By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
This is a tale about the negative environmental and health effects of coal and obtaining justice for America’s coal miners. It is also a tale of how large contributors to the campaigns of both Trump and McConnell can appear to have been given dispensation to duck out of their obligations.
By Vicki Hird, Food Climate Research Network
A trade treaty between the US and EU, which represents around a third of global trade, should be big news. And rightly so.
By David Morris, On The Commons
[W]e can then launch a much needed and long overdue national conversation about the benefits and limitations of trade and the dangers of ceding sovereignty to a new international constitution whose goal is to limit democracy and expand corpocracy.
By Grant Mincy, Center for a Stateless Society
The current system is concerned with the well-being of the politically connected corporati instead of the common good – Appalachian communities.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Some communities in Ohio are fed up by the way that corporations, colluding with state legislatures, simply override the concerns of local communities.