There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.
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Big Food Spent $50 Million This Year To Defeat GMO Labeling
A new report shows how much food and biotech companies increased their lobbying expenditures in 2015 – mainly to support the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, which the House passed last month.
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How Canadian Agencies Stepped Up Surveillance Of Environmental Activists
Newly released documents show Canadian officials are doing more than ever to monitor opponents of oil pipeline development, demonstration organizers and First Nations people involved in related activities.
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Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?
Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations – so can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?
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San Francisco’s Inequality, Between the Levels of Rwanda and Guatemala, Is Still Growing
Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park reveals inequality like perhaps no other place can.
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are agents of a revolt, from the left and the right, fueled by anger at those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s.
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How the Super PAC Megadonor Oligarchy Conquered American Politics
The majority of money raised for the 2016 presidential race has come from those giving $100,000 or more.
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Hedge Funds Helped Wreck Puerto Rico’s Economy – Now the Poor Are Paying the Price
According to financiers, the only way out of the island's economic mess is to eliminate the minimum wage, sell off public assets, lay off teachers, shutter schools, cut workers’ vacation and benefits, and raise sales taxes.
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Right to Strike In U.K. Jeopardized By New Anti-Union Bill
If you make the right to strike so much harder to realize, you change the balance of power between the employer and employee.
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Court Fees Trap Ex-Inmates In A Prison of Debt
Studies show that debts prevent former misdemeanants and felons from escaping poverty and moving on with their lives – not only because of what’s owed but also because of the accompanying stress and surveillance.
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Obama's Clean Power Plan Hailed As America's Strongest Ever Climate Action
The rules are expected to trigger a “tsunami” of legal opposition from states and utilities who oppose the plans, which will significantly boost wind and solar power generation and force a switch away from coal power.
