SEATTLE - Employers say they're "independent contractors." Drivers call that a legal trick to deny them their rights-a nice-sounding label obscuring an ugly reality. For two weeks in February, this ar...
"Shrimp lovers don't need to crash a fancy party to enjoy premium, seasoned-to-perfection shrimp," announced a Taco Bell press release last year. The chain was heralding its "Pacific Shrimp Taco," whi...
Rachel MacNair is a Quaker, a vegan, and to the left of many Democrats on most issues. In other words, she's just about the last person you'd picture as a founder of the Susan B. Anthony List, an ant...
Houses of the Holy: Rick Santorum rocks out. On his rise to the top of the Republican charts, Rick Santorum has picked up plugs and plaudits from media and entertainment luminaries including Glenn Bec...
President Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2013 includes cuts to everything from Medicare and Medicaid to Defense and even Homeland Security. But federal prisons are among its "biggest winners,"...
President Obama sings the blues, not because he's down in the polls - he's up - but because legendary blues singer BB King asks him. The president accompanied by the First Lady sings Sweet Home Chicag...
Col. Joseph Wawro and Command Sgt. Maj. Wylie Hutchison, the commander and senior noncommissioned officer of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Dragon Brigade), 1st Infantry Division, visit with so...
Reader: I have a confession to make. I am not a lawyer. Nor am I a constitutional law scholar, a person who has studied in great detail the differences in disclosure requirements between nonprofits an...
Former Miami police chief John Timoney claims that while tear gas may be "distasteful," it's not really harmful. He should take a closer look at what's happening in Bahrain.
A fashion lover looks into what's lovable and what's loathesome about the fashion industry.
Rather than turning to my local politician for prenatal advice, I followed the guidance of my obstetrician.
If Santorum gets to bear the standard for the GOP, the party moves even further to the right. Here's a taste of what's on that plate.
Workers marched Saturday in a protest called by unions at the PSA plant in the east Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois against the planned closure of the site in 2014.
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The Descendants, set in Hawaii and starring George Clooney, deals with the ancestral connections of a family confronting a painful tragedy. Haywire is a political spy thriller that gives a pass to the...
Christian Alexander Gomez, a 27 year-old inmate, died last week at the Corcoran State Prison in California after four days on a hunger strike to protest poor conditions.
The legalization of drone flights inside the United States has ominous implications for democratic rights.
As part of the Socialist Equality Party’s 2012 election campaign for Jerry White, a WSWS reporting team visited the campus of the University of Michigan to promote a meeting on Tuesday.
The protest strike called by the unions was aimed primarily at blowing off steam and exhausting transport workers’ justified willingness to fight.
Public and higher education, health care, libraries and mass transportation are among the programs that are targeted under Governor Tom Corbett’s $27 billion budget proposed last week.
Telephone companies in Kentucky are pressing the state to allow for the discontinuation of basic landline service in “less profitable” areas.
Thousands of businesses are to receive a letter from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg inviting them to sign up to the Youth Contract, which pays employers but not young workers.
A euro zone finance ministers’ meeting strained to reach an agreement on a new “bailout” for Greece, based on deeply unpopular austerity measures.
If Iran fails to satisfy the inspectors, the way is open for a negative report, escalating sanctions and military threats by the US and its allies.
Opposition to the Sri Lankan government has intensified after the killing of an innocent fisherman protesting against IMF austerity measures.
High-ranking US officials made clear that, despite the Egyptian military junta’s criticism of US-funded Non-Governmental Organizations, ties between Washington and Cairo remain close.
Hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated in 57 Spanish cities on Sunday against the latest labour reform passed by the right wing Popular Party.
Ezra Klein directs our attention today to the chart on the right, from a mobile analytics company called Flurry. Their basic story is simple: the blue bars show how much of our media consumption time...
The grand thieves invented ever more ingenious methods to crush the hopes and livelihoods of the many. This is the terrible violence that Occupy was formed to oppose.
A look at how the collapse of industry, poor labor conditions and the anxiety of economic decline facilitated mass drug use in one small town.
SALEM, Ore. - More than a thousand public employee unionists, educators, parents, environmentalists, and Occupy activists rallied in chilling rain for a "Strong Schools, Strong Oregon" day of mass act...
In this sewer of unethical and immoral activity, we all have tough choices, most especially climate scientists, the victims of many of the worst attacks.
