Journalist Janine di Giovanni:
"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine,
Europe calls it a war crime."
"But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, itโs Israel's right to defend itself."
On this day in 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo รrbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.
Not content to controlling our economy and our political system, the Oligarchs are now consolidating control over the media.
Trumpโs ally David Ellison is poised to control both CBS and CNN.
Not acceptable. This merger must be opposed.
Le Premier ministre espagnol @sanchezcastejon a dรฉcernรฉ ร la Rapporteuse spรฉciale des Nations Unies #FrancescaAlbanese l'Ordre du mรฉrite civil pour son plaidoyer des droits humains en Palestine.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that โThe underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.โ And I donโt think Iโve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.