The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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Protests Continue As UK Stumbles, Trying To Find Footing In Refugee Crisis
Glasgow Council became the first local council in the U.K. to offer guaranteed support and accommodation to refugees surging into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan and other war-torn countries.
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In Face Of Harsh Austerity, Britain's Hunger Crisis Sparks First Student-Led Food bank
Manchester Foodbank offers warmth, a listening ear – and most importantly, it has handed out more than 2,700 food parcels this year to people who have found themselves hungry in an era of Conservative government cuts.
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Record Spending By GMO Supporters Can't Stop the Growing Alliance for Organic Food
Corporations like Monsanto and Coca-Cola have poured more than $50 million into the fight against GMO labeling in the first half of 2015 alone.
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North Carolina Imposes New Taxes on Car and Appliance Repairs to Fund New Tax Cuts for the Rich
How will the state pay for these new tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? By raising taxes on the poor, of course.
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Rebuilding the Commons: A Global Network of Rebel Cities Takes Shape, Part I
From Spain's grassroots city mayors to the Mexican Citizens' Movement, the worldwide network of rebel territories is continuing to grow.
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Ben Bernanke Admits Wall Street Execs Should Have Been Jailed
The former Fed chair says that, in addition to banks and corporations paying billions in fines for their illegal activities that triggered the economic meltdown and Great Recession, individuals should have also been held accountable.
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Buying Detroit: Why A Not-So-Public Auction Could Devastate City Homeowners
The largest known municipal foreclosure sale to date, the Detroit home sell-off could be a modern take on Manifest Destiny – luring would-be frontiersmen and speculators from across the world to try their hand at “buying Detroit.”
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How U.S. Corporations Avoided Paying 2014 Taxes, State By State, To a Tune of $50 Billion
The corporate world paid about half their required taxes, revealing the extent to which Americans are being deprived of revenue that should be going to education and infrastructure.
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The Billion-Dollar Question: When Will the U.S. Repair Its Damaged Democracy?
To watch American politics today is to watch money speaking – and the sums involved dwarf those in any other mature democracy.
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A Bank To Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank For International Settlements, Part II
The idea for an international bank had already been explored to some extent by people like the economist John Maynard Keynes. But the idea for the bank truly took off during the Young Conference in 1929, when the Allies were attempting to exact Germany’s reparations debts for WWI.
