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Buyer Beware: Latest Documentary From the Tickells Promotes Natural Gas
While purporting to advocate for consumer choice, the new film “Pump” promotes alternative fuels that can only be obtained through the process of fracking.
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Are Tiny Houses a Viable Affordable Housing Solution?
Some Americans looking to shrink their carbon footprint are doing so by shrinking their homes.
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Obama’s New Oil Wars
Until recently, the use of the term u201cthe oil weaponu201d has largely been identified with the efforts of Arab producers to dissuade the United States from supporting Israel by …
Komen and the Pinkwashed Drill Bit: Fracking “For the Cure”
The Susan G. Komen foundation has taken “pinkwashing” breast cancer to a new extreme by partnering with a fracking firm to produce pink drill bits.
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Pena Nieto on Indigenous Rights: Praise Abroad, Protest at Home
Many indigenous and peasant organizations have pointed out that Mexico's energy reform is irreconcilable with the rights of the nation's indigenous peoples and small farmers.
Guantanamo’s Force-Feeding Challenged
If anything qualifies for the description of a festering boil, Guantanamo does.
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The Media’s New Climate Denial
When journalists cover fracking, they often fail to mention its contribution to global warming.
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What’s Really Going On in Hong Kong?
The discontent is rooted in the massive social inequality in Hong Kong - one of the world's major financial centers - and the growing lack of opportunity for its …
For Black Women, Domestic Violence and State Violence Go Hand in Hand
For many black women like Marissa Alexander, instead of support and healing, defending themselves from domestic violence can lead to the loss of freedom through incarceration.
Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discusses education and indoctrination, the 1960s, the Powell memorandum, democracy, the creation of ISIS, the media and the way “capitalism” actually works in the United States.