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After Win by Brazilian Fascist Jair Bolsonaro, World's Capitalists Salivate Over 'New Investment Opportunities' "Capitalism only asks whether fascism is profitable." Read more |
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'You Are Not Welcome in Pittsburgh': Jewish Group Tells Trump to Stay Out After Anti-Semitic Mass Shooting "For the past three years, your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterday's violence is the direct culmination of your influence." Read more |
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'Far More Dangerous Than Trump': Extremist, Far-Right Bolsonaro Wins Brazil's Presidency "This is a dark day for Brazil; Brazilian democracy is now in complete crisis" Read more |
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Yet Again: 11 Dead in Mass Shooting At Pittsburgh Synagogue Right-wing gunman walked into the building with an assault weapon and yelled, “All Jews Must die." Read more |
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No Thanks: Fiancée of Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Rejects Insincere Trump Invite to White House "I perceived it as a statement to win public favor," said Hatice Cengiz Read more |
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Sanders and Varoufakis Announce Alliance to Craft 'Common Blueprint for an International New Deal' The pair hopes to promote a "progressive, ecological, feminist, humanist, rational program" for not only Europe, but the entire world Read more |
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As GOP Moves to Cut Medicare and Social Security, 60% of Americans Say Repeal Trump Tax Scam Instead "Working families shouldn't have to pay for the GOP tax bill. The rich and big corporations must pay their fair share of taxes!" Read more |
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Trump State Dept. Accused of Trying to Export Hate by Spreading Attack on Transgender People to United Nations New reporting by Guardian reveals another prong in the administration's assault on transgender community Read more |
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Of Course Somebody Took Close-Up Pictures of Suspected Bomber's Van: Here They Are The vehicle is covered in photos of President Donald Trump, American flags, and bizarre right-wing paraphernalia Read more |
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'Warning Bells Going Off' as NOAA Forecasts Entire Great Barrier Reef at Risk of Coral Bleaching and Death "This is a wake-up call," says one Australian marine biologist. "Given sea temperatures usually increase as we get towards March, this is probably conservative." Read more |
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Gorbachev: Trump Ditching Nuclear Treaty With Russia Poses 'Dire Threat to Peace' "There will be no winner in a 'war of all against all'—particularly if it ends in a nuclear war. And that is a possibility that cannot be ruled out." Read more |
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'While the Rest of the World Burned,' Billionaires Made More Money in 2017 Than Any Other Year in History "The past 30 years have seen far greater wealth creation than the Gilded Age." Read more |
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As Midterms Near, Campaign Demands to Know: "Is Your Member of Congress Fighting to Save Net Neutrality?" "Voters deserve to know where the candidates stand on preserving the free and open internet." Read more |
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Rallies Planned for Cities Nationwide to Back Climate Youth Battling Trump in #TrialoftheCentury "All of us have a responsibility to double down in supporting the young people holding the U.S. government responsible for perpetuating climate change and threatening our collective future." Read more |
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'Like a Small War Just Passed Through': Super Typhoon Yutu Leaves US Islands in Pacific 'Mangled' "We really need help," said one local official. "Our island has been flattened. It's one of the worst typhoons we've seen in a very, very long time." Read more |
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For Violating Oath to Defend Constitution, 200+ Veteran Journalists Condemn Trump for "Utterly Unlawful" Attacks on Free Press "Trump's condoning of political violence is part of a sustained pattern of attack on a free press." Read more |
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'Hugely Important Breakthrough for Human and Animal Health' as EU Approves Antibiotic Restrictions for Livestock to Battle Superbugs "Antibiotic resistance is a real sword of Damocles, threatening to send our health care system back to the Middle Ages." Read more |
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'Disaster Waiting to Happen' as Trump Quietly Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project in Arctic Waters Off Alaska Coast "This project sets us down a dangerous path of destroying the Arctic. We'll keep fighting this project and any new ones that follow." Read more |
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'Despicable': Trump DOJ Argues to Supreme Court It's Not Discrimination to Fire Transgender People Just for Being Transgender "They fear us but they cannot erase us. They cannot defeat us. We will fight." Read more |
