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Democracy Now!
- "Crossing the Red Line": Akbar Shahid Ahmed on Biden, His Advisers, Harris & Israel's War in Gaza
We speak with journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, whose new book, Crossing the Red Line, looks at how President Joe Biden and top figures in his administration supported Israel’s brutal war in Gaza despite the soaring death toll and growing alarm over widespread war crimes committed by the Israeli military. “The policies that we’ve seen entrenched and, frankly, worsened and become more dangerous and deadly under Donald Trump were really established by Biden’s team,” says Ahmed, who says there is “bipartisan continuity” on Israel-Palestine between the two presidents.
- The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel's "Unilateral Bullying" of the ICC
At the United Nations this week, President Trump repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. The United States earlier this year imposed sanctions on the president of the ICC and a senior prosecutor who was part of the team that issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity in Gaza, and the Trump administration is reportedly preparing more sanctions against the institution itself. Meanwhile, a coalition of nations has formed to defend international law in solidarity with the people of Palestine under the banner of the Hague Group, which was established last year by Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, […]
- "Grotesque": Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Netanyahu's U.N. Speech & Israel's Impunity
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a half-empty chamber at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, after dozens of delegations walked out in protest at the start of his speech. Netanyahu assailed his critics as “antisemites,” defended his country’s conduct in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, and lavished praise on President Trump for joining Israel’s strikes on Iran. Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator under Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, says Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation “needs to be translated into action” like sanctions, arms embargoes and other forms of accountability.
- "Stop Arming Israel": 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech
Over 100 protesters were arrested near the United Nations in New York on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly. The sit-in, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, denounced Netanyahu for perpetrating a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, building more illegal settlements in the West Bank, occupying parts of Lebanon and bombing Iran alongside the United States. Democracy Now! spoke with participants, including some congressional candidates and other prominent figures.
- Headlines for September 25, 2026
Dozens of U.N. Delegates Walk Out in Protest as Israel’s Netanyahu Addresses General Assembly, Over 100 Protesters Arrested Outside U.N. Demanding Arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, Separatists Attack Government Forces in Ethiopia’s Worst Fighting Since 2022 Ceasefire, Opposition Groups Protest in Caracas as Venezuela’s Leader Promises Elections at the “Right Moment”, U.S. Senate Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution on Vote of 49-50, Trump Hosts Xi Jinping for State Dinner, Joined by U.S. Billionaires Worth $2.4 Trillion, Banned Reporters Allowed Back into White House After Judge’s Ruling, Judge Tosses Trump’s Lawsuit Against Iowa Pollster and Newspaper, Citing First Amendment, David Ellison Considers Tapping Elon Musk as Investor […]
Anthropocene
- Engineers just mapped a narrow path to greener flying
Flying behind commercial jets, a team pinpointed the exact combination of fuel and engine technology that cuts both soot and the contrails warming the planet.
- What’s the better bargain, protecting a rainforest or regrowing it?
A new study finds that stopping logging and wildfires could do more for rainforest wildlife than halting deforestation—and it costs far less than restoration.
The Guardian
- White House blocks CNN from Air Force One in latest escalation with news media
Outlet had been scheduled to fly with Donald Trump to Tennessee for a college football game, network said FridayThe White House has blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One on Saturday, impeding its TV press pool duties in the latest escalation of the administration’s battle with the news media.CNN had been scheduled to fly with Donald Trump to Tennessee for a college football game, the network said on Friday. The White House confirmed CNN’s exclusion when it did not list the network on guidance sent to the press corps regarding Trump’s schedule for Saturday. Continue reading...
- Kamala Harris is belatedly courting progressives. Is it too little, too late? | Arwa Mahdawi
As she mulls another presidential run, the former VP is building bridges with progressive and Arab American leadersDoes Donald Trump secretly want Republicans to get annihilated in the midterms? Because he’s certainly acting that way. He continues to brush off concerns about the cost of living, saying last week that high gas prices are a very “inexpensive price to pay” for the war on Iran.And, of course, the president seems to have no plans to end that disastrous war, apart from making vague threats about blowing the entire country up. Trust me, he keeps saying, everything will get better after the midterms. But by the looks of his dismal polling numbers, not many people are swallowing his empty promises anymore.Arwa Mahdawi is a […]
- Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today
Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agricultureA remarkably prescient letter written by Thomas Jefferson, the third US president, advising how the newly created country could prosper, has been put up for sale by a private collector. The handwritten document from 1787 warns specifically against many of the missteps Donald Trump has taken to drag down his own second term of office.Written in Paris, where Jefferson was the fledgling government’s minister to France, the note to David Rittenhouse, a friend and fellow member of the American Philosophical Society, muses on the priorities and principles he believed future presidents should follow. Continue reading...
