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Earth: Game Over?
John Feffer: We're in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and this will be the first one - and possibly the last - we will witness as human …
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General Bentley Rayburn Is Wrong Regarding Air Force Academy Cadets’ Religious Rights
The United States military is a hyper-tribal, adversarial, communal and ritualistic world, which far too very few American citizens fully understand.
US Plutocracy and the Dodd-Frank Sausage Machine
With the rapid concentration of wealth in a few well-manicured hands and the right-wing US Supreme Court declaring money to be speech, the US surge toward oligarchy has gained …
Racism and Criminalization in the Media
A recent ‘People’ magazine cover sparks consideration of the hiding-in-plain-sight but never-discussed racism that characterizes the United States and the ways US media subtly sustain that racism.
The Bleaching of San Francisco: Extreme Gentrification and Suburbanized Poverty in the Bay Area
San Francisco is experiencing a wave of unprecedented hyper-gentrification and urban removal.
Barnett Shale Fracking Victims Win First Round in Court Battle With Gas Industry
The Parr case has already started to redefine what winning can look like, even though Aruba Petroleum is likely to appeal.
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Persecuted and Imprisoned for Environmental Activism
Around the world, environmental activists are imprisoned for peaceful acts to save us all.
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In Love and Trouble: Climate Change and the Power of Honesty
Even though we know there will be climate change tragedy, no matter what we do now, we can still avert some disasters, save some species that would otherwise be …
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Judge Tosses Retaliation Lawsuit by Fired NY Fed Examiner
A federal judge dismissed the claims of a former bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who says she was fired for refusing to change her …
The NSA Comes Home: Police Departments Conceal Phone Tracking Equipment From Courts
Police departments across the nation are concealing their use of cellphone tracking equipment from local courts.