5 Indigenous women asserting the modern matriarchy
They are reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
Making sense of reactionary victim culture
Along with their portrayal of themselves as the real victims of made up or almost entirely online concepts like ‘cancel culture’, many on the right from politicians to pundits also excel at projection.
In ‘glimmer of accountability,’ executives, loggers charged in 2014 murders of four Indigenous land...
Environmental campaigners called the charges "unprecedented."
From the 80s to today, the top 1 percent gain trillions, while the rest...
"Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion."
Mistakes in the news are not fake news
And tantrums from the faker-in-chief don’t make them so.
Trump’s war on the courts, the press, and the states
Trump doesn’t want any resistance. He wants total control.
New report on ‘grocery cartels’ details exploitive retailer monopolies
"The grocery cartel has created an illusion of choice and efficiency to disguise their profiteering off of the American consumer, who is unwillingly asked to trade abundance for resilience."
Mother’s Day tears
The fierce prophetic vision of poor women...
Reporting from around the world, Reese Erlich was a beacon of independent journalism
While Reese won prizes, including a Peabody Award, he did something far more important -- skillfully and consistently challenging “the basic assumptions of empire.”
As media labels Fukushima a “conspiracy theory,” radiation soars to record level
Considering so little is currently understood about the catastrophe, perhaps so-called conspiracy theorists, who doubt the ‘Fukushima is under control, don’t worry about it’ narrative, are the only ones displaying a modicum of common sense.