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Why the Climate Movement Should Have No “Keystone“
We must call for what we really need - an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction.
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Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy
Because they are mostly free to do what they want, mega-foundations threaten democratic governance and civil society.
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Now Is a Time for Growth
Now that our government is up and running again, the nation's first priority should be economic growth.
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William Rivers Pitt | America on Fire
In Australia, the fear is that the fires being battled by heroic public servants who got their funding cut were initially started by arsonists. In America, the arsonists are …
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The Return of the Nicaraguan Revolution
In the 1980s, New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio traveled to Nicaragua. With the election looming, the media is recalling his activism, which, like mine, was derided at …
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Let the Dysfunctional Plantation-Based Red States Secede
Tea Party ideology in Washington today is just a modern-day reboot of the same government obstructionist strategies that have been around since the early days of slavery.
Until the President Stops Deportations, We Will Stop Them Ourselves
The prison is run by Corrections Corporation of America, whose reported revenue has doubled throughout the 2000s as the federal government has contracted it to hold an increasing number …
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?
Pulling back from created other worlds, we are faced continually with moral dilemmasu2014often ones also involving children.
Climate Change: First They Came For…
First they came for the Arctic sea ice, and I did not speak out—even though its volume is two thirds what it was thirty years ago.
The Price of Fashion
The price of fashion is on the rise as the death toll in Bangladeshu2019s garment factories grows.