by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 8, 2016 | Climate, Democracy
KOTV reports Thursday night on the hundreds who gathered in Tulsa in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and others opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. The fight between Native Americans and the financial interests dead set on pushing an environmentally hazardous oil...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election 2016
Just when you thought that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "outreach" to African-American voters could not get more absurd, The New York Times on Thursday published the "draft script" of an interview Trump is scheduled to videorecord Saturday in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, ever the showman, is certainly poised this Wednesday to deliver a heavy dose of eye-grabbing and eye-rolling reality-show drama. Ahead of what is being billed as a major speech on immigration in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 29, 2016 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
News out of Germany that U.S. trade negotiations with Europe similar to the one that produced the Trans-Pacific Partnership have collapsed is another sign that an organized grassroots is successfully putting the multinational corporate trade agenda on its heels....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 18, 2016 | Democracy
People fighting the private prison industry scored a huge victory Thursday when the Justice Department issued a memo announcing that it would begin the process of "reducing – and ultimately ending – our use of privately operated prisons." That memo was written by...
