Saturday, July 12, 2025

An invulnerable financial fortress on the sand?

Qatar has our world’s attention, but nearby — and deeply unequal — Dubai might be charting our future.

Wall Street thieves find new ways to steal from us

The "new way" is the same old story of the rich robbing the rest of us.
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Weeping white supremacist barred from Virginia after pleading guilty to assault

He was sentenced to two terms of 12 months, with all but seven months suspended, to run concurrently.

Two scientists resign from EPA to protest recent firings

The scientists insist they will “not be a future prop for bad science.”

What a policy of real solidarity with the Syrian people looks like

The U.S. does not have to choose between backing the Assad regime or extremist groups. There is another choice: Syria’s homegrown pro-democracy resistance.

Exclusive: Gay High School Student Delivers Valedictorian Speech He Was Barred from Giving

Evan Young, the 2015 class valedictorian of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado was prevented from giving his graduation speech because he was going to announce he is gay. But Young finally got his chance and was praised for his bravery.

Bringing workers’ rights into a Constitution? An innovative state ballot proposal could offer a...

A Nov. 8 referendum will give Illinois voters the opportunity to enact a “Workers’ Rights Amendment” to the state constitution.

‘Radical and disgusting stance’: 44% of GOP voters think US just has to accept...

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded that she cannot "accept children being gunned down in classrooms and mass shootings in grocery stores, salons, and places of worship."
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Pushed out, attacked & criminalized: San Francisco’s unhoused people speak out amid housing crisis

While advocates push for more affordable housing solutions, instead city governments have been cracking down on unhoused people with increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness.

The Flint Water Crisis In Pictures

Earlier this month a State of Emergency was declared and the National Guard was called in to Flint to help with the ongoing crisis.