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What Is Actually Revealed in the California Prisoners Hunger Strike: Responding to Jeffrey Beard’s Los Angeles Times Op-ed
While Jeffery Beard believes that the CA Hunger Strikes are about
Vibrant Movement for Green Energy Economy
Rather than building the upgraded energy infrastructure we need to reduce wasted energy and to efficiently store and transport energy from the sun and wind.
Drug Prohibition Is a Threat to National Security
The tide is turning on opposition to the criminalization of marijuana.
Drug Prohibition Is a Threat to National Security
The tide is turning on opposition to the criminalization of marijuana.
Now Two States Pursue Truly Affordable Education
Maryland may soon join Oregon in exploring solutions to the crisis of student debt and unaffordable education.
Ethiopia: Lives for Land in Gambella
Murder, rape, false imprisonment and torture are reportedly committed by the Ethiopian military as they implement the government's policy of land clearance and resettlement.
Can Activists Win the PR Battle With the Fossil Fuel Industry?
There is a long history of corporations and the state acting in concert to suppress environmental activism. But in recent years the relationship has deepened.
Final Thoughts on the Swartz Affair
On July 30, MIT released its long awaited report on its role in the prosecution and suicide of internet activist Aaron Swartz. Some will regard its release coinciding with …
Operation Red Hat: Chemical Weapons and the Pentagon Smokescreen on Okinawa
In July 1969, a leak of chemical weapons on Okinawa sickened more than 20 US soldiers and laid bare one of the Pentagon's biggest Cold War secrets: the storage …
What they Aren’t Telling the Public About Government Spying in New Zealand
Despite a wave of protests in major cities across the country on Saturday July 27 2013 which, for New Zealand, were reasonably large in size, Prime Minister John Key …