Yearly Archives: 2021
10 charts on the state of U.S. workers on the 2nd pandemic Labor Day
While workers are continuing to struggle under Covid, corporate lobbyists are converging on Capitol Hill to block proposed pro-labor reforms.
Sanders says last thing California needs is ‘some right-wing Republican governor’
“The September 14 recall of Governor Newsom is a bold-faced Republican power grab. Don’t let it happen.”
Exxon’s oil drilling gamble off Guyana Coast could turn country from a carbon sink...
Exxon has said that it’s committed to helping meet Paris climate goals, but at the same time, it is turning a country that was a non-oil producer into a massive oil producer.
The fix is in on fixing things
Big corporations want to make it illegal for you to repair the devices you bought from them.
China’s ‘surveillance creep’: How big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people...
It is crucial these surveillance systems embed principles of transparency and accountability within their design.
Are men more corrupt and sexually aggressive?
We, the electorate, didn’t vote for politicians so that they could latch onto women, nor so that they could rob us blind.
Afghan crisis must end America’s empire of war, corruption and poverty
The United States can either stumble on in its fruitless attempt to control the world through militarism and coercion, or it can use this opportunity to rethink its place in the world.
All bets are off as Republican democracy killers concoct ever-scarier nightmares
While Democrats work at marginal political solutions, the radical right heads for the rocks, crying “full steam ahead.”
LAPD releases video of officer tasing NBA player
The LAPD released footage from two police body cameras showing what occurred during the arrest.
How US wars abroad are intimately tied to police brutality at home
The linkages between U.S. violence in the heart of the empire and places around the world are many, and the need to deepen an awareness of them is urgent.