https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Opednews.com Progressive, Liberal United States and International News, Opinion, Op-Eds and Politics en-us Copyright 2026 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:48:54 -0400 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:48:54 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-the-IDIOCRACY-Stupid-Idiocracy_Incompetent-Incompetence_Sycophant-Sycophantic-260920-438.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-the-IDIOCRACY-Stupid-Idiocracy_Incompetent-Incompetence_Sycophant-Sycophantic-260920-438.html Rob Kall You and every Democratic politician should be talking about "The IDIOCRACY." Trump has established a multi-layered idiocracy of corrupt sycophants, fools and incompetents, none of whom are actually able to do their job. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Iran-War-Is-the-Bigges-Danger_Disruption_Iran-War_John-Mearsheimer-260919-15.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Iran-War-Is-the-Bigges-Danger_Disruption_Iran-War_John-Mearsheimer-260919-15.html Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D. John Mearsheimer argues that the Iran war has become a major strategic blunder for Washington. He examines failed objectives, Iran's missile power, vulnerable U.S. bases, the Strait of Hormuz, economic disruption, and the danger that a war intended to weaken Iran could ultimately strengthen its strategic position. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Big-Question-About-the-Gaza-War_United-Nations-Security-Council-240401-80.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Big-Question-About-the-Gaza-War_United-Nations-Security-Council-240401-80.html Thomas Knapp Now that the UN Security Council has issued its demands, how are UN member states, especially the US, going to enforce those demands? https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Call-to-Action-Independ-Action-Alerts_Action-Pages_Independent_Independent-Party-260919-937.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Call-to-Action-Independ-Action-Alerts_Action-Pages_Independent_Independent-Party-260919-937.html James Neroda A call to action for Registered Independent Voters. Details the voting power of registered voters by State in 2024-2026 published data. Cartoon graphics created by ChatGPT, authors account. Charts by source data in article. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eclipse-as-Cosmic-Muse-Eclipse_Poetry_Symbolism-240409-97.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eclipse-as-Cosmic-Muse-Eclipse_Poetry_Symbolism-240409-97.html Meryl Ann Butler As I watched today's eclipse, I pondered the cosmic symbolism. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-End-of-Recessions-in-t-Economy_Internet_Internet_Recession-Proof-Industries-240403-601.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-End-of-Recessions-in-t-Economy_Internet_Internet_Recession-Proof-Industries-240403-601.html Joel Joseph We are entering a new era where recessions will not exist. The Internet, smartphones, Uber and the Gig economy counteract cyclical downturns. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Eating-Healthy-is-Do-able-Health_Help-You-Diet-Foods_Plant-strong-Diet-230423-899.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Eating-Healthy-is-Do-able-Health_Help-You-Diet-Foods_Plant-strong-Diet-230423-899.html Gary Lindorff It's not hard to eliminate unhealthy food from my diet, but it is a bit challenging to buy (gather) the healthy food that I want in my body. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Awful-Transformation-o-by-earl-ofari-hutchin-Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders-2016-Presidential-Candidate_Bernie-Sanders-Presidential-Campaign-160404-599.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Awful-Transformation-o-by-earl-ofari-hutchin-Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders-2016-Presidential-Candidate_Bernie-Sanders-Presidential-Campaign-160404-599.html earl ofari hutchinson The awful transformation of Bernie Sanders has been absolutely breath stopping to see. Sanders has gone from a charming, engaging, provoking, and supremely principled Democratic presidential candidate to a scheming, conniving, devious, supremely unprincipled Democratic presidential contender. In quick succession, Sanders has been accused of being a tax cheat, a special interest money grabber, a foreign policy dim wit, a Nixoni https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Review-of-the-History-o-Anti-semitism_Israel_Israel-1948_Israel-And-Palestine-260918-695.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Review-of-the-History-o-Anti-semitism_Israel_Israel-1948_Israel-And-Palestine-260918-695.html Steven Jonas This column considers two related subjects: the creation of the State of Israel, as the product of international anti-Semitism, 1878 - 1948, and a lengthy list of statements by Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, beginning in the 1920s, promoting expulsion of the Palestinian population from the territory of what would eventually become the State of Israel (before any thoughts of the "Two-State Solution"). https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-this-Trump-s-China-mome-Artificial-Intelligence_China_China-Politics_China-US-Agreement-260919-971.