The Bank of England pushed up interest rates to 5% from 4.5% on Thursday in order to quell inflation, a move which is set to cause more pain for mortgage holders.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Greg King/GettyI spent the summer of 1990 “hiding out” at my parents’ modest home in western Sonoma County. At twenty-nine years old I’d landed back at the family abode after my two closest colleagues had been violently attacked and almost killed for attempting to protect redwood forests. After I’d lived through five years of threats and assaults for the crime of trying to save the very last ancient redwood groves still standing outside of par
Law enforcement has a shabby record when it comes to protecting environmental protestors and activists, but with the Judi Bari car bombing, it looked like the feds crossed a line.