Big money will be spent trying to convince you to disbelieve obvious truths… The Charles Koch Foundation had subsidized “pro-business, antiregulatory, and antitax” programs at over 300 institutes of higher education. All of these professors,…
Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is not just a collection of reporting and columns she’s written over the last decade, but a plea to readers across…
If we want to have a meaningful impact on climate change we will have to confront agribusiness, which spends more on lobbying in the United States than even defense lobbyists. Read the original story at…
The ‘remarkable’ return of forests in Costa Rica followed the eliminating of cattle subsidies and payments for improving nature. Read more at The Guardian.
Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control “Electric power is a critical function in everyday life, and we can’t go without it,” Democratic Socialists tell In These Times. “Yet, it’s controlled by a private monopoly,…
A new Center for American Progress report says the federal government’s agenda in Alaska amounts to “one of the most brazen public land liquidation efforts in U.S. history.” Read the original article at Huffington Post.
Given the relative success of Amtrak, why hasn’t Greyhound been nationalized, too? Read the story at In These Times.
The U.S.’s “might makes right” approach to international affairs has gotten even worse under the Trump administration, which has shown unprecedented and open disdain for international law. Read more at Truthout.
Rallies are planned across the planet to turn up political heat and demand action. Read the story at Common Dreams.
. . . say miners rooting for a Green New Deal. In Cumberland Kentucky, coal miners are occupying the train tracks in order to prevent coal from leaving the mine where they worked. Julia Conley…