Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended… Read More ›
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Bizarre Republican Ad Blames Biden for Anti-Asian Violence Incited by Trump
Citizens for Sanity, a shadowy nonprofit run by three former Trump administration officials, has purchased $33 million worth of air time this month to flood airwaves with violent, misleading ads that claim that Democrats are exclusively to blame for a… Read More ›
Joe Biden’s Empty Rhetoric About Hope and History
To anyone familiar with the context in which the Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote that “once in a lifetime/ The longed-for tidal wave/ Of justice can rise up/ And hope and history rhyme,” there was something deeply depressing about hearing… Read More ›
Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Russian Biologists Say
At considerable risk to their own safety, 10 Russian biologists, including researchers who remain in Russia, have publicly accused the Russian government of lying about having proof that biological weapons were being developed in Ukrainian labs funded by the United… Read More ›
Russia's Shattered Opposition Fights to Make Its Voice Heard on Ukraine
As Russia blocked social networks and news sites to keep the truth about President Vladimir Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine from contradicting official lies, Ilya Yashin, a Russian politician who helped lead mass street protests against Putin’s reelection in 2012, took… Read More ›
Zelensky Posts Defiant Videos From the Streets of Kyiv as Putin's Forces Close In
As his invasion of Ukraine intensified on Friday, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, recorded a televised appeal to the Ukrainian military. Speaking with barely constrained fury, Putin urged the Ukrainian soldiers his forces are trying to kill to seize power… Read More ›
Rittenhouse Trial Judge Blocks Prosecutor From Asking If Far-Right Videographer Is Biased
Judge Bruce Schroeder, who is presiding over the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, interrupted the lead prosecutor on Thursday to prevent him from asking a far-right political commentator if the right-wing network he works for is biased. Judge Schroeder has… Read More ›
A Right-Wing Brawler Asked a Court to Protect Him From an Antifascist's Tweets
For two months now, the animosity between right-wing activists and left-wing antifascists, which regularly leads to violence at street protests, has played out in a setting where physical combat is not allowed: the Los Angeles Superior Court in Torrance, California…. Read More ›
Palestinian Rights Groups That Document Israeli Abuses Labeled "Terrorists" by Israel
An order signed by Israel’s defense minister on Friday designated six leading Palestinian human rights groups “terror organizations,” marking an escalation in Israel’s effort to deprive independent agencies that document Israeli military abuses in the occupied territories of funding from… Read More ›
Taliban Spokesman Accuses Facebook of Stifling Free Speech by Banning Group
The Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, emerged from the shadows on Tuesday and devoted part of his first press conference to a rant about Facebook, in which he accused the tech giant of violating the Islamist group’s right to free speech… Read More ›