Saturday, April 20, 2024

Biden announces actions to address the growing hunger crisis facing 29 million Americans during...

Biden's actions are described as "equitable emergency economic relief" that would "help Americans persevere through the pandemic," according to a White House statement.

A Thanksgiving toast

And when we raise our glasses for a toast, I will ask that they never give up fighting for a more just society. Happy Thanksgiving, friends.

Fast Food Workers in Kentucky Stand Up to Global Billion-Dollar Corporation in Union Vote

This Wednesday, cooks and cashiers at Morehead State University (MSU) will vote to unionize in order to bargain for a liveable wage. The workers are employed by Aramark, whose top executive makes 1,817 times more per year than their average worker.

S.O.P. Save Our Planet

Worldwide air pollution is making us Ill.

Behind the Booing: A Sanders Delegate Reflects on the DNC Protests

Bernie Sanders has always said this campaign was not about him or any one person, but about millions of people rising up and saying "enough is enough."

How Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh could return US policy to the era of...

“Judge Kavanaugh isn't anti-environmental, but he tends to be anti-agency."

DeVos budget robs from poor kids to fund schools that discriminate

What Trump and DeVos are proposing in this budget is not only to take resources away from students, but to turn around and give more money to schools that would potentially discriminate against them.

Women continue to contribute in record numbers heading into 2020

However, it appears that many networks of prominent donors, including powerful women, are staying out of the presidential fundraising race for now.
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Greenwald: How can Democrats support Trump’s push for regime change to seize Venezuela’s oil?

"Do you think the Venezuelan people are going to be helped by having Donald Trump, John Bolton, Mike Pence and Elliott Abrams intervene in their country, engineer regime change and then prop up whatever leader they like best?"
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The Most Important Neglected Middle East Stories of 2015

The past 12 months saw enormous political, economic and military shifts in the Middle East, changing its geopolitics for the foreseeable future.