Monday, October 26, 2026

After Bill To Drug Test Welfare Applicants Is Unveiled, Lawmaker Proposes Testing Legislators

“There’s no reason why state legislators should get a pass, simply because we wear suits.”

Blackwater mercenary sentenced to life in prison

Responsible for firing the first bullet in the Nisour Square massacre in 2007, former Blackwater security contractor Nicholas Slatten was sentenced Wednesday to life in federal prison. Last year, Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder...

The Pipeline Strikes Back: The Audacity of TransCanada’s $15B Suit Against the U.S.

The political saga of the Keystone XL pipeline is like a real-life version of The Force Awakens. So why are we giving the Dark Side even more power?

Bayer to pay $10 billion in cancer lawsuits over Roundup

“Even as we celebrate and congratulate those who made this day possible, millions of people are being exposed to glyphosate.”
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Justice for Kaysera: Native teen’s mysterious death highlights epidemic of murdered indigenous women

The family of Native American teenager Kaysera Stops Pretty Places is demanding justice after she was found dead in Hardin, Montana, in...

Bernie Sanders and others respond to Trump’s Muslim ban

“Trump's anti-Muslim order plays into the hands of fanatics wishing to harm America.”

An Exceptional Nation? French Foreign Policy and the 21st Century Scramble for Africa

There seems to be no amount of human suffering and destruction that can’t be excused when undertaken by western countries who are always deemed to have good intentions, while those opposed to them are tarred as savages at best and pure evil at worst.

3 NYPD Commanders Arrested on Federal Bribery Charges

Nearly a dozen mostly senior NYPD officials have been disciplined by the Department in some way as a result of the inquiry into de Blasio’s campaign fundraising.

Why Peace People Should Care About Money in Politics

While millions of people all over the world are being killed and injured by wars and violence, a small few are making billions from the never-ending war machine.
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Video: Cop assaults and arrests nurse for refusing to draw blood

Although Payne has been suspended from the department’s blood draw program, the abusive detective remains on active duty while under internal investigation.