| Jun 20, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate. The...
| Jun 13, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyDid you hear that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, is so corrupt that he spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens? Or that he spent another $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth in violation of government spending laws? Pruitt’s...
| May 30, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump is said to see himself as a sort of Teddy Roosevelt. TR, however, was known as a trust buster, while DT has become known as a trust hugger. We recently saw the hugger in action when he held a PR event to ballyhoo 50 proposals to stop Big Pharma from...
| May 23, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyVeterans have made enormous sacrifices for the United States. The rest of us should ensure that they lead prosperous lives after their service. Affordable, high-quality health care has been a cornerstone of this promise since the formation of the Veterans Health...
| May 16, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThousands of civil rights advocates, low-wage workers, and religious leaders kicked off massive protests on May 14, launching a 40-day campaign across the nation in an effort to revive Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. The Poor People’s Campaign brings...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI almost cried at a press conference, watching a mother and her grown daughter explain the dramatic lengths they’d gone through to protect their property in Southwest Virginia’s Bent Mountain from the Mountain Valley pipeline. If the pipeline is constructed, it will...