Radio Free
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date: 2026-03-21T16:08:50Z
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items: Start the Steal? Inside Trump’s Effort to Rig the Midterm Elections: Ari Berman
items: Trump and Hegseth: Two Souless Men Incapable of Remorse or Even Pity
items: Modern Day Israel: A Poisonous Concoction for Most Outsiders
items: Iran’s Asymmetrical War Persists Against Hegemony
items: The Age of Human Arrogance, Part V
items: Tremors in MAGA: Joe Kent, the War on Iran, and the Antisemitism Smear
items: Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due
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Start the Steal? Inside Trump’s 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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subject: Elections
subject: inside
subject: midterm
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subject: rig
subject: sources
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subject: steal
subject: the
subject: trump’s
description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
encoded: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.

Trump and Hegseth: Two Souless Men Incapable of Remorse or Even Pity
type: item
creator: Dave Lindorff
date: 2026-03-21T15:14:40Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Sources
subject: ‘even
subject: and
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: hegseth
subject: incapable
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: mandate
subject: men
subject: murder
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: pete
subject: pity
subject: remorse
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subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: two
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: War Crimes
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
subject: Ararat City
subject: Birobidzhan
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subject: Nazi collaboration
subject: Ron Unz
subject: Sources
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subject: birobidzhan
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subject: collaboration
subject: Colonialism
subject: concoction
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subject: for
subject: History
subject: israel
subject: Karl Popper
subject: Land Theft
subject: mandate
subject: modern
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subject: nazi
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subject: outsiders
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: ron
subject: sources
subject: terrorism
subject: uganda
subject: United Kingdom
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subject: voice
subject: Zionism
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
subject: Anthony Aguilar
subject: Brad Cooper
subject: Brian Mast
subject: Dan Caine
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: hegemony
subject: Hypersonic missiles
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Nuremberg War Crime Trials
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school
subject: Sources
subject: Tim Caine
subject: Tom Massie
subject: Warren Davidson
subject: against
subject: aguilar
subject: anthony
subject: asymmetrical
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: brad
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subject: cooper
subject: Crime
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subject: War Crimes
subject: warren
subject: Weaponry
subject: Whistleblowing
subject: Zionism
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
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
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subject: arrogance
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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
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: J street
subject: John J. Mearsheimer
subject: National Counterterrorism Center
subject: Nick Fuentes
subject: Sources
subject: Stephen M. Walt
subject: Taylor Budowich
subject: ‘stephen
subject: aipac
subject: and
subject: anti-defamation league
subject: anti-semitism
subject: Antisemitism
subject: budowich
subject: center
subject: counterterrorism
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: fox news
subject: fuentes
subject: goldenberg
subject: ilan
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: joe”:
subject: john
subject: kent
subject: maga
subject: mandate
subject: mearsheimer
subject: Militarism
subject: national
subject: nick
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: smear
subject: sources
subject: southern poverty law center
subject: street
subject: taylor
subject: the
subject: The Lobby
subject: tremors
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: walt
subject: war
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
subject: Sources
subject: ‘overlooked’
subject: crucial
subject: due
subject: fungi
subject: get
subject: life
subject: long
subject: Science
subject: sources
subject: start
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
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Energy infrastructure
subject: Gulf States
subject: Middle East war
subject: Oil and gas shipments
subject: Petrodollars
subject: Sources
subject: South Pars gas field
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: War on Iran
subject: Analysis
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacks
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: Democracy
subject: donald trump
subject: east
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
subject: military
subject: now
subject: oil
subject: oil and gas
subject: Pacific
subject: pars
subject: petrodollar
subject: petrodollars
subject: Politics
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subject: report
subject: reshaping
subject: Security
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subject: sources
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subject: war
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
subject: Amnesty International
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: amnesty
subject: here’s
subject: International
subject: Justice
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subject: need
subject: reparatory
subject: sources
subject: what
subject: you
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.

Wenda condemns ‘cruel’ arbitrary arrests of West Papuans in Tambrauw
type: item
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
subject: cruel
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
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
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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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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.
encoded: 'ICE: No One Is Safe' is a new short documentary by Robert Greenwald that relates shocking abuses and courageous responses. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Ed Rampell.

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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description: An insidious strategy to suppress the voting power of minoritized groups is becoming increasingly prevalent.
encoded: An insidious strategy to suppress the voting power of minoritized groups is becoming increasingly prevalent. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Terrance Sullivan.

TV news vehicle vandalized, window broken at LA immigration protest
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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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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: 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
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subject: blaming
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subject: Europe
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subject: Migration
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subject: press
subject: Refugees
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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
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creator: Jen Deerinwater - Jesse Deer In Water
date: 2026-03-20T05:57:38Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: centers
subject: colonization
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subject: Data
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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
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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
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-03-20T05:56:50Z
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subject: boom
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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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Make Trouble, Not War: Nancy Kurshan Tells Her Story
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creator: Ron Jacobs
date: 2026-03-20T05:55:57Z
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subject: CounterPunch+
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subject: kurshan
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description: The first time I heard about the Yippies, I was almost thirteen. The Democratic Convention was going full swing in Chicago in August 1968. I delivered the Washington Post back then and read the reports from the Chicago streets each morning before I began my route. Cops were beating on everyone with the full support More The post Make Trouble, Not War: Nancy Kurshan Tells Her Story appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Anita Hoffman and Nancy Kurshan burning judges robes after the Chicago 8 verdict, 1968. The first time I heard about the Yippies, I was almost thirteen. The Democratic Convention was going full swing in Chicago in August 1968. I delivered the Washington Post back then and read the reports from the Chicago streets each morning before I began my route. Cops were beating on everyone with the full support of Chicago Mayor Daley. A few months later, I saw a photo of Abbie Hoffman with the word FUCK scrawled across his forehead. A year later, I discovered that there were women Yippies, too; a fact that the men in the group didn’t talk about and neither did the mainstream press. A few months after that, I remember seeing a picture of her and Anita Hoffman burning judges’ robes after the verdict in the Chicago Conspiracy Trial was delivered. I was living in Germany then and I’m pretty certain the photo was in a British underground paper sold at one of the newsstands downtown, but it might have been somewhere else—perhaps the Frankfurter Rundschau, a German student paper or maybe even the newspaper for the US military called Stars and Stripes. Anyhow, it made an impression. In her new book, a memoir titled Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories, Kurshan writes about the influence the antiwar and Black liberation movements had on high school and junior high students in the 1960s and 1970s, acknowledging that it was part of the movement’s intention to recruit them. Groups like the Yippies understood this and realized that the counterculture was a point of entry. Speaking for myself, it was an important element in my move to radical left anti-imperialist politics. My experience was repeated thousands, if not millions of times over. Kurshan’s text describes what it was like from her particular perspective; a perspective perhaps best described as being part of what could be considered leadership, but with virtually no acknowledgement of that role at the time by the m…

Some Economic Consequences of the Iran War
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creator: Jack Rasmus
date: 2026-03-20T05:54:52Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: consequences
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: economic
subject: iran
subject: some
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: war
description: As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its third week, the outlines of the economic consequences and fallout of the war have begun to emerge. As the war continues—and by most indicators it appears it will for months longer—the War’s negative impact on the US and world economies will deepen further. What are some of More The post Some Economic Consequences of the Iran War appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump and Hegseth Cannot Define the Truth of the US-Israeli War on Iran
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creator: Ramzy Baroud
date: 2026-03-20T05:54:38Z
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subject: articles 2015
subject: cannot
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subject: define
subject: hegseth
subject: iran
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump
subject: Truth
subject: us-israeli
subject: war
description: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether against South Americans or in the Middle East. In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course More The post Trump and Hegseth Cannot Define the Truth of the US-Israeli War on Iran appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-404631" class="wp-image-404631 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/javad-esmaeili-ajRGLPdU8c8-unsplash-2-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Javad Esmaeili. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether against South Americans or in the Middle East. In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East. He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,” he said. Ellison, a close ally of President Donald Trump and a strong supporter of Israel, is widely considered the frontrunner to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company that owns CNN. If there was any lingering doubt that such acquisitions are driven by political and ideological considerations, Hegseth’s remarks dispelled it. Such…

Power Without Principle: The Rise of the Bully Presidency
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creator: John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead
date: 2026-03-20T05:54:30Z
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subject: Power
subject: Presidency
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description: “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.” — Donald J. Trump on seizing women, Access Hollywood (2005) “I think I can do anything I want with it. Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I More The post Power Without Principle: The Rise of the Bully Presidency appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-326991" class="size-large wp-image-326991" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-858x630.jpeg" alt="" width="858" height="630" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-858x630.jpeg 858w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-680x499.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-768x564.jpeg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-1536x1127.jpeg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-2048x1503.jpeg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-500x367.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8111-600x440.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.” — Donald J. Trump on seizing women, Access Hollywood (2005) “I think I can do anything I want with it. Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it.” —Donald Trump on seizing Cuba (2026) It’s been 20 years since Donald Trump bragged that, as a star, he could do anything—even assault women—and get away with it. Two decades later, what once sounded like crude bravado has become a governing philosophy: might makes right, power excuses everything, and accountability is for other people—not this president. Despite the Access Hollywood recording—and everything it revealed about his character—Trump was elected to the White House twice. And ever since, he has governed exactly as he promised: as a man who believes he is unaccountable, entitled, and free to act without limits. The same mindset that once bragged about being able to “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters” has now been scaled up and weaponiz…

What to Do With Cesar Chavez Street?
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creator: Laura Flanders
date: 2026-03-20T05:54:12Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: Cesar Chavez abused and raped women and girls for years, a New York Times investigation revealed this week. The celebrated union organizer and leader of abused and poisoned farmworkers, stands accused of sexually assaulting two girls in the 1970s as well as Dolores Huerta, with whom he co-founded the United Farm Workers, in the 1960s, More The post What to Do With Cesar Chavez Street? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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DNC Approach to Israel is Political Malpractice and Moral Failure
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creator: Norman Solomon
date: 2026-03-20T05:53:50Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: approach
subject: articles 2015
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subject: dnc
subject: failure
subject: israel
subject: malpractice
subject: moral
subject: political
subject: sources
description: When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The Democratic National Committee has evaded the fact that large majorities of Democrats oppose continuing military aid to Israel and believe it has committed genocide in Gaza. The stage is set for jarring discord when the More The post DNC Approach to Israel is Political Malpractice and Moral Failure appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-375095" class="size-large wp-image-375095" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-840x630.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_0219-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The Democratic National Committee has evaded the fact that large majorities of Democrats oppose continuing military aid to Israel and believe it has committed genocide in Gaza. The stage is set for jarring discord when the DNC’s 450 members gather in New Orleans. An NBC poll released this week underscores the depth of the DNC’s political folly. The results were lopsided, by a 67-17 percent margin in favor of Palestinians, when the survey asked Democrats: “Are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?” The DNC leadership has stayed on a collision course with political realities about Israel. Last August, while a Gallup poll was showing that just 8 percent of Democrats approved of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, DNC chair Ken Martin said at a meeting of delegates from across the country that “there’s a divide in our party on this issue.” He didn’t acknowledge that the crucial divide is actually between the party’s leadership and Dem…

Palantir and the Silicon Valley Death Machine: Tech Giants Profiting from Israeli Genocide and American Empire
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creator: Michael Leonardi
date: 2026-03-20T05:53:26Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: american
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: death
subject: Empire
subject: from
subject: Genocide
subject: giants
subject: israeli
subject: machine?
subject: palantir
subject: profiting
subject: silicon
subject: sources
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subject: the
subject: valley
description: The tech giants are not neutral innovators. They are the gleaming, blood-drenched arsenal of a dying empire, and Palantir Technologies stands tallest among them. In the pulverized streets of Gaza—where more than 72,000 Palestinians have been massacred since October 2023—Palantir’s AI killing machines (“Lavender,” “Gospel,” “Where’s Daddy?”) have become the Israeli military’s most trusted executioners. More The post Palantir and the Silicon Valley Death Machine: Tech Giants Profiting from Israeli Genocide and American Empire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Is Trump a Cursed Goliath in Iran?
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creator: Paul Street
date: 2026-03-20T05:53:15Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
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subject: cursed
subject: goliath
subject: iran
subject: sources
subject: trump
description: There’s a very insightful formulation on page 65 of the brilliant historian Luke Kemp’s indispensable book Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, a study of hierarchy and power that ranges from the first hunter-gatherer bands and cave drawings of the Ice Age to the time of capitalist climate catastrophe, nuclear proliferation, global More The post Is Trump a Cursed Goliath in Iran? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Letter From Skopje, North Macedonia
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creator: Matthew Stevenson
date: 2026-03-20T05:53:01Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: Culture
subject: from
subject: Letter
subject: macedonia
subject: north
subject: skopje,
subject: sources
description: Leaving the Visoki Dečani monastery, I decided to take back roads through central Kosovo to get to the airport and turn in my rental car. I had the option of driving to Skopje and returning it there, but crossing the fro [ . . . ] The post Letter From Skopje, North Macedonia appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Sound Police at the Oscars
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creator: David Yearsley
date: 2026-03-20T05:52:24Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: oscars
subject: Police
subject: Sound
subject: sources
subject: the
description: A decade ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at last summoned the annually assembled Oscar orchestra into the Dolby Theatre to play for the annual awards ceremony in the auditorium where the industry, co [ . . . ] The post Sound Police at the Oscars appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Iran is a Nation, Not a “Regime”
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creator: M. Reza Behnam
date: 2026-03-20T05:52:06Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: iran
subject: nation?
subject: not
subject: regime
subject: sources
description: Every day, my frustration grows as American politicians and corporate media churn out mindless rhetoric regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. They have shown little curiosity or interest in uncovering the reasons and motives behind the unwarranted and illegal U.S.-Israeli war of choice against Iran. Instead, they parrot demonizing language; most notably the reflexive use More The post Iran is a Nation, Not a “Regime” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Rural Residents Faces the Biggest Risks From Postal Delays
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creator: Sarah Anderson
date: 2026-03-20T05:51:15Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: biggest
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: delays
subject: faces
subject: from
subject: postal
subject: residents
subject: risks
subject: rural
subject: sources
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description: For over 250 years, Americans have relied on the United States Postal Service for timely processing of their mail, no matter the conditions. After we dropped it in a box or gave it to a letter carrier, we could count on our mail being postmarked on that date so that our bills and tax returns More The post Rural Residents Faces the Biggest Risks From Postal Delays appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Choosing Life: Ukraine’s Quiet Work of Healing War Trauma
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creator: Peter Bach
date: 2026-03-20T05:50:56Z
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description: The online gathering carried a quiet urgency. Veterans, psychologists, and aid workers had come together to discuss something rarely visible in wartime reporting: how Ukraine was trying to heal the psychological wounds of war. Russia’s full-scale invasion had entered its fourth year, yet the war was increasingly competing for international attention. Events in the Middle More The post Choosing Life: Ukraine’s Quiet Work of Healing War Trauma appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376648" class="size-large wp-image-376648" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-840x630.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="630" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_1911-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The online gathering carried a quiet urgency. Veterans, psychologists, and aid workers had come together to discuss something rarely visible in wartime reporting: how Ukraine was trying to heal the psychological wounds of war. Russia’s full-scale invasion had entered its fourth year, yet the war was increasingly competing for international attention. Events in the Middle East were shifting diplomatic focus and energy markets in ways that indirectly benefited Russia, while Ukraine faced renewed pressure on its air-defence supplies as US Patriot interceptors were diverted elsewhere. The US had even eased sanctions to permit further limited Russian oil sales to help stabilise global markets. Ukraine therefore risked slipping from view altogether until the US and a number of its increasingly strained Gulf allies began seeking Ukrainian expertise in defensive drone technology, assistance Kyiv had agreed to provide. Could such cooperation ultimately strengthen Ukraine’s own hand, even as millions of its own people continued to live in a state of frozen trauma? Against that backdrop, th…

Nandita Bajaj: Confronting Patriarchy, Pronatalism, and Population Denial
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creator: Robert Jensen
date: 2026-03-20T05:50:45Z
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description: Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom in most liberal/left circles was that people concerned about population growth tended to be racists, nativists, and eugenicists. And mostly old white guys, according to a leading UK environmental writer. “It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: More The post Nandita Bajaj: Confronting Patriarchy, Pronatalism, and Population Denial appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom in most liberal/left circles was that people concerned about population growth tended to be racists, nativists, and eugenicists. And mostly old white guys, according to a leading UK environmental writer. “It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed,” wrote George Monbiot. That description was a caricature when Monbiot wrote it, but today’s wealthiest white men (think Elon Musk) are more likely to advocate population expansion, not reduction. Environmentalists who highlight the problem of population growth—the threats to the health of ecosystems from too many people consuming too much—can’t be dismissed with slurs and stereotypes. Nandita Bajaj—who is brown, female, and definitely not wealthy—defies those stereotypes. She chose not to have children and has dedicated her life to research and advocacy on behalf of women, vulnerable people, animals, and planetary health. Bajaj is executive director of Population Balance, a group that includes no racists, nativists, or eugenicists. Instead, its members face tough questions about the trajectory of the outsized human presence on Earth. More differences from Monbiot’s stereotype: She’s not “obsessed” with population or interested in blaming individuals. Instead, Bajaj offers a compelling argument that population decline to a sustainable level is crucial not only for human survival but human flourishing, reflected in the group’s tag line, “shrink toward abundance.” Ironically, if anyone is obsessed about population these days, it’s those worried that falling birthrates endanger the fever dream ofendless economic growth. “Human overpopulation is not the only factor driving ecological overshoot, but it is the most neglected one, and the factor that intensifies every crisis confronting us. And it really should be one of the most important prog…

Mega Media, MAGA Lies
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creator: Brian Tierney
date: 2026-03-20T05:50:38Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
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subject: Lies
subject: maga
subject: Media
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description: “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better!” So said war-addicted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a Pentagon press briefing last week as he complained about news outlets — specifically CNN — not covering the death and destruction of the war on Iran with the elated positivity Hegseth feels it so clearly deserves. It More The post Mega Media, MAGA Lies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-404551" class="wp-image-404551 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-680x382.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="382" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-680x382.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-1120x630.jpg 1120w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kayla-velasquez-6Xjl5-Xq4g4-unsplash-600x337.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Ayla Velasquez. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better!” So said war-addicted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a Pentagon press briefing last week as he complained about news outlets — specifically CNN — not covering the death and destruction of the war on Iran with the elated positivity Hegseth feels it so clearly deserves. It was the latest example of the Trump regime demanding not merely a pliant news media, but an entirely servile industry that functions as its propaganda arm. While this fascist worldview has been most dramatically displayed in Trump’s brazen attempts to censor and cancel late-night comedians like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert for their anti-Trump commentaries, ruling elites in Trump’s orbit have long pursued a dangerous realignment and consolidation of media power to serve their right-wing agenda. Hegseth’s outburst directed at CNN…

Make Matzah Not War: Easter, Passover, Nowruz, Eleusis & the Spirit of Max
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creator: Susan Block
date: 2026-03-20T05:50:26Z
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description: Holidays whip up sweet and spicy memories of Captain Max that I stir into a new Spring casserole of vintage photos. Like onions, some make me cry, but most are tasty enough to make me smile and occasionally even lick my lips. I call it “collage therapy” and, like good holy-dazed comfort food with special More The post Make Matzah Not War: Easter, Passover, Nowruz, Eleusis & the Spirit of Max appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-404668" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pesach-Easter-Nowruz-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Holidays whip up sweet and spicy memories of Captain Max that I stir into a new Spring casserole of vintage photos. Like onions, some make me cry, but most are tasty enough to make me smile and occasionally even lick my lips. I call it “collage therapy” and, like good holy-dazed comfort food with special herbs – such as *herb,* also celebrated around this time (4/20, anyone?) – it soothes my bottomless sorrow since the May 13, 2025 death of my beloved husband Maximillian R. Lobkowicz di Filangieri, helping me navigate this strange space between grief and gratitude. Max Collage #7 highlights the Passover Liberation from Slavery and the Easter Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Filled with fun and games, Easter egg and Afikoman hunts, these zesty Spring holidays, can also be harsh, with bitter herbs for Pesach and fasting for Lent, to give us a tiny taste of the great suffering of slavery, crucifixion and other sins perpetrated by human greed, brutality, hubris and foolishness. Liberation & Resurrection Both Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) and Easter honor divine…

White People Meet Up with Fate, Our Best Hope
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creator: Kim C. Domenico
date: 2026-03-20T05:50:09Z
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description: In the absence of an authority that arises from the deep roots of being, those who hold power tend to abuse it…. In order to shift the unjust situation in the outer world [there must be ones] who will draw upon a greater source of authority than law or institutions or the market…who will “author”things… More The post White People Meet Up with Fate, Our Best Hope appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: In the absence of an authority that arises from the deep roots of being, those who hold power tend to abuse it…. In order to shift the unjust situation in the outer world [there must be ones] who will draw upon a greater source of authority than law or institutions or the market…who will “author”things… –Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny: the Two Agreements of the Soul By turning [Harriet] Tubman into a superhero “ with vague “woo-woo powers, we diminish her in memory and reduce our capacity to learn from her life. This…myth obfuscates…who she was on the inside… –Tiya Miles, Night Flyer [Tubman’s] choice to accept this altered state of consciousness [following her head injury] as religious experience…she was now distinctly equipped to tackle the questions that haunted her: Why did slavery exist? And (how) would her people be saved? –Ibid. It could be reasonably said of us (white middle-class liberals) that we are people who do not know we’re fated – that is, that we’re biological beings. We retain our innocent belief in free will against all odds; in fact, we need it for protection against the soul-betraying demands of life in capitalist technocracy. They say people who don’t know their history are bound to repeat it; most of us who do not know our own true captivity in fate will accept the “nicer”- if not easier – “fate” given in liberal reality; i.e., the realities of free-market capitalism including its relativization of the very idea that being human means anything beyond a stage toward perfected cyber being. Arguably, that innocence allows us to sustain our customary way of life under the awful awareness of the evils our government perpetrates in our name here and abroad, most recently adding 180 Iranian school girls murdered by U.S. bombs to the already haunted collective conscience. As far as “fate” goes, we might be fascinated coming across the words “fate” and “destiny” in a fantasy novel or movie – perhaps intoned by a Merlin figure – because those words hav…

We Went on Rent Strike and We Won
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creator: Cynthia Barlow
date: 2026-03-20T05:49:09Z
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description: Most of the time, landlords win. When I was evicted from my Chicago apartment in 1999, I had no legal rights to defend myself against all my furniture being thrown to the curb, leaving me, my daughter, and baby grandchild out in the cold. This year though, my fellow tenants and I at Bowen Tower More The post We Went on Rent Strike and We Won appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Most of the time, landlords win. When I was evicted from my Chicago apartment in 1999, I had no legal rights to defend myself against all my furniture being thrown to the curb, leaving me, my daughter, and baby grandchild out in the cold. This year though, my fellow tenants and I at Bowen Tower Apartments in Raytown, Missouri won. After a four-month long rent strike where we withheld over $110,000 in payments, our union was able to secure lower rents and utility bills along with commitments to fix long-term issues in the 10-story building outside Kansas City. I don’t want to mislead anyone though: the fight wasn’t easy. I was intimidated, bribed, and almost forced out of the building. But we didn’t budge, and now I hope our victory will inspire tenants elsewhere to fight. I first moved to Bowen Tower in April of 2023. My situation seemed good at the start — the building was accommodating for older tenants, close to transportation, and had a responsive manager. Things started to turn toward the end of 2024, especially in September when my apartment flooded. The water ruined my furniture and most of my clothes — the total damages were around $13,000 — but all management would do is come up and put towels on the floor. At this point I was smelling mold everywhere, but they still wouldn’t help. Around the same time I got really sick and I lost my job. I had been carefully documenting all the problems in my apartment, calling every city service, but nothing was changing. Thankfully, I wasn’t the only person in the building with issues. I’d hear other tenants complaining in the elevator, and eventually I started inviting them to meetings upstairs. We managed to get city employees to come look at the building by coordinating our calls, but they didn’t do anything either. Around that time I came across a video of tenants celebrating at Independence Towers, another complex in our area, after a successful eight-month long rent strike. I had already been personally withholding…

People Look Out for Each Other, It’s the Government That’s Letting Us Down
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creator: Casey Tobias
date: 2026-03-20T05:49:07Z
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description: It all started with Walter. A few years ago, my elderly dad asked if he could bring his new friend, Walter, to my house for Thanksgiving. Of course. Everyone is welcome at my table. My parents raised me to help others — one of my earliest memories is handing out care packages to soldiers returning More The post People Look Out for Each Other, It’s the Government That’s Letting Us Down appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: It all started with Walter. A few years ago, my elderly dad asked if he could bring his new friend, Walter, to my house for Thanksgiving. Of course. Everyone is welcome at my table. My parents raised me to help others — one of my earliest memories is handing out care packages to soldiers returning from Vietnam. Walter was very thin, with the saddest blue eyes I had ever seen. He shuffled, hunched over when he walked. Walter had lost his home to a preventable foreclosure after the death of his wife and was living in the woods behind a local grocery store. I searched for help for Walter. It was more difficult than I expected, but in the end, a grandson took him in. The experience opened my eyes to the plight of the many unhoused people living in our small community. I started noticing signs of struggle every day. I was working at our local Sunoco gas station. Daily, I saw folks coming in, trying to decide between gas, milk, and eggs. I’ve seen too many moms return a tiny treat to the shelves as their children cried because the change they laid out on the counter wasn’t even enough for the basics they were trying to buy. I live in Three Rivers, Michigan, where our poverty rate is <a role="link" href="https://datausa.io/profile/geo/three-rivers-mi#:~:text=Here's%20some%20information%20about%20the%20demographics%20of,who%20served%20in%20the%20Gulf%20War%20(1990s)" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://datausa.io/profile/geo/three-rivers-mi%23:~:text%3DHere's%2520some%2520information%2520about%2520the%2520demographics%2520of,who%2520served%2520in%2520the%2520Gulf%2520War%2520(1990s)&source=gmail&ust=1773327023310000&usg=AOvVaw06LzSHmFwWTtP48XEcvAma">15 percent and rising — and our median income is just <a role="link" href="https://datausa.io/profile/geo/three-rivers-mi#:~:text=Here's%20some%20information%20about%20the%20demographics%20of,who%20served%20in%20the%20Gulf%20War%20(1990s)" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.goo…

People Look Out for Each Other, It’s the Government That’s Letting Us Down
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description: It all started with Walter. A few years ago, my elderly dad asked if he could bring his new friend, Walter, to my house for Thanksgiving. Of course. Everyone is welcome at my table. My parents raised me to help others — one of my earliest memories is handing out care packages to soldiers returning More The post People Look Out for Each Other, It’s the Government That’s Letting Us Down appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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People Look Out for Each Other, It’s the Government That’s Letting Us Down
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creator: Casey Tobias
date: 2026-03-20T05:49:07Z
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description: It all started with Walter. A few years ago, my elderly dad asked if he could bring his new friend, Walter, to my house for Thanksgiving. Of course. Everyone is welcome at my table. My parents raised me to help others — one of my earliest memories is handing out care packages to soldiers returning More The post People Look Out for Each Other, It’s the Government That’s Letting Us Down appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: It all started with Walter. A few years ago, my elderly dad asked if he could bring his new friend, Walter, to my house for Thanksgiving. Of course. Everyone is welcome at my table. My parents raised me to help others — one of my earliest memories is handing out care packages to soldiers returning from Vietnam. Walter was very thin, with the saddest blue eyes I had ever seen. He shuffled, hunched over when he walked. Walter had lost his home to a preventable foreclosure after the death of his wife and was living in the woods behind a local grocery store. I searched for help for Walter. It was more difficult than I expected, but in the end, a grandson took him in. The experience opened my eyes to the plight of the many unhoused people living in our small community. I started noticing signs of struggle every day. I was working at our local Sunoco gas station. Daily, I saw folks coming in, trying to decide between gas, milk, and eggs. I’ve seen too many moms return a tiny treat to the shelves as their children cried because the change they laid out on the counter wasn’t even enough for the basics they were trying to buy. I live in Three Rivers, Michigan, where our poverty rate is <a role="link" href="https://datausa.io/profile/geo/three-rivers-mi#:~:text=Here's%20some%20information%20about%20the%20demographics%20of,who%20served%20in%20the%20Gulf%20War%20(1990s)" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://datausa.io/profile/geo/three-rivers-mi%23:~:text%3DHere's%2520some%2520information%2520about%2520the%2520demographics%2520of,who%2520served%2520in%2520the%2520Gulf%2520War%2520(1990s)&source=gmail&ust=1773327023310000&usg=AOvVaw06LzSHmFwWTtP48XEcvAma">15 percent and rising — and our median income is just <a role="link" href="https://datausa.io/profile/geo/three-rivers-mi#:~:text=Here's%20some%20information%20about%20the%20demographics%20of,who%20served%20in%20the%20Gulf%20War%20(1990s)" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.goo…

The U.S. is Still Making Life Miserable for Cubans
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creator: Eve Ottenberg
date: 2026-03-20T05:45:07Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: cubans
subject: for
subject: life
subject: making
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description: While halfway around the world Hezbollah and Iran are beating the living daylights out of Israel, here in our own hemisphere, superintended by a bilious potentate, a much different story is unfolding. Donald Trump’s garish kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, followed by his ferocious starvation blockade of Cuba and his announcement March 16 that “I More The post The U.S. is Still Making Life Miserable for Cubans appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: While halfway around the world Hezbollah and Iran are beating the living daylights out of Israel, here in our own hemisphere, superintended by a bilious potentate, a much different story is unfolding. Donald Trump’s garish kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, followed by his ferocious starvation blockade of Cuba and his announcement March 16 that “I can do anything I want with Cuba,” are white house depravities about which there seems little the world can do. Sadly, the other two mega-powers, China and Russia, leave the U.S. to rampage in its backyard, though currently its maniacal crimes have simmered down. The U.S. is now supposedly in talks with Cuba, but no one in their right mind thinks this means life has improved for the average person on the island. Cuba suffers from widespread blackouts and an expanding energy crisis. According to RT March 14, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed the talks with the Trump cuckoo birds, though on the evening of March 16, those psychopaths repeated their demand that Diaz-Canel step down. This high-handed command and the talks follow “weeks of power cuts, fuel shortages and growing public anger after the halt of Venezuelan oil shipments…and as Washington stepped up efforts to block other suppliers. Trump has repeatedly threatened a ‘total oil blockade’ of Cuba and warned that countries selling crude to the island could face tariffs.” That bluster about tariffs no doubt accounts for Cuba’s oil drought and for el jefe’s prediction last week that Cuba “is gonna fall pretty soon.” What can you call this besides Washington’s fascist doctrine?—undermine or overthrow every leftist government in Latin America from Honduras to Venezuela to Cuba in the hopes that Bukele-style rightists seize power. I’ll tell you what else you can call it: the U.S. obsessive compulsive fixation on communists who have been minding their own business and done absolutely zip to bother Washington besides simply exist, something the white house finds…

The Tolstoy Guide to History that Trump and Netanyahu Didn’t Read
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description: How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would show “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” the message was unmistakable: this was not a limited war, but an overwhelming campaign meant to break Iran—militarily, politically, and socially. The logic behind such More The post The Tolstoy Guide to History that Trump and Netanyahu Didn’t Read appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Little Big Brother at The Carlisle: Censorship at San Francisco Senior Living Facility
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creator: Jonah Raskin
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description: Life in senior communities has been dissected in two recent shows: Man on the Inside with Ted Danson and The Thursday Murder Club starring Helen Mirren. They have not described the kind of censorship I have experienced at The Carlisle in San Francisco, a city known for free speech ever since Lawrence Ferlinghetti published Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl and Judge Clayton Horn More The post Little Big Brother at The Carlisle: Censorship at San Francisco Senior Living Facility appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Clown Shoes ‘R Us
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description: Living in not just the bleakest but dumbest timeline, we must now witness the "off the charts clownfuckery" that is the spectacle of quivering, grown-ass Trump lackeys faithfully, fearfully shuffling around the halls of power in his fave "old-man-from...
encoded: Living in not just the bleakest but dumbest timeline, we must now witness the "off the charts clownfuckery" that is the spectacle of quivering, grown-ass Trump lackeys faithfully, fearfully shuffling around the halls of power in his fave "old-man-from-Queens" shoes - most ill-sized - foisted on them in some weird submission ritual by a sociopath with daddy issues. What he evidently doesn't know: A. They're made in China, B. Their company is suing him for his illegal tariffs. Up next: Kim Jong Un haircuts for all. The latest manifestation of Trump's petty megalomania came to light when astute observers noticed that first Lil Marco Rubio, then other White House minions were sporting the same often-too-large shoes, which all turned out to be the $145, black oxford Florsheims regularly worn and touted by Trump. In a cringe origin story recounted by cringe JD Vance, the Favorite Florsheims Saga began at a December meeting in the Oval Bordello when Trump, always laser-focused, began staring at people’s feet and abruptly declared, "You guys have shitty shoes." He asked their shoe sizes. He (likely) ignored/forgot them. The shoes started arriving. He mercilessly badgered them: "Did you get the shoes?" And the dutiful flunkies, having already "left their manhood pickled in a golden jar on Trump’s desk," took on the latest indignity of clomping around in their sadist dad's shoes. Rubio, Vance, Hegseth, Duffy, Lutnick, Lindsey Graham, Sean Hannity. "All the boys have them,” said a female White House official. "It's hysterical, because everybody’s afraid not to wear them." Beware trump bearing gifts: Armchair analysts took the shoe pageantry and ran with it. It's an ugly game of subjugation, an abuser's way of exhibiting dominance like the belligerent handshake, the belittling nicknames, the savage put-downs if any inferior dares to question or stray. It's a piece of "exquisite and complex satire" about the juvenile male anxiety over penis size. It's a humiliation ritual by a s…

Ian Powell: Iran, US imperialism and the New Zealand lapdog
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description: COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell When Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, was assassinated in the opening stages of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I didn’t mourn. Khamenei was not someone who deserved to be mourned notwithstanding my contempt for the increasing use of assassination by aggressor nations; in this case the United States and
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell When Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, was assassinated in the opening stages of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I didn’t mourn. Khamenei was not someone who deserved to be mourned notwithstanding my contempt for the increasing use of assassination by aggressor nations; in this case the United States and Israel. Having said this, had either US President Donald Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu been assassinated I would have “not mourned” them even more. READ MORE: How should NZ respond to the US bombing Iran Trump poses headache for NZ Luxon’s fumbling, floundering response Risky Iran attack gamble Government response a disgrace On the other hand, along with thousands of residents in the Iranian city of Minab a mass funeral, I did privately mourn for the at least 165 schoolgirls and staff killed in the opening hours of the US-Israeli strikes when one of their missiles hit a girls’ elementary school. Two words distinguish Iran from United States and Israel Understanding what distinguishes Iran from both the United States and Israel begins with two uncomplimentary words — repression and genocide. Repression is the action of subduing someone or something by force. This can include suppressing thoughts or desires in people so that they remain unconscious. Iran’s theocratic political system is unquestionably repressive. If, in some way, you question the regime or the governing values enough there is a high risk of repression. Keep your head down and you are likely to be safe. If not then you are likely to be in danger. In contrast, genocide is the deliberate and systematic killing or persecution of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://politicalbytes.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/genocide-getty.jpg?w=612" alt="Bodies on display at Murambi memo…

Fiji set to host Israel and UAE embassies in Suva to boost ties with Middle East
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description: RNZ Pacific High-ranking Fiji government ministers have formally approved plans for the establishment of resident embassies for Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Suva. The Fiji government has announced a double diplomatic expansion in a post-cabinet meeting statement on Wednesday. Fiji and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1970. The government said Israel’s embassy
encoded: RNZ Pacific High-ranking Fiji government ministers have formally approved plans for the establishment of resident embassies for Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Suva. The Fiji government has announced a double diplomatic expansion in a post-cabinet meeting statement on Wednesday. Fiji and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1970. The government said Israel’s embassy in Suva “will further enhance bilateral cooperation” between the two nations. READ MORE: Fiji’s stance on Israel and new embassy stirs revived condemnation Iran warns of ‘zero restraint’ if energy facilities attacked again Other Fiji and Israel reports In September last year, Fiji opened its embassy in Jerusalem. At the time, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said it “reflects our desire to build bridges — not walls — between nations, cultures, and peoples”. The government statement said that since establishing diplomatic relations over five decades ago, Fiji and Israel had been cooperating in areas such as peacekeeping, agriculture, security, and development cooperation. “Bilateral relations have continued to strengthen in recent years, including through agricultural cooperation with MASHAV — Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, and the opening of Fiji’s Embassy in Jerusalem in 2025,” the statement said. The government said key areas that would benefit from the setting up of Israel’s embassy in Fiji included security, climate change, agriculture, and emerging technologies. ‘Significant milestone’ On the setting up of the UAE’s resident embassy, the government described it as “a significant milestone”. Fiji and the UAE established diplomatic relations in 2010, with Fiji opening its mission in Abu Dhabi in 2012. “The proposed mission will be the first diplomatic presence from the Gulf region in Fiji, with expected accreditation across the wider Oceania region,” the government said. “The establishment of the UAE embassy will strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas su…

Fiji set to host Israel and UAE embassies in Suva to boost ties with Middle East
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description: RNZ Pacific High-ranking Fiji government ministers have formally approved plans for the establishment of resident embassies for Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Suva. The Fiji government has announced a double diplomatic expansion in a post-cabinet meeting statement on Wednesday. Fiji and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1970. The government said Israel’s embassy
encoded: RNZ Pacific High-ranking Fiji government ministers have formally approved plans for the establishment of resident embassies for Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Suva. The Fiji government has announced a double diplomatic expansion in a post-cabinet meeting statement on Wednesday. Fiji and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1970. The government said Israel’s embassy in Suva “will further enhance bilateral cooperation” between the two nations. READ MORE: Fiji’s stance on Israel and new embassy stirs revived condemnation Iran warns of ‘zero restraint’ if energy facilities attacked again Other Fiji and Israel reports In September last year, Fiji opened its embassy in Jerusalem. At the time, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said it “reflects our desire to build bridges — not walls — between nations, cultures, and peoples”. The government statement said that since establishing diplomatic relations over five decades ago, Fiji and Israel had been cooperating in areas such as peacekeeping, agriculture, security, and development cooperation. “Bilateral relations have continued to strengthen in recent years, including through agricultural cooperation with MASHAV — Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, and the opening of Fiji’s Embassy in Jerusalem in 2025,” the statement said. The government said key areas that would benefit from the setting up of Israel’s embassy in Fiji included security, climate change, agriculture, and emerging technologies. ‘Significant milestone’ On the setting up of the UAE’s resident embassy, the government described it as “a significant milestone”. Fiji and the UAE established diplomatic relations in 2010, with Fiji opening its mission in Abu Dhabi in 2012. “The proposed mission will be the first diplomatic presence from the Gulf region in Fiji, with expected accreditation across the wider Oceania region,” the government said. “The establishment of the UAE embassy will strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas su…

Eid Between Memory and Survival
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creator: Alaa Ahmed Dmeida
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description: In years past, the sights, smells, and sounds of Eid preparations were enchanting. The genocide in Gaza changed all of that.
encoded: In years past, the sights, smells, and sounds of Eid preparations were enchanting. The genocide in Gaza changed all of that. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Alaa Ahmed Dmeida.

CPJ, partners call for Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s release ahead of court ruling on conviction
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined a coalition of international and local press freedom organizations on Thursday in calling for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio ahead of a court ruling on whether to grant a review of her bogus conviction for “financing terrorism.” On March 23, the judge in Cumpio’s case is scheduled...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined a coalition of international and local press freedom organizations on Thursday in calling for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio ahead of a court ruling on whether to grant a review of her bogus conviction for “financing terrorism.” On March 23, the judge in Cumpio’s case is scheduled to decide on the defense’s motion for reconsideration of her conviction, along with a motion to review her bail. Cumpio was denied bail on February 13 after a court in eastern Philippines convicted and sentenced her in January to between 12 and 18 years in prison on the charge of financing terrorism. She was acquitted on another charge of illegal possession of firearms, a non-bailable offense under Philippine law. The 27-year-old has been imprisoned since her arrest in February 2020, when police claimed to have found firearms and grenades in her home. At the time, she was the executive director of the Eastern Vista news website and a radio news anchor, reporting extensively on alleged police and military abuses, as well as community welfare issues in Eastern Visayas. CPJ and the #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio coalition have consistently raised concerns about allegations that authorities planted the weapons that led to her 2020 arrest. The #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio coalition includes CPJ, AlterMidya, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, Reporters Without Borders, and Free Press Unlimited. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

‘The Matter Is Being Radicalized and Solutions Are Being Ignored’: Special CounterSpin episode on the history of Iran propaganda
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description: "Whenever you see sanctions, you really should think war, because that's really ultimately the outcome."
encoded: The March 13, 2026, episode of CounterSpin was a review of the history of anti-Iran propaganda using archival interviews. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260313.mp3 New York Times (3/10/26) Janine Jackson: House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Brian Mast declared of Iran, “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American, both at home and abroad, for the last 47 years,” leading many, at home and abroad, to reach for their dictionaries. The Trump White House’s war on Iran is unpopular in the US. Even the highest level of public support for this conflict falls far lower than that at the start of most other conflicts, including World War II, the Korean War and the Iraq War, reports the New York Times. That may have something to do with the parade of rationales being offered. Popular Information has a roundup of the (so far) 17 different reasons the Trump regime has given to date for why we went to war. And all of it normalized by corporate media that allow recorded history to be put up for debate, that pretend we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, leaving today’s warmongers free to draw up a historical narrative, or several, that serve their present purpose. As we record on March 12, some 251 groups have sent a letter to Congress demanding they vote against any additional funding for this unconstitutional war, which is now costing an estimated billion dollars a day. Signers included Public Citizen, the ACLU, Greenpeace, J Street and National Nurses United. “A supplemental worth $50 billion,” the letter notes, would be enough to restore food assistance for 4 million Americans, establish universal pre-K education, and pay for the annual construction of more than 100,000 units of housing. CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We’re going to revisit some of those conversations today. *** Newsweek (10/…

Rep. Ro Khanna on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran
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[Jesse Jackson] Keeping Hope Alive: A Vision of a Better America
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description: For the first time since the Great Depression, most Americans do not believe that their children will be better off than they are. Jesse Jackson thinks the country’s slide can be halted and reversed. In this inspiring presentation, he offers a program ...
encoded: For the first time since the Great Depression, most Americans do not believe that their children will be better off than they are. Jesse Jackson thinks the country’s slide can be halted and reversed. In this inspiring presentation, he offers a program of new priorities that he contends will realize greater economic and social justice. Recorded at the Kennedy School at Harvard. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva released after serving over 5 years in prison
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description: New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva, who was among 250 prisoners freed on Thursday as part of a deal in which the United States agreed to ease sanctions against ​the Belarusian financial sector, and remove all remaining U.S. sanctions on potash exports. On the same day, U.S. Special Envoy John Coale met in Minsk, the capital,...
encoded: New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Andreyeva, who was among 250 prisoners freed on Thursday as part of a deal in which the United States agreed to ease sanctions against ​the Belarusian financial sector, and remove all remaining U.S. sanctions on potash exports. On the same day, U.S. Special Envoy John Coale met in Minsk, the capital, with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, who pardoned all the released. Fifteen of those freed, including Andreyeva, were sent ​to Lithuania without passports, while 235 were released domestically. CPJ is investigating whether additional journalists were among those released. “CPJ welcomes today’s release of Katsiaryna Andreyeva after years of unjust imprisonment for her work and commends the leadership role played by U.S. diplomats in securing her freedom,” said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Senior Researcher Anna Brakha. “She should never have spent a single day behind bars, and many others are still languishing in Belarusian prisons. We call on the authorities to release them all.” Andreyeva, a correspondent with Poland-based independent broadcaster Belsat TV, was detained in November 2020 while she was reporting live on protests in Minsk. In February 2021, a court sentenced her to two years in jail on charges of “organizing and preparing of actions that grossly violate public order.” In July 2022, another court convicted her of treason and sentenced her to eight additional years in prison. In 2024-2025, 15 journalists were freed in Belarus before the end of their sentences. Still, in March alone, four journalists were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 14 years because of their work, and as of CPJ’s latest prison census, in December, 2025, Belarus was ranked the fifth-worst jailer of journalists in the world, with at least 25 journalists, including Andreyeva’s husband, Ihar Ilyash, behind bars in retaliation for their work. This co…

The harder right over the easier wrong – The Grayzone live
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Iran’s long-term war strategy
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date: 2026-03-19T19:01:15Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 19, 2026
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creator: KPFA
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Heat Wave Scorches Western States, Just as Big Oil Predicted
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description: The Western half of the United States is entering a historic heat wave that will subject millions of Americans to sweltering conditions and is forecast to break records across California, Arizona, and neighboring states. Already on Monday, 39 million ...
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The real cost of the Iran War
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Trump is Illegally Undermining Oversight of His Social Security Sabotage
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description: The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, in response to new revelations from the Washington Post that a Social Security inspector general’s report on phone wait times was modified after the agency reviewed it...
encoded: The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, in response to new revelations from the Washington Post that a Social Security inspector general’s report on phone wait times was modified after the agency reviewed it: “Inspectors general have a crucial role, conducting independent oversight of agencies on behalf of the American people. The Trump administration is undermining that oversight at every turn. Shortly after taking office, Trump fired the inspectors general at 19 agencies, including the Social Security Administration. This has clearly had a chilling effect. In response to a request from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that the IG’s office audit SSA’s handling of its 1-800 number, the IG issued a report days before Christmas, when it received little attention. It also buried the most important finding: “[A]bout 25 million calls ended without the callers receiving service either because the callers disconnected the calls, the callers did not answer SSA’s callback, SSA could not call back the callers, or all telephone lines were busy. SSA’s wait time metrics do not include the wait times associated with these calls.” Now, it is revealed that the Social Security IG modified a report to remove the fact that Americans were waiting up to two hours to speak to a representative on Social Security’s 1-800 number. This modification happened after the agency reviewed the report — a clear violation of the IG’s independence. It is already clear that the Supreme Court and Congressional Republicans are enabling the Trump administration’s Social Security sabotage at every turn. The Supreme Court restored DOGE’s access to private Social Security data, after a lower court had blocked it. Congressional Republicans are thwarting every Democratic effort to investigate data leaks and deteriorating service at Social Security. Now, thanks to today’s revelations, we know it is even worse. The IG has no ability to conduct independent oversight. The…

Strikes Hit South Pars, Largest Oil Field In The World | US Iran Update
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Uganda declares criminal defamation unconstitutional, strikes down cybercrime law
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description: Kampala, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda to declare criminal defamation unconstitutional, the latest African court to abolish the crime in recent years. In a consolidated judgment, in response to three petitions filed by rights groups in 2022, the court also nullified the Computer Misuse...
encoded: Kampala, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda to declare criminal defamation unconstitutional, the latest African court to abolish the crime in recent years. In a consolidated judgment, in response to three petitions filed by rights groups in 2022, the court also nullified the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Act, 2022, finding that Parliament passed the law without the mandatory quorum of one-third of all members. “The abolition of criminal defamation marks a historic victory for press freedom in Uganda and brings the country closer to international human rights standards,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “While we welcome this progress, authorities must ensure that defamation is not re-criminalized through the legislative back door. Ugandan authorities must respect the spirit of this ruling and abandon any measures that seek to jail Ugandans for the free flow of ideas.” The five-judge bench held that criminal defamation, for which the maximum penalty was two years in prison, violated the right to freedom of expression and was not in the national interest. It said civil laws awarding damages to those wronged provided adequate remedies. The court found that Section 162 of the Penal Code Act, 1950, which defines libel — or written defamation — was “vague” and “falls short of the requirement that the law must be formulated with sufficient precision to enable an individual to regulate his or her conduct accordingly.” It ruled that Section 162 was also “inconsistent” with Uganda’s international commitments to freedom of expression under Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The court also nullified Section 163 as its definition of “what amounts to defamatory matter will most likely be subjective.” Arrest, harassment of journalists <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1000" heig…

ICE deporting parents without allowing them to bring or find care for children: report
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CPJ joins legal effort to support detained journalist Estefany Rodríguez
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined a proposed amicus brief supporting detained journalist Estefany Rodríguez’s habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday. The proposed brief was filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) and joined by press freedom groups National Association...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined a proposed amicus brief supporting detained journalist Estefany Rodríguez’s habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday. The proposed brief was filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) and joined by press freedom groups National Association of Hispanic Journalists, International Women’s Media Foundation, National Press Club Journalism Institute, and Foreign Press Association USA. In the brief, RCFP argues that arresting and detaining non-citizen journalists suppresses important reporting and violates their First Amendment rights, especially when the government finds their coverage unfavorable. The brief outlines how Rodríguez was targeted for arrest a few months after covering ICE activities regularly and before a final order of removal was entered in her case, which implies she may have been arrested in retaliation for her reporting. This case follows a pattern of immigration-related attacks on press freedom. Such viewpoint discrimination has a widespread effect, leading some non-citizen journalists to self-censor and seek legal advice. Rodríguez has been in custody for over two weeks where she has faced inhumane conditions. On Monday, an immigration judge ordered Rodríguez to be released on $10,000 bond, but according to ICE records she remains in custody at the time of publication. The habeas case is pending until the immigration bond is posted. As part of the federal habeas filings, government lawyers alleged that “First Amendment rights…may not be even applicable to an illegal alien.” The Supreme Court has consistently found that all persons in the United States have some protection under the Constitution. Read a copy of the amicus brief here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

CPJ urges clarity on DHS secretary nominee Markwayne Mullin’s press freedom views
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description: Washington, D.C., March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges lawmakers to ask Sen. Markwayne Mullin about protecting media freedom in the United States in advance of a full Senate confirmation vote on his nomination for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary given the progressively active role the department has taken in suppressing freedom of...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges lawmakers to ask Sen. Markwayne Mullin about protecting media freedom in the United States in advance of a full Senate confirmation vote on his nomination for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary given the progressively active role the department has taken in suppressing freedom of the press. “The Department of Homeland Security has increasingly been using its power to target journalists in an attempt to silence coverage with which it does not agree,” said CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “It is imperative that Congress hold Sen. Markwayne Mullin accountable for stopping this harmful trend of DHS overreach and ensuring the department respects journalists’ First Amendment rights.” Mullin has previously made social media comments about using violence against “fake news” media. He later said in a post on X that he was joking. During the nomination hearing on Wednesday, Mullin was asked about other past comments condoning political violence. CPJ has been documenting the ways in which DHS has been used to curb freedom of the press during the second Trump administration: Journalist Estefany Rodríguez was arrested by DHS agents, despite being in the country legally at the time of her arrest. Her lawyers have argued that her arrest was a violation of her First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, stating that her journalism was a motivating factor in her detention. Rodríguez was granted a $10,000 bond by an immigration judge, though remains in ICE custody at the time of publication. Journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Junn Bollmann were charged with felony and misdemeanor charges in relation to their coverage of an anti-ICE demonstration at a St. Paul, MN church. Lemon and Fort have separately pleaded not guilty; Bollmann’s hearing has not taken place yet. Journalists have reported being targeted by ICE agents while covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles last year, and the killings of two anti-…

UN News Today 19 March 2026
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creator: Edouard De Bray
date: 2026-03-19T16:08:03Z
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description: UN chief Guterres urges end to war as regional crisis threatens to spiralHuman rights defenders in Colombia face relentless violence: OHCHRWomen and girls bear brunt of global water crisis UNESCO report finds
encoded: UN chief Guterres urges end to war as regional crisis threatens to spiralHuman rights defenders in Colombia face relentless violence: OHCHRWomen and girls bear brunt of global water crisis UNESCO report finds This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Edouard De Bray.

