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Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain – Food Sovereignty
From community gardens to just global policy, a national and global movement is growing to reclaim food, land, and agricultural systems from agribusiness and put them back in the …
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Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement “Inadequate“
Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil …
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A New Manhattan Project
Thom Hartmann: Renewables are getting cheaper, and fossil fuels are getting more expensive.
Why We Must Rescue the US Postal Service From the Brink of Death
The post office can still be saved, but its grave has been dug.
Wisconsin’s “Shameful” Gerrymander of 2012
Out of all the states re-drawing Congressional boundaries along partisan lines after the 2010 elections, Wisconsin's gerrymandering may have been the most egregious.
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The Economic Challenge Ahead: More Jobs and Growth, Not Deficit Reduction
Robert Reich explains that while the deficit will always be there, it is job growth that will take this country out of the black.
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Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now
A calm apocalypticism is not crazy, but rather can help us confront honestly the crises of our time.
Bill McKibben: Ahead of Keystone XL Rally, Fossil Fuel Divestment Expands Across US Campuses
Sterling College in Vermont announced on Tuesday it will soon become the third college in the United States to divest its endowment from 200 fossil fuel companies identified by …
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Colonialism and the Green Economy: Environmental Justice, Refineries and California’s Cap-and-Trade Program
Fossil fuels will not be phased out, but propped up to maintain their domination.
Kill List Exposed: Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of US Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit”
The Obama administration's internal legal justification for assassinating US citizens without charge has been revealed for the first time.