the state of economics when it comes to basic demographic questions. On alternate days the economy seems to be More The post The Country’s Major Demographic Problem: Too Few or Too Many People? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Iran War is a Disaster for Young People
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creator: Chisom Okorafur
date: 2026-03-30T05:50:26Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
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subject: for
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description: I wasn’t alive yet for the beginning of the Iraq War. But as I watch the U.S. war on Iran threaten to spiral out of control, I’m starting to see what it might have felt like. The Iraq War was predicated on a lie, but the Bush administration at least attempted to justify it. If anything, the war More The post The Iran War is a Disaster for Young People appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-403893" class="size-large wp-image-403893" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-1120x630.webp" alt="" width="1120" height="630" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-1120x630.webp 1120w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-680x383.webp 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-768x432.webp 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-1536x864.webp 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-500x281.webp 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png-600x338.webp 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-still.png.webp 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1120px) 100vw, 1120px" /> Image Source: The White House – Public Domain I wasn’t alive yet for the beginning of the Iraq War. But as I watch the U.S. war on Iran threaten to spiral out of control, I’m starting to see what it might have felt like. The Iraq War was predicated on a lie, but the Bush administration at least attempted to justify it. If anything, the war in Iran has been even more poorly justified — and lacking any coherent strategy. And young people especially have a stake in seeing it end as soon as possible. For Millennials, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq heralded the destruction of a future they had been promised. For Generation Z, the war in Iran is worsening the future we already worried would be bad. Already, nearly 2,500 people have been confirmed killed in the region since the start of this war. The vast majority of those killed have been civilians in Iran and Lebanon — including over 180 people in a U.S. strike on a girls’ elementary school. American troops, the majority of whom are under 30, are also at risk. At the time of this writing, 13 have been confirmed dead, and hundreds have been…

To Make America Healthy Again, Break Up Big Ag
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creator: Amanda Claire Starbuck
date: 2026-03-30T05:50:01Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: america
subject: articles 2015
subject: big
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description: President Trump has systematically broken virtually every promise made on the campaign trail to court health-focused voters. His most recent walk-backs on pesticide reform are a cruel insult to the idea of “making America healthy again.” Among other controversies, he issued an executive order to boost the production of glyphosate, a toxic pesticide linked to cancer. And More The post To Make America Healthy Again, Break Up Big Ag appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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No Kings in the Twin Cities
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creator: Bernie Sanders
date: 2026-03-30T05:49:31Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: Thank you, Minnesota. And let me thank Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501 and all of the organizations who have made this event possible. And thank you to the millions of Americans, from our smallest towns to our largest cities, in every state in our country, who are gathering today at thousands of rallies. It is absolutely appropriate More The post No Kings in the Twin Cities appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Montana’s Ailing Rivers Need More Water, Not Words and Endless Studies
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creator: George Ochenski
date: 2026-03-30T05:35:49Z
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description: Forty-one years ago Gov. Ted Schwinden appointed me as chairman of his newly-formed Governor’s Drought Task Force. Montana’s legendary rivers were running dry, fish were dying, and the governor was whining, “I can’t make it rain.” So he appointed a task force. The truth is, he didn’t understand much about coldwater fisheries or that aquatic More The post Montana’s Ailing Rivers Need More Water, Not Words and Endless Studies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Iran and the Illusions of War
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creator: Winslow Myers
date: 2026-03-30T05:35:39Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: illusions
subject: iran
subject: sources
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subject: war
description: For whatever reason, our president has been sucked deeply into just the variety of foreign entanglement that he campaigned against. While he and his absurdly gung-ho “Secretary of War” assert that they are not bent on nation-building like their supposedly hapless and woke predecessors, they sure seem to be trying to build an Iranian state More The post Iran and the Illusions of War appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: For whatever reason, our president has been sucked deeply into just the variety of foreign entanglement that he campaigned against. While he and his absurdly gung-ho “Secretary of War” assert that they are not bent on nation-building like their supposedly hapless and woke predecessors, they sure seem to be trying to build an Iranian state with whom we can “peacefully” coexist—by killing as many potential Iranian leaders as they can. It is not going to work. Neither America nor Israel will become more secure in the long run. If anything good comes of such so-called (and despicably named) “mowing the grass,” I’ll eat my hat. Sweet Jesus, our benighted species does sometimes seem awesomely stuck on stupid. Here we are a quarter into the 21st century with two world wars and a series of futile superpower “excursions” into Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan behind us. Russia remains bogged down in the middle of a brutal and cruel “special military operation.” Ahead of us looms a global climate emergency wherein the minimum terms of global survival will be the mass adoption of solar, wind and other renewables. Yes, the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz has demonstrated the significant continuing demand for oil and other essential commodities, but the era of fossil fuels is clearly winding down, notwithstanding the president’s ostrich-like denial of climate and obligation to the oil execs who helped pay for his re-election. In order to keep on assuming that adventures like the cooperative bombing of Iran by the U.S. and Israel will result in anything positive at all, let alone unalloyed positive good, it is necessary to cling rigidly to a series of illusions. A few are listed below, along with their equivalent counter arguments. •Massive firepower has the capacity to permanently erase ideology, collective resentment and a desire for vengeance. (Nope. This campaign has intensified Iran’s hatred of Israel and America in a way that almost inevitably will carry into further generatio…

$200 Billion: The Costs of the Iran War
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creator: Peter Hart
date: 2026-03-30T05:35:26Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: billion
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description: Shortly after the US launched its war on Iran, military officials reportedly told lawmakers that it would cost about $1.5 billion per day. There were reasons to believe that this was likely an undercount. Those impressions were bolstered once reports surfaced that the Pentagon is seeking an additional $200 billion appropriation from Congress. Even with More The post $200 Billion: The Costs of the Iran War appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Shortly after the US launched its war on Iran, military officials reportedly told lawmakers that it would cost about $1.5 billion per day. There were reasons to believe that this was likely an undercount. Those impressions were bolstered once reports surfaced that the Pentagon is seeking an additional $200 billion appropriation from Congress. Even with a military budget that exceeds $1 trillion, this is a substantial increase in spending. Since Trump took office, the White House and the Republican majority in Congress have enacted sharp cuts to social spending and safety net programs – most prominently as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) – because they thought it necessary to rein in government spending. On an annual basis, several of the most high profile cuts are estimated to cost less the Iran war’s $200 billion price tag: + Medicaid cuts: $100 billion + Cuts to the SNAP food assistance program: $20 billion + Expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies: $30 billion + Recissions package cutting foreign aid and Corporation for Public Broadcasting: $9 billion The health care cuts are projected to cause millions of people to lose their coverage. Millions will lose their food assistance, leading to potentially tens of thousands of avoidable deaths. Trump has said that the additional war funding is “a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.” When it comes to these other programs, though, evidently the price was too high. This first appeared on CEPR. The post $200 Billion: The Costs of the Iran War appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Peter Hart.

Will the US-Israeli War on Iran Open the Road to Palestinian Freedom?
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creator: Ramzy Baroud
date: 2026-03-30T05:30:53Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Freedom
subject: iran
subject: open
subject: palestinian
subject: road
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: us-israeli
subject: war
subject: will
description: Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and dismantle the apartheid regime. Among the conditions circulated in Iranian and sympathetic media—though not formally confirmed by Tehran—is the proposition that any resolution must include an end to More The post Will the US-Israeli War on Iran Open the Road to Palestinian Freedom? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and dismantle the apartheid regime. Among the conditions circulated in Iranian and sympathetic media—though not formally confirmed by Tehran—is the proposition that any resolution must include an end to Israel’s war across all fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond. However, these conditions did not specifically prioritize the freedom of Palestine as a precondition to ending the war. That frustration is neither misplaced nor marginal. For many, Palestine is not one issue among others, but the defining axis of the conflict itself. Precisely for that reason, however, it cannot be approached in isolation. To treat the current war solely through what has or has not been explicitly stated risks narrowing a profoundly complex confrontation into a single dimension, when in fact it is through this broader, interconnected struggle that the question of Palestine is ultimately being shaped, contested, and potentially resolved. Several strands of analysis capture elements of this reality, but few sustain it. Some focus narrowly on Israeli domestic politics, arguing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the war to preserve his coalition, delay accountability, and avoid legal consequences that could end his political career. Others shift to a broader strategic reading, situating the war within Israel’s long-standing pursuit of regional dominance—neutralizing adversaries, expanding normalization, and consolidating its position as the central power in the region. A third line of analysis, closer to the mainstream, continues to operate within the declared framework of Washington and Tel Aviv. Even when it introduces criticism, it remains anchored in the language of Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli “security,” and the familiar architecture of justification. This framework is not neutral. It sys…

The Forest Service Cannot Cut the Public Out of Determining the Future of Holland Lake Lodge
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creator: Mike Garrity
date: 2026-03-30T04:53:03Z
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subject: articles 2015
subject: cannot
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subject: cut
subject: determining
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subject: future
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subject: lodge
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description: Holland Lake Lodge is located on public land in the Flathead National Forest in western Montana. Yet the Forest Service is effectively cutting the public out of how and for whom public lands and dollars will be used with its proposal to rebuild the privately-operated Lodge’s sewage system. Forest Supervisor Anthony Botello determined the multi-million dollar More The post The Forest Service Cannot Cut the Public Out of Determining the Future of Holland Lake Lodge appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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God’s Little Loophole: Spain’s Public Funding of Private Prejudice
type: item
creator: Troy Nahumko
date: 2026-03-30T04:33:16Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: funding
subject: god’s
subject: little
subject: loophole
subject: Prejudice
subject: private
subject: public
subject: sources
subject: spain’s
description: One hears, with some regularity, the accusation that Spain remains a nation trapped in its own medieval amber. The Black Legend, that centuries-old smear campaign prosecuted by Spain’s Protestant competitors, painted Torquemada’s homeland as a place where thought crimes were extracted by garotte and the Inquisition functioned less as a theological corrective than as a More The post God’s Little Loophole: Spain’s Public Funding of Private Prejudice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: One hears, with some regularity, the accusation that Spain remains a nation trapped in its own medieval amber. The Black Legend, that centuries-old smear campaign prosecuted by Spain’s Protestant competitors, painted Torquemada’s homeland as a place where thought crimes were extracted by garotte and the Inquisition functioned less as a theological corrective than as a particularly enthusiastic human resources department. It is, one is told, a calumny. A slander. The fantasies of jealous northern Europeans who have never experienced a proper lunch. And frankly, the evidence supports the defense. Spend a weekend in Maspalomas, where the dunes host what is arguably Europe’s most magnificently libertine open-air congregation, or in Ibiza, where the sacraments are administered at four in the morning and nobody is entirely sure what they just took, and this image of Talibanic repression dissolves faster than the sheen of lubricant on the surface of the club swimming pool. Tolerance is on display everywhere. Spain legalized same-sex marriage in 2005, a full decade before the land of the Magna Carta got around to it. Its gender equality legislation, is a document of such fastidious progressivism that it would make a Scandinavian blush. No profession, it states with admirable clarity, may bar entry to a person on grounds of their sex. No profession, that is, except the one the government helps pay for. Spain has outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex. It also funds it—lavishly—when the institution in question is old enough and wears vestments. Walk into any of the country’s magnificent cathedrals on a Sunday morning — and they are magnificent, which is part of the problem, because it is very difficult to be properly furious inside something that beautiful — and observe the ritual with the detached eye of, say, an anthropologist who has stumbled upon a particularly well-funded cargo cult. There at the pulpit stands a man. Usually of retirement age. If younger, frequently…

Painter Veronica Fernandez on finding your version of ambition
type: item
creator: Tyler Bussey
date: 2026-03-30T04:00:00Z
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description: So your painting studio is upstairs in your house? How does that affect your process?
encoded: So your painting studio is upstairs in your house? How does that affect your process? I make really big pieces, and when I sort of consolidated—I now have my studio upstairs, which is basically just a normal-sized bedroom—that’s actually what inspired me to make really small pieces. I never work small. For this show, I had to reteach myself how to make small pieces. So I was struggling a lot at first, because I was like, “Oh my gosh, I don’t know how to make super small paintings,” and I wanted to challenge myself. But sometimes I’ll take a pillow and now I can work on my stomach in the living room. [*laughs*] And I have a mini easel, too, that I take around the house if I want to do something while I’m painting. I feel like that’s an inversion of what you would expect. People usually find working bigger to be challenging and expanding. What are the challenges or the difficulties of learning how to work on a smaller scale? Some of the figures in the works are literally the size of my finger or my pinky! Doing face details, doing the anatomy of the figures, doing clothing—any sort of detail—and just adding texture in general. Trying to learn how to use space properly and having to use really tiny brushes, and getting used to using a brush with a few hairs on it, as opposed to my big brushes where I could just be like, whoosh, put that everywhere, add movement everywhere… Because it’s just so tiny, I have to step back or I’ll get a headache. Something different that I noticed, working smaller, was the use of color in general, and also not overworking the pieces. I only had limited space, so I didn’t feel the need to add something. When I was doing the small paintings, it’s kind of forced to be done. I mean, what else am I going to add? Not that I wasn’t intentional before, but I felt a lot more strict with being intentional about things, and leaving things out, and leaving open space where I can. So some of the decisions are being made for you now, in a way? Yeah. It …

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USP academic calls for better press freedom protections in face of Fiji’s declining media trust
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description: By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva Public trust in Fiji’s mainstream media has significantly declined, a journalism academic has told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, citing decades of political upheaval, censorship and institutional pressure. At its third expert hearing in Suva, the commission heard from University of the South Pacific’s associate professor of journalism Shailendra Singh,
encoded: By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva Public trust in Fiji’s mainstream media has significantly declined, a journalism academic has told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, citing decades of political upheaval, censorship and institutional pressure. At its third expert hearing in Suva, the commission heard from University of the South Pacific’s associate professor of journalism Shailendra Singh, who detailed how censorship, intimidation and political pressure had weakened the media landscape over decades. Dr Singh, who is contributing to the commission’s media chapter, told the TRC that repeated disruptions — including the 1987, 2000 and 2006 coups — had lasting consequences on press freedom and public discourse. READ MORE: Other Fiji media reports Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, he outlined how newsrooms faced closures, financial strain and the loss of skilled journalists, contributing to declining editorial independence and professional standards. He said journalists were often forced into difficult ethical positions, navigating threats and highly polarised environments, which led to self-censorship, and, at times, uncritical reporting aligned with dominant political narratives. He described the 2000 and 2006 coups as defining moments for the industry. The 2006 period, he noted, brought the most stringent controls, including the introduction of the Media Industry Development Act 2010, which entrenched censorship and self-censorship in newsrooms. Steady decline in public confidence The long-term impact, he said, had been a steady decline in public confidence. Dr Singh told the commission that perceptions of bias and compliance had contributed to the erosion of trust, with some members of the public even supporting tighter media control. At the same time, restrictions on traditional media created space for alternative platforms such as blogs, social media and diaspora outlets — opening new avenues for expression but also raising concerns around misinformati…

Fiji’s former President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau dies at 84
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description: RNZ Pacific Former Fijian President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau died on Thursday, aged 84. Ratu Epeli, a chief and former Fiji military commander, served as president from 2009 to 2015. He also served as Speaker of Parliament from 2019 to 2022. Local media reported Ratu Epeli died at the Suva Private Hospital after being admitted earlier
encoded: RNZ Pacific Former Fijian President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau died on Thursday, aged 84. Ratu Epeli, a chief and former Fiji military commander, served as president from 2009 to 2015. He also served as Speaker of Parliament from 2019 to 2022. Local media reported Ratu Epeli died at the Suva Private Hospital after being admitted earlier on Thursday evening. READ MORE: Ratu Epeli Nailatikau is no longer with us In Saturday’s frontpage story titled “Nailatikau is no longer with us”, The Fiji Times described the late president as “widely respected for his leadership and dedication to the people of Fiji”. The Fiji Sun described him as a “respected chief, soldier, diplomat and statesman”. A former opposition leader and high chief, Ro Teimumu Kepa, said Ratu Epeli’s death had left many people in shock. “The flowing tributes on social media shows how his personality touched many lives that he came in contact with,” she wrote in a social media post. The ‘people’s president’ Fiji’s former Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum described Ratu Epeli as “the people’s president”. “Ratu Epeli Nailatikau lived his life among his people, not above them. We see that in the countless stories coming in from across the country about his personal interactions with everyday people,” Sayed-Khaiyun said. “He put his belief of the dignity of every Fijian into practice every day, including the day he promulgated our Fijian Constitution in 2013 which granted every citizen an equal voice in our democracy while concomitantly protecting everyone’s specific rights including the marginalised and the vulnerable. “And as if God hadn’t given the man enough rare qualities — he had both a wonderful singing voice and the wits to know when to close out a long night in song and send us all home on a high note.” The Fiji Labour Party said that as the great-great-grandson of Ratu Seru Cakobau — one of Fiji’s most significant figures — and the grandson of King George Tupou II of Tonga, “Ratu Epeli was undoubtedly a…

Strike In Iran Hits TV Broadcaster As Fire Breaks Out In Israel | US Iran Update
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Tulsi chooses loyalty over principle
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Netanyahu flashes kill list to US ambassador
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Israel targets journalist Steve Sweeney
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Joe Kent resigns, denounces Israel for wars of aggression
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Israel tortured 2 year old child, Gaza doctor testifies
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‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California
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description: A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.
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How the US, Israel and Iran are controlling their media narratives
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description: COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on “controlling” the media. Despite differences in their political systems, all three governments follow an approach that prioritises “national morale” and “operational security” over press freedom and the flow of information. This
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Majdoline Al-Shammouri in Beirut In the ongoing United States and Israel war on Iran, it appears that all the countries agree on “controlling” the media. Despite differences in their political systems, all three governments follow an approach that prioritises “national morale” and “operational security” over press freedom and the flow of information. This approach redefines the concept of fake news and extends its authority to managing public sentiment, making coverage more “positive” and “optimistic”. READ MORE: Three journalists killed in Israeli strike on marked press car in Lebanon The goal is unified: to turn media into a state mouthpiece that tells only the official narrative of the war. The Trump administration’s political pressure In the US, media restrictions don’t appear as direct bans on journalism, as in more authoritarian systems. Instead, pressure comes through political and regulatory channels, alongside attempts to shape the war narrative against Iran. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters they could lose their licences if they aired what he described as “false news” about the war. In a post on X on March 14, Carr said stations airing “misleading” information had the opportunity “to correct course” before licence renewal. He added: “The law is clear: broadcast stations must operate in the public interest, or they will lose their licences.” Later, President Donald Trump said he was extremely pleased to see Carr review licences of “corrupt” and “unpatriotic” news organisations because they “coordinate with Iran” and “should face treason charges”. Regulatory pressure is accompanied by a political and media campaign to shape a specific image of the war. Trump attacked major newspapers such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for reports of damage to US military aircraft at a Saudi base, calling them “degenerate journalism” that wanted the country to “lose the war”. This pressure has also …

The Election Fraud Con
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creator: Anthony DiMaggio – Dean Caivano
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description: Much of the coverage surrounding the SAVE Act treats it as a familiar partisan dispute, with discussions on CNN panels and elsewhere framed in procedural terms (documentation, fraud, access) as though the disagreement turns on technical questions of election administration rather than the structure of membership in the national political community. The former way of framing the dispute keeps attention fixed on how elections are run while leaving largely unexamined how the national community is being defined based on classist, xenophobic, heterosexist, and white supremacist principles. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post The Election Fraud Con appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Much of the coverage surrounding the SAVE Act treats it as a familiar partisan dispute, with discussions on CNN panels and elsewhere framed in procedural terms (documentation, fraud, access) as though the disagreement turns on technical questions of election administration rather than the structure of membership in the national political community. The former way of framing the dispute keeps attention fixed on how elections are run while leaving largely unexamined how the national community is being defined based on classist, xenophobic, heterosexist, and white supremacist principles. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post The Election Fraud Con appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Anthony DiMaggio – Dean Caivano.

The Serpent Eats Itself
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description: There is an old and rather useful principle in political philosophy—useful, at least, to anyone not actively attempting to build a belief system out of fumes and grievances—that you cannot construct a livable house on a foundation of pure negation. You can, however, erect something like a haunted shack: all drafts and whispers, full of imagined enemies, structurally unsound and permanently one hard knock away from collapse. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post The Serpent Eats Itself appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: There is an old and rather useful principle in political philosophy—useful, at least, to anyone not actively attempting to build a belief system out of fumes and grievances—that you cannot construct a livable house on a foundation of pure negation. You can, however, erect something like a haunted shack: all drafts and whispers, full of imagined enemies, structurally unsound and permanently one hard knock away from collapse. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post The Serpent Eats Itself appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Troy Nahumko.

New Caledonia’s domestic airline AirCal files for bankruptcy
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia’s domestic airline Air Calédonie filed for bankruptcy on Friday, following almost a month of blockades by customers in the French Pacific territory’s outer islands. The protest movement had been initiated by groups of angry outer islands customers who intended to oppose the company’s decision
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia’s domestic airline Air Calédonie filed for bankruptcy on Friday, following almost a month of blockades by customers in the French Pacific territory’s outer islands. The protest movement had been initiated by groups of angry outer islands customers who intended to oppose the company’s decision to move Air Calédonie’s operations from the Nouméa Magenta airport to New Caledonia’s international La Tontouta base, more than 50 km away from Nouméa city. The smaller airport of Magenta, until now dedicated to domestic traffic, is located closer to Nouméa. READ MORE: Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports The beginning of the protest movement, which effectively grounded all Air Calédonie aircraft, dates back to 2 March 2026. The protesters are gathered under the name of “collective of users” and, on each participating island, are headed by local chiefs who are invoking custom rights. In terms of law and order, and in defence of the principle of freedom of movement and “territorial continuity”, on the part of French State representatives, there have been no attempts to disrupt the movement by force. But negotiations have been taking place with leaders in order to find a concerted way out of the blockades. Economic stakeholders have also alerted authorities of the negative repercussions of the inter-island crisis, especially on tourism and hospitality-related businesses. On some islands, views expressed range from an outright rejection of any aircraft landing, while others would accept the landing of aircraft from other airlines, but not from Air Calédonie. Outer islands airports blockaded Following weeks of blockade that have caused heavy losses for the company — dubbed “AirCal” — its board of directors, at a meeting on Friday in the capital Nouméa, decided to file for bankruptcy. It said the current situation was no longer sustainable. The blockade affected all of AirCal’s outer islands destinations…

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War on Iran: The French senator who said what everybody was thinking
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description: COMMENTARY: Pacific Media Watch A French senator walked into the Luxembourg Palace, opened his mouth, and basically set the whole room on fire. Politely. In a suit. Claude Malhuret didn’t yell nor wave his arms. He just listed things… calmly, methodically, like a doctor reading a very long and very depressing diagnosis. And by the
encoded: COMMENTARY: Pacific Media Watch A French senator walked into the Luxembourg Palace, opened his mouth, and basically set the whole room on fire. Politely. In a suit. Claude Malhuret didn’t yell nor wave his arms. He just listed things… calmly, methodically, like a doctor reading a very long and very depressing diagnosis. And by the time he was done, the entire Trump administration had been reduced to a punchline that wasn’t even trying to be funny. READ MORE: Senator Claude Malhuret’s ‘speech on the situation in the Near and Middle East’ Iran warns of retaliatory attacks on US, Israeli universities Israeli police break up antiwar protesters in Tel Aviv Other US-Israel war on Iran and Palestine genocide reports He started with an apology. Why? Because a year ago, he said, he had compared Trump’s presidency to Nero’s Court. He was wrong. “It’s the miracle court,” he corrected himself on Friday. And then he started naming names. A former heroin addict running the Ministry of Health. A climate skeptic in charge of the economy. A TV host with a drinking problem commanding the armed forces. A lobbyist who used to work for Qatar now sitting as Attorney General. A woman who openly admires Putin in charge of national intelligence. ‘Clown in a palace’ Malhuret quoted a Turkish proverb for the occasion… “When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king — it is the palace that becomes a circus.” Nobody needed to ask who or what he meant. They just smiled. And you know what? He wasn’t even being cruel. He was just being truthful and very accurate. Which, somehow, made it worse. Then came the part that made people’s jaws drop a little. Every time the Epstein files resurface, he said, bombs go off somewhere in the world. A new military strike. A fresh crisis. Convenient timing. Every single time. Malhuret didn’t call it a conspiracy. He just pointed at the pattern and let everyone draw their own conclusions. Gulf investments The US$400 million Boeing jet from Qatar got a m…

DNC Resolution to Reject AIPAC Funding Puts Democratic Leaders in the Hot Seat
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Full video available only for PFC Members at playingforchange.com
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Targeting Civilians
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description: Ralph welcomes Wes Bryant, a retired Air Force special operations master sergeant and former analyst at the Civilian Protection Center who talks to us about how civilians, either through incompetence or negligence, are not being protected during Americ...
encoded: Ralph welcomes Wes Bryant, a retired Air Force special operations master sergeant and former analyst at the Civilian Protection Center who talks to us about how civilians, either through incompetence or negligence, are not being protected during American missile strikes. Then our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, joins us to break down his latest op-ed “The Power to Declare War Belongs to Congress Alone.” Wes Bryant is a defense and national security analyst with focus on foreign policy and global conflict, counterterrorism and extremism, strike and joint targeting operations, and civilian harm. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2018 at the rank of Master Sergeant after twenty years of active duty service. He was formerly a senior policy analyst and advisor on precision warfare and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, where he led as the first-ever Branch Chief of Civilian Harm Assessments. This strike [on the girls’ school in Minab, Iran] violated standing practices and doctrine we’ve had in place for two, three decades. That’s aside from even the work we were doing at the Pentagon in civilian harm mitigation to get better at this sort of thing and prevent these things from happening…This is just one of many. My colleagues at Airwars who track civilian harm incidents in conflict zones—right now, they’re tracking over 130 separate incidents throughout Iran (that’s between the U.S. and Israel) and that number is going to spike. And of course we’re tracking, I believe, it’s over 2,000 civilian casualties. That number is surely going to spike once the smoke clears. Wes Bryant I believe that right now, with the way we are conducting ourselves as a nation on the international stage—and most importantly, the way we’re using or abusing our military and the use of lethal military force—we are carrying out state terrorism. Israel assuredly has been for years. Wes Bryant We hear all these people (especially Hegset…

Israeli strike on media car targets, kills 3 journalists in south Lebanon
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-28T16:27:51Z
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description: Amman, March 28, 2026––On Saturday, an Israeli strike targeted a media car on Jezzine highway in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing journalist Ali Shoaib of Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, journalist Fatima Ftouni of pro-Hezbollah Al-Mayadeen TV, and her brother, freelance photojournalist Mohamad Ftouni. According to Al-Mayadeen TV, the Lebanese journalists were reportedly en route to cover...
encoded: Amman, March 28, 2026––On Saturday, an Israeli strike targeted a media car on Jezzine highway in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing journalist Ali Shoaib of Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, journalist Fatima Ftouni of pro-Hezbollah Al-Mayadeen TV, and her brother, freelance photojournalist Mohamad Ftouni. According to Al-Mayadeen TV, the Lebanese journalists were reportedly en route to cover an assignment at the time of the attack. Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Situation Room confirmed to CPJ it carried out the strike, saying that Shoaib (whom it referred to as Ali Hassan Shaib) was a member of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force. The military told CPJ that Shoaib had been using his journalism as a cover while conducting intelligence-gathering activities and maintaining contact with Hezbollah fighters, but it did not provide evidence to support these claims. In a post on X, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee accused Shoaib of being a Hezbollah intelligence-gatherer. CPJ emailed the IDF later that day requesting further information regarding the targeting and killing of all three journalists, including asking for evidence supporting the allegation that Shoaib was a combatant, and received a reply that the incident is being further investigated. “CPJ is investigating this latest attack on journalists in Lebanon which has been an increasingly deadly zone for journalists, despite their status as civilians who must not be targeted,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “We have seen a disturbing pattern in this war and in the decades prior of Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence. Journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for.” Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun and the Lebanese Minister of Information Paul Morcos <a href="https://www.annahar.com/lebanon/293351/%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B9%D…

Beyond No Kings
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-28T15:09:00Z
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description: Beyond showing up for No Kings, build power where you live. Join the Good Neighbors Coalition, a vetted decentralized hub linking neighborhoods, groups, and organizers to share support, resources, and strategy, submitted by a longtime Gaslit Nation listener. Check out The Relay, a no-signup start page packed with tools, trainings, and news. And try the simple 2-10 method, submitted by another Gaslit Nation listener: contact two to ten politicians about an issue you care about, then ask two to ten friends to do the same. That ripple effect can turn one voice into hundreds. Movements grow through small, steady acts of courage right now. Show Notes: Harriet Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to lead a major military operation: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/combahee-ferry-raid Good Neighbors Coalition: For more info or to join, visit the GNC Entry Portal via Signal: https://signal.group/#CjQKIC6h0DY9EQaix6yR_hZP4ojCd34cj8pDDhlZKKMUI4PAEhBBwSXJD2JtSg8SZbVnCDxV The Relay: A startpage of tools, resources, links to trainings, and news. No signup required. https://start.me/p/NQ4OyY/the-relay The 2-10 Idea: We ask people to contact 2-10 politicians about something they care about. Then ask 2-10 friends to do the same. Those friends ask their friends. And it keeps going. Two people becomes twenty. Twenty becomes two hundred. Fast. That's the 2-10 idea. It turns one person into a movement - without needing a big platform or a lot of money. Mrs. Orwell: Join Andrea Chalupa for the launch of her new graphic novel April 13 at PowerHouse Books Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn 7pm ET. Patreon members get in for free and get a book. Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit to suppor the show. Event details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/
encoded: Beyond showing up for No Kings, build power where you live. Join the Good Neighbors Coalition, a vetted decentralized hub linking neighborhoods, groups, and organizers to share support, resources, and strategy, submitted by a longtime Gaslit Nation listener. Check out The Relay, a no-signup start page packed with tools, trainings, and news. And try the simple 2-10 method, submitted by another Gaslit Nation listener: contact two to ten politicians about an issue you care about, then ask two to ten friends to do the same. That ripple effect can turn one voice into hundreds. Movements grow through small, steady acts of courage right now. Show Notes: Harriet Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to lead a major military operation: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/combahee-ferry-raid Good Neighbors Coalition: For more info or to join, visit the GNC Entry Portal via Signal: https://signal.group/#CjQKIC6h0DY9EQaix6yR_hZP4ojCd34cj8pDDhlZKKMUI4PAEhBBwSXJD2JtSg8SZbVnCDxV The Relay: A startpage of tools, resources, links to trainings, and news. No signup required. https://start.me/p/NQ4OyY/the-relay The 2-10 Idea: We ask people to contact 2-10 politicians about something they care about. Then ask 2-10 friends to do the same. Those friends ask their friends. And it keeps going. Two people becomes twenty. Twenty becomes two hundred. Fast. That's the 2-10 idea. It turns one person into a movement - without needing a big platform or a lot of money. Mrs. Orwell: Join Andrea Chalupa for the launch of her new graphic novel April 13 at PowerHouse Books Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn 7pm ET. Patreon members get in for free and get a book. Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit to suppor the show. Event details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

How can we fix wealth inequality?
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creator: VICE News
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
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creator: Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica
date: 2026-03-28T13:00:00Z
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description: Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry.
encoded: Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the U.S. government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in 1951 and continues to test cutting-edge technology. On the agenda that day: the future of nuclear energy in the Trump era. The meeting was convened by 31-year-old lawyer Seth Cohen. Just five years out of law school, Cohen brought no significant experience in nuclear law or policy; he had just entered government through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team. As Cohen led the group through a technical conversation about licensing nuclear reactor designs, he repeatedly downplayed health and safety concerns. When staff brought up the topic of radiation exposure from nuclear test sites, Cohen broke in. “They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there,” he said. “But … there’s lots of babies,” one staffer pushed back. Babies, pregnant women, and other vulnerable groups are thought to be potentially more susceptible to cancers brought on by low-level radiation exposure, and they are usually afforded greater protections. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nuclear-waste-utah.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="barrels labeled radioactive LSA and hazardous waste" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nuclear-waste-utah.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nuclear-waste-utah.jpg?resize=1200%2C639&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nuclear-waste-utah.jpg?resize=330%2C176&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nuclear-waste-utah.jpg?resize=768%2C409&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nuclear-waste-utah.jpg?resize=1536%2C818&quality=75&strip=all 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/…

Iran’s IRGC Looks To Recruit Child ‘Combatants’ As Young As 12
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Jonathan Cook: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture
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date: 2026-03-28T11:53:09Z
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description: ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap from which
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? One side believes Israel lured Trump into a trap from which he cannot extricate himself. The tail is wagging the dog. READ MORE: US-Israeli war on Iran widens with first attack from Yemen US-Israel war on Iran: What’s happening on day 29 of attacks? Why is the West dancing to Israel’s tune? What’s leading us to disaster Other war on Iran and Palestine reports The other believes that the US, as the world’s sole military super-power, is the one that writes the geo-strategic script. If Israel acts, it is only because it serves Washington’s interests as well. The dog is wagging the tail. Certainly, the idea that the tail, the client state of Israel, could be wagging the dog, the military juggernaut that is the US, seems, at best, counter-intuitive. But then again, there is plenty of evidence that suggests advocates for the tail wagging the dog scenario may have a case. They can point to the fact that Trump launched this war of choice on Iran despite winning the presidency on an “America First” platform in which he promised: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” Rushed into war His secretary of state, Marco Rubio, openly stated that the administration was rushed into war, finding itself apparently unable to restrain Israel from attacking Iran. Joe Kent, Trump’s top counter-terrorism official, noted in his resignation letter that the administration “started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby”. Addressing the Israeli Parliament last October, Trump appeared to confess to being under the thumb of the Israel lobby. As he praised himself for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the illegally occupied city of Jerusalem, he repeatedly pointed to his most influential donor, the Israeli-American b…

Cuban envoy makes strong plea for his country defying US blockade
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date: 2026-03-28T05:17:16Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Cuba’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, last night made a passionate plea for his country’s sovereignty in defiance of the illegal US-led fuel blockade of the Caribbean nation. Speaking at a packed Auckland Trades Hall, he warned that the three-month oil blockade and energy blackouts threatened the country’s public health
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Cuba’s Ambassador to New Zealand, Luis Morejón Rodríguez, last night made a passionate plea for his country’s sovereignty in defiance of the illegal US-led fuel blockade of the Caribbean nation. Speaking at a packed Auckland Trades Hall, he warned that the three-month oil blockade and energy blackouts threatened the country’s public health system with dire consequences for many patients. “In Cuba today, approximately 16,000 patients undergoing radiotherapy and more than 2800 patients receiving hemodialysis depend every day on a stable electricity supply in hospitals across the country,” he said. READ MORE: Cuban Ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law Two Cuba-bound aid ships missing after leaving Mexico “These are life-sustaining treatments that cannot simply be postponed without risk.” He said Cuba would continue to oppose Washington’s escalating military threats and economic pressure on his country. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-125630" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crowd-for-Cuba-APR-680wide.png" alt="New Zealand supporters of Cuba at last night's solidarity public meeting in Auckland " width="680" height="388" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crowd-for-Cuba-APR-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Crowd-for-Cuba-APR-680wide-300x171.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> New Zealand supporters of Cuba at last night’s solidarity public meeting in Auckland with Cuban Ambassador Luis Morejón Rodríguez. Image: Asia Pacific Report Speaking alongside Ambassador Rodríguez was Dr Josephine Varghese, a Canterbury University lecturer who shared an eyewitness account of her recent trip to Havana. She praised Cuba and “our collective fight against the global imperialism system”. Military assault openly discussed A military assault on Cuba has been openly discussed by US Pres…

It’s been four years since President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency
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Why is the West dancing to Israel’s tune? What’s leading us to disaster
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-27T22:58:19Z
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description: DOCUMENTARY: Double Down News The Middle East is in flames. Britain is being dragged into an illegal war, the aims of which are entirely unclear, reports Richard Sanders of Double Down News. “It’s a war of choice, and the man who chose it is Benjamin Netanyahu. Why, yet again, is the West dancing to Israel’s
encoded: DOCUMENTARY: Double Down News The Middle East is in flames. Britain is being dragged into an illegal war, the aims of which are entirely unclear, reports Richard Sanders of Double Down News. “It’s a war of choice, and the man who chose it is Benjamin Netanyahu. Why, yet again, is the West dancing to Israel’s tune? “I’ve made a number of videos exposing Israeli crimes. This one is different. It’s directed at conservatives and people generally who support the state of Israel. READ MORE: The End of Israel: The Ultimate Evidence — Richard Sanders Tehran vows to extract ‘heavy price’ for Israeli hits on two nuclear sites “I believe our indulgence of Israel is not just morally wrong. It’s against the interests of the US and the UK and ultimately against the interests of Israel itself. “It is leading us all to disaster. Palestine is the place you come thundering, crashing into the buffers, the limits of the Western liberal moral imagination. “The tragedy and complexity of Israel is that it’s both a product of the most unspeakable racism and a cause of it. Zionism was born from the suffering of Jewish people in Europe, culminating in the Holocaust, from a desire for a safe haven, a territory where Jews would for once be the hosts and not the eternal guests. “It was framed as a return to a historic biblical homeland. and for its supporters. These two factors give it an entirely different complexion morally from other enterprises where predominantly European populations have settled far-flung parts of the world. Dispossession and subjugation “There’s no doubt that the Zionist dream has enormous emotional power. The problem, of course, is the other side of the equation, the people. It was inflicted upon the Palestinians whose experience of dispossession and subjugation was no different from that of countless other peoples subjected to European colonialism. “In fact, arguably, it’s been considerably worse than many, precisely because of the licence and indulgence granted to the…

Nigerian police beat journalist Muhammad Sani Adamu during Eid celebrations
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-27T22:48:02Z
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subject: Sources
subject: Uzairu Dauda Bunga
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description: Abuja, March 27, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to swiftly and transparently conclude investigations into the beating by police officers on Sunday of journalist Muhammad Sani Adamu, and hold those responsible to account. The attack occurred as Adamu sought to cover Eid celebrations in the town of Bununu in northeastern Bauchi...
encoded: Abuja, March 27, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to swiftly and transparently conclude investigations into the beating by police officers on Sunday of journalist Muhammad Sani Adamu, and hold those responsible to account. The attack occurred as Adamu sought to cover Eid celebrations in the town of Bununu in northeastern Bauchi state. “Nigerian authorities must ensure their investigation into the beating of journalist Muhammad Sani Adamu is concluded without delay and in a manner that makes clear that attacks on the press will not be tolerated in Bauchi State,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “This incident adds to a list of abuses against journalists working to report the news in Bauchi state and extends a broader pattern of attacks on the media across Nigeria, which take place with general impunity.” At least 10 policemen, some of whom were armed with sticks, beat Adamu, a reporter with privately owned Albarka Radio, according to Adamu, as well as Auwal Ibrahim Gital, Albarka Radio’s head of translations, and Uzairu Dauda Bunga, a producer with the Bauchi Radio Corporation, who both witnessed the attack and spoke with CPJ. A senior officer they identified as Jamilu Kabir blocked Adamu from covering the celebration and then he and other officers attacked the journalist, Adamu and the two other witnesses said. Adamu told CPJ that he tried to show his press ID and identify himself as a journalist, but two officers, including Kabir, insulted and pushed him. Other officers then joined in, flogging Adamu with sticks, cutting his head and causing him to bleed profusely. Adamu said on March 23 that he continued to feel pain and was receiving treatment for his head wound. The attack has drawn condemnation from local media and press freedom groups. The WikkiTimes Media Foundation, the media development arm of the local WikkiTimes news platform, said it was pursuing legal action against the officers involved. “This is not an is…

Music, Violence, and the Ritual That AI Cannot Replace
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creator: Marc Ribot
date: 2026-03-27T21:58:42Z
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description: Strip-mining our culture and selling it back to us to the detriment of all.
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Robert Reich Calls Out Corporate Power Threatening US Democracy [Uncut Full Conversation Rewind]
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-27T21:54:51Z
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The Deafening Abdication of Four Ex-Presidents on Trump
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-03-27T21:51:35Z
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description: By Ralph Nader March 27, 2026 What should the American people, especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, co...
encoded: By Ralph Nader March 27, 2026 What should the American people, especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling Donald Trump and the crony Trumpsters who are wrecking our government and our economy?… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

Robert Reich on the fate of Social Security [EXCERPT]
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-27T21:00:01Z
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Strait of Hormuz: Did Iran really give the U.S. "a gift"?
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creator: Democracy Now!
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Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency #politics #trump
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The US bombed a farm and lied -Ecuadorian community leader
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The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2026
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description: Censored Press News Allison T. Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, has had a number of articles related to her new book featured in prominent outlets. As this newsletter goes to press, Ms. Magaz...
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‘Contradictory’ Public Opinions on Iran Are Baked Into CBS’s Polling
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encoded: CBS polling director Anthony Salvanto (3/23/26) found that 92% of Democrats and 69% of independents disapproved of military action against Iran—a finding CBS summarized as “Majority of Democrats Disapprove of War With Iran.” A recent CBS News poll (3/17–20/26) declared that a majority of Americans (53%) say it would be “unacceptable” if the United States were to end the conflict with Iran with that country’s current leadership still in power. Moreover, the poll also found that large majorities of Americans say it is “important” to “make sure Iran’s people are safe and free,” to “permanently stop Iran’s nuclear programs,” and to “stop Iran from threatening other countries.” These results seem to suggest that most Americans want the war to continue until those goals, including regime change in Iran, are actually achieved. Much of the rest of the poll, however, suggests the public does not support the war with Iran, even when “conflict” instead of the touchy word “war” is used to describe what’s happening. According to the poll: 60% disapprove of the US taking military action against Iran. 62% disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the situation in Iran. 57% believe the “conflict in Iran” is going “very/somewhat badly.” 51% do not believe it is important to change Iran’s leaders to ones that are pro-US. 92% believe it is important to “end the conflict as quickly as possible.” The report notes: “If those desires between goals and a fast end seem contradictory, it connects to the continued call for more explanation from the administration.” Blaming the public instead of the poll Is it more important to “end the conflict as quickly as possible” or to “make sure Iran’s people are safe and free”? CBS (3/17–20/26) didn’t ask. The poll did ask if the Trump administration had clearly explained its goals, and only 32% said it had; 68% said no. But that is not evidence of the public’s “continued call for more explanation.” There is nothing in the poll that suggests the p…

‘Beyond despicable,’ says Democrat after White House official says Trump ‘bored’ with Iran war
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Mar. 27, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. It’s been less than a month, and President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran has unleashed a cascade of con...
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Journalist Anna Kalyuzhna harassed over Facebook post on Ukraine assault regiments
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description: New York, March 27, 2026—Ukrainian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into recent online harassment against Ukrainian journalist Anna Kalyuzhna and ensure that journalists can work without fear of reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On March 6, Kalyuzhna, a journalist with Ukrainian investigative outlet Slidstvo.Info as well as Novynarnia, which has been...
encoded: New York, March 27, 2026—Ukrainian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into recent online harassment against Ukrainian journalist Anna Kalyuzhna and ensure that journalists can work without fear of reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On March 6, Kalyuzhna, a journalist with Ukrainian investigative outlet Slidstvo.Info as well as Novynarnia, which has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014, reported that she had received more than 150 messages on Facebook containing insults and misogynistic remarks within 24 hours of publishing a Facebook post criticizing the expansion and alleged abuses within Ukrainian Armed Forces’ assault regiments. On March 17, as she was leaving a store an unnamed man told her “maybe you should just shut your mouth,” and mentioned that he had served time in prison. On the same day, she filed a report with the police, who opened an investigation under Article 129 of Ukraine’s criminal code pertaining to “death threats.” “Ukrainian authorities must promptly investigate the harassment of Ukrainian journalist Anna Kalyuzhna and ensure her protection,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “CPJ is very concerned about online harassment against journalists and the seeming lack of political will to investigate these incidents and hold those responsible to account. Journalists provide an important service to the public by covering the war and need to be able to do so safely.” “I view these incidents as an attempt to obstruct journalistic activity … and a threat against me as a journalist,” Kalyuzhna wrote on Facebook. She told CPJ she is seeking to add a charge for “obstruction of journalistic activity” to the criminal case opened by police. CPJ emailed Ukraine’s national police for comment but did not immediately receive a reply. Similarly, Denys Bulavin, a journalist with independent news outlet Hromadske, faced online harassment after his March 16 report on attacks …

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 27, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 27, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Full video on our channel!
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Scott Galloway’s Final Straw Moment
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Abby Martin: The US military is ‘Earth’s greatest enemy’
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The US military is ‘Earth’s greatest enemy’: Abby Martin
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UN News Today 27 March 2026
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description: Aid shipments getting back on track in Middle East: WHOLebanon: ‘Nowhere safe to go’ warn UNICEF, UNHCR, UN WomenDesalination plant strike risk looms over Gulf States
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Economic Liberties Applauds Bicameral “Take Back Our Hospitals” Legislation
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description: In response to Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon’s (D-PA-05) introduction of the Take Back Our Hospitals Act, which would effectively prohibit private-equity firms from owning hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, the American E...
encoded: In response to Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon’s (D-PA-05) introduction of the Take Back Our Hospitals Act, which would effectively prohibit private-equity firms from owning hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, the American Economic Liberties Project put out the following statement. “Private-equity ownership of healthcare facilities drives up prices, lowers wages, reduces access, and degrades patient care,” said Emma Freer, Senior Policy Analyst for Healthcare at the American Economic Liberties Project. “Economic Liberties is proud to endorse the Take Back Our Hospitals Act, which would protect patients, employer health plan sponsors, and taxpayers from private-equity profiteering as the latest step towards breaking up Big Medicine.” The Take Back Our Hospitals Act would prohibit hospitals and skilled nursing facilities that are owned by a private-equity firm from receiving Medicare reimbursements. Extensive research shows that private-equity ownership in health care is associated with higher costs, lower wages, and, perhaps most importantly, worse patient outcomes, including significantly higher mortality. Economic Liberties has advocated for this kind of structural separation – to ensure insurers, middlemen, and other corporate entities, like private-equity firms, cannot own or control healthcare providers – since 2024, in both white papers and the popular press. In early 2025, Economic Liberties launched the Break Up Big Medicine initiative to bring together independent healthcare professionals, patient advocates, employers, and policy experts who support structural reforms across the healthcare industry. This coalition has activated for in-person events across the country, from Austin to New Orleans, and to support complementary legislation, including: The bipartisan Break Up Big Medicine Act by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), which would prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and wholesale drug distr…

I’ll Take You There | Titi Tsira & Friends | Playing For Change | Live Outside
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Arlene Martinez on Sunshine Week
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date: 2026-03-27T15:42:42Z
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description: https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Good Jobs First (3/23/26) This week on CounterSpin: Sunshine Week,...
encoded: https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Good Jobs First (3/23/26) This week on CounterSpin: Sunshine Week, based on a popular statement from Louis Brandeis that “sunlight is the best disinfectant,” is an effort to spotlight open government and its importance to the public’s right to know what’s being done in our name. The Michigan Press Association usually honors a public official who advances open government, but this year they said they’re giving no award because “this year’s legislative and policy landscape does not reflect the progress or commitment to openness that the award is designed to celebrate.” Ooof. So Sunshine Week, introduced decades ago by the National Association of Newspaper Editors, is meant to be both a celebration and a call to arms. To information advocates—and to journalists who should be natural partners with anyone seeking to bring the actions of the powerful to light. We talk about it with a group that stays on top of government transparency; Arlene Martinez is deputy executive director and communications director at Good Jobs First. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327Martinez.mp3 Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at Washington Post prices, the actual cost of oil, the Cuba blockade and Breonna Taylor. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260327Banter.mp3 This content originally appeared on FAIR and was authored by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.

Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs "Pa’lante" at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
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Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People
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date: 2026-03-27T14:59:58Z
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"Quagmire": Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-27T14:53:24Z
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"No Kings": March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History
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date: 2026-03-27T14:41:58Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 27, 2026
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date: 2026-03-27T14:35:06Z
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Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh ⎹ The Intercept Briefing
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date: 2026-03-27T14:23:31Z
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Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs “Pa’lante” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-27T12:53:00Z
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description: The 30th anniversary celebration of Democracy Now!, held in New York City’s historic Riverside Church this week, featured live performances and appearances from writers and musicians including Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. The music...
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Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People
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description: Juries in California and New Mexico have found the tech giants Alphabet and Meta liable for knowingly causing harm to children and teens who used their social media platforms. Over the course of the trials, documents revealed that tech compani...
encoded: Juries in California and New Mexico have found the tech giants Alphabet and Meta liable for knowingly causing harm to children and teens who used their social media platforms. Over the course of the trials, documents revealed that tech companies were well aware of the addictive properties of their social media products and exploited these properties to increase their profits. “They take advantage of the undeveloped frontal cortex of young people and their emotional need for validation by showing them things, not that they want to see, but what they can’t look away from,” says attorney Matthew P. Bergman, who represented the plaintiffs in the California case. Youth advocate Zamaan Qureshi, who testified in the New Mexico case against Meta, says the verdicts indicate that “Meta’s house of cards is falling, and it is absolutely clear that they will be held accountable.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More
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description: Drop Site News's Jeremy Scahill joins Democracy Now! to discuss the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including President Donald Trump's lies about U.S. strategy and negotiations with Iran, possible avenues of U.S. escalation and what Scahill ...
encoded: Drop Site News's Jeremy Scahill joins Democracy Now! to discuss the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including President Donald Trump's lies about U.S. strategy and negotiations with Iran, possible avenues of U.S. escalation and what Scahill has learned about Iranian strategy in conversations with Iranian officials. “They want to cause enough pain to the world economy … [so] that any nation that thinks of attacking Iran again is going to do so knowing that these are the consequences,” he explains. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“No Kings”: March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History
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description: Millions of people are expected to take to the streets this Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration in the third iteration of the nationwide No Kings protest movement. Ahead of the thousands of No Kings demonstrations scheduled not ...
encoded: Millions of people are expected to take to the streets this Saturday in opposition to the Trump administration in the third iteration of the nationwide No Kings protest movement. Ahead of the thousands of No Kings demonstrations scheduled not only across the country, but also around the world, we speak to one of the organizers behind the campaign, Leah Greenberg of Indivisible. “People are coming out in every state, in every county, collectively, and saying, 'Enough.' We are going to stand against illegal war abroad. We are going to stand against secret police at home,” Greenberg says. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 27, 2026
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description: Trump Again Delays Ultimatum for Iran to Open Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon Considering Ground Invasion as Part of “Final Blow” Against Iran, Oil Prices Soar as Iran’s Military Declares Strait of Hormuz “Closed” to U.S.-Aligned Ships, Missile and Drone Attacks from Iran and Hezbollah Leave One Israeli Dead, 25 Wounded, Israel Expands Invasion of Southern Lebanon as UNICEF Warns Attacks Have Killed 121 Children, House Democratic Leaders Delay Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Until at Least Mid-April, Mexican Navy Searches for Two Ships Missing from Cuba-Bound Aid Flotilla, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Appear in Federal Court, Months After Abduction by U.S. Forces, Senate Votes to Fund Most of DHS After Partial Government Shutdown Leads to Airport Chaos, Federal Court Blocks Pentagon’s Blacklisting of Anthropic over AI Safety Guardrails, Oil Trading Surged Minutes Before Trump Claimed “Productive” Talks with Iran, Russian Oil Exports Fall Dramatically After Ukraine Attacks Baltic Sea Oil Terminals, IOC Bans Transgender Women from Women’s Events at 2028 Summer Olympics, NYU Professors Win Big Raises as Part of Tentative Deal to End Strike
encoded: Trump Again Delays Ultimatum for Iran to Open Strait of Hormuz Pentagon Considering Ground Invasion as Part of "Final Blow" Against Iran Oil Prices Soar as Iran's Military Declares Strait of Hormuz "Closed" to U.S.-Aligned Ships Missile and Drone Attacks from Iran and Hezbollah Leave One Israeli Dead, 25 Wounded Israel Expands Invasion of Southern Lebanon as UNICEF Warns Attacks Have Killed 121 Children House Democratic Leaders Delay Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Until at Least Mid-April Mexican Navy Searches for Two Ships Missing from Cuba-Bound Aid Flotilla Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Appear in Federal Court, Months After Abduction by U.S. Forces Senate Votes to Fund Most of DHS After Partial Government Shutdown Leads to Airport Chaos Federal Court Blocks Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic over AI Safety Guardrails Oil Trading Surged Minutes Before Trump Claimed "Productive" Talks with Iran Russian Oil Exports Fall Dramatically After Ukraine Attacks Baltic Sea Oil Terminals IOC Bans Transgender Women from Women's Events at 2028 Summer Olympics NYU Professors Win Big Raises as Part of Tentative Deal to End Strike This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-27 Friday
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description: Headlines for March 27, 2026; “No Kings”: March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History; “Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More; Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People; Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs “Pa’lante” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
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Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault
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description: The post Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: For years, Utah allowed government officials to do something other states banned: ask a person who reports a sexual assault to take a polygraph test. That will change soon. Earlier this month, state lawmakers passed a bill that prohibits police and other government officials from requesting polygraph tests for alleged sex assault victims. Gov. Spencer Cox signed it into law on Thursday, and it goes into effect in May. Experts say these tests are known to be especially unreliable with victims of sexual abuse. That’s because victims may have stress and anxiety recounting their assault that the polygraph may interpret as deception. Other states don’t allow them to be used with assault victims for this reason. It took two years and three legislative sessions for Utah state Rep. Angela Romero, the House minority leader, to get the bill across the finish line. When she first sponsored it in 2024, she cited reporting from The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica as she told her fellow legislators the damaging effects polygraph tests can have on people who are reporting sexual abuse. In the case covered by the news outlets, state licensors asked a man to take a polygraph test after he reported that his therapist, Scott Owen, had touched him inappropriately. The test results indicated he was being deceptive, and that led the patient to drop his complaint. Owen was allowed to continue to practice for two more years, until others came forward with similar allegations. Owen is now in prison after admitting he sexually abused patients. Romero said in a recent interview that she was determined to bring the bill back for that former patient. “For me, it was really specifically for that one individual who was not believed,” Romero said, “and then their perpetrator went on to harm other people.” Cox signed the legislation during a small ceremony at his office, telling Romero that she “has been such a champion, and made a difference and saved lives.” The governor also nodded to The Tribu…

‘Torture and genocide’ – UN expert Francesca Albanese denounces Israeli abuse of Palestinians
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description: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: An Israeli court has closed an investigation into the death of Walid Ahmad, a 17-year-old from the occupied West Bank who died in an Israeli jail six months after he was arrested, held without charges and accused of throwing
encoded: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: An Israeli court has closed an investigation into the death of Walid Ahmad, a 17-year-old from the occupied West Bank who died in an Israeli jail six months after he was arrested, held without charges and accused of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. An autopsy showed Ahmad likely starved to death after suffering extreme weight loss, muscle wasting and untreated scabies. Human rights groups say nearly 100 Palestinians have died in Israeli jails since October 2023. Meanwhile, local and international media outlets report Israeli forces recently tortured a Palestinian toddler in Gaza to coerce a confession from his father. READ MORE: Trump talks up deal with Tehran as Iranian missile, drone attacks continue Other US-Israeli attacks on Iran, Palestine genocide According to reports from Palestine TV, Al Jazeera and others, the child’s father, Osama Abu Nassar, was detained near the al-Maghazi refugee camp after he came under fire from Israeli soldiers. He was forced to approach an Israeli checkpoint, where he was separated from his 18-month-old son, stripped naked and forced to watch as soldiers used a cigarette to burn one of the toddler’s legs while using a nail to puncture the other. AMY GOODMAN: This comes as a new UN report warns Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale that “suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent”.The report, titled “Torture and Genocide”, was written by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory. In July, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on her over her report naming dozens of companies she says are profiting from Israeli occupation and genocide in Gaza. Amnesty International blasted the sanctions as a “shameless and transparent attack on the fundamental principles of international justice”. Francesca Albanese’s new book is When the World Sleeps: Stories, Word…

Ukraine’s Last Remaining Artery Swarmed By Russian Drones | Ukraine Front Line Update
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DN! Friday, March 27, 2026
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
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description: The post The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: This story works best on ProPublica’s website. Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children. Then shots turned once-common infections into something doctors only read about in textbooks. When immunization rates drop, however, plagues from the past can come roaring back, as measles has in American communities where parents decided not to vaccinate their children. Imagine what would happen if even the people who wanted shots couldn’t get them. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who founded an antivaccination group, is considering changes that could prompt the handful of companies that make most shots for American children to stop selling them here. Over the last year, he has been transforming a government that long championed the lifesaving benefits of vaccines into one that questions their safety here and around the world. Shortly after Kennedy was nominated, questions swirled over how he might overhaul America’s immunization system. Two Stanford University researchers wondered how many people would suffer if vaccination rates dropped or shots became entirely unavailable for four of the most infamous diseases: polio, measles, rubella and diphtheria. Outbreaks often start when an American catches one of these illnesses abroad and returns home. So epidemiologists Mathew Kiang and Nathan Lo, who is also an infectious diseases doctor, built a model to simulate how the four contagions could spread from sick travelers based on each state’s vaccination rates. Since a sizable chunk of the population is currently vaccinated, some of the infections wouldn’t get a foothold right away. But over time, as more babies are born and not vaccinated, a larger share of the population would become susceptible. The professors ran thousands of simulations for each disease, producing a range of possible outcomes. From there, they figured out the average number of deaths and disabilities over a 25-year period. Their model shows that at current vaccination rates, the nation is …

To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
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description: Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. We tracked the changes.
encoded: At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. “The forbidden C-word” — climate. Roberts, union president at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois, has worked for the federal government for nearly a decade. In that time, the physical science technician has weathered several political administrations, including President Donald Trump’s first term. None compare to what’s happening now. The sweeping transformation became apparent last March, after a memo from upper management at the USDA Agricultural Research Service instructed staffers to avoid submitting agreements and other contracts that used any of 100-plus newly banned words and phrases. Roughly a third directly related to climate change, including “global warming,” “climate science,” and “carbon sequestration.” Roberts met with his union to figure out how to respond to the memo. They concluded that the best course of action was just to avoid the terms and try to get their research published by working around them. Throughout the federal agency, “climate change” was swapped for softer synonyms: “elevated temperatures,” “soil health,” and “extreme weather.” It’s part of a bigger trend. Across federal agencies and academic institutions, scientists are avoiding words they once used without hesitation. When Trump took office last year — calling coal “clean” and “beautiful” while deriding plans to tackle climate change as a “green scam” — a so-called “climate hushing” took hold of the United States, as businesses, politicians, and even the news media got quieter about global warming. There’s a long list of supposedly “woke” words that agencies have been discouraged from using, many tied to climate change or diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The language changes were accompanied by larger shifts in how the federal government operates. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficien…

California’s fossil fuel phaseout has left it vulnerable to the Iran oil shock
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description: The Trump administration and major refiners are using the war to justify restarting oil production and weakening climate rules.
encoded: California has managed a remarkable feat over the past twenty years. Even as its economy has grown to overtake Germany’s as the fourth-largest in the world, the state’s consumption of gasoline has declined by almost 15 percent, and consumption of petroleum diesel has fallen by around two-thirds. This has happened due to some of the world’s most aggressive climate policies, including a tax on carbon emissions and a strict requirement to adopt clean-burning fuels such as “renewable diesel” made from fats and oils. During the same period, California’s production of crude oil has also fallen by around half, and many oil wells have shut down. The state now imports almost two-thirds of its crude oil from tanker ships, which is cheaper and more practical because it is separated by steep mountains from oil-producing zones such as Texas. Some of the state’s largest gasoline and diesel refineries are also shutting down amid declining demand, which will make the state dependent on imports of refined gasoline, too. The state’s diminished fossil-fuel sector has made it especially vulnerable to the oil shock of the Israeli-U.S. war with Iran — and to interventions from the Trump administration that could delay or even reverse California’s trend toward renewable energy. Gas prices in the state have spiked toward $7 a gallon in recent weeks, the highest prices in the country. As other economies clamp down on fuel exports, it’s possible the state could face even higher crude prices or a shortage of gasoline. Two weeks after the war began, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department issued a legal memorandum arguing that the federal government can use the Defense Production Act to preempt state law in the event of energy emergencies. The Department of Energy then moved to restart a long-defunct California offshore oil pipeline owned by the company Sable Offshore. The order from energy secretary Chris Wright cited “California’s reliance on foreign oil vulnerable to geopolitical disrup…

On ICE Patriots: A Plan To Guard the Exit
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description: As airports reach peak chaos amidst a government shutdown and massive departures by unpaid TSA agents, the regime's evil idiots moved to resolve their new quagmire by sending in the same brutal, ill-trained, much-despised ICE goons who caused the shut...
encoded: As airports reach peak chaos amidst a government shutdown and massive departures by unpaid TSA agents, the regime's evil idiots moved to resolve their new quagmire by sending in the same brutal, ill-trained, much-despised ICE goons who caused the shutdown - and whose past abuses and corruption now daily come to light. The Beckett-esque result: Images of cranky travelers standing up to six hours in hellish lines overseen by aimlessly loitering henchmen: "Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful." Late-Stage-Capitalism-Calamity #764: We probably shouldn't be surprised the dumbest president in history abetted by the dumbest people making the dumbest mistakes should have gotten around to wrecking America's air travel after his "Derp State" already decimated all our other public endeavors, institutions and systems of governance - the economy and environment along with science, education, immigration, arts, health care, civil rights, criminal justice, international aid and foreign policy, which he brags he conducts by "speaking with myself, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things.” That must be why shameless GOP suck-ups just gave him another made-up award, after his FIFA and second-hand Nobel: a first-ever America First Award, per quivering Mike Johnson a "beautiful golden statue, appropriate for the new golden era in America," a move widely deemed, "unbelievably, gaga cringe levels of pathetic." Other takes on his new participation trophy: "This is the most snowflakiest president," "He should get a 'Most Mentions in Epstein Files Award,'" he got a "very special boy award" just for "insecure man baby presidents,” and, from facepalming MS Now hosts, "Stop! They did not make up another award for him!” Out in the grim real world, the partial shutdown has left nearly 50,000 TSA agents, most living paycheck to paycheck on as little as $45,000 a year, working without pay for weeks. Nearly 500 have quit, thousands daily call in sick. Union officials say many…

CPJ signs joint statement calling for release of Cambodian journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Phara
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday joined 15 local and international partners in a joint statement calling for the release of imprisoned Cambodian journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Phara. The journalists were each sentenced to 14 years in prison for treason on December 17, 2025, under Section 445 of the criminal code for “supplying a foreign state with information...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday joined 15 local and international partners in a joint statement calling for the release of imprisoned Cambodian journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Phara. The journalists were each sentenced to 14 years in prison for treason on December 17, 2025, under Section 445 of the criminal code for “supplying a foreign state with information prejudicial to national defense.” On March 26, the journalists’ appeals were rejected by the Battambang Province Court of Appeal, which also declined a request to reclassify their treason convictions to a lesser charge. The joint statement called on Cambodia’s government to withdraw its complaint and for the court to release the journalists. The groups said that the severity of the sentences are likely to further deter journalists from carrying out legitimate work in the public interest. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

The Empire Versus Iran: Which Side Are You On?
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description: Fifty-eight years ago in Chicago, I marched down State Street with other antiwar protestors heading toward the site of the Democratic National Convention and made three discoveries. The first was that having a very large, truck-mounted M2 Browning 50 caliber machine gun pointed at you by U.S. Army troops is scary. The second was that More The post The Empire Versus Iran: Which Side Are You On? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Hosts Have Power Over Dangerous Guests: Spain Shows How Countries Hosting U.S. Bases Can Push for Peace
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description: Amid a seeming flood of terrible news, the string of countries that last week refused President Donald Trump’s request to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz is an encouraging sign. For the first three weeks of a war that many experts have characterized as illegal under both U.S. and international law, Spain was initially the rare country to stand up to Trump by refusing to allow the use of U.S. bases it hosts for attacks on Iran. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described the war as “reckless and illegal,” and continues to stand his ground. More The post Hosts Have Power Over Dangerous Guests: Spain Shows How Countries Hosting U.S. Bases Can Push for Peace appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Roaming Charges: Eyes Open, Minds Wide Shut
type: item
creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2026-03-27T06:00:48Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: charges
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: eyes
subject: Leading Article
subject: minds
subject: open
subject: roaming
subject: Roaming Charges
subject: shut
subject: sources
subject: wide,
description: Iran has no air defenses left. The US can bomb whatever it wants, whenever it wants. It can bomb military bases and government buildings. It can bomb schools and mosques. It can bomb power plants and sewage treatment systems. It can bomb fire stations and hospitals. It can bomb TV networks, radio stations and newspapers. It can bomb museums, schools and daycares. What it can't bomb is a revolution into being. It can't bomb a regime change into being. It can't bomb new rights for women into being. It can't bomb the Islamic faith out of the hearts of most Iranians. It can't bomb Iranians into loving instead of hating the US. In fact, each new bomb does the opposite, bombing new hatreds into being. The blowback is immediate and will last for decades. More The post Roaming Charges: Eyes Open, Minds Wide Shut appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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AI and Nuclear Proliferation
type: item
creator: David S. D’Amato
date: 2026-03-27T06:00:43Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Leading Article
subject: Nuclear
subject: proliferation
subject: sources
description: As long predicted, the world order is shifting, away from American unipolar dominance and toward a system of increasingly bold middle powers and a new superpower and true U.S. peer in China. We are observing a diffusion of power in the international system and, with that, an emerging multipolar order characterized by the decline of U.S. global hegemony, increasing geopolitical complexity, new military capacities, and growing economic and financial partnerships (for example, the BRICS group). There can be little doubt that within the coming years, the nuclear club will add new members. More than ever, the lovers of peace and humanity need to be prepared to press the case for nuclear disarmament and robust arms control treaties that seriously limit nuclear arsenals and forestall the development of new nuclear weapons. More The post AI and Nuclear Proliferation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The United States is Formally at War with Iran, At Least the Swiss Say So
type: item
creator: Daniel Warner
date: 2026-03-27T05:58:48Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: formally
subject: iran
subject: least
subject: say
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: swiss
subject: the
subject: united
subject: war
subject: with
description: Why is the United States bombing Iran? The justifications presented for the jus ad bellum of Operation Epic Fury keep shifting: an imminent nuclear threat, security concerns, the need for regime change, and even political distractions such as the Trump-Epstein relationship. The legal basis is also not clear. At times President Trump has implied that More The post The United States is Formally at War with Iran, At Least the Swiss Say So appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Problem with the Epstein Files Distraction Discourse
type: item
creator: Cinnamon Janzer
date: 2026-03-27T05:57:18Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: discourse”
subject: distraction
subject: epstein
subject: files
subject: Leading Article
subject: problem.
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: with
description: Instagram is my social media drug of choice. I can’t say for sure that it’s happening elsewhere, like in the land of TikTok, but I imagine it is and that you, reader, may have encountered some of the same rhetoric I’ve been seeing and hearing both online and offline. More The post The Problem with the Epstein Files Distraction Discourse appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Left Response to Antisemitism Should be to Call for BDS
type: item
creator: Gary Engler
date: 2026-03-27T05:56:54Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: Antisemitism
subject: articles 2015
subject: bds,
subject: call
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: for
subject: left
subject: response
subject: should
subject: sources
description: There’s been much debate on the left around the world about how best to respond to what appears to be rising antisemitism. What, if anything, is the best response? Some argue, mostly correctly, that raising the subject amidst Israel’s genocide in Gaza, bombing many of its neighbours etc. is an attempt to deflect attention away More The post Left Response to Antisemitism Should be to Call for BDS appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Global Warming Surges, Antarctic Seas Bubble
type: item
creator: Robert Hunziker
date: 2026-03-27T05:56:54Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: antarctic
subject: articles 2015
subject: bubble
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Global
subject: seas
subject: sources
subject: surges
subject: warming
description: Global warming is on a very ominous trend that has never happened throughout human history, according to a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters. The rate of global warming has doubled in only ten years. This rapid rate, outside of the influence of nature alone, should be unsustainable for any mass the size of Earth. More The post Global Warming Surges, Antarctic Seas Bubble appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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How the US Became an International Serial Killer
type: item
creator: Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J. S. Davies
date: 2026-03-27T05:55:11Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: became
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: how
subject: International
subject: killer
subject: serial
subject: sources
subject: the
description: For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United States and Israel assassinated three senior Iranian government officials in targeted air strikes: Ali Larijani, More The post How the US Became an International Serial Killer appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Boy Gangsters in High Office
type: item
creator: Mira Oklobdzija
date: 2026-03-27T05:54:58Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: boy
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: gangsters
subject: high
subject: office
subject: sources
description: Eighty years ago, Aldous Huxley wrote that “in the field of international politics the gravest decisions are always taken not by reasonable adults but by boy-gangsters.” This metaphor, from his essay Science, Liberty and Peace, implies an immature, yet violent and ruthless approach to power, where political loyalty is enforced through fear rather than democratic More The post Boy Gangsters in High Office appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory
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creator: Romina Green Rioja – Sergio Beltrán-García
date: 2026-03-27T05:54:28Z
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subject: america
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description: Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is arrested at his job and secretly transported to a terrorism confinement prison in another country. These stories are not from Cold War Latin More The post Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory
type: item
creator: Romina Green Rioja – Sergio Beltrán-García
date: 2026-03-27T05:54:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: america
subject: articles 2015
subject: boomerangs
subject: colonial
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subject: Empire
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description: Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is arrested at his job and secretly transported to a terrorism confinement prison in another country. These stories are not from Cold War Latin More The post Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory
type: item
creator: Romina Green Rioja – Sergio Beltrán-García
date: 2026-03-27T05:54:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: america
subject: articles 2015
subject: boomerangs
subject: colonial
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Empire
subject: laboratory
subject: latin
subject: sources
description: Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is arrested at his job and secretly transported to a terrorism confinement prison in another country. These stories are not from Cold War Latin More The post Boomerangs of Empire: Latin America as Colonial Laboratory appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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César Chávez and the Price of Hero Worship
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creator: George Cassidy Payne
date: 2026-03-27T05:54:16Z
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: chavez
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description: For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades of César Chávez, explored both his extraordinary achievements and the darker corners of his personal conduct, including allegations of coercion and sexual abuse. Yet the story remained largely unspoken, held back by reverence, hero More The post César Chávez and the Price of Hero Worship appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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“The Left’s Top Job This Year”? Academics In and Out Imperialist Quicksand
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creator: Paul Street
date: 2026-03-27T05:54:04Z
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subject: and
subject: articles 2015
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description: I have long been horrified by the unradical nothingness of our supposed “radical Left” academics, many of whom lined up behind the “neoliberal” capitalism-imperialism of the deeply conservative presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2007 and 2008. A recent small but instructive example is a social media post by a leftish literature professor with a taste More The post “The Left’s Top Job This Year”? Academics In and Out Imperialist Quicksand appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Annals of an Empire in Free Fall
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creator: David Bromwich
date: 2026-03-27T05:53:59Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Empire
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description: The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack. On the pattern of Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, our own invasion of Iraq in 2003, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, More The post The Annals of an Empire in Free Fall appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Everything that Rises Must Converge: Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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creator: Jonah Raskin
date: 2026-03-27T05:52:52Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
subject: converge
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: everything
subject: hemingway’s “the
subject: must
subject: rises
subject: sources
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subject: that
description: When I heard the shocking news of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide on July 2, 1961, I was sipping a Pernod in a Paris bar/café named Storyville, named after the famous “red light district” in New Orleans where I could hear jaz [ . . . ] The post Everything that Rises Must Converge: Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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How Will the US Military Invade Iran?
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creator: Jack Rasmus
date: 2026-03-27T05:50:26Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: how
subject: invade
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subject: military
subject: sources
subject: the
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description: This past weekend, Trump threatened to escalate the War with Iran by destroying that country’s energy infrastructure starting, as he said, “with the big one”. The ‘big one’ was no doubt a veiled reference to Iran’s civilian nuclear plants. Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant had been hit with a US missile a few days earlier as More The post How Will the US Military Invade Iran? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen, You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite
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creator: John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead
date: 2026-03-27T05:50:21Z
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description: You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom. That’s because it is. The government has turned everyday life into a revenue stream—funding endless wars, bloated agencies, surveillance systems, and profit-driven policing… all on your dime. You’re not just paying taxes. More The post The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen, You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Elite appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396524" class="wp-image-396524 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-680x468.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="468" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-680x468.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-915x630.jpg 915w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-768x529.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-2048x1410.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-500x344.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9198-copy-600x413.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your freedom. That’s because it is. The government has turned everyday life into a revenue stream—funding endless wars, bloated agencies, surveillance systems, and profit-driven policing… all on your dime. You’re not just paying taxes. You’re paying to be watched. Paying to be policed. Paying to be controlled. This isn’t government. It’s a business model. By now, it has become painfully clear that the only economic plan being advanced by the Trump administration is the kind that enriches the oligarchy at the expense of everyone else. This is Donald Trump’s “let them eat cake” moment. Tens of millions in one year alone for the president’s weekend golf trips while government agencies are dismantled and tens of thousands of federal workers have their jobs slashed. According to the web tracker “Did Trump Golf Today?” Trump has spent 23.5% of his presidency golfing at an estimated cost of $141 million…

Nuclear Power Equals Trump Profits
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creator: Karl Grossman - Harvey Wasserman
date: 2026-03-27T05:50:18Z
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description: Nuclear power is inseparable from Donald Trump. If you support atomic energy, you are also supporting the financial fortunes of the Trump family. Trump is a major investor in the nuclear industry. He has invested heavily in the development of fusion power and stands to massively profit from its proliferation. He also controls the obliteration of More The post Nuclear Power Equals Trump Profits appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-405307" class="wp-image-405307 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-680x427.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="427" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-680x427.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-1002x630.jpg 1002w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-768x483.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-1536x965.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-2048x1287.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-500x314.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/planet-volumes-a-TyHCtWSKE-unsplash-600x377.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Planet Volumes. Nuclear power is inseparable from Donald Trump. If you support atomic energy, you are also supporting the financial fortunes of the Trump family. Trump is a major investor in the nuclear industry. He has invested heavily in the development of fusion power and stands to massively profit from its proliferation. He also controls the obliteration of the regulatory apparatus designed to guarantee its safety in the United States. Trump’s war in Iran has vastly escalated the potential threat of potentially apocalyptic drone strikes on atomic reactors, now a factor in Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. Team Trump has made a very public and effective show of tangibly attacking nuclear power’s primary replacements, wind turbines and solar panels, along with geothermal and battery backup. He has also heavily assaulted electric vehicles, which threaten the business of his fossil fuel back…

Symphony of Soles: A Tribute to Alexander Kluge
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description: A Renaissance man who survived the modern terrors of total war, Alexander Kluge died this week in Munich at the age of 94. He might not have made it past 13. His hometown of Halberstadt, near the geographic center of Germany, was destroyed by aerial bombardment just a month before the end of World War More The post Symphony of Soles: A Tribute to Alexander Kluge appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-405381" class="wp-image-405381 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Alexander-kluge-2009-ffm-011.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Alexander-kluge-2009-ffm-011.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Alexander-kluge-2009-ffm-011-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Alexander-kluge-2009-ffm-011-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Alexander Kluge receiving the Adorno prize in Frankfurt, Germany, 2009. Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0 A Renaissance man who survived the modern terrors of total war, Alexander Kluge died this week in Munich at the age of 94. He might not have made it past 13. His hometown of Halberstadt, near the geographic center of Germany, was destroyed by aerial bombardment just a month before the end of World War II. American bombers had been diverted from other higher-priority targets because of cloud cover and instead laid waste to this city of no military, industrial, or strategic importance. Kluge confronted this catastrophe exactingly and dispassionately in his 1977 book, Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945 (The Airstrike on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945). Mixing prose, diagrams, drawings, and photographs, Kluge juxtaposed the quotidian— inhabitants going about their lives in a time of war—with the bureaucratic structures of destruction so inexorable that even a white flag hung from the highest church steeple would not, he claimed, have prevented the Americans from dropping their bombs. It is a devastating, unforgettable book, only translated (as Air Raid) into English in 2014. One might well think that the Americans did not want to hear about their detached, ruthless killing of civilians by their own armed forces. Air Raid should be required reading for Erika Kirk and every cadet a…

If The U.S. Couldn’t Beat Sandino 100 Years Ago, How Can It Defeat Iran Today?
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description: They never learn. In 1912, the United States extracted a huge indemnity from Nicaragua for having the nerve to request that U.S. companies pay taxes. American bankers generously loaned the cost of the indemnity, and Washington dispatched the Marines to compensate for a lack of collateral. Taking over the customs houses, national banks, and railroads, More The post If The U.S. Couldn’t Beat Sandino 100 Years Ago, How Can It Defeat Iran Today? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-405333" class="wp-image-405333" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Augusto_Cesar_Sandino.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="531" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Augusto_Cesar_Sandino.jpg 601w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Augusto_Cesar_Sandino-500x390.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Augusto César Sandino – Public Domain They never learn. In 1912, the United States extracted a huge indemnity from Nicaragua for having the nerve to request that U.S. companies pay taxes. American bankers generously loaned the cost of the indemnity, and Washington dispatched the Marines to compensate for a lack of collateral. Taking over the customs houses, national banks, and railroads, they never got around to leaving. Fourteen years later General Augusto Cesar Sandino decided to serve an eviction notice, forming Nicaragua’s first army of national liberation with twenty-nine illiterate San Albino miners. The men were working fifteen hours a day hacking gold out of the earth for a U.S. company and sleeping jammed together in a shed. When Sandino gave the word they dynamited the mines and followed him into the mountains. The patriotic prostitutes of Puerto Cabezas divulged the location of a Marine stash of rifles and cartridges they had learned from pillow talk, and soon the army of liberation had its first arms and ammunition. Sandino’s men also grabbed rifles from fallen enemies and carved bullets out of tree bark where they had become embedded. Machetes proved useful for chopping off heads, and sardine-can grenades filled with glass, nails, screws and dynamite scattered the enemy efficiently. The State Department accused Sandino of using “the stealthy and ruthless tactics which characterized the savages who fell upon American settlers in our country 150 years ago.” In short, Washington complained that “the Gene…

Is AI Born Biased?
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creator: Algernon Austin
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description: The bias problem with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot was easy to see last summer when it started spewing antisemitism and calling itself “MechaHitler.” This episode came into being because Musk reportedly did not like some [ . . . ] The post Is AI Born Biased? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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US Sanctions on Venezuela Continue
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creator: Roger Harris
date: 2026-03-27T05:49:16Z
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description: In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions regime, the US has merely adjusted its application through licensing mechanisms, leaving the core structure More The post US Sanctions on Venezuela Continue appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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How Will Trump’s Supporters React to Seeing School Vouchers Program Increase Chinese Influence?
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creator: Jeff Bryant
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description: In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s school voucher program. The schools’ offense, according to the state’s announcement, was their “direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” which were seen as “an imminent threat to the health, safety, and welfare of More The post How Will Trump’s Supporters React to Seeing School Vouchers Program Increase Chinese Influence? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-386710" class="wp-image-386710 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4551-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s school voucher program. The schools’ offense, according to the state’s <a href="https://u36605228.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.irwnA1ZB8N-2BHNL3jUmYY-2BI1lAHOJ4jqYBrMxaKnSQrWxq-2FW31VRFMf1-2BYlvdjP3MF8NwlXYMa01S7jLkbdnq1cRlnlzBQaIRhH9X3B8swK9qDT29i2rHwPhLX4-2F9R0k18gSSh2X6u9Q15b8Qpf0K4IrAgZjvPus10U5zvx92lnU3jTP588ZBBzWKFdg2SWVrZQmH_pb-2B40bGv8VszgSLSxZSae2hniLAOGi35ajohLqdIu8wIVCP-2FjsifAGPrnz8TzLY-2BrBhzzYUNPt70zAPT3cSOHfrpV9k3dPvqTl6ZS6FxBL58oYdoWDduM34ruB2-2FAXG1tX3P2OoE1E9FhYzSQgSHCUoGNrYlQikA2SAnNg1BFfs-2BoDEFILJQnPq840johdzC5WYUtwGuc8mZdWSfk0fjSbduNQgvmIV-2FZ2rT9H-2FV1IMHEKD6bIleFRDyEdj1Iu4BSAc77jz7eqN1cajRPtyw-2Fr-2BCqYY2-[binary]-2BqRfjQc5u54xFTak73Cq705t0aCekRrEaIkj9U-2BYI0CMG3VndpwzxJBrhYyjgOFW06dJHbgCpIli9UrBLhWj2hcfI653QkN35ujUUX3kNVYiAL7v7SuLl9Tplho2Vz4VtZgjJiR6lwP27W-2BT8U-2FS-2FImR63booDjqFqOCZEyrs-2BFsdXZM2S99K-2Fvk0ml4NqvnZF7s-2BKw2XhvPTXYOeYFlJ1Drb5uwDBWxiSF-2FQ-2Fu9WnU-2BJqaURpgx-2FAn2XFTujFfLz82eR6Gk0MhuRCUN…

Conrad, Konrad, and the Uses of the Sea
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description: “The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in The Mirror of the Sea, meditating on that uneasy alliance between human ambition and the indifferent deep. And elsewhere, more darkly still: “The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing More The post Conrad, Konrad, and the Uses of the Sea appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Letter From Hamsher’s Ohrid
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description: I was earlier than I needed to be at the Skopje International Airport, so I settled into a chair overlooking the airfield and carried on with my book: W. Papel Hamsher’s The Balkans by Bicycle. The account was first published in 1937, enjoyed a brief readership, and then—with the coming of world war to southwest More The post Letter From Hamsher’s Ohrid appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Operation Epic Fury and US Unreadiness for War
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description: The bellicose may find wars attractive and cleansing, but those responsible for such dry matters as inventory, material and how prepared the armed forces of a country are will stalk them with unpleasant truths. The addiction of the US imperium to waging wars, one that President Donald Trump promised, and failed, to treat, has gotten the More The post Operation Epic Fury and US Unreadiness for War appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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No Kings Now, and Then More
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description: Yes, for us to diminish and then end escalating wars, for us to stop and then end onrushing Fascism, and for us to slow and then climate catastrophe and AI armageddon much less to move forward to finally win fundamental social and economic change, we will need more than massive and growing numbers. We will More The post No Kings Now, and Then More appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Folks Who Gamble Your Life Away
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description: Here in the US, we’ve grown used to casinos and sports betting, with some folks accepting the idea that politicians and others even gamble on military action and election results. As a person who played nickel ante poker with coworkers after work and enjoyed a day at the track back in the day I kind More The post The Folks Who Gamble Your Life Away appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Most Original Modernist Painting in Venice
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description: There certainly are a great number of noteworthy, deeply original paintings to see in Venice. You can find what I have identified elsewhere in COUNTERPUNCH as the first modernist work, Giorgione’s Tempest (1506). And in [ . . . ] The post The Most Original Modernist Painting in Venice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Identity In Wartime And The Mirage Of Normalcy
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description: I was born and raised by an Ashkenazi Jewish mother. She entered this world in Berlin, Germany, at the advent of the Nazi era, subsequent child of Der Kindertransport, and by a father who, in infancy, was abandoned, at the outset of the Great Depression on the doorsteps of a Baptist orphanage in rural Missouri, More The post Identity In Wartime And The Mirage Of Normalcy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: I was born and raised by an Ashkenazi Jewish mother. She entered this world in Berlin, Germany, at the advent of the Nazi era, subsequent child of Der Kindertransport, and by a father who, in infancy, was abandoned, at the outset of the Great Depression on the doorsteps of a Baptist orphanage in rural Missouri, and was adopted by a married couple of mixed denomination, a Jewish mother, one Mildred Silver, a Lower Eastside exile to New Orleans and a gentile father, my namesake, Philip Rockstroh, also, an exile to New Orleans via Staten Island. Given the reality that my father’s family history was unknown, there has been an x-factor regarding my genetic heritage. My father, evincing a life-long orphan’s rage, insisted he did not possess the slightest desire to discover the birth parents who abandoned him…such were his wishes that my family respected until his death. As for myself, I enjoyed living in the mystery of the situation, playing with the possibilities of what were the origins of half of my genes. In my wayward, Jack Kerouac bedazzled youth, I was given to travel the world, all the while, my psychical antenna scanning the landscapes of distant shores in search of signs of atavistic recognitions and affinities with novel landscapes. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-405166" class="wp-image-405166" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/word-image-405165-1.jpeg" alt="" width="700" height="900" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/word-image-405165-1.jpeg 700w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/word-image-405165-1-680x874.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/word-image-405165-1-490x630.jpeg 490w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/word-image-405165-1-500x643.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/word-image-405165-1-600x771.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" />…