As Washington Succeeds in Wrecking Cuba’s Economy, US Media Blame the Victim
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creator: Tyler Wann
date: 2026-03-19T16:04:01Z
subject: FAIR
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description: As the Trump regime tightens the screws on Cuba by further restricting oil to the country, legacy media continue to toe the government’s line.
encoded: The US government’s decades-long economic blockade against Cuba is in many ways not a complicated issue. The policy of restricting trade with the country’s Communist government was put into full force under the Kennedy administration, with the explicit goal of causing enough economic hardship, hunger and desperation to spur regime change. The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly and consistently voted to end the embargo since a resolution to that effect was first introduced in 1992. Member countries argue that the embargo violates international law. It has cost the country anywhere between $130–170 billion since its inception, and has restricted the Cuban people’s access to food and medicine. And it has not accomplished its primary goal of overthrowing the Cuban government. These are key points that should be included in any article reporting on Cuba’s economic struggles. However, US journalists have consistently leaned into the US government’s framing of the issue: that the country’s Communist government is largely or exclusively to blame for its financial woes (FAIR.org, 11/4/24). As the Trump regime tightens the screws of the embargo by further restricting oil access to the country, a move that has been condemned by UN human rights experts as a further violation of international law (New York Times, 2/13/26), legacy media continue to toe the government’s line on the issue, with coverage that is either low on context or outright stenography. ‘Extraordinary threat’ “All Eyes” are on Cuba, says the Atlantic‘s Vivian Salama (3/1/26)—but apparently not so many that the magazine can look to see whether “Cuba’s hosting of Russian signals-intelligence facilities,” presented by Salama as fact, is actually a reality. President Donald Trump has tried to justify his administration’s significant escalation in tactics on the basis that Cuba represents an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the security of the United States, primarily by supporting US geopolitical enemies. …

Iran, Oil, and the Crisis Coming Next ft. Ian Bremmer | Shane Smith Has Questions
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Israeli strike injures Russia Today crew in southern Lebanon
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description: Amman, March 19, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the apparent targeting of Steve Sweeney, a British correspondent for Russia Today, and his camera operator Ali Rida Sbeity, who were injured when an Israeli air strike hit just feet away from where they were filming while wearing clearly marked...
encoded: Amman, March 19, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the apparent targeting of Steve Sweeney, a British correspondent for Russia Today, and his camera operator Ali Rida Sbeity, who were injured when an Israeli air strike hit just feet away from where they were filming while wearing clearly marked press gear and with their equipment clearly visible in southern Lebanon. The journalists, who were covering Israel’s renewed attacks after the break out of the Iran war from the Qasmiyeh bridge, north of the city of Tyre, were taken to a nearby hospital and treated for shrapnel wounds. Sbeity later told an RT anchor live on air that he believes they had been targeted, as they were standing in plain sight and their vehicle was marked as press. “Journalists are civilians and must never be targeted – this is a clear binding legal obligation,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah.“Striking reporters who are clearly marked as a press constitutes a violation of international law. The Israeli military has repeatedly failed to protect them, raising serious concerns about compliance with its legal obligations. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said that “given the killing of around two hundred journalists in Gaza, the day’s events could not be described as accidental, especially that the missile did not hit an important strategic military facility, but rather a filming location.” This attack comes a day after an Israeli strike on the home of Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV journalist Mohamed Sherri in Zuqaq al-Blat, central Beirut, killing him, his wife, and injuring his son Yasser Sherri, an editor at the Iraqi Hezbollah-affiliated Aletejah channel. CPJ emailed the Israeli Defense Forces’ North America Media Desk for comment on the Thursday strike, but did not receive a response at the time of publication. In a post on X, the IDF acknowledged the strike at the bridge, noting footage of a journalist at the scene, adding that it …

From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-19T15:13:23Z
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The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili
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"Iran Is Playing the Long Game": What to Expect from Protracted War in Middle East
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-19T15:11:10Z
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When Opposition Calls for “Free” and “Fair” Elections to Guarantee “Democracy” in Venezuela, What Do They Mean?
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creator: Yader Lanuza
date: 2026-03-19T15:01:38Z
subject: Bolivarian Revolution
subject: CEDICE
subject: Chavismo
subject: Cilia Flores
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Enrique Marquez
subject: guarimbas
subject: Henrique Capriles
subject: Maria Corina Machado
subject: PDVSA
subject: Rocío Guijarro
subject: Sources
subject: (psuv)
subject: and
subject: bolivarian
subject: calls
subject: capriles
subject: cedice
subject: chavismo
subject: cilia
subject: corina
subject: Democracy
subject: dissident
subject: Elections
subject: enrique
subject: fair
subject: flores
subject: for
subject: free
subject: guarantee
subject: guijarro
subject: henrique
subject: Imperialism
subject: machado
subject: maria
subject: márquez,
subject: mean
subject: Neoliberalism
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: opposition
subject: pdvsa
subject: Revolution
subject: rocio
subject: Socialism
subject: sources
subject: they
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
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description: Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, including through propaganda that categorize it as “authoritarian,” “unfree,” and “undemocratic.” This US propaganda assault is intended to dictate what should be done in Venezuela, including a return to “democracy,” with “free” and “fair” elections. Emboldened by […] The post When Opposition Calls for “Free” and “Fair” Elections to Guarantee “Democracy” in Venezuela, What Do They Mean? appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/venezuela-300x217.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="217" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-90026" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/venezuela-300x217.jpg 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/venezuela.jpg 475w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, including through propaganda that categorize it as “authoritarian,” “unfree,” and “undemocratic.” This US propaganda assault is intended to dictate what should be done in Venezuela, including a return to “democracy,” with “free” and “fair” elections. Emboldened by the US military attack on Jan. 3, and relying on the US propaganda assault, the Venezuelan opposition has launched an aggressive move to seize control of the state by seeking concessions from the Bolivarian government to purportedly ensure “democracy” through “free” and “fair” elections that guarantees “equal” political participation for all political parties. But what does the opposition mean by “equality,” “fairness,” and “democracy”? What does that look like in the context of the recent and proposed legislative changes? And what are the consequences of pursing these ideals, as defined by the US and laundered through the opposition, for most Venezuelans, especially the working class? The “equality” and “fairness” the opposition calls for is an unequal balance of political power to advantage the claims of foreign and national capital to Venezuelan assets, unfairly disenfranchising most Venezuelans from their resources (e.g., oil, gas, minerals, etc.), especially the working class. Therefore, the opposition’s claims to equality, fairness, and democracy – and the actions it entails – are assaults against the Bolivarian Revolution and most of the Venezuelan population. These attacks include performances o…

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 19, 2026
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy
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creator: Nolan Higdon
date: 2026-03-19T15:01:07Z
subject: AI fakes
subject: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Large Language Models
subject: Sources
subject: ‘fakes’
subject: (llms)
subject: 2026
subject: artificial
subject: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: crisis
subject: critical
subject: demands
subject: dissident
subject: east
subject: False Flag
subject: grok
subject: Intelligence
subject: israel
subject: Language
subject: large
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subject: Militarism
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subject: part
subject: Social media
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subject: Technology
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subject: voice
subject: war
subject: why
description: “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral March 2026 video showing missiles hammering the Israeli city as explosions burst across the night sky. To the casual scroller, it appeared to be a harrowing document of modern conflict. The problem, however, was that the video was […] The post Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral March 2026 video showing missiles hammering the Israeli city as explosions burst across the night sky. To the casual scroller, it appeared to be a harrowing document of modern conflict. The problem, however, was that the video was a deepfake. Deepfakes are synthetic media edited or generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to the New York Times, a “cascade of A.I. fakes about war with Iran” have proliferated across social media since the United States (U.S.) and Israel reignited military actions with Iran on February 28, 2026. Indeed, the digital landscape is increasingly saturated with synthetic fabrications, as false videos of boisterous celebrations, frantic airport evacuations, devastating bombings, and graphic casualties flood users’ feeds in a relentless stream of misinformation. As these digital fabrications blur the line between reality and simulation, the necessity for Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy (CAIL) has moved from an educational luxury to a vital requirement. We are currently navigating a landscape where the “fog of war” is no longer just a metaphor for confusion on the battlefield, but a literal description of an information environment choked by “AI slop.” Indeed, one study found that more than 20% of the content on YouTube is AI generated. Without a robust, systemic effort to instill CAIL, the public remains defenseless against sophisticated psychological operations. We must understand not just how to use these tools, but the socio-political structures that own them and the inherent biases they encode. From Trojan Horses to Tonkin The deployment of false information is not a modern phenomenon; it has been a foundational staple of conflict since the ancient world. From the Greeks’ legendary construction of a hollow wooden horse to infiltrate Troy, to Genghis Khan’s Mongol cavalry utilizing feigned retreats to lure enemies into f…

Dilemma
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creator: J.S. O’Keefe
date: 2026-03-19T15:00:51Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Sources
subject: dilemma
subject: dissident
subject: life
subject: meaning
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subject: sources
subject: Television
subject: voice
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description: Every answer carries the next problem inside it, the way a season carries the one that will replace it. We have learned not to be surprised by this. We were born here, and so we stay. What else is there? The world ends at the television frame, where the evening news flickers and dies each […] The post Dilemma appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Every answer carries the next problem inside it, the way a season carries the one that will replace it. We have learned not to be surprised by this. We were born here, and so we stay. What else is there? The world ends at the television frame, where the evening news flickers and dies each night and we sit in its light a little longer than we need to. Beyond that edge is something we have no name for. This place made us and we made something of it. We got up before light and we worked and we felt that the ground knew us. We call it home. But something is coming. We know it, the way you know a thing before you can say it. Quieter than an army. They have no faces because a face would be beside the point. They are coming because someone ran the numbers and we came up short. The ground under our feet has been measured. It has been found wanting. Still we are here. We have always been here. Our fathers were here and their fathers before them, and the weight of that is everything. We do not know how to be anywhere else. It is the only strength we have left. What is coming will find us standing. We will fight. The post Dilemma appeared first on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by J.S. O’Keefe.

US-Israel War against Iran Require a War Crimes Commission
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creator: Renee Parsons
date: 2026-03-19T15:00:39Z
subject: Dan Caine
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Natanz
subject: Nuremberg Principles
subject: Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school
subject: Sources
subject: against
subject: Aggression
subject: Ali Khamenei
subject: antiwar
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: caine
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subject: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
subject: iran
subject: Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA)
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subject: Justice
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description: Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for. Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into […] The post US-Israel War against Iran Require a War Crimes Commission appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for. Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into a series of unconstitutional conflicts with the most recent being a severe unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. Early in Trump’s second term his no-new interventionist war pledge was no longer public policy when he failed to end the war in Ukraine as promised, followed by initiation of a failed bombing campaign against the Houthis, unprovoked attacks on Venezuelan fishermen with no proof of criminality, and the Trump administration’s generous offerings of weapons to support Israel’s genocide on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. In March, 2025, the US Intelligence Assessment concluded that “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.” In June, 2025, with the US and Iran officials engaged in ‘negotiation’, the US with Israel joined at the hip, launched a surprise unprovoked illegal attack on Iran which came to be known as the Twelve Day War. On June 22, the US fired bunker busting missiles aimed at Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear facilities. Those attacks were followed by a tentative ceasefire at Israel’s request to the US as the President insisted that all Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “obliterated” which later proved to be untrue. ***** In anticipation of US military action against Iran prior to February 28, Gen. Dan Caine, Chair of the Joint Chief of Staffs recommended that the President reconsider any intervention since US “resources would be greatly depleted” and that ‘the stakes are too high” when it comes to Iran. Trump’s response was “It is his opinion that…

What Mearsheimer Gets Right — and Wrong — About 38 Million Sanctions Deaths
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creator: Jan Oberg
date: 2026-03-19T15:00:33Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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description: Image: The News Statesman John Mearsheimer recently stated that U.S. sanctions murdered around 38 million people between 1971 and 2021 – see the video below. It is a dramatic figure, and it has spread quickly because it captures, in one sentence, the enormous human cost of modern sanctions. I share his concern about the destructive […] The post What Mearsheimer Gets Right — and Wrong — About 38 Million Sanctions Deaths appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Tanzania: Commissions Call for Mass Eviction of Indigenous Maasai from World-famous Tourist Destinations
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creator: Survival International
date: 2026-03-19T15:00:11Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Lake Natron
subject: Samia Suluhu Hassan
subject: Sources
subject: UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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subject: destinations
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subject: ngorongoro
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subject: tanzania
subject: tourism
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subject: United Nations
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subject: World
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description: President Hassan receives a report from the presidential commissions at an official handover ceremony, March 2026. Two presidential commissions have recommended the mass eviction of Maasai people from some of East Africa’s most iconic conservation areas and tourist destinations. The commissions were established by Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan following previous evictions of Maasai pastoralists […] The post Tanzania: Commissions Call for Mass Eviction of Indigenous Maasai from World-famous Tourist Destinations appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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The U.S. Bombs Kids So Palmer Luckey Can Have Nice Things
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creator: Megan Russell
date: 2026-03-19T15:00:03Z
subject: Anduril
subject: Defense Unicorns
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Ethan Thornton
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Mach Industries
subject: Peter Thiel
subject: Rob Slaughter
subject: Sources
subject: War profiteers
subject: “luckey”
subject: Aggression
subject: anduril
subject: Bombs
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subject: corporations
subject: defense
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subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: kids
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subject: Palestine
subject: palmer
subject: part
subject: peter
subject: profiteers
subject: rob
subject: slaughter
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: thiel
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subject: thornton
subject: u.s.
subject: unicorns
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: Weapons Sales
subject: Zionism
description: Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S. and Israel carpet-bombed Iran, then Lebanon, displacing millions of people from their homes. The pure, unrelenting terror continues to unfold. We are shocked and devastated, but we […] The post The U.S. Bombs Kids So Palmer Luckey Can Have Nice Things appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S. and Israel carpet-bombed Iran, then Lebanon, displacing millions of people from their homes. The pure, unrelenting terror continues to unfold. We are shocked and devastated, but we are also enraged — because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death. There is an urgent need to identify and address the burgeoning war profiteers that are leading the world headfirst into planetary destruction. War does not end in Venezuela or Iran. It will continue until all avenues are exhausted, until there are no resources left to plunder because they have destroyed everything. I call your attention to Peter Thiel, founder of military tech company Palantir, who just last week visited with Japan’s prime minister last week and was dubbed “America’s shadow president” across Japanese media. I call your attention to Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries, who is attempting to create dangerous hydrogen-powered weapons (and almost killed a coworker in the process). I call your attention to Rob Slaughter, cofounder of Defense Unicorns, whose company has “built the software backbone of the War Department” (and whose surname is rather apt). And I call your attention to Palmer Luckey, self-proclaimed “radical Zionist” and founder of Anduril, a military tech company that supplies the U.S. military with AI and autonomous weapons. There are many more corporate executives selling weapons and making a killing off of killing. But today we are going to talk about Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, the Tony Stark wannabe who so very badly wants to believe he’s the good guy. Recently, after CODEPINK launched a petition calling him out for his crimes, he claimed that he’s actually saving lives. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-167941" src…

Azerbaijani journalist Ahmad Mammadli sentenced to 6 years in prison
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-19T14:37:38Z
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subject: Imprisoned
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description: New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely mistreated him. A court in the capital, Baku, sentenced Mammadli on Monday to six years in prison on charges of hooliganism and causing serious bodily harm. Mammadli denied the charges and said...
encoded: New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely mistreated him. A court in the capital, Baku, sentenced Mammadli on Monday to six years in prison on charges of hooliganism and causing serious bodily harm. Mammadli denied the charges and said they had been fabricated in retaliation for the work of his outlet, Yoldash Media, one of the last independent media outlets that had continued to operate amid an ongoing wave of journalist arrests in Azerbaijan since 2023. He plans to appeal the sentence. “Given the way Azerbaijan has jailed dozens of journalists on trumped-up charges in recent years, Ahmad Mammadli’s conviction seems highly dubious, and the police violence he is alleged to have suffered is utterly abhorrent,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Azerbaijan should release him immediately and not contest his appeal. As Europe and the U.S. continue to strengthen ties with Azerbaijan, they must demand that Azerbaijan stop its persecution of the press, unless they want to be seen to be condoning the kind of appalling abuse Mammadli says he suffered.” The court convicted Mammadli over a May 2025 incident on the outskirts of Baku in which police alleged the journalist stabbed a man after a dispute in a taxi. According to copies of the indictment and the journalist’s defense speech shared with CPJ, Mammadli said he was in a shared taxi with strangers when one of the passengers, who he believes was a police agent, told the taxi to pull over, dragged the journalist out of the vehicle, and began beating him. Mammadli said that police officers arrived quickly on the scene, arrested him, and set up a fake crime scene, throwing a knife to the ground and cordoning off the area. He said the officers then took him to a police station, where they beat him unconscious, knocking his tooth out with a baseball bat, and repeate…

CPJ, partners call for Abduljalil Al-Singace’s release on 15th arrest anniversary
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-19T14:31:01Z
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 18 human rights and press freedom organizations in urging Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to immediately release blogger Abduljalil Al-Singace, who has completed 15 years of arbitrary imprisonment for his role in the pro-democracy movement. Since July 2021, Al-Singace,...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 18 human rights and press freedom organizations in urging Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to immediately release blogger Abduljalil Al-Singace, who has completed 15 years of arbitrary imprisonment for his role in the pro-democracy movement. Since July 2021, Al-Singace, 64, has been held in medical facilities, and is currently at Muharraq Specialised Health Care Centre. He began a hunger strike to protest the confiscation of his manuscripts and academic research, surviving mainly on liquids and supplements, and has occasionally refused food entirely to protest the denial of medication and specialized treatment. In November 2025, the UN Committee against Torture expressed serious concerns over his detention and urged Bahrain to release him. The joint letter is available here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

An Iranian island before the war
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-19T14:24:01Z
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
encoded: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.

From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-19T12:53:03Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: Administration
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subject: fury
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subject: now
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subject: trump
description: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to s...
encoded: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who attended the briefing, said Bondi will have to answer “why there are still 3 million documents being hidden” and “why there was a cover-up of those files that implicated Donald Trump.” Khanna also comments on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, noting that Trump’s military actions are “a total betrayal of his promise that he was going to focus on American needs.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-19T12:35:17Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: author
subject: Democracy
subject: economy
subject: end
subject: Global
subject: how
subject: iran
subject: khalili
subject: laleh
subject: now
subject: petrodollar
subject: reshaping
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: war
description: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned a “new stage of war” has begun after Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field — the largest known natural gas reserve in the world. This comes as the price of oil has spiked to $...
encoded: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have warned a “new stage of war” has begun after Israel bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field — the largest known natural gas reserve in the world. This comes as the price of oil has spiked to $118 a barrel, a 60% jump since the U.S. and Iran attacked Iran on February 28. Professor of Gulf studies Laleh Khalili lays out the global economic implications of the effective closing of one of the world’s “major choke points for oil,” the Strait of Hormuz. “It doesn’t benefit the average U.S. citizen … at the gas stations, but it does benefit the oil companies,” says Khalili. “The higher the price of oil goes up, the relatively cheaper it becomes to actually have sustainable alternatives. Of course, that means that it benefits China … since China is way ahead of the rest of the world in producing these technologies.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

At least 3 journalists assaulted by Israeli police in Jerusalem
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description: Amman, March 19, 2026 –– The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that at least three journalists were assaulted, and two of them detained, by Israeli security forces outside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on March 17 while covering worshippers attempting to pray at the holy site that authorities have closed under emergency measures during...
encoded: Amman, March 19, 2026 –– The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that at least three journalists were assaulted, and two of them detained, by Israeli security forces outside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on March 17 while covering worshippers attempting to pray at the holy site that authorities have closed under emergency measures during the Iran war. “This attack is the latest in a pattern of restrictions on journalists in Jerusalem, where many reporters have been prevented from documenting events in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque”, said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Israeli authorities must end the use of violence against journalists on assignment who are clearly identifying themselves as press.” Abeer Salman, a journalist with CNN, told CPJ that freelance journalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh and a photojournalist with Chinese state-funded outlet Xinhua, were physically assaulted after they started filming those gathering near the mosque compound, the third most holy site in Islam. Salman said she and other journalists tried to intervene from a distance, shouting to alert officers that those being beaten were members of the press. She said police later approached, and one officer grabbed her, twisting her arm, and causing a fracture that required medical treatment. Abu Rmeleh alleged that more than 15 police officers attacked him after he attempted to stop them from beating the Xinhua journalist, who asked to not be identified, as he lay on the ground. He said his camera was damaged during the assault, and he later discovered that police had confiscated its memory cards. When he attempted to retrieve them, he said he was assaulted again. John Wessels, a photojournalist for AFP present at the scene but unharmed, told CPJ that he also repeatedly informed police officers that those being assaulted were journalists, but was ignored. In a statement reviewed by CPJ, the police said the “journalists who were part of an unlawful gathering and disturbance of public o…

“Iran Is Playing the Long Game”: Prof. Vali Nasr on What to Expect from Protracted War in Middle East
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description: In a major escalation in the war in the Middle East, Israel has bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field, the largest known natural gas reserve in the world, leading Iran to attack energy sites across the Gulf. Iranian American professor of in...
encoded: In a major escalation in the war in the Middle East, Israel has bombed Iran’s South Pars gas field, the largest known natural gas reserve in the world, leading Iran to attack energy sites across the Gulf. Iranian American professor of international affairs Vali Nasr says that Iran is prepared for a much longer war than the U.S. and Israel anticipated. “The longer this war goes on, the more Iran is building leverage, and the more the strategic calculations of Israel and the United States appear to be falling short,” he says. Iran “thinks the longer that the war goes on, the less Israel and the United States will be able to defend against Iranian missiles, because they’re going to run out of interceptors.” In the latest sign the war on Iran could be just beginning, Reuters is reporting President Trump is considering deploying thousands of more U.S. troops to the Middle East. The Pentagon has also asked for $200 billion from Congress. The Iranian president has proposed terms for the end of the war including reparations and guarantees against future war. Nasr suggests that the Iranians are “confident” that some of their terms may be met. “President Trump may have to accept the fact that he has started a war that is not going to give him what he expected, and he has to settle for an exit in order to be able to go back to the agenda that it had before.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 19, 2026
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description: Fuel Prices Soar as Israeli Strike on Iranian Gas Field Triggers Retaliatory Attacks, Pentagon Seeks $200 Billion More for Iran War as Senate Rejects War Powers Resolution, Tulsi Gabbard Dodges Questions About Trump’s Claim of “Imminent Nuclear Threat” from Iran, Capitol Hill Protest Demands “Not One Dime More for Trump’s Illegal Iran War”, Lebanese Health Ministry: Israeli Attacks Kill 45 People Across Lebanon in the Past Two Days, Iranian Missiles Kill Civilians in Israel and Occupied West Bank, Markwayne Mullin Grilled by Senate Colleagues in Combative DHS Confirmation Hearing, ProPublica: DHS Demanding Access to Federal Parent Locator Service, CBS News: FBI and IRS to Probe Nonprofits over Possible Links to “Domestic Terrorism”, Democrats Walk Out of Briefing with AG Pam Bondi on DOJ’s Handling of Epstein Files, Cesar Chavez Accused of Abusing and Molesting Multiple Women and Girls
encoded: Fuel Prices Soar as Israeli Strike on Iranian Gas Field Triggers Retaliatory Attacks Pentagon Seeks $200 Billion More for Iran War as Senate Rejects War Powers Resolution Tulsi Gabbard Dodges Questions About Trump's Claim of "Imminent Nuclear Threat" from Iran Capitol Hill Protest Demands "Not One Dime More for Trump's Illegal Iran War" Lebanese Health Ministry: Israeli Attacks Kill 45 People Across Lebanon in the Past Two Days Iranian Missiles Kill Civilians in Israel and Occupied West Bank Markwayne Mullin Grilled by Senate Colleagues in Combative DHS Confirmation Hearing ProPublica: DHS Demanding Access to Federal Parent Locator Service CBS News: FBI and IRS to Probe Nonprofits over Possible Links to "Domestic Terrorism" Democrats Walk Out of Briefing with AG Pam Bondi on DOJ's Handling of Epstein Files Cesar Chavez Accused of Abusing and Molesting Multiple Women and Girls This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-19 Thursday
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Australian charities funding Israel’s illegal settlements ‘untouchable’, says Labor govt
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description: The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West Media reports. SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephanie Tran The Albanese government has rejected a proposal to strip tax-deductible status from Australian charities found to be supporting illegal occupations, amid mounting scrutiny over
encoded: The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West Media reports. SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephanie Tran The Albanese government has rejected a proposal to strip tax-deductible status from Australian charities found to be supporting illegal occupations, amid mounting scrutiny over donations flowing to Israeli settlements and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Michael West Media has identified 5 charities either sending money to the IDF or to parties associated with illegal West Bank settlements in Occupied Palestine. The proposed amendment, introduced by Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, would explicitly bar organisations from receiving deductible gift recipient (DGR) status if they are found to have supported an “illegal occupation”. READ MORE: Gulf energy sites targeted after Israeli attack on key Iranian gasfield “The fact that people are sending money to support the war crimes of the Israeli military and to expand illegal, violent settlements in the West Bank is bad enough, but that Australian taxpayers are subsidising these settlements is completely outrageous,” Faruqi said. “Supporting these heinous crimes deserves investigation, not a tax deduction.” The amendment, circulated in the Senate as part of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Supporting Choice in Superannuation and Other Measures) Bill 2025, would insert a new provision into the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 denying DGR endorsement to any entity that has “advocated, prepared, planned, assisted in, financed, fostered, supported … or contributed to the establishment, maintenance or expansion of the illegal occupation”. It would also empower the foreign affairs minister to formally declare what constitutes an “illegal occupation” for the purposes of the law. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-125268 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Illegal-Israeli-settleme…

Australian charities funding Israel’s illegal settlements ‘untouchable’, says Labor govt
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description: The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West Media reports. SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephanie Tran The Albanese government has rejected a proposal to strip tax-deductible status from Australian charities found to be supporting illegal occupations, amid mounting scrutiny over
encoded: The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West Media reports. SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephanie Tran The Albanese government has rejected a proposal to strip tax-deductible status from Australian charities found to be supporting illegal occupations, amid mounting scrutiny over donations flowing to Israeli settlements and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Michael West Media has identified 5 charities either sending money to the IDF or to parties associated with illegal West Bank settlements in Occupied Palestine. The proposed amendment, introduced by Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, would explicitly bar organisations from receiving deductible gift recipient (DGR) status if they are found to have supported an “illegal occupation”. READ MORE: Gulf energy sites targeted after Israeli attack on key Iranian gasfield “The fact that people are sending money to support the war crimes of the Israeli military and to expand illegal, violent settlements in the West Bank is bad enough, but that Australian taxpayers are subsidising these settlements is completely outrageous,” Faruqi said. “Supporting these heinous crimes deserves investigation, not a tax deduction.” The amendment, circulated in the Senate as part of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Supporting Choice in Superannuation and Other Measures) Bill 2025, would insert a new provision into the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 denying DGR endorsement to any entity that has “advocated, prepared, planned, assisted in, financed, fostered, supported … or contributed to the establishment, maintenance or expansion of the illegal occupation”. It would also empower the foreign affairs minister to formally declare what constitutes an “illegal occupation” for the purposes of the law. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-125268 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Illegal-Israeli-settleme…

Democracy Now! turns 30 – watch our special event
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Exclusive: A Russian General’s Secret Bribes – Inside A Wartime Corruption Network
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Exclusive: A Russian General’s Secret Bribes – Inside A Wartime Corruption Network
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China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for Beijing’s influence. By capitalising on the economic fragility of the local media sector, China has stepped up conditional funding, editorial partnerships and influence programmes to disseminate its narratives. Reporters Without
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: Reporters Without Borders Since the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations with China in 2019, the Pacific country has become a strategic arena for Beijing’s influence. By capitalising on the economic fragility of the local media sector, China has stepped up conditional funding, editorial partnerships and influence programmes to disseminate its narratives. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Solomon Islands’ government to make the viability and independence of the media sector a priority. READ MORE: Other Solomon Islands media reports One day in January 2024, Lloyd Loji, publisher of the Island Sun, one of the country’s leading dailies, reportedly received a call from a Chinese diplomat. According to the investigative outlet In-depth Solomons, the diplomat expressed the embassy’s “concern” about an op-ed published that same day on the election of the new president of Taiwan and its implications for relations between China and Western countries. At the end of the call, the Chinese diplomat explicitly asked the newspaper to relay articles he had sent, reflecting Beijing’s official position on regional affairs. <img decoding="async" class="wp-image-125277 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Censored-IDSol-680wide.png" alt="The Island Sun op-ed on 15 January 2024 that led to censorship as reported by In-Depth Solomons" width="680" height="389" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Censored-IDSol-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Censored-IDSol-680wide-300x172.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> The Island Sun op-ed on 15 January 2024 that led to censorship as reported by In-Depth Solomons. Image: Island Sun/In-Depth Solomons The Chinese diplomat did not stop at interfering in the editorial line of the Island Sun. In-depth Solomons reports that he also emailed the owners and editors of the country’s main media outlets, …

Mass Funeral In Kabul After Pakistani Strike On Hospital
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
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encoded: Dr. Adam Ratner hovered over a gravely ill infant in a New York City intensive care unit on a grim day in 2022. The 3-month-old girl spiked a fever two days earlier and had become lethargic. Soon she was having seizures and struggling to breathe. She didn’t register Ratner’s towering frame or the bright hospital lights. Her eyes stared up and to the right, eerily frozen. He ran his hand over the soft spot on her head, which should have been flat. Instead, it bulged, a sign that too much fluid was building up inside her skull. The baby’s life was in danger, and Ratner needed to figure out why. He worried the culprit was bacterial meningitis, an infection of the membranes that protect the brain. What came back on her lab tests was something out of the history books. The infant’s meningitis was caused by invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, a type of bacteria that used to kill nearly 1,000 children a year in the U.S. A shot introduced in the late 1980s was so effective that Ratner, a veteran pediatric infectious disease doctor, was among the generations of physicians who had never seen a case. But the baby’s parents, Ratner learned, had chosen not to vaccinate her. Disheartened, he told his colleagues, “This should be a never event.” It wasn’t. The following year, Ratner treated another infant with Hib, then another, each of them unvaccinated. Two went home, but one had to be discharged to a rehabilitation facility. That 5-month-old boy had huge black pupils that didn’t respond to light, and he needed a ventilator to breathe. Ratner and his colleagues noted an “absence of brain stem reflexes,” indicating severe damage. The U.S. government took a half century to build a vaccination system that shielded children from such a fate. Its success depended on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Both are now in peril, thanks in no small part to the man steering America’s health policy. Health and Human Services Se…

DN! Thursday, March 19, 2026
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The AI boom has plunged a small Pennsylvania town into chaos
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description: Data centers will swallow 14 percent of Archbald, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. Who's to blame is a matter of fierce debate.
encoded: “I don’t like to see anyone upset,” said Nick Farris of Provident Real Estate Advisors. He was sitting in the front of a crowd of roughly 150 inside Valley View High School’s auditorium in Archbald, a town of about 7,500, huddled between two mountain ranges in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley. Farris was there to represent the developer for Project Scott, one of many data center campuses coming to town. “However,” he said. “I think that this is the best data center site in this area of the country, by far.” The audience had been fairly quiet, bundled in thick coats against the late January cold. But as Farris spoke about data centers as a boon for communities, they began to laugh, drawing a rebuke from town officials. “What about the children?” someone shouted from the crowd. The children were watching from the walls; long banners of Valley View Performing Arts students hanging around the auditorium like championship pennants. Project Scott and four other data facilities will sit just a few thousand feet from the middle and high schools. “Isn’t there a missile plant next door?” Farris said, getting aggravated. He was referring to Lockheed Martin’s 350,000-square-foot Missiles and Fire Control facility directly next to the high school, parts of which are highly contaminated. “That sucks too!” another attendee yelled back. This was nothing to worry about, Farris tried to convince the audience. This would bring in tax revenue, he said. It was just an office park, albeit one with roughly 450 diesel backup generators. “It’s going to be away from everyone,” Farris kept repeating, to rising jeers. He was wearing a knit turtleneck with a large American flag emblazoned across the chest. “It’s not going to bother anyone.” The specifications say something different: Five developers are planning to build six data center campuses in Archbald, which will cover a full 14 percent of the town, evict a trailer park, and border many residential properties. One campus alone, as The Scr…

The Great Lakes are ideal for wind energy. So where is it?
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description: Bureaucratic hurdles and high costs have prevented the offshore wind industry from developing the Great Lakes’ abundant wind resources.
encoded: There are no wind turbines on the Great Lakes — and it isn’t for lack of wind. This titanic network of interconnected freshwater lakes with a surface area larger than New England, New York, and New Jersey combined is theoretically ideal for wind farms. Winds sweeping across the lakes are stronger, more consistent, and less turbulent than those over land. The National Laboratory of the Rockies has estimated that the Great Lakes states have enough offshore wind potential to generate more than three times their combined annual electricity consumption. Plus, unlike proposed wind farms along the East Coast, where the federal government controls the seabed, Great Lakes states have jurisdiction over their lakebeds. While projects would still face federal oversight, some proponents see wind development in the Great Lakes as a potential workaround to President Trump’s attacks on the industry. “If it’s done correctly and we’re able to harness even a fraction of that, we could offset a lot of electricity demand,” said Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Still, the vast inland lakes remain untapped largely due to a lack of streamlined permitting processes at the state level and economic hurdles. Offshore wind is expensive, and unlike the East Coast, where a mature wind industry has built specialized ships and ports to build turbines in the sea, the Great Lakes states lack the infrastructure. Ultimately, renewable energy experts say the region doesn’t have the legal framework or technical capacity to support such massive projects. So far, offshore wind power — which involves installing turbines in large bodies of water, typically the ocean — in the United States, has been concentrated along the Eastern seaboard. Projects are still very rare: just three are currently operating, with several more under construction, all along the East Coast. More than a decade ago, President Barack Obama’s push for renewable energy buo…

Why $4 gasoline is the tipping point for EVs
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description: As fuel costs climb, the long-term math shifts toward EVs — but consumer hesitation and infrastructure gaps could slow the transition.
encoded: Gasoline prices continue ticking higher as the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues. The national average now stands at $3.84 per gallon, nearly a dollar higher than at the start of the conflict. It’s also just shy of a tipping point that could push consumers toward electric vehicles. When gas prices top $4 per gallon, BloombergNEF estimates that the total cost of ownership for EVs becomes lower than for gas-powered vehicles. The exact crossover point depends on local prices for both gasoline and electricity. “[But] even when I run the model using the more expensive electricity cost, we are still seeing this very similar pattern,” said Huiling Zhou, an electric vehicle analyst at BloombergNEF. In California, for example, where electricity costs are high, gas is also expensive. At more than $5 a gallon, the state has already passed the point at which EVs are the cheaper option. According to a AAA survey from 2022 — when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drove a monthslong price spike — $4 a gallon is also the threshold at which a majority of Americans will make changes to their driving habits or lifestyles. Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of industry insights at Cox Automotive, agrees that “the high gas prices definitely start the conversation with a consumer.” Edmunds.com has reported an uptick in search traffic for EVs since the war started on February 28. It’s too soon to tell whether that interest will convert to more purchases, said Valdez Streaty. But when prices surged at the outset of the war in Ukraine, sales of electrified vehicles rose as well. From January through March 2022, EVs’ share of car sales in the US climbed 69 percent, with hybrids jumping 32 percent. Robbie Orvis, who directs modeling and analysis for the think tank Energy Innovations, said the general trend pre-dates electric powertrains. “In the past when prices have gone up, people would start choosing more fuel-efficient cars,” he said. The oil shocks of the 1970s and 1980s, for…

Writer Kelly Krumrie on taking language seriously
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description: Where does your writing start?
encoded: Where does your writing start? This question made me laugh. It sent me into a philosophical spiral of what does it mean for the writing to start. I don’t know if you did that on purpose to be sneaky. I wanted it to be vague. My first instinct is to say that it never starts because it is always running. I am always writing or thinking about it in some way. There is always some wheel running. Does it begin when I am out walking and thinking and looking around? Or when I am reading and make a note in a margin? Or when I start listing out ideas in a notebook? Or when I open the Word document? I feel like all of those happen simultaneously. Most often it starts with some glimmer of an idea that almost always comes in the form of a fact or a piece of information. I am a research-heavy writer and a learner and a curious person. I read a lot of nonfiction. As I am going about reading and being in the world, some things start to stick to that little wheel that is running in my brain. As things start to accumulate in a pile, I start to think that I might have something, which usually translates to sketchy notes, which start to take the form of sentences, and then those sentences start to get shaped into a thing. But sometimes that gathering up will take a couple of years before something comes to the surface. As you are starting to have these ideas, starting to write and sketch, when does form come into the process? Are you writing towards a specific form? It happens right at the start, as soon as notes or parts of sentences come into play. Form is so integral to how the idea is shaping in my mind and how the idea begins shaping itself on the page. There is an oscillating momentum between the form and the content where what I am writing about will help dictate the shape that the thing ultimately turns out be. And the shape of the thing starts to influence what it is I am writing about or driving toward. I am not a writer who plans out a plot in advance. I don’t know what the …

A Dire Need for Accessible Housing
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creator: The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good
date: 2026-03-19T05:00:00Z
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description: Everyone complains about how hard it is to find decent, affordable housing. But imagine how much more frustrating and futile that search would feel if you had to find decent housing that was not just affordable, but also accessible.
encoded: Everyone complains about how hard it is to find decent, affordable housing. But imagine how much more frustrating and futile that search would feel if you had to find decent housing that was not just affordable, but also accessible. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good.

Activists plan ‘largest flotilla yet’ to break Israel’s siege of Gaza
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date: 2026-03-19T04:19:51Z
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description: By Joshua Carroll A global coalition of activists is preparing to launch the largest ever flotilla of aid ships aimed at breaking Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), made up of civil society and grassroots groups from South Africa, Spain, Ireland, Türkiye, Norway, Brazil, France — and Aotearoa New Zealand —
encoded: By Joshua Carroll A global coalition of activists is preparing to launch the largest ever flotilla of aid ships aimed at breaking Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), made up of civil society and grassroots groups from South Africa, Spain, Ireland, Türkiye, Norway, Brazil, France — and Aotearoa New Zealand — is planning to sail again in spring this year. In October 2025, Israeli forces kidnapped the crew members of 41 aid ships as they approached the shores of Gaza. READ MORE: Kia Ora Gaza and NZ’s contribution to the blockade busters Activists announce new, bigger aid flotilla to set sail for Gaza in March Other Gaza Freedom Flotilla reports Activist Greta Thunberg and Novara Media contributor Kieran Andrieu were among those detained for several days and subjected to violence and abuse by guards that they said amounted to torture. Organisers did not specify how many ships would be involved this time, but in February the Nelson Mandela Foundation said there would be more than 100 boats. Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, was among those who took part last year. “Following the sailing of FFC’s Madleen boat in June 2025, a wave of new initiatives emerged, expanding the movement into a broader international effort to send not just one boat, but fleets, and not just a mission, but a coordinated, sustained challenge to Israel’s siege and violent settler colonial policies,” the FCC said in a statement. “Our actions aim to uphold international law and to support the Palestinian people’s rights to freedom of movement, self-determination, and dignity. “With our governments fueling genocide and failing to uphold their legal and moral obligations, the people of global civil society are rising together in larger and larger numbers.” Despite agreeing to a ceasefire in October last year, Israel has continued its genocide in Gaza, attacking and killing civilians there on an almost daily basis, while severely restricting the entry of food, medic…

Why China has police in the Solomon Islands
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creator: Radio Free Asia
date: 2026-03-18T23:30:07Z
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subject: Police
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Asia and was authored by Radio Free Asia.
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Solomons PM refuses to convene parliament amid political crisis
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date: 2026-03-18T22:45:21Z
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description: By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The Solomon Islands Prime Minister is refusing to convene Parliament next week amid a takeover bid by government defectors who have joined forces with the opposition. Jeremiah Manele is not expected to convene Parliament until May or June and maintains the government is continuing to function despite the
encoded: By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The Solomon Islands Prime Minister is refusing to convene Parliament next week amid a takeover bid by government defectors who have joined forces with the opposition. Jeremiah Manele is not expected to convene Parliament until May or June and maintains the government is continuing to function despite the political “crisis”. Manele has been in power less than two years and has already faced two leadership challenges. READ MORE: Other Solomon islands reports Now his former Foreign Minister, and fellow party member, Peter Shanel Agovaka, has been recruited by a breakaway group of MPs who want to form a new government. In a statement, the opposition Leader’s office claimed the defection of 19 government ministers and backbenchers to the opposition and independent ranks has left Manele running a minority government. Agovoka told RNZ Pacific on Tuesday that a change of government, led by the People’s First Party (PFP) would see him replace Manele. “I feel it’s time for me, representing central Guadalcanal, to take up the challenge to lead our country,” he said. New coalition agreement The statement said 27 MPs signed a new coalition government agreement on Tuesday and have filed a motion of no confidence in Manele and his Ownership, Unity and Responsibility (OUR) Party. The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation reports the notice was signed by the former Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for South Vella La Vella, Frederick Kologeto. It reports that the notice was received on Monday. The motion can be moved and debated once a seven-day notice period ends, and when the Prime Minister convenes Parliament. Government House has confirmed receiving a petition from opposition MPs for the Governor-General to order an extraordinary sitting of Parliament to debate the motion. The opposition needs at least 26 MPs to vote in favour of the motion for it to pass. If successful an election for a new Prime Minister is then…

Bringing White Appalachians into the Fight
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creator: Eleanor J. Bader
date: 2026-03-18T21:50:08Z
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description: In ‘Song for a Hard-Hit People,’ Beth Howard shares her story of activism and organizing in Appalachia.
encoded: In ‘Song for a Hard-Hit People,’ Beth Howard shares her story of activism and organizing in Appalachia. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

A Mother’s Struggle Through War in Gaza
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creator: Nourdine Shnino
date: 2026-03-18T21:29:31Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: mothers
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subject: sources
subject: struggle
subject: the
subject: through
subject: war
description: As she cares for her two children and husband amid displacement and siege, forty-one-year-old Nesma Al-Gharabli is also fighting health problems of her own.
encoded: As she cares for her two children and husband amid displacement and siege, forty-one-year-old Nesma Al-Gharabli is also fighting health problems of her own. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Nourdine Shnino.

How Black Women Continue to Shape American Democracy
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creator: Irene Monroe
date: 2026-03-18T21:19:23Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: black
subject: continue
subject: Democracy
subject: how
subject: progressive
subject: shape
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: women
description: Shirley Chisholm paved the way. We’re carrying the torch forward.
encoded: Shirley Chisholm paved the way. We’re carrying the torch forward. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Irene Monroe.

The Cost of Bolivia’s ‘White Gold’
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creator: John McAulay
date: 2026-03-18T21:06:22Z
subject: Sources
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subject: cost
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subject: the
subject: white
description: As the world races to secure coveted lithium for the green energy transition, Indigenous communities in Bolivia are left to bear the environmental burden.
encoded: As the world races to secure coveted lithium for the green energy transition, Indigenous communities in Bolivia are left to bear the environmental burden. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by John McAulay.

