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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition: One Urgent Issue
The Marshall Islands are filing lawsuits against the nine nuclear powers to get them to step up to their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to negotiate total nuclear …
Is Elliot Rodger Our 21st Century Version of Holden Caulfield?
Of course, our modern day version has to include a gun. Holden with a gun where instead of holing up in a hotel room with a prostitute, he holes …
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Germany’s 74% Myth Busting Renewable Energy Record
Sunday May 18, 2014 marked an historic day in the all-time energy hallmarks of the world. Germany had 74% of its electrical power, just about 3/4, of all its …
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Jeju Island: A Pivot on the Peace Island
Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim to build …
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Global Food Security Needs States to Ally With Family Farmers
A small number of agriculture businesses control a very large portion of the world's food supply.
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Free Markets Are Not Always the Best Medicine
In the case of health care, we know that all the assumptions behind free market optimality are grossly violated.
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Angela Davis Featured at National Forum on Police Crimes at University of Chicago
The National Forum held workshops highlighting police crimes against undocumented and other immigrant workers, the labor movement and all workers, the LGBTQ community, women, peace, and solidarity activists, and …
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The Three Laws of Pentagon Robotics
Sadly, the Pentagon has instead hired a bunch of philosophy professors from leading US universities to tell them how to make robots murder people morally and ethically.
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How Stories Shape Our World
This issue of YES! looks at the ways new voices are being heard, and at how their stories are transforming our culture.
To Repair the Environment, Rehabilitate the Body Politic
"Environmentalists aren't wrong to urge us to break with fossil fuels. The balance of nature has been tipped and there's no question we're weakening the system with our bad …