The War on Terror’s Detention and Torture Practices Have Not Gone Away
The so-called “war on terror,” initiated by the U.S. and its global allies in response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001, did not so much change the rules of warfare as throw them out of the window. After 9/11 and the subsequent wars of Afghanistan and Iraq, there was a lot to be thankful for. […]
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Tech Workers Are Demanding End to Contract That Fuels Israeli Apartheid
Protests were held in four cities by hundreds of community members and workers. Project NimbusOn Thursday, Google, Amazon and the Israeli government signed the $1.2 billion contract titled. “There can be no tech for war. No tech for apartheid,” Alex Hanna, director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, expressed to a crowd of […]
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Private Equity and Hedge Fund Industries Pour Over $347 Million Into Midterms
Federal committees reported receiving practically $347.7 million in the course of the 2022 midterm election cycle from private equity and hedge fund staff and PACs, an OpenSecrets evaluation of Federal Election Fee disclosures obtainable on Aug. 15 discovered. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) made headlines in August for her stalwart opposition to a provision within the […]
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Lawmakers Are Facing More Violent Threats Due to Trumpian Rhetoric, Jayapal Says
“We are at a precipice and we’re counting on the American people to come through — and I have hope that people will realize that we have to turn this clock back.” That’s what U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Saturday in an interview about how […]
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Community Organizers Celebrate Defeat of Petrochemical Complex in “Cancer Alley”
Community organizersAnd their supporters are celebrating that after years of local resistance, South Louisiana Methanol won’t complete a stalled $2.2 billion petrochemical complex in a region known as “Cancer Alley.” In a statement Friday, the environmental law organization Earthjustice and groups it has represented in challenges to the project — RISE St. James, Louisiana Bucket […]
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Texas Court Decision Threatens ACA Coverage of Preventive Medical Services
A federal judge’s ruling in Texas has thrown into question whether millions of insured Americans will continue to receive some preventive medical services, such as cancer screenings and drugs that protect people from HIV infection, without making a copayment. It’s the latest legal battle over the Affordable Care Act, and Wednesday’s ruling is almost certain […]
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Trump’s Political Operation Has Raised Over $500 Million Since the 2020 Election
Former President Donald Trump’s political operation has raised more than $500 million since the 2020 presidential election while using donor money to pay millions of dollars in legal bills and steer millions more to the coffers of Jan. 6 rally organizers, a newOpenSecretsAnalysis of federal campaign finance filings. ABC News reportedThursday’s expansion of the probe […]
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Maine’s Biggest City Will Vote on Public Campaign Financing Measure
This article was written by Sludge, an independent, ad free investigative news website that covers money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. With campaign spending on the rise in their city’s elections, voters in Portland, Maine will decide this November on a ballot question that aims to level the playing field for local office […]
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Biden Education Department Declines to Explain 160,000 ‘Missing’ Public Comments on Redefining ‘Sex’ in Title IX
As the clock ticks down on the public comment period for the Department of Education’s proposed rule change to Title IX, inconsistencies have emerged on the total number of comments already submitted. Politico reportedTuesday, the Regulations.gov website tracking the total number of publicly submitted comments had logged over 349,000 comments. But by Friday, three days later, the […]
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How Chevron Polluted the Amazon and Fought Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger
Decades ago, the U.S.-based petroleum corporation Texaco devastated Lago Agrio in the Ecuadorian Amazon with pollution, in what came to be known as “the Amazon Chernobyl.” It resulted in roughly 1,000 carcinogenic waste pits16 billion gallons toxic wastewater were dumped into rivers. Cancers and miscarriages rose among local residents who bathed and drank in these […]
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