Trump bullies media over Iran coverage
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-18T21:01:14Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: bullies
subject: coverage
subject: Democracy
subject: iran
subject: Media
subject: now
subject: over
subject: sources
subject: trump
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Israel urges Iranian uprising while privately saying they’d ‘get slaughtered’
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creator: Sharon Zhang
date: 2026-03-18T19:33:43Z
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subject: iran
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subject: movements
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subject: saying
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subject: they’d
subject: uprising
subject: urges
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Sean O’Brien sold labor out to Trump. These Teamsters are running to oust him.
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date: 2026-03-18T19:29:50Z
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subject: Labor
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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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No Kings to Hungary: Ezra Levin & László Upor on Fighting Fascism, Trump & Orbán [Re-Air – Episo…
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-18T19:23:38Z
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subject: hungary
subject: king’s
subject: lászló
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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Joe Kent resigns over Iran
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-18T18:56:04Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Democracy
subject: iran
subject: joe”:
subject: kent
subject: now
subject: over
subject: resigns
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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AI-powered robot dogs guarding reviled data centers is where we have arrived
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creator: Stephen Prager
date: 2026-03-18T18:44:20Z
subject: AI
subject: article
subject: Economy and Inequality
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Prisons and Policing
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: ai-powered
subject: and
subject: arrived
subject: big tech
subject: centers
subject: Data
subject: Dogs
subject: economy
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subject: inequality
subject: movements
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Mar. 17, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. As Americans grow fed up with the rapid encroachment of artificial intelligence data centers into their commun...
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Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
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creator: Megan O’Matz
date: 2026-03-18T18:15:00Z
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subject: duffy’s
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subject: have
subject: lobbyists
subject: Politics
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subject: Transportation
description: The post Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, under construction between Manhattan and New Jersey, will improve passenger rail service, an important issue for New York City commuters. It would seem to have nothing to do with what’s happening in northern Wisconsin. But after the White House froze federal grant funding for the project in the fall, citing concerns about diversity and equity measures, lobbyists with an interest in the tunnel donated $2,500 to a political novice running in the Republican primary in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District. The young candidate, Michael Alfonso, has no sway over the matter. However, his father-in-law does: Sean Duffy is secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The contributions are among dozens to Alfonso’s campaign from lobbyists, business executives and political action committees tied to industries — from rails and highways to shipping and air travel — that Duffy’s department funds and regulates. His department also oversees the Federal Aviation Administration. Duffy held the 7th Congressional District seat for nearly a decade before resigning in 2019. He was succeeded by Tom Tiffany, who is now running for Wisconsin governor, leaving the seat open again. Alfonso, 26, who has worked in construction and podcasting, has been endorsed by President Donald Trump. A ProPublica analysis found that many of the Alfonso donors with transportation interests had never given to Duffy or Tiffany. While legal, such donations set up the appearance that helping Alfonso might assist the donors with issues influenced by Duffy. (Politico has reported on some of these contributions.) “The law, as it stands, provides very little constraint,” said Daniel Weiner, director of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a law and policy institute based in New York. “There’s a very large gulf between what is legal and what is ethical. Obviously, this raises numerous ethical questions.” This is not the first time a Ca…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 18, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-03-18T18:00:00Z
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subject: Politics
subject: sources
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 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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How the Pentagon is using AI in Iran
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-18T17:59:28Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: now
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subject: using
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Fisherwoman Diane Wilson is on hunger strike to stop Dow’s pollution of Texas Gulf Coast
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez
date: 2026-03-18T17:56:58Z
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subject: Sources
subject: Working People
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subject: Climate
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subject: dow’s
subject: fisherwoman
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subject: Hunger
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subject: People
subject: podcast
subject: Politics
subject: pollution
subject: sources
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subject: strike
subject: texas
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description: <img width="938" height="1024" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Diane-Wilson-WP-Shot.png?fit=938%2C1024&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Screenshot of Diane Wilson speaking with TRNN from her encampment outside the Dow / Union Carbide facility in Seadrift, TX, on March 16, 2026. Photo credit: Maximillian Alvarez/TRNN." data-attachment-id="342122" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/fisherwoman-diane-wilson-is-on-hunger-strike-to-stop-dows-pollution-of-texas-gulf-coast/diane-wilson-wp-shot" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Diane-Wilson-WP-Shot.png?fit=1079%2C1178&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1079,1178" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Diane Wilson WP Shot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Screenshot of Diane Wilson speaking with TRNN from her encampment outside the Dow / Union Carbide facility in Seadrift, TX, on March 16, 2026. Photo credit: Maximillian Alvarez/TRNN. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Diane-Wilson-WP-Shot.png?fit=275%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Diane-Wilson-WP-Shot.png?fit=780%2C852&ssl=1"> “We're saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’... I think we're way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that's why I advocate being an unreasonable woman.”
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Los Shuar de Ecuador resisten la extinción ante creciente presión por minerales.
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-03-18T17:53:51Z
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Amnesty Investigates Deadly Attack On Minab School in Iran
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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UN News Today 18 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: Plight of Strait of Hormuz seafarers in spotlight at IMO meetingYemen appeal seeks $2 billion for 12 million people in need Forests hailed as renewable source of economic prosperity: FAO, UNDP
encoded: Plight of Strait of Hormuz seafarers in spotlight at IMO meetingYemen appeal seeks $2 billion for 12 million people in need Forests hailed as renewable source of economic prosperity: FAO, UNDP This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Interview: Pacific islands walk a ‘delicate tightrope’ as China influence rises
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creator: Eugene Whong for RFA
date: 2026-03-18T16:47:35Z
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description: The Australian National University's Graeme Smith on Chinese influence in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Palau and others.
encoded: As Beijing has been ramping up influence in the Pacific, island nations in the region have increasingly had to strike a balance existing economic and security relationships with Western countries like Australia and the United States, and new opportunities with China, according to Graeme Smith of the Australian National University. Why China ramps up influence in the Pacific Smith, who leads research teams at ANU that focus on Chinese investment, migration, military engagement, and aid in the Pacific region, told RFA’s Eugene Whong in an interview that Pacific countries must walk a “delicate tightrope” in the midst of the competing interests of Beijing and its rivals. But he also said that at times, the tug-of-war geopolitics that permeate regional diplomatic forums can seem like a distraction when these countries are faced with more local “bread and butter issues.” The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Graeme Smith interviewed by RFA on March 15, 2026. (RFA) RFA: Let’s start off with the Solomon Islands where China has normalized a police presence in Honiara following the passage of a security pact in 2022. Do you think it could be said that the Solomons are China’s most important strategic partner in the Pacific right now? Smith: I think they’re getting a lot of payoff for not an awful lot of investment in Solomons. Certainly, they’re really getting bang for buck. Even their police presence — it’s only a dozen or so policemen — but in terms of the propaganda value, it’s immense. To be fair, the police there have been pretty well received because they focus on community policing rather than sort of the traditional policing you might see in somewhere like Australia. So in some ways, their approach works a bit better with the local conditions. RFA: So you would classify that police presence as propaganda? Smith: Obviously, these days China’s all about selling models and the model of policing that they’re selling is of concern, but in terms of the numbe…

“Warmongers Come for the Media”: Trump Threatens Media with “Treason” Charges over Iran War Coverage
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-18T15:41:07Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Trump’s Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes “Pressure from Israel”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-18T15:38:48Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-18T15:34:05Z
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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 18, 2026
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date: 2026-03-18T15:28:47Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Buried Alive: Iran’s Rescue Workers Race The Clock After New US-Israel Strikes
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-18T15:26:31Z
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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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Buried Alive: Iran’s Rescue Workers Race The Clock After New US-Israel Strikes
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-18T15:26:31Z
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Iran’s Arrows and the West’s Achilles’ Heel
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creator: Peter Blunt
date: 2026-03-18T15:05:59Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Sources
subject: "The West"
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subject: Assassinations
subject: CIA
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
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subject: iran
subject: iran’s
subject: israel
subject: mandate
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description: The penny has clearly dropped. Trump and his domesticated colony of phocine honkers and clappers have been forced to admit what the Iranians (and presumably Western intelligence agencies) have known for some time: that Iran has a pretty much immovable stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, which has now clearly been shown to be the […] The post Iran’s Arrows and the West’s Achilles’ Heel appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The penny has clearly dropped. Trump and his domesticated colony of phocine honkers and clappers have been forced to admit what the Iranians (and presumably Western intelligence agencies) have known for some time: that Iran has a pretty much immovable stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, which has now clearly been shown to be the Achilles Heel of the US-Israeli position in the Middle East and, to some extent, of the global economy. For reasons set out later in this essay, the CIA will have known that there was very little that the US and Israel could do if Iran chose to curtail shipping through the Strait, which developments to date have confirmed. We can only suppose that Trump went to war knowing all of this — assuming, that is, that he listened to, and understood, what the CIA should have been telling him. Perhaps with delusions in mind of replicating ‘the Venezuelan model’ of regime change, to justify ignoring the advice of his intelligence agency and military, he and his henchmen bet heavily on the idea that a successful decapitation strike could be made on day one of a new attack. In the US (straight-shooting) tradition, this would be carried out during negotiations with Iran. The death of the Supreme Leader would be followed more or less immediately by overjoyed citizens dancing in the streets of Tehran, mouths agape waiting for him (Trump) to decide who the next head of the Iranian Government would be. The Iranian military would capitulate and the celebrations and feasting would begin. Unsurprisingly. this always deeply flawed strategy (fairytale) failed, which among other things an unflustered, business as usual Iranian leadership who will have been expecting such a strike surely suggested that it would. The assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader and members of his family at their home appears emphatically to have had the opposite effect. Compounding the First US Strategic Blunder with Another Expounded by Trump et al. in their usual bombastic way, the f…

CPJ condemns Trump administration’s intimidation tactics over US war coverage
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-18T15:03:08Z
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description: Washington, D.C., March 18, 2026— The Trump administration’s efforts to intimidate news outlets over their coverage of U.S. military action in the Middle East directly threatens the public’s right to know, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr warned in a post on X that “broadcasters that are running hoaxes...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 18, 2026— The Trump administration’s efforts to intimidate news outlets over their coverage of U.S. military action in the Middle East directly threatens the public’s right to know, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr warned in a post on X that “broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions… have a chance now to correct course before their license renewal comes up” and in a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump said “fake news” media should be considered to be committing treason. They are the latest in a long line of actions that CPJ has warned are undermining the ability of Americans to access accurate information. “Restricting what media can report and how is the hallmark of an authoritarian government,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “The United States is rightly proud of its protections for press freedom. These protections exist not to protect journalists or governments but to protect the public’s right to know. Statements from this administration meant to intimidate the press into silence create a harmful chilling effect that stymies the free flow of information.” Ginsberg added: “The US Department of Defense has a nearly $1 trillion budget — making it one of the biggest spenders of public money. It’s crucial that journalists be allowed to cover how that money is being spent and what decisions are being made in the name of the American people.” A report by respected democracy watchdog the V-Dem Institute concluded this week that the United States is no longer a democracy, stating that “the third wave of autocratization” has spread to the United States, and noted that freedom of expression in the United States had fallen to its lowest level since the end of WWII. It said the decline was driven by a range of documented attacks from censorship and financial coercion to legal intimidation and suppression. “Freedom of expression is at the core…

Hungary’s Parliamentary Elections May Become a Turning Point for All Europe
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creator: Mike Kesz
date: 2026-03-18T15:00:59Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Fidesz Party
subject: Istvan Kapitany
subject: Peter Magyar
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subject: Elections
subject: Energy
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subject: istvan
subject: kapitany
subject: magyar
subject: may
subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
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description: Next month, on April 12, 2026, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections that will have a great impact not only on the country’s future domestic policy but also on the coordination of its actions and decisions with EU countries in foreign policy. The main struggle will take place between the Fidesz Party, that in now in […] The post Hungary’s Parliamentary Elections May Become a Turning Point for All Europe appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Next month, on April 12, 2026, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections that will have a great impact not only on the country’s future domestic policy but also on the coordination of its actions and decisions with EU countries in foreign policy. The main struggle will take place between the Fidesz Party, that in now in power, and the opposition party Tisza. The Fidesz headed by incumbent Prime Minister Victor Orban has been in power for more than 15 years now, and for this whole period of time it has conducted the policy that often contradicts to the political course of the EU. Thus, the Fidesz Party opposes armament and military equipment supplies to Kyiv, as well as imposing sanctions against Russia. The reason for the latter is explained by Budapest’s close cooperation with Moscow, especially in the energy area, along with the cheap price of the Russian oil and gas in comparison to other countries’ alternatives. The opposition party Tisza, that is now the main opponent of the ruling Fidesz, stands for a radical shift of Hungary’s political course and restoration of the relations with the EU and NATO. Its leader Peter Magyar is striving for strengthening ties with Brussels and distancing from Moscow, that is also implies refraining from using Russian energy sources as it interferes Hungary with rebuilding trust of the block, according to Magyar. His fellow party member and an economic advisor to the opposition party Istvan Kapitany has also called for using alternative energy sources without mentioning their origins. It’s noteworthy that before he came to the Hungarian politics Kapitany was a vice-president of the British concern of the oil and gas giant Shell and is now the shareholder of several British and American energy companies. This serves as a confirmation of fact that the Tisza’s representative pursues his own interests in the first turn, turning a blind eye to the fact that the switch to more expensive energy sources will definitely affect ordinary Hun…

Trump Can’t Blockade Love: Why I’m Going to Cuba
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creator: Leonardo Flores
date: 2026-03-18T15:00:54Z
subject: Cilia Flores
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Padrino López
subject: PetroCaribe
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description: I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries representing a variety of organizations will break the blockade, bringing much-needed supplies to the island. CODEPINK is bringing 6,300 pounds of medical equipment and medicine with help from […] The post Trump Can’t Blockade Love: Why I’m Going to Cuba appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-10.04.39-AM-300x226.png" alt="" width="300" height="226" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-167881" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-10.04.39-AM-300x226.png 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-10.04.39-AM-1024x773.png 1024w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-10.04.39-AM-768x579.png 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-10.04.39-AM.png 1124w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries representing a variety of organizations will break the blockade, bringing much-needed supplies to the island. CODEPINK is bringing 6,300 pounds of medical equipment and medicine with help from Global Health Partners and others. These supplies will be given to clinics, hospitals, and maternity centers as Cuba deals with the latest horrifying crime against humanity perpetrated by the United States. The U.S. is blockading oil, seizing and chasing away Cuba-bound tankers in the Caribbean. No oil whatsoever has entered the island since early December. Trump characterized Cuba as an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” paving the way for more unilateral coercive measures (so-called sanctions). Rubio, in his dual positions of Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, twists the arms of countries around the world to expel Cuban doctors. On top of this are the repeated threats of military strikes from Trump and his allies, along with worrying events: a failed incursion by a group of ten Cuban Americans, including two on Cuba’s terror watch list; and an uncovered plot in which ten Panamanian residents of Cuba were to be paid to spr…

The Decline of Trumpism and the Crisis of Capitalism
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creator: Greg Godels
date: 2026-03-18T15:00:39Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
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subject: Capitalism
subject: crisis
subject: decline
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: economic inequality
subject: global inequality
subject: Imperialism
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subject: Labor
subject: maga
subject: Militarism
subject: Socialism
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description: The chaotic Trump reign over US politics is showing critical signs of weakening on many fronts: Trumponomics is failing: Trumpian immigration policy has stirred a powerful backlash; Teflon Trump has been tarnished by his clumsy, slippery handling of the Epstein scandal; his foreign-policy contradictions and outrages have confused both international friends and foes alike; and […] The post The Decline of Trumpism and the Crisis of Capitalism appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The chaotic Trump reign over US politics is showing critical signs of weakening on many fronts: Trumponomics is failing: Trumpian immigration policy has stirred a powerful backlash; Teflon Trump has been tarnished by his clumsy, slippery handling of the Epstein scandal; his foreign-policy contradictions and outrages have confused both international friends and foes alike; and his violation of his “end to endless wars” campaign has caused a break with some of his most ardent supporters. It is easy to forget that this Trump regime has been in power for only a little more than a year, while enjoying a majority in both the House and the Senate, as well as a favorable majority in the Supreme Court. In such a short time, he and his cohorts have managed to do extraordinary damage. Unlike in his first term, where Trump included some of the Republican Party old guard, the new administration was outfitted with hard-core MAGA — a cabal that proved to be craven sycophants, unhinged racists and nationalists, and intellectual reactionaries. Whatever traction Trump may have gotten with those angry with two-party betrayal, his already shattered promises are reflected in his falling poll numbers. With the mid-term elections coming, significant numbers within his coalition are questioning his policies or distancing themselves from his positions despite his brazen threats to destroy them politically for their heresy. It would be more than misleading to credit the decline of Trumpism to the resistance, the Democrats, or the broad left. For sure, there have been remarkable centers of mass struggle against Trump’s policies, most notably, the impressive Minneapolis resistance to ICE that successfully organized tens of thousands into a powerful force driving the Trump forces into an embarrassing retreat. Those hoping to reverse the Trump onslaught would do well to study the Minnesota phenomenon rather than deferring to Democratic Party leadership. The labor unions — potentially a formidabl…

Endless War on Iran Has Numbered Days
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creator: Dan Lieberman
date: 2026-03-18T15:00:08Z
subject: al Zarqawi
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Michael Levin
subject: Monopoly Media
subject: Rafidites
subject: Sources
subject: ‘endless
subject: Al-Qaeda
subject: Bahrain
subject: bin
subject: david brooks
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subject: khalifa
subject: Language
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subject: mandate
subject: Media
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subject: Middle East
subject: monopoly
subject: Narrative
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subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: Propaganda
subject: qasem soleimani
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description: Re-creation of an American foreign policy tactic, “We have to kill them in order to save them,” sheds a dark light on the executive leadership that guides foreign policies and on the political commentators who inform Americans of the policies. The U.S. government released its assessment of why Iran must be pulverized into the Stone […] The post Endless War on Iran Has Numbered Days appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Re-creation of an American foreign policy tactic, “We have to kill them in order to save them,” sheds a dark light on the executive leadership that guides foreign policies and on the political commentators who inform Americans of the policies. The U.S. government released its assessment of why Iran must be pulverized into the Stone Age, and favored political reporters persuaded their readers to agree with the policy. The Iranian Regime’s Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens, The White House, March 2, 2026 For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — has killed and maimed American citizens and service members through its own forces and proxy militias. More Americans have been killed by Iran than any other terrorist regime on Earth. President Donald J. Trump is doing what Presidents over the last five decades have refused to do — eliminate the threat once and for all. By destroying Iran’s missiles, annihilating their navy, and ensuring they can never obtain a nuclear weapon, the Trump Administration’s bold and decisive action is protecting American lives and advancing American interests. According to the White House, Iran’s missiles, navy, and a potential nuclear weapon have killed American citizens. Now the threat is eliminated, and we can relax. Here is a partial record of the White House list of the “Iranian regime’s blood-soaked war on Americans.” November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff. April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans. October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut. I’ll stop here. The complete farcical list can be found at the farcic…

The Global Convoy to Cuba: Response to Washington’s Strangling of Cuba
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description: Since 1962 the US imposed an economic blockade on Cuba designed “to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Until 1990 this brutality was greatly alleviated by the solidarity of the socialist countries which provided the Cuban people with essential trade and aid. That provided some protection, but as 638 Ways to Kill Castro […] The post The Global Convoy to Cuba: Response to Washington’s Strangling of Cuba appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Since 1962 the US imposed an economic blockade on Cuba designed “to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Until 1990 this brutality was greatly alleviated by the solidarity of the socialist countries which provided the Cuban people with essential trade and aid. That provided some protection, but as 638 Ways to Kill Castro illustrates, the US had other tools, including many acts of terrorism and biological warfare. Despite decades of resistance to the blockade by solidarity organizations in the US, despite polls consistently showing most people being against the blockade, despite the United Nations General Assembly votes for the last 33 years to demand the lifting of the US blockade, Washington has not only been oblivious, but has ramped up the economic warfare. Washington again declared Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, providing no basis for this allegation. This designation allows the US to use its control over the world financial system (e.g., SWIFT, IMF, World Bank, and the US dollar as the international currency) to sanction or block trade and transactions with Cuba. Countries, banks, and companies having business relations with Cuba face sanctions for supporting “terrorism.” This severely restricts Cuba’s ability to trade, receive foreign investment and credit. The blockade cost Cuba $7.5 billion in 2025, $20.5 million per day. Since 1960, this de facto fine for exercising its right to national self-determination has cost Cuba $170 billion. On January 29, the US squeezed Cuba much more, imposing a blockade on all oil to Cuba, ready to economically punish any country that ships oil. Because of US world economic power, no country challenges this. Last year Mexico supplied 44% of Cuba’s imported crude oil, and Venezuela 34%. Cuba has received no oil since mid-December. Obviously, these US actions violate international law, as did the attack on Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Maduro, and imposing control over its oil exports. And as…

Lebanese journalist killed in Israeli strike on central Beirut
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description: Amman, March 18, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the killing of Mohamed Sherri, a journalist with Hezbollah-affiliated broadcaster Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike on a residential building he lived in with his family in the central Beirut neighborhood of Zuqaq al-Blat on the morning of March 18. Al-Manar TV confirmed...
encoded: Amman, March 18, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the killing of Mohamed Sherri, a journalist with Hezbollah-affiliated broadcaster Al-Manar TV, in an Israeli strike on a residential building he lived in with his family in the central Beirut neighborhood of Zuqaq al-Blat on the morning of March 18. Al-Manar TV confirmed the killing of Sherri, the head of political programming, and his wife in a statement, saying that he was among the channel’s most prominent journalists. A source from the Union of Journalists in Lebanon told CPJ that Yasser Sherri, Mohamed’s son and an editor at the Iraqi Hezbollah-affiliated Aletejah channel, was injured during the same strike. “The killing of journalist Mohamed Sherri in his central Beirut apartment is a frightening escalation in Israel’s offensive in Lebanon,” said Joud Hasan, CPJ’s Levant Program Coordinator. “There is no justification for striking a densely populated residential apartment, and such attacks demonstrate a complete disregard for civilian life and the safety of journalists.” The strike comes amid a renewed Israeli offensive in Lebanon against armed group Hezbollah that kicked off in early March as tensions in the Iran war spread across the region. As of March 18, CPJ has documented in Lebanon the injury of four journalists, Israeli strikes on four media outlets, the obstruction of crews, as well as the displacement of members of the press from parts of Beirut and the country’s south. In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Forces’ situation room told CPJ by phone that the incident is under investigation. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Iran Strikes Tel Aviv In Retaliation For Larijani Killing | US Iran Update
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Preserving social justice stories for decades to come #shorts
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Israel bombs, flattens building in central Beirut
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“Warmongers Come for the Media”: Trump Threatens Media with “Treason” Charges over Iran War Coverage
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date: 2026-03-18T12:52:16Z
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description: The Trump administration is escalating threats against news organizations, with President Trump suggesting outlets should face “treason” charges for disseminating false information. Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communicat...
encoded: The Trump administration is escalating threats against news organizations, with President Trump suggesting outlets should face “treason” charges for disseminating false information. Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has also threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. This all comes as allies of President Trump consolidate their control over several major media outlets. Paramount Skydance, led by Trump ally David Ellison, is poised to acquire Warner Bros., which includes CNN. “They want these companies to be afraid,” says Craig Aaron, CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. “As we’ve seen, whether it’s lawyers, universities, media companies, when the bullying works, you just get more and more bullying.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump’s Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes “Pressure from Israel”
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description: A top national security official resigned from the Trump administration Tuesday in response to the war on 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 po...
encoded: A top national security official resigned from the Trump administration Tuesday in response to the war on 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,” Joe Kent, who served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in his resignation letter. We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned in 2023 to protest the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. He says Kent is at least the 16th U.S. official in the last few years to resign over policy related to Israel, spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations. “We know that there is a very visible, very vocal debate happening in the Democratic Party on that topic. It’s clear that there is also a very vocal debate happening within the right wing of American politics,” says Paul. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI
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date: 2026-03-18T12:16:32Z
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description: As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues, we look at how the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence in its operations. The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by ...
encoded: As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues, we look at how the Pentagon is using artificial intelligence in its operations. The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon. Craig Jones, an expert on modern warfare, says AI technology is helping militaries speed up the “kill chain,” the process of identifying, approving and striking targets. “You’re reducing a massive human workload of tens of thousands of hours into seconds and minutes. You’re reducing workflows, and you’re automating human-made targeting decisions in ways which open up all kinds of problematic legal, ethical and political questions,” says Jones. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 18, 2026
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description: Israel Kills Iran’s Intelligence Minister in an Overnight Strike on Tehran, Iran Continues to Launch Retaliatory Strikes Against Gulf Countries, Israel Launches Airstrikes on Central Beirut, Demolishing High-Rise Building, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Says Strait of Hormuz “Won’t Return to Its Pre-War Status”, U.N. Warns 45 Million People at Risk of Acute Hunger Due to U.S.-Israeli War on Iran, Attorney General Bondi and Deputy AG Blanche Set to Brief Lawmakers on DOJ’s Handling of Epstein Files, Senate Democrats Send White House Counteroffer to Fund DHS, HRW: Several Immigrants from El Salvador Deported by the Trump Admin Have Been Forcibly Disappeared, Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin from Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Somali Immigrants, NYT: Trump Admin Considers Withholding HIV Treatments from Zambia in Exchange for Greater Access to Country’s Minerals, Cuba Restores Power After Nationwide Blackout, DOJ Dismisses Charges Against Army Veteran Who Burned U.S. Flag Across from White House Last Year, Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Union Contract with Veterans Affairs Department Workers, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton Wins Democratic Senate Primary
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Democracy Now! 2026-03-18 Wednesday
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New Polling: As Trump’s War Drives Up Energy Prices, Americans Call for Corporate Profiteering Crackdown
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-18T11:45:24Z
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description: As President Trump’s escalating war with Iran pushes energy prices higher, Americans are looking for ways to keep electricity bills in check. New polling from Groundwork Collaborative and Data for Progress reveals Americans reject the Trump Administra...
encoded: As President Trump’s escalating war with Iran pushes energy prices higher, Americans are looking for ways to keep electricity bills in check. New polling from Groundwork Collaborative and Data for Progress reveals Americans reject the Trump Administration’s plan to rely on voluntary commitments from corporate actors to lower household bills. While nearly 90% of Americans say the war on Iran will raise prices on essential items, 60% of voters also view energy demand generated by large commercial energy users as a key driver of rising electricity costs. But rather than take meaningful steps to rein in Big Tech, Trump gathered executives at the White House this month to sign unenforceable “pledges” that their companies will protect Americans from utility bill increases tied to the growing energy demands of their data centers. Groundwork’s polling shows that Americans reject this reliance on corporations to do the right thing: 60% of voters prefer public sector leadership on energy, saying the public sector should run both grid modernization (60%) and the utilities themselves (58%), as opposed to the private sector. The new polling also finds that most voters believe cracking down on corporate price gouging is the most effective way to lower electricity bills over simply increasing supply to meet growing demand. Groundwork’s Managing Director of Policy and Advocacy, Elizabeth Pancotti, shared her reaction: “Utility prices are up and consumers know the truth: these price increases are being driven by corporate greed and unchecked AI data center growth. Voters feel ripped off by the corporations who hold their utilities hostage and are calling on lawmakers to put an end to the profiteering racket. It’s time for regulators and policymakers to answer the call to protect working families from predatory utility corporations and Big Tech.” Key Takeaways: Voters say their electricity bills are up and hold a range of corporate actors responsible. Two-thirds of voters say their m…

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
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description: The post Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as one member of the team put it: “The package is a pile of shit.” For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server across the digital terrain. Given that and other unknowns, government experts couldn’t vouch for the technology’s security. Such judgments would be damning for any company seeking to sell its wares to the U.S. government, but it should have been particularly devastating for Microsoft. The tech giant’s products had been at the heart of two major cybersecurity attacks against the U.S. in three years. In one, Russian hackers exploited a weakness to steal sensitive data from a number of federal agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration. In the other, Chinese hackers infiltrated the email accounts of a Cabinet member and other senior government officials. The federal government could be further exposed if it couldn’t verify the cybersecurity of Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud High, a suite of cloud-based services intended to safeguard some of the nation’s most sensitive information. Yet, in a highly unusual move that still reverberates across Washington, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, authorized the product anyway, bestowing what amounts to the federal government’s cybersecurity seal of approval. FedRAMP’s ruling — which included a kind of “buyer beware” notice to any federal agency considering GCC High — helped Microsoft expand a government business empire worth billions of dollars. “BOOM SHAKA LAKA,” Richard…

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
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description: The post Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as one member of the team put it: “The package is a pile of shit.” For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server across the digital terrain. Given that and other unknowns, government experts couldn’t vouch for the technology’s security. Such judgments would be damning for any company seeking to sell its wares to the U.S. government, but it should have been particularly devastating for Microsoft. The tech giant’s products had been at the heart of two major cybersecurity attacks against the U.S. in three years. In one, Russian hackers exploited a weakness to steal sensitive data from a number of federal agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration. In the other, Chinese hackers infiltrated the email accounts of a Cabinet member and other senior government officials. The federal government could be further exposed if it couldn’t verify the cybersecurity of Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud High, a suite of cloud-based services intended to safeguard some of the nation’s most sensitive information. Yet, in a highly unusual move that still reverberates across Washington, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, authorized the product anyway, bestowing what amounts to the federal government’s cybersecurity seal of approval. FedRAMP’s ruling — which included a kind of “buyer beware” notice to any federal agency considering GCC High — helped Microsoft expand a government business empire worth billions of dollars. “BOOM SHAKA LAKA,” Richard…

‘I’m displaced too’: Lebanese journalists cover war after fleeing home
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creator: Joud Hasan
date: 2026-03-18T09:51:52Z
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description: Beirut, March 18, 2026 – In early March, as the Iran war spread across the Middle East and Israeli strikes rained down on Lebanon, many journalists covering the country’s growing displacement crisis found themselves living it. For freelance video journalist Hadil Iskandar, who has worked for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and pan-Arab outlet Daraj Media,...
encoded: Beirut, March 18, 2026 – In early March, as the Iran war spread across the Middle East and Israeli strikes rained down on Lebanon, many journalists covering the country’s growing displacement crisis found themselves living it. For freelance video journalist Hadil Iskandar, who has worked for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and pan-Arab outlet Daraj Media, it was the second time in under two years that she found herself packing her belongings and fleeing her home in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburb of Dahieh. After Israeli attacks escalated across Lebanon in early March, nearly a million people fled their homes — including the journalists covering the crisis. Reporters from parts of Beirut and southern Lebanon told the Committee to Protect Journalists that displacement has disrupted their ability to work, forcing them to report from temporary housing while worrying about their families, their homes, and their safety. Having fled during the 2024 war, for them it was a repeated experience of displacement, blurring the line between covering the unfolding humanitarian crisis and living through it. “The displacement of journalists in Lebanon disruption has broader implications for press freedom,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “When journalists are forced from their homes, their ability to report safely, accurately, and consistently is severely undermined — limiting the flow of independent information from conflict zones at the time when it is most needed.” Despite the upheaval, Iskander still felt she had a job to do. “The first two days were very difficult for me, to the point that I couldn’t produce a single story,” said Iskandar, who initially took shelter with family members at an aunt’s house before searching for a more permanent place to stay. “There was a huge distraction between going to the ground, seeing people, doing my job, and at the same time contacting people to secure a house.” Covering families who had lost their homes was especially pain…

DN! Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community
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description: The post An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Dear current and former members of the inspectors general community, Last year, in a highly unusual move, President Donald Trump fired more than 18 inspectors general without specific justifications, as the law requires, and replaced several of them with political loyalists. Over the past weeks, we have spoken with dozens of people who have experience in this field. They have given us important context on how these offices work. Some have expressed concerns that these new federal government watchdogs may be unable to independently carry out their critical oversight duties. We recognize the longstanding reluctance of inspectors general and their staffs to speak with the media. But this is an extraordinary moment. As ProPublica journalists, we share a common purpose with inspectors general: to hold our government accountable by identifying any waste, fraud or abuse — and to be thorough, fair and accurate. For these reasons, we are asking for your help understanding and presenting a comprehensive picture of what’s happening, or not happening, in these offices as they face unprecedented change. To do this work, it is critical that we speak to as many people as possible. If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we want to hear about your experience. Have important projects been halted? Have staff been asked to do work that wouldn’t have typically been done by an inspector general’s office in the past? What is working well, or better than it has previously? Are you facing obstacles that impact your ability to do your work? We welcome general as well as specific tips and take confidentiality seriously. Both of us have extensive experience covering sensitive topics and government agencies. We are happy to answer questions you may have about ourselves and our project. Please reach out to us on Signal or email, and share this letter with anyone who should see it. Signed, Sharon Lerner Signal: sharLerner.76 Email: sharon.lerner@propublica…

An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community
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description: The post An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Dear current and former members of the inspectors general community, Last year, in a highly unusual move, President Donald Trump fired more than 18 inspectors general without specific justifications, as the law requires, and replaced several of them with political loyalists. Over the past weeks, we have spoken with dozens of people who have experience in this field. They have given us important context on how these offices work. Some have expressed concerns that these new federal government watchdogs may be unable to independently carry out their critical oversight duties. We recognize the longstanding reluctance of inspectors general and their staffs to speak with the media. But this is an extraordinary moment. As ProPublica journalists, we share a common purpose with inspectors general: to hold our government accountable by identifying any waste, fraud or abuse — and to be thorough, fair and accurate. For these reasons, we are asking for your help understanding and presenting a comprehensive picture of what’s happening, or not happening, in these offices as they face unprecedented change. To do this work, it is critical that we speak to as many people as possible. If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we want to hear about your experience. Have important projects been halted? Have staff been asked to do work that wouldn’t have typically been done by an inspector general’s office in the past? What is working well, or better than it has previously? Are you facing obstacles that impact your ability to do your work? We welcome general as well as specific tips and take confidentiality seriously. Both of us have extensive experience covering sensitive topics and government agencies. We are happy to answer questions you may have about ourselves and our project. Please reach out to us on Signal or email, and share this letter with anyone who should see it. Signed, Sharon Lerner Signal: sharLerner.76 Email: sharon.lerner@propublica…

Podcast Trailer: The Unrooting
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Iran’s ‘Samson option’ : Deterrence restored or nothing – the logic behind Tehran’s next move
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-18T09:00:52Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Choke point
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description: ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only need to understand what the world runs on. Oil. Gas. Shipping lanes. Insurance rates. Container schedules. Energy prices that decide whether factories hum or go dark, whether households heat or
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Kevork Almassian When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only need to understand what the world runs on. Oil. Gas. Shipping lanes. Insurance rates. Container schedules. Energy prices that decide whether factories hum or go dark, whether households heat or freeze, whether governments fall or survive. This is why serious analysts have been saying for years that Hormuz is not a “threat” Iran invented for propaganda; it is a structural red line that the US and its allies kept treating like a bluff because they could not imagine a regional actor actually pulling the lever that exposes a vulnerability — dependence. READ MORE: Iran vows ‘revenge’ for Larijani, Soleimani; 2 killed in attacks on Israel Thousands urge NZ prime minister Luxon to condemn illegal US-Israeli war on Iran As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports And this is why what we are watching now is a massive US miscalculation that will be studied later the way the Iraq invasion is studied today, with the same disbelief that decision-makers could be so arrogant, so blind, and so certain that the other side would fold. Because Washington didn’t only miscalculate Iran’s will. It miscalculated geography, logistics, and blowback. It miscalculated the fact that the US empire in the Middle East is not a fortress; it is a web of exposed arteries: bases scattered across Gulf monarchies, troops housed in predictable locations, air defenses that are expensive and finite, radars and communications nodes that can be degraded, and a regional order that can be shaken with one choke point. You can see the arrogance in the assumptions. For years,…

Is your state becoming uninsurable? We have the latest data.
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creator: Jake Bittle
date: 2026-03-18T08:45:00Z
subject: Grist
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description: Home insurance is buckling under climate risk and construction trends. Find out how your state fares.
encoded: In recent years, as the United States has suffered a series of damaging climate disasters, experts have warned that the nation is headed toward a homeowner’s insurance crisis. Insurance companies dropped hundreds of thousands of customers who live in areas vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires, and numerous small insurers have gone belly-up after big disasters. This has led some to forecast that a broader market failure in disaster-prone states is looming, or even a housing market collapse. That has not happened yet. But in the meantime, insurance has gotten a lot more expensive — and the price hikes are not going anywhere. A new nationwide report from the insurance price comparison firm Insurify found that the average American homeowner’s insurance bill rose 12 percent last year, reaching $2,948 per year, and will rise another 4 percent this year. This is much faster than overall inflation for the same period. (These numbers don’t include flood insurance, which most often requires a separate plan, backed by the federal government.) There are a lot of factors behind these rising bills: Insurance companies consider the value of a home, the cost of the materials needed to rebuild it, and even the credit scores of the homeowner. But the primary culprits are the rising toll of extreme weather as the planet warms and the millions of new homes developers have built in vulnerable areas. Insured losses from natural catastrophes in the U.S. averaged $100 billion a year between 2023 and 2025, up from an annual average of around $15 billion per year a decade earlier, according to the Insurance Information Institute. <img decoding="async" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/insurify-rates-map-stacked-light.png?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/insurify-rates-map-stacked-light.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/…

Big Oil has moved on from ‘greenwashing.’ Here’s the new playbook.
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creator: Kate Yoder
date: 2026-03-18T08:30:00Z
subject: Grist
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description: Over a few years, oil giants went from trumpeting climate pledges to saying fossil fuels are here to stay.
encoded: Remember when the fossil fuel industry couldn’t stop talking about climate change? In 2020, when oil prices plunged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Oil promoted efforts to cut carbon emissions and trumpeted various energy “innovations”: transforming algae into fuel (Exxon Mobil), capturing carbon (Chevron), and producing green hydrogen (BP). Critics deemed it “greenwashing” — highlighting small sustainable investments to distract people from the pollution at the core of their business. It didn’t take long for oil companies to move on from those old talking points. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, supply disruptions drove oil prices up, and oil giants switched to a new message: Fossil fuels are essential to “energy security,” and they’re here to stay. That’s according to a new report from Clean Creatives, an initiative pressuring PR companies and advertisers to stop working with fossil fuel clients, that analyzed more than 1,800 advertisements, press releases, and social media campaigns from BP, Shell, Exxon, and Chevron between 2020 and 2024. “Oil companies are not trying to follow the winds of the sustainable transition anymore,” said Nayantara Dutta, the head of research at Clean Creatives. “They’re not trying to necessarily look like the good guys.” The political mood has changed dramatically from 2020, a time when world leaders seemed poised to finally take climate change seriously, to the present day, when wars, political chaos, and rising costs have shifted their focus. Big businesses, politicians, and the news media have gotten quieter about climate change. The Clean Creatives analysis is one of two new reports that trace how oil giants — which have much to gain from the world failing to confront climate change — changed their narrative over this period. The new research shows their green-coded language was in retreat long before President Donald Trump returned to office. As oil companies look to expand their natural gas infrastructure, they hav…

Scientists race to decode data from Europe’s vanishing glaciers
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-03-18T08:15:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: Data
subject: decode
subject: europe’s
subject: extreme heat
subject: from
subject: Glaciers
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subject: sources
subject: vanishing
description: Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study it before it's too late.
encoded: High up in the Ötztal Alps, near the border of Austria and Italy, sprawls the closest thing you can get — scientifically, at least — to a time machine. For thousands of years, snow has fallen here and turned to ice, building layer upon layer of the Weißseespitze glacier and archiving invaluable information. For instance, as mining and smelting of metals accelerated 1,000 years ago across Europe, pollutants like arsenic took to the air and fell on the ice. There are natural signatures, too, like chemicals from wildfires that give clues to the climate of the distant past. Scientists are raising the alarm that as glaciers disappear, they’re taking critical insights with them. Already, warmer temperatures have taken their toll on the Weißseespitze glacier, as the upper layers — corresponding to the centuries since the 1600s — have melted away. What researchers are left with is a historical record between the second and 17th centuries CE. And the race is on: Some 30 percent of the glaciers in the Ötztal Alps could disappear in the next five years. “It’s really a race against time, because we have this unique opportunity to inspect the memory of this glacier,” said Azzurra Spagnesi, a paleoclimatologist at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and lead author of a recent paper that analyzed the record of pollutants preserved in Weißseespitze’s ice. Think of Weißseespitze — or any glacier — as a layer cake. As snow falls on the glacier, it brings along whatever compounds are in the air at that time. All that snow steadily compacts into ice, year after year. To interrogate the timeline held within the glacier, Spagnesi’s colleagues drilled down more than 30 feet until they hit bedrock, dragging up a core. The farther down a layer of ice is in the core, the older the frozen water and its component pollutants — a sort of time-cake, if you will. Being in the middle of densely-populated Europe — the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution — Weißseespitze and its neighboring glac…

The Supreme Court takes up a Guam munitions case with high stakes for CHamoru lands
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creator: Anita Hofschneider
date: 2026-03-18T08:00:00Z
subject: Global Indigenous Affairs Desk
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description: The ruling won't just dictate the fate of a CHamoru beach. It could set a major precedent for Indigenous rights and federal power across U.S. territories.
encoded: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine the future of a beach with cultural and ecological importance to the Indigenous CHamoru people of Guam. The case is an appeal from the U.S. Air Force, which wants to continue the open detonation of obsolete munitions on Tarague Beach in northern Guam — a site located directly above the sole-source aquifer providing 80 percent of the island’s drinking water. To Moneaka Flores, a CHamoru activist on Guam, the appeal is a frustrating step back in a multiyear fight to protect her family’s ancestral land. “This is actually a delay for justice for us,” said Flores. “We were moving forward in the District Court, and I consider this move by the Department of War to challenge it at the Supreme Court as a strategy to delay justice for our people and to answer to the law.” Before World War II, Tarague Beach was where Flores’ grandfather and great-grandfather grew coconut trees to cultivate copra, dried coconut meat that was then the island’s biggest export, and where they raised pigs and fished. When the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Guam the same day it bombed Pearl Harbor, Flores’ family hid at their Tarague Beach ranch until they were captured. Like other CHamoru people on Guam, her family endured forced labor, forced marches, and other brutalities under Japanese occupation. Following the U.S. recapture of Guam, the CHamoru people were reeling from more than two years of torture, abuse, and malnutrition, during which Indigenous women were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers. Amid this trauma and the obliteration of property by U.S. bombs, the military seized nearly two-thirds of the land to build bases, airfields, and training ranges. Although community resistance has led to land returns over time, the Department of Defense still controls almost a third of Guam, and Flores’ family never regained their Tarague Beach property. “My great-grandparents were devastated to lose Tarague Beach,” Flor…

How Australia Exploited the Iranian Women’s Football Team
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-03-18T07:01:30Z
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subject: Jonathon Duniam
subject: Lidia Thorpe
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description: When it comes to asylum seekers, the Australian political machine has prided itself on using cruelty and a purposely obtuse understanding of international law. Bolted sovereignty has been elevated over rights and humanitarianism, while political interests have abominated the dark, hungering hordes heading to the island continent on unseaworthy boats. From the early 1990s, the […] The post How Australia Exploited the Iranian Women’s Football Team appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: When it comes to asylum seekers, the Australian political machine has prided itself on using cruelty and a purposely obtuse understanding of international law. Bolted sovereignty has been elevated over rights and humanitarianism, while political interests have abominated the dark, hungering hordes heading to the island continent on unseaworthy boats. From the early 1990s, the UN Refugee Convention became increasingly clipped, its applicability scorned in domestic politics. By the time the conservative government of John Howard assumed power in 1996, turning Australia into a vast village of suspicious citizens suffering from arrested development, the asylum seeker became electoral bait, hooked on fishing lines to lure in voters worried their comfortable lives would somehow be ruffled by the dark, brooding arrivals fleeing war-torn areas and predatory regimes. From then on, a public relations machine was developed to dissuade and horrify those willing to make the journey to the fatal shore. Money was sunk into advertisements distributed through the Middle East warning those wishing to make their way across the seas. In February 2014, for instance, Australian authorities promoted a campaign with the slogan: “No way. They will not make Australia home”. Starring in this squalid effort was a graphic novel depicting asylum seekers in a detention centre suffering from enervating distress. Reality television shows mocking the unsuspecting foreigner at customs such as Border Security also became celluloid staples. In March, the public exploitation of the asylum seeker suddenly switched. The Iranian Women’s Football team, participating in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup on Australian soil, had presented a magnificent opportunity to show that an Australian government might appreciate the asylum claims of those fleeing a Middle East regime. Prior to their match against South Korea, they had failed to sing the national anthem, prompting savage criticism by commentators back home. The e…

CPJ, rights groups urge new Bangladesh PM to address urgent press freedom concerns
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-18T06:19:02Z
subject: Attacked
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Daily Star
subject: Digital Security Act
subject: Harassed
subject: Legal Action
subject: Prothom Alo
subject: Sources
subject: Tarique Rahman
subject: Threatened
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subject: action
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subject: attacked,
subject: bangladesh
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subject: digital
subject: Freedom
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subject: Journalists
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subject: rahman
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and eight other human rights organizations have written to Bangladesh’s newly elected Prime Minister Tarique Rahman urging his government to take steps to protect human rights and uphold press freedom. In a joint letter, the groups called on the government to publicly affirm its commitment to press freedom and media...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and eight other human rights organizations have written to Bangladesh’s newly elected Prime Minister Tarique Rahman urging his government to take steps to protect human rights and uphold press freedom. In a joint letter, the groups called on the government to publicly affirm its commitment to press freedom and media independence, release detained journalists, and review cases filed against journalists under cybercrime laws, including the Digital Security Act and Cyber Security Act. The signatories called for an end to arbitrary surveillance, censorship, and internet shutdowns, and for the government to implement recommendations from the Media Reform Commission that align with international standards on press freedom. The letter also urged authorities to conduct prompt and impartial investigations into attacks on journalists and news outlets, including the Prothom Alo and Daily Star. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Thousands urge NZ prime minister Luxon to condemn illegal US-Israeli war on Iran
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-18T06:11:09Z
subject: Aotearoa petition
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subject: Greenpeace Aotearoa
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: War on Iran
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subject: asia
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description: Greenpeace Aotearoa Thousands of people have signed a petition demanding New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon stand up and condemn the illegal attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel. Greenpeace delivered the petition to opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins in Wellington today. Standing on the steps of Parliament, Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Dr
encoded: Greenpeace Aotearoa Thousands of people have signed a petition demanding New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon stand up and condemn the illegal attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel. Greenpeace delivered the petition to opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins in Wellington today. Standing on the steps of Parliament, Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Dr Russel Norman said: “This war is plainly illegal — it is not an act of self-defence nor is it sanctioned by the UN Security Council. READ MORE: Iran fires missiles, drones across Gulf, region remains in war crosshairs Thousands call on Christopher Luxon to condemn the illegal attacks on Iran by Trump and Israel Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports “While we have come to expect that the US government approach to international law is more honoured in the breach than the observance, nonetheless international law is critical for the security of everyone on the planet but especially for a small nation like New Zealand.” Dr Norman said Luxon was expected to advocate in favour of international law and hence condemn “this reckless illegal war”. “Silence in the face of injustice is complicity, and thousands of New Zealanders agree that Luxon should be standing up to bullies like Trump, who is attempting to destroy any possibility of a rules-based international order.” Greenpeace delivered the petition to the Parliament opposition who have been open about their condemnation of Trump’s illegal war. Fossil fuel price war link Greenpeace also made the link from this illegal war to the escalating price of fossil fuels. “This illegal war has disrupted oil, gas and fertiliser supplies, exposing Luxon’s Trump-like obsession with outdated fossil fuels, leaving New Zealanders paying the price,” said Dr Norman. “Luxon has collapsed the EV market by killing the clean car discount, making it cheaper to import gas guzzling cars. He’s ended public transport subsidies for young people, blocked funding for cycleways, but w…

CPJ, partners urge Pakistan PM to stop deportations of exiled Afghan journalists
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-18T05:36:40Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Harassed
subject: Shehbaz Sharif
subject: Sources
subject: Threatened
subject: afghan
subject: committee
subject: cpj
subject: deportations
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subject: Journalists
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined two other press freedom groups in calling on Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to end the intensifying harassment, arbitrary arrests, and deportations of Afghan journalists living in exile in Pakistan. In a joint letter sent March 13, the organizations said Afghan journalists who fled Taliban persecution were now...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined two other press freedom groups in calling on Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to end the intensifying harassment, arbitrary arrests, and deportations of Afghan journalists living in exile in Pakistan. In a joint letter sent March 13, the organizations said Afghan journalists who fled Taliban persecution were now being targeted in Pakistan amid escalating cross-border conflict. Deporting these journalists to Afghanistan exposed them to foreseeable risks, including retaliation, arbitrary detention, and other serious harm, said CPJ, along with Reporters Without Borders and Free Press Unlimited. The letter called on Pakistan to immediately halt the arbitrary arrest, detention, harassment, and forced deportation of Afghan journalists; respect the principle of non-refoulement; release detained Afghan journalists held solely because of their immigration status or Afghan nationality; and establish a temporary protection framework for those awaiting resettlement to third countries. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Project Vault: Peace in the moana or military outpost?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-18T04:30:31Z
subject: 'Critical minerals' deal
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: deep sea mining protests
subject: Greenpeace Aotearoa
subject: Manuka Resources
subject: Middle East war
subject: Military hardware
subject: Pacific deep sea mining
subject: Project Vault
subject: Sources
subject: South Taranaki Bight
subject: Trans-Tasman Resources
subject: TTR
subject: US minerals stockpile
subject: Vanadium
subject: War on Iran
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subject: aotearoa
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subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: greenpeace
subject: hardware
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: manuka
subject: middle
subject: military
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description: COMMENTARY: By Niamh O’Flynn To most of us in Aotearoa, the current illegal war in Iran feels distant. We see it in our news feeds, we feel it at the petrol pump, and we hear about it in “trade disruptions”. We tell ourselves we’re just a small, peaceful nation caught in the crossfire of superpowers.
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Niamh O’Flynn To most of us in Aotearoa, the current illegal war in Iran feels distant. We see it in our news feeds, we feel it at the petrol pump, and we hear about it in “trade disruptions”. We tell ourselves we’re just a small, peaceful nation caught in the crossfire of superpowers. But behind the scenes, a deal is being negotiated that changes our role entirely. READ MORE: Project Vault: A minerals security backstop Red flags with Project Vault — Veronique de Rugy No minerals deal with Trump petition Other critical minerals reports The New Zealand government is currently negotiating a critical minerals deal with the Trump administration. Under “Project Vault”, the US is aggressively stockpiling minerals from both land and sea through a blend of private mega-capital and government-backed loans. And at the heart of the deal with New Zealand is an anonymous metal, Vanadium. Vanadium is mostly unknown to New Zealanders. But the US Department of Defense classifies it as a top-tier strategic mineral. Why? Because you can’t build a modern war machine without it. It is the literal backbone of the high-strength steel used in missiles, armour-piercing projectiles, and the jet engines currently flying sorties in the Middle East. Strange mining candidate In New Zealand, vanadium isn’t commercially mined. Which, you would think, makes it a strange candidate to be at the heart of a trade deal. But dig a little deeper. Vanadium is the mineral that would be mined by Trans Tasman Resources (TTR, wholly-owned by Australian mining company Manuka Resources) in the hugely controversial proposed seabed mining project in the South Taranaki Bight. Iwi, Greenpeace, KASM and many others have actively opposed this project for more than a decade. It’s getting difficult to keep track of all of our wins, but we’ve beaten it through the EPA (including TTR’s withdrawal the second time), The High Court, The Supreme Court, and most recently, the Fast-Track process. TTR has epicall…

Comedian Lucas Zelnick on voicing the thing you’re not supposed to say
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creator: Sarah John
date: 2026-03-18T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: Comedy
subject: creative
subject: independent
subject: lucas
subject: not
subject: say
subject: sources
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subject: thing?
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description: It feels to me like a lot of your work is about politically charged subjects. Especially the crowd work. I haven’t seen your set, but your comedy talks about racial tensions, disability, etc. Is that just what you’re interested in? Is it something you feel a responsibility to address?
encoded: It feels to me like a lot of your work is about politically charged subjects. Especially the crowd work. I haven’t seen your set, but your comedy talks about racial tensions, disability, etc. Is that just what you’re interested in? Is it something you feel a responsibility to address? Oh, it is my natural interest. I’m interested in people’s political affiliations. I try to keep an open mind, but fundamentally, I do completely judge people and put them into boxes based on their political beliefs. [*laughs*] Also, their experiences in life. It doesn’t mean that I can’t be friends with someone of a different mindset, but I find it a very helpful way to understand people. I treat people and I understand people differently based on who they are. I think I treat men differently than I treat women. I treat gay people differently than I treat straight people. Obviously, I treat women and gay people horribly, and then I treat men better because they’re men and they deserve more respect. [*laughs*] No, no. I treat people differently based on their experiences and their beliefs. When I do crowd work, what I’m trying to do is understand someone as quickly as possible, so that I can understand how to talk to them, what to ask them, and how to make it funny. I do think naturally I go to politics and identity because I find, especially in this day and age, that it’s easier to understand someone when I go there. I feel like I know how to sort of walk the line politically in a way that feels true to me. I can be sort of edgy, but in a way that is not unkind. When I’m doing comedy, I try not to be mean, necessarily, to anyone. That doesn’t feel like an honest way of being to me. My goals have to do a lot more with trying to be the most honest version of myself up there in a way that is funny. Ultimately, I find it fascinating to understand how I’m perceived and how I should perceive other people. My goal of the show is to connect with all people in a way that doesn’t make anyone fee…

Trump and Kushner’s Disastrous Iran War: What Comes Next?
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-18T03:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
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subject: iran
subject: kushner’s
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description: Trump and Kushner chose a war they don't understand, thinking they can use 20th-century "shock and awe" to topple a deeply entrenched terrorist state. The Iranian people are caught between two maniacal regimes and deserve our solidarity: an estimated 30,000 Iranians were just killed by their own government, and now they're being bombed by a Fox News host. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the surreal hallucinating AI simulation we've found ourselves in. Meanwhile, Trump and Vance need to thank Zelensky and Ukraine for their innovative drone-fighting technology–some of the best in the world. Has Vance even said thank you yet? We also prepare Americans for the reality that the "moats" of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans no longer protect us. As drone technology becomes cheaper and more accessible, the same over-the-counter drones terrorizing Kherson, Ukraine are coming for American streets–thanks to Trump galvanizing terrorists, and opportunistic mafia states like Russia that empower groups like ISIS. Like Russia, Trump thinks he can conquer a nation in three days. Join us on April 13th at Powerhouse Books in Dumbo, Brooklyn for the launch of Andrea's graphic novel, Mrs. Orwell. Olga Lautman will be there as we discuss how to survive the "Great Disillusionment" and protect our democracy from the opportunists selling us out for profit. Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/. Patreon supporters get in for free! 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 EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation listeners to find each other and connect in that s…
encoded: Trump and Kushner chose a war they don't understand, thinking they can use 20th-century "shock and awe" to topple a deeply entrenched terrorist state. The Iranian people are caught between two maniacal regimes and deserve our solidarity: an estimated 30,000 Iranians were just killed by their own government, and now they're being bombed by a Fox News host. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the surreal hallucinating AI simulation we've found ourselves in. Meanwhile, Trump and Vance need to thank Zelensky and Ukraine for their innovative drone-fighting technology–some of the best in the world. Has Vance even said thank you yet? We also prepare Americans for the reality that the "moats" of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans no longer protect us. As drone technology becomes cheaper and more accessible, the same over-the-counter drones terrorizing Kherson, Ukraine are coming for American streets–thanks to Trump galvanizing terrorists, and opportunistic mafia states like Russia that empower groups like ISIS. Like Russia, Trump thinks he can conquer a nation in three days. Join us on April 13th at Powerhouse Books in Dumbo, Brooklyn for the launch of Andrea's graphic novel, Mrs. Orwell. Olga Lautman will be there as we discuss how to survive the "Great Disillusionment" and protect our democracy from the opportunists selling us out for profit. Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/. Patreon supporters get in for free! 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 EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation listeners to find each other and connect in that s…

Israel caught in a permanent state of war mindset – peace is taboo
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date: 2026-03-18T02:31:12Z
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description: INTERVIEW: C.J. Polychroniou and Idan Landau Israel’s war on Iran is a direct result of a political culture that depends for survival upon a permanent state of war, says Israeli academic and left-wing activist Idan Landau in the interview that follows. He observes that Israeli society on the whole has embraced a fascist mindset, “reflecting
encoded: INTERVIEW: C.J. Polychroniou and Idan Landau Israel’s war on Iran is a direct result of a political culture that depends for survival upon a permanent state of war, says Israeli academic and left-wing activist Idan Landau in the interview that follows. He observes that Israeli society on the whole has embraced a fascist mindset, “reflecting extreme paranoia and anxiety,” and thus intolerance for dissent. Subsequently, peace is a taboo and there is total indifference to genocidal acts and human casualties. Moreover, there is very little hope for a different trajectory, argues Landau, “as long as the US and Europe continue to insulate Israel from the moral consequences of its actions.” READ MORE: Iran mourns Larijani and Basij chief; Iranian attack kills 2 in Israel As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports Landau is professor of linguistics and head of the department of linguistics at Tel Aviv University. He writes a political blog (in Hebrew) on Israeli affairs and has been imprisoned on several occasions for his refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces reserve. C.J. POLYCHRONIOU: Since the Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel, the Netanyahu government embarked on a genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, expanded Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank and thus encouraged settlers to escalate West Bank terrorist attacks, exchanged fire with Hezbollah and the Houtis, then attacked Iran in what has been dubbed as the 12-Day War, and finally persuaded US President Donald Trump to go to war with Iran. What is Israel’s endgame in terrorising the Middle East, and how has permanent war impacted Israeli society and the Israeli psyche? IDAN LANDAU: I think th…

Western media failing to tell truth about war on Iran, says academic
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-18T00:57:59Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Jeffrey Sachs
subject: Middle East war
subject: Sources
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subject: US-Israeli campaign
subject: War on Iran
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description: Pacific Media Watch Western legacy media is failing to tell the truth on the US-Israeli war on Iran, says a leading US academic and analyst. “Mass murder has been normalised,” said Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs in an interview with the Chinese channel CGTN Live. He argues that mainstream media in the US and Europe
encoded: Pacific Media Watch Western legacy media is failing to tell the truth on the US-Israeli war on Iran, says a leading US academic and analyst. “Mass murder has been normalised,” said Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs in an interview with the Chinese channel CGTN Live. He argues that mainstream media in the US and Europe is not reporting the truth about what is really happening in the Middle East. READ MORE: Iran confirms security boss Larijani, Basij chief killed; 2 dead in Israel As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports Professor Sachs describes how he attended a UN Security Council meeting on the day that the US-Israeli bombing started. “And what did all the Western countries do? They attacked Iran for being bombed. “You know this is propaganda. This is so-called narrative control. “So yes, mass murder has been normalised.” Jeffrey Sachs: Western media is failing to tell the truth Video: CGYN America This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by Pacific Media Watch.

