Americans lack organized workers’ movements and a ruling class that feels even slightly obligated to protect workers and the poor, cultural critic Henry Giroux tells Paul Jay of The Real News Network.
|
“If the empire teaches domination of the world from its military schools, we will learn from this school to free ourselves from imperial oppression,” President Evo Morales said at the center’s inauguration.
|
By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
New scientific research confirms that climate-related extremes of heat or drought lead people divided by race or culture to fight over life’s necessities.
|
By Michael Hayne / AlterNet —
The sketchy relationship between the New Jersey governor and the Republican presidential nominee took a new twist after a New York Times report showed that Trump’s $30 million casino tax debt, something New Jersey officials fought endlessly to collect, suddenly was slashed after Christie took office in 2010.
|
|
The presidential nominee and her running mate addressed voters on CNN on Wednesday night in an hour-long meeting in which they outlined their “Green New Deal.” Stein also told the public she would “have trouble sleeping at night if either Trump or Clinton is elected” and reiterated her goal to build on Bernie Sanders’ “political revolution.”
|
By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica —
Experts fear tax deductions for water use as a “depleted asset” could actually worsen the crisis as rivers and reservoirs dry up.
|
By Juan Cole / Informed Content —
A Chinese official on a visit to Damascus announced that Beijing intends to strengthen its military relationship with the Syrian government, but affirmed that China would avoid involvement in the civil war.
|
Parker, who also stars in the film, has encountered a serious obstacle in the rollout phase of his forceful big-screen debut, “The Birth of a Nation”: the resurfacing of his involvement in a 1999 rape case.
|
By Thor Benson — The so-called “trolley problem” isn’t the only issue on the horizon as the driverless car rolls toward the nation’s public roads.
|
Advertisement
Exposure Dynamics 300x250
|
By Nika Knight / Common Dreams —
Calling a leak of sophisticated spy tools unprecedented, the whistleblower says things “could get messy fast.”
|
From the costly—in many senses of that word—spectacle that is the Rio Olympics to the chaos unleashed by the notorious Powell memo, the Truthdig comment boards were host to a virtual phantasmagoria this week.
|
At 1 p.m. PDT on Thursday, Truthdig will interview special guest Narda Zacchino to discuss what the once “failed state” of California can teach the rest of the United States.
|
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn have shined a spotlight on the economic model that can lead us out of gaping inequality; Canada could actually benefit if Donald Trump wins the U.S. elections; meanwhile, we may need to reconsider air travel in times of climate change. These discoveries and more after the jump.
|
By Judith Coburn / TomDispatch —
In this age of stop-and-frisk, racial profiling, mandatory sentencing, the death penalty, life without parole and execution-by-cop, I—a private eye for defense lawyers—can’t defend anybody.
|
By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
U.K. scientists warn that we may have already emitted enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to take air temperatures above a “safe” global threshold.
|
The third poem in “The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto” points readers toward ancient lessons for survival in the desert at the U.S.-Mexico border.
|
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org —
The decision by the giant insurer to bail out from 11 of the 15 states where it sells Obamacare plans provides the best argument for changing our approach to health care in America.
|
By Jeff Gerth/ ProPublica and Joby Warrick / Washington Post —
An investigation finds that Clinton initially pressed to keep civilian programs and listening posts after the U.S. troop pullout in 2011, but then scrapped or slashed them at the behest of the White House and Congress.
|
By Juan Cole / Informed Content —
Russian bombers for the first time took off from bases in Iran to carry out airstrikes on rebel targets in Syria—a move that is unprecedented in recent decades and raises many questions.
|
A video investigation of conditions at an affordable-housing complex in northern Indiana shows how the crisis came to be and how it might be “worse than Flint.”
|