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Shale-Shocked: Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement
This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without it. New York …
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Obama Must Choose on Housing: Sweetheart Deal for the 1 Percent or Fairness for the 99 Percent?
With George Goehl Rumor has it that on Monday, after months of negotiation with big banks, the White House may announce a settlement that would let the …
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Honduras Is Test of New US Policy on Gay Rights
San Pedro Sula, Honduras - From U.N. chambers to the halls of the State Department, global pressure on countries to protect the rights of gay people and transgender people …
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One Hundred Thirty Cities Across the US Protest on Anniversary of Citizens United
On Friday, activists in more than 130 cities in 46 states across the country “occupied” their federal courts on the eve of the second anniversary of Citizens United v. …
Cult of Personality
He is, in the words of Barbara Walters, a “mild-mannered ophthalmologist.” Indeed, the rather squeamish leader-to-be chose eye surgery because it didn’t involve much blood. He speaks fluent English …
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National Science Board Report: US Losing Research and Development Jobs to Asia
The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 …
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Political Decay
Political decay is a disease afflicting all societies. Like Aristotle said, all men are political animals but rarely honest political animals. The Greeks invented political theory and …
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The Gentle Economic Collapse of the Empire
I've been thinking of Revolution or the fall of the Empire, radical awakening of unity consciousness for years, as early as 1994 I was thinking about the fall of …
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TransCanada: No More Than 6,000 Pipeline Workers on the Job “on Any Given Day“
As the Feb. 21 deadline approaches for the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the project's supporters have launched a new advertising campaign touting its job …