Tag: Hurricane Irma
Who owns Puerto Rico’s debt, exactly? We’ve tracked down 10 of...
Financial firms are still fighting to get billions out of the bankrupt island as it tries to rebuild.
Perfect storms? From Katrina to Maria, some would profit from catastrophe
“I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack.” –Donald Trump in Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Oct. 3rd
Why hurricanes Harvey and Irma won’t lead to action on climate...
The hurricanes of Harvey and Irma will be a catalyst for a new age of realism regarding the hazards of climate change.
The great flood
The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end.
All 5 living former U.S. Presidents come together for Harvey relief...
“As former presidents, we wanted to help our fellow Americans begin to recover.”
Limbaugh says Irma hurricane warnings are a scheme to benefit retailers,...
Just eight days after Vice President Pence appeared on his show, Limbaugh once again promotes fringe theory about hurricane forecasts.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Mexicanization of the United States
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.
The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions
The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.