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August 3rd, 2016
Resist!
By Betsy Taylor for The Huffington Post - I just witnessed one of the most moving and tragic tales of this country and its people I have ever encountered. A[...]
By Staff of Komo News - SEATTLE -- Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a $100 million consumer lawsuit against Comcast. The lawsuit accuses Comcast of "engaging in a[...]
Educate!
By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Offering a groundbreaking glimpse of the global surveillance industry—the tools it employs, the extent of its reach, and the accountability it largely evades—human[...]
By Glen Ford for the Black Agenda Report - After two generations of “Black social disintegration, economic retrogression and political confusion” ushered in through the collaboration of the Black Misleadership[...]
By Staff of Its Going Down - The war for black lives and the struggle against the police in NYC has taken a new direction with the advent of a[...]
By Andy Wilcoxson for Counter Punch - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has determined that the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was not[...]
By Dahr Jamail for Truthout - The impacts of anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) across Alaska are devastating to witness. In late June, due to glaciers melting at unprecedented rates, the[...]
By Staff of Tele Sur - The new initiative will produce the first "truth report" on the U.S. invasion of Panama and could pave the way for reparations for victims.[...]
By Theodoros Karyotis for ROAR Magazine - In the early morning of July 27, refugee families and supporters who were sleeping at Thessaloniki’s three occupied refugee shelters — Nikis, Orfanotrofeio[...]
August 2nd, 2016
By Chuck Collins for Inequality - Nico House was in the streets last week outside the Democratic National Convention with Revolt Against Plutocracy. He is a self-described “political revolutionary,” inspired[...]
Create!
By Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair for EPI - What this report finds: A well-designed financial transaction tax (FTT)—a small levy placed on the sale of stocks, bonds, derivatives, and[...]
By Staff of RT - Protesters in New York City are hoping to force City Hall to shut down until the police commissioner is fired. Other demands include reparations for[...]
By Dawn Stover for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Dwarfed by the ships from the US Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the US Coast Guard that visited Portland,[...]
By Ozlem Akin, José M Marín, and José-Luis Peydró for INET - Banking crises are recurrent phenomena that often trigger deep and long-lasting recessions with enormous economic and political costs.[...]
By Noah Smith for Bloomberg View - Standard economic theory says that taxation reduces productivity. If you tax income, you reduce the incentive to work. If you tax capital gains,[...]
By Rob Wile for Fusion - The day before he was assassinated in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech urging black Americans to change where they kept[...]
By Marlene Cimons for Climate Progress - For decades, ever since scientists began estimating the threat of floods, the stale-sounding concept of “stationarity” has been a big factor in their[...]
By Mustafa Saadoun for Al Monitor - BAGHDAD — Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr made an exaggerated statement July 23 when answering a question by one of his followers. Sadr said, “We[...]
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Truthdig. Once again, fear is being ramped up to manipulate progressive voters into voting for what they do not want, Hillary Clinton,[...]
By Staff of The Movement for Black Lives - Black humanity and dignity requires Black political will and power. Despite constant exploitation and perpetual oppression, Black people have bravely and[...]
By Thaddeus Talbot for ACLU - The U.N.’s special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association completed a 17-day mission to the United States[...]
By Jasper Finkeldey and Mauro Pinto for ROAR Mgazine - The buzz of Naples’ squares and bars at night is electrifying. Public life reaches its high after sizzling hot afternoons.[...]
