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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Here's What Wall Street Reform Looks Like Under A President Sanders
Breaking up big banks, reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, restructuring credit rating agencies, and holding bankers accountable for their crimes would begin to address some of the most relevant issues.
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England’s Soaring Death Rate Tied to Government Austerity That Slashed Health Services
Last year saw the highest number of deaths in England in nearly half a century – a burgeoning mortality rate now being pinned to government cuts in social services and other austerity measures in one of the richest nations on Earth.
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Stop Trident: Why Renewing Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Program Is Plain Mad
On Saturday, the "largest demonstration in a generation" marched in London in a bid to #StopTrident, making clear the public's widespread opposition to re-launching the U.K. nuclear program.
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Teargas Fired As Refugees Try To Breach Greek-Macedonian Border
Chaotic scenes have intensified across Greece as the embattled government edged closer to declaring a state of emergency to deal with tens of thousands of migrants and refugees trapped in the country.
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Rent Strikes From San Francisco to London: "Together We Can Defeat the Housing Market"
“This community is being displaced by the greed and avarice of property pimps preying on the weak and the disenfranchised."
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Goodnight, and Good Luck: Al Jazeera America Shutters Its Doors
The core principle driving the journalism that distinguished Al Jazeera America online as a unique voice in a cluttered news landscape was the simple – yet radical – proposition that no single human life is worth less than any other.
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Why Student Loans are Creating a Permanent U.S. Underclass
With private lenders out of the business, government is now in charge of issuing newer debt – but rather than alleviating the problem faced by young Americans, some programs on offer seem as predatory as what came before them.
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Security giants earn huge windfalls from ‘surveillance-industrial complex’
In run-up to 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Panasonic and other multinational corporations find big market for security.
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5 Reasons the Top Tax Rate Should Be 80%
Informed Americans understand that an economic war has been waged against the middle and lower classes – and as history shows, progressive taxes actually work.
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Hundreds of Professors At University of Chicago Push For Fossil Fuel Divestment
In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6 billion endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the “universal and existential” threat posed by climate change.
