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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Coal Mining Health Study Is Halted by Interior Department
“Stopping this study is a ploy to stop science in its tracks and keep the public in the dark about health risks as a favor to the mining industry, pure and simple,” said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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The Absurdity of Corporate Tax Cuts During the Corporate Pillaging of the Middle Class
Last year, fifteen of the largest corporations in America, with combined revenue well over $1 trillion dollars, paid less than 6 percent in U.S. federal income taxes. But mainstream media opinion editors don’t appear to have the courage to speak up.
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Workers May Have Just Killed Missouri’s Right to Work Law
In a badly needed victory for organized labor, a coalition of workers’ rights groups in Missouri is poised to halt a devastating new anti-union law from taking effect later this month.
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Secret Service Director Says Agency Running Out of Money Protecting Trump
Secret service agents are resigning and others might have to go without pay after more than 1,000 agents protecting the Trump family – 42 in all, compared with 31 under Obama – hit salary and overtime caps.
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After Barcelona Terror Attack, Europe to Confront a More Violent Refugee Crisis
A day after the attack on Las Ramblas, members of the extreme right Spanish group, Falange, took to the streets to protest Islam and the E.U.'s failed immigration policies, and clashed with anti-fascist groups in a sign of the turbulence to come.
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The road to hate: For six young men, Charlottesville is only the beginning
The torch-lit images of that Friday night’s march revealed scores of clean-cut, unashamed and young men — very young. Who were they, and what in their relatively short lives had so aggrieved them that they felt compelled to act? The answer is complicated.
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"Hope Not Hatred": Thousands Gather Across U.S. in Rebuke to Trump, Neo-Nazis
Replacing torches with candles and hate with hope, thousands gathered across the U.S. on Wednesday to mourn the death of Heather Heyer and stand peacefully against the violence perpetrated by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Get Me Roger Stone" Unveils the Man Who Made Trump
The new Netflix documentary isn’t just a biopic on the political strategist and self proclaimed “agent provocateur” Roger Stone – it's a blueprint of sinister, cutthroat realpolitik and its execution throughout the dirtiest presidential campaign in recent memory.
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This is Sinclair, "The Most Dangerous US Company You've Never Heard Of"
Sinclair is the largest broadcast company in America. But its partisan politics – and connections to the White House – are raising serious concerns.
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Gulf Coast "Dead Zone" the Size of New Jersey Alarms Scientists
Scientists from Louisiana State U. and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium found the area of hypoxia, or low oxygen, to be the largest in the 31 years that the group has been measuring – and the 2nd largest man-made hypoxia region in the world.
