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A Self-Perpetuating Machine for US Insecurity: Welcome to the National Security State of 2015
The Pentagon and the US Intelligence Community have been thinking about how to give good war in a globally warming world.
“David Duke Without the Baggage”: Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign Over Speech to Racist Group?
As Congress begins a new session today, one of its top Republicans has acknowledged he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pope Francis to Urge Catholics to Address Climate Change, and More
In today's On the News segment: Pope Francis, we have a “grave ethical and moral responsibility” to reverse global climate change, and more.
Sea Level Rise, Eniwetok and Bert Bigelow
Today, more than a hundred of pounds of plutonium are buried at Eniwetok.
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Panama Canal Rival: Work Starts in Nicaragua Amid Fears Over Environment and Role of China
In addition to causing tremendous, potentially irreversible environmental damage, the $50 billion dollar canal project would displace thousands of indigenous peoples.
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Why Movements Should Care About Azealia Banks
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is quickly creating a national context whereby celebrities across industries are being forced to take sides.
The Children’s Climate Crusade
It may just turn out that our children and their children will save us from ourselves.
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Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes
The Quechua Indians are worried about threats to their potato crops from alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures.
Closing Words from COP20: Time to Take Power from the Polluters
If COP20 is supposed laying the road to Paris, then here in Lima dirty energy industry has taken control of the steering wheel and is driving us off a …
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Amid Climate Change, What’s More Important?
Adapting to climate change will carry a high price tag.