FBI agent arrested for shooting at police sergeant
The Grand Rapids Police Department announced that the department’s Major Case Team is investigating the incident while the FBI special agent remains in custody.
Automation, climate change and Donald Trump: What kind of future are we in for?
Author Peter Frase combines science fiction and Marxist theory to imagine possible outcomes, for better and for worse.
Energy Transfer Partners releases statement on Dakota Access Pipeline, refuses to back down
The companies insist that they will continue construction on the pipeline without rerouting it around Lake Oahe, despite being denied the legal right to do so.
Trump’s treasury pick is a Goldman Sachs banker who foreclosed on tens of thousands
Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s choice to head the US Treasury, has a dark past working with Goldman Sachs and later heading OneWest Bank, which foreclosed the homes of thousands of Americans after 2008.
The mafia state
America’s Snopes-like elites have no external or internal constraints. They are barbarians. We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.
What the robots are doing to the middle class
We will need a guaranteed income, ideally through guaranteed jobs, with the implementation of a financial transaction tax, and with a commitment to alternative energy infrastructure development.
The election from hell has ended; now America’s nightmare begins
The American people are going to be living in a period in this nation’s history that will determine what kind of a nation and society this will be.
The Gettysburg Address, slightly updated
Now we are engaged in a great democratic battle, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can tolerate four years of Trumpery.
BREAKING: Army Corps of Engineers DENIES permit for Dakota Access Pipeline
"I heard the Army Corp of Engineers will not grant the easement and they will reroute. I would say that it is over."
7 ways to make an even bigger impact when you divest from DAPL
Closing your bank account is just the beginning.