Author: Stephen Millies

News flash from the 1880s: Tom Edison wants to steal your gas and kerosene lamps.  The government is trying to force you to buy Edison’s new-fangled electric light bulbs. Nothing like that happened 140 years […]

The U.S. Congress imposed a labor agreement on 115,000 railroad workers on December 1, disregarding the vote from four unions to reject it. That is how little real democracy there is in the United States. […]

Dec. 29 ― At least 400 people turned out this afternoon in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York, to say no to transphobia and all forms of bigotry.  They were guarding the Drag […]

Tucker Carlson spews hate like a flamethrower on Fox News five nights a week. He told millions of viewers that the Black Lives Matter movement is “poison.” Carlson hates the anti-racist movement that brought 26 […]

Dec. 16 ― Supporters packed the courtroom at Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Post-Conviction Relief Act hearing today before Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons. Outside, more supporters demonstrated in the rain. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a world-renowned political […]

Nobody should be surprised by President Joe Biden’s strikebreaking role in imposing a contract on railroad workers. The agreement had already been voted down by workers in several unions. The imposed contract fails to address […]