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Ecuador Minister Discusses Need for UN Tax Body with Transparency Advocates Ecuador Foreign Minister Guillame Long will meet with civil society groups on Thursday to discuss tax avoidance, corruption and development....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2017 2:21pm PST
Philippine President Duterte: A fascist original 
'Like the anti-Marcos resistance 4 decades back, the only certainty members of the anti-fascist front can count on is that they’re doing the right thing. And that, for some, is a certainty worth dying for'...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 12:03am PST
Puerto Rico Debt Law Could Apply to US Virgin Islands A US law passed to address Puerto Rico's debt crisis could apply retroactively to the US Virgin Islands, another heavily indebted US territory....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2016 3:04pm PST
The South-West of Poland has been hit with a wave of provocative graffiti... 
The South-West of Poland has been hit with a wave of provocative graffiti claiming to return Silesia to Germany
Graffiti with claims to return Silesia to Germany began to appear in Lower Silesian Voivodeship....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2016 12:57am PST
Puerto Rico Oversight Board Moves Forward on Debt Restructuring Puerto Rico's "control" board sent a letter to current Governor Alejandro García Padilla and incoming Governor Ricardo Rossello stating areas for fiscal plan review and that debt restructuring talks are moving forward....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2016 2:13pm PST
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda 
Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen.
Download the full document below....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 11:36am PST
Amid Debt Crisis, Venezuela Fails to Supply Larger Bills Venezuela missed a self imposed deadline to release new higher-denomination bills designed to help its citizens amidst rising inflation....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 7:39am PST
Indigenous Armed Group Created in the Mountains of Guerrero 
They send a message to the world: “With autonomy we fight for life and territory”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2016 5:35pm PST
Trump and the Hospice of Hope That the political culture in the US should wash up a television star and notorious racist to the top of the country is not entirely bizarre. Voter turnout in the US was always low. Politico.com lists the names of all 538 electors who vote on Dec 19. If 37 change their minds, Trump would be blocked. Trump, an unstable thin-skinned fanatic, has zero competence in taxes, spending, social security and health care. A vulgar inept fraudster would corrupt language and the future and replace humili...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2016 7:46am PST
Landmark Mental Health Reform Legislation Passes Senate: Headed To The President's Desk (audio/mpeg 35.0MB) Janet Hays from WTUL News and Views was in Washington D.C. Monday Dec. 5th, 2016 for a press conference to highlight mental health reform provisions in the 21st Century CURES Act: A landmark Bill named by Senator Mitch McConnell to be "the most important piece of legislation that Congress will pass this year."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2016 7:58am PST
Congress Passes Anti-Corruption Act The President can now impose economic sanctions on individuals involved in corruption or human rights abuses thanks to action by Congress....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 10:23am PST
US Election as a Turn of an Era Karl Marx modified a Hegel quotation that world-historical events always occurred twice, the first time as tragedy and the next time as farce. Since November 9, 2016, we know they can occur as tragedy and farce at once. Trump is the president of angry white men, the anti-Semitic "Alt-Right." For ecology and the world climate, the victory of the coal-, nuclear power- and fracking lobbyists would be a maximum credible accident....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 5:08am PST
Taking the battle to President-elect Donald Trump and the electors To say the least, President-elect Donald J. Trump is not qualified to be the president of the United States, and must be blocked from taking the oath of office on January 20, 2017!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2016 1:45am PST
Water Protectors Occupy the Iowa Utilities Board 
Des Moines, IA -- Efforts to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline continue in Iowa. Wednesday, December 7th, Water Protectors gather to stop operations at the Iowa Utilities Board in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. This is deemed a nonviolent civil disobedience action by the Catholic Workers of Des Moines and Mississippi Stand, a grassroots direct action group fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2016 10:25am PST
Report highlights 17 bad actors waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns 
Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2016 – With solar power on the rise around the country, a national network of fossil fuel and utility-backed organizations have joined forces to put the brakes on this fast-growing, pollution-free energy resource. Trade groups and think tanks backed by deep pocketed anti-clean energy ideologues and fossil interests are bankrolling campaigns, promoting model legislation and running media campaigns to provide cover for anti-solar campaigns across the country, said a...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 2:08pm PST
Victory for Standing Rock: DAPL Easement Not Granted 
Victory: The Dakota Access Corporation was not granted the easement needed for construction under Lake Oahe; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for alternative routes...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 6:04pm PST
Army Corps of Engineers Denies Easement to DAPL to drill under Lake Oahe and Missouri River until EIS is Completed December 4, 2016 - Today, the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced that it is denying an easement to Dakota Access, LLC (Dakota Access) to drill under Lake Oahe and the Missouri River for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed and alternative routes are explored. “The Water Protector Legal Collective applauds the Obama Administration’s decision to deny the easement, but calls for a permanent stop to DAPL. We also recognize that this d...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 5:52pm PST
Nurses Donate $50,000 to Aid Veterans Stand with Standing Rock 
National Nurses United Press Release, 12/2/16...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 5:23pm PST
Stop Sen. Sesssions From Making U.S. into a Sadistic State as D.A.! Petition from MoveOn.org to stop Sen. Jeffery Beauregard Sessions from becoming District Attorney of the U.S. under Pres. Trump. Reasons to prevent his appointment as DA include overt racism and outdated pre-Civil War thinking. He also doesn't respect state rights on cannabis legalization. Sen. Sessions will take the U.S. backwards into a state of sadistic racial feudalism....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 5:11am PST
EPA Petitioned to Acknowledge Extensive Fluoride/Brain Risk Evidence Groups delivered 2500 pages of scientific evidence to EPA showing fluoride/brain risks that warrants EPA's banning the unnecessary addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2016 11:36am PST
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