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Japan’s Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup
The men responsible for cleaning up the plant are suffering from plummeting morale, health problems and deep anxiety about the future.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Trade Agreement for Protectionists
The TTP once again creates wealth for the ruling class under the guise of free trade.
Who Buys the Spies? The Hidden Corporate Cash Behind America’s Out-of-Control National Surveillance State
“The 2012 election proved to be a post-modern thriller, in which the main characters everyone thought they knew abruptly turned into their opposites” as America still struggles with the …
Afghanistan’s Future Depends on Majority Will, Pakistan and World Cooperation
After four decades of war, a global consensus over Afghanistan and reforms in the Pakistani statehood, with the United Nation's help, is needed following US withdrawal.
To Wrench or Not to Wrench: A Brief History of Direct Action in the Environmental Movement and its Potential Consequences, Ethical Implications, and Effectiveness
Within the environmental movement, the question remains whether to use legal means of activism or extralegal guerrilla tactics.
Claim on “Attacks Thwarted” by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence
The NSA, President Obama, and members of Congress have all said NSA spying programs have thwarted more than 50 terrorist plots while there is not evidence to support that …
Ban the Bomb!
Why didnu2019t the Nobel Peace Prize go to the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
Black Panthers’ Fight For Free Health Care Documented in New Book
Alondra Nelson's book
Antibiotics – Is There Another Way?
The news has been buzzing lately about a recent CDC report that confirms a link between the routine use of antibiotics for livestock and growing bacterial resistance. Surprisingly, about …
Time to Resist the Republicans’ War on Government
While we continue to argue about the debt ceiling we need to be having real discussions about the role of government in the US and how the conservative right …