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Democracy Now!
- Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in "ICE Dungeon"
We speak with Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas. She was arrested in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to target student activists and others who advocated for Palestinian rights. Kordia was born in the occupied West Bank and lives in New Jersey. She was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. The charges against her were dropped the next day, but she was detained in March 2025 by ICE during a routine immigration check-in. “It was supposed to be just a regular meeting with my lawyer [and the] ICE agents. It led to arrest,” says Kordia. “They took me in an unmarked car directly to the airport, and […]
- Arizona Sec. of State: Trump Is "Trying to Pick His Own Voters" by Restricting Mail-in Ballots
Democrats and voting advocacy groups have filed lawsuits against President Trump’s sweeping new executive order to limit mail-in voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections. “This is clearly an attempt for the president to pick his own voters,” says Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who is legally challenging Trump’s order. Voting rights experts have decried the order as an unconstitutional attempt by Trump to seize control of election administration from the states and Congress. It directs the Department of Homeland Security to create a “state citizenship list” and the U.S. Postal Service to mail ballots only to “verified” voters.
- David Cole: U.S. War on Iran Is "Blatantly Illegal" Under U.S. & Int'l Law
Legal expert David Cole speaks about the “blatantly illegal” U.S.-Israeli war on Iran: “The U.N. Charter absolutely prohibits one country from aggressively attacking another country, using force against another country, unless that country has attacked us — and Iran had not attacked us.”
- Pam Bondi Fired as AG Despite Never Saying No to Trump: Law Prof. David Cole
President Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi amid reports of his growing frustration with her failure to prosecute his political enemies and her handling of the Epstein files. Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general, was a Trump loyalist who openly heaped praise on the president and did away with the long-standing Department of Justice practice of maintaining political independence from the White House. “She came in and did the master’s bidding, and she did it poorly,” says David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University and former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Her firing comes just months after a heated congressional hearing in which she refused to apologize to Epstein survivors for the […]
- Headlines for April 3, 2026
Trump Warns of “Much More to Follow” as U.S. Bombs Civilian Infrastructure in Iran, Iran Strikes Gulf Refineries, Warns of Escalating Attacks as U.S.-Israeli Bombings Continue, Israel Says It Struck 3,500 Targets in Lebanon in One Month of War, Israel Continues Deadly Attacks on Palestinians Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, U.K. Palestinian Solidarity Activists Found Guilty of Breaching Police Rules for Protest, France Detains EU Parliamentarian and Israel Critic Rima Hassan over Social Media Post, Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, Names His Former Criminal Defense Lawyer as Replacement, White House to Ask Congress for Record-Shattering $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in Latest […]
Anthropocene
- The quest for immortal rice just got a huge boost
A gene tweak lets rice regrow after harvest, opening the door to multi-year crops that could dramatically transform agriculture’s climate impact.
- Fake fur brings real conservation benefits for African leopards
A campaign to substitute synthetic leopard skins during cultural ceremonies has won support in Zambia and boosted cat populations.
Aeon
- Is AI already conscious?
Why it’s difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Inter Press Service
- Ugandan Farmers Sue EACOP in London in Last Minute Effort to Stop Crude Oil Pipeline
Environmental activists and farmer groups opposed to the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the world’s longest heated oil pipeline, are mounting a last-ditch legal effort meant to stop its construction in a suit they plan to have filed in London, UK, believing that it stands a chance to stop the controversial
- The Inter-American Development Bank Invest Talks Growth– but Ignores People Bearing the Cost
In Asunción, Paraguay last month, finance ministers, central bank presidents, and private sector leaders gathered for the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Annual Meetings to talk about growth. In a session titled “Seizing Opportunities, Stimulating Growth” hosted by IDB Invest, the bank’s private sector institution, they discussed how investment and innovation could strengthen agribusiness and food
- Iran War: What African Countries Can do to Get Through the Crisis and Emerge in a Better Place
By Easter 2026 it was still not clear when – or how – the war initiated by Israel and the US against Iran would end. But what was already clear was that it would harm Africa in a number of ways. Firstly, it would adversely affect the global supply and prices of oil and gas,
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