MCPNG and UN hold media freedom talks in wake of attacks on women journalists
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-17T23:12:57Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Attacks on journalists
subject: MCPNG
subject: Media Council of PNG
subject: Media safety
subject: Neville Choi
subject: Sources
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description: Pacific Media Watch The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has met the leadership of the Media Council of PNG to advance collaboration in support of a strong, independent and responsible media sector, reports UNPNG. The meeting addressed recent incidents of threats and violence against journalists — especially attacks against women journalists and the growing
encoded: Pacific Media Watch The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has met the leadership of the Media Council of PNG to advance collaboration in support of a strong, independent and responsible media sector, reports UNPNG. The meeting addressed recent incidents of threats and violence against journalists — especially attacks against women journalists and the growing risks they face while reporting. READ MORE: PNG Media Council calls for police probe into alleged assault over jail break report PNG Media Council calls for investigation after alleged assault of journalist PNG Media Council calls for investigation into assault of reporter by CS officers Participants identified key priorities to strengthen media freedom and safety. These included: Improving journalist safety measures; reinforcing newsroom integrity and professional standards; and promoting responsible and accurate reporting in the lead up to the national elections. The UNPNG statement said dialogue reaffirmed the shared commitment of the United Nations and the Media Council to “support a safe and independent media sector and to ensure that everyone in PNG can access reliable information that supports free and informed participation in public life”. Present at the meeting were Media Council PNG president Neville Choi, secretary Belinda Kora and treasurer Genesis Ketan, UN Resident Coordinator Richard Howard, Human Rights Advisor Marc Cebreros, UNDP Country Representative (OIC) Aadil Mansoor, Chief Technical Adviser on Transparency and Anti-Corruption Alma Sedlar, Peace and Development Advisor Tony Cameron, and UNDP Assistant Resident Representative for Governance, Gender and Peace Zoe Pelter. MCPNG president Choi thanked UN Resident Coordinator Howard and UNDP for the continued support of media freedom in PNG. Earlier this month, the MCPNG condemned an alleged assault on a senior female reporter by warders at Bomana Prison and called on the police to conduct a full independent investigation into the incident on …

I Went Here to Report on COVID-19. I Was Chasing the Wrong Story.
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-03-17T23:01:56Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: here?
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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I Went Here to Report on COVID-19. I Was Chasing the Wrong Story.
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-03-17T23:01:56Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: chasing
subject: covid-19
subject: here?
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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Health Care Is the Way for Democrats to Win
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creator: Anahita Dua
date: 2026-03-17T22:58:47Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: care
subject: democrats
subject: for
subject: health
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: way
subject: win,
description: Right now, our country’s health care system is sick.
encoded: Right now, our country’s health care system is sick. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Anahita Dua.

More To The Story: Jessica Malaty Rivera | How RFK Jr. is Dismantling America’s Health Policies
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creator: Reveal
date: 2026-03-17T22:51:56Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Center for Investigative Reporting
subject: america’s
subject: center
subject: dismantling
subject: for
subject: health
subject: how
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description: This content originally appeared on Reveal and was authored by Reveal.
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‘Not A Military Target’: Victims Describe Scene Of Pakistan Kabul Attack
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-17T22:37:11Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: free
subject: Kabul
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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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Devastation from War in Gaza Spreads Through Mediterranean Waters
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creator: Elyse Hauser
date: 2026-03-17T21:07:21Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: from
subject: gaza
subject: mediterranean
subject: progressive
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subject: through
subject: war
subject: waters
description: The harm from Israel’s attacks crosses borders, carried by the sea.
encoded: The harm from Israel’s attacks crosses borders, carried by the sea. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Elyse Hauser.

When You Forget What a Car Looks Like
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creator: Hassan Herzallah
date: 2026-03-17T20:53:34Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: forget
subject: like
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subject: sources
subject: the
subject: what
subject: when
subject: you
description: In Gaza, the destruction of vehicles and roads has made transportation nearly impossible.
encoded: In Gaza, the destruction of vehicles and roads has made transportation nearly impossible. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hassan Herzallah.

Patriotic Millionaires applaud Senator Markey’s introduction of the Equal Tax Act
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-17T20:47:43Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: ACT
subject: applaud
subject: common
subject: dreams
subject: equal
subject: introduction
subject: markey’s
subject: millionaires
subject: patriotic
subject: senator
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subject: Tax
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description: Today, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced landmark legislation that would ensure millionaires and billionaires, who earn most of their money passively through investments, pay the same tax rates as working people. The bill would also move to clos...
encoded: Today, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced landmark legislation that would ensure millionaires and billionaires, who earn most of their money passively through investments, pay the same tax rates as working people. The bill would also move to close common loopholes used by the super rich to avoid paying their fair share in taxes. Following the bill’s introduction, Morris Pearl, the Chair of Patriotic Millionaires and a former Managing Director at BlackRock, released the following statement: “For decades, we have been playing a game of Economic Jenga where we pull from the bottom and the middle, load it all on top, and then wonder why the whole thing is about to fall down. We end up with an unfair system that allows for oligarchic wealth to concentrate in the hands of a few individuals. That’s because right now in America, our tax code makes people who have jobs and work for a living pay far higher tax rates than people who make money from investments or inheritances. The money that investors like me make passively from our wealth should not be taxed any less than the money millions of Americans make through their sweat. By closing major loopholes, the Equal Tax Act would ensure that the ultra rich pay income taxes just like all Americans who work for a living and have taxes deducted from their paychecks every week. The Patriotic Millionaires are thrilled to see Senator Markey take this important step forward in reducing historic, extreme, and democracy-destabilizing levels of economic inequality in America.” Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03) previously introduced the House companion bill in September 2025. The bill addresses the first of three key components from Patriotic Millionaires’ legislative platform, The MONEY Agenda. For more information about the Equal Tax Act, access a one-pager about the bill HERE. To access the full text of the legislation, see HERE. This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

The AI bubble, like the housing bubble, is a big problem and it’s not complicated
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-03-17T20:43:33Z
subject: AI
subject: article
subject: Economy and Inequality
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: big
subject: big tech
subject: bubble
subject: China
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subject: economy
subject: housing
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‘There are scarcities of everything’: Trump isn’t helping Cuba, he’s strangling it
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date: 2026-03-17T20:21:24Z
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subject: trump
description: <img width="1024" height="690" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266548070-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C690&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A man pushes a cart on a street in Havana on March 16, 2026. Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP via Getty Images" data-attachment-id="342094" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/there-are-scarcities-of-everything-trump-isnt-helping-cuba-hes-strangling-it/gettyimages-2266548070" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266548070-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1725&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1725" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="GettyImages-2266548070" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" A man pushes a cart on a street in Havana on March 16, 2026. Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP via Getty Images " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266548070-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C202&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266548070-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C526&ssl=1"> “It's a very dire situation in Cuba right now… [Trump] has made every aspect of life in Cuba much more difficult,” Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK tells us.
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Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T20:01:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Cuba
subject: cuban
subject: Democracy
subject: for
subject: from
subject: havana
subject: leader
subject: now
subject: ouster
subject: pushes
subject: report
subject: sources
subject: take
subject: threatens
subject: trump
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Desperate to Hold Onto Power, Trump Strong-Arms Senate to Vote on SAVE Act
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-17T19:08:03Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: ACT
subject: common
subject: desperate
subject: dreams
subject: hold
subject: onto
subject: Power
subject: save
subject: senate
subject: sources
subject: strong-arms
subject: trump
subject: vote
description: Stand Up America’s Executive Director, Christina Harvey, released the following statement ahead of the Senate vote on the motion to proceed to debate the anti-voter SAVE Act: "Americans are sick and tired of skyrocketing costs, state-sanctioned violen...
encoded: Stand Up America’s Executive Director, Christina Harvey, released the following statement ahead of the Senate vote on the motion to proceed to debate the anti-voter SAVE Act: "Americans are sick and tired of skyrocketing costs, state-sanctioned violence, the unprecedented corruption of this administration, and the Republicans in Congress enabling Donald Trump. Trump knows his approval ratings are plummeting and that if voters have their say in November, MAGA Republicans’ grip on power could finally slip. Instead of earning voters’ support or tackling America’s urgent problems, his number one priority is rigging the rules of the upcoming election. "Trump has strong-armed Senate leadership into holding an open debate and vote on the SAVE Act, even threatening to block any other legislation unless Congress does his bidding. The SAVE Act would make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote and hand Trump’s Department of Homeland Security the power to tell states who to purge from the voter rolls. "Senators should reject this desperate attack on our freedom to vote." This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

UN News Today 17 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-17T19:05:55Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: march
subject: News
subject: podcasts/un
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Mid-East war prompts risk of most severe aid disruption since COVID - WFPLebanon’s displaced fear ‘targeted assassinations’, warns top aid official Afghanistan drug rehabilitation centre blast reaction from OHCHR
encoded: Mid-East war prompts risk of most severe aid disruption since COVID - WFPLebanon’s displaced fear ‘targeted assassinations’, warns top aid official Afghanistan drug rehabilitation centre blast reaction from OHCHR This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Two Haitian journalists abducted amid intensifying violence in Port-au-Prince
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-17T18:29:44Z
subject: 5 Segond gang
subject: Abducted
subject: Attacked
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Junior Célestin
subject: Le Nouvelliste
subject: Osnel Espérance
subject: Sources
subject: VantBef Info
subject: Viv Ansanm
subject: abducted
subject: amid
subject: ansanm
subject: attacked,
subject: célestin
subject: committee
subject: espérance
subject: gang
subject: haitian
subject: info
subject: intensifying
subject: Journalists
subject: júnior
subject: nouvelliste
subject: osnel
subject: port-au-prince
subject: protect
subject: segond
subject: sources
subject: two
subject: vantbef
subject: violence
subject: viv
description: Miami, March 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Haitian authorities to find and ensure the safe return of Haitian journalists Osnel Espérance and Junior Célestin, who were abducted Friday while reporting in the capital city Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian media outlets Le Nouvelliste and VantBef Info. Espérance and Célestin, who work respectively for Uni...
encoded: Miami, March 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Haitian authorities to find and ensure the safe return of Haitian journalists Osnel Espérance and Junior Célestin, who were abducted Friday while reporting in the capital city Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian media outlets Le Nouvelliste and VantBef Info. Espérance and Célestin, who work respectively for Uni FM and Megastar, two independent radio stations, were on an assignment near a gang-controlled neighborhood when they were intercepted by armed individuals affiliated with the 5 Second gang, according to news reports. “Violence in Haiti is at an intolerable level, making it nearly impossible for journalists to do their jobs safely. It is vital that Haitian authorities help bring reporters Osnel Espérance and Junior Célestin home safely and restore order in gang-controlled areas,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “This cycle of violence must end. Journalists and everyday citizens must be able to work and live without the constant threat of violence.” Espérance and Célestin’s abduction comes against a backdrop of intensifying violence in Port-au-Prince as Haitian police are on a major offensive against a gang coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Living Together) to regain control of a neighborhood held by the gang. The abduction occurred near positions held by the 5 Segond gang one of the larger gangs in the coalition, headed by Andre Johnson, aka ‘Izo’, a notorious gang leader wanted by the FBI for hostage taking of a US citizen in 2023. Rosemanie Erneste, Espérance’s wife, told reporters she hasn’t heard from him since Friday. Journalists and human rights defenders in Haiti “are under great risk,” William O’Neill, the U.N. expert on human rights in Haiti, told reporters Monday. “Haiti is one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist,” added O’Neill, who visited Haiti earlier this month. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalis…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 17, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-03-17T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
subject: Sources
subject: 17,
subject: 2026
subject: evening
subject: march
subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: Politics
subject: sources
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 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: 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 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

CPJ, civil society groups call for Congress to pass Transnational Repression Policy Act
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-17T17:46:19Z
subject: Basma Mostafa
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Iran International
subject: Killed
subject: Sevinj Osmanqizi
subject: Sources
subject: Threatened
subject: Transnational Repression
subject: ACT
subject: basma
subject: call
subject: civil
subject: committee
subject: congress
subject: cpj
subject: for
subject: groups
subject: International
subject: iran
subject: jamal khashoggi
subject: Journalists
subject: killed
subject: legislation
subject: mostafa
subject: osmanqizi
subject: pass
subject: Policy
subject: protect
subject: repression
subject: sevinj
subject: Society
subject: sources
subject: threatened
subject: transnational
description: CPJ signed a joint letter on March 16 with 34 diaspora, human rights, and civil society organizations urging the U.S. Congress to hold markup sessions for the bicameral and bipartisan Transnational Repression Policy Act (H.R. 4829/S.2525). The bill would establish stronger U.S. mechanisms to protect people from foreign government threats and to hold perpetrators accountable....
encoded: CPJ signed a joint letter on March 16 with 34 diaspora, human rights, and civil society organizations urging the U.S. Congress to hold markup sessions for the bicameral and bipartisan Transnational Repression Policy Act (H.R. 4829/S.2525). The bill would establish stronger U.S. mechanisms to protect people from foreign government threats and to hold perpetrators accountable. The brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 by Saudi Arabia in Turkey showed the shocking lengths to which some states will go to silence independent journalists and dissidents outside their borders. The erosion of democracy and protections for human rights is also driving the increasing use of transnational repression by governments, particularly targeting journalists in exile. Repressive tactics used across borders include assassinations, unlawful deportations, detentions, renditions, defamation, physical and online threats, surveillance, and coercion by proxy. Major perpetrators include the governments of Russia, China, Iran, Egypt, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, and Azerbaijan. Recent cases illustrate the threat. On January 14, Azerbaijan sentenced U.S.-based journalist Sevinj Osmanqizi to eight years in prison in absentia on charges of inciting mass unrest and calling for the overthrow of the state. On March 15, Iranian authorities threatened to target satellites and infrastructure linked to Farsi-language broadcaster Iran International. The Egyptian government has threatened, surveilled, and engaged in online gender-based violence against investigative reporter Basma Mostafa, who lives in Germany, in retaliation for her reporting. In particular, the act would require the State Department to lead a national strategy to counter transnational repression by partnering with allies, engaging multilateral institutions, and supporting civil society organizations that help victims. It would also improve the U.S. government’s response by requiring outreach and support to at-risk individuals and …

Israel launches ‘targeted’ invasions of Lebanon as world focuses on Iran war
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creator: Sharon Zhang
date: 2026-03-17T17:41:06Z
subject: article
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: focuses
subject: gaza
subject: International
subject: invasions
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: launches
subject: lebanon
subject: movements
subject: Politics
subject: reprint
subject: sources
subject: targeted
subject: war
subject: World
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Ecuador: Stop Oil Drilling in the Yasuni National Park
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-03-17T16:22:08Z
subject: Human Rights Watch
subject: Sources
subject: drilling
subject: Ecuador
subject: human
subject: national
subject: oil
subject: park
subject: rights
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: the
subject: watch
subject: yasuni
description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.

A rare visit to the Strait of Hormuz
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-17T16:01:12Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
subject: hormuz
subject: News
subject: rare
subject: sources
subject: strait,
subject: the
subject: vice
subject: visit
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
encoded: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.

What Might Lenin Have Thought About the US-Israeli War on Iran (and the War in Ukraine)
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creator: Stephen Gowans
date: 2026-03-17T15:00:54Z
subject: Clinias of Crete
subject: Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK)
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Ferdinand Foch
subject: Hilferding
subject: Mark Carney
subject: Rosa Luxemburg
subject: Scott Bessent
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: and
subject: bessent
subject: Carl von Clausewitz
subject: carney
subject: Classism
subject: clinias
subject: Communism/Marxism/Maoism
subject: crete
subject: democratic
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: dprk
subject: ferdinand
subject: foch
subject: have
subject: hilferding
subject: History
subject: Imperialism
subject: International Law
subject: iran
subject: korea
subject: Labor
subject: Lenin
subject: leviathan:
subject: luxemburg
subject: mark
subject: might,
subject: north
subject: Peace
subject: republic
subject: rosa,
subject: Russia
subject: scott
subject: Socialism
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Thomas Hobbes
subject: thought
subject: Ukraine
subject: un security council
subject: United States
subject: us-israeli
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: Weaponry
subject: what
description: Facit indignatio versum (Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, […] The post What Might Lenin Have Thought About the US-Israeli War on Iran (and the War in Ukraine) appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Facit indignatio versum (Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, violent) means. Clausewitz put it this way: “War is policy itself, which takes up the sword in place of the pen.” Lenin echoed Clausewitz: All “war is but a continuation by violent means of the politics which the belligerent states and their ruling classes had been conducting for many years, sometimes for decades, before the outbreak of war.” So, what policies were the belligerents pursuing by the pen, before they took up the sword? The answer, in Lenin’s view, explained what caused the war. If “you have not studied the policies of [the] belligerent groups over a period of decades … then you don’t understand what this war is all about,” he wrote. All the belligerents, argued Lenin, were pursuing the same policy: they were reaching across the world for opportunities to dominate its economic surpluses wherever they could be found. They had been able to do this, for a time, without each greatly impeding the other. However, they had arrived at the point where this was no longer possible. The sum total of opportunities had been completely claimed, and acquiring new ones, could only mean encroaching upon the opportunities that other states, or more specifically, other ruling classes, claimed for their own. The cause of the war, then, was “the whole policy of the entire system of European states in their economic and political interrelations.” The war, said Lenin “steadily and inevitably grew out of this system.” The word ‘system’ is important. Lenin saw powerful states as actors hopelessly entangled in a system of inter-state relations which pit one against the other for economic advantage. This was a system in which in…

What Might Lenin Have Thought About the US-Israeli War on Iran (and the War in Ukraine)
type: item
creator: Stephen Gowans
date: 2026-03-17T15:00:54Z
subject: Clinias of Crete
subject: Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK)
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Ferdinand Foch
subject: Hilferding
subject: Mark Carney
subject: Rosa Luxemburg
subject: Scott Bessent
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: and
subject: bessent
subject: Carl von Clausewitz
subject: carney
subject: Classism
subject: clinias
subject: Communism/Marxism/Maoism
subject: crete
subject: democratic
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: dprk
subject: ferdinand
subject: foch
subject: have
subject: hilferding
subject: History
subject: Imperialism
subject: International Law
subject: iran
subject: korea
subject: Labor
subject: Lenin
subject: leviathan:
subject: luxemburg
subject: mark
subject: might,
subject: north
subject: Peace
subject: republic
subject: rosa,
subject: Russia
subject: scott
subject: Socialism
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Thomas Hobbes
subject: thought
subject: Ukraine
subject: un security council
subject: United States
subject: us-israeli
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: Weaponry
subject: what
description: Facit indignatio versum (Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, […] The post What Might Lenin Have Thought About the US-Israeli War on Iran (and the War in Ukraine) appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Facit indignatio versum (Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, violent) means. Clausewitz put it this way: “War is policy itself, which takes up the sword in place of the pen.” Lenin echoed Clausewitz: All “war is but a continuation by violent means of the politics which the belligerent states and their ruling classes had been conducting for many years, sometimes for decades, before the outbreak of war.” So, what policies were the belligerents pursuing by the pen, before they took up the sword? The answer, in Lenin’s view, explained what caused the war. If “you have not studied the policies of [the] belligerent groups over a period of decades … then you don’t understand what this war is all about,” he wrote. All the belligerents, argued Lenin, were pursuing the same policy: they were reaching across the world for opportunities to dominate its economic surpluses wherever they could be found. They had been able to do this, for a time, without each greatly impeding the other. However, they had arrived at the point where this was no longer possible. The sum total of opportunities had been completely claimed, and acquiring new ones, could only mean encroaching upon the opportunities that other states, or more specifically, other ruling classes, claimed for their own. The cause of the war, then, was “the whole policy of the entire system of European states in their economic and political interrelations.” The war, said Lenin “steadily and inevitably grew out of this system.” The word ‘system’ is important. Lenin saw powerful states as actors hopelessly entangled in a system of inter-state relations which pit one against the other for economic advantage. This was a system in which in…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Palestine Exception Defeated in Court
type: item
creator: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
date: 2026-03-17T15:00:36Z
subject: Al-Quds Day
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Iddo Moed
subject: Idit Shamir
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Sources
subject: ‘al-quds
subject: Canada
subject: Censorship
subject: court
subject: day
subject: defeated
subject: dissident
subject: doug
subject: exception
subject: ford’s
subject: Freedom of Expression/Speech
subject: Genocide
subject: Human Rights
subject: iddo
subject: idit
subject: israel
subject: Legal/Constitutional
subject: mandate
subject: moed
subject: ontario
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: premier
subject: shamir
subject: sources
subject: The Lobby
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description: Last Friday afternoon, Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched an attack on free speech, instructing his Attorney General to file an emergency injunction to prevent the Al-Quds Day march from taking place in Toronto. Ford’s action came just one day after his meeting with Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, and Israel’s Consul General in Toronto, […] The post Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Palestine Exception Defeated in Court appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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This Jew Does Not Believe in the Promised Land
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description: The Colossus, Francisco Goya Tell me, should I feel guilt due to my anger-engendered desire for the collective butchers of Gaza (and Lebanon and Iran) i.e., Zionist true believers to experience a karmic dose of the pain and grief that they inflict, as a matter of routine, as Israeli Third Reich-adjacent state policy? Adding to […] The post This Jew Does Not Believe in the Promised Land appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Beijing Shows Panama the Cost of Abandoning Neutrality
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creator: Miguel Santos García
date: 2026-03-17T15:00:21Z
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description: For decades, Panama successfully cultivated a foreign policy posture of strict neutrality defined by its unique geography centered on the operation of the Panama Canal. This small-state hedging strategy allowed Panama to welcome commercial presence from both the United States and China while maintaining the waterway’s treaty-based impartiality. However, in early 2026, this equilibrium shattered. […] The post Beijing Shows Panama the Cost of Abandoning Neutrality appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: For decades, Panama successfully cultivated a foreign policy posture of strict neutrality defined by its unique geography centered on the operation of the Panama Canal. This small-state hedging strategy allowed Panama to welcome commercial presence from both the United States and China while maintaining the waterway’s treaty-based impartiality. However, in early 2026, this equilibrium shattered. Following Trump’s victory last year Panama has exited China’s Belt and Road Initiative and already signaled its alignment with US security concerns, yet it has secured no binding commitment that Washington to make up for the loss of investment. Moreover, after sustained pressure from Washington characterized by Trump 2.0 rhetoric and Senate resolutions declaring Chinese-backed investment a violation of the Neutrality Treaty, Panama’s Supreme Court annulled the 1997 concession of CK Hutchison’s Panama Ports Company to operate the strategic Balboa and Cristóbal terminals. By seizing these assets and documents, threatening personnel with criminal prosecution and handing temporary operations to Maersk and MSC, Panama abandoned its neutrality and became an active participant in US geoeconomic lawfare. The nation that once skillfully balanced Washington and Beijing now finds itself possibly investment and revenue-starved, as many investors now see the jurisdiction as high-risk. Just prior to the de facto expropriation, CK Hutchison and its subsidiary launched arbitration proceedings through the International Chamber of Commerce, amending their claim in March 2026 to demand damages now estimated at approximately $2 billion. The company’s legal argument is that Panama Ports Company operated the ports since 1997, invested over $1.8 billion in infrastructure, and had its concession renewed in 2021 to run through 2047, with Panamanian audit authorities consistently confirming compliance with contractual terms. Panama’s defense rests on a domestic constitutional ruling, but internationa…

Beijing Shows Panama the Cost of Abandoning Neutrality
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creator: Miguel Santos García
date: 2026-03-17T15:00:21Z
subject: APM Terminals
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subject: CK Hutchison
subject: Cosco
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subject: international arbitration
subject: International Chamber of Commerce
subject: investment freezes
subject: José Raúl Mulino
subject: logistics adjustments
subject: Maersk
subject: Sources
subject: trade scrutiny
subject: (msc)
subject: abandoning
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subject: apm
subject: arbitration
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subject: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
subject: chamber
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subject: cost
subject: cristobal
subject: dissident
subject: freezes
subject: hutchison
subject: International
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subject: panama
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subject: scrutiny
subject: Shipping
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subject: trade
subject: Transportation
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description: For decades, Panama successfully cultivated a foreign policy posture of strict neutrality defined by its unique geography centered on the operation of the Panama Canal. This small-state hedging strategy allowed Panama to welcome commercial presence from both the United States and China while maintaining the waterway’s treaty-based impartiality. However, in early 2026, this equilibrium shattered. […] The post Beijing Shows Panama the Cost of Abandoning Neutrality appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: For decades, Panama successfully cultivated a foreign policy posture of strict neutrality defined by its unique geography centered on the operation of the Panama Canal. This small-state hedging strategy allowed Panama to welcome commercial presence from both the United States and China while maintaining the waterway’s treaty-based impartiality. However, in early 2026, this equilibrium shattered. Following Trump’s victory last year Panama has exited China’s Belt and Road Initiative and already signaled its alignment with US security concerns, yet it has secured no binding commitment that Washington to make up for the loss of investment. Moreover, after sustained pressure from Washington characterized by Trump 2.0 rhetoric and Senate resolutions declaring Chinese-backed investment a violation of the Neutrality Treaty, Panama’s Supreme Court annulled the 1997 concession of CK Hutchison’s Panama Ports Company to operate the strategic Balboa and Cristóbal terminals. By seizing these assets and documents, threatening personnel with criminal prosecution and handing temporary operations to Maersk and MSC, Panama abandoned its neutrality and became an active participant in US geoeconomic lawfare. The nation that once skillfully balanced Washington and Beijing now finds itself possibly investment and revenue-starved, as many investors now see the jurisdiction as high-risk. Just prior to the de facto expropriation, CK Hutchison and its subsidiary launched arbitration proceedings through the International Chamber of Commerce, amending their claim in March 2026 to demand damages now estimated at approximately $2 billion. The company’s legal argument is that Panama Ports Company operated the ports since 1997, invested over $1.8 billion in infrastructure, and had its concession renewed in 2021 to run through 2047, with Panamanian audit authorities consistently confirming compliance with contractual terms. Panama’s defense rests on a domestic constitutional ruling, but internationa…

Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
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creator: Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares
date: 2026-03-17T15:00:20Z
subject: collective security
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Mike Huckabee
subject: Sources
subject: UN Charter
subject: Aggression
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: charter:
subject: collective
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: east
subject: ending
subject: gcc
subject: Hamas
subject: hezbollah
subject: huckabee
subject: iran
subject: Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA)
subject: israel
subject: mandate
subject: middle
subject: Middle East
subject: mike
subject: NPT
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: Peace
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: strait of hormuz
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subject: trump-netanyahu
subject: United States
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subject: war
description: The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil traded globally, and 30 percent of the world’s LNG. A sustained closure of the Strait would trigger an energy shock without […] The post Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil traded globally, and 30 percent of the world’s LNG. A sustained closure of the Strait would trigger an energy shock without modern precedent. The conflict is likely to spiral out of control because the US and Israel are dead set on hegemony in the Arab world and West Asia – one that combines Israeli territorial expansion with American-backed regime control across the region. The ultimate goal is a Greater Israel that absorbs all historic Palestine, combined with compliant Arab and Islamic governments stripped of genuine sovereignty, including on choices as to how and where they export their oil and gas. This is delusional. No country across the region wants Israel to run wild as it is doing, murdering civilians across the entire region, destroying Gaza and the West Bank, invading Lebanon, striking Iraq and Yemen, and carpet-bombing Tehran. No country wants its hydrocarbon exports under effective US control. The war will end if and only if global revulsion at US and Israeli aggression forces these countries to stop. Short of that, we are likely to see the Middle East in flames and the world in an energy and economic crisis unprecedented in modern history. The war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III. Yet, there exists an alternative. The war could stop on rational grounds if Israel and the US are decisively called to account by the rest of the world. Ending the war requires a set of interlinked steps to provide basic security for all parties, and indeed for the world. Iran needs a permanent end to the US-Israel aggression. The Gulf countries need an end to Iran’s retaliatory strikes. The Palestinians need an independent state. Israel needs lasting security and the disarmament of Hamas and Hezbol…

Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets "Antifa Cell"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T14:42:46Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: anti-ice
subject: Antifa
subject: cell
subject: charges
subject: convicted
subject: Democracy
subject: doj
subject: now
subject: prairieland
subject: protesters
subject: sources
subject: targets
subject: terrorism
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Timeline: Estefany Rodríguez’s arrest and ICE detention
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-17T14:40:12Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: Legal Action
subject: Sources
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subject: and
subject: arrest
subject: Arrested
subject: committee
subject: Detained
subject: Detention
subject: estefany
subject: ice
subject: immigration and customs enforcement
subject: Journalists
subject: legal
subject: protect
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subject: rodríguez’s
subject: sources
subject: timeline
description: Nashville Notícias reporter Estefany Rodríguez was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on March 4, 2026, despite being in the United States legally. She arrived in the U.S. in 2021 and sought asylum after facing death threats in relation to her reporting in her native Colombia. At the time of her detention, Rodríguez...
encoded: Nashville Notícias reporter Estefany Rodríguez was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on March 4, 2026, despite being in the United States legally. She arrived in the U.S. in 2021 and sought asylum after facing death threats in relation to her reporting in her native Colombia. 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. In court filings, Rodríguez’s lawyers have argued that she is being detained in retaliation for her reporting, including on immigration and ICE actions in the United States, as well as her speech more broadly. Rodríguez’s case is points to a larger effort from 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. Guevara was also in the country legally at the time of his arrest. Below is timeline of Rodríguez’s arrest and detention, with information sourced from legal filings, and, where noted, news sources. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to "Take" Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader
type: item
creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T14:38:38Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Cuba
subject: cuban
subject: Democracy
subject: for
subject: from
subject: havana
subject: leader
subject: now
subject: ouster
subject: pushes
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be "Suicide Mission" for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst
type: item
creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T14:26:32Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘mission
subject: analyst
subject: could
subject: Democracy
subject: ex-army
subject: for
subject: ground’
subject: Intelligence
subject: Invasion
subject: iran
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: Suicide
subject: u.s.
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Israel Says It Assassinated Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T14:17:37Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ali
subject: assassinated
subject: chief
subject: Democracy
subject: for
subject: iran’s
subject: israel
subject: known
subject: larijani,
subject: negotiating
subject: now
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subject: Security
subject: sources
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subject: west
subject: with
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 17, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T14:05:16Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 17,
subject: 2026
subject: Democracy
subject: headlines
subject: march
subject: now
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: top
subject: u.s.
subject: World
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Thousands of Colorado meatpacking workers are on strike
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creator: Alex N. Press
date: 2026-03-17T13:40:00Z
subject: article
subject: Economy and Inequality
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: are
subject: colorado
subject: economy
subject: inequality
subject: Labor
subject: meatpacking
subject: movements
subject: Politics
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subject: sources
subject: strike
subject: thousands
subject: Unions
subject: Workers
description: This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Mar. 16, 2026. It is shared here with permission. When Deborah Rodarte arrives for her shift at the Swift Beef Co. plant outside Greeley, Colorado, owned by JBS USA, the first thing she does is gear up...
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Drone Strikes Hit US Embassy In Baghdad, Iraq | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-17T13:00:56Z
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subject: europe/rl
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subject: iran
subject: Iraq
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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Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets “Antifa Cell”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T12:50:50Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: anti-ice
subject: Antifa
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subject: Democracy
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subject: prairieland
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description: A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood tr...
encoded: A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder. The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded. Eight protesters now face at least 15 years in jail. Their legal teams plan to appeal. “The antifa of it all, from my perspective, was purely political,” says one of the defendants’ attorneys, Xavier de Janon, who joins Democracy Now! to break down the case. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T12:35:55Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: cuban
subject: Democracy
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description: Cuba’s electrical grid has collapsed. The island-wide blackout comes amid a harsh U.S. oil blockade and recent comments from President Donald Trump that he wants to “take” Cuba. No oil shipments have reached the country, loca...
encoded: Cuba’s electrical grid has collapsed. The island-wide blackout comes amid a harsh U.S. oil blockade and recent comments from President Donald Trump that he wants to “take” Cuba. No oil shipments have reached the country, located just south of Florida, in three months, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by decades of severe U.S. sanctions. “Sanctions are literally killing people right now,” says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, speaking from Havana. “We understand what this oil embargo means, and [what] sanctions have always meant. This is regime change through starvation.” Historian Sara Kozameh, who recently returned from Cuba, adds, “Cubans have fought for sovereignty many, many times. And they’re not going to just sort of lie there while this is happening.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be “Suicide Mission” for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T12:21:25Z
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description: We get an analysis of the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann. “From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do and how to get out of this,&#...
encoded: We get an analysis of the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann. “From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do and how to get out of this,” says Mann, who resigned from the U.S. Army’s Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s policy in Gaza. As Trump is rumored to be eyeing the oil export hub of Kharg Island for seizure, Mann gives his assessment of a potential ground invasion of Iran. “Any attempt to seize this island would be close to a suicide mission,” he says. While U.S. leaders struggle to respond to Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on military bases in U.S.-allied Gulf states, Mann notes that “the people who drove [Trump] into this war pretty much expected this. I don’t think this is a surprise to Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio or Benjamin Netanyahu — who is very much getting what he wanted, which is dragging the U.S. into what he hopes will be a decisive war of annihilation against Iran.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West
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creator: Democracy Now!
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description: How long will the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran last? Regime change in Iran will not be as “easy and quick” as U.S. warmongers may have initially believed, says Iranian American political analyst Trita Parsi. Israel claims that it has s...
encoded: How long will the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran last? Regime change in Iran will not be as “easy and quick” as U.S. warmongers may have initially believed, says Iranian American political analyst Trita Parsi. Israel claims that it has successfully assassinated Iran’s powerful security chief Ali Larijani, who Parsi says could have played a role in future ceasefire negotiations. “The Israelis have fought so hard to get the United States to go into a full-scale war with Iran for more than 20 years,” says Parsi. “It is in their interest to prolong this war as long as they can, and kill off any potential off-ramps that Trump may be looking for.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 17, 2026
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date: 2026-03-17T12:00:00Z
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subject: Democracy
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description: Israel Says It Killed Iran’s Security Chief Ali Larijani and Commander of Basij Paramilitaries, Iran Says Infant, Toddler, Mother and Grandmother Among Latest Victims of U.S.-Israeli Strikes, Rocket from Lebanon Injures 7 in Northern Israel as Iranian Drone Damages Jerusalem Holy Sites, Baghdad’s Green Zone, UAE Oil Field Among Mideast Sites Hit by Iranian Drones, Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon Have Driven More Than 1 Million from Their Homes, U.S. Allies Refuse Trump’s Call to Send Warships to Strait of Hormuz, Jared Kushner Seeks $5 Billion for Private Equity Firm While Serving as Mideast Negotiator, Leqaa Kordia Released from ICE Jail After More Than a Year in Custody, Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Changes to Childhood Vaccinations, Cuba's National Electricity Grid Collapses as Trump Says It Would Be a “Big Honor” to “Take” Cuba, Afghanistan Says Pakistan Airstrike on Kabul Killed Over 400, Trump Admin Approves BP’s $5 Billion Drilling Project Off Louisiana Coast, Voters in Illinois Head to the Polls for Primary Elections
encoded: Israel Says It Killed Iran's Security Chief Ali Larijani and Commander of Basij Paramilitaries Iran Says Infant, Toddler, Mother and Grandmother Among Latest Victims of U.S.-Israeli Strikes Rocket from Lebanon Injures 7 in Northern Israel as Iranian Drone Damages Jerusalem Holy Sites Baghdad's Green Zone, UAE Oil Field Among Mideast Sites Hit by Iranian Drones Israel's Attacks on Lebanon Have Driven More Than 1 Million from Their Homes U.S. Allies Refuse Trump's Call to Send Warships to Strait of Hormuz Jared Kushner Seeks $5 Billion for Private Equity Firm While Serving as Mideast Negotiator Leqaa Kordia Released from ICE Jail After More Than a Year in Custody Federal Judge Blocks RFK Jr.'s Changes to Childhood Vaccinations Cuba's National Electricity Grid Collapses as Trump Says It Would Be a "Big Honor" to "Take" Cuba Afghanistan Says Pakistan Airstrike on Kabul Killed Over 400 Trump Admin Approves BP's $5 Billion Drilling Project Off Louisiana Coast Voters in Illinois Head to the Polls for Primary Elections This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-17 Tuesday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-17T12:00:00Z
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subject: Democracy
subject: now
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description: Headlines for March 17, 2026; Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West; Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be “Suicide Mission” for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst; Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader; Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets “Antifa Cell”
encoded: Democracy Now! 2026-03-17 Tuesday Headlines for March 17, 2026 Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran's Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be "Suicide Mission" for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to "Take" Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets "Antifa Cell" Download this show This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

The Strait of Hormuz Trap Iran Is Setting Right Now
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-17T11:42:48Z
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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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Hundreds Killed At Kabul Hospital Hit By Pakistani Air Strike, Says Afghan Taliban
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-17T10:26:56Z
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Deprivation and depopulation: inside Cuba under US siege
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-03-17T10:00:11Z
subject: Sources
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subject: Cuba
subject: depopulation
subject: deprivation
subject: inside
subject: siege
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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DN! Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4
date: 2026-03-17T09:31:07Z
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description: Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
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creator: Nick Bowlin
date: 2026-03-17T09:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: findings
subject: found
subject: hundreds
subject: ignored
subject: oil
subject: oklahoma
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subject: Regulation
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description: The post Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Five years ago, Oklahoma oil regulators took on a project with an impressive name: the Source of Truth. State officials wanted a comprehensive database capturing all vital information about the more than 11,000 wells in Oklahoma that shoot the toxic byproduct of oil production back underground. I’d heard about this project from several people during the 18 months I had spent reporting on the growing number of cases where oilfield wastewater blasted out of old wells, known as purges, after being injected underground at high pressures. State employees also referenced the project in internal communications that I received after filing nearly a dozen public records requests to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry. Just before the new year, the Source of Truth itself landed in my inbox in response to an unrelated records request. And it was explosive, revealing a pattern of rule violations by oil and gas companies that state regulators allowed to continue. The project was supposed to clean up or fix state data regarding how much wastewater was being injected and the pressures at which it was being pushed underground. The agency’s databases, many of which were based on decades-old paper records, were riddled with contradictory or missing information. In many cases, the agency failed to update its records. More than 1,300 errors were identified. But the Source of Truth found more than just messy data. It also allowed regulators to pinpoint nearly 600 wells that were operating illegally: injecting wastewater above their permitted pressures or volumes. Excessively high injection pressures and volumes can lead to purges and groundwater pollution. That wasn’t all. The report also showed that regulators had allowed more than 1,400 other older injection wells to operate for decades without any limits whatsoever on injection pressures or volumes — grandfathered in from an earlier era of permissive oversight. In the course of my reporting o…

How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility
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creator: Carey L. Biron
date: 2026-03-17T08:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: ann
subject: arbor,
subject: Cities
subject: clean
subject: creating
subject: Energy
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subject: michigan
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subject: solutions
subject: sources
subject: utility
description: Investor-owned utilities have been slow to ditch oil and gas. The city of Ann Arbor plans to boost access to renewables through a new dual-service model.
encoded: When Krystal Steward started knocking on her neighbors’ doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2021, to discuss energy efficiency and sustainability upgrades, she was met with a lot of blank stares. She was new to the issues herself, she said. But the longtime social worker kept at her new job doing outreach for Community Action Network, a local nonprofit dedicated to serving under-resourced communities. She slowly started getting people in her neighborhood to take part first in home energy assessments, then a city program to swap out appliances, make structural fixes, and more. “In the beginning it was kind of hard — a lot of people were reluctant. If someone is knocking on your door and telling you they can fix up your home for free, most people don’t believe that,” Steward said. But, she added, “Once one person tried it out, they’d tell their neighbors, and others would jump on board.” Now the neighborhood, Bryant, is set to pilot a first-in-the-country program that officials hope will speed the city’s transition to renewables — and offer a new model for how local governments can control their energy future. The idea is technical, but has sparked enthusiasm across Bryant and Ann Arbor: a new city-created Sustainable Energy Utility, known colloquially as the SEU. Rather than replacing the privately-owned utility that serves Ann Arbor, the plan is for this city agency to run in tandem, offering a supplemental service that residents can opt into. If they do, they’ll stay connected to the regular grid, but will be outfitted with solar panels, battery backup systems, or other infrastructure, drawing on that power for their home use and opening up the prospect of selling any excess. The city, meanwhile, would pay for the installation and maintenance of these systems, which Ann Arbor would continue to own — a vision of energy generation and storage distributed across the city. The plan begins in the coming months in Bryant, a 1970s-era community with about 260 homes, many of …

Georgia farmers’ long wait for Helene relief is ending
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creator: Emily Jones
date: 2026-03-17T08:30:00Z
subject: Food and Agriculture
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: Agriculture
subject: and
subject: ending
subject: farmers
subject: Food
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description: The state’s biggest crops needed a special program to cover "once-in-a-generation" losses — for the second time in a decade.
encoded: Last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins visited Georgia to announce the release of more than $500 million to help farmers rebuild from 2024’s Hurricane Helene. The widespread agricultural and forestry devastation from Helene cost the state’s economy about $5.5 billion, including job losses and impacts to related industries, according to the University of Georgia. The replanting, building, and equipment costs alone are estimated at $874 million. USDA has agreements for similar grants in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida. Each state administers its own program, so the details and schedule vary by state. Georgia’s applications opened on March 16 and will close on April 27. “President Trump understands that farmers were so negatively impacted, and of course, we have to continue to stand by them,” Rollins told the state House of Representatives last Tuesday. “The only fault now would be us not doing our part to help Georgia’s great agricultural and forestry communities.” The money, welcome as it may be for farmers, is intended to fill a hole in the USDA’s own disaster recovery programs, which typically don’t cover some key expenses, especially replanting perennial crops like fruit or nut trees and blueberry bushes or replacing flocks lost after the storm destroyed a poultry barn. Those gaps have been particularly stark in Georgia in the wake of Helene, which did significant damage to the state’s pecan, poultry, and timber farms — several of the state’s top agricultural products. “When you think of pecans, poultry, timber — we’re the number one producer in those commodity areas,” said Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper. “They are a significantly important part of our agricultural industry.” Other disaster relief funding also doesn’t pay for some critical infrastructure projects, like replacing irrigation systems that got torn up as the storm uprooted trees. Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both ap…

Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-03-17T07:15:48Z
subject: Adam Tooze
subject: American Farm Bureau Federation
subject: Ammonia
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: sulfur
subject: urea
subject: Zippy Duvall
subject: adam
subject: agricultural
subject: Agriculture
subject: american
subject: ammonia
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description: The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the usual prized duo that feature in the nervous chatter of global markets. There are other less conspicuous products that have also been snared in the process. Consider fertilisers, […] The post Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the usual prized duo that feature in the nervous chatter of global markets. There are other less conspicuous products that have also been snared in the process. Consider fertilisers, with a supply shock that may well push prices beyond the 2022 peak following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Given their role in agriculture, another, less publicised shock arising from this prolonged war is in the offing. Prices, at this writing, are already biting. Egyptian urea prices have risen by 25%, reaching $625 per metric tonne, up from $484 to $490 between February 17 and February 23. The North Dakota State University’s Agricultural Trade Monitor may not make scintillating reading, but it is of sufficient interest to note that the Gulf accounts for some 43% of seaborne urea exports, approximately 44% of seaborne sulphur, over a quarter of traded ammonia and far from negligible quantities of phosphates. The effect of the illegal war commenced by the US and Israel on February 28 had immediate effects. “Within the first week of the crisis, major Gulf producers began declaring force majeure and reducing operations across urea, ammonia, and sulfur.” In their March report, the authors note that, unlike 2022, when Russian fertilizers were rerouted, “limited alternative routes” present themselves with a closed Strait. Risks for the US could be identified in urea, MAP (Mono-Ammonium Phosphate), and DAP (Di-Ammonium Phosphate) fertilizers. Serious risks present themselves to such heavily reliant fertilizer importers as Brazil, given its reliance on nitrogen and phosphate. The country imports over 80% of its fertilisers. “The Hormuz closure simultaneously removes direct Gulf supply to Brazil and constrains Morocco’s ability to substitute for it.” This also involves the Chinese market, which, while self-sufficient in many respects, still relies on…

Filmmaker Arielle Knight on making work that cuts through the noise
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creator: Reina Bonta
date: 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: Film
subject: filmmaker
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description: How do you make room for play and getting in touch with your inner child in your creative process?
encoded: How do you make room for play and getting in touch with your inner child in your creative process? In general, I am someone who is very childlike. I thought that I would grow out of it. But I understand the beauty of being playful and incorporating play into our adult lives. The way that I do that is mostly getting out into nature and being curious, because that’s when I feel the most connected to my child self. Were you creative as a child yourself? My mom is always threatening to throw my stuff away. Finally, the last time I went home, there was a box of my stuff waiting at my door. I was going through all of my things–journals, doodles, whatever from when I was a kid. I found something that actually said, “I’m going to be a screenwriter.” It must have been from some time around middle school. I don’t even know that I knew what a screenwriter was at that time, to be honest. I must have heard that somewhere. I didn’t say “writer.” I said “screenwriter”. I never wrote scripts when I was a kid. But I was always writing and spent a lot of time in the imaginative space. Low-key, I was always just in my own head telling weird little stories. Do you remember any of those moments where you really felt like you were in that imaginative space? I remember climbing trees a lot when I was young. I would climb trees and then just stay up there for a long time. I don’t remember many specific stories, but I spent a lot of time imagining what it would be like to be something other than a human, to be something like a bird. You know what I mean? I think I was interested in what it felt like to spend long periods of time in a different relationship to the human perspective. So I just was up in the trees like a little weirdo. Some people feel drawn to film, citing that it’s the amalgamation of a lot of different art forms. Why did you gravitate towards the medium of film? I’m now starting to think about [film] like that as I’m exploring more hybridity in my work. I sort of came up as…

