Yearly Archives: 2021
Fastfood workers strike demanding $15 an hour and union rights
"They want to send a message to both the Biden-Harris administration and Congress to prioritize passing $15 an hour (legislation) in the first 100 days."
Trump and his key enablers
Is the Trump nightmare finally ending?
‘Thoughts and prayers to the NRA’: Reviled gun lobby group files for Chapter 11...
"The NRA's claimed financial status has finally met its moral status: bankrupt."
Youth climate movement demands immediate action after ’empty promises,’ announces next global strike
"If we don't act now, we won't even have the chance to deliver on those 2030, 2050 targets that world leaders keep on talking about."
We need to prepare for ongoing insurrectionary violence and address its root causes
Toxic polarization, in which the other side is seen as a monolithic enemy and an existential threat, is dangerous and cripples our ability to solve serious problems.
Decoding the hype behind the natural gas industry’s hydrogen push
The oil and gas industry is once again trying to disrupt the renewable energy process, this time with methane-derived hydrogen.
Time to trash the terrorist watch list, a police-state Frankenstein gone off the rails
Any political blacklist that has a million names of “suspected terrorists” is a caricature of a police state run amok.
Capitol attack underscores white supremacist infiltration of police, military
Dozens of law enforcement officers, active-duty military members and veterans are suspected of having participated in the Jan. 6 rally and the storming of the Capitol.
Will the Senate confirm coup plotter Nuland?
Victoria Nuland would be a ticking time-bomb in Biden’s State Department, waiting to sabotage his better angels much as she undermined Obama’s second-term diplomacy.
Assange extradition: Justice denied or just delayed?
“The American public needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”