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It’s a Hardrock Life
In Wisconsin's picturesque Northwoods, a big battle over iron-ore extraction is pitting environmentalists and Native Americans against mining companies and their political allies.
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Handing Down the Bhopal Verdict
Thirty years later, there's nothing more than clouds of toxic justice.
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William Rivers Pitt | The Dumpster Fire of Obama’s Moral Authority
Whatever lingering moral authority remaining in the administration of President Barack Obama fell to dust last Friday in a news dump that no one, apparently, was expected to pay …
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Climate Change Law in New York Bridges Partisan Divide
Republicans and Democrats, environmentalists and the business community, get behind the groundbreaking bill.
Palestine: The Pulse of Third World Revolt
As bombs drop on Gaza yet again, people across the world are turning to the streets in the tens of thousands to express solidarity with the Palestinians.
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Poor Polls and Obama’s Missed Opportunity
What if President Obama had rejected conventional political advice and pushed for a new New Deal? What if an effective nonaligned left had pushed for such a program, economist …
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Time to Stop Criminalizing Immigrants
Last week US authorities began to place ankle bracelets on a few newly arrived immigrants. This represents a continuation of the criminalization and punishment of immigrants. The root causes …
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Against Forgetting: “The Phoenix Program” and the Awakening of Historical Memory
Douglas Valentine's “The Phoenix Program,” republished as the first in a series of repressed, forgotten books, shows the continuity between the CIA's secret war against civilians in Vietnam and …
As Palestinians Go to ICC, Human Rights Watch Alleges Israeli War Crimes for Shooting Fleeing Gazans
Human Rights Watch accused Israeli soldiers of shooting and killing fleeing civilians in Gaza, citing interviews with seven Palestinians in the village of Khuza'a.