Deep Faith in the Deep State Gives Dems a Set Back
Our weekly panel discusses the Mueller Report, as the Democrats and their media allies put their eggs in the Russia-Gate basket and handed Trump a PR victory – Jacqueline Luqman, Jeff Cohen and host Paul Jay
Trump insists Russia ‘get out’ of Venezuela; Vijay Prashad says Russia is protecting its own economic interests, billions in outstanding loans
Peace activists converged in the nation’s capital to oppose what they say is aggressive NATO expansion
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Stephen Moore, Trump’s new nominee for the Federal Reserve Board, has some wacky ideas, but is correct about the need to keep interest rates low,…
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After the Chistchurch shooting, New Zealand moves to ban assault weapons, while the US is promoting plans to arm school teachers instead. Al-Jazeera exposes NRA’s…
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With NATO turning 70 next week it’s a good occasion to revisit the creation of a military alliance operating under the stated principle that an “attack against one ally is considered as an attack against all allies.” Now encompassing 29 member states, the north Atlantic alliance was instigated by US, British and Canadian officials.
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A third defeat for Theresa May’s Brexit plan sets up April 12 as the drop-dead date for an unlikely agreement in Parliament, a second referendum,…
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Maryland’s legislature overrode Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of what critics describe as a watered-down minimum wage proposal
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How Big Tech Has Helped Big Oil Automate the Climate Crisis
Companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have triumphantly announced themselves as petroleum production partners, Gizmodo reporter Brian Merchant has documented in a recent report
WitchHunt: Controversy Over Anti-Semitism and the British Labour Party
Filmmaker Jon Pullman discusses his film WitchHunt, about the suppression of critical voices in the Labour Party and the influence of the Israeli lobby
Laura Flanders Show: Gender Ideology – A Pretext for Murder in Brazil
#EleNao! Just days before the anniversary of activist Marielle Franco’s assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with her murder. Those arrests may provide a partial answer to the question of who killed her but many other questions, including who ordered her killing and why, remain unanswered. This week, we talk with…
Push to Reverse Obscure Shipping Law Could Flood Puerto Rico with Fracked Gas
After Hurricane Maria, the oil and gas industry and allied legislators have begun push to create Puerto Rico exemption to century-old shipping law, the Jones Act
Kamala Harris Calls for Teacher Raises—An Anomaly in Presidential Politics
Democratic frontrunner calls for $315 billion investment—education activists, such as Lois Weiner, say it’s still not enough
Maryland Becomes Sixth State to Adopt $15 Minimum Wage
March 29, 2019
City Settles, Agrees to Reforms with Fired Black Police Chief who Claimed Discrimination
March 28, 2019
World Bank Financializing Development
March 26, 2019
Bernie Is Not a Wind Sock
March 25, 2019
Why Not Impeach?
March 22, 2019
Maryland Advances Bill For a $15 Minimum Wage in Six Years
March 21, 2019
The Real College Admissions Scandal Is Structural Inequality
March 21, 2019
Paying for a Green New Deal with Modern Monetary Theory
March 21, 2019
Reinventing Beto: How a GOP Accessory Became a Top Democratic Contender for President
March 21, 2019
Rethinking Approaches to Climate Change
March 21, 2019
Belt and Road Initiative vs Washington Consensus
March 20, 2019
The emerging new world order’s alarm bells: Men like Brandon Tarrant and Andreas Breivik
March 16, 2019
Searching for New Forms of Struggle
March 13, 2019
‘This Is Historic’: US Senate Passes War Powers Resolution to End Complicity in World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
March 13, 2019
Baltimore Incinerator Could Lose Green Subsidies (UPDATED)
March 13, 2019
Wealth Concentration Drives a New Global Imperialism
March 13, 2019
Kazakh police raid raises spectre of China’s long arm
March 10, 2019
Border Security: What and Who is it Good For?
March 8, 2019
Reframing Single-Payer Healthcare
March 8, 2019
Canada’s Corrupt Foreign Policy Come Home to Roost
March 3, 2019
Amendments Limit Bill to Stop Baltimoreans from Losing Homes and Churches Over Unpaid Water Bills (UPDATED)
March 1, 2019
Will Militarizing Schools Make Them Safer?
February 25, 2019
Bills Criminalizing Pipeline Protest Arise in Statehouses Nationwide
February 22, 2019
Reintroducing the Climate Crisis Bureau
February 14, 2019
Indiana Republican-Dominated Senate, House Consider Solar Bills
February 12, 2019
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is Here
February 7, 2019
2019 State of the Union and Responses
February 5, 2019
UPDATE: Hundreds of Teachers Protest at Baltimore County
February 5, 2019
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TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Narrated by Danny Glover, A documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack; the multi-million dollar campaign allowed a climate change denier to be elected president (a new version with updated content and music)
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Is the Oil Industry Canada’s ‘Deep State’?
Justin Trudeau and Canada’s political elite are fighting for the Tar Sands and oil industry’s interests, even if it means that Canada misses its climate targets. We speak to Kevin Taft, ex-Liberal Party politician and author of ‘Oil’s Deep State.’
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