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Democracy Now!

  • The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night

    As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January 1, we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in his own words and look at the grassroots coalition that helped him pull off what’s been described as “one of the great political upsets in modern American history.”

  • My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier's Daughter Marquetta

    Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about the campaign to free her father and what it meant to see him released in February.

  • "I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home

    In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at an American Indian boarding school and his […]

  • "Policy Violence": ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber

    Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an end to ICE raids. “​​What you have is a conglomerate of policy violence, and it’s deadly,” says Barber, who is organizing protests against ICE and Medicaid cuts across the country. Barber notes that 51,000 people may die from preventable deaths because of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale. “This is not just about Democrat and Republican and left versus right. This is literally about life versus death.”

  • Mamdani's Affordability Agenda: Incoming NYC Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan on How to Make It Happen

    Zohran Mamdani will be taking office as mayor of New York in just five weeks. His transition team continues to make announcements about the new administration, recently unveiling a 400-person advisory group, broken up into 17 committees. Democracy Now! speaks with the incoming first deputy mayor, Dean Fuleihan, on how Mamdani plans to implement his progressive vision. “Government, working together across agencies with clear direction, can accomplish the needs of New Yorkers, and that’s what the mayor-elect has put forward,” says Fuleihan. Fuleihan also comments on Mamdani’s meeting with President Trump, which was surprisingly warm. “We look for help wherever we can get it, while also maintaining our principles and defending New […]

Fair Observer

  • The Hot Tub of Death?: Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa and a Civilization Under Threat

    In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage. That Category 5 storm’s unprecedented ferocity… Continue reading The Hot Tub of Death?: Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa and a Civilization Under Threat The post The Hot Tub of Death?: Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa and a Civilization Under Threat appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • FO° Talks: The Future of Europe: How War and Migration Are Fueling Right-Wing Politics

    Fair Observer’s Chief Strategy Officer Peter Isackson and Mikael Pir-Budagyan, an international consultant specializing in European political dynamics, discuss how Russia’s war in Ukraine and migration pressures are feeding right-wing politics across Europe. The focus is Central and Eastern Europe, especially the Visegrád region, comprising the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. However, the conversation… Continue reading FO° Talks: The Future of Europe: How War and Migration Are Fueling Right-Wing Politics The post FO° Talks: The Future of Europe: How War and Migration Are Fueling Right-Wing Politics appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • The “Conservative Art” Trap: Reactionary Conservatism Misses The Values That Make Art Great

    Earlier this year, a controversy erupted over a portrait of US President Donald Trump in the Colorado Capitol building. This incident is a recent example of the president’s interest in the arts. Despite his notoriously garish taste, he was correct to point out that Sarah A. Boardman’s portrait of him was flat and lifeless. In… Continue reading The “Conservative Art” Trap: Reactionary Conservatism Misses The Values That Make Art Great The post The “Conservative Art” Trap: Reactionary Conservatism Misses The Values That Make Art Great appeared first on Fair Observer.

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Black Agenda Report

  • Black Agenda Radio November 28, 2025

    In this week’s segment, we talk to a man whose brother was killed by an NYPD officer who the police commissioner, reappointed by Zohran Mamdani, refused to fire from his job. But first, we discuss a new anthology, China Changes Everything, with one of the contributing authors.

  • China Changes Everything

    Jacqueline Luqman is a radical activist based in Washington DC, and the co-founder of Luqman Nation, an independent Black media outlet. She joins us from Washington to discuss a newly published book, China Changes Everything: An anthology by social justice activists, journalists, and commentators. […]

  • Mamdani Reappoints NYPD Commissioner Who Refused to Punish Killer Cops

    Samy Feliz is an organizer with the Justice Committee, a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City and empowering low-income Latinx and other people of color to address these issues. Samy Feliz is also the brother of Allan […]

The Guardian

  • Virginia Democrat wins seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters

    John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents: the cost of energyJohn McAuliff, a 33-year-old small business owner and former civil servant, was one of the more unlikely Democrats to win election to Virginia’s legislature this month, after a campaign in which he could, at times, come off a bit like a Republican.McAuliff was among the 13 Democrats elected to the legislature in Virginia’s elections earlier this month, as part of a blowout victory for the party that gives it firm control of the southern state’s government. Along with wins in New Jersey, California and elsewhere, the results put some wind back into Democrats’ sails nationwide, a year after their drubbing at the hands of […]

  • ‘We have become so divided’: Georgia district prepares for life after Marjorie Taylor Greene

    Republicans and Democrats alike look to fill congressional firebrand’s House seat when she departs in 2026Marjorie Taylor Greene for president. Randy Bone rolled the idea around in his hands for a second as he stood inside his wife’s antique shop in Ringgold, Georgia. He’s heard the talk. He’s even seen the prediction market action. He doesn’t have a problem with his boisterous, attention-seeking congresswoman. He just doesn’t think it will work.“I don’t know. I don’t see her as one that is very attractive … You’ve got to focus on those that are kind of in the middle, and I don’t think that she’s unifying enough,” he said. Continue reading...

  • Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn

    Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harmsThe federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to “abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures – at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations.Border Patrol agents in Arizona forcibly removed a detained man from a cell, handcuffed him and then […]

  • Trump news at a glance: Venezuela suspends all deportation flights after Trump airspace closure warning

    Venezuela responds defiantly to Trump comments about closing airspace above country, saying it doesn’t accept foreign orders or threats The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed.In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments were a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violated international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats. Continue reading...

  • What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today | Jan-Werner Mueller

    Rosa Park’s story is about courage. But, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the lawIt was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had to stand towards the front, the driver asked the four to get up and move towards the back of the bus. Three did; one did not – the rest is history. Or so many American kids might think when they first read the story of Rosa Parks in school.It is a story of courage, but, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the law. And the question for us today is what civil disobedience means in an era when the federal government is signaling its readiness severely to punish even perfectly legal dissent. Continue […]

The Marshall Project

Aeon

  • A wondrous brew

    From Peruvian healers battling sorcerers to Chinese executives seeking financial success, ayahuasca’s power shifts across worlds- by Alex K GearinRead on Aeon

Unicorn Riot

The Conversation

Inter Press Service

  • The UN’s “International Days” Range from the Sublime to the Ridiculous

    The 193-member General Assembly, the UN’s highest policy-making body, routinely designates ”International Days” and “World Days’” on a wide range of subjects and events – from the sublime to the ridiculous: described as “a sudden shift from something grand and awe-inspiring to something silly and unimportant”. The commemorations range from the International Women’s Day and

  • Authorities Urged to Take Lawful Measures to Stop Mass Abductions in Nigeria

    On the morning of 17 November 2025, darkness cloaked Maga town in the Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area, Kebbi State, until gunfire shattered the silence. It was around 4 am when armed attackers stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, firing into the air to terrify residents before heading to the staff quarters. There, they killed

  • Burkina Faso: Three Years of Broken Promises

    Three years ago, Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso with two promises that have proved hollow: to address the country’s deepening security crisis and restore civilian rule. Now he has postponed elections until 2029, dissolved the independent electoral commission and pulled the country out of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Sludge

  • Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money

    Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars in earmarked donations.

Yale Environment 360

Inside Climate News

  • Greeks Challenge EU-Backed Fish Farms Amid Environmental Concerns

    For Nikos Tsipas, the mud is most disconcerting. When he sets out in his fishing boat, the waters of the Aegean Sea are clear enough for him to see quite a ways down. He says that for large patches of the shallow waters that encircle his village on the Greek island of Evia, where there

  • Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

    Researchers at Texas Southern University in Houston have analyzed demographic data around the locations of almost 100 industrial facilities proposed statewide and found that about 90 percent are located in counties with higher concentrations of people of color and families in poverty than statewide averages.  In a report released this month, the Bullard Center for

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Truthout

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The World – PRI

  • Studying melting ice in Greenland for clues to key Atlantic ocean current

    A series of ocean currents in the Atlantic drive heat northward and control much of the world's weather. Scientists believe the current — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC for short — will slow down this century due to global warming, and some fear the circulation might collapse entirely. The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet could be a major factor in the future health of the AMOC. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler traveled into a fjord in Greenland with […]

  • Climate change exacerbates Canada's fire season

    Wildfires burning across western and central Canada prompted the number of people evacuated to climb to more than 30,000. The conditions were hot and dry, similar to what was experienced in 2023, Canada's worst fire season on record. John Vaillant is a journalist and author of the book, "Fire Weather." He spoke with The World's Carolyn Beeler about how climate change is exacerbating Canada's fire season.This story originally aired on June 5, 2025.

  • Weaning Europe off of coal won't be easy

    Most European countries say they expect to close their coal power stations in the next five years. But what will that transition look like? How will it reshape communities, and people’s lives? There is a model. The UK was the first-ever country to announce a full coal phase-out, and it was a bumpy transition. From Deutsche Welle, DW, Dan Ashby reports.This story originally aired on Aug. 8, 2025.

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