“The public utility is a much better option because you’re not having to worry about maximizing shareholder returns and you will make the safety investments that are necessary.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer Rep. Ro Khanna in an interview Friday voiced his support for public ownership of PG&E, the largest private utility company in…
Dozens of interviews and a review of records show that virtually every aspect of the blaze had been forecast and worried over for years. Every level of government understood the dangers and took few, if any, of the steps needed to prevent catastrophe. by Keith Schneider for ProPublica On the afternoon of July 23, a tire on…
The September issue of The New Republic features this cover image: In the following Democracy Now interview, Craig Unger, author of the New Republic article, talks about his research on Trump and the Russian mob.
Even if the protesters are the KKK, white supremacists and neo-Nazis. By Rick Gell Reprinted from Alternet, August 21, 2017 First, My Definition Counter-protest: an organized response, on the same day, at the same time and in the same place as a previously planned protest. Now, My Argument Counter-protests, by their very nature, escalate…