The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social: "We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.

Decent article by Alana Lentin on the fascist nature of #Zionism. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde... #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #IsraelFascusn

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

For self-described skeptics of transgender health care, the words “weak” and “low-quality” do indispensable work. To medical academics like Guyatt, they’re professional terms of art.

Navigating choppy seas and Israeli gunboats, Gaza's fishermen are trying to get back to work ⬇️

"Censure des plateformes numériques" : le DSA, l'épine dans le pied de Trump et de la tech

Book Club 📚 A curated list of 25 remarkable books published in 2025 spotlighting resistance, memory, identity, and the human stories defining our turbulent times 👇

As Israel's ceasefire violations continue in Gaza and expulsions escalate in the occupied West Bank, Kamel Hawwash explains why he sees little hope for change in 2026 ⬇️

Why are drug prices so high in America? Trump doesn’t have the right answer | Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron

Families face flooded tents, sewage, extreme overcrowding, and deepening hardship amid ongoing displacement.

As the US funds the Israeli military’s expansion and entrenchment of genocide in Gaza, Raz Segal writes that in the aftermath of a ceasefire that “seems to be designed mostly to move forward with the business deals of the mega rich in the Middle East,”

“We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again,’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’” — Dr. Raz Segal, scholar of genocide studies

Today, on the first night of Hanukkah, and every other night, we recommit to fighting for the sanctity of all human life.

We honor the bravery of Ahmed al Ahmed, a bystander who risked his life to protect those under fire. The lesson, yet again, is all too clear: Our safety is bound up together.

We grieve the loss of life in Sydney, Australia, where gunmen attacked a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah, killing at least 11 people. This was a terrifying incident of hate-fueled violence that no community should face.

Originally prepared for Dwell in Revolution: Ancestors for Judaism Beyond Zionism, a zine and portrait project by Micah Bazant, Pushcart Judaica, Making Mensches. Art by Elliot Kukla.

The miracle of Hanukkah was that, against all odds, the light endured—it was never extinguished. Hanukkah teaches us to persist, even in the darkest of moments. Inspired by our ancestors and out of a commitment to justice—we keep going.

On the first night of Hanukkah, we hold close the memory of movement ancestor Marek Edelman (1919-2009) Z’’L, a lifelong anti-Zionist who fought in and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, resisted Nazism, and maintained his identity as a Polish Jew, refusing to immigrate to occupied Palestine.

Ilhan Omar says ICE pulled over her son in Minnesota, asked for ID

Israeli settlers and soldiers kidnapped an 18-year-old boy in the West Bank and brutally beat him for hours. In November alone, violent settlers attacked Palestinians more than 2,000 times. “Survival here has become a daily miracle.”

WHO says this figure was likely an underestimate, as it's based only on reported deaths

“Getting back in the field, it’s been terrifying because you don’t know what’s safe anymore. You don’t know when you could become a target,” Dylan Collins, an AFP video journalist who was targeted in an Israeli strike on a group of journalists in Oct. 2023, told AFP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH6P...

Zweiter Teil der Reihe "between the lines" - wie über Israel & Palästina sprechen: #Leipzig #linxxnet Emphatie & Solidarität statt ideologischer Projektion, Sowohl Antisemitismus als auch Rassismus zurückweisen. Danke Palestinians & jews for peace, Tom Würdemann & Marie <3

🔴 Selon le Premier ministre australien 🇦🇺 Anthony Albanese, les auteurs de l'attentat antisémite de Sydney étaient probablement "motivés par l'idéologie" du groupe État islamique. ➡️ Les précisions de notre correspondant G. Plesse #Australie #Sydney #Bondi #EI

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 4 – The Ice Tower

RD Congo : le M23 affirme qu'il va se retirer d'Uvira à la demande de Washington

What is ‘home’ now? A woman’s two-year search for safety in the ruins of Gaza

"The President’s actions send a stark signal to everyone who attempts to hold him accountable to the same standard of presidents before him." Read the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition’s statement condemning #Trump’s legal threat against the #BBC: antislapp.uk/2025/12/09/t...

Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original

Zelenskyy says Russia must ‘accept there are rules in the world’ as he pushes for use of frozen assets – Europe live

Dans le village de Neirab en Syrie, les habitants se disent tous fiers de leur fils Ahmed al Ahmed, le "héros" de la plage de Bondi en Australie, qui a réussi à arracher le fusil d'un des auteurs de l'attentat antisémite. ➡️ u.afp.com/S7Hg

And last year, on the first anniversary of his death, Refaat’s collection of poetry, If I Must Die, was published by OR Books.

Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.

Trump has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after himself. Earlier in the year, we reported on how Trump sent a DOGE team to the institute, where they publicly outed a sensitive Afghanistan program and prompted a Taliban crackdown. Revisit our investigation ⤵️

What has the ceasefire actually accomplished? | Fiona Katauskas

The Trump administration has released its long-anticipated new national security strategy, laying out a vision that attempts to reconcile U.S. global dominance with a simultaneous U.S. retreat from its decades-long global role.

From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story

Community leaders in the Northern Mariana Islands discuss the decline of Garapan's tourist district, prompting calls for renewed revitalization efforts. www.facebook.com/615684431775...

The colossal failure of regulatory oversight across governmental departments is clear – and Hong Kong has quashed the civilian watchdogs that used to close the gaps.

A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

Opération Colère de Dieu : quand les espions européens ont aidé le Mossad à tuer

🇨🇳 La Chine a jugé "dangereux" le projet réaffirmé du Japon de déployer des missiles sol-air sur Yonaguni, l'île nippone la plus proche de Taïwan, elle-même au cœur d'un regain de tension entre Pékin et Tokyo.

Chinese AI companies are changing the nature of China’s influence in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar.

Last week, Mohamed Tadjadit won the Freedom of Expression Award 2025 in the Arts category. Learn more about his life and unjust imprisonment: www.indexoncensorship.org/awards-2025-...