Monday, July 13, 2026

The TPP and Free Trade: Time to Retake the English Language

The TPP is not about free trade.

An End to 'Mindless Austerity:' Obama Pushes for Taxing the Rich to Fund New...

President Obama is calling for Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations as a way to fund education and fix America's infrastructure. Could Obama's budget proposal help poor and middle-class families?

Federal prison guard arrested for accepting bribes

Harris accepted bribes in exchange for smuggling drugs and contraband into prison.

Long Beach school officer charged with murdering unarmed teen

“I don’t understand how it’s okay for an officer, or a cop or a school safety to shoot while there [were] little kids there as well.”

Behind a corporate monster: How Monsanto pushes agricultural domination

We must support ecological farming systems that do not need the inputs provided by Monsanto or any of the other pesticide, seed and GMO conglomerates.
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“Movements work”: As activists occupy Seattle’s capitol hill, city bans tear gas, expels police...

Seattle has become the first city in the nation to win a comprehensive ban on the use and purchase of chemical weapons and other barbaric weapons used against protest movements, so tear gas, mace and pepper spray, rubber bullets, flashbang grenades, water cannons, ultrasonic weapons.

FactChecking Trump’s climate speech

It will take nearly four years to complete the process for withdrawal, meaning that the final decision will not happen until after the 2020 presidential election.

We need to prepare for ongoing insurrectionary violence and address its root causes

Toxic polarization, in which the other side is seen as a monolithic enemy and an existential threat, is dangerous and cripples our ability to solve serious problems.

Women play key role in solar energy projects

Many women from rural areas around the world are now actively taking the responsibility to protect the environment, their families and livelihoods.

American campuses erupt in protests over Gaza, drawing harsh police response and national outrage

As students across the U.S. demand university divestment and an end to military aid for Israel, aggressive crackdowns raise alarms about civil liberties.