Yearly Archives: 2017
Morning news’s embarrassing response to net neutrality vote
The flagship morning news shows on broadcast and cable news covered net neutrality for less than four minutes combined.
Global special ops out of control under Trump
Elite commandos deployed to 149 countries in 2017.
Charles Barkley’s wise words to Democrats on Alabama
"This is a wake-up call for Democrats."
Alabama’s lessons for the Democratic Party
Social movements build power and make change, and the Democrats would be wise to heed the lessons of Alabama.
The battle for Net Neutrality isn’t over
The FCC says the reversal "will protect consumers at far less cost to investment than prior rigid and wide-ranging utility rules."
Black voters, specifically women, defeated Roy Moore
African American women went for Jones by a margin of 97 to three.
Roy Moore’s loss signals a GOP tearing itself apart ahead of 2018
The upset win by Doug Jones in Alabama shows the Republicans have nothing to offer and everything to lose.
Study: Babies with low birth weights more likely near Pennsylvania fracking sites
This study adds to the existing scientific literature that tells us there are serious public health consequences linked to fracking.
North Korea: The costs of war, calculated
Even a limited war with North Korea would kill millions, devastate the environment, and bankrupt the U.S. Preventing it should be the peace movement's highest priority.
Stupidity and blindness have destroyed whatever democracy the US ever had
Republicans AND Democrats are the problem.