It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Big Coal Faces Even Bigger Opposition in Pacific Northwest
The Kinder Morgan victory -- in which a powerful energy company retracted plans to build a coal export terminal on the Columbia River in Oregon -- provides a good case study for how communities have been able to beat back the coal industry.
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GRAPHIC: The Rendition Project—Mapping Every Suspected Flight
Now you can trace rendition flights with this illuminating graphic.
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Homeowners Jailed, Protesters Brutally Tased at DOJ Demonstrations
A two-day long housing protest outside the Department of Justice this week has resulted in nearly 30 arrests and several instances of law enforcement unnecessarily using tasers on activists.
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Our Massive Homeland Security Apparatus Does the Bidding of the Big Banks
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a nationwide "counter terrorism" apparatus emerged, and it has turned on dissenters such as the Occupy movement.
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Revealed: Antiwar.com Sues FBI For Years of Targeted Surveillance
The website’s founders maintain that their site is a legitimate expression of free speech and that they have been unjustly targeted for observation by the FBI.
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U.S. House Votes to Force Approval of Keystone Pipeline
The House of Representatives voted to take the Keystone XL approval decision out of President Obama's hands.
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Wells Fargo Forecloses On Homeowner Who Made Payments Too Early
A homeowner in Orlando made his mortgage payments on time and in full to Wells Fargo, but the bank decided to foreclose on his home anyway.
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NY State and Local Retirement Fund Campaigns to Divest from Fossil Fuels
The campaign aims to halt public investments in the fossil fuel industry.
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In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant
Momentum is building across Europe, country by country and region by region, to outlaw the biotech giant.
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Thousands of UC Hospital Workers Strike for Safer Staffing, Pensions
13,000 workers at seven campuses of University of California hospitals began a two-day strike on Tuesday to protect their pensions and enhance patient care.
