As residents adapt to recently imposed water restrictions and California’s historic drought continues, experts are closely examining the dry spell’s exacerbating factors—from thirsty agribusiness operations to unrestrained development—and saying a fundamental shift is in store for the Golden State. In an analysis published Sunday, the New York Times suggests that the drought will “force a…
Warning that passing Fast Track legislation would amount to rubber-stamping corporate trade pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, progressives are vowing to hold members of Congress accountable for their votes on the compromise bill announced Thursday—and reminding them of how dangerous such trade policies are for the public, workers, and the planet. #StopFastTrack Tweets “[T]he big…
One day after a federal court sentenced the former CIA officer to 42 months in prison for allegedly blowing the whistle on a botched CIA mission, Jeffrey Sterling is sharing his side of the story. In The Invisible Man: Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, a short documentary released Tuesday, Sterling describes how his experience with racial discrimination…
Highlighting the failure of the U.S. government to keep adequate records on the number of civilians killed by police, news outlets are now undertaking the task of tallying the lives lost to police violence. According to a new database launched by the Guardian on Monday, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are killing people…
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean early Wednesday endorsed Pete Buttigieg to lead the DNC, saying the party’s leadership is “old and creaky.” Dean had intimated his support for the South Bend, Ind., mayor earlier this week, and made the endorsement official on Wednesday morning. Framing Buttigieg as the best-positioned outsider candidate, Dean warned on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that…
In the first peer-reviewed study of its kind, researchers have found that emissions-curbing policies such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan would “provide immediate local and regional health co-benefits” and could prevent up to 3,500 premature deaths per year. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan aims to cut emissions of carbon dioxide largely…
A new report from the Obama administration comparing two future scenarios—one with significant global action on climate change, and the other without—finds that the U.S. could save “tens of thousands of American lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars” annually by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency…
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As ten days of UN-sponsored climate talks came to end in Bonn, Germany on Thursday morning, global campaigners demanding far-reaching solutions to the crisis of a warming planet expressed dissatisfaction on multiple levels, charging that the continued foot-dragging of governments is sentencing future generations to unparalleled catastrophe even as scientists issue grave new warnings about…
As the European Parliament convened in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday all eyes—and ears—were aimed at Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as he made his case for why the European Union must change its handling of the financial crisis in his own country and across the continent. Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/greek-crisis Arguing that his people—who overwhelmingly rejected…