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Trump Administration Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads in Effort to Ramp Up Executions

Trump Administration Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads in Effort to Ramp Up Executions

“His first instinct almost always seems to be demonize someone as an enemy," said Sister Helen Prejean.

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Musk and Silicon Valley Aren’t Libertarian. They Want to Fuse With the State.

Musk and Silicon Valley Aren’t Libertarian. They Want to Fuse With the State.

Big Tech seeks “a closer relationship to the state than they had before,” says author Quinn Slobodian.

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Indigenous Activists Decry “Data Colonialism” of AI Boom in Their Communities

Indigenous Activists Decry “Data Colonialism” of AI Boom in Their Communities

Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.

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Deaths in ICE Custody Surge in 2026, Averaging 1 Every Week

Deaths in ICE Custody Surge in 2026, Averaging 1 Every Week

Advocate Setareh Ghandehari says rampant medical neglect and abuse are largely responsible for the rise in deaths.

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International Law Is Being Used to Restrain Iran, Enable US and Israel

International Law Is Being Used to Restrain Iran, Enable US and Israel

Western countries condemn restrictions in the Hormuz Strait more than the “clearly unlawful war,” says Maryam Jamshidi.

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Minneapolis Woman Violently Dragged From Car by ICE Files Claim Against DHS

Minneapolis Woman Violently Dragged From Car by ICE Files Claim Against DHS

Aliya Rahman hopes to highlight tools that could “make mass acts of racial violence seem too expensive for these folks.”

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Swalwell, Gonzales Resignations Could Point to Pattern of Misconduct In Congress

Congress “shouldn’t see these resignations as the end of the story,” gender justice expert Fatima Goss Graves says.

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Former US and Iranian Negotiators Discuss Trump’s Failed Iran War Talks

As Trump vows to blockade Iranian ports, the diplomats say his “mercurial” approach makes peace talks challenging.

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Global Oil Prices Jump After US-Iran Negotiations Fail in Less Than 24 Hours

Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports and Iran threatened to strike other Gulf ports in retaliation.

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Close Political Ties to Trump Are Becoming Increasingly Toxic in Europe

Even far-right governments like Italy’s find it more difficult to show Trump support, scholar Nathalie Tocci says.

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Israel Kills More Than 200 People in Deadliest Day of Resumed War on Lebanon

“The silence of states and the continued flow of weapons has only emboldened Israel,” researcher Ramzi Kaiss says.

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Trump Budget Proposal Gives Pentagon Record $1.5T Funding, Cuts Social Programs

“It’s beyond the wildest dreams of the military-industrial complex,” says Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman.

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Absence of Accountability for Gaza Genocide Has Enabled Israel’s War on Lebanon

There has been “no accountability whatsoever for violations of the laws of war,” says researcher Ramzi Kaiss.

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Freed After a Year in ICE Jail, Palestinian Protester Leqaa Kordia Speaks Out

“ICE dungeons are systematically ... built to break people mentally,” Kordia said.

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Has the US Already Lost the War on Iran?

Trump's televised speech was an admission of “defeat in the war of narratives," says scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.

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Workers in Colorado Continue Historic Strike at US’s Largest Meat Processor

Workers are protesting low wages, lack of personal protective gear, and discrimination against immigrant employees.

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Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Targeted in Assassination Plot

Kiswani says she has been “screaming into the void” about the way Palestine activists have been targeted with violence.

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Jeremy Scahill Debunks Trump’s Lies About US Strategy and Negotiations With Iran

Scahill also discusses possible avenues of US escalation and what he’s learned in conversations with Iranian officials.

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Amid War, the Middle East Remains a Key Center of the Global Economy

As nuclear-armed countries violate international law, others may turn to proliferation as a form of deterrence.

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Delia Ramirez Calls for Dismantling “Agency of Terror” as New DHS Head Sworn In

Ramirez also discusses the birthright citizenship Supreme Court case, the US fuel blockade against Cuba, and more.

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Iranian Government Dismisses Trump’s Claim That US-Iran Negotiations Have Begun

Daniel Levy analyzes US, Israeli, and Iranian wartime strategy; Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank; and more.

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Applications for Conscientious Objector Status Have Spiked Since Iran War Began

Antiwar veteran Mike Prysner attributes the spike to a shift in consciousness that started with the Gaza genocide.

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Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds in Lebanon Amid Fears of an Imminent Ground Invasion

People don’t feel like anywhere is safe in an unpredictable war that has no limits, says reporter Kareem Chehayeb.

