Tag: United States
Press Freedom is under threat in the land of its birth
Hong Kong looks freer than the U.S. these days.
How can America really be exceptional?
Can America still follow its principles of liberty and equality but have a far broader set of free social services (education and healthcare like the fire and police departments)? I think that it can. And if it does, it will have the sort of society that we want – not an oligopoly or crony capitalist one.
America’s widening inequality of place
This inequality is unsustainable. It’s literally tearing America apart.
Refusing to hide: Migrants find power in caravans
No longer willing to collude in their oppression, Central Americans are coming to the U.S. in the open and en masse.
Increased restrictions on protest won’t keep communities safer
Instead of looking to combat-ready police to solve the problem of public disruption, the community itself has the capacity to create structures of safety and support by focusing on solidarity and confronting the foundational issues that are causing the violence in the first place.
Six potential lessons from our most debased presidency
To restore America, we need both vilify Trump for what he is – and defy his gang – but also reluctantly face how epic excesses clarity our moral, intellectual and political choices.
The albatross wrapped around America’s neck
It is truly time for change in America but how can we make this happen?
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 14, 2018
DNC will take fossil fuel money after all, Income inequality in America vs. Europe, and more.
Statue of infamy
Give me your tired and your poor, so I can put them in a concentration camp.
Violent coup fails in Nicaragua, US continues regime change efforts
Peace and justice advocates must be grounded in anti-imperialism and nonintervention by the United States.
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Cheap renewables could make 90% of proposed gas power plants — and many pipelines...
Within 26 years, virtually all gas power plants will be economically obsolete in many states.
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."
Over 800 climate strikes planned in U.S. on September 20th; Global Climate Strikes to...
5 days ahead of strikes, Activists of all ages, labor groups, faith leaders, businesses gear up for youth-led climate strikes in intergenerational demand for climate action
What George Carlin taught us about media propaganda by omission
George Carlin’s quip reminds us to demand the other score: the horrific cost of our unequal and unsustainable status quo.
Germany poised to spend nearly $50 billion on climate protections
The country will spend up to 40 billion euros to cushion the impact of abandoning coal.