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EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry “Escape Route” Around Looming Pesticide Ban
Documents reveal that the health commission of the European Union is attempting to develop a procedural “escape route” to evade an upcoming EU-wide ban on endocrine disrupting pesticides.
Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Care Who’s Going to Congress, and That’s a Bad Thing
A pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the …
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Derailing the Dynasty Train
In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.
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The Future of Food?
Global agricultural projection needs to increase by 70 percent, at a minimum, by 2050 in order to keep apace with a projected 40 percent increase in population by that …
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Chris Hedges | Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary
Thomas Paine never veered from the proposition that liberty meant the liberty to speak the truth even if no one wanted to hear it.
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The New York Times: Everybody Who’s Anybody Wants to Bomb Syria
Why would the Obama administration want to get the United States more deeply involved militarily in Syria? Didn't US public opinion decisively reject this last fall?
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If the Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so.
Caribbean Reparations Initiative Inspires a Revitalization of US Movement
An intellectual paradigm shift in the Caribbean and in other parts of the African diaspora is revitalizing the reparations campaign that must become a critical component of the human …
Reflections on Vietnam and Other Moments of Campus Activism: An Interview With Radical Professor Bertram Strieb
Bertram Strieb, LaSalle University professor emeritus in the Department of Geology, Physics and Environmental Science, reflects on antiwar activism in Philadelphia during the Vietnam War.
South America: How “Anti-Extractivism” Misses the Forest for the Trees
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America.