Author and publishing professional Joel Miller on making an effort
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description: What was your journey into the world of books?
encoded: What was your journey into the world of books? It started in utero. My dad was—still is—an English teacher. He’s 82! My mom was a massive reader. The house was full of books, and I read a lot growing up, but only casually. My parents never stressed it; I just did it. I followed my interests, but there was nothing programmatic about it. As I got older and books became a part of my professional life, and my personal interests developed down particular tracks, books were usually the first place I went to learn and think about things. They are a companion. When I think about fiction or spiritual titles, those are books that have been with me and have anchored me for a long time. You worked with a Christianity-focused imprint, and have now written The Idea Machine, which goes into how books were shaped by Christianity and vice versa. Has faith always played a big role in your interest in books and literature, or do you think of those two things separately? I grew up in a Christian household, and my faith has evolved, for lack of another word, over the years. I’m Eastern Orthodox at this point—have been since 2009. Books were a part of that journey. But I don’t really see them as separate at all. I probably tend to read everything through something of a Christian lens. I evaluate the characters I’m reading from two vantage points. I’m looking at it from what’s true to that character: why is this character acting the way that they’re acting, given how they’re presented to me? Then there’s also the sort of larger moral universe where they fit in, that is informed by my faith, for sure. Is the way that they’re acting healthy, helpful, conducive to human flourishing or whatever? So I read a book like Crime and Punishment, which is explicitly Christian in a lot of ways, and I can also read a book that is not explicitly Christian, and I’m still importing a bit of that moral lens as I’m asking, “Why is this character doing what they’re doing? Would I solve that problem that way?…

Rift widens within French Polynesia’s ruling party following municipal election losses
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia’s ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership “old guard” against a younger generation embodied by the territory’s President, Moetai Brotherson. The main reason for the rift is the outcome of the recent French municipal elections, especially in
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia’s ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership “old guard” against a younger generation embodied by the territory’s President, Moetai Brotherson. The main reason for the rift is the outcome of the recent French municipal elections, especially in the capital city of Pape’ete. Since the Tavini party came back to power after the 2023 territorial elections, Brotherson brought with him a new wave of young MPs, who sometimes were questioning the traditional political line. READ MORE: Other French Polynesian reports This was often regarded as “radical” (in favour of a quick independence process), defended by the party’s iconic 81-year-old president Oscar Temaru and his close associates, including Territorial Assembly Speaker Antony Géros. At the recent municipal elections, Géros was one of the most symbolic of Tavini casualties. He lost his stronghold city of Paea at the first round of votes to pro-autonomy Tapura Huiraatira leader Tepuaraurii Teriitahi, who secured more than 50 percent of the votes, making it unnecessary to hold a second round of polls. Even though Temaru was re-elected Lord Mayor in his stronghold of Faa’a at the first round, other Tavini-held municipalities also suffered significant setbacks. But it was in Pape’ete that the divisions between the two Tavini antagonistic trends materialised most visibly. Two Tavini candidates While no Tavini member was in a position to claim the lead (the new Lord Mayor remains an “autonomist”, in favour of continuing the current relationship with France under an “Autonomy” status), there were two Tavini candidates and lists — one officially endorsed by the party, under the name of Tauhiti Nena, who secured 11.03 percent of the votes. The other was not officially endorsed but it fared much better. It was led by 25-year-old Tematai Le Gayic and received 23.3 percent of the vote. Since the kick-…

Rift widens within French Polynesia’s ruling party following municipal election losses
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia’s ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership “old guard” against a younger generation embodied by the territory’s President, Moetai Brotherson. The main reason for the rift is the outcome of the recent French municipal elections, especially in
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within French Polynesia’s ruling Tavini Huiraatira party has widened this week, pitting the leadership “old guard” against a younger generation embodied by the territory’s President, Moetai Brotherson. The main reason for the rift is the outcome of the recent French municipal elections, especially in the capital city of Pape’ete. Since the Tavini party came back to power after the 2023 territorial elections, Brotherson brought with him a new wave of young MPs, who sometimes were questioning the traditional political line. READ MORE: Other French Polynesian reports This was often regarded as “radical” (in favour of a quick independence process), defended by the party’s iconic 81-year-old president Oscar Temaru and his close associates, including Territorial Assembly Speaker Antony Géros. At the recent municipal elections, Géros was one of the most symbolic of Tavini casualties. He lost his stronghold city of Paea at the first round of votes to pro-autonomy Tapura Huiraatira leader Tepuaraurii Teriitahi, who secured more than 50 percent of the votes, making it unnecessary to hold a second round of polls. Even though Temaru was re-elected Lord Mayor in his stronghold of Faa’a at the first round, other Tavini-held municipalities also suffered significant setbacks. But it was in Pape’ete that the divisions between the two Tavini antagonistic trends materialised most visibly. Two Tavini candidates While no Tavini member was in a position to claim the lead (the new Lord Mayor remains an “autonomist”, in favour of continuing the current relationship with France under an “Autonomy” status), there were two Tavini candidates and lists — one officially endorsed by the party, under the name of Tauhiti Nena, who secured 11.03 percent of the votes. The other was not officially endorsed but it fared much better. It was led by 25-year-old Tematai Le Gayic and received 23.3 percent of the vote. Since the kick-…

Michael Stipe performs "No Time for Love Like Now"
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North Korean hackers offer $70,000 per month to be their front
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Al Gore on Why Saturday’s Big Anti-Trump Protests Matter
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date: 2026-03-26T22:47:22Z
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A Trump Order on “Biological Truth” Impacts Veterans’ Health Care
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[Gerald Horne] How Trump Happened
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date: 2026-03-26T22:16:46Z
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description: How Trump happened is a question a lot of people ask. From an aggressive foreign policy to an immigration crackdown to cutting Medicaid to tax breaks for the super-rich to undermining environmental regulations and much more. Where did these policies or...
encoded: How Trump happened is a question a lot of people ask. From an aggressive foreign policy to an immigration crackdown to cutting Medicaid to tax breaks for the super-rich to undermining environmental regulations and much more. Where did these policies originate? A good place to start is Project 2025. It’s a detailed 900+ page agenda designed to reshape the government, specifically focusing on expanding executive power and implementing conservative policies across federal agencies. Organized by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is a road map for this administration. Its policies have generated pushback. Recent polls show rising opposition. David Brooks, the noted PBS conservative commentator, says of Trump, “This is the most imperial presidency in American history.” Recorded at Macalester College. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Who Will SAVE America From Misleading Coverage of Voter Suppression?
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creator: Julie Hollar
date: 2026-03-26T22:03:55Z
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description: In news coverage of the SAVE Act, some outlets fell back on standard framing of "Republicans say X, Democrats say Y"—or, worse, of "Democrats vs. the public."
encoded: The SAVE Act is a solution to an imaginary problem that would cause real harm (Brennan Center, 10/10/24). President Donald Trump wants his “SAVE America Act” (officially the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) to become law so badly that he is demanding Senate Republicans eliminate the filibuster in order to pass it. Enough Republicans are resisting that the issue has become a drawn-out battle within the GOP, grinding work in Congress to a halt and garnering much media attention. The bill, which passed the House in early February: Requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, like a passport or birth certificate—forms of identification that an estimated 21 million voting-age Americans lack. If your legal name is different than the name on your birth certificate—as with most married women—you would have additional hoops to jump through.</li Mandates that photo ID be presented before voting. Some 49 million voting-age Americans lack a valid driver’s license with their current name and address. Greatly restricts voting by mail. In 2024, 29% of voters mailed in their ballots—including many disabled people whose polling places are inaccessible. Forces states to turn over their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns around privacy, surveillance and false claims of election fraud. Washington Post (3/18/26): “Requiring Americans to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, in an effort to root out the extremely rare cases of noncitizen voting, would throw up roadblocks to the polls for millions of eligible voters across the political spectrum.” And the law wouldn’t fund any of this, putting a huge financial burden on states with just months to go before the midterms. In recent weeks, Trump even tried (and failed) to convince his GOP allies to add provisions barring trans women from women’s sports and banning gender-affirming surgery for youth. As the Washington Post (3/18/26) pointed out, a wide range of people—not only tho…

The World Cup Needs an ICE Truce
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creator: Minky Worden
date: 2026-03-26T21:32:06Z
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description: Like the "Olympic Truce," the United States should call a truce in ICE's campaign of terror for cities hosting World Cup matches.
encoded: Like the "Olympic Truce," the United States should call a truce in ICE's campaign of terror for cities hosting World Cup matches. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Minky Worden.

ICE whistleblower slams Trump admin
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date: 2026-03-26T21:00:58Z
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Professor Scott Galloway explains Resist and Unsubscribe
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North Korean hackers offer $70,000 per month to be their front
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creator: Jaewoo Park for RFA
date: 2026-03-26T20:47:03Z
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description: Cybersecurity engineer Toufik Airane has been approached by North Korean hackers who offered him a small fortune if
encoded: Cybersecurity engineer Toufik Airane was approached by a North Korean hacker who offered him a small fortune in exchange for use his of his identity—and he has the screenshots to prove it. Airane revealed to RFA Korean’s Jaewoo Park that after interacting with mysterious figures online, he found himself in a videocall with an East Asian man going by the name “Benjamin,” who promised him big bucks. The deal? “Benjamin,” would pose as Airane in remote job interviews and once hired, the two would split the job’s salary. Screenshots of “Benjamin’s” face taken by Airane closely match those of a man identified as a North Korean hacker by California-based security firm DTEX. North Korean hackers are increasingly using the identity borrowing tactic as a way to avoid detection as they engage in illicit activities to earn money for their cash-strapped government. While lending an identity might seem like easy money, those who go along with such a scheme should be aware that they could be charged as accomplices to cybercrime. Edited by Eugene Whong. This content originally appeared on Radio Free Asia and was authored by Jaewoo Park for RFA.

TV photographer nearly hit by car after Pennsylvania court hearing
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-03-26T20:32:54Z
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description: David Clark, a photographer for TV station WPXI, was nearly run over by a car outside a court building in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 18, 2026. The station identified the driver as the father of the defendant whose case he was covering.After the he...
encoded: David Clark, a photographer for TV station WPXI, was nearly run over by a car outside a court building in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 18, 2026. The station identified the driver as the father of the defendant whose case he was covering. After the hearing in the Pittsburgh suburb, Clark and reporter Gabriella DeLuca were questioning Sean Dicer, a former teacher accused of sexually assaulting students, according to the Tribune-Review, which identified Clark. Video published by the station shows Dicer and his father, Harold Dicer, getting into a white car and backing out of a parking space before accelerating toward the news crew. “Are you going to run me over?” Clark can be heard saying. In DeLuca’s news report, she said Sean Dicer avoided the camera and questions, but his father did not. “He shouted explicit language toward our crew, and at one point accelerated his car, coming inches away from hitting us,” she said. Harold Dicer is charged with simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct, court records show. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for April 22. Clark did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

TV reporter nearly hit by car after Pennsylvania court hearing
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description: Gabriella DeLuca, a reporter for TV station WPXI, was nearly run over by a car outside a court building in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 18, 2026. The station identified the driver as the father of the defendant whose case she was covering.After the ...
encoded: Gabriella DeLuca, a reporter for TV station WPXI, was nearly run over by a car outside a court building in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 18, 2026. The station identified the driver as the father of the defendant whose case she was covering. After the hearing in the Pittsburgh suburb, DeLuca and photographer David Clark questioned Sean Dicer, a former teacher accused of sexually assaulting students, according to the Tribune-Review, which identified Clark. Video published by the station shows Dicer and his father, Harold Dicer, getting into a white car and backing out of a parking space before accelerating toward the news crew. “Are you going to run me over?” Clark can be heard saying. In DeLuca’s news report, she said Sean Dicer avoided the camera and questions, but his father did not. “He shouted explicit language toward our crew, and at one point accelerated his car, coming inches away from hitting us,” she said. Harold Dicer is charged with simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct, court records show. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for April 22. DeLuca did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Full video on our channel!
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Experts say cooperation to tap South China Sea oil won’t solve Hormuz energy crisis
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-03-26T19:17:08Z
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subject: hormuz
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subject: south
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description: Though the strait’s closure has China and the Philippines talking, any new oil would be “hedge" for next crisis.
encoded: Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz could jumpstart cooperation between rivals halfway around the world to develop oil and gas in the South China Sea, experts told Radio Free Asia. But any cooperation between China and the Philippines to explore undersea oil reserves in disputed waters would be in preparation for the next energy crisis, not a solution to the current one, the experts said. Talks this week between the two sides have shown “positive progress,” Beijing’s embassy in Manila said in a statement Thursday, urging both sides to “set aside differences and pursue joint development.” Philippine officials, meanwhile, confirmed that no joint activity has started, but could in the future should negotiations be successful. The renewed engagement comes amid disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping conduit through which one-fifth of global oil and gas flows. The disruptions have heightened concerns over energy security in Asia, where many economies rely heavily on imports from the Middle East. Out of gas The Philippines is under pressure to secure new energy sources brought on by declining output from its Malampaya gas field, which supplies a significant share of the country’s electricity. For Manila, the South China Sea has long been seen as a potential alternative source of energy. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates the region holds about 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. But Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea and any energy supplies that lie within, including in the areas also claimed by Manila. Parts of the sea are also claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and Indonesia. A map showing the competing claims in the South China Sea. (RFA) At times, the competing claims can lead to violent clashes, such as in June 2024, when Chinese Coast Guard ships, according to Philippine officials, rammed supply ships near the Second Thomas Shoal, a reef that had become a flashpoint in the a…

Israel’s systematic abuse of Palestinians
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T18:24:00Z
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Israel Katz’s Announcement On Lebanon
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-03-26T18:19:02Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 26, 2026
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creator: KPFA
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subject: the
subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 26, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Music has the power to connect us beyond borders, beyond differences, beyond words.
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creator: Playing For Change
date: 2026-03-26T18:00:00Z
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Iranians Describe Terror During Bombings As Casualties Rise
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date: 2026-03-26T17:59:08Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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CPJ urges US Congress, Trump administration to prioritize release of Ukrainian journalists detained by Russia
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date: 2026-03-26T17:48:03Z
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subject: Iryna Levchenko
subject: Killed
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subject: Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
subject: Viktoria Roshchina
subject: Administration
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subject: iryna
subject: Journalists
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subject: of ukrainian journalists
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subject: release
subject: rights
subject: roshchina
subject: Russia
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subject: tom
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists submitted a statement for the record to a March 25 hearing held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress on the abduction of Ukrainian children and ongoing accountability efforts related to the Russia-Ukraine war. The statement highlights the impact of the war on journalists and media. The physical...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists submitted a statement for the record to a March 25 hearing held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress on the abduction of Ukrainian children and ongoing accountability efforts related to the Russia-Ukraine war. The statement highlights the impact of the war on journalists and media. The physical safety and arbitrary detention of journalists are among the main concerns CPJ raised, drawing attention to the cases of Ukrainian journalists Anastasiya Glukhovska and Iryna Levchenko, who have been detained by Russia without charge since 2023 under conditions that include credible reports of torture, as well as physical and psychological abuse. According to CPJ research, at least 12 Ukrainian journalists are currently held by Russia. CPJ presented the following recommendations to the U.S. Congress and the Trump administration in support of Ukrainian journalists arbitrarily detained by Russia: Demand the immediate and unconditional release of all detained Ukrainian journalists, including Anastasiya Glukhovska and Iryna Levchenko, in upcoming prisoner exchanges and make this issue a diplomatic priority in the U.S.-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Press Russian authorities for full transparency regarding Glukhovska’s and Levchenko’s legal status and condition in detention. Call on Russia to immediately provide a full account of the circumstances surrounding the death of journalist Viktoria Roshchina, who died in Russian custody in 2024. The statement can be read in full here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

UN News Today 26 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-26T17:42:48Z
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subject: News
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subject: today
description: Ukraine war more dangerous than ever, Human Rights Council hearsHaiti’s ‘vortex of violence’ now at disastrous levels: OHCHRCuba blockade having major impact on healthcare: WHO
encoded: Ukraine war more dangerous than ever, Human Rights Council hearsHaiti’s ‘vortex of violence’ now at disastrous levels: OHCHRCuba blockade having major impact on healthcare: WHO This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

American and Brazilian journalists threatened over Ukraine reporting
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-26T17:34:47Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: Sérgio Utsch
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subject: Threatened
subject: american
subject: and
subject: brazilian
subject: committee
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description: New York, March 26, 2026—Ukrainian authorities must promptly and thoroughly investigate recent threats against Jared Goyette, a U.S. reporter with English-language Ukrainian news outlet the Kyiv Independent, and Sérgio Utsch, a Brazilian correspondent with Brazilian television network SBT, following their investigation into alleged abuses in a military unit fighting under Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), the Committee to...
encoded: New York, March 26, 2026—Ukrainian authorities must promptly and thoroughly investigate recent threats against Jared Goyette, a U.S. reporter with English-language Ukrainian news outlet the Kyiv Independent, and Sérgio Utsch, a Brazilian correspondent with Brazilian television network SBT, following their investigation into alleged abuses in a military unit fighting under Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. “Ukrainian authorities must conduct a swift and transparent investigation into the intimidation of journalists Jared Goyette and Sergio Utsch, hold those responsible to account, and ensure that members of the press are not harassed or threatened over their work,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Journalists must be able to report on matters of public interest safely and freely. It is particularly crucial that they be able to do so when covering military matters during wartime.” The investigation, co-published on February 18, revealed allegations of abuse and torture within a Brazilian-led foreign fighter unit operating under an international HUR unit called the International Legion, which led to the death of a 23-year-old Brazilian recruit on a Kyiv military base in late December 2025. On February 25, Brazilian commander Leanderson Paulino, who leads the unit, commented on the allegations in a 13-minute video, denouncing a “Russian operation coordinated with Brazilian broadcasters.” On February 28, Paulino posted a series of Instagram stories, reviewed by CPJ, in which he accused Goyette of taking money from Russia “​​to design and plan a major act of sabotage against my battalion,” meaning that the journalist had planned to give the battalion a bad reputation. “Did you split the money with [Utsch] from SBT, or did you take the money just for yourself?” he posted. He also posted several photos of Goyette and addressed him directly, saying: “Hang in there, kid. Get ready f…

More war in Latin America feared as farmers describe torture from US-Ecuadorian ‘Operation Total Extermination’
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creator: Stephen Prager
date: 2026-03-26T17:26:20Z
subject: article
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Politics and Movements: US
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subject: and
subject: describe
subject: Ecuador
subject: extermination
subject: farmers
subject: feared,
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Mar. 24, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Just a day after President Donald Trump suggested that he’d use his crushing economic blockade in a bid to “ta...
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The Gulf and the global supply chain
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T16:28:44Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: chain
subject: Democracy
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subject: now
subject: sources
subject: supply
subject: the
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Michael Stipe & Aaron Dessner Perform "No Time for Love Like Now" at Democracy Now! Celebration
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T16:06:04Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: like
subject: love
subject: michael
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subject: now
subject: perform
subject: sources
subject: stipe
subject: Time
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"Torture & Genocide": U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Denounces Israeli Abuse of Palestinians
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T16:02:57Z
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subject: Sources
subject: Abuse
subject: albanese
subject: Democracy
subject: denounces
subject: expert
subject: francesca
subject: Genocide
subject: israeli
subject: now
subject: palestinians
subject: sources
subject: Torture
subject: u.n.
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The System Is Rigged And Everyone Knows It ft. Scott Galloway | Shane Smith Has Questions
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-26T16:01:14Z
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subject: Vice News
subject: and
subject: everyone
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subject: knows
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subject: rigged
subject: scott
subject: shane
subject: smith
subject: sources
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Meet Ryan Schwank, ICE Whistleblower Who Exposed Agency’s Unconstitutional Practices
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T15:58:08Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: agency’s
subject: Democracy
subject: exposed:
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subject: meet
subject: now
subject: practices
subject: ryan
subject: schwank,
subject: sources
subject: unconstitutional
subject: whistleblower
subject: who
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T15:53:19Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Agriculture
subject: Capitalism
subject: crude
subject: Democracy
subject: disrupts
subject: from
subject: Global
subject: iran
subject: now
subject: oil
subject: Shipping
subject: sources
subject: systems
subject: trump’s
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Israeli strike kills freelance journalist in southern Lebanon
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description: Amman, March 26, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an impartial investigation into the killing of Hussain Hamood, a freelance journalist who worked for the Hezbollah-affiliated broadcaster Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike on the southern city of Nabatieh on March 25. Two sources close to the journalist, who worked as both...
encoded: Amman, March 26, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an impartial investigation into the killing of Hussain Hamood, a freelance journalist who worked for the Hezbollah-affiliated broadcaster Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike on the southern city of Nabatieh on March 25. Two sources close to the journalist, who worked as both a photojournalist and a camera operator, confirmed to CPJ that Hamood was filming Israeli attacks when he was killed. “Lebanese journalist Hussain Hamood has paid the ultimate price for documenting what Israeli strikes are doing to his community,” said CPJ’s Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Israel must immediately end its attacks on the press, uphold its obligations under international law, and be held fully accountable for killing members of the press.” Lebanon’s Minister of Information Paul Morcos <a href="https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/ar/news/422506/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%B5-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%91%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%8B-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8D-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AE%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%83-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-2">denounced the killing of Hamood and demanded international action against the targeting of journalists in Lebanon. CPJ has documented the killing of at least three other journalists across the Middle East since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February. Hamood’s death comes a week after the killing of journalist Mohammed Sherri, who also worked for Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike in central Beirut. CPJ emailed the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) International Press Desk for comment on the killing of Hamood but did not receive …

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 26, 2026
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Silencing Student Reporters Threatens Public’s Right to Know
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description: Jim Rodenbush I faced a decision last October that would dramatically change my professional and personal life. I could enforce a directive from Indiana University administrators to censor the Indiana Daily Student, or stand by my students’ right to ed...
encoded: Jim Rodenbush I faced a decision last October that would dramatically change my professional and personal life. I could enforce a directive from Indiana University administrators to censor the Indiana Daily Student, or stand by my students’ right to editorial independence. What the administrators wanted was clear. The content of… The post Silencing Student Reporters Threatens Public’s Right to Know appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

How the United States stole Mexico
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1 Million Americans Demand Impeachment as Free Speech For People Launches Full-Page New York Times Ad Ahead of ‘No Kings’ Protests
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description: Free Speech For People today unveiled a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling on Congress to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, as nationwide “No Kings” protests mobilize Americans to defend democracy.The ad spotlights a grow...
encoded: Free Speech For People today unveiled a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling on Congress to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, as nationwide “No Kings” protests mobilize Americans to defend democracy. The ad spotlights a growing movement of more than 1,000,000 Americans who have already signed a petition demanding accountability. It urges the public to join the campaign at ImpeachTrumpAgain.org and to participate in protests across the country on Saturday, March 28. “Donald Trump poses a direct threat to our Constitution and to the rule of law,” said John Bonifaz, Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People. “The constitutional remedy of impeachment exists precisely for moments like this when a president abuses power, defies the law, and attacks democracy itself. Congress must act.” The advertisement follows a week of high-visibility actions in Washington D.C., including billboard trucks and projections. On December 11, 2025, 140 Members of Congress voted to advance Rep. Al Green’s articles of impeachment focused on Trump’s threat to execute Members of Congress and his threats and intimidation against federal judges. The vote marked a 77% increase in support for impeachment in the House since the prior House vote in June of last year. “On March 28, 2026, The People will rise up. The No Kings 3 protest is projected to be the largest mass-mobilization in U.S. history, with over 3,000 actions planned worldwide,” said Jax Foley, Free Speech For People’s Digital Organizing Strategist. “People across this country are organizing, mobilizing, defending their communities, and demanding accountability.” “For more than a year, FSFP’s team of lawyers, election security experts, and grassroots organizers have been tirelessly and fiercely leading the campaign to impeach and remove Trump and key administration officials,” Foley continued. “We have heard from people across the United States who are with us in the call for No Kings, No Tyrants, and …

Michael Stipe & Aaron Dessner Perform “No Time for Love Like Now” at Democracy Now! Celebration
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description: Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The acclaimed singer, songwriter and artist Michael Stipe performed his song “No Time for Love Like Now...
encoded: Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The acclaimed singer, songwriter and artist Michael Stipe performed his song “No Time for Love Like Now,” accompanied by musician and producer Aaron Dessner, a founding member of The National. Dessner has also closely collaborated with Taylor Swift, co-producing several of her albums. “This evening feels like a clarion call, a voice of courage, of optimism and resilience and community in the face of system collapse,” said Stipe, former lead singer of R.E.M. Watch the entire event here. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Torture & Genocide”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Denounces Israeli Abuse of Palestinians
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date: 2026-03-26T12:44:32Z
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description: United Nations expert Francesca Albanese’s latest report warns that Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale that “suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent” and that “torture has effectivel...
encoded: United Nations expert Francesca Albanese’s latest report warns that Israel is systematically torturing Palestinians on a scale that “suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent” and that “torture has effectively become state policy” since October 2023. Of all the investigations Albanese has carried out, “this has been absolutely the most excruciating, that led me to say that Israel uses torture in a systematic and widespread fashion, intentionally and sadistically, to break the spirit of the Palestinians, not just as individuals, but as a people,” says Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory since 2022. This comes as Israeli forces reportedly tortured a Palestinian toddler earlier this month, by using a cigarette to burn one of the child’s legs and a nail to puncture the other, in order to coerce a confession from his father. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Meet Ryan Schwank, ICE Whistleblower Who Exposed Agency’s Unconstitutional Practices
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date: 2026-03-26T12:33:53Z
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description: Democracy Now! is joined by Ryan Schwank, an ICE whistleblower who has been speaking out about how the agency drastically slashed its training standards for new officers. Schwank worked as an ICE lawyer and legal instructor in Georgia until he...
encoded: Democracy Now! is joined by Ryan Schwank, an ICE whistleblower who has been speaking out about how the agency drastically slashed its training standards for new officers. Schwank worked as an ICE lawyer and legal instructor in Georgia until he resigned last month. Schwank says he received secretive orders to teach ICE trainees to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant. He also speaks about how violent arrest tactics by ICE agents, like those seen in Minneapolis, should only be employed in certain circumstances: “Those things should only be done as an act of necessity, when it’s the choice between the public’s safety and the use of force on the individual.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-26T12:13:23Z
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description: The U.S. is threatening to intensify its bombardment of Iran as the country’s leadership rejects a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the war. Iran has issued a number of demands, including recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Ho...
encoded: The U.S. is threatening to intensify its bombardment of Iran as the country’s leadership rejects a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the war. Iran has issued a number of demands, including recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil, natural gas and fertilizer soar. “We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices … but also potentially key shortages in the commodities that are necessary to produce food, like fertilizers,” says Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London. “Many of the countries that are going to be most potentially impacted by this are already in conditions of famine or near famine.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 26, 2026
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description: “We Have No Intention of Negotiating”: Iran Rebuffs Trump’s Claims of Diplomacy, Iran Continues Attacks on Gulf Nations as Baghdad Blames U.S. for Strike That Killed Iraqi Soldiers, Rights Groups Say Israel Used Phosphorus Munitions and Targeted Civilian Infrastructure in Lebanon, Israel Bombs Tent Camp for Displaced Palestinians in Central Gaza, Israeli Police and Settlers Evict More Palestinian Families from Occupied East Jerusalem, U.S. Military Strikes Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing Four People, SCOTUS Hears Case on Trump Admin’s Efforts to Block Asylum Seekers at Border, U.S. Air Travelers Now Face the Longest Wait Times in TSA History, Jury Finds Alphabet and Meta Liable for Damages in Landmark Social Media Addiction Lawsuit, Sanders and AOC Introduce Bill Imposing Moratorium on New AI Data Center Construction, U.N. Adopts Resolution Declaring Transatlantic Slave Trade “The Gravest Crime Against Humanity”
encoded: "We Have No Intention of Negotiating": Iran Rebuffs Trump's Claims of Diplomacy Iran Continues Attacks on Gulf Nations as Baghdad Blames U.S. for Strike That Killed Iraqi Soldiers Rights Groups Say Israel Used Phosphorus Munitions and Targeted Civilian Infrastructure in Lebanon Israel Bombs Tent Camp for Displaced Palestinians in Central Gaza Israeli Police and Settlers Evict More Palestinian Families from Occupied East Jerusalem U.S. Military Strikes Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing Four People SCOTUS Hears Case on Trump Admin's Efforts to Block Asylum Seekers at Border U.S. Air Travelers Now Face the Longest Wait Times in TSA History Jury Finds Alphabet and Meta Liable for Damages in Landmark Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Sanders and AOC Introduce Bill Imposing Moratorium on New AI Data Center Construction U.N. Adopts Resolution Declaring Transatlantic Slave Trade "The Gravest Crime Against Humanity" This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-26 Thursday
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An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing.
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description: The post An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The woman, 52, lay on the exam table at a clinic in Richland, Washington. Her legs were parted and propped up. The OB-GYN, Dr. Mark Mulholland, stood between her legs, inquiring about the woman’s sex life as he had in prior visits, she wrote in a complaint filed with Washington state health care regulators. She said Mulholland had previously asked about her enjoyment of sex and if she had a boyfriend, a strange way to learn about a patient’s sexual activity, she thought. But this was her last checkup after her hysterectomy and the last time she expected to see Mulholland. “Do you masturbate?” Mulholland asked the woman during their final appointment, according to her complaint. The question shocked her. She wrote that Mulholland explained he wanted to “make sure the nerves were intact.” Then, the woman wrote, he inserted his fingers into her vagina and pumped his hand back and forth in a way she said felt “sexual and not medical.” “Does that hurt?” the woman said Mulholland asked her, before ending their visit by saying “the playroom is open” — a comment she interpreted as Mulholland clearing her for sexual activity. The woman said she left the room in shock. She made her way to the parking lot of the Kadlec Clinic-Associated Physicians for Women, climbed inside her car and sat, incredulous, she said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. What happened felt terribly wrong, she said. Mulholland did not respond to requests for comment for this article after being sent a detailed list of findings by email and by letter. His attorney declined to comment. What the woman didn’t know was that by the time of her exam in February 2025, the Washington Medical Commission had already received complaints from four other women since 2022 accusing Mulholland of sexual misconduct. And yet he was allowed to keep seeing patients throughout. The accounts related by the women, whom KUOW and ProPublica are not naming to protect their privacy, included descriptions of Mulholland touch…

An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing.
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description: The post An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The woman, 52, lay on the exam table at a clinic in Richland, Washington. Her legs were parted and propped up. The OB-GYN, Dr. Mark Mulholland, stood between her legs, inquiring about the woman’s sex life as he had in prior visits, she wrote in a complaint filed with Washington state health care regulators. She said Mulholland had previously asked about her enjoyment of sex and if she had a boyfriend, a strange way to learn about a patient’s sexual activity, she thought. But this was her last checkup after her hysterectomy and the last time she expected to see Mulholland. “Do you masturbate?” Mulholland asked the woman during their final appointment, according to her complaint. The question shocked her. She wrote that Mulholland explained he wanted to “make sure the nerves were intact.” Then, the woman wrote, he inserted his fingers into her vagina and pumped his hand back and forth in a way she said felt “sexual and not medical.” “Does that hurt?” the woman said Mulholland asked her, before ending their visit by saying “the playroom is open” — a comment she interpreted as Mulholland clearing her for sexual activity. The woman said she left the room in shock. She made her way to the parking lot of the Kadlec Clinic-Associated Physicians for Women, climbed inside her car and sat, incredulous, she said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. What happened felt terribly wrong, she said. Mulholland did not respond to requests for comment for this article after being sent a detailed list of findings by email and by letter. His attorney declined to comment. What the woman didn’t know was that by the time of her exam in February 2025, the Washington Medical Commission had already received complaints from four other women since 2022 accusing Mulholland of sexual misconduct. And yet he was allowed to keep seeing patients throughout. The accounts related by the women, whom KUOW and ProPublica are not naming to protect their privacy, included descriptions of Mulholland touch…

DN! Thursday, March 26, 2026
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“This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE
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creator: Peter DiCampo
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description: The post “This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: On the day that federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, I ran out of my house with my camera in hand to document the aftermath. As a visuals editor at ProPublica, I spend most of my time at my desk. But I couldn’t ignore this massive story rapidly unfolding in Minneapolis, the city I’ve called home for the past few years. The first thing I photographed that day was a woman trying to calm a man with a hug. “There was a young man right at the police tape, honestly inches away from some of the agents, and he was so angry,” she told me later. “I was getting really scared for him.” Not long after, the scene grew volatile, as federal, state and city police forces tear-gassed and detained protesters in a standoff that lasted for hours. Kristin Heiberg, I learned, is a 64-year-old technical writer, a volunteer at an animal shelter and a cancer survivor. And, like many other people here, she patrols her neighborhood with a whistle, on the lookout for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. As I’ve watched the Twin Cities rally to respond to Operation Metro Surge, I’ve wanted to see the one thing I had not: What do these people look like in their day-to-day lives? I wanted to know who they are and what motivated them to patrol their streets, drive strangers to work and provide food and rent money for the families who have been in hiding since the surge began. While media coverage has moved on, and there are fewer ICE agents on the streets, they’re still here, and my neighbors are still providing mutual aid. When I asked Heiberg who she felt was involved, she said: “Everyone in the community. Anyone with a heart.” This is how it has felt to me as well. Whether gathering with friends or ordering coffee or running into a neighbor while walking my dog, every recent conversation has led to the same place: What are you doing to meet this moment? Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or that they were led in their ef…

“This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE
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description: The post “This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: On the day that federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, I ran out of my house with my camera in hand to document the aftermath. As a visuals editor at ProPublica, I spend most of my time at my desk. But I couldn’t ignore this massive story rapidly unfolding in Minneapolis, the city I’ve called home for the past few years. The first thing I photographed that day was a woman trying to calm a man with a hug. “There was a young man right at the police tape, honestly inches away from some of the agents, and he was so angry,” she told me later. “I was getting really scared for him.” Not long after, the scene grew volatile, as federal, state and city police forces tear-gassed and detained protesters in a standoff that lasted for hours. Kristin Heiberg, I learned, is a 64-year-old technical writer, a volunteer at an animal shelter and a cancer survivor. And, like many other people here, she patrols her neighborhood with a whistle, on the lookout for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. As I’ve watched the Twin Cities rally to respond to Operation Metro Surge, I’ve wanted to see the one thing I had not: What do these people look like in their day-to-day lives? I wanted to know who they are and what motivated them to patrol their streets, drive strangers to work and provide food and rent money for the families who have been in hiding since the surge began. While media coverage has moved on, and there are fewer ICE agents on the streets, they’re still here, and my neighbors are still providing mutual aid. When I asked Heiberg who she felt was involved, she said: “Everyone in the community. Anyone with a heart.” This is how it has felt to me as well. Whether gathering with friends or ordering coffee or running into a neighbor while walking my dog, every recent conversation has led to the same place: What are you doing to meet this moment? Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or that they were led in their ef…

This Sheriff Says His Department Eliminated Racial Bias. Data Shows Otherwise.
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description: The post This Sheriff Says His Department Eliminated Racial Bias. Data Shows Otherwise. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In one talk radio appearance after another, Sheriff Jerry Sheridan has declared that his department had eliminated the racial bias that plagued it under his former boss Joe Arpaio. As a result, he’s quick to add, a landmark racial profiling court case dictating much of what the Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff’s department does should be dismissed. “I believe we are in compliance with the court order. We’re not a racist organization, and we don’t racial profile,” he said on Phoenix-area talk radio in March 2025. In May, he told the same radio host: “Is the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office racially profiling or are they racially biased? We have documentation for well over 10 years that that is not the case.” His evidence for ending oversight stemming from Melendres v. Arpaio, the federal case whose 2013 settlement imposed parameters the department has operated under ever since, was a monthly sampling of a few dozen traffic stops. The settlement requires deputies to document each stop in exacting detail. The report, analyzed by a court-appointed monitor, showed individual deputies had not used race to initiate that limited sample of traffic stops. But annual reviews of every traffic stop or arrest of a Latino driver have repeatedly contradicted Sheridan’s claim. With the exception of one year, each of the past 10 reports showed disparities affecting Latino drivers. The latest, covering 2024, found, “Stops involving Hispanic drivers were more likely to result in an arrest than stops involving White drivers.” Under Sheriff Arpaio, deputies began in 2007 to use traffic stops to arrest people on immigration charges, illegally racially profiling Latinos in the process. When the constitutional violations spurred the Melendres lawsuit, a judge found they were so widespread that he included the county’s more than 1 million Latino residents as plaintiffs in the case. Fallout from it ended Arpaio’s political career. Sheridan, a Republican, was Arpaio’s second-in-command. Durin…

Iran was already running out of water. Then came the ‘war on infrastructure.’
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creator: Frida Garza
date: 2026-03-26T08:45:00Z
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description: Drought, a legacy of overpumping, and now military strikes are driving the country’s fragile water and food systems to the brink.
encoded: Last week, following attacks on critical energy and water facilities escalating, the Israeli-U.S. war in Iran entered a new stage. “Now the war on infrastructure has started,” said Kaveh Madani, a water researcher at the United Nations University and former deputy vice president of Iran. On March 18, Israel struck the South Pars gas field in Iran, the largest natural gas field in the world. Iran is heavily dependent on South Pars for its energy supply; by some estimates, the field accounts for 90 percent of the country’s domestic energy use. The assault on South Pars kicked off a series of retaliatory attacks from Iran on energy facilities throughout the region, including an aerial strike that caused considerable damage to Ras Laffan, a sprawling liquified natural gas facility in Qatar — the world’s largest LNG export hub. About one fifth of the globe’s LNG supply comes from this plant, according to Bloomberg. Qatar’s energy minister said the damage could take three to five years to repair. This escalation in hostilities has added more pressure to an already fraught situation affecting the energy industry in the Persian Gulf, which will continue to have implications both regionally and worldwide. The price of Brent crude, considered the global benchmark of crude oil prices, spiked after the South Pars attack, reaching nearly $120 per barrel. It has since fallen a bit, to just under $100 per barrel. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AP26070516536942.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="A man walks on rocks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AP26070516536942.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AP26070516536942.jpg?resize=1200%2C674&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/…

In Texas, Corpus Christi’s water crisis may be a glimpse into the future
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creator: Rebecca Egan McCarthy
date: 2026-03-26T08:30:00Z
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description: A 5-year drought, a failed desalination plant, and poor planning may force the city to choose between residents and the oil and gas industry.
encoded: When Thiago Campos bought the Mr. Fancy Pants Carwash business in Corpus Christi, Texas three years ago, he wasn’t thinking about drought. He was familiar with varnishes and waxes, and enjoyed figuring out which kind of soap would best remove local dirt. “I’m a chemical engineer, Campos said. “I felt like the carwash matched my skill set.” But Mr. Fancy Pants, with its two locations, could soon face an existential crisis. Last week, Corpus Christi’s city manager announced that it may enter a water emergency as soon as May. The city’s two main reservoirs — Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi — are just 8.4 percent full, while the backup reservoir, 100 miles away, is 55 percent full. Without drastic cuts, the water supply for the more than 500,00 residents of the Corpus Christi area could run dry by early next year. “To be honest,” Campos said, “I bought [the carwash] without really understanding what I was buying into.” Although it might seem like the city has been abruptly pushed to the brink of disaster, experts say years of faulty planning have brought Corpus Christi to this point. Plans for the proposed Inner Harbor seawater desalination plant, which would have drawn from the Gulf of Mexico, fell apart in September as cost estimates crept up from an estimated $160 million in 2019 to $1.2 billion. Inflation, tariffs, and supply shortages all drove the cost of construction up, but the scope of the project also expanded. Further complicating things: the plant faced pushback over environmental concerns — a study from Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi found that discharge from the plant would raise salinity in the bay and cause harm to marine ecosystems. Although Corpus Christi’s residents are under drought restrictions, which prohibit people from watering their lawns, the city has not asked industrial facilities to look into ways of conserving water after the plans for the desalination plant collapsed. Corpus Christi is one of the largest petrochemical hubs in …

Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers.
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date: 2026-03-26T08:15:00Z
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description: A new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate change.
encoded: In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on a smaller scale, to modern farming systems. Research has shown that some traditional farming systems, such as growing maize, beans and squash together, protect soil health, reduce biodiversity loss and support Indigenous knowledge, known as traditional ecological knowledge. How many of these elements from traditional farming can successfully translate into larger crop production models, when little research defines their economic value, is a question Kamaljit Sangha, a researcher in ecological economics at Charles Darwin University, wanted to explore in a new study published earlier this month in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. “How do we take it from the perspective where there are holistic and multiple values [of Indigenous farming], which are mostly hidden in the current way of measuring the importance of these food systems?” said Sangha. “The key message we wanted to get out is that if we highlight the non-monetary values of these food systems, we hope that this can attract more attention from policy decision makers and governments to support these indigenous peoples and local communities’ food systems.” When assessing how many publications include rigorous empirical evidence to measure potential scalability and sustainability for Indigenous farming systems against mainstream agriculture, “there is a gap between advocacy and evidence,” the report read. In the study, Sangha and Charles Darwin University researchers found that when reviewing 49 published research articles on Indigenous peoples and local communities, known as IPLCs, most literature highlighted the benefits of communities’ traditional farming practices. This comes at a crucial vantage point, as global industrialized agricultural systems are swept up by climate change risks. The study also found a lack of research examining the quantitative productivity and scalabili…

The murderous, absurd ‘feminism’ of the US-Israeli war on Iran
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description: US and Israeli officials invoking women’s rights to push their war on Iran should look at their war in Gaza and at home before making claims. COMMENTARY: By Eman Hillis Displaced from my home in northern Gaza, I sit reading reports of the Iran war as my little sister, 6, struggles to walk across the
encoded: US and Israeli officials invoking women’s rights to push their war on Iran should look at their war in Gaza and at home before making claims. COMMENTARY: By Eman Hillis Displaced from my home in northern Gaza, I sit reading reports of the Iran war as my little sister, 6, struggles to walk across the room. Two months into the ceasefire, an Israeli soldier shot her in the head. On my phone, a video of US politician Tommy Tuberville criticising the Iranian regime for “treating women like dogs” plays. Another follows, showing Matt Schlapp suggesting the girls killed in a school bombing in Iran are better dead than living a “barbaric life”. To top it all, Israel celebrated International Women’s Day in Persian, posting an AI video of fake US, Israeli, and Iranian women frolicking together. READ MORE: US demands Iran accept ‘defeat’ as Tehran rejects talks, vows to fight on Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping for unearned riches Other US-Israel war on Iran reports Watching these statements and videos from Gaza, where women have been subjected to relentless violence throughout the more than two-year genocide, the sudden concern for women’s rights is difficult to take seriously. I was among the hundreds of thousands of women displaced by Israel in Gaza. I experienced the suffering that Israel, backed by the US, subjected us to, and watched other women endure. One month before the third US veto of a proposed ceasefire in Gaza, a sudden midnight strike hit the apartment next to where I was sheltering in Khan Younis. Human remains were scattered about — half of one man’s body was hanging on what had been a window on the seventh floor, the other half on a bus in the street. No women were killed, but I watched them weep for loved ones, denied the chance to mourn them or even gather and bury the remains. Fleeing women dragged children The tanks then rushed in. Dozens of women, children, and men ran through the street — some women still weeping for thos…

