Donald Trump’s Energy Proposals Cater to Fossil Fuel Billionaires at the Expense of Humanity
Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Conference this week that he will propose “a complete rethinking of our energy policy.” What...
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New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Dirty Fuels
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
Conspiracy Kooks Breitbart and Donald Trump Funded By Right-Wing Hedge Fund Billionaire Robert Mercer
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
ExxonMobil Pays Lip Service To Environmentalism While Contributing To Republicans Who Block All Efforts To Combat Climate Change
Over the course of the past couple of years some of the giants in the oil industry have intimated that...
Fake Populist Donald Trump Doesn’t Stand Up For Workers
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
Richest One Percent Willing to Swallow Trump’s Lunacy to Get Their Tax Cuts
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
The Ultimate Crony Capitalist: How Donald Trump Profited from Public Subsidies & Political Favors
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Oil Industry Wrote The Book On How To Burn Up the Planet
A new discovery into the true corruption of the oil industry and it’s relationship to Big Tobacco is sending shockwaves...
Trump Admits That He Will Lose The Election If He Releases His Tax Returns
Donald Trump admitted in a new interview that if he releases his tax returns, he will lose the election… Read...
The Koch Brothers Are Meddling In Your State Elections
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
Trump’s trickle-down ticket: Donald Trump’s VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
Scott Walker Defeated As Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Laws
(Reuters) – A federal judge has struck down a string of Wisconsin voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led legislature and...
Report Shows Tax-Dodging by Utility Companies Worth Billions
Utilities companies pay the lowest effective tax rate of any U.S. business sector, and in 2015 this tax-dodging added up...
George Will: Trump Won’t Release Tax Returns ‘Deeply Involved With Russian Oligarchs’
After the DNC hacked emails made its way to Wikileaks there have been many security experts who have said it...
The Billionaire Koch Bros’ Fingerprints Were All Over the GOP Convention
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
President Obama Announces Solar-Boosting Initiative
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of measures aimed at boosting access to solar energy—a move one environmental...
Maddow: Trump’s Speech Could Be ‘Gateway Drug’ for KKK Becoming Mainstream in GOP
After her MSNBC colleagues determined that Donald Trump’s convention speech Thursday night was a message derived from talk radio to...
Tennessee Thumbs Nose At Reactionary Koch Bros, Hosts Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Storage Demo
The great state of Tennessee is on the cutting edge of new energy storage tech, thanks partly to its role...
Trump University Taught Students How to Exploit Disabled Homeowners
Trump University, the former for-profit business education venture that has landed Donald Trump in various courts to defend himself against...
Latest Republican Scheme: Convert Federal Public Land to State Land, Where It Can Be Sold To Billionaires
Earlier this year, a group of right-wing extremists, led by the infamous Bundy family of Nevada, took over the Malheur National...
Right-Wing Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Wants Taxpayers to Finance His New Stadium
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has promised to relocate his team to southern Nevada if the state...
Trump’s Vegas Hotel Spent Half A Million Dollars To Stop Maids From Unionizing
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump fashions himself a friend of union workers. He has bragged about having good relationships with...
Americans Subsidize The Coal, Gas, And Oil Industries To The Tune Of $2,180 Per American Per Year
Ah, society — takes us decades to turn a simple, life-saving corner. Subsidizing fossil fuels in the 21st century has...
Should Corporations Have To Tell Us What’s In Our Food?
Thom Hartmann speaks with Patty Lovera, Executive Director of Food And Water Watch, about the DARK Act – the so-called...
Paul Krugman: “The modern Republican Party is in essence a machine designed to deliver high after-tax incomes to the 1 percent”
In his Friday New York Times column, Paul Krugman argued that, when it comes down to it, the real reason...
Neo-Nazi Groups Go All In For Trump
Rick Wilson, one of the most outspoken #NeverTrump Republican figures, tore into Trump’s “neo-Nazi” fanbase on Tuesday night, saying Trump...
Paul Ryan’s “New Idea”: More Giveaways to Corporations
Attention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he...
The Hidden Billionaires Behind The Donald
Trump desperately needs to get his tiny hands on some cash to fund his presidential campaign. On TV, Trump may...
Talking Heads At Fox Feel The Pain Of CEO’s Who Are Required To Pay Employees A Living Wage
STUART VARNEY (HOST): How about this one? It is July the 1st, minimum wage increases go into effect today in...
David Cay Johnston: There is “Incredibly Strong Evidence” Donald Trump Has Committed Tax Fraud
For months, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning...
U.S. income gap widened last year as top 1 percent gained most
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
Right-Wing Trickle Down Economics Leaves a Wake of Ruin in Kansas
Slate has joined The New York Times and The Kansas City Star in highlighting what’s wrong with Kansas’ “insane right-wing...
President Obama: Donald Trump is a fake populist who has “never shown any regard for workers.”
Obama said: “Now, somebody else who has never shown any regard for workers, has never fought on behalf of social...
Victory For Labor — D.C. Enacts $15 Minimum Wage
The growing Fight for 15 movement had a huge victory this week. Washington, D.C. passed legislation on Monday night that...
Donald Trump’s “Veterans Donations” Is Actually A Political Slush Fund
Donald Trump’s “veteran donations” seem to just be a political slush fund. And, like every horrible thing this guy does,...
Long Awaited “Obamacare” Replacement Epitomizes Republican Barbarism
Most Americans comprehend what it means to be cruel, sadistic, and diabolical because they’ve witnessed Republicans exhibit those qualities in...
Obama Criticizes Republicans In Congress For Obstructing Climate Action
Over the weekend, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. He used the occasion to slam congressional Republicans for their intransigent...
Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Against Payday Lenders Comes to the Post Office
Nine years ago, a Harvard law professor dreamed up a new concept: a government agency devoted solely to protecting consumers...
Editorial Propagandists at Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Shill for Exxon
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has tried every trick in the book to wrongly defend ExxonMobil against allegations that...
Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Billionaire Trump For Skipping Taxes
Editor’s Note: While this isn’t explicitly stated below, Trump has mentioned before an intention to all but wipe out the “Department...
Right-Wing Ideologue Paul Ryan Plans To Weaken, Roll Back, & Undermine Existing Regulations
While megatons of attention are understandably being paid to Donald Trump’s latest fascist spew, another Republican is laying out an agenda showing anyone...
New York Attorney General: Trump University is “Straight Up Fraud”
Appearing Thursday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had strong words for the recent Trump...
DuPont Knowingly Poured Poison in the Ohio River and Turned a Blind Eye
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on RT’s Redacted Tonight to discuss DuPont’s history with a deadly product known as C8,...
Trump’s Bullying: Frivolous Lawsuits Run Amok
Donald Trump is not one to shy away from lawsuits. Any prominent figure – from politicians to comedians to journalists...
Exxon’s CEO Convinces Shareholders that Profit is More Important than Human Survival
After a long battle to even get on the agenda for ExxonMobil’s 2016 Annual Meeting, the company’s shareholders on Wednesday...
