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Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Citizens and Hibakusha
How nuclear weapons have been legitimized, the new ethic required to ensure planetary security and what can be accomplished by anti-nuclear activism.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: “We Will Not Obey”; Building a Global Resistance Movement
Active citizens working together can overcome transnational corporate power and defeat it.
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Privatizing Our Vote: The Ultimate Crime
Our elected representatives have slowly but surely handed the power to decide our elections over to a handful of giant, mostly Republican-connected corporations. And they've done so by giving …
A Field Guide to Losing Friends, Influencing No One and Alienating the Middle East
Obama's Washington is the Rodney Dangerfield of the region.
Drones Have Come Out of the Shadows
New films, reports and media coverage are finally giving the American public a taste of the personal tragedies involved with drone strikes.
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Forget the Faulty Website: GOP Uses Obamacare Hearing to Whine About Abortion Instead
So far the failures of Healthcare.gov have been public and embarrassing, bandied about by Republican politicians who opposed health care reform from the start.
California Probe of Campaign Donations Sheds Light on “Dark Money“
Tony Russo had a multimillion-dollar problem. The Republican consultant and his team had raised piles of cash to use in California politics as last November's election approached.
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So, About Those Cancellation Letters…
It turns out that many of those cancellation letters were misleading, and failed to mention that customers could find better policies at lower prices on a healthcare exchange.
An Open Letter to the Climate Justice Movement
Robin Hahnel makes a plea to the environmental movement as she writes that they are “ making a serious strategic mistake by categorically rejecting international carbon trading.”
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MSNBC “Leans Forward” Into Running “Native Ads” Promoting Fracking
Critics believe the shift toward native ads blurs the line between news and advertising, public relations and propaganda.