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Anti-War Voices Applaud 'Must-Read' Sanders Op-Ed Demanding End to US Complicity in Yemen Carnage "I very much hope that Congress will act, that we will finally take seriously our congressional duty, end our support for the carnage in Yemen, and send the message that human lives are worth more than profits for arms manufacturers." Read more |
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As Trump Gaslights Entire Nation About Package Bombs, This 'Will Go Down in History' as Clear Moment 'American Democracy Truly at Risk' "Trump's message to the media (and I guess Democrats): If you criticize me, you'll get more bombs." Read more |
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Despite Trump's Boasting of Strong Economy, 62% of Americans Report No Financial Improvement Since 2016 "Instead of an economic boom, most Americans are experiencing a bust." Read more |
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'Important Victory' for Voting Rights as Judge Rules Georgia Must Stop Tossing Out Absentee Ballots "This ruling protects the people of Georgia from those who seek to undermine their right to vote. It's a huge victory, especially with the midterms just days away." Read more |
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'Wow Wow Wow... Huge News' as New York Sues ExxonMobil for Defrauding Investors by Hiding Climate Threat "The New York Attorney General is standing up for investors who may have been swindled, and indirectly for the seven billion of us who will suffer from Exxon's lies." Read more |
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Shouldering More Than $1.5 Trillion in Debt, Majority of Young Americans Back Free College Tuition and Medicare for All "If you put an initiative on the ballot to forgive (or have the government pay off) this debt, it would make showing up and winning on Election Day worth an average of $30,000 for millions of millennials." Read more |
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Iranian President: Saudis Would Not Have Carried Out Khashoggi Murder Without 'Protection of America' "No one would imagine that in today's world and in this century, we would witness such an organized murder, with an apparatus organizing such a heinous killing," said Hassan Rouhani Read more |
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Hawaiian Island Swallowed Up By Rising Seas After Hurricane Walaka Reveals 'What the Future Could Look Like' "The take-home message is climate change is real and it's happening now." Read more |
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Over Employees' Protests, Amazon Aggressively Pitched Facial Recognition Software to ICE At Height of Child Detention Crisis "If being 'progressive' (raising wages, being pro-LGBTQ) makes them money, they'll do it; if working with ICE makes them money, they'll do it. They have zero actual morals or beliefs outside of profit." Read more |
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'Appalling': Asbestos Imports Soar 2,000% as Trump Loosens Restrictions on Cancer-Causing Material "Americans cannot identify or manage the risks of asbestos. The time is now for the EPA to say no to the asbestos industry and finally ban asbestos without exemptions." Read more |
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Despite Corporate Resistance, EU One Step Closer to Ban on the Single-Use Plastics Choking Planet and Harming Human Health "The European Parliament has made history by voting to reduce single-use plastics and slash plastic pollution in our rivers and ocean." Read more |
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Day After Bomb Found at Soros Home, 'Potential Explosive Devices' Sent to Clinton, Obama, and CNN The Secret Service said it has "initiated a full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible." Read more |
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'Very Dangerous,' Warns Russia as Global Experts Say Trump Ditching INF Treaty Will Restart Nuclear Arms Race "What apparently underlies this decision is a general antipathy by key members of the administration to negotiated agreements that in any way constrain U.S. weapons systems." Read more |
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Trump Nominates Ex-Monsanto Exec to 'Help the Most Anti-Environmental Administration in History Do Even More Damage' "Aurelia Skipwith has been working in the Trump administration all along to end protections for billions of migratory birds, gut endangered species safeguards, and eviscerate national monuments." Read more |
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'Caught Red Handed!': Trump's Last-Minute Promise to Middle Class Mocked as Confession GOP Tax Scam Only for Corporations and the Rich "The middle class will see straight through this scam just like they did with Trump's broken promise to deliver $4,000 wage increases." Read more |
