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Democrats are riding high in recent polls, but this surge may owe more to the current administration’s missteps than to their own vision. Without a generative, long-term blueprint—like Project 2025 on the right or the Green New Deal—liberal gains risk feeling reactive rather than transformative. What might a durable Democratic project look like, and how…

The interview between Stephen Colbert and James Talarico was not aired on CBS broadcast television because network lawyers warned that it could violate FCC political-broadcast rules—particularly the equal-time requirement, which might have obligated the network to provide equivalent airtime to other candidates. Instead, the interview was posted on YouTube, which is not subject to those…

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania did not accept the “Most Valuable Film” award given to her film, “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” as a gesture of protest and condemnation of the presence of Noam Tibon, a retired Israeli major general and protagonist of the Canadian documentary about October 7, The Road Between Us, which won…

20 February 2026, Quezon City.  Renato “Rene” D. Pineda, Jr., a fearless environmental warrior, passed away on February 16, 2026.  He would have turned 70 on August 13. Pineda is revered for his companionship, leadership, and commitment to Mother Earth and the Filipino people.  He is particularly remembered for his principled stance on many issues…

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr.Qurat al Ain Rana  Every age invents a power that promises liberation and secretly reorganizes obedience. Fire freed humanity from darkness but bound it to settlement. Writing preserved memory yet transferred truth from living voices to fixed symbols. The industrial machine multiplied production while reducing the worker to a rhythm.…

(Moscow Bureau) – In this insightful interview, Natali Kalalb, founder NAtali KAlalb Art Gallery, discusses her practical experiences of handling Africa’s contemporary arts, her professional journey into the creative industry and entrepreneurship, and also strategies of building cultural partnerships as a foundation for Russian-African bilateral relations. Here are the interview excerpts: Given your experience working…

Military bases, especially foreign ones — current and sought — generate wars. The United States has used its bases in Latin America and the Caribbean to attack Venezuela, while threatening to take over Greenland to build more bases there. Iran is bordered by seven nations with U.S. bases. The nations to the south and east of…

They aren’t meant to deter the US and Israel like some Alt-Media observers believe. Iran, Russia, and China are carrying out the latest round of their annual joint naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz right as Trump is reportedly considering whether to authorize large-scale military strikes against the Islamic Republic amidst the US’ largest regional military buildup since the 2003…

Mike Ishii, director of Tsuru for Solidarity, pen an article published in The Seattle Times — “84 years after Executive Order 9066, we are repeating history”— with a reminder that history does not disappear simply because time has passed. Eighty-four years after the U.S. government forcibly removed and incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II,…

Diplomacy at the Brink: Iran, the United States, and the Stakes of Peace in the Middle East David interviewed Emad Kiyaei, co-director of the Middle East Treaty Organization, to discuss the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States currently taking place in Geneva. Their conversation explored not only the technical dimensions of the talks…