By Peter Castagno on Feb 20, 2020 11:00 am
“We knew fossil fuel extraction – including fracking – was a major part of global methane emissions, but this impressive study suggests it is a far bigger culprit in human-induced climate change than we had ever thought.” Peer-reviewed research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday found that human-caused emissions of methane have been underestimated [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 20, 2020 08:00 am
“Out of all the candidates, Bernie is the only one to advocate for the democratic will of the people.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Sen. Bernie Sanders was the lone voice on Wednesday night’s debate stage in Las Vegas endorsing without reservation the idea that the candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination with the [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Feb 20, 2020 07:00 am
“We have a grotesque and immoral distribution of wealth and income. Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans. That’s wrong, that’s immoral.” In a heated debate ahead of the Nevada Democratic Caucus, the biggest story of the night was the presence of Mike Bloomberg, billionaire and former Republican Mayor of New [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 20, 2020 05:00 am
“I don’t know really if the target of the sanctions are the politicians or our patients. We are dealing with cancer here and cancer doesn’t stop, so we cannot stop.” The economic sanctions that the Trump administration has imposed on Iran since ditching the 2015 nuclear deal are adversely affecting patients at the Middle Eastern country’s top [...]
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By Peter Castagno on Feb 19, 2020 01:00 pm
“The EPA’s proposed rule will make it more likely that people who live and work on or near farms will be sprayed with dangerous pesticides.” Environmental experts are sounding the alarm against the Trump administration’s pesticide policies, including a recent EPA proposal to roll back protections for people near farm boundaries at risk of exposure [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Feb 19, 2020 11:00 am
“Today, Trump granted clemency to tax cheats, Wall Street crooks, billionaires, and corrupt government officials. Meanwhile thousands of poor and working-class kids sit in jail for nonviolent drug convictions. This is what a broken and racist criminal justice system looks like.” President Donald Trump granted clemency and issued pardons Tuesday to a number of high-profile [...]
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By Jack Xiong on Feb 19, 2020 09:00 am
“I remain hopeful and believe that music can serve to bring us together as a nation.” A new documentary about the 39th President of the United States is set to open the Tribeca Film Festival this year on April 15th. Entitled Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President, the film sheds light on a different aspect [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 19, 2020 07:00 am
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech intelligence apparatus. (By: Whitney Webb, Mintpress News) Early last week, the city of New York launched — with little media scrutiny — one of two new massive cybersecurity centers that [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 19, 2020 05:00 am
“Unpriced risk was the main cause of the Great Recession in 2007-2008.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) New research published Monday warns that extreme weather driven by the climate crisis could bring about an economic recession “the likes of which we’ve never seen before” if markets don’t do a better job assessing climate risks. Paul Griffin, [...]
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By Guest Post on Feb 18, 2020 03:00 pm
“Winning good jobs at Walmart, the country’s largest corporate employer, is the gateway to changing the service economy as a whole.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Walmart workers issued a “wake up call” to Alice Walton, an heir to the retailer’s $500 billion fortune, in New York on Tuesday by marching to Walton’s New York [...]
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By Max Moran on Feb 18, 2020 01:00 pm
She takes bundler money from a Cargill big-wig. The politerati just can’t get over how good Amy Klobuchar is at losing. A longtime favorite of many Beltway pundits for her high approval rating in her home state of Minnesota, Klobuchar’s third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary was somehow a bigger deal to many in the media than Senator Bernie Sanders’ [...]
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