Former Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry leaves legacy
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date: 2026-03-26T04:05:31Z
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description: Vanuatu Daily Post The Vanuatu Daily Post is deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Dan McGarry, our former media director. McGarry was a fearless investigative journalist, photographer, and software professional who made a lasting contribution to the development of the Daily Post. He managed media content across the company’s publications, website, and
encoded: Vanuatu Daily Post The Vanuatu Daily Post is deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Dan McGarry, our former media director. McGarry was a fearless investigative journalist, photographer, and software professional who made a lasting contribution to the development of the Daily Post. He managed media content across the company’s publications, website, and social media platforms, while also shaping the wider media landscape in Vanuatu. Before formally joining the organisation in 2015, he wrote regular columns under the pseudonym Graham Crumb. READ MORE: ‘He will never be replaced’ – tributes flow for ‘fearless’ Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry OCCRP mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist Dan McGarry’s articles on Asia Pacific Report <img decoding="async" class="wp-image-32853 size-medium" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Vanuatu-Daily-Post-logo-300x117.png" alt="" width="300" height="117" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Vanuatu-Daily-Post-logo-300x117.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Vanuatu-Daily-Post-logo.png 680w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> VANUATU DAILY POST Prior to joining the Daily Post, McGarry was part of the Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP), an independent, non-profit, regionally focused think tank based in Port Vila. He also worked with Computer Network Services (CNS) as technical manager during its early years. Reports indicate that McGarry, 62, fell ill following a trip to Papua New Guinea earlier this month and was evacuated to Brisbane. He faced complications during recovery and remained in critical care in recent weeks. At the time of his passing, McGarry was serving as Pacific editor for the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). McGarry was a leading voice in Pacific journalism, driven by a strong sense of justice and commitment to the public good. He is surviv…

Activist journalist Terry Bell – a life defined by unwavering commitment to justice and democracy
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date: 2026-03-26T04:00:53Z
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description: Radio 786 Anti-apartheid campaigner Terry Bell has died at the age of 84. A lifelong activist, journalist, and educator, Bell’s life was defined by his unwavering commitment to justice and democracy. His early journalism career spanned several South African newspapers, where he also helped found the non-racial South African Journalists’ Union. Bell was deeply involved
encoded: Radio 786 Anti-apartheid campaigner Terry Bell has died at the age of 84. A lifelong activist, journalist, and educator, Bell’s life was defined by his unwavering commitment to justice and democracy. His early journalism career spanned several South African newspapers, where he also helped found the non-racial South African Journalists’ Union. Bell was deeply involved in underground activism, editing the clandestine publication Combat. Detained under the 90-day law in 1964, he fled into exile in Zambia the following year. There, he worked as chief reporter for the Times of Zambia before being granted asylum in the UK. READ MORE: Terry Bell, struggle stalwart and journalist of ‘impeccable principles’, dies at 84 In London, he studied international affairs, edited Anti-Apartheid News, and worked at the Daily Worker. Bell’s activism took him across continents, from Zambia to New Zealand, where he helped launch the Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1972. In 1979, he and his wife, Barbara, established the primary division of Somafco in Tanzania, drafting the ANC’s first primary school curriculum. Disillusioned by abuses within the ANC, the Bells resigned in 1982 and later supported striking miners in Britain. Returning to South Africa in 1991, Bell settled in Cape Town, choosing not to rejoin the ANC. Instead, he advocated for democratic socialism, urging citizens to “Vote ANC, but build a socialist alternative”. From 1992, he edited Africa Analysis and contributed incisive labour columns to Business Report, Fin24, and City Press. He was also a regular contributor to Radio 786’s programming, and was a staunch voice advocating for the rights of Palestinians. His writing combined sharp analysis with a deep empathy for workers and marginalised communities. Bell remained a freelance journalist and commentator until his final years, never ceasing to challenge injustice. Terry Bell’s life reminds us that resistance, even in exile, can shape nations and inspire generations. Republishe…

Singer-songwriter Maya J’an on finding your soft side
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creator: Yang Shi
date: 2026-03-26T04:00:00Z
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description: Can you tell me a bit about yourself?
encoded: Can you tell me a bit about yourself? I’m Maya J’an. I’m a singer and songwriter. People say I’m a downward spiral documentary. When did you start making music? What are your creative aspirations? I was born and raised in Los Angeles. Music has always been a huge part of me. My mom was a big support and put me in a band when I was really young with my sisters. I was about 6, and I started playing drums then. My sisters fell out of love with the band pretty quickly; I was only 7, but I realized I wanted to keep doing it. I started writing songs around that time. They weren’t very good at all. I had a song called “Birthday Cloud,” another song about mermaids, but I always dreamed about something. What kind of music did you play with your sisters? What was the name of your band? Oh gosh, the name of our band was ATM because it’s our names. We played all types of stuff. My dad is from Belize, and my mom grew up in Texas. So we listened to all types of stuff, from reggaeton to country to alternative to pop R&B. We were pretty genre-less as a band. We were kids, we just did whatever we felt like. I remember practicing a lot of my drumming to One Republic. Do you remember One Republic? Yes, of course. It’s too late to apologize… At what point in your life did you know you wanted to become a musician? I went into high school and just started posting on SoundCloud. Writing’s like therapy. It always has been. My mom lost custody of me when I was 9, and that made writing more of a lifeline. It felt like my last little thread to her, in a way. I became a recluse. At school, my favorite part was just to come home and sit in the garage and noodle on the piano. That’s kind of where I started. Growing up in LA and seeing the entertainment part of it from a closer range, I never really wanted to do anything else. I knew that I wanted to make music. I wanted to be a writer and share my story. I can tell you are very devoted to music, but also to your feelings and how these are transl…

Melania vs. Ivana: Fact Checking the Honeypot Meme – TEASER
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description: Christopher Steele, who ran the Russia desk at MI6, believes Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian asset. He used girls and young women from Russia and other former Soviet states to lure powerful men into kompromat traps. Michael Wolff made the allegation, which has since been pulled by The Daily Beast, that Epstein introduced Melania and Trump, and that they even had sex for the first time on the Lolita Express. So was Melania a honeypot, trained to keep Trump in their pocket, and prevent an unpredictable influence from marrying Russia's asset? Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, of the Trump Tyranny Tracker, and a researcher on explosive books, including investigative journalist Craig Unger's House of Trump, House of Putin, fact checks the Melania honeypot memes, and provides deeper insight into the Eastern European women in Trump's life, like his first wife Ivana. Olga Lautman will be at the Gaslit Nation Night Out! Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't make this show without you–see you there! Show Notes: Trump Tyranny Tracker: https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/ Daily Beast pulls story alleging Melania-Epstein connection after lawyers dispute framing https://www.foxnews.com/media/daily-beast-pulls-story-alleging-melania-epstein-connection-after-lawyers-dispute-framing Ex-MI6 Spy insists Epstein was a Russian spy and blackmailing Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYRVezF5-hk Opening clip: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhnsvsjc7y23 Um, What …
encoded: Christopher Steele, who ran the Russia desk at MI6, believes Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian asset. He used girls and young women from Russia and other former Soviet states to lure powerful men into kompromat traps. Michael Wolff made the allegation, which has since been pulled by The Daily Beast, that Epstein introduced Melania and Trump, and that they even had sex for the first time on the Lolita Express. So was Melania a honeypot, trained to keep Trump in their pocket, and prevent an unpredictable influence from marrying Russia's asset? Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, of the Trump Tyranny Tracker, and a researcher on explosive books, including investigative journalist Craig Unger's House of Trump, House of Putin, fact checks the Melania honeypot memes, and provides deeper insight into the Eastern European women in Trump's life, like his first wife Ivana. Olga Lautman will be at the Gaslit Nation Night Out! Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't make this show without you–see you there! Show Notes: Trump Tyranny Tracker: https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/ Daily Beast pulls story alleging Melania-Epstein connection after lawyers dispute framing https://www.foxnews.com/media/daily-beast-pulls-story-alleging-melania-epstein-connection-after-lawyers-dispute-framing Ex-MI6 Spy insists Epstein was a Russian spy and blackmailing Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYRVezF5-hk Opening clip: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhnsvsjc7y23 Um, What …

EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore Blasts Trump for "Astonishing Mistake" on Iran
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description: This content originally appeared on Reveal and was authored by Reveal.
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Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace
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creator: Jared Hillel
date: 2026-03-25T23:56:07Z
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description: As Israel enters its second war with Iran in less than nine months, the promise of violence for peace rings increasingly hollow.
encoded: As Israel enters its second war with Iran in less than nine months, the promise of violence for peace rings increasingly hollow. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Jared Hillel.

Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace
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description: As Israel enters its second war with Iran in less than nine months, the promise of violence for peace rings increasingly hollow.
encoded: As Israel enters its second war with Iran in less than nine months, the promise of violence for peace rings increasingly hollow. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Jared Hillel.

Epstein cabal play games with human lives in Iran while grasping for unearned riches
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-25T23:04:42Z
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subject: Illegal war
subject: Insider trading
subject: Kellie Tranter
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subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: US-Israel war machine
subject: War on Iran
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description: COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The actions of the Trump administration and its AIPAC-Israeli donors have reached new levels of immorality, illegality and unprecedented venality. It is almost universally accepted that the US-Israel attack on Iran had no justification under international law: it was simply a war of aggression and thus the commission of perhaps the
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The actions of the Trump administration and its AIPAC-Israeli donors have reached new levels of immorality, illegality and unprecedented venality. It is almost universally accepted that the US-Israel attack on Iran had no justification under international law: it was simply a war of aggression and thus the commission of perhaps the most serious crime under international law, precisely what the UN was set up to prevent. Then we have the conduct of the war by the US and Israel, each pursuing its own agenda but completely lacking any coherent strategy. READ MORE: Araghchi says no talks with US as Trump vows to ‘hit harder’ Other Kellie Tranter articles From day one of the attack they have committed war crime after war crime, most recently in bombing civilian targets and now civilian infrastructure. The current escalation flowing from the attack near an Iranian nuclear power plant and on Iran’s electrical power grid demonstrates this and demonstrates equally clearly Iran’s current strategic and tactical advantages. While all this is happening the US Empire is declining rapidly and the rogue state of Israel is experiencing in its own territory a taste of the death, injury and destruction that inevitably follows any war, yet they still both continue to escalate and to widen the war. Now it emerges in the US that analyses of market activity including especially oil trades demonstrate a very high probability of massive insider trading that can only come from within the Trump White House coterie. For example, market reaction to Trump’s Monday Truth Social post about having discussions with the Iranians caused the S&P market cap to rise by about two trillion dollars; the later Iranian announcement there were no discussions caused it to drop by about one trillion dollars and those market movements were anticipated by traders who made trades, literally last minute, to the value of about $500 million. There have been similar shenanigans with the tra…

Trump’s FTC Wages a War on Media Criticism
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description: The FTC's intervention against media criticism outfits comes from the same censorious impulse that weaponized the Trump FCC to stifle criticism.
encoded: NewsGuard says it “deploys a team of expert journalists to rate and review the reliability of news sources.” NewsGuard, a company that rates news outlets’ accuracy using what it calls “apolitical journalistic criteria…to identify reliable sources of information,” has filed a lawsuit to block the Federal Trade Commission’s demand for a list of all its customers. The FTC in May 2025 launched a wide-ranging probe into NewsGuard and 16 other groups—including left-leaning watch group Media Matters for America, and the Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit media ratings service. The agency alleged the groups were part of “a conspiracy to boycott conservative and independent media.” Deadline (2/6/26) reported that FTC chair Andrew “Ferguson has targeted NewsGuard, suggesting that it violated antitrust laws and that it was biased, as NewsGuard had given a low score to Newsmax, the conservative news site.” ‘Straightforward violation’ David Bauder (AP, 3/23/26): “The FTC accuses the company of trying to suppress conservative speech. NewsGuard says it is being forced to kneel before vindictive power.” NewsGuard’s lawsuit accuses the FTC of “brazenly using its power not for any issue concerning trade or commerce, but rather to censor speech simply because it disagreed with NewsGuard’s judgments about the reliability of news sources” (AP, 3/23/26). NewsGuard also accused the FTC of holding up a $13 billion merger of advertising heavyweights Omnicom Group and IPG unless the merged company agreed not to use NewsGuard’s services. Media Matters filed a similar lawsuit last summer to block sweeping FTC demands for documents; a federal judge ruled in the group’s favor, calling that FTC probe “a straightforward First Amendment violation” (Bloomberg, 1/22/26). The FTC has appealed the ruling against it. Ferguson is yet another representative of the Trump regime trying to silence any criticism of the government or its right-wing support network. For regime apologists, of course, the F…

‘He will never be replaced’ – tributes flow for ‘fearless’ Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry
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description: RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in from across the region for “fearless” and “formidable” Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry, who died on Wednesday. McGarry, 62, fell ill after a trip to Papua New Guinea earlier this month, from where he had to be evacuated to Brisbane to undergo a heart bypass. But he faced complications during
encoded: RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in from across the region for “fearless” and “formidable” Vanuatu journalist Dan McGarry, who died on Wednesday. McGarry, 62, fell ill after a trip to Papua New Guinea earlier this month, from where he had to be evacuated to Brisbane to undergo a heart bypass. But he faced complications during his recovery and had remained in critical care for the past few weeks. READ MORE: Dan McGarry’s articles on Asia Pacific Report OCCRP mourns the loss of Dan McGarry, pioneering Pacific editor and investigative journalist McGarry, who was a former editor of Vanuatu’s only national newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, and Pacific editor of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) at the time of his death, has left behind his wife and children. “It’s with great heartbreak that I have to announce that the legendary Dan McGarry passed away earlier today,” Aubrey Belford, who was a co-editor with McGarry at OCCRP, said in a Facebook post. “Dan was an absolutely dominating presence in Pacific journalism and in the region more generally. “Dan was compassionate, sharing, and always motivated by a sense of justice and the common good. He was driven but also understood the importance of patience, friendship, and community. ‘A shell or more of kava’ “When home in Vanuatu he loved nothing more than finishing his day with a shell or more of kava, satisfied in the knowledge he had found his place in the world.” Belford added McGarry’s loss was devastating not just for his family but for all journalists working in the region. “He will be missed, and he will never be replaced.” Another friend and colleague, Andrew Gray, said McGarry was “a good man”. “After a hard life he finally found happiness in Vanuatu, and he did a lot more for the country than people appreciate. Last time I saw him he was planning his retirement at Lalwori. “Condolences to Line McGarry Watsivi and their daughters.” InsidePNG described McGarry as “more than just a colleag…

When will the Iran War end?
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Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable
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description: The post Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: They asked nicely at first. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who’d recently moved to Minneapolis, local law enforcement officials requested a partnership with the federal government to investigate the case, as they’d done in past shootings involving federal agents. When the Trump administration refused to cooperate, Minnesota prosecutors ratcheted up their efforts. They sent a series of strongly worded legal letters demanding evidence in the Good shooting as well as the shootings of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan immigrant who was wounded a week after Good was shot, and Alex Pretti, who was killed on Jan. 24. Still, the administration rebuffed the requests. This week, prosecutors from Hennepin County and the state of Minnesota took the next step to force the Trump administration’s hand. They filed a federal lawsuit against the departments of Homeland Security and Justice over the evidence in the shootings, an action that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, whose jurisdiction covers Minneapolis, characterized as “unprecedented in American history.” The Trump administration has declined to release the names of the agents involved in the shootings, even after the Minnesota Star Tribune and ProPublica identified the officers involved in the Good and Pretti incidents. “The federal government has refused to cooperate with state law enforcement, which is unique, rare and simply cannot be tolerated,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told reporters. “[We] can’t sit around and let them do it.” <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="502" width="752" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260324-DiCampo-Minnesota-Shooting-Investigations-003_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=752" alt="A man wearing a suit holds a piece of paper up while standing behind a podium with a small microphone, flanked by …

‘This Is the Only Post-9/11 Case Seeking Accountability for Torture to Reach a Jury’: CounterSpin interview with Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib justice
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encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Baher Azmy about justice for Abu Ghraib victims, for the March 20, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320Azmy.mp3 CBS (5/21/04) Janine Jackson: If I say “Abu Ghraib,” you likely think of pictures, nightmarish pictures. The thing is, those were pictures of human beings being tortured by human beings, which you are absolutely correct to think was a crime. But the images of Iraqi people, not convicted of anything at all, being horribly abused was somehow, for the US news media audience, churned into “terrible, yes, but” somehow not anything that anyone needed to actually answer for. So ask yourself: Why wouldn’t they do it again? What actually changed to indicate substantive opposition to what happened at the Abu Ghraib “hard site” that we were told was “seared” into our consciousness? While corporate media manufacture forgetting, human rights advocates have stayed on the actual case. And now, as of last week, we have a court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, saying, “Yes, the plaintiffs are right that they were harmed, and yes, the courts are competent to decide that, even though ‘we’ were in ‘wartime.’” Courthouse News (3/12/26) Corporate media expect you to forget, or maybe to unknow, things that they don’t put in front of you day to day, but that’s not how life works. In reality, it matters very much that a court has affirmed a jury verdict that CACI, a private contractor hired to provide “interrogation services” at Abu Ghraib, is actually liable for violations of international law, including torture. CounterSpin has been trying to track this case. We are joined now for an important update by Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Baher Azmy. Baher Azmy: Hi, nice to be with you. JJ: Well, sincere congratulations. Terrible thin…

Trump’s Broken Promises: Energy and Utility Bills Surge as Families Struggle to Keep Up
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description: President Trump promised to cut energy prices in half within his first year in office. He has done the exact opposite. Electricity prices rose nearly 7% last year, with the typical household paying $123 more for electricity in 2025 alone. Now, Trump’s...
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Hegseth removes Pentagon guardrails to limit civilian harm
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Immigrant workers launch largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years
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Can you name this song? 👀🎶
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 25, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 25, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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UN News Today 25 March 2026
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description: Guterres urges de-escalation as war spirals ‘out of control’Iran offers conditional safe passage through Strait of Hormuz: UN maritime agency Ukraine: massive drone and missile attack reported: OHCHR
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Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says
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description: The post Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says appeared first on ProPublica.
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"People Have the Power": Patti Smith Performs at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary Special
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Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings "Peaceable Kingdom" at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event
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"No One Is Safe Under Donald Trump": Rep. Delia Ramirez on DHS, Birthright Citizenship, Cuba & More
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Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes "Bloodthirst" of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes
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date: 2026-03-25T15:36:27Z
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subject: Democracy
subject: enabling
subject: hegseth
subject: iran
subject: now
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‘Mind-blowing corruption’: traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump post on Iran
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subject: inequality
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Mar. 24, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Just minutes before US President Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market—and sent oil prices tumblin...
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House Dem Leaders Waver on Iran Vote As Trump Prepares to Escalate
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-25T15:24:38Z
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description: On Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported that House Democratic leaders are not planning to hold a vote on a war powers resolution for Iran this week—despite reports that they may have enough support to adopt one. With the House on recess for the next two w...
encoded: On Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported that House Democratic leaders are not planning to hold a vote on a war powers resolution for Iran this week—despite reports that they may have enough support to adopt one. With the House on recess for the next two weeks, that would mean the earliest a war powers vote could happen would be the week of April 13. Meanwhile, multiple outlets have reported that the Pentagon is preparing to send potentially thousands of troops to the Middle East and the U.S. Army has increased the maximum enlistment age to 42. Demand Progress recently released a poll showing that 56 percent of voters think a war with Iran benefits Israel more, compared to only 29 percent who think it benefits the U.S. more. The following is a statement from Cavan Kharrazian, senior policy advisor at Demand Progress: “It would be extremely alarming for Reps. Jeffries and Meeks to waver now on forcing a war powers vote. The Trump administration is gearing up to send thousands of troops to the Middle East and the Army just raised the maximum recruitment age to 42. Delaying a war powers vote now effectively gives Trump two more weeks to continue and escalate the war in Iran. This war is a disaster, it’s unpopular and civilians across the region are dying. This is a moment for anti-war leadership, not hesitation. The House should be on the record now, especially when reporting suggests the votes are there to pass a war powers resolution. Each day we delay increases the risk of deeper U.S. involvement and more lives lost. Failing to act now means owning what comes next. Congress must act immediately, not wait weeks.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 25, 2026
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date: 2026-03-25T15:09:56Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: march
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subject: sources
subject: top
subject: u.s.
subject: World
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MADRUGADA DE MUERTOS (Villa de Etla, Oaxaca, México)
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date: 2026-03-25T15:05:31Z
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subject: muertos
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subject: sources
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Steve Bannon calls ICE at airports a good ‘test run’ for deployment to 2026 midterm polls
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subject: Airports
subject: and
subject: bannon
subject: calls
subject: deployment
subject: for
subject: ice
subject: midterm
subject: midterms
subject: movements
subject: Policing
subject: Politics
subject: polls?
subject: Prisons
subject: reprint
subject: run
subject: sources
subject: steve
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CPJ, partners call for release of Turkish journalist İsmail Arı
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-25T13:54:21Z
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined eight other local and international press freedom and human rights organizations in calling on Turkish authorities to release daily BirGün reporter İsmail Arı, who was arrested pending trial last week. Arı’s arrest was based on a 2022 disinformation law that introduced prison sentences of up to three years for...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined eight other local and international press freedom and human rights organizations in calling on Turkish authorities to release daily BirGün reporter İsmail Arı, who was arrested pending trial last week. Arı’s arrest was based on a 2022 disinformation law that introduced prison sentences of up to three years for spreading false information about security, public order, and the general health of the country that causes concern, fear, or panic. “The fact that the investigation file is built around Arı’s journalistic output — his published reports, social media posts, and attendance at public events — makes clear that routine journalistic activity is being treated as criminal evidence,” the statement said. “Covering stories, speaking with sources and investigating matters of public interest are not criminal acts.” Read the full statement in Turkish and English here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Another Russian Oil Port In Flames After Ukrainian Drone Strike
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-25T13:25:49Z
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subject: strike
subject: ukrainian
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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“People Have the Power”: Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration
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subject: People
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description: Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary Monday at the historic Riverside Church in New York. The night ended with Patti Smith performing her anthemic hit “People Have the Power,” joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen, Michael...
encoded: Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary Monday at the historic Riverside Church in New York. The night ended with Patti Smith performing her anthemic hit “People Have the Power,” joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Hurray for the Riff Raff, the National’s Aaron Dessner and more. Watch the entire event here. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-25T12:41:33Z
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description: Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The program included a reading by legendary singer Patti Smith from her new memoir Bread of Angels, in which ...
encoded: Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The program included a reading by legendary singer Patti Smith from her new memoir Bread of Angels, in which she remembered the U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003 while trying to protect Palestinian homes from destruction. Corrie inspired Smith’s song “Peaceable Kingdom,” which she performed alongside Tony Shanahan on guitar and her daughter Jesse Smith on piano. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-25T12:29:12Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: Democracy
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description: As the United States mobilizes thousands more troops for deployment to the Middle East, we speak with retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Wes Bryant, who criticizes the “bloodthirst” of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Bryant ...
encoded: As the United States mobilizes thousands more troops for deployment to the Middle East, we speak with retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Wes Bryant, who criticizes the “bloodthirst” of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Bryant led the Pentagon office for civilian harm assessment from 2024 to 2025, before the unit was dissolved under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The “wholly illegal war” has been “carried out recklessly from the start and with little regard for the innocent,” Bryant tells Democracy Now! “Pete Hegseth has already directed the committing of war crimes. And unfortunately, our senior military leadership is bending the knee and carrying out whatever he tells them to do.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is “Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent”: Rep. Delia Ramirez
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-25T12:14:04Z
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subject: delia
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description: Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Repres...
encoded: Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Representatives. He joins the Trump administration amid a partial government shutdown, with Democrats demanding reforms to immigration enforcement before fully funding DHS. “This agency of terror needs to be dismantled,” says Congressmember Delia Ramirez of Illinois. “And whether it is Mullin, whether it is Noem, whether it’s Tom Homan, that agency is dangerous, and every American should say, 'Enough is enough.'” Ramirez also comments on the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court, the U.S. fuel blockade against Cuba and more. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 25, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-25T12:00:00Z
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description: Pentagon Reports as Many as 3,000 U.S. Troops Set to Be Deployed to the Middle East, Iran Continues to Launch Retaliatory Strikes Against Gulf Countries, Philippines Declares National Energy Emergency Due to U.S.-Israeli War on Iran, Lebanon Expels Iranian Ambassador from the Country, Russia Launches Nearly 1,000 Drones at Ukraine, NYT: TSA Shared Personal Info with ICE Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport, CNN: Concerns Raised About Safety at LaGuardia Airport Before Deadly Runway Crash, New Mexico Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million for Harming Children’s Mental Health and Safety, Eight Architecture and Cultural Organizations Sue Trump and Kennedy Center Board over Renovations, Democrat Flips Florida State House Seat in District That Includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home, Minnesota Officials Sue Trump Admin over Renee Good and Alex Pretti Investigations, Thousands March in Argentina to Mark 50 Years Since U.S.-Backed Military Coup in 1976
encoded: Pentagon Reports as Many as 3,000 U.S. Troops Set to Be Deployed to the Middle East Iran Continues to Launch Retaliatory Strikes Against Gulf Countries Philippines Declares National Energy Emergency Due to U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Lebanon Expels Iranian Ambassador from the Country Russia Launches Nearly 1,000 Drones at Ukraine NYT: TSA Shared Personal Info with ICE Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport CNN: Concerns Raised About Safety at LaGuardia Airport Before Deadly Runway Crash New Mexico Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million for Harming Children's Mental Health and Safety Eight Architecture and Cultural Organizations Sue Trump and Kennedy Center Board over Renovations Democrat Flips Florida State House Seat in District That Includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home Minnesota Officials Sue Trump Admin over Renee Good and Alex Pretti Investigations Thousands March in Argentina to Mark 50 Years Since U.S.-Backed Military Coup in 1976 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-25 Wednesday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-25T12:00:00Z
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description: Headlines for March 25, 2026; New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is “Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent”: Rep. Delia Ramirez; Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration
encoded: Democracy Now! 2026-03-25 Wednesday Headlines for March 25, 2026 New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is "Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent": Rep. Delia Ramirez Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes "Bloodthirst" of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings "Peaceable Kingdom" at DN!'s 30th Anniversary Event "People Have the Power": Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration Download this show This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

What a Mamdani Victory Signals for the Nation [Rewind – Episode Cut]
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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Eugene Doyle: Kharg Island – into the valley of death
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description: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Described by analysts as a suicide mission, there are nonetheless rumours the US President has his eye on securing for the long-term the Iranian oil facilities on Kharg Island. “Just take the oil” has long been his motto. But I am beginning to wonder if a desperate Donald Trump is preparing
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Described by analysts as a suicide mission, there are nonetheless rumours the US President has his eye on securing for the long-term the Iranian oil facilities on Kharg Island. “Just take the oil” has long been his motto. But I am beginning to wonder if a desperate Donald Trump is preparing to deliberately throw US Marines into a meat grinder in Iran. The attack on Iran has so far garnered little support from key parts of the MAGA base. Dead servicemen have traditionally helped to mobilise the American public into a war frenzy. READ MORE: Iranian military dismisses Trump’s claim of negotiations ‘Do not call your defeat an agreement’ Other US-Israel war on Iran reports Could the sacrifice of a Marine expeditionary force be a price the 47th President thinks is worth paying? Would such a ploy work and revive his fortunes with the public? Or will he have to pay the butcher’s bill in the US mid-terms? The God of War Money changer of dead bodies Held the balance of his spear in the fighting And from the corpse fires of Troy Sent to their dearest the dust Heavy and bitter with tears shed Packing smooth the urns with ashes Of what once were men. They praise them through their tears How this one went down splendid in the slaughter How this one knew well the craft of war. There by the walls of Troy The young men in their beauty keep Graves deep in the alien soil They hated and they conquered.” — Aeschylus 480 BCE Aeschylus, the father of Western drama, a Greek who fought at the Battle of Marathon, knew a lot about wars, resistance to imperial armies, and the cruelty of wars of aggression launched by leaders with little consideration for the young men who are sent on missions of conquest — or the other young men, like him, who stood their ground and fought them. I have read those lines so many times over the years that I know them by heart. They may even have informed the spirits of later war poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Aeschylus’…

Eugene Doyle: Kharg Island – into the valley of death
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-25T10:18:36Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Geopolitical Epsteinism
subject: Ground war
subject: Hijacked oil
subject: Kharg Island
subject: Liberation poetry
subject: MAGA base
subject: Sources
subject: US marines
subject: US-Israel war machine
subject: US-Israeli attacks
subject: War on Iran
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacks
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subject: death
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subject: doyle
subject: Editor's Picks
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subject: eugene
subject: Featured
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subject: Human Rights
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subject: island
subject: kharg
subject: liberation
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subject: machine?
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subject: marines
subject: military
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subject: oil
subject: Oil industry
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subject: Palestine
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description: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Described by analysts as a suicide mission, there are nonetheless rumours the US President has his eye on securing for the long-term the Iranian oil facilities on Kharg Island. “Just take the oil” has long been his motto. But I am beginning to wonder if a desperate Donald Trump is preparing
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Described by analysts as a suicide mission, there are nonetheless rumours the US President has his eye on securing for the long-term the Iranian oil facilities on Kharg Island. “Just take the oil” has long been his motto. But I am beginning to wonder if a desperate Donald Trump is preparing to deliberately throw US Marines into a meat grinder in Iran. The attack on Iran has so far garnered little support from key parts of the MAGA base. Dead servicemen have traditionally helped to mobilise the American public into a war frenzy. READ MORE: Iranian military dismisses Trump’s claim of negotiations ‘Do not call your defeat an agreement’ Other US-Israel war on Iran reports Could the sacrifice of a Marine expeditionary force be a price the 47th President thinks is worth paying? Would such a ploy work and revive his fortunes with the public? Or will he have to pay the butcher’s bill in the US mid-terms? The God of War Money changer of dead bodies Held the balance of his spear in the fighting And from the corpse fires of Troy Sent to their dearest the dust Heavy and bitter with tears shed Packing smooth the urns with ashes Of what once were men. They praise them through their tears How this one went down splendid in the slaughter How this one knew well the craft of war. There by the walls of Troy The young men in their beauty keep Graves deep in the alien soil They hated and they conquered.” — Aeschylus 480 BCE Aeschylus, the father of Western drama, a Greek who fought at the Battle of Marathon, knew a lot about wars, resistance to imperial armies, and the cruelty of wars of aggression launched by leaders with little consideration for the young men who are sent on missions of conquest — or the other young men, like him, who stood their ground and fought them. I have read those lines so many times over the years that I know them by heart. They may even have informed the spirits of later war poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Aeschylus’…

DN! Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4
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description: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
encoded: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4.

How Iran Turned Lego And Anime Into Weapons of War | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-25T09:53:52Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
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subject: ‘turned
subject: and
subject: anime
subject: europe/rl
subject: free
subject: how
subject: into
subject: iran
subject: lego®
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subject: update
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subject: weapons
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending
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creator: Conrad Wilson
date: 2026-03-25T09:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: Accused
subject: blazers,
subject: company
subject: Debt
subject: key
subject: lending
subject: new
subject: oregon
subject: owner
subject: played
subject: portland
subject: predatory
subject: propublica
subject: role
subject: sources
subject: trail
description: The post New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is on the verge of giving the Portland Trail Blazers a major gift: hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to overhaul the team’s arena in an effort to keep the Blazers’ incoming owner, billionaire Tom Dundon, from moving the NBA franchise to a new city. The deal came together with little public discussion of how Oregon and other states in 2020 landed a $550 million settlement with the car loan company where Dundon built his wealth. The settlement followed an investigation into lending practices that Oregon’s then-attorney general, in a news release, described as “predatory and harmful.” Now, Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica have obtained documents that reveal the role Dundon played in pushing some of the key company practices that regulators later presented as problematic. Specifically, the documents show that Dundon, as the company’s CEO, was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” at Santander Consumer USA in 2013 to waive requirements that car dealers prove borrowers had enough income to afford loans. The company would then charge more for those loans to ensure profit even in cases where borrowers ultimately failed to keep up with payments, according to internal emails and a slide deck that described findings in the multistate investigation. Oregon officials wrote in their 2020 court complaint against Santander Consumer that many customers took out loans under the “false pretense” that they were acquiring a car they’d eventually own, when in fact the terms of the loans were so onerous that they would “almost certainly” result in the loan defaulting and the car getting repossessed. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, when asked about Dundon’s call for waiving proof of income on car loans when he was at Santander Consumer, said in a statement: “Proof of income requirements exist for a reason — they protect borrowers from being sold loans they cannot afford. When those guardrails get waived, dealerships win in the short…

The frantic, high-tech fight to stop climate-fueled dengue fever
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creator: Zoya Teirstein
date: 2026-03-25T08:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: climate-fueled
subject: dengue,
subject: fever,
subject: fight
subject: frantic
subject: health
subject: high-tech
subject: International
subject: solutions
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: the
description: Scientists in Brazil and Peru may have found a way to beat mosquitoes at their own game. The U.S. may soon need to do the same.
encoded: The first patient arrived just over two years ago. January was supposed to be a slow month at Santa Rosa, a hospital nestled in the middle-class Pueblo Libre district of Lima, Peru. The sprawling metropolis of 10 million can feel eerily empty at the height of summer, when some families flee the city and many others flock to the beach. The patient, a woman in her early 20s, had traveled 270 miles with her mother from their home in the central Peruvian jungle. She had a high fever and unbearable stomach pain — the result, she feared, of a recent abortion gone wrong. The doctors at Santa Rosa took X-rays and found blood moving freely in her abdominal cavity. Acting quickly in a desperate bid to stop the bleeding, they decided to remove her uterus. But the hemorrhage continued. The doctors ordered every test they could think of. Just one came back positive, and it was something most of the physicians had never encountered. The patient was not experiencing pregnancy- or abortion-related complications after all; instead, she was in the most severe phase of dengue fever, a disease rarely seen in Lima at the time due to its temperate climate. In any other year, the case would have been an outlier. After all, the patient was not local and had come from the Amazon, where mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue are perennial risks. But this time, it was the beginning of an epidemic. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JAK02327.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JAK02327.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JAK02327.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JAK02327.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JAK02327.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JAK02327.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=15…

Fiber optic cables reveal a serious problem at the heart of modern farming
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-03-25T08:30:00Z
subject: Food and Agriculture
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: Agriculture
subject: and
subject: cables
subject: Drought
subject: farming
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description: Tilling helps farmers control weeds and boost soil fertility. But that also degrades a field's ability to hold water and carbon.
encoded: Thousands of years ago, beasts of burden helped make humanity what it is today. When farmers first started putting down roots, they’d plant and tend their crops by hand. With the power of oxen, they could drag plows across their fields before sowing, which boosted soil fertility and eliminated weeds. Today, that job has been made even easier by giant machines that rake the landscape. Millennia of tilling, though, has come at a cost. While plowing releases nutrients in the short term, it degrades soil fertility in the long term, requiring farmers to load their fields with synthetic fertilizers. (The burst of microbial activity after roiling the ground also chews through accumulated carbon, returning it to the atmosphere as planet-warming greenhouse gas.) In addition, all this cultivation destroys the natural subterranean structures that hold onto water, meaning less is delivered to crops. Fiber optic cables, of all things, have now exposed just how badly tilling messes with a farm’s ability to retain moisture. Using a technology known as distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS, scientists analyzed how seismic waves disturbed the cable as they rippled through harrowed fields compared to adjacent undisturbed plots. This created subtly distinct signals, showing that plowing obliterates the “capillaries” that carry water like tiny interconnected reservoirs. The findings point to a serious problem with modern agriculture, to be sure, but also to solutions. “Regenerative farming practices based on principles of no-till — combined with cover crops and a diversity of crops — can basically lead to less agrochemical reliance, better soil organic matter contents, comparable yields, [and] lower diesel use,” said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist at the University of Washington and coauthor of a new paper describing the research. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/PXL_20230317_115025201.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100v…

Trump’s $1B payoff to stop offshore wind is even stranger than it sounds
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creator: Jake Bittle
date: 2026-03-25T08:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: ‘even
subject: ‘payoff
subject: $1b
subject: Energy
subject: offshore
subject: Politics
subject: sounds
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subject: stop
subject: stranger
subject: than
subject: trump’s
subject: wind
description: The government is paying TotalEnergies to halt a wind farm it isn’t building, in exchange for fossil fuel investments it’s already making.
encoded: On Monday, President Trump’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a French multinational oil company. The company, TotalEnergies, had spent that amount during the Biden administration to secure two leases allowing it to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean. The Trump administration, which has taken every step possible to block offshore wind development, is so opposed to this possibility that it’s paying Total to give up those leases — which the company wasn’t even using — in exchange for a promise that Total will invest the money in oil and gas projects off the U.S. Gulf Coast — which it was already doing. “This is a backdoor deal done with zero transparency, no public process, and no consideration of the impacts to ratepayers in states that had been planning on that offshore wind to meet their energy needs,” said Elizabeth Klein, who led the federal Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management under former President Joe Biden. The administration may have been trying to buy Total off to avoid litigation, according to Hannes Pfeifenberger, principal at the economic consulting firm the Brattle Group. The French company purchased its offshore wind lease in the coastal area known as the New York-New Jersey Bight for a historically high amount, paying around four times the typical per-acre rate for such leases. Were the administration to attempt to block development, Total might have sued to avoid losing its entire investment. “[Trump’s Interior Department] might have been responsible for damages if the offshore wind developers sued the government for selling them leases and then basically making permitting impossible,” said Pfeifenberger, adding that other developers who purchased leases in the same auction might now look to take the same path out. But Klein and other industry experts also noted that the settlement does not deal a permanent blow to offshore wind development, beyond moves the Trump administra…

Musician and DJ Avalon Emerson on the value of sharing space with other people
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creator: Max Freedman
date: 2026-03-25T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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subject: avalon
subject: creative
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subject: independent
subject: Music
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subject: People
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description: You very intentionally wanted to replicate the energy and dynamics of your live performances on your new album Written Into Changes. Can you talk about how exactly you did that?
encoded: You very intentionally wanted to replicate the energy and dynamics of your live performances on your new album Written Into Changes. Can you talk about how exactly you did that? Kind of the other way around, actually. The first album was very studio-y, kind of bedroom-y, a little bit quiet. For this album, I wanted to explore sounds that would feel powerful on a bigger stage. What do you see as the value of live music these days? I’m asking from the perspective of, a lot of people consume music digitally and stream it, but maybe they don’t go to shows as often. I was just having a chat about how it feels like we’re so atomized from one another in our everyday—and everything is so personalized, and everyone has their own algorithms of doom that we all scroll—that getting together in a real space is…it’s one of the last places that we can get together around a shared experience. There’s something to be said for sharing a room with a bunch of other people. If it’s in a dance club, you’re kind of in a nonverbal communal space, sharing the same sweaty air, and being reminded that we’re pack animals. When you say that, are you saying it from the perspective of you being on stage, you being in the crowd, or both? Both. I see it a lot when I’m DJing. People need to get it out. There’s a lot of pressure pushing down from every angle these days, and especially looking at your phone, you’re assaulted by such a scale of horrific shit that it’s important to be reminded that we’re also existing in physical space and need to be communal with one another. I help facilitate that, I guess, as a DJ, and coming together for live music feels very similar, too. To what extent do you see your recorded work, & the Charm, and your DJing as similar or different? When I write music for the club, there’s a function for it, and I’m also just more experienced with it. When I’m looking for music to DJ or I’m making music to DJ, I have a pretty clear idea of the thing it needs to do, and there’s a…

Tributes pour in for Lionel Jospin, ‘father’ of the Nouméa Accord
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-25T06:22:54Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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description: OBITUARY: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Political leaders and institutions have paid tributes for Lionel Jospin, the “father” of the 1998 Nouméa Accord, who died at the weekend aged 88. Jospin was a socialist prime minister who played a significant role in supervising the signature of the 1998 Accord, which paved
encoded: OBITUARY: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Political leaders and institutions have paid tributes for Lionel Jospin, the “father” of the 1998 Nouméa Accord, who died at the weekend aged 88. Jospin was a socialist prime minister who played a significant role in supervising the signature of the 1998 Accord, which paved the way for increased autonomy for the French Pacific territory. Ten years after the signing of the 1988 Matignon-Oudinot agreements which contributed to restoring civil peace after half a decade of quasi civil war, the Nouméa agreement was more focused on furthering the process. READ MORE: Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-125482 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Lionel-Jospin-WikiP-300tall.png" alt="Former French prime minister Lionel Jospin" width="300" height="410" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Lionel-Jospin-WikiP-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Lionel-Jospin-WikiP-300tall-220x300.png 220w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Former French prime minister Lionel Jospin . . . played a significant role in supervising the signature of the 1998 Accord, which paved the way for increased autonomy for the French Pacific territory. Image: Wikipedia Its emphasis was to ensure a gradual transfer of more powers from Paris to Nouméa, the creation of a local “collegial” government, the setting up of three provinces (North, South and Loyalty islands) and the notion of “re-balancing” resources between the North of New Caledonia (mostly populated by the indigenous Kanak population) and the South of the main island, Grande Terre, where most of the economic power and population are based. There was also the embryonic concept of a New Caledonia “citizenship”. One of the cornerstones of this re-balancing was the construction of the Koniambo nickel processing …

