Yearly Archives: 2017
U.S. bans Brazilian beef imports
The United States Department of Agriculture suspended fresh beef imports from Brazil until the country “takes corrective action” to address “public health concerns, sanitary conditions, and animal health issues” in its cattle supply chain.
Trump’s sugar swamp
Sugar producers’ political clout is nothing new, in the U.S. or other industrialized countries.
Hawaii could be the first state to implement universal basic income
“The economy remains stable, everyone benefits, and no one is left behind.”
Companies can either make things or make CEOs rich
Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.
The essence of evil; Republicans’ treachery against their fellow Americans
What Republicans are doing should be considered as an act of treachery.
FERC releases ‘utterly insufficient review’ for Mountain Valley Pipeline
Oil Change International found that the Mountain Valley Pipeline will cause nearly 90 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution per year.
The Libya connection
Although the conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria have usually been described as civil wars, these theaters have been invaded by large numbers of foreigners, inevitably followed by the air-forces of Western and other countries.
Exclusive: PA lawmaker working to curb pipeline protesters tied to shadow lobbyists for company...
Grassroots and citizen opposition to the pipeline, which has been ongoing since the project’s original proposal in 2014, has intensified in recent months.
The lessons we learned from Jon Ossoff’s defeat
The efforts to build an independent capacity to recruit, train, and support populist candidates up and down the ticket should be redoubled.
World’s biggest coal company closes 37 mines as solar prices plummet
India's energy market is undergoing a rapid transformation as it moves away from fossil fuels.