G-20 Urged to End Public Subsidies of All Dirty Fuels by 2020
By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams A new report reveals that public financing by the world’s wealthiest governments belies their nations’ stated commitments to the Paris climate goals.
By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams A new report reveals that public financing by the world’s wealthiest governments belies their nations’ stated commitments to the Paris climate goals.
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By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press Analysts say Kim’s government believes nuclear weapons are key to its own survival and could be used to wrest concessions from the United States.
The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ahmet Üzümcü, (pictured) should resign over his role in the purportedly biased report on the alleged Syrian sarin attack in April.
By Ray McGovern / Consortiumnews Sino-Russian rapprochement hurts the United States, and the change is largely due to American actions.
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By Celisa Calacal / AlterNet Data indicate law enforcement officials have killed nearly 500 civilians this year alone.
In the first part of a two-part conversation, the renowned intellectuals discuss the shift in the U.S. and U.K. in the late 1970s towards neoliberalism, an ideology that “claims it’s increasing freedom [while] it’s actually increasing tyranny.”
“What I’m worried about,” the “Shock Doctrine” author tells the U.K. channel 4’s Jon Snow in a recent interview, “is that [the Democrats] seem to be ... positioning themselves as the ‘Impeachment Party’ instead of [doing something] along the lines of what Jeremy Corbyn did.”
By Topher Sanders / ProPublica Republican efforts to impose voter ID laws and redraw election districts both wound up in federal court. Dale Schultz ended 30 years in state politics lamenting the recent displays of partisanship.
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Maybe Trump’s attacks on the press were his way of distracting public attention from a week of embarrassing news, but I fear an even more menacing reality.
Listen to Bruce Springsteen read his new foreword for the 40th anniversary edition of Ron Kovic’s “Born on the Fourth of July,” and hear the first chapter of the classic memoir.
By Gareth Porter / Consortium News Cyber-criminal efforts to hack into U.S. government databases are epidemic, but this ugly reality is now being exploited to foist blame on Russia and fuel the New Cold War hysteria.
By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press The president expresses frustration with North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, which have become one of his most vexing international problems.