The Orwellian World Is Here. Now What?
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-25T03:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
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subject: here?
subject: nation?
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: what
subject: World
description: As we navigate a world of "alternative facts" and corporate-state surveillance, George Orwell's life, times, and pain, transformed into enduring art, like 1984, show us how to be defiant today. Resistance begins in the mind. This week, we're joined by British critic Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984, to trace the biography of a nightmare. The Orwellian slogan "2+2=5" was taken from Soviet propaganda. Orwell reviewed Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, an American reporter who confesses in the chapter "The Press Corps Conceals a Famine," to joining with other influential foreign correspondents in Moscow to label Gareth Jones a liar in their articles in exchange for access to the Soviet regime. Lyons and Orwell are both characters in Andrea's film Mr. Jones. The trauma of 1984 started during the Spanish Civil War, alongside his wife, Eileen Blair, the unsung hero who saved his life and helped him find his voice as an artist, to break through the lies. In Catalonia, Eileen and Eric Blair watched Stalin-backed communists turn a socialist revolution into a paranoid police state. It was here, nearly killed by the "Soviet myth," that they realized nowhere is immune: lies and conformity keep people complacent as the sadists consolidate power. Orwell's message is clear for us today: in an era of state-sponsored lies, holding onto your humanity is the ultimate act of defiance. Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't…
encoded: As we navigate a world of "alternative facts" and corporate-state surveillance, George Orwell's life, times, and pain, transformed into enduring art, like 1984, show us how to be defiant today. Resistance begins in the mind. This week, we're joined by British critic Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984, to trace the biography of a nightmare. The Orwellian slogan "2+2=5" was taken from Soviet propaganda. Orwell reviewed Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, an American reporter who confesses in the chapter "The Press Corps Conceals a Famine," to joining with other influential foreign correspondents in Moscow to label Gareth Jones a liar in their articles in exchange for access to the Soviet regime. Lyons and Orwell are both characters in Andrea's film Mr. Jones. The trauma of 1984 started during the Spanish Civil War, alongside his wife, Eileen Blair, the unsung hero who saved his life and helped him find his voice as an artist, to break through the lies. In Catalonia, Eileen and Eric Blair watched Stalin-backed communists turn a socialist revolution into a paranoid police state. It was here, nearly killed by the "Soviet myth," that they realized nowhere is immune: lies and conformity keep people complacent as the sadists consolidate power. Orwell's message is clear for us today: in an era of state-sponsored lies, holding onto your humanity is the ultimate act of defiance. Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel. When: April 13 Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/ Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours. Not a member yet? Join our community at Patreon.com/Gaslit. We couldn't…

Fiji’s human rights watchdog raises concerns over new Israeli embassy plans
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-25T01:21:29Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: asia
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description: RNZ Pacific Fiji’s human rights watchdog has warned that the country’s pro-Israel foreign policy and diplomatic engagement works against its international obligations and could be enabling “genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity” in Gaza. The Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission (FHRADC) released a statement on Tuesday in response to the Fiji government announcing
encoded: RNZ Pacific Fiji’s human rights watchdog has warned that the country’s pro-Israel foreign policy and diplomatic engagement works against its international obligations and could be enabling “genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity” in Gaza. The Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission (FHRADC) released a statement on Tuesday in response to the Fiji government announcing plans to establish a resident embassy for Israel in Suva. The FHRADC said that the announcement “raises important questions” and is calling on the government to uphold its human rights obligations “in all aspects” of its diplomacy. READ MORE: Other Israeli-Fiji relations reports As a state party to the Genocide Convention, Fiji is bound by international human rights law and international humanitarian law, the FHRADC said. It added under the Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the country “is obligated to support international efforts to prevent genocide” and ensure those responsible for such crimes are held responsible. “This includes ensuring that Fiji’s foreign policy and diplomatic relations do not assist, enable, or legitimise conduct by parties or states involved in serious violations of international law.” The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2024 said that claims are “plausible” that the rights of Palestinians in Gaza under the Genocide Convention are being “violated . . . by Israel’s large-scale military operation in Gaza” a position firmly rejected by Israel, which has maintained its actions are necessary for self defence against Hamas. “The duty to prevent genocide is a jus cogens obligation, a non-derogable principle of international law,” FHRADC commissioner Alefina Vuki said. Legal responsibility She said according to international law every state had “the legal responsibility to intervene and prevent the intentional or deliberate destruction of a group of people”, suggesting Fiji had failed to do this. “No government can ever…

‘Israel First’ – ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy on why Netanyahu led Trump into illegal Iran War
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-25T00:01:34Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Daniel Levy
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subject: Israeli War Crimes
subject: Occupied Lebanon
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Pax Greater Israel
subject: Peace negotiations
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: US-Israel war machine
subject: War on Iran
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subject: Interview
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description: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman in New York, joined by, for the first time in six years except for yesterday, Juan González, also in New York. It’s great to be with you again, Juan. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Thanks, Amy. And welcome to all of our
encoded: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman in New York, joined by, for the first time in six years except for yesterday, Juan González, also in New York. It’s great to be with you again, Juan. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Thanks, Amy. And welcome to all of our listeners and viewers across the country and around the world. As the US and Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran enters its 25th day, President Trump is claiming that Iran has begun negotiations with the United States, but the Iranian government has dismissed the claim as “fake news”, accusing Trump of trying to manipulate financial and oil markets. Over the weekend, Trump threatened to, quote, “obliterate” Iranian power plants if Iran did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday night. But on Monday, Trump reversed course, extended his deadline to five days and repeatedly claimed the US was now in productive conversations with Iran. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “With Iran, we’ve been negotiating for a long time. And this time, they mean business. And it’s only because of the great job that our military did, is the reason they mean business. They want to settle, and we’re going to get it done, I hope.” JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Earlier in the day, President Trump claimed he might personally take joint control of the Strait of Hormuz with Iran’s next ayatollah. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “It will be jointly controlled.” REPORTER: “By whom?” PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “Maybe me. Maybe me.” REPORTER: “You want the United States to be in control of the Strait of Hormuz?” PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “Me and the ayatollah, whoever the ayatollah is, whoever the next ayatollah — look, and there’ll also be a form of a — a very serious form of a regime change. “Now, in all fairness, everybody has been killed from the regime. They’re really starting off. There’s automatically a regime change. “But we’re dealing with some people that I find to be very reasonable, very solid. The people within know who they a…

Oil Change response to María Corina Machado’s speech at CERAWeek
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description: Today, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado held a session on “the future of Venezuela” at CERAWeek, one of the world’s largest oil and gas conferences, where she spoke in support of U.S. oil and gas companies’ return to the country with ...
encoded: Today, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado held a session on “the future of Venezuela” at CERAWeek, one of the world’s largest oil and gas conferences, where she spoke in support of U.S. oil and gas companies’ return to the country with a bold pitch for a “comprehensive plan” on opening up Venezuela’s oil reserves to “100% private investment.” From the CERAWeek stage, Machado publicly offered to meet with oil and gas executives this week about exploiting Venezuelan oil assets currently owned by the Venezuelan state. In response, Allie Rosenbluth, United States Campaign Manager at Oil Change International, said: “María Corina Machado’s appearance at CERAWeek shows how conflict and instability open the door for fossil fuel companies to entrench their stronghold across the globe. After Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, one of his priorities was <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.ibreQe1iIimkwHUK9y-2BRCODQWVNsDz0lDFIbaxOYKt1ifm4O-2FODSLpy9Jz3JTXPJUOKqnTDQEy0rOFaGITGsOw-3D-3DSzhk_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPZ7CvygO9jxiRAMn5pClU-2BuPjZ25JeAWi0m7ZkrlwVq418N66nzYdy1jeJPqgMDYHQSNMrvdDdNkaua-2FqDdSnutHE8tBf-2B3VXdKXaYzOI0Gecwk2KVS2-2BFH5lkKnQYUjvCuARYoksXdCyxxUm4sWDuVB-2FVcaB0LTWqCZvq3r2t0j4zwCHDxnQwpsH1-2FEjtQOsp7PNh-2BwNhvnRATq3wHI6AeAx-2FevmEKldDGi5-2FgnrwBzQ0-2BKFnIIU-2B6jj7PcB-2BW-2B59YmoDEXeqEjG-2FOcagRI2endRXASqUr-2B-2FgxrXuH4GlBwog69uoK9xidDm5iZUsM6TSj7j0KQTJPaZwU2mll2Iw" rel="noopener noreferrer" >encouraging U.S. oil companies to invest in Venezuelan oil – not for the benefit of the Venezuelan people, but to offer fossil fuel executives new opportunities to make a killing. “If U.S. oil companies return to Venezuela to ramp up production, communities and the climate will pay the price in polluted air and water, elevated risks of cancer and other health problems, and severe climate disasters. Most Venezuelan oil is heavy, sour crude, among the dirtiest and worst kinds of oil for our climate. This dirty oil pl…

The Iran War: How we got here
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Interior Department orders park service to cut off SFGate after critical coverage
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description: National Park Service public affairs employees were instructed not to respond to inquiries from SFGate after the San Francisco, California, outlet published a Feb. 10, 2026, article critical of new park service media rules, it reported.In a March 18 ar...
encoded: National Park Service public affairs employees were instructed not to respond to inquiries from SFGate after the San Francisco, California, outlet published a Feb. 10, 2026, article critical of new park service media rules, it reported. In a March 18 article, SFGate detailed how the online news site’s national parks bureau had sent “dozens of inquiries” to the National Park Service for stories over the previous month, but did not receive any responses. Citing internal department communications that the outlet reviewed, as well as interviews with “multiple insiders” who were granted anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, SFGate reported that it was “blacklisted” by the public affairs office at the Department of the Interior, which oversees the park service, after publication of the Feb. 10 article. The piece detailed a new approval process for park exhibits and other public-facing content, as well as limits on how the park service may interact with the media and the public. The process is designed to help the service align with a Trump administration executive order that critics in the report characterized as “part of a broad attempt to control the nation’s narratives.” The Feb. 10 article, quoting park service insiders and nonprofit leaders, described how “confusion over the new policies is rampant, a culture of fear is pervasive, and ignored or denied media requests have become commonplace.” SFGate reported that in the wake of that article, a park service employee told the outlet that they had been instructed not to respond to any of its inquiries — while continuing to respond to other outlets about the same topics. SFGate quoted a park service communications employee as saying, “On a national level, you guys are the only ones I’ve ever heard of getting blacklisted.” In an emailed statement for the March 18 article, Interior Department Communications Director Katie Martin told SFGate that the outlet “has distorted the facts and has caused confusion with their rep…

‘A Media System Built on Profit Is Incredibly Fragile’: CounterSpin interview with Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. the First Amendment
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encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR’s Jim Naureckas about the Trump administration’s assault on the First Amendment for the March 20, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320.mp3 AP (3/17/26) Janine Jackson: When FAIR started in 1986, US news media were harming people through nightly stories blaring about crime in the streets and silent on crime in the suites, through a top-down depiction of US social struggles where the outpowered were always the problem, through a foreign policy conversation tethered to Cold War premises, and the idea that the US can, indeed, must do whatever it wants, wherever it wants. And all of that corrosive messaging supported by media ownership, sponsorship and regulation structures that, at the time, not a lot of people saw as meaningful, much less problematic. That’s why FAIR is here. Fast forward 40 years: All of the conflicts we were told we were either making up or exaggerating are out in broad daylight. The president is overtly handing control of the country’s media outlets to a tiny group of MAGA billionaires. The Trump-appointed head of the public interest–defending regulator is stating that any outlets that don’t toe the Trump line, wherever that is today, could lose their broadcasting license for that reason. And the so-called elite, traditional, legacy media aren’t ringing alarm bells, perhaps because they’re busy right now carrying water for Trump’s illegal war, today it’s on Iranians, with warnings from the Washington Post of “the danger of lobbying some bombs without seeing this through,” and homilies like that from the New York Times that “military action, for all its awful costs, can have positive consequences.” There is lots of informed, impassioned debate going on right now about the various nightmares unfolding in and from the US. What does it mean that that’s happening largely outside the still-influential news m…

Malian journalist given 2-year prison sentence for insulting Niger’s president
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description: Dakar, March 24, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release journalist Youssouf Sissoko, who was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison and a fine of 1 million West African francs (US$1,759) for offending a foreign head of state by publishing a commentary piece that criticized Niger’s president. “The severity...
encoded: Dakar, March 24, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release journalist Youssouf Sissoko, who was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison and a fine of 1 million West African francs (US$1,759) for offending a foreign head of state by publishing a commentary piece that criticized Niger’s president. “The severity of the sentence meted out to journalist Youssouf Sissoko marks an escalation in the Malian government’s hostility towards independent voices,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Malian authorities must immediately release Youssouf Sissoko and respect the right of the press to comment on regional security issues.” On March 23, the court of the cybercrime unit in the capital, Bamako, convicted Sissoko, publishing director of the privately owned weekly L’Alternance, on three counts of offending a foreign head of state, spreading false news, and undermining the state’s credibility. The journalist was arrested on February 5 for publishing an analyst’s commentary in L’Alternance that criticized neighboring Niger’s President Abdourahamane Tiani’s allegation that the leaders of France, Benin, and Ivory Coast had sponsored “mercenaries” to attack a Nigerien military base in January. “This judicial decision sets a dangerous precedent that could further weaken media outlets, which are already facing many difficulties,” said Boubacar Yalkoué, president of the Association of Private Press Publishers of Mali (ASSEP). In Mali, several journalists have been arrested or expelled, and multiple media outlets have been suspended, since a coup in 2020. Following military coups, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso established the Alliance of Sahel States to fight security threats from jihadist militants, while also ramping up media restrictions. They have suspended and banned several French media outlets, as well as arresting and forcibly conscripting journalists in recent years. CPJ’s calls to the Malian ministry of justi…

Malian journalist given 2-year prison sentence for insulting Niger’s president
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description: Dakar, March 24, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release journalist Youssouf Sissoko, who was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison and a fine of 1 million West African francs (US$1,759) for offending a foreign head of state by publishing a commentary piece that criticized Niger’s president. “The severity...
encoded: Dakar, March 24, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release journalist Youssouf Sissoko, who was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison and a fine of 1 million West African francs (US$1,759) for offending a foreign head of state by publishing a commentary piece that criticized Niger’s president. “The severity of the sentence meted out to journalist Youssouf Sissoko marks an escalation in the Malian government’s hostility towards independent voices,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Malian authorities must immediately release Youssouf Sissoko and respect the right of the press to comment on regional security issues.” On March 23, the court of the cybercrime unit in the capital, Bamako, convicted Sissoko, publishing director of the privately owned weekly L’Alternance, on three counts of offending a foreign head of state, spreading false news, and undermining the state’s credibility. The journalist was arrested on February 5 for publishing an analyst’s commentary in L’Alternance that criticized neighboring Niger’s President Abdourahamane Tiani’s allegation that the leaders of France, Benin, and Ivory Coast had sponsored “mercenaries” to attack a Nigerien military base in January. “This judicial decision sets a dangerous precedent that could further weaken media outlets, which are already facing many difficulties,” said Boubacar Yalkoué, president of the Association of Private Press Publishers of Mali (ASSEP). In Mali, several journalists have been arrested or expelled, and multiple media outlets have been suspended, since a coup in 2020. Following military coups, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso established the Alliance of Sahel States to fight security threats from jihadist militants, while also ramping up media restrictions. They have suspended and banned several French media outlets, as well as arresting and forcibly conscripting journalists in recent years. CPJ’s calls to the Malian ministry of justi…

Did Israel pull the U.S. into war?
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How American Kids Have Been Collateral Damage in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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description: The post How American Kids Have Been Collateral Damage in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: For much of last year, Trump administration officials insisted that no Americans were caught up in the government’s immigration dragnet. ProPublica and many others repeatedly documented that is not true: Americans have even been kicked, dragged and detained for days by immigration agents. On Tuesday, House and Senate Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of the crackdown: the American children who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign. The forum the lawmakers are holding is part of an ongoing congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica’s report last fall that more than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration agents for some amount of time. That included Americans who have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or simply prevented from leaving their location. As of last October, more than 20 of those citizens were children, ranging from toddlers to teens. A toddler, a preschooler and a 7-year-old — all citizens — were deported despite their documented parents claiming they wanted to keep the children in the U.S. In response to questions, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “does NOT deport United States citizens or separate families,” American children held along with their families will be sharing their stories at Tuesday’s forum. That includes two families whose accounts were featured in ProPublica investigations. Eighteen-year-old Fernando Hernàndez Garcia is speaking on behalf of his 11-year-old sister. Both siblings are citizens. Last year, the family was driving to Houston to get emergency treatment for the girl, who was recovering from brain cancer. Border Patrol agents ignored a hospital letter that the family had used previously to go through checkpoints. This time, agents held the family until they were deported the next day to Mexico. With few other options, the American children went with their parents — except for Hernàndez …

Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
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description: Americans agree that we want quality and affordable health care, housing, child care, and education. The Trump Administration is ignoring this to continue a profoundly unpopular war.
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Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
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description: Americans agree that we want quality and affordable health care, housing, child care, and education. The Trump Administration is ignoring all of this to continue a profoundly unpopular war.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 24, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 24, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Moment Russian Drone Hits Lviv City Center In Rare Daytime Attack
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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UN News Today 24 March 2026
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description: Sudan: Hospital strike highlights surge in drone attacks on civiliansLifesaving medicines arrive for Lebanon’s strained healthcare systemHaiti’s criminal gangs expand their reach, police accused of executions
encoded: Sudan: Hospital strike highlights surge in drone attacks on civiliansLifesaving medicines arrive for Lebanon’s strained healthcare systemHaiti’s criminal gangs expand their reach, police accused of executions This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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Fifty years after the coup, Argentina still marches for justice
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description: March 24 is the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Argentine coup that sunk the country into a brutal US-backed military dictatorship. The regime would unleash terror across Argentina, disappearing 30,000 people in just seven years. Thousands detained...
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Bruce Springsteen Performs "Streets of Minneapolis" at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
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Suggested Reading—March 24, 2026
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description: Here are two recent items worth reading— First is from Harper’s Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur: The Spectator: The outrageous cynicism of the Democrats on Iran. Second is from a loyal Radio Hour listener, Lloyd Baroody. Baroody submitted ...
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Why Jehad Khaled is still advocating for the release of her mother
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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"Under the Rubble": Pulitzer Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
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As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward
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Critics hammer Trump admin’s ‘taxpayer funded bribe’ to kill massive wind energy project
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Mar. 23, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Critics slammed the Trump administration on Monday after it announced a deal to pay almost $1 billion to a Fre...
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"Israel First": Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War
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How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 24, 2026
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How a media campaign of lies and innuendo created the myth of ‘Iran’s nuclear weapons’
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What do Iranians think about Americans?
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As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward
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description: The partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has caused major staffing shortages within the Transportation Security Administration, an agency under DHS that handles airport security procedures created in...
encoded: The partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has caused major staffing shortages within the Transportation Security Administration, an agency under DHS that handles airport security procedures created in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. TSA officers have not been paid for over a month, leading to hundreds of resignations and leaves of absence. As airports are hit with significant delays, Cameron Cochems, the vice president of a union representing thousands of fellow TSA workers, urges travelers to use their time waiting to call their elected representatives “to fund the TSA so we can get our paychecks and we can get back to work.” To fill staffing shortages, DHS has deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to U.S. airports. This comes as ICE is under fire for a hiring surge with minimal vetting and training for new officers. “It really feels like they’re a Band-Aid over a gaping wound. Our officers, they’re not getting paid, and having people that come in that are getting paid just feels like an insult,” says Cochems, who adds that the ultimate goal of the Republican Party is to eliminate union protections and privatize the TSA. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Bruce Springsteen Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
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description: Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary at the historic Riverside Church in New York City with live performances by guests including musician Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen performed his new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” a...
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“Under the Rubble”: Pulitzer-Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now’s 30th Anniversary
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description: Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary at the historic Riverside Church in New York City with live performances by guests including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha. Mosab Abu Toha read his poem “Under t...
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“Israel First”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War
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Headlines for March 24, 2026
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description: Iran Denies Trump’s Claim of “Productive” Negotiations to End War, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich Calls for Annexation of Southern Lebanon, U.N. Special Rapporteur Says Israel Has Adopted Torture as State Policy, Cuba Says U.S. Oil Blockade Has Caused Massive Disruptions to Healthcare System, Senate Confirms Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security Secretary, Replacing Kristi Noem, Unpaid TSA Workers Demand Paychecks as ICE Agents Deploy to U.S. Airports, Videos Show ICE Agents Violently Arresting Mother and Daughter at San Francisco Airport, Supreme Court Scrutinizes Mississippi Law Allowing Mail-In Ballots Postmarked by Election Day, Postmaster General Warns USPS On Track to Run Out of Funds by February, U.N. Warns of Worsening Climate Crisis as U.S. Suffers Record March Heat Waves, Nearly 1,000 New York University Professors Strike for Fair Salaries and Job Security
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Democracy Now! 2026-03-24 Tuesday
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DN! Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.
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encoded: Hugo Holland’s aggressive legal tactics made him one of Louisiana’s most renowned prosecutors and helped turn Caddo Parish, a majority Black community in the northwest corner of the state, into one of the nation’s leaders in death penalty convictions. His nearly 40-year career, though, has been marked by controversies. In at least two death penalty cases, Louisiana judges found that Holland withheld evidence. In a third, he secured the conviction of a Black 16-year-old, comparing the boy to a dog and telling the jury to “get rid of it”; prosecutors later admitted that Holland and his team had failed to turn over evidence. Defense attorneys have also accused him of racism, pointing, for example, to a capital murder case several years ago in which Holland emailed one of them to say he was going to spend Veterans Day in his pickup truck looking for “a Black guy or a Mex-can.” Holland called it a joke. Holland, 62, is now running for judge in the First Judicial District Court in Caddo Parish, and his nascent campaign appears to have substantial backing. He has raised more than $61,000 in less than two months, according to the first campaign finance report released in February — twice the amount many candidates running for the 1st Judicial Court spend in an entire campaign, said Jeffrey Sadow, an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Holland’s donors include an assistant district attorney with the Caddo Parish DA’s office, the district attorney of neighboring Bossier and Webster parishes, a former state judge, and members of major law firms throughout the area. Holland’s funding haul might prove to be so daunting that it scares off potential challengers, Sadow said, though candidates have until the end of July to enter the race. “It shows he’s got an awful lot of support and that he’s considered a quality candidate,” he said. In addition to his robust campaign fundraising, Holland has been able to bring on the head of the l…

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description: The post He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Hugo Holland’s aggressive legal tactics made him one of Louisiana’s most renowned prosecutors and helped turn Caddo Parish, a majority Black community in the northwest corner of the state, into one of the nation’s leaders in death penalty convictions. His nearly 40-year career, though, has been marked by controversies. In at least two death penalty cases, Louisiana judges found that Holland withheld evidence. In a third, he secured the conviction of a Black 16-year-old, comparing the boy to a dog and telling the jury to “get rid of it”; prosecutors later admitted that Holland and his team had failed to turn over evidence. Defense attorneys have also accused him of racism, pointing, for example, to a capital murder case several years ago in which Holland emailed one of them to say he was going to spend Veterans Day in his pickup truck looking for “a Black guy or a Mex-can.” Holland called it a joke. Holland, 62, is now running for judge in the First Judicial District Court in Caddo Parish, and his nascent campaign appears to have substantial backing. He has raised more than $61,000 in less than two months, according to the first campaign finance report released in February — twice the amount many candidates running for the 1st Judicial Court spend in an entire campaign, said Jeffrey Sadow, an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Holland’s donors include an assistant district attorney with the Caddo Parish DA’s office, the district attorney of neighboring Bossier and Webster parishes, a former state judge, and members of major law firms throughout the area. Holland’s funding haul might prove to be so daunting that it scares off potential challengers, Sadow said, though candidates have until the end of July to enter the race. “It shows he’s got an awful lot of support and that he’s considered a quality candidate,” he said. In addition to his robust campaign fundraising, Holland has been able to bring on the head of the l…

A look behind the scenes of what could be Google’s biggest test of carbon capture
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creator: Anila Yoganathan
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description: Documents indicate that the tech company may be planning a massive natural gas powered data center project in Nebraska — but it could hinge on one piece of legislation.
encoded: This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories. Rick Wheatley owns a property with about 80 acres in Nebraska’s Otoe County — an area east of Lincoln known for its farmland, apple orchards, and Arbor Day celebrations. Wheatley’s land, a portion of which is used for growing corn and soybeans, has been in his family for generations. Sometime last fall, a representative from a private energy developer Tenaska approached Wheatley about possibly purchasing the land. Wheatley said the representative mentioned the company was trying to assemble and secure the right to purchase 2,000 acres near a gas pipeline for a power plant that could serve an AI data center. “At first he kind of slipped and said for AI, they need their own generating stations for AI,” Wheatley said. “But then they kind of backpedaled it.” According to Wheatley, the Tenaska representative then told him that the company planned to have a business park. “And I thought, ‘What do you mean it’s a business park? Who’s going to build out there in the middle of nowhere?’” Wheatley said. In the end, he chose not to deal with the company. However, he wasn’t the only one to get a knock on his door. Since December, Tenaska has entered into agreements with landowners for over 2,600 acres across southeast Nebraska under two different LLC names, according to county deed records. The agreements allow Tenaska the exclusive option to buy the land. Tenaska did not respond to requests for comment about the land deals. According to documents obtained by the Flatwater Free Press and Grist, Tenaska appears poised to build a utility-scale natural gas plant to power one of the largest data centers in the country. The documents suggest that Google would operate the data center and that the project may also be one of the largest test cases for carbon capture and storage, a controversial way …

Utah Republicans see storing nuclear waste as a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’
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creator: Leia Larsen
date: 2026-03-24T08:30:00Z
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description: Some think a Trump administration plan is a chance to boost communities that hemorrhaged jobs after coal plants closed.
encoded: The Republicans who dominate Utah’s politics — from the legislature to the governor’s mansion — are aggressively pursuing nuclear power, but a problem that had confounded fission supporters over the last century lingers: what to do with all the dangerous waste. Now the state is exploring whether to become a solution — by storing nuclear waste in the massive salt deposit in Millard County, a rural part of the state with a long history of meeting the West’s energy needs. Caverns carved into that salt deposit already hold natural gas liquids, gasoline, and other fuels. Separate storage of hydrogen began there this year to support the massive Intermountain Power Plant’s shift from coal generation to carbon-free energy. The Trump administration recently announced that it wants states to volunteer as hosts for “nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses” — sites that will take spent radioactive material for a variety of uses, such as storage, recycling, enrichment, fabrication, or powering manufacturing and data centers. The same day in late January that the U.S. Department of Energy began soliciting states to host campuses, state Senator Derrin Owens, a Republican, contacted several other lawmakers, lobbyists, private equity investors, and Millard County officials, in an email obtained by the Millard County Chronicle Progress and shared with The Salt Lake Tribune. “Friends,” Owens wrote on January 28, “HERE IT IS – This is Utah’s once in a lifetime opportunity to host one of these sites.” (Owens declined to comment for this story.) Owens, who represents half of Millard County, noted that the group had “tried to lay the groundwork” for opportunities to store and repurpose nuclear waste with Curio, a startup headquartered in Washington D.C. that’s developing a process to recycle spent fuel. Millard County’s salt dome — a remnant of an ancient ocean from the time dinosaurs roamed the earth — apparently makes Utah a particularly attractive candidate. The only other state interest…

Iran: Deliberate Attacks on Civilian Ships Apparent War Crimes
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Visual artist Daniel Arsham on the possibility of endless failure
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description: What was the experience like for you writing the book? As someone who knows the art world well—as you describe it with a capital “A”—I found a lot to relate to. How did the book come to fruition?
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Europe fails to condemn U.S.-Israeli war on Iran
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T21:01:23Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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What’s happening in Lebanon?
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description: This content originally appeared on International Rescue Committee and was authored by International Rescue Committee.
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Vietnam protests China’s development of disputed reef in South China Sea
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-03-23T18:49:12Z
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subject: Development
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subject: vietnam
description: Land reclamation could make Antelope Reef China’s largest outpost in the South China Sea, think tank says.
encoded: Vietnam has condemned China’s land reclamation activities at Antelope reef in the disputed Paracel Islands, following reports of accelerated dredging, landfill and construction operations there that, according to a U.S.-based think tank, could make it “China’s largest feature” in the South China Sea. “Any foreign activities conducted in Hoang Sa, including Hai Sam reef, without Vietnam’s permission are completely illegal and invalid,” Vietnamese foreign ministry spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang said on Saturday, referring to the archipelago and the reef claimed by Hanoi and Beijing, as well as Taiwan, by their Vietnamese names. “Vietnam resolutely opposes such activities.” Last week, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, or AMTI, a project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, in Washington, published an analysis of satellite imagery that said vast land reclamation efforts underway at Antelope Reef over the past month could make the reef suitable to construct a 9,000-foot (2700-meter) runway. Beijing has constructed several airstrips of that size on other islands in the South China Sea including in the Spratly Islands, another disputed archipelago, the AMTI report said. Territorial flashpoint Though sovereignty over the Paracels is disputed, China took effective control of the archipelago after a 1974 naval clash with South Vietnam, which lost the Vietnam War to North Vietnam the following year. Called the Xisha Islands by Beijing, the island chain is now one of several flashpoints in the South China Sea, where multiple countries assert overlapping territorial and maritime claims. Media reports in early 2026 highlighted new Chinese dredging and landfill activity at Antelope Reef. Previously it had been one of China’s smallest outposts in the area. Beijing began major dredging there in October 2025 and has started what appears to be preliminary construction for an airstrip in recent weeks, including more than 50 small grey-roofed structures an…

Iran’s Power Grid Is One Strike Away From Collapse | US Iran Update
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date: 2026-03-23T18:38:32Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Iran is "in the dominant position"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T18:23:30Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 23, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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UN News Today 23 March 2026
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creator: Ed De Bray
date: 2026-03-23T17:43:56Z
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subject: march
subject: News
subject: podcasts/un
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subject: today
description: • Strait of Hormuz impact still expanding, warns @UNCTAD • UNICEF aid convoy reaches southern Lebanon communities in need• WMO warns of record ‘climate imbalance’
encoded: • Strait of Hormuz impact still expanding, warns @UNCTAD • UNICEF aid convoy reaches southern Lebanon communities in need• WMO warns of record ‘climate imbalance’ This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Ed De Bray.

From former slave to anarchist: Lucy Parsons’ radical life and legacy
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2026-03-23T17:22:32Z
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Amnesty International designates Russian poets prisoners of conscience
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-03-23T17:18:48Z
subject: Amnesty International
subject: Sources
subject: amnesty
subject: conscience
subject: designates
subject: International
subject: poets
subject: Prisoners
subject: russian
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.

Swimming in the Strait of Hormuz
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-23T16:50:17Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Here’s What I Found While Investigating Intoxicating Hemp
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date: 2026-03-23T16:45:00Z
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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CPJ welcomes Kyrgyzstan’s release of journalist Makhabat Tajibek kyzy, calls for charges to be dropped
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date: 2026-03-23T16:44:05Z
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description: New York, March 23, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Kyrgyz journalist Makhabat Tajibek kyzy’s release from prison and calls on authorities to drop all charges against her. In 2024, Tajibek kyzy, the director of anti-corruption investigative outlets Temirov Live and Ait Ait Dese, was convicted on charges of calling for mass unrest and sentenced to six...
encoded: New York, March 23, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Kyrgyz journalist Makhabat Tajibek kyzy’s release from prison and calls on authorities to drop all charges against her. In 2024, Tajibek kyzy, the director of anti-corruption investigative outlets Temirov Live and Ait Ait Dese, was convicted on charges of calling for mass unrest and sentenced to six years in prison. Earlier this month, Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court overturned the decision, sending her case back to a lower court for review on the basis of a United Nations Working Group decision that said she had been arbitrarily detained. “The release of Makhabat Tajibek kyzy from prison is a rare and significant step in the right direction in a country that has been making headlines in recent years for all the wrong reasons,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “But this is not enough. Tajibek kyzy should not have spent a single day behind bars on what are clearly trumped-up charges. Kyrgyz authorities should follow through by withdrawing all charges against her without delay.” At an initial retrial hearing on March 23, the court in Bishkek rejected the journalist’s petition to dismiss the case but granted her request to be freed pending a verdict. She remains under a travel ban, however. The next hearing is scheduled for April 7. Tajibek kyzy was among 11 current and former journalists from Temirov Live, a local partner of the global Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), arrested in January 2024 on allegations of incitement. Authorities argued that the outlet’s reporting, which frequently investigates allegations of corruption at the top levels of the Kyrgyz state, “discredited” the government, thereby “indirectly” calling for mass unrest. In October 2024, Tajibek kyzy was convicted alongside Ait Ait Dese presenter Azamat Ishenbekov, who was sentenced to five years in prison. Ishenbekov was later released after a presidential pardon. The convict…

CPJ, partners highlight threats to public broadcaster’s independence in Lithuania
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-23T16:21:10Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: European Broadcasting Union
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subject: Legal Action
subject: Sources
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subject: Broadcasting
subject: committee
subject: cpj
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subject: Journalists
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description: Berlin, March 23, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations offered strong support today for independent public service media in Lithuania and highlighted concerns about proposed amendments to the Law on Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), currently under consideration by the country’s parliament. In a joint statement from the European Broadcasting Union and...
encoded: Berlin, March 23, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations offered strong support today for independent public service media in Lithuania and highlighted concerns about proposed amendments to the Law on Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), currently under consideration by the country’s parliament. In a joint statement from the European Broadcasting Union and international media organizations, the coalition outlined several specific legislative threats within the draft that risk undermining LRT’s editorial, institutional, and financial autonomy. Proposed measures include freezing LRT funding for three years without a comprehensive impact assessment, establishing vague and subjective grounds for the early dismissal of the broadcaster’s director, and expanding a governance model that enables intrusive oversight of daily editorial and programming activities. These measures threaten to blur the lines between strategic oversight and day-to-day autonomy, ultimately increasing the public broadcaster’s vulnerability to political pressure rather than strengthening its accountability. Read the full joint statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Lucy Parsons and the Legacy of Black Anarchism
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-03-23T16:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-03-23T15:51:58Z
subject: Project Censored
subject: Sources
subject: amendment
subject: censored
subject: conspiracy
subject: evangelicalism,
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subject: The Project Censored Show
description: First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with how much it actually defines our nation? Jared Stacy, a former Evangelical Pastor and author of the...
encoded: First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with how much it actually defines our nation? Jared Stacy, a former Evangelical Pastor and author of the newly released book, Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, joins the show to talk about the history and the present of this entwined relationship between the US and Evangelicalism, how conspiracy theories become gospel, and how if we want to address the fallout from this tangle, theological intervention is necessary. The post Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

From Gaza to Iran, Rise of Conscientious Objectors Marks U.S. Soldiers’ "Shift in Consciousness"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T15:51:18Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: consciousness
subject: Democracy
subject: from
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subject: iran
subject: marks
subject: now
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subject: rise
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subject: soldiers
subject: sources
subject: u.s.
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"It’s a Disaster": European Countries Refuse to Take a Stand Against U.S. Violations of Int’l Law
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T15:47:43Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘stand
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subject: countries
subject: Democracy
subject: disaster
subject: european
subject: int’l
subject: it’s
subject: Law
subject: now
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Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Reveal Decline of U.S. Empire: Historian Alfred McCoy
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Reporter İsmail Arı imprisoned in Turkey for spreading ‘disinformation’
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description: Istanbul, March 23, 2026—Turkish authorities must immediately release journalist İsmail Arı and stop misusing the disinformation law, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Arı, a reporter for the leftist daily BirGün, was taken into custody in the northern province of Tokat, where he was visiting family on March 21. He was taken to Ankara the...
encoded: Istanbul, March 23, 2026—Turkish authorities must immediately release journalist İsmail Arı and stop misusing the disinformation law, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Arı, a reporter for the leftist daily BirGün, was taken into custody in the northern province of Tokat, where he was visiting family on March 21. He was taken to Ankara the next day and arrested by a court, pending trial on the suspicion of publicly spreading disinformation. Arı was questioned about his work by Ankara police for hours, BirGün reported. A 2022 disinformation law introduced prison sentences of up to three years for spreading false information about security, public order, and the general health of the country that causes concern, fear, or panic. “Rights defenders who expressed worries that the ‘false information’ law would be abused to silence journalism were told that journalists wouldn’t be prosecuted unless the reporting causes concern, fear, or panic,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “Who is scared of İsmail Arı’s reporting? The authorities must release Arı without delay and put an end to the misuse of this law.” Arı released a message via his lawyers while he was in custody. He said his social media posts and videos are being used as evidence against him. “My only crime is practicing journalism in this country,” he said. “Journalism is not a crime.” Arı’s reporting on allegedly unlawful construction work at a cultural heritage location in Istanbul led to his arrest, according to BirGün. He is at Sincan Prison in Ankara awaiting trial. Turkish journalists arrested pending trial may spend months behind bars before an indictment is written and a court date is set, CPJ research has found. CPJ emailed Turkey’s justice ministry for comment but did not receive an immediate reply. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 23, 2026
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Meet the data analysts exposing ICE’s plans
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date: 2026-03-23T15:24:21Z
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subject: video
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subject: and
subject: Data
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subject: Politics
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subject: sources
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Start the steal? Inside Trump’s effort to rig the midterm elections
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date: 2026-03-23T15:23:47Z
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ALONDRA MÁYNEZ + CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA (Teatro Lúcido, CDMX)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-23T13:41:06Z
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subject: concepciÓn
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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From Gaza to Iran, Rise of Conscientious Objectors Marks U.S. Soldiers’ “Shift in Consciousness”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T12:52:31Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: consciousness
subject: Democracy
subject: from
subject: gaza
subject: iran
subject: marks
subject: now
subject: objectors
subject: rise
subject: shift
subject: soldiers
subject: sources
subject: u.s.
description: With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has ...
encoded: With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, who says his organization has received a massive increase in inquiries from soldiers seeking to submit conscientious objector applications. Prysner cites a “shift in consciousness” among young people in the United States, spurred by the Gaza genocide. “And the military is made up of young people in the United States.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“It’s a Disaster”: European Countries Refuse to Take a Stand Against U.S. Violations of Int’l Law
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T12:39:54Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: countries
subject: Democracy
subject: disaster
subject: european
subject: int’l
subject: it’s
subject: Law
subject: now
subject: refuse
subject: sources
subject: take
subject: u.s.
subject: violations
description: We look at how Europe is responding to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran as President Trump denounces NATO allies for not joining the war. International affairs scholar Nathalie Tocci, speaking to Democracy Now! from Italy, criticizes Europe’...
encoded: We look at how Europe is responding to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran as President Trump denounces NATO allies for not joining the war. International affairs scholar Nathalie Tocci, speaking to Democracy Now! from Italy, criticizes Europe’s “ambiguous” response to the war on Iran as most of the continent has refused to condemn it. “We were the ones that were for multilateralism, for international law, and that ambiguity is basically another nail in the coffin of our credibility.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Reveal Decline of U.S. Empire: Historian Alfred McCoy
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T12:16:28Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: crisis
subject: decline
subject: Democracy
subject: Empire
subject: Energy
subject: Historian
subject: hormuz
subject: iran
subject: mccoy
subject: now
subject: reveal
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subject: u.s.
subject: war
description: The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has now entered its fourth week. The de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces is being felt worldwide, as shipments of oil, natural gas and fertilizer have been drastically curtailed. A fifth of t...
encoded: The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has now entered its fourth week. The de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces is being felt worldwide, as shipments of oil, natural gas and fertilizer have been drastically curtailed. A fifth of the world’s oil supply transits through the strait, and the price of oil is up by about 50% since the war began in late February. On Saturday evening, President Trump threatened Iran on social media, saying he would “obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first,” if the Strait of Hormuz was not fully reopened within 48 hours. He later extended his deadline by five days following Iranian threats to destroy essential infrastructure, including energy and water systems, across the Gulf. Iran has denied reports of direct or indirect talks with the U.S. If Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and “hold Washington to ransom,” it will have significant leverage, says Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “In a strategic analysis, Iran right now is in the dominant position.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 23, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-23T12:00:00Z
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subject: now
subject: sources
description: Trump Says He’s Pausing Attacks on Iranian Power Plants and Energy Infrastructure for Five Days, Saudi Arabia Orders Iran’s Military Attaché and Four Embassy Staff to Leave the Country, Israel Strikes Main Bridge in Southern Lebanon, Ordering Demolitions of Homes Near Border, Israeli Airstrikes Kill Four Palestinians in Gaza, as Israeli Settlers Carry Out Attacks in Occupied West Bank, U.K.'s Starmer Condemns “Shocking Antisemitic Arson Attack” on Four Jewish Volunteer Ambulances, At Least 64 Killed in a Strike on Hospital in Sudan's Darfur Region, Cuba Partially Restores Power After Suffering Another Blackout Due to U.S. Oil Blockade, Two Killed, 41 Injured as Air Canada Plane Crashes into Fire Truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia Returns to New Jersey After Year in ICE “Dungeons”, “Security Requires a Free Press and an Informed People”: Court Blocks Pentagon’s Media Policy, States Sue to Halt Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Which Would Create Largest Owner of U.S. Local TV Stations, Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, Who Led Trump-Russia Investigation, Dies at 81, Slovenia’s Ruling Liberals Claim Victory in Election That Remains Too Close to Call, French Socialists Hold Power in Local Elections, On World Water Day, Chileans Protest President Kast’s Environmental Rollbacks
encoded: Trump Says He's Pausing Attacks on Iranian Power Plants and Energy Infrastructure for Five Days Saudi Arabia Orders Iran's Military Attaché and Four Embassy Staff to Leave the Country Israel Strikes Main Bridge in Southern Lebanon, Ordering Demolitions of Homes Near Border Israeli Airstrikes Kill Four Palestinians in Gaza, as Israeli Settlers Carry Out Attacks in Occupied West Bank U.K.'s Starmer Condemns "Shocking Antisemitic Arson Attack" on Four Jewish Volunteer Ambulances At Least 64 Killed in a Strike on Hospital in Sudan's Darfur Region Cuba Partially Restores Power After Suffering Another Blackout Due to U.S. Oil Blockade Two Killed, 41 Injured as Air Canada Plane Crashes into Fire Truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia Returns to New Jersey After Year in ICE "Dungeons" "Security Requires a Free Press and an Informed People": Court Blocks Pentagon's Media Policy States Sue to Halt Nexstar-Tegna Merger, Which Would Create Largest Owner of U.S. Local TV Stations Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, Who Led Trump-Russia Investigation, Dies at 81 Slovenia's Ruling Liberals Claim Victory in Election That Remains Too Close to Call French Socialists Hold Power in Local Elections On World Water Day, Chileans Protest President Kast's Environmental Rollbacks This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-23 Monday
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Thank You, Afroman
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-23T12:00:00Z
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description: Thank you, Afroman, for standing up for freedom of speech and expression. Our human rights matter, and artists have always been on the front lines defending them with courage and power. "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." --Toni Morrison See you at today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET. The Zoom link to join to vent, share what's happening in your neck of the woods and more, has been posted on Patreon.com/Gaslit. If you're in New York, join us for a Gaslit Nation Night Out for the launch of Andrea's book Mrs. Orwell on April 13 at PowerHouse Books Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Details here: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Become a Democracy Defender at Patreon.com/Gaslit
encoded: Thank you, Afroman, for standing up for freedom of speech and expression. Our human rights matter, and artists have always been on the front lines defending them with courage and power. "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." --Toni Morrison See you at today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET. The Zoom link to join to vent, share what's happening in your neck of the woods and more, has been posted on Patreon.com/Gaslit. If you're in New York, join us for a Gaslit Nation Night Out for the launch of Andrea's book Mrs. Orwell on April 13 at PowerHouse Books Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Details here: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Become a Democracy Defender at Patreon.com/Gaslit This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

