Truthout
Environment
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When Nature Gets a Price Tag
Will the calculus of putting monetary value on the environment save the planet, or subordinate a rapidly collapsing natural world to market forces?
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Restoring the Right to Vote
Last year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement's crowning achievements. Now, its time for Congress to pick up the pieces.
Myth vs. Fact: Violence and Mental Health
After mass shootings, like the ones these past weeks in Las Vegas, Seattle and Santa Barbara, the national conversation often focuses on mental illness. So what do we actually …
Canadian Mining in Latin America: Exploitation, Inconsistency, and Neglect
A dichotomy exists between mining by foreign investors who profit, and the communities in which it takes place which frequently are left by the wayside. The situation has worsened …
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CommonBound: A Revolution Needing a Spirit
The New Economy Coalition's CommonBound conference was an invaluable summit for building a vision of a post-capitalist system. It just needs a unifying revolutionary spirit.
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Terminal Life: On the Pure Space of Neoliberalism
Terminal life is the situational embodiment of a neoliberal subject suspended between spatial and temporal points of intersection leading to a great distancing from ourselves as humans.
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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.