disasters

Trump tries to deny workers’ comp to irradiated Hanford cleanup workers

December 13, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

"Sick and injured workers are forced to make the case with one hand tied behind their backs, and blindfolded."

60,000 liters of oil spills from pipeline into Brazilian bay

December 10, 2018 By Lorraine Chow

"It was a leak of significant proportions, with an impact on the mangroves."

Young Navajo woman brutally murdered in Kentucky

December 7, 2018 By Albert Bender

A young Navajo woman, 26 year-old Amanda Dakota Webster was slain December 1, at a hotel in Florence, Kentucky.

This week in history: Pearl Harbor antecedents, the attack, consequences

December 7, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

This remains relevant as we remember the attack and also the horrific internment of Japanese Americans that followed it.

Searing indictment delivered of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico

November 14, 2018 By Carol Ramos Widom

Puerto Ricans and supporters described the disastrous inequities suffered by the people of Puerto Rico as a result of the colonial relationship with the United States.