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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Neo-Nazi Pegida Rallies Fading In Germany, But Europe's Deadly Shootings Continue
Support for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West has fallen thanks to the group's own slip-ups as well as the counter-demonstrators who've consistently fought its racist message.
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Anti-Tar Sands Activists Are Getting FBI Visits
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted, at home and through calls and texts, by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to the oil sands.
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Seedy Business: What Big Food Is Hiding with Its PR Campaign on GMO's
Big Food’s $100 million campaign to defend GMOs includes manipulating the media, public opinion and politics with sleazy tactics, bought science and PR spin.
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"A Line in the Sand" in Fight to Release Thousands of Photos of Prisoner Abuse
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can’t release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A Real American Sniper Weighs In On The Film That Has Us All In Iron Sights
Listening to Garett Reppenhagen describe how he felt the first time he shot someone is like listening to an addict talk about their first time injecting heroin.
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PEGIDA movement spreads across Europe, stirring anti-immigrant sentiment
Galvanized by the Paris attack, the anti-Islamic movement PEGIDA is swiftly spreading across Western Europe.
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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter
Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.
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Enough Police Bullying: Stop the NYPD Coup
Police need to feel empowered so they don't fear speaking up when they see misbehavior by their colleagues.
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Germany’s Islamophobes: A Social Movement or Flash Mob?
Protesters are united by more than blind hatred for Islam.
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The college trap that keeps people poor
The path from poverty to the middle class has changed — now, it runs through higher education.
