Where Are the Skeptics as the Drums Roll for War with Iran?
Vijay Prashad challenges the media reality that Iran attacked the oil tankers, calling for a real investigation to uncover the truth
In what has become the largest mobilization against Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, millions of Brazilians joined in the general strike, shutting down schools, banks,…
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In the Aguan River valley, land defenders struggle to protect their water from a mining project controlled by the wealthy Facussé family. Dimitri Lascari reports…
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What lessons can Baltimore learn from the Bay Area’s success in reducing homicides? We speak to two Oakland-based experts ahead of our June 18th town…
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As conservatives restrict abortion access state by state, women have begun to win political offices and even challenge President Trump for the highest office in…
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Women and African Americans dropped out of the labor market offsetting the number of people who claimed that they were unemployed. Women and African Americans…
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Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur, says the alarming rise of poverty in the UK is deliberate–and so too in the US
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COINTELPRO 2.0: Fighting Government Surveillance of Black and Muslim Organizations
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Coalition (BIEAC) convenes its first conference to collaborate on efforts to fight FBI surveillance and targeting of Black and Muslim activists and communities as “Black Identity Extremists.”
Largest Animal Epidemic in History Is Due to Industrial Farming
The African Swine Fever outbreak, which has now spread to China, could result in the slaughter of 200 million hogs this year, in an effort to get the disease under control. Rob Wallace of the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps outlines the causes and possible solutions
Daniel Ellsberg on the Release of the “Top Secret” Pentagon Papers
On the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg describes the tension waiting for the publishing of the story: “The Times was on lock down with armed guards.. they were fearing an injunction”
California Defies Trump Policies by Giving Medicaid to Some Undocumented Young Adults
California’s act to cover healthcare for undocumented people sets up national debate on the politics of immigration and healthcare
Israeli Authorities Confiscate and then Attempt to Sell Palestinian Classrooms
Ali Abunimah discusses the complicity of the EU, which donated pre-fabricated classrooms to Palestinian schoolchildren, but did not ensure that they would be used for the purpose of education, rather than as a way for the Israeli occupation forces to pillage Palestinian property for their own profit. Thanks to media outrage the sale of the…
Overall and Core CPI Up 0.1 Percent in May; Overall Index Up 1.8 Percent Over Last Year
June 12, 2019
Driving Financialization
June 11, 2019
California Senate Shelves Bill Tying Affordable Housing to Climate Crisis, Public Transit
June 7, 2019
Loyal to their Class, Unhinged from Democracy
June 6, 2019
Victorious Grassroots Caucus Faces Challenge From Longtime Incumbent in Teachers Union Election
May 30, 2019
Baltimore Cop Charged with Perjury, Misconduct
May 29, 2019
Oppose Doug Ford’s Ontario Schools Budget
May 29, 2019
The (Small-d) Democrat’s Dilemma
May 24, 2019
Springtime for Biden and Democrats
May 17, 2019
The US Labor Market Is Deteriorating for Black Men
May 16, 2019
History Repeats Itself as Corporations Join Big Green to Craft Market-Based Climate Plan
May 15, 2019
Privatization Solution Worse than Problem
May 14, 2019
Climate Emergency Manifesto
May 14, 2019
Why Ecuador?
May 9, 2019
Fallujah Forgotten
May 6, 2019
An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion
May 6, 2019
Can House Special Committees Fight the Climate Crisis?
April 29, 2019
The Baltimore Uprising: Four Years Later
April 19, 2019
Assange Arrest Sparks Interest in Gore Vidal Book
April 12, 2019
David Bernhardt Confirmed as Interior Secretary
April 11, 2019
Defence of European Empires was Original NATO Goal
April 3, 2019
Scandal-Plagued Baltimore Mayor Takes Leave of Absence
April 1, 2019
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TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Narrated by Danny Glover, A documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack; the multi-million dollar campaign allowed a climate change denier to be elected president (a new version with updated content and music)
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Is the Oil Industry Canada’s ‘Deep State’?
Justin Trudeau and Canada’s political elite are fighting for the Tar Sands and oil industry’s interests, even if it means that Canada misses its climate targets. We speak to Kevin Taft, ex-Liberal Party politician and author of ‘Oil’s Deep State.’
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