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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Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage
Debt peonage must be broken if we are going to build a mass movement to paralyze systems of corporate power.
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"Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" to Require Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools
The American Legislative Exchange Council has planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," mandating a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms, in the Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona state legislatures in 2013.
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Cash Hoarding, Tax Evasion and the Corporate Coup
With record-breaking profits and record-low taxes, corporations around the world have been hoarding record-high amounts of cash while finding legal loopholes to pay less, or none, of their taxes.
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Techtivist Report: U.K. Warned - CIA Will Access All Government Data
U.S. intelligence agencies will soon be able to trawl through all British government documents stored online thanks to an unchallenged amendment to a spy law in Washington.
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Justice Department Memo Reveals Legal Case for Drone Strikes on Americans
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens, even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.
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Vast Oilfield Within Reach and the Battle Heats Up
The thirst for Monterey Shale, which could represent the future of California’s oil industry, is producing conflict between drillers and environmental interests wary of hydraulic fracturing.
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Meet the Contractors Turning America's Police Into a Paramilitary Force
L3 Communications embodies the totality of the national security and surveillance state. Harris Corporation and B12 are also companies whose highly developed spy technology threatens our civil liberties.
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In Maine, Ethics Bill Would Slam Shut the Revolving Door
Legislation to make it unlawful for state officials to leave their jobs and immediately go to work for industries they regulated – the so-called “revolving door” – is one of the ethics bills to be debated in the Maine legislature this session.
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Idle No More: From Grassroots to Global Movement
For First Nations people, Bill C-45 introduced last fall by the Harper government represents the culmination of hundreds of years of colonial attacks on indigenous sovereignty -- a sovereignty that is fundamentally tied to the use of treaty lands.
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Guatemala's Communities in Resistance Continue to Blockade Gold Mine
A woman’s spontaneous act of civil disobedience quickly grew into a community-based, peaceful resistance movement where men, women and children have spent 24 hours a day, seven days a week for over 10 months blockading a mine.
