“Clean Air and Clean Water are Civil Rights,” was the message as dozens of protesters, taking up the call for civil disobedience in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, continued their months-long blockade of a natural gas facility near the shores of Seneca Lake in upstate New York. Twenty people were arrested blocking…
Sen. Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinTrump administration seeks to use global aid for nuclear projects Shelley Moore Capito wins Senate primary West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice wins GOP gubernatorial primary MORE (D-W.Va.) on Sunday said he respects Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), but criticized the Georgia Democrat for saying he doesn’t think President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate…
In what the Philadelphia teachers’ union is describing as “a victory for collective bargaining,” the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Thursday that the School Reform Commission (SRC) does not have the power to cancel union contracts, as it abruptly did last fall. On October 6, 2014, the SRC voted to terminate the teachers’ contract and unilaterally…
Fourteen matches have been announced for Tuesday’s AEW Dark. One of the bigger matches will be a fatal four way between members of some of the top tag teams on AEW’s roster. Evil Uno will face Frankie Kazarian, The Blade, and Jungle Boy. Evil Uno will also be seen on the show accompanying Colt Cabana…
Following developments this week in which the alleged 20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 claimed in a stated deposition that prominent officials within the Saudi government offered substantial financial support for al Qaeda in the years prior to the plot against targets in New York City and Washington, D.C., renewed calls are emerging…
Amid a public spat between the White House officials and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, top Obama administration aides signaled Monday that the U.S./Israeli “special relationship” is as ironclad as ever—especially when it comes to accountability over war crimes against Palestinians. In the midst of Netanyahu’s controversial visit to Washington, top Obama administration aides on Monday…
The United States was required to pay just a paltry amount for an environmental crime and violation of the Philippines’ sovereignty. That’s what critics are saying of the U.S. payout to the Philippines as compensation for damages a U.S. Navy minesweeper caused to a World Heritage-listed coral reef two years ago. As Common Dreams previously…
The Israeli government secretly spied on high-level talks between the U.S., Iran, and other countries and attempted to sabotage the ongoing nuclear negotiations by serving captured information back to U.S. lawmakers opposed to a deal, the Wall Street Journal is reporting on Tuesday. According to the WSJ: Click Here: New Zealand rugby store Israeli officials…
The Democratic National Committee is kicking a candidate out of the chairmanship race after he told The Hill that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) should not be the party’s next leader because he is a Muslim. In a Jan. 5 email to The Hill, Vincent Tolliver, a former House candidate in Arkansas, said that Ellison, the…
Image: AEW With the Vice Presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris dominating the network and cable ratings and doing over 50 million viewers on various platforms, AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT ratings both fell last night. Dynamite averaged 753,000 viewers on TNT, down 13 percent from last week. NXT was down almost the exact same percentage,…