Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Brooklyn Rises Up in Protest of Police Shooting
East Flatbush rises up after an unarmed 16-year-old is shot seven times by police.
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In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.
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Strike Debt Abolishes $1 million in Emergency Room Debt
Strike Debt bought and abolished over $1 million in debt from emergency rooms in Kentucky and Indiana.
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When Our "Government of Laws" Is Above the Law
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking for the administration with an alarmingly casual nonchalance, traduced the whole notion of a nation of laws.
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Switzerland Sets the Example for Income Equality
Two-thirds of the Swiss, who are not exactly a revolutionary people, have given the shareholders of financial institutions the right to decide salaries and bonuses of their executives.
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Blondes on War: The Screen Version of the CIA
Based on today's beautiful CIA women triumphing on TV and film, it seems that elite spies don’t inhabit the same universe with enlisted women who get raped just for being military.
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Koch Brothers Looking To Purchase Several Major American Newspapers
Right-wing funders and business industrialists David and Charles Koch may purchase the Tribune Company newspapers.
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17 Civilian Drone Facts You Should Really Know
From the defense contractors lobbying the "Drone Caucus" in Congress, to the 40 universities receiving millions in grants for drone research, a $400 billion civilian drone market is ominously preparing for liftoff.
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With Protests Escalating, It's Time For a European Spring
A coalition of movements from 13 European countries is leading actions this week to denounce the EU approach to the eurocrisis.
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Tar Sands Resistance Escalates in Massachusetts
Ahead of a national week of actions against the Keystone XL pipeline, activists in Massachusetts turned up the heat early with 26 arrests on Monday.