Send Me, Jesse Said
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-03-17T05:44:13Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: Woefully belatedly - but seeking hope and light - we honor the remarkable life of Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, who over six decades "stepped forward again and again and again" to fight for racial, social, economic justice for millions of the disenfranchi...
encoded: Woefully belatedly - but seeking hope and light - we honor the remarkable life of Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, who over six decades "stepped forward again and again and again" to fight for racial, social, economic justice for millions of the disenfranchised. At a moving "Homegoing," his kids offered soul-stirring tributes to the impassioned, "prophetic voice" of a man of faith who doggedly "opened doors, kicked them down when necessary, so that others were no longer locked out....You fought a good fight." Two ceremonies over two days of prayers, pride, tears, laughs, eulogies and gospel music sought in their own singular ways to celebrate the long rich life life of Jesse Jackson - pastor, activist, organizer, two-time presidential candidate, and head of an ever-evolving "rainbow coalition” of the poor and dispossessed that sought to bridge all conceivable divides. When Jackson died in February at age 84, he was hailed as "a civil rights giant," and he was. On April 4, 1968 in Memphis, the then-26-year-old aide to Martin Luther King was standing in the courtyard below the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, talking to King moments before he was shot and killed. Jackson carried on King's work in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference until 1971, when he resigned amidst leadership changes to form what became the Rainbow PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) Coalition. But his work grew ever broader, working for decades on multiple fronts for multiple social justice issues in America and around the world. He pushed for voting rights, Native rights, Palestinian rights, welfare rights, tenants' rights, prisoners' rights, women's and gay and trans rights; he led boycotts, fair wage battles, union organizing campaigns; he fought against apartheid in South Africa and helped facilitate the release of U.S. hostages in Iran. He spent years spreading the mantra, per his iconic 1972 appearance on Sesame Street with a ragtag, multi--hued bunch of kids, "I am somebody." A simple mess…

Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral courage of abolitionists
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-17T05:30:31Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Journalism truth
subject: media fairness
subject: Moral courage
subject: Narratives
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Pacific decolonisation
subject: Saige England
subject: Sources
subject: Truth and justice
subject: Western empire
subject: ‘stand
subject: abolitionists
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Civil Society
subject: courage
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: empathy
subject: Empire
subject: England
subject: Fairness
subject: Featured
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: journalism
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subject: Justice
subject: Media
subject: moral
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subject: occupied
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
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subject: Palestine
subject: report
subject: Right of Return
subject: saige
subject: Security
subject: Self Determination
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description: COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is one which — under Britain — was colonised. Colonisation perpetrates injustices against indigenous people. This legacy is still felt by Indigenous people today. All around the world we must dismantle
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is one which — under Britain — was colonised. Colonisation perpetrates injustices against indigenous people. This legacy is still felt by Indigenous people today. All around the world we must dismantle our unfair systems. A fair system ensures that everyone has a flourishing start in life. But our systems are linked to Israel — and Israel demonstrates that colonisation is still practised. READ MORE: As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-123697" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall.png" alt=""No peace without justice, no justice without right to return."" width="300" height="397" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall.png 500w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall-227x300.png 227w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall-317x420.png 317w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> “No peace without justice, no justice without right to return.” Image: SE Israel headed by megalomaniacs ruling with a muscular thug army is proof that the Empire has not stopped because the Western Empire has supported this. Far too many Western journalists report from the perspective of the abuser rather than the victims. They need to ask, “what if it was my child, my wife, my mother, my brother, my grandfather, suffering like this? What if I was forced from my home?” Journalists must report from the …

Saige England: Journalists must stand up and report with the moral courage of abolitionists
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-17T05:30:31Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Journalism truth
subject: media fairness
subject: Moral courage
subject: Narratives
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Pacific decolonisation
subject: Saige England
subject: Sources
subject: Truth and justice
subject: Western empire
subject: ‘stand
subject: abolitionists
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Civil Society
subject: courage
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: empathy
subject: Empire
subject: England
subject: Fairness
subject: Featured
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: journalism
subject: Journalists
subject: Justice
subject: Media
subject: moral
subject: must
subject: narratives
subject: new zealand
subject: occupied
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: report
subject: Right of Return
subject: saige
subject: Security
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: the
subject: Truth
subject: Truth-telling
subject: us empire
subject: usa
subject: western
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description: COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is one which — under Britain — was colonised. Colonisation perpetrates injustices against indigenous people. This legacy is still felt by Indigenous people today. All around the world we must dismantle
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Saige England Every week, health prevailing, I march with our Palestinian friends and their supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand. And my country is one which — under Britain — was colonised. Colonisation perpetrates injustices against indigenous people. This legacy is still felt by Indigenous people today. All around the world we must dismantle our unfair systems. A fair system ensures that everyone has a flourishing start in life. But our systems are linked to Israel — and Israel demonstrates that colonisation is still practised. READ MORE: As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-123697" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall.png" alt=""No peace without justice, no justice without right to return."" width="300" height="397" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall.png 500w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall-227x300.png 227w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Peace-poster-SE-500tall-317x420.png 317w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> “No peace without justice, no justice without right to return.” Image: SE Israel headed by megalomaniacs ruling with a muscular thug army is proof that the Empire has not stopped because the Western Empire has supported this. Far too many Western journalists report from the perspective of the abuser rather than the victims. They need to ask, “what if it was my child, my wife, my mother, my brother, my grandfather, suffering like this? What if I was forced from my home?” Journalists must report from the …

War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out of control
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date: 2026-03-17T05:00:27Z
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description: Pacific Media Watch As the US and Israel battle to control the narrative of their war against Iran, their messaging gets harder to defend, reports Al Jazeera’s Listening Post. With the war entering its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has
encoded: Pacific Media Watch As the US and Israel battle to control the narrative of their war against Iran, their messaging gets harder to defend, reports Al Jazeera’s Listening Post. With the war entering its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has been targeting various economic pressure points outside of its borders. With censorship and propaganda shaping coverage on all sides, news audiences are having to navigate a confused and often misleading maze of information. Contributors: Vali Nasr – Professor, Johns Hopkins University Michael Omer-Man – Director of research for Israel-Palestine, DAWN Matt Duss – Executive vice-president, Center for International Policy (CIP) Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi – Lecturer, University of St Andrews On our radar Israeli media outlets published near-simultaneous reports, citing anonymous officials, claiming Gulf states had attacked Iran. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates quickly denied the allegations, forcing corrections. Critics say that the aim of the coverage was to suggest Gulf support for Israel and pull those states into the conflict. Tariq Nafi looks at how the episode has fuelled anger across the Arab world towards Washington and Tel Aviv. Out Of Control: An escalating war accompanied by escalating war rhetoric Video: AJ Listening Post Battlefield AI: An interview with Matt Mahmoudi Since the first attacks on Iran, the White House and Pentagon have been eager to test new military technologies. As seen previously in Gaza, AI systems appear to be playing a central role in identifying targets and guiding strikes. This raises serious ethical and accountability questions about how life-and-death decisions are being made on the battlefield. Amnesty Tech researcher and assistant professor at the University of Cambridge, Matt Mahmoudi joins The Listening Post to discuss AI-assisted warfare. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and …

War on Iran: Propaganda in overdrive as Trump’s war spirals out of control
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-17T05:00:27Z
subject: AI systems
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description: Pacific Media Watch As the US and Israel battle to control the narrative of their war against Iran, their messaging gets harder to defend, reports Al Jazeera’s Listening Post. With the war entering its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has
encoded: Pacific Media Watch As the US and Israel battle to control the narrative of their war against Iran, their messaging gets harder to defend, reports Al Jazeera’s Listening Post. With the war entering its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has been targeting various economic pressure points outside of its borders. With censorship and propaganda shaping coverage on all sides, news audiences are having to navigate a confused and often misleading maze of information. Contributors: Vali Nasr – Professor, Johns Hopkins University Michael Omer-Man – Director of research for Israel-Palestine, DAWN Matt Duss – Executive vice-president, Center for International Policy (CIP) Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi – Lecturer, University of St Andrews On our radar Israeli media outlets published near-simultaneous reports, citing anonymous officials, claiming Gulf states had attacked Iran. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates quickly denied the allegations, forcing corrections. Critics say that the aim of the coverage was to suggest Gulf support for Israel and pull those states into the conflict. Tariq Nafi looks at how the episode has fuelled anger across the Arab world towards Washington and Tel Aviv. Out Of Control: An escalating war accompanied by escalating war rhetoric Video: AJ Listening Post Battlefield AI: An interview with Matt Mahmoudi Since the first attacks on Iran, the White House and Pentagon have been eager to test new military technologies. As seen previously in Gaza, AI systems appear to be playing a central role in identifying targets and guiding strikes. This raises serious ethical and accountability questions about how life-and-death decisions are being made on the battlefield. Amnesty Tech researcher and assistant professor at the University of Cambridge, Matt Mahmoudi joins The Listening Post to discuss AI-assisted warfare. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and …

As Israel keeps bombing Iran, Palestinians face growing violence in West Bank
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description: Democracy Now! Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy, editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call, about her recent article, “Longing for My Tehran.” “It’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly running in and out of shelters,” says Noy, “but
encoded: Democracy Now! Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy, editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call, about her recent article, “Longing for My Tehran.” “It’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly running in and out of shelters,” says Noy, “but because this time, the footage of the bombing that I grew accustomed to seeing for over two years from the genocide in Gaza was now coming from my homeland.” Noy also comments on Israeli political support for the war on Iran, saying “the very few attempts to protest against the war were brutally crushed by the Israeli police.” Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is also increasing. “Up until now, our worry was about the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Now it is just about executing Palestinians, both by the army and by the settlers,” says Noy. Transcript: NERMEEN SHAIKH: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Nermeen Shaikh, with Amy Goodman. As we continue to look at the US and Israel war on Iran and Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, we go now to Jerusalem, where we’re joined by Orly Noy. She’s an Iranian Israeli political activist and editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call. She is also the chair of B’Tselem’s executive board. Her new piece for The New York Review of Books is headlined “Longing for My Tehran.” Orly, welcome back to Democracy Now! If you could talk about this piece you’ve written and why you chose to write it now, “Longing for My Tehran”? ORLY NOY: Yeah. I mean, as you can imagine, it’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly running in and out of shelters, but because this time, the footage of the bombing that I grew accustomed to seeing for over two years from the genocide in Gaza was now coming from my homeland — from my hometown, Tehran, the city where I was born and grew up in. The cries of people were in Farsi this time, which was — which hi…

Pacific governments warn against panic buying as war on Iran threatens fuel supply
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-17T01:01:01Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Fuel supplies
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subject: Pacific fuel supplies
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description: RNZ Pacific Pacific Island governments are urging their citizens not to panic about the supply of fuels amid the conflict in the Middle East between Israel, the United States and Iran. The conflict has resulted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that carries around 20 percent of the world’s
encoded: RNZ Pacific Pacific Island governments are urging their citizens not to panic about the supply of fuels amid the conflict in the Middle East between Israel, the United States and Iran. The conflict has resulted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that carries around 20 percent of the world’s oil (20 million barrels a day), by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC has warned that any ship passing through the strait would be attacked, triggering a near-total halt in vessels attempting to pass through the waterway, causing a surge in oil prices. READ MORE: Trump scolds allies over Strait of Hormuz operation; UAE closes airspace Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports However, according to Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, the Strait of Hormuz is closed only to Iran’s “enemies and their allies”, the IRGC-aligned Tasnim News Agency reported. US President Donald Trump has demanded that allies send naval vessels to the Middle East to help escort ships through the strait. Pacific Islands nations get nearly all of their refined fuel from refineries in Singapore, South Korea and Japan. But roughly 80 percent of the crude oil used by these Asian refineries passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The Fiji government said on Monday that fuel supplies in the country were sufficient to meet energy needs for the next few months. “There is no need to indulge in ‘panic buying’ at the service station,” it said in a statement. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-125108" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Strait-of-Hormuz-OFImag-680wide.png" alt="Leading shipping companies have suspended operations through the Strait of Hormuz " width="680" height="382" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Strait-of-Hormuz…

How Movements Survive
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creator: Zach D. Roberts
date: 2026-03-16T23:44:28Z
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description: In her new book, Molly Crabapple shares the history of the Jewish Bund.
encoded: In her new book, Molly Crabapple shares the history of the Jewish Bund. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Zach D. Roberts.

The Caregiver Who Can’t Afford Health Care
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creator: Nathalie Levey
date: 2026-03-16T23:29:56Z
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description: More than three million people work as home and personal caregivers, but with low wages and changes to tax credits, many of them cannot afford health insurance.
encoded: More than three million people work as home and personal caregivers, but with low wages and changes to tax credits, many of them cannot afford health insurance. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Nathalie Levey.

Putin: The real winner of the Iran War?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-16T23:04:07Z
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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CPJ urges Brazilian authorities to return equipment seized from journalist in Maranhão
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date: 2026-03-16T22:23:53Z
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description: São Paulo, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Brazilian authorities to end the police investigation against journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida, known as Luís Pablo, and return personal equipment seized from his house on March 10 by order of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Judge Alexandre de Moraes. The Federal Police raided Luís...
encoded: São Paulo, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Brazilian authorities to end the police investigation against journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida, known as Luís Pablo, and return personal equipment seized from his house on March 10 by order of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Judge Alexandre de Moraes. The Federal Police raided Luís Pablo’s house in São Luís, the capital of Maranhão, in the northeast region, and seized a notebook and cell phones after STF Judge Flávio Dino accused the journalist of “stalking” in connection with three November 2025 blog posts alleging the misuse of an official state court vehicle by the judge’s family. “It’s outrageous that a journalist would be silenced by the country’s highest court simply for doing his job—reporting on a matter of public interest. Such an action disregards the Constitution, which protects both freedom of the press and the confidentiality of journalistic sources,” said Cristina Zahar, Latin America program coordinator. “No public official should weaponize the justice system to retaliate against critical reporting. We hope that Luís Pablo has his equipment returned promptly and without any violations.” Luís Pablo’s attorney, Marcos Alessandro Coutinho Passos Lobo, sent a petition, reviewed by CPJ, asking the Brazilian Bar Association to adopt administrative and legal measures to “immediately cease the abusive, unconstitutional, non-conventional, and illegal acts” against his client. Lobo also called for Luís Pablo’s equipment to be returned in its entirety since it contains information on sources and materials gathered for a news report on Judge Dino’s political and electoral activities in Maranhão.” On March 14, Luís Pablo confirmed he was working on the report in an interview with the independent news channel Band News. During a March 13 testimony given to the Federal Police, the journalist remained silent claiming his constitutional rights as a journalist to not disclose his sources…

Under Pressure? Iranian Soccer Players Choose Home Instead Of Asylum
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-16T22:18:38Z
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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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Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr targets news outlets
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date: 2026-03-16T19:53:37Z
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description: As President Donald Trump’s second term continued in 2026, his Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, took steps to punish and intimidate news outlets that have covered Trump and his administration critically. We’re documenting Carr’s e...
encoded: As President Donald Trump’s second term continued in 2026, his Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, took steps to punish and intimidate news outlets that have covered Trump and his administration critically. We’re documenting Carr’s efforts in 2026 in this regularly updated report. Also read about Carr’s efforts in 2025, and how Trump’s appointees and allies in Congress are striving to chill reporting, revoke funding, censor critical coverage and more. This article was first published on March 16, 2026. March 14, 2026 | FCC chair threatens licenses of broadcasters for Iran war coverage March 14, 2026 | FCC chair threatens licenses of broadcasters for Iran war coverage Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on March 14, 2026, threatened broadcasters with the loss of their licenses for what he characterized as “running hoaxes and news distortions” in their accounts of U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. In a social media post, Carr quoted a screenshot of a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump, in which the president alleged that The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and “other Lowlife ‘Papers’ and Media” want the U.S. to lose the war with Iran. Although Trump did not mention any TV news outlets by name, Carr noted, “The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.” The FCC chair then added that those broadcasters “have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.” Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they… https://t.co/7bBgnsbalw — Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) March 14, 2026 “The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwa…

CPJ calls for Estefany Rodríguez’s release from ICE custody after immigration judge grants bond
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date: 2026-03-16T19:09:14Z
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description: Washington, D.C., March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Monday’s order to release on bond journalist Estefany Rodríguez, whose lawyers said she was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without being presented a warrant and urges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release her immediately and unconditionally. On Monday, an immigration judge...
encoded: Washington, D.C., March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Monday’s order to release on bond journalist Estefany Rodríguez, whose lawyers said she was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without being presented a warrant and urges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release her immediately and unconditionally. On Monday, an immigration judge ordered the journalist to be released on $10,000 bond, an unusually high amount. CPJ has led calls urging DHS and the U.S. government to guarantee due process Rodríguez’s case, including her right to face immigration proceedings while free. “We are heartened to see that Estefany Rodríguez was ordered to be released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at her bond hearing but are concerned that her bond is unusually high. Her team must be allowed to pay her bond immediately and Rodríguez should be released without delay,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “The Department of Homeland Security and its affiliates are increasingly being used to police First Amendment rights, including freedom of the press. Rodríguez’s arrest is the latest example in a troubling pattern.” Rodríguez, a Spanish-language journalist, fled her native Colombia in 2021 after facing death threats in connection with her reporting. She sought asylum in the United States and was in the country legally at the time of her detention. Rodríguez has an asylum case, a pending green card application, and work authorization, according to news reports. Rodríguez’s lawyers have argued that she was in detention in relation to the exercise of her First Amendment rights, including her work as a journalist. A habeas hearing on Tuesday will determine if Rodríguez was arbitrarily detained. CPJ has documented a pattern of DHS actions that limit First Amendment rights. DHS did not immediately respond to CPJ’s emailed request for comment. In previous emails, DHS officials told CPJ…

Oscars 2026
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date: 2026-03-16T19:04:42Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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“Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts Propaganda
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date: 2026-03-16T18:58:29Z
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The U.S. Has Lost the War. What’s Next?
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creator: Gary Olson
date: 2026-03-16T18:57:10Z
subject: Dimona Nuclear Reactor
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subject: Hypersonic missiles
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description: Any objective observer knows that the U.S. has lost the war in Iran, a war fought for Israel. It’s obvious that the U.S. had no overall plan; now it only reacts to Iranian moves and is reduced to endless, ineffective bombing and murdering school children. In one sense, we’re seeing what would have occurred if […] The post The U.S. Has Lost the War. What’s Next? appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-167787" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Greater-Israel-Map-300x259.webp" alt="" width="505" height="436" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Greater-Israel-Map-300x259.webp 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Greater-Israel-Map-1024x885.webp 1024w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Greater-Israel-Map-768x664.webp 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Greater-Israel-Map.webp 1456w" sizes="(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px" /> Any objective observer knows that the U.S. has lost the war in Iran, a war fought for Israel. It’s obvious that the U.S. had no overall plan; now it only reacts to Iranian moves and is reduced to endless, ineffective bombing and murdering school children. In one sense, we’re seeing what would have occurred if the 12-day war in June 2025 had gone on longer, but with one exception. This time, the Russians and Chinese have provided the satellite intelligence that allows Iran’s targeting accuracy to be vastly improved, and we’re seeing the results on a daily basis. My guess is that Trump’s military advisors are telling him that the situation is going from bad to worse, and no risk-free option remains. No doubt they’re also advising him that Iran is in the driver’s seat and there’s no way to gain control of the Strait of Hormuz. This explains Trump’s delusional threat of a “very bad future” for NATO if the Europeans don’t help out. After European leaders rebuffed his plea, Trump said: “You mean for 40 years we’re protecting you, and you don’t want to get involved in something that’s so minor?” Trump is in a terrible bind and is flailing about in search of an off-ramp. He also knows that in future negotiations to end the war, Iran will be dictating the terms. Iran is in no hurry to end the conflict, and I suspect the knock-out punch will land when Israel’s …

Paul Coates: The US is killing people in Cuba
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creator: Erica Woodland
date: 2026-03-16T18:47:36Z
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description: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_0325-scaled.jpeg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="image description: Black Literary Production: From Propaganda to Publishing. A conversation with Paul Coates about Black Classic Press. Image by Phil Glaser" data-attachment-id="342047" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/paul-coates-the-us-is-killing-people-in-cuba/img_0325" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_0325-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1440" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="Paul Coates" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Black Literary Production: From Propaganda to Publishing. A conversation with Paul Coates about Black Classic Press. Image by Phil Glaser. " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_0325-scaled.jpeg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_0325-scaled.jpeg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1"> “We have a moral responsibility to join the Cuban people—people of conscience around the world, but especially Black people and people of African descent—because when [Africa] called [Cuba] came.”
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Israel: ‘the tail that wags the dog’
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-03-16T18:28:02Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 16, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-03-16T18:00:00Z
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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 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: 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 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

UN News Today 16 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-16T16:50:43Z
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description: Combating Islamophobia is about overcoming bigotry, says UN chiefMiddle East war: UN human rights office condemns killing of Palestinian Killing of Palestinians condemned in Gaza and occupied West Bank
encoded: Combating Islamophobia is about overcoming bigotry, says UN chiefMiddle East war: UN human rights office condemns killing of Palestinian Killing of Palestinians condemned in Gaza and occupied West Bank This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Veteran Turkish journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak sentenced to prison
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-16T16:47:58Z
subject: Ahmet Altan
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Legal Action
subject: Nazlı Ilıcak
subject: Sources
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subject: ilıcak
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description: Istanbul, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the Turkish authorities on Monday not to fight the appeals of veteran journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak. An Istanbul court found Altan, the former editor-in-chief of the defunct liberal daily Taraf, and Ilıcak, a former host for the defunct Can Erzincan TV, guilty of “aiding a [terrorist] organization without being...
encoded: Istanbul, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the Turkish authorities on Monday not to fight the appeals of veteran journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak. An Istanbul court found Altan, the former editor-in-chief of the defunct liberal daily Taraf, and Ilıcak, a former host for the defunct Can Erzincan TV, guilty of “aiding a [terrorist] organization without being a member” on March 13. Altan was sentenced to four years and six months and Ilıcak to three years and six months in prison. The journalists, who are accused of aiding the 2016 coup attempt, were retried after a previous related sentence of life in prison without parole was handed down in 2018. They were both released in 2019 but Altan was rearrested eight days later and kept in prison until 2021. Both currently remain free pending appeal. “Turkish journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak have already spent years of their lives in prison for nothing but doing their job,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “This fact is not going to change no matter how many times they face retrials. Turkish authorities should stop fighting Altan and Ilıcak’s appeals and cease retaliating against independent reporting.” This was the third retrial for Altan and Ilıcak, whose original 2018 sentence was for “attempting, through violence and force, to disrupt and replace the order as recognized by Turkey’s Constitution.” Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals overturned this verdict in 2019 and ordered a local court to try them on charges of aiding a terrorist organization, which resulted in a sentence of 10 years and six months for Altan and one for nine years and eight months for Ilıcak later that year. The Supreme Court overturned this second verdict in 2021 over a technicality and ordered another retrial. The local court found the journalists guilty once more in 2024 with updated sentences of six years, three months, and 18 days for Altan and five years and three months for Ilıcak. The court o…

Hungary mayor forcibly removes Telex reporters from ruling party campaign event
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-16T16:39:06Z
subject: Attacked
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subject: Harassed
subject: Judit Presinszky
subject: Nóra Siteri
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description: Berlin, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hungarian authorities to swiftly investigate the forcible removal of reporters Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri with the news site Telex from a campaign event, and to ensure that journalists can cover election-related events without intimidation or violence. “Telex’s Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri being forcibly removed while...
encoded: Berlin, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hungarian authorities to swiftly investigate the forcible removal of reporters Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri with the news site Telex from a campaign event, and to ensure that journalists can cover election-related events without intimidation or violence. “Telex’s Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri being forcibly removed while reporting on a public campaign event marks a new low and is a deeply worrying signal about press freedom in Hungary,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. “Authorities must condemn such violence, make clear that the physical obstruction of journalists has no place in an EU member state, hold those responsible to account, and guarantee that journalists can report freely in the run-up to elections.” On March 10, in the village of Csákberény in central Hungary, Mayor László Vécsei used physical force to remove Presinszky and her camera operator, Siteri, from a campaign event attended by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén ahead of the April 12 parliamentary elections. When the journalists entered the community center where the forum was about to start, the mayor grabbed Siteri’s camera to cover the lens and pushed the journalists, grabbing one of them by the arm. The incident happened after the two had interviewed local officials at the venue, including parliamentary candidate for the ruling Fidesz party Gábor Törő and Semjén. After the mayor forced them out, a member of the Polgárőrség, a nationwide network of legally recognized civilian volunteer guards, barred the journalists from re-entering the event. Telex said they have filed a criminal complaint. According to a recent report by media watchdog Mérték and the Rule of Law Lab at New York University School of Law, the government has repeatedly denied independent journalists access to public events and press conferences, especially when Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or cabinet ministers are present. In January 2025, p…

Protesters Reportedly Attack Communist Party Office in Cuba as Energy Crisis Deepens
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-16T16:25:05Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: attack
subject: communist’
subject: crisis
subject: Cuba
subject: deepens
subject: Democracy
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subject: now
subject: office
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Paul Coates: The US is killing people in Cuba
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-03-16T16:19:35Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Real News Network
subject: coates
subject: Cuba
subject: killing
subject: network
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subject: paul
subject: People
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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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Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-03-16T15:30:50Z
subject: Project Censored
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subject: censored
subject: Cuba
subject: Detention
subject: ice’s
subject: machine?
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subject: the
subject: The Project Censored Show
subject: Tracking
description: In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analysis vis a vis DHS. They discuss their ICE Warehouse Tracker tool, and how ill-prepared these sites ...
encoded: In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analysis vis a vis DHS. They discuss their ICE Warehouse Tracker tool, and how ill-prepared these sites are to house tens of thousands of people. Michael and Em also discuss what the effects would be on communities surrounding these warehouses, and how we can use data to better understand the massive planned network of disappearing people, and thereby act to stop it. The post Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

"Mr. Nobody Against Putin" Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher Who Confronts State Propaganda
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-16T15:29:13Z
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subject: nobody
subject: now
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subject: Propaganda
subject: putin
subject: russian
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subject: State
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-16T15:19:53Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: bombing
subject: Democracy
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subject: growing
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: jerusalem
subject: keeps
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subject: violence
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Massachusetts: Highest Court Says Charter School Must Comply With State Public-Records Law
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creator: Shawgi Tell
date: 2026-03-16T15:00:39Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Malden charter school
subject: Michael Mindzak
subject: Mystic Valley Regional Charter School
subject: Sources
subject: Charter Schools
subject: charter:
subject: comply
subject: court
subject: dissident
subject: Education
subject: highest
subject: Law
subject: malden
subject: massachusetts
subject: michael
subject: mindzak
subject: must
subject: mystic
subject: Neoliberalism
subject: Privatization
subject: public-records
subject: regional
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subject: school
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subject: State
subject: supreme court
subject: United States
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description: Charter schools are privatized education arrangements that continually insist on being called “public” while routinely avoiding many public laws, standards, and requirements. Charter school operators have always wanted to be both public and private for self-serving reasons—public so that they can seize public funds and private so that they can remain unaccountable. Dr. Michael Mindzak […] The post Massachusetts: Highest Court Says Charter School Must Comply With State Public-Records Law appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/shawgi-tell-charter-school-146x300.jpg" alt="" width="146" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-162787" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/shawgi-tell-charter-school-146x300.jpg 146w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/shawgi-tell-charter-school.jpg 487w" sizes="(max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px" />Charter schools are privatized education arrangements that continually insist on being called “public” while routinely avoiding many public laws, standards, and requirements. Charter school operators have always wanted to be both public and private for self-serving reasons—public so that they can seize public funds and private so that they can remain unaccountable. Dr. Michael Mindzak at Brock University in Canada reminds us that, “The purpose of charter schools is to foster privatization under the guise of public education.” The Network for Public Education states that, “There are so many substantive differences between charter schools and traditional public schools that charters can’t be defined as public schools.” It is thus important to reject non-stop disinformation that portrays charter schools as “public” schools. Both non-profit and for-profit charter schools are deregulated private businesses run by unelected private persons. And both engage in profiteering. Naturally, many contradictions arise when charter schools ride the “public”/”private” fence. The latest example comes from Massachusetts. According to Universal Hub (March 11, 2026), “A Malden charter school that refused to hand over records requested [at least 10 times] by members of the public without a court order got the court order today – from the state’s highest court. In its ruling on the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, the Supreme Judicial Court concluded that because charter schools in Massachusetts exist only because of an act of the legislature, an act t…

The Age of Human Arrogance, Part IV
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creator: Sammy Attoh
date: 2026-03-16T15:00:21Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: dignity,
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description: There comes a moment in every age when humanity must confront the mirror it has spent centuries avoiding. That mirror does not flatter us. It reveals a species that has mastered the sciences of destruction while neglecting the simple art of living. It reveals a creature that speaks of peace while perfecting the machinery of […] The post The Age of Human Arrogance, Part IV appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: There comes a moment in every age when humanity must confront the mirror it has spent centuries avoiding. That mirror does not flatter us. It reveals a species that has mastered the sciences of destruction while neglecting the simple art of living. It reveals a creature that speaks of peace while perfecting the machinery of war — a creature that claims intelligence yet behaves as though wisdom were an inconvenience. And at the center of this contradiction lies a question as old as civilization itself: why does humankind, in its restless hunger for permanence and power, continue to forge instruments of death while ignoring the fragile lives that tremble beneath their weight? Those who design the engines of war rarely pause to consider the innocent — the children who never asked for conflict, the animals who flee without understanding, the ecosystems that cannot speak but suffer all the same. The forests, the rivers, the quiet creatures of the earth bear witness to decisions they never made. They endure the consequences of ambitions that were never theirs. They carry the scars of human arrogance without ever having lifted a hand in violence. We move across this planet as though we were immortal, as though the soil beneath our feet were an infinite inheritance rather than a living home entrusted to our care. We behave as if we shall remain here forever, forgetting the truth whispered by every graveyard, every funeral procession, every fading photograph: today we are here; tomorrow we are gone. And yet, despite this fleeting existence, humanity clings to violence as if it were its birthright, as though the measure of our intelligence were the scale of our destruction. The tragedy is not merely political; it is spiritual. Every tradition of wisdom — ancient, modern, secular, and sacred — carries within it a single, thunderous command that should halt the hand of destruction: “Thou shalt not kill.” It is not a suggestion, not a metaphor, not a cultural relic. It is a univ…

A Poisoned Politics Poisons People: All Three Branches Move to Shield Bayer/Monsanto from Liability Amid One of the Largest Cancer Litigations in American History
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creator: Elizabeth Kucinich
date: 2026-03-16T15:00:18Z
subject: Aaron Z. Roper
subject: Anna Paulina Luna
subject: Chellie Pingree
subject: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
subject: Defense Production Act
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: federal regulators
subject: Jim mcgovern
subject: No Immunity for Glyphosate Act
subject: Sarah M. Harris
subject: Sources
subject: Thomas massie
subject: ‘one
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subject: ACT
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subject: bayer/monsanto
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subject: cancer
subject: chellie
subject: chemical industry
subject: citizens
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subject: corporations
subject: Crime
subject: defense
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subject: donald trump
subject: election
subject: epa
subject: farmers
subject: farming
subject: federal
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subject: from
subject: Glyphosate
subject: Harris
subject: Health/Medical
subject: History
subject: immunity
subject: jim
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subject: luna
subject: massie
subject: mcgovern
subject: Monsanto (now Bayer)
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subject: People
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description: Healthy soil, water, and ecosystems are the foundation of human life. The health of creation gives rise to the health of life. Powerful outside interests are using America’s treasury and public policy to advance profit-driven agendas while the health, land, and future of the American people bear the cost. The same public purse that finances […] The post A Poisoned Politics Poisons People: All Three Branches Move to Shield Bayer/Monsanto from Liability Amid One of the Largest Cancer Litigations in American History appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Cuba’s Slow Strangulation and the Empire That Can’t Stop Squeezing
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creator: Michael Longenecker
date: 2026-03-16T15:00:17Z
subject: Ada Ferrer
subject: Cuba: An American History
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subject: Platt Amendment
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description: Some catastrophes arrive like explosions; others arrive like a hand on the throat that tightens, loosens just enough to keep the victim conscious, then tightens again. What is happening to Cuba now is the second kind. It is less a “crisis” than the logical endpoint of a relationship Ada Ferrer, in Cuba: An American History, […] The post Cuba’s Slow Strangulation and the Empire That Can’t Stop Squeezing appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Some catastrophes arrive like explosions; others arrive like a hand on the throat that tightens, loosens just enough to keep the victim conscious, then tightens again. What is happening to Cuba now is the second kind. It is less a “crisis” than the logical endpoint of a relationship Ada Ferrer, in Cuba: An American History, describes as “intimate, explosive, and always uneven”—a history in which the United States could never decide whether Cuba was a neighbor, a colony, or a mirror it couldn’t bear to look into. If the Iran war exposes how vulnerable the global system is at its maritime choke points, Cuba reveals something just as important: how an empire behaves when the choke point is not a strait half a world away but an island ninety miles off its own shore. It turns out that the methods are the same—sanctions, blockades, energy as weapon—but the blowback is closer, the hypocrisy starker, and the margin for error smaller. Cuba’s Fuel Blockade Future The outlines are simple and brutal. A small, import‑dependent island is strangled of fuel. Power plants shut down or limp along on residual stocks. Blackouts spread—at first rolling, then unpredictable, then so widespread that, for stretches, two‑thirds of the country sits in the dark. Refrigerators warm. Buses disappear. Flights are cancelled. Pumps stop pushing clean water uphill. Food that once moved by truck begins to rot in place. UN officials now warn that tens of thousands of cancer patients are missing treatment, nearly a million people are losing piped water when generators stop, and even humanitarian aid is stuck in port because trucks have no diesel. None of this is an accident. It is the direct consequence of a policy crafted in Washington and justified, as Ferrer might put it, in the same register that once dressed the Platt Amendment as “protection” and the Bay of Pigs as “liberation.” The embargo that has shadowed Cuba since 1960 has been tightened again and again, but the latest turn of the screw is q…

The Chilling Silence of Hollywood’s New McCarthyism
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-03-16T14:55:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
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subject: mccarthyism
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description: Despite holding one of the most powerful microphones in the world, the silence from major winners at the Oscars regarding human rights and the rise of fascism was the real star. When artists like Paul Thomas Anderson, whose film One Battle After Another swept the awards, refuse to use their power to address the very real injustices their films capitalize on, they "obey in advance." This silence is the symptom of massive corporate media consolidation. Director David Borenstein, winner of best documentary for Mr. Nobody Against Putin, used his power morally to remind us that this is how Putin cemented a dictatorship. With the looming merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and the MAGA Ellison family's Paramount Skydance, we face a future where 40% of our media is controlled by a single far-right family. If you want to know what that might look like, see what Barri Weiss is doing to CBS. See you at the Gaslit Nation Salon today at 4 PM ET. The Zoom link is live on Patreon.com/Gaslit, where you can also catch the recording of last week's session. Whether you need to vent, share best practices, or just find community, our weekly resilience gatherings are here for you. Join the movement and support the show at Patreon.com/Gaslit–we couldn't do this without you. Use the scripts below to contact Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta of California to demand they enforce existing laws to investigate, slow-down, and block the Warner Bros. deal–or there won't be anymore films like Sinners and One Battle After Another, supporting California's economy. To Governor Gavin Newsom: Phone: (916) 445-2841 | Email: https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ Socials: @GavinNewsom Script: My name is [Name] from [City]. I am calling to urge Governor Newsom to publicly oppose the Ellison takeover of Warner Bros. This merger threatens jobs and creates a dangerous media monopoly. Governor, please use your influence to protect our creative economy and information space from MAGA-aligned con…
encoded: Despite holding one of the most powerful microphones in the world, the silence from major winners at the Oscars regarding human rights and the rise of fascism was the real star. When artists like Paul Thomas Anderson, whose film One Battle After Another swept the awards, refuse to use their power to address the very real injustices their films capitalize on, they "obey in advance." This silence is the symptom of massive corporate media consolidation. Director David Borenstein, winner of best documentary for Mr. Nobody Against Putin, used his power morally to remind us that this is how Putin cemented a dictatorship. With the looming merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and the MAGA Ellison family's Paramount Skydance, we face a future where 40% of our media is controlled by a single far-right family. If you want to know what that might look like, see what Barri Weiss is doing to CBS. See you at the Gaslit Nation Salon today at 4 PM ET. The Zoom link is live on Patreon.com/Gaslit, where you can also catch the recording of last week's session. Whether you need to vent, share best practices, or just find community, our weekly resilience gatherings are here for you. Join the movement and support the show at Patreon.com/Gaslit–we couldn't do this without you. Use the scripts below to contact Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta of California to demand they enforce existing laws to investigate, slow-down, and block the Warner Bros. deal–or there won't be anymore films like Sinners and One Battle After Another, supporting California's economy. To Governor Gavin Newsom: Phone: (916) 445-2841 | Email: https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ Socials: @GavinNewsom Script: My name is [Name] from [City]. I am calling to urge Governor Newsom to publicly oppose the Ellison takeover of Warner Bros. This merger threatens jobs and creates a dangerous media monopoly. Governor, please use your influence to protect our creative economy and information space from MAGA-aligned con…

"A Sense of Despair": Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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‘Serious threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump admin wins first antifa terror charge
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subject: threat
subject: trump
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Pipeline That Caused Massive 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Restarts Illegally
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-16T14:37:38Z
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subject: illegally
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description: Texas-based company Sable Offshore Corp. announced today that it has restarted oil flow through the pipeline that ruptured and caused one of California’s largest oil spills on the Santa Barbara coast in 2015.The restart occurred just one day after the...
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 16, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-16T14:30:54Z
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subject: u.s.
subject: World
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Former U.S. Military Chief of Staff Blasts U.S. War Crimes in Middle East
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creator: Serena Wylde
date: 2026-03-16T14:25:55Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Wesley Clark
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subject: Colin Powell
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subject: east
subject: former
subject: hammer
subject: iran
subject: lawrence
subject: middle
subject: Militarism
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subject: sources
subject: staff
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subject: United States
subject: voice
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description: Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said on the independent news channel Democracy Now! that the current U.S. administration, in a matter of days, has committed war crimes in Iran on a scale he has not seen in his lifetime. He told viewers that, not for the first time, the U.S. had initiated an illegal war, violated […] The post Former U.S. Military Chief of Staff Blasts U.S. War Crimes in Middle East appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said on the independent news channel Democracy Now! that the current U.S. administration, in a matter of days, has committed war crimes in Iran on a scale he has not seen in his lifetime. He told viewers that, not for the first time, the U.S. had initiated an illegal war, violated the U.S. Constitution and international law, but that the attacks on Iran, and in the midst of talks, have eclipsed all previous violations. As Chief of Staff to Colin Powell in the lead-up to the Iraq war, he admitted that he came from an administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney that committed war crimes. He said that back in 2003, he and Colin Powell realised that not only had they signed up to a war in Iraq that wasn’t necessary, they had signed up to a President of the United States who made torture public policy. But Wilkinson believes the attacks on Iran surpass in magnitude the U.S.’s previous atrocities: We have bombed civilians relentlessly. We have bombed a school. We have bombed a hospital. We have struck installations in Iran’s oil capacity that has put black poison over more than ten million people. We are essentially not bombing missile sites and war materiel. We’re bombing people. These are all war crimes. And one wishes, with fond hope, that some day we might be called before the Bar of Justice to account for these war crimes. We took a lesson from the IDF, who continue [to commit crimes] in Gaza and Lebanon. Wilkerson said he told a senior editor of the Washington Post that he thought “abominable the lies that the American mainstream media, both video and press, were telling the American people, as it puts them in jeopardy in a real substantive sense, because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how in breach of international dictum and rules this war is. Iran was no threat to the U.S.” He added that U.S. servicemen were not only in harm’s way, but they risked being liable for war …

RSF paramilitary group detains 3 female journalists in Sudan’s Darfur
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-03-16T13:06:04Z
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description: New York, March 16, 2026 – Sudan’s paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) must immediately release Nyala State Radio reporters Mawaheb Ibrahim, Zahraa Muhammad Al-Hassan, and Ishraqah Abdulrahan, a presenter and host at the radio station, who have been detained in Nyala, South Darfur, since February 28, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday....
encoded: New York, March 16, 2026 – Sudan’s paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) must immediately release Nyala State Radio reporters Mawaheb Ibrahim, Zahraa Muhammad Al-Hassan, and Ishraqah Abdulrahan, a presenter and host at the radio station, who have been detained in Nyala, South Darfur, since February 28, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. “The Rapid Support Forces must immediately release Nyala Radio journalists Mawaheb Ibrahim, Zahraa Muhammad Al-Hassan, and Ishraqah Abdulrahman and stop arbitrarily detaining members of the press,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Journalists in Sudan are already working under extremely dangerous conditions amid a devastating war, and detaining reporters only further restricts the flow of information from a conflict that remains severely underreported.” On February 28, forces from the RSF arrested Ibrahim, Al-Hassan, and Abdulrahman in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, along with several other women and transferred them to Korea prison, after they attended a workshop for female journalists in the city. As of mid-March, they remained detained without formal charges, clear justification for their arrest, or being brought before a court, according to a local journalist following the case who spoke with CPJ on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal. The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sdjsofficial/photos/%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8F%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9/887796587418736/">said in a recent statement that it is deeply concerned about a growing number of cases of arbitrar…

Taking back power starts at the state level #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-16T13:03:13Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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“Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda
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date: 2026-03-16T12:41:32Z
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subject: Propaganda
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description: Mr Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. Democracy Now! recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein and the subject of the film, the Russian teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, who pers...
encoded: Mr Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. Democracy Now! recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein and the subject of the film, the Russian teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, who personally documented Russia’s use of wartime propaganda. “I need for as many people as possible to see what is happening inside of Russian schools,” says Talankin. “Putin is forcing propaganda into their schools, and [the children are] absorbing all of this.” Borenstein says the film is also a reflection on “the value of one person’s resistance, about how much one person can do, about how much we can overcome complicity while the systems around us are succumbing to authoritarianism.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank
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description: Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy about her recent piece, “Longing for My Tehran.” “It’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly...
encoded: Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy about her recent piece, “Longing for My Tehran.” “It’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly running in and out of shelters,” says Noy, “but because this time, the footage of the bombing that I grew accustomed to seeing for over two years from the genocide in Gaza was now coming from my homeland.” Noy also comments on Israeli political support for the war on Iran, saying “the very few attempts to protest against the war were brutally crushed by the Israeli police.” Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is also increasing. “Up until now, our worry was about the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Now it is just about executing Palestinians, both by the army and by the settlers,” says Noy. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“A Sense of Despair”: Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After
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description: As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran extends into a third week, President Trump is demanding other countries send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut, as oil prices keep rising. This comes as the U.S. and Israel contin...
encoded: As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran extends into a third week, President Trump is demanding other countries send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut, as oil prices keep rising. This comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to launch major strikes on Iran, while Iran has retaliated by repeatedly striking Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Despite the violence in Iran, “pro-war voices are definitely in the diaspora and very strong, but they also exist inside Iran,” says Naghmeh Sohrabi, professor of Middle East history at Brandeis University. “I think most Iranians want this war to end as soon as possible, and at the same time, they fear nothing more than the day after the war, if this regime remains intact,” says Iranian American novelist Amir Ahmadi Arian. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 16, 2026
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description: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Enters Third Week as Iranian Foreign Minister Denies Asking for Ceasefire, Iran Continues Retaliatory Strikes in the Middle East as Six U.S. Service Members Killed in Iraq, Trump Urges Other Countries to Send Warships to Secure the Strait of Hormuz, Israeli Troops Begin Ground Operations in Southern Lebanon, FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses over Iran War Coverage, Israeli Forces Kill 16 Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, Explosion Damages Jewish School in Amsterdam, Trump Administration Reopens U.S. Embassy in Venezuela for the First Time Since 2019, Protesters Reportedly Attack Communist Party Office in Cuba as Energy Crisis Deepens, Haitian Asylum Seeker Found Dead After ICE Released Her at Bus Shelter in Pittsburgh, Afghan Asylum Seeker Who Worked With U.S. Special Forces Dies in ICE Custody, Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges in Texas, Immigration Judge Orders the Release of Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia, “Sinners” Makes Oscars History as Autumn Durald Arkapaw Becomes the First Woman to Win for Best Cinematography
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Democracy Now! 2026-03-16 Monday
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Drone Attack Shuts Down Dubai International Airport | US Iran 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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DN! Monday, March 16, 2026
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The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
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description: The post The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported, according to his attorneys. But federal prosecutors would not let him go last spring without making him answer for another crime — one he had never heard of. Weeks earlier, President Donald Trump, to address what he called a national emergency, ordered a stretch of borderland transferred to the military so that troops could help apprehend unauthorized migrants. Because prosecutors believed Flores-Penaloza had crossed through that zone, now called a national defense area, they charged him with trespassing on military property under statutes including one enacted in 1909 to keep spies away from arsenals. The added misdemeanors were unlikely to lengthen his sentence; they typically result in time served and deportation. But Flores-Penaloza maintained his innocence in the face of the allegation that could cast him as a national security threat. So he awaited trial in a New Mexico jail. One year into the second Trump administration, federal courts are facing a surge of immigration-related litigation, including a record number of habeas petitions from detainees who say they are being unlawfully held. In Minnesota last month, after a frustrated judge asked why defendants he had ordered released were still in custody, a government attorney blurted out: “What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks.” ProPublica and The Texas Tribune spent four months investigating a persistent source of pressure in border districts — one experts say is taxing the courts and challenging long-standing principles of criminal law. Since last April, at least 4,700 immigrants already charged with entering the country illegally have faced additional misdemeanor counts accusing them of trespassing on military property. Court records reviewed by the news organizations show that more than 90% of cases have been resolved, and that most did not end in convictions on…

The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
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description: The post The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported, according to his attorneys. But federal prosecutors would not let him go last spring without making him answer for another crime — one he had never heard of. Weeks earlier, President Donald Trump, to address what he called a national emergency, ordered a stretch of borderland transferred to the military so that troops could help apprehend unauthorized migrants. Because prosecutors believed Flores-Penaloza had crossed through that zone, now called a national defense area, they charged him with trespassing on military property under statutes including one enacted in 1909 to keep spies away from arsenals. The added misdemeanors were unlikely to lengthen his sentence; they typically result in time served and deportation. But Flores-Penaloza maintained his innocence in the face of the allegation that could cast him as a national security threat. So he awaited trial in a New Mexico jail. One year into the second Trump administration, federal courts are facing a surge of immigration-related litigation, including a record number of habeas petitions from detainees who say they are being unlawfully held. In Minnesota last month, after a frustrated judge asked why defendants he had ordered released were still in custody, a government attorney blurted out: “What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks.” ProPublica and The Texas Tribune spent four months investigating a persistent source of pressure in border districts — one experts say is taxing the courts and challenging long-standing principles of criminal law. Since last April, at least 4,700 immigrants already charged with entering the country illegally have faced additional misdemeanor counts accusing them of trespassing on military property. Court records reviewed by the news organizations show that more than 90% of cases have been resolved, and that most did not end in convictions on…

Is the world heating up faster than we thought?
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creator: Rebecca Egan McCarthy
date: 2026-03-16T08:30:00Z
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description: A new study says global warming is accelerating. Some aren't ready to agree.
encoded: For years, scientists have been keeping a wary eye on the massive system of currents that carry water and nutrients across the ocean from Greenland to Antarctica. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation plays a large part in stabilizing the global climate, but it appears to have been weakening in recent years as the Earth warms. Should it collapse, drought would spread across the Southern Hemisphere and the Eastern Seaboard of the United States would see catastrophic sea level rise. It could also trigger a series of other tipping points, from which the Earth would likely not recover. To avoid this scenario, 195 countries signed onto the Paris Agreement in 2015 — a landmark treaty that aimed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial times. Beyond that threshold, scientists say, the Earth’s climate could begin to deteriorate in unpredictable and irreversible ways. The past few years have been the warmest on record, and the importance of staying within this limit has been driven home as deadly heatwaves and rampant wildfires have become routine. A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters claims that warming has accelerated rapidly over the past decade, with temperatures rising almost twice as fast as they did between 1970 and 2015. The study echoes the findings of a report published last year, authored by the scientist James Hansen, who famously testified about the dangers of global warming in front of the US Congress in 1988. Should warming continue on this trajectory, the latest study says, the planet could cross the 1.5 degree threshold before 2030. The authors arrived at this conclusion after isolating the “noise” from the climate system — controlling for the El Niño weather pattern, which warms the earth, as well as for volcanic eruptions and solar flares. What they found was that while the Earth warmed by 0.2 degrees each decade between 1970 and 2015, it has warmed by 0.35 degrees in the decade since — a 75 percent spike. …

Chris Hedges: The world according to Gaza – it’s only the start
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description: The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is triumphant. ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The war on Iran and the obliteration of Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age
encoded: The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is triumphant. ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges The war on Iran and the obliteration of Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age of technologically-advanced barbarism. There are no rules for the strong, only for the weak. Oppose the strong, refuse to bow to its capricious demands and you are showered with missiles and bombs. Hospitals, elementary schools, universities and apartment complexes are reduced to rubble. Doctors, students, journalists, poets, writers, scientists, artists and political leaders — including the heads of negotiating teams — are murdered in the tens of thousands by missiles and killer drones. Resources — as the Venezuelans know — are openly stolen. Food, water and medicine, as in Palestine, are weaponised. READ MORE: Trump threatens NATO if allies fail to help with reopening Strait of Hormuz War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state Other US-Israel War on Iran reports Let them eat dirt. International bodies such as the United Nations are pantomime, useless appendages of another age. The sanctity of individual rights, open borders and international law have vanished. The most depraved leaders of human history, those who reduced cities to ashes, herded captive populations to execution sites and littered lands they occupied with mass graves and corpses, have returned with a vengeance. They spew the same hypermasculine tropes. They spew the same vile, racist cant. They spew the same Manichaean vision of good and evil, black and white. They spew the same infantile language of total dominance and unrestrained violence. Levers of power Killer clowns. Buffoons. Idiots. They have seized the levers of power to carry out their demented and cartoonish visions as they pillage the state for their own enrichment. “After witnessing savage mass …

