A little-known regulatory agency has been the site of daily protests this week against the environmental costs and health and safety hazards associated with exporting natural gas. Roughly twenty people have been picketing every day this week outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency in charge of approving […]
When we were teenagers, my brother and I lived in Iran for three years and traveled throughout the Middle East. We went to high school in the city of Shah-in Shah, and we enjoyed a great educational experience at the International School. We traveled to Afghanistan and other countries with […]
This week the White House announced that it is sending an additional 275 soldiers to Baghdad to calm unrest in the conflict stricken area. President Obama said the mission is necessary to protect American interests abroad. “This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if […]
Washington, DC-area Starbucks employee Sam Dukore put a few tough questions to Howard Schultz, the corporate CEO, when he came to town promoting a new benefit that Starbucks is offering its employees: tuition reimbursement for online college classes. *See below: Starbucks “scholarship” program not what it seems* Dukore, who makes […]
Journalists Tim Eastman, Matt Hopard and Shay Horse are covering the World Cup 2014 protests in Brazil. We’ll be continuously updating this post with more photos and reports. Follow on Twitter: @TimBEastman @StopMotionSolo @HuntedHorse To support Matt Hopard’s work (StopMotionsolo), send a paypal donation to stopmotionsolo@gmail.com To support Tim’s and […]
On the anniversary of the first news story based on Edward Snowden NSA leaks, Fight for the Future and other Internet privacy advocates are taking matters into their own hands. Legislators have failed to own up to the illegality of the NSA programs which collect massive amounts of data on […]
What Happened to the Will of the People? Earlier today, someone asked me to explain why corporations have so much more power than the American people. The easy answer is that now, in America, money is free speech and corporations can speak far louder. And while the sentiment is true, […]
Hundreds filled the auditorium of Patuxent High School in Lusby, Maryland on May 31, eager to tell two representatives from the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) how they feel about the agency permitting a plant to export natural gas. In a marathon hearing lasting more than six hours, 150 people […]
Mayor Susumu Inamine of Nago City, Okinawa, an Island south of Japan, made a direct appeal to the US government to back off on plans to build a military air base at Henoko on the island coast, saying Okinawans had been “enduring a heavy burden.” He visited New York and […]
New York On May 24th, more than 1,600 people participated in a global protest against Monsanto in New York City. People gathered in Union Square, many dressed as bees and carrying homemade signs. Video of comedian Lee Camp at Union Square: We’re in the middle of a drop-down, drag-out bloody […]
Maryland residents took their doubts about the integrity of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission review of a major industrial project to their U.S. Senators today. They believe FERC came up short with respect to the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that the agency released last week for the Cove Point project, […]