Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who revealed evidence of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, is serving 30 years in federal prison. CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, who stood up against agency torture, just finished a two-year prison term. Jeffrey Sterling, sentenced in a case that accused him of blowing the whistle on CIA misconduct regarding an […]

Voters in the United Kingdom went to the polls on Thursday in the tightest election in decades as Prime Minister David Cameron faced off with the Labour party’s Ed Miliband. “This race is going to be the closest we have ever seen,” Miliband told supporters on Wednesday night. “It’s going to go down to the […]

After a white police officer in Cleveland, Ohio was acquitted on Saturday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man and woman in 2012, protests against racism and police brutality spread throughout the city as activists called for justice. Police in riot gear arrested multiple protesters marching peacefully through the streets of Cleveland, where […]

Despite the oft-repeated claim that the recent decline in U.S. carbon emissions was due to the so-called ‘fracking boom,’ new research published Tuesday shows that it was the dramatic fall in consumption during the Great Recession that deserves credit for this drop. As nations grapple with the best strategy for decreasing carbon emissions ahead of […]

Lewis Hamilton says he’s against plans to build a brand new race track in the heart of Brazil’s Camboata Forest. Formula 1 has traditionally raced at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, but Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro wants to see a brand new state of the art venue built close to Rio De Janeiro. Even […]

The world’s ability to practice medicine and treat both common and serious illnesses is at risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a new report analyzing global misuse of antibiotics and the increasing spread of antimicrobial resistance. “This is the single greatest challenge in infectious diseases today,” stated Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s assistant director-general […]

Under pressure from the U.S. and agrochemical industry lobbyists and amid ongoing negotiations for a controversial trade deal, the European Union dropped planned rules that could have led to the banning of 31 pesticides containing hazardous chemicals, a new investigative report has revealed. Click Here: camisetas de futbol baratas The probe, led by the Brussels-based […]

In a move that climate justice campaigners are heralding as a challenge to other powerful decision-makers and investors around the world, the Norwegian parliament on Friday approved a measure calling for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund—the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with holdings of approximately $890 billion—to begin divesting from companies heavily involved […]

Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/greek-crisis While the head of the Eurogroup in Brussels as well as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel have now said there is no more room for discussion with Greece until after Sunday’s referendum vote, the leaders of the Syriza government have issued communications of their own expressing their continued opposition to the current […]

This isn’t the story about a flag, but there’s a flag in this story. On the same day the nation was reeling from the mass murder of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina by a calculating white gunman who reportedly made it clear to his victims the attack was inspired by racial hatred, the U.S. […]