The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Koch Industries Refuses to Comply with U.S. Senators' Climate Investigation
In response to a request from three senators, the Kochs' general counsel invoked First Amendment rights.
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New Turkish Film Frames Gezi Resistance as a Western-Organized Conspiracy
A Turkish blockbuster film released in February ties Gezi Park, Turkey's 2013 corruption scandal and the government’s open war with the Gülenist movement as a Western-organized conspiracy to deny Turkey’s rightful place as a global power.
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Climate Deniers Attempt to Block "Merchants of Doubt" Film
Climate denier Fred Singer lobbied fellow skeptics to create a backlash, and proposed legal action, against the film that exposes industry’s role in manipulating the U.S. debate on climate change.
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Four Years Later, Fukushima Victims Speak – But Will Anyone Listen?
On the 4th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Americans may be surprised to learn that no one in Japan has been held accountable – that in fact Japanese police and prosecutors have yet to conduct a thorough investigation.
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Eight Ways To Reduce Global Inequality
By taxing progressively, respecting worker rights, and rethinking economics, we could make a great start at creating a more equal world.
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Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
The former Army general and CIA director gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and lied to the FBI about it – but he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor, with no jail time, thanks to a deal with prosecutors.
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ISIS Recruits, European Racism – and Why Jihadi Johns Are the Product Of the State
When I was in southern Pakistan last year, poor youths told me that constant police pressure combined with unrelenting unemployment made joining the militias the only viable means of survival.
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Canadian Government Targets "Anti-Petroleum Movement" As A Growing Security Threat
New legislation would expand the ability of government agencies to infiltrate environmental groups on the suspicion that they are promoting civil disobedience or other criminal acts to oppose resource projects.
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Princes of the Yen: How Japan's Central Bankers Engineered their Country's Boom and Bust
The documentary shows how the Japanese boom and bust of the 1980s and 90s was deliberately orchestrated and prolonged by actors inside the Bank of Japan to transform the country's economic, political and social system.
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Pentagon Makes No Secret of Wanting to Monitor Social Change Activism
The U.S. military is increasingly concerned about the risks to social, political and economic stability from resource stress and climate change – and whether they might lead governments to collapse.
