Politicians have stolen our right to vote before. They’ll do it again if they get the chance. (Other Words, Diallo Brooks) One October morning in Richmond, Virginia, 32-year old Joseph Cox watched his friends and neighbors go to the ...
“You do have to wonder when working-class Trump supporters will start to notice such things.” (CommonDreams.org, by Jake Johnson) Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has chosen ex-Goldman Sachs bankers to fill several key positions within ...
Opioid drugs and the games big pharma plays. Paul Wright, in treatment for opioid addiction in June 2017 at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown Ohio, shows a photo of himself from 2015, when ...
Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and that’s bad news for humans. (Other Words, by Jim Hightower) Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buyout of Whole Foods isn’t only a win-win for both of them, ...
Many people worry about where the line will be drawn between altering and ameliorating human embryos. Human eight cell embryo for IVF selection. K. Hardy, Wellcome Images , CC BY-SA (Joyce Harper, UCL and Helen ...
Shouldn’t the returns from at least part of our national wealth go to all citizens and not just the already rich? (Inequality.org, by Stewart Lansley) Many attempts to tackle inequality fall short because they fail to target ...
Think the CEOs of the largest phone, cable and internet companies should call all the shots when it comes to Net Neutrality? The Net Neutrality Debate. (FreePress.net, by Candace Clement) Think the CEOs of the ...
The EWG finds our drinking water meets federal regulations but exceeds levels deemed safe by modern scientists. America has a drinking water problem. Flint, Michigan may be the most famous case of polluted tap water, ...
The real estate firm partially owned by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been accused of promoting its connection to Trump to gain investors. (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) As questions about the Trump administration’s conflicts of ...
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student (Jared Kushner), he covered is now poised to become one of the ...
As officers tase teen: “I’ll keep on doing that until I run out of batteries.” The above video is disturbing to watch. It shows Jordin Norris, an 18-year-old in custody at a Cheatham County, Tennessee ...
Urban billionaires are trotting out the tractors and overalls in a bizarre effort to roll back their taxes. (By Chuck Collins, Other Words) After this summer, President Trump and the Republican Congress have one big ...
A Chicago woman is tased by police and suffers a miscarriage but is now expected to receive a $500,000 settlement. A Chicago woman, Elaina Turner, and her boyfriend, Ulysses Green, crossed paths with a trouble-prone ...
If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study what happened in Kansas. (Chelsie Bright, Mills College) Six years before Trump was tweeting about stolen elections and unsubstantiated claims of millions ...
Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them. (ProPublica, Joe Sexton) Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations ...
Drug expiration dates: hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer. This story ...
Trump Collusion: The billionaires who backed Trump are making out a lot better than Putin. by (Peter Certo, Otherwords.org) I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s ...
While Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, they are continuing to subsidize Blackstone and other private equity housing profiteers. (by Aditi Katti, Inequality.org) It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s ...
Proposed federal wage chief, sued for not paying house cleaners. By Will Evans Reveal. This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco ...
A frantic and scared mom, Latasha Nelson, in Arlington, Texas recorded video of her 14 year old son’s arrest; an arrest based on zero evidence. The activist group Next Generation Action Network posted the mom’s ...
Marijuana decreases crime: dispensaries actually increase the ‘walkability score’ of a neighborhood which deters criminal activity. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” – Jeff Sessions, Attorney General “I reject the idea that America will be a better ...
People power wins in Atlantic City: “A ringing endorsement of the work done by community members to save their water system from a corporate takeover.” (Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Atlantic City, New Jersey’s city council ...
Tomorrow join 70,000 in fighting for net neutrality. (FreePress.Net) The Trump FCC — like the rest of this administration — is doing everything in its power to serve corporations and harm the rest of us. ...
Why Market Competition Has Not Brought Down Health Care Costs (Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts Amherst). It is easier than ever to buy stuff. You can purchase almost anything on Amazon with a click, and it ...
Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes. (By ProPublica and The Real Deal). In April 2016, ...
Secret Facebook Censorship: a trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression. (ProPublica by Julia Angwin and Hannes Grassegger) In the ...
The live oral polio vaccine is mutating and replicating wild polio. Polio is rare, very rare thanks to modern medicine. However, for the first time ever mutated forms of the oral polio vaccine paralyzed more ...
