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Election Countdown 2012: In Quebec, It’s Not the Fees, It’s the Debt
With only 94 days left until the election, keep abreast of issues that matter!
Mark Karlin | Walker Wins in Wisconsin
Mark Karlin: Right wing money and Democratic Party establishment created conditions for GOP victory.
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A Mexican Spring Begins to Blossom
The Mexican youth and university students have altered the political agenda in the country to prove that no one wins an election until the election itself.
The Planet Wreckers: Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes, but So Is the Planet
It's been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial.
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Soaring Costs Plague California Nuclear Plant Shut Down By Leak
While investigators examine the steam generator damage that has forced the months-long outage at California's San Onofre nuclear power plant, the cost of the shutdown and any necessary repairs …
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In Fight With Monsanto, Mother