Truthout
Labor
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Eliminates President’s Power to Make Recess Appointments, and More
The Supreme Court virtually eliminated the President's power to make recess appointments, and more.
Dahr Jamail | Former NASA Chief Scientist: “We’re Effectively Taking a Sledgehammer to the Climate System“
Former NASA chief scientist Dr. Waleed Abdalati talks about the melting Greenland ice sheet, indisputable evidence supporting climate change and urgent need for an honest conversation about the earth's …
The Fashion Victims of Cambodia
Rebecca Henschke reports on garment workers killed by riot police when striking for pay rise.
|
Pro-Marijuana Canvassers Strike Over Unpaid Wages
A crew of nine marijuana legalization canvassers walked off their jobs and into the Portland office of the Industrial Workers of the World looking to form a union.
|
A Forgotten Community in New Orleans: Life on a Superfund Site
Despite the danger from toxins remaining in the area, government funds were earmarked for rebuilding, not relocating.
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Racist Dixiecrats
Bob Moses describes how in 1874 the white racist Democratic Party violently overthrew the Governor of Mississippi (who had been elected by a mostly black Republican Party), and how …
To Fix VA Waits, Hire More Staff
Whatu2019s causing the long waits and
Environment Under Siege in New India
India's new Bharatiya Janata Party has a pull-out-the-stops development policy that includes targeting environmental advocacy NGOs, investment in dubious hydro projects and opening fragile border areas to military infrastructure.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IMF Calls Lawmakers to Raise the Minimum Wage, and More
Senate Republicans are simply repackaging old ideas and trying to pass them off as pro-worker, and more.
Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid: What Makes Revolutionaries Irresistible?
In honor of Pride month, Flanders talks to political humorist Kate Clinton and author and activist Urvashi Vaid about the LGBT movement, feminism, humor, and irresistible revolutions and revolutionaries.