Ecuador’s Elections Are Being Undermined By Foreign And Domestic Interference Above photo: Screenshot. Ex-Diplomat explains. Before the votes were fully counted in Ecuador’s latest elections, one candidate received a phone call from the US embassy assuring him that he would be in the second roun…

‘Pipe Dream’: Enbridge Escalates Local Tensions Above photo: The water protector educational event in Palisade, MN featured a puppet show. Mary Annette Pember. Community crackdown on water protectors in Minnesota raises constitutional questions about free speech, assembly. Palisade, Minnesota…

Above photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. Twelve months ago, Dr. Michael Osterholm was interviewed on the Joe Rogan Program. At the time, he warned that anywhere from 400,000 to 1.5 million Americans would die of COVID and that the pandemic would last for many years and significantly impact our lives. So…

Above image: Jared Rodriguez. I Dream of Cooking for My Family. There are very few freedoms at Guantánamo Bay prison, where I have been held without charge or trial — referred to as Guantánamo ISN 1461 — for over 16 years. The right to starve myself is one of them, but even then, they force-fe…

Above photo: Clear evidence: Atlantic currents carry the Gulf Stream. Getty Images/iStockphoto. New research paints a ‘consistent picture’ of change to the Atlantic’s ‘conveyer belt’, which plays a major role in world’s weather. The Atlantic Ocean current that plays a major role in the…

An explosive new report finds Aurora, CO cops who tortured and killed Elijah McClain had no cause to detain or choke him; corrupt investigation helped killer cops walk free. Meanwhile the organizers of the peaceful mass protests that forced the investigation face severe retaliation and decades in…

Above photo: Breanna Bertacchi, one of the hunger strikers, poses for a portrait as community members, leaders and activists gathered outside City Hall to call on Mayor Lightfoot to deny the permit to move General Iron to the Southeast Side on the 20th day of the hunger strike on Feb. 23, 2021. Coli…

Above photo: Members and supporters of Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine protest the university administration’s refusal to register SJP as a student organization, in New York. Jan. 23, 2017. Joe Catron/Flickr. This university claims to be pro-justice. So why is it banning Palestine activi…

Privacy, Immigrant Rights Groups Slam Biden’s ‘Smart Wall’ Above photo: John Moore/Getty Images. A coalition of privacy and immigrant rights groups are pushing back on the Biden administration’s proposal to deploy a “smart” wall on the southern border. In a statement released Thursday…

Above photo: Rally at Vermont State House. NESRI. NOTE: It is the position of Popular Resistance that Congress must pass national improved Medicare for all now as part of its actions to address the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.  – MF Town Meeting is coming up, and Putney residents will have a…

Ampled co-founder Austin Robey and researcher Danny Spitzberg on what’s possible with cooperative business models—especially when applied to the web. This interview is part of Strange Futures, a column hosted by Willa Köerner of The Strange Foundation, which features artists and organizers who…

Above photo: Tractor caravan to Mexico City farmer protest demands “Mexico Free of Transgenics”. Enrique Perez S./ANEC. Presidential Decree Comes Despite Intense Pressure from Industry, U.S. Authorities. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with h…

Above photo: Members of the Southern Movement Assembly in Tampa, Florida on the Southern People’s Power Tour in 2018. Lessons from the Southern Movement Assembly and the People’s First 100 Days. As winter storms rocked Texas and others across the South last week, Southern organizers waited for n…

Above photo: José Balmes (Chile), Lota el Silencio, 2007. Stencilled in red on the walls of Santiago, Chile is a statement of fact: ‘your privileges are not universal’ (tus privilegios no son universales). This is a factual declaration because the privileges of power and property are not shared…

Above photo: YouTube. Once again, Black activists and organizers are demanding our society transform itself and land on the right side of history. However, the state has chosen to greet this opportunity with increased violence and surveillance, doubling down on its commitment to undermine and disrup…

Scheer Intelligence: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Above photo: A poetry reading with Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books, October 24, 2007 (voxtheory). From Normandy and Nagasaki to Ginsberg and City Lights. The poet and co-founder of famed City Lights Bookstore talks about his life and work publis…

Above photo: Poplar, CA 2020, Maria Madrigal picks persimmons in a field near Poplar, in the San Joaquin Valley, in a crew of Mexican immigrants. Many workers wear facemasks or bandannas as a protection against the coronavirus. 2021 David Bacon. Dignity or Exploitation? Oakland, CA – As the Biden…

Above photo: Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani (Syria). Lefteris Pitaraki/AP. NOTE: We cannot have a repeat of what happened during the Obama administration when the antiwar movement faltered as Obama started more wars, destroyed Libya, militarized Africa, pi…

Above photo: Max Forster. Protecting forests is an essential strategy in the fight against climate change that has not received the attention it deserves. Trees capture and store massive amounts of carbon. And unlike some strategies for cooling the climate, they don’t require costly and complicate…

Above photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images. William Burns said China poses the ‘biggest geopolitical test’ for the US during Senate confirmation hearings. William Burns, Biden’s pick for CIA chief, had tough words for China during his Senate confirmation hearing and identified countering Beijing…

Above photo: From NS archive. “Castle Bravo” Nuclear Blast Reverberates 67 Years Later. On March 1, 1954, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense exploded a huge thermonuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where they had been testing bombs since 1946. Be…

‘America Is Back’ – Joe Biden’s US Foreign Policy Above photo: Getty images. US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, “American is back,” in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 19. Repeated twice for effect, Biden signaled the end of…

Above photo: From Food and Water Watch. Today, Governor Tom Wolf voted with the governors of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware to ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin and to remove from consideration regulations that would have allowed the transfer of water from the basin to fracking operations…

Reuters, BBC, And Bellingcat Participated In Covert UK Foreign Office-Funded Programs To ‘Weaken Russia’ New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel…

The people of Texas suffer unnecessarily from bad weather because their state puts oligarchs first and does not recognize the human right to health and safety. “Consumers pay unregulated utilities who are allowed to charge a fluctuating wholesale price which soars when demand is high.” Texas, th…