In this sewer of unethical and immoral activity, we all have tough choices, most especially climate scientists, the victims of many of the worst attacks.
Newly published research has found some interesting results when it comes to the role of oxytocin, commonly called the "cuddle hormone."...
A small unit of climate scientists, supported financially by notable billionaires, is lobbying governments and international organizations to back experiments in geoengineering - a controversial pract...
BERLIN - This city and much of Germany have had plenty to keep them occupied: an airline strike, a short strike of the bus, streetcar and subway lines, the Euro crisis and price increases. Then there'...
The case of the stolen documents from the climate deniers at Heartland Institute continues to get weirder. On Monday evening, scientist and co-founder of the California-based environmental group Pacif...
The Rev. Franklin Graham today joined a list of right-wingers who have questioned President Obama's faith. Graham is the son of evangelist Billy Graham. Appearing on the "Morning Joe" program, he repe...
Larry Kudlow has some news today: Team Romney tells me there will be a bolder tax-cut plan released either at the debate tomorrow night (if Mitt gets it in) or more formally at his Detroit Economic C...
A group of U.S. senators today asked the Government Accountability Office to study what they called an “alarming number” of new state laws that will make it “significantly harder&rdq...
A group of U.S. senators today asked the Government Accountability Office to study what they called an “alarming number” of new state laws that will make it “significantly harder&rdq...
By Russ Baker on Feb 20, 2012 originally posted on WhoWhatWhy.comWas this young man killed by Saudi police?The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt may have mixed results thus far, but they had an authentic...
Honduras' National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP) gathered in Tegucigalpa, February 11-12, to launch a political party. The name, Liberation and Re-foundation Party (Libre), is timely: Honduras i...
A coalition of groups has filed a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s issuance of air pollution discharge permits for Shell&rsquo...
A coalition of groups has filed a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s issuance of air pollution discharge permits for Shell&rsquo...
Written by Carole Joffe for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The last ten days or so we have seen...
After reading half a dozen blog posts this morning about mega-billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his support of Newt Gingrich, I got curious about campaign financing laws in other countries, something I...
Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel that, new studies are showing, is probably worse than coal when it comes to its heating-up impact on our atmosphere.
Victor Nieto is a cartoonist in Venezuela. Cf. "When Gaddafi referred to the opposition as 'scum,' his diagnosis was perhaps a little too generous? ( bit.ly/xFOkK4 ) #Libya" (Maximilian Forte, 18 Fe...
Legendary artist and civil rights activist Nina Simone was born 79 years ago today, Feb. 21, in Tryon, North Carolina. Named Eunice Kathleen Waymon, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist as a...
Washington, DC - The agreement between the European authorities and Greece won’t resolve Greece’s economic crisis and is likely to make it worse, said Mark Weisbrot, economist and Co-Direc...
Washington, DC - The agreement between the European authorities and Greece won’t resolve Greece’s economic crisis and is likely to make it worse, said Mark Weisbrot, economist and Co-Direc...
Karl Smith predicts that this chart will "make the rounds," and since Karl is always right I guess I'd better post it. Here it is: Technically, the point of this chart is that prices go up at about t...
Book Review "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right" By Thomas Frank 2012, Metropolitan Books, hardcover, 240 pages, $25.00 Thomas Frank, ex-Wall Street Jo...
Pacific coastal communities prepare for possible impacts of marine debris from Japan's triple disaster.
The Washington Post reports that mobs of angry Afghans converged on Bagram Air Base today, outraged over reports that American workers had burned copies of the Koran. Gen. John Allen has apologized pr...
The media have jumped all over casino mogul Sheldon Adelson's remark in a new interview with Forbes that he would spend up to $100 million of his fortune to elect Newt Gingrich president. Such a donat...
Happy birthday Congresswoman Barbara Jordan! Today, February 21, would have been the late Texas congresswoman's 75th birthday. The daughter of a minister and domestic worker, Barbara Jordan was the fi...
LORAIN, Ohio -- I was privileged to take part in the White House Hispanic Summit held at Lorain County Community College on Feb. 18. The all-day event brought 18 representatives from nine federal depa...
Super PACs supporting presidential candidates continue to take in six- and seven-figure contributions from individuals who also have given the legal maximum to the candidate's campaign committee.