Videos Capture LAPD Killing Homeless Man on Skid Row
After a homeless man allegedly resisted arrest, LAPD officers fatally gunned him down on Skid Row. Recording of the incident on witnesses’ cell phones along with police officers' body cameras will be used in the investigation into the shooting.
Trump announces Iran-Israel cease-fire after illegal US strikes on nuclear sites
Experts warn of nuclear treaty collapse and growing backlash as Trump bypasses Congress to launch war and declare peace.
We need to elect more leaders from the labor movement into government
Electing more union members to councils and mayoral posts will help to combat right-wing attacks on workers and hold local government accountable to the ordinary people it’s intended to serve.
Endangered and dangerous Israel, endangering Jews
What effect on Jews elsewhere from manifestly wrong or immoral actions of the state?
Sobering 2018 national climate change report is leaked to the NY Times
Government climate scientists take action.
Daniel Ellsberg has passed away. He left us a message.
“The fact is that secrets can be held by men in the government whose careers have been spent learning how to keep their mouths shut. I was one of those.”
Damming rivers is terrible for human rights, ecosystems and food security
Despite industry rhetoric, hydropower is high-cost and high-risk. There are better options for a post-pandemic recovery and a renewable energy future.
The gap between climate rhetoric and reality: The Fossil Fuelled 5
Among those five wealthy countries analyzed, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway and Australia, all plan to approve and subsidize new fossil fuel projects despite their claims of leading in the climate fight, the report concluded.
Economic growth in G7 versus BRICS: a reality check
Like rose-colored glasses, anti-systemic glasses make economic problems appear less dangerous, narrower, and more limited in effects than they actually are.
The Right’s grotesque, negative learning curve is steadily demolishing its national brand
For a white nationalist base obsessed with “losing its country” (and dominance) to outsiders and non-whites, won’t chronic, severe political whoppers achieve exactly its worst fear?