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Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 11:50pm
Tharanga Yakupitiyage, IPS News
World leaders must step up and take action in fighting famine to prevent further catastrophic levels of hunger and deaths, said Oxfam.
Ahead of the 43rd G7 summit, Oxfam urged world leaders to urgently address the issue of famine, currently affecting four countries at unprecedented levels.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 11:39pm
Lois Marie Gibbs
‘Homeland Security – No more wars over oil!’ That’s what families in communities across Pennsylvania were promised a decade ago.
‘We’ll extract natural gas from the ground, using an unconventional process called hydrofracturing, to acquire enough natural gas that the U.S. will no longer be dependent on foreign oil!’
At least that’s what we were told. No longer would we need to send our young men and women overseas to fight oil wars.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 11:34pm
Christopher Brauchli
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 11:25pm
David Korten
I’ve rarely been so moved by a political speech. If you haven’t heard it, don’t miss it.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 11:19pm
Christopher Cook
President Trump’s budget proposal—a fiscal assault on everything other than rich people and the military—could prove to be progressives’ ultimate trump card. With its deep cuts to vital programs and protections for low-income and working-class people, including Trump’s own voters, it lays bare the scope of his destructive agenda.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 4:06am
Statement by Mike Litt, U.S. PIRG Consumer Advocate about how the upcoming House vote on the Financial CHOICE Act poses a threat to consumers, depositors, investors and the economy.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 4:04am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
If the building momentum for a single-payer or Medicare-for-All healthcare system wasn't already clear, developments this week should more than make up for that.
Declaring that "healthcare is a fundamental human right" and TrumpCare is "an abomination," Democratic New Jersey State Assemblyman John Wisniewski on Thursday announced draft legislation to provide universal coverage for the state's residents.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:53am
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Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:48am
D.D. Guttenplan
We live in the age of rich bullies. In November, Donald Trump showed that a proven record of stiffing your own employees and being caught on tape boasting about grabbing women “by the pussy,” was no bar to being elected president of the United States. “When you’re a star,” Trump told Billy Bush, “you can do anything.”
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:47am
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:40am
David Macaray
Back in the 1970s, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist named William Shockley created quite a stir when he suggested that certain races (i.e., black people) were “genetically inferior” to whites and Asians, and that in order for the human race to have any chance of “improving” itself, people with IQs lower than 100 should submit to voluntary sterilization. Other than that, nothing he said was particularly controversial.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:27am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Global leaders taking part in the Group of Seven (G7) meeting this week are being called upon to brush aside the anti-science recalcitrance of the Trump administration and take the lead in addressing the crisis of climate change.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:26am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) did not adequately account for safety hazards when approving certain upgrades to nuclear sites around the U.S., meaning the risk of a Fukushima-like disaster caused by a reactor fire is still high, according to an article published in the journal Science on Friday.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:16am
Kathleen Romig
President Trump’s 2018 budget wouldn’t just hurt people with disabilities, as we’ve explained, but older Americans as well. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly promised not to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, which serve tens of millions of seniors.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:10am
Near the Giardini Naxos beach at Taormina, activists sailing on eight kayaks unfurled flags and banners with the message 'Planet Earth first'. The activists also unveiled on the shore a four-meter-high Statue of Liberty covered with a life jacket to symbolise the threat that climate change and rising seas pose.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 3:04am
Bob Burnett
After four enervating months of Donald Trump's presidency, Americans have seen four different sides of Trump.
Trump the Politician
We've seen a lot of the same Donald Trump we saw during the 2016 political campaign. Trump the Tweeter. Trump the media basher. Trump the braggart. Trump the liar...
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 2:26am
Bryce Oates
Long before the nation got to know Greg Gianforte as a body-slamming, reporter-punching candidate to Congress, I knew the guy was a jerk. Why? Because he sued his own state, Montana, to remove public access to fishing on a public riverbank near his property. He sued to privatize public lands access rights, and to threaten traditional uses of our public lands.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 1:36am
Steven Harper
The Trump White House has produced what appear to be at least three cover-ups. They relate to:
1) former-national security adviser Mike Flynn’s questionable activities relating to Turkey;
2) Flynn’s role in the Trump/Russia controversy; and
3) the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 1:26am
Edward Hunt
With each passing day, the long-term prospects for life on Earth grow increasingly dim. As human activity continues to warm the planet at an alarming rate, the leaders of the United States are failing to confront one of the greatest challenges the human species has ever faced: human-caused climate change.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 1:20am
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
A Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protester and photographer was cleared of all charges Thursday after he was accused of endangering a police plane with his drone.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 1:19am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Friday that "we must be brave enough to admit the war on terror is simply not working," and called for a "smarter way" to cut the risks of terrorist attacks. His speech in London comes as the U.K.'s general election campaigning resumes after the deadly bombing in Manchester earlier this week and the same day as a bus attack in Egypt killed more than two dozen people.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 1:06am
Janine Jackson
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 12:54am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Scores of civilians, including more than 30 children, have been killed in recent days as an escalated air assault led by the United States continues in eastern Syria despite warnings from the United Nations over the careless and indiscriminate attacks.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 12:53am
Linda Bilmes
On Memorial Day, we pay respects to the fallen from past wars – including the more than one million American soldiers killed in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam.
Saturday, 27 May 2017 - 12:24am
John Atcheson
Republicans should be on the run. Trumpcare is toxic, the White House stumbles from disaster to disaster, Trump's budget is a giant slap in the face to the people who voted for him, and Russiagate just gets worse and worse.
But Democrats—rather than catching what should be a progressive tsunami—are acting like lemmings in search of a cliff. Here are the details.
The lesson from 2016 should be clear