Bank backing pipeline launches own investigation into treatment of Standing Rock Sioux
$460 million in credit is at stake for the Dakota Access and Bakken pipeline as Norway’s largest bank announces its own “fact-based” evaluation of indigenous rights abuses.
Prison official charged with smuggling drugs into correctional institution
Rose repeatedly met with inmates and received text messages from contraband prisoner cellphones in order to coordinate the scheme.
Michael Moore: Americans pay more for healthcare than others, but “we don’t call it...
“The real question never gets asked. They always want to pin them on how much is it going to cost in taxes.”
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia
After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.
Chris Hedges discusses resistance in the Age of Trump with Kevin Zeese
“It’s all about building power. That has to be our goal: to build power, to take office, and to create a movement that can’t be ignored.”
Another Dead Whale Found With Plastic in Its Stomach
Sei whales are in so much danger from being hunted, poisoned by plastic pollution, and being entangled in fishing nets it’s no wonder there are only 12,000 left on the planet.
Minneapolis agrees to pay $27M settlement to family of George Floyd
“Minneapolis has been fundamentally changed by this time of racial reckoning, and this city council is united in working together with our community and the Floyd family to equitably reshape our city of Minneapolis.”
Maryland bans fracking
“Maryland is taking a huge step forward, but communities are continuing to suffer as fracking and extreme extraction expands worldwide.”
Beyond #Metoo, 3 movements making a difference for gender equity
From closing the wage gap and protecting reproductive rights to ending gender-based sexual exploitation, the push to support and empower women and nonbinary people has roots that date back generations.
Inside the mass movement against Brett Kavanaugh
“The fact is that we’re not being heard and so we have to escalate this tactic, but the result is that we are getting through."