DN! Monday, March 23, 2026
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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creator: Jeff Ernsthausen
date: 2026-03-23T09:30:00Z
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description: The post Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head of dark hair, wasn’t normally this fussy. But it was late that January night — around midnight — and she was still hungry. Her mom, Doris Flores, had tried nursing her to calm her down. It didn’t work. When she brought Briany to her breast, the milk wouldn’t come. Flores thought it had to do with the panic that set in after the officers arrested the baby’s father and told her she was next. The baby also drank formula. The pastor and his wife, who’d never had children of their own, should take her bottles and the yellow cans of formula, too, and follow the instructions on the label. They should use distilled water, never from the tap. Briany drank 5 ounces at each feeding. She needed to eat every two to two-and-a-half hours. She was almost due for her next round of vaccinations. She was getting big enough for Size 3 diapers. What made her happiest was to be held in someone’s arms. The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland. If he and his wife, a fellow pastor at the church, didn’t take the girls in, they would have to go into foster care. “What else could we do?” he said. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="502" width="752" data-id="71060" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260202-Ortiz-ICE-Kids-262_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=752" alt="A man wearing a blue polo, black jacket and blue jeans, with a pink child’s blanket, stands against a wall." class="wp-image-71060" srcset="https://…

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
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creator: Eli Cahan
date: 2026-03-23T09:00:00Z
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description: The post Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Last October, President Donald Trump nominated nursing home owner Benjamin Landa as his next ambassador to Hungary, a key position that would place him in a country with a vigorous conservative movement. Trump has endorsed the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, a long-standing ally, for reelection, saying he “does an unbelievable job.” One month after Landa’s appointment, the inspector general of Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services issued a blunt audit estimating that a nursing home Landa co-owns received Medicare overpayments of at least $31.2 million and recommending that the government recoup the money. Now that facility, Pinnacle Multicare Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, is suing the very administration that is nominating Landa to the diplomatic post. The suit, filed Feb. 26 in federal district court in New York, asks the court to stop the government’s collection efforts and names HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, HHS Inspector General Thomas March Bell and a Medicare contractor as defendants. A federal district judge denied Pinnacle’s request for a temporary restraining order. As of March, Landa has an ownership interest in more than 100 nursing homes in eight states, CMS data shows. Landa also is a donor to Republican causes, but his biggest donation by far was $5 million to MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump Super PAC, in August 2025, two months before his nomination. Critics of Landa’s track record point to the audit’s findings, along with other legal actions against homes connected to him, as reasons that his nomination should face additional scrutiny. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, described Landa as an example of “giant corporate health care interests that prey on the vulnerable and use clever tricks to exploit loopholes at taxpayers’ expense.” “It’s no surprise that these companies an…

ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database
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creator: Ruth Talbot
date: 2026-03-23T08:55:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
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subject: database
subject: home
subject: inspect
subject: nursing
subject: ownership
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subject: search
subject: sources
description: The post ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The owner of a nursing home can significantly impact the quality of care that home’s residents receive, research has shown. One owner’s influence can be widespread: Nearly one-fifth of people or companies who report an ownership interest in a nursing home have a financial stake in five or more homes, according to data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Nearly 100 owners have direct or indirect ownership in 50 or more homes. One such owner, Benjamin Landa, was nominated by President Donald Trump in October to be ambassador to Hungary. ProPublica reported Monday that Pinnacle Multicare Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, which Landa co-owns, is suing the Trump administration following a Department of Health and Human Services audit that estimated more than $30 million in Medicare overpayments had been made to the facility. An attorney for Landa denied wrongdoing in a statement, saying the issues identified in the audit occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic when nursing homes were in the midst of a crisis. To give the public more insight into who owns American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities. The update allows users to find all references to an owner’s name across homes and filter results based on location or the person’s role in the nursing home. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="537" width="752" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Data-Update-promo_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?w=752" alt="A screenshot from ProPublica’s Nursing Home Inspect database, showing results for a search for the name Benjamin Landa." class="wp-image-71046" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Data-Update-promo_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg 1600w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Data-Up…

This $400B Biden climate program is surviving the Trump administration
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creator: Jake Bittle
date: 2026-03-23T08:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: $400b
subject: Administration
subject: biden
subject: Climate
subject: Energy
subject: Politics
subject: program
subject: sources
subject: surviving
subject: the
subject: this
subject: trump
description: Trump’s Energy Secretary says he’s canceled billions of dollars in clean energy loans. The Biden official who made those loans says the number is “fake.”
encoded: In January, the Trump administration announced that it had completed its dismantling of yet another Biden-era climate program. This time, the target was the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, which Democrats had injected with over $400 billion to support ambitious new clean energy projects. The Biden administration pursued climate policy primarily by having Congress pass massive subsidies for solar power, wind energy, and electric vehicles. But much of the infrastructure needed to push the U.S. further away from fossil fuel dependence — like new nuclear power plants, high-voltage transmission lines, and battery factories — needed more than the tax credits at the core of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to get off the ground. The Loan Programs Office was meant to fill that gap by making prudent loans to ambitious projects that the private sector saw as too risky. With its $400 billion windfall, the once-obscure office became the largest energy lender in the world. That ambition apparently put the office in the crosshairs of Trump’s Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. He said the Biden administration “rushed [loans] out the door in the final months after Election Day,” and said he had rooted out projects that “do not serve the best interest of the American people.” Wright claimed to have scrubbed or “revised” around 80 percent of the Biden administration’s $100 billion loan portfolio, and he teased plans to advance new loans that would support President Donald Trump’s anti-renewable-energy agenda. He even rechristened the office as the “Energy Dominance Financing” program — a reference to Trump’s catchphrase for his fossil-fuel-friendly energy policy. The truth, however, bears little resemblance to Wright’s combative rhetoric. Former federal officials and sources who have worked with the Loan Programs Office say that the program has survived the Trump-era purge in something close to its Biden-era form — and that it is still supporting the buildout of clean ene…

Can replacing Illinois’ toxic lead pipes lead to a workforce boon?
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creator: Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
date: 2026-03-23T08:30:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: ‘toxic
subject: boon
subject: can
subject: Cities
subject: illinois
subject: lead
subject: pipes
subject: replacing
subject: sources
subject: workforce
description: Illinois has nearly 1.5 million lead service lines. A new report estimates replacing the unsafe plumbing could generate 90,000 jobs.
encoded: Illinois is in the midst of a public health crisis. Nearly 1.5 million service lines — the pipes that carry drinking water to homes and businesses — contain or are suspected to contain lead, a neurotoxin linked to cognitive, reproductive, and cardiovascular problems. Now, public health and workforce advocates want to turn the state’s long-overdue pipe replacement backlog into a statewide economic engine, creating up to 90,000 jobs over a decade. A recent report proposes a plan to replace the state’s staggering inventory of toxic lead pipes and create tens of thousands of jobs. To do so, the analysis calls on state and local officials to fast-track pipe replacements for communities that have suffered from the most lead exposure and to use the projects to build a more diverse local workforce. It also urges the Illinois General Assembly, which returned to session this month, to help plug a multi-billion-dollar budget gap for lead pipe replacements. “The longer we put off taking care of our water infrastructure, the more expensive it’s going to get, the more that we’re going to be looking at water rates increasing to deal with that, and the more people are going to be in the position where they’re not going to have access to safe and clean drinking water,” said Justin Williams, a senior manager at the Metropolitan Planning Council, one of the policy think tanks that helped develop the plan. “And that’s not a situation we should be in as a state or region.” Several other regional and national nonprofits, including Current, a water solutions hub; Elevate, an organization working on water and energy affordability issues; and HIRE360, a workforce development group, also worked on the analysis. Illinois has the most lead pipes in the country. The state estimates it has 667,000 known lead service lines and another 820,000 suspected lines. Chicago alone accounts for nearly 30 percent of those pipes. Replacing these service lines is expensive. In a 2022 report, the Illinois Env…

Dancing On Graves: Going Low, Lower, Lowest (For Now)
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-03-23T07:22:42Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: ‘lower
subject: common
subject: dancing
subject: dreams
subject: for
subject: going
subject: graves
subject: low
subject: lowest
subject: now
subject: sources
description: This weekend, former Marine, combat veteran, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who tragically failed to take down a treacherous sociopath, died of Parkinson’s disease at 81. In response, said sociopath took a moment out from his botched...
encoded: This weekend, former Marine, combat veteran, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who tragically failed to take down a treacherous sociopath, died of Parkinson’s disease at 81. In response, said sociopath took a moment out from his botched, illegal, calamitous war to giddily declare of a man widely deemed "a cut above" who for five decades served his country not himself, "Good, I’m glad he’s dead," thus proving for the 7,648th time what a twisted, vile, piece-of-shit human being he is. In what one observer calls "an epic tale of diverging American elites," both men, born just two years apart, were raised in privilege in Northeastern cities. Before famously heading the sprawling, two-year investigation into collusion between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign, Mueller lived a long life of patrician public service, much of it defending the rule of law as a registered Republican, which stood in sharp contrast to Private Bonespur's grimy, relentless pursuit of private profit. Mueller grew up in a wealthy Philadelphia suburb; he once said that within the "strict moral code" of his father, a DuPont executive, "A lie was the worst sin." He went to prep school, Princeton, NYU, and then, with the Vietnam War unfurling, Quantico and Army Ranger School. A former athlete and newly forged Marine, he didn't just volunteer for Vietnam; he spent a year waiting for an injured knee to heal so he could serve. In 1968, he arrived in Vietnam a green Second Lieutenant, serving as a rifle platoon leader in Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. With his Ivy League background - his senior thesis was on African territorial disputes before the International Court of Justice - he was met with skepticism but quickly earned respect as a thorough, quiet, "no-bullshit guy" who maintained his composure even in the intense combat of some of the war's bloodiest battles. After being wounded, rescuing one of his men and being airlifted out, he earned a Bronze Star with Valor, a P…

Composer and musician Laurel Halo on emphasizing process over outcome
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creator: Arielle Gordon
date: 2026-03-23T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
subject: and
subject: composer,
subject: creative
subject: emphasizing
subject: Fashion
subject: Film
subject: halo
subject: independent
subject: laurel
subject: Music
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subject: the
description: How’s your day going? Is it morning or night where you are?
encoded: How’s your day going? Is it morning or night where you are? It is 5:00 PM. I am in Milan. What brings you to Milan? I’m doing the score for a runway show for Jil Sander. Is Milan still crazy from the Olympics? The Olympics ended the day that I arrived. Despite the fact that I love Heated Rivalry, I have zero interest in or knowledge of the Olympics, with the exception of Alysa Liu, who is an extraordinary inspiration to women and girls everywhere. But it didn’t seem too crazy. Are you somebody who consumes a lot of television while you’re in the creative space, or do you try to shut that all off when you are in a compositional mindset? I think when I’m in a compositional mindset, I actually have a tendency to shut off listening rather than consuming other forms of media. I’ll still watch films or series or read books, but my listening habits can take a dive. I don’t want to get too stimulated by an external source and then have the music be too swayed in one direction or the other. When you were starting to do work for Midnight Zone, did you consume more media about the deep depths of the ocean, or purposely try to surround yourself with those sounds? At the beginning of the process, the filmmaker [Julian Charrière] gave me a folder of amazing ocean foley. He had gathered all of these sounds from different institutes, including the US National Park Services as well as universities in the UK, Canada, and various ocean conservation societies. There were a lot of animal sounds, but then also sounds of human activity that were inspiring: the sound of natural animal echolocation versus industrial sonar sounds, the sounds of cargo ship noises or mining noises such as seismic pulses. So it was quite interesting just to get an initial impression of what oceanic sounds could be used as a basis for inspiration. Of course, recording underwater is imperfect and prone to imprecision and distortion. So it’s interesting thinking about how our hearing mechanisms aren’t optimized fo…

Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Hoang Vi allegedly assaulted while in police detention
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-23T06:59:55Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: Nguyen Hoang Vi
subject: Sources
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subject: committee
subject: Detained
subject: Detention
subject: harassed
subject: hoàng
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: nguyen
subject: Police
subject: protect
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description: Bangkok, March 23, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to investigate the alleged assault and arbitrary detention of independent journalist Nguyen Hoang Vi by Ho Chi Minh City police and to hold those responsible to account. On March 19, Vi was intercepted on the street by police while taking her child to...
encoded: Bangkok, March 23, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to investigate the alleged assault and arbitrary detention of independent journalist Nguyen Hoang Vi by Ho Chi Minh City police and to hold those responsible to account. On March 19, Vi was intercepted on the street by police while taking her child to school and transported to a Ho Chi Minh City police station, where she was held for more than 10 hours without being informed of the reason for her detention, according to the journalist, who communicated with CPJ via email, and news reports. Vi was struck repeatedly on the head with a sandal by a police officer she identified as Nguyen Ba Duong, who made her sign a “stack” of printouts of journalism she had posted to her Facebook page, Vi and the media reports said. She was released without charge, according to the same sources. “Vietnamese authorities must immediately disclose why journalist Nguyen Hoang Vi was detained and investigate the officer who allegedly beat her inside a police station,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “This is a brazen attempt to silence a reporter through brute intimidation, and those responsible must face consequences.” The harassment came shortly after Vi posted skeptical comments on social media about voting and voter registration cards ahead of recently held elections, which Vietnamese state media reported had a 99.79% turnout. Vi, a former frequent contributor to independent Vietnamese media who now publishes on her social media channels, has previously been targeted for her reporting. In 2012, she was sexually assaulted by police while being questioned and detained over her reporting on jailed journalists and harassed activists. The Ministry of Public Security, which oversees the national police, did not immediately reply to CPJ’s emailed request for comment. Vietnam is among the world’s worst jailers of journalists, with at least 17 behind bars, according to CP…

Language Matters: There Are No “Wars of Choice”
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creator: Richard Falk
date: 2026-03-23T06:06:19Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: are
subject: articles 2015
subject: choice:
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Language
subject: Leading Article
subject: matters
subject: sources
subject: there
subject: wars
description: In early reporting on the Iran War as "the ultimate war of choice," the New York Times spoke, as usual, in the sanitizing language of political realism. This is the lingua franca of the foreign policy elite in the Atlanticist alliance, consisting of the self-anointed ‘liberal democracies.’ It is definitely a more refined and less objectionable manner of labeling an unprovoked ‘war of aggression’ than the brazen utterances of the U.S. president, Donald Trump, who had the audacity to trivialize the bloodshed and devastation traumatizing Iran’s innocent population as ‘an excursion.’ More The post Language Matters: There Are No “Wars of Choice” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Intelligence Community and the Essential Role of Threat Assessment
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creator: Melvin Goodman
date: 2026-03-23T06:00:40Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: assessment
subject: Community
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: essential
subject: Intelligence
subject: Leading Article
subject: role
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: threat
description: When I joined the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Intelligence in the summer of 1966, the Soviet Division was in great turmoil because of the failure to predict the fall of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev two years earlier. Because of that analytic failure, the chief of the Soviet Domestic Branch had been replaced along with several of his veteran analysts. Most of the new and remaining analysts were without significant intelligence experience. My immediate reaction to this bureaucratic turmoil was “how would CIA analysts in McLean, Virginia, anticipate the coup against Khrushchev if it came as a surprise to Khrushchev?” Nevertheless, I learned from that experience that there were significant consequences for successes and failures in the intelligence community. More The post The Intelligence Community and the Essential Role of Threat Assessment appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Gusanos of Monarchy: War, Exile, and the Misplacement of a Nation
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creator: Wahid Azal
date: 2026-03-23T05:59:11Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: exile
subject: gusanos
subject: Leading Article
subject: misplacement
subject: monarchy
subject: nation?
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: war
description: The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil – Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) There is a word from another revolution that fits a little too well in this time: gusano—the exile who leaves a revolution only to spend More The post Gusanos of Monarchy: War, Exile, and the Misplacement of a Nation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles
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creator: Alfred de Zayas
date: 2026-03-23T05:58:51Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: iran
subject: Leading Article
subject: light
subject: nuremberg
subject: principles
subject: sources
subject: the
description: As international law developed over the centuries, the principle of State sovereignty and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of other states gradually evolved -- from the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 through the Congress of Vienna 1814-15, the establishment of the League of Nations in 1919 and the adoption of the United Nations Charter in 1945 as an incipient world constitution aimed at promoting peace, development and human rights. More The post Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Kaiser Permanente, AI, and the Workers on Strike, Again
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creator: Cal Winslow
date: 2026-03-23T05:57:05Z
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description: “Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients require urgent appointments and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to call More The post Kaiser Permanente, AI, and the Workers on Strike, Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: “Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients require urgent appointments and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to call it, it’s not a human being making these potentially life and death decisions, and it’s not the same level of care as being assessed by a licensed therapist.” Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest health maintenance organization (HMO) is forcing its therapists onto the streets in the ongoing battle to deny mental health parity with medical in its services to 12 million members. The 2400 striking mental health care workers are members of the National Union of Health Care Workers (NUHW). They walked out on Wednesday, March 18, a “practice” strike, but most likely a taste of what’s to come. In 2022, these workers struck for ten weeks, the longest mental health care workers’ strike recorded. Two issues dominated negotiations from the start: workload for Kaiser therapists and wait time for Kaiser patients. The strikers won on both, forcing concessions until then all but unheard of. The strikers won break-through provisions to retain staff, reduce wait times for patients and a plan to collaborate on transforming Kaiser’s model for providing mental health care. This time, it’s inevitable the fight will be just as hard fought. But the NUHW members are battle-tested; each contract fight with Kaiser thus far has included a strike. More, this time the NUHW members were joined in a sympathy strike by thousands of registered nurses, who shared their concerns about Kaiser’s increasing use of artificial intelligence to the detriment of patient care. This can hardly be over-estimated. Since the 2009 SEIU trusteeship, Kaiser has faced a workforce has been deeply divided. But not so much this time, though th…

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq … Iran War is Deja Vu All Over Again
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creator: George Ochenski
date: 2026-03-23T05:56:14Z
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description: If you’ve been around long enough to remember any of the wars in the last 60 years, the latest “excursion” in Iran by a demented old president will bring back many memories — and none of them good. You likely have silver in what’s left of your hair if you recall the early days of More The post Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq … Iran War is Deja Vu All Over Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should
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creator: Thomas Knapp
date: 2026-03-23T05:53:50Z
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description: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration’s illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran. Well, maybe. “That number could move,” he says, to get “properly funded for what’s been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is refilled, and not just refilled, More The post Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Self-Undoing of Israel: Has Zionism Crossed the Point of No Return?
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creator: Ramzy Baroud
date: 2026-03-23T05:53:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces two possibilities: to do or die,” Netanyahu declared on October 28, 2023, as Israel expanded its More The post The Self-Undoing of Israel: Has Zionism Crossed the Point of No Return? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Afkar-e-taza! From Imperial OverKill to Decolonial OverLife: the Ground Zero of Palestinian and Iranian Resistance and a Feminism that Embraces Life
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creator: Fawzia Afzal-Khan
date: 2026-03-23T05:53:17Z
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: decolonial
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subject: feminism
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subject: ground’
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subject: life
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description: “Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you? I said…you killed me…and I forgot, like you, to die.” – Mahmoud Darwish, “In Jerusalem” My esteemed colleague, the beautiful human being named Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian Armenian scholar from Jerusalem, reviled and chased out of her tenured full professor position at Hebrew University for daring to More The post Afkar-e-taza! From Imperial OverKill to Decolonial OverLife: the Ground Zero of Palestinian and Iranian Resistance and a Feminism that Embraces Life appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-354985" class="wp-image-354985 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-680x510.jpeg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-680x510.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-840x630.jpeg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-500x375.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5113-600x450.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you? I said…you killed me…and I forgot, like you, to die.” – Mahmoud Darwish, “In Jerusalem” My esteemed colleague, the beautiful human being named Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian Armenian scholar from Jerusalem, reviled and chased out of her tenured full professor position at Hebrew University for daring to call the genocide of Gazans by its proper name, and who has been a Visiting Professor this past year at Princeton with me in the Gender and Sexuality Program, elaborates on this verse of her compatriot, the late poet Mahmoud Darwish, through her chilling concept of Overkill[1]. Like the related term “Necropolitics” as adumbrated by African scholar Achille Mbembe, “Overkill” signals the murderous policies enacted on the bodies of SOME citizens (deemed unworthy, abject)–by neoliberal capitalist states in the contemporary world order, of which the entity of Israel is a prime example. Overkill, she explains, is a colonial necro-economy. As a colonial technology, overkill operates through the systematic evisceration of the coloni…

The Fraud Story is a Fraud
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-03-23T05:53:10Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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description: Fans of pet-eating migrant stories are thrilled to hear that JD Vance is heading up an anti-fraud task force operating out of the White House. As best anyone can tell, the purpose is to drum up absurd allegations of fraud against prominent Democrats, like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. If the More The post The Fraud Story is a Fraud appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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No Naval Escort for Trump: US Allies and the Strait of Hormuz
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-03-23T05:48:22Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: allies
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
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subject: the
subject: trump
description: With each dragged out day, President Donald Trump begins resembling a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but leave of everything else. Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or More The post No Naval Escort for Trump: US Allies and the Strait of Hormuz appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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An Off-Ramp for Trump to Reverse the Iran Disaster
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creator: Barbara G. Ellis
date: 2026-03-23T05:45:52Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
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subject: for
subject: iran
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subject: reverse
subject: sources
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description: The portly man at the next table finished his breakfast, leaned in my direction, and asked: ”What’s in the news that’s so interesting?” “Iran,” I said, adding that the U.S. seemed about to attack it. “Over in a day,” he said, snapping fingers for emphasis. Having spent two years at Beirut’s Daily Star when Iraqis More The post An Off-Ramp for Trump to Reverse the Iran Disaster appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-404904" class="wp-image-404904 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/irham-setyaki-e7hIWARgvAA-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Irham Setyaki. The portly man at the next table finished his breakfast, leaned in my direction, and asked: ”What’s in the news that’s so interesting?” “Iran,” I said, adding that the U.S. seemed about to attack it. “Over in a day,” he said, snapping fingers for emphasis. Having spent two years at Beirut’s Daily Star when Iraqis dragged the pro-West prime minister’s body through Bagdad’s streets to celebrate the monarchy’s overthrow, I know the Mideast’s ferocity against Western domination for exploitation. A war with Iran would never be over in a day—a month, or year anymore than it was in Vietnam. It took more than eight years for American revolutionaries—aided by the French— to end British rule. The next day it was my favorite bus driver. He reminded me that the Crusaders were Europeans who did pretty well in 500 years (1095-1571) of saving the Holy Lands for Christianity. They were finally vastly…

Same Battles Over and Over: The 2026 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
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creator: Michael Donnelly
date: 2026-03-23T05:36:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
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subject: articles 2015
subject: battles
subject: conference
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: environmental
subject: Interest
subject: Law
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subject: public
subject: same
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description: After not attending since 2019, I arrived early for this year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon Law School. It was the 44th session in the world’s longest such gathering. It ran from March 12th thru the 15th. Given the current political climate, the slogan this year was “Fight Back, More The post Same Battles Over and Over: The 2026 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-404826" class="wp-image-404826 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1-680x510.jpeg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1-680x510.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1-840x630.jpeg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1-500x375.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Outlaw-Bash-Wicker-Man-2-1.jpeg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Burning of the Wicker Man at the Outlaw Bash, during the PIELC Weekend in Eugene. Photo: Michael Donnelly. After not attending since 2019, I arrived early for this year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon Law School. It was the 44th session in the world’s longest such gathering. It ran from March 12th thru the 15th. Given the current political climate, the slogan this year was “Fight Back, Voices for Good.” (First one I attended was in 1986. It was the launch pad for our Ancient Forest Protection Movement.) Right off, I dropped my phone and it broke down. All I had left was a green screen. That complicated some things, like connecting with people I had plans to connect with, fact-checking, photography, etc. The way iPhones have become a constant appendage is a story for another time. First time I saw a cell phone was at PIELC, circa 1987. It was bigger than a brick. +++ Anything political or social that I examine, I run through a series of screens: 1) Always “Follow the Money” – Mark “Deep Throat” Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI…

From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-22T22:35:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Grey Lynn Library
subject: Les Nouvelles de Tahiti
subject: Pacific decolonisation
subject: Rainbow Warrior bombing
subject: Rainbow Warrior books
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: bombing
subject: books
subject: Bougainville independence
subject: Business
subject: Climate
subject: crisis
subject: David Robie
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: environment
subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
subject: from
subject: Global
subject: grey
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: les
subject: library
subject: lynn
subject: Media
subject: new zealand
subject: nouvelles
subject: Nuclear
subject: Nuclear justice
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pacific Voices
subject: Politics
subject: rainbow
subject: report
subject: Rongelap Atoll
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: survivors
subject: Syndicate
subject: Tahiti
subject: Tahiti independence
subject: the
subject: unfinished
subject: warrior
subject: West Papua
subject: West Papua self-determination
description: COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire Climate crisis concerns shouldn’t overshadow the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, where there are lingering health and sociopolitical insecurities. For example, there are concerns in French Polynesia about the mysterious fate of a former anti-nuclear investigative journalist and editor of the now closed Les
encoded: COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire Climate crisis concerns shouldn’t overshadow the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, where there are lingering health and sociopolitical insecurities. For example, there are concerns in French Polynesia about the mysterious fate of a former anti-nuclear investigative journalist and editor of the now closed Les Nouvelles de Tahiti newspaper. Early in 2015, a judge upheld prosecution against three men accused of a kidnapping that led to the death of journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, known as “JK”, in Tahiti in 1997. More than a decade earlier, JK’s family lodged an allegation of murder with the police following claims that he had been assassinated by a (now disbanded) local presidential militia. An investigating commission had alleged that three men, Rere Puputauki, Tino Mara and Tutu Manate, had abducted JK and dumped his body at sea. READ MORE: Other Eyes of Fire reports The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energising for global peace Eyes of Fire website (Little Island Press) The Rainbow Warrior III arrives in Majuro on 11 March 2025 on the start of the six-week nuclear justice research voyage marking four decades since the evacuation of Rongelap. Printed on the T-shirts of the Marshall Islanders welcoming the Greenpeace flagship is an Eyes of Fire photo by the author of the late Rongelap Senator Jeton Anjain and Greenpeace International executive director Steve Sawyer, who was the campaign coordinator for the Rongelap mission. Image: © Bianca Vitale/Greenpeace/Eyes of Fire Twenty two years later, the family are still waiting for justice, and fed up with France’s “investigation”. When the Rainbow Warrior bombing on 10 July 1985 is set against its broader political context in the Pacific, it can be seen that this event was much more than the dramatic, isolated episode against the Greenpeace flagship as portrayed by most New Zealand media. An “Eyes of Fire” video project in 2015, which included more than 4…

From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-22T22:35:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Grey Lynn Library
subject: Les Nouvelles de Tahiti
subject: Pacific decolonisation
subject: Rainbow Warrior bombing
subject: Rainbow Warrior books
subject: Sources
subject: asia
subject: bombing
subject: books
subject: Bougainville independence
subject: Business
subject: Climate
subject: crisis
subject: David Robie
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: environment
subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
subject: from
subject: Global
subject: grey
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: les
subject: library
subject: lynn
subject: Media
subject: new zealand
subject: nouvelles
subject: Nuclear
subject: Nuclear justice
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pacific Voices
subject: Politics
subject: rainbow
subject: report
subject: Rongelap Atoll
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: survivors
subject: Syndicate
subject: Tahiti
subject: Tahiti independence
subject: the
subject: unfinished
subject: warrior
subject: West Papua
subject: West Papua self-determination
description: COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire Climate crisis concerns shouldn’t overshadow the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, where there are lingering health and sociopolitical insecurities. For example, there are concerns in French Polynesia about the mysterious fate of a former anti-nuclear investigative journalist and editor of the now closed Les
encoded: COMMENTARY: By David Robie, author of Eyes of Fire Climate crisis concerns shouldn’t overshadow the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, where there are lingering health and sociopolitical insecurities. For example, there are concerns in French Polynesia about the mysterious fate of a former anti-nuclear investigative journalist and editor of the now closed Les Nouvelles de Tahiti newspaper. Early in 2015, a judge upheld prosecution against three men accused of a kidnapping that led to the death of journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud, known as “JK”, in Tahiti in 1997. More than a decade earlier, JK’s family lodged an allegation of murder with the police following claims that he had been assassinated by a (now disbanded) local presidential militia. An investigating commission had alleged that three men, Rere Puputauki, Tino Mara and Tutu Manate, had abducted JK and dumped his body at sea. READ MORE: Other Eyes of Fire reports The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energising for global peace Eyes of Fire website (Little Island Press) The Rainbow Warrior III arrives in Majuro on 11 March 2025 on the start of the six-week nuclear justice research voyage marking four decades since the evacuation of Rongelap. Printed on the T-shirts of the Marshall Islanders welcoming the Greenpeace flagship is an Eyes of Fire photo by the author of the late Rongelap Senator Jeton Anjain and Greenpeace International executive director Steve Sawyer, who was the campaign coordinator for the Rongelap mission. Image: © Bianca Vitale/Greenpeace/Eyes of Fire Twenty two years later, the family are still waiting for justice, and fed up with France’s “investigation”. When the Rainbow Warrior bombing on 10 July 1985 is set against its broader political context in the Pacific, it can be seen that this event was much more than the dramatic, isolated episode against the Greenpeace flagship as portrayed by most New Zealand media. An “Eyes of Fire” video project in 2015, which included more than 4…

‘Maniacal tyrant’ Trump and Iran trade threats to energy infrastructure over Strait of Hormuz
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-22T22:32:46Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Energy infrastructure
subject: Gulf of Oman
subject: International Maritime Organisation
subject: Missile interceptors
subject: Natanz
subject: Persian Gulf
subject: Sources
subject: Truth Social
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: US-Israel war machine
subject: War on Iran
subject: Xinhua
subject: ‘maniacal
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacks
subject: common
subject: Crime
subject: dimona
subject: dreams
subject: economics
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Energy
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: gulf
subject: hormuz
subject: Infrastructure
subject: interceptors
subject: International
subject: iran
subject: machine?
subject: maritime
subject: Middle East
subject: military
subject: missile
subject: missiles,
subject: natanz
subject: oman
subject: organisation
subject: over
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: persian
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: Security
subject: social
subject: sources
subject: strait of hormuz
subject: strait,
subject: Syndicate
subject: Threats
subject: trade
subject: trump
subject: Truth
subject: tyrant
subject: us/israel
subject: war
subject: War Crimes
subject: xinhua
description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian government, with the Republican declaring Saturday that he would take out the country’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress have sounded the alarm over US President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian government, with the Republican declaring Saturday that he would take out the country’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic. Just a day after Trump claimed that “we are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran,” in a post that remains pinned to the top of his Truth Social profile, the president took to the platform with a clear threat on Saturday night. “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump said. READ MORE: Iran vows to ‘completely close’ Hormuz Strait if US attacks power plants No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s ‘lawbreaking’ Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports Trump’s post came after Ali Mousavi, the Iranian representative to the International Maritime Organisation, told the Chinese news agency Xinhua on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that is a key shipping route, including for fossil fuels — remains open to all vessels not linked to “Iran’s enemies.” It also followed the Israeli military — which is bombing Iran alongside the United States — suggesting that the US was responsible for a Saturday attack on Iran’s uranium enrichment complex in Natanz. According to The Associated Press, with his new threat, Trump “may have meant the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran’s biggest, which was already hit last week, or Damavand, a natural gas plant near Tehran, Iran’s capital.” Responding to Trump’s Saturday post…

Prime Minister Manele holds firm as opposition claims majority in Solomon Islands
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-22T22:30:20Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: GNUT
subject: Government of National Unity and Transformation
subject: Jeremiah Manele
subject: Leadership challenge
subject: Solomon Islands crisis
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: challenge
subject: claims
subject: crisis
subject: Elections
subject: Featured
subject: firm
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subject: holds
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subject: minister,
subject: national
subject: No confidence vote
subject: opposition
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: parliament
subject: Politics
subject: prime
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: solomon
subject: Solomon Islands
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: Transformation
subject: Unity
description: RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has doubled down on his decision not to convene Parliament as he hangs on to power leading a minority government, following mass defections from his Government of National Unity and Transformation (GNUT). Last week, 19 government MPs — more than half of them cabinet ministers — handed
encoded: RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has doubled down on his decision not to convene Parliament as he hangs on to power leading a minority government, following mass defections from his Government of National Unity and Transformation (GNUT). Last week, 19 government MPs — more than half of them cabinet ministers — handed in their resignations, citing trust issues with Manele’s leadership. Those who have jumped ship have joined the opposition group, which now claims to have 28 MPs on its side. This means Manele has been left with just 22 MPs in his camp. READ MORE: Solomons PM refuses to convene parliament amid political crisis Other Solomon Islands reports The Solomon Islands opposition group claims to have 28 MPs on its side. Image: FB/Peter Kenilorea/RNZ “I will call our Parliament as and when it is appropriate,” Manele told local reporters during a news conference on Sunday. He said “the assumption” that his government does not have the numbers “is political and not constitutional”. “Government decisions are not made based on speculation, on pressure, but on lawful processes and the national interest,” he said. Manele also downplayed the move by the opposition and “those outside Parliament” petitioning the country’s Governor-General to convene Parliament and to consider a motion of no confidence against him. ‘A matter of political choice’ He branded the decision of those MPs who resigned from his coalition as “a matter of personal and political choice”. “Your government remains in office under the Constitution and continues to discharge its full responsibilities,” he said. “What we are witnessing is not a constitutional crisis. It is a normal democratic process provided for under our Constitution; leadership may change within certain portfolios, but the machinery of government does not falter.” Public services continue, national operations remain stable and uninterrupted, he added. Manele has been in power less than two years and has already…

‘From the river to the sea’ – swimming against the Queensland tide
type: item
creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-22T21:40:05Z
subject: Anti-terrorism squad
subject: anti-war protests
subject: Arbitrary arrests
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Australian laws
subject: From the River to the Sea
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Israeli genocide
subject: Palestine genocide
subject: Sources
subject: Thought Crimes
subject: against
subject: Anti-terrorism
subject: Anti-war
subject: arbitrary
subject: arrests
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Australia
subject: australian
subject: Banned
subject: boeing
subject: Civil Society
subject: crimes
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: free speech
subject: from
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: israeli
subject: Justice
subject: laws
subject: military
subject: Non-violence
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
subject: Protests
subject: queensland
subject: report
subject: river
subject: sea’
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
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subject: swimming
subject: Syndicate
subject: the
subject: thought
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description: A CAUTIONARY TALE: By Jim Dowling Both my son Franz and I have been arrested, separately, for suspected thought crimes relating to Palestine and Israel. We dared to display in public the words, “from the river to the sea”, using or displaying such words now being illegal in Queensland. I say “thought crimes” because neither
encoded: A CAUTIONARY TALE: By Jim Dowling Both my son Franz and I have been arrested, separately, for suspected thought crimes relating to Palestine and Israel. We dared to display in public the words, “from the river to the sea”, using or displaying such words now being illegal in Queensland. I say “thought crimes” because neither of our displays mentioned Palestine or Israel. So obviously they can only conclude we must have been illegally thinking the “wrong thoughts” about this conflict. READ MORE: Dorothy Day House raided by police over ‘From the River to the Sea’ banner ‘From the river to the sea’ is being outlawed in Queensland. How will the slogan’s ban work, and will it be challenged? ‘From the river to the sea’: What does the Palestinian slogan really mean? Other Palestine reports For nearly two years a group of us have been gathering weekly outside the office of Boeing in Brisbane, to draw attention to their terrorist activity in making missiles, fighter jets, attack helicopters and other weapons of mass destruction, used in present conflicts, especially the Gaza genocide. When the Queensland government made it illegal to use the words “From the River to the Sea” in public, I went to the usual Wednesday action with a large placard saying “From the River to the Sea, Brisbane will be Free — of Boeing”. Eventually police came and arrested me. My arresting officer asked me what the words on the banner meant. I gave him a good rave about Boeing and why we wanted them nowhere in Brisbane, from the river to the sea. He took a while trying to get me to “incriminate” myself by making reference to Palestine etc. Eventually, after exposing the farcical nature of the law, I was happy do so. Interrogated by ‘anti-terrorism squad’ He took me to the watchhouse where I was interrogated about my thought crimes by the “Anti-terrorism squad” (that is not a joke by the way). This gave me a good chance to explain why we wanted Boeing out of Brisbane, and a lot more — about free speech…

Yanis Varoufakis knows who’s going to lose the war in Iran
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creator: Glenn Diesen
date: 2026-03-22T19:51:23Z
subject: article
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: Third Party Content
subject: ‘who’s
subject: and
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subject: going
subject: International
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: knows
subject: lose
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subject: Politics
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ABUELO ANTONIO OXTÉ (Yucatán, México)
type: item
creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-22T16:55:41Z
subject: Petites Planètes
subject: Sources
subject: abuelo
subject: antonio
subject: mexico
subject: oxtÉ
subject: petites
subject: planètes
subject: sources
subject: yucatán
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POEMAS DEL HIKURI (Saltillo, México)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-22T16:39:21Z
subject: Petites Planètes
subject: Sources
subject: (saltillo,
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subject: hikuri
subject: mexico
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subject: poemas
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent
type: item
creator: Kim Petersen
date: 2026-03-22T15:10:37Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: doing what is right
subject: Integrity
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Joe Kent
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subject: Sources
subject: Aggression
subject: and
subject: conscience
subject: democrats
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subject: doing
subject: donald trump
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subject: gabbard
subject: George Galloway
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subject: israel
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subject: jon
subject: kamala harris
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subject: Morality
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subject: sources
subject: tulsi
subject: tulsi gabbard
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subject: what
description: Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Iran. Israel first and the US second, in that order since US secretary-of-state Marco Rubio had made it clear that the US joined in the warring after it learned that Israel was about […] The post Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-168128" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Joe-Kent-and-Tulsi-Gabbard-207x300.webp" alt="" width="207" height="300" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Joe-Kent-and-Tulsi-Gabbard-207x300.webp 207w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Joe-Kent-and-Tulsi-Gabbard.webp 689w" sizes="(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" />Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Iran. Israel first and the US second, in that order since US secretary-of-state Marco Rubio had made it clear that the US joined in the warring after it learned that Israel was about to attack Iran. Frank, a graduate student in chemistry, was well-rounded. He played sports, dabbled in art, and was also well-informed about geopolitical and economic issues. He often studied together with his classmate, Sunny, a teacher who was curious about current events in the world. ***** “Frank why are you so frustrated by the news?” asked Sunny. Sunny had noticed how Frank had rolled his eyes at the recent testimony of Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of National Intelligence. “Is it because of what Gabbard said?” Frank replied with a question: “What do you think is the most important criterion for a politician?” Sunny raised her chin. Her brown pupils veered upward. “Well, to serve the people.” “Yes. And of course you mean the masses of people,” said Frank, sure that that was what Sunny meant. Sunny nodded her raven-haired head. “And what most important virtue must a politician have in order to serve the people?” continued Frank. Sunny paused in thought. “Hmmm. There are many important virtues. Honesty, morality, truth-telling, doing the right thing.” “Those are all fine virtues,” agreed Frank, “but how about integrity because integrity embodies all those things you just mentione…

AI Models Are Excited for Humans to Nuke Ourselves
type: item
creator: Lee Camp
date: 2026-03-22T15:05:26Z
subject: ChatGPT
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: are
subject: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
subject: chatgpt
subject: deepseek
subject: dissident
subject: excited
subject: for
subject: gemini,
subject: grok
subject: humans’
subject: Humor
subject: Militarism
subject: models
subject: nuke
subject: Nukes
subject: ourselves!
subject: sources
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: war-gaming
description: AI is already being used for war gaming. We knew it was only a matter of time — because humans are dumb. Watch just one reality show or White House press conference and you’ll agree that humans are fucking idiots. So it’s no surprise that artificial intelligence is quickly becoming more intelligent than us, at […] The post AI Models Are Excited for Humans to Nuke Ourselves appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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ICE is preparing for something big in Maryland
type: item
creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-03-22T15:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Real News Network
subject: big
subject: for
subject: ice
subject: maryland
subject: network
subject: News
subject: preparing
subject: real
subject: something
subject: sources
subject: the
description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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At Least 175 Injured In Iranian Strikes Across Israel, Including Near Nuclear Site
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-22T14:32:15Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: 175
subject: across
subject: europe/rl
subject: free
subject: including
subject: injured
subject: iranian
subject: israel
subject: least
subject: near
subject: Nuclear
subject: radio
subject: site,
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

California bets on an obscure tool to replace clean air authority Trump revoked
type: item
creator: Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, CalMatters
date: 2026-03-22T13:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: air:
subject: authority
subject: bets
subject: california
subject: clean
subject: obscure
subject: Regulation
subject: replace
subject: revoked
subject: sources
subject: tool.
subject: trump
description: The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.
encoded: When a package arrives at your door, it has likely traveled through a chain of ports, railyards and warehouses throughout the state. All those ships, trains and trucks leave behind a trail of diesel exhaust as they go, driving some of the highest asthma rates in communities. For decades, state and federal regulators have tried to clean that up. Now much of their authority is in doubt: the Trump administration revoked California’s authority to mandate electric vehicles and pulled back federal power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — undermining California’s most effective tools. A bill moving through the Legislature would try to fill that gap. Assembly bill 1777, authored by Democrat Robert Garcia, who represents parts of San Bernardino County, would give California air regulators authority to hold ports, warehouses and railyards accountable for the pollution they draw to nearby communities — using a regulatory tool called the indirect source rule. The proposal “reflects this changing environment and aims to add more tools for California to combat the drastic rollback by the Trump administration’s desire to jeopardize Californians health and safety,” Garcia said in an email. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Caltrain-electrification-electric-trains-transit-rail.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="Passengers disembark from an electric Caltrain commuter train in the San Francisco Bay Area." class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Caltrain-electrification-electric-trains-transit-rail.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Caltrain-electrification-electric-trains-transit-rail.jpeg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Caltrain-electrification-electric-trains-transit-rail.jpeg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Caltrain-electrification-electric-trains-t…

Israel Isn’t Driving the Iran War, US Imperial Decline Is
type: item
creator: Dan Glazebrook
date: 2026-03-22T05:57:57Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: decline
subject: driving
subject: Feature Articles
subject: imperial
subject: iran
subject: is
subject: isn’t
subject: israel
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: war
description: Two days into the US attack on Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the extraordinary claim that the war was, in fact, a legal, pre-emptive defensive measure necessitated by Israel’s own pending strikes on the country. Scrambling for a legal figleaf for the US role in the aggression, he claimed that the Israeli strikes alone would have led to Iranian retaliation against US forces in the region, and therefore Iran, although it did not know it, posed an imminent threat to the US, which the US had the legal right to pre-emptively defend itself against. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” he told reporters on March 2nd. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Israel Isn’t Driving the Iran War, US Imperial Decline Is appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Two days into the US attack on Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the extraordinary claim that the war was, in fact, a legal, pre-emptive defensive measure necessitated by Israel’s own pending strikes on the country. Scrambling for a legal figleaf for the US role in the aggression, he claimed that the Israeli strikes alone would have led to Iranian retaliation against US forces in the region, and therefore Iran, although it did not know it, posed an imminent threat to the US, which the US had the legal right to pre-emptively defend itself against. “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” he told reporters on March 2nd. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Israel Isn’t Driving the Iran War, US Imperial Decline Is appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Dan Glazebrook.

