The F Word with Laura Flanders

It’s "Giving Tuesday" on December 3. Following Black Friday, on Giving Tuesday people all across the United States will be kicking off the holiday season not with shopping, but with giving. In just its second year, Giving Tuesday is attracting thousands of participants large and small. Whenever haves help have-nots that’s worthy of praise. Still, when massive global corporations want praise too, I...

When the UN’s climate chief told a meeting of coal executives this month that most of the world’s coal reserves will have to stay in the ground if we want to perpetuate life on the planet, we should have heard a shudder on Wall St. But we didn’t. Investors keep on trading in fossil fuel as if there‘s no tomorrow but there will be for carbon, if the governments of world ever get serious about cappi...

Far be it from me to distract from the important blaming and shaming around the Obamacare website. But if we do have a minute left for our actual health, can we talk about the radiation threat that seems to be soaring on the Pacific? So as not frighten anyone unduly, I’ll quote the calm people at Reuters: “The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will as early as this week begin re...

Bill de Blasio is now Mayor-elect de Blasio. Take that, all of you who doubted that a candidate who planted his campaign on a promise of tackling inequality could attract enough support to win. On November 5, New Yorker’s elected just such a guy by a landslide: 73 to 24 percent. On Election night, de Blasio took the stage, not in some swanky corporate ballroom in a midtown Manhattan hotel but in t...

We need Robin Hood because between them the richest 400 Americans are worth just over $2 trillion dollars. We only need a fraction of that to stop food stamp cuts. Robin Hood would know what to do. Read more at http://GRITtv.org.

It was early but for a moment I thought I was reading something important in an ad in the New York Times. Someone was paying attention to our nation's teetering imbalance! (Not. )

In the same week that the pseudo-Nobels in economics were announced, regular Americans were diving into economics. October 12-18 is New Economy Week. Read more about New Economy Week in Yes Magazine.

Big Labor is welcoming domestic workers like family. But are they getting up and washing the dishes?

What do Takism Square, Google Glass, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and NSA data gathering have in common? Find out in this interview with Noam Chomsky. This conversation was recorded backstage at the Left Forum in New York, June 8, 2013.

It is a mind-boggling thing to hear an international journalist compare democracy to disease, but that’s just what happened in a CNN debate around military action in Syria.

Fifty years after the historic March on Washington, President Obama is participating in celebrations at the Lincoln Memorial. At the same time, he’s said to be considering authorizing action in Syria. I’m sorry Mr. President, but you cannot simultaneously celebrate a nonviolent movement and contemplate military strikes.