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- New Report “High Flyers 2026” Reveals How Private Jets Costs Taxpayers and the PlanetThe wealth explosion among the ultra-rich has led to soaring demand for luxury private jets and the infrastructure to serve them, including expanded private aircraft hangers and runway capacity at local and regional airports. Meanwhile, transnational corporations wanting to shield their top managers from interactions with the public are also expanding their private jet fleets, […]
- Trump Administration Directive Would Allow Killing of Endangered WildlifeThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a sweeping new directive that attempts to strip imperiled wildlife of protections from most activities that can kill or injure them.“This stabs at the very heart of the Endangered Species Act by giving federal approval to the killing of some of America’s most beloved wildlife,” said Brett […]
- New ACLU and AFL-CIO Report Shows Deportations Lower Wages and Raise Costs for America’s WorkersThe American Civil Liberties Union and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) today released a new report, Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda: A Path to Better Jobs, Higher Wages, and Prosperity for All, detailing how the mass deportation agenda is exacerbating the affordability crisis by disrupting critical industries, eliminating jobs, […]
- A Certain Weeping: Beyond Bin Laden’s Wildest DreamsAlong with grief and loss, the anniversary of 9/11 brought home for many the "incalculable cost" of the quarter century of carnage it unleashed - the militarizing "beyond all sanity," the othering of "everyone who isn't 'them,'" the lying, fear-mongering, inflicting of terror that's left America hollowed out from forever wars now mostly against imaginary […]
- Statement: don’t trust the AI bros. But take the danger of AI seriously.AI “doomerism” is going mainstream. This week the heads of major frontier AI companies ratcheted up their rhetoric about how dangerous the technology they are building is, calling for a “pause” on AI development.Digital rights group Fight for the Future, which has run many of the highest profile campaigns against the use of AI for […]
- EPA to Allow Power Plants to Accelerate Global WarmingThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce today that it will stop regulating carbon dioxide released by power plants burning fossil fuels, according to reports. If allowed to go into effect, the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be allowed to grow unchecked. In response, David Arkush, director of […]
AIPAC’s Network Has Already Spent $67.2 Million to Shape the Midterm Elections
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DEREK SEIDMAN | TRUTHOUT
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AIPAC’s Network Has Already Spent $67.2 Million to Shape the Midterm Elections
September 17, 2026
DEREK SEIDMAN | TRUTHOUT
Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity
September 16, 2026
NATASHA LENNARD | THE INTERCEPT
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Common Dreams
- New Report “High Flyers 2026” Reveals How Private Jets Costs Taxpayers and the PlanetThe wealth explosion among the ultra-rich has led to soaring demand for luxury private jets and the infrastructure to serve them, including expanded private aircraft hangers and runway capacity at local and regional airports. Meanwhile, transnational corporations wanting to shield their top managers from interactions with the public are also expanding their private jet fleets, […]
- Trump Administration Directive Would Allow Killing of Endangered WildlifeThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a sweeping new directive that attempts to strip imperiled wildlife of protections from most activities that can kill or injure them.“This stabs at the very heart of the Endangered Species Act by giving federal approval to the killing of some of America’s most beloved wildlife,” said Brett […]
- New ACLU and AFL-CIO Report Shows Deportations Lower Wages and Raise Costs for America’s WorkersThe American Civil Liberties Union and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) today released a new report, Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda: A Path to Better Jobs, Higher Wages, and Prosperity for All, detailing how the mass deportation agenda is exacerbating the affordability crisis by disrupting critical industries, eliminating jobs, […]
- A Certain Weeping: Beyond Bin Laden’s Wildest DreamsAlong with grief and loss, the anniversary of 9/11 brought home for many the "incalculable cost" of the quarter century of carnage it unleashed - the militarizing "beyond all sanity," the othering of "everyone who isn't 'them,'" the lying, fear-mongering, inflicting of terror that's left America hollowed out from forever wars now mostly against imaginary […]
- Statement: don’t trust the AI bros. But take the danger of AI seriously.AI “doomerism” is going mainstream. This week the heads of major frontier AI companies ratcheted up their rhetoric about how dangerous the technology they are building is, calling for a “pause” on AI development.Digital rights group Fight for the Future, which has run many of the highest profile campaigns against the use of AI for […]
- EPA to Allow Power Plants to Accelerate Global WarmingThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce today that it will stop regulating carbon dioxide released by power plants burning fossil fuels, according to reports. If allowed to go into effect, the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be allowed to grow unchecked. In response, David Arkush, director of […]
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