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  • As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward

    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, […]

  • Bruce Springsteen Performs "Streets of Minneapolis" at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary

    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,” about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and spoke about his upcoming tour, which begins in Minneapolis next week. Watch the full event here.

  • "Under the Rubble": Pulitzer-Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now’s 30th Anniversary

    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 the Rubble” and spoke about his experience surviving Israel’s genocide of Gaza, which killed 30 members of his extended family. Watch the full event here.

  • "Israel First": Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War

    “This is about how far Israel can extend its dominion, how much of a hard-power, dominant hegemon it can be in the region.” Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project says that U.S. involvement in the ongoing war on Iran is being driven by Israel’s expansionist ambitions in the Middle East. “Israel is still on the impunity high from its Gaza genocide, which has led us here.” Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, also provides analysis of current U.S., Israeli and Iranian wartime strategy, as well as potential ceasefire negotiations and Israel’s settler and soldier-backed ethnic cleansing of the occupied West Bank. “I think this will ultimately end very badly for Israel and generate tremendous blowback. But in the […]

  • Headlines for March 24, 2026

    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 […]

Fair Observer

  • Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2

    In the first part of this conversation, Claude and I agreed that there is merit in the idea that the history of recent wars reveals a US military strategy designed not for victory, but to engineer lasting disorder. So long as potential rivals live in a state of confusion, the traditional hegemon can maintain its… Continue reading Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2 The post Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2 appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • FO Talks: Eight Presidents in Ten Years — Peru’s Political Chaos Explained

    Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with consultant Erik Geurts about Peru’s deepening political instability, a crisis that has seen eight presidents come and go in just a decade. What appears at first glance to be a series of individual scandals reveals something more structural: a political system in which Congress has learned… Continue reading FO Talks: Eight Presidents in Ten Years — Peru’s Political Chaos Explained The post FO Talks: Eight Presidents in Ten Years — Peru’s Political Chaos Explained appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation

    Financial misinformation rarely looks like a scam at first. It looks like confidence. It looks like a clean chart, a calm voice and a promise that the hard part of investing has finally been made simple. That is why it spreads. A teenager watches a video on “beating inflation” with a few crypto tokens. A… Continue reading The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation The post The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation appeared first on Fair Observer.

Anthropocene

Black Agenda Report

    The Guardian

      The Marshall Project

      Aeon

      • The city that wasted nothing

        Edo, modern Tokyo, transformed from a city near ecological collapse to a thriving epicentre by creating a circular economy- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

      Unicorn Riot

      • Protesters Fill Minnesota Capitol, Read Letters from Children Held in Immigration Custody

        Saint Paul, MN — More than 100 people filed into the Minnesota State Capitol on Feb. 26 to protest the prolonged detainment of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities around the country. The crowd, led into the capitol building by the immigrant rights-oriented nonprofit… The post Protesters Fill Minnesota Capitol, Read Letters from Children Held in Immigration Custody appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

      The Conversation

      Inter Press Service

      • As East Africa’s Migratory Fish Vanish, a Food Security Crisis Surfaces

        By the time the auction begins at Nangurukuru fish market in Tanzania’s southern Lindi region, the crisis is already visible. Wooden canoes that once returned from the Rufiji River with heavy catches now bring only a fraction of what they used to. Traders scan for the long-whiskered catfish that once defined the market but find

      • What the US Really Wants from MC14 in Yaoundé

        As trade ministers gather in Yaoundé, Cameroon, for the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) on 26–29 March 2026, the preparatory process has produced a dense fog of competing reform proposals, draft ministerial statements, and work plans. The facilitator-led consultations at the WTO headquarters in Geneva focused for the past few weeks on decision-making, development and

      • Central Bank Hedging Triggered Gold Fever

        In mid-1971, US President Nixon ended the dollar’s gold peg at $35 per ounce, triggering de-dollarisation. The 2025 gold and silver rush followed private speculators trying to profit from central banks hedging against perceived new risks. De-dollarisation Some believed that flexible exchange rates, replacing earlier fixed rates, would resolve the ‘Triffin dilemma’ of the ‘dollar

      Sludge

      Yale Environment 360

      • Can America’s Wolves Survive an Onslaught of Political Attacks?

        Gray wolves made an uneasy comeback in the Northern Rockies and are struggling to return to the Southwest. But legislation now working its way through Congress is being spurred by misinformation and myth, rather than science, and threatens to end wolf recovery in the U.S.Read more on E360 →

      Inside Climate News

      • Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

        A new report on global air pollution shows that the majority of the world’s population breathes unhealthy air, and climate change is making the problem worse. The report was published Tuesday by IQAir, a Swiss air monitor and purifier company that posts real-time air quality data aggregated from sensors around the world. It shows that

      • Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures

        Critical negotiations about the future of the Colorado River took a two-week hiatus last month after the seven states in the basin missed a key Valentine’s Day deadline for striking a deal, New Mexico’s water negotiator said Thursday. Estevan López said talks resumed March 2, and the upper and lower basin states are using a

      Amnesty International

      Grist

      Truthout

        Labor Notes

        • In 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike for the First Time in 40 Years

          In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan fast; the music, pulsing from boomboxes and cell phones held up to megaphones, swells into one shared hum. In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.

        The World – PRI

        • The latest news from the war on Iran

          US President Donald Trump today said he wants to make a deal with Iran and end the war. He claims the US and Iran are in talks to make this happen. But the Iranians have denied this claim and say Trump is backing down from his threats to obliterate Iran's power plants. Meanwhile, the violence in the region continues. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler have the details.

        • Hiroshima survivor who devoted his life to finding the families of 12 American POWs has died

          Shigeaki Mori spent much of his life trying to get recognition for 12 American airmen who died alongside tens of thousands of Japanese after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Mori died on Saturday, at the age of 88. In 2018, reporter Ibby Caputo filed this profile. His story is one of heartbreak and compassion, and it's a potent reminder of the savagery of war.This story originally aired on […]

        • Denmark releases apps to help Danes boycott certain products

          Danes are not too happy with the US president's threats to take over their territory of Greenland. So, they're putting their money where their anger is by refusing to buy products made in the US or by Americans. But in this globalized world, it's hard to tell the origin every product. So, two separate companies have developed apps to tell where products actually come from. Hosts Marco Werman and […]

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