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-this-Trump-s-China-mome-Artificial-Intelligence_China_China-Politics_China-US-Agreement-260919-971.html Bob Gaydos The man who constantly seeks positive public recognition has an opportunity to do something that would merit it. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Change-and-more-Genocide_Genocide-260918-225.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Change-and-more-Genocide_Genocide-260918-225.html Peter Barus One of the most powerful ideas in science is also one of the simplest: things change, and a changing and complex environment decides which changes survive. In biology that's the whole engine of evolution and we can draw lessons from that to the accelerating pace of social evolution and changing paradigms. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Myth-of-Bypassing-Horm-Alternative_Energy_Geography_Shipping-260916-790.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Myth-of-Bypassing-Horm-Alternative_Energy_Geography_Shipping-260916-790.html Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D. Can pipelines and alternative energy make the Strait of Hormuz irrelevant? This article argues that they cannot. From vulnerable pipelines and shifting alliances to Bab el-Mandeb, global shipping and Gulf trade, bypassing Hormuz merely moves the risk. Geography ultimately remains https://www.opednews.com/articles/Yemen-The-Houthis-New-Fr-Frontline_Houthis_Oil_Shipping-260915-347.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Yemen-The-Houthis-New-Fr-Frontline_Houthis_Oil_Shipping-260915-347.html Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D. Yemen's Houthis are turning Bab el-Mandeb into a second strategic pressure point as the war disrupts Hormuz. Their advance threatens Saudi Arabia's Red Sea escape route, global oil shipping, and U.S. interests while revealing the growing strategic importance of the Iran-Houthi alliance. https://www.opednews.com/articles/And-So-This-Is-What-America-Culture-Of-Violence_American-History_Children_Fascism-240409-628.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/And-So-This-Is-What-America-Culture-Of-Violence_American-History_Children_Fascism-240409-628.html Dr. Lenore Daniels This is an article in response to the attack against children in Palestine and the WCK. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Trap-Surveillance-Capitalism-260911-279.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Trap-Surveillance-Capitalism-260911-279.html Peter Barus There's a fungus that gets into frogs and makes them climb upwards, and grows a stalk out of the frog's head to release spores on the breeze... https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-is-playing-silly-ga-Trump_Trump-Against-Democracy_Trump-Anti-christ-240401-143.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-is-playing-silly-ga-Trump_Trump-Against-Democracy_Trump-Anti-christ-240401-143.html Lance Moore In case you missed it: Trump, famous for profiting from overpriced cologne, neckties, gold-foil sneakers, a gambling casino and Trump vodka"is now hawking Bibles-- for $59.99! https://www.opednews.com/articles/IMAGINING-OUR-FUTURE-PERI-Energy_Future_Global-Awareness_Global-Elite-231031-323.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/IMAGINING-OUR-FUTURE-PERI-Energy_Future_Global-Awareness_Global-Elite-231031-323.html Blair Gelbond Given challenges of climate disruption, energy shortages, resource wars, deep poverty and our own tendencies to feel indifference and even despair, is it worth asking questions about our own place on earth?----- ----One answer is that we need to be able to step back and get our bearings - to disidentify from stories about destruction and raise our vision to see the other side of the coin - the promises inherent in this era. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Supreme-Court-gets-one-Bestiality_Elections_FBI_Ireland-260917-236.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Supreme-Court-gets-one-Bestiality_Elections_FBI_Ireland-260917-236.html Bob Gaydos Even Trump's appointees recognized that the states, not the president, have the power to control elections. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-chasm-between-TB-and-H-Age-Of-Aids_Aids_Education-HIV-AIDS-STD_Health-240403-838.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-chasm-between-TB-and-H-Age-Of-Aids_Aids_Education-HIV-AIDS-STD_Health-240403-838.html Citizen News Service - CNS Please consider the below article based on insights from global health leaders in the past 2 decades on TB and HIV joint responses (as people with HIV are at high TB risk, and TB is the biggest killer of people with HIV). Despite TB being preventable and curable, how is this acceptable? https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-s-Dementia-The-Fail-Attention_Decline_Judgment_Language-260913-932.