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Media Illiteracy at the Highest Level: The Texting Scandal That Could Change Everything
While sitting in a Safeway parking lot, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, inadvertently became a witness to a national security breach. The breach occurred when National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added Goldberg to a Signal chat titled “Houthi...
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Post-9/11 War Spending Exceeds $8 Trillion | Heidi Peltier of The Costs of War Project
When you put all of that together, these post-9/11 wars have already cost, or will cost, $8 trillion. And that number may continue to rise.
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Nominations Now Open for Annual “Izzy Award” for Independent Media
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The Revolution Starts at the Table
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Finding Ourselves in the Days After Trump Wins
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Manufacturing Outrage, One Pet at a Time
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The Rise of Misogynoir Fascism
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Rocking The Forest: Rockstadt Extreme Fest Pummels Romania
Nestled beneath lush pine forests of the Carpathian Mountains in the quaint Transylvanian town of Rasnov, Rockstadt Extreme Fest unleashed its tenth annual independent music...
Radicalize the Promise of Kamala
My purpose: to claim all possibilities for radicalizing Kamala Harris’s campaign to demand a ceasefire and not one more bomb, while making sure that Trump does not win. And...