The Wingnut is an anarchist collective in Richmond, Virginia. The Wingnut is dedicated to promoting social justice and community organizing in Sout...

IPS observed a police officer conducting random searches of pedestrians. Asked why he was doing so, the officer...replied, "Do you want to be responsible for a terrorist attack?"...The officer stated that the transit system was shut down due to a "terrorist threat" posed by anarchists, that a cache of Molotov cocktails had been discovered, and that the crude weapons were "all over the city"...A spokesperson for the G8/G20 Integrated Security Unit later contradicted the police officer, stating in a phone interview, "There's no terrorist threat."

Josh Fox's film Gasland has stirred up a lot of controversy over the environmental damage caused by shale gas drilling. Shale gas reservoir rock lies many thousands of feet below the surface, with the depth depending on the location.

Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17, 2010 the CCPA and the Canadian Health Coalition hosted a breakfast lecture on the sustainability of medicare for Members of Parliament.

A roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Deepwater Horizon
-Venezuela continues nationalizations
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

For most of their history, labor unions opposed
attempts at loosening immigration laws and often threw their weight
behind restrictionist measures.