As big pharma faces a mountain of opioid lawsuits, one novel solution is to join Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings. Just two weeks after the famed Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma filed bankruptcy, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & ...
“When people are laughing, they’re more open to taking on an idea than when they’re not” – Steven Soderbergh on his new film The Laundromat The new dark comedy film, The Laundromat, depicts a real-life ...
“This is not a new idea, these exist all over the world. Germany is fueled by public banks, and look, they have the best economy in Europe.” California will be permitted to establish public banks ...
“Evidence, proof and witnesses against them are in this region, and we can prosecute them.” Officials in the Kurdish-led region of north-eastern Syria are calling for an international war crimes tribunal to be held for ...
“Under the new paradigm of private equity, poorly maintained ambulance services siphon profit from vulnerable patients.” Wall Street investment firms are behind soaring ambulance costs, according to a Thursday article by the American Prospect’s Olivia ...
It’s hard not to be impressed with climate activist Greta Thunberg. Well, that is, unless you’re a climate change denier.
“This is just one of many cases of the U.S. military wantonly tarnishing large parts of the Somali population with the ‘terrorist’ label.” A new report from Amnesty International finds that three Somalian men killed ...
Neoliberal free-trade policies that favor aggregated seed, food and chemical corporations prevent family-scale farms that use regenerative practices from profiting. We need a fair Green New Deal now. In February, a dairy farmer friend sent ...
With impeachment hearings swirling around U.S. President Trump, youth environmentalists scolding adults for failing to address climate change and a multitude of clashes between nations, the 74th UNGA offered plenty of highlights. On September 30, ...
“The greed of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and BlackRock is insatiable.” Last year, top executives and investors protested the annual investment conference in Saudi Arabia known as ‘Davos in the Desert’ after the savage execution ...
Sudan is eager to be removed from the U.S.’ list of states that harbor terrorism but also not ready to normalize relations with Israel. On the sideline of the meeting between Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla ...
Could a president removed from office legitimately take the oath of office again? (By Austin Sarat, The Conversation) The launching of an “official impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump’s conduct has sailed America into largely ...
“The Warren bit (a little overhyped in the headline) will get attention. But the more damning thing in the Zuckerberg tapes is him saying they cloned TikTok and are perfecting it in Mexico.” Facebook CEO ...
“Nothing will bring Botham back, but today his family has found some measure of justice.” Amber Guyger, the 31-year-old Dallas police officer who fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment when she walked ...
“You did support 11 additional enhanced interrogation techniques, which are now illegal. Whether we call them torture or not.” Human rights advocates have condemned President Trump’s nomination of Marshall Billingslea, a Bush-era torture proponent, to ...
”The Politician is a comedy about moxie, ambition, and getting what you want at all costs. But for those who struggle with mental health, some elements may be disturbing.“ “The Politician” is a new dark ...
Whistleblowers bring much-needed attention to matters of interest and importance to the public. (By Jennifer M. Pacella, The Conversation) When President Donald Trump likened a whistleblower’s White House sources to spies and made a lightly ...
Haiti, perhaps the country most affected by the energy crisis derived from the embargo against Venezuela, is being used as a launch point of the offensive against the government of Nicolás Maduro. (By Lautaro Rivara, ...
The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has spearheaded a call for unity within the Republican Party, raising the stakes for the upcoming presidential election. After seemingly surviving the Mueller investigation, it is now Ukraine that ...
“As a first year teacher, I am coming into the profession with no materials. Through this movement, I have been blessed to receive gifts from perfect strangers — some teachers, some in other professions, and ...
Who will we stand up for? And who will stand up for us?
Trump’s impeachment worries continue to unfold as a whistleblower complaint is made public and Trump reveals Vice President Mike Pence also had phone calls with Ukraine. On Thursday morning a whistleblower complaint which claims President ...
The results are in. All age demographics use CBD in some fashion! It may have taken almost a century to lift the prohibition on hemp, but it’s taken only a couple of years for the ...
“We fear that he [Barry Lee Myers] wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather.” Easy access to weather forecasts is a given for most Americans. The national weather service, a ...
