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Green Century Part I: A Means to an End
Expected Hedge Fund vs. Argentina Ruling Will Impact Global Poverty
Any day, the US 2nd Circuit Court will rule between Argentina and hedge funds; the ruling will impact global poverty and poor country access to credit. Argentina preemptively filed …
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How The New York Times Discusses Drone Strikes
The New York Times, the most respected newspaper in the world, evidently remains unpersuaded of the illegality of American drone strikes, and continues to take a bizarre, tortured approach …
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Why White Men Love Star Trek
When you are born black, brown, red, yellow, or female in America no one tells you that you are destined to rule, to become king of the mountain. But …
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The Anti-Choice Extremist Who Wants To Be Virginia’s Governor
The struggle of Texan women against dangerous anti-choice legislation - the struggle that made Senator Wendy Davis an overnight hero for the reproductive health movement - suffered a blow …
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A Picket Line for Civil Liberties: Activists Target Nancy Pelosi for Supporting the Surveillance State
A group of over seventy Sonoma, Marin, and other Bay Area citizens, activists, and community leaders recently took House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to task for supporting …
Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
“Only the mass can get America out of the me,” is the message novelist Theodore Dreiser put forth over a century ago, and it is still true today.
Climate of Change: What Does an Inside-Outside Strategy Mean?
Climate is one of the most important issues of our time, yet it is regarded as more of an inconvenience than an inconvenient truth.
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We’re Taxing the Rich … and So Can You
There is an alternative to austerity; its name is ‘progressive taxes.’
Food for Body, Food for Thought, Food for Justice: People’s Grocery in Oakland, California
When individuals are forced to travel outside their community for groceries, not only does their access to healthy food suffer. The economy does, too.