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trump-s-Dementia-The-Fail-Attention_Decline_Judgment_Language-260913-932.html Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D. Donald Trump's public behavior for evidence of cognitive decline, focusing on executive functions, memory, attention, language, judgment, and self-monitoring. He argues that these changes interact with longstanding narcissistic and hypomanic features, with anosognosia as a major concern. https://www.opednews.com/articles/To-Beat-China-Russia-Ind-America_China_Russian-Space-Program_Security-240219-364.html Fri, 20 Sep 4661 17:08:37 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/To-Beat-China-Russia-Ind-America_China_Russian-Space-Program_Security-240219-364.html Robert Weiner The latest moon missions are 50 years too late and new space advances from Russia and China show that America needs a resurgence of our space program for the sake of national security. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Market-Predictions-and-Rec-Economy_Market-Fundamentalism_Markets_Markets-Political-Prediction-260905-273.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Market-Predictions-and-Rec-Economy_Market-Fundamentalism_Markets_Markets-Political-Prediction-260905-273.html John Scanlon - the economy, housing, stocks, bonds. America must change. https://www.opednews.com/articles/After-opening-Pandora-s-bo-Free-Speech_Free-Speech-Online_Internet_Regulation-Regulations-260905-452.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/After-opening-Pandora-s-bo-Free-Speech_Free-Speech-Online_Internet_Regulation-Regulations-260905-452.html Katie Singer o create a sustainable relationship with nature, Indigenous and ancient peoples considered the Earth a living being, acknowledged its dangers and created regulations.For example, before entering the underground, miners fasted, meditated and prayed. Sometimes, to purify and protect themselves, they abstained from sex before mining. Our modern society aims for tech development and profit regardless their impacts to the Earth... https://www.opednews.com/articles/CBP-violates-Americans-rig-Americans-Travel-To-Cuba_Rights-260905-980.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/CBP-violates-Americans-rig-Americans-Travel-To-Cuba_Rights-260905-980.html Rob Baker Americans' privacy is invaded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection https://www.opednews.com/articles/Extricating-ourselves-from-Patriarchy_Toxic-Patriarchy-260912-969.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Extricating-ourselves-from-Patriarchy_Toxic-Patriarchy-260912-969.html Gary Lindorff Many of us are are at different stages of finding your way out of the web the toxic patriarchal world that has pitted itself against nature for centuries. The fact is, the patriarchy has created the world we live in, which is programmed into our psyches at a very young age. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Stars-and-Stripes-Perhaps-Stars-And-Stripes-260905-580.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Stars-and-Stripes-Perhaps-Stars-And-Stripes-260905-580.html Thomas Knapp Stars and Stripes is largely funded by, and its operations and distribution are almost completely enabled by, the US government. "Editorial independence" may sound like a wonderful idea, but there's always been a leash. We're just watching the leash get shorter. https://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Possible-To-Salvage-C-American-Imperialism_Canada_Canada_Canada-Election-260905-930.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Possible-To-Salvage-C-American-Imperialism_Canada_Canada_Canada-Election-260905-930.html Lawrence Wittner Although Canadians and Americans have long celebrated the special relationship of their countries, Donald Trump -- through domineering and bullying behavior -- has provoked a crisis between the two nations. This crisis is symptomatic of the fragility of international relations. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-U-S-State-Department-France-260831-824.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-U-S-State-Department-France-260831-824.html David Swanson The U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating "imperialism" and "dominance" of the Western hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Truth-they-do-not-want-you-Elections_Nigeria_Political-Activism_Political-Change-260905-456.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Truth-they-do-not-want-you-Elections_Nigeria_Political-Activism_Political-Change-260905-456.html Citizen News Service - CNS Please consider the below article ahead of Nigeria elections 2027, based on a session on broken political representation of women globally. Barring few exceptions, most countries have a lot more to do to ensure gender parity. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Supreme-Court-Has-Gone-China_Russia-260905-585.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Supreme-Court-Has-Gone-China_Russia-260905-585.html Joel Joseph Supreme Court decision concerning voting by mail is incorrect. The President has no power over voting and elections. