Politics

This inequality is unsustainable. It’s literally tearing America apart.

Former CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, faces a maximum possible sentence of decades in prison for leaking classified information about a secret operation in Iran. Norman Solomon talks about the need to support investigative journalists and whistleblowers and not let government wedge a gap.

Monsanto maintains that their product is safe, and that the recent arguments over glyphosate or purely “political.”

“It’s shocking that Biden officials are backing Trump’s ruthless decision to strip protections from wolves.”

In a formal announcement this week, Governor Robert Bentley of Alabama apologized to the government of India after a brutal assault by an officer left a 57-year-old Indian man visiting America partially paralyzed. Bentley said "justice would be served."

Gig economy is aptly named, for "gigs" are crude four-hook fishing devices that are dragged by commercial fleets through schools of fish to impale them, haul them in, and cash in on the pain.

What this country might look like if its politics were so much less top-down and so much more bottom-up.

“Hillary promises that her former-president husband will be put ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy.’”

Democrats can help Clinton in the election by passing a strong plank in the party platform opposing the TPP and similar “free trade’ agreements.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is currently considering extending $1.9 billion in federal loan guarantees to the Appalachia Development Group.