4 ways Trump is sabotaging climate action around the world
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creator: Anita Hofschneider
date: 2026-03-16T08:00:00Z
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description: In just the last year, the Trump administration has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted forecasts for oil and gas, and sought to silence an island nation’s climate campaign.
encoded: President Trump has spent much of his second term trying to reshape global politics, first through a series of tariffs and trade deals that began on what he termed “Liberation Day” last April. This year, he’s focused on changing the world through military force: After abducting the leader of Venezuela and blockading Cuba, last month the president launched an attack on Iran that has now spiraled into a regional war involving most of the Middle East. Among many profound consequences, Trump’s military strikes could have dramatic effects on the world’s energy trajectory and climate change, though what those effects are remains to be seen. But well before Trump’s attention was consumed by deposing foreign leaders, the president devoted much of his foreign policy to much more directly undermining international progress on global warming: Top diplomats in the Trump administration have pressured other countries to sabotage major treaties on plastic production and shipping emissions, and they have fought to drop even the mention of climate change at international institutions like the United Nations and the International Energy Agency. “It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” Trump said of climate change, speaking to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally, and it must be immediate.” This bully-pulpit effort has already succeeded in stalling international agreements and shifting international focus away from the warming world. Even so, it’s far from clear that the administration will be able to alter the world’s energy transition in its preferred direction, cultivating dependence on American fossil fuels as the global standard. The United States might be able to sit out decarbonization, but other countries have strong economic and political ince…

Rights & Wrongs: The Unrooting
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Rights & Wrongs: PROLOGUE – The Night the Sky Cracked Open with Fire
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US, Fiji intervene for Israel in South Africa’s Gaza genocide case at ICJ
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description: Asia Pacific Report The United States and Fiji have filed separate declarations of intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging the country is committing genocide in Gaza. While the US explicitly rejects the allegation that Israel is committing genocide, Fiji raises issues about how the 1948
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The United States and Fiji have filed separate declarations of intervention in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), alleging the country is committing genocide in Gaza. While the US explicitly rejects the allegation that Israel is committing genocide, Fiji raises issues about how the 1948 Genocide Convention should be interpreted. The 34-page Fiji declaration was filed on March 12 and is signed by Ambassador Ilaitia Tamata, Fiji’s Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva, reports The Fiji Times. READ MORE: Fiji files intervention in Gaza genocide case at ICJ Israel’s genocide in Gaza: Whatever happened to South Africa’s case at the ICJ? Palestine will continue to seek justice against Israel at ICC and ICJ, says The Hague ambassador More Gaza genocide lawsuit reports In the declaration, Fiji said it was exercising its right under Article 63(2) of the ICJ Statute to intervene as a party to the Convention, arguing that the case raises important questions about how it should be interpreted. The filing confirms that Fiji has appointed its Permanent Representative to Israel, Ambassador Filipo Tarakinikini, as agent for the proceedings. The Fiji filing was made alongside separate interventions by Namibia and Hungary, according to a press release issued by the court on Friday, reports Middle East Eye. All four states submitted declarations under Article 63 of the ICJ statute, which allows countries that are parties to a treaty under dispute to intervene in order to present their interpretation of that treaty. Iceland, Netherlands also file Earlier on Thursday, Iceland and the Netherlands also filed declarations under Article 63. South Africa filed the case in December 2023, accusing Israel of breaching the Genocide Convention through its military campaign in Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks of October 7 that year. Pretoria argues that Isr…

Musician Aaron David Ross on misusing the tools you’re given
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description: You’re in the Yamaha studio right now. Can you tell me what your day-to-day looks like there?
encoded: You’re in the Yamaha studio right now. Can you tell me what your day-to-day looks like there? I do a lot of production for Yamaha artists, who have access to this studio as a perk. I’m the in-house producer, engineer, collaborator. People will come in with recording projects or ideas for how they want to use instruments in unconventional ways, and I help develop the projects and facilitate the recording and production side of what they’re doing. So it’s a lot of setting up mics and listening to beautiful piano music all day, which is a very nice grounding for my creative life here. This studio can be a resource for whatever people dream up. I’m the technical guy who figures out how to make it all go. We first encountered each other back in 2009, when I was a music journalist discovering Gatekeeper for the first time. The world has changed a lot since then. The industry aspect is really different, but the creative process feels like there’s a lot of continuity for me. I’m coming up with unusual approaches to use instruments with artists that I’m inspired by—that’s a little bit the same thread. It’s different in the context of having the Yamaha resources. I don’t think a lot of the same logic of our time really applies anymore. The value systems that are attached now feel a lot more optimized. I think that’s because of the algorithmic feed optimizing for attention, which is the mean of the culture, as opposed to the edges of it. You’re going to be rewarded for a very different kind of engagement with your audience. In our time, [it was about] having a critical distance from the audience and being in the moment with your friends creating the work. The conversations that are had amongst your colleagues, between musicians, between labels, between journalists… That’s the community that’s fueling the thing. The early Gatekeeper stuff, we really didn’t consider audience, and you can probably tell if you look at the series of releases that we did. If we had been considering …

Trump’s war in Iran crushes US working class, enriches cronies
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US CENTCOM chief ‘has to do Israel’s bidding’ -John Mearsheimer
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‘The greatest threat to free speech today is the Israel lobby’ -John Mearsheimer
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‘Israel is an albatross around our neck’ -John Mearsheimer
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The US and Israel: who controls whom?
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Vanuatu newspaper faces football coverage ban after ‘lesbianism’ headline
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date: 2026-03-15T23:48:45Z
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description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu’s only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after publishing an article with the headline: “Former women’s coach says lesbianism is a reason Vanuatu women’s squad keeps losing”. The outlet ran a story on March 6 featuring an interview
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu’s only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after publishing an article with the headline: “Former women’s coach says lesbianism is a reason Vanuatu women’s squad keeps losing”. The outlet ran a story on March 6 featuring an interview with a former women’s team coach, Emmanuel Vatu, that criticised in-team relationships as an occasional distraction. While Vatu had not been quoted directly, the Vanuatu Daily Post ran the story with a social media caption that blamed “lesbianism” for poor results by the women’s national team, who lost all three group games in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 Oceania Qualifiers held in Fiji. READ MORE: Other Pacific football reports “Sexual relationships with teammates would lead to distraction during matches,” the newspaper reported. “He witnessed his players at the time, more focused on their personal relationships off the field, rather than developing their skills on the field.” In response, Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF) released a statement, saying that the comments were “defamatory” and denigrating to female players. “They have every right to pursue the necessary means to address these negative and harmful comments,” a statement read. ‘Committed to equality’ “We will not allow such rhetoric to diminish the achievements and contributions of our women’s team. We remain committed to promoting equality and ensuring football is a welcoming environment for all.” On March 9, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported that VFF president Lambert Matlock, who is also the president of the Oceania Football Confederation, had threatened to ban their journalists from their games via email. Lead reporter Mavuku Tokona told RNZ Pacific they are unapologetic. “In his interview [Vatu] actually emphasised the fact on how many women that are involved [in] sexual relations on the field,” Tokona said. “He said it’s explosive, or something along those li…

Vanuatu newspaper faces football coverage ban after ‘lesbianism’ headline
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-15T23:48:45Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Newspaper ban
subject: Oceania Football Confederation
subject: Sources
subject: Vanuatu Football Federation
subject: Women's football
subject: World Cup Oceania qualifiers
subject: ‘lesbianism’
subject: after
subject: asia
subject: ban
subject: confederation
subject: coverage
subject: Culture
subject: cup
subject: faces
subject: Featured
subject: federation
subject: football
subject: gender
subject: headline
subject: Human Rights
subject: misogyny
subject: newspaper
subject: Oceania
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Politics
subject: qualifiers
subject: relationships
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: sources
subject: Sports
subject: Syndicate
subject: Vanuatu
subject: Vanuatu Daily Post
subject: women’s
subject: World
description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu’s only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after publishing an article with the headline: “Former women’s coach says lesbianism is a reason Vanuatu women’s squad keeps losing”. The outlet ran a story on March 6 featuring an interview
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu’s only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after publishing an article with the headline: “Former women’s coach says lesbianism is a reason Vanuatu women’s squad keeps losing”. The outlet ran a story on March 6 featuring an interview with a former women’s team coach, Emmanuel Vatu, that criticised in-team relationships as an occasional distraction. While Vatu had not been quoted directly, the Vanuatu Daily Post ran the story with a social media caption that blamed “lesbianism” for poor results by the women’s national team, who lost all three group games in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 Oceania Qualifiers held in Fiji. READ MORE: Other Pacific football reports “Sexual relationships with teammates would lead to distraction during matches,” the newspaper reported. “He witnessed his players at the time, more focused on their personal relationships off the field, rather than developing their skills on the field.” In response, Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF) released a statement, saying that the comments were “defamatory” and denigrating to female players. “They have every right to pursue the necessary means to address these negative and harmful comments,” a statement read. ‘Committed to equality’ “We will not allow such rhetoric to diminish the achievements and contributions of our women’s team. We remain committed to promoting equality and ensuring football is a welcoming environment for all.” On March 9, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported that VFF president Lambert Matlock, who is also the president of the Oceania Football Confederation, had threatened to ban their journalists from their games via email. Lead reporter Mavuku Tokona told RNZ Pacific they are unapologetic. “In his interview [Vatu] actually emphasised the fact on how many women that are involved [in] sexual relations on the field,” Tokona said. “He said it’s explosive, or something along those li…

‘People are fleeing the state’: Kansas is not safe for trans people
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-03-15T21:54:07Z
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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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Israelis ‘Exhausted From War’ | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-15T17:04:55Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: europe/rl
subject: exhausted’
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subject: from
subject: iran
subject: israeli’s
subject: radio
subject: sources
subject: update
subject: war
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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What The Iran War Teaches The World’s Militaries | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-15T13:52:07Z
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subject: militaries
subject: radio
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subject: update
subject: war
subject: what
subject: world’s
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Species slowdown: Is nature’s ability to self-repair stalling?
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creator: Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
date: 2026-03-15T13:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: ability
subject: nature’s
subject: Science
subject: self-repair
subject: slowdown,
subject: sources
subject: species
subject: stalling
description: When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover.
encoded: Nature is slowing down, and its ability to regenerate is failing in the face of climate change, according to the authors of a new analysis of the speed of species turnover in ecosystems across the world. The finding comes as a big surprise to many ecologists. They have long predicted that nature will respond to climate change and humanity’s other assaults by ramping up the rate of turnover, with existing species moving out and new ones moving in. Some studies have appeared to confirm this is happening. But the latest and largest analysis, published last month by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, has found the opposite. And the slowdown is big. Measured as comings and goings over a time frame of up to five years, species turnover is down by a third since the mid-1970s, when the current trend of rapidly rising global temperatures began. This is bad news, says the lead author Emmanuel Nwankwo. “Nature functions like a self-repairing engine, constantly swapping out old parts for new ones. But we found this engine is now grinding to a halt.” Nwankwo and his Queen Mary University colleague Axel Rossberg analyzed research assembled in BioTIME, a unique global database of hundreds of separate studies of the composition of ecosystems. Encompassing everything from North American birds to terrestrial plants, freshwater ecosystems, and fish on the seabed, it contains records from more than half a million locations, gathered over the past 150 years. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fragmented-Amazon_CIFOR.webp?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fragmented-Amazon_CIFOR.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fragmented-Amazon_CIFOR.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fragmented-Amazon_CIFOR.webp?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/…

War on Iran: Australia should put trust in its neighbours not a modern Titanic rogue state
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-15T09:48:33Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Defensive alliances
subject: Greater Israel
subject: Kellie Tranter
subject: Might is right
subject: Military might
subject: Rogue states
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subject: US allies
subject: US-Israel attacks
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subject: Violations of international law
subject: War on Iran
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subject: iran
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description: COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The US-Israeli attack on Iran has unequivocally demonstrated to the world — apart, it seems, from Australia’s government — that being an ally of the US attracts potentially disastrous liabilities but confers few if any benefits. The US was manipulated into starting this illegal and unjustified war simply because Netanyahu planned
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Kellie Tranter The US-Israeli attack on Iran has unequivocally demonstrated to the world — apart, it seems, from Australia’s government — that being an ally of the US attracts potentially disastrous liabilities but confers few if any benefits. The US was manipulated into starting this illegal and unjustified war simply because Netanyahu planned it, even though it was and is reputation destroying and obviously detrimental to US interests whether in the Gulf or otherwise. Apparently, Australia had no notice of the intended attack, and it had not the courage to confirm its obvious illegality. READ MORE: Isfahan hit; sirens in Israel; Trump says US not ready for a deal with Iran Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran? From the gauntlet to stopping the Iran war, Carolan makes action plea War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’ Other US-Israel War on Iran reports It then decided, no doubt at the behest of the US, to send a spy plane to participate in the war and as well as some missiles. It is preposterous to assert that Australia is taking defensive action to protect the UAE: data from the spy plane obviously will be integrated into the now degraded US intelligence system and used to support the instigators of the illegal war. Now look at what is happening to US allies in the region apart from Israel — and in case we need reminding, Australia is not Israel. The US policy of force projection has completely failed: its massive military might means nothing when it is used reflexively, not strategically, to start a war the real aim of which is dictated by Israel and is the destruction of Iran in pursuit of the Greater Israel project. Pursuing that aim without any coherent strategy or proper preparation has exposed the US and all its allies, not just those in the Middle East, to probably catastrophic consequences. Thrown under a bus Our great protector could not even d…

The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-03-15T04:31:00Z
subject: AN/TPY-2 radar
subject: Chen Kuan-ting
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Lee Jae Myung
subject: Mark Kelly
subject: Operation Epic Fury
subject: Prince Sultan Air Base
subject: Sources
subject: US Navy’s Fifth Fleet
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subject: an/tpy-2
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subject: chen
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: Economy/Economics
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subject: iran
subject: jae
subject: jordan
subject: kelly
subject: korea
subject: kuan-ting
subject: lee
subject: lisa murkowski
subject: lucas
subject: mark
subject: Middle East
subject: Militarism
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subject: navy’s
subject: operation
subject: pentagon
subject: prince
subject: problems
subject: qatar
subject: radar
subject: saudi arabia
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subject: sultan
subject: Taiwan
subject: thaad
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subject: tomahawk
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description: The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is now drawing the clumsy colossus of American power into the Middle East with embarrassing effect. The Middle East, where US […] The post The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is now drawing the clumsy colossus of American power into the Middle East with embarrassing effect. The Middle East, where US President Donald Trump promised the “forever wars” would end, promises an end to his beginning. The ledger of losses keeps rising with giddying pace. The US casualty list, for now, remains manageably low, but the military purse is being raided with manic relish. Operation Epic Fury cost US taxpayers $11.3 billion in munitions over the first six days, an estimate that excludes operating and maintenance costs of the engaged military force or the damage inflicted by Iran. The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) claims that the first 100 hours of the war cost $3.7 billion, approximating to $891.4 million each day. Strain is also being placed on inventories. The US prides itself on deluxe, high brand killing and extermination of targets, using chic weaponry and dull doctrine. Expensive homicidal measures do have to be eventually accounted for. According to reporting from Bloomberg, “as the conflict extends toward a third week, the US war effort is showing unexpected signs of strain against an adversary whose military budget is smaller than the GDP of Vermont – but which has an arsenal of missiles and drones unlike anything the US has ever faced.” Critical munitions are being depleted. With the campaign barely 100 hours old, 168 Tomahawk cruise missiles had been fired. (Each unit costs a mighty $3.6 million.) This is a staggering figure when compared to the rate of procurement: the previous five years had seen the production of 322 Tomahawks. According to a source quoted in the Financial Times, “The navy will be feeling this expenditure for several years.” While the Pentagon gloats at reducing Iranian …

Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-14T23:40:41Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gulf States
subject: Islamic NATO
subject: Israeli regime
subject: Shia states
subject: Sources
subject: Sunni states
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: US-Israeli campaign
subject: War on Iran
subject: along
subject: Analysis
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subject: asia
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subject: doyle
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: egypt
subject: eugene
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: gulf
subject: Interview
subject: iran
subject: islamic
subject: israel
subject: israeli
subject: Kurds
subject: Middle East
subject: military
subject: NATO
subject: new zealand
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subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: pakistan
subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
subject: Qassem Soleimani
subject: regime
subject: report
subject: saudi arabia
subject: Security
subject: shia
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: sunni
subject: Syndicate
subject: the
subject: us-israeli
subject: us/israel
subject: usa
subject: war
subject: will
subject: with
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description: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the opening days of what may be the final, decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the opening days of what may be the final, decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands and the creation of an entirely new security architecture for West Asia. Sounds implausible? We live in truly unprecedented times and many scenarios are possible. READ MORE: Iran says ‘security umbrella full of holes’; urges nations to ‘expel’ US military From the gauntlet to stopping the Iran war, Carolan makes action plea War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’ Other US-Israel War on Iran reports There are signals as to what may come next and to help identify them I spoke with US Ambassador (ret) Chas W. Freeman. Whether intended or unintended, the US and Israel are in the process of severely damaging the economies of the Gulf States. By attacking Iran, they knew full well what the Iranians would do in response — after all, Iran had warned that any further attack on it would lead to a regional war. Are we witnessing a brazen plan to destroy both Iran and seriously weaken the Gulf States, using Iran as a weapon to do the latter? Could this be a Machiavellian plan to throw a cluster bomb into The Great Muslim Reconciliation between the Sunni states and Shia Iran? Will the war halt or accelerate the project to create an Islamic NATO which is based around last year’s Saudi-Pakistani defence pact? The Saudis have the dollars; the Pakistanis have the nukes and the troops. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-125014" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hands-off-Iran-xwide-APR-680wide-.png" alt="Two women protesters with a "Hands off Iran" placard" width="680" height="405" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Hands-off-Iran-xwide-APR-68…

The US and Israel Have No Plan: Because Collapse Is the Plan
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creator: Lee Camp
date: 2026-03-14T22:56:36Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Sources
subject: Aggression
subject: and
subject: because
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: collapse
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: have
subject: Humor
subject: Imperialism
subject: iran
subject: israel
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description: I don’t think it’s controversial any longer to proclaim that the ruling class of the US and Israel (USrael™) are idiot psychopaths (idiopaths™). Some around the globe have noticed the two administrations sinking all of us into a possible global economic meltdown / possible nuclear war / probable really shitty 2026 don’t seem to have […] The post The US and Israel Have No Plan: Because Collapse Is the Plan appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Trump Orders Central Command to “Obliterate” All Military Targets on Kharg Island and Threatens to “Wipe Oil” Infrastructure
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creator: Gary Olson
date: 2026-03-14T22:47:27Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: Aggression
subject: all
subject: and
subject: central
subject: command
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: Infrastructure
subject: iran
subject: island
subject: kharg
subject: military
subject: obliterate
subject: oil
subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: orders
subject: Scott Ritter
subject: sources
subject: targets
subject: threatens
subject: trump
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: wipe
description: In a major escalation of the war, Trump wrote on Truth Social last night that he ordered the US Central Command to conduct a bombing raid that “obliterated every MILITARY target on Iran’s crown jewel.” He said that “For reasons of decency, I have NOT chosen to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the island, […] The post Trump Orders Central Command to “Obliterate” All Military Targets on Kharg Island and Threatens to “Wipe Oil” Infrastructure appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Europe’s Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity
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creator: Visualizing Palestine
date: 2026-03-14T22:30:31Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Europe’s Proscription of Palestine Solidarity
subject: Sources
subject: Activism
subject: criminalization
subject: dissident
subject: Europe
subject: europe’s
subject: France
subject: Freedom of Expression/Speech
subject: germany
subject: Netherlands
subject: Palestine
subject: Prejudice
subject: proscription
subject: repression
subject: Solidarity
subject: sources
subject: United Kingdom
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description: When Israeli forces bombed Iran in June 2025, German Chancellor Merz praised them for doing “the dirty work for all of us.” His statement exposes the roots of Europe’s military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide and regional aggression. To sustain their “business as usual” policy toward Israel, European governments are criminalizing Palestine solidarity. […] The post Europe’s Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: When Israeli forces bombed Iran in June 2025, German Chancellor Merz praised them for doing “the dirty work for all of us.” His statement exposes the roots of Europe’s military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide and regional aggression. To sustain their “business as usual” policy toward Israel, European governments are criminalizing Palestine solidarity. Our <a href="https://u7155635.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.oXNWxszokF681bnM6daE-2BQoEompCxQllKRatVYfcMUIpz1MvUclUHwYyRx-2BeOL-2BWBSLzjILVyDIanF5fVYur95-2BOtizctxJRiCYaU81unIlEhhztx9yYoRvT6KyIO7KpgC8k_UVmQPPgn4LMN3AbjvX0btV0P38TH2-2FFzUoHlqEIvUn9Lo1n3zm5sI-2Bf-2BCOl-2FkrMHhb8HhmtouIHke64GXl1C19-2FHr-2BJoReApB13WjrH5xsZgCaAD7cothfmoaSfRJB88sy5Qzma3QgFiPoc5pdR5t-2BtnVmQmO5VK8C4wSlvEyOOPlpeExLZzvVLf7SCMFsDlGA3tsih0OZ0yG5N38xPN2zx-2FVRQsr6eX-2BU-2FW8uIVEJicNi-2FOuNAfRpjISe1UFxCMJXvuFqIQrntfBRNx-2BJDltJVIg6GS-2FANHc43hDbLPLrFtOyGRDoFDzCKMkTOFxEyvNfsZ-2BlJJO1dEbYgw-2F3A-2FgxOf4Bcj-2FKXzaA1i91cKY9SP0Ucv8klZmtJcbwt5BLSj" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://u7155635.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn%3Du001.oXNWxszokF681bnM6daE-2BQoEompCxQllKRatVYfcMUIpz1MvUclUHwYyRx-2BeOL-2BWBSLzjILVyDIanF5fVYur95-2BOtizctxJRiCYaU81unIlEhhztx9yYoRvT6KyIO7KpgC8k_UVmQPPgn4LMN3AbjvX0btV0P38TH2-2FFzUoHlqEIvUn9Lo1n3zm5sI-2Bf-2BCOl-2FkrMHhb8HhmtouIHke64GXl1C19-2FHr-2BJoReApB13WjrH5xsZgCaAD7cothfmoaSfRJB88sy5Qzma3QgFiPoc5pdR5t-2BtnVmQmO5VK8C4wSlvEyOOPlpeExLZzvVLf7SCMFsDlGA3tsih0OZ0yG5N38xPN2zx-2FVRQsr6eX-2BU-2FW8uIVEJicNi-2FOuNAfRpjISe1UFxCMJXvuFqIQrntfBRNx-2BJDltJVIg6GS-2FANHc43hDbLPLrFtOyGRDoFDzCKMkTOFxEyvNfsZ-2BlJJO1dEbYgw-2F3A-2FgxOf4Bcj-2FKXzaA1i91cKY9SP0Ucv8klZmtJcbwt5BLSj&source=gmail&ust=1773612393036000&usg=AOvVaw1s87zPPPXHInB4rVvzJj_W">latest visual with <a href="https://u7155635.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.oXNWxszokF681bnM6daE-2BaorxumeyPaFMAmZ1Clv465XI52kCYWJEQPIIj4ljR3GinTW5aFJ-2By7dj-2BwasACpJA-3D-3DQ3Zd_UVmQPPgn4LMN3AbjvX0btV0P38TH2-2FFzUoHlqEIvUn9Lo1n3zm5sI-2Bf-2BCOl-2Fk…

Operation Epic Folly
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creator: Michael K. Smith
date: 2026-03-14T22:19:40Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Sources
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subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: epic
subject: farce
subject: folly:
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subject: george w. bush
subject: hegseth
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: mandate
subject: operation
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: pete
subject: sources
subject: United States
subject: voice
description: If America attacks … Iranians will unite, forgetting their differences with their government, and they will fiercely and tenaciously defend their country. — Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate The only thing truly epic about the current U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is the chasm between the facts on the ground and the media […] The post Operation Epic Folly appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: If America attacks … Iranians will unite, forgetting their differences with their government, and they will fiercely and tenaciously defend their country. — Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate1 The only thing truly epic about the current U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is the chasm between the facts on the ground and the media spectacle put forth by President Trump and his fawning aides. Folly is the best term to capture the reality of a president who until very recently presented himself as uniquely qualified to bring peace to the world via his “Art of the Deal” genius, then turned on a dime to endlessly repeat that the U.S. would inflict maximum damage and suffering on Iran, a country he had said would be a particularly bad place to try and carry out regime change, not to mention a policy he claimed to have rejected no matter where it might be recommended, wisdom he allegedly learned from the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. After steady coaching from Benjamin Netanyahu, however, he changed his mind, becoming convinced that a quick decapitation of Iran’s leadership would lead Iran’s suffering masses to topple the mullahs and install an American-friendly government. He claimed that Iran’s clerical regime would fall in 48 hours. That prediction failed so fast it didn’t even allow time for a G.W. Bush style “Mission Accomplished” declaration to whet the appetite for the inevitable anti-climax of disintegration and civil war a few months later. In this as in so many other areas Trump is a prodigy, failing almost as fast as he can dream up fresh lunacies to aggravate the world with. As the Ugly American, he’s way overqualified. Since February 28 we have been treated to desperate, ever-changing, and contradictory attempts to justify the unjustifiable initiation of war, and an equally desperate, ever-changing, and contradictory attempt to define its objectives and limits, something that has proven impossible for an administration that was counting on e…

Pacific broadcasters rethink news delivery in digital age
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-14T22:12:30Z
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subject: asia
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subject: Culture
subject: delivery
subject: Democracy
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subject: Digital Media
subject: Education
subject: Featured
subject: festival
subject: Fiji
subject: Film
subject: Global
subject: islands
subject: Media
subject: new zealand
subject: News
subject: online
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific media
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pasifika TV
subject: report
subject: rethink
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: Samoa
subject: Social media
subject: sources
subject: storytelling
description: By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving world of social media. This topic is front and centre of a conference organised by PCBL/Pasifika TV, which brought together broadcasters, producers and media leaders from across the region to
encoded: By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving world of social media. This topic is front and centre of a conference organised by PCBL/Pasifika TV, which brought together broadcasters, producers and media leaders from across the region to share ideas and strategies. Held this week in Auckland, the conference explores how to “navigate the digital landscape” while maintaining cultural authenticity. READ MORE: Other Pacific media reports With audiences increasing their consumption of online content, many broadcasters say they need to rethink how they deliver news programmes. While the opportunities are ever increasing, so too are the challenges for Pacific media to balance credibility and cultural sovereignty. The founder of the Pacific Islands Film Festival in New York City, Stacey Young, says many organisations are still figuring out how to navigate the digital landscape. Young said the region needs to work together to stay on top of technological advancements. ‘Fear of the unknown’ “So it is a lot of that education and a bit of a fear of the unknown, like, how much resources do we need in order to diversify and end up in these spaces? “And the truth of the matter is, it’s not that many, but it does need to be strategic. So it does need to be a conversation and a coalesce brainstorming amongst all of the islands, because it, it sounds cliche, but we’re stronger together,” Young said. Young said traditional media needs to ensure their content is also available online. She said sharing Pacific content on social platforms keeps those stories circulating and reaches beyond the region. “It’s very, very important. Like, we all do it, first thing in the morning, last thing at night, you’re scrolling and love it or hate it, that’s how people consume information… And the thirst for Pacific Island stories and Pacific Island creators is a huge demand right now,” she sa…

Pacific broadcasters rethink news delivery in digital age
type: item
creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-14T22:12:30Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Online content
subject: Pacific broadcasters
subject: Pacific Islands Film Festival
subject: Pacific storytelling
subject: Sources
subject: age’
subject: asia
subject: broadcasters
subject: content
subject: Culture
subject: delivery
subject: Democracy
subject: digital
subject: Digital Media
subject: Education
subject: Featured
subject: festival
subject: Fiji
subject: Film
subject: Global
subject: islands
subject: Media
subject: new zealand
subject: News
subject: online
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific media
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Pasifika TV
subject: report
subject: rethink
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: Samoa
subject: Social media
subject: sources
subject: storytelling
description: By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving world of social media. This topic is front and centre of a conference organised by PCBL/Pasifika TV, which brought together broadcasters, producers and media leaders from across the region to
encoded: By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific reporter Pacific broadcasters say the future of storytelling will depend on how well traditional media adapts to the fast moving world of social media. This topic is front and centre of a conference organised by PCBL/Pasifika TV, which brought together broadcasters, producers and media leaders from across the region to share ideas and strategies. Held this week in Auckland, the conference explores how to “navigate the digital landscape” while maintaining cultural authenticity. READ MORE: Other Pacific media reports With audiences increasing their consumption of online content, many broadcasters say they need to rethink how they deliver news programmes. While the opportunities are ever increasing, so too are the challenges for Pacific media to balance credibility and cultural sovereignty. The founder of the Pacific Islands Film Festival in New York City, Stacey Young, says many organisations are still figuring out how to navigate the digital landscape. Young said the region needs to work together to stay on top of technological advancements. ‘Fear of the unknown’ “So it is a lot of that education and a bit of a fear of the unknown, like, how much resources do we need in order to diversify and end up in these spaces? “And the truth of the matter is, it’s not that many, but it does need to be strategic. So it does need to be a conversation and a coalesce brainstorming amongst all of the islands, because it, it sounds cliche, but we’re stronger together,” Young said. Young said traditional media needs to ensure their content is also available online. She said sharing Pacific content on social platforms keeps those stories circulating and reaches beyond the region. “It’s very, very important. Like, we all do it, first thing in the morning, last thing at night, you’re scrolling and love it or hate it, that’s how people consume information… And the thirst for Pacific Island stories and Pacific Island creators is a huge demand right now,” she sa…

In Memoriam Berta Cáceres
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creator: John Perry
date: 2026-03-14T19:07:12Z
subject: Atala Zablah
subject: Berta Cáceres
subject: David Castillo
subject: Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA)
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Gustavo Castro
subject: Nasry Asfura
subject: Nina Lakhani
subject: Peter Thiel
subject: Sources
subject: ZEDEs (‘zones for employment and economic development’)
subject: (desa)
subject: and
subject: asfura
subject: Assassinations
subject: atala
subject: berta
subject: cáceres
subject: castillo
subject: castro
subject: david
subject: desarrollos
subject: Development
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: economic
subject: employment
subject: energeticos
subject: environment
subject: for
subject: gustavo
subject: Honduras
subject: Human Rights
subject: Juan Orlando Hernandez
subject: lakhani
subject: memoriam
subject: nasry
subject: nina
subject: peter
subject: sources
subject: thiel
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: zablah
subject: zedes
subject: zones’
description: Ten years ago, Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), a company planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous […] The post In Memoriam Berta Cáceres appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Ten years ago, Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), a company planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous Lenca community. Hired killers were tracking her movements. An attempt to assassinate her on 5 February 2016 was aborted. On 1 March, Cáceres said goodbye to her youngest daughter, who was returning to college. ‘This country is fucked,’ she said, ‘but if anything happens to me, don’t be afraid.’ The next evening, she drove back to her house with a Mexican environmentalist, Gustavo Castro, who was staying the night. Castro was woken near midnight by armed men bursting into the house. They shot him, left him for dead, found Cáceres in another room, and shot her three times. Castro crawled to assist her, and she died in his arms as he called for help. At first, the police treated the attack as a failed burglary. They then arrested a member of Cáceres’s organisation for supposedly killing her in a ‘crime of passion’. The seven actual culprits were arrested two months later, found guilty of the murder in November 2018, and given long prison sentences. They were just the hired killers: who had hired them? Two years after Cáceres’s death, a former president of DESA, David Castillo, was arrested as he tried to leave Honduras. In 2021, he was sentenced to thirty years in prison for plotting the murder. DESA is owned by the Atala Zablah family. There is a warrant out for the arrest of one of them, Daniel Atala, but he remains at large. If Cáceres’s murder is still unresolved, so is the question of how ordinary Hondurans can wrest control of their country from the dozen families, like the Atala Zablahs, that control much of the media and many large businesses, and have close ties with both the Honduran military and polit…

This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.
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creator: Doug Bock Clark
date: 2026-03-14T18:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
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subject: Democracy
subject: dhs
subject: Elections
subject: federal
subject: machines”
subject: official
subject: oversees
subject: propublica
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: this
subject: trump administration
subject: voting
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description: The post This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation’s elections infrastructure, including voting machines. He’s also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Penrose assisted in a push to seize voting machines to overturn Trump’s defeat. On social media, Harvilicz has called for doing away with voting machines, saying they are “eminently vulnerable to exploitation.” In a March post, he wrote that “DHS needs to ban voting machines for all federal elections. The time is now.” He also has repeatedly questioned the validity of Democratic electoral victories and pushed for Republicans to overhaul electoral systems to their advantage. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="682" width="527" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?w=527" alt="A man wearing a gray T-shirt smiles at the camera against a plain white background." class="wp-image-70485" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg 2318w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=232,300 232w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=768,994 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=791,1024 791w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=1187,1536 1187w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=1582,2048 1582w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/h_14689371_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=863,1117 863w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-…

Spineless Democrats
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-03-14T17:32:01Z
subject: Ralph Nader
subject: Sources
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subject: ralph
subject: sources
subject: spineless
description: Ralph spends the whole hour with progressive activist, Corbin Trent, former communications director for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to discuss the lack of vision and the spineless leadership in the corporate Democratic Party.Corbin Trent is a co-founder o...
encoded: Ralph spends the whole hour with progressive activist, Corbin Trent, former communications director for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to discuss the lack of vision and the spineless leadership in the corporate Democratic Party. Corbin Trent is a co-founder of Brand New Congress and former co-director of Justice Democrats, two grassroots organizations working to elect progressive Democrats to Congress. He was the National Campaign Coordinator for the Bernie Sanders Presidential campaign, and recently served as the Communications Director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He writes about rebuilding America at AmericasUndoing.com.This is a [Democratic] Party that is led by sinecurists and apparatchiks who never look at themselves in the mirror after they lose to the most vicious, cruel, ignorant, anti-worker, anti-women, anti-environment, anti-small taxpayer, pro-war Republican Party. They never look into it. It’s always: they blame the Greens or they blame some third party or Independent candidate. And they never ask themselves why as a national party did they abandon half the country, which are now called red states? Ralph Nader The Democratic Party I think, ultimately, is leaderless because it’s visionless. It doesn’t really see. I don’t think the Democratic Party as an entity or as an ideology has a real vision for how to go forward differently. And, therefore, it’s hard to be led. It’s hard to lead if you don’t have a direction. Corbin Trent The Democratic Party—like your Chuck Schumers, like your Hakeem Jeffries, and like most of the people that are elected there and in leadership positions at all, look at this system, the system of neoliberalism, and they think that somehow it’s going to magically start working again. And the fact is that it’s not. They have been unable so far to internalize the depth of the brokenness of this system. And then really unable to, I think, really internalize why Trump was powerful, why his messages were powerful. They want to look at i…

In Israel’s Medical Bunkers, Doctors Ready To Work ‘Indefinitely’ | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-14T15:38:37Z
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subject: doctors
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subject: iran
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subject: Medical
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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.

Explosions in Tehran More Powerful Than Before, Resident Says
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-14T13:39:18Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: explosions
subject: free
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subject: tehran
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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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Mining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements
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creator: Sam Cowie
date: 2026-03-14T13:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: Accountability
subject: amazon
subject: critical
subject: for
subject: International
subject: land
subject: minerals
subject: Mining
subject: reform
subject: rush
subject: settlements
subject: sources
subject: threatens
description: A survey of mining records found dozens of requests for copper, manganese, and nickel targeting land reform settlements in northern Brazil’s Carajás region in the last five years.
encoded: On a dirt road that cuts through the Rio Novo settlement in the southeast of Pará state, battered motorcycles carry small loads of organic food to sell in the city, while passing trucks loaded with minerals for export. Parauapebas, Brazil’s so-called “mining capital,” hosts numerous rural worker communities, including the 5,000 families of Terra e Liberdade, the largest landless encampment in Brazil. The city is also home to the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world, in addition to other valuable deposits. The scene of historical land conflicts, such as the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre, in which 21 people died after being shot by military police during a protest in 1996, southeastern Pará is now witnessing a new front of dispute. Driven by the energy transition, mining companies are eyeing land in already established agrarian reform settlements, seeking deposits of three minerals essential to the arms and high-tech industries: copper, manganese, and nickel. These elements are used in equipment such as chips, wind turbines, electric cars, military jets, and warships. An exclusive survey by Repórter Brasil in partnership with Mongabay, based on data from the National Mining Agency, or ANM, identified 676 mining processes for copper, manganese, and nickel in Carajás since 1969. A quarter of them, 166, were filed in the last five years (2021–25). <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026_016_AA_Carajas_v1_Fig2-scaled-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026_016_AA_Carajas_v1_Fig2-scaled-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026_016_AA_Carajas_v1_Fig2-scaled-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026_016_AA_Carajas_v1_Fig2-scaled-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026_016_AA_Carajas_v1_Fig2-scaled-1.jp…

From the gauntlet to stopping the Iran war, Carolan makes action plea
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-14T09:55:04Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: ICC warrants
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subject: Operation Epstein Fury
subject: Palestine genocide
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
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subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
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subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: carolan
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
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subject: Editor's Picks
subject: epstein
subject: Featured
subject: from
subject: fury
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subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
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subject: Human Rights
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subject: icj
subject: Indigenous
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subject: makes
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description: Asia Pacific Report A peace advocate urged people in New Zealand today to get behind a “Stop Wars Aotearoa” campaign to oppose the illegal and unprovoked US-Israeli war on Iran and expand beyond solidarity with Palestine. In the 127th week of protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and occupied West Bank, socialist trade union
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A peace advocate urged people in New Zealand today to get behind a “Stop Wars Aotearoa” campaign to oppose the illegal and unprovoked US-Israeli war on Iran and expand beyond solidarity with Palestine. In the 127th week of protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and occupied West Bank, socialist trade union organiser Joe Carolan called on protesters to redouble their efforts. Speaking in Auckland’s Te Komititanga Square, he praised a public meeting in Mt Eden this week that heralded the start of a rolling peace movement that echoed the efforts in a bid to halt the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq — “a war based on a lie” about non-existent weapons of mass destruction. READ MORE: US ‘hideouts’ in UAE ‘legitimate targets’ after Kharg Island attacks: IRGC US War Secretary taunts Iranian leadership for ‘hiding’ while they are defiant on street rallies War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’ Other US-Israel War on Iran reports Carolan drew comparisons between his native Ireland and the colonisation of New Zealand. Apart from Christianity, the colonisers “needed another pretext to civilise great unwashed”. Militarism. He paid tribute to “anyone who ran the gauntlet outside the public meeting on Wednesday that we held at the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall where we remember the price of wars — in fact working class lives — both here and abroad”. “And we should remember the dead and not go to war again — that’s the whole point of a war memorial hall. ‘Ran the gauntlet’ “But those of us who ran the gauntlet of the people waving Israeli flags and lecturing us about human rights, waving the American flags and lecturing us about women’s rights when the place is run by rapists and pedophiles obviously – know it’s Operation Epstein Fury now. “An operation so [US President Donald] Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu can both avoid what is coming to them which is a long time in prison until…

From the gauntlet to stopping the Iran war, Carolan makes action plea
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-14T09:55:04Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: ICC warrants
subject: Joe Carolan
subject: Mt Eden War Memorial Hall
subject: Operation Epstein Fury
subject: Palestine genocide
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: War on Iran
subject: action
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacks
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: carolan
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: donald trump
subject: eden
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: epstein
subject: Featured
subject: from
subject: fury
subject: gauntlet
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: hall
subject: Human Rights
subject: icc
subject: icj
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: joe”:
subject: makes
subject: Memorial
subject: military
subject: new zealand
subject: operation
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: plea
subject: Politics
subject: PSNA
subject: report
subject: Security
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description: Asia Pacific Report A peace advocate urged people in New Zealand today to get behind a “Stop Wars Aotearoa” campaign to oppose the illegal and unprovoked US-Israeli war on Iran and expand beyond solidarity with Palestine. In the 127th week of protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and occupied West Bank, socialist trade union
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A peace advocate urged people in New Zealand today to get behind a “Stop Wars Aotearoa” campaign to oppose the illegal and unprovoked US-Israeli war on Iran and expand beyond solidarity with Palestine. In the 127th week of protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and occupied West Bank, socialist trade union organiser Joe Carolan called on protesters to redouble their efforts. Speaking in Auckland’s Te Komititanga Square, he praised a public meeting in Mt Eden this week that heralded the start of a rolling peace movement that echoed the efforts in a bid to halt the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq — “a war based on a lie” about non-existent weapons of mass destruction. READ MORE: US ‘hideouts’ in UAE ‘legitimate targets’ after Kharg Island attacks: IRGC US War Secretary taunts Iranian leadership for ‘hiding’ while they are defiant on street rallies War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’ Other US-Israel War on Iran reports Carolan drew comparisons between his native Ireland and the colonisation of New Zealand. Apart from Christianity, the colonisers “needed another pretext to civilise great unwashed”. Militarism. He paid tribute to “anyone who ran the gauntlet outside the public meeting on Wednesday that we held at the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall where we remember the price of wars — in fact working class lives — both here and abroad”. “And we should remember the dead and not go to war again — that’s the whole point of a war memorial hall. ‘Ran the gauntlet’ “But those of us who ran the gauntlet of the people waving Israeli flags and lecturing us about human rights, waving the American flags and lecturing us about women’s rights when the place is run by rapists and pedophiles obviously – know it’s Operation Epstein Fury now. “An operation so [US President Donald] Trump and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu can both avoid what is coming to them which is a long time in prison until…

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
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description: The post They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: On the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2024, Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at University of Florida Health in downtown Jacksonville when a nurse came in with a bedsheet and told her to cover up. A supervisor brought a tablet to Doyley’s bedside. Gathered on the screen were a judge in a black robe and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff. “It’s a real judge in there?” Doyley asked the nurse at the beginning of what would be a three-hour hearing. “Now this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” Doyley hadn’t asked for the hearing. The hospital had sought it. Doyley had mere minutes to prepare. She had no lawyer and no advocate — no one to explain to her what, exactly, was going on. Judge Michael Kalil informed her that the state had filed an emergency petition at the hospital’s behest — not out of concern for Doyley, per se, but in the interest of her unborn child. He described the circumstances as “extraordinary.” The hospital and state attorney’s office wanted to force Doyley to undergo a cesarean section. Doyley, a professional birthing doula, didn’t want that and had been firm about it. She’d had three prior C-sections, one that resulted in a hemorrhage, and hoped to avoid another serious complication and lengthy recovery. She was aware that doctors were concerned about the risk of uterine rupture, a potentially deadly complication for her and her baby. She would say during the hearing that she understood the risk to be less than 2% and didn’t want to agree to a C-section unless there was an emergency. But the choice would not be hers. The judge would decide how she would give birth. Watch How a Court Hearing Was Convened in Cherise Doyley’s Hospital Room Obtained by ProPublica Mentally competent patients typically have the right to choose their medical care — or refuse it. But there is one notable exception: pregnant patients. That inconsistency is particularly striking in Florida, a state that has pushed to expand medical freedom for those who…

How Israel is censoring damage reporting about the war on Iran
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on local and international media outlets operating inside the country, severely impeding journalists’ ability to cover the situation on the ground. Reporters and networks are prohibited from publishing the precise location of Iranian missile
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on local and international media outlets operating inside the country, severely impeding journalists’ ability to cover the situation on the ground. Reporters and networks are prohibited from publishing the precise location of Iranian missile impacts, or even filming or photographing the extent of the damage in a way that could give away the location — restrictions designed, in the words of the army’s chief censor Colonel Netanel Kula, “to prevent assistance to the enemy during wartime”. Outside of wartime, Israeli law already gives the military censor the authority to prevent certain information from being published, even retroactively. This can include aspects of Israel’s arms deals or intelligence activities, among other security-related topics. READ MORE: Iran is getting the Gaza treatment — Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’ Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports But just as it did during the “12-Day War” last June, the censor has tightened its restrictions amid the current US-Israeli war with Iran. The police have already detained several journalists it deemed to be violating these censorship regulations. In an unclassified document published on March 5, Kula instructed journalists to submit anything related to the following topics to the censor for review prior to publication: operational matters, intelligence, defensive preparedness, impact sites in Israel, armament management (including munitions and interceptor stockpiles, aircraft and air defense systems readiness, and the employment and use of unique and classified weaponry), and operational vulnerabilities in defence and offence. “Consideration must also be given to the publication of visual materials, such as photographs and videos, which must also be submitted for prior review,” Kula …

How Israel is censoring damage reporting about the war on Iran
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on local and international media outlets operating inside the country, severely impeding journalists’ ability to cover the situation on the ground. Reporters and networks are prohibited from publishing the precise location of Iranian missile
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Oren Ziv Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on local and international media outlets operating inside the country, severely impeding journalists’ ability to cover the situation on the ground. Reporters and networks are prohibited from publishing the precise location of Iranian missile impacts, or even filming or photographing the extent of the damage in a way that could give away the location — restrictions designed, in the words of the army’s chief censor Colonel Netanel Kula, “to prevent assistance to the enemy during wartime”. Outside of wartime, Israeli law already gives the military censor the authority to prevent certain information from being published, even retroactively. This can include aspects of Israel’s arms deals or intelligence activities, among other security-related topics. READ MORE: Iran is getting the Gaza treatment — Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’ Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports But just as it did during the “12-Day War” last June, the censor has tightened its restrictions amid the current US-Israeli war with Iran. The police have already detained several journalists it deemed to be violating these censorship regulations. In an unclassified document published on March 5, Kula instructed journalists to submit anything related to the following topics to the censor for review prior to publication: operational matters, intelligence, defensive preparedness, impact sites in Israel, armament management (including munitions and interceptor stockpiles, aircraft and air defense systems readiness, and the employment and use of unique and classified weaponry), and operational vulnerabilities in defence and offence. “Consideration must also be given to the publication of visual materials, such as photographs and videos, which must also be submitted for prior review,” Kula …

Jeffrey Sachs says U.S.-Israeli war on Iran could spark world war
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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AI-Generated Videos Are Spreading Amid War In Iran — Here’s How To Spot Them
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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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US War Secretary taunts Iranian leadership for ‘hiding’ while they are defiant on street rallies
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description: Asia Pacific Report The war on Iran has coincided with the release of large troves of US government files that documented the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to rich and powerful people, reports Al Jazeera. President Donald Trump, who has denounced Epstein as a “creep”, had been photographed many times with the financier who
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The war on Iran has coincided with the release of large troves of US government files that documented the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to rich and powerful people, reports Al Jazeera. President Donald Trump, who has denounced Epstein as a “creep”, had been photographed many times with the financier who abused dozens of young women and girls for years, writes columnist Ali Harb. So Tehran has been trying to emphasise the links between Epstein and the ruling class in the US to portray its foes in Washington as morally inferior. READ MORE: Hezbollah vows ‘existential’ fight in Lebanon as Israel strikes Tehran Yesterday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said millions of Iranians marching at al-Quds Day rally in Tehran in support of Palestine faced an assault by the “Epstein gang”, referring to US and Israeli strikes. Hours earlier, Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani also brought up Epstein when responding to US secretary of War Pete Hegseth who had claimed that Iranian leaders were hiding like “rats”. Larijani, President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and other top officials had attended the Tehran rally earlier and footage showed them mingling with people. “Mr Hegseth! Our leaders have been, and still are, among the people. But your leaders? On Epstein’s island!” Larijani wrote on X. Last week, when Trump was pushing to be involved in the selection of Iran’s next supreme leader, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf had a message for the US president, also involving Epstein. “The fate of dear Iran . . . will be determined solely by the proud Iranian nation, not by Epstein’s gang,” Ghalibaf said. Pete Hegseth: “Iran’s leadership — desperate & hiding. They’ve gone underground. Cowering. That’s what rats do.” Here is Iran’s Foreign Minister on the streets of Tehran not hiding or cowering but instead talking about the “incredible will & determination of the Iranian people.” pic.twitter.com/mWlnxOFePG — Power to t…

Silence Is Surrender
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creator: David C. Couper
date: 2026-03-13T23:01:46Z
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description: If democracy is to hold, local police must resist.
encoded: If democracy is to hold, local police must resist. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by David C. Couper.

“You’re Fired!” Seventeen Impeachable Offenses by Trump and Counting
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description: By Ralph Nader March 13, 2026 Tyrant Trump’s favorite snarl is “You’re Fired!” That was his bellow on The Apprentice television program. Subsequently, he told hundreds of thousands of federal civil servants and contractors, “You’re Fired!” Shame on the...
encoded: By Ralph Nader March 13, 2026 Tyrant Trump’s favorite snarl is “You’re Fired!” That was his bellow on The Apprentice television program. Subsequently, he told hundreds of thousands of federal civil servants and contractors, “You’re Fired!” Shame on the pitiful Democratic Party that allowed him to regain the presidency last year. It is long overdue… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

Why We Need Leaders Like Frances Perkins
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creator: Karina Castrillo
date: 2026-03-13T22:54:18Z
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description: This Women’s History Month, we remember the architect behind the New Deal, and why Democrats must take note.
encoded: This Women’s History Month, we remember the architect behind the New Deal, and why Democrats must take note. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Karina Castrillo.

