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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Fanning the Flames of Debt Resistance
One year into Occupy, the movement has gone through something of a rebranding around the theme of debt.
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Rebellion in Greece: "The Time Has Come"
Greece was brought to a grinding halt by its second general strike in less than a month, as thousands protested Thursday in a mass outpouring of fury over austerity policies that have plunged ever growing numbers into poverty and fear.
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Poem: We're in Need of Repair
Bankers writing our laws, our rights to impair, playing tricks with the law, so they'll be billionaires. "And no one to prosecute," they proclaim with a flair: "It was more or less legal, we promise, we swear!"
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Occupy Our Homes Gears Up for December Campaign
This past year, activists across the country declared housing a human right. In December, the Occupy Our Homes movement will grow stronger.
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In Canada, Late Efforts to Measure Environmental Hazards of Tar Sands
The Alberta government said Wednesday a new scientific agency to monitor the environmental impacts of oil sands production will provide "credible" and "arms-length" analysis. But Greenpeace fired back about the province's "flawed data and incomplete information."
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Californians Say No To Drones At Home
Local residents and civil rights organizations are resisting a Sheriff's attempts to deploy drones over Alameda County in the Bay Area, highlighting the invasion of privacy, militarization of police forces and the restriction of free speech and political expression.
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U.S. Sues Wells Fargo: Yet Another Bailed-Out Bank Accused of Fraud
Wells Fargo got as much as $36 billion in federal aid after the financial crash. Now it is the latest bank being sued by the U.S. government for vast fraud in the mortgage markets.
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Snapped in Two: The Human Costs of Deregulation
Conservatives believe that enriching individuals will eventually enrich society, and that government should not get in the way of the process. We're now at the mercy of those deregulators. And these five big downward trends happen as a result.
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A Tale of Two Elections: Venezuela and the United States
Venezuela's re-election of Hugo Chavez may be a form of victory for the poor, but the U.S. presidential election is a fight over tactics among big business politicians about how to sell the corporate agenda to the public and continue the one-sided class war against workers.
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At Planetary Crossroads, A Call to Arms: Join the Blockade!
We must immediately obstruct this pipeline or accept our surrender to forces that, in the name of profit, intend to cash in on the death throes of the planet. Keystone XL is part of the final phase of extreme exploitation by the corporate state.
