Month: October 2020

With an ascendent economic populism that rejects the dominance of large financial institutions, wealthy individuals, and powerful industries that have too much sway in Washington, DC, the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency has many asking whether or not the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State has what it takes to challenge the status quo which allows Wall Street to rule supreme in the nation’s seats of power. In a front page article exploring…

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Violence in eastern Ukraine is again flaring on Monday as an international team of investigators and forensic experts were examining the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 that crashed last week after it was apparently shot down by anti-aircraft fire in the contested region. A train carrying the remains of many of the disaster’s victims reportedly left a local station, headed for the city of Kharkiv. According to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on…

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Arizona’s execution last week of death row prisoner Joseph Wood garnered international headlines when Wood took nearly two hours to die, gulping and snorting 660 times on the gurney following his injection with an experimental cocktail of lethal drugs. Now it has been revealed that, by the time he passed away, Wood had been given 15 times the sedative and painkiller recommended by state protocol. Records released to Wood’s lawyers on Friday show Wood was…

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Following critical reporting this week of cable and broadband giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable funding a dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn—one of the regulators reviewing the companies’ proposed $45-billion-dollar merger—the two companies decided Thursday to pull the combined $132,000 they had committed to the event. Comcast, in addition to pulling the $110,000 that it had committed, is requesting that there be no recognition of the company at the dinner, according to a letter…

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As Burger King heads north for Canada’s lower corporate tax rate, we speak to Rolling Stone contributing editor Tim Dickinson about his new article, “The Biggest Tax Scam Ever.” Dickinson reports on how top U.S. companies are avoiding hundreds of billions of dollars by parking their profits abroad — and still receiving more congressionally approved incentives. Dickinson writes: “Top offenders include giants from high-tech (Microsoft, $76 billion); Big Pharma (Pfizer, $69 billion); Big Oil (Exxon­Mobil,…

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A coalition of environmental and social justice leaders on Thursday rallied around a new report exposing Walmart’s enormous annual consumption of coal and demanded the giant corporation stop calling itself a leader on sustainability if it chooses to depend on one of the world’s most polluting energy sources to fuel its global retail empire. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance study—titled —co-authored by Stacy Mitchell and Walter Wuthmann, describes how despite lofty rhetoric and unmet promises…

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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff enjoyed the first corner skirmish between Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas in the Eifel GP, insisting he was confident both drivers would avoid any drama. Hamilton gained an edge over his teammate who had started from pole on the run into Turn 1. But as the pair veered wheel-to-wheel into the corner, Hamilton ran Bottas wide onto the run-off area. Undeterred, the Finn fought back and regained the lead on…

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It was one year ago when French President Emmanuel Macron launched The Fashion Pack and pitched it to the G7 heads of state at the summit Biarritz. 32 groups and brands from the luxury, retail, fashion, sports and lifestyle sector [joined the initiative]https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/fashion-pact-32-fashion-houses-unite-to-protect-climate-biodiversity-and-oceans/2019082644917) which aims to collectively spearhead change through quantified environment objectives. Fast forward one year, and 60 of the industry’s leading CEO’s of global companies are committed to lessening the impact on climate,…

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Despite confronting occupation in Palestine or the effects of failed immigration policies in rural Washington, two grassroots groups have continued the struggle for their communities’ rights to a just food system. For their efforts, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in Palestine and the Bellingham, Washington-based Community to Community Development (C2C) are being honored with this year’s Food Sovereignty Prize. The announcement was made this week. Now in its 6th year, the Prize is…

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Police in Hong Kong made violent arrests on Friday and Saturday as students and pro-democracy activists stormed a public square near the government’s headquarters to protest China’s rejection of free elections and universal suffrage earlier this month. At least 60 activists were taken into custody throughout the night as another 100 refused to move from the area, Civic Square, and chanted at police to stop making arrests. Approximately 74 protesters were arrested overall throughout the…

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