Alert: French Army Receives Authorization To Shoot “Yellow Vest” Protesters
Yesterday, the governor of the Paris military district told France Info that soldiers of the Operation Sentinel counter-terror...
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Alert: Mueller’s Investigation Erases a Line Drawn After Watergate
The special counsel’s decision not to take a position on whether President Trump’s norm-shattering actions constituted obstruction...
read moreAlert: Trump-Linked Christian Fundamentalists Are Pouring Dark Money Into Europe, Boosting the Far Right
The rise of far-right movements in Europe aligns with a significant increase over the last five years in spending by Christian groups...
read moreThe People of Palestine Are on the March
Israel will hold an election on April 9, a little more than a week after the first anniversary of the Great March of Return. On the...
read moreU.S. Supreme Court backs SEC, safeguards investor-protection laws
The U.S. Supreme Court safeguarded investor-protection laws on Wednesday in a ruling against a New York investment banker who the...
read moreThe Irish Potato Famine Was Caused By Capitalism, Not A Fungus
While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food...
read moreBrazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro
Bolsanaro has lowered the minimum wage, dismantled labor law enforcement and is threatening pension cuts. Source: Brazil’s Labor...
read moreCaught up in Avenatti scandal, Mark Geragos finds himself on the other side of the law
Mark Geragos, celebrity lawyer to the stars, found himself on other side of law after he was linked to a federal sting operation that...
read moreMan Who Drove Van Through Crowd in Charlottesville Pleads Guilty to 29 Hate Crimes
James Fields Jr. pled guilty to 29 of the 30 hate crimes he was charged with after he drove his vehicle into a crowd of...
read moreIn Argentina, Over A Million March In Honor Of Victims Of US-Backed Military Dictatorship
On the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, over a million Argentinians mobilized to remember the 30,000 victims of the last...
read moreHappy to Engage Workers and Community on Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez Accepts GOP Invite to Kentucky Coal Mine
The New York Democrat has been met with warm welcomes from working people in red states, where poor communities would benefit from...
read moreMan stopped by ICE uses ‘know your rights’ training, prevents immigrants’ arrest
Bryan MacCormack, 30, executive director of the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement in upstate New York, was captured on video...
read moreWarning: Frankenfish Coming to a Store Near You
The FDA has removed the last roadblock to genetically engineered (GE) salmon hitting supermarket shelves. The GE salmon will have to...
read moreEducators Can Dismantle Oppression in Their Classrooms. Here’s How.
Dismantling racism and oppression within school systems should be prioritized with mandatory worker training. Source: Educators Can...
read moreNot Piracy But ‘A Matter of Survival’: Refugees Take Control of Ship Headed Back to ‘Hell’ in Libya
“‘Pirates’—a new label for refugees who refused to return to slave camps in Libya.” Source: Not Piracy...
read moreThe Psychological Aftermath of Surviving School Shootings
The recent Parkland student suicides call attention to the long-term effects of school shootings on mental health, academic...
read moreGeorge HW Bush voted for Hillary in 2016, Barbara stopped considering herself a Republican
According to a forthcoming biography by USA Today’s Washington bureau chief Susan Page, the Bush family matriarch and patriarch were...
read moreCuba Sends Field Hospital to Help Mozambique amid Cyclone Idai
Cuba’s vice minister of Foreign Affairs Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo announced that Cuba is sending Wednestay a “field...
read moreWells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan steps down
Sloan is the second CEO, after John Stumpf, to leave since Wells Fargo’s customer abuse scandals came to light in late 2016....
read moreAlleged New Zealand Mosque Gunman Linked to Far-Right Group Backed by Steve King
Austrian authorities announced Wednesday that they had discovered a financial link between the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter and...
read moreMueller could never have saved us from Trump. That’s what politics is for
Being unfit for office is not a crime. It will be up to the American people to absorb and act on that insight Source: Mueller could...
read moreElizabeth Warren’s Plan to Lift Up Family Farmers Includes Barring Big Ag Mega-Mergers Like Monsanto-Bayer
The senator unveiled her plan to fight conglomerates like Bayer-Monsanto just before heading to Iowa to meet with farmers Source:...
read moreHere’s How The 2020 Candidates Rate On Climate
Climate change is expected to be a major issue among Democrats in 2020 as the White House continues its anti-environmental agenda....
read moreA psychologist who studies leadership development reveals the simple reason so many incompetent men fail their way to the top
Chamorro-Premuzic shares a few explanatory theories. The first is that overconfidence can easily be masked as competence, especially...
read moreDemocrats Ignore a Progressive Foreign Policy at Their Peril
The 2020 election will not turn on global issues — and more’s the pity. After all, thanks to decades upon decades of...
