Sanders ‘disappointed, but not surprised,’ as Senate rejects 10% military spending cut
"Spending $886 billion on the Pentagon will not make us safer."
Spinning illusions: The anti-American left and the Ukraine war
Illusions have their limits.
Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be the best way...
While its chances in the Senate appear slim, the proposal has brought national attention to the minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.
Switzerland loses 10% of glacier volume in just two years
“Glaciers are the ambassadors of climate change. They make it very clear what is happening out there because they respond in a very sensitive way to warming temperatures.”
US tax policy can turn on a dime. Has Ocasio-Cortez just turned it?
Progressives cheered. Conservative heads simply “exploded.”
Higher Education: Capitalism at Its Most Despicable
Public colleges have long been expected to benefit from academic research. But that all changed in 1980 with the Bayh-Dole Act. Now universities are more deeply entrenched in the capitalist world—a true degradation of higher education.
EPA approves California’s regulation to curb ship pollution at ports
The new policy will require container, reefer and cruise vessels to plug into electric shore-power when idling at California ports.
How corporations pumped up CEO pay while their low-wage workers suffered in the pandemic
More than half of the country’s 100 largest low-wage employers rigged pay rules in 2020 to give CEOs 29 percent average raises while their frontline employees made 2 percent less.
Colombia’s protests and the coming revolt against authoritarian neoliberalism
It leaves one wondering whether the Andean country is becoming more like its most important ally as many in the western press insist, or if the politics of the United States and its allies are becoming more like those of Colombia.
Video: Out with 2014, In with 2015 and Up with People
It's time we organize, mobilize, energize and make a ruckus. Never underestimate what we can, and will, accomplish together in 2015.