The Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world. With an endowment of more than $50 billion, the Foundation has more money on hand than many countries. Famous for his high-handed leadership in the organization, Bill Gates has used this money to shape education policy here in America and health policy abroad. Below is a look into the many horrors of the Gates Foundation.
ByBrian Platt
This country is going so far to the right you won’t recognize it.
ByBrian Platt
In a town where Sanders and Warren are widely popular and Amazon is not, it’s not hard to imagine that Amazon’s support of Egan Orion was actually bad for his campaign.
ByGreg Ryan
On May 1st, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best announced a series of “emphasis patrols” aimed at “an attempt to reduce crime and fear of crime” in select Seattle neighborhoods. Curiously, the seven neighborhoods chosen for the patrols were not crime hot-spots, in fact, many had seen a steady decline in crime over the last year.
ByBrian Platt
S__eattle is Dying begins with footage captured by a drone as it rises above a homeless encampment on the south side of the city, eventually revealing the shimmering towers of Seattle’s urban core. This, the third documentary on homelessness made by local news anchor Eric Johnson and aired on KOMO News (a holding of Sinclair Broadcasting), is not a story about the homeless themselves,
ByBrian Platt
We have such sounds to play you. Find us on the other side of these walled gardens of aural delights…
We take a moment to remember PNW native Randy Weaver in connection with the recent shooting in Buffalo and discuss what the Democrats response to white supremacist violence was in the 1990s. Then we take a dive into the politics of gentrification and discuss the “Minneapolis miracle.”
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