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(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 16, 2017
Bernie Sanders Denounces Trumpcare as "The Most Anti-Working Class Legislation Ever" Bernie Sanders spoke in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday where he issued a rallying cry for "a vibrant American democracy," and took aim at the Republicans' healthcare bill, which he called "the most anti-working class legislation" in modern history.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 19, 2018
Accusing Trump of Trying to "Subvert the Constitution to Protect Himself," Senators Sue to Block Whitaker Denouncing President Trump's appointment of acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker -- a fervent critic of the Russia probe -- as a blatant effort to "subvert the Constitution to protect himself and evade accountability," three Democratic senators on Monday filed suit against the White House and demanded that Whitaker be barred from temporarily serving as the nation's top law enforcement official.

SHARE        Saturday, July 22, 2017
Environmentalists Urge Democrats to Join Sanders in Opposing Dirty Energy Bill As Senate Democrats stay silent on an energy bill that environmental groups call "a pro-fracking giveaway to oil and gas interests that would commit America to decades more of dangerous fossil fuel dependence," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is receiving applause for speaking out against it.

SHARE        Thursday, June 6, 2019
Trump Admin Condemned for Canceling Education, Recreation, and Legal Services for Detained Migrant Children Human rights advocates responded with outrage Wednesday to the Trump administration's decision to start canceling education, recreation, and legal services for unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters across the country, purportedly because of high detention rates and low funds.

SHARE        Sunday, October 6, 2019
Merging "Loyalty to the Oil Industry" and "Grudge Against California," Trump Opens 725,000 Acres to Fossil Fuel Drilling The Trump administration on Friday moved to open more than 725,000 acres of California's central coast to potential oil and gas drilling, a decision environmentalists condemned as a disastrous handout to big polluters at a time when urgent action is needed to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 16, 2019
"Not Founded On Anything": The Epitaph for the Sarah Huckabee Sanders Era Sanders embraced a scorched earth strategy wherein a quite shameless effort to defend Trump -- she would gladly sacrifice core elements of democratic society, such as a free press. Sanders was doing precisely the job that she was asked, and loved, to do: lie, attack, deflect and question the very nature of reality, and undermine anyone or anything that threatened the power of the privileged.

SHARE        Monday, July 8, 2019
Demands for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's Resignation Mount After Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking The arrest of financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on federal child sex trafficking charges elicited fresh demands for the resignation of Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who helped Epstein secure a "sweetheart plea deal" for previous allegations while serving as Miami's top federal prosecutor over a decade ago.

SHARE        Thursday, September 8, 2016
Prominent Scholars Decry TPP's "Frontal Attack" on Law and Democracy More than 200 legal and economic scholars -- including President Barack Obama's Harvard Law School mentor Laurence Tribe -- have penned a letter to Congress warning that the pro-corporate Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime enshrined in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) "threatens the rule of law and undermines our nation's democratic institutions."

(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Yet Another Failed Attempt to Discredit Bernie Sanders, Courtesy of the New York Times Some commentators, in the face of a politician who seems genuinely determined to move forward with the agenda he has articulated throughout his campaign, have twisted themselves into knots to justify their emphatic rejection of the most progressive candidacy in recent history.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 20, 2018
DACA Supporters Denounce GOP's "Racist Agenda" As #TrumpShutdown Takes Hold As of Saturday morning, more than 1,000 White House and congressional staffers had been placed on furlough, and non-essential agencies including those that process small business loans and passport services were expected to be closed starting Monday, barring a deal.

SHARE        Sunday, March 29, 2015
National #BoycottIndiana Movement Drives Officials to Backpedal on Anti-LGBTQ Law Indiana lawmakers are scrambling to backpedal as a fierce backlash has taken hold against Republican Governor Mike Pence since he signed into law legislation that effectively permits discrimination against people thought to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 29, 2017
"Disaster-in-Chief": San Juan Mayor Blasts Trump As Slow Recovery Drags On 100 Days After Hurricane Maria Residents of Puerto Rico are still struggling and thousands remain without electricity. Although nearly 70 percent of the island's electrical grid is generating power after being destroyed by the storm, the Associated Press reported this week that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority "has no way of knowing how widely electricity is being distributed because the system that measures that isn't working."

SHARE        Friday, January 19, 2018
US Global Standing Plummets as Trump Threatens Human Rights at Home and Abroad The "authoritarian populist agenda" promoted by President Donald Trump along with lawmakers in several European Union countries, and those leaders' promotion of xenophobia and racism, has left a vacuum that leaders including Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China have taken advantage of, asserting their own anti-rights agendas.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 3, 2016
Sanders Organizing Grassroots Push Against TPP for DNC Platform Meeting Environmentalists oppose it. So do labor unions, medical professionals, and major religious groups, as well as every leading presidential candidate. So why hasn't the Democratic Party gone on record opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)? That's what Bernie Sanders wants to know.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up ExxonMobil has launched a full-throttled "bully" campaign against the graduate students who recently unmasked its scandalous climate change cover-up threatening to pull funds from the university that helped bring to light its dangerous and "most consequential" lies.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 13, 2016
"Disappointed" in Obama, Sanders Calls on Top Dems to Drop Lame Duck TPP Push Sanders said in his statement that he was "disappointed by the president's decision to continue pushing forward on the disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement that will cost American jobs, harm the environment, increase the cost of prescription drugs, and threaten our ability to protect public health.

SHARE        Saturday, February 14, 2015
Rachel Corrie's Family Denied Justice From Israel's Highest Court Corrie's family first filed a wrongful death civil suit in 2005. In 2012, Judge Oded Gershon of the Haifa district court sided with the military and charged that Corrie was responsible for her own death. "She did not move away as any reasonable person would have done," ruled Gershon. "But she chose to endanger herself."

SHARE        Friday, June 12, 2020
New Campaign Prepares Mass Mobilization Should Trump Refuse to "Leave Willingly" If Defeated in November Since taking office in 2017, Trump has repeatedly floated the possibility of remaining in office beyond his constitutionally allotted term during rallies and on Twitter.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 10, 2015
International Peacemakers Announce Women's Walk for Peace and Reunification of Korea During the 59th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting, leading global women peacemakers will announce plans for a women's peace walk calling for an end to the Korean War, which is technically unresolved without a peace treaty. Gloria Steinem, Abigail Disney, Ann Wright, Suzy Kim, Keum-ok Kim, Hyun-Kyung Chung and Christine Ahn will speak.

SHARE        Thursday, February 8, 2018
In Latest Absurdity in Trump's America, Omarosa Confesses: "It's Gonna Not Be Okay" Appearing on the reality show "Celebrity Big Brother," Omarosa detailed in a somber whisper how truly "haunted" she was by Trump's tweets and explained that no one around the president seemed willing to hold him back."It's gonna not be ok. It's not," Omarosa said. "It's so bad."

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