THE CHITRA COLLECTIVE (CDMX, México)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-13T21:23:42Z
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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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Leading US Papers Defend the Indefensible in Iran Aggression
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creator: Gregory Shupak
date: 2026-03-13T21:04:06Z
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description: Editorials in three of the United States’ most prominent newspapers offered varying degrees of support for the US/Israeli aggression against Iran.
encoded: “The biggest mistake President Trump could make now would be to end the war too soon,” the Wall Street Journal (3/1/26) declared. The United States and Israel are, for the second time in less than a year, committing “the supreme international crime” against Iran (FAIR.org, 7/3/25). Editorials in three of the United States’ most prominent newspapers, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, offered varying degrees of support for the aggression. The Times waffled about bombing Iran, the Journal enthusiastically supported it, and the Post had fewer concerns about the war than the Times but more than the Journal. Crucially, however, all three papers rationalized the US/Israeli assault. The Journal provided full-fledged endorsements of the unprovoked attack, writing in its first editorial (3/1/26), headlined “It’s Too Soon for Iran ‘Off-Ramps,'” that “the first two days . . . have been a striking success.” “The biggest mistake President Trump could make now would be to end the war too soon,” it said. The Journal (3/2/26) took the same approach in its next editorial, “Trump Enforces His Red Line on Iran,” calling the aggression a “necessary act of deterrence.” “It carries risks as all wars do,” the piece read, “but it also has the potential to reshape the Middle East for the better and lead to a safer world.” The editors reiterated that their “main concern is that Mr. Trump may stop too soon.” Killing upward of 175 Iranians at a girls’ elementary school (FAIR.org, 3/2/26) didn’t temper the degree to which the US/Israeli aggression was a “striking success,” nor was the possibility of similar massacres a “risk” or a “concern” of the editors. ‘Seeing this through’ The Washington Post (2/28/26) warned of “the danger of lobbing some bombs without seeing this through.” The Washington Post (2/28/26) expressed some reservations about the choice to go to war under the headline “Trump’s Iran Gamble,” but they seemed to be largely related to questions of success …

Why authoritarians don’t understand mirth [EXCERPT]
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Trump EPA moves to repeal regulation of cancer-linked chemical ethylene oxide
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creator: Naveena Sadasivam
date: 2026-03-13T20:49:38Z
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description: The repeal loosens standards for roughly 90 sterilization facilities that emit the toxic chemical in neighborhoods across the country.
encoded: Many medical devices need to be sterile to be used safely. But sterilizing a pacemaker, catheter, or other device with steam or heat could damage its structural integrity. So medical device manufacturers turn to the chemical compound ethylene oxide, which is highly effective at killing microbes at low concentrations and allows companies to meet the Food and Drug Administration’s strict sterility standards. As a result, roughly half of all medical devices in the country are sterilized with ethylene oxide, or EtO, making it a linchpin of the medical device industry. There’s just one problem: EtO is a toxic gas that has been linked to cancers of the breast and lymph nodes. Roughly 90 facilities across the country deploy the chemical for sterilization. These nondescript facilities often resemble warehouses and are located in residential neighborhoods and near schools. In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency discovered that dozens of these facilities presented an unacceptable cancer risk to surrounding communities. Two years later, the federal agency, led at the time by the Biden administration, announced new regulations to limit the amount of the chemical released into the air. The rule required sterilization facilities to install equipment to capture and burn ethylene oxide and was estimated to cut EtO emissions — and the resulting cancer risk to nearby communities — by more than 90 percent. But after the sterilization industry protested that the rule was too burdensome, the newly-elected Trump administration began rolling it back. Last year, Trump exempted many facilities from having to comply with the rule. And this week, the EPA moved to repeal the rule altogether. “This proposed rule shows EPA’s strong commitment to protecting people’s health while maintaining a stable domestic medical supply chain,” said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, in a press release. “The Trump EPA is committed to ensuring life-saving medical devices remain available for the critical care …

Trump Administration Rolls Back Safeguards Limiting Release of Cancer-Causing Air Pollutant Ethylene Oxide
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date: 2026-03-13T19:40:33Z
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description: Earlier today, the Trump administration rolled back a 2024 EPA rule limiting commercial sterilization facilities from releasing ethylene oxide, a potent cancer-causing air pollutant.Ethylene oxide has long been known to cause a range of acute and chro...
encoded: Earlier today, the Trump administration rolled back a 2024 EPA rule limiting commercial sterilization facilities from releasing ethylene oxide, a potent cancer-causing air pollutant. Ethylene oxide has long been known to cause a range of acute and chronic health problems. The 2024 rule, which came eight years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously realized, required commercial sterilization facilities to significantly reduce their emissions of ethylene oxide, install additional control equipment and improve monitoring. These facilities use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment, as well as some dried food products and spices. Prior to this rollback, EPA had granted legally dubious compliance exemptions to 39 sterilization facilities covered by this rule. Below is a statement from Darya Minovi, a senior analyst for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists: Communications Officer Center for Science & Democracy, Clean Transportation, Western States lcohen@ucs.org 617-334-7343 “This dangerous decision puts people across the United States and in Puerto Rico at a higher risk of breathing dangerous fumes known to cause respiratory irritation, nausea, blurred vision, headaches and various cancers. Children are especially vulnerable to the cancer-causing harms of ethylene oxide exposure. “According to UCS analysis, nearly 14 million people in the United States live within five miles of at least one commercial sterilization facility and more than 10,000 schools and childcare facilities fall within those areas. These communities are disproportionately made up of people of color or those who do not speak English as a first language. “The science is clear about the risks posed by ethylene oxide. The 2024 rule was long overdue, requiring sterilization facilities to use proven pollution-control technologies to protect workers and fenceline communities from un…

EPA Bows to Corporate Polluters, Abandons Duty to Protect Public from Sterilizers’ Ethylene Oxide Emissions
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date: 2026-03-13T19:39:11Z
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description: Today, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule to roll back public health regulations adopted in 2024 for commercial sterilizer facilities that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment and spices. Ethylene ox...
encoded: Today, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule to roll back public health regulations adopted in 2024 for commercial sterilizer facilities that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment and spices. Ethylene oxide, one of the most toxic air pollutants EPA regulates, is a highly carcinogenic flammable gas capable of damaging DNA even in small doses. The 2024 regulations require most sterilizer facilities to reduce emissions and have continuous emissions monitoring systems by April 6, 2026. According to the EPA, the 2024 safeguards when fully implemented would eliminate over 90% of ethylene oxide emissions from commercial sterilizer facilities and reduce the number of people exposed to unacceptable cancer risks from ethylene oxide by 92%. “The 2024 standards would have delivered enormous public health benefits. EPA knows that ethylene oxide is carcinogenic and determined that sterilizers can install effective and affordable pollution controls,” said Earthjustice senior attorney Deena Tumeh. “EPA has no basis to repeal this well-supported rule. By rolling back the rule, the Trump EPA is bending the knee to the sterilizer industry at the expense of millions of people’s health.” If finalized, Trump EPA’s proposal will allow sterilizer facilities to emit more ethylene oxide. Based on EPA’s own data, this proposal would subject at least 85,000 more people to unacceptable cancer risks compared to the 2024 rule. Many facilities are already in compliance with one or more of the emission limitations in the 2024 rule, but Trump EPA’s proposal would allow these facilities to reduce or eliminate their emission controls and monitoring equipment. Nearly 14 million people in the United States and Puerto Rico live within five miles of a commercial sterilizer, according to a 2023 report from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Inhaling ethylene oxide can increase the risk of cancer, including breast cancer and cancer of white blood cells. Childr…

Freedom for Immigrants launches interactive map to track U.S. detention centers and connect families to resources
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creator: Alexandra Martinez
date: 2026-03-13T19:02:35Z
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description: This story originally appeared in Prism on March 12, 2026. A national immigrant advocacy group is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understa...
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To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription
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date: 2026-03-13T18:57:30Z
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description: Driving home from my coffee at the local food co-op in a suburb just north of Philadelphia, I passed by the gas station at the local 7-ll store. Now owned by a Japanese company, 7-11 is one of the largest gas chains in the US. I found myself thinking how back in the early years […] The post To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Does anyone in Israel oppose this latest war?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T18:52:20Z
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MISA DE MEDIANOCHE POR SAN FRANCISCO (Real de Catorce, México)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-03-13T18:49:41Z
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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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Photographers barred from Pentagon briefings after ‘unflattering’ photos
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-03-13T18:28:34Z
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description: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth barred photojournalists from attending Pentagon news briefings at the Pentagon’s Arlington, Virginia headquarters, about the Iran war and the United States’ role in the conflict, beginning on March 4, 2026.The decision ca...
encoded: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth barred photojournalists from attending Pentagon news briefings at the Pentagon’s Arlington, Virginia headquarters, about the Iran war and the United States’ role in the conflict, beginning on March 4, 2026. The decision came after Hegseth’s staff deemed recently published photos of him at a briefing “unflattering,” The Washington Post reported. The photos were taken March 2, days after a joint military strike on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The briefing also marked the first time Hegseth had spoken from the Pentagon briefing room podium since June 26, according to the Post. Several news organizations — including The Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images — had sent photographers to cover the briefing from Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After the news outlets published the photos, which were shared and licensed globally, members of Hegseth’s staff told colleagues they did not like the way he looked in them. His aides then decided to exclude photographers from the next two briefings at the Pentagon, held on March 4 and March 10, the Post reported. Since then, only the Defense Department’s staff photographers have been permitted into the briefings. In a statement to the newspaper, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson wrote: “In order to use space in the Pentagon Briefing Room effectively, we are allowing one representative per news outlet if uncredentialed, excluding pool. Photographs from the briefings are immediately released online for the public and press to use. If that hurts the business model for certain news outlets, then they should consider applying for a Pentagon press credential.” In a statement, the National Press Photographers Association denounced the Defense Department’s decision, saying it appeared to be retaliatory and raised First Amendment concerns. It called upon the Pentagon to restore the photographers’ access. “Excluding photographers from Penta…

Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars #politics #trump #iran
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-03-13T18:07:34Z
subject: Sources
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subject: wars
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 13, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-03-13T18:00:00Z
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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 13, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Formula One: Put Human Rights in the Driver’s Seat
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-03-13T17:55:08Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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UN News Today 13 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-13T17:27:41Z
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subject: today
description: UN chief launches $308 million appeal for strife-hit LebanonMiddle East war: Women in Lebanon forced to give birth on roadsideSyria rights probe warns of ongoing serious violations across country
encoded: UN chief launches $308 million appeal for strife-hit LebanonMiddle East war: Women in Lebanon forced to give birth on roadsideSyria rights probe warns of ongoing serious violations across country This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Pay Up At The Trump Pump!
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-03-13T17:19:22Z
subject: Ralph Nader
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description: Donald Trump likes to plaster his name everywhere. Well, people are starting to hold signs up near gasoline pumps re-naming them THE TRUMP PUMP, as gasoline prices go sky high due to Trump’s aggressive, illegal war against Iran. These TRUMP PUMP Poster...
encoded: Donald Trump likes to plaster his name everywhere. Well, people are starting to hold signs up near gasoline pumps re-naming them THE TRUMP PUMP, as gasoline prices go sky high due to Trump’s aggressive, illegal war against Iran. These TRUMP PUMP Poster Patriots hope others like them will saturate the country with TRUMP PUMP Posters… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

A History of Iran Propaganda
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creator: CounterSpin
date: 2026-03-13T15:58:45Z
subject: FAIR
subject: FAIR Studies
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subject: nuclear weapons
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description: CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week.
encoded: https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260313.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). New York Times (3/10/26) This week on CounterSpin: House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Brian Mast declared of Iran: “This murderous regime has posed an imminent threat against every American both at home and abroad for the last 47 years”—leading many at home and abroad to reach for their dictionaries. The Trump White House’s war on Iran is unpopular in the US: “Even the highest level of public support for this conflict falls far lower than that at the start of most other conflicts, including World War II, the Korean War and the Iraq War,” reports the New York Times. That may have something to do with the parade of rationales offered; Popular Information has a roundup of the 17 different reasons the Trump regime has given to date for why we went to war. All of it normalized by corporate media that allow recorded history to be put up for debate, that pretend we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, leaving today’s warmongers free to draw up a historical narrative, or several, that serve their present purpose. As we record on March 12, some 251 groups have sent a letter to Congress demanding they vote against any additional funding for the unconstitutional war, now costing an estimated $1 billion a day. Signers included Public Citizen, the ACLU, Greenpeace, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace and National Nurses United. A supplemental worth $50 billion, the letter notes, would be enough to restore food assistance for 4 million Americans, establish universal pre-K education and pay for the annual construction of more than 100,000 units of housing. CounterSpin has been tracking US news media failings, omissions and propagandizing on Iran for decades. We revisit some of that conversation this week, hearing from Cyrus Safdari (2009), Vijay Prashad (2012), Murtaza Hussain (2017) and Trita Parsi (2018). This content originally appear…

Mass displacement in Lebanon as Israel intensifies attacks
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T15:57:52Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: attacks
subject: Democracy
subject: displacement
subject: intensifies
subject: israel
subject: lebanon
subject: mass,
subject: now
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Consumer Sentiment Tanks, Prices Rise, Growth Stalls as Trump’s Illegal and Costly Iran War Pushes Economy to the Brink
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-13T15:47:05Z
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subject: illegal
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subject: war
description: Today's University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment dipped to 55.5 in the preliminary March reading, down 2% from 56.6 in February. Year-ahead inflation expectations came in at 3.4%, ending six months of consecutive declines, as consumers see no end in ...
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Iran War: Best and Worst Case Scenarios
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-13T15:45:01Z
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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No Kings to Hungary: Ezra Levin & László Upor on Fighting Fascism, Trump & Orbán [Re-Air – Uncut…
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-13T15:27:30Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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‘People are fleeing the state’: Kansas is not safe for trans people
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez
date: 2026-03-13T15:22:25Z
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subject: kansas
subject: lgbtq
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subject: People
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subject: safe
subject: sources
subject: State
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subject: trans
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The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
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creator: Edward Curtin
date: 2026-03-13T15:07:09Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Edward Bernays
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Jacobo Árbenz
subject: Jeffrey Epstein files
subject: Neil Postman
subject: Old School Wasp Ruling Class
subject: Orwellian doublethink
subject: Ralph Nader
subject: Ross Perot
subject: Screen Society
subject: Sources
subject: the engineering of consent
subject: Walter Lippmann
subject: ‘orwellian’
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subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
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subject: Cabinet
subject: CIA
subject: class
subject: Colin Powell
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subject: Democracy
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subject: donald trump
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subject: edward
subject: Elitism
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subject: epstein
subject: files
subject: Imperialism
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subject: Internet
subject: iran
subject: israel
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subject: neil
subject: old
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subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: perot
subject: Politics
subject: postman
subject: Propaganda
subject: Public Relations
subject: ralph
subject: republicans
subject: ross
subject: ruling
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description: Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. […] The post The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. A nod to “how terrible” and on with the war is a common response for those who even know about it, not just because of moral indifference, but because of the acceleration of digital news reporting that disappears today before it has become tomorrow. The young girls are forgotten with each passing day in the U.S. and Israel – but not in Iran. For war criminals Trump and Netanyahu, the death of those children is a joy on the way to further slaughter of the innocent. On the other hand, there are many in this functionally illiterate U.S.A., with its functionally illiterate president, who have probably never heard of this war crime. And U.S.-Israeli war crimes are so common that they come and go like ripples on a stream, like a scroll through a “smart phone.” Little penetrates the propaganda bubble, and when it does, it is quickly replaced by the illusion that once these bad guys are swept out of office, these wars will end because our good guys will return in the game of musical chairs to make all copacetic. Peace will reign, as in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, etc. I repeat a question I have asked before, but to what avail, I know not: Why do Americans think the United States has 750+ military bases in over 80 countries, supported by a bipartisan consensus? The answer is blatant except for idiots and those willfully blind, and there are plenty of both. The United States is an imperial warfare state, and these bases exist to wage wars around the world, as the U.S. has done. End of story. The Jeffrey Epstein Files release, aside from diverting the public’s attention from Iran, Ukraine, etc., has caused many people to contemplate how certain rich and connected people conspire be…

The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
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subject: Jeffrey Epstein files
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subject: United States
subject: US Military Bases
subject: voice
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description: Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. […] The post The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news. A nod to “how terrible” and on with the war is a common response for those who even know about it, not just because of moral indifference, but because of the acceleration of digital news reporting that disappears today before it has become tomorrow. The young girls are forgotten with each passing day in the U.S. and Israel – but not in Iran. For war criminals Trump and Netanyahu, the death of those children is a joy on the way to further slaughter of the innocent. On the other hand, there are many in this functionally illiterate U.S.A., with its functionally illiterate president, who have probably never heard of this war crime. And U.S.-Israeli war crimes are so common that they come and go like ripples on a stream, like a scroll through a “smart phone.” Little penetrates the propaganda bubble, and when it does, it is quickly replaced by the illusion that once these bad guys are swept out of office, these wars will end because our good guys will return in the game of musical chairs to make all copacetic. Peace will reign, as in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, etc. I repeat a question I have asked before, but to what avail, I know not: Why do Americans think the United States has 750+ military bases in over 80 countries, supported by a bipartisan consensus? The answer is blatant except for idiots and those willfully blind, and there are plenty of both. The United States is an imperial warfare state, and these bases exist to wage wars around the world, as the U.S. has done. End of story. The Jeffrey Epstein Files release, aside from diverting the public’s attention from Iran, Ukraine, etc., has caused many people to contemplate how certain rich and connected people conspire be…

Explosion Filmed Near Pro-Regime Rally In Tehran
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-13T15:05:40Z
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subject: Explosion
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subject: free
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subject: tehran
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.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli "War of Choice," Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T14:46:40Z
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subject: could
subject: Democracy
subject: economist
subject: jeffrey
subject: lead
subject: now
subject: sachs
subject: sources
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subject: u.s.-israeli
subject: war
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T14:45:32Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: israel
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T14:44:25Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: bombing
subject: campaign
subject: Democracy
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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 13, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T14:38:34Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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JVP sends love and care to Jewish communities following Michigan synagogue attack
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-13T14:22:21Z
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description: We are saddened in the wake of a horrible attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield. We are sending love and care to Jewish communities throughout Michigan, including our own members who were raised in Temple Israel and have family who attend there. We...
encoded: We are saddened in the wake of a horrible attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield. We are sending love and care to Jewish communities throughout Michigan, including our own members who were raised in Temple Israel and have family who attend there. We are so grateful that none of the children or staff on site were hurt. Jewish communities, like all people, deserve to be safe in our houses of worship and schools. The person who reportedly carried out this attack was a man whose siblings, niece, and nephew were just murdered in Lebanon by Israeli bombs. This is grief upon grief. War always begets trauma and further violence. It is clear that the Israeli government’s atrocities make all of us — including Jews — less safe. Israel carries out brutal wars and genocide against families and children, then falsely claims these war crimes are done in the name of Jews. This leads to more antisemitism. Time and again we have seen how tragic moments are used to propel increases in militarized policing and violence. We categorically reject this. We will not let this act be weaponized to justify crackdowns on anti-war organizing, or violent retribution against Muslim, Arab, or immigrant communities. We commit to keep fighting for a world where all people live with safety and dignity. That includes fighting antisemitism alongside Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism and all forms of oppression, and halting the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, and Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and assaults on Lebanon and across the region. JVP members and staff are available for comment. This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

On the Side of Humanity
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-03-13T13:43:52Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran
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creator: Faramarz Farbod
date: 2026-03-13T13:34:09Z
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subject: origins
subject: sources
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description: DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod, who teaches Political Science at Moravian University, is the guest on Berks Community TV’s “Centering on Peace” program. In this episode titled “Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran,” Farbod traces the origins of the current war from the beginnings of the 20th Century to today. The host is John […] The post Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod, who teaches Political Science at Moravian University, is the guest on Berks Community TV’s “Centering on Peace” program. In this episode titled “Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran,” Farbod traces the origins of the current war from the beginnings of the 20th Century to today. The host is John Hoskyns-Abrahall. The program was recorded on March 9 and aired on March 10. The post Origins of the Current US/Israeli War on Iran appeared first on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Faramarz Farbod.

A Teenager’s Letter From ICE Detention
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-03-13T13:26:00Z
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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When filmmakers say no to corporate structures #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-13T13:02:29Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli “War of Choice,” Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T12:43:10Z
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subject: choice:
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subject: Democracy
subject: economist
subject: jeffrey
subject: lead
subject: now
subject: sachs
subject: sources
subject: u.n.
subject: u.s.-israeli
subject: war
subject: wwiii
description: The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years. The United Nations Security Counci...
encoded: The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years. The United Nations Security Council responded to the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war by passing a resolution this week condemning Iran — specifically for its attacks on U.S. allies in the region — while ignoring the role of the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government in instigating the bloodshed. Economist Jeffrey Sachs joins Democracy Now! to discuss the fallout of the “war of choice” and why it also constitutes an assault on the United Nations. “This is so out of control, without any logic, any rationality, not any humane, moral, legal justification whatsoever,” says Sachs. “It will lead to world war the way we’re going, because we have two malignant narcissists, Netanyahu and Trump, that are leading us to disaster.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T12:26:01Z
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subject: israel
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description: Inside Israel, “there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war,” says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the cou...
encoded: Inside Israel, “there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war,” says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93% support for the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, Lebanon and beyond — at least among the Jewish public. “Israel is doing as much as it can,” he says. “As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on.” Levy also criticizes Israel’s military censorship system that strictly limits publishing information about war damage and other material deemed to be counter to national security. He says much of it is driven by self-censorship by a press that sees itself as “an agency of the government and of the military establishment, and this is very worrying.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T12:15:22Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: bombing
subject: campaign
subject: Democracy
subject: displacement
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subject: lebanon
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description: We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Lebanon, where she says Israel’s “massacres are multiplying” amid the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks...
encoded: We speak with journalist Lylla Younes in Lebanon, where she says Israel’s “massacres are multiplying” amid the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, while attacks have expanded to include areas of central Beirut, which Israel claims are aimed at the powerful Hezbollah militia. This comes as Israel has vowed to expand its incursion into southern Lebanon. “The vast majority of southern Lebanon is now under displacement orders,” says Younes. “That is approximately 15% of the country.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 13, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T12:00:00Z
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description: U.S.-Israeli Attacks Have Forced 3.2 Million Iranians to Flee Their Homes, In First Public Statement, Iran’s New Supreme Leader Vows to Keep Blocking Strait of Hormuz, 250+ Groups Call on Congress to Reject Request for $50 Billion in Funding for Iran War, Iranian Strike on Oman Kills Immigrant Workers as NATO Shoots Down Missile Fired at Turkey, Lebanon Death Toll Rises as Israel Bombs Central Beirut and Targets Civilian Infrastructure, Israel Drops All Charges Against Soldiers Accused of Sexually Abusing Palestinian Prisoner, Thousands March in Athens to Protest Greek Role in U.S.-Israeli Assault on Iran, “A Crime Against Humanity”: U.N. Inquiry Condemns Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children, Suspect in Michigan Synagogue Attack Lost Family Members to Israeli Airstrike on Lebanon, Former National Guardsman Attacks ROTC Class at Old Dominion University, Killing 1 and Injuring 2, Rights Groups Demand Release of Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia, Jailed by ICE for 1 Year, 4,000 Meatpackers in Colorado Authorize Strike at JBS, World’s Largest Meat Producer
encoded: U.S.-Israeli Attacks Have Forced 3.2 Million Iranians to Flee Their Homes In First Public Statement, Iran's New Supreme Leader Vows to Keep Blocking Strait of Hormuz 250+ Groups Call on Congress to Reject Request for $50 Billion in Funding for Iran War Iranian Strike on Oman Kills Immigrant Workers as NATO Shoots Down Missile Fired at Turkey Lebanon Death Toll Rises as Israel Bombs Central Beirut and Targets Civilian Infrastructure Israel Drops All Charges Against Soldiers Accused of Sexually Abusing Palestinian Prisoner Thousands March in Athens to Protest Greek Role in U.S.-Israeli Assault on Iran "A Crime Against Humanity": U.N. Inquiry Condemns Russia's Abduction of Ukrainian Children Suspect in Michigan Synagogue Attack Lost Family Members to Israeli Airstrike on Lebanon Former National Guardsman Attacks ROTC Class at Old Dominion University, Killing 1 and Injuring 2 Rights Groups Demand Release of Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia, Jailed by ICE for 1 Year 4,000 Meatpackers in Colorado Authorize Strike at JBS, World's Largest Meat Producer This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-03-13 Friday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-13T12:00:00Z
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description: Democracy Now! Friday, March 13, 2026
encoded: Democracy Now! Friday, March 13, 2026 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

DN! Friday, March 13, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4
date: 2026-03-13T09:45:39Z
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description: Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
encoded: Friday 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.

Oregon Voters Overwhelmingly Said Yes to Limiting Money in Politics. Then Politicians Had Their Say.
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creator: Rob Davis
date: 2026-03-13T09:30:00Z
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description: The post Oregon Voters Overwhelmingly Said Yes to Limiting Money in Politics. Then Politicians Had Their Say. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Back in 2019, it looked like Oregon lawmakers might finally commit to ending the state’s outlier status on campaign finance. I had just authored an investigative series for The Oregonian/OregonLive, my previous newsroom, revealing how Oregon’s lack of limits on campaign donations had allowed corporate America to give more to sitting lawmakers, per capita, than anywhere else in the country and led to some of the weakest environmental protections on the West Coast. The state Supreme Court had allowed it to happen by saying campaign donations were protected free speech under the Oregon Constitution. Lawmakers in Oregon, one of five states without any limits at all, seemed willing to do something about what we’d revealed. They asked Oregonians to change the constitution and explicitly allow contribution limits, something legislators had repeatedly tried and failed to do before. At the ballot in 2020, 78% of voters said yes, one of the widest margins for any ballot measure in decades. All lawmakers needed to do was to write legislation limiting donations. But for the next four years, no limits were adopted. When lawmakers eventually set caps in 2024, individual donations were restricted to $3,300 per election, well short of caps in the $1,000 to $2,000 range that good-government groups had sought previously. Lawmakers left other avenues for donors to give their time and money. They allowed corporate donations, which many states ban, to continue. They made it so the limits wouldn’t take effect until 2027, after the current race for governor is over. And now, lawmakers have voted to ratchet the spigot open further — and perhaps, campaign reform advocates say, all the way. On March 5, Oregon’s Democratic-controlled Legislature approved a bill that supporters described as containing little more than technical fixes to what they’d written two years ago. Groups that seek to limit the influence of money in politics said the changes are far more serious than housekeeping. They s…

Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill
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creator: Anjeanette Damon
date: 2026-03-13T09:00:00Z
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description: The post Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Nevada regulators have fined three people who played a role in offering peptide injections last year at a Las Vegas anti-aging conference where two women became critically ill following treatment. Last month, the Nevada Pharmacy Board levied $10,000 fines against a doctor and a pharmacist who are licensed in California but who don’t have permission to practice in Nevada. It imposed a $5,000 fine against a third man who describes himself as an “integrative health coach” but who doesn’t appear to be a licensed health care practitioner. The pharmacy board also imposed a $10,000 fine against a Texas-based private membership association, which authorities accused of mailing the peptides to Nevada. The group, Forgotten Formula, claims a constitutional right to conduct private transactions with its members and contends those transactions occur “outside the scope” of state commercial regulations. The citations stem from an incident in July at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival, which is put on by an Arizona-based organization that promises pathways to an “unlimited lifespan.” Dr. Kent Holtorf, whose anti-aging medical practice is based in El Segundo, California, operated a booth at the festival offering alternative health therapies, including peptide injections. Peptides are short amino acid chains that have exploded in popularity thanks to claims they can fight aging and chronic disease. The board alleged that Forgotten Formula mailed the peptides to the casino resort hosting RAADFest, marking the package “to the attention of Dr. Kent Holtorf.” That shipment constituted “unlicensed wholesaling of drugs,” according to the board’s citation. A trustee of Forgotten Formula told ProPublica his association was not present at the festival and did not provide peptides to be offered for public use. After being injected with peptides at Holtorf’s booth, two women left the conference in ambulances, so ill they had to be intubated to assist them in breathing. They have si…

How the humble hornwort could supercharge agriculture
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-03-13T08:30:00Z
subject: Food and Agriculture
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subject: Agriculture
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description: Scientists studying the plant have discovered a new way to boost the efficiency of rubisco — the enzyme that powers life on Earth — and hope to transfer the trick to crops.
encoded: You are here because of a single, all-important enzyme. But don’t look inward to find ribulose-­1,5-­bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, known more mercifully among scientists as rubisco. Instead, look to the food you eat and the trees that manufacture oxygen, as this is the protein that makes photosynthesis possible. Without it, life on Earth as we know it would not exist. For all that heavy lifting, rubisco is remarkably inefficient. The enzyme converts carbon dioxide into sugars that sustain plants. But it is easily confused, and will react with oxygen in a process that creates a toxic byproduct, wastes energy, and limits how quickly plants can grow. (Which is not to fault rubisco: This is a very difficult reaction to pull off, and just look at how many plants have been getting it right for hundreds of millions of years.) That includes the essential crops that feed humanity — grains, vegetables, fruits — that could theoretically grow better if their rubisco worked more efficiently. This problem becomes more urgent as global temperatures rise, because this essential protein gets even less efficient in the heat. Enter the hornwort. This tiny plant, which is related to mosses, grows as a green sheet on the ground. It’s the only known land plant that’s found a way (evolutionarily speaking) to supercharge rubisco by concentrating CO2 around the enzyme. Now, an international team of scientists says it has figured out how hornwort does this, and how it may be able to apply that superpower to crops. That could mean massively improved yields, so farmers wouldn’t need to cultivate as much land to grow the same amount of food. “It’s very impressive,” said Robert Wilson, a biochemist who studies rubisco at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Wilson wasn’t involved in the research but does collaborate with one of the scientists.) “It’s interesting, because it’s a completely new and novel mechanism through which an important aspect of rubisco biochemistry occurs.” Scie…

On the Brink in Hormuz: How the Iran War Exposes a Dying Order
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creator: Michael Longenecker
date: 2026-03-13T07:23:37Z
subject: Bab al?Mandab
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Red Sea lanes
subject: Sources
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subject: Economy/Economics
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subject: how
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subject: iran
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subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: Opinion
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description: Not so long ago, the Iran war could still be treated as a “shock” to the system—a sudden, violent anomaly that spooked traders, sent a few charts vertical, then, we were told, would be absorbed. Oil would spike and settle. Gasoline would lurch higher and then ease. Fertilizer prices would jump and “normalize.” Shipping would […] The post On the Brink in Hormuz: How the Iran War Exposes a Dying Order appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Not so long ago, the Iran war could still be treated as a “shock” to the system—a sudden, violent anomaly that spooked traders, sent a few charts vertical, then, we were told, would be absorbed. Oil would spike and settle. Gasoline would lurch higher and then ease. Fertilizer prices would jump and “normalize.” Shipping would reroute. The machine would shudder, spit smoke, and then grind on. By mid‑March, that story already sounds tired. The Strait of Hormuz is not just “at risk”; it is intermittently choked, with tankers idling or turning away and shipowners talking more about insurance clauses than shipping schedules. Missiles and drones have not just brushed past Dubai and Abu Dhabi; they have hit airports, hotels, and oil and gas facilities. The war has stopped pretending to be containable. It is doing what wars at the throat of the system must do in late empire: pulling back the curtain on how brittle the whole arrangement has become. What happens when a civilization built on cheap fossil energy, globalized supply chains, and the illusion of a “rules‑based order” runs its jugular through a narrow strait somebody else can close? What happens when you stack that vulnerability on top of a destabilized climate, exhausted soils and aquifers, and an economic order whose main talent is inventing new debts to paper over old ones? The answer is not a neat apocalypse. It is something slower, messier, and harder to turn off. It looks like this war. War That Tests the System When the first U.S.–Israeli waves hit Iran’s refineries, export terminals, and air defenses, the coverage was still drenched in the language of spectacle. Footage of streaking missiles, dramatic studio graphics over the Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon briefings on “surgical” strikes. Markets, we were told, were “volatile” but “resilient.” Oil that had lived in the comfortable doldrums of 70 dollars a barrel surged to the brink of 120, then fell back toward 90. By early March, analysts were estimating that th…

Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
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description: The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic position at relatively low cost. — Alex Mills, The Atlantic Council, March 12, 2026 With each day of glorified actions against Iran, with each cloudy press session claiming supreme success through sheer force, the […] The post Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic position at relatively low cost. — Alex Mills, The Atlantic Council, March 12, 2026 With each day of glorified actions against Iran, with each cloudy press session claiming supreme success through sheer force, the Trump administration is struggling to keep up appearances. Through an approach of existential attrition, the clerical regime in Tehran is now causing shocks and tingles in the global market, striking where influence is strongest: the petrol pump, the cash register, the hip pocket. Its missiles, drones or projectiles may not be able to reach the United States or Australia, but a note of panic is setting in. Even before shipping was attacked (threats sufficed), the Strait of Hormuz was already being emptied of traffic. Fearing losses, major shipping firms such as Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM ceased transiting cargo through the waterways. Since the war commenced on February 28, transits through the Strait have virtually stopped. This putative closure imperils the transfer of a fifth of the world’s oil supply, a fifth of the global trade in liquified natural gas, and some 13% of the global share in chemicals, including essential fertilisers. Freight rates for oil tankers, war risk insurance premiums and costs of marine fuel are all rising steeply. A social media post from Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi brimming with satisfaction captured the mood: “9 days into Operation Epic Mistake, oil prices have doubled while all commodities are skyrocketing. We know the US is plotting against our oil and nuclear sites in hopes of containing huge inflationary shock. Iran is fully prepared.” He also promised that Iran had “many surprises in store.” On March 11, a spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters resolutely declared that any vessel linked to Israel, the United States…

War on Iran: ‘It’s abominable, the lies that the American mainstream media is telling the people’
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description: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera is reporting residents of Tehran overnight experienced “some of the most intense bombardment” of the war. At least 40 people were reportedly killed near the city’s Risalat Square. In Lebanon,
encoded: Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: The US-Israeli war on Iran has entered its 11th day. Its impact is being increasingly felt across the globe. Al Jazeera is reporting residents of Tehran overnight experienced “some of the most intense bombardment” of the war. At least 40 people were reportedly killed near the city’s Risalat Square. In Lebanon, the death toll from Israel’s attacks are nearing 500. About 700,000 residents have been displaced. READ MORE: Khamenei demands closure of US bases as Trump says war going ‘very well’ Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only one viable Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports Earlier today [March 10], Iran reportedly fired drones toward Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates, where a large fire broke out in an industrial area home to petrochemical plants. A suspected Iranian missile also hit a residential building in the capital of Bahrain, killing one person and injuring eight others. On Monday, the Pentagon posted online a photo of a missile with the words “No Mercy” superimposed on it. An accompanying message read, “We have Only Just Begun to Fight.” But soon after, Trump told CBS News, “I think the war is very complete, pretty ​much,” he said. Trump’s CBS interview led oil prices to drop and for global stocks to quickly rise. But after the Wall Street markets closed, Trump told Republicans in Florida the US hasn’t “won enough.” At a news conference on Monday, ABC News reporter Selina Wang questioned Trump about the conflicting messages. SELINA WANG: Mr. President, you’ve said the war is, quote, “very complete,” but your defense secretary says this is just the beginning. So, which is it? And how long should Americans be prepared for this war to last for? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I think you could say both. It’s the beginning. It’s the beginning of building a new country. But they certainly — they have no navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft equipment. It’s all been blown up. “They have no …

Product designer Simone Giertz on refusing to abandon (most) projects
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description: I’m imagining you have even more ideas than the projects you do. So, how do you decide, “I’m going to actually try this one out” versus “This is just a fleeting idea that’s going to pass.” Or do you try to give every idea a shot? I have a list on my phone that is just high and low an absolute wasp’s nest of ideas. Usually it depends; if it’s a product then it’s just if this is this something that I want myself. If it’s a YouTube video, it’s often a negotiation between, is this something that I’m excited about [or] is this something [that] would make for an interesting video or thumbnail and title? So, yeah, I feel like no matter the context you’re in, you have to make creative compromises. And that is the very minor creative compromise I have to make.
encoded: I’m imagining you have even more ideas than the projects you do. So, how do you decide, “I’m going to actually try this one out” versus “This is just a fleeting idea that’s going to pass.” Or do you try to give every idea a shot? I have a list on my phone that is just high and low an absolute wasp’s nest of ideas. Usually it depends; if it’s a product then it’s just if this is this something that I want myself. If it’s a YouTube video, it’s often a negotiation between, is this something that I’m excited about [or] is this something [that] would make for an interesting video or thumbnail and title? So, yeah, I feel like no matter the context you’re in, you have to make creative compromises. And that is the very minor creative compromise I have to make. Right. I saw the one video where you have the project you’re working on where you keep trying and it doesn’t work: creating the roller coaster necklace. I imagine that happens many times, where you’re working on something and it just doesn’t work out. When do you think it’s okay to abandon a project or do you just keep trying to make it work? You know, that is the first time that I’ve fully abandoned a project and it was mostly because I ran out of time. Other times, I think I almost never abandon a project, but I will adapt it. Adapt, don’t abandon. I mean, there are things where I’ve been like, okay, this is not going to work out in the way that I imagined it, but I can tweak it and make it this. I always try to end up somewhere, even if it’s not where I imagined I would end up in the beginning of it. I think that comes from having the natural pressure of having to finish a project for a video. What’s good about it is I can’t always be a perfectionist about it. It’s very easy for me to get stuck in perfectionism. spool table Do you work on one project at a time or have multiple things going at once? So maybe if you get stuck in one area, you can bounce to the other thing. The way my work is structured is there are tw…

Vietnam arrests journalist Le Anh Hung on ‘propaganda’ charge
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description: Bangkok, March 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Le Anh Hung and cease harassing independent commentators for expressing critical views online. On March 9, police arrested Hung at a friend’s house in central Dak Lak province, according to news reports and information compiled by Project 88, an independent rights group that...
encoded: Bangkok, March 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Le Anh Hung and cease harassing independent commentators for expressing critical views online. On March 9, police arrested Hung at a friend’s house in central Dak Lak province, according to news reports and information compiled by Project 88, an independent rights group that monitors the status of Vietnamese political prisoners. The journalist has been charged under Article 117 of the penal code, which criminalizes “propagandizing against the state” and carries penalties of up to 20 years in prison, the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. “Vietnamese authorities must release Le Anh Hung immediately and drop all charges against him,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Le Anh Hung never should have been imprisoned the first time, and detaining and charging him again is a gross affront to press freedom.” Hung contributes to various independent outlets, including Thien Dan, and posts to his own blog. He also writes books, including the self-published “Power and the Control of Power in Societies.” Hung, a former contributor to the U.S. Congress-funded Voice of America (VOA), was arrested in 2018 and held alternately in prison and a psychiatric hospital until his 2022 conviction under Article 331, which criminalizes the abuse of “democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State.” He was released on July 5, 2023, after serving a five-year sentence under abusive conditions, according to VOA reports and the journalist’s email communications with CPJ. Radio Free Asia reported that Hung had been beaten with a metal chair, tied to a bed and forcibly injected with unspecified drugs by a nurse at a Hanoi mental hospital. Hung is a member of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam, a local group that works outside the state-dominated media. Several of its members, including foun…

‘There’s volatile times ahead’ for the Pacific, warns Barbara Dreaver
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description: By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host TVNZ’s 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has released a new memoir looking back at over 30 years of reporting in the region. The book, titled Be Brave, details moments in Dreaver’s career in the Pacific from covering natural disasters to coups and personal tragedies. Speaking to Pacific Waves,
encoded: By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host TVNZ’s 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has released a new memoir looking back at over 30 years of reporting in the region. The book, titled Be Brave, details moments in Dreaver’s career in the Pacific from covering natural disasters to coups and personal tragedies. Speaking to Pacific Waves, Dreaver said she wanted readers to see the Pacific through her eyes. READ MORE: Other Barbara Dreaver reports “Be Brave” – Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver reflects Video: RNZ Pacific Waves “The Pacific is so important to the world, it is important to New Zealand and Australia and I thought, if I show it like the real stories . . . what happens behind the scenes that it just might provide, you know, share that joy really of the Pacific with people. “I’m really concerned about the way the region is going at the moment, and I think there’s volatile times ahead and so I really decided some time ago that I wanted to record it and record, for my family as well.” The Kiribati-born journalist also encourages up and coming Pacific journalists to report “without fear or favour”. “When people say to you, as a Pacific journalist ‘you’re not being culturally aware’ . . . we know what’s culturally aware. “We do and quite often people in power use it as a means of stopping you reporting. “So you have to be really aware of the boundaries on that.” This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee in Israel’s ‘Guantanamo’
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Israeli military prosecution has controversially cancelled the indictment of five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman prison in southern Israel, reports Anadolu Ajansi. “In light of significant developments that have occurred since the indictment was filed in the Yemen Field case, the military prosecution
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Israeli military prosecution has controversially cancelled the indictment of five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman prison in southern Israel, reports Anadolu Ajansi. “In light of significant developments that have occurred since the indictment was filed in the Yemen Field case, the military prosecution has decided today to cancel the indictment,” the Israeli army said in a statement yesterday. The torture case dates back to July 2025, when Israeli soldiers tortured and sexually assaulted a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention facility, causing serious injuries and a tear in the rectum. READ MORE: Khamenei demands closure of US bases as Trump says war going ‘very well’ Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only one viable Other Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners reports Earlier, Israeli news media outlets, including the public broadcaster KAN, claimed that Israel released the tortured detainee on October 13, 2025, to the Gaza Strip as part of a group of prisoners released under the exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas. Sde Teiman, which literally means “Yemen Field” in Arabic, is an Israeli military base in the Negev Desert in southern Israel. Interrogators there have become notorious for physical and sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees from Gaza to the extent that it has been dubbed “Israel’s Guantanamo” in reference to the infamous US detention facility in Iraq. The Sde Teiman prison has witnessed widespread violations against Palestinian detainees, including severe beatings, prolonged restraint, and medical neglect, which have killed people, according to Palestinian and Israeli media and human rights reports. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Ecuador’s President Noboa accused of murder
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The Fight for Palestine in Higher Education Continues, Despite Institutional Backlash
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description: Since the October ceasefire in Gaza, students and faculty have continued to fight for Palestine, but institutions remain resistant.
encoded: Since the October ceasefire in Gaza, students and faculty have continued to fight for Palestine, but institutions remain resistant. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Owen Jakel.

ICE snatches beloved video game champion living legally in US for decades
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‘Even with Congressional Authorization, the War Would Still Be an Act of Aggression’: CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on US/Israeli Iran aggression
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encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed academic and writer Gregory Shupak about the US/Israeli aggression against Iran for the March 6, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260306Shupak.mp3 USA Today (3/1/26) Janine Jackson: Every day is a good day to recognize the substantive differences between the corporate news media, who firehose at us every day, and alternative outlets that you might need to seek out, whose journalism is shaped by a different bottom line. But when the country you live in launches an illegal, unprovoked assault against another sovereign country, that’s an excellent time to look at those differences. Outlets like Drop Site News, Mondoweiss, In These Times, The Nation are bringing us critical assessments of the Trump White House’s shifting rationales for their attacks on Iran, along with voices from the people in the region, on the ground, who have a historical understanding that precedes the last presidential election. Corporate media are reporting the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as a “Cool Slick Techno-Operation,” in critic Adam Johnson’s phrase, while USA Today fearmongers with an explainer headed “US on High Alert for Homeland Attacks by Iran. What to Know.” Well, “what to know” starts with the brain teaser that the FBI and DHS are “on war footing due to Iran’s long history of plotting retaliatory attacks.” If you can buy that premise, elite media assume you will buy the bit of yet another US war on a sovereign nation that no intelligence suggested posed an imminent threat, and that the majority of the US public oppose—but that will cause death and destruction, and be used as an excuse for why you can’t have healthcare. Here to help us sift through news media that appear either vehemently or lazily uninterested in history or humanity is Gregory Shupak. He teaches media studies and English at the University of Guelph in …

Senegalese Lawmakers Pass Bill Doubling Maximum Sentence for Same Sex Conduct
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What the Iran War Means for U.S. Consumers
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[Joanna Macy] Deep Caring for the Earth
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description: The challenges humankind faces from the climate emergency to species extinction to terminal war may be difficult to comprehend, but we ignore them at our peril. Looking away is a lot easier than facing reality. Viewing the Earth as a giant shopping mal...
encoded: The challenges humankind faces from the climate emergency to species extinction to terminal war may be difficult to comprehend, but we ignore them at our peril. Looking away is a lot easier than facing reality. Viewing the Earth as a giant shopping mall to be exploited is leading us to a literal dead end. The capitalist system solely cares about making money. Can a deep caring for the Earth emerge that is nourishing and sustaining rather than recklessly exploiting it? What creative steps can we undertake to reverse the dangerous course we are on? The clock is ticking as our precious planet takes one hit after another. Can global society wake up to implement policies that will avert catastrophe? If not, Joanna Macy says, “It’s curtains.” This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Hidden cost of Iran war – Max Blumenthal on the Judge
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The Donroe Coalition: Trump’s new right-wing military alliance
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More Than 250 Groups Oppose Additional Spending on Trump’s Illegal Iran War
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description: Members of Congress should vote against any additional funding for President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran, 251 groups said today in a letter sent to Congress. Waging a war of choice that costs an estimated $1 billion a day not only fail...
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Dems blast Iran war as “kingly oppression” at Senate hearing; Trump suing California over state’s electric vehicles policy – March 12, 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. WW2 era image from National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center Dems blast Iran war as “kingly oppression” at Senate hearing on military budget; Senate approves Gen. Rudd to head NSA and Cybersecurity, despite Dem concerns over inexperience and domestic surveillance; Trump suing California over state’s zero-emission electric vehicles policy for climate goal; Congressmember Swallwell leading polls among Dem candidates for Governor, Fox commentator Hilton leading Republicans; Landmark trial on social media and teen mental health ending in Los Angeles; Oakland celebrates native Alysa Liu, figure skating Olympic medalist and role model The post Dems blast Iran war as “kingly oppression” at Senate hearing; Trump suing California over state’s electric vehicles policy – March 12, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Dems blast Iran war as “kingly oppression” at Senate hearing on military budget; Senate approves Gen. Rudd to head NSA and Cybersecurity, despite Dem concerns over inexperience and domestic surveillance; Trump suing California over state’s zero-emission electric vehicles policy for climate goal; Congressmember Swallwell leading polls among Dem candidates for Governor, Fox commentator Hilton leading Republicans; Landmark trial on social media and teen mental health ending in Los Angeles; Oakland celebrates native Alysa Liu, figure skating Olympic medalist and role model The post Dems blast Iran war as “kingly oppression” at Senate hearing; Trump suing California over state’s electric vehicles policy – March 12, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

UN News Today 12 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-12T17:43:04Z
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description: UN maritime agency to hold emergency session on Gulf crisis: IMOIOM condemns deadly strike on Lebanon shelterUkraine: child deportations by Russia are crimes against humanity, says Human Rights Council independent probe
encoded: UN maritime agency to hold emergency session on Gulf crisis: IMOIOM condemns deadly strike on Lebanon shelterUkraine: child deportations by Russia are crimes against humanity, says Human Rights Council independent probe This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say
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creator: Jen Fifield
date: 2026-03-12T17:30:00Z
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description: The post Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: This week, when 2020 voting information from Maricopa County, Arizona, was handed over to the FBI, it might have seemed like a replay of the agency’s late January raid in Fulton County, Georgia. Both are large counties in swing states that voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and both have long been targets of President Donald Trump’s claims that that year’s presidential election was stolen from him. But the evidence collected from Maricopa County is fundamentally different, in ways that election experts say threaten the accuracy and integrity of the federal government’s investigation. In Fulton, the FBI took the actual ballots cast in the county’s 2020 election, which had been kept in secure court storage facilities. In Maricopa, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of the county’s vote, according to Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, the subpoena’s recipient. This material — which may have included scans and photos of ballots — was stored by the Senate, not the county. Maricopa County destroyed the original ballots after two years, as state law requires. The firm hired by Senate Republican leaders to run the audit, the Cyber Ninjas, was funded by and took direction from Trump allies. Its leader, Doug Logan, privately admitted in text messages obtained by journalists via public records requests that its ballot recounts were “screwy.” County leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, and nonpartisan outside observers documented several ways Logan’s team had failed to follow procedures to prevent tampering. (Logan didn’t respond to a request for comment.) Several election experts, including some who watched the Arizona audit in person in 2021, said any investigation based on the Cyber Ninja data would be fatally flawed. “Accessing invalid data will only draw inaccurate conclusions and risk further degradation of public confidence,” said Ryan Macias, a national elections technology consultant who observed the audit on behalf of the Ari…

Abby Martin: US-Israeli war on Iran "is all for oil"
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creator: The Real News Network
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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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Oil, War, and Global Power ft. Amos Hochstein | Shane Smith Has Questions
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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This fall, Florida students will be forced to take ‘anti-communist’ classes
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‘Worst of the worst’? ICE snatches beloved video gaming champion living in US legally for decades
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The Complicity of the Experts: When Knowledge Fails in an Age of War
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creator: Biljana Vankovska
date: 2026-03-12T14:57:54Z
subject: Academia
subject: advisory bodies
subject: conflict prevention
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description: You may know that in Macedonia the academic disciplines of international relations, geopolitics, and international security were introduced long after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Everything started from scratch, and I would say that these fields are still in their infancy. With rare exceptions. In global terms, we are Lilliputians. Our academic community is small, our […] The post The Complicity of the Experts: When Knowledge Fails in an Age of War appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars | The Intercept Briefing
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description: This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by The Intercept.
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Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed
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Iranian American Scholar Narges Bajoghli on the History of U.S.-Iran Relations
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-12T14:15:12Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 12, 2026
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Myth of Judeo-Christian Culture
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creator: Jeff J. Brown
date: 2026-03-12T14:10:12Z
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description: Jeff J. Brown: Thomas, knowing your erudite expertise on Christianity, I have a question for you: When did Jews get control of the Vatican? I know it was at least in 1942, when the Jewish psychopath Rothschild clan created the City of London Vatican Bank. T.P. Wilkinson: I will check on your query before I […] The post Myth of Judeo-Christian Culture appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Jeff J. Brown: Thomas, knowing your erudite expertise on Christianity, I have a question for you: When did Jews get control of the Vatican? I know it was at least in 1942, when the Jewish psychopath Rothschild clan created the City of London Vatican Bank. T.P. Wilkinson: I will check on your query before I give you an answer. However, I think it must have been around the Reformation because the Calvinists are traditionally strong Old Testament followers. There is a theory that Calvin (as opposed to Luther) was crypto-Jewish. One should consider that both Waldensers and the radical Christians of Southern France (Albigensians/ Cathars) were adamant New Testament followers for which they were annihilated in the crusade preached by Innocent III. Jeff: And the Cathars were wiped out too. T.P.: I have been studying Church and cultural history for most of my life. However I am very indebted to the work of my long-time friend and colleague, Dr Robert Merrill, dean emeritus of the Maryland Institute College of Art. So much of what I have to say is a synthesis of his work as well as my own. St. Jerome (342-420AD) translated the Gospels into Latin, and he also translated the Hebrew Bible. The Vulgate (Latin) was always considered the “official” version of the Bible, though there are many studies showing Jerome tampered the original Greek text. I did not see any recent elevation of the “vulgar” Hebrew Tribal religious text by Catholics that would be on par with the protestant or evangelical Scofield Bible from the early20th century. Scofield’s version of the Bible has made Christianity as sub-set and derivative of Judaism. This is clearly not true. But it gave rise to Christian Zionism. They all accept the Scofield Bible. This still does not mean the Hebrew Bible was ever considered by Catholics to be a part of Christianity. In fact, it never was. The trouble with the Hebrew Bible is that it is a tribal religion with a tribal god. It is constantly at war against other tribes an…

Trump’s Call to Putin, Article IV of the NPT and War Crimes
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creator: Renee Parsons
date: 2026-03-12T14:00:56Z
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subject: Badr Alblusaidi
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subject: Chemical Weapons Convention
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Geneva Conventions
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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description: President Trump’s recent attempt to reassure the American public how the war against Iran was going relied on the President’s assertion that the US is winning the war. Relying on the lame claim, the President said “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” as well as telling Axios that “Any time I want […] The post Trump’s Call to Putin, Article IV of the NPT and War Crimes appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: President Trump’s recent attempt to reassure the American public how the war against Iran was going relied on the President’s assertion that the US is winning the war. Relying on the lame claim, the President said “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” as well as telling Axios that “Any time I want it to end, it will end.” Speaking from his Doral Florida golf club, the President added that “If they do anything bad, that would be the end of Iran and you’d never hear the name again,” leaving open speculation that the US was prepared to further dramatically escalate its military response. In close coordination with Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu, early assertions that Iran was in a weakened state have not materialized. Almost two weeks into the conflict, with mid term elections looming, the President’s vulnerable political state amidst sinking approval polls cannot avoid the precarious reality that the war had not occurred as anticipated. In response to the frustration, the US has undertaken an indiscriminate carpet bombing campaign throughout Tehran, its capital city with a population of ten million. Those bombings include direct attacks on the civilian population, schools, hospitals, residential buildings and other noncombatant infrastructure. All would be considered war crime violations under the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Codes. As a result of the targeted assassination of the Ayatollah, the Trump-Netanyahu team expected Iran to succumb to a lack of leadership yet those early days passed without any sign of collapse by Iran and were stunned by Iran’s vociferous response. The war has not proven to be the speedy, crowning success that Trump had been led to believe as he struggles to find the exit. Almost immediately as bombs began to drop on February 28, the Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school was struck killing 165 young girls (ages 6-10 years) and a dozen teachers. It was reported that the majority of the students were daughters of Iran military…

Breaking the Nuclear Taboo
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creator: Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes
date: 2026-03-12T14:00:52Z
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description: President Trump has been on quite a roll. Since just the beginning of the year, he has kidnapped the Venezuela president, threatened to invade Greenland and Colombia, and has in just the last week dragged the U.S.—and seemingly much of the Middle East—into a new war by joining with Israel to attack Iran, something that even the […] The post Breaking the Nuclear Taboo appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: President Trump has been on quite a roll. Since just the beginning of the year, he has kidnapped the Venezuela president, threatened to invade Greenland and Colombia, and has in just the last week dragged the U.S.—and seemingly much of the Middle East—into a new war by joining with Israel to attack Iran, something that even the biggest hawks among recent U.S. presidents have managed to avoid. That’s on top of bombing seven countries in 2025. The 2024 campaign promises of a peace president who will end the forever wars have evaporated, only to be replaced by unrestrained use of military force and a seeming disdain for diplomacy. As the U.S. comedy show Saturday Night Live put it, Trump, along with his UNreplacing Board of Peace, got “bored of peace.” Breaking international law seems to be a feature, and not a bug, of Trump’s actions, consistent with his admission that he is expressly not guided by international law, norms, traditions, or common decency, but by “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” In addition to hegemonic actions in the conventional military realm, Trump has been escalating when it comes to nuclear weapons. He rejected President Putin’s invitation to extend the New START treaty for another year, making possible an unconstrained nuclear arms race alongside an ongoing modernization race. He has also announced that the U.S. will resume nuclear testing. Even without the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and tensions with China, these actions and threats would be destabilizing and dangerous. Trump is the mean and out-of-control bully on the global playground. Except that this bully has the sole authority to launch thousands of nuclear warheads. It would be the ultimate expression of Trump’s unbounded power for him to break the one remaining international taboo—which, despite far too many close calls, has persisted for more than 80 years—detonating a nuclear weapon. There are many indications that, despite the U.S. and Isr…

Dreaming
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creator: J.S. O’Keefe
date: 2026-03-12T14:00:50Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: dreaming
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subject: Incarceration
subject: jail
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description: You notice your pulse first. It normally moves quietly, on time, somewhere below your notice. Now it presses forward, beats harder; it has something to say. The pulse is yours. It doesn’t belong to the drunk guards outside your cell, bent over a rough wooden table, slapping down cards in the dim light. They’re cursing […] The post Dreaming appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: You notice your pulse first. It normally moves quietly, on time, somewhere below your notice. Now it presses forward, beats harder; it has something to say. The pulse is yours. It doesn’t belong to the drunk guards outside your cell, bent over a rough wooden table, slapping down cards in the dim light. They’re cursing over Aces and Kings, and getting rivered out. Thunder breaks in the distance. Storm’s coming. You draw a breath. In that small space, something settles. You win. The kind of victory that happens quietly. A dream you went after has finally found ground. It lives in you now. It moves through your blood. Liberty is the dream. Smaller than a speech or a flag, but steadier. There’s defiance in it. It keeps beating through foul weather, ignores Aces and Kings, and the hired hands that hold them. The post Dreaming appeared first on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by J.S. O’Keefe.

