TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Bank of America and JP Morgan, among 74 of 158 financial institutions, invested in companies producing internationally banned weapons. Despite the international ban on cluster bombs, more than 150 financial institutions have invested $28 billion in companies that produce them, according to a new report released Thursday. Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Read More…
The uncounted ballots would put the total number of voters at around 8.5 million, or around 47 percent of all registered voters. More than 2.5 million ballots from California’s June 7 primary are still uncounted, sparking questions about the results of the presidential contest in which Hillary Clinton emerged the winner and leaving the fate Read More…
“We won’t have good public policy on new technologies like GMOs until these rampant conflicts of interest are exposed,” says Food & Water Watch Public skepticism is growing over a new report that claims genetically modified (GE or GMO) foods are safe for consumption, particularly as information emerges that the organization that produced the report Read More…
Poorer households saw their income drop from a median of $26,373 in 1999 to $23,811 in 2014, according to new research Middle and low-income households in the U.S. made less money in 2014 than they did in 1999 as the middle class lost ground in almost 90 percent of the country’s metropolitan areas, a new Read More…
More than 200,000 documents now available to the public as fallout from last month’s leak continues The Panama Papers database went live on Monday, making more than 200,000 offshore account details available to search online at offshoreleaks.icij.org. More than 11 million documents were leaked by a whistleblower last month to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung Read More…
A since-deleted analysis posted the agency’s website shows it is relying on unpublished reports from groups linked to biochem industry The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used industry-funded research to conclude that the herbicide chemical glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans—contradicting findings by the World Health Organization (WHO)—according to an analysis the Read More…