Former Baltimore police sergeant indicted for planting gun and witness tampering
“Prosecuting criminals who work in police agencies is essential both to protect our communities and to support the many honorable officers whose reputations they unfairly tarnish.”
An open letter to the Washington Office on Latin America about its stance on...
"We write out of concern for the direction that WOLA has taken with regard to a matter of life and death, and possibly war and peace, in Latin America."
New warnings on plastic’s health risks as fracking industry promotes new ‘plastics belt’ build-out
And that's the heart of the problem – the rush to make plastics from cheap fracked shale gas in America hasn't been driving more polluting plants out of business, it's been adding to the world's new plastics production.
Why is Dianne Feinstein so opposed to the Green New Deal? Look at her...
Sen. Feinstein has direct financial interests in the same fossil fuel companies that the Green New Deal threatens.
Bread, circuses, and duct tape
There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy.
Pressure is on: Activists push Congress extra hard to support new legislation that will...
"Now we need to push lawmakers extra hard to support the new legislation before the lobbyists get to them."
Bernie Sander rallies in Chicago – the same city that inspired his political activism
“If we stand together believing in justice and human dignity, if we believe in love and compassion, the truth is there is nothing we cannot accomplish. Let us go forward together.”
Miami bans the use of glyphosate in a step to improve water quality
Miami now joins Miami Beach and Stuart, two cities in Florida who have also banned glyphosate.
New study shows widespread groundwater contamination from power plants across the nation
"This is a wake-up call for the nation. Using industry’s own data, our report proves that coal plants are trashing groundwater nearly everywhere they operate."
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.