Friday, April 19, 2024

Letting the Pentagon loose with your tax dollars

Creating a national insecurity state—spending more, seeing less.

Job Growth Stays Steady While Wage Growth Fails To Take Off

August job growth was fueled by food and drinking places, social assistance, professional and technical services, finance, and health care.

After the March for Science, keep moving

This weekend’s march is a start. A climate scientist urges us to follow through in our personal lives as well as in our community.

Bernie Sanders on labor’s future and why Democratic Socialists keep winning

An exclusive interview with Sen. Sanders on how labor can respond to Janus, the fight to move the Democratic Party left, the growing popularity of democratic socialism and more.

‘Most significant charges yet’: Trump indicted for trying to overturn 2020 election

Trump faces four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.

Government contracting: The next big battleground for a more equal America?

Our tax dollars don’t have to be feeding executive-suite greed and grasping.

‘We had a deal’: Warren joins Sanders and House progressives in fight for Biden’s...

"We had a deal. And that deal was in place long before we voted here in the Senate."

Big Business defeated as Socialist Kshama Sawant’s victory certified in Seattle

"The ruling class in the United States is afraid of these kinds of movements and so we should not be surprised by the reaction."

European Environment Committee Votes Against Glyphosate Renewal

"So long as serious concerns remain about the carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties of the herbicide glyphosate, the EU Commission should not renew its authorization."

Climate and the U.S. election

The U.S. election in November is critical, not just because of Donald Trump’s neo-fascisinm, but primarily because if the climate-change-denying and fossil-fuel supporting Republican Party retains power.