Autocrats, incorporated
Tom Engelhardt gives his thoughts on election day 2018.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 30
Vietnam demands compensation from Monsanto for victims of Agent Orange, California on brink of mandating 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Sanders vs. Amazon intensifies, and more.
“This is voter suppression”: 198,000 Georgia residents were illegally purged from voter rolls
“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”
As wildfires ravage British Columbia, Wall Street tells investors to buy stock in Canada’s...
New pipelines could help Canada export more tar sands, boosting the bottom lines of Alberta’s oil producers. But experts warn that Canada is charting a ‘path to climate crisis.’
Wake up you older Biden backers! He’s going after your (and your grandkids’) Social...
Why in hell would you be supporting a guy who over the past 40 years has repeatedly conspired with Republicans in various efforts to whack away or chip away at Social Security benefits?
How taxpayers covered a $1,000 liquor bill for Trump staffers (and more) at Trump’s...
A top-shelf, closed-door drinking session. $546-a-night hotel rooms. A special government credit card for Mar-a-Lago. Taxpayers foot the costs – and the president profits.
Congress introduces EARN IT Act, which would end encryption programs but violates the Constitution
“EARN IT is anti-speech, anti-security, and anti-innovation. Congress must reject it.”
#NotInvisible: Groundbreaking legislation tackles epidemic of violence against Indigenous women
"Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act."
Anti-Empire Report #156: Shakespeare said it best
The Russian-interference indictment is predicated, apparently, on the idea that the United States is a backward, Third-World, Banana Republic, easily manipulated.
Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fueled plastics production at a record rate—new research
Around the world, around the clock, the plastics we use every day are produced at facilities on an almost incomprehensible scale that some suggest we now live in an era best labelled the plasticene.