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How Our Big, Cheap Wedding Fought Consumerism and Helped the Planet
What does a non-commercial, environmentalist, radical wedding look like?
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Moving Beyond the Corporate Vision of Sustainability
In light of ongoing global negotiations on pressing environmental issues, it's time for efforts to curtail the excessive influence of multinational corporations over public policy to be strengthened and …
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Waging War on Valentine’s Day
How can we rescue radical love from cardboard expression and use it to “restore the humanity” of our oppressors?
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Paul Krugman | Redefining the Middle Class
One of the odd things about the United States has long been the immense range of people who consider themselves to be middle class - and are deluding themselves.
John Pilger | “Good” and “Bad” War – and the Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting
By 2020, China will be ringed by US missiles and nuclear weapons-armed aircraft, increasing tension. Will this history be forgotten, as was the US empire's expansion into Korea after …
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Stop Burning Out the Activists
The old funding model for nonprofits burns out the people, drives out the ideas and leads to vested-interest control, says longtime activist Bill Shireman.
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Why Are GOP Politicians and Anti-Union Groups Interfering With the VW Vote?
Why are Republican politicians in Tennessee and a host of outside interests interfering in union voting by Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga?
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Dahr Jamail Joins Truthout as Staff Reporter
Dahr has remained a vital independent voice amid an overwhelmingly corporatized journalistic landscape.
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Break Out of the Illusion: Pushing for Genuine Democratic Reform in Thailand (Part I)
If you want to break through the Matrix, this illusion of democracy, then we need a fair and transparent electoral system devoid of interference and violence.
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The Gravitational Pull of Planet Carbon: Three Signs of Retreat in the Global War on Climate Change
A series of recent developments highlight the way we are losing ground in the epic struggle to slow global warming.