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Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice
Racism and classism still permeate the environmental movement and US agricultural policy, fomenting environmental injustice and often defeating the ultimate purposes of the environmental movement, as well as purported …
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Lift The Millstone of Student Debt That’s Slowing The Economy
Do you think that student loan debt is only a problem for college students and perhaps their parents? Think again.
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Beware: The Meat and Seafood’s Healthy Glow May Be Artificial
Despite media exposes and a public backlash, a lot of meat today continues to be treated with gasses to keep it looking red. Like mercury in tuna, just because …
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The Boston Bomber, Superman and the American Way
The Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is arguably most hated man in America. He also may be the man who hates America most. He also believed in America …
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Burning Down the House of Horrors, Again
It's rare for news media to recycle headliners. A few years ago, the title “the house of horrors” was used to describe the gruesome findings ofeleven African-American women who …
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Tomas de Torquemada in the US Armed Forces
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discusses the pressures of Christian fundamentalism in the US military.
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Let’s Talk About this “Reform” Business – Militarization
Rozalinda Borcila explains how Immigration reform legislation continues to ignore the very people it vows to protect.
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Two Weeks, Three States: Minnesota Becomes the 12th State to Legalize Marriage Equality
Minnesota becomes the 12th state, and first midwestern state, to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
Billion-dollar fossil fuel and agribusiness corporations have brought us to the brink of a global calamity.
The Fate of the Middle East in the Balance: Syria Endgame Approaching Fast
Shamus Cooke: Obama has plenty of reasons to pursue more war in Syria.