Tag: politics
Bernie fights to oppose new dirty energy bill
“Our job is to move away from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy and energy efficiency,” Sanders said in a statement. “This bill does the opposite.”
Selling insurance across state lines
Experts cited several reasons that the across-state-lines idea wouldn’t be a cure for high premiums as the president implied.
Africa: The next global economic frontier?
This vividly shows that the wealth of Africa is in the hands of the exploiting non-producing class which takes advantage of the exploited producing class.
How the idea of personal liberty is quickly fading away
The world is changing far too quickly for people to get used to it, and the rate of expansion isn’t slowing down. No one can keep track, at least not alone.
The Trump standard
None of this is “very standard” for a president. It’s the opposite of standard.
Dear Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, David Cobb and all Greens,
Yoav Litvin talks about issues with the direction of the Green Party in a letter to Green Party candidates.
Trump’s restrictions on Cuba are a detour, not the future
It’s unlikely the administration has either the will or the means to roll back the full suite of Obama-era reforms.
EPA’s Scott Pruitt wants to televise a debate on climate change
Pruitt says there are many unanswered questions about climate change.
Nuclear weapons: Barbaric tools of insecurity
Sustainable security is not created through threats and the cultivation of fear, but by building relationships, cooperating and establishing trust.
The Founding Fathers would renounce, condemn America’s endless wars
They would decry the current situation in which a succession of U.S. presidents has usurped that power, probably the greatest violation of the Constitution in the history of this nation.
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Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
Over 4,000 factory workers laid off as Trump tariffs spark economic chaos
A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing.
Israeli soldiers expose ‘kill zone’ campaign in Gaza, citing war crimes and systematic devastation
A new report from Breaking the Silence reveals shocking testimony from Israeli troops describing the creation of a lethal buffer zone inside Gaza, the deliberate razing of civilian infrastructure, and the normalization of killing civilians.