Land Ownership Lies At the Heart of Deadly Statistics About Environmentalist Killings

As people worldwide await the UN conference on climate change in Paris, lost in the larger narrative are the individual stories of people battling environmental injustice on the local level – and paying the biggest price for it.

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“Acts of Passion”: What This Washington Post Investigation Tells Us About Fatal Police Shootings

The Post’s analysis doesn't confirm that race was a factor in dozens of shootings, but the fact that more than 75% of the officers involved were white, and two-thirds of the victims were minorities, leads observers to believe race played a factor.

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Greece's Other Story: Golden Dawn and the Dangerous Rise of Europe's Far Right

Continued austerity policies, especially in Europe’s poorer countries, could leave those left behind looking for scapegoats – a situation that history teaches us never ends well.

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Maple Spring: The Red Square Movement Returns As Anti-Austerity Protests Heat Up In Quebec

Quebec's militant student actions have resulted in the lowest costs for post-secondary education in North America – and it has also meant less debt for young people entering a stagnant economy.

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“No More Stolen Sisters”: Why #NativeLivesMatter Is About More Than Policing

Indigenous women make up 4.3% of Canada's female population – but represent almost half of the number of women murdered in the country.

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Chaos In the Mediterranean: How Humanitarian Hawks and Mainstream Media Misled the World On Libya

As high-level discussions ensue about whether, and how, to embark on an expanded mission to battle ISIS, the cliche rings truer than ever that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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Why A Loss for Chicago’s Mayor 1% Could Be the Win Progressives Have Been Waiting For

Rahm Emanuel’s cascade of calamities points to larger problems within a Democratic party being tugged by neoliberals of the Clinton/Obama school and forces that oppose the party's long rightward drift.

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Fear Incorporated: Canada’s Anti-Terror Bill and the Emergence of a Deep Police State

Bill C-51 represents a clear erosion of constitutional rights – if the bill becomes law, blocking a pipeline or organizing a protest without permission from authorities would be considered terrorism.

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Medical Injustice: Trans-Pacific Partnership Enriches Big Pharma at Cost Of People’s Health

Through "evergreening,” pharmaceutical companies could could retain ownership of and royalties to drugs for which their patents have expired – limiting access to generic forms of medicine that millions need.

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In Pursuit of Justice, Two Northern California Communities Experiment With Police Reform

For communities elsewhere seeking to reform and improve policing policies, perhaps the cases of Richmond and Sonoma County can point a way forward.

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