Month: October 2020

Vice President Pence recorded a robocall that went out Tuesday in support of Republican candidate Greg Gianforte ahead of the Montana special House election this week. “Hello, this is Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PencePence posts, deletes photo of Trump campaign staff without face masks, not social distancing Pence threatens to deploy military if…

Tens of thousands of protesters surrounded Japan’s parliament on Sunday in the latest rally against the unpopular plan to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps base to Okinawa’s northern coast, while simultaneous protests took place in the cities of Toyama, Okayama, Sapporo, Nagoya, and Osaka. “Don’t build the base,” and “follow the will of Okinawa,” shouted…

With so many bold proposals, what might a Bernie Sanders presidency do to the national economy? It turns out, great things. In fact, according to the economist who performed the first independent, comprehensive analysis of the candidate’s economic agenda, a Sanders win could usher in a modern-day “New Deal,” under which Americans would see incomes…

After fresh calls for Gov. Rick Snyder’s resignation emerged from Sunday night’s Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, local and national activists came together Monday morning to bear witness to and demand concrete solutions for the city’s ongoing lead-poisoning crisis. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019 “It’s an atrocity, what’s happening here,” actor and environmentalist…

EU member states and the European Parliament will be “sidelined” in favor of big business and U.S. interests should the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) go through, according to a leaked document revealed Friday. The leak, of the corporate-friendly trade deal’s draft chapter on “regulatory cooperation” between the EU and U.S., was made public…

Bernie Sanders is the most-liked presidential candidate in the race—and the more people get to know him, the more they like him, according to a new poll out Tuesday. Click Here: los jaguares argentina The Associated Press-GfK survey found that 48 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of Sanders, compared with 39 percent who…

Siding with four teenage plaintiffs and the environmental groups that backed them, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ruled that the state has failed to fulfill its legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The unanimous decision from the state’s highest court reverses a lower court ruling and requires the state Department of Environmental…

In a development lauded as “a significant advancement for women in the United States,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced the approval of an updated label for mifepristone, which is used for medical abortion. The updated label, said reproductive health experts, is “more closely aligned with evidence-based medicine” and expands access to…

Coming off a big win in Indiana and with the Democratic Party holding four more primaries this month, May could end up showing a resilient Bernie Sanders campaign despite the concerted effort of the mainstream press to count him out. With upcoming contests in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, and the territory of Guam, Politico reports…

Announcing democratic consensus of its members across all three regional chapters nationwide, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America said it was officially endorsing Bernie Sanders for president on Sunday. The 35,000-member UE—which uses “the members run this union” as its tagline—said it was support from rank-and-file members which drove the endorsement. “As…