At a panel hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Capitol Hill today, advocates for single payer healthcare criticized the current system in the U.S. as inefficient, expensive and delivering poor results in comparison to wealthy nations who offer universal health coverage to their citizens. “We have a completely irrational […]
At the “Baltimore Economic Democracy Conference, Building Our Economy Together” conference, Dr. Margaret Flowers posed the question, “What would it look like if we had an economy that put people and environment before corporate profits?” The conference, free to the public, was held at The Real News Network studio in […]
FCC Commissioners held a public hearing on May 15 where they voted 3 to 2 to move ahead with rules which could put an end to Net neutrality. Outside the FCC building, protestors had been camped out for days to draw attention to the potential for big changes in who […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on May 15 issued its Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on the Cove Point LNG terminal expansion. The draft EA concludes that the Cove Point project would not “significantly affect the quality of the human environment” and recommends a finding of “no significant impact.” It […]
Feedback on proposed FCC rules governing internet access that might create “fast lanes” for those who can pay for them is only increasing as Thursday’s meeting of FCC Commissioners approaches. Gigi Sohn, FCC chair Tom Wheeler’s special counsel for external affairs, held a Q&A via Twitter today. Tweets with the […]
By Anne Meador and John Zangas Commissioners on an FCC panel which could determine the future of the Internet are feeling the heat this week as protest intensifies against a new set of Open Internet rules proposed by Chair Tom Wheeler. Advocates for Net Neutrality claim the rules would result […]
Dominion Resources convened its annual shareholder meeting on May 7 in Cleveland, Ohio amidst controversy surrounding its plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in southern Maryland. Protestors from Maryland, Virginia and Ohio environmental groups gathered outside the meeting to demonstrate against the Cove Point plant. They […]
The conviction of Occupy Wall Street protestor Cecily McMillan for assault on a police officer shows that the judiciary is corrupt and dissent will not be tolerated. We can no longer call ourselves a democratic society, and as Chris Hedges says, we are living in the “post-constitutional era.” Since 9/11, […]
Three members of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) were arrested at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland when they obstructed a roadway outside the base’s gates and refused to leave. About twenty protestors in all staged a theatrical “die-in” and read the names of one hundred children they […]
The video below features Omar Soltan, the brother of Mohamed Soltan, a journalist, translator and aide to media organizations such as al-Jazeera. The Egyptian government jailed Soltan after the Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Egypt this past summer. Because he is the son of a well-known Muslim Brotherhood figure, he remains […]
By Keith Wrightson Today’s federal whistleblower protection laws are far too weak for many private sector workers, making it extremely difficult for them to expose wrongdoing because they rightly fear they can and will be retaliated against. Of concern are whistleblower protections allotted to workers under 29 U.S.C. §660, Section […]
Actor/activist Daryl Hannah stood in solidarity with the Cowboy Indian Alliance at Reject and Protect on April 26, 2014. Hannah has been dedicated to stopping the Keystone XL pipeline, getting arrested at several civil disobedience actions. In this interview she explains why blocking the tar sands pipeline is vital. “Our […]