read moreJudge strikes down Medicaid work requirements
It’s a major loss for the Trump administration. Source: Judge strikes down Medicaid work requirements...
read moreHow Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Usurpation of Syrian Golan Strengthens Iran, Russia in ME
Russian President Vladimir Putin is delighted at Trump’s move, since it cuts off at the knees US objections to the Russian...
read moreStacey Abrams Signals She’s Not Interested In Being Biden’s Running Mate
“I think you don’t run for second place,” the rising Democratic star said on “The View.” Source: Stacey Abrams Signals She’s...
read moreAlert: Trump’s stance on the Golan will allow Israel to operate with impunity elsewhere
Until now, no country had recognised Israel’s act of plunder. In 1981, UN member states, including the US, declared Israeli...
read moreThe Green New Deal: A Strategy For A More Equal United States
The Green New Deal often gets portrayed as simply a program for climate protection. But the Green New Deal — as proposed in a new...
read more‘Republicans don’t want to have this fight’: Ex-RNC chair warns that health care is a terrible issue for the GOP in 2020
“The Republican Party,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday, “will soon be known as the party of health care. You watch.” But Steele...
read moreBarr: White House will have chance to edit Mueller Report before it’s public
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Tuesday that Attorney General William Barr told him he would send the special counsel...
read moreAlert: Bush/Cheney politically-driven TSA inspections return: The ICE and TSA Role as Journalist Harasser and Media ‘Watchdog’
Sometimes you have to leave the United States to understand how far this country has evolved towards becoming a police state. I got a...
read moreWarren, Sanders, and Gillibrand Top Performers on 2020 Climate Leadership Scorecard
“No one is getting an A+ on this climate test just for admitting that the climate crisis is happening. Real climate leadership...
read moreFBI releases documents on Trump Organization after years of resistance
A pair of subpoenas for testimony to a federal grand jury in Manhattan were among the files released under Foia law Source: FBI...
read moreVoters don’t want partisan gerrymandering … but the Supreme Court may be another story
Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah all passed ballot measures that weakened the ability of state legislators to pass purely...
read moreImpeach William Barr if he doesn’t release the Mueller report
United States Attorney General William Barr is acting as though he has a choice about releasing the Mueller report. He doesn’t....
read moreEvery Senate Democrat Backs Sweeping Campaign Finance, Voting Rights and Ethics Reform Bill
Sen. Tom Udall’s (D-N.M.) bill is a companion to the For The People Act passed by the House in March. Source: Every Senate Democrat...
read moreUnsealed Documents Shed Light On State Conspiracy Against Chelsea Manning
On Wednesday, the U.S. Eastern District Court of Virginia unsealed several filings concerning Chelsea Manning’s legal challenge to...
read moreVote Him Out: Schumer Compares Ilhan Omar To Trump As Top Democrats Echo GOP’s Criticism At AIPAC
At the pro-Israel conference, Democratic leaders are helping the Republicans’ claim that the left has turned against Israel and...
read moreDemocrats’ Russiagate Fixation Has Obscured Trump’s True Crimes
it wasn’t really collusion with Russia so much as it was collusion with Israel. Because what’s described as a very senior Trump...
read moreTeam Trump Is Out for Vengeance. The Democrats Must Push Back.
Trump’s flunkeys are trying to flip the script on the “treasonous” Obama administration. Source: Team Trump Is Out...
read moreWar and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates
While we can’t guarantee that candidates will stick to their campaign promises, we still must ask this vital question: What...
read moreAmerica’s Corruption Is a National Security Threat
Donald Trump is one symptom of a wider problem that’s making the United States weaker on the international stage. Source: America’s...
read moreCongress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks
THE SIX LARGEST WALL STREET banks took home $100 billion in profit in 2018, aided by significant relief from the Trump tax cuts....
read moreFacebook to ban white nationalist and separatist content
Facebook decided Tuesday to ban content that offers praise and support of white nationalism and white separatism on its platform, and...
read more“They don’t even know I’m here.” Audio released of calls made by inmate lost in system
Audio recordings from an inmate lost in the Oklahoma County Jail for nearly eight months were released to FOX 25 from a source...
read moreUniversal Health Care Benefits 300,000 Bolivians in 20 Days
President Evo Morales reported on Sunday that the Unified Health System (SUS) had benefited a total of 300,000 people who do not have...
read moreMeet the Billionaires Profiting Off Job Losses at GM
Hedge fund heads buy up mansions and NFL teams, all on the tab of autoworkers. Source: Meet the Billionaires Profiting Off Job Losses...
read moreAmerica’s Islamophobia Is Forged at the Pulpit
White evangelicals’ apocalyptic fantasies are driving U.S. policy. Source: America’s Islamophobia Is Forged at the Pulpit – Foreign...
read morePaula White: the pastor who helps Trump hear ‘what God has to say’
Paula White, Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser and personal pastor, re-enacted a moment at a private White House dinner last month...
read moreSusan Collins says she opposes the DOJ’s effort to overturn Obamacare. Her votes are the reason it’s happening
The fact is, this lawsuit came to be — and has a slim chance of passing — thanks to a series of right-wing laws and...
read moreVietnam Bans Import Of Glyphosate Herbicides After US Cancer Trial Verdict
Vietnam has announced that it has banned the import of all glyphosate-based herbicides with immediate effect following the latest...
read moreCan Congress Pass a ‘Red Flag’ Law to Disarm People in Crisis?
