All News Articles for 2019-11-25
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Noting That 'Presidents Are Not Kings,' Federal Judge Rules Don McGahn Must Submit to Congressional Subpoena "This ruling means not only that McGahn must provide testimony, but so must a raft of administration officials who have been stonewalling Congress in attempts to protect this president." Read more |
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NYC Students Strike to Demand Racial Equity in Nation's Largest—and Most Segregated—School District "We, the students, have had enough. It is past time to integrate our school system, and we will not relent until the adults stop acting like children." Read more |
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Activists Confront CEO's "Disgusting" Use of Family's History at WWII Incarceration Camps to Justify Propping Up ICE's Migrant Detention Japanese-American activists and their allies accused Jenni Nakamoto of turning "her back on her community and history." Read more |
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Sanders Campaign Charges Bloomberg 2020 Run 'Is Against Bernie, Not Trump' "Multi-billionaires like Michael Bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election," Sanders said Sunday. Read more |
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Law Enforcement Crushing Pipeline Dissent in Minnesota at Water Protectors' Blockade of Enbridge Terminal Police were about to saw off the leg of a tripod from which a protester was hanging, activists said. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Goes to Bat for Baseball Players as MLB Proposes Terminating Minor League Teams "Not only would your extreme proposal destroy thousands of jobs and devastate local economies, it would be terrible for baseball." Read more |
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Warning Julian Assange 'Could Die in Prison', 60+ Doctors Demand Immediate Medical Attention for WikiLeaks Founder "Tortured to near death for publishing truthful information." Read more |
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'An Affront Crying Out to Heaven': Pope Calls for a World Without Nuclear Weapons "The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit the integral development of peoples and to protect the natural environment." Read more |
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New Campaign Demands Congress Probe the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance Empire' of Amazon Over a dozen groups call for a full congressional investigation in the online giant citing threats to privacy, security, and civil liberties posed by Alexa, Ring, and Rekognition. Read more |
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Not 'Free Stuff,' But Public Goods: Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Neoliberal Talking Points on Publicly-Funded Education and Housing "I never want to hear the term 'free stuff' ever again." Read more |
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'Another Year. Another Record.': Levels of Key Climate-Heating Gases Hit New Highs in 2018, UN Reveals "There is no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline," warns the World Meteorological Organization chief. Read more |
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"Who's Next?" Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director for Opposition to Illegal Israeli Settlements "A government that expels a leading human rights investigator is not likely to stop its systematic oppression of Palestinians under occupation without much greater international pressure." Read more |
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Contract for the Web: Internet Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unveils Global Plan to Battle 'Digital Dystopia' "The power of the web to transform people's lives, enrich society and reduce inequality is one of the defining opportunities of our time. But if we don't act now—and act together—to prevent the web being misused by those who want to exploit, divide and undermine, we are at risk of squandering that... Read more |
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'Everything Is Not Fine': Nobel Economist Calls on Humanity to End Obsession With GDP "If we measure the wrong thing," warns Joseph Stiglitz, "we will do the wrong thing." Read more |