Man goes to drug store dressed as an enormous drug store receipt This is pretty funny for those of us who have ever walked out of s drugstore having bought something. Source: … Continue reading Man goes to drug store dressed as an enormous drug store receipt

More election fatigue! Source: New State Department Documents Reveal More Clinton-Abedin Email Exchanges of Classified Information on Unsecure Server – Judicial Watch Continue reading New State Department Documents Reveal More Clinton-Abedin Email Exchanges of Classified Information on Unsecure Server – Judicial Watch

The way we pick our president is the worst voting system. Period. Source: Don’t Blame Voters for the Rise of Trump. Blame the Stupid Way We Vote. Continue reading The Stupid Way We Vote.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership would make it harder to inspect seafood imports, putting potentially unsafe seafood in our food system. One more reason why these “free trade” deals are bad. Source: Toxic Buffet: … Continue reading Toxic Buffet: How the TPP Trades Away Seafood Safety | Food & Water Watch

A magnitude 6.6 temblor struck central and southern Italy on Sunday. Another devastating earthquake in Italy. Completely wipes out a city that has been there for hundreds of years. I wonder if … Continue reading Drone footage shows devastating aftermath of Italy earthquake

Welcome to the age of austerity Great article explaining how austerity is not about making countries healthier, it’s about enriching banks. That public, government debt is actually an asset, but we’ve all … Continue reading How the politics of debt explains everything

Higher yields with less pesticides was the sales pitch for genetically modified seeds. But that has not proved to be the outcome in the United States. No advantage in yields but much … Continue reading Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops

International corporations that want to intimidate countries have access to a private legal system designed just for them. And to unlock its power, sometimes all it takes is a threat. Why would … Continue reading The Secret Threat That Makes Corporations More Powerful Than Countries

Turkey has formally arrested more than 37,000 people and has already sacked or suspended 100,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, police and others in an unprecedented crackdown the government says is necessary to … Continue reading Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants, shuts more media in post-coup crackdown 

A marijuana wave, a bisexual governor, the first state carbon tax, and other small revolutions Nov. 8 could bring. 1. Medical marijuana will probably be legal in a majority of states—and the … Continue reading 33 Things This Election Will Decide That Have Nothing to Do With Trump or Clinton

What happened at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year was no whodunit. Yet the government’s case was more challenging than it seemed. Defense attorneys in the case say that prosecutors … Continue reading How the government lost its case against the Oregon occupiers

It is one thing for a leader such as Vladimir Putin to send all of Washington and the media clerks serving it into a dither—as the Russian president has on numerous occasions. … Continue reading The Filipino President Just Set Off a Diplomatic Earthquake