Ryan Grim will be joining The Intercept as D.C. bureau chief later this month. Grim was most recently the D.C. bureau chief for the Huffington Post, where he led a team renowned for breaking political news while his own reporting… Read More ›
Archive for May 2017
Donald Trump May Escalate the Afghanistan War He Spent Years Calling a “Terrible Mistake”
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing a proposal to send thousands of more troops to Afghanistan, an escalation of the longest war in U.S. history. This would be a significant about-face from Trump’s public position in the years prior to his… Read More ›
Women Should Not Be Ashamed to Talk About Abortion: A Conversation with Author Carol Sanger
The last couple of weeks have not been good for millions of American women. On May 4, House lawmakers passed their version of a new healthcare law that if adopted would eliminate many of the gender-leveling provisions mandated by the… Read More ›
Jimmy Carter and Bernie Sanders Explain How Inequality Breeds Authoritarianism
On Monday night, one day after the far-right Marine Le Pen lost France’s presidential election but garnered a record number of votes for her political party, Bernie Sanders and Jimmy Carter sat down together to discuss rising authoritarianism across the globe. The… Read More ›
Puerto Rico’s $123 Billion Bankruptcy Is the Cost of U.S. Colonialism
Last week Puerto Rico officially became the largest bankruptcy case in the history of the American public bond market. On May 3, a fiscal control board imposed on the island’s government by Washington less than a year ago suddenly announced… Read More ›
Sally Yates Testimony Shows White House Lied About Michael Flynn
THE TRUE STORY of Michael Flynn’s departure from the Trump White House is shaping up to be very different from the story the White House pushed forward at the time of his resignation as national security adviser. On Monday afternoon, after… Read More ›
Police in Georgia Are Turning Traffic Stops Into the First Step Toward Deportation
In the northern suburbs of Atlanta in February, days after President Donald Trump went on a 3 a.m. Twitter rant to defend his crackdown on “illegal criminals” (“Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!”), the first batch of… Read More ›
Why Donald Trump Is Scared of Sally Yates
Sally Yates, who led the Department of Justice during President Trump’s first days in office, is scheduled to testify on Monday afternoon before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yates’s testimony is expected to contradict what the Trump White House… Read More ›
Security at Resistance Camps: Lessons from Standing Rock
On May 6, 2017 Lisha Sterling gave a presentation at LinuxFest Northwest about the digital warfare enacted against Water Protectors at the camps at Standing Rock in 2016 and 2017. The slides are available at this link. Click to visit… Read More ›
Bringing Internet To Oceti Sakowin
On May 7, 2017 Lisha Sterling gave a presentation at LinuxFest Northwest about how we set up Internet for Water Protectors at the camps at Standing Rock in 2016 and 2017. The slides are available at this link. Click to… Read More ›