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  • The 2024 Election By the Numbers

    Thursday, January 16, 2025
    The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more
  • 4 Companies Accused of Price-Fixing Key Ingredient of White Paint

    Friday, November 29, 2013
    DuPont, along with Huntsman International, Kronos Worldwide and Millennium Inorganic Chemicals allegedly worked together to set the price of titanium dioxide, a key ingredient of white paint, paper, plastics and cosmetics. The four companies control 90% of the titanium dioxide market in the country.   read more
  • Robert Levinson Now the Longest-Held American Hostage Ever

    Friday, November 29, 2013
    Levinson disappeared on March 9, 2007, while working as a private investigator looking into cigarette smuggling on the Iranian resort island of Kish. On November 27, his captivity hit 2,455 days, one more than journalist Terry Anderson, who was held by Hezbollah in Lebanon until 1991. U.S. officials suspect that Iranian intelligence services are holding Levinson. His family last received photos of him in April 2011.   read more
  • Mostly Forgotten, Black Lung Still Causes Two Deaths a Day

    Friday, November 29, 2013
    advances in coal mining technology have both increased productivity and—since the late 1990s— and clouds of “disease-causing dust” in mines, making them no more safe for workers when it comes to black lung than they were for their fathers and grandfathers.   read more
  • Obama Administration Seeks to Limit Non-Profits’ Political Activity

    Thursday, November 28, 2013
    The Obama administration has decided to limit the scope of big-money campaign operations that until now have enjoyed tax exemptions while doling out enormous sums in recent elections. New regulations crafted by the Department of the Treasury would prevent prominent nonprofit groups like Crossroads GPS, created to support Republicans, and the Democratic-allied League of Conservation Voters from claiming some of their activities as part of their work as “social welfare” organizations.   read more
  • Secret Government Program Trained Guantanamo Detainees as Double Agents for CIA

    Thursday, November 28, 2013
    Two years after 9/11, the U.S. government tried to flip members of al-Qaeda held in Guantanamo and turn them into agents for the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA operated the secret program in a special wing of Guantanamo named “Penny Lane.” Participants lived in cottages equipped with plush beds, private kitchens, patios, showers and televisions. They were also provided with money and pornography as long as they agreed to serve as CIA spies once released from the prison.   read more
  • U.N. Privacy Resolution Proceeds after Dilution by U.S. and “Five Eyes” Allies

    Thursday, November 28, 2013
    The United Nations is close to adopting a resolution that calls for the end of excessive government surveillance and reaffirms the “human right to privacy.” The resolution was introduced by representatives of Germany and Brazil, following revelations of NSA spying on those countries, as well as on the phone calls of their two leaders, respectively, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dilma Rousseff. The resolution was amended under pressure from U.S. officials.   read more
  • NSA Monitored Online Sexual Activity of Targets to Discredit Them

    Thursday, November 28, 2013
    The National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on the online pornography habits and other sexual activity of individuals considered potential threats or problems to U.S. security. The spy agency considered discrediting half a dozen Muslims with details of porn websites they visited. None of the targeted individuals were accused of being involved in terror plots, according to the document.   read more
  • Chevron and ExxonMobil Top List of 90 Biggest Industrial-Age Polluters

    Thursday, November 28, 2013
    Ninety corporations have been identified as the biggest producers of greenhouse gas emissions over the last two centuries, with oil giants Chevron and ExxonMobil topping the list. Fifty-six of the 90 polluters were oil and gas businesses, 37 were coal companies, and seven were cement producers. Together those companies bear responsibility for 914 billion tons of greenhouse gas pollution. Half of those industrial emissions were released only during the last three decades.   read more
  • Pentagon Launches Bio-Defense Drug Program, Defying Expert Advice and Wasting Billions

    Wednesday, November 27, 2013
    The Pentagon has decided to launch its own costly bio-defense drug program, despite a similar effort already underway at another federal agency and despite the recommendations of a panel of experts to avoid taking such action. Defense officials are financing the construction by diverting monies from other military equipment designed to combat chemical or biological weapons.   read more
  • U.S. Methane Emissions May be 50% Higher than EPA Estimates

    Wednesday, November 27, 2013
    The United States may be belching 50% more methane gas into the atmosphere than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated, according to a new academic study. In oil-producing areas, like the south-central U.S., methane emissions may be nearly three times higher than EPA figures, university researchers found. “It will be important to resolve that discrepancy in order to fully understand the impact of these industries on methane emissions,” said lead author Scot Miller.   read more
  • Too Few Job Safety Inspectors, Too Many Dangers

    Wednesday, November 27, 2013
    Here’s the task facing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): It has about 2,000 employees devoted to inspecting 8 million workplaces throughout the United States. Two thousand inspectors for 8 million locations means 4,000 workplaces per OSHA specialist. No wonder more than 4,300 people lost their lives at work in 2012.   read more
  • Crossing Party Lines, Most Americans Favor Pathway to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants

    Wednesday, November 27, 2013
    While Republicans in the U.S. House continue to hold up immigration reform, a strong majority of Americans—including a majority of GOP voters—say illegal immigrants should have a way to become citizens. A survey conducted by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute found 63% of respondents support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, who number 11.7 million in the United States.   read more
  • Having Daughters Increases Parents’ Identification with the Republican Party

    Wednesday, November 27, 2013
    Parents who vote Republican may do so because of their daughters, researchers have concluded. Sociologists Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher say families with more girls than boys or those whose first child is a girl are more likely to have parents who identify with the GOP. It also “significantly reduces the likelihood of Democratic identification and significantly increases the strength of Republican Party identification,” Conley and Rauscher found.   read more
  • Pentagon Escapes Serious Oversight of Foreign Military Aid

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013
    Another requirement in the bill calls for the administration to publish foreign aid information on a country-by-country, program-by-program basis on the website, foreignassistance.gov. However, the State Department can waive the transparency requirements on grounds of U.S. national interests or to protect the “health or security” of another country.   read more
  • Justice Dept. Lawyer on Phone Call Data: Americans Have No “Reasonable Expectation of Privacy”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013
    Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery told the courtroom that those living in the U.S. have “no reasonable expectation” to privacy when it comes to the phone calls they make. Delery made his remark while pointing out that because Americans go along with telecommunications companies keeping records of their calls, they have no basis to challenge the NSA’s large-scale collection of that data.   read more
  • FBI, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Center Declare Cyber-Attacks Bigger Threat than Terrorism

    Tuesday, November 26, 2013
    At a recent hearing of the Senate homeland security and government affairs committee, the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) told lawmakers that cyber-attacks were likely to surpass terrorism as a domestic danger over the next decade. “That’s where the bad guys will go,” FBI Director James Comey said. “There are no safe neighborhoods. All of us are neighbors [online].”   read more
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