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People Power in the Philippines: Reproductive Health Law Upheld
After more than a decade languishing in Congress and another year in the courts, the Philippinesu2019 Reproductive Health Law (RH Law) was declared largely constitutional by the Supreme Court …
APWU Pres. Mark Dimondstein Calls For Defense Of The People’s Post Office
Mark Dimondstein president of the American Postal Workers Union spoke in Chicago at the Labor Notes convention on how to defend the People's Post Office.
“Years of Living Dangerously”: James Cameron, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford in TV Climate Change Series
A new Showtime television show featuring Hollywood actors and award-winning journalists brings the issue of climate change alive with the full drama and suspense of a blockbuster movie.
“Off With His Head:” Court Upholds Obama’s Power to Kill
Michael Ratner: There have been no criminal prosecutions for illegal actions committed by the US in the name of national security since September 11.
From Exile to Radicalization in Venezuela
Edgardo Lander tells Paul Jay that in '98, when he saw the whole of the establishment getting together to defeat Chavez, he voted for him even though he had …
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The Conservative Death Panel
Millions of Americans are unable to afford life-saving health care, because Republicans would rather play politics than protect people's lives.
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A Weaponized Human Refuse Dump
People are not only poor, their poverty and suffering have literally been deemed crimes by the elite class of sociopaths running the place.
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Open Systems and Glass Ceilings: The Disappearing Woman and Life on the Internet
The Internet turns out to be a superb mechanism for consolidating money and power and control, even as it gives toys and minor voices to the rest of us.
Wall Street’s Land Grab: Firms Amass Rental Empire, Ousting Tenants and Threatening New Housing Crisis
The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, is now the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the country.
US Role in Rwandan Genocide: A Look at Rwandan Politics Then and Now
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, survivor and activist Claude Gatebuke and filmmaker Andre Vltchek discuss what was really behind America's decision not to intervene and its ongoing support …