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Let Them Eat Carbon: Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits
As concern over climate change begins to lower the demand for fossil fuels in the US and Europe, fossil fuel companies are accelerating their sales to developing nations, where …
EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry “Escape Route” Around Looming Pesticide Ban
Documents reveal that the health commission of the European Union is attempting to develop a procedural “escape route” to evade an upcoming EU-wide ban on endocrine disrupting pesticides.
Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Care Who’s Going to Congress, and That’s a Bad Thing
A pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the …
Caribbean Reparations Initiative Inspires a Revitalization of US Movement
An intellectual paradigm shift in the Caribbean and in other parts of the African diaspora is revitalizing the reparations campaign that must become a critical component of the human …
South America: How “Anti-Extractivism” Misses the Forest for the Trees
A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America.
The Proud Message of Utah Phillips
It is often forgotten that the path to the Great American Middle Class was forged in large part by labor activists and social reformers during the first six decades …
CNN LIVE or LIES? Distorting Ukraine’s Crisis With Maps
CNN LIVE may not only be trying to remake the outside world of cartographic images, but also the inside world of its viewers, starting with perception and mental maps.
Reasons for Intellectual Conformity
In theory, many people hail the idea of independent thinking and praise the courage of speaking truth to power.
Reproductive Justice: Coming Out of the Abortion Closet
The Democratic Party stopped patronizing women into feeling like abortion is something they should apologize for.
After 50 Years in Congress, John Conyers’ Ballot Placement at Risk
For the first time Rep. Conyers may not be on the ballot, all due to a technicality.