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Fracking Insiders Score Big in New Gas Bill, But Americans Not Told the True Costs of Massive Drilling Plan
(Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Corporate insiders peddling the claim that drilling for methane gas will solve America's energy needs just scored big in Washington — …
Offshored Production, Dysfunctional Diplomacy and Outsourced Policy: A Three-Part Analysis on America’s Trade Decline
(Photo: Zak Greant / Flickr) American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die I wrote in a previous article about why America's manufacturing sector, …
Energy at What Cost? Protests Against Forced Eviction from US-Backed Coal Mine Continue in Bangladesh
(Photos: Shahriar Sunny) As the sun rose on March 28, 2011, roughly 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate against a mining project that would displace tens of thousands …
Back to the Streets This Weekend for Peace and Justice
The beloved peace and justice communities are rallying—again—this weekend! On April 9th in NYC and 10th in San Francisco, human rights, civil rights, and workers rights leaders …
Radiation, Japan and the Marshall Islands
A nuclear test is detonated on the Enewetak Atoll, a segment of the Marshall Islands, on November 15, 1952. (Photo: United States Department of Energy) When the …
An Afghan Peace Movement, Not a US Peace Jirga
(Photo: ion-bogdan dumitrescu / Flickr) Kabul, Afghanistan - The United States, on the verge of shutting down its own government for lack of funds, just forked over …
Robin Hood in Reverse in the US: Seven Examples
The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. A federal development program intended to help poor communities, the New Market Tax Credit, instead funnels up to ten billion taxpayer dollars to big …
Sex Workers File Civil Rights Suit Against Louisiana’s “Crime Against Nature” Law
The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's 205-year-old "crime against nature" statute, a law designed to …
Koch’s Web of Influence
David Koch, a billionaire known for his contributions to conservative causes. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from …
Energy Is Ugly
For years, “not in my backyard” has been the battle cry of residents in Cape Cod who stand opposed to an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The …