By Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
Continue reading →By Staff, EarthTalk via Scientific American. How much area in the U.S. is still covered with old-growth forests and is it all protected from logging?
Continue reading →By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes | Staff, Southern Poverty Law Center. Young immigrants in Alabama were joined by allies from labor and civil rights groups for a series of actions to announce they are undocumented and unafraid. UPDATE: Federal District Court halts Alabama law’s discriminatory housing practice.
Continue reading →By Roger Cohn and Doug Peacock, Yale Environment 360. “…if the bear can make it, I always assume maybe we’ve got a shot, too. The bear is equally important to me because it’s the one animal out there that can kill and eat you about any time it chooses to, even though it seldom does. And it just stands as an instant lesson in humility.” – Doug Peacock
Continue reading →By Staff, Granma | By Will Matthews, ACLU. In the last eight years, 126 undocumented immigrants have died while in detention centers operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities. Complete ACLU detention report included.
Continue reading →By David Moberg, In These Times. The push for taxing financial transactions gains steam in Europe.
Continue reading →By Move to Amend. Beware of the decoy 28th amendments that are being proposed in congress. The most serious version of the 28th is one from the grassroots; the text from Move to Amend is reproduced here.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Half of Haiti’s medical NGOs have left and more plan to shut down their cholera-treatment programs by the year’s end. And guess what? Haiti will get healthier (English | French).
Continue reading →By Heather Digby Parton, Al Jazeera | Editorial note by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The U.S. has been militarizing its police agencies throughout decades of government-abetted theft of public coffers, anticipating a popular dissent that has been slow to come.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (text) | Marcelo Sayao (photos). The attack on Brazil’s Rocinha slum illustrates a peacetime merger of military with police to make war on their country’s poor. If your country has contributed troops to UN (de)stabilization missions, sit up and take notice.
Continue reading →By Jim Siegel and Joe Vardon, Columbus Dispatch. Voters defeated Senate Bill 5 — Issue 2 — which would have limited collective bargaining by the Ohio public sector, this U.S. state’s biggest employer of people of color.
Continue reading →By Holly Klaft, Jackson Citizen Patriot. Only 500 whooping cranes are left in the wild, and this year one stopped for the first time in a small Louisiana town during his southerly migration.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Canada and the U.S. are itching to build prisons in Haiti, although Haiti has the lowest per-capita number of inmates in the Caribbean, and 70 percent of those incarcerated have never been tried. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Staff of Prensa Latina, Cadena Agramonte, and Juventud Rebelde. Cuban companies cannot sell over 30 products to small and medium companies in the U.S. because of anti-Cuban White House policies.
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