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Exclusive Dispatch: Private Water Industry Says Water Bills “Have to Go Up“
Water privatization advocates are using the logic of austerity to argue for raising water utility bills.
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Lack of Oversight of Charter Schools Designed as a Plus; More Than $3.3 Billion Spent
What Education Department doesn't know about charter spending is stunning.
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Russia’s Stolen Future
Under pressure, Russia's civil society activists are fleeing.
How US Private Prisons Profit From Immigrant Detention
Alternatives to detention do exist.
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In the Belly of the Chemical Beast: Hawaiian Activists Confront Syngenta on Its Home Turf
Hawaiian activists traveled to Syngenta's headquarters in Switzerland to demand that the agrichemical giant stop spraying poisons on their island.
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Forty-Four Hours in a Baltimore Jail for Filming the Police
Along with hundreds of others, Geremy Faulkner was swept up in one of the haphazard mass arrests that are overwhelming the courts.
Boycott From Within: Interview With Activists Ronnie Barkan and Haidar Eid
The two-state solution has been declared dead too many times to count, but have we turned a corner?
CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Speaks Out Upon Sentencing to 3.5 Years in Prison
Since he was indicted four years ago, Jeffrey Sterling's voice has never been heard by the public, but that changes today.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Safety Standards for Oil Trains Don’t Go Far Enough, and More
Barely 48 hours after the release of new safety standards for oil trains, an oil train derailed and exploded in North Dakota and proved that the rules don't go …
Report Details Widespread Use of Torture by Ukrainian Army and Security Services
A report contains chilling descriptions of the widespread use of torture.