Tag: politics
Connecting the dots between climate devastation and fossil fuel profits
As Pakistan drowns, as Puerto Rico is cast into darkness, and as Jacksonians remain thirsty, it’s past time for a climate tax on fossil fuel companies.
UK: Fragmentation and decline under conservative rule
Beyond the madness of the Queen's funeral etc.
How vote count mistakes by two rural counties fed Trump’s big...
County officials didn’t properly set up and use their election computers, helping to launch a looming disinformation juggernaut.
How Barbara Ehrenreich exposed the ‘positive thinking’ industry
We can thank the late economic justice warrior for her groundbreaking contribution in showing that “positive thinking” is part of a whitewashing of economic inequality.
In refusing to prioritize drivers’ safety, UPS risks major strike
As UPS drivers around the country struggle to do their jobs in triple-digit temperatures—literally baking inside non-air-conditioned trucks—their wealthy employer refuses to take action.
Is the US legal system at war with its people?
Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people.
Living in a sci-fi world
What we’re watching is a tragedy of an unparalleled sort in the making for our children and grandchildren, which leaves me sad beyond words.
Joe Biden could have gone a lot further on student loans
The president’s loan forgiveness plan is narrow and paltry—and his administration’s preparation to fend off outraged criticism from both sides of the aisle speaks volumes.
Arizona’s Secretary of State race pits ‘the guy who beat the...
An interview with Adrian Fontes, who modernized Phoenix’s election system and helped hundreds of thousands of new voters during 2020’s pandemic and presidential election.
How employers are trying to thwart a wave of union drives
“Fear is a great motivator. That’s exactly how they operate.”
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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”
Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter
Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.
When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?
Nuke power equals Trump profits
Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.