"The projected death of 11 million Americans would be a fair price to pay for better long term stock growth, says a capitalist extremist." | Continue reading
"This decision vindicates the rule of law and gives hope to the thousands of victims seeking accountability when domestic courts and authorities have failed them." | Continue reading
The Organization of American States "greatly misled the media and the public about what happened in Bolivia's elections." | Continue reading
Recognizing and believing their pain is essential to the work of healing and justice... The trial of media mogul Harvey Weinstein is “a test of sympathies”—and Weinstein wants yours. | Continue reading
Treating citizens as mere pawns in a game run by propaganda shops.. Those gathered to see the Iowa caucus results roll in on February 4 were sorely disappointed- the vote-counting process had been delayed by the slick new app meant to make the process more efficient had malfuncti … | Continue reading
"This mass surveillance experiment does not belong in our public spaces, and certainly not in our schools." | Continue reading
"Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!" | Continue reading
The lead author called the mass die-off "a red-flag warning about the tremendous impact sustained ocean warming can have on the marine ecosystem." | Continue reading
"Hey @JeffBezos, which side are you on? Climate denial and delay or humanity's?" | Continue reading
"The bulk of a generation of economic growth has been captured and concentrated in a few hands, and many people have barely seen any of it." | Continue reading
"It's hard to overstate how notorious and suspicious the firm is." | Continue reading
Among the tech companies studied, Amazon "stands out as the business with the poorest tax conduct," according to the U.K.-based Fair Tax Mark. | Continue reading
A different vision of how the internet could operate is already taking shape across the United States... Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon are free to slow down, block or prioritize internet traffic as they wish, without interference by the federal government. T … | Continue reading
One SpaceX rocket flight is equal to 395 one-way transatlantic flights. | Continue reading
"If corporations get the green light to spy on workers, they'll have an easier time ferreting out organizing campaigns and bullying employees into dropping them.".. Google’s computers are spying on its workers.Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meetin … | Continue reading
"We cannot rely on corporate tax evaders to solve California's housing crisis." | Continue reading
"We have a right to say to the Israeli government that the United States of America and our taxpayers and our people believe in human rights, we believe in democracy, we will not accept authoritarianism or racism." | Continue reading
"This is likely only the beginning of a jobs massacre." | Continue reading
The American people are ready to extract the profit from our pills, and this new report shows us how to do it... Any American who has paid the price of a patent-protected medicine knows the core flaw in the U.S. prescription drug system: our elected leaders have handed over contr … | Continue reading
"Global greenhouse gas emissions need to decline today rather than tomorrow, and global CO2 emissions should be brought to net zero." | Continue reading
A new analysis finds that the billionaire could provide annual coverage slashed last week with just a fraction of what he makes personally each day. | Continue reading
In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires.. Even in corporate media, you will occasionally see references to the United States as an “oligarchy.” That is the judgment of former President Jimmy Carter, of peer-reviewed academic studies, an … | Continue reading
"What we need is more humming and buzzing." | Continue reading
"Your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer." | Continue reading
"In practice, this executive order would mean that whichever political party is in power could dictate what speech is allowed on the Internet." | Continue reading
Multinational corporations are increasingly encroaching on the functions of sovereign states.. "There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today … The world is a coll … | Continue reading
"Impeachment proceedings must start immediately," says Texas Democrat, "in order to protect our country's values and our families' lives." | Continue reading
"Once we're over the threshold...you're dealing with how the Earth works, and it goes on its own ride." | Continue reading
"This is not only about coal power," said one Ende Gelände spokesperson. "This is about changing a destructive system that is based on the quest for infinite economic growth and exploitation. We are fighting for a future in which people count more than profits." | Continue reading
"The Democrats who voted against this common sense amendment just threw immigrants, LGBTQ folks, activists, journalists, and political dissidents under the bus by voting to rubberstamp the Trump administration’s Orwellian domestic spying capabilities." | Continue reading
"The science is clear: we must stop searching for new oil and gas if we want a livable planet. BP must clean up or clear out." | Continue reading
"Even if you 100% trust the US government with your biometric information (which you shouldn't) this is a reminder that once your face is scanned and stored in a database, it's easily shared across government agencies, stolen by hackers, other governments, etc." | Continue reading
"We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases." | Continue reading
"It is a dystopian vision that has no place in a democratic society." | Continue reading
"How is this not breaking news on all channels all over the world?" | Continue reading
"A shocking number of civilians continue to be killed and maimed each day." | Continue reading
"The business model of for-profit health insurance depends on denying care to people who need it. These corporations can't be reasoned with, only defeated." | Continue reading
"Never have so many Arctic indicators been brought together in a single paper." And the findings spell trouble for the entire planet. | Continue reading
"The judge's ruling today shows that the president cannot just trample on the constitution to do the bidding of his cronies in the fossil fuel industry at the expense of our oceans, wildlife, and climate." | Continue reading
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion... The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long proce … | Continue reading
"This is not going to get any better anytime soon." | Continue reading
With H.R. 676 no longer and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.) to soon unveil a revised single-payer bill, here's our informed perspective on why the new version is shaping up to be a much stronger and more detailed piece of legislation.. As the 2019 legislative session in Congress kic … | Continue reading
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it.. Each week workers are confronted with yet another article touting the threat of technology wiping out their jobs. | Continue reading
In the United States, tens of thousands of Americans will continue to die every year due to lack of health insurance and much higher prices for drugs, medical devices, and health care itself... Dear America:Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is … | Continue reading
It is doing so without regard for how the technology will be exploited by law enforcement, ICE, and other government agencies prone to violence and racial discrimination.. Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognitio … | Continue reading
157 of top 200 economic entities by revenue are corporations not countriesTop 10 corporate revenues exceed $3 trillionBritish government urged to support Binding Treaty to hold corporations to account at UN in Geneva this weekTop corporations continue to accrue revenues far in ex … | Continue reading
"The lesson is, if you live in America and get charged an outrageous medical bill, you better hope you can find a journalist to write about it." | Continue reading
"Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat." | Continue reading