Police officer receives probation after convicted of assault and battery
“Our community and our criminal justice system rely on the integrity of police officers and we must hold accountable those who abuse their positions of power and trust."
Assange extradition: Justice denied or just delayed?
“The American public needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”
Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 largest inherited-wealth dynasties accelerate inequality
Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.
31 progressive candidates seek to upend the democratic establishment in upcoming Ohio elections
Yes We Can’s odds of uprooting the Democratic establishment are a long shot, but winning this year is not necessarily the goal.
Defending Julian Assange; Defending the Truth
On 11 April 2019, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by UK police and arrested for...
Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow federal law
States may now think twice before ignoring treaty promises or challenging tribal jurisdiction.
Rep. Ro Khanna: Democrats should ignore the Senate Parliamentarian and pass $15 minimum wage...
“I don’t know any part of this country where someone can survive on $7.25.”
Poor People’s Campaign marches on Washington to ‘blunt the political effects of wealth inequality’
West Virginia and Kentucky activists vow to continue pressing Manchin and McConnell on democracy and economic reforms.
“Give us the moratorium”: Rep. Cori Bush sleeps on Capitol steps demanding eviction protection
“This isn’t easy. This is not performative in any way. I would rather be at home, but I understand the urgency and the need of this crisis right now.”
Monsanto Cuts 16% of Work Force as Sales in Roundup Herbicide Fall 34%
Monsanto has been struggling for investor confidence following the announcement in March 2015 that the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency had declared the world’s most widely used weedkiller – glyphosate – a “probable human carcinogen”.