Truthout
Environment
|
Brooklyn Students Lose Opportunity to Vote, Could Become a Trend in Hurricane Affected Areas
Students at Pratt Institute are being forced to choose between their grades and their vote as Hurricane Sandy impeded the school's intention to declare Election day a holiday for …
Oyster Creek Nuclear Alert: As Floodwaters Fall, More Questions Arise
New Jerseyu2019s Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station remains under an official Alert after flooding from Hurricane Sandy threatened to compromise the reactor's cooling abilities.
|
Avoiding the Issue of Climate Change
Climate change as an issue is being ignored by the presidential candidates.
Fatalities in the GOP War on Regulation
Welcome to a glimpse of Mitt Romney's and the Republican's Party's Holy Grail for economic revival - a free market on steroids, and a war on regulation.
GMOs, Seed Wars and Knowledge Wars
The only way corporations can push GMO seeds on farmers is by destroying alternatives.
Fracking: We Know What We’re Against. What Are We FOR?
While the anti-fracking campaign is very vocal about what they are against, Maura Stephens outlines what goals the movement wants to accomplish.
Climate Change and Historic Superstorm Sandy: 70+ Dead, Streets Submerged, Millions Without Power
Estimates of the damage so far have reached as high as $20 billion.
The Curious Case of How Libya Became an Election Issue
Ira Chernus: This campaign season teaches us how little has changed since the early Cold War days.
Stopping Trans Canada’s Keystone XL Pipeline—Activism from the Trees and on the Ground
It seems as though most Americans donu2019t know that the Obama administration has backed off its commitment to stop a Canadian oil firm from bringing dangerous and toxic tar …
|
The Eye of the Storm That Sees Us All
William Rivers Pitt: We're a funny lot, in that we must be led to the edge of the precipice and then kicked in the back before saying, 'Wow, this …