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tell-the-Forest-Service-D-Environment-Policy_Environment-Ecology_Environmental-Destruction-War_Environmentalism-260905-968.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tell-the-Forest-Service-D-Environment-Policy_Environment-Ecology_Environmental-Destruction-War_Environmentalism-260905-968.html Gary Lindorff The world view that enables this catastrophe to unfold is anathema to me and I fear for the future of our descendants. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Even-a-Radioactive-Time-Bo-Iran_Korea-260905-24.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Even-a-Radioactive-Time-Bo-Iran_Korea-260905-24.html David Swanson By refusing to take part in waging war on the people of Iran, the South Korean government obtained something else favored by many of the people of South Korea: at long last a reduction in U.S. war rehearsals and hostility toward North Korea. U.S. media outlets panicked. How could Trump abandon his duty to keep the Korean peninsula divided and the risk of nuclear apocalypse respectably high? U.S. comedians were thrilled: . . . https://www.opednews.com/articles/World-Hunger-and-Starvatio-Child-Deaths_Children_Donald-Trump_Elon-Musk-260905-868.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/World-Hunger-and-Starvatio-Child-Deaths_Children_Donald-Trump_Elon-Musk-260905-868.html Lawrence Wittner The Trump administration is determined to destroy the existing U.S. overseas food assistance program and, particularly the World Food Program, the Nobel Peace-Prize-winning UN Agency that keeps millions of people around the world from starvation. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ireland-pushes-for-sanctio-Israel_Israel-Firsters_Israel-Spying_Israeli-Attack-On-Convoy-260905-475.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ireland-pushes-for-sanctio-Israel_Israel-Firsters_Israel-Spying_Israeli-Attack-On-Convoy-260905-475.html Steven Sahiounie This is an interview with Palestinian professor Dr Ramzy Baroud to talk about the EU meeting in Ireland in support of Palestine https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-there-no-one-home-in-ou-Brain_Self_Self-260905-97.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-there-no-one-home-in-ou-Brain_Self_Self-260905-97.html Herbert Calhoun An essay review of Professor Thomas Metzinger's book: The Ego Tunnel: The science of the mind and the myth of the self https://www.opednews.com/articles/Expulsion-of-the-Palestini-Israeli-Attacks-On-Gaza_Israeli-Apartheid_Israeli-Attacks-In-Gaza_Israeli-Government-260911-266.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Expulsion-of-the-Palestini-Israeli-Attacks-On-Gaza_Israeli-Apartheid_Israeli-Attacks-In-Gaza_Israeli-Government-260911-266.html Steven Jonas This column briefly reviews (again --- I just cannot get away from this topic) the development of Israeli Nationalist, Palestinian Expulsionist, from-the-original British-Mandate, policy since it was first developed in the 1920s. It then considers, briefly again, the first time (now) that an Israeli Government has openly stated that Expulsion-of-Palestinians is official policy, in re Gaza, and international responses to it. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-Trump-our-Dry-Drunk--12-Step-Programs_Alcoholic_Alcoholics-Anonymous_Alcoholism-260911-55.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-Trump-our-Dry-Drunk--12-Step-Programs_Alcoholic_Alcoholics-Anonymous_Alcoholism-260911-55.html Bob Gaydos Donald Trump famously does not drink alcohol. However, he has all the traits of an alcoholic. He might want to consider AA, but they have a thing about not lying. https://www.opednews.com/articles/More-on-the-idiocracy-and-Idiocracy_Isolation_Leadership-Leaders-260909-669.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/More-on-the-idiocracy-and-Idiocracy_Isolation_Leadership-Leaders-260909-669.html Rob Kall Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants who are afraid to tell him anything and who are out of touch with the realities of what it is to be an American today or at least an American who's not a millionaire https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Saturday-I-Stopped-Rea-Bad-Parenting_Books_Digital-Technology_Life-Home-Family-260905-813.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Saturday-I-Stopped-Rea-Bad-Parenting_Books_Digital-Technology_Life-Home-Family-260905-813.html Melissa Thompson In my forties, I began keeping one small promise to myself every week: no phone until noon on Saturdays. It sounded simple until I noticed how often I had been recording my life instead of fully stepping into it. https://www.opednews.com/articles/South-Carolina-Canada--g-Canada_Darline-Graham-Nordone_Geography_Lake-Ontario-260831-73.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/South-Carolina-Canada--g-Canada_Darline-Graham-Nordone_Geography_Lake-Ontario-260831-73.html Bob Gaydos Whether it's people or places, to Trump, it's always a name game. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-s-Cluster-Warheads-T-Iran-War_Iranian_Israel_Weapons-260910-369.