Julia Conley

Pompeo Puts ‘Rubber Stamp’ of Approval on Saudi Arabia’s Slaughter of Yemeni Civilians

“Pompeo’s ‘certification’ is a farce. The Saudis deliberately bombed a bus full of children. There is only one moral answer, and that is to end our support for their intervention in Yemen.”

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
yemen

As local journalists in Yemen reported that at least 15 civilians were killed in Saudi airstrikes in the port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially certified that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), whose three-year assault on the country has been made possible by U.S. support, are doing all they

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Worries Grow Over “Rickety Old” Nuclear Power Plants in Hurricane Florence’s Path

“The storm’s potential path also includes half a dozen nuclear power plants, pits holding coal-ash and other industrial waste, and numerous eastern hog farms that store animal waste in massive open-air lagoons.”

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
hurricane florence

With 1.5 million residents now under orders to evacuate their homes in preparation for Hurricane Florence's landfall in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, the region faces the possibility of catastrophe should the storm damage one or more of the nuclear power plants which lie in its potential path. As the Associated Press reported on

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Trump Administration Reveals Plan to Indefinitely Imprison Families With Kids

“Locking up children indefinitely is cruel and heartless, even for the Trump administration. It is nothing less than an assault on child safety and fundamental human dignity.”

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By Julia Conley
migrant families

Attempting to change two decades of precedent, the Trump administration announced its intention Thursday to lift court-ordered limits on how long migrant children can be detained—a proposal multiple critics promptly denounced as "Gitmo for children." The administration said Thursday it intends to enter into the Federal Register new regulations

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China’s Massive Spending on Clean Energy Delivers Reduction Targets 12 Years Early

While maintaining economic might, the trillions of dollars spent by China on renewable energy appears to be paying off.

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By Julia Conley
A bus moves past by solar power and wind power farms in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Oct. 10, 2015. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

Twelve years ahead of schedule, a new report finds that China may already have had its worst year for carbon emissions—a sign that the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases could be well on its way to meeting the goals put forth by the Paris climate agreement. "As part of the Paris Agreement, China pledged to peak its CO2 emissions by

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Trump: Fewer Military Parades Means More “Jet Fighters”

On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the parade would not move forward this year, after estimates for the events cost jumped more than 600 percent from previous proposals.

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By Julia Conley
russian collusion

After postponing his coveted military parade—an event which 75 percent of respondents in a poll earlier this year said was not a good use of government funds—President Donald Trump shared with his Twitter followers on Friday that he'll find another use for the money that would have paid for the parade: adding to the military's already-massive

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Cancer-Causing Weedkiller is in Your Oatmeal, Cereals, and Snacks

Concerned that “President Trump’s lawless EPA” won’t take action to protect children from the chemical, EWG calls on companies to end use of glyphosate.

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By Julia Conley
Shoppers tour the cereal aisle at a grocery store on April 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

A study of dozens of popular oat-based breakfast foods delivered sobering news this week when almost all of the products examined by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) were found to contain the chemical glyphosate. "We're very concerned that consumers are eating more glyphosate than they know," said Scott Faber, vice president of government

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Trump Resorts to ‘1984 Totalitarian Gaslighting,’ Telling Supporters to Ignore the News

The tape was recorded during the 2016 campaign, offering new evidence that the president may have violated campaign finance laws.

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By Julia Conley
trump 1984

Hours before President Donald Trump's former lawyer released an audio recording of Trump discussing a hush-money payment to a former Playboy model, the president uttered a phrase that critics said seemed ripped from the pages of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984. "It's all working out," Trump told a gathering of Veterans of Foreign

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