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President Obama: Nelson Mandela “Freed Not Just the Prisoner, but the Jailer as Well”
Tens of thousands gathered at the FNP Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg today for a memorial to honor Nelson Mandela, who died last week at the age of 95.
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Urban Fracking Bonanza Threatens Dallas Suburbs
Fort Worth, which sits on top of the vast Barnett Shale, is the first major city in America to allow extensive fracking within the city limits.
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The Arctic Is the First Line of Defense Against a Climate Transition to an Uninhabitable Earth
Nature is not an ATM, and our survival depends on acting on that understanding.
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How the Big Six Cover Tracks in Murder of the Honeybee
The Big 6 agrichemical companies have turned the honeybee into a factory animal, a workhorse that cannot exist without antibiotics, and is using the term
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Violence Against Our Environment
Both the words “environment” and “violence” have so many meanings, that they require some definition of how they can be of use in the context of a struggle for …
Extending Solidarity to the Ecosystem: Laura Flanders Interviews Sean Sweeney
Sean Sweeney discusses how unions need to extend solidarity to the ecosystem itself.
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Saving Children From Loggers
Sexual exploitation of minors by foreign logging workers has been identified in four of the nine provinces in the Solomon Islands, namely Makira, Isabel, Western and Malaita.
Europe’s Deadly Border
With the number of migrants growing, Italy and the EU need to take into account the realities faced by immigrants, rather than criminalizing their status.
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In Depth: Journal Retracts Independent Study Linking Monsanto GMO Corn to Cancer in Rats
A year after a French study appeared to link GMOs and cancer, a respected American journal has retracted the study under pressure, reigniting a global debate about biotechnology's affect …
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Welcome to Gasland: Denton, Texas Residents Face Fracking Impacts From EagleRidge Energy
In Denton, Texas, 40 miles northwest of Dallas, residents and students at the University of North Texas are getting a free course in what it's like to live in …