"When you look at those numbers and at CEOs trying to blame workers for inflation, it just doesn't add up," said the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO. | Continue reading
"Our healthcare system let over 200,000 Americans die in 2020 just to preserve its profits." | Continue reading
Former U.S. Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo has been summoned by Spain's highest court to give testimony related to alleged spying on jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by a Spanish security firm. | Continue reading
One day after Elon Musk took over Twitter, a top European regulator gave the world's richest man a "reality check" about how they will respond if he loosens the platform's content moderation policies. | Continue reading
"The deplatforming of voices like mine, already blocked by commercial media and marginalized with algorithms," warns veteran journalist Chris Hedges, "is coupled with the pernicious campaign to funnel people back into the arms of the 'establishment' media such as CNN, The New Yor … | Continue reading
Afghanistan's hunger crisis is "absolutely heartbreaking" as well as "preventable." | Continue reading
"The last thing average working people need is for the Fed to raise interest rates and slow the economy further. The problem most people face isn't inflation. It's a lack of good jobs." | Continue reading
One in 20 respondents—representing 12.7 million people—said a friend or family member died over the past year after not receiving treatment because they couldn't afford it. | Continue reading
"When is a new covid variant good news? When you're a pharma shareholder, obviously!" | Continue reading
"The simple solution to the Medicare Advantage problem is to kill off the program. It was just a Trojan horse to privatize Medicare, and its presence will make Medicare for All even harder to implement." | Continue reading
"America's parting drone attack in Afghanistan, which killed an aid worker and his family, is emblematic of the entire drone war." | Continue reading
"These documents show what we feared about Amazon's monopoly power," says Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "This is one of the many reasons we need to break it up." | Continue reading
"It's almost as if Facebook's monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. | Continue reading
"About half of U.S. clean energy now comes from solar and wind, and the other half from hydroelectric power." | Continue reading
"Who appointed this billionaire head of global health?" asked one critic. "Oh yeah, he did." | Continue reading
Researchers found that one of the herbicide formulations killed 96% of the bees within 24 hours. | Continue reading
"He's afraid that if Amazon workers in Alabama vote to unionize, it'll give workers all over America the courage to take on his greed and win economic justice." | Continue reading
GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities. | Continue reading
"These hate crime murders did not happen in isolation. They happened because good people did not rise up to take back our country from right-wing extremists and demagogues." | Continue reading
The bottom 56 percent of the population owns just 1.8 percent of the world's wealth | Continue reading
Banks now create most of our money supply and need to be made public utilities, following the stellar precedent of the Bank of North Dakota, which makes below-market loans for local communities and businesses while turning a profit for the state. | Continue reading
"These types of decisions should never be made in closed-door negotiations between politicians and industry or rushed through as part of some must-pass spending package." | Continue reading
Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything, and everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution. | Continue reading
"The text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that." | Continue reading
While welcoming the win, activists vowed to continue fighting against destructive oil and gas extraction in the region. | Continue reading
"Rather than combat the rampant disinformation and hate on its platform, Facebook has decided to go after the people who are helping voters understand who is trying to influence their votes." | Continue reading
In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States... If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since 1968, it would be close to $12 an hour today, more than 65 percent higher than the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hou … | Continue reading
The social media giant, said one critic, "is the newest frontier in a long history of suppression of the Black vote." | Continue reading
The open internet win comes from the Court of Justice of the European Union's first-ever interpretation of the EU's 2015 net neutrality law. | Continue reading
Like other dark chapters in U.S. history, the official narrative of the decision to unleash the most destructive weapon humanity has ever known upon an utterly defeated people is deeply flawed... Seventy-five years ago, the United States waged the only nuclear war in history. Amo … | Continue reading
'In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.' | Continue reading
The U.S. was identified as a country where "the government and/or companies are engaged in serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers, putting fundamental rights under threat." | Continue reading
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state... The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. What the Roman philosopher Cicero called a commonwealth, a res publica, … | Continue reading
"Let's be clear," warned the ACLU. "There is no legal authority for designating a domestic group. Any such designation would raise significant due process and First Amendment concerns." | Continue reading
A monster who boasted of how he had hacked up a 12-year-old girl—had Ayn Rand's ear, as well as her heart. What happened next was the modern Republican Party... There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president … | Continue reading
"We're going to continue fight. This is just the beginning of our struggle here." | Continue reading
"The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes for destroying the environment. This is a schoolbook example for what we need to start looking out for." | Continue reading
"If there remained any doubt that the Trump administration's hostility towards the court is fundamentally punitive and callous in nature, these doubts have now been dispelled." | Continue reading
"There were people whose lives were in danger, and we acted. Period." | Continue reading
If McConnell's push through the Senate succeeds, it would renew the government’s power to warrantlessly acquire billions of data points on every person in the United States. These are terrifying powers to hand to President Trump... On Monday evening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch … | Continue reading