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Five Reasons to Boycott Starbucks
It's time for Starbucks to own up to the fact that, despite its purported concern for society, the company worships exclusively at the altar of profits.
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Meet the Tenacious Gardeners Putting Down Roots in “America’s Most Desperate Town“
They're not always optimistic about the future of Camden, N.J. But they're committed to it anyway, and they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms.
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Report: A Carbon Tax That Would Create Jobs, Cut Emissions and Put Money in Your Pocket
Giving taxpayers $250 per month, reducing carbon emissions and boosting the economy. This is what the future could hold if the United States imposed a revenue-neutral carbon tax on …
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Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You – He Already Has You
Nowadays, in Fortress America, every one of us is, in some sense, government issue in a surveillance state gone mad.
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A Field Day for Fracking
A transatlantic trade deal would eliminate restrictions on US exports of fracked gas to the EU.
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The Red Line
We have sociologically, economically and environmentally crossed a red line: Will we fight each other like rabid dogs for the last scraps of remaining decency or quickly find …
Human Activity Driving Earth Towards Global Extinction Event
Dr. Terry Root and Dr. Stuart L. Pimm discuss recent research showing human beings are responsible for high extinction rates of species across the globe, and explain how we …
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Navy SEAL Commander Behind Bin Laden Killing: Keystone XL Vulnerable to Terrorism
Have real Keystone XL terrorism threats been ignored, while nonviolent activists have been labeled potential ecoterrorists?
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Chris Hedges | The Rules of Revolt
There are some essential lessons we can learn from the student occupation of Beijing's Tiananmen Square, which took place 25 years ago.
A Brief History of GI Resistance During the Vietnam War
As the controversy continues over the prisoner swap involving US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, peace activist and author David Cortright recounts the history of US soldiers organizing against the Vietnam …