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High-Level Donor Conference on Cholera in Haiti Fails to Secure Much Needed Funding
Despite the support, actors have thus far failed to raise an adequate amount of funds for the eradication plan.
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From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and Torture
We Charge Genocide, a coalition of Chicago activists, is turning outside the US criminal justice system to force accountability for police misconduct by taking their complaints to the United …
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Challenging Drone Warfare in a US Court
Kelly and Walker attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to the Base Commander, encouraging the commander to stop cooperating with any further usage of unmanned …
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Company That Sues Soldiers Pledges Reform, Changes Name
USA Discounters, promising to change how it pursues military debtors, will now be known as USA Living.
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Sunshine State Uses Fees to Prevent Sun from Shining on Judicial Records
Florida court system says access to public records will cost $132,000.
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Mysterious Campaign Appears to be the Latest Salvo in Battle Over Net Neutrality
As the FCC considers how to regulate Internet providers, the telecom industry's stealth campaign for hearts and minds encompasses everything from art installations to LOLcats.
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Marine Litter: Plunging Deep, Spreading Wide
Wastes released from dump-sites near the coast or river banks, the littering of beaches, tourism and recreational use of the coasts, fishing industry activities, ship-breaking yards, legal and illegal …
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Dahr Jamail | Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use “Genocide“
Contamination from depleted uranium munitions is causing sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq.
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Pesticide Use by Farmers Linked to High Rates of Depression, Suicides
Some research suggests that the chemicals that farmers and their workers spread on fields may alter certain brain chemicals.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pollution Inequality Worse Than Income Inequality in the US, and More
In today's On the News segment: Most of us know how bad income inequality has become in the United States, but pollution inequality is even worse, and more.