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Iran-s-Cluster-Warheads-T-Iran-War_Iranian_Israel_Weapons-260910-369.html Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D. Iran's growing use of cluster-warhead ballistic missiles is changing the mathematics of missile defense. From Israel to the recent attack on a U.S. air base in Jordan, one missile that survives interception can disperse dozens of submunitions""turning one incoming target into many. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Walking-on-Water-in-the-Ag-Artificial-Intelligence_Artificial-Intelligence_Sunday-260808-45.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Walking-on-Water-in-the-Ag-Artificial-Intelligence_Artificial-Intelligence_Sunday-260808-45.html Mike Rivage-Seul SUNDAY HOMILY: Walking on water means doing together what established power insists cannot be done. https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dynamics-of-Power-Cha-American-Deception_American-Dystopia_American-History_American-Identity-260820-659.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dynamics-of-Power-Cha-American-Deception_American-Dystopia_American-History_American-Identity-260820-659.html Bob Passi There is a major shift in power and governance taking place and it is being masterfully controlled. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-AI-Degrees-of-Americ-Germany-260911-792.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-AI-Degrees-of-Americ-Germany-260911-792.html Marcello Rollando AI is not to be feared but the greed that creates it at the sacrifice of life on earth just to Moon us for profit - should be https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Memoriam-Gloria-Steine-Autobiography_Conservatives_Culture_Feminine-Archetypes-260905-910.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Memoriam-Gloria-Steine-Autobiography_Conservatives_Culture_Feminine-Archetypes-260905-910.html Thomas Farrell In various OEN articles over the years, I have noted that American conservatives have felt under siege by American culture for decades because they reject the black civil rights moveement of the 1950s and subsequent decades, and the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s and subsequent decades of which Gloria Steinem (1934-2026) was a leader. In the present OEN article, I discuss Gloria Steinem's interest in Wonder Woman. https://www.opednews.com/articles/From-National-Independence-Benjamin-Netanyahu_Climate-Change_Colonization-And-Decolonization_Donald-Trump-260704-576.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/From-National-Independence-Benjamin-Netanyahu_Climate-Change_Colonization-And-Decolonization_Donald-Trump-260704-576.html Lawrence Wittner The development of national independence and the concomitant breakdown of imperialism represent advances in the human condition. But global problems such as war, environmental catastrophe, and disease pandemics require a further stage in human development: the interdependence of nations. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Konstantin-Chernenko-and-h-Media-Distortion_Media-Fake-Documentary_Media-Fake-News_Media-False-news-Liability-260824-735.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Konstantin-Chernenko-and-h-Media-Distortion_Media-Fake-Documentary_Media-Fake-News_Media-False-news-Liability-260824-735.html Anton Stemhler Most of the fifteen domains in the kompromat-for-hire network have names. Sledstvie means criminal investigation -- it's the word Ukrainian prosecutors use for the opening of a formal case. Antimafia means what it sounds like. When you search your name and find it on sledstvie.info or antimafia.se or vlasti.io, the category of threat arrives immediately, before you've read a word of the content. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Efforts-to-protect-ecosyst-Sustainability_Technology-260824-419.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Efforts-to-protect-ecosyst-Sustainability_Technology-260824-419.html Katie Singer Recently, a journalist asked me to explain how data centers and AI are a menace to society. I replied that focusing on data centers and/or AI is like weighing an elephant by the tip of its tail. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-the-News-Rigged-or-What-News-And-Media_News-Feeds-260914-410.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-the-News-Rigged-or-What-News-And-Media_News-Feeds-260914-410.html Philip Kraske Why do all these different news media present the same stories at the same time? Puzzling. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Part-1-The-Short-Term-Tra-Funding_Funding_Grant-Requests-Funding_Planning-260706-4.html Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Part-1-The-Short-Term-Tra-Funding_Funding_Grant-Requests-Funding_Planning-260706-4.html Rob Kall Most organizations operate under a hidden, systemic constraint: the standard 2-to-5-year funding ncycle. While this timeframe is widely accepted as industry best practice, it frequently acts as a structural chokehold on progress. It forces progressive, advocacy, and justice-oriented movements into a state of perpetual reactivity, trapping them in short-term habits and leaving them vulnerable to long-term systemic challenges