THE “BIGGEST CLIMATE FIGHT” OF THE YEAR MAY ALREADY BE HERE, AND IT COULD HAVE BIG CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR PLANET. A tiny Oregon town is at the center of a brewing struggle over big profits for the coal industry and whether simply “offshoring” the dirtiest of fossil fuels will negate any [...]
Lawmakers in Virginia have backed off two highly controversial bills that would have been an unprecedented duel assault on the rights and privacy of women in the commonwealth. The rapid disintegration of support for the measures could the clearest evidence yet that a sustainable backlash is developing in what can only be described as a nationwide war [...]
From presidential politics to the halls of Congress to state legislatures across the nation, scores of lawmakers and politicians have made the curious decision to launch an assault on women’s rights. Despite an incumbent president vulnerable thanks to persistent economic worries and states faced with ills ranging from budget deficits to foreclosure crises, America’s current [...]
Monday featured two landmark occasions in the struggle for marriage equality, more evidence that the tide of public and political opinion is turning on the issue. But historic advances in gay rights in individual states are often tempered by greater restrictions elsewhere, as was the case this week, and it will likely remain the pattern [...]
“THE TIDE OF WAR IS RECEDING.” OH, REALLY? (World Socialist) President Obama, twice in his speech on a new “defense strategy guidance,” repeats this summary of “new” American military policy. While the “guidance” does envision a mandated reduction in expenditures for “conventional” ground forces and extended territorial occupations, it simply enshrines as policy what is [...]
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT? (Foreign Policy In Focus) In the view of Jason Hickel, though the Occupy movement is “global” in the sense that it is active in many areas and countries outside Wall Street, USA, it is notably “provincial” in that it has yet to make any significant connection with social [...]
“THE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO BE VERY ROBUST IN TERMS OF REMOVAL — WE DON’T FOOL AROUND ABOUT THIS.“ (Huffington Post) “Robust…removal.” Removal of what? Invasive plants? Some sort of insect infestation? No. Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano is talking about the impacts of the Obama administration’s new program to speed up the deportation of [...]
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