Yearly Archives: 2017
How the Koch machine quietly pushed for the Dakota Access Pipeline and stands to...
Dakota Access appears poised to line the pocketbooks of Koch Industries, which funnels millions of dollars to his own employer.
Activists rally in front of Trump Tower in Chicago to protest Syria missile strikes
When President Obama was faced with the same questions of intervention in 2013 after Assad and the Syrian government was accused of gassing its own people, many leading republicans came out and condemned a quick action.
Why these missile strikes won’t make things better for the Syrian people
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
2017 world health day
Not only individuals need to be cured for their invisible ills, but also society itself is in need of urgent renewal.
Republicans currently in the driver’s seat but Democrats are sitting in the catbird seat
Why are Republicans relentlessly following this negative, destructive agenda?
A tax plan only a one percenter could love
It takes serious mental gymnastics to argue that Trump’s tax agenda would benefit the average working Joe or Jane.
It’s official: KFC goes drug-free to fight superbug crisis
The transition to responsible antibiotics use in the chicken industry has happened in the span of just four years, proving that where there is a will, there is a way.
50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president
Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.
Secret Service agent suspended after meeting with prostitute
Last week, an unidentified Secret Service agent solicited a prostitute while off-duty in Maryland, according to CNN’s law enforcement sources
In the public schools, it’s been 1984 for quite awhile
Betsy DeVos is the face of corporate reform, displaying in stark, unlovely form the processes that have been eating away at public education since the beginning of this century.