The Trump campaign, and the Republican Party writ large, have fully embraced the Russian dezinformatsiya tactics that they learned from them in the 2016 campaign. Some would call it “gaslighting” the American public, and others would call it Orwellian “double-speak” from 1984. This was on full display yesterday when Donald Trump actually tried to claim that … Read more
The recent surge in refugees seeking asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border is falsely portrayed by right-wing media like the Washington Examiner as Border shock: 50% surge in gang members, 650,000 illegal immigrants will be freed into US in 2019. This kind of racist anti-immigrant fear mongering is repeated by racist white nationalists like Tucker Carlson … Read more
21 plaintiffs, ages 9 to 20, are suing the federal government in a landmark suit charging that inaction by U.S. elected officials is robbing them of their future by failing to protect them despite their knowledge of the global harms caused by fossil fuels. Meet the Students Taking the Government to School, and to Court, … Read more
Martin Longman at the Political Animal blog takes a look at the recent European Union parliamentary elections and forecasts what they may portend for the U.S. election in 2020. He sees an invigorated youth vote turnout motivated by their desire to save the planet — and their future — from climate change. Europe’s Elections Have Warnings Signs … Read more
“Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.” – from the Last message to scouts by Baden-Powell of Gilwell. The human species has … Read more