Ghana’s anti-LGBTIQ bill: Activists are preparing to fight
Ghana’s only openly trans musician Angel Maxine speaks out on the dangers of a proposed anti-LGBTIQ bill
Free Media
mardi 10 janvier
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Ghana’s anti-LGBTIQ bill: Activists are preparing to fight
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Five Climate Questions for 2023
All good stories start with a question. So here are five questions for journalists to consider as the record-breaking accumulation of greenhouse gases continues into the opening days of 2023.
jeudi 5 janvier
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Russian disinformation campaign uses forged government documents
A network of fake news sites has been flooding Europe and targets Germany. The Russian campaign also entails forged government documents.
mardi 3 janvier
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How Jan. 6 Brought Frontier Violence to Heart of U.S. Power
The rioters had the aspect of barbarians ready to sack the Capitol. So who was manning the gates? The post How Jan. 6 Brought Frontier Violence to the Heart of U.S. Power appeared first on The Intercept. -
Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts
Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and non-disabled people alike.
dimanche 1er janvier
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What the United States Owes Afghan Women
To justify its 20-year war, the U.S. said it cared about the Afghan people. Now Congress is abandoning those seeking to escape Taliban rule. The post What the United States Owes Afghan Women appeared first on The Intercept.
vendredi 30 décembre 2022
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Nazi Germany Used Honorary Consuls to Advance Agenda Globally
A ProPublica-ICIJ investigation into shadow diplomats identified about 20 honorary consuls suspected of supporting the Third Reich through espionage and other activities.
jeudi 22 décembre 2022
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How Pasadena Tenant Organizers Helped Win a Historic Rent Control Law
On December 5, the vote to enact Measure H as an amendment to the Pasadena, California, city charter was officially certified. This measure enacted a stricter form of rent control than provided by the state, and just cause eviction criteria. The measure also mandates the creation of a rental (...)
mercredi 21 décembre 2022
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As QAnon Falters, European Followers Flock to a Financial Conspiracy
Imagine you’re a jaded stalwart of the QAnon conspiracy. The latest batch of ‘drops’ – the cryptic posts into which you’ve read so much – aren’t quite as enticing, and you’re not even sure that Donald Trump will return to the Oval Office. But you’re not ready to reassess your belief system. Luckily for (...) -
5 ways climate change made life more expensive in 2022
From grocery bills to insurance premiums, warming temperatures hit Americans' wallets hard this year. -
How Banned Russian and Belarusian Wood is Sneaked Into the EU
Not long after imposing sanctions on wood imports from Russia and Belarus, Europe saw an influx of wood supposedly coming from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Authorities say sanctions-busters are increasingly mislabeling wood as Central Asian so they can keep bringing it in to the EU. The post How (...)
mardi 20 décembre 2022
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Ukraine’s Roma refugees housed in cold, cramped hostels and denied schooling
‘When local government people visit, they wear masks and gloves, as if they’re afraid of catching something.’
lundi 19 décembre 2022
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The Ultimate Winner of the World Cup Was Transnational Capital
Much has been written on the perverse power of sports-washing surrounding the 2022 World Cup, and rightly so. Western commentators have justifiably criticized the host country Qatar’s political authoritarianism and draconian labor conditions leading up to the tournament. In response, (...)
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Record Low Election Turnout in Tunisia as Saied’s Former Backers Stay Home
Elections for a new parliament saw the lowest turnout ever in a Tunisian election. Even President Saied's former backers stayed home.
dimanche 18 décembre 2022
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Repression Can’t Snuff Out West Papua’s Struggle for Freedom
West Papua has the world’s third-largest rainforest and is one of its most biodiverse areas, with an equally rich array of indigenous tribes and languages. It is also the site of a long but little-known struggle for self-determination. In the 1960s, West Papua exchanged one colonial occupier, (...)
mercredi 14 décembre 2022
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by Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner and Kathleen McGrory ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When ProPublica published stories this fall cataloging new evidence that American chemical workers are (...)
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Nuclear Fusion Promises “Near-Limitless Energy”—Someday
This story and brief explainer were originally published by the Guardian and are reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers have reportedly made a breakthrough in the quest to unlock a “near-limitless, safe, clean” source of energy: They got more energy out of a (...)
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Before Roe, a Baptist Preacher Performed Abortions in Secret. Now He’s Helping Texans.
The first thing Dr. Curtis Boyd did when he arrived at work one cloudy Monday morning in January was turn on his radio. It was 1973, and Boyd, an ordained Baptist minister, had been providing underground abortions for five years, most recently out of a mountaintop house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (...)
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Children Buried in Secret: The Shocking Story of the Zarzis Shipwreck
A shipwreck of Tunisian migrants bound for Europe - including children - has locals outraged at officials who buried their dead in secret.
mardi 13 décembre 2022
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Poland: Women’s rights defenders fighting a broken justice
The right to a fair trial is no longer guaranteed in Poland, say the activists protesting strict abortion laws
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Police may be assessing climate protesters for terrorism
Counter-terror police are being sent intelligence on activists who threaten businesses amid crackdown on protests
lundi 12 décembre 2022
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COVID Tragedy at Nursing Home Underscores the Deadly Risks of For-Profit Care
The owners of a New York-based nursing home pocketed millions in taxpayer dollars as patients suffered and died.
mercredi 7 décembre 2022
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At COP15, Indigenous leaders warn against 'biggest land grab in history'
At the UN biodiversity conference, Indigenous leaders fight to be included in 30x30 talks.
