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“Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine Armed Only with a Camera, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western journalist killed during the war in Ukraine. H...

“Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine

Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide” Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under investigation for co...

Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."

“Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago...

“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."

A ‘C’ ranking for the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes is a triumph of environmental restoration The most visited natural destination in Minnesota lies in its most densely developed region.

"The most visited slice of nature in Minnesota isn’t in a state or national park. It’s not an old-growth forest or patch of surviving prairie. It’s the chain of four lakes that starts with Cedar and ends with Lake Harriet in the heart of Minneapolis."
www.startribune.com/a-c-ranking-...

Defend Sea Life From Devastation The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor. Will you help stop this reckless rush to mine the ocean floor?

The Trump administration wants to fast-track deep-sea mining by slashing environmental reviews that protect the seafloor, one of the largest and most fragile ecosystems on the planet.

Please, add your voice to tell NOAA to reject this proposal 🐋⬇️

"They attacked her, and they kidnapped her."

A nurse and community activist in Los Angeles, Amanda Trebach, was violently arrested Friday while recording the operations of ICE agents in the area. She has since been released. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/lo...

“Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza Doctors Without Borders is demanding the closure of Israeli- and U.S.-backed food distribution centers in Gaza run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. About 1,400 Palestinians have been killed...

"Silencing the Coverage": Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza

“This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps “This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps

"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps

“They Will Be Held Accountable”: California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard We speak with California Attorney General Rob Bonta ahead of the start of California’s court case challenging the Trump administration’s move to federalize the state’s National Guard to support...

"They Will Be Held Accountable": California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

Discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in (Feb 2025) Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

The village and artefacts are older than the pyramids, older than Stonehenge.

We have ALWAYS been here.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The worst human trafficker of young girls, convicted on six charges gets detained in a minimum security prison. A fruit picker from Camarillo, with zero convictions gets detained in a barbaric concentration camp.

A bell pepper in the fetal position

Same, little pepper, same

Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena - UNICORN RIOT St Paul, MN — Unicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet another phase: The Minnesota Supreme Court release...

BREAKING: Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled to deny attempts by Energy Transfer, the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, to force Unicorn Riot to turn over internal documents from our reporting on the historic, Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement:

unicornriot.ninja/2025/minneso...

“BPA’s decision to join Markets+ knowing the long-term cost, consequences, and harm is shocking, especially when the benefits of EDAM are so apparent–for ratepayers, salmon, rivers, and regional clean energy goals,” said Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director of SOS: www.wildsalmon.org/news-and-med...

On this date in 2016:

Days after a cop shot and killed Philando Castile in front of his daughter, thousands of demonstrators stormed I-94. Minnesota Police responded by attacking protesters and journalists:

Standing Strong for Life on Earth During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Center for Biological Diversity filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, endange...

During President Donald Trump’s first term, we filed 266 lawsuits challenging his administration’s attempts to block progress on climate change, kill wildlife, endanger public health, destroy public lands, and otherwise harm the planet.

This time around, so far we’ve filed 38. Check them out. ⬇️

Letter Demands Release of Asha, Her Family Thirty-six conservation groups sent a formal letter urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately release Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their five pups.

36 conservation groups are urging the immediate release of Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their 5 pups— whose release was delayed without explanation.

“Every wolf deserves to be wild. Let Asha continue to be a leader for her endangered species.”

nywolf.org/2025/07/lett...

declaration of independence with merciless indian savages part hightlighted

if you are going to quote the declaration of independence today like it is some radical document and rallying cry, please clearly enunciate as you read “merciless Indian savages”

stop trying to build a house on a rotten foundation

read: indianz.com/News/2018/07...

i don’t think people have looked close enough at exactly what Bukele did in el salvador

but between the birthright citizenship, injunction deflection, the budget bill and alligator alcatraz, it really feels like it’s going to be “immigrants” in the camps like its “criminals” in CECOT

i mean, if federal judges can’t issue nationwide injunctions anymore, and the president gets to just take out the 14th amendment…

is it really being dramatic to say he’s suspended the constitution?

Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail Columbia University graduate, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife and met his newborn son after being released from over 100 days in ICE detention. After flying from Louisiana…

Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail

A Story of War, Lies, and Holy Hypocrisy When it comes to war, even Trump's biggest critics suddenly believe every word. And they're using the Old Testament as their targeting map.

When you're shutting out your own intelligence director because she won't go along with your war narrative, that's a real bad sign.

…When it comes to war, …the same people who call Trump a threat to democracy fall in line behind his bombs.

open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Join us in calling Congress at 202-224-3121 and urge your Senators to vote NO on the budget bill.

The Senate reconciliation bill would sell off millions of acres of wild and untouched spaces to the oil, gas, coal, and logging industries to help pay for tax cuts for billionaires. ​Hands off!

As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich

61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW

Image of the lush, green Okefenokee Swamp with a quote by Jason Totoiu, Florida Director of Policy, Senior Attorney, about the importance of protecting this natural treasure from mining. Text overlay on a picturesque swamp backdrop.

Amazing news to wrap up the week 🎉: The #Okefenokee swamp — one of the world's largest intact freshwater ecosystems — has been saved.

Today the Conservation Fund announced the purchase of the proposed Twin Pines mine site adjacent to the Okefenokee preserve.

More ➡️ biodiv.us/3HSnGFa

Yesterday, Donald Trump said that the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays."

Our so-called "pro-worker president" thinks that workers should have fewer days off.

Meanwhile, he's spending a huge chunk of his presidency (and taxpayer dollars) on the golf course.

Hello?

The Senate's Reconciliation bill is up for debate in Congress, and it would auction off millions of acres of our cherished public lands to the oil, gas, coal, and logging industries to help pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

Urge your Senators to vote NO on the budget bill:
202-224-3121