JALALABAD, Afghanistan – The Afghanistan presidential election is turning out to be a tale of two narratives. The more positive and democratic one could be winning the day. By one narrative, Afghans voted in numbers and with fairness as never before. The second is the older and possibly weakening one of corruption and threats. For […]
Obama’s decision to stage his much-touted energy speech Friday at a northern California store of Walmart—one of the most notorious purveyors of wealth inequalities, union-busting, and “greenwashing” in the country—was met with hundreds of protesters from labor and environmental organizations. Over 30 civil rights, environmental, and labor groups released a statement blasting the choice of […]
In what is being hailed as a major victory for public health, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate cross-state air emissions from polluting factories and power plants. In a 6-2 decision, the Court upheld the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, commonly known as the Transport Rule, which required […]
More than 11 years after their 23-year-old daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent the destruction of Palestinian homes, the parents of peace activist Rachel Corrie are still seeking justice. Their legal battle to get accountability took a significant on Wednesday when their appeal was heard before the Israeli […]
The new legal framework for Mexico’s oil industry has not placed controls on the use of harmful chemicals in the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels, and environmentalists and experts fear their consumption will increase in an industry that is opening up to private capital. The energy reform “will exacerbate the use of chemicals. The new […]
As violence in Iraq escalates and hawks beat the drums of war, people on the ground in Iraq and across the U.S. are urging the Obama administration: don’t go down the same path of military intervention that created the current crisis. According to a poll released Tuesday, 74 percent of people in the U.S. are […]
Wall Street’s largest trade group is proposing a government-industry coalition ‘cyber war council’––and they’ve already snagged former NSA chief Keith Alexander to ‘facilitate’ that effort, according to a report in Bloomberg. After Alexander’s services were retained by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma), he managed to bring on Michael Chertoff, former head of […]
New comments from high-level U.S. officials and portions of declassified intelligence information released on Tuesday indicates—contrary to earlier comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry—that Russia had no direct involvement in last week’s Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster in which 298 passengers were killed after being shot down over eastern Ukraine. Overall, the U.S. […]
UNITED NATIONS – The headline of every article about the relationship between climate change and conflict should be “It’s complicated,” according to Clionadh Raleigh. Director of the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Raleigh thinks that researchers and the media have put too simplistic a spin on the link between climate change and violence. […]
Dozens of Ukrainian refugees trying to escape continued fighting were reportedly killed on Monday outside the eastern city of Luhansk when a convoy of buses trying to ferry them to safety was struck by rocket fire. Both the Ukrainian Army and rebel commanders accused the other of firing the rockets that hit the convoy. Early […]