Editors’ Picks for Feb 4
Trump Manages to Maintain White Nationalist Vote, US Seeks to Export Cyber-Terror Tools, France Poised to Extend State of Emergency, and More Picks
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An Explosive Situation Is Brewing in Turkey
Turks against Kurds, ISIS against Kurds, Russia against ISIS, Turkey against Russia — who will be the winner? And how will it affect the rest of the world?
Study shows GOP Candidates Who Lie the Most, Do the Best
With no apparent repercussions for lying on the campaign trail, all candidates are bending the truth at disconcerting levels. An analysis of data from the group that impartially “outs” the liars finds the worst offenders on the GOP side.
Editors’ Picks for Jan 26
Undocumented Immigrants Afraid to Line Up for Clean Water in Flint, An Unacknowledged US Airbase in Syria, The Pentagon’s Expensive Failure in Afghanistan, and More Picks
Editors’ Picks for Jan 25
Biden Calls PKK a ‘Terror Group’, Clinton Laughs at the Idea of Releasing Goldman Sachs Transcripts, Woody Guthrie’s Anti-Trump Message, and More Picks
Editors’ Picks for Jan 22
Meet the Members Attending the Mysterious ‘Davos Gathering’, The Year When Plastic in the Ocean Outnumbers the Fish, Shiny and New US Military Base in Syria?, and More Picks
Editors’ Picks for Jan 19
What Drives the Pro-Gun Argument, Will NYC’s Mayor Become the Climate Change Leader He Promises to Be?, Charlie Hebdo’s Refugee Cartoon Strikes Ire, and More Picks
He Told You So: President Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex Speech
On January 17, 1961, outgoing president Dwight D. Eisenhower, a military man, warned us to beware of the masters of America’s industrial war machine and their growing hold over the country. On this anniversary of his famous speech, it is worth listening to his prophetic words, if only to consider why no one has taken heed of them.
Fill Up Your Gas Tank — and Support Repression, Tyrants, Wars, Terrorism and Atrocities
Every time you fill up your tank or buy the latest smartphone, chances are that you are putting bullets in a gun thousands of miles away. In this podcast, Leif Wenar, the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King’s College London, reveals the true ugliness behind the marriage of resource-seeking corporations and the most corrupt despots. He also proposes an ethical alternative — Clean Trade — that benefits everyone but the tyrants.
Editors’ Picks for Jan 6
Health Care Even a Problem for the Insured, Florida’s Unprocessed Rape Kits, ISIS Executes First Female Citizen and More Picks
What the Upcoming Iranian Elections Could Mean for Us All
In February, Iran will hold elections that could determine the country’s future — and the future of the rest of the world, especially that of the US.
Check Out What We Achieved — With Your Help
Here’s a sampling of what we accomplished in 2015 —
with your help. It shows the power we all have, when we choose to exercise it. Exciting stuff!