In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
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California Passes Bill to Legalize Complementary Currencies
A community without dollars is not a community without wealth.T his basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement.
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Detroit's Water Shutoffs – And a Rising Resistance Movement
A few days after thousands marched on downtown Detroit last weekend, the city suspended mass water shutoffs for 15 days – leaving more than 15,000 households already disconnected.
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From Incubation to Equity, Worker Cooperatives Growing Stronger in U.S.
Some 30,000 cooperatives now operate within the U.S., employing over 2 million people and paying out an estimated $75 billion annually in wages.
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How Local Police Are Spying On Americans Without Warrants
Stingrays and other cell surveillance tools have been used in the U.S. for years without the knowledge of the public or even defense attorneys and judges.
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The Coming Calamity, The Coming Resistance – Part I
From the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to the Trade In Services Agreement, massive trade deals are being advanced in coordination with a militarized police state.
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Unions Gear Up for Climate Mega-March
With 400,000 members and 85,000 retirees, SEIU 1199 is among the biggest unions to sign up so far for the People's Climate March in New York in September.
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Poll: Three-Quarters of U.S. Northwest Now Favors GMO Labeling Law
Despite propaganda from Big Ag, biotech and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, surveys show vast majority of residents in Washington, Oregon and Idaho want to know what's in their food.
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Occupy Hit Job: Why Is The New York Times Smearing Cecily McMillan?
When a journalist in a news article refers to a woman as “strident,” you know what you’re reading is a hit piece – and that's what the New York Times produced about Occupy Wall Street activist McMillan.
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Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
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As Inequality Soars With Bloated Executive Pay, U.K. Group Demands "Radical Action"
Reporting that CEOs in the U.K. earn 162 times more than the average worker, the High Pay Centre calls on government to put immediate caps on executive salaries.
