Environment

Radiation continues to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi site into groundwater, threatening to contaminate the entire Pacific Ocean. The cleanup will require an unprecedented global effort.

“The most pernicious development is the incorporation of the black prophetic tradition into the Obama imperial project,” Cornel West tells Chris Hedges.

In an announcement that surprised virtually everyone, the president told his countrymen and the world that he was putting on hold the much anticipated U.S. attack against Syria.

A lack of knowledge certainly does not serve the people, whose interests apparently conflict with those of the developers.

The NAYS are multiplying, but the YAYS are pulling out their big guns. Could online organizing giant Avaaz help us stop the US bombing of Syria? Sign this petition …

Syrian anarchist activist Nader Atassi explores the non-fundamentalist and truly democratic resistance to the Assad regime.

Edwin Lyman, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, talks with Rachel Maddow about the alarming new radiation readings coming from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and …

Wage theft, in all its many forms, is rampant across all industries, but it hurts low-wage workers the most.