Rediscovering Fanon
type: item
creator: Ed Rampell
date: 2026-03-22T05:30:24Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: fanon
subject: Feature Articles
subject: rediscovering
subject: sources
description: Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books [ . . . ] The post Rediscovering Fanon appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books. Frantz […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Rediscovering Fanon appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Ed Rampell.

Our digital lives have hidden costs
type: item
creator: Emmanuel O. Afolabi
date: 2026-03-22T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: costs
subject: digital
subject: have
subject: hidden
subject: lives’
subject: our
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: Every time we stream a movie, upload photos, send emails or ask artificial intelligence to answer a question, the action feels effortless. The internet appears weightless—floating somewhere in an invisible “cloud.”
encoded: Every time we stream a movie, upload photos, send emails or ask artificial intelligence to answer a question, the action feels effortless. The internet appears weightless—floating somewhere in an invisible “cloud.” This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Emmanuel O. Afolabi.

No bigger hypocrisy in the world than Israel complaining about Iran’s ‘lawbreaking’
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-22T03:34:53Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Attacked civilians
subject: Cluster munitions
subject: Comvention on Cluster Munitions
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Global condemnation
subject: Illegal attacks
subject: Indiscriminate bombing
subject: Israeli War Crimes
subject: No-go zone
subject: Sources
subject: Unexploded ordnance
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: ‘bigger
subject: ‘indiscriminate
subject: about
subject: Analysis
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacked,
subject: attacks
subject: bombing
subject: civilians
subject: cluster
subject: complaining
subject: comvention
subject: condemnation
subject: crimes
subject: Crimes against Humanity
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Hypocrisy
subject: illegal
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: iran’s
subject: israel
subject: israeli
subject: Justice
subject: lawbreaking’
subject: lebanon
subject: military
subject: Munitions
subject: no-go
subject: ordnance
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: than
subject: the
subject: unexploded
subject: us/israel
subject: war
subject: War Crimes
subject: World
subject: zone
description: COMMENTARY: By Sarah Leah Whitson In recent days, Israel and the United States have expressed outrage over the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian residences and infrastructure in Israel and the Gulf by Iranian forces. They have cited the illegality of such attacks, urged global condemnation, and demanded that human rights organisations speak
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Sarah Leah Whitson In recent days, Israel and the United States have expressed outrage over the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian residences and infrastructure in Israel and the Gulf by Iranian forces. They have cited the illegality of such attacks, urged global condemnation, and demanded that human rights organisations speak out. Having spent years weakening the laws meant to protect civilians, they are now discovering that those same laws are too fragile to protect their own people. READ MORE: Trump threatens attacks on Iran power plants over Strait of Hormuz closure Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports Israeli and US officials seem unaware that the crimes they now condemn are ones they themselves have long justified as legitimate military actions. Take cluster munitions. Following Iran’s reported use of these indiscriminate weapons on March 9 around Tel Aviv, Israeli officials condemned their use in populated areas. “The Iranian regime is firing cluster bombs at Israeli civilians. Their deliberate and repeated use against civilians shows that the Iranian terror regime is seeking to maximise civilian deaths and harm,” declared Israel’s Foreign Ministry, which provided an infographic explaining how the weapon — banned by 124 countries — is inherently indiscriminate. The Pentagon echoed the criticism, with Admiral Brad Cooper, the chief of US Central Command, condemning Iran’s use of “inherently indiscriminate” cluster munitions. 4 million cluster munitions Yet in 2006 Israel fired more than four million cluster munitions into southern Lebanon, turning large swaths of the country into a no-go zone while <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/lebanon/israel-lebanon-israeli-military-clears-itself-cluster-bomb-misuse-lebanon#:~:text=Cluster%20bombs%20are%20anti-personnel,using%20them%20in%20civilian%20areas.&text=In%20August%202006%2C%20Jan%20Egeland,now%20cove…

Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-22T03:00:33Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Pearl Harbour
subject: Sources
subject: Surprise attack
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: US-Israel war machine
subject: War on Iran
subject: Analysis
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attack
subject: attacks
subject: celebrates
subject: Democracy
subject: donald trump
subject: doyle
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: eugene
subject: Featured
subject: franklin d. roosevelt
subject: Global
subject: harbour
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: japan
subject: japanese
subject: Justice
subject: machine?
subject: new zealand
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: pearl
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: surprise
subject: Syndicate
subject: trump
subject: us/israel
subject: usa
subject: war
description: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle You can’t make this stuff up. The President of the United States, while sitting next to the Japanese Prime Minister in the Oval Office, just celebrated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. When asked by a Japanese reporter on Friday why the US didn’t consult with allies before launching the surprise
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle You can’t make this stuff up. The President of the United States, while sitting next to the Japanese Prime Minister in the Oval Office, just celebrated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. When asked by a Japanese reporter on Friday why the US didn’t consult with allies before launching the surprise attack on Iran, Trump said: “One thing you don’t want is to signal too much. We went in very hard — and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.” READ MORE: Trump threatens attacks on Iran power plants over Strait of Hormuz closure Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East Donald Trump makes Pearl Harbour joke in front of Japan’s Prime Minister Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports Then, turning to Sanae Takaichi, he said: “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” Moments before, sitting on the plush lemon chair in the gold-encrusted Oval Office, Takaichi had been smiling from ear to ear. Trump wiped the smile off her face with one question: “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” By now the Prime Minister was squirming uncomfortably. Trump looked straight at her and said: “Okay, RIGHT? He [the journalist] is asking me, do you believe in surprise? “I think you much more so than us. And we had a surprise, and because of that surprise, we probably knocked out 50 percent — and much more than we anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about it, it is no longer a surprise.” For more than 80 years the US has claimed a moral high ground on the basis of its rejection of “sneak attacks”. In one rhetorical flourish Trump exposed the jarring desolation of what the US now stands for. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech was delivered on December 8, 1941, following Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbour the day before. Responding to ‘unprovoked’ sneak attack Roosevelt, like President Pezeshkian of Iran today, was responding to an “unprovoked” sneak attack. President Roosevelt …

The Coup, the Nakba, and the Black Rain
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creator: Michael Longenecker
date: 2026-03-22T01:29:07Z
subject: Anglo?Iranian Oil Company
subject: Bank of Israel
subject: David Talbot
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Ezra Danin
subject: General Mahmoud Afshartous
subject: Ilan Pappe
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Kermit Roosevelt
subject: Loy Henderson
subject: Mohammad Mossadegh
subject: Moshe Sharett
subject: Sources
subject: afshartous
subject: Allen Dulles
subject: and
subject: anglo?iranian
subject: bank
subject: black rain
subject: bp
subject: CIA
subject: company
subject: Coup
subject: danin
subject: david
subject: dissident
subject: Economy/Economics
subject: ezra
subject: gaza
subject: General
subject: Genocide
subject: henderson
subject: History
subject: ilan
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: kermit
subject: loy
subject: mahmoud
subject: mandate
subject: mohammad
subject: moshe
subject: mossadegh,
subject: Nakba
subject: oil
subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: Palestine
subject: pappé
subject: part
subject: pollution
subject: roosevelt
subject: sharett
subject: sources
subject: talbot
subject: the
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: war
description: Tehran’s rain turned black the other day, a fitting weather report for a civilization still drunk on the very fossil fuels it’s now setting on fire. After the first week of US–Israeli strikes on refineries and oil depots, the Iranian Red Crescent warned residents that the downpour sluicing off balconies and satellite dishes was “highly […] The post The Coup, the Nakba, and the Black Rain appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Tehran’s rain turned black the other day, a fitting weather report for a civilization still drunk on the very fossil fuels it’s now setting on fire. After the first week of US–Israeli strikes on refineries and oil depots, the Iranian Red Crescent warned residents that the downpour sluicing off balconies and satellite dishes was “highly acidic,” laced with burned hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from the great fire rings encircling the capital. People were told not to go outside, not to run their air conditioners, not to breathe too deeply beneath a sky their enemies had decided to weaponize. The footage that did leak past censors—streets running with flaming fuel, smoke columns punching into low clouds, umbrellas useless under the toxic drizzle—looked less like a modern air war than the planet trying to cough its lungs out. America did not arrive at this moment by accident, nor did Israel. A country whose secret government learned in the 1950s how to topple elected leaders over oil now targets the petroleum infrastructure of the same nation it “saved” from democracy three generations ago. And a state built on the ethnic cleansing of one people under the banner of “security” now exports that operating logic into another country’s airspace, treating a foreign capital the way it once treated the villages of the Galilee. The black rain over Tehran is more than a war crime in progress; it is blowback vaporized and condensed, falling on the city we remade and then declared irredeemable. And this new war does not start on a blank slate. It comes directly after Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, where the official ministry tallies of tens of thousands killed—many of them children and women—are now understood as only a fraction of the dead, and conservative analyses drawing on Lancet studies and UN data point to at least 115,000 people killed directly by bombs, bullets, and collapsing buildings, and more than 400,000 Palestinians dead overall1 once you cou…

Predicting the Next Phase in Iran, Trump’s War Plan, and Israel’s Plot to Sabotage It
type: item
creator: Tucker Carlson
date: 2026-03-21T21:30:23Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: dissident
subject: Interview
subject: iran
subject: israel’s
subject: next?
subject: phase
subject: plan
subject: plot
subject: Politics
subject: predicting
subject: sabotage
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump’s
subject: voice
subject: war
description: Professor Jiang Xueqin on how this war is likely to go and what happens to the world. Professor Jiang is the host of the YouTube channel ‪@PredictiveHistory‬. He studies game theory, historical patterns, and eschatology to connect the past, explain th...
encoded: Professor Jiang Xueqin on how this war is likely to go and what happens to the world. Professor Jiang is the host of the YouTube channel ‪@PredictiveHistory‬. He studies game theory, historical patterns, and eschatology to connect the past, explain the present, and predict the future. The post Predicting the Next Phase in Iran, Trump’s War Plan, and Israel’s Plot to Sabotage It appeared first on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Tucker Carlson.

Marshall Islands govt slashes income tax as living costs skyrocket
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-21T18:21:32Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Basic incomes
subject: Cost of fuel
subject: Extraordinary Needs Distribution
subject: Impacts on Pacific
subject: Income tax
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: War on Iran
subject: ‘extraordinary
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacks
subject: basic
subject: cost
subject: Cost of living
subject: costs
subject: distribution
subject: economics
subject: Featured
subject: fossil fuels
subject: fuel
subject: Global
subject: govt?
subject: impacts
subject: income
subject: incomes
subject: iran
subject: islands
subject: Living
subject: marshall
subject: Marshall Islands
subject: military
subject: needs
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: skyrocket
subject: slashes
subject: sources
subject: Tax
subject: us/israel
subject: war
description: By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent The Marshall Islands Parliament this week endorsed legislation reducing income taxes for all working people in the country in a move to mitigate to some degree the soaring costs of living from the war that the US and Israel launched against Iran last month. Bill 103,
encoded: By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent The Marshall Islands Parliament this week endorsed legislation reducing income taxes for all working people in the country in a move to mitigate to some degree the soaring costs of living from the war that the US and Israel launched against Iran last month. Bill 103, introduced by Finance Minister David Paul earlier this week, exempted the first US$8320 in a person’s salary from withholding tax. This means that for people earning this amount or more, they will have over US$600 more net income on an annual basis. “This is a monumental day for the people of the Marshall Islands,” Paul told the Marshall Islands Journal in an interview after the legislation was passed. READ MORE: Other US-Israeli war on Iran impacts on the Pacific He said the new law “will provide some relief to people” in view of the escalating costs of fuel that are affecting every part of life in the Marshall Islands. The bill was introduced on the last day of parliament meetings for the current session, and passed on the same day in order to trigger a fast response to skyrocketing costs. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--tPF2Vvek--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050/v1773955096/4JRIZ5K_Fuel_prices_skyrocket_Marshall_Islands_Riwut_Corner_fuel_station_3_19_2026_gj_IMG_2621_jpeg?_a=BACCd2AD" alt="The price of gas and diesel in the Marshall Islands has skyrocketed in the three weeks since the US and Israel attacked Iran" width="1050" height="787" /> The price of gas and diesel in the Marshall Islands has skyrocketed in the three weeks since the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran, leaping from about US$6.80 per gallon to US$7.65 for gas, and from US$6.60 per gallon to $8.25 for diesel, as shown at the Riwut Corner fuel station in Image: Giff Johnson/RNZ Pacific The new law will be implemented in April, reducing the income tax burden on working people. …

Report from Beirut: Growing internal division in Lebanon under Israel’s assault
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date: 2026-03-21T17:30:12Z
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The U.S.-Israel Axis
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-03-21T17:11:38Z
subject: Ralph Nader
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description: Ralph welcomes international human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber to discuss the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran. Then, Ralph speaks to investigative reporter David Cay Johnston about the finances of Donald Trump.Craig Mokhiber is an international ...
encoded: Ralph welcomes international human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber to discuss the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran. Then, Ralph speaks to investigative reporter David Cay Johnston about the finances of Donald Trump. Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and activist, and a former senior United Nations human rights official. A human rights activist in the 1980s, he would go on to serve for more than three decades at the United Nations, with postings in Switzerland, Palestine, Afghanistan, and UN Headquarters in New York. In October of 2023, he left the United Nations, penning a widely read letter criticizing the UN’s human rights failures in the Middle East, warning of unfolding genocide in Gaza, and calling for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on international law, human rights, and equality. Anyone who pays attention knows that Iran wasn’t attacked because it has nuclear weapons. It was attacked because it doesn’t have nuclear weapons, and was therefore viewed by Israel and the U.S. as being a state that could be overcome militarily. But what really is, I think, most telling about this is the hypocrisy of the claims, because the only party in the region that has stockpiles of nuclear weapons (which are entirely undeclared and unsupervised) is the Israeli regime, not the Iranian. And the Israeli regime was joined in attacking Iran by another nuclear power—the United States. Craig Mokhiber Israel (which has attacked the United Nations throughout its entire life and declared that the United Nations is an anti-Semitic terror organization) fights like hell to stay in the United Nations, pays its dues every year to make sure that it stays in…and renews its treaty obligations as a member of the United Nations (that, of course, it violates with impunity). So it’s very funny that Israel calls the UN an anti-Semitic terror organization, yet it insists on being a member and paying its dues to fund that so-called anti-Semitic terror organization.…

Inside the Trump-MAGA Effort to Rig the Midterm Elections: Ari Berman
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-03-21T16:08:32Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Trump and Hegseth: Two Souless Men Incapable of Remorse or Even Pity
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creator: Dave Lindorff
date: 2026-03-21T15:14:40Z
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description: Some of the crew of the sunken Dena being prepared in Iran for a mass public funeral. (Iran government photo) Right at the launching of the US and Israeli war on Iran, itself a major war crime, the US fired a precision strike with a Tomahawk missile on an elementary school building. Some 160 girls […] The post Trump and Hegseth: Two Souless Men Incapable of Remorse or Even Pity appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Modern Day Israel: A Poisonous Concoction for Most Outsiders
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creator: Jimmy Coleman
date: 2026-03-21T14:55:11Z
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description: Think of modern day Israel as a bowl filled with a mixture of ingredients, a few complementary, like salt and pepper. Other ingredients, however, like the intermingling of Zionism and Talmudic Judaism, while favorable to many family members who grew up among its ranks, it proves unpalatable for most outsiders. Mixed together, the concoction grows […] The post Modern Day Israel: A Poisonous Concoction for Most Outsiders appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Think of modern day Israel as a bowl filled with a mixture of ingredients, a few complementary, like salt and pepper. Other ingredients, however, like the intermingling of Zionism and Talmudic Judaism, while favorable to many family members who grew up among its ranks, it proves unpalatable for most outsiders. Mixed together, the concoction grows tentacles intertwined with the curse of Medusa, a vicious monster sporting writhing serpents in place of hair, fanged teeth and a face so hideous that the mere sight of her was sufficient to turn a man to stone. Edward Said, in his Forward to Israel Shahak’s, book, Jewish History – Jewish Religion, said: the difference between him and most other Israelis was that he made the connections between Zionism, Judaism, and repressive practices against ‘non-Jews’; and of course he drew the conclusions… unlike most others he does not allow the horrors of the Holocaust to manipulate the truth of what in the name of the Jewish people Israel has done to the Palestinians. For him, suffering is not the exclusive possession of one group of victims; it should instead be, but rarely is the basis for humanizing the victims, making it incumbent on them not to cause suffering of the kind that they suffered. [Shahak was a Holocaust victim and survivor himself] In 1903, the British government offered 6,000 square miles of Uganda for the creation of an Israeli state. Actually several proposals were considered for the creation of a Jewish homeland located outside The Middle East. In the pre-Zionist era, Ararat City (U.S.) and Suriname, South America were considered, neither being chosen. In the 20th century, possible places taken under consideration were Madagascar, Tasmania, Australia and two locations in the USSR, Birobidzhan in Russia’s Far East near the border with China and Crimea but in the end the Zionists held out for Palestine. The victory of Nazism ruled out assimilation and mixed marriages as an option for Jews when they were being forc…

Iran’s Asymmetrical War Persists Against Hegemony
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creator: Renee Parsons
date: 2026-03-21T14:14:47Z
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subject: Hypersonic missiles
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Nuremberg War Crime Trials
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school
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description: On February 28, US President Donald Trump launched a joint airstrike with Israel to target the country of Iran. That attack was unconstitutional, illegal, in violation of Article 51 of the UN Charter, which is an instrument of international law. The US attack, dubbed Epic Fury, was also an unprovoked war of aggression which the […] The post Iran’s Asymmetrical War Persists Against Hegemony appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: On February 28, US President Donald Trump launched a joint airstrike with Israel to target the country of Iran. That attack was unconstitutional, illegal, in violation of Article 51 of the UN Charter, which is an instrument of international law. The US attack, dubbed Epic Fury, was also an unprovoked war of aggression which the Nuremberg War Crime Trials defined in 1945 as a war crime. Iran’s response within hours was focused and far exceeded expectations with its precision guided hypersonic Fattah 2 system which is technologically superior and outpaces the Israel-US response. The Iran response exceeded whatever Iron Dome protection Israel assumed was in place. Within that first day, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in his office with his family and hours later 165 students (age 6 -12) were killed by a double tap Tomahawk missile strike in the Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school in Teheran; thereby adding potential war crimes to the US-Israel war. In response to the President’s air strike, Sen. Tim Caine (D-Va0 offered a War Powers Resolution vote which was defeated 53-47 with Sen. Rand Paul (Ky) the only Republican Senator ito support the Resolution. The next day, the House of Representatives also defeated a War Powers Resolution on a 212 -219 vote with two Republicans Rep. Tom Massie (R-Ky) and Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) voting in support. The Resolutions would have “removed United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.” In addition, on March 5, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla) Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sponsored HR 1099 which affirmed US policy that Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. The vote was 372 – 53 with all Republicans voting Aye and 53 Democrats voting No. This might be qualify as the pot calling the kettle black. In other words, if the Congress had the wisdom to adopt a War Power Resolution, the situation with Iran might not…

The Age of Human Arrogance, Part V
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creator: Sammy Attoh
date: 2026-03-21T13:50:35Z
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description: The earth has always been the first witness and the last survivor. Long before humanity learned to write its own history, the soil was already keeping record. Every drought, every flood, every migration, every extinction — all of it is stored in the quiet memory of the land. The earth does not forget. It cannot […] The post The Age of Human Arrogance, Part V appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The earth has always been the first witness and the last survivor. Long before humanity learned to write its own history, the soil was already keeping record. Every drought, every flood, every migration, every extinction — all of it is stored in the quiet memory of the land. The earth does not forget. It cannot forget. It carries the imprint of every choice humanity has made, especially the choices we pretend were harmless. Human beings, however, have perfected the art of forgetting. We forget the lessons our ancestors paid for with their lives. We forget the warnings carved into the ruins of fallen civilizations. We forget the cost of greed, the price of arrogance, the consequences of treating the world as though it were disposable. We forget because forgetting is convenient. The earth remembers because remembering is survival. Every generation believes it is the first to face crisis, yet the patterns are ancient. Civilizations collapse not because they lack intelligence, but because they refuse to learn from the scars beneath their feet. The soil remembers the empires that exhausted their land. The rivers remember the cities that poisoned their own water. The forests remember the societies that cut down their future to feed their present. Humanity behaves as though memory were optional. But the earth’s memory is not a metaphor — it is a ledger. And that ledger is beginning to speak. It speaks in the shifting seasons that no longer follow their old rhythms. It speaks in coastlines that retreat inch by inch. It speaks in storms that grow angrier each year. It speaks in the silence of species that will never return. These are not mysteries. They are messages. They are the earth’s way of saying: “I warned you. I showed you. I remembered for you.” But humanity refuses to listen because listening requires humility. It requires acknowledging that the world is not an endless resource but a fragile inheritance. It requires accepting that our actions echo far beyond our lif…

Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the War on Iran, and the Antisemitism Smear
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-03-21T13:38:22Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Ilan Goldenberg
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subject: J street
subject: John J. Mearsheimer
subject: National Counterterrorism Center
subject: Nick Fuentes
subject: Sources
subject: Stephen M. Walt
subject: Taylor Budowich
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subject: aipac
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subject: Antisemitism
subject: budowich
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subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
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subject: goldenberg
subject: ilan
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subject: joe”:
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subject: kent
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subject: Palestine
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subject: the
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description: Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals. As a combat veteran of MAGA pedigree, he found favour with President Donald J. Trump, who rewarded him for his conspiracy blustering in a manner befitting other nominees baptised in the truth repelling River of […] The post Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the War on Iran, and the Antisemitism Smear appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals. As a combat veteran of MAGA pedigree, he found favour with President Donald J. Trump, who rewarded him for his conspiracy blustering in a manner befitting other nominees baptised in the truth repelling River of Fox News. But the mindless adventurism in attacking Iran in league with Israel was a step too far. In his resignation letter, Kent asserted that he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Till June 2025, the President had “understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.” Then came the machinations of “high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media” with their “misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran.” From there came the “echo chamber” that deceived Trump “into believing Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory.” The same tactics had been used by Israel in drawing the US “into the disastrous Iraq War that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.” Israel comes in for a further lashing for having left its personal mark on Kent’s life. “As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.” The portrait of Kent is an unremittingly spiky and jarring one. Even before the resignation, he was al…

Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due
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creator: Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360
date: 2026-03-21T13:00:00Z
subject: Grist
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subject: get
subject: life
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subject: their
description: As efforts to study and conserve fungi expand, researchers say a "shroom boom" is underway.
encoded: Agarikon is one of two endangered species of fungi in the United States. So rare is the species that scientists have placed samples of it in a biobank facility for safekeeping at the San Diego Zoo, in the hopes that it can be propagated and one day reintroduced to the wild should its numbers continue to decline. Agarikon, also known as quinine conk, is a large round or semicircular shelf fungus that grows on the bark of old growth conifers in forests around the world. Two thousand years ago a Greek physician called agarikon “an elixir of long life.” For centuries it has been used to treat tuberculosis, rheumatism, asthma, cancer, and inflammation, among other maladies. Research confirms the fungus has robust healing properties: It contains powerful antimicrobial, antiviral, and anti-cancer compounds. It has also recently been found to potentially reduce side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine and enhance immunity. Yet the species’ future is in doubt. “In the past hundred years, it declined 70 percent, and we don’t have evidence that decline is stopping,” said Jessica Allen, lead mycologist with NatureServe, a Virginia-based nonprofit concerned with biodiversity protection. “The Pacific Northwest is the last stronghold.” Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MS-04.-Credit-Tomas-Munita-The-mycorrhizal-mushroom-Cortinarius-sp.-emerges-from-a-hyper-diverse-but-hidden-underground-fungal-community-in-Tierra-de-Fuego-Chile.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MS-04.-Credit-Tomas-Munita-The-mycorrhizal-mushroom-Cortinarius-sp.-emerges-from-a-hyper-diverse-but-hidden-underground-fungal-community-in-Tierra-de-Fuego-Chile.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MS-04.-Credit-Tomas-Munita-The-mycorrhizal-mushroom-Cortinarius-sp.-emerges-from-a-hyper-diverse-but-hidden-underground-fungal-community-in-Tierra-de-Fuego-Chile.jpg?resize=1200%…

End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global economy
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-21T12:17:32Z
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subject: Middle East war
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subject: Petrodollars
subject: Sources
subject: South Pars gas field
subject: US-Israel attacks
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subject: Asia Report
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subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: Democracy
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subject: economics
subject: economy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: end
subject: Energy
subject: Featured
subject: field
subject: gas
subject: Global
subject: gulf
subject: how
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Innovation
subject: Interview
subject: iran
subject: middle
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subject: now
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subject: Pacific
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subject: petrodollars
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description: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Global oil and natural gas prices are soaring after Israel bombed a massive natural gas reserve in Iran, the largest in the world. Iran retaliated by twice attacking the world’s largest liquid natural gas production facility, located in Qatar.
encoded: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Global oil and natural gas prices are soaring after Israel bombed a massive natural gas reserve in Iran, the largest in the world. Iran retaliated by twice attacking the world’s largest liquid natural gas production facility, located in Qatar. Iran also attacked key energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. At one point, the price of oil reached US$118 a barrel, a 60 percent jump since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. READ MORE: US-Israel attack Iran’s Natanz nuclear site as Diego Garcia base targeted Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East Trump says no ceasefire as Khamenei tells of ‘dizzying blow’ to US, Israel Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports In a post online, Trump threatened to blow up the entire South Pars gas field if Iran continued to target the Qatari facility. Trump also claimed the US, “knew nothing” about the Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field, but The Wall Street Journal reports Trump approved the strike to pressure Iran to open up the critical Strait of Hormuz. AMY GOODMAN: About 20 percent of the world’s oil exports flows through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump has asked other countries to send warships to help force open the strait, but many nations are rejecting the request. We’re joined now by Laleh Khalili, professor of Gulf studies at University of Exeter and the author of several books, including her latest, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy. She also wrote Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. Professor Khalili, thanks so much for being with us. Can you start off by talking about the state of the Strait of Hormuz right now, its closure; President Trump, according to Reuters, perhaps sending in thousands of troops, what exactly this means; and the Israeli bombing of the South…

Here’s What You Need To Know About Reparatory Justice
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-03-21T11:00:45Z
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subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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Wenda condemns ‘cruel’ arbitrary arrests of West Papuans in Tambrauw
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-21T03:59:30Z
subject: Arbitrary arrests
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
subject: Indigenous communities
subject: Indonesian colonialism
subject: Indonesian torture
subject: Sources
subject: Tambrauw
subject: arbitrary
subject: arrests
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Benny Wenda
subject: Colonialism
subject: communities
subject: condemns
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subject: Decolonisation
subject: Development
subject: euro-med
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: human
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: indonesia
subject: Indonesian
subject: Justice
subject: military
subject: monitor
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pacific Voices
subject: Papuans
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: rights
subject: Security
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subject: tambrauw
subject: Torture
subject: TPNPB
subject: ULMWP
subject: United Liberation Movement for West Papua
subject: wenda
subject: west
subject: West Papua
subject: West Papua human rights
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description: Asia Pacific Report An exiled leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has condemned Indonesia’s “cruel and humiliating” arbitrary arrest of 12 West Papuan local farmers in Tambrauw Regency this week and has demanded their release. According to Human Rights Monitor, the arrests took place on March 18, after Indonesia conducted military
encoded: Asia Pacific Report An exiled leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has condemned Indonesia’s “cruel and humiliating” arbitrary arrest of 12 West Papuan local farmers in Tambrauw Regency this week and has demanded their release. According to Human Rights Monitor, the arrests took place on March 18, after Indonesia conducted military operations in the Fef and Bamus Bama districts. People were dragged out of their homes, tortured, and detained without any warrants or explanation. READ MORE: West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid Other West Papua reports “This is how Indonesia treats West Papuans, as less than human,” said ULMWP interim president Benny Wenda in a statement. “The 12 men arrested in Tambrauw have been labelled TPNPB [West Papua National Liberation Army] and stigmatised as terrorists and criminals by the Indonesian colonisers. “But who is the real terrorist? These men are the customary landowners, simply defending their forest, their homes, from the military who come to destroy everything.” Wenda said the Indigenous people had been living there for thousands of years — “long before Indonesia invaded and stole our sovereignty.” He added: “They didn’t go to Jakarta; Indonesia came to them with bombs and guns.” Indonesia ‘stolen our resources’ Wenda asked who was the real criminal. “The people of Tambrauw have been tending their gardens in peace for generations. It is Indonesia who has come and stolen our resources, torn down our forest to plant rice and sugar so people in Jakarta can eat. “There is no real development in West Papua, only business for Indonesia.” Wenda said that when he looked at the pictures of the arrested Papuans with their hands tied, forced face down on a police station floor, he saw his own people. “They represent all West Papuans — humiliated and degraded in their own land.” Wenda said Indonesia could never defeat the Papuan spirit. “You can arrest us, torture us…

Wenda condemns ‘cruel’ arbitrary arrests of West Papuans in Tambrauw
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description: Asia Pacific Report An exiled leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has condemned Indonesia’s “cruel and humiliating” arbitrary arrest of 12 West Papuan local farmers in Tambrauw Regency this week and has demanded their release. According to Human Rights Monitor, the arrests took place on March 18, after Indonesia conducted military
encoded: Asia Pacific Report An exiled leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has condemned Indonesia’s “cruel and humiliating” arbitrary arrest of 12 West Papuan local farmers in Tambrauw Regency this week and has demanded their release. According to Human Rights Monitor, the arrests took place on March 18, after Indonesia conducted military operations in the Fef and Bamus Bama districts. People were dragged out of their homes, tortured, and detained without any warrants or explanation. READ MORE: West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid Other West Papua reports “This is how Indonesia treats West Papuans, as less than human,” said ULMWP interim president Benny Wenda in a statement. “The 12 men arrested in Tambrauw have been labelled TPNPB [West Papua National Liberation Army] and stigmatised as terrorists and criminals by the Indonesian colonisers. “But who is the real terrorist? These men are the customary landowners, simply defending their forest, their homes, from the military who come to destroy everything.” Wenda said the Indigenous people had been living there for thousands of years — “long before Indonesia invaded and stole our sovereignty.” He added: “They didn’t go to Jakarta; Indonesia came to them with bombs and guns.” Indonesia ‘stolen our resources’ Wenda asked who was the real criminal. “The people of Tambrauw have been tending their gardens in peace for generations. It is Indonesia who has come and stolen our resources, torn down our forest to plant rice and sugar so people in Jakarta can eat. “There is no real development in West Papua, only business for Indonesia.” Wenda said that when he looked at the pictures of the arrested Papuans with their hands tied, forced face down on a police station floor, he saw his own people. “They represent all West Papuans — humiliated and degraded in their own land.” Wenda said Indonesia could never defeat the Papuan spirit. “You can arrest us, torture us…

Address Affordability, Give Farmers a Chance
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creator: Anthony Pahnke
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description: Farmers know that planning is key to their future., but their government continually undercuts them. Instead of working against farmers, our policymakers ought to change course and partner with them in making some critical additions to the Farm Bill.
encoded: Farmers know that planning is key to their future., but their government continually undercuts them. Instead of working against farmers, our policymakers ought to change course and partner with them in making some critical additions to the Farm Bill. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Anthony Pahnke.

Israel – the parasite state sabotaging peace in the Middle East
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description: COMMENTARY: By Marcus Alexander In a stunning resignation that has sent shockwaves through Washington, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has exposed what many have long suspected but few have dared to state publicly — Israel is systematically undermining peace in the Middle East to serve its own expansionist agenda. Joe Kent, a 20-year
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Marcus Alexander In a stunning resignation that has sent shockwaves through Washington, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has exposed what many have long suspected but few have dared to state publicly — Israel is systematically undermining peace in the Middle East to serve its own expansionist agenda. Joe Kent, a 20-year Army Special Forces veteran and Gold Star husband who lost his first wife in a Syria suicide bombing, didn’t mince words. His accusation is simple yet devastating: Israel is intentionally sabotaging diplomatic solutions because peace threatens its strategic objectives. The most compelling evidence supporting Kent’s claim is the targeted assassination of Ali Larijani, Iran’s National Security Adviser and chief nuclear negotiator. READ MORE: Trump says no ceasefire as Khamenei tells of ‘dizzying blow’ to US, Israel Ian Powell: Iran, US imperialism and the New Zealand lapdog US counterterror chief says in resignation letter Israel ‘deceived’ Trump into attacking Iran Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports According to Kent, Larijani wasn’t just another Iranian official — he was actively engaged in negotiations that could have de-escalated regional tensions. “Larijani was eager to get us a deal,” Kent revealed in an interview with Tucker Carlson. But instead of pursuing diplomacy, US-Israeli strikes eliminated him, along with his son and several staff members. The message could not be clearer — anyone willing to negotiate for peace becomes a target. This wasn’t just another military operation. Larijani represented the pragmatic wing of the Iranian establishment — someone capable of conducting the sorts of talks needed to end conflicts. By eliminating him, Israel ensured that the path to negotiation was closed, leaving only the path of escalation. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-125329 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ali-Larijani-Wikip-300tall.png" alt…

ICE’s War on People with Disabilities
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creator: Ed Rampell
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description: 'ICE: No One Is Safe' is a new short documentary by Robert Greenwald that relates shocking abuses and courageous responses.
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ICE’s War on People with Disabilities
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description: 'ICE: No One Is Safe' is a new short documentary by Robert Greenwald that relates shocking abuses and courageous responses.
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Northern Mariana Islands’ security and stability vital for US, say military leaders
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description: By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands’ (CNMI) economic struggles are not just a local issue, but a matter of strategic importance to American operations in the Indo-Pacific, say senior US military leaders. In a letter, dated 25 February 2026, Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of
encoded: By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands’ (CNMI) economic struggles are not just a local issue, but a matter of strategic importance to American operations in the Indo-Pacific, say senior US military leaders. In a letter, dated 25 February 2026, Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command, said he shared concerns raised by CNMI leaders about worsening economic conditions and their broader implications. “The security and stability of the CNMI are of vital strategic importance,” Paparo wrote, warning that the islands’ civilian infrastructure and community wellbeing were “inextricably linked” to the US military’s ability to operate in the region. READ MORE: Other US military in the Pacific reports He said he had directed staff to analyse proposals put forward by CNMI officials, but noted the requested federal actions fall outside his authority. Paparo said he would elevate the issues to agencies including State, Commerce, Transportation and Homeland Security. Paparo also backed calls for direct engagement with the White House, saying he supported “an executive-level dialogue with the Administration” and was prepared to take part. “We are committed to the security and prosperity of the CNMI,” he said. Expanding US presence At the same time, military officials say an expanding US presence across the Marianas could provide longer-term economic opportunities — though not an immediate fix. Speaking at a Saipan Chamber of Commerce forum on March 11, Rear-Admiral Brett Meitus of Joint Region Marianas said more than US$500 million in projects were underway, with additional development planned, particularly on Tinian. “It’s going to happen over the course of several years . . . we just don’t have the capacity to do it all at once,” he said. Meitus said the military was trying to move beyond a short-term construction surge toward a longer cycle of “build, sustain, and o…

The Worsening Trump DUMP, Trump SLUMP, Trump PUMP, and Trump WARS
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description: By Ralph Nader March 20, 2026 Unstable Tyrant Trump is running out of lies, fantasies, and promises to break. An NBC interview of a Pennsylvania woman next to a gas station signals the trend. The reporter asked her what she would say to President Trump...
encoded: By Ralph Nader March 20, 2026 Unstable Tyrant Trump is running out of lies, fantasies, and promises to break. An NBC interview of a Pennsylvania woman next to a gas station signals the trend. The reporter asked her what she would say to President Trump. She answered: “You are a worthless pile of s—”. He… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

Fewer Detainees and Restricted Video Calls at Immigration Center
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What a Mamdani Victory Signals for the Nation [Rewind – Full Uncut Conversation]
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CPJ welcomes ruling on Pentagon access in favor of the New York Times
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description: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is heartened by a United States District Court decision on Friday in the case of New York Times v. Pentagon, in which the judge decided in favor of the newspaper, and calls on the Pentagon to heed the court’s decision and abandon last year’s changes to...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is heartened by a United States District Court decision on Friday in the case of New York Times v. Pentagon, in which the judge decided in favor of the newspaper, and calls on the Pentagon to heed the court’s decision and abandon last year’s changes to its credentialing process. In the ruling, the court wrote that given recent U.S. military involvement in Venezuela and Iran, “it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing.” “This ruling in favor of the New York Times is an important step in restoring journalists’ access to the Pentagon. As the court noted, recent United States military activity in Venezuela and Iran make journalists’ access all the more critical,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “While the news media and journalists in the United States are facing unprecedented pressures, it is vital that the courts uphold freedom of the press as they did today.” The Defense Department introduced a new accreditation policy in September 2025 and updated it in October allowing the Department to deny or revoke a Pentagon press pass when a journalist reports on information beyond what the agency has approved for public release. On October 15, the vast majority of Pentagon reporters gave up their credentials in response to the restrictions. The New York Times filed its suit in December 2025. CPJ joined an amicus brief, authored by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), in support of the New York Times’s lawsuit against the United States Department of Defense’s recent restrictions on press access to the Pentagon. The brief argues that the freedom for reporters to ask questions of military personnel is crucial to reporting in the public interest. It also outlines how the new policy pressures reporters to tailor coverage out of fear of reprisal from Pe…

Ecuadorian journalist shot after receiving reported false news tip
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date: 2026-03-20T21:16:50Z
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description: Bogotá, March 20, 2026—Ecuadorian authorities must swiftly and comprehensively investigate the shooting of journalist José Vinces Oviedo in the southern city of Huaquillas and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “We urge authorities to swiftly and credibly investigate the shooting of journalist José Vinces Oviedo in Huaquillas, determine whether the attack...
encoded: Bogotá, March 20, 2026—Ecuadorian authorities must swiftly and comprehensively investigate the shooting of journalist José Vinces Oviedo in the southern city of Huaquillas and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “We urge authorities to swiftly and credibly investigate the shooting of journalist José Vinces Oviedo in Huaquillas, determine whether the attack was linked to his reporting, and hold those responsible to account,” said José Zamora, CPJ’s Regional Director for the Americas. After he received a news tip about the discovery of two human skulls in a graveyard, Vinces went to the Huaquillas cemetery on Tuesday where two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at him. Vinces was wounded in the stomach but told CPJ that his microphone helped stop the bullet and that he had been treated and released Wednesday from a Huaquillas clinic. “They shot at me 10 times but thank god I was only struck by one of the bullets,” Vinces told CPJ. Huaquillas police chief Diego Chávez told reporters that Vinces had been tricked into going to the cemetery by a false news tip and that a cemetery worker had also been wounded in the shooting. Vinces, 44, is the founder of Vinces TV, which transmits news about Huanquillas on Facebook, YouTube and Tik Tok. He often reports on crime and local government corruption and is a frequent critic of Huaquillas Mayor Florencio Farez. CPJ sought comment from the Ecuador Attorney General’s office on the status of the investigation into the attack but there was no immediate response. The attack on Vinces occurred amid a crime wave in Ecuador that prompted authorities on Wednesday to declare a state of exception and an 11 p.m. curfew in four of the country’s provinces and to dispatch 65,000 police and army troops to the zone, which includes Huaquillas. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

"Mamdani is changing the world. And that’s why the mainstream media is going after him." [EXCERPT]
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Pete Hegseth’s War on Journalists (and Iran Too)
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creator: Pete Tucker
date: 2026-03-20T20:24:04Z
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description: As the US and Israel’s war on Iran continues to worsen, Hegseth’s attacks on the media have also escalated.
encoded: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to be in the midst of two conflicts, one…in Iran, and the other with the American free press over its coverage of the widening Middle East war. —MS NOW‘s Sydney Carruth (3/13/26) Last fall, nearly the entire Pentagon press corps was banned from the Pentagon after refusing to sign Pete Hegseth’s loyalty oath, which would have bound them to only report information “authorized” by the government (FAIR.org, 9/23/25). They were quickly replaced by pundits from Hegseth-approved outlets like One America News, Gateway Pundit and Lindell TV, which is “Pillow Guy” Mike Lindell’s pet project. But once the Iran War got underway, it dawned on Hegseth that a Defense secretary needs to communicate with the whole country, not just the narrow slice of it reached by his favorite right-wing pundits. So Hegseth reversed course, asking the major networks to bring their cameras back to the Pentagon. They agreed, but on one condition: Some of their reporters had to be allowed to return to the press briefing room, too. So back they came, albeit now at the back of the room. Few of these reporters—who represent outlets you’ve actually heard of, like ABC, NBC and the New York Times—are called on. Hegseth, a former Fox News weekend host, instead fields questions almost exclusively from handpicked media personalities seated in the front rows. (I’d call them reporters, but if they signed Hegseth’s 2025 oath, as most did, they’re anything but.) ‘Typical gotcha-type question’ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (CNN, 3/4/26) suggests the deaths of US servicemembers should not be “front-page news”: “When a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad.” When Hegseth stepped to the podium for his first Iran War press briefing on March 2, there was a lot on the line. A skeptical American public wanted to know why President Trump had just launched another regime-change war, the very …

