Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy

| 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...

Victim Blaming the Planet

| Oct 26, 2016 | Cartoon|Environment / Health

Anti-pipeline Movement Gathers Steam

| Sep 14, 2016 | Environment / HealthThousands of Native Americans at Standing Rock in North Dakota are protesting a pipeline project that puts their water supply at risk, threatens to plow up their sacred sites, and would worsen climate change. Their rallying echoes hundreds of local struggles across...

To Stop ‘Bomb Trains,’ I Honeymooned in Jail

| Jul 6, 2016 | Environment / HealthIt was a few days after my wedding. I was supposed to be honeymooning at a nearby winery with my newly minted husband, celebrating our unlikely marriage at age 55. Instead, I was sitting on the railroad tracks in the pouring rain. Along with 20 other brave souls, some...

Paul Ryan’s Hot New Idea: More Rank Corporate Giveaways

| Jun 29, 2016 | Economy / BusinessAttention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he has an idea! This is news because the GOP leadership hasn’t offered a new idea in years. Instead, they’ve simply been the...