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Monsanto, DuPont Spend Millions to Defeat California Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Initiative
With biotech giant Monsanto leading the way, big agribusiness firms and food manufacturers have vastly outspent organic food and alternative health firms in an effort to defeat California's Proposition …
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Let’s Help WikiLeaks Liberate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiating Text
On September 6, negotiators will go to Leesburg, Virginia, for the latest round of secretive talks on the
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To End the Jobs Recession, Invest an Extra $20 Billion in Public Education
Research consistently shows that education spending creates more jobs per dollar than any other kind of government spending.
Veterans For Peace Appeals to Non-Aligned Heads of State on Iran
With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take …
The Atomized America of Late Capitalism
Americau2019s late-stage capitalism, built upon the imagined glories of global empire and the deep deceptions of personalized propaganda, has created a nation that has lost touch with genuine human …
Video: Your Vote Will Be Stolen And Here’s How
“Moment of Clarity†is a webseries by Lee Camp consisting of a 3 to 5-minute video rant that comes out 3 times per week. They’re written, presented, filmed, directed, …
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Romney, Ryan and Rape: A Todd Akin Special Delivery
In the mind of Mr. Akin, if you are raped and become pregnant, you weren't really raped, because
Corporations Try to Kill Community Colleges
Within a month I had free child care from the revolutionary Family Resource Center at City College of San Francisco, a small federal grant which covered my books and …
Race-Concious Admissions Policies Benefit Students and the Workforce, According to Social Scientists
A group of social scientists today filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court with research offering a deeper understanding of how a diverse educational environment benefits White …
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Study: Raising the Minimum Wage Especially Benefits Women
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute finds that, while raising the minimum wage to the proposed $9.80 level would have a significant impact on about 28 million …