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Dahr Jamail | Farming for the Future
On the outskirts of Houston, Texas, a small farm that runs a community-supported agriculture operation and offers educational programs, is preparing people for the intensifying impacts of anthropogenic climate …
Palau Moves to Protect Diminishing Fish Stocks in Face of Global Inaction
The commercial fishing industry depends on ecological destruction and worker brutality in order to produce cheap seafood. The island nation of Palau may have a solution: a moratorium on …
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The GOP Is the Pro-Death Party
We've known for a while now that suicide rates tend to increase during times of Conservatives governments, when money is going to corporations and the wealthy elite, at the …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Considers Government Shutdown to Protect Big Oil, and More
The last government shut down cost our nation billions, but Republicans are thinking about doing it all over again just to protect Big Oil and the Coal Lobby, and …
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Soccer Is Democratic. The World Cup Is Oligarchy
Thousands of poor Brazilians were evicted from their homes to build multimillion-dollar World Cup stadiums that may never be used again. Now Brazilians are fighting back.
Take a Walk on a Leaky Uintah Basin Oil Well With a Whistleblowing Oil and Gas CEO
In response to national news in late May that pointed to a potential cluster of stillborn births in the heavily drilled and fracked Uintah Basin, we take you inside …
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WikiLeaks Reveals Global Trade Deal Kept More Secret Than the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trade in Services Agreement would make it easier for corporations to make profits and operate with impunity.
From Governor Moonbeam to “Big Oil Brown”
Southern California marine waters were fracked at least 203 times in the past 20 years.
The First Kill
Even though I never even knew her name, my Deer sister had become a part of me, and I of her.
Enbridge Pipeline Decision Violates Rights of First Nations
Chief Na'Moks of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation says the pipeline will have a devastating impact on the environment of First Nations communities.