'Fox, Meet Henhouse': Trump Offers Goldman Sachs President Top Economic Post | Lauren McCauley

Goldman Sachs president and COO Gary Cohn at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo: Valeriano DiDomenico/World Economic Forum) "It's called a rigged economy and this is how it w ...

Nuclear Calendar -- December 5, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- December 5, 2016 Dec. 4-7 National Symposium on Nuclear Weapons. Santa Fe, NM. Dec. 5 9:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), "U.S.-ROK Allianc ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Nov. 14, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- November 14, 2016 Oct. 4-Dec. 13 William Perry, former Defense Secretary. "Living at the Nuclear Brink: Yesterday and Today." Course registration online. Nov. 11-15 Biological Wea ...

Fraction Magic -- Part 1: Votes Are Being Counted As Fractions Instead Of Whole Numbers | Bev Harris

Bev Harris -- BlackBoxVoting.org May 12, 2016 SUMMARY This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in th ...

'Tired of Waiting' for Politicians, Minimum Wage on Ballot in Four States | Lauren McCauley

"We all know that our economy is broken. We have seen that elected officials are just failing to do anything about it," said Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of The Fairness Project. (Photo: Wi ...

Internal Watchdog Blasts EPA's Egregious Delay on Flint Emergency Order | Deirdre Fulton

Susan Hedman, the former EPA region 5 director, stepped down earlier this year. (Photo: Flint Journal) The EPA 'had the authority and sufficient information' to issue such an order as early as June 2 ...

Judge Rejects 'Riot' Charges Against Amy Goodman in North Dakota

Oct. 17, 2016 (DemocracyNow.org) -- A North Dakota judge Monday refused to authorize riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-l ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 17, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar Friend's Committee on National Legislation October 17, 2016 Oct. 3-Nov. 2 U.N. General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. Oct. 4 ...

Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis

WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable popul ...

Earth 'Locked Into' Hitting Temperatures Not Seen in 2 Million Years: Study | Nika Knight

"This is not an exact prediction or a forecast," the author of the new research said, advising caution regarding her study's temperature predictions. "The experiment we as humans are doing is very di ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 19, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation September 19, 2016 Sept. 14-24 Screening of Command and Control. Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., New York. Sept. 19 Noon, Daryl Kimball, ...