Friday, April 4, 2025

Central banks have gone rogue, putting us all at risk

Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.

Facebook condemned for empowering right-wing magazine to “drive liberal news outlets into the ground”

What do you achieve when you let the Weekly Standard operate as a fact-checker for one of the internet's most powerful platforms? "You achieve bullshit."

Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14

15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 12

Energy Transfer pipeline explodes in Pennsylvania, Trump calls Puerto Rico an 'unsung success', the fight against world hunger, and more.

Tangled in the garden of good and evil

A French television program tackles the tough questions of compliance and resistance.
Construction along the Keystone XL pipeline.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 11

Native American tribes sue Trump over Keystone XL. Japan aims to overthrow whaling ban, and more.

Violence against the media isn’t new – history shows why it largely disappeared and...

What these occurrences share, and what they’re illustrating, is a profound hatred towards purveyors of journalism.
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The dangerous myth of deregulation

Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.

Worldwide #RiseForClimate events kick off to demand action on crisis of warming planet

"Climate change is the defining issue of our time," say 350.org's executive director. "It is a crisis of democracy, justice, and human rights."

India legalizes gay sex, ruling discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation a human...

"Criminalizing carnal intercourse is irrational, arbitrary and manifestly unconstitutional."