This election season, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is coming out ahead—as the number one dark money spender of 2014, watchdog Public Citizen revealed in a report released Wednesday. “In a record year for dark money expenditures, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is leading the way,” reads the report, entitled , which is based on …
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local elections in the city have become prime examples of how U.S. politics, at all levels, have become corrupted by the unlimited amount of money wealthy corporations and individuals can spend on campaigns. “We are not …
A pristine and ecologically rich region of Alaska will now be protected from any future oil and gas drilling, President Obama announced late Tuesday after signing an executive memorandum to withdraw roughly 32.5 million acres from potential development. Bristol Bay, part of the North Aleutian Basin, is home to many threatened animal species including rare …
President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE said early Sunday that Democrats are “most angry” that so many “Obama Democrats” voted for the billionaire …
Six school districts, seven parents, and two statewide associations sued the commonwealth of Pennsylvania on Monday, claiming legislative leaders, state education officials, and the governor have failed to uphold the state’s constitutional obligation to provide a system of public education that gives all children the resources they need to meet state-imposed academic standards and “participate …
Developing… The Ferguson grand jury will not indict Officer Darren Wilson for shooting dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said on Monday that the grand jury deliberated for two days before deciding not to indict Wilson. On Twitter: Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/ferguson “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of …
With a summary of what is expected to be a scathing report on the Bush administration’s CIA torture program scheduled for release this week, current Republican lawmakers have teamed up with former CIA and Bush-era officials to discredit the report and defend the brutal treatment inflicted on individuals in the years following the attacks of …
Following the Pentagon’s announcement on Saturday that it has repatriated four men incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay to Afghanistan, human rights advocates are urging the United States to release all who remain captive in the U.S. military prison “without delay.” Mohammad Zahir, 61, Khi Ali Gul, 51, Shawali Khan, 51, and Abdul Ghani, 42 were transferred …
Twelve people are reportedly dead, with others wounded, after two gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday. #CharlieHebdo Tweets Early reports indicate that ten magazine staffers and two police officers who responded to the scene were among those killed. After the assault, according to Channel 24 News in …
The increasingly frequent and severe droughts that have punished California over the past two decades—including the current record-breaking one—are primarily the result of human-caused climate change and will likely grow even worse, scientists at Stanford University warn. Published in Monday’s issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new research analyzes …
