Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.
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Growing Dissent: The Coming Year Of Protest
The financial meltdown of 2008 led to widespread unrest that culminated in the protest movements of 2011. Yet far from addressing the systemic problems exposed by the crisis, government-backed elites have only doubled down.
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Message From Minneapolis: The Time To Reinvest in Poor Communities Is Now
American taxpayers spend $126 billion a year to fund police departments nationwide – but in places like Minneapolis, black people are underprotected and overpoliced, and politicians can no longer ignore the surging wave of activism.
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How A Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June.
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Dark Money Review: Nazi Oil, the Koch Brothers and A Rightwing Revolution
The Koch brothers' nanny was such a fervent Nazi that when France fell in 1940, she resigned and returned to Germany.
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Scientists Now 99.99% Certain Humans Are Responsible for Record Heating Of Earth
13 of the 15 hottest years in the past century and a half occurred between 2000 and 2014 – and researchers found there is a just a 0.01% chance that this happened due to natural variations in the planet’s climate.
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Citizens United Anniversary: How Anthony Kennedy Turned American Democracy Into an "Open Sewer"
Once billed as a “moderate conservative,” Kennedy is a libertarian former corporate attorney from Sacramento who toiled in his father’s scandal-ridden lobbying law firm “influencing” California legislators before Ronald Reagan helped him reach the bench.
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How to Stop an Oil Train: The Hearts-and-Minds Climate Defense That Won Over a Courtroom
The Delta 5 loss was actually a big win as climate activists were found not guilty of blocking a train and guilty only of trespass in the second degree, and sentences were issued with no jail time.
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“Integrate, But Hedge”: China In the Age of Global Governance, Part I
“Hide your brightness; bide your time,” cautioned Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of modern China, who oversaw the country's "opening" into a modern state-capitalist society.
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Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Orwell failed to anticipate the role pleasure would play in our culture of surveillance.
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"All Risk, No Reward": U.S. Tribes Oppose Massive Pipeline Expansion In Canada
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project would carry crude from Alberta's tar sands to the Vancouver area to be loaded on to tankers for Asian and U.S. markets – drastically putting the fishing and cultural heritage of U.S. tribes at risk.
