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Relatives of slain Mayor Alejandro Arcos carry his coffin during his funeral service, one week after he took office, in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state, Mexico, Monday, October 7, 2024.

Why Are So Many Mexican Mayors Getting Murdered? Why Are So Many Mexican Mayors Getting Murdered?

A staggering number of mayors have been brutally killed in the past few years—and there’s no end in sight. What's going on?

Aug 8, 2025 / Oscar Lopez

Khadra Hathaleen, mother of a Palestinian activist who witnesses say was shot by an Israeli settler, is seen in Umm al-Khair, West Bank, Monday, August 4, 2025, while on hunger strike to call for Israel to return his body.

Why the Women of This Tiny Palestinian Village Went on Hunger Strike Why the Women of This Tiny Palestinian Village Went on Hunger Strike

After the murder of local activist Awdah Hathaleen, his loved ones said they wouldn't eat until his body was returned.

Aug 7, 2025 / Lara-Nour Walton

2014 Israeli invasion of Gaza

This Group’s Definition of Antisemitism Is Providing Cover for Genocide This Group’s Definition of Antisemitism Is Providing Cover for Genocide

The definition hardly refers to inequality or structural discrimination—rather, it's a thinly veiled tool for prohibiting criticism of any sort about Israel.

Aug 6, 2025 / Aviva Chomsky

A Florida Highway Patrol officer looks on as protesters gather to demand the closure of the immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 22, 2025.

With Alligator Alcatraz, Empire’s Tyranny Has Come Home With Alligator Alcatraz, Empire’s Tyranny Has Come Home

The Florida migrant gulag is what happens when the depravities of colonialist foreign policy are turned inward.

Aug 6, 2025 / Donté L. Stallworth

A group of resistance fighters at Lemvig Church. One of them has a Madsen machine gun over his shoulder.

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism...

Aug 5, 2025 / Sarah Sophie Flicker

The 2025 Doomsday Clock time is displayed after the time reveal held by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the United States Institute of Peace on January 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. The Doomsday Clock, currently the nearest it has been to midnight at 89 seconds, is a symbol for how close humanity is to a “global catastrophe.”

We Need to Stop the Nuclear Arms Race Before It Stops Us We Need to Stop the Nuclear Arms Race Before It Stops Us

There is a risk that the war of words between Moscow and DC could escalate.

Aug 5, 2025 / William D. Hartung

The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham

The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham

Western countries are rushing to recognize Palestine not to stop genocide but to solve a political problem. They’re offering colonial lies dressed up as liberation.

Aug 4, 2025 / Ahmad Ibsais

Strategic Cruelty

Strategic Cruelty Strategic Cruelty

60,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, and people in Gaza continue to be subjected to the weaponization of humanitarian aid.

Aug 4, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Save the Children

Save the Children Save the Children

Backdoor.

Aug 1, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza

The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

Aug 1, 2025 / Mara Kronenfeld

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