Friday, April 19, 2024

Pakistan’s next prime minister wants to plant 10 billion trees

What's more, Pakistan is among the six countries that will be most affected by climate change, meaning that reforestation is critical to mitigate the impacts of global warming.
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Noam Chomsky: Survival of organized human life is at risk due to climate change...

Scientists have linked increased flooding and rainfall to climate change.

Of course, Medicare For All would increase federal spending…

But it would lower the total cost of health care.

Why wages are going nowhere

The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.

Reports of inhuman treatment at border facilities prompts judge to order independent monitor

“I need to appoint an independent monitor to give me an objective viewpoint about what is going on at the facilities.”

My summer vacation in the UK: What a blooming relief!

Fabricated defiance of the establishment was enough to justify the absurd hypocrisy of Trump's harangues – all evidence to the contrary.

Trump era: ‘There is great disorder under the sky, so the situation is excellent!’

The chaos of the Trump era is an opportunity for positive political change.

Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel’s new transportation scheme is a privatization bonanza

The development is yet another example of Emanuel’s plan to transform Chicago into a city for the wealthy few.

Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 30, 2018

California wildfires rage, Philadelphia refuses to share information with ICE, Koch brothers turn on Trump, and more.