Noam Chomsky spoke with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Read or Listen on The Intercept

The extraction of hydrocarbons tends to support despotism, whereas sun and wind are much closer to being democratic. By Bill McKibben “The reason we have a system of voluntary pledges, not a binding global agreement, is that the world finally figured out there would never be 66 votes in the US…

In this week’s Commissioner in a Car, Dustin Czarny outlines the specific objection process that is starting here and at NYSBOE. He also talks about the start of Independent Nominating petitions that start tomorrow, the NYS Redistricting hearing on April 20, and the fallout from LT Governor Benjamin’s resignation and…

‘Time is running short,” she stressed. “We need to finalize a budget reconciliation deal, making giant corporations pay their share to fund vital investments in combating climate change and lowering costs for families, which can advance with only 50 Senate votes. Read it on Alternet

Governor Kathy Hochul Squanders Historic Budget on Behalf of Billionaires & Big Corporations in Failure of a FY2023 Budget Despite her promises of a New Era for New York, her steamrolling of the FY2023 budget is the same old Cuomo-era style pay-to-play politics—and it shows that New Yorkers can’t trust…

Check out this 2023 Budget Summary from Invest In Our New York.

More than $1.5 billion has been spent to settle claims of police misconduct involving thousands of officers repeatedly accused of wrongdoing. Taxpayers are often in the dark. Read it Here in the Washington Post  Read in the Washington Post

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) recently released a landmark study, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty,1 which confirms that child poverty is a solvable problem when there is the political will to address it. Written by a committee of the nation’s leading experts on child poverty, this…

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?  “All these nostalgia-based movements and figures share a longing for something else, something which may seem unrelated but is not. A nostalgia for a time when fossil…

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