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Moscow’s Mule: How Russia Rewrote a Narcotics Case to Get its Spy Back
When the reported Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov was arrested in Brazil, Russia’s authorities suddenly remembered he’d been wanted all along – for smuggling heroin in 2012.
mardi 6 décembre 2022
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Life is tough for Russian independent media now in exile
Russian independent media outlets are making a painful transition from Kremlin censorship to life in exile
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Indigenous Argentineans Resist Becoming “Sacrifice Zone” for Ecocolonialism - Truthout
The Global North’s demand for lithium threatens a new chapter of colonial dispossession.
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Anti-Authoritarian Collective Action Is Happening on a Mass Scale in China - Truthout
This resistance is the result of a confluence of immediate catalysts and long-term political and economic dynamics.
lundi 5 décembre 2022
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The Fight for Housing Justice in Los Angeles
From the Los Angeles Tenants Union to Downtown Crenshaw, communities of color in L.A. are rewriting the rules of housing rights. -
A Wisconsin town tried to stop factory farm pollution. Then got sued
"This is standard operating procedure for the Big Ag boys."
dimanche 4 décembre 2022
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Protesters Across UK Demand Government Address Fuel Poverty Crisis This Winter - Truthout
As energy bills — and fossil fuel profits — soar, demonstrators demanded immediate action from PM Rishi Sunak.
jeudi 1er décembre 2022
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Abducted and tortured by the Russians, Kherson’s survivors tell their stories
Three torture survivors from Kherson, Nova Kakhovka and Kakhovka told openDemocracy what happened to them
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Ukrainians on the front line face a winter without warmth or light
Zaporizhzhia, a once 700,000-strong city 40km from Russia’s front lines, remain defiant – but life is hard
mercredi 30 novembre 2022
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San Francisco Has Voted to Tax Corporate Landlords for Leaving Housing Vacant
The groundbreaking affordable housing victory in San Francisco could serve as a blueprint for other cities to follow.
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Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk
Elon Musk appears to have out-sourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform's right-wing extremists. The post Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk appeared first on The (...)
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Elon Musk, “Free Speech Absolutist,” Has Launched a Crackdown on Left-Wing Twitter Accounts
No one should’ve honestly believed Elon Musk would use his ownership of Twitter to champion free speech. Besides the fact that the man is a professional bullshitter, it was always dubious that a guy who slaps employees with gag orders and bars them from wearing pro-union messages had a genuine (...)
mardi 29 novembre 2022
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Progressive Health Care Initiatives Coasted Through in Midterms
Initiatives to expand health care access and reduce costs won big on election night, rattling for-profit industry lobbyists. The post In a Wisconsin Trump County, and Across the U.S., Progressive Health Care Initiatives Coasted Through appeared first on The (...)
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Trumpism Won’t Be Defeated in a Single Election Cycle
The slim GOP takeover of the House will undoubtedly unleash a further tsunami of right-wing extremism.
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Evangelical Lobbying Threatens Supreme Court’s Independence
“Operation Higher Court” sent lobbyists to wine and dine Alito, Thomas and Scalia, while pushing right-wing positions.
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by Lizzie Presser, photography by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for The New York Times ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
mardi 22 novembre 2022
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Indigenous and Black Communities Find Common Cause for Land Justice
Historically, Indigenous and Black folks have been turned against each other by colonizers and enslavers. Now, communities are learning from one another and finding solidarity in efforts to reclaim stolen lands.
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The Global South needs urgent action on COP27’s loss and damage deal
Exclusive: Farmers suffering worst droughts in 40 years tell openDemocracy how their communities are being destroyed
lundi 21 novembre 2022
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Tunisia’s struggle for energy democracy
Tunisian unions are not only fighting for better terms and conditions in the energy sector. They want democratic control, writes Ilyes Benammar
dimanche 20 novembre 2022
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Turkey Is Starving the Rojava Revolution
“We spend most of our waking life on trying to meet our basic needs,” said K. as we sat in the dark in her yard one hot August night. Households in Qamişlo — one of the largest Kurdish-majority cities in the de facto autonomous North East Syria (NES), commonly known by its Kurdish name Rojava (...)
jeudi 17 novembre 2022
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How Scientists From “Global South” Are Sidelined at IPCC
Researchers say systemic bias at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has led to projections that perpetuate economic inequality. The post How Scientists From the “Global South” Are Sidelined at the IPCC appeared first on The (...)
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How Russia’s loyal ‘opposition’ parties support the war against Ukraine
On Ukraine, little separates Putin’s United Russia from either the Communist Party of Russia or A Just Russia
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Nawaat – IMF-Tunisia agreement: a social time-bomb
Tunisia’s new agreement with the IMF is just two months away from becoming operational. The government, however, is far from being prepared to navigate what follows once it begins the precarious task of dismantling the subsidies system which covers basic goods and hydrocarbons. Rather than (...)
mercredi 16 novembre 2022
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In Melbourne’s North, Residents Are Up Against Billionaire Developers
Urban space has always been a class issue. Profit-seeking developers stand on one side and residents and ordinary people who favor the social good on the other. Whoever wins conflicts like this determines what gets ripped down or built up, where that happens, and for what (...)
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9 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade
Climate change is here and “all taxpayers are paying for it.”
mardi 15 novembre 2022
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As Serbia expulses dozens of Tunisians from Belgrade, thousands of others are making their way towards Europe along the Balkan route. « I can count on one hand the number of them who are still here », says a sixty-something-year-old resident of a small village in the center of Djerba. (...)
dimanche 13 novembre 2022
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Far-Right “Landlordism” Wants to Dispossess Entire Populations
In forty-eight hours, the world saw the electoral defeat of one right-wing leader and the triumphant return of another. While Jair Bolsonaro did not acknowledge that he had lost the October 30 Brazilian presidential runoff, he does now seem to have been forced to give up his claim to power. (...)
