All News Articles for 2013-07-24
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Major Coal Companies Completely Ignore the Clean Water Act: Report White House watered down rules on coal-plant water pollution Read more |
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Whistleblower: 'Unspeakable Horrors' for Refugees at Australian Detention Camps Revelations of torture and abuse comes as conservative prime minister plans to expand refugee 'processing' facilities and close Australian borders to all asylum seekers Read more |
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Turkey Jails 64 Journalists For Coverage of People's Protest Sacked veteran journalist: 'It’s not possible to conduct serious journalism in such a polluted system.' Read more |
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Big Banks Making a Buck off Commodity Price Manipulation Read more |
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Low Wage Workers Rally in National Call to #RaisetheWage Organizer: "The problem is that these jobs don't help people to meet their basic needs—not keeping up with the Joneses. We're talking shelter, food, clothing and transportation." Read more |
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Evidence Mounts Agent Provocateurs Used by Brazilian Police Demonstrators say police infiltrator threw the molotov cocktail used to justify severe police violence Read more |
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'Stop the Attack' say Detroit Workers as City's Bankruptcy Reviewed Unions, activists continue battle to save public pensions Read more |
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails The NSA is a " supercomputing powerhouse " with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. Read more |
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NSA Opponents Call Out White House for Hypocrisy of "Informed" Debate on Spying Obama says proposed legislative curbs on NSA spying are not 'transparent' enough; critics retort 'like your secret surveillance program?' Read more |
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Report: Progress, But Snowden Not Leaving Airport Just Yet NSA whistleblower's lawyer brings strandesd US citizen fresh clothes, Dostoevksy, but no officials documents that would allow him to leave transit area Read more |
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California Prisons Violating Hunger-Strikers’ Rights, Groups Warn 'Prisoners seeking an end to inhumane conditions should not be subjected to punitive measures for exercising their right to engage in peaceful protest' Read more |
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Arctic Methane "Burp": A Climate Catastrophe with $60 Trillion Pricetag New study looks at planetary, social and economic impacts of increasingly perilous Arctic melting Read more |
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'The Time Has Come for a Global Power Shift' If somebody tells you that young people don’t care about the planet’s future, tell them to watch THIS. Read more |