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Donald Trump. North Korea. Hurricanes. Neoliberalism. Is there any hope of a better world? Yes, but we have to come together to tell a new, kinder story explaining who we are, and how we should live

The company behind the Dakota Access pipeline and many other damaging fossil fuel projects — Energy Transfer Partners — was the focus of nearly 20 actions spanning 10 U.S. states

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper labored mightily for three months and brought forth a gnat.  He had promised the people, after an uncontrolled leak from an oil well had caused two deaths in a fiery explosion of a home in the bedroom community of Firestone, Colorado, that it would never happen again.  To fulfill this promise, he asked Read more…

The Bush/Cheney administration used these horrible events to justify projecting the US empire deeper into the Middle East

So much for sowing party unity in a time of deep peril

The United States could have helped build a truly cooperative world order in 1990. Because it didn’t, the world now faces the twin challenges to the international rule of law: the Islamic State and Donald Trump

The show put on by the Unionist bloc of the Catalan Parliament during these past two days has been regrettable, pathetic, insufferable and truly shameful

Iran has never had the aim of creating a bomb or it would have one by now

The June 9 decision of Catalonia’s pro-independence Together For The Yes (JxSí) government to hold a referendum on whether the country should become “an independent state in the form of a republic” has created a raft of differences

Interview on how the pharma industry converts intellectual property rights into inordinate profits and uses these for political power to maintain its privileged position

Afghanistan, North Korea, the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM), Venezuela, and the war on African/Black people are all interrelated…

Out Everywhere and Winning Nowhere

It’s clear that climate has worsened the impacts of Atlantic hurricanes and will continue to do so

Experts on U.S.-Iran relations and nuclear non-proliferation say that a unilateral American attempt to destroy the deal would be a potential disaster

From Kennedy to Kent State

Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century

The purpose of #NoWar2017 is not just to hear from great speakers, but to bring together people who care about and want to take action to save the environment and to end war

The people have the power to finally make the government do the right thing. No more compromises. No more false solutions. Onward to National Improved Medicare for All

On 9/11: How we slighted the real Threat, Climate Change, and Hyped Terrorism

Because of an over-focus on empty gestures and a queasiness about money, the response to natural disasters in the US is all too often inadequate

Anti-pipeline organizers are holding a series of protests and other events this month targeting both state and federal regulators

Puerto Rico’s Double Whammy

The new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela’s economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, an inflation-depreciation spiral

Humanitarian crises around the world will fail to be resolved if the providers of aid are also the perpetrators of the conflict

Bill Clinton accomplished a Republican agenda and Obama allowed the Tea Party to steal the economic populist moment

In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks “Why Is Everything Going Wrong?”

If enough people devote themselves to the nuclear disarmament campaign, we can create a nuclear weapons-free world and prevent nuclear war

Stepping outside, the world appears a surreal yellow

By adopting a municipalist agenda, the labor movements of the new working class have the power to democratize not just the union, but also the city itself

As the National Football League begins its new season, one of its most outspoken players has revealed he was recently detained and assaulted by police in Las Vegas

Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it

Irma Deepens the Crisis

As the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) furthers its investigations into political corruption, the elite political class attempts to shield itself from accountability to the people

A look at a pioneering project that is bringing migrants and local people together to repopulate a village in rural Spain

Focus on North Korea’s Larger Weapons Misses the Target

Not far from Rabat’s train station, a small group of protesters hold Moroccan flags and banners as they chant for their lives. They are a family of farmers who have lost their land. These are rebels in the name of the King, to whom they plead for redress. “If only the King knew our situation,” Read more…

Scott has been a creature of Big Oil, covered in liquid tar, like a monster hiding out in a swamp, and the fumes he has put off have summoned Irma

Canada’s High Commissioner has provided various forms of ideological support to Africa’s most ruthless dictator

Regardless of the far right’s strategies to divide us, we must prioritize the safety of students and amplify the voices of the vulnerable—not promote narratives that serve racist ideologies

In an effort to secure the Dream Act’s passage, the Women’s March has released a list of Republican lawmakers who could provide the key swing votes needed

Now is the moment to take the next step

Kalamazoo, Michigan, teachers received an urgent message in July from their union’s private Facebook account for members: in bargaining, the district was demanding a pay freeze

Once she was an inspiration. Now, silent on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar, she is complicit in crimes against humanity

An increase in the scale, frequency, and intensity of extreme weather is precisely one of the things that climate scientists have long warned about

The West’s focus on the fall of so-called Islamic State is playing directly into the hands of its old enemies,

From Britain’s India to Castro’s Cuba

There Is No Legal Justification for Ending DACA

When It Comes to the War in the Greater Middle East, Maybe We’re the Bad Guys

Unless the United States and its allies downgrade their threats against North Korea, there will be no possibility of peace in northwest Asia

North Korea, China and the Threat of Nuclear War and Accident