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Study Finding: Rising Prices Are Due to Corporate Greed
"Addressing this crisis means recognizing these price increases for what they are: the result of deeply entrenched concentrated corporate power"
Andrew Yang’s New Political Party Exposes the Farce of Radical Centrism
Andrew Yang’s new Forward Party is the latest in a long line of efforts that seek to shake up American politics by leaning into the status quo.
Police Reforms Will Not Protect Black Lives
“I {Derecka Purnell} became a part of social movements who pushed me to think more critically … about building a world without violence and how to reduce our reliance on police.”
Defense Contracts Have Little Opposition, But Congress Won't Fight For Children
While lawmakers can’t seem to find common ground on issues like health care, climate action, or childcare, there’s one decision they have no problem agreeing on: an enormous military budget.
California Oil Spill: End Off-Shore Drilling
“California’s offshore oil platforms are a ticking time bomb,” says Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s time to shut them down.”
Kellogg Workers Strike
According to a statement from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) President Anthony Shelton, the workers are demanding better wages and benefits.
$3.5 Trillion for Build Back Better is Only 1.2% of the U.S. Economy
"The proposed $3.5 trillion for the Build Back Better agenda is much, much less money than you think — but don’t expect the corporate media to tell you that."
Biden's Trump-like Deportation of Haitians is Illegal and Racist
“The images of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents on horseback whipping and assaulting Haitian refugees blatantly display the clear historical relationship between slavery and modern immigration policy, policing, and the carceral state”
“A Moral Crisis”: Reverend William Barber on Why Congress Must Pass $3.5 Trillion Bill
“The question here is not 'What will it cost if we do this?' What will it cost if we don’t do this?”
The Pandemic is a Wake-up Call for Workers
The unemployment expansion showed us what work could be like if it was freely chosen.
Afghan War Isn't Over: Now it's an Illegal Drone War
Biden is following in the footsteps of his four predecessors, all of whom also conducted illegal drone strikes that killed myriad civilians.
Covid-19 Passes The 1918 Spanish Flu as the Deadliest Pandemic in American History
The U.S. prioritized the economy over human life...
Climate Change Is Triggering a New Refugee Crisis—Inside the US
More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes because of climate change impacts—including increasingly severe storms, wildfires, and flooding.
Border Patrol Literally Cracking Whips on Haitian Refugees
"It doesn't matter if a Democrat or Republican is president, our immigration system is designed for cruelty towards and dehumanization of immigrants," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Biden Administration To Deport Thousands of Desperate Haitians
“For them to be deporting young children into Haiti right now, … it is unacceptable,” says Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance.
Capitalism is the Disease, Climate Change is a Symptom
Our planet cannot handle an eternal growth model. We live in a finite system and capitalist innovation can only take us so far. Eventually we run out of resources. Climate appears to be the limit.
The Occupy Movement After 10 Years, It Did More Than We Think
The movement itself has mostly disappeared. But 10 years later, its legacy is everywhere.
9/11/01: Saudi Arabia Got Away With 'The Crime of the Century'
Despite copious evidence of Saudi complicity in the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration and its successors have spent twenty years shielding the country’s elite from accountability while making war on an ever-growing list of other Middle East countries.
The Afghanistan Papers: Bush, Obama, and Trump's lies About Corruption and Brutality of The Afghan War
Whitlock discusses miscalculations in the initial invasion of Afghanistan, the collapse of the Afghan security forces and how U.S. defense contractors have benefited from the last two decades of war.
The Squad Visits Line 3 Pipeline; Urges Biden to Shut it Down
Members of “The Squad” met with Indigenous leaders in Minnesota to discuss the impacts of Enbridge’s pipeline on the planet, food and water supplies, and treaty rights.
We Wasted 20 Years Fighting the War on Terror Instead of Climate Change
At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around.
The Cruelty of Ending Unemployment as the Pandemic Rages
Joseph Stiglitz says it’s “disturbing” federal aid was allowed to lapse. “This is going to feed into the problems posed by the Delta variant.”
Labor Day 2021: Support Nabisco Workers, Don't Buy Nabisco Products
The past few years in the United States have seen a historic groundswell of labor actions, coinciding with the highest public favorability toward unions in decades.
Amazon is Encroaching on Public Spaces in Chicago
Chicago recently made headlines for turning public parks space over to Amazon package lockers. But those lockers are only one example of Amazon and public officials using public-private “partnerships” to give away public resources and harm communities.