After arguing in a pair of Guardian op-eds last month that a worldwide progressive movement is needed to counter the unifying rightwing “that sprang out of the cesspool of financialized capitalism,” former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis announced in Rome on Friday that he and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plan to officially launch “Progressives International”…
Arguing that electing innovative, progressive candidates to state and local positions as well as national seats is essential to bringing about lasting change in the U.S. political landscape, the women’s advocacy group UltraViolet on Monday endorsed 10 women whose campaigns have not received widespread recognition but who the group believes would fight for justice, economic…
In a major victory for the planet and blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up fossil fuel extraction and production in the face of grave climate consequences, a federal judge on Thursday halted all construction of TransCanada’s 1,200-mile long Keystone XL pipeline and tossed out the White House’s fact-free approval of the project….
It’s been almost a year since the Republican Party and President Donald Trump delivered their behemoth giveaway to the nation’s corporations and wealthiest individuals by passing a $1.5 trillion controversial tax bill that will ultimately blow a $5 trillion hole—or larger—in the nation’s budget. On Monday morning, Bloomberg reported that the amount of U.S. student…
Loading up Raw and giving it the In Your Face theme worked for at least the first two hours as while the total audience for last night’s show was down, the key demos were up against the NFL, which was way down in its opening Monday night. Raw averaged 1.69 million viewers and 0.50 in…
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Pro-abortion rights advocacy group NARAL is launching a $1 million ad campaign hitting vulnerable House Republicans over the GOP’s support for newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The NARAL campaign is seeking to turn Democratic anger over Kavanaugh into votes during the midterm elections. ADVERTISEMENT The ad juxtaposes images of angry anti-Kavanaugh protesters with pictures of GOP representatives…
A man who used to be the wealthiest supporter of the GOP in Ohio has started donating to Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. L Brands CEO Leslie Wexner announced in September that he was leaving the GOP, saying he wouldn’t “support this nonsense in the Republican Party” anymore. Click Here: Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring Landscape Backpacks The…
The COP24 climate summit, which is supposed to end on Friday, has been accused of being captured by corporate interests, and new reporting further backs up that charge. According to Agence France-Presse, United Nations organizers of the event censored references to “fossil fuel corporations” and their “dirty energy” infrastructure in environmental groups’ videos before they…
Just days before the Dec. 10 deadline for the House to pass a resolution to restore net neutrality protections, the Republican-controlled FCC on Monday rejected Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by the New York Times and Buzzfeed for server logs and other records pertaining to the millions of fake comments that flooded the agency’s…