The Costs of a Car-Centric Life
By Claudia Ward–de León I live in rural New England, a place where driving a car is my only option if I need to get to a doctor, a specialty store like a hardware or…
January 2025
Ensuring the Right to an Offline Life
An Example from Neuchâtel, Switzerland Commentary by Nick Corbishley As the world becomes steadily digitized, it is getting harder and harder to do even the simplest of tasks offline, while surveillance, control and censorship of…
Fueling the Flames
How the West’s Military Emissions Undermine Climate Action By Nadia Ahmad As world leaders are finalizing another round of climate negotiations, they continue to sidestep the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gas emissions: the…
Pentagon Fails Seventh Straight Audit
By Jake Johnson The Pentagon announced late last week that it failed its seventh consecutive audit as the sprawling, profiteering-ridden department wasn’t able to fully account for its trillions of dollars in assets. As with…
US Military Contractor CACI Guilty of Torture
By Kevin Gosztola Iraqi torture survivors won a major jury verdict against CACI, a United States military contractor that was responsible for their cruel and inhuman treatment at Abu Ghraib more than twenty years ago….
UN Finds 70 Percent of Gaza Deaths Women and Children
By The Cradle The majority of the casualties in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip have been women and children, according to a report released in November by the UN Human Rights Office. According…