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Three Women Charged With Grand Theft Felony For Saving Thrown Away Baby Cow "Factory farming is inherently cruel, but even from a factory farm perspective throwing live babies into graveyard situations where they are going to languish, slowly starve to death and suffer heat stroke is a clear criminal violation. I don't know of anyone who would argue that is an acceptable... Read more |
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In 'Historic' Shift—and Catching Up With Voters—225 Democrats Running for Congress in 2018 Back Medicare for All "Electoral candidates' increasing embrace of Medicare for All means the issue will be supercharged when the next Congress convenes." Read more |
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Leaked Audio of Georgia Candidate "Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Republicans' Views on Voting Rights" "Brian Kemp is barely trying to hide the shameful fact that his strategy is to win through voter suppression," charges his opponent's campaign Read more |
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On Strike for Equal Pay, Women of Glasgow Vow to 'Be Heard Around the World' "The voice of Glasgow's working women will be heard around the world." Read more |
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Buried in "Hilariously Stupid" White House Attack on Socialism, An Accidentally Strong Argument for Medicare for All Amid hysterical comparisons between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mao Zedong, the White House unwittingly makes a solid case for socialist policies Read more |
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Literally Standing at a Weapons Show in Paris, France's Macron Says Questions About Arms Sales to Saudis Are Off Topic "This has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Nothing. So I won't answer that question. I'm sorry but as long as I'll be in office this is how it will be, whether people like it or not." Read more |
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir Among Tech Giants Making Huge Profits From Trump's "Incredibly Racist" Immigration Agenda "The point is we can stop this right now. This is the moment where we can have some sort of intervention." Read more |
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Not Buying Paul Ryan and Trump's Lies, Poll Shows 52% of Republicans Support Medicare for All "The majority of Republicans want Medicare for All. Paul Ryan is nervous." Read more |
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Demanding to Know Location of Khashoggi's Body, Erdogan Accuses Saudis of 'Ferocious' Pre-Planned Murder "Why has the body of someone, the killing of whom has been officially admitted, not been found?" Read more |
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Judge Upholds Landmark Monsanto Verdict, But Slashes Punitive Damages by $211 Million While Dewayne "Lee" Johnson and his lawyers consider whether to accept a lower amount or move forward with a retrial, they called the new ruling "a triumph for our legal system" Read more |
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'After Relentless GOP Conspiracy Theorizing,' Suspected Bomb Detonated Outside George Soros' Home "Attacks on Soros are textbook anti-Semitism, and this is the kind of shit that happens." Read more |
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With Kavanaugh Aboard, Supreme Court Shields Wilbur Ross From Testifying Under Oath About How He Lied Under Oath "The Kavanaugh get out of jail free card starts paying dividends for the Trump regime." Read more |
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#WontBeErased: Massive Rally Outside White House to Counter Trump's 'Sick, Cynical' Attempt to Deny Trans People's Existence "This nation's darkest days have always come when our government deemed civil rights conditional." Read more |
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To Stop Far-Reaching Threat of Bolsonaro, 300+ Economists Sign Joint Declaration to Defend Brazil's Democracy "We believe that democracy, search for peace, individual freedoms, plurality of opinions, tackling prejudice and inequalities (of income, race, regional and gender) are non-negotiable and essential values." Read more |
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'These Children and Their Evidence Should Be Heard': Lawyers Urge Supreme Court to Let Youth Climate Suit Go to Trial "Even the Trump administration admits both the climate science and the irreparable harm these youth plaintiffs are facing due to climate change. These children and their evidence should be heard in a court of law." Read more |
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In 'Historic Moment' for Climate Action, Wales Pledges to Leave Its Remaining Coal in the Ground "More countries must rapidly follow the path of Wales in leaving fossil fuels in the ground and transitioning to renewables." Read more |
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$6.5 Billion: A Low-Ball Estimate of the Walton Family's Haul After 16 Years of Bush, Obama, and Trump Tax Giveaways As the nation's richest family pulls in more than $1 million every day in tax savings, "it should anger working and middle-class Americans of all political backgrounds that they pay taxes while the Walton family reaps the rewards." Read more |
