Environment

COINTELPRO, the secret FBI project to infiltrate and disrupt domestic organizations thought to be u201csubversive,u201d targeted many African-American, Native-American, and other movements for self-determination by people of color in …

Over the last 20 years, waste pickersu2014 workers in the informal economy who recover recyclable materials from trashu2014in Pune, a city in the state of Maharashtra, India have transformed …

Still awaiting the Great Pumpkin...

New voter restriction laws passed by Republicans this year aimed at keeping Obama's minority support away from the polls, but only became more of an incentive to vote.

Now that Obama has been re-elected, he can begin the process to change the economic conversation so that the government can invest in people and not corporations.

Over the past four years the Obama administration has presided over a technological revolution in defense planning, moving the nation's defenses to cyberwarfare and the full-scale weaponization of space.

Big banks continue to push Obama to adopt self-destructive austerity programs that would unravel the national safety net of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.

Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a Muslim, is serving a 22-year sentence set in motion during post-9/11 hysteria that targeted his humanitarian organization.

A cartoon on global warming by Matt Bors.

Prop 37 was down 53 percent to 47 percent with 90 percent of the votes tallied Wednesday morning.