National – Page 239 – People's World

Thousands protest Koch Brothers convention in Ohio

August 24, 2015 By Rick Nagin And Bruce Bostick

"Too many people have fought too hard, for too long, under tough conditions, for us to allow a handful of greedy billionaires to steal our democracy."

First tar sands mine to open for business in Utah

August 21, 2015 By Brady McCombs

"It's heartbreaking. It's impossible to reclaim and rehabilitate the land once they do what they are planning to do with it."

Here’s why close collaboration between NSA and AT&T matters

August 20, 2015 By Julia Angwin, ProPublica And Jeff Larson, ProPublica

New disclosures about the NSA's partnership with AT&T could reignite constitutional challenges to the spy agency's efforts to wiretap the Internet.

Indigenous News: Youth sue U.S. government over climate change

August 20, 2015 By Andrea Perkins

"This lawsuit is made necessary by the at-best schizophrenic, if not suicidal, nature of U.S. climate and energy policy."

First female U.S. train engineer inducted into N.D. Railroad Hall of Fame

August 19, 2015 By PAI

Thirty-nine years ago, Ramona Dockter became the first female freight train engineer.