“Our current drug laws distort the priorities of police, who end up spending too much time arresting people for being addicted to drugs instead of focusing on community safety.” The groundwork is being laid now ...
As prescription drug costs soar, Congress is pressing for bills that would cap out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare beneficiaries and allow the government a say in drug pricing. Worried to lose the pricing power, the pharmaceutical ...
“When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term.” On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in New ...
Roy Cohn was “a master manipulator that taught politicians, demagogues, and bad guys how to behave—and that means misbehave.” A new documentary explores the life and career of “evil” lawyer and political power broker Roy ...
In the age of standardized tests and common core state standards, today’s teachers must stick strictly to teaching the curriculum, which outside forces sometimes determine. Local school boards and administrators normally design school curriculums, but ...
PFAS are “forever chemicals”: They take thousands of years to break down—and can remain in our bodies for decades. A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for ...
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump. As earlier reports predicted, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launching of a formal impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump related ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Trump impeachment hearings over his administration’s refusal to release a whistleblower complaint about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Following a tumultuous few days, Democratic leader and House speaker Nancy Pelosi was ...
Today, Mississippi is one of only two states where the winner of the popular vote does not automatically become governor. (By Gideon Cohn-Postar, The Conversation) A lawsuit over a Mississippi election law, if successful, will ...
“I see a new momentum. I believe in these last few months [there has been] a turning point.” World leaders gathered at the UN climate summit in New York City on Monday in the wake ...
Wealthy donors such as CEOs, executives and attorneys are mostly sticking with three Democratic presidential candidates. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Wealthy donors have an abundance of options to choose from in the loaded ...
Edi Rama must respect Greece and the basic principles of democracy and human rights for all. The European Commission recommended on May 29 to start accession negotiations in the European Union with regards to Albania. ...
As the Obama administration worked to develop national prescribing standards that discouraged the use of addictive opioid painkillers, Purdue used third-party groups to undermine the effort. (By Andrew Perez and Lee Fang, MapLight) Purdue Pharma, ...
The fate of the planet is in the balance. But so is the fate of humanity. The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week at the UN headquarters in New York City. This is the ...
For the first time since Sisi assumed power after leading the military’s overthrowal of former President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 Egyptian citizens took to the streets calling for the end of Sisi’s reign. Protests ripped ...
“We are not like any other political show on television…” “The Circus” first premiered in 2016 as a docu-series on Showtime to follow the historic presidential campaign then. It’s now entering its fourth season, following ...
“My son and his friends were killed by the Americans. How could they do this to us?” A U.S. drone strike killed 30 farmers and workers in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province who were resting after harvesting ...
Companies like McDonald’s and Starbucks have begun testing in-app software that lets a customer order ahead and uses geofencing to predict when the customer will arrive. From impossible meat to CBD in everything, there are ...
Additions shown in brackets. Deletions struck through. Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof [including co-opting the administrative branch of government by a union ...
While USDA inspectors will still be present at every plant, the agency estimates that there will be as much as a 40% decrease in inspectors at some facilities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) changed ...
“The good news, as I more or less alluded to, is that there are a number of presidential candidates that have released very strong democracy reform platforms.” Citizen Truth spoke with Adam Eichen of Equal ...
“I do yawn at the idea of another story in which white men are offered a sort of understanding for their violence.” The new comic book movie Joker has already drawn significant buzz long before ...
“An administration staffed by former industry lobbyists will almost certainly favor industry over the general public.” In less than three years, President Trump has assigned more former lobbyists to Cabinet-level positions than former Presidents Obama ...
The Houthi drone strike on Aramco shows the shifting strategic balance in the Persian Gulf. It also shows that any escalation in this region threatens the global economy. The intricate war dance among the U.S., ...
“We’re here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Kicking off what organizers say will be the largest mass climate demonstration in history, ...
“Since the US revoked waivers for even modest imports of Iranian oil, half a dozen tankers have been sabotaged or seized in the Persian Gulf, and America and Iran nearly went to war after Iran ...
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