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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The Battleline: Their Coal Exports Or Our Future
The public commenting period to block the latest massive coal export facility from being built at Cherry Point in Washington state ends tomorrow. The future belongs to Peabody Coal and Goldman Sachs, or it belongs to us.
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Revealed: The EPA Censored Evidence Linking Methane Contamination to Fracking
An investigation published last week revealed that the Obama Administration's EPA censored a scientific report explicitly linking methane migration to hydraulic fracturing.
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New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture
Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.
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Is the "Democracy Initiative" Really What We Need?
The goals adopted by this progressive alliance cannot lead an effort to mobilize the majority of working people because they do not directly address the issues immediately impacting millions of workers.
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Ending the Secrecy of Cayman Off-Shore Tax Havens
The legendary secret tax haven status of the Cayman Islands appears finally to be coming to an end.
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"Thank God for the Fascists": A Dispatch from Weimar Greece
The "revolutionary infrastructure" of Athens's volatile neighborhood Exarcheia appears now to be gearing itself towards resisting, if not literally fighting, fascist violence and providing refuge for its victims.
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Occupy the Playground: London Children and Community Resist Park Closure
Activists from Occupy London have joined up with Wandsworth Against Cuts and local residents to stop the demolition of a community adventure playground in the south London borough.
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How We Can All Make Money Like the Billionaires
In Alaska, the money oil corporations pay to lease and extract oil on public lands is distributed to all Alaskans equally. Shouldn’t the rest of us collect dividends every time our commons turn profits for others just like Alaskans?
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Public Goals vs. Private Interests in Campaign to Fix the Debt
Close to half of the members of Fix the Debt’s board and steering committee have ties to companies that have engaged in lobbying on taxes and spending.
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ALEC Companies Leads Attack on North Carolina's Clean Energy
Corporate polluters are taking aim this year at states with renewable energy laws, starting with ALEC's assault on North Carolina’s clean energy economy, with support from Duke Energy, ExxonMobil and Koch Industries.