One Staten Island doctor and two accomplices arrested in 4 year long opioid pills operation. A 72 year old doctor, Dr. David Taylor of Staten Island, NY was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill ...
LAPD Scandal: Seven teens in the LA cadet program arrested for stealing LAPD equipment. An officer involved is charged with statutory rape of a cadet. L.A.P.D. arrested A 31-year old Los Angeles police officer last ...
Off-duty officer Joe Joswiak pulled over Minnesota motorist Anthony Promvongsa for driving aggressively in July of 2016 and immediately began violently assaulting him. The ACLU just released dash cam of the incident and is calling ...
On June 8th, a New York corrections officer at Rikers Island admitted to sexual assault of a female inmate but thanks to a plea deal he will receive no jail time. As part of the ...
Twenty-year-old University of Virginia student, Stephen Dalton Baril, was indicted last week on charges of rape and forceable sodomy of a fellow female student. Baril turned himself in last Wednesday and attended his bond hearing later ...
The Portland Police Department shared photos on Twitter of an array of weapons seized at competing Portland protests in downtown. The two protests are located directly across the street from each other and have lined the street to ...
The case of Oscar Millan shows ICE’s renewed focus on strict immigration enforcement. Under the Obama administration, agents had discretion in cases of immigrants with gravely sick children. (ProPublica, by Marcelo Rochabrun) Early last Monday ...
Before he was named Trump’s health secretary, Price took a congressional trip to Australia and pressed officials to extend protections for drug companies in an international trade agreement. (ProPublica, byRobert Faturechi) In the spring before ...
Why is there one set of criminal laws for the private sector and another set for U.S. officials? (Re-posted with permission from The Future of Freedom Foundation, by Jacob G. Hornberger) The inspectors general for the ...
On February 26, 1993 a truck bomb exploded in the underground parking garage below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City killing 6 Americans and injuring over a thousand more. To this ...
Jacob Ryan Delgadillo, a 30 year old Houston Independent Schools police officer, plead guilty to having an improper relationship with a 14 year old girl at the middle school where he worked. The improper relationship ...
(Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Cezary Podkul, May 15, 2017) In the early 2000s, banks successfully sued to stop Iowa from limiting their ability to charge ATM fees to non-customers. They also fought off ...
(Reposted with permission from ANTIMEDIA) In a deal that will allow one broadcasting company to reach 72 percent of U.S. households through ownership of local news stations, it was reported this week that Sinclair Broadcast Group ...
Ibragim Todashev was a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers; aka the Boston Marathon bombers. Todashev was interviewed by the FBI several times. During his last interview with the FBI he was shot and killed by FBI agents who claim ...
Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Joaquin Sapien Ruddy Quezada, a 54-year-old man wrongfully convicted of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993, has won a $4.5 million settlement from New York state, according to court papers. ...
Reposted with permission from The Free Thought Project, by Matt Agorist. Johnson County, AR — Former deputy Robert Retford, with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department was arrested last November on charges of sexual assault. His ...
Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Marcelo Rochabrun and Jessica Huseman. Update, May 1, 2017: The Department of Homeland Security updated its website on Monday, May 1, 2017 to include the name of Julie Kirchner ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The two American investigators felt a sense of foreboding that Sunday as they headed to an emergency meeting with their boss on the Iraqi air base. But they didn’t expect to be ...
5 facts to know about the student loan debt problem. Is the college debt bubble going to cause the next recession? 1.Trillions in debt 2. Sky rocketing tuition costs 3. Sky rocketing text book costs ...
Reposted with permission from The Free Thought Project. Article by Claire Bernish. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, confirmed to the position Thursday by the U.S. Senate, is one in a string of disputed appointees to President ...
Under much controversy and ignoring Ledell Lee’s request for DNA testing, Arkansas executed Ledell Lee in the state’s first death row execution since 2005. Lee is one of eight men Arkansas is attempting to execute ...
Reprinted with permission from The Free Thought Project. By Jay SyrmopoulosApril 18, 2017 image: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dyncorp-696×366.jpg Washington, D.C. – A retired Army general, who after leaving the military, worked as VP for embattled DynaCorp International for three ...
Story originally reported on ANTIMEDIA and reposted here with permission. A story last week highlights the fact that undocumented people in America aren’t the only ones affected by Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. On Friday, The Daily Beast reported ...