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While Trump and Kushner Insulate Saudis, Germany Halts Arms Exports to Kingdom and Calls on EU Allies to Follow Suit "There is an urgent need to clarify what happened—we are far from this having been cleared up and those responsible held to account." Read more |
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In Softball Interview, Kushner Says Facts First, Then We 'Determine What We Want to Believe' About Khashoggi Murder "We're getting facts in from multiple places," Trump's son-in-law told CNN 's Van Jones. "Once those facts come in, the secretary of state will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe." Read more |
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NYT Report Details 'Horrifying,' 'Appalling,' and 'Completely Legal' Pregnancy Discrimination in US "When will employers start treating maternity care as a priority instead of a problem?" Read more |
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Two Weeks Before Midterms, Trump Attacks Democracy With 'One of the Most Naked Attempts to Promote Voter Suppression' in Modern Times "This is nothing more than an open and brazen attempt to use the threat of criminal prosecution to intimidate minority voters, an old and familiar tactic that dates back to the Jim Crow era." Read more |
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Global 'War on Drugs' Terrible at Eradicating Drugs, But Great at Upending Societies: Report International group calls for a major rethink of global policy on narcotics and an end to the failed efforts that governments refuse to relinquish Read more |
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'Insulting, Inhumane, and Unacceptable': LGBTQ Rights Advocates Blast Trump's Latest 'Reckless Attack' on Trans Americans "The cruelty and bigotry of this administration truly has no limit." Read more |
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'This Is a Colossal Mistake': Experts Sound Alarms After Trump Confirms Plans to Ditch Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia "Trump says that he is abandoning the INF treaty, basically confirms a renewed arms race, and absolves himself from any responsibility to lead efforts to reduce nuclear tensions around the globe." Read more |
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Teen Climate Activist to Crowd of Thousands: 'We Can't Save the World by Playing by the Rules Because the Rules Have to Change' "The politics that's needed to prevent the climate catastrophe—it doesn't exist today," says Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old from Sweden. "We need to change the system." Read more |
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'Disgraceful and Enraging': Supreme Court Halts Youth Climate Case After Last-Ditch Trump Effort to Kill Suit "A newly configured Supreme Court seems poised to close the courthouse doors. But the tide of #ClimateAction cannot be stopped." Read more |
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'We Call BS': As Saudi Arabia Claims Khashoggi Killed in 'Fistfight,' Trump White House Issues 'Laughably Weak' Response Saudi Arabia's "explanation for the arbitrary execution of Jamal Khashoggi is just not plausible. No government should accept it," says U.N. special rapporteur on extra-judicial executions Read more |
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In Just Three Days, 'Genius' Fundraising Campaign by Progressive Group Pours $500,000 Into Overlooked State-Level Democratic Campaigns Small donations through the think tank Data for Progress this week are going to state-level races—"where $10K means the difference between winning and losing, and can tip a whole state legislature" Read more |
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'Bolton Gonna Bolton': Trump's National Security Adviser Pushing to Ditch Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia Critics warn that "withdrawal would be stupid and reckless." Read more |
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'We're Voting Them Out': What It Looked Like When Horde of Hoosiers Marched With Bernie Sanders to Early-Voting Site After Indiana Rally "This year, things are going to change. We need to have the highest voter turnout in history." Read more |
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With GOP Candidate Also Overseeing Georgia Elections, 107,000 Voters Purged in Yet Another Suppression Effort "When you oversee your own election and know the only way you can win is by suppressing minority votes." Read more |
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LGBTQ Community and Dissidents Main Targets as Israel Exports High-Tech Spying Tools to Despots Worldwide "It's a weapon—like selling a pistol. The thing is that in this industry people think about the technological challenges, not about the implications." Read more |
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'Making Sacrifices for All of Us,' Indigenous Water Protectors Arrested at Pipeline Company's Shareholder Meeting "They've shackled grandmothers, used attack dogs on people, lied, stole, bribed, maimed, and poisoned, all over the lands." Read more |
