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"Economic pain is real and not going anywhere-four decades of corporate, neoliberal policies and privatization, deregulation, free trade, and austerity have made sure of that," said Naomi Klein upon accepting the Sydney Peace Prize. Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein accepted the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize in Australia on Friday, delivering a searing speech that reflected on Donald Trump's presidential victory in the United States and the factors that allowed it to happen.
Bush-era torture architect Jose Rodriguez defended his role in the clandestine program in a 60 Minutes interview in 2012. President-elect Donald Trump may choose an architect of the George W. Bush administration's torture program, Jose Rodriguez, to head the CIA, The Intercept reported Friday.
The researchers say 82 percent of "core ecological processes" on land and sea have been affected by climate change in a way that has not been expected "for decades." Climate change is already affecting life on Earth, despite a global temperature increase of just 1A C, according to a new study published in the journal Science on Friday.
Senator Bernie Sanders has been making his feeling known about Donald Trump after his victory in the general election. As with all Democrats, the have acted graciously after Trump won the election.
When news broke Thursday that the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russia, it landed with a light tap instead of the earthquake it should have caused. It didn't, largely because the first article seemed to indicate that they had also been in contact with the Clinton campaign as a matter of course.
The pro-Brexit promises were that Brexit would be so awesome because it would fund the tremendously popular single-payer National Healthcare program in Britain. But it's not like the pro-leavers put it on the side of a bus or anything.
We knew this. We tried to warn folks. But alas, no one believed. Join me in not being shocked to discover that corporate lobbyists are all standing in line waiting to be part of the Trump administration.
The single most important reform we need - even more important than political and economic reform - is reform of the media. I've campaigned for direct democracy - real democracy - for over thirty years, so I believe absolutely in the right of every citizen to make the political decisions of their government - not just elect so-called representatives.
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges rallied Green Party supporters in Philadelphia during a final campaign event Saturday for presidential nominee Jill Stein and running mate Ajamu Baraka. A speech by Hedges, published here , encouraged voters to stand with the oppressed, overthrow corporate power and fight fascism when they cast their ballots in this election.
I was reflecting yesterday on the magic of the previous 18 months, and it occurred to me that history usually helps bring clarity to the present, except when it doesn't, which is pretty much always the case. Can the elections of the past teach us anything? Probably not.
Indian runners take part in the New Delhi 10K Challenge amid heavy smog in New Delhi on November 6, 2016. Protesters hit the streets and emergency measures were rolled out as alarming levels of air pollution have left residents of India's capital gasping for fresh air for more than a week.
Diesel leaches into tidal pools after a spill in the Great Bear Rainforest last month. Canada Transportation Minister Marc Garneau made headlines this weekend when he announced that by the end of the year, a long-promised ban on oil tanker traffic will be put in place off the North Coast of British Columbia-weeks after the government was harshly criticized for its bungled response to a spill in that same region.
French women walked off their jobs en masse Monday afternoon, as part of a protest against the pay gap that encouraged them not only to leave early-but to take the rest of the year off. The strike, organized in part by the feminist publication Les Glorieuses , is calling attention to the fact that France's gender wage gap means women are effectively working for free starting at 4:34pm local time until the end of the year.
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Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... During the Labor Day weekend, when many people are celebrating and preparing for the upcoming school-year, Dakota Access, a... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference. As President Obama said,... My Halloween accomplice, aka Sexy Cop, poses next to a machine that delivers an old-fashioned adult beverage with new twist.
NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDAa S-a SIn 2011, shortly before the last presidential election, Florida's Republican-led legislature cut the state's early voting days from 14 to eight and eliminated the last Sunday before election daya S-a Sthe busiest day of early voting for black communities. In 2012, early voting by minorities dropped dramatically .
As human beings, we are naturally social and creative. The inherent curiosity that drives us to innovate is ultimately a testament to the creative impetus that resides within all of us.
Ever since FBI Director James Comey put out that insanely vague letter 9 days ago regarding the discovery of new emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server, the Trump campaign has been feasting on the news like it was chum in the ocean and they are the hungry sharks. Too bad none were from Hillary Clinton or her server .
I've had my gripes with Fareed Zakaria, who should hardly be considered a member of the "Liberal Media," whom the Trump campaign so loathes. I've disagreed with his lack of alarm to the dangers of fracking and I've been touched deeply by his attention to the crisis of the Syrian refugees and I've been miffed over his validation of David Brooks as an expert on, well...anything.
Parliamentary supremacy in British law and politics is akin to the fetish of the union in the United States. Challenge it at your peril; question it to your misfortune.