The island has become a target not only for rapacious vulture funds but also for exponents of Katrina-style “disaster capitalism.” Just because the residents of Puerto Rico can’t vote for members of … Continue reading Puerto Rico Needs Massive Emergency Aid Now—and an End to Austerity

Not only is this article factually wrong, we don’t own Puerto Rico’s debt, speculators do, it’s also irresponsible when millions are without power and people are dying due to a lack of … Continue reading Who owns Puerto Rico’s mountain of debt? You do

All this week, Splinter is talking to healthcare experts about what advocates for a single payer system can learn from the National Health Service in my home country, the United Kingdom. Yesterday, … Continue reading “It’s Always Cheaper to Let People Die”: Lessons From the NHS

Target’s decision to raise its pay to $15 an hour destroys this argument from the naysayers, says NELP general counsel Paul Sonn. If a discount retailer with paper thin margins can do … Continue reading Target’s $15 an hour move ‘blows up’ minimum wage myths-commentary

JP Morgan chief claims BitCoin is a “fraud” reserved for criminals. He would know. JP defrauded its customers for decades without need for a crypto-currency. The only reason crypto-currencies are hot right … Continue reading BitCoin will not be our saviour

The outlets that feigned outrage over the cost of Bernie Sanders’ proposals are silent after the largest military budget increase ever. The $81B increase in the $700B military budget this year approved … Continue reading Outlets That Scolded Sanders Over Deficits Uniformly Silent on $700B Pentagon Handout

Globalisation was supposed to bring widespread uniformity and benefit. But it hasn’t addressed old grievances. It goes deeper than that, it’s the EU’s economic policies that are driving people to look for alternatives. Source: Catalans are not alone. Across the world, people yearn to govern themselves | Neal Ascherson | Opinion | … Continue reading Catalans are not alone. Across the world, people yearn to govern themselves

The trial of Muhammad Rabbani is set to start on Monday over the British government’s use of Schedule 7 anti-terror powers against him. This is chilling. Source: Airport Police Demanded an Activist’s … Continue reading Airport Police Demanded an Activist’s Passwords. He Refused. Now He Faces Prison in the U.K.

The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology. This is bad, as it means that the Internet will start moving away from free content to paid content in a way that keeping an historical record of content on the net will start to … Continue reading Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works

John Abraham: Our new paper illustrates the rapid, consistent warming of Earth’s oceans Measuring the change in temperature in the oceans gives a much more accurate indicator of global warming… and the … Continue reading It takes just 4 years to detect human warming of the oceans

Congress is on track for an eye-popping increase in military spending. Put another way, with a $700 billion military budget, the U.S. would be spending more than three times as much as … Continue reading The Senate’s Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free

Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure may be associated with lower cognitive function in children, a new study says. Since the water is fluoridated in the US this has ramifications for pregnant … Continue reading Fluoride exposure in utero linked to lower IQ in kids, study says | CNN