4. A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline
6. 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
15. Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves
18. Dondi Ritual: एक अनुष्ठान जिसके दौरान पुजारी माता-पिता के सामने बच्चे पर पैर रखता है | Viral Video 2023
25. CCP’s Strategic Tactics, Targeting of Non-CCP Intellectuals, and Social Media Cognitive Warfare — The CCP BioThreats Initiative
41. 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.
42. When does life end? A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. He says the hospital still harvested her organs
51. The Izz al-Din al-Qasam Brigades released a photo of a thank you letter written by a former prisoner in the Gaza Strip...
54. A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.
58. Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access
59. 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
60. UK Supreme Court finds Deliveroo riders have no rights to collective bargaining because they aren’t workers
62. The violence against Indigenous women in Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t just historical. It’s an ongoing crisis.
63. Left Behind and United by Populism? Populism’s Multiple Roots in Feelings of Lacking Societal Recognition
68. Armenia's leader snubs meeting of Russia-dominated security grouping over a rift with the Kremlin
82. 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.
83. 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!
84. A Fired ‘Scream’ Star, Clients Booted From Agencies and a Secret Tom Cruise Meeting: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel
86. White House declassifies intel suggesting Wagner Group is preparing to provide air defense capability to Hezbollah or Iran | CNN Politics
90. 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
91. "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
110. When Jesus comes back to Earth, can a group of Christians plan on suing him while remaining devout?
111. Physicians’ Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients—An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession
113. Haaretz: Police investigation revealed that Israeli combat helicopters killed Israeli civilians and Hamas likely did not have prior knowledge of the music festival!
118. 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
127. In the home of hamburgers and sausages, plant-based meat sales are growing. How did Germany do it?
133. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just blew up the internet by describing their ‘pretty normal’ typical day amid surging billionaire backlash
137. Sydney's plus-size community tackles fat stigma with life drawing and 'fat babes speed-friending'
139. Dead Perverts Society: A review of "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy" by Costin Alamariu
158. 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
162. ‘Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point’ by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
166. Whither philosophy? The Discipline Today Finds Itself Precariously Balanced Between Incomprehensible Specialization and Cheap Self-Help
174. 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
179. Inside the angst and anxiety gripping the Biden administration over the Israel-Hamas war | CNN Politics
183. '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.
189. The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why | CNN
198. ‘Dire’ antisemitism allegations at Harvard could lead to donor exodus, billionaire Bill Ackman warns
215. 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
220. What the 2024 Election Is Really About for Trump Supporters: He promised them: “I am your retribution.”
225. When the internet becomes unknowable| Tools for studying social media are being shut down. It’s the last thing researchers—and democracy—need
227. Deep-Sea Mining Could Begin Soon, Regulated or Not [in the Clarion-Clipperton Pacific Zone] (Sept, 23)
232. 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
248. Water Wars: The Other Circular Economy | As Western water grows more precious, what is the future of farming?
250. "Sexual anarchy": New House Speaker Mike Johnson showcases the incel-ization of the modern GOP -What Trump and the men who worship him share is anger that any woman would have the right to say no: To a date, to a marriage, to having your baby
251. “It’s hell”: Surge of Texas kids dying from gun violence carves canyons of grief through families
254. China’s Age of Malaise: Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world?
255. "Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson?" - It seems that the claim of 500+ dead in Gaza hospital bombing has no source
256. The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False: It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
273. MAGA "victimhood" is a major recruitment tool for violence: once somebody becomes an extremist, trying to confront them with facts or experts can make them more violent
274. Fascism Comes to America: The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape America.
277. ‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch’s network-Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government
279. “Greed has poisoned men’s souls" - Charlie Chaplin! A powerful speech that sums up how I feel about what's going on in this lost world right now!
283. Yes, Prager U Wants to Indoctrinate Your Kids. But That’s Not Really the Point: The aim isn’t just to change what gets taught but to transform how we understand ourselves, the public realm, and the common good
294. The Evangelicals Calling for War on Poor People: A new, antisocial strain of the prosperity gospel is making its way into pulpits and breeding new hostility toward the least fortunate Americans
295. How Asset Managers Ruined Our Lives: Firms like Blackstone have made investments in real estate, energy, and infrastructure to become the world’s most crooked landlords and bill collectors
300. Netanyahu’s Attack on Democracy Left Israel Unprepared: security risks are posed by the scorn that American far-right politicians and propagandists now pour on the American military, the FBI, and of course the federal government as a whole
