Friday, June 12, 2026

Hightower up against the corporate wall

Earlier this week, Creators’s Syndicate informed Hightower they were not going to distribute his weekly article.

Study linking US sanctions to Venezuelan deaths buried by Reuters for over a month

Western media outlets are perfectly willing to ignore their own reporting when it suits powerful interests.

When witnessing becomes activism

Witnesses, whether by accident or vocation, help to shape how societies understand social upheaval and respond to social change.

Human zoos in the age of Trump

Humans as “animals,” then and now.

5 ways small actions have huge power

To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.

On Indigenous People’s Day, a look at the movement to revive Native foodways and...

This means that restoring food sovereignty to Native communities requires the re-introduction of indigenous food production, distribution practices and infrastructure, in concert with the re-valuation of traditional ecological knowledge that has long been sidelined from Western notions of science.
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Gaza is already unlivable: A response to Israel’s deadly airstrikes targeting TV station &...

Israel launched its heaviest airstrikes on the region since 2014, targeting scores of buildings, including the TV station Al-Aqsa TV. Israeli airstrikes also reportedly hit dozens of homes.
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Trump escalates economic attack on Cuba, banning Americans from educational, cultural trips

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba “providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

SeaWorld to open new park – killer whales not included

The company’s Abu Dhabi attraction is set to debut in 2020 and will use virtual reality to depict marine life, not live orcas.

More than a thousand arrested as Yellow Vests protests over economic frustration rage on...

Some 1,220 people were arrested in France on Saturday as more than a hundred thousand took to the streets – leading to a lockdown...