All News Articles for 2015-12-16
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By Sharing Prosperity Most Evenly, Norway Wins Again UN's Human Development Index ranked Norway number 1. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Calls Fed Rate Hike Bad News for Working Families Economists, warning of impact to low wage workers, said rate increase is a 'mistake' Read more |
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Hung Jury Results in Declaration of Mistrial in Freddie Gray Case 'Officer Porter may have gotten a mistrial, but the verdict on the department for which he serves could not be more clear.' Read more |
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Investigation Links Potential Cover-Up to Chicago Mayor's Top Aides NBC5 reveals mayor's top aides knew about video long before mayor claims to Emanuel claims to have been briefed Read more |
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World's Small Farmers Fighting Back as WTO Pushes Corporate Agenda The WTO is aiming to strengthen a 'corporate-driven free trade regime' while ignoring solutions that would protect small-scale farmers and increase food security, says La Via Campesina Read more |
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What Global Climate Deal? UK Lawmakers OK Fracking Under National Parks 'Ministers must urgently rethink their entire approach to energy policy' Read more |
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Gas Prices Are Down and a Nation's Love for SUVs Soars Worldwide vehicle fuel economy needs vast improvement to stave off catastophic warming. Read more |
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And Just Like That, "Free Trade" Pact Trounces US Law Congress kills country-of-original label law with provision tucked into omnibus budget Read more |
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Allowing Corporate Sponsorship of Great Barrier Reef Likened to Naming Hospital After Tobacco Company Opponents slam Australian government's controversial new initiative for reef conservation Read more |
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Regime-Change Turnaround: Kerry Says Assad Can Stay...For Now Obama administration shifts from previous stance that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should step—or be forced—aside Read more |
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Observers Slam CNN for Aiding and Abetting Hate Speech in GOP Debate Watchdogs say corporate media is stoking racist and fear-mongering rhetoric Read more |
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Lawmakers 'Fail the Internet,' Sneak Cyber Bill Into Must-Pass Omnibus "It’s clear now that this bill was never intended to prevent cyber attacks, it’s a disingenuous attempt to quietly expand the U.S. government’s surveillance programs." Read more |
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Undercutting Climate Progress, Congress Agrees to Lift Oil Export Ban Deal to lift 40-year-old ban smuggled into $1.1 trillion omnibus bill Read more |