JARED O. BELL – Humanitarian action should never depend on the strategic interests of great powers, yet history shows that it often does. We should have learned this lesson from the Holocaust, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and countless other crises the world ignored because they did not fit political agendas. Silence is complicity, and we have seen where that leads again and again. Sudan is becoming the next horror we will one day mourn, even as it unfolds before our eyes and the world turns away.
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
MICHAEL MANN – Maybe—just maybe—we’ve learned an important lesson here: The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist. The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press.
Facing imminent demolition orders, a West Bank village calls for international support
CASSIDY KLEIN and ASHLEY VER BEEK – As of Oct. 30, residents of Umm al-Khair have lawyers representing their case against the demolition orders, though the lawyers believe it will be difficult to stop the demolitions through legal action alone. The Umm al-Khair village is calling on the international community to pressure the Israeli government through media attention and by urging their representatives to intervene. They also say a larger protective presence of activists would help right now.
Rep. Titus Spearheads Effort to Prevent the Resumption of Nuclear Testing
ALYN WARE – Daryl G. Kimball, director of the nonpartisan Arms Control Association, warns, “The U.S. Congress, at the behest of the American people, led the way in 1991-1992 to halt U.S. nuclear testing and it is critical the Congress rally behind Rep. Dina Titus and Nevadans to block any attempts to resume nuclear explosive testing by the federal government in Nevada, or by any other government anywhere in the world.”
Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato
NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE (NIRS) – On Tuesday (October 26, 2025) the White House announced an $80 billion deal with Westinghouse to finance construction of eight large new reactors in the U.S. But the promise of a large, direct investment in a pack of new reactors has predictably revved up talk of yet another “Nuclear Renaissance” and made it look like the Donald J.Trump 2.0 administration is making good on big nuclear power goals from a group of executive orders issued in May.
Stop talking about “protests”
PETER BERGEL – Let’s believe in our own assertion of power and redouble our efforts to demonstrate it, not only by behaving as if we were powerful, but also by claiming a powerful name for one of our mass action tactics. We are not “protesters,” we are “demonstrators,” and we are demonstrating our strength.Let’s believe in our own assertion of power and redouble our efforts to demonstrate it, not only by behaving as if we were powerful, but also by claiming a powerful name for one of our mass action tactics. We are not “protesters,” we are “demonstrators,” and we are demonstrating our strength.