Another Mexican crime boss in the clink won’t win our failed drug war. NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—February 26, 2014. On Saturday, the world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, was captured in a high-profile arrest in the Mexican city of Mazatlán, ending a 13-year search since he last escaped[Read More…]

MASSACHUSETTS–(ENEWSPF)–February 25, 2014.  The Robin Hood tax, a small tax of less than ½ of 1% on Wall Street transactions can generate hundreds of billions of dollars each year in the US alone. It is an idea whose impact can be felt globally as well.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2014.  Today, as Defense Sectary Chuck Hagel outlined a proposed budget for the Pentagon, Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, released the following statement: The defense budget presented today responsibly meets the challenges that our country currently faces, rather than those from a[Read More…]

New York –(ENEWSPF)—February 24, 2014. Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed the notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law: In addition to putting the lives of LGBTI Ugandans at serious risk, in signing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill,[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2014 – Rep. John Dingell, D-MI., the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress, today announced his retirement. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the following statement: “Our air, land and water are cleaner, our health better, and our environmental protections[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014.  Gap’s announcement that it will raise its own minimum wage to $9.00 an hour in 2014 and $10 an hour next year represents a major victory by working people in their growing campaign to raise wages and working standards. While Gap has more work to do[Read More…]

New York–(ENEWSPF)–February 20, 2014.  Today Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said she will no longer defend Oregon’s state ban on marriage for same-sex couples. Thomas Wheatley, director of organizing at Freedom to Marry and a key adviser to Oregon United for Marriage, released the following statement: “Attorney General Rosenblum is[Read More…]

Upper Marlboro, MD—(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2014. In a speech today, President Obama directed his administration to move forward with standards to make our tractor trailers and commercial vehicles more efficient. Heavy-duty vehicles are the second largest transportation oil users behind cars, guzzling 25 percent of all transportation fuel. Remarkably, most tractor[Read More…]

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Says Evidence Makes Clear Need for Asylum New York—(ENEWSPF)—February 18, 2014. In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and their associates, supporters and counsel, the Center for Constitutional Rights,[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2014 – President Obama’s newly announced fuel-efficiency standards for heavy trucks will help such vehicles go farther on less fuel while further curbing carbon pollution from America’s transportation sector, the largest source of carbon pollution after power plants. The following is a statement from Frances Beinecke, president of[Read More…]