Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 12
Law students launch nationwide strike against illegitimate justice, Chinese intel officer arrested and charged with economic espionage, Enbridge Pipeline explosion forces First Nations community to flee, and more.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 16, 2018
Intellectually bankrupt GOP, California cities pledge to oppose offshore drilling, White House revokes security clearance of ex-CIA director, and more.
Police officer charged after shooting at unarmed couple
“Police accountability will not exist until every level of government works to prevent police violence and to hold police employees responsible each time they hurt or kill someone.”
“Courage never quits”?
The price of power and west point’s class of 1986.
New legislation to ban toxic pesticides helps protect children’s health
“The federal pesticide policy is in urgent need of reform.”
Biological annihilation
To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.
2018 was a year of deadly climate disasters and an ‘ear splitting wake-up call’
“The evidence, if we needed any more, continues to stack up."
Trump’s failed coronavirus response Part 2
There was no national response. No national standards. Governors and mayors haphazardly closed businesses and schools.
‘All he has to do is sign’: Group crafts executive order for Biden to...
"We have no other option but to fight for debt abolition and a society where everyone has the means to live."
‘Victory for Julian”: UK blocks WikiLeaks founder Assange extradition to US on espionage charges
While the decision is a “very significant victory” for Assange, the judge has largely sided with the U.S. prosecution.