In a departure from their party’s usual stance, many Republicans sounded open and enthused about a gun-control law at a hearing...
read moreTrump Is Too Pro-Netanyahu for His Own Base
The love affair between the U.S. president and Israeli prime minister might play well at this week’s AIPAC conference, but it doesn’t...
read moreMuseums Cut Ties With Sacklers as Outrage Over Opioid Crisis Grows
Accusations that the family behind OxyContin actively played down its perils have led arts and education institutions to rethink...
read moreFury as Bolsonaro orders Brazil army to mark 55th anniversary of military coup
Defence ministry told to hold ‘appropriate commemorations’Widespread death and torture under regime that lasted 21 years Source: Fury...
read moreBroken Faith: Inside the Catholic Church’s plan to quietly pay survivors of sexual abuse
The Church is launching private settlement programs just as states are making it possible for more child sex abuse victims to sue....
read moreBiden condemns ‘white man’s culture’ as he laments role in Anita Hill hearings
Potential 2020 contender regrets not giving Hill ‘the hearing she deserved’ during Clarence Thomas confirmation process Source: Biden...
read moreAlert: Trans Migrant Women in ICE Detention Allegedly Asked to Perform Sexual Favors in Exchange for Food
After speaking out against sexual harassment, withheld medications and dehumanizing treatment by guards at a New Mexico immigrant...
read moreIt Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War
We need space for real dissent from the views of a foreign policy establishment that has so clearly failed us. Source: It Is Long...
read more“A Crime in Public View”: How William Barr Pardoned Donald Trump
Trump had plenty of reasons to obstruct Mueller’s investigation, whether or not there was an underlying crime. The most obvious one...
read moreDARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System
The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to...
read moreThe Illusory Truth Effect: how millions were duped by Russiagate
Bit by bit, mainstream American consciousness is slowly coming to terms with the death of the thrilling conspiracy theory that the...
read moreRussian Troops, Aid Arrive In Venezuela After Delivering Red Line Warning To Trump
Just days after a high-level meeting in Rome this week, during which Russia reiterated a grave warning to the US — Moscow will...
read moreDear World, Here’s How To Close Your U.S. Military Bases
First of all, do everything you can to let people in the United States know how much they are paying financially for the bases in...
read moreJoe Biden Is Hillary Clinton 2.0 – Democrats Would Be Mad to Nominate Him
The definition of insanity,” Einstein didn’t say, “is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”...
read moreOxyContin Maker Settles Opioid Lawsuit With Oklahoma, Will Pay $270 Million to Study Addiction
Purdue Pharma and the state of Oklahoma have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the drugmaker’s role in the deadly opioid crisis, a...
read moreAlert: Pentagon Says Google’s Drone Work Is Exempt From Freedom of Information Act
The Pentagon cited a law permitting government agencies to block the disclosure of records that pertain to “critical infrastructure...
read moreAndrew Gillum plans massive voter registration effort as FL Republicans try to undo Amendment 4.
Gillum is going to use his organization to help turn Florida blue in 2020. The new organization is called: Bring It Home Florida....
read moreI Prayed With Migrants In The Caravan. The Government Put Me On A Watchlist.
When I see DHS’s photograph of me, with a yellow X like a crosshair across my face, my emotions swing between fury and terror....
read moreOver 300,000 Internet Users Tune In as Net Neutrality Bill Clears Major Hurdle ‘Unscathed’
Digital rights group Fight for the Future said so many people were watching the hearing online that they “broke the...
read moreMueller Report Ends a Shameful Period for the Press
The fatuous, self-serving coverage of “Russiagate” has driven one more nail in the coffin of America’s declining news operations....
read moreWhere To Look For Hope In Brazil
A New Generation Of Politicians And Movements Are Challenging Inequalities And Standing Up For Human Rights Under Jair Bolsonaro’s...
read moreFukushima at Eight: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad
Dr. Helen Caldicott collaborated with other experts to provide a one of a kind volume detailing the medical and ecological costs of...
read more‘Dark Day for Internet Freedom’: EU Approves Rules to Create Online Censorship Machine
Despite widespread grassroots opposition, the European Parliament Tuesday approved sweeping copyright rules that critics warn will...
read moreUN accuses Blackstone Group of contributing to global housing crisis
World’s largest corporate residential landlords called out for their practices of inflating rents and ‘aggressive evictions’ Source:...
read moreMADURO ON THE OFFENSIVE?
