Yearly Archives: 2016
Obama “actively” pondering end of dormant Muslim surveillance scheme, ahead of Trump
“The program was fundamentally flawed in its false assumption that people of a particular religion or nationality pose a greater national security risk and should be subject to racial profiling.”
World’s richest launch $1 billion fund to fight climate change, invest in clean tech
This week, a group of top tech executives from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and more will reportedly meet with the president-elect.
Why the founding fathers gave too much power to the supreme court
What We the People lost when the Constitution gave monarchical power to a small band of unelected people in robes.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: Soul brothers?
Donald Trump has a lot more in common with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un than he would care to admit.
Through the GOP, the wealthy are waging war on the old
Dignity, health, and security are endangered by this war on the elderly — a war that must be resisted.
The Senate finally approves aid for Flint, but at an expense
“Federal funding to help begin fixing the pipes at the heart of the Flint water crisis is shamefully overdue.”
Demagogue-in-Chief
The story of demagogues is as old as civilization. They have risen and fallen like the tides, always leaving in their wake misery, destruction and death.
Not just Standing Rock: Pipelines threaten native lands across the country
‘We are probably going to have to resist one pipeline at a time for many decades to come, and maybe longer,’ a Cherokee researcher tells MintPress as a Ramapough Lunaape chief says, ‘We need help now.’
Trump’s Russian hand
The dark cloud of illegitimacy continues to grow darker.
Superbugs killing twice as many people as government says
We reach more than 5,000 deaths just with resistant E.coli alone. If we add in the other resistant bugs we get to almost 12,000 deaths.