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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Paris Isn’t Burning — Not Yet
Today, France isn’t occupied — unless you count multinational corporations as occupiers. Instead, it's the racists, the Anti-Semites and the members of the National Front who are fanning the flames of popular discontent.
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Why Does Britain Want to Deport One-Time Protester Trenton Oldfield?
The 37-year-old was imprisoned for interrupting a boat race last year, which highlighted inequalities and Britain's rigid class system. Now, the government wants him out of the country. Their rationale: he may “threaten national security.”
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Revealed: U.S. and U.K. Struck Secret Deal Allowing NSA to "Unmask" Britons' Personal Data
In another Snowden revelation, a 2007 deal allowed the NSA to store previously restricted material in which U.K. citizens not suspected of wrongdoing were caught up in the surveillance dragnet.
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Puppet States: How National Power Brokers Pull the Strings in State Elections
Since the Supreme Court loosened rules on political spending in 2010, unions and business groups have focused money on state elections, a new analysis shows.
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CEOs Against Grandmas: How an Unpatriotic Corporate Elite Are Pillaging Retirees
The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security — yet are part of austerity armies determined to make older people pay.
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Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
There's no conspiracy underway to destroy Earth. UN delegates inside the Warsaw climate conference, shirking their obligations to us and future generations, are simply following the logic of a system contingent on endless growth in the interest of profit.
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Exclusive: Teen's Mysterious Killing At Mexican Border Exposes Unaccountable, Violent U.S. Policy
The fatal cross-border shooting by U.S. agents of an unarmed 16-year-old boy highlights a spate of killings of Mexicans who posed no security threat and who were standing on their own country's soil — raising serious questions about U.S. border violence.
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After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back
Meet Perry Fellwock, the NSA's first whistleblower.
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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Meet Protests in Salt Lake City
Outside the Grand America Hotel, the rains fell, the speakers rose, the marchers chanted. Inside, top trade negotiators from the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations discussed imports and exports, profits and products, prices and patents.
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Donald Sutherland: "I Want Hunger Games to Stir Up a Revolution"
The Hunger Games is a coded commentary on inequality, power and hope, and he wants it to stir revolt: a youth-led uprising against injustice to overturn the U.S. as we know it.