The Equity Docket: Who Gets to Vote and Be Counted
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creator: Terrance Sullivan
date: 2026-03-20T19:58:00Z
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description: An insidious strategy to suppress the voting power of minoritized groups is becoming increasingly prevalent.
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The Equity Docket: Who Gets to Vote and Be Counted
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creator: Terrance Sullivan
date: 2026-03-20T19:58:00Z
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description: An insidious strategy to suppress the voting power of minoritized groups is becoming increasingly prevalent.
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TV news vehicle vandalized, window broken at LA immigration protest
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-03-20T18:44:51Z
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description: A KTTV news van was graffitied and its window smashed by two people attending an immigration rights protest in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 31, 2026.The demonstration was held a day after nationwide protests and also followed similar protests in Mi...
encoded: A KTTV news van was graffitied and its window smashed by two people attending an immigration rights protest in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 31, 2026. The demonstration was held a day after nationwide protests and also followed similar protests in Minnesota, where federal officers had shot and killed two U.S. citizens. In LA, sweeping immigration enforcement has continued since June. In a broadcast showing video of the incident, Justin O’Brien, a KTTV photographer in the station’s helicopter, described how he watched as a person at the protest broke one of the van’s windows. The video then showed another person opening the driver-side door. “Somebody came up with a rock, smashed the passenger-side window, and then went to the front of the vehicle and started graffitiing it,” he said. “And then tried to actually get in the vehicle. Luckily, the vehicle was not running or had a key in it.” One of the station’s photographers was loading his equipment in the back of the van at the time, according to O’Brien. He said the photographer was able to get in the car and drive away. “He does not appear to have suffered any physical injuries from the person, although the person was in his face,” O’Brien said. “Just a very, very scary time there.” Also that day, a KTTV photographer had the cord of his camera cut and microphone stolen by individuals at the protest. It’s unclear if it was the same cameraman who was seen at the news van. At a police commission meeting Feb. 3, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell detailed incidents of the night, mentioning the department received a report that night for vandalism to a news vehicle, but did not say if the department made an arrest. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

The Lies That Sell the Iran War
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date: 2026-03-20T18:44:28Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 20, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Trump’s War Against the American People – TEASER
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-20T17:53:00Z
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description: Across America, people are waking up to the fact that Donald Trump has always been exactly who he said he was: a serial con man propped up by white grievance, impunity, and a media that normalized his crimes. Trump fears accountability. The question is whether we are prepared for what he and his allies may do to avoid it in the 2026 midterms. Trump's push for the SAVE Act and the broader assault on voting rights should be understood for what it is: a strategy to stay in power by any means necessary. Voter suppression, disinformation, dark money, and foreign interference are ongoing. If Romania could challenge a compromised election and protect its democracy, America can stop pretending "moving on" is any sort of plan. We need election protection infrastructure now. Call your secretary of state. Ask what they are doing to protect the integrity of the 2026 vote. Stay defiant. Build power. And join us at Gaslit Nation as we keep asking the questions too many in power still refuse to face. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Become a Democracy Defender at Patreon.com/Gaslit Show Notes: American Carnage by Sasha Abramsky https://orbooks.com/catalog/american-carnage/ Opening clip: https://bsky.app/profile/andreachalupa.bsky.social/post/3mhc7boslv22w The Target boycott is still on! Georgia Forts explains the confusion: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVw6K39DtEd/?igsh=MTV6dXE0N3gydTZnYw== Sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump – a timeline This article is more than 1 year old A list of the accusations made against Donald Trump between the 1980s and 2013, all of which he has denied https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-timeline E. Jean Carroll asks Supreme Court to reject Trump's request to …
encoded: Across America, people are waking up to the fact that Donald Trump has always been exactly who he said he was: a serial con man propped up by white grievance, impunity, and a media that normalized his crimes. Trump fears accountability. The question is whether we are prepared for what he and his allies may do to avoid it in the 2026 midterms. Trump's push for the SAVE Act and the broader assault on voting rights should be understood for what it is: a strategy to stay in power by any means necessary. Voter suppression, disinformation, dark money, and foreign interference are ongoing. If Romania could challenge a compromised election and protect its democracy, America can stop pretending "moving on" is any sort of plan. We need election protection infrastructure now. Call your secretary of state. Ask what they are doing to protect the integrity of the 2026 vote. Stay defiant. Build power. And join us at Gaslit Nation as we keep asking the questions too many in power still refuse to face. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Become a Democracy Defender at Patreon.com/Gaslit Show Notes: American Carnage by Sasha Abramsky https://orbooks.com/catalog/american-carnage/ Opening clip: https://bsky.app/profile/andreachalupa.bsky.social/post/3mhc7boslv22w The Target boycott is still on! Georgia Forts explains the confusion: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVw6K39DtEd/?igsh=MTV6dXE0N3gydTZnYw== Sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump – a timeline This article is more than 1 year old A list of the accusations made against Donald Trump between the 1980s and 2013, all of which he has denied https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-timeline E. Jean Carroll asks Supreme Court to reject Trump's request to …

Anti-America Street Fair in Tehran (2019)
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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How Will Corporate Lobbyists Fix Healthcare? Don’t Ask—Because You Can’t
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description: Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions.
encoded: Corporate media political reporting has always been a clubby endeavor, but a recent reporting experience suggests that the insider culture in Washington, DC, is more insular than ever. It’s often a challenge for independent media to get responses from Washington insider sources—especially on stories critical of powerful actors—but it’s become increasingly difficult even to pose the questions to those sources. Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions, as if the source is handing the truth down from on high. When I first encountered this phenomenon after returning to journalism three years ago, I assumed it was a function of the laziness and/or incompetence of individual PR hacks. In my previous life, I had written a few dozen press releases, and “who’s the contact person?” was always a key question to answer in planning media outreach. But today, a failure to offer contact information increasingly appears to be a deliberate strategy to stymie journalistic inquiry. ‘No Surprises’ unsurprising fiasco Last November, my healthcare politics online newsletter, Healing and Stealing (11/7/25), published an investigation of a national coalition of health insurers and other big businesses. The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing includes major business lobbying trade associations like the National Retail Federation, National Restaurant Association, National Association of Manufacturers and the health insurance industry trade group AHIP. Through those associations and business/labor health policy alliances, most of the largest employers in the US and many major labor unions are part of the Coalition, in alliance with the health insurance companies that sell them health plans for their employees. The Coalition lobbied for passage of the No Surprises Act. The law, passed in December 2020 and signed by President Donald Trump, limits the amount that patients have to pay out of p…

‘Beyond the pale’: general says US military will create a ‘camp’ at Gitmo to ‘deal with’ Cubans fleeing Trump blockade
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What is the SAVE Act and why is Trump pushing for it?
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In unprecedented overreach, FCC allows merger consolidating local media ownership
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date: 2026-03-20T16:53:32Z
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subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: Nexstar
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description: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026—A decision by the US broadcast regulator to approve the merger of Tegna and Nexstar broadcasting companies — in clear violation of its own norms and regulations — is a concerning sign of government sponsored media concentration in the United States, the Committee to Protect Journalists warned on Friday. The Federal...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026—A decision by the US broadcast regulator to approve the merger of Tegna and Nexstar broadcasting companies — in clear violation of its own norms and regulations — is a concerning sign of government sponsored media concentration in the United States, the Committee to Protect Journalists warned on Friday. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Justice Department on Thursday approved the sale of Tegna, which owns local television stations across the country, to rival Nexstar, who said its stations will now reach 80 percent of US households. “This highly unusual decision was made without an open process, no full FCC vote, and in blatant violation of current restrictions regarding media reach,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. The FCC said it will waive the ownership rule, but legal experts assert the agency has no authority to change the rule without action from Congress. “We have seen from our work around the world that corporate consolidation of media, especially at the local level, severely hampers access to information that is in the public interest,” Ginsberg added. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the sole Democratic Commissioner, criticized the merger and the lack of transparency in the approval process. Eight states filed a suit in federal court in California on Wednesday to block the merger. Some broadcasters believe that the deal will support the financial sustainability of local journalism, as local affiliates compete with national networks, streaming services, and social media news. The National Association of Broadcasters called the ownership cap “outdated” while not taking a specific position on the transaction. Others anticipate the merger will cause job losses for local journalists and media workers, and raise prices for consumers. Dozens of journalists have already been laid off by Nexstar in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago in anticipation of the merger. CPJ has expressed deep concern over a pattern of politiciz…

“Liberate Their Bodies From Their Souls”: The Lies That Sell the Iran War ⎹ The Intercept Briefing
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CPJ welcomes Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez’s release from ICE custody
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description: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodríguez from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop detaining journalists as a tactic to halt or discourage their reporting. Rodríguez was released Thursday evening from...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodríguez from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop detaining journalists as a tactic to halt or discourage their reporting. Rodríguez was released Thursday evening from ICE detention on a $10,000 bond after spending over two weeks in law enforcement custody. “CPJ welcomes the release of journalist Estefany Rodríguez from ICE custody. However, her detention has had a chilling effect, undermining journalists’ ability, especially local reporters, to cover their communities without fear of retaliation,” said CPJ Regional Director of the Américas Jose Zamora. “The government must uphold press freedom and ensure all journalists can work safely and without reprisal.” In a habeas petition, Rodríguez’s lawyers have argued that her detention is a violation of her First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights, and included the argument that her detention was in relation to her coverage of ICE actions in the United States. The petition is still pending, according to court documents. Rodríguez was arrested by ICE agents in Nashville on March 4, despite being in the United States legally. At the time of her detention, Rodríguez had an open asylum case and a pending green card application through her husband, who is a U.S. citizen. Rodríguez’s case points to a larger effort by the Trump administration to use immigration authorities to police speech. Atlanta-based independent journalist Mario Guevara was deported by the Department of Homeland Security last year after he was arrested while livestreaming a protest against the Trump administration. Guevara was also in the country legally at the time of his arrest. Rodríguez arrived in the U.S. in 2021 and sought asylum after facing death threats in connection with her reporting in her native Colombia. In response to Rodriguez’s dete…

Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump’s SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T15:34:33Z
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Jim Naureckas on MAGA vs. 1st Amendment, Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Justice
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description: If we cut off our ability to have a widespread public debate, whatever “solutions” we’re told “we” came up with have nothing to do with democracy.
encoded: https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). Truth Social (3/14/26) This week on CounterSpin: Those not in vigorous denial understand that we in the US are in the midst of not just “foreign” wars—today on, most prominently, Iran—but also a war against our ability to talk about it all, to dissent from it, to hear from people who have different ideas about ways forward. It doesn’t seem too much to say: If we cut off our ability to have a widespread public debate, whatever “solutions” we’re told “we” came up with have nothing to do with democracy. We’ll hear from FAIR editor Jim Naureckas about what news media could call, if only they would, “the Trump administration vs. the First Amendment.” https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320Naureckas.mp3 Just Security (3/17/26) Also on the show: US news media told us that the images of Iraqis tortured at the infamous “hard site” in Abu Ghraib have been “seared into the American consciousness.” That would imply that those US news media were genuinely interested in the horrors meted out at the Iraqi prison where the CIA and the Army committed what Wikipedia comfortably calls a “a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees.” Those media would surely want all of us “consciousness-seared” people to know what was being done to answer for it all, to bring people to account, to make sure it never, ever happened again. (That shouldn’t sound like a joke.) The Center for Constitutional Rights has been in back of the last remaining lawsuit on behalf of victims of Abu Ghraib; and, though you might not have heard about it, they won. We’ll get the update from Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260320Azmy.mp3 This content originally appeared on FAIR and wa…

The Warmongers Will Never Admit They Were Wrong And Will Never Learn From Their Mistakes
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description: Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now. “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been […] The post The Warmongers Will Never Admit They Were Wrong And Will Never Learn From Their Mistakes appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now. “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare,” Bolton posted. Can you believe this shit? Dude’s like “Hey, Trump should have known this war would be hard because people tried to warn him not to listen to me!” Motherfucker THIS WAS YOUR WAR. You were THE “bomb Iran” guy! You made it your entire personality for DECADES. Over the years, I’ve used your name, God knows how many times, whenever I needed an example of a Beltway swamp monster who’s got a throbbing hard-on for war with Iran. Now you’ve finally got it, and it’s going exactly as badly as everyone said it would, and you’re like, “Yeah, well, he should’ve known better; people tried to warn him about the Strait of Hormuz.” Fuck you. <iframe id="twitter-widget-0" class="" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=caitoz&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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…

Fear Of More Executions After Iran Hangs 3 Over Protests
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-20T15:24:43Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T15:18:43Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Middle East Danger Zones: A 2026 Update
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creator: Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan
date: 2026-03-20T15:00:40Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Petro Core
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: Capitalism
subject: core
subject: danger’
subject: dissident
subject: east
subject: Energy
subject: middle
subject: Middle East
subject: Militarism
subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: petro
subject: sources
subject: update
subject: voice
subject: war
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description: Danger Zones In February 2026, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, kickstarting a new Middle East ‘energy conflict’. And like most energy conflicts over the past half century, this one too began after the region fell into a ‘danger zone’. The notion of a danger zone was first introduced in our paper, ‘Bringing Capital […] The post Middle East Danger Zones: A 2026 Update appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Danger Zones In February 2026, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, kickstarting a new Middle East ‘energy conflict’. And like most energy conflicts over the past half century, this one too began after the region fell into a ‘danger zone’. The notion of a danger zone was first introduced in our paper, ‘Bringing Capital Accumulation Back In’ (Nitzan and Bichler 1995). We coined it to denote a period in which the Middle East is likely to experience an oil-related conflict or war and examined its implications for the region’s global political economy. Capitalism, we argued in our research, was a regime built on the capitalization of power, organized through relative pecuniary quantities and ruled by state-backed, dominant-capital coalitions. In line with this approach, we proposed that, since the late 1960s, Middle East danger zones hinged on the differential profits of dominant oil companies; that is, on whether their rate of return beats or trails the corporate average. Specifically, we claimed that when the differential profits of the oil companies are positive – namely, when they beat the average – the risk of regional conflict is low. And conversely, when their differential profits are negative – i.e., when they trail the average – the region is in a danger zone, and the risk of conflict is high. Nuts and Bolts <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-168002" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260300_bn_me_danger_zones_a_2026_update_fig_01-753x1024.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="680" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260300_bn_me_danger_zones_a_2026_update_fig_01-753x1024.jpg 753w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260300_bn_me_danger_zones_a_2026_update_fig_01-220x300.jpg 220w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260300_bn_me_danger_zones_a_2026_update_fig_01-768x1045.jpg 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/upl…

The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted
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creator: Mica Rosenberg
date: 2026-03-20T14:50:00Z
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description: The post The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The number of parents and children booked into the country’s only immigrant family detention center, in Dilley, Texas, plummeted in February by more than 75% compared with a month earlier, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by ProPublica. Between April 2025, when President Donald Trump started sending families there, and January of this year, the number of people sent into detention with their families averaged around 600 per month. In February, those so-called books-ins fell to 133. As of mid-March, they dropped again to just 54. This week there were only around 100 people in family detention at Dilley, compared with an average daily population in January of over 900, the data shows. Current and former ICE officials and lawyers with clients in Dilley said they were unable to explain the reason for the sharp decline. However, they said the shift followed weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publication of letters written by several of the detained children in which they described the conditions inside Dilley and their despair at being ripped from their homes and schools. ProPublica published several of those letters on Feb. 9 after visiting the facility — about an hour south of San Antonio — in mid-January. The letters set off a storm of outrage in Washington and across the country. They were raised in congressional hearings and pasted on posters in anti-ICE demonstrations. Rep. James Walkinshaw, a Democrat from Virginia, read the letters aloud to ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons, during a congressional hearing on Feb. 10, pressing him for answers about whether the children’s detention could cause adverse psychological effects. He pointed to one drawing by a 5-year-old Venezuelan girl named Luisanney Toloza of her family. “My son’s 5. He can’t write many words, but he can communicate through drawings like this,” Walkinshaw said, making special note of the expressions on the family’s faces. “None of the fa…

Left response to antisemitism should be to call for BDS
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creator: Gary Engler
date: 2026-03-20T14:26:22Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: South African apartheid state
subject: "The Left"
subject: African
subject: aliyah
subject: anti-semitism
subject: Antisemitism
subject: Apartheid
subject: BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement)
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description: There’s been much debate on the left around the world about how best to respond to what appears to be rising antisemitism. What, if anything, is the best response? Some argue, mostly correctly, that raising the subject amidst Israel’s genocide in Gaza, bombing many of its neighbours, etc., is an attempt to deflect attention away […] The post Left response to antisemitism should be to call for BDS appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: There’s been much debate on the left around the world about how best to respond to what appears to be rising antisemitism. What, if anything, is the best response? Some argue, mostly correctly, that raising the subject amidst Israel’s genocide in Gaza, bombing many of its neighbours, etc., is an attempt to deflect attention away from that country’s crimes. However, insofar as there has been a rise in one form of racism, let me suggest a ‘left’ solution: An effective way for governments around the world to halt the rise in antisemitism would be to apply the BDS principles towards Israel. Boycotting, divesting, and sanctioning would last until either a two-state solution was arrived at with the Palestinians or all the people living on the land Israel currently occupies were given equal rights and opportunities. Based on experience with the South African apartheid state, BDS could pressure Israel to end its military-might-makes-right, international law ignoring, colonial, racist, anti-human behaviour. That is by far the major source of increasing antisemitism today. This should not be a controversial statement, but it is for those who remain supporters of Israel despite that country becoming a pariah in most of the world. Some people, for religious, political, or pro-U.S. empire reasons, justify ongoing ethnic cleansing, apartheid policies, the destruction of Gaza, mass killing of children and women, expansion of illegal settlements, and repeated bombings of neighbouring countries. They either agree with or excuse Netanyahu’s extreme right, Jewish supremacist government that believes in the expansion of a state imposed on the people of Southwest Asia by Western powers. They attack anyone who criticizes Israel and call them antisemites. They conflate Judaism with the interests of the Israeli state. These should not be controversial statements. Israel’s current behaviour and its conflation of Judaism with that country’s actions is by far the biggest reason for a rise in …

Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T14:23:11Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: cesar’
subject: chavez
subject: Democracy
subject: dolores
subject: hinojosa,
subject: huerta,
subject: icon
subject: Labor
subject: maria
subject: now
subject: raped
subject: reveals
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 20, 2026
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No Naval Escort for Trump: US Allies and the Strait of Hormuz
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-03-20T13:03:31Z
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subject: Kaja Kallas
subject: Pine Gap joint satellite and signals intelligence facility
subject: Sources
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subject: and
subject: Australia
subject: boris
subject: Canada
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: Ed Miliband
subject: emmanuel macron
subject: escort,
subject: Europe
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subject: hormuz
subject: Intelligence
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subject: strait of hormuz
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subject: trump
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subject: voice
subject: war
description: With each dragged-out day, President Donald Trump begins to resemble a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but also of everything else. Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or […] The post No Naval Escort for Trump: US Allies and the Strait of Hormuz appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: With each dragged-out day, President Donald Trump begins to resemble a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but also of everything else. Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or dictating. The periodic announcement of the next assassination of a notable Iranian leader is trumpeted like a holy ritual. The next round of ecstatic bombing is hailed in the court as the biggest yet. But behind these gestures lies an expansive emptiness. Perhaps most telling of such emptiness is the sham of the alliance system he has sought to distance himself from even as he mocks its members. Whether it is members of NATO or allies such as Canada and Australia, Trump has been treated with scrupulous, sometimes grovelling care. Flaring tantrums and spontaneous interpretations of world politics mingle in ugly consummation. Views are contradicted in the same slurry of words. The allies can only nod. Of late, he has shown greater concern about the increasing distance shown by the Pax Americana family. Initially, almost all of them made sure not to call his administration or that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brigands for having violated the United Nations Charter in attacking Iran. Australia bolted out puffing with a condemnation of Iran for having, supposedly, a viable nuclear weapons program that needed to be eliminated. Canada and various countries in the European Union all adopted variations of the same theme, taking care to demonise Tehran for its ambitions and not, for a moment, considering what Israel and the US had done. The United Kingdom, after initial hesitation, offered the US use of its bases in bombing Iran. The grand retreat from international law seemed complete, the jungle dwellers very much in charge. This initial enthusiasm for US-Israeli adventurism began to cool. It is becoming increasingly clear that those devilish Persians are …

Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump’s SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T12:45:00Z
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subject: Sources
subject: ACT
subject: Democracy
subject: disenfranchise
subject: millions
subject: now
subject: poor
subject: rural
subject: save
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subject: targets
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subject: trans
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subject: voters’
subject: women
description: Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access t...
encoded: Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement. “Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote and pursuing this MAGA fever dream,” explains Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “It is the overarching goal of the Republican Party now to make it harder to vote.” The groups most at risk of disenfranchisement include people who have changed their names after marriage, older voters who never received birth certificates, rural voters who could find it increasingly difficult to register to vote and trans people who have changed their names or gender markers on government documents. The GOP and MAGA movement’s goal, says Imara Jones, the founder and CEO of TransLash Media, “is to enshrine anti-trans discrimination in the law, because what they’re doing is using trans people as a road test in order to try to figure out how to disenfranchise and marginalize and strip citizenship away from millions of Americans who disagree with them.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

XILAM (Ciudad de México, 2023)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-20T12:35:16Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T12:30:00Z
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description: As Israel continues to pummel Lebanon in its resumed war against the country and the Hezbollah paramilitary, we get an update from Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. “If you compare this particular war to the last one, ...
encoded: As Israel continues to pummel Lebanon in its resumed war against the country and the Hezbollah paramilitary, we get an update from Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. “If you compare this particular war to the last one, less than two years ago, what happened in the past three weeks is what happened in the past seven or eight months,” says Chehayeb, who describes masses of displaced people and fears of an imminent ground invasion. “There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country, and it doesn’t appear that these strikes will stop anytime soon.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T12:15:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: cesar’
subject: chavez
subject: Democracy
subject: dolores
subject: hinojosa,
subject: huerta,
subject: icon
subject: Labor
subject: maria
subject: now
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description: A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chavez’s history of grooming and abuse have sent shockwaves through t...
encoded: A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chavez’s history of grooming and abuse have sent shockwaves through the labor movement and California, where officials are already moving to cancel or rename public celebrations planned in his honor. Chavez is also accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95. Huerta says the assaults led to the births of two of her children. She concealed the pregnancies and had kept the children’s paternity secret until now. Huerta spoke for the first time at length about her new public disclosures in an exclusive interview with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss how Huerta is “not only coming to terms with her own assaults, [but also] coming to terms with the fact that the movement and the person who she admired as part of the movement is essentially being covered up, disappeared.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 20, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-20T12:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: Democracy
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subject: headlines
subject: march
subject: now
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description: U.S. Offensive Seeks to Reopen Strait of Hormuz as Hegseth Confirms He’s Seeking $200B for Iran War, Iran Warns of “Zero Restraint” If U.S. or Israel Attacks Energy Infrastructure Again, Death Toll from Recent Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Passes 1,000 Amid Fierce Fighting in South, Israel Reopens Rafah Crossing for Small Number of Palestinians to Seek Medicare Care Abroad, Protesters in Tel Aviv Demand Israel End Wars with Iran and Lebanon, Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting with Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, 19-Year-Old Dies of Apparent Suicide in Florida ICE Jail, Nashville Immigration Reporter Estefany Rodríguez Released on Bond, Bronx High School Student Dylan Lopez Contreras Returns to New York After 10 Months in ICE Jail, Judge Denies Asylum Claim to Family of Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-Year-Old Jailed by ICE, “They Underestimated Their Workers”: Nearly 4,000 Colorado Meatpackers Enter Fifth Day of Strike, “De-ICE These Flights!”: Immigration Activists Target NCAA Charter Airline
encoded: U.S. Offensive Seeks to Reopen Strait of Hormuz as Hegseth Confirms He's Seeking $200B for Iran War Iran Warns of "Zero Restraint" If U.S. or Israel Attacks Energy Infrastructure Again Death Toll from Recent Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Passes 1,000 Amid Fierce Fighting in South Israel Reopens Rafah Crossing for Small Number of Palestinians to Seek Medicare Care Abroad Protesters in Tel Aviv Demand Israel End Wars with Iran and Lebanon Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting with Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi 19-Year-Old Dies of Apparent Suicide in Florida ICE Jail Nashville Immigration Reporter Estefany Rodríguez Released on Bond Bronx High School Student Dylan Lopez Contreras Returns to New York After 10 Months in ICE Jail Judge Denies Asylum Claim to Family of Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-Year-Old Jailed by ICE "They Underestimated Their Workers": Nearly 4,000 Colorado Meatpackers Enter Fifth Day of Strike "De-ICE These Flights!": Immigration Activists Target NCAA Charter Airline This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-20 Friday
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encoded: Democracy Now! Friday, March 20, 2026 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

BAILES PARA SAN FRANCISCO (Real de Catorce, México)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-20T11:28:31Z
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South African journalist threatened, assaulted, robbed by municipal workers
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-20T11:15:40Z
subject: Assaulted
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subject: Moeketsi Mamane
subject: Robbed
subject: Shorné Bennie
subject: Sources
subject: The Witness
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description: Lusaka, March 20, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on South African authorities to act swiftly on a criminal case of assault, robbery, intimidation, and malicious damage to the property of two journalists covering a protest in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province for The Witness newspaper. The police have not made any arrests, The Witness’ news editor...
encoded: Lusaka, March 20, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on South African authorities to act swiftly on a criminal case of assault, robbery, intimidation, and malicious damage to the property of two journalists covering a protest in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province for The Witness newspaper. The police have not made any arrests, The Witness’ news editor Kailene Pillay told CPJ, despite the newspaper filing the case on February 25 at Pietermaritzburg Central Police Station, along with a video clip of the protesting workers. “The assault and threats against The Witness journalists are a direct attack on press freedom and the public’s right to information,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “South African authorities must act decisively to investigate and ensure those responsible are prosecuted. Impunity only encourages further violence.” The Witness newspaper reporter Shorné Bennie and photographer Moeketsi Mamane told CPJ they were standing outside a Msunduzi municipality office on February 18, covering the workers’ protest against the installation of surveillance cameras in municipal vehicles, when the protesters threw a rock at them. “They threatened us with violence,” Bennie told CPJ. “One of them forcibly grabbed my colleague’s camera and went with it inside their premises and told him to go and collect it. He threw it to the ground and damaged it.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="614" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-20-at-10.28.38-am.png?w=1024" alt="The Msunduzi municipality office premises where Mamane was assaulted on February 18." class="wp-image-575890" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-20-at-10.28.38-am.png 1430w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-20-at-10.28.38-am.png?resize=300,180 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-20-at-10.28.38-am.png?resize=768,461 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-co…

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator
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creator: Avi Asher-Schapiro
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description: The post DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the U.S. government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in 1951 and continues to test cutting-edge technology. On the agenda that day: the future of nuclear energy in the Trump era. The meeting was convened by 31-year-old lawyer Seth Cohen. Just five years out of law school, Cohen brought no significant experience in nuclear law or policy; he had just entered government through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team. As Cohen led the group through a technical conversation about licensing nuclear reactor designs, he repeatedly downplayed health and safety concerns. When staff brought up the topic of radiation exposure from nuclear test sites, Cohen broke in. “They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there,” he said. “But … there’s lots of babies,” one staffer pushed back. Babies, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups are thought to be potentially more susceptible to cancers brought on by low-level radiation exposure, and they are usually afforded greater protections. “They’ve been downwind before,” another staffer joked. “This is why we don’t use AI transcription in meetings,” another added. ProPublica reviewed records of that meeting, providing a rare look at a dramatic shift underway in one of the most sensitive domains of public policy. The Trump administration is upending the way nuclear energy is regulated, driven by a desire to dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence. Career experts have been forced out and thousands of pages of regulations are being rewritten at a sprint. A new generation of nuclear energy companies — flush with Silicon Valley cash and boasting strong political connections — wield increasing influence over policy. Figures like Cohen are forcing a “move fast and break thi…

DN! Friday, March 20, 2026
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description: Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No
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creator: Audrey Dutton
date: 2026-03-20T09:30:00Z
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description: The post As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: States were on notice from the U.S. Department of Justice that if they didn’t fall in line, the federal government would force them into compliance. It wasn’t President Donald Trump’s administration applying pressure. It was the early 1990s, and President Bill Clinton had signed the “motor voter” law requiring states to offer voter registration when someone applies for a driver’s license. Idaho, with its fiercely independent streak, didn’t want to participate. So instead of going along with the federal government’s new National Voter Registration Act, state legislators followed the recommendation of Idaho’s top election officials and scrambled for a way out. Because the federal voter law said states with same-day voter registration could be exempt, Idaho lawmakers passed a bill almost unanimously, with full support from Republicans, to adopt same-day registration. Idaho’s chief deputy secretary of state at the time, Ben Ysursa, described the move as an almost existential response to “an insidious federal intrusion into state election procedures.” The Clinton Justice Department eventually sued three states for not complying with its demands. By then, Idaho’s had a shield against litigation due to its exemption. Three decades later, the exemption and the philosophy that led to it are at the heart of Idaho’s refusal to comply with a very different demand by the Trump Justice Department. The state’s top election official cites the exemption as one reason he will not sign a deal to give the Trump administration all the voter data his office holds, including sensitive personal information like partial Social Security and driver’s license numbers. Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane is one of about a dozen Republicans nationally to resist the administration’s efforts to gather sensitive voter data ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, in the face of litigation threats from the Justice Department. In a state that Trump won in 2024 by one of the largest margins in the count…

More than 1 million people across Lebanon displaced following Israeli military’s evacuation orders
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She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
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creator: Amy Yurkanin
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description: The post She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: It’s difficult to put yourself in the place of Cherise Doyley, a pregnant mother of three who found herself facing a judge while in labor at the University of Florida Health hospital in downtown Jacksonville. She had arrived at the facility with a plan for her birth. She wanted to try for a vaginal delivery, but she understood from years of experience as a professional birthing doula that things don’t always go as planned. She arrived overnight at the hospital after her water broke. Doctors told her they were concerned about the risk of uterine rupture, a potentially deadly complication for her and her baby. She understood the risk to be less than 2% and repeatedly told doctors she wouldn’t consent to a cesarean without trying to have a vaginal delivery first. The doctors appeared to relent, leaving her to labor for several more hours. Then a nursing supervisor wheeled a tablet up to her bed and informed her she was in court. The reason? Failing to agree to a C-section. Read More They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. When advocates for pregnant women say that you shouldn’t lose your constitutional rights just because you conceived, this is the kind of situation they’re talking about. I’m a reporter based in Alabama, and throughout my career, I’ve focused on women facing the consequences of the state’s fetal personhood policy. That’s the idea that fetuses should have the same legal status as children. My investigation shows how a similar theory played into the cases of two women: Cherise Doyley and Brianna Bennett, who experienced eerily similar situations in Florida. In both cases, they found themselves fighting for their rights to make medical decisions because they were pregnant. I obtained a video recording of Doyley’s court hearing. Watching her argue her case from her hospital bed shocked me. Even though courts have found time and time again that you can’t force someone to undergo medical treatment — even if it could sav…

On Thin Ice
type: item
creator: M Jackson
date: 2026-03-20T08:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: Culture
subject: ice
subject: Science
subject: sources
subject: thin,
description: The growing allure — and danger — of glacier tourism.
encoded: Upstairs, right outside my toddler’s room, hangs this striking, blue-blue print of an Icelandic glacier ice cave: the Crystal Ice Cave, circa 2015, long since vanished. My friend Þorri took the image and gifted it to me during one of my many stays over the last 20 years. My son visits the print often. When he was about a year-and-a-half, he pointed to it and confirmed, “blue.” Add two more years and the name of the glacier, “Breiðamerkurjökull,” rolls off his tongue. Lately, just like he asks about my husband and me and our cats and the mailbox and the couch, he asks about the glacier in the picture. How is Breiðamerkurjökull feeling today? Sad? Hungry? Happy? OK? This gets fraught quickly. I’m a writer and a glacier scientist — I’ve spent the bulk of my career working on, in, and around this particular glacier system, trying to understand what is happening to it, how people and communities respond to its changes, and how the future of this glacier impacts humanity worldwide. And Breiðamerkurjökull — this huge sweep of snow and ice some 8.5 miles wide and 28 miles long, Iceland’s third-largest glacier — is decidedly not OK. Between 1982 and 2020, nearly 3 miles of this glacier’s physical body dissolved away into the sea. This current rate of melt is rapid and unnatural, and as it accelerates, more tubes and tunnels form within the glacier body, what we call moulins in glaciology but everyone else calls “ice caves.” So now I stand frozen in my upstairs hallway, looking at the long-dissolved ice cave and trying to answer the impatient tap-tap of my son’s foot. I don’t want, in this moment before snack and Bluey and playground, to ruin his day and mine. To tell him about accelerating melt, about glacier loss, about climate change. And so I just nod. I tell him Breiðamerkurjökull is feeling OK. And then he’s off, running down the stairs, shout-singing, and I’m sagging in the doorframe. My wee son is far from the only person to be captivated by ice caves. They’re among t…

Ask a Climate Therapist: How can I balance my travel itch with guilt about emissions?
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creator: Leslie Davenport
date: 2026-03-20T08:30:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: ask
subject: Balance
subject: can
subject: Climate
subject: Culture
subject: emissions
subject: guilt
subject: how
subject: itch
subject: solutions
subject: sources
subject: therapist
subject: Transportation
subject: travel
subject: with
description: Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport advises a reader who loves to travel, but worries about its impact on the planet.
encoded: Dear Leslie, Almost all of the money I save goes toward travel — meeting friends abroad, visiting relatives, or checking national and international parks off my bucket list. I try to be as sustainable in my personal life as possible, but I love traveling, despite knowing that travel is where some of our greatest carbon emissions come from. Every time I fly now, I feel this guilt and fear, and it’s sometimes hard to balance it with my excitement. How would you recommend proceeding when some of the decisions we make in our personal lives are at odds with our beliefs and goals? — Wondering Wanderer Dear Wondering Wanderer, The tension you’re describing — the pull between loving this world and worrying about harming it — is a sign of a very intact compassion compass. Sometimes, that compassionate awareness stretches us beyond what’s comfortable or easy to resolve. Don’t dismiss your discomfort, because it’s inviting you to stay awake to your impacts on the planet — but don’t let it shut down your capacity for joy. If guilt grows so heavy that it diminishes your ability to connect and feel alive, it’s lost any usefulness it once offered. The work now is to metabolize your guilt and fear into something that guides you rather than pulls you apart. Ask a Climate Therapist tackles your questions about how to navigate the emotional side of climate change, with leading climate-aware therapist Leslie Davenport. Have a question? Ask it here! You might ask yourself this question: Given what I know, what kind of traveler do I want to be? That opens up more nuanced choices than simply “Go or don’t go?” Maybe you’ll travel less often but stay longer, explore more locally using lower-carbon methods of transport, or prioritize trips that deepen relationships. You might also focus on destinations where you can make a positive impact as a tourist. In countries like Costa Rica, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Bhutan, responsible tourism helps keep conservation efforts alive by funding wildlife pro…

CPJ, partners call for release of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj after 3 years in detention
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-20T07:22:04Z
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subject: Jammu and Kashmir
subject: Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act
subject: Sources
subject: Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
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subject: call
subject: committee
subject: cpj
subject: Detained
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subject: mehraj
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined 32 civil society organizations in a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj, who marked three years in arbitrary pre-trial detention on March 20. In the joint statement, the organizations said Mehraj’s detention reflects a pattern of persecution of journalists and human...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined 32 civil society organizations in a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj, who marked three years in arbitrary pre-trial detention on March 20. In the joint statement, the organizations said Mehraj’s detention reflects a pattern of persecution of journalists and human rights defenders in Indian-administrated Jammu and Kashmir. They urged Indian authorities to repeal the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act — which have been used to silence journalists and activists — to enable an environment for civil society and the news media to operate freely in the region. CPJ research shows at least 15 journalists have been charged since 2014 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, an anti-terror law that allows for detention without trial or charge for up to 180 days. India currently holds two journalists in prison, according to CPJ’s latest data. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Mixed media sculptor Brian Rochefort on surrendering to chance
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creator: Lindsay Miller
date: 2026-03-20T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
subject: Art
subject: brian
subject: chance
subject: creative
subject: Design
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subject: Media
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subject: rochefort
subject: sculptor
subject: sources
subject: surrendering
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description: You first encountered pottery as a teenager. It can be so hard to get the hang of centering your clay and all of that—was it an immediate affinity, or did it take time to develop?
encoded: You first encountered pottery as a teenager. It can be so hard to get the hang of centering your clay and all of that—was it an immediate affinity, or did it take time to develop? I started working with clay when I was 14, a freshman in high school. My portfolio for art school was mostly drawing. And then I decided to go into ceramics because I was pretty passionate about it. I did a little bit of throwing right before I got to RISD, and I do enjoy it. But I’m primarily interested in hand building. [Clay] is a very difficult material across the board. For a while, I was outsourcing the throwing to my friend, who would just make me the cylinders and then I would glaze them. Now, I’m back into throwing, but I don’t do it as often. Personally, I like to stand while I work. Throwing is messy. It’s not my cup of tea. I honestly try to avoid it as much as possible. As a writer, I’m often trying to be so precise with each word, so I’m fascinated by an artistic practice like ceramics where there is this element of chance or risk. With your pieces, how much of the outcome is something you’re trying to control and how much of it is a surprise? It is very controlled. And I do really love the chance aspect of putting the work in a kiln and surrendering the piece to 2,000 degrees. Things can become dicey, especially with the larger pieces of glaze that I put on top of my sculptures. Sometimes they fall off, sometimes they slide off. Sometimes if I don’t mix it properly I don’t get a desirable result. But that is pretty subjective. What is desirable to other people is not desirable to me. I do have a lot of control, but the element of surprise is always what makes ceramics exciting. There’s this kind of cliché in ceramics, like, “You open the kiln every day and it’s like the most exciting feeling. It’s like a dopamine hit.”* *And I fire my kiln every day. I get to work and I’m like, “Oh my god, what’s going to happen? Is it going to work or is it not going to work?” And with my t…

Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War
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creator: Henry Giroux
date: 2026-03-20T06:05:46Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘holy
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: christian
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: crusade’
subject: Leading Article
subject: making
subject: Nationalism
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump’s
subject: war
description: Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, it is cast as a “necessary fight between good and evil.” For Donald Trump, the illegality of the war is beside the point. It is waged instead in the ideological spirit and cruelty of the Crusades, fueled by religious fervor and animated by what David Smith writing in The Guardian, has called a celebration of the “capacity to inflict violence.” More The post Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Roaming Charges: Trump’s Little Excursion Hits the Straits
type: item
creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2026-03-20T06:00:53Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: charges
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: excursion
subject: hits
subject: Leading Article
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subject: roaming
subject: Roaming Charges
subject: sources
subject: straits
subject: the
subject: trump’s
description: Perhaps Trump will now replace Joe Kent with Newt Gingrich, who is very, very strong on security. So strong that Newt, the Edward Teller of our tormented times, advised Trump to drop 12 nuclear bombs on Iran to blast out a canal by-passing the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, someone with the guts to start a nuclear holocaust to prevent one. More The post Roaming Charges: Trump’s Little Excursion Hits the Straits appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Wartime vs Deep Time
type: item
creator: Stephen F. Eisenman
date: 2026-03-20T05:58:50Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: deep
subject: Leading Article
subject: sources
subject: Time
subject: wartime
description: Small World One of the advantages of the U.K. compared to the U.S. is it’s small. In the five hours it takes to go from Micanopy, Florida (where I lived for five years) to Miami, I can drive clear across England to Wales, a separate country within the U.K. There, they speak Welsh (as well More The post Wartime vs Deep Time appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Relentless Nightmare of Fukushima, 15 Years On
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creator: Joshua Frank
date: 2026-03-20T05:58:30Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: fukushima
subject: Leading Article
subject: nightmare
subject: relentless
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: years
description: Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for “peaceful” nuclear power. With that in mind, let me revisit a moment when that reality should have become far clearer. More The post The Relentless Nightmare of Fukushima, 15 Years On appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Relentless Nightmare of Fukushima, 15 Years On
type: item
creator: Joshua Frank
date: 2026-03-20T05:58:30Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: fukushima
subject: Leading Article
subject: nightmare
subject: relentless
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: years
description: Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for “peaceful” nuclear power. With that in mind, let me revisit a moment when that reality should have become far clearer. More The post The Relentless Nightmare of Fukushima, 15 Years On appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Blaming Refugees Not Warmongers: The Right-wing Press, Fortress Europe and ‘Weaponized Migration’
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creator: Paul Cochrane
date: 2026-03-20T05:58:16Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: blaming
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Europe
subject: fortress
subject: Leading Article
subject: Migration
subject: not
subject: press
subject: Refugees
subject: Right-wing
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: warmonger’s
subject: weaponized
description: An expected refugee crisis is looming from the US-Israeli wars on Iran and Lebanon. This probability has already been raised by aid agencies, but also, of course, by the right-wing press that thrives on the fear-mongering that Europe is being overrun by foreigners. As a GB News headline blared just days into the conflict: “Europe braces for ANOTHER migrant crisis...'It will wash up on Britain's shores!'” More The post Blaming Refugees Not Warmongers: The Right-wing Press, Fortress Europe and ‘Weaponized Migration’ appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Progress or Digital Colonization? AI Data Centers Spark Debate on Native Lands
type: item
creator: Jen Deerinwater - Jesse Deer In Water
date: 2026-03-20T05:57:38Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: centers
subject: colonization
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Data
subject: debate
subject: digital
subject: environment
subject: lands
subject: native
subject: progress’
subject: sources
subject: spark
description: The recent explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers has created a litany of environmental and cultural issues for Native people and Tribes across the so-called “United States.” This, in turn, has sparked intense debate and prompted conversations on tribal digital sovereignty and a call for regulation that controls the data, infrastructure, and networks. Data More The post Progress or Digital Colonization? AI Data Centers Spark Debate on Native Lands appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Some Are More Equal Than Others: The Pigs Have Taken Over
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creator: Daniel Warner
date: 2026-03-20T05:57:06Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: are
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: equal
subject: have
subject: more
subject: others:
subject: over
subject: pigs
subject: some
subject: sources
subject: taken
subject: than
subject: the
description: Why has there been no sustained, system-wide protest movement against President Trump? In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs do not just seize power—they slowly remake the farm in their own image through two rebellions. The first is dramatic and visible: all the animals unite to overthrow the human farmer. They establish a new order More The post Some Are More Equal Than Others: The Pigs Have Taken Over appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Biden Boom and the Trump Slump: A Serious Comparison of the Two Economies
type: item
creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-03-20T05:56:50Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: biden
subject: boom
subject: comparison
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: economies,
subject: serious
subject: slump
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump
subject: two
description: President Trump and his administration have repeatedly sought to contrast the economy since the start of his term with what they claim was a disastrous Biden administration. As Trump put it on March 4, 2025 in his address to Congress, “We inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.” To hear More The post The Biden Boom and the Trump Slump: A Serious Comparison of the Two Economies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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