Friday, July 17, 2026

‘Few things matter more to humans’: UN report says we must protect and restore...

"Policies that minimize soil degradation and protect soil biodiversity should be a component of biodiversity protection at all levels."
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The NYPD said the killing of Kawaski Trawick ‘appears to be justified.’ Video shows...

Kawaski Trawick was shot and killed in his Bronx apartment by a New York Police Department officer on April 14, 2019. The...

How Biden can do more Than just restore Trump’s environmental rollbacks

President-elect Joseph R. Biden has indicated that he’ll quickly roll back the rollbacks as soon as he’s inaugurated. Yet a reset is not enough.

Time to grow up: Ending divisions creating peace

It's time for humanity to come of age, to reject all that divides us, to unite and create a space in which peace and harmony can ring out across the world.

Inhumane, criminal: What the US Congress is refusing to do for desperate Americans

While Americans are suffering, these politicians in the Senate don’t lack for anything. In this Congress more than half of its members are millionaires.

The ‘Great Reset’ is both a neoliberal fantasy and a right wing conspiracy theory

So many ordinary people choose to believe in grotesque conspiracy theories and often blame others rather than the deeply flawed free market system.

McConnell pushes for ‘3-Martini Lunch’ Deduction while letting millions of Americans go hungry

“Mitch McConnell’s ‘new’ Covid relief bill gives CEOs a 100% tax deduction for a 3-martini lunch, but ZERO to the 26 million who don't have enough food to eat.”

Trump backs Senate GOP’s pay freeze for federal workers while giving the rich a...

“In the context of budgetary constraints and the recent, pandemic-related impacts on non-Federal labor markets, the Administration supports the policy in the bill to maintain for 2021 the current level of Federal civilian employee pay.”

Former police officers sentenced to prison for framing innocent man

“These officers shattered the victims’ lives and dishonored the Honolulu Police Department. This community deserved so much better from these officers.”

Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team

The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.