Public Safety for the 99%
Ending overpolicing will require much more than better oversight and training By Alex S. Vitale Policing needs to be reformed. We do indeed need new training regimes, enhanced accountability, and a greater public role in…
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In Detroit, A New Kind of Agricultural Neighborhood
By Biba Adams A decade ago, a resurgence of urban gardens and farms sprouted a new agricultural trend around the country. And while many of them continue to thrive, in the past five years, another…
Fast-Tracked Pipeline Projects Hit Roadblocks
By Scott DiSavino, Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) — The Trump administration’s effort to cut red tape and speed up major energy projects has backfired in the case of the three biggest U.S. pipelines now…
New Study Finds Errors in Rising Sea Level Predictions
It’s much, much worse than anyone imagined By Dartagnan Because it conjures up a tangible, visible image in the human mind, the prospect of an uncontrolled global sea rise is one of the most benumbing…
From Iraq to Chile, the People Are Rising Up Against Neoliberalism
By Oscar Rickett Across the Middle East, people are protesting. They are tired and angry. They want to see something change. “All of them means all of them,” protesters chant in Lebanon, calling for the…
After Bolivia Coup, Lithium Question Looms
By Vijay Prashad Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring…
When the US Supports It, It’s Not a Coup
By Alan MacLeod Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not…
The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion
By Jessica Corbett The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a…
Global Corporate Financial Speculation Fuels Gentrification
By Yosef Brody PUSH, a new documentary that had its world premiere at the CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen in March, where it won the festival’s Audience Award, is coming to the U.S., and not…
Health Care Rationing Is Already Reality Under Private Insurance
The price of insulin in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2012. That’s put the life-saving hormone out of reach for some people like Nicole Smith-Holt’s son Alec. Read the original article at Huffington…