Not a Third Party, a Third Force
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creator: Ted Glick
date: 2026-03-12T14:00:14Z
subject: Arthur Kinoy
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subject: Ralph Nader
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description: In Part One of this planned series of articles, I wrote about the historical timeliness of a ‘third force’ strategy. I said, “This isn’t something pulled out of the air, or someone’s lofty dreams. It is grounded in historical experience in the United States over the last 60 or so years.” A progressive “third force,” […] The post Not a Third Party, a Third Force appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ted-glick-21-century-revolution-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-161775" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ted-glick-21-century-revolution-200x300.jpg 200w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ted-glick-21-century-revolution-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ted-glick-21-century-revolution-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ted-glick-21-century-revolution.jpg 867w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />In Part One of this planned series of articles, I wrote about the historical timeliness of a ‘third force’ strategy. I said, “This isn’t something pulled out of the air, or someone’s lofty dreams. It is grounded in historical experience in the United States over the last 60 or so years.” A progressive “third force,” one that is both activist and electoral, that does day-do-day community, workplace and school organizing, that brings together those who see themselves as independents, who are critical of both the dominant sector of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, those who have a critique of “the system,” combined with those who may have a similar critique but who have decided for practical reasons to carry on that fight in part within the Democratic Party—this is what is needed right now to defeat fascism and lay the basis for more positive change going forward over coming years and decades. What “historical experience in the United States over the last 60 years” am I referring to? In the early 1970’s, as the Vietnam War was coming to an end, a civil rights lawyer, Arthur Kinoy, wrote a 60-or-so page document, “Toward a Mass Party of the People,” which articulated his reasoning about why this was not just a good idea but a timely idea. This was NOT the kind of direction seen as the…

We’re Tired of Marco Rubio Speaking for Us
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creator: Justine Medina
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description: “Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles […] The post We’re Tired of Marco Rubio Speaking for Us appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: “Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles north. Siblings, cousins, babies, abuelas, family, and friends of all ages and political opinions gathered around a brilliant feast. Between the devouring of lechón, yuca, plátanos, and flan, a flurry of back and forth between English and Spanish. Everyone hugging, praying, laughing, and occasionally yelling. Well, maybe more than occasionally. The existence of contradictory political opinions across generations will come as no surprise to diaspora families from all over, and my Cuban family is no exception. My abuelo participated in the Cuban Revolution against Batista before being turned off by what he saw as the horrors of communism. My family moved to Miami, and after being jailed for counterrevolutionary terrorism, my grandfather then defected and fought for the U.S. in the Bay of Pigs. (A Brigada 2506 flag hung on the wall of my childhood home.) Like many Cuban-Americans growing up in Florida, I was taught countless criticisms and failures of the government of Cuba by family members. But my proudly capitalist father also raised his children to lobby against the U.S. embargo on Cuba. And as an adult, I learned about the positive aspects of Cuba’s policies, such as the nation’s historic biomedical achievements, or the remarkable advances of LGBTQ rights under the recent Families Code referendum. Today, my older brother and I are openly Marxists and organize as such for labor, social, and environmental justice. As you may guess, sometimes things get a little complicated! Following the festivities this past December, one of mis primos worried to me about her brother who lives on the island. With increasing blackouts and energy strain…

The secret superpower of Brazil’s vast savanna
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-03-12T14:00:00Z
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description: The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils.
encoded: You’ve heard of the Amazon rainforest, but have you heard of its neighbor, the cerrado? It’s a vast savanna — the most biodiverse in the world — of swaying grasses punctuated by trees. But its most remarkable feature, and its climate superpower, is hidden underground within its wetlands: concentrated carbon known as peat. New research suggests that the cerrado is storing far more carbon than anyone realized — six times more, per hectare, than the Amazon’s biomass, with its dense tangle of trees. But like Brazil’s famous rainforest, the cerrado is in serious trouble, due to climate change and the encroachment of agribusiness. Protecting these peaty ecosystems, then, would be a major win not just for preserving biodiversity, but for keeping planet-warming gases out of the sky. “When you degrade it — one hectare of Amazon and one hectare of wetland in the cerrado — we are losing six times more carbon,” said ecologist Larissa Verona, lead author of a new paper describing the work. (Verona did the research while at the State University of Campinas, but is now at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.) Peat needs waterlogged conditions to form. This creates an oxygen-poor environment, checking the growth of the microbes that eat dead plants and release their carbon. Year after year, vegetation — grasses, in the case of the cerrado — piles up and resists decay, creating layers of concentrated carbon. So long as the landscape stays wet, peat can persist. Indeed, in the cerrado, Verona found deposits of that element up to 20,000 years old. And we’re talking a lot of ancient carbon here: The cerrado is Brazil’s second-biggest biome, after its famous rainforest. Verona’s colleagues counted 50 plant species in one 3-foot-by-3-foot plot. “They’re tiny, so you don’t notice them, like a big Amazon tree, but they’re hugely rich in diversity,” said Amy Zanne, an ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and co-author of the new paper. “And the animals that they protect are …

Is it time to limit the power of AI?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-12T13:39:42Z
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Trump’s Presidency and Iranian Missiles
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creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2026-03-12T13:32:35Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Israeli Defense Force (IDF)
subject: Operation Barbarossa
subject: Sources
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subject: and
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subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
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subject: steve
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subject: war
subject: War Crimes
subject: witkoff
subject: Zionism
description: Athens Is Burning! The School of Athens and the Fire in the Borgo, Salvador Dali US hegemony is being dispatched to the landfill of history. Empires collapse, sometimes, slowly; sometimes, in rapid order. Trump’s war has proven to be an accelerant of the latter. The following unnerves me as a Jewish person: Trump acting as […] The post Trump’s Presidency and Iranian Missiles appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Amnesty Head Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed
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description: Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark International Women’s Day and attend the U.N.&#3...
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“War on the Iranian People”: Nationalism Grows in Iran in Defiance of Deadly U.S. and Israeli Strikes
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description: “This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.” As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges Bajoghli returns to Demo...
encoded: “This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.” As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges Bajoghli returns to Democracy Now! with an update on the war on Iran and its place in the modern history of U.S.-Iran relations. Bajoghli explains how the combination of harsh sanctions and an insidious propaganda campaign has created a deep political divide within Iran and its diaspora, as Iranians are stuck between theocratic governance and the prospective return of the U.S.-backed monarchy. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for March 12, 2026
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description: Iran Says U.S. and Israeli Strikes Have Killed 1,348 Civilians, Senators Demand Accountability as Pentagon Admits U.S. Struck Iranian Girls’ School, Iranian Missiles and Drones Continue to Strike at Israel, Gulf States and Oil Infrastructure, IEA Announces Record Release of Oil Reserves as Iran Warns Prices Could Top $200 Per Barrel, Lebanon Death Toll Tops 630 as Israel Continues Relentless Bombing Campaign, Israel Strikes Gaza Marketplace and Tent Camp, Killing and Wounding Palestinians, RSF Drone Strike in Sudan Kills 17 People, Most of Them Girls, GOP Sen. John Cornyn Reverses Position on Filibuster to Help Pass the SAVE America Act, New Hampshire Democrat’s Special Election Victory Is Latest Red Flag for GOP in Midterms, Longtime Epstein Accountant Richard Kahn Testifies to Congress in Closed-Door Deposition, Family of Six Detained at ICE Jail in Texas Describes Harrowing Conditions
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Democracy Now! 2026-03-12 Thursday
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Listen To This Mystery Radio Signal From Day One Of US-Iran War | RFE/RL Exclusive
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Oil Tankers Ablaze In Persian Gulf After Iranian Drone Boat Attack | US Iran Update
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‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
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description: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia’s current activities in the far southeastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all. With 2.5 million hectares of land being cleared for sugarcane and rice production for food and biofuel projects, alongside large oil palm concessions,
encoded: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia’s current activities in the far southeastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all. With 2.5 million hectares of land being cleared for sugarcane and rice production for food and biofuel projects, alongside large oil palm concessions, Indonesia’s government has created a hugely consequential project right on Papua New Guinea and Australia’s doorsteps. It is transforming the shape of an otherwise forest and swamp-dominated region, as well as the environment, culture and health of local Papuan communities. READ MORE: West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military — David Robie New film on West Papua highlights ‘ecocide’ Other West Papua environmental reports New film on West Papua highlights ‘ecocide’. Video: RNZ “The world should notice this. It’s not the Amazon, it’s just in our front door, in the Pacific here,” said Dandhy Dwi Laksono, director of Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonialism in our Time, a new documentary film about the impacts of the deforestation in South Papua, the agri-business schemes behind it and the role Indonesia’s military plays in it all. Laksono has been in New Zealand this week promoting the film with its producer, West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor, who said few people in other parts of the world know about what’s going on there. “Maybe they only know [of] the conflict, military conflict, armed conflict in West Papua. But they never know the conflict like that,” he said. The film sheds new light on the response by local Papuans in the wider Merauke region and its remote bush communities to an agri-business master plan attempted by several Indonesian presidents now. Papua has some of the world’s largest remaining tracts of native rainforest — and clearing this large region of forest and swamp systems is likely to add to carbon emissions, pollution haze and b…

‘The world should see this’, say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
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description: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia’s current activities in the far southeastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all. With 2.5 million hectares of land being cleared for sugarcane and rice production for food and biofuel projects, alongside large oil palm concessions,
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DN! Thursday, March 12, 2026
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
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description: The post Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: As Jason Beaman recounts his long slog searching for mental health therapy last year, he sounds defeated. The first therapist assigned to him by the Department of Veterans Affairs told him at their initial meeting that she was leaving the agency. A few months later, his second therapist told him she was also leaving. An appointment with a third counselor was canceled with no explanation. These were huge setbacks for the 54-year-old veteran of the Navy and Army Reserve. Nearly a decade ago, a spiral of depression and anxiety left him homeless and living on the streets of Spokane, Washington. A VA social worker threw him a lifeline, helping him apply for benefits, find housing and get into therapy. He still needs mental health care, he and his physician say. But bouncing from therapist to therapist has left him exhausted. “I just quit. I don’t want to mess with the therapist anymore,” Beaman said. He spends much of his time now alone playing video games or walking with his dogs. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="940" width="752" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260204-Rasmussen-VACuts-018_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=752" alt="A seated man, wearing a blue checkered shirt and blue jeans, ruffles the fur of a dog’s neck." class="wp-image-68444" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260204-Rasmussen-VACuts-018_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg 2400w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260204-Rasmussen-VACuts-018_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?resize=240,300 240w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260204-Rasmussen-VACuts-018_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?resize=768,960 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260204-Rasmussen-VACu…

Four possible outcomes with the war on Iran – but only one viable
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description: Only one of these four paths protects humanity — the other three are likely destroy it. ANALYSIS: By Qasim Rashid This week Donald Trump threatened more war crimes on the people of Iran. We are now in the most dangerous phase of this crisis, and pretending otherwise is reckless. As a human rights lawyer, I
encoded: Only one of these four paths protects humanity — the other three are likely destroy it. ANALYSIS: By Qasim Rashid This week Donald Trump threatened more war crimes on the people of Iran. We are now in the most dangerous phase of this crisis, and pretending otherwise is reckless. As a human rights lawyer, I do not view war as an abstraction, a chessboard, or a television spectacle. I view it in terms of law, civilian life, state accountability, and foreseeable human devastation. READ MORE: Oil tankers in Iraq hit amid Iranian attacks on Gulf; Israel bombs Beirut Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is in the Western media’s DNA Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports If we are honest about the present moment, there are only four plausible scenarios from here. Three are catastrophic. The fourth is the only one consistent with constitutional government, international law, and basic human survival. It is also the one Donald Trump appears least willing to accept — but one our Congress must rally to ensure happens. As of today the United States’ and Israel’s illegal war on Iran has killed more than 1300 Iranians, mostly civilians. Up to one third of them are children — including the near 175 children killed by a US military Tomahawk missile. Iran’s response has targeted military bases, resulting in reportedly 8 US soldiers killed and 13 Israelis. Now, Trump is promising “Death, Fire, and Fury” and “twenty times” the damage if Iran does not unconditionally surrender. <img decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9lE4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20204fbb-1e72-4ba1-ba74-d9febbaef7ea_791x508.png" alt="" width="464" height="297.992414664981" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/20204fbb-1e72-4ba1-ba74-d9febbaef7ea_791x508.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"…

Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk
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encoded: The Trump administration is backing off a rule aimed at stopping commercial space companies from leaving rocket bodies in Earth’s orbit, a practice that experts say could threaten public safety and telecommunications. The Federal Aviation Administration first proposed the measure in 2023, under the Biden administration, in hopes of curbing the growing junkyard of debris circling the planet. It would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely remove such spacecraft within 25 years of launch, saying they “pose a significant risk to people on the ground due to their mass and the uncertainty of where they will land.” Officials cited examples such as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentering Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Northwest in March 2021, which created streaks of lights across the night sky and dropped a tank on a farm in Washington state. SpaceX and other companies, however, criticized the proposal, citing concerns that included its cost, and in January, the FAA nixed the rule, saying the agency needs more time to research it. “FAA intends to review the space launch industry cost inputs and expectations with respect to debris mitigation activities,” the FAA said, adding it would also look at the agency’s authority to enact such regulations. In response to questions for this story, an agency spokesperson reiterated that rationale. The White House did not respond to requests for comment about the withdrawal. The action is a concession to the commercial space industry and follows moves by President Donald Trump’s administration last year to roll back regulations meant to protect the environment and the public during rocket launches. “The Trump administration is committed to cementing America’s dominance in space without compromising public safety or national security,” a White House spokesperson said last summer. Critics, however, said the government was missing an opportunity to control debris — and endangering the public in the process. Rockets can …

In rural West Texas, renewable energy brings a windfall for seniors
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description: How officials in Crockett County are using wind investments to help older residents age in place.
encoded: In the far corner of the Crockett County Senior Center, 75-year-old Cynthia Flores almost always has a puzzle going. She and her friends sort colors and look for edge pieces while they gossip — “faster than the telephone” — in the Tex-Mex blend of Spanish and English they grew up speaking in Ozona, a tiny ranching and oil outpost in far West Texas. A couple of days before Valentine’s Day, their puzzle surface was one of the few in the center not covered in red and pink hearts; preparations were underway for the big dance the following night. “La comida esta ready,” another senior said, calling the puzzlers to lunch. Flores placed one last piece, then took her seat at a long community table. The plate in front of her would have delighted a nutritionist with its lean protein and mountain of steamed broccoli. She pulled a tiny plastic container of teriyaki sauce out of her bag and poured the contents over the meat. “They feed us what we need,” Flores said, “but I always fix it up.” Mostly, she said, she’s just thankful not to have to cook. Like many of her friends, Flores still lives at home, but comes into the center for lunch most days. After being married at 16 and preparing food for herself and her family for almost 60 years, she said she was ready for a break. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bingo.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org…

Sri Lankan authorities detain Lanka-e-News editor Sandaruwan Senadheera
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description: March 12, 2026, Chennai—Sri Lankan authorities should immediately release Sandaruwan Senadheera, editor of the exile news website Lanka-e-News, and ensure any legal proceedings against him follow due process and do not undermine press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Police detained Senadheera after he arrived at Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport on February 11...
encoded: March 12, 2026, Chennai—Sri Lankan authorities should immediately release Sandaruwan Senadheera, editor of the exile news website Lanka-e-News, and ensure any legal proceedings against him follow due process and do not undermine press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Police detained Senadheera after he arrived at Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport on February 11 and transferred him to the Criminal Investigation Department, according to multiple news reports. He was due to appear in court on Thursday. Senadheera’s detention relates to a long-running contempt of court case linked to reporting on the violent assault of journalist Upali Tennakoon in 2009, those reports said. “The detention of Sandaruwan Senadheera is a de facto attack on press freedom in Sri Lanka and will have a chilling effect on public interest reporting,” CPJ Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator Kunal Majumder. “Sri Lankan authorities should immediately release Senadheera and ensure that any legal proceedings against him respect due process and do not criminalize legitimate journalism.” In 2016, Sri Lankan authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Senadheera for alleged contempt of court. A magistrate ruled that Lanka-e-News’ publication of a photograph identifying a suspect in the attack on Tennakoon could have interfered with an identification parade. Senadheera had travelled to Sri Lanka from England, where he has lived in exile for 16 years, to seek Ayurvedic treatment for his poor health, reported Lanka-e-News, adding he did so at the invitation of Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake. He fled Sri Lanka after colleagues at Lanka-e-News faced threats and attacks for their work, including the 2010 disappearance of contributor Prageeth Ekneligoda. The Criminal Investigation Department did not immediately reply to CPJ’s emailed request for comment. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

“How On Earth Do You Justify That?”
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creator: Media Lens
date: 2026-03-12T07:32:40Z
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subject: Monopoly Media
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subject: earth
subject: how
subject: iran
subject: Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA)
subject: israel
subject: justify
subject: mandate
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subject: Media
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subject: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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description: Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK, with Laura Kuenssberg On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK: ‘Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own […] The post “How On Earth Do You Justify That?” appeared first on Dissident Voice.
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Writer and musician Dan Wriggins on the necessity of confidence
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creator: Laura Brown
date: 2026-03-12T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: Music
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description: I’m curious where your creative roots started. What are some of your first memories around writing? Or, where did you felt compelled to log or document something through words for the first time?
encoded: I’m curious where your creative roots started. What are some of your first memories around writing? Or, where did you felt compelled to log or document something through words for the first time? I grew up in Maine. My folks are kind of creative. Well, my mom is a potter and that’s been her career her whole life. So her job is an artist profession, but that has nothing to do with writing. I have this funny memory: one time I went home and looked at old stuff my folks had saved, and it included some ancient notebooks of journaling, from preschool or whatever age you learn how to spell. And I had this one page that was so good. Oh god, I think it said, “I do not know what to write. I would like to know what the heck to write,” and write was spelled incorrectly. It was spelled R-I-G-H-T maybe, and heck was H-E-C. But it was both adorable and profound. So I guess that’s a memory of an evidence of something. It might’ve been the earliest. Do you think there are things from when you first started writing that tie into how you write now? Are there similar things happening internally that are pulling you somewhere? You mean compared to when I was younger? Yeah. Oh, I think it’s changed a lot. In a way, it’s more mundane and professionalized. I guess I brought up that example of being a kindergartner, but it’s more like early teen, high school age when you start being like, “I want to write a song.” Back when I was in high school, trying to write songs—I don’t think I was writing any poems—I had this really romantic idea that inspiration hits you and then you jot stuff down. I’d try to write from experience. I guess it’s getting older [when you learn] that doesn’t always work. I mean, little moments and jolts are great, but there’s so much more than just sitting down to write. It often means I try to sort of do… what’s that? Automatic writing? It’s a surrealist technique, just trying to write things down that come into your brain, or you are reading and you’re writing while …

Sanitising atrocities by the US or Israel and finding excuses is in the Western media’s DNA
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-03-12T03:13:51Z
subject: anti-war protests
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Israeli propaganda
subject: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
subject: Pro-war protesters
subject: Sources
subject: War criminals
subject: War on Iran
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subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: israel
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subject: John Minto
subject: Justice
subject: Media
subject: media’s
subject: Middle East
subject: military
subject: network
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subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
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subject: Propaganda
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description: COMMENTARY: By John Minto I came across this statement from an independent media source this week: “The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitising atrocities and platforming war criminals.” It came to mind immediately when I read The Times newspaper obituary for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei which was reprinted in
encoded: COMMENTARY: By John Minto I came across this statement from an independent media source this week: “The mainstream media is doing what it always does in wartime: manufacturing consent, sanitising atrocities and platforming war criminals.” It came to mind immediately when I read The Times newspaper obituary for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei which was reprinted in the Christchurch Press at the weekend. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was murdered by the US-Israel in the initial strikes of their illegal bombing and killing campaign in Iran — an assault that rips up international law and trashes the United Nations Charter. READ MORE: Oil tankers hit in Iraq, Tehran sets 3 conditions for peace Why Trump is in so much danger with his illegal Iran war Ramzy Baroud: Israel’s greatest weapon was fear – and it’s now failing An anti-war meeting in Auckland that was protested against by pro-Israel/pro-American Iranians Other US-Israeli war on Iran reports Other images and video fromthe Stop Wars meeting The obituary was a straight piece of Western propaganda which did nothing to hide its blatant disinformation (deliberate misinformation). It may as well have come straight from an Israeli propaganda unit — it may well have for all I know — with its demonisation of the Iranian leadership. The Times claimed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had “…approved the development of a clandestine nuclear weapons programme that could, if ever completed, threaten Israel’s very existence, destabilise the Middle East and imperil global oil supplies”. This is an obvious lie. Israel’s Prime Minister — and well-known war criminal — Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying for 30 years that Iran is just a few weeks or months away from producing a nuclear weapon. The fact is that all credible analysts, including inside US intelligence, agree Iran never decided to pursue nuclear weapons and the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) has never detected such a programme. In fact, Ayatollah Ali …

The Israel Lobby: 20 years later w/ John Mearsheimer – The Grayzone live
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-03-12T01:02:08Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Ecuador’s indigenous Shuar resist extinction as push for minerals grows
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-03-12T00:53:41Z
subject: Sources
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subject: Extinction
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subject: grows
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subject: minerals
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Indonesian journalists attacked over reporting at mineral processing plant in Bangka Belitung
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-03-12T00:03:40Z
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subject: Bangka Belitung
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Dedy Wahyudi
subject: Frendy Primadana
subject: Sources
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subject: committee
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subject: Indonesian
subject: Journalists
subject: mineral
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subject: primadana
subject: processing
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description: Jakarta, March 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Indonesian authorities to hold accountable those responsible for assaulting journalists Frendy Primadana and Dedy Wahyudi and ensure all Indonesian reporters can cover environmental issues without fear of reprisal. At about 2 p.m. on March 7, workers at Putraprima Mineral Mandiri, a zircon processing company in...
encoded: Jakarta, March 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Indonesian authorities to hold accountable those responsible for assaulting journalists Frendy Primadana and Dedy Wahyudi and ensure all Indonesian reporters can cover environmental issues without fear of reprisal. At about 2 p.m. on March 7, workers at Putraprima Mineral Mandiri, a zircon processing company in Bangka Belitung province, allegedly attacked Primadana, a contributor to broadcaster tvOne, and Wahyudi, a journalist with news site Babel Faktual, according to multiple news reports and Primadana, who spoke with CPJ in a phone call. The journalists were on site to cover a clash between small-scale suppliers of zircon, a byproduct of tin mining in Bangka and Belitung, and a military task force monitoring illegal mining and processing. Bangka Belitung police announced on March 8 they had arrested three suspects in the alleged assault, including a security guard and an employee at Putraprima, and a truck driver for one of its suppliers. If convicted, they could face up to seven years in prison, police said. “We welcome the arrest of three suspects involved in the appalling attack on Frendy Primadana and Dedy Wahyudi. Indonesian authorities must now show with the full force of the law that such assaults will not go unpunished,” CPJ’s Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi. “Journalists play an essential role holding Indonesian businesses accountable for their environmental impact. Full prosecutions will send a strong signal that violence against the press is unacceptable.” Primadana told CPJ that he arrived at the Putraprima factory at about 1 p.m. with Wahyudi and another journalist, Wahyu Kurniawan of Suara Pos. The journalists were stopped at the gate, where the truck driver allegedly seized Wahyudi’s cellphone and punched him in the face, Primadana said, adding that Kurniawan escaped on a motorcycle. The security guard and truck driver then allegedly punched and kicked Primadana before up to 20 …

Join the Fight to Protect the Ocean
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creator: David Helvarg
date: 2026-03-11T22:14:32Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: join
subject: ocean
subject: progressive
subject: protect
subject: sources
subject: the
description: Ocean defenders need to make their voices heard in mass nonviolent protests that can turn the tide of history.
encoded: Ocean defenders need to make their voices heard in mass nonviolent protests that can turn the tide of history. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by David Helvarg.

Trump-aligned think tank proposes ‘Pacific Charter’, greater US involvement in the region
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-11T22:11:48Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Heritage Foundation
subject: Pacific Charter
subject: Policy agenda
subject: Project 2025
subject: Sources
subject: Transnational drug trade
subject: 2025
subject: agenda
subject: asia
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subject: China
subject: Deep-sea mining
subject: Democracy
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description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist An American right-wing think tank is proposing a “Pacific Charter” that advocates for a greater United States presence in the region. The Heritage Foundation, closely associated with the ruling Republican Party, wrote that China is “covetously” looking to the Pacific nations while they are vulnerable to major security threats,
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist An American right-wing think tank is proposing a “Pacific Charter” that advocates for a greater United States presence in the region. The Heritage Foundation, closely associated with the ruling Republican Party, wrote that China is “covetously” looking to the Pacific nations while they are vulnerable to major security threats, such as the transnational drug trade. The think tank holds significant influence with US President Donald Trump, best encapsulated in its “Project 2025” platform that guided conservative policy leading up to the 2024 presidental election. READ MORE: Other Trump and Pacific reports Its latest report, A charter of Pacific values for a prosperous Pacific future, points out that Pacific nations are uniquely vulnerable at a difficult time, emboldening “outside forces” to take advantage. Pacific countries are asked to “align” their policy agendas, while the US establishes a “Pacific Partners Commission” and installs a “Pacific Advisor” on their National Security Council. “Broader intra-Pacific affiliations are being superseded by the interests of external actors, and the Pacific agenda is at risk of being shaped by powerful outside forces,” the report states. Without Western involvement, it postulated that China, with its “willingness to use political leverage and intrigue to advance its narrow interest” would monopolise their hold. ‘Reaffirm fundamental ideals’ Rather than letting that happen, co-authors Allen Zhang and Brent Sadler proposed a non-binding Charter, not to “impose values and dictate outcomes” but rather to “reaffirm fundamental ideals and strengthen regional solidarity”. It was noted this would pressure nations to resist the influence of Chinese cash, for example infrastructure deals. Further, the mood would be set for island nations and US defence forces to come closer together. “The foregoing principles are frequently bypassed in favour of lucrative bilateral proposals … compromised when it is …

Gutting Discrimination Enforcement in Education: What Could Go Wrong?
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creator: Mike Ervin
date: 2026-03-11T21:59:53Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: could
subject: Discrimination
subject: Education
subject: enforcement
subject: gutting
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: what
subject: wrong
description: In most cases, short-staffed agency is handling complaints by dismissing them.
encoded: In most cases, short-staffed agency is handling complaints by dismissing them. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

Israeli NGO Bans Threaten Gaza’s Humanitarian Lifeline
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creator: Hana Salah
date: 2026-03-11T21:43:01Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: bans
subject: gaza’s
subject: humanitarian
subject: israeli
subject: Lifeline
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subject: threaten,
description: Thirty-seven humanitarian aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, were ordered to cease operations in Gaza and the West Bank.
encoded: Thirty-seven humanitarian aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, were ordered to cease operations in Gaza and the West Bank. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hana Salah.

“Killers of Roe”: Amy Littlefield Investigates the “Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights” in U.S.
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-11T21:01:40Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: Abortion
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subject: death
subject: Democracy
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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[Episode Cut] Trump’s Military Deployments Spark Concerns Over Constitutional Authority: Congres…
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-03-11T20:30:54Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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US News Orgs Nearly Silent on Israel’s Violent Suppression of Journalism
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creator: Drew Favakeh
date: 2026-03-11T20:20:43Z
subject: FAIR
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subject: Violence against journalists
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subject: Blog
subject: fair
subject: Featured Posts
subject: Instagram
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subject: Israel/Palestine
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description: Reports that documented Israel’s shameless targeting of the journalists who cover its war crimes were met with near silence by US corporate media.
encoded: Among CPJ’s key findings (2/25/26): “The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992.” The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently published two meticulous reports that further expose Israel’s violent repression of journalism, in its ongoing genocide in Gaza and elsewhere. CPJ published a report on February 19 titled ‘‘’We Returned From Hell’: Palestinian Journalists Recount Torture in Israeli Prisons.” CPJ collected 59 in-depth testimonies from Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since October 7, 2023. The report goes into excruciating and painstaking detail about the experiences of 56 journalists, who told CPJ they were “repeatedly beaten inside prisons by authorities, as well as during arrest and transfer to the facilities.” Less than a week later, CPJ published a report (2/25/26) that found “Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all journalist and media-worker killings in 2025”—86 of the 129 deaths CPJ recorded. That was an uptick from 2024 (when Israel was responsible for 85 out of 124) and 2023 (78 of 99), CPJ revealed. Taken together, these reports added more evidence of Israel’s illegal and shameless targeting of the journalists who cover its war crimes. IDF ‘strongly rejects claims’ While the Washington Post (2/26/26) noted CPJ’s calling out of Israel in its headline, it made sure to get Israel’s denial into the subhead. And yet, these reports were met with near silence by US corporate media. In total, we could find only three mentions of the reports’ criticism of Israel in major US outlets: a three-minute interview with CPJ’s Sara Qudah by NPR (2/20/26), and 1,100-word articles by the Washington Post (2/26/26) and New York Times (3/5/26). Even then, the Post‘s media reporter, Liam Scott, dutifully included a lengthy rebuttal from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in its fifth paragraph: “The IDF does not intentionally ha…

Report Confirms Columbia Ignored Decades of Doctor’s Sexual Abuse
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creator: Bianca Fortis
date: 2026-03-11T20:05:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
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subject: confirms
subject: Criminal Justice
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description: The post Report Confirms Columbia Ignored Decades of Doctor’s Sexual Abuse appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Decades after patients first warned Columbia University that one of its doctors sexually abused them, some university administrators have finally faced consequences. On Tuesday, Columbia released a long-awaited report that details a culture of silence that allowed OB-GYN Robert Hadden to abuse more than 1,000 patients during his nearly 25-year career at Columbia. In unveiling the report, the university also announced that two long-time administrators are leaving their positions. Dr. Mary D’Alton, chair of the OB-GYN department and Hadden’s former boss, has stepped down. D’Alton will maintain her clinical practice. Dr. Lee Goldman, the former dean of the medical school, will retire. The two were administrators above Hadden. They were also among those cc’d on a 2012 letter that let Hadden continue seeing patients even after he was arrested when one woman reported he’d assaulted her. Yesterday’s report was prompted by a ProPublica investigation that revealed how Columbia had dismissed women and ultimately protected a predator. Amid outrage in the wake of the 2023 story, Columbia announced it would set up a $100 million fund for survivors and initiate an independent review. More than two years after the review was announced, the 156-page report was published days after the New York attorney general said it was investigating Columbia’s response to the Hadden case. The report outlines how more than a dozen patients’ complaints had gone nowhere, in part because of the lack of clear reporting procedures. The report also found a “hierarchal institutional culture” in which physicians occupied an “exalted” or “god-like” status that made it difficult for staff to report concerns. One patient, Eva Santos Veloz, was 18 years old when she saw Hadden for an emergency delivery in 2008. At the time, she and her mother reported that Hadden had touched her in ways that made her uncomfortable, sometimes without gloves. Nothing happened after she filed the complaint. At the time, she sai…

Middle East: All parties to the conflict must refrain from unlawful attacks on energy infrastructure
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-11T19:44:58Z
subject: Common Dreams
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subject: Conflict
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description: Israel, the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran must immediately cease or refrain from unlawful attacks on energy infrastructure, including facilities providing essential services such as electricity, heating and running water, said Amnesty Internatio...
encoded: Israel, the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran must immediately cease or refrain from unlawful attacks on energy infrastructure, including facilities providing essential services such as electricity, heating and running water, said Amnesty International today, highlighting the risks of devastating civilian harm and environmental impact posed by such attacks. In recent days Israeli-US air strikes have targeted multiple fuel storage and distribution facilities in Iran, and the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military has carried out attacks affecting fuel depots and oil and gas infrastructure in multiple Gulf states. “The potential for vast, predictable, and devastating civilian harm arising from strikes targeting energy infrastructure, including uncontrolled deadly fires, major disruptions to essential services, environmental damage, and severe long-term health risks for millions, means there is a substantial risk such attacks would violate international humanitarian law and in some cases could amount to war crimes,” said Heba Morayef, Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International. “Regardless of whether a military objective is cited to justify targeting energy infrastructure, under international humanitarian law all parties have a clear obligation to take all feasible precautions to reduce civilian harm and refrain from attacks that cause disproportionate death or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects. This includes any foreseeable knock-on, indirect adverse effects on civilians’ life and health such as exposure to toxic chemicals.” The potential for vast, predictable, and devastating civilian harm arising from strikes targeting energy infrastructure…means there is a substantial risk such attacks would violate international humanitarian law Heba Morayef, MENA Regional Director Under international humanitarian law, an oil refinery can be targeted only if it qualifies as a military objective, meaning it is being used to make a…

The war in Iran could plunge the world into hunger
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creator: Ayurella Horn-Muller
date: 2026-03-11T19:44:49Z
subject: Food and Agriculture
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: Agriculture
subject: and
subject: could
subject: economics
subject: Energy
subject: Food
subject: Hunger
subject: International
subject: into
subject: iran
subject: plunge
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: war
subject: World
description: Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.
encoded: Up until the end of February, a steady flow of ships bound for destinations across the world would pass daily through the Strait of Hormuz. A narrow channel running between Oman and Iran, the waterway serves as the only natural maritime link between the Persian Gulf and the global economy. That all changed on March 2, when, after days of military strikes led by the U.S. and Israel, Iran effectively closed the strait for the first time in history and warned that any ships passing through would be fired upon. Ever since, vessels moving through the channel have been attacked and set ablaze, and hundreds of tankers remain stranded. At least 1,800 people have been killed in the war, including Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top government officials. The Persian Gulf is a linchpin of the planet’s oil and gas production; normally, roughly one-fifth of global oil and gas flows through the strait. Now, as it remains embattled, oil and gas prices have surged, and many experts warn an energy crisis is imminent. Restaurants across India are scaling back operations and warning of closures amid fuel shortages from the maritime blockade, while cooking gas prices are spiking in Sri Lanka. Another world crisis sparked by the war in Iran may also be in the offing. That’s because the region’s oil and gas production has made it one of the world’s leading exporters of nitrogen fertilizers, which are indispensable to the global food system. To produce the chemicals used to grow much of the planet’s crops, natural gas is broken down to extract hydrogen, which is combined with nitrogen to make ammonia, and then mixed with carbon dioxide to make urea. All told, nearly a third of the global trade for nitrogen fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz, while almost half of the world’s sulfur, essential in producing phosphate fertilizers, also travels through the corridor. The waterway is a lifeline for food, too. Palm oil exports coming from Southeast Asia face pot…

FERC Undermines Trump’s Useless Big Tech Ratepayer Pledge
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date: 2026-03-11T19:41:03Z
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subject: pledge
subject: ratepayer
subject: sources
subject: tech
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subject: undermines
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description: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last night issued orders that approved transmission rate agreements with data centers that explicitly put households at risk for hikes in the rates they pay for electricity.The FERC orders approved bilat...
encoded: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last night issued orders that approved transmission rate agreements with data centers that explicitly put households at risk for hikes in the rates they pay for electricity. The FERC orders approved bilateral electric transmission rate agreements between Exelon’s ComEd utility and five different data centers, four of which Public Citizen intervened as a party (PowerHouse, owned by American Real Estate Partners; Tract’s Grundy County Power in Morris, Illinois; Equinix; and Blackstone’s QTS). In response, Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, issued the following statement: “The Commission’s orders show what a total sham Trump’s Big Tech pledge is for protecting consumers. These reckless FERC orders are designed to quickly rubber stamp agreements with utilities and data centers with zero guaranteed protection that household consumers won’t be exposed to unjust and unreasonable price hikes. “As acknowledged in Commissioner Judy Chang’s concurrence in support of the order, FERC’s acceptance of the transmission rate agreements rely on the fact that they were between ‘sophisticated parties who negotiated them freely at arm’s length,’ but did not investigate whether the contracts themselves could result in unjust and unreasonable cost shifts onto other customers such as households. “While the agreements between the utility and the data centers result in the data centers making certain financial payments that attempt to cover the utility’s revenue requirements, Chang’s concurrence plainly concludes that they do not insulate rate hikes for household consumers should those costs change during the duration of the agreement. Utility obligations and commitments within its service territory can change dramatically – especially with the onslaught of data centers – where the estimated revenue requirements negotiated today could prove insufficient in the near future, exposing households to rate hikes from any reven…

As opposition to Iran war grows, US media ramps up ‘Iranian sleeper cell’ panic
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creator: Adam Johnson
date: 2026-03-11T18:34:42Z
subject: article
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: cell
subject: grows
subject: International
subject: iran
subject: iranian
subject: Media
subject: Media Criticism
subject: movements
subject: opposition
subject: panic,
subject: Politics
subject: ramps
subject: sleeper
subject: sources
subject: terrorism
subject: war
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Journalists in eastern DRC detained over war coverage, broadcasters occupied
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creator: Lauren Wolfe
date: 2026-03-11T18:24:59Z
subject: Censored
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: FARDC
subject: Flash FM
subject: Harassed
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Kis24.info
subject: M23
subject: Patient Chimusa Pardonne
subject: Référence Congo FM
subject: RTNC
subject: Samson Nyandabaga Fabrice
subject: Serge Sindani
subject: Sources
subject: Steves Paluku Mbusa
subject: Thomson Unji Batangalwa
subject: Walungu Community Radio and Television
subject: and
subject: batangalwa
subject: broadcasters
subject: censored
subject: chimusa
subject: committee
subject: Community
subject: congo
subject: coverage
subject: Detained
subject: drc
subject: eastern
subject: fabrice
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subject: Journalists
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subject: m23
subject: mbusa
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subject: radio
subject: reference
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subject: samson
subject: serge
subject: sindani
subject: sources
subject: steves
subject: Television
subject: thomson
subject: unji
subject: walungu
subject: war
description: Journalists in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo face constant danger as warring parties seek to control information. In January and February, government forces and rebel groups both detained journalists over their reporting, including several for simply conducting interviews, while the rebel forces that control parts of the country’s eastern provinces held military positions in at least...
encoded: Journalists in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo face constant danger as warring parties seek to control information. In January and February, government forces and rebel groups both detained journalists over their reporting, including several for simply conducting interviews, while the rebel forces that control parts of the country’s eastern provinces held military positions in at least two broadcasters’ offices. The DRC’s mineral-rich, eastern region has been unstable since the end of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when ethnic conflict, combatants, and refugees spilled over into the DRC. It is one of the world’s worst, long-running humanitarian crises. The escalation in fighting and the M23 rebel group’s rapid, unprecedented gains in the past three years marked a significant upheaval for local media, with journalists caught between actors that share a desire to prevent the press from freely publicizing their actions. Ongoing arrests On March 3, three people claiming to be agents with the DRC’s National Intelligence Agency (ANR) arrested Serge Sindani, a journalist and director of the private site Kis24.info, in the city of Kisangani, in the northern Tshopo province, according to media reports and a local journalist who witnessed Sindani’s arrest and spoke to CPJ on the condition of anonymity, for security reasons. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="614" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DRC.png?w=1024" alt="Congolese armed forces arrested and detained Serge Sindani, a defense reporter for Kis24.info, on June 24, 2025, for posting a photo of combat aircraft on his X account two days prior. (Photo: Courtesy of Steves Paluku)" class="wp-image-492911" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DRC.png 3000w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DRC.png?resize=300,180 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DRC.png?resize=768,461 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/DRC.png?resize=1024,…

Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-11T18:22:56Z
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subject: arrest
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subject: now
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Journalist Barbara Dreaver’s memoir on three decades reporting from the Pacific
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-03-11T18:15:21Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: barbara
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subject: battle
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subject: books
subject: Cook Islands
subject: correspondents
subject: coverage
subject: Covid
subject: decades’
subject: Deportation
subject: dreaver’s
subject: drug
subject: epidemic
subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
subject: Foreign correspondent
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subject: gender
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subject: HIV
subject: Indigenous
subject: journalism
subject: journalist
subject: Justice
subject: Kiribati
subject: Media
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subject: Military coups
subject: new zealand
subject: Pacific
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subject: Pacific Report
subject: Politics
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subject: Reviews
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
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subject: the
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description: RNZ Pacific The seventh narco sub in Pacific waters was discovered last week as the wave of methamphetamine becomes the latest crisis challenging the region. 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has spent decades reporting on the region from this country, including the drug battle and subsequent HIV epidemic in some countries. Dreaver has released her
encoded: RNZ Pacific The seventh narco sub in Pacific waters was discovered last week as the wave of methamphetamine becomes the latest crisis challenging the region. 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has spent decades reporting on the region from this country, including the drug battle and subsequent HIV epidemic in some countries. Dreaver has released her memoir — Be Brave: The Life of a Pacific Correspondent — on covering the Pacific through natural disasters, military coups and criminal activity. READ MORE: Barbara Dreaver: I’ve never defended who I am, why should I? Other Barbara Dreaver reports She was detained and deported from Fiji before being blacklisted and not allowed to return for many years during former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama’s reign. Bainimarama was recently charged with inciting mutiny over allegations they encouraged senior Fiji Military Forces officers to act against the military commander in 2023. She is a well known face within in Aotearoa, and in much of the Pacific where 1News is screened. This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ. Listen to her interview with RNZ Nine to Noon This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – March 11, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-03-11T18:00:00Z
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subject: Politics
subject: sources
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 11, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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UN News Today 11 March 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-03-11T17:20:00Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: march
subject: News
subject: podcasts/un
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Aid chief condemns use of drones in $1 billion-a-day Middle East war: OCHALebanon: UN ‘blue helmets’ are staying, says peacekeeping chiefUNICEF worker confirmed killed in DR Congo
encoded: Aid chief condemns use of drones in $1 billion-a-day Middle East war: OCHALebanon: UN ‘blue helmets’ are staying, says peacekeeping chiefUNICEF worker confirmed killed in DR Congo This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Trump Could Choke Iran’s Economy With One Move? Kharg Island
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-11T16:30:05Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: ‘one
subject: “choke
subject: could
subject: economy
subject: europe/rl
subject: free
subject: iran’s
subject: island
subject: kharg
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subject: radio
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: with
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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US military aid to Israel is a national security risk
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creator: Branko Marcetic
date: 2026-03-11T15:55:07Z
subject: article
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: aid
subject: and
subject: International
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: military
subject: movements
subject: national
subject: Politics
subject: reprint
subject: risk
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: war
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Trump Eradicates Critical Oversight as he Fires More Inspectors General than All Other US Presidents Combined
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-03-11T15:53:02Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
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subject: trump
description: President Trump has removed more inspectors general (IGs) than all other presidents combined, leaving a gaping hole for accountability and ethics concerns according to a new Public Citizen report titled Undoing Accountability.In several cases, Trump’s...
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War Crimes Experts Quietly Leave Trump Admin
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-11T15:46:06Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: admin
subject: crimes
subject: Democracy
subject: experts
subject: leave
subject: now
subject: quietly
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: war
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Satellite Images Reveal Damage At Iranian Facilities After US-Israeli Airstrikes
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-11T15:35:15Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: airstrikes
subject: damage
subject: europe/rl
subject: facilities
subject: free
subject: Images
subject: iranian
subject: radio
subject: reveal
subject: satellite
subject: sources
subject: us-israeli
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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"Killers of Roe": Amy Littlefield Investigates the "Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" in U.S.
type: item
creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-11T14:32:25Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Abortion
subject: amy
subject: death
subject: Democracy
subject: investigates
subject: killers
subject: littlefield
subject: mysterious
subject: now
subject: rights
subject: roe
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: u.s.
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Where Is Iran’s New Leader Mojtaba Khamenei? | US Iran Update
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-03-11T14:31:33Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: europe/rl
subject: free
subject: iran
subject: iran’s
subject: khamenei
subject: leader
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Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-11T14:28:46Z
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The reasoning behind Bernie Sanders’ billionaire tax
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-03-11T14:28:40Z
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"No Stupid Rules of Engagement": Ahead of Iran War, DoD Halted Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-03-11T14:27:41Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 11, 2026
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Why China Crushed Its Own Tech Giants
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creator: The US-China Narrative
date: 2026-03-11T14:00:38Z
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description: In late 2020, Beijing did the unthinkable: it attacked its own champions. Trillions in market value vanished, the world’s largest IPO was halted, and entire industries were banned overnight. Western investors called it “economic suicide,” but they were looking at stock prices while China was looking at its society. This episode explains why the “Golden […] The post Why China Crushed Its Own Tech Giants appeared first on Dissident Voice.
encoded: In late 2020, Beijing did the unthinkable: it attacked its own champions. Trillions in market value vanished, the world’s largest IPO was halted, and entire industries were banned overnight. Western investors called it “economic suicide,” but they were looking at stock prices while China was looking at its society. This episode explains why the “Golden Goose” had to be caged and how China is pivoting from consumer apps to the “Hard Tech” of the future. The post Why China Crushed Its Own Tech Giants appeared first on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by The US-China Narrative.