The seaside town of Maricá, Brazil, was struggling, but it had oil revenue. So the local government started a basic income program based on a local alternative currency.
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it. The post Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence appeared first on The Intercept.
Fascist fashion items can help promote and provide funds for extremist groups. In some instances, it appears, their sale relies upon key services provided by prominent businesses that have policies against promoting racist organisations and hateful content. An investigation by Bellingcat has (...)
The state’s new ban is the most extreme in the country, going further than Texas’s notorious S.B. 8 by banning abortion after fertilization. The post Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos appeared first on The (...)
A private equity–owned emergency room staffing firm cofounded by a wealthy Republican congressman has been openly hailing a coming “oversupply” of doctors, promising prospective investors that a surplus of emergency physicians — soon projected to reach nearly ten thousand — will drive doctors’ (...)
On Thursday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill banning nearly all abortions in the state. Like a recent ban passed in Texas, which barred abortion after six weeks, the law will be enforced through private civil action. And Oklahoma’s bill takes things even further by banning abortion beginning at (...)
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, killing ten people. The eighteen-year-old alleged gunman, Payton S. Gendron, is said to have scrawled racial slurs onto the barrel of his gun and to have published a racist manifesto that runs into the (...)
In the wake of the Buffalo massacre, scholar-activist Rosa Clemente worries that communities of color will be more heavily policed while White supremacists will continue to access guns freely.
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point. The post The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care appeared first on The (...)
“As far as I was concerned, I’d met someone, and they were going to be my partner for life. I was going to marry them and have children with them.” In her new memoir Small Town Girl: Love, Lies, and the Undercover Police, activist Donna McLean writes of her boyfriend, known to her then as (...)
Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent Palestinian-American journalist working with Al Jazeera, was killed by a gunshot to the head on the morning of May 11, 2022 while reporting from Jenin, a Palestinian city in the West Bank. Abu Akleh was covering a raid that was being conducted by the Israeli (...)
The world, including the United States, has rightfully been in an uproar over the callous killing of the Palestinian American fifty-one-year-old veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military. The Al Jazeera journalist was shot while covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin (...)
The mass shooting inside a crowded, Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday, which killed 10 people and injured three more, is renewing fierce condemnation of the racist conspiracy known as the “great replacement theory,” after a racist manifesto believed to have been written by the gunman was (...)
Sri Lanka is in crisis. This week, the houses of government-aligned MPs have been set on fire and vehicles across the island left overturned. Several people have been killed, hundreds injured. Anti-government protesters are continuing to clash with supporters of the Rajapaksa clan, and the (...)
Normality has seemingly returned to Colombia. Streets are buzzing, restaurants and salsa clubs are open, masks are rarely seen — the pandemic appears to have receded into the past, becoming one topic among others. But the economic effects of COVID-19 linger on. The hardship experienced as people (...)
This is about minority rule. And it always has been. That’s what I found myself thinking as I watched my feeds fill with the breaking news of the Supreme Court leaked draft decision to overrule Roe v. Wade last week (and I’d love to hear how you’re processing the news—share your thoughts here). I (...)
Since Politico published a draft Supreme Court opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade will likely be struck down, Republicans have been reluctant to take the usual victory tour, instead focusing their attention on just how the opinion leaked. But late last week, Sen. Mitch McConnell hinted at (...)
On a humid morning in early October, Brittney Poolaw sat in an Oklahoma courtroom waiting on a verdict. Instead of the jail uniform she’d donned over the past 18 months, she wore a yellow and white blouse. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury returned with their decision: Poolaw (...)
Abortion looks set to be illegal in half the country within weeks. Politico obtained a leaked draft of the upcoming Supreme Court decision in which Justice Samuel Alito argues that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision found a right to abortion in the constitution that was never there. The decision (...)
According to an initial draft majority opinion that was leaked on Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority decided in a preliminary vote to strike down the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade in 1973. It’s a crushing blow to the abortion rights movement, but it’s (...)
