Tag: justice
Pentagon chief’s reversal of plea deals with 9/11 defendants sparks outrage...
The abrupt decision to scrap plea agreements with Guantánamo detainees raises questions about justice, torture, and the future of military commissions.
Only a despot-friendly Supreme Court, instead of reigning in WH crimes,...
The right’s ferocious war on the Constitution has now super-powered the executive, leaving Congress, the judiciary, regulators, and ordinary, law-abiding citizens in the lurch.
Tariffs don’t protect jobs. Don’t be fooled.
When employees have become their own employers, they will make the quantities and qualities of a society’s jobs a key policy objective rather than a side-effect of policies focused elsewhere.
To best understand inequality, think class, not generation
We can’t change the generation we get born into. We can change how the world we enter distributes income and wealth.
Nader urges judge to imprison Trump, citing grave threat to democracy
Ralph Nader calls for a prison sentence for Donald Trump, arguing his actions endanger the peaceful transfer of power.
‘A king above the law’: Supreme Court rules presidents have broad...
The ruling upends more than two centuries of legal precedent, for the first time shielding U.S. presidents from criminal accountability.
Julian Assange secures release after plea deal with US government
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange agrees to a plea deal, leading to his release from Belmarsh Prison and highlighting the ongoing debates about press freedom and whistleblower prosecution.
Majority of Americans demand Supreme Court ethics investigations
A recent poll reveals overwhelming support for stricter ethical oversight of Supreme Court justices, transcending political lines.
Supreme Court upholds mandatory repatriation tax in Moore case
The mandatory repatriation tax (MRT) was enacted in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the provision has raised more than $300 billion of revenue for the federal government since then.
Jury finds Hunter Biden guilty of three felony counts
Biden is guilty on two counts of making false statements regarding his drug use when purchasing a Colt revolver in October 2018 and one count of illegal possession of a firearm as a drug user.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.