Новости за 03.02.2017

The 2016 documentary has given a voice to African-Americans, who now have more tools to fight for truth, justice and freedom from oppression.

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams The president is set to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law and roll back an Obama-era financial regulation.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment The new administration’s spokespersons are happy to deal in fake news when it promotes the Trump worldview.

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Wasserman talks about actual books and e-books and recounts how Malcolm Margolin founded the company to champion indigenous people.

By Alia Rajai / Sahar Speaks Under the Taliban, women were rarely seen in business, but that is starting to change.

In an interview with acTVism, “America’s most prominent Marxist economist” discusses why economic turmoil continues to make headlines while the stock market booms.

From left, Emily Johnston, Ken Ward and Michael Foster, three of the five “valve turners” facing prison time for closing emergency valves on pipelines in solidarity with Standing Rock. (Courtesy of Shut It Down - Climate Direct Action ) With climate-change skeptics as the new president and his choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, some activists are willing to go to prison if it means disrupting the political system. On Wednesday, a jury in Skagit County, Wash., failed to convict Ken Ward... Читать дальше...

Political posters can contribute enormously to street demonstrations that will inevitably increase in both number and intensity.

“I can’t be objective on the question of my own humanity,” Lewis Wallace wrote. (Rachel Johnson / CC 2.0) Lewis Wallace worked for the American Public Media show “Marketplace” since May of last year, but on Monday he was fired. The reason? Wallace wrote a personal blog post questioning objective journalism under the Trump administration. Titled “Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it,” the piece explored how journalists will “adapt to a government that believes in ‘alternative facts’ and thrives on lies... Читать дальше...

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