U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024 in West Allis, Wisconsin. (Photo: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) “Our coalition was critical to defeating Trump in 2020,” said one organizer. “We’re ready to… Continue reading
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) holds a sign reading “war criminal” and “guilty of genocide” during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July 24, 2024 address to Congress in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) “I will never back down in speaking truth to power. The apartheid government of Israel is… Continue reading
Government watchdog Accountable.US launches its “Expose Project 2025” campaign on the streets of Washington on March 1, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Accountable.US) The right-wing agenda gets less popular the more voters learn about it, a new poll shows. JULIA CONLEY Jul 23, 2024 (CommonDreams.org) New… Continue reading
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to the media outside the White House on July 17, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)” “The issue that concerns me is that for too long, Democrats have kind of turned their backs on the pain that millions of working-class people,” said… Continue reading
Voting rights activists participate in a voting rights rally outside the White House on August 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) One group said it has registered over 100,000 new voters since U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. BRETT WILKINS Jul 26, 2024… Continue reading
An aerial view of a Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in Linden, New Jersey on May 11, 2022. (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Critics Warn Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill ‘Is Taken Straight From Project 2025’ “You thought Project 2025 was just a threat after the election? It’s actually… Continue reading
Brazilian Minister of Economy Fernando Haddad, First Lady Rosangela Janja da Silva, and President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva stand with other officials during the G20 Task Force meeting to establish a global alliance against hunger and poverty on July 24, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo: Wagner Meier/Getty… Continue reading
Billionaires are hopeful that Kamala Harris will break from the FTC chair. But she’s part of an entire network of policymakers who are actually governing in Washington. BY DAVID DAYEN JULY 26, 2024 (Prospect.org) MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/SIPA USA VIA AP IMAGES Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, at a hearing… Continue reading
Ahead of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Paris, authorities have reportedly been sweeping homeless encampments, rounding up unhoused people, and expelling them by bus to other parts of France. BY DAVE ZIRIN JULY 25, 2024 (therealnews.com) Photo of what was previously a homeless encampment beneath an underpass in Paris, France,… Continue reading
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a special address on climate action in New York in June 2024. (Photo: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images) “I must call out the flood of fossil fuel expansion we are seeing in some of the world’s wealthiest countries,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Countries… Continue reading
