TUE, 6/13/2017 – BY ANDREW ROTH AND DAVID FILIPOV MOSCOW — Shouting “We demand answers,” and “Stop lying and stealing,” tens of thousands of protesters turned out Monday across Russia in a nationwide anti-corruption rally called by opposition leader Alexei Navalny as part of his long-shot bid to unseat President… Continue reading
TUE, 6/13/2017 – BY GABRIELLE PICKARD-WHITEHEAD It wasn’t the result the Tories hoped for or expected. Prime Minister Theresa May’s bolshie gamble to call a general election with three years still to serve backfired – spectacularly! Instead of stabilizing her leadership and strengthening her hand in Brexit negotiations by increasing… Continue reading
MON, 6/12/2017 Bernie Sanders has criticized the Democratic party’s current direction as “an absolute failure” in a speech at the People’s Summit in Chicago. Speaking to a crowd of 4,000 activists, Sanders hailed the “enormous progress in advancing the progressive agenda”, saying the increasing House and Senate support for… Continue reading
Subversive pop-up display imagines a post-supply and demand world BY ADAM BRINKLOW JUN 14, 2017 Anyone trying to buy or rent a home in the Bay Area these last five years has been getting a near daily lesson in the realities of a capitalist economy. But for some perspective that… Continue reading
Editorial Residents of a homeless encampment under the 1st street bridge go about their daily lives in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 31. (Los Angeles Times). The Times Editorial Board On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on the allocation of more than a… Continue reading
Published on Jun 13, 2017 Have all the murders and corporate crime been solved? Maybe it happened when we weren’t looking because the San Francisco police decided to give a $234 ticket to a man for eating pizza at a bus stop. Why? It’s just part of the pattern of… Continue reading
Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems It Isn’t NiceNotes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1964 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1993. This original version of the song was banned from the radio in Japan–in Japanese, but not in English! It isn’t nice to block the doorway, It isn’t nice… Continue reading
It is as “the party of Judas,” betraying Americans to Republican brutality for sake of donors’ silver, that the real grassroots resistance must oppose Democrats as well as Trump. June 4, 2017 SOURCENationofChange NOTE TO READERS: This is the second and final part of my call-to-arms series “The REAL Trump… Continue reading
U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has given her first interview since being released from prison last month in which she explains her motivations for making public thousands of military documents. Excerpts of her interview with ABC’s “Nightline” co-anchor Juju Chang aired Friday on the network’s “Good Morning America.” Asked about… Continue reading
