Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. RootsAction.org co-founder Norman Solomon praised the U.S. Department of Justice’s apparent decision to drop its threat to imprison author and journalist James Risen unless he reveals his source in reporting the story of Operation Merlin. RootsAction.org coordinated the petition campaign “We Support James Risen Because We[Read More…]

Bill for 2015 Funding Guts Protections for Rivers and Wildlife, Cuts Regulatory Oversight of Financial Sector, Exposure to Toxic Chemicals, Children’s Nutrition WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2014.  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a 2015 omnibus spending bill yesterday larded with dozens of riders and funding cuts that favor corporate profits over[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014.  CIA Director John Brennan spoke with press today about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on his agency’s program of rendition, secret detention, and torture. ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero had this reaction: As the Senate report shows, the CIA used methods that have long been[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2014 — House and Senate appropriators have put forward a bill that includes substantial cuts in the enforcement budget of the Environmental Protection Agency and a number of provisions that would thwart efforts to protect health and the environment.  But the bill does not include the most damaging[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2014 – As mounds of oil refining waste continue to loom near homes, parks and schools on Chicago’s Southeast Side, the City of Chicago today rejected requests for looser regulation of petcoke and coal piles in the area. The City rejected variance requests from KCBX which would have[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—December 10, 2014. This week, Congress will consider a budget bill to keep the federal government funded through the end of the fiscal year.  In response, Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director, released the following statement: “House Republicans are at it again. In their last act of the[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 10, 2014.  Congressional negotiators reached a deal last night on an omnibus spending bill to close the 113th Congress. A provision will increase the maximum legal contribution an individual can give to all three national party committees combined to more than $1.5 million per two-year election cycle. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 10, 2014. For more than a year, I’ve traveled the city on a mission to spread a message about an equitable, thriving Chicago with fresh leadership that is willing to break from the status quo. That message has resonated throughout every neighborhood, ethnic group, and age group in the[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2014.  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary of its long-anticipated report today, revealing details about the CIA’s brutal post-9/11 torture programs. The report found that the CIA’s abuse of detainees was far more brutal and widespread that previously known, that CIA officials not[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2014. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said a long-awaited report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA’s use of torture in the years following the 9/11 terror attacks should prompt “accountability,” along with changes in[Read More…]