Archiving Gaza: The Race to Save Evidence of War Crimes and Mass Destruction

Tents atop rubble in Jabalia in northern Gaza, February 18, 2025. Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images.

Since October 7, 2023, Soliman Hijjy, a 37-year-old freelance visual journalist, has regularly spent hours trekking through the bombed-out landscape of the Gaza Strip, carrying a black safe of hard drives.

Trump’s Protest Threat Reflects Belief That Free Speech Belongs to Some

In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow note that the Western notion of freedom derives from the Roman legal tradition, in which freedom was conceived as “the power of the male household head in ancient Rome, who could do whatever he liked with his chattels and possessions, including his children and slaves.”

Elon Musk spreads falsehoods about Social Security, calling it a ‘Ponzi Scheme’, to justify cuts

Image Credit: Greg Nash

Elon Musk, billionaire CEO and head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is once again pushing right-wing disinformation—this time targeting Social Security. During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Musk falsely claimed that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and suggested widespread fraud within the program.

Jeff Bezos Is Scared to Have an Open Debate on Economics

Jeff Bezos has finally dropped the pretense. The world’s third-richest man has decreed that the Washington Post, which he purchased back in 2013, will no longer publish opinions that challenge free market economics. With a casual diktat that would make William Randolph Hearst blush, Bezos has laid bare what critics have long suspected: when billionaires buy newspapers, they aren’t just after profitable investments; they’re buying ideological bodyguards.

Iowa Enacts Bill Ending Civil Rights Protections for Transgender People

Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill ending civil rights protections based on gender identity, becoming the first state to repeal civil rights protections for transgender people. Last week, protesters flooded the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines to defend trans rights as lawmakers voted to curtail them.

Testimony prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives Full Committee on Education and the Workforce for a hearing titled “Unleashing America’s Workforce and Strengthening Our Economy”

Chair Walberg, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today.

How Trump and the GOP Fixed the 2026 Election — Yes, 2026

By Greg Palast for The Hartmann Report

Greg Palast is a forensic economist and recipient of the Global Editors Award for Data Journalism. Watch Palast’s latest film, “Vigilantes Inc: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen,” produced by George DiCaprio and Martin Sheen.

You can ignore Trump slyly hinting to the Lord’s chosen that he just might call off the next election.

‘We Have a Widespread Failure to Properly Name This Plan for Ethnic Cleansing’: CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestine ethnic cleansing

 

Janine Jackson interviewed the University of Guelph-Humber’s Gregory Shupak about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine for the February 21, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

 

Fact-checking Trump claims about war in Ukraine

US President Donald Trump has appeared to accuse Ukraine of being responsible for the war with Russia, in a flurry of claims from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida.

Speaking to reporters, Trump also made claims about President Volodymyr Zelensky's popularity and observed that Ukraine had yet to hold scheduled elections due to martial law. He later doubled down on those comments in a fiery Truth Social post on Wednesday.

What We Can Do

Last week, I had separate lunches with two women I know, and the conversations in both revolved around anxieties produced by Trump’s coup.  Both of my companions focused on the same question: what can an individual do? Both women seemed to think that–because I’m a political policy blogger– I would have an answer, or at the very least, a suggestion.

If only!

19 things Trump and his team did this week

Donald Trump has been back in the White House for a month.

His fifth week in office saw more dramatic moves as the president continued on his plan to remake the federal government, implement sweeping cuts and reshape American foreign policy.

This week he called Ukraine's war-time president a "dictator", pledged to make IVF more affordable and dismissed his highest-ranking military officer.