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San Francisco’s Green Power Plan Still Stalled by Corporate Interests a Decade Later
San Francisco's CleanPowerSF, initially calling for over a billion dollars in renewable energy a decade ago, has been attacked and subverted despite its popularity.
Royals and Aristocrats Seek Big Gains From Fracking in Britain
The British government wants to be u201ca leader of the shale gas revolutionu201d and is offering massive tax breaks to the industry, despite its devastating ecological impact.
Obama Vs. Snowden: Parsing the Presser
Obama's recent media counteroffensive against Edward Snowden is unquestionably a tribute to Edward Snowden's ability to poke the empire's all-seeing eye while managing to secure an offshore sanctuary where …
Obama Vs. Snowden: Parsing the Presser
Obama's recent media counteroffensive against Edward Snowden is unquestionably a tribute to Edward Snowden's ability to poke the empire's all-seeing eye while managing to secure an offshore sanctuary where …
Did Manning Help Avert War in Iran?
Pvt. Bradley Manning is being punished for his release of classified documents, but little attention is being paid to the benefits from those disclosures, including how he may have …
Dirty Energy’s Dirty Tactics: Boulder on the Front Lines of the Renewable Energy Future
The transition to clean energy and grid independence frightens the utility industry, which is fighting the people in places like Boulder, Colorado.
Bad Precedent and Bad Faith
As it stands now, in terms of civil liberties there is not much u201cdaylightu201d between Obamau2019s practice and the past behavior of neoconservative vulgarians such as George W. Bush.
Bad Precedent and Bad Faith
As it stands now, in terms of civil liberties there is not much u201cdaylightu201d between Obamau2019s practice and the past behavior of neoconservative vulgarians such as George W. Bush.
Abracadabra, You’re a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the Great Recession.
Time to March on Washington – Again
Fifty years after Kingu2019s historic march, the struggle for racial justice faces unprecedented challenges.