- The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand
Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidatesThe debate over artificial intelligence development, how to regulate it and the construction of datacenters that power the technology has become a buzzy topic for potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates.Already, concerns were mounting over the environmental and energy impact of datacenters, which consume vast amounts of resources to power AI. But worries about the rapid development of AI came to a head in mid-September when tech executives issued a flurry of dire warnings that the technology could harm humans. Continue reading...
- The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented Donald Trump has long coveted the oilfields of other nations and declared an agreement with Venezuela to be “the biggest oil deal in world history”. But the deal, reached after the US seized Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, is almost certainly doomed to collapse amid a wide array of legal and logistical issues, a Guardian investigation has found.The US president first mused about taking oil from Iran in 1987, when he told ABC’s Barbara Walters that Iranian attacks on American shipping during the Iran-Iraq war required an extreme response. “Why couldn’t we go in and take over some of their […]
Aeon
- Reasoning together
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind- by Emilie PratticoRead on Aeon
The Conversation
- In ‘NAZA,’ Israeli whistleblowers’ revelations about civilian deaths in Gaza reflect a longer history of Palestinian isolation
Barriers, checkpoints and surveillance have made the plight of Palestinians easier to keep hidden. But thanks to films like ‘NAZA,’ that’s starting to change.
- Trump has gotten rid of many of the checks and balances that could stop him from demolishing the Kennedy Center
A hierarchy of oversight for the iconic arts venue has essentially collapsed.
- Trump frames unregulated AI as a way to keep ahead of China – but in fact, it harms US national security
An unregulated sector has risks in itself but will also aid the rapid advancement of AI in China.
- Gen Z communicates differently in the workplace, but older colleagues can still decode them
Gen Z workers don’t communicate better or worse than previous generations, but they learned to do so under very different circumstances.
- What civil rights enforcement cuts mean for students with disabilities – fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits
Filing a civil rights complaint with the Office of Civil Rights can be parents’ last stop. Following cuts and restructuring, this federal office is no longer serving that same resource.
Inter Press Service
- Nepal’s Devastating Floods Have Put Women and Girls at Greater Risk
Oritro Karim, IPS UN Bureau Correspondent, speaks to Ranjeeta Silwal of Equality Now.
- Myanmar: Corporate Complicity in the Spotlight
On 15 September, Norwegian police and security services raided the headquarters of Telenor in Oslo. Authorities accuse the multinational telecoms company, majority owned by ...
- Forty Years of the ‘Right to Development’: When Growth Excludes, Is It Still Development?
World leaders have warned that the most vulnerable people have been left behind as the right to development has promised more than it has ...
Sludge
- Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry
One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.
Grist
- A rural Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.
Some residents oppose renewables. Others see property rights — and the chance to benefit from energy developments on their land — as fundamental. This fall, county leaders will decide.
- Whether it’s ‘super’ or ‘Godzilla,’ El Niño is already breaking records
In the coming months, the world will get a glimpse of life on an even hotter planet.
- My boomer mom’s cheap online shopping habit drives me nuts
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport weighs in on overcoming a generational clash when it comes to sustainable consumption.
Truthout
- Don’t Be Fooled: GOP Scuffle Over NIH Grants Doesn’t Mean Science Has Prevailed
Trump has backed down for now in his new bid to control research grants, but his tune could change after the midterms.
- Doctors and Hospitals in 3 Dozen States to See Lower Medicaid Payments
“It’s going to make it more difficult for people who are on Medicaid to get essential care,” warns an expert.
- Democrats Demand Answers on Trump Plan to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
California Rep. Jared Huffman has accused Trump of “selling out America’s public lands to the richest corporations.”
Labor Notes
- Fourteen Hundred Solar Manufacturing Workers Join the Steelworkers
Workers at a Corning solar manufacturing plant in Michigan voted September 1 to join the Steelworkers (USW). The vote was a close 560-512, following an intense anti-union campaign by the company. Nakisha West, a wirecutter, voted yes for “fairness and accountability.” She and her co-workers use scorching heat and precision-cutting tools to turn polysilicon crystals, or boules, into slim squares, known as wafers, for solar panels. “It’s a very dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it,” she said.
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