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The Real Cost of Fracking: How the US Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets and Food
The first researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living near fracking drill sites were Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald.
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New Pope Can End Church Cover-Up of Child Abuse
The Vatican can prove the naysayers wrong.
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The Second Term That Movements Build
The work grassroots organizers have been doing to put pressure on the White House since well before the 2008 election is paying off.
“Coercive Diplomacy” and the Failure of the Nuclear Negotiations
The US posture in talks with Iran has reflected the perspective of a dominant power accustomed to employing coercive power.
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How ACA Fuels Corporatization of American Health Care
We now have a situation where patients are losing confidence in their doctors, while doctors are losing confidence in our ability to do the right thing for our patients.
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#Not1More Means Not One More
The newest line we are supposed to swallow is that the President is prioritizing deportations of “felons, not families.”
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Thanksgiving Day and the Powerful Play
Hold tight to who you have in this world, even if you're down deep in a ditch
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Ferguson Thanksgiving: A Former Slave Proposed the Holiday 55 Years Before Lincoln. Why His Version Matters Today
A grand jury's refusal to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson has crystallized ugly truths.
Privateers Make a Water Grab
Facing increasing opposition abroad, over the past several decades, global water privatizers have begun to see US cities as expansion markets.
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Show Up on Thanksgiving or Get Fired
Why can't unbridled consumerism take a breather on holidays?