Formula 1’s return to the Nürburgring will have to wait a few hours as weather conditions surrounding the circuit have led to the cancellation of the Eifel GP’s opening practice. The session was twice delayed by 30 minutes but the mist and fog hovering in the Eifel area that are restricting F1’s medical helicopter from […]
Read MoreSources reported Tuesday afternoon that U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will officially launch a bid for the White House—as a Democrat—on Thursday. Sanders will release a short statement on that day and then hold a major campaign kickoff in Vermont in several weeks, according to Vermont Public Radio. A Democratic source close to the senator […]
Read MoreIn what one journalist described as the “first near-confirmation” of civilian deaths caused by U.S.-led airstrikes inside Syria, an official announcement by the Pentagon on Thursday that one of its bombs “likely led” to the death of two young children was met by derision and suspicion by experts who say the real deathtoll of innocent […]
Read MoreTwo years since he met with a trio of journalists in a Hong Kong hotel room and explained for the first time why he leaked some of the NSA’s most closely-guarded secrets about its global surveillance empire, whistleblower Edward Snowden has penned an op-ed for the New York Times declaring relief that his decision was […]
Read MoreRemember that recent blog post you read about the popularity of genetically modified foods? Or the economics expert on the news who questioned if paying the price of organic food was ‘worth it’? According to a new report, these views were very likely the product of a public relations blitz by Big Food and Big […]
Read MoreDrawing the swift ire of progressives around the country, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday took a step to revive President Barack Obama’s faltering corporate trade agenda, passing Fast Track, or Trade Promotion Authority, in a 218-208 vote. Twenty-eight Democratic lawmakers voted in favor of Fast Track, which would make it easier for Obama […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON – The emergence of fracking has modified the global market for fossil fuels. But the plunge in oil prices has diluted the effect, in a struggle that experts in the United States believe conventional producers could win in the next decade. The U.S. oil industry had peaked – when the discovery of new deposits […]
Read MoreAfter a lengthy and tense debate that stretched into the early hours of Thursday morning, the 300-member Greek Parliament voted by a majority of 229-64 to pass what former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis—one of those to vote “No”—is calling the “Terms of Greece’s Surrender” to European creditors. Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/greek-crisis The €86 billion bailout comes […]
Read MoreFrom California to Florida to Maine, communities in 25 cities across the United States are staging rallies, picnics, and flash mobs this week to celebrate Thursday’s 50th anniversary of Medicare—and call for its expansion into a system that provides publicly-funded healthcare for all. “It is urgent that we continue organizing for the right to healthcare […]
Read MoreThis post may be updated. At least 50 people are dead, and vast portions of the world’s 10th-largest port are destroyed, after two huge explosions on Wednesday night rocked an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin. The blasts took place at around 11:30 pm […]
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