Confirming that the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) amounts to “a huge transfer of power from people to big business,” Greenpeace Netherlands on Monday…
Undeterred Students Keep Up Second Week of Divestment Sit-Ins
Click:bamboo rods Students at three major American universities are digging in for a series of prolonged sit-ins and risking suspension and arrest to demand that…
For Inspiring 'A New Agenda,' Naomi Klein Wins 2016 Sydney Peace Prize
Citing her work “exposing the structural causes and responsibility for the climate crisis,” the Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded its 2016 Peace Prize to author…
Even the IMF—the IMF!—Turns on Neoliberalism
In what may be a sign of a “shifting zeitgeist,” a new paper published this week by economists with the International Monetary Fund questions the…
'World of Uncertainty' Unleashed as UK Votes to Leave European Union
With nearly 72% of the votes tallied, the ‘Leave’ campaign claimed victory with 52% of the vote compared to 48% who voted to ‘Remain.’ Tweets…
GOP Senate candidate uses Scalise shooting in ad
Rep. Mo BrooksMorris (Mo) Jackson BrooksOvernight Defense: Senate confirms US military’s first African American service chief | Navy to ban display of Confederate flags |…
Alabama Senate candidate arrives on horseback to cast vote
Roy Moore, the front-runner in Tuesday’s Alabama Republican Senate primary, arrived at the polls on horseback to cast his vote. It’s a personal tradition for…
Groundbreaking UN Decision: Ireland's Abortion Ban Is Cruel and Inhumane
Ireland’s restrictive ban on abortions subjected a woman to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and should be ended, a groundbreaking decision from a United Nations…
Activists Expose Monsanto's Senate Lackeys Minutes Before DARK Act Vote
Just before a controversial genetically modified (GM or GMO) labeling bill came up for a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, food and…
Whistleblowers: Nuke Watchdogs Not Doing Enough to Prevent Canadian Fukushima
Anonymous whistleblowers have reportedly raised the alarm over nuclear safety in Canada, with an open letter warning of underestimated hazards and undisclosed risks that could…