The dairy industry is determined to pour itself down our throats
This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of theIndependent Media Institute.
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Peace activists’ best hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement
The Sunrise Movement, now mainly a climate movement, is a potentially an enormous Trojan horse for smuggling the climate-justice-and-peace agenda inside the halls of power.
The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry and corruption
The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”
How ‘Citizens United’ is helping Hillary Clinton win the White House
Reforms wait as Democrat's allies target GOP with super PACs, ‘dark money’
Lawmakers demand tax reform as major corporations pay executives more than federal taxes
Senators Warren and Whitehouse, along with Representative Casar, lead a call for fair taxation amid revelations of corporate tax avoidance and CEO overcompensation.
The IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with...
ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.
Pentagon contractors seizing new gold rush to cash in on the Ukraine crisis
How Pentagon contractors are cashing in on the Ukraine crisis.
The city where investigations of police take so long, officers kill again before reviews...
A California city’s flawed handling of fatal police shootings allowed six officers to use deadly force again before their first cases were decided. Experts say the department’s system "isn’t even basement standard practice” and needs oversight.
Why Martin Luther King Day should matter
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s true legacy remembered.
HuffPost and Washington Post Reporters Face Charges in Ferguson
Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly and Washington Post's Wesley Lowery were charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer a year after being detained during the Ferguson riots. This raises troubling questions about press freedom.