Thursday, December 19, 2024

Supreme Court’s ruling delays Keystone XL Pipeline construction furthermore

"No oil pipeline is safe, and TransCanada’s record over the past decade does little to assuage concerns of a spill."

State trooper arrested for smashing teen’s head through patrol car window

After investigating footage and witness reports, detectives determined that Neal had been unjustified in his use of excessive force.

2020: The year anti-fascists became terrorists

When police in Buffalo pushed an elderly man to the ground during a Black Lives Matter protest, cracking his skull in the process, the president went on Twitter to rhetorically ask whether the injured man was, in fact, part of “Antifa”.

Hit Piece on Sanders Proposals Relies on Pro-Clinton Economists Mislabeled as ‘Leftists’

NY Times runs hit piece on Sanders and his Medicare-for-all health plan, citing four supposedly independent "left-leaning" economists, all of whom actually worked for the Clinton and/or Obama administrations, are not "left-leaning" and who are actually Clinton backers.

Conservation group to buy world’s largest privately held sequoia forest for $15M

"By protecting this property, we will safeguard the biological richness and ecological resilience of a forest unlike any other on Earth."

Clash at Columbia: NYPD’s aggressive response to student divestment protests sparks national debate

A peaceful protest at Columbia University turns tumultuous as NYPD officers deploy tear gas and draw weapons, reigniting discussions on campus freedoms and ethical investments.

UN experts alarmed by IDF treatment of Palestinian women and girls in Gaza

The onslaught in Gaza has disproportionately affected women and children, who constitute approximately 70 percent of the over 29,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

Hiroshima at 75: Health lessons still current

The devastating threats that atomic power poses to health still are a huge threat to humanity.

Resisting abortion bans a year after Dobbs

A nurse midwife discusses how health care providers and movements connect in the fight for reproductive justice after the upending of abortion rights.

Big Food Found Guilty in Multimillion Dollar Cover Up in GMO Labeling Fight

The future of food transparency in the country is now at the hands of the Senate with Sen. Pat Roberts’ (R-Kan.) Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (SAFE) expected to hit the Senate floor any day now.