“Manchin has lost the coal miners with this latest betrayal,” said one labor reporter. The push for passage of the Build Back Better Act got a potential boost late Monday as the United Mine Workers of America, the coal miners’ union that Sen. Joe Manchin counts as a key ally, called on the right-wing Democratic senator […]
The European Union is pledging to donate 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries by mid-2022. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the pledge Wednesday in Strasbourg, France during her annual State of the European Union speech before the European Parliament. Von der Leyen said the 200 million doses the EU […]
An explosive New York Times report revealed Saturday that notorious war profiteer Erik Prince recruited former American and British spies to work with the right-wing group Project Veritas to infiltrate at least one Democratic congressional campaign and organizations “considered hostile” to President Donald Trump’s agenda. Prince is the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. […]
For the 20th straight year, in December 2019 I carried a notebook into the halls of the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Most of those years the conference was in San Francisco (as it was this year). Back in 1999, when one billion fewer people lived on Earth, the 5,000 scientists who […]