A former CIA officer described as the latest victim of the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers has issued a scathing open letter to civil rights groups asking, “Where were you?” In the letter published at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jeffrey Sterling, who is black, specifically calls out the NAACP, National Action Network, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, …
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New research underway indicates that at least three feet of global sea level rise is near certain, NASA scientists warned Wednesday. That’s the higher range of the 1 to 3 feet level of rise the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave in its 2013 assessment. Sea levels have already risen 3 inches on …
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With the countdown on for the upcoming United Nations climate talks known as COP21, an international movement is demanding an end to what they see as the corporate domination of the conference and that a food sovereignty approach—a “just solution to a global climate crisis”—be prioritized. La Via Campesina, which unites global organizations that work …
Burberry has teamed up with interns at computer hardware company IBM to develop a prototype system to improve product traceability. The luxury label revealed Thursday that for the past three months its technology experts have been coaching participants of IBM’s Extreme Blue internship programme who were tasked with designing, developing, and testing an innovative new …
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New York’s chief judge on Thursday announced a new plan to overhaul the state’s bail law, which he said unjustly punishes the poor and forces them to “serve a sentence before their cases are ever resolved.” Judge Jonathan Lippmann, who is set to retire at the end of the year, made his announcement in a …
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Cree First Nation singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, 74, is the 2015 winner of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, bestowed annually by a jury of music critics, bloggers, and broadcasters to one album deemed to have the most “artistic merit” regardless of genre, sales, or label. Sainte-Marie’s album Power in the Blood—her 21st—beat nine other finalists for the …
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One man who lost family members to the covert U.S. drone war in Yemen responded Friday to The Intercept‘s explosive new exposé of the American “assassination complex” by proclaiming he is not surprised but now more hopeful “the whole truth will come out.” “I read that the Americans have very little knowledge of the innocent civilians …
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Not only did the FBI fly surveillance aircraft over the city of Baltimore during the protests following the police killing of Freddie Gray, the ACLU revealed Friday that it used advanced technology like infrared and night-vision cameras to do so. What’s more, new internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that …
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Eight of the world’s leading economies will double their renewable energy supply by 2030 if they live up to their pledges to contribute to curbing global warming, which will be included in the new climate treaty. A study published this month by the World Resources Institute (WRI) analysed the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) of …
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Formula 1 chief executive Chase Carey says he has agreed a deal for the sport to return to Rio de Janeiro, pending permit approval for the construction of the city’s new proposed circuit. However, the new venue located in Deodoro, a military base that was used for several events during the 2016 Olympic games, would …
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