Last Friday, Maduro’s security services arrested Guaidó’s chief of staff, eliciting a barrage of international...
read moreMPs seize control of Brexit process by backing indicative votes amendment
MPs have inflicted a fresh humiliating defeat on Theresa May, voting to seize control of the parliamentary timetable to allow...
read moreMcConnell Green New Deal Vote Fails to Slow Momentum; Sunrise Movement Preparing for 100+ Town Halls Across US
Tuesday’s vote did little to slow growing momentum behind the Green New Deal, which recently gained the support of Sen. Van Hollen...
read moreAlert: ‘Catastrophically messy’: A constitutional scholar explains the subtle way Trump could circumvent the 2020 election if he loses
I am most afraid of the fact that Donald Trump may not leave office peacefully, and that there will be no real transition to a new...
read moreThe DCCC Is Trying to Put Me Out of Business – and I’m a Democrat
Six hours after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it was blacklisting firms that work with primary...
read moreConcern trolling Medicare for All: NYT begins by saying investors matter, patients and doctors don’t
As it becomes clear that the eventual Democratic nominee will run on Medicare For All, we can expect the policy to be attacked by the...
read more‘People aren’t panicking enough’: Financial analysts are spooked as a key economic warning sign is ‘flashing red’
If you’re worried about predicting the next economic recession, there’s a key indicator in the financial markets to watch: the yield...
read moreProsecutors drop all charges against Jussie Smollett
“Today, all criminal charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped and his record has been wiped clean of the filing of this...
read moreSandy Hook and Parkland Grieve Once Again, Following Three Suicides
The pain from mass shootings reverberates years later. Source: Sandy Hook and Parkland Grieve Once Again, Following Three Suicides...
read moreObama Pilloried for Playing the ‘How You Gonna Pay for It?’ Card on Progressive Agenda
“No president since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn’t threaten...
read moreThirty years after Exxon Valdez, the response to oil spills is still all wrong
Chemicals used to clean up spills have harmed marine wildlife, response workers and coastal residents. The EPA must act Source:...
read moreColbert Brings Down The House With A Special Post-Mueller Message Just For Trump
As Colbert noted, many on the right are demanding apologies from those who have criticized Trump over the past two years. Colbert was...
read moreHASC Chairman rejects Trump’s Space Force proposal, says committee will seek ‘other options’
“The details of the Space Force proposal sent to Congress by the President are highly problematic,” Smith said in the...
read moreAlert: DCCC Warns It Will Cut Off Firms That Challenge Incumbents
“The Democratic and Republican parties are commercial enterprises and they’re very much interested in their own survival.” To apply...
read moreAs War on Yemen Hits the 4-Year Mark, Here’s a Brief History of U.S. Involvement
As the political tide in the United States finally turns against the war, we must not let its U.S. proponents whitewash their...
read morePopularity of Bolsonaro government plummets in Brazil: Ibope poll
The government of Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has seen its popularity plummet since he took office in January, with...
read moreDeVos Defends $18 Million Cut to Special Olympics Funding While Asking Congress for $60 Million for Charter Schools
“Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn’t possibly stoop any lower…” Source: DeVos Defends $18...
read moreFamily That Made Millions on Opioids Gave to Anti-Muslim Groups
The Sacklers portrayed themselves as patrons of the arts, but some of their Oxy-Contin profits made their way to Islamophobic...
read moreThousands of Uber Drivers are Striking in Los Angeles
Uber and Lyft drivers in Los Angeles are refusing to pick up customers today — part of a one-day strike to protest Uber’s...
read morePresidential candidates Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke back moratorium on federal death penalty
In an interview with O. Kay Henderson at Radio Iowa Thursday, when O’Rourke was asked whether he would suspend capital punishment at...
read moreWomen in New Zealand Wear Headscarves to Show Solidarity With Muslims
“We love, support, and respect you.” Source: Women in New Zealand Wear Headscarves to Show Solidarity With...
read moreNasa cancels all-female spacewalk, citing lack of spacesuit in right size
Space agency blames shortage of outerwear after first-of-its-kind mission falls through Source: Nasa cancels all-female spacewalk,...
read moreThese Haunting Red Dresses Memorialize Murdered And Missing Indigenous Women
On a steel-gray winter day, the red dresses each hung, flapping in the wind along the plaza surrounding the Smithsonian’s National...
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