TRUMP’S NEW BANK REGULAT...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate]  By Cezary Podkul, ProPublica | Report In the early 2000s, banks successfully sued to stop Iowa from limiting their...

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HOLDING TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE IN T...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] So far the media have shown little curiosity beyond the symptom. I fear it’s because their benefactor is the...

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“THE FLIGHT 93 ELECTION ...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] Photo President Trump on Air Force One on Wednesday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times In case you’ve had the pleasure...

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THE AMISH, WHO DON’T GET...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] Pediatricians in America are not allowed to question vaccines at all, nor are they allowed to recommend less than the CDC...

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THE LANDSCAPES OF PRE-INDUSTRI...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] The Dirt Contributor LiDAR-generated hillshade showing terracing, household remains and field boundaries in present-day...

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Brazil Plunges Back Into Polit...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] By Samy Adghirni, Mario Sergio Lima, Rachel Gamarski / Bloomberg     Brazilian President Michel Temer. (Romério Cunha /...

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GIRL IN SOUTH AFRICA SUFFERS &...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] Ivanka’s parents believe they should have had the right to exercise informed consent to HPV vaccination on behalf of...

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A THAI SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS FO...

May 18, 2017 by

[Translate] Environment & Society, State of the World  Gaelle GourmelonWORLDWATCH.ORG Kei Franklin explores how one school in...

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GOP SENATOR SLAMS FEDERAL ELEC...

May 17, 2017 by

[Translate] By Timothy Cama – THEHILL.COM   © Greg Nash Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is criticizing the Department of Energy’s...

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SENATE PANEL ADVANCES REGULATI...

May 17, 2017 by

[Translate] THE HILL.COM A Senate panel advanced a half dozen regulatory reform bills Wednesday, including the Midnight Rules Relief...

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BREAKING: FBI UNCOVERS EVIDENC...

May 17, 2017 by

[Translate] Yuri Silverbaum New York Times Anonymous sources within the FBI have revealed to The Times that they have new evidence...

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How U.S. Military Bases Back D...

May 17, 2017 by

[Translate] World The U.S. has military bases in at least 45 less-than-democratic countries. By David Vine / TomDispatch   VIA...

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WORLD LEADERSHIP COULD CANCEL ...

May 17, 2017 by

[Translate] Briefly Stuff that matters donald ducked   GRIST.ORG Reuters / Carlos Barria His efforts to roll back U.S. climate...

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Chomsky: The Economic Facts of...

May 17, 2017 by

[Translate] Books Chomsky looks at the 10 principles of concentration and power at work in America today. By Noam Chomsky, Peter...

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Donald Trump Is Close to Namin...

May 16, 2017 by

[Translate] Environment Sam Clovis is an admitted climate denialist with no credentials of which to speak. By Jessica Huseman /...

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BEYOND THE MADNESS OF KING DON...

May 16, 2017 by

President Frankenstein, Donald Trump, has been pretty much the bizarre “insane clown president” (Matt Taibbi’s phrase) that I and many others expected. He’s only shocked me twice….

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THE DEPRESSING REALITY OF MOSU...

May 16, 2017 by

The world loses as destruction and mayhem know no bounds.

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BOSTON HERALD EDITOR CALLS FOR...

May 16, 2017 by

In what may be a first for a major corporate media outlet in the US, Boston Herald Editorial Page Editor Rachelle G. Cohen in a column published last week called for the mass execution of critics of vaccine policy.

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Dutch Documentary Part II: Blo...

May 16, 2017 by

The Trump family’s business partners have blood on their hands owing to deals with notorious diamond brokers who operate mines in wartorn Africa and own jewelry stores in London, Moscow and Amsterdam.

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SOWING BEAUTY: A GUIDE TO DESI...

May 15, 2017 by

In Sowing Beauty: Designing Flowering Meadows from Seed, James Hitchmough tells us about what we’ve lost. “Meadow-like vegetation” was once “much more abundant.”

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THE MEDIA IS FAILING TO CHALLE...

May 15, 2017 by

It may seem like a distant memory now, given President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, but the top political news at the beginning of this week was the administration’s unexpected dismissal of nine government scientists from the 18-member Environmental Protection Agency board that oversees the department’s scientific research.

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AS NEW JERSEY’S FLOODING...

May 15, 2017 by

Coastal communities are enduring growing flood risks from rising seas, with places like Atlantic City, sandwiched between a bay and the ocean, facing some of the greatest threats.

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TRUMP STAFF REPORTEDLY FEEDING...

May 15, 2017 by

Staffers send Trump fake news to “gain an edge in the seemingly endless ‘Game of Thrones’ inside the West Wing,” Politico reports.

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TOXIC PESTICIDE APPROVED BY TR...

May 15, 2017 by

On May 5, more than 50 farmworkers outside of Bakersfield, California, were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide that apparently drifted from a nearby field….

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HARVARD STUDY PROVES UNVACCINA...

May 15, 2017 by

Immunologist destroys mandatory vaccine logic in open letter….

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KEYSTONE XL UPDATE

May 15, 2017 by

On Wednesday, May 3rd, several hundred Pipeline Fighters and landowners showed up in force to testify at the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s (PSC) 10-hour public meeting on TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline at the Holthus Convention Center in York, NE.

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The Video That Suggests Trump ...

May 15, 2017 by

Could a more serious illness be at work beneath the bluster and the ego?

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THE EMPIRE OF THINGS: AN ECOLO...

May 14, 2017 by

Is there a saving ecological response possible to the Empire of Things, the fevered consumerist trajectory traced by Frank Trentmann raging not only in shopping malls across America, but now in China and India?

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