Almost half of all Americans could lose access to abortion in their states if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, an outcome that seems all the more likely after a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion was published on Monday, sparking protests and calls to enshrine the landmark ruling in (...)
After a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion signaled the court’s intention to overturn the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, advocates for reproductive justice took to the streets in cities nationwide.
The Right is on the verge of achieving what it has promised to accomplish for decades: the destruction of a federal, constitutional right to an abortion. Democrats have for years raised small donor cash off of the perpetual conservative threat to reproductive rights and then evaded (...)
EU imposed sanctions on selected goods shipped to Russia and Belarus. Few transport companies found a way to transport them anyway, despite restrictions. Border Guard maintains that our borders are shut tight. We have decided to verify that claim, and found a company that agreed to transport (...)
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past few weeks, Nazeer Ahmed has been living in one of the hottest places on Earth. As a brutal heatwave has swept across India and Pakistan, his home in Turbat, in (...)
, par by Robin Fields and Adriana Gallardo (ProPublica)
by Robin Fields and Adriana Gallardo ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. If the U.S. Supreme Court does as its leaked draft opinion says and strikes down Roe v. Wade, researchers expect that (...)
Four of the justices voting to overturn Roe were appointed by presidents initially elected while losing the popular vote. The post Roe v. Wade Is About to Be Struck Down by the Electoral College appeared first on The Intercept.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia are seeing “dramatic” increases in child marriage as the worst climate-induced emergency for 40 years pushes people to the brink, the head of (...)
Under the rule of Narendra Modi, the Indian state has launched a sweeping authoritarian clampdown on political dissent. One of the manifestations of this onslaught has been the jailing of opponents on trumped-up charges of terrorism and conspiracy. The authorities refer to the victims of these (...)
“Ownership affordability.” This is the conceptual lodestar for the stories we tell ourselves about the housing crisis at the family dinner table, in news media, and in legislatures. The noble losers in this tale are the people who did all the right things — those would-be homeowners born at the (...)
On April 8, 2022, a Tochka-U short-range ballistic missile struck the main railway station in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of government-controlled Ukraine. The missile killed at least 50 people, including five children. Civilians had gathered at the station to flee the approaching Russian (...)
On April 9, tensions were running high in Pakistan’s National Assembly as legislators gathered to vote on the future of Imran Khan’s government. Khan’s supporters made fiery speeches, accusing their opponents of being part of US-sponsored regime change. The opposition benches retorted by (...)
Violence between the Taliban, the Islamic State, and other armed groups is also on the rise, according to the report from two NGOs. The post Women and Journalists Are Targets of Violence in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, Report Says appeared first on The (...)
, par Julia Rock, Walker Bragman, Andrew Perez (Jacobin)
A recent union drive at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island didn’t just deliver the first labor victory anywhere in the online retailer’s US operations when workers voted to unionize there. The bitter fight over the unionization effort has also provided a rare glimpse into how Democrats’ (...)
Les "street fundraisers" aussi appelés "recruteurs de donateurs" ou "ambassadeurs" sont apparus dans nos rues il y a une quinzaine d'années. Leur objectif : renouveler et rajeunir la base de donateurs des ONG. L'immense majorité de ces jeunes gens ne sont ni des bénévoles ni des salariés (...)
, par Karol Łuczka (Le Courrier d’Europe centrale)
Dans le quartier de Saltivka, les habitants de Kharkiv doivent se serrer les coudes pour survivre dans un décor postapocalyptique après les violents combats du printemps. Kharkiv, Ukraine, envoyé spécial… L’article À Saltivka, la dure vie des Kharkiviens dans un quartier détruit par les combats du (...)
Dans une ferme drômoise, aubergines, melons, courgettes... meurent à cause de la sécheresse. Les récoltes sont perdues. Face à la « catastrophe », les paysans disent être bien seuls. Divajeu (Drôme), reportage Ce qui devait être vert est jaune, ce qui devait être juteux est sec, ce qui était fertile est (...)
