This year’s Right Livelihood Laureates demonstrate that «we can turn the tide.».
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is among a group of tireless and courageous people being honored with this year's Right Livelihood Award for their efforts "stemming the tide of the most dangerous global trends." The winners of this year's award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, were announced Wednesday. The Right Livelihood Award
«It makes absolutely no sense that an unarmed 22-year-old man would be killed doing what any American citizen does every day: shopping at a Walmart store,» read the statement.
In this undated family photo John Crawford III, right, stands with his mother Tressa Sherrod. A grand jury announced on Wednesday it would not indict the police officer who shot Crawford, despite video footage that showed Crawford acting casually and given no warning before being shot. (Credit: Public domain) Despite store
‘We will pay with our blood,’ says Abu Ibrahim, who fled his city of Raqqa ahead of US bombing. ‘In big wars, the civilian will pay.’
With a new wave of U.S.-led airstrikes overnight in Syria, reporting from the ground inside the country show that in addition to the damage being done to Islamic State (or ISIS) targets and other militant factions, the civilian death toll is rapidly increasing. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, bombings on oil
An emotional outburst during the testimony of Aiyana Stanley-Jones’s grandmother, who has halted the retrial of officer Joseph Weekley.
Voters rejected the referendum that would have granted Scotland independence. Yet the pro-independence movement is still gaining strength, and politicians and analysts are eager to point out that the referendum is “only one of a number routes” for achieving that goal.
GLASGOW --- Violence erupted in Scotland last week following a referendum in which the nation rejected leaving the United Kingdom to become an independent state. The historic vote, which could have ended 307 years of political union between Scotland and England, saw the largest voter turnout in British history, with 85 percent of the electorate at
Flood Wall Street exceeded organizers expectations, with over 3000 people shutting down Broadway between Exchange place and the iconic Wall Street Bull for eight hours just one day ahead of the 2014 UN Climate meeting.
On Monday, moments before about 3,000 Flood Wall Street protesters stepped off from Battery Park at the Southern tip of Manhattan for what was sure to be a more raucous and less predictable affair that the overwhelming positive People’s Climate March on Sunday, I asked Adam Clayton-Muller of Idle No More what was essential for society to
