Black Friday Protests Across Europe Demand Amazon ‘Start Treating Workers Like Humans—Not Robots’
Labor rights activists and climate campaigners across Europe used the occasion of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to call attention to and protest Amazon's "appalling" working conditions, paltry benefits, and...
Coal knew they were killing the biosphere since 1966 and yet, still commits itself...
Thanks to President Trump and his transparent and perverse desire to enrich his golfing buddies in the fossil fuel industry and to accelerate the climate crisis, the U.S. is the most notorious climate criminal...
On Thanksgiving, I’m thankful my ancestors left Europe, and that America took them in
“I’ve got something I’d like to say.” That’s what I usually offer up as a preamble, as I try to get the attention of my kids and other family members gathered around the Thanksgiving...
A Thanksgiving meditation on Turkey. The other one
Just over a century ago, on a rare rainy day in Jerusalem, Turkish troops made a final stand on the Mount of Olives before backing away. It took a few days to work out the...
Astronaut Snoopy takes to the Skies at Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
The 2019 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is on. With balloons and floats and the whole works. One of the highlights of today’s parade is Astronaut Snoopy. Here is some info about the parade and some...
Writer of the new Star Wars film will be donating all of his residuals...
One of the writers of the soon-to-be released blockbuster Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker is doing something very meaningful with the huge residual checks he is sure to be receiving in the coming decades. Colin Trevorrow...
Trump Administration Withholding $105M Military Aid To Lebanon. Sort Of Like Ukraine.
So Trump’s Administration is withholding $105M in Military Aid to Lebanon. Money approved by Congress. And nobody knows why. This funding has broad support throughout Congress, the Pentagon, State Dept and NSC but it appears...
Pompeo Calls It ‘Democracy’ in Bolivia as Post-Coup Violence Grows and Fear of Civil...
Observers on the ground in Bolivia are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to prevent the country from descending into a full-blown civil war as the military, with a green light...
Trump flirts with standing against a unanimous Congress and in favor of China’s President...
Donald Trump skipped one fight with Congress this week: He signed a continuing resolution to keep government open for another month. But in his morning marathon rant Friday on Fox & Friends, he refused...
South Korea signs defense agreement with China after Trump’s negotiators walk out on US-Korea...
Although Donald Trump is currently the target of an impeachment inquiry for tying U.S. military aid to Ukraine to a demand that the nation "investigate" his political opponents, he remains in control of U.S....