Face à l’absence de solution d’hébergement, des hommes seuls afghans doivent constamment se déplacer de campement en campement dans des conditions dramatiques, provoquant toujours plus d’épuisement et de fragilité.Reportages
Alors que Total et Stellantis viennent d’annoncer des résultats record, responsables politiques et ONG appellent à ponctionner les profits indus des multinationales.
TotalEnergies annonce de nouveaux superprofits records : plus de 17,7 milliards d'euros pour le premier semestre 2022. En parallèle, le groupe n'a pas payé d'impôts en France en 2020 et 2021. Une pratique habituelle chez ce géant de (...)
Des lieux culturels alternatifs essaiment à Strasbourg et trouvent leur public. Mais pour leurs fondatrices et fondateurs, les conditions sociales sont souvent très difficiles. Les gérants de la Grenze, du Phare citadelle et de l’Orée 85 décrivent des semaines de 70 ou 80 heures sans pouvoir se payer (...)
Fin 2019, les manifestations de « l’Estallido Social » secouaient le Chili. 3 ans plus tard, la colère a abouti sur un mouvement politique inédit avec l’élection de Gabriel Boric et la création d’une assemblée constituante qui doit remplacer le texte actuel rédigé sous la dictature. Le nouveau (...)
Méconnus du grand public, les laboratoires expérimentaux sont des lieux de création uniques au sein desquels se développe une approche originale et écologique du cinéma. Entre leurs murs, les artistes réinventent outils et modalités de relation avec le (...)
Interdiction d’aller à l’école ou de travailler, mariages forcés, répression des manifestantes... À partir de témoignages collectés depuis la prise de pouvoir par les talibans en août dernier, Amnesty International publie, ce mercredi, un rapport qui documente les mécanismes d’oppression spécifique à (...)
Fondé en 2012, la formation dirigée par Giorgia Meloni, héritière des postfascistes du MSI, n’a jamais été aussi proche d’arriver au pouvoir. Auteur d’un livre à paraître sur le sujet, Valerio Alfonso Bruno en décrit l’essence et la stratégie.
, par Justine Brabant, European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) (Médiapart)
Depuis 2021, Bois Rouge, une entreprise liée au groupe militaire privé Wagner, bras armé officieux du Kremlin, exploite une forêt à l’ouest de la Centrafrique. Elle bénéficie d’un étonnant traitement de faveur de la part des autorités, et œuvre parfois au mépris de la (...)
Elles ont tourné avec des stars comme Booba, Niska, Guy2Bezbar, Gims ou encore Gazo. Mais pour Ruby, Shayna, Gabie, Olivia ou Lihliaa, modèles vues des millions de fois dans des vidéos où la démonstration de richesse fait partie des codes, l’argent est très loin de couler à flots. The post Figurantes (...)
En Bretagne, brasseurs et agriculteurs s'organisent pour une bière locale de la terre jusqu'au verre, sans devoir importer massivement la matière première.
Le témoignage d'un "rédacteur fantôme au service des lobbies" publié par "Fakir" a précipité les journalistes de quelques médias français sur les traces d'Avisa partners. Ils ont décortiqué les méthodes de cette société spécialisée dans les opérations d'influence menées pour le compte de grandes sociétés ou (...)
Un dossier aussi sensible que symbolique revient sur le bureau du préfet du Finistère. Philippe Mahé demandera prochainement l'avis du conseil départemental de l'environnement (Coderst) sur le dossier de la SARL Avel vor, à Landunvez. L'une des plus grandes porcheries de France, détenue par le (...)
, par Christine Bouisset, Maître de conférences en géographie, membre du laboratoire TREE - Transitions Energétiques et Environnementales, UMR 6031 CNRS, Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour (UPPA) (The Conversation)
, par Romain Huët, Maitre de conférences en sciences de la communication, Chercheur au PREFICS (Plurilinguismes, Représentations, Expressions Francophones, Information, Communication, Sociolinguistique), Université Rennes 2 (The Conversation)