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Karbon Kombat: Fossil Fuel Fatality
This episode of the Green Ninja Show is about fossil fuels and takes place in the world of the classic arcade fighter “Karbon Kombat.”
The Boston Globe Covers Up for Wall Street, Ignores Swaps Losses in Coverage of MBTA Turmoil
A new Boston Globe story doesn't mention huge losses that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority made on swap transactions that went against them.
Thirteen Theses on the Still Unfolding Greek Debt Drama
As Germany's pressure on the new Greek government increases, Greece's economic problems and challenges continue.
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Threat of Deadly Pathogens on the Rise Thanks to Climate Change
Climate change is quickly becoming an infectious disease's best friend.
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Putin’s Anti-Populist Economics
Vladimir Putin's decision to reject advice from economists who tell him anything he doesn't want to hear feels very familiar to me and, I'm sure, to many others who've …
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In Whose US? Machine Guns, MRAPs, Surveillance, Drones, Permanent War and a Permanent Election Campaign
This is a country walking back nothing as it heads into a heavily militarized future.
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If We Treated Our Homes as We Do the Earth
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Connecticut Schools Pin Down and Restrain “Staggering” Number of Kids
A new state report found one public school student was restrained more than 700 times in one year.
How Activists Are Responding to the NYPD’s Attempts to Thwart Black Lives Matter
NYPD Commissioner William Bratton asked lawmakers in Albany to elevate resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony.
Peru’s Media-Friendly Mining Ban Conceals Toxic Inaction
Humala's 2014 ban on informal mining has done little for the local communities the mines pollute or the majority of mine workers they employ.