Now’s the time for Medicare for all
It's either expensive health care for the few, or affordable health care for the many.
The Catonsville nine, 50 years later
"What are your future plans?" "Resistance!"
Former Honduran police chief charged with trafficking drugs to US
“Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the former chief of the Honduran National Police, allegedly abused his positions in Honduran law enforcement to flout the law and play a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy.”
The huge costs of Trump energy plans
If Trump is able to reverse state and local bans on fracking, he will in effect be giving oil and gas companies the right to pollute people's farms and drinking water.
Trump debased his own primary, slurred party foes & stole the election. What! No...
That my thought experiment won’t happen, indeed fail badly, reinforces a party going full speed towards a cliff without looking up from its insular "party favors."
Journalism as Subversion
Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a vast historical amnesia?
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.
Today’s Top Wind Energy Stories: Cost Down 60 Percent Since 2009 (Video)
In the United States, the cost of wind-generated electricity is down 66 percent since 2009, and there are now 50,000 wind turbines, generating enough electricity to power 19 million homes.
NATO’s 5% pledge: An obscene betrayal of global needs
It represents a major step backwards—away from addressing the urgent needs of people and the planet, and toward an arms race that will impoverish societies while enriching weapons contractors.
The Sleaze, Guilt and Punishment of Don Blankenship
Lord Don has taken a great fall, as he was ousted as CEO in 2010, and then finally, last week, was convicted for the conspiracy that led to the needless deaths of those 29 miners.