A series of web leaks have exposed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) plans to expand its commitments to censor “dangerous” speech online. According to an October 31 report from the Intercept, DHS has announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board.” According to the article, the panel’s goals are to police “misinformation (false…
Environmental scientists have found hazardous levels of manufactured chemicals in rainwater, leading to the dramatic conclusion that rainwater is “no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth,” according to an August 2022 report from Business Insider. Morgan McFall-Johnsen’s article reported results from a global study of four types of perfluoroalkyl…
Independent reporting in Fall 2022 revealed that, between 2012 and 2021, at least 1733 environmental activists were killed—amounting, on average, to nearly one killing every two days. This figure, from Global Witness’ “Decade of Defiance” report, is “almost certainly an underestimate,” because “conflict, restrictions on a free press and civil…
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According to reporting in various independent news outlets during the first week of January 2023, American law enforcement personnel—primarily police and sheriff deputies—killed more people in 2022 than any preceding year on record. This reporting relies upon research by the Mapping Police Violence Project which chronicled 1,183 people killed by…
According to reporting by NPR in December 2022 and The Conversation in January 2023, unions won more than 70 percent of representation certification elections in 2022. In fiscal year 2022, 2,510 petitions for union representation were filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) between October 1, 2021 and September…
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Coverage of an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report, by Common Dreams in December 2022, revealed that the earnings of the top 0.1 percent in the United States grew by 465.1 percent between 1979 and 2021. In that same time period the earnings of the bottom ninety percent grew only 28.7…
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Reporting in Spring 2022 by Inequality.org, Reuters, and Common Dreams has revealed that the average bonus for those working in New York City’s securities industry––in other words, on Wall Street––rose 1743 percent between 1985 and 2021. The number is likely higher in 2023. Had the minimum wage increased at the…
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According to a working paper by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, as reported on in the National Alliance to End Homelessness on September 2, 2022, staggering percentages of unhoused people are employed. During the study period, spanning 2011 to 2018, an estimated 53 percent…
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Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and other fossil fuel companies for their efforts to deny the role of fossil fuel products in causing climate change. In a November 2022 report for Common Dreams, Kenny Stancil described the lawsuit—a “first of its kind” RICO case—which seeks…
At least 9.3 million students go to public schools in rural areas, “more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts,” Nichole Dobo reported for the Hechinger Report in September 2022. “Although rural schools have made tremendous gains in high school graduation rates,” Dobo wrote, “these students…
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