Friday, June 26, 2026

Winner take everything: Will Paul Kagame be Rwanda’s president for life?

“The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.” —Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

Bernie Sanders Is More Favorable than Trump but Gets Less than 5% of Media...

In 2015, Donald Trump received 234 minutes of coverage from the mainstream media. Bernie Sanders received just 10 minutes.
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Trump escalates economic attack on Cuba, banning Americans from educational, cultural trips

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba “providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

Labor, rights groups praise Biden policy boosting migrant worker protections

"This is a huge victory for undocumented workers and the labor movement," said one organizer.

16 Attorneys General file lawsuit to protect DREAMers and preserve DACA

“To target these young people is wrong – because they have done nothing wrong.”

The big obstacle for Bernie isn’t DNC rigging’ – it’s media trashing

We must confront those corporate media forces while vastly strengthening independent progressive media work of all kinds.

2018 update: More evidence that half of Americans are in or near poverty

By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.

Body lotions, cleaning fluids and other commonly used products contain toxic chemicals, study finds

These chemicals enter the surrounding environment as gases and can cause a host of health issues, including cancer.

How Jeff Sessions profited from introducing a fracking exemption for drinking water rules

It remains to be seen whether Sessions will face questions about his support for the S.724 (“the Halliburton Loophole”) or his Energen stock sell-off.

The roots of the US-Russia rivalry

Russia-U.S. relations became most visible during their Cold War confrontation and are now dangerously dysfunctional. Long-established suspicion and overlapping interests have shaped periods of cooperation and competition for centuries, a cycle that risks repeating itself indefinitely.