A violent murder, a child on death row - Paula Cooper was 15 when she murdered 77-year-old Ruth Pelke in her Indiana home, and was sentenced to death. But a campaign for her life came from an unexpected quarter (www.theguardian.com)
Does the American dream foster inequality? New research shows US citizens are alone among wealthy western nations in being largely unmoved by income disparities (www.ft.com)
Green Colonialism | In Sweden’s Arctic, a battle for the Earth’s climate rages, and a question looms: Are we simply trading out one extractive industry for another? (www.noemamag.com)
I Can’t Control the World, But I Can Leave Stickers on It — A perfectionist lets go and helps make the city a little more chaotic, one goofy graphic at a time. (www.nytimes.com)
“Imagine a Child Gets Stabbed 26 Times”:A 6-year-old boy’s killing outside Chicago stunned the country. The people left behind can barely fathom the future. (slate.com)
The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses. In the Global North, measures to stop climate change cannot double as ways to further economic growth (www.thenation.com)
CCP’s Strategic Tactics, Targeting of Non-CCP Intellectuals, and Social Media Cognitive Warfare — The CCP BioThreats Initiative (www.ccpbiothreats.com)
What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes. (www.newyorker.com)
In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IUDs inserted without their consent. Women are now speaking out (www.france24.com)
The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza: The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here. (www.thenation.com)
Israel is the only country that systematically prosecutes minors in military courts. An estimated 500-700 Palestinian children are tried annually, the most common charge being stone-throwing, which carries a 20-year prison sentence! (www.middleeasteye.net)
White House declassifies intel suggesting Wagner Group is preparing to provide air defense capability to Hezbollah or Iran | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
A man convicted in absentia for his role in the 1975 murder of the president of Bangladesh and most of his family is living free in Toronto. An investigation by The Fifth Estate raises questions about Canada’s silence in the case (www.cbc.ca)
"The Iron wall" by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian Zionist author who admits in 1923 that Israel is a colonial project and Arabs resist Israel because they are native in the same sense the Aztecs are to America (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Haaretz: Police investigation revealed that Israeli combat helicopters killed Israeli civilians and Hamas likely did not have prior knowledge of the music festival! (www.haaretz.com)
Israel's War on American Students Activist. In a bombshell, The nation reports that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses (www.thenation.com)
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just blew up the internet by describing their ‘pretty normal’ typical day amid surging billionaire backlash (finance.yahoo.com)
How big is science’s fake-paper problem? : An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature (www.nature.com)
Spain; The murderer of Arturo Ruiz maintains that he worked for the Civil Guard in the dirty war against ETA. Police databases have no record of José Ignacio Fernández Guaza, who claims he executed terrorists in the south of France in the mid-1970s (english.elpais.com)
'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours': a dentist in Gaza is directed to evacuate his neighborhood from a bombing campaign. (www.bbc.com)
MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be | the Age of Enlightenment led men to give up on state religions and was a direct inspiration for our Bill of Rights, Republicans are hellbent on returning to the dark Ages (www.salon.com)
When the internet becomes unknowable| Tools for studying social media are being shut down. It’s the last thing researchers—and democracy—need (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
Mike Johnson's Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump's lies- If you believe Noah's Ark was real and demons come out of the TV, it's just a small jump to embrace the Big Lie (www.salon.com)