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Environment
Lake Apopka: Ecocide, Rural Oligarchy and Slavery
Farm workers still do the most dangerous work in America. They deserve land rather than slavery.
Peasant Sovereignty?
The European invasion of the tropics in the fifteenth century, the industrialization of agriculture in the nineteenth century, and the triumph of communism in the twentieth century proved catastrophic …
The Kingpin Strategy: Assassination as US Policy and How It Failed, From 1990-2015
Andrew Cockburn takes us back to the drug wars of the 1990s, opening a window on just why the drone is the modern age's blowback weapon.
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On the Baltimore Uprising: Toward a New “Broken Windows” Theory
What change will a “peaceful” protest spark if a “peaceful” protest is so easy to ignore?
Earth Day on the River of Grass
Without collective action, we remain at the mercy of systems of power and domination u2014 wild places, like the River of Grass, are doomed.
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Fossil Fuel Extinction
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Dahr Jamail | Experts Warn of “Cataclysmic” Changes as Planetary Temperatures Rise
We are at the very beginning of a period of “abrupt” climate disruption.
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Forty Years Later, Will the End Games in Iraq and Afghanistan Follow the Vietnam Playbook?
Toss out the historical background and you can recast any U.S. mission as a flawed but honorable, if not noble, effort by good-guy rescuers to save innocents from the …
The Extinction Governor Rips the Green Mask Off His Tunnels Plan
Restore the Delta and the Center for Biological Diversity responded to the governoru2019s abandonment of the pretense of “conservation” and “restoration”.
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Indigenous People Occupy Brazil’s Legislature, Protesting Bill’s Violation of Land Rights
Indigenous people were protesting a proposed constitutional amendment they fear could lead to corporate land grabs.