White House Losing Ground in Bid to Keep Guantanamo Bay Abuse Secret
By Federal Judge Gladys Kessler on Friday ordered the U.S. government to publicly release videos showing the force-feedings of Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Syrian man held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. However, Kessler ruled that, before releasing the videos, the U.S. government may redact “identifiers of individuals in the videotapes,” including “faces other thatn Mr. Dhiab’s, voices, […]
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Dem rep: Voters will have 'buyers remorse'
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that American voters will have “buyers remorse” in the new year. “There will be buyers remorse because the Republicans in Washington in all likelihood are going to overreach,” Jeffries told CNN’s “New Day.” Jeffries, an early supporter of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ […]
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'They're Right': Citing Climate, Prosecutor Drops Charges Against Coal Blockaders
A local district attorney in Massachusetts surprised parties on all sides on Monday after he sided with two climate justice activists who employed a “necessity defense” to justify their use of a small lobster boat to block the path of an enormous coal freighter trying to dock at the Brayton Point Power Station in the […]
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'We Will Lose This Battle:' Liberian President Implores Obama for Help Fighting Ebola
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf penned a letter to President Obama this week urging the U.S. government to take more aggressive action to help the West African country fight the deadly Ebola virus outbreak, which first broke in March and continues to spread rapidly. “I am being honest with you when I say that at […]
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Front-Lines Communities Rising Up: Dispatches from People's Climate
As heads of state, corporate leaders, and token civil society organizations meet behind the UN Climate Summit’s closed doors Tuesday, the streets continue to resound with the messages of the 400,000 people who marched on Sunday, the thousands who flooded Wall Street, the ongoing People’s Climate Justice Summit, and the workshops, teach-ins, and rallies still […]
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'Umbrella Revolutionaries' Sweep Riot Police From Hong Kong Streets
Despite deployment of increasingly harsh tactics over the weekend aimed at forcing pro-democracy protesters off the streets of Hong Kong, by Monday it was police units forced into retreat while the number of those backing democratic reforms and promising to hold ‘central’ areas of the city appear to be growing. Initially organized under a call […]
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'Boots in the Air': US Combat Helicopters Join Fight over Iraq
WASHINGTON – Hopes that the strategy announced by President Barack Obama a month ago against the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) might yield a relatively quick victory have disappeared amidst growing fears that the U.S.-led air campaign has at most only slowed the radical group’s advance. While air strikes, combined with ground […]
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Family Farmers, Not Green-Washed 'Climate Smart' Agriculture Is the Solution to Climate and Hunger
NAPLES, Italy – Small farmers can look to options like agroecological intensification and innovation, without necessarily turning to what’s being called “climate-smart agriculture,” which is promoted by the United Nations but has awakened doubts among global experts meeting in this Italian city. Alison Power, a professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of […]
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UN States to US: End Cuba Embargo
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday roundly condemned the United States embargo on Cuba for the 23rd consecutive year, calling for it to be lifted. The nonbinding vote passed 188-2, with only the U.S. and Israel voting against it. As in the 2013 vote, Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained. While General Assembly […]
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Election 2014: Deep-Pocket Dark Money Bulldozing Democracy
In the final days of the midterm campaign, shadowy outside groups that wield heavy influence but don’t disclose their donors are spending tens of millions of dollars on attack ads, mailers, and negative automated telephone calls aimed at tipping the balance in tight races across the nation. Overall ad spending has broken $1 billion in […]
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