By Roger D. Harris It’s been nearly three months since the Venezuelans went to the polls on July 28, and there is still contention domestically and abroad regarding the winner of the presidential election. This…
Ask Finland. By Patrick Greenfield Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around Inari, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange…
By Miles Kampf-Lassin On a midsummer afternoon in June 1918, Eugene Debs stepped into a gazebo nestled under the trees of Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio, to deliver the speech that would land him in…
By John Kiriakou All of us who care about civil liberties, civil rights, human rights and freedom of the press have had a front-row seat lately to a slide toward what can only be described…
Commentary by Bhikkhu Sujato When there is something in you that needs saying, and you have a means of saying it, and there is someone to hear what you’re saying, meaning is created. It’s not…
By Lucy Dean Stockton and Freddy Brewster While North Carolina was once a national leader in renewable energy and climate change resiliency policies, that changed in the early 2010s when Republicans secured control of both…
By Oliver Milman Exported gas emits far more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, despite fossil-fuel industry claims it is a cleaner alternative, according to a major new research paper that challenges the controversial yet rapid…
The quickest, most affordable way to tackle the climate crisis and cut power bills By NC WARN North Carolina regulators persistently go along with Duke Energy’s years-long assault on its only competition: rooftop solar power…
Support and Weapons Commentary by Ben Norton Israel would not realistically be able to wage war on Gaza without US support. Citing a senior Israeli air force official, prominent newspaper Haaretz reported that, “without the…
Not A Ceasefire Mediator Commentary by Belén Fernández On July 21, 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opined that “an…