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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In Canada, Late Efforts to Measure Environmental Hazards of Tar Sands
The Alberta government said Wednesday a new scientific agency to monitor the environmental impacts of oil sands production will provide "credible" and "arms-length" analysis. But Greenpeace fired back about the province's "flawed data and incomplete information."
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Californians Say No To Drones At Home
Local residents and civil rights organizations are resisting a Sheriff's attempts to deploy drones over Alameda County in the Bay Area, highlighting the invasion of privacy, militarization of police forces and the restriction of free speech and political expression.
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U.S. Sues Wells Fargo: Yet Another Bailed-Out Bank Accused of Fraud
Wells Fargo got as much as $36 billion in federal aid after the financial crash. Now it is the latest bank being sued by the U.S. government for vast fraud in the mortgage markets.
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Snapped in Two: The Human Costs of Deregulation
Conservatives believe that enriching individuals will eventually enrich society, and that government should not get in the way of the process. We're now at the mercy of those deregulators. And these five big downward trends happen as a result.
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A Tale of Two Elections: Venezuela and the United States
Venezuela's re-election of Hugo Chavez may be a form of victory for the poor, but the U.S. presidential election is a fight over tactics among big business politicians about how to sell the corporate agenda to the public and continue the one-sided class war against workers.
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At Planetary Crossroads, A Call to Arms: Join the Blockade!
We must immediately obstruct this pipeline or accept our surrender to forces that, in the name of profit, intend to cash in on the death throes of the planet. Keystone XL is part of the final phase of extreme exploitation by the corporate state.
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A Vet's War of Words: "It Is Our Duty to Dissent"
I fought four combat tours in the U.S. Army. I thought when I went AWOL from Fort Bragg that the war was over for me. But I found myself in the heart of a new battle—a war of words and a war of peace fighters who put their lives on the line for their beliefs.
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Occupying the Food Supply in Iowa
Executives from Pepsi, Nestlé, Bayer, Monsanto and other giants of the corporate food system will face a slew of protests at this week's three-day World Food Prize held in Des Moines. The demand: food sovereignty.
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In Mexico, Labor Law Reform Sparks Massive Protest
Unionists and youth protesters from the #YoSoy132 movement blocked the Mexican Senate chamber's doors last week to slow legislators' efforts at enacting a dramatic labor reform that would change the way workers are hired, their rights at work and their wages.
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Earthjustice Sues California to Halt Fracking in the State
Environmental groups have sued the state of California in an effort to stop hydraulic fracturing, which was used for more than 600 wells in the state last year.
