Critical Issues
Purple Air
Realtime air quality monitor.
Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C." A collaboration of two organizations, Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute, the CAT has been providing this independent analysis to policymakers since 2009.
Climate Analytics
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. Given its funders such the World Bank, it’s reports must be read carefully. For example individual country contributions to global warming are compared without reference to per capital rates. This favors relatively high polluting, low population countries, such as the U.S.
The Climate Clock
The Climate Clock adds the dimension of measurement to the climate crisis debate. As well-funded fossil fuel propagandists obfuscate, the clock inexorably ticks. We now have less than five years to make drastic common sense changes before the earth’s atmosphere warms more than 1.5°C over the era of pre-industrial foolishness.
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across Imperial America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on politics, and elect government servants who have the backbone to stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
Purple Air
Realtime air quality monitor.
How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War
An analysis of how European and US racism, so rampant during WWI, came home to the centers of empire.
Atlas of [U.S.] American Gun Violence
An interactive map showing more than 441,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S.
ICE Shootings Tracker
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
ICE Shootings Tracker
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
Al Jazeera
Independent new source from Doha, Qatar, with an emphasis on current events in the Arab World.
DemocracyNow!
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. The reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
SHEERPOST
An award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media miss or decline to cover.
The Guardian
Covering UK, European, US, Australian and international news for an online, global audience. The Guardian is renowned for the Paradise Papers investigation and other award-winning work including, the NSA revelations, Panama Papers and The Counted investigations.
Republic of Lakota
The Lakota are the freedom loving people from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system they have been forced to live under.
They are continuing the work that they were asked to do by the traditional chiefs and treaty councils at the first Indian Treaty Council meeting at Standing Rock Sioux Indian Country in 1974.
U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 to September 2025
An overview of U.S. military aid and arms transfers to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025.
Watch Duty
A highly-recommended app for realtime tracking of PG&E, urban and wild fires.
Racial Disparities Dashboard
An online dashboard displaying disparities between people in the U.S. who are identified as being either Black or white (using the specific racist categories peculiar to the U.S. settler-colonial form of division.)
How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War
An analysis of how European and US racism, so rampant during WWI, came home to the centers of empire.
US-Israel attacks on Iran: Death toll and injuries live tracker
Live updates of death and injury counts resulting from the illegal attack by actors in the U.S., Israeli and aligned authoritarian regimes upon the people of Iran.