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Gaming the System: The Relevance of The Hunger Games
As The Hunger Games trilogy gains popularity, its themes of class inequality, poverty, class warfare and oppression gain prominence across the globe.
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Memo to Media: Israeli Settlement Expansion Is Not All About the United States
It's the existence of Israel's West Bank settlements at all, not the timing of an announcement about new construction, that should concern the media.
Open Letter to College and University Presidents Re: Global Security 101
Since the onset of the Nuclear Age our powerful technologies, developed by human ingenuity, have put our societies and humanity itself at grave risk.
Ways & Means to Americans: Get Lost
At the Ways and Means website, one of the first things the GOP did was to cut off email contact between ordinary Americans and possibly the most powerful tax-writing …
Mine Featured in “Coal” Reality TV Show Cited for Labor Law Violations
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against Cobalt Coal and two other entities, charging that the companies subverted unions in pursuit of profit.
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Senior Gambling Addiction Rates Are Soaring in America, Driven by Corporate Greed and Bad Government Policy
America's elderly are secretly spinning out of control.
Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism
While the media in general has recently taken much criticism, for trivializing news and other flaws, the science media has somehow escaped serious attention.
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The NSA Is Hacking Our Hardware Too
It seems that the NSA's surveillance activities go beyond exploiting vulnerabilities in computer software.
Infrastructure 101: The Evolution of Building Big Things (Part 1)
The US has a long history of big, publicly funded infrastructure projects undermined by inadequate taxation and a lurch to privatization that is disastrous.
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USDA Moves to Approve “Agent Orange” GMO Seeds
Dow Chemical has engineered corn and soy seeds to be resistant to several herbicides, but researchers say fighting weeds with tougher chemicals is not a sustainable solution.