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The War on Iran Is Reshaping the Global Economy

Professor Laleh Khalili discusses the implications for the petrodollar and for sustainable alternatives to oil.

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The Pentagon Is Using Palantir AI to Bomb Thousands of Targets in Iran

The system, known as Project Maven, also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic.

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Cuba’s Electrical Grid Has Collapsed as Trump Threatens to “Take” the Island

“Sanctions are literally killing people right now,” says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, speaking from Havana.

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Israel Expands Bombing Campaign and Mass Displacement in Lebanon

Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon and over 800,000 people have been displaced.

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A Sense of Nationalism Grows in Iran in Defiance of Deadly US-Israeli Attacks

Professor Narges Bajoghli explains how harsh sanctions and propaganda had created a political divide among Iranians.

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Pete Hegseth Halted US Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths Ahead of Iran War

People who were tracking civilian casualties have been reassigned to other jobs, says journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed.

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World’s Dangerous Reliance on Oil Transforms Fossil Fuels Into Weapons of War

War on Iran exposes “the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels,” says journalist Antonia Juhasz.

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Israel Denies Palestinians Access to Bomb Shelters as War on Iran Continues

Public focus on Iran has allowed the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to continue unabated, says journalist Orly Noy.

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Israel Intensifies Attacks on Lebanon and Orders Mass Displacement in the South

Far right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to destroy areas of Lebanon as Israel did to Gaza.

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Nearly 4 Years After His Death, Documentary About Journalist Nominated for Oscar

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud also honors other fallen journalists, says Craig Renaud.

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A New Regional War Could Be More Devastating Than 25 Years of “Forever Wars”

Iran is aiming for a war of attrition with the world’s biggest military superpower and another nuclear-armed state.

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US-Israel War on Iran Part of Long Campaign Against Regional Self-Determination

“All this does is heighten the determination of Indigenous people to find out how they can resist,” says Rami Khouri.

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Prisoners in Iran Report Limited Access to Food as US-Israeli Attack Continues

“These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people,” says a scholar who was on death row in Iran.

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Mohsen Mahdawi: DHS Abduction Possible Because of Columbia’s Trump Capitulation

Even though Ellie Aghayeva was released, the university has long failed to stand up for its students, says Mahdawi.

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Committee to Protect Journalists Reports a Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025

For both 2024 and 2025, the Israeli military was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings.

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DHS Assault Victim Aliya Rahman Arrested at State of the Union Address

“I was arrested for standing up,” says Rahman, who was removed from the chamber Tuesday and spent several hours in jail.

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Climate Crisis Will Intensify Strong Winter Storms, Climate Scientist Warns

The Trump administration is defunding FEMA as well as climate research, making responding to such storms more difficult.

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Despite So-Called Ceasefire, “It’s Still a Genocide, Ongoing,” Says Gaza Poet

Israel continues to carry out strikes inside Gaza despite the US-brokered “ceasefire” that went into effect in October.

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Palestinian Activist Targeted by Trump Hails Order That Blocks His Deportation

“I will continue to work for the freedom of the Palestinian people,” says Mohsen Mahdawi.

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Both the US and Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict, Expert Warns

“Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position,” says Trita Parsi.

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Jesse Jackson’s Legacy Spans from Civil Rights Movement to Anti-Apartheid Fight

The way to honor Jackson is to “intensify the struggle for racial and economic justice,” his campaign co-chair said.

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US Oil Blockade on Cuba Is Harming Hospitals, Education, and Scientific Research

Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the UN, discusses how the US is also attacking medical programs and tourism.

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Netanyahu Meets With Trump Early, Days After US and Iran Held Nuclear Talks

Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani says Netanyahu aims to inject poison pills into the US-Iran negotiations so they fail.

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Trump’s EPA Is Set to Scrap a Landmark Emissions Policy in Deregulatory Push

Among other things, the move would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming.

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Journalist: Mainstream Media Complicit in Normalizing Epstein File Revelations

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr says the “self-censorship” happening in the United States is “deeply worrying.”

11.02.2026 10

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Vance Booed as Olympics Kicked Off Amid Local Opposition to Hosting the Games

The Olympics have become a place to test new security and surveillance measures that then stay in place after the games.

10.02.2026 10

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Former Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper

“Journalism deserves better,” says Karen Attiah, who was fired last fall over comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.

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