Month: October 2020

In an election marked by record outside spending, including “dark money” sources, a clear winner has already emerged: the corporate television stations making windfall profits “The Big Winner in 2014 Elections: Corporate Television”

Internal documents and whistleblowers reveal that the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, which is tasked with overseeing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s “Whistleblowers Expose USAID's Pervasive Hidden Failures”

Okinawa voters on Sunday handed an overwhelming victory to a gubernatorial candidate opposed to U.S. military bases, dealing another blow to plans by the U.S. “Candidate Opposed to US Bases Wins Landslide Victory for Okinawa Governor”

Egyptians enraged by Saturday’s court decision to drop murder charges against Hosni Mubarak took to the streets of Cairo on Saturday where they were met “Barbed Wire and Tear Gas in Cairo as Protesters Rise After Mubarak Acquittal”

Negotiators from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were in Washington this week for a new round of talks which they hope will lead them closer “Moyers & Company: Democrats, Not Just Republicans, Are Bowing Down to Wall Street”

Residents throughout New England have reason to celebrate on Monday as Vermont Yankee, the sole nuclear power plant in the state of Vermont, powers down “Vermonters Ready Celebration as Nuclear Plant Shuts Down for Good”

The first report from the New York Police Department Inspector General’s office, issued Monday, reveals an “alarming” lack of transparency and consistency regarding how and “NYPD Officers Used Banned Chokeholds—and Did So with Impunity, Review Finds”

In a decision human rights activists are welcoming as a victory for justice, a former police chief was sentenced Monday to 90 years in prison “Rigoberta Menchu: Guatemalan Court Ruling on Crimes Against Humanity a 'Historic Event'”

An official with Greece’s newly elected Syriza party may have sounded the death knell for a proposed EU-U.S. trade deal that has faced a mountain “Syriza Official Vows to Kill EU-US Trade Deal as 'Gift to All European People'”

The suspect in this weekend’s attacks on a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen had been “on the radar” of the intelligence services “Copenhagen Gunman, Known to Intelligence Services, Killed By Police”