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Big Players Promote Water Privatization
As soon as the new federal water law was enacted, three water organizations took the lead to transform it into a vehicle for privatization. We report on how their …
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Rent or Tuition? The Growing Student Dilemma
Skyrocketing university costs are forcing a growing number of students to choose between paying for rent or tuition. Colleges are failing to meet the needs of marginalized students.
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Anti-Politics and the 1%
Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …
Fighting Bad Science in the Senate
The Senate hearing for the Women's Health Protection Act shows just how important it is for women's health advocates to push for the facts.
Groups Seek Summary Judgment Against FEC for Dismissal of Crossroads GPS Complaint
The FEC failed to investigate Crossroads GPS for not registering as a political committee.
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Doomsday Trigger for Megadrought?
One of the worst North American droughts in history could be getting a whole lot worse.
Global Ecosystem Collapse
Either humanity immediately comes together to embrace universal liberty, ecology, fairness and justice, or alone we each face a violent, gut wrenching end of being.
Bungling Toward Oblivion: A Letter to My Friends in Russia
Empathy is a human quality that is best engendered through a personal acquaintance with individuals.
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Waters is Right
The Israeli government makes no pretense of observing the most basic protocols of war: minimizing civilian deaths, proportionality, avoiding the targeting of third party non-combatants like the UN.
Is the Conflict in South Sudan the Opening Salvo in the Battle for a Continent?
Is the conflict tearing this new nation apart actually a proxy fight between the world's two top economic and military powers?