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With Steve Bannon in the Shadows, Brazil's Right-Wing Forces Accused of Illegal WhatsApp Propaganda Campaign to Lift Bolsonaro "What we are facing here is an attempt at electoral fraud." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Has Heard Enough: 'We Cannot Have an Ally Who Murders a Dissident in Cold Blood' Credible allegations of Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder by the Saudi government and ongoing war crimes in Yemen should be the final straws in allowing the powerful Gulf monarchy to claim the U.S. as a friend and partner, says senator Read more |
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As Gaza Border Demonstrations Continue, Israel's New 'Zero Tolerance' Policy Denounced as 'Deeply Alarming' "There are serious fears that this policy will further sanction the use of deadly force against unarmed protesters." Read more |
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As World Demands Justice for Khashoggi Murder, Trump Declares 'Open Season on All Journalists' "Trump is a psychopath. With a lot of followers." Read more |
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While President Continues to Play Dumb on Murder, 2016 Reporting Shows Saudis Only Blacklisted Khashoggi After Journalist Criticized... Trump "So the Saudis murdered a journalist they previously banned for speaking badly about Trump, and now Trump refuses to condemn them for it." Read more |
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Democrats Face Ridicule and Ire for Letting GOP Ram Through Six More Right-Wing Judges "The ability of Senate Democrats to keep making the same strategic error over and over again is, in its own way, quite impressive." Read more |
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Found in 90 Percent of Table Salt Brands, Study Finds Average Adult Ingests 2,000 Pieces of Microplastic Per Year "The more we consume plastics, the more we literally consume plastic." Read more |
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For Next Weapon in Anti-Protest Arsenal, US Military Building Plasma Gun Capable of Vaporizing Human Flesh At its highest setting, the new laser weapon would painfully vaporize the outer layer of skin from 100 meters away. Also, this so-called "non-lethal" weapon can kill people. Read more |
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Local Fury and Health Concerns as Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tons of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Ocean One nuclear specialist argued that the Japanese government's reported plan "cannot be considered an action without risk to the marine environment and human health" Read more |
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Less Than Year After GOP Tax Scam, Six Biggest Banks Already Raked in $9 Billion in Extra Profits Wall Street's latest earning report provides further evidence of "just how rigged the system is against working people and the middle class." Read more |
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As Trump Accused of Conspiring With Saudis Over Khashoggi Murder, Dems Demand Full Disclosure of Financial Ties It appears the president "is assisting a foreign government in a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the political murder of a resident of the United States, and it is fair to say that he's doing so because to do otherwise would be detrimental to his personal business interests." Read more |
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'Are You Kidding Me?' Outrage as Democrats Push 'Incremental Steps' Over Bold Agenda Needed to Save Planet from Climate Catastrophe "Gradualism is fundamentally incompatible with protecting civilization and the natural world. It's pathetic that the Democrats are continuing to pursue this approach." Read more |
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As Trump Vows "A Lot of Cutting" After Midterms, Americans Urged to Protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid at the Voting Booth With Trump's support, the GOP "has spent the last two years doing everything they can to reach onto our pockets, steal our money, and give it to their pay masters on Wall Street." Read more |
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After Leaked Video, Sanders and Warren Demand Bezos Answer for Amazon's "Potentially Illegal" Union Busting "We write to express our alarm at recent reports that your company is distributing anti-union materials to Whole Foods managers that directs and encourages potentially illegal interference with the rights of thousands of workers." Read more |
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Telecom Lobby Firms Subpoenaed to Lift 'Fog of Fraud and Spam' Surrounding FCC's Net Neutrality Comments "My office will get to the bottom of what happened and hold accountable those responsible for using stolen identities to distort public opinion on net neutrality." Read more |
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UPDATED: In Latest Fit of Censorship, Facebook Deletes Video Detailing Brutal Legacy of Christopher Columbus This piece of "journalism was about the airbrushing of history. Therefore, there is a great irony in the fact it has now been airbrushed" from Facebook's platform. Read more |
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At the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments From massive inequality to the climate crisis, these powerful corporations "are able to demand that governments do their bidding" Read more |
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'Unreal': Claiming Concerns Over 'Political Activity,' Georgia Officials Order Black Seniors Off Bus Headed for Early Voting "When they're suppressing votes, they're going to come up with any kind of excuse about what your problem is." Read more |
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'Groveling' Before Murderous Kingdom, Trump Complains Saudis Deemed 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' Like Kavanaugh "Trump is right in thinking that Brett Kavanaugh and Mohammed bin Salman are likely equally innocent." Read more |
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'Pump and Trump': Explosive New Investigation Reveals Corrupt Practices of President's Family Business Donald Trump claims he only licensed his name for real estate projects developed by others. But an investigation of a dozen Trump deals shows deep family involvement in projects that often involved deceptive practices. Read more |
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In Hit to Devos and For-Profit Colleges, Court Ruling Delivers 'Major Victory' for Defrauded Students "Students did not stop fighting to get this rule implemented, and now because of their work these important and long-delayed protections will immediately go into effect." Read more |
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Critics on Guard Against Pro-Coal Agenda Even as Rick Perry's Bailout Plan Proves 'Too Far a Stretch Even for Trump White House' With "coal- and nuclear-bailout ringleader" nominated to FERC, groups warn that Trump's desire to scam public and ratepayers likely to continue Read more |
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Iranian-Americans Demand Lindsey Graham Apologize for 'Disgusting' and Racist Insult "If you dread the notion of Iranian ancestry and believe all Iranians are liars, you are hopelessly bigoted and unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate." Read more |
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As 'Gruesome' New Details of Khashoggi Murder Emerge, Trump Obediently Bows to Saudi Crown Prince "The president is willingly and knowingly doing the counter messaging for the Saudi kingdom. He floated the 'rogue attackers' theory and [is] now vouching for their transparent denials and vows to investigate." Read more |
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Accusing Trump of Crossing Constitutional Line, PEN America Sues Over Threats and Reprisals Against Free Press "When President Trump crosses the line and threatens to use his authority to punish the media, or actually does so, it is vital for the courts to step in and affirm that such threats and reprisals are unconstitutional." Read more |
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As Judge Considers Letting Monsanto Off the Hook, Jurors Demand Court Respect Their Historic Verdict Holding Company to Account "You may not have been convinced by the evidence, but we were." Read more |
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Proving People Far and Wide Understand and Love Net Neutrality, Study Shows 99.7% of Unique Comments to FCC Opposed Repeal "When you sift through all the noise, fake comments, bots, and BS you always find the truth: no one wants their cable company to charge more fees and control what they see and do on the internet." Read more |
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'Lives Hang in the Balance': 21 Days Before Midterms, McConnell Admits GOP Still Salivating to Gut Medicare and Social Security "Mitch McConnell wants to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to pay for Republicans' massive giveaway to the rich and large corporations," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Enough!" Read more |
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As US Secretary of State Meets With Saudis Over Khashoggi Murder, People Asking Pompeo: 'What Are You Smiling About?' People want to know: "What the hell are these two assholes smiling about?" Read more |
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In 'Blockbuster' Ruling, Judge Says Youths' Climate Case Against Trump Administration Can Proceed to Trial "October 29, here we come!" Read more |
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'One of Most Disturbing Articles I Have Ever Read' Scientist Says of Study Detailing Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse' "A truly scary new study finds that insect populations in protected Puerto Rican rainforests have fallen as much as 60-fold." Read more |
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Humanity Chopping Down Tree of Life, Warns New Research, 'Including Branch We Are Sitting On' "We're entering what could be an extinction on the scale of what killed the dinosaurs." Read more |
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To Build 'Firewall' Against Trump Agenda in State Houses Across US, Women's Group Endorses 10 Under-the-Radar Progressives "Now more than ever is the time to look to new examples of who should represent the people." Read more |