Tag: New York
Gov. Cuomo Rejects the Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win for the Anti-Fracking...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation just denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a 124-mile fracked gas pipeline.
What GOP New Yorkers Just Voted For: Torture, Syria Intervention and...
Well, someone doesn’t know what he is doing.
New York Elections Board to Face Audit Over Primary Problems
Mayor Bill de Blasio said that voters and voting rights monitors had reported the “purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists.”
New Yorkers File Emergency Lawsuit To Give Voting Rights Back To...
Voters in the lawsuit say their party affiliations were mysteriously changed.
New York Mayor Responds to Voter Purge
A petition has been launched on MoveOn.org demanding “a full audit of New York counties that have purged voters from their rolls in the past year.”
Bernie Proposes Nationwide Ban on Fracking
Bernie Sanders focuses on the environmental issue of fracking this week while campaigning in New York and Pennsylvania.
California, New York Launch 60 Million Americans Into A $15 Minimum...
About 60 million Americans live in the two states that signed $15 minimum wage plans into law Monday.
New York Values: What Tiny Ted Will Never Get About the...
Only a rube thinks that New York is about money and media alone; it is much, much bigger than that.
NY Assemblyman Sentenced to Prison on Public Corruption Charges
Former New York State Assemblyman William Scarborough was arrested and indicted on 11 federal charges and 23 state charges of fraud and theft. After pleading guilty, he will spend 13 months in prison—just another crooked politician.
Indian Point Accident
A recent fire at Indian Point Nuclear Plant in New York is prompting renewed calls to close the plant. Does the federal government have a historic, reckless and scandalous weakness when it comes to the nuclear power plant?
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
Searching for solace in a nuclearized world
The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.