Tag: Germany
Germany begins trial for universal basic income
Germany will provide the citizens a monthly stipend of €1,200, or about $1,430, which is just above the country's poverty level.
V-E Day plus 75
The “new times” upon which the nation has now embarked will pose their own distinctive challenges, as the Covid-19 pandemic makes unmistakably clear.
Thousands of activists stage protests at three German coal mines to...
"We want to show with our protest today that this mine needs to be shut down permanently."
Dangerous levels of plastic found in children’s bodies finds new study
"It can't be that every fourth child between three and five years old is so heavily burdened with chemicals that long-term damage cannot safely be ruled out."
Protesters hear echoes of the past in Germany’s new police laws
The hollowing out of this constitutional firewall represents a weakening of a legal structure born directly out of the German experience of state fascism.
Germany to put ‘massive restrictions’ on Monsanto weedkiller
"I am planning a regulatory draft as a first building block in the strategy to minimize use of glyphosate."
Germany and the rise of a ‘Fascist International’
Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we're one step closer to globalizing the alt-right.
Germany blazes past US, setting new record for renewable energy production
Germany is the champion among industrialized economies in going green.
Germany bans meat at all official functions to combat climate change
Because animal agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment recently banned meat from being served at official functions.
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We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.
Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls
The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...
Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
Senators move to block $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia
The bombs would arm Saudi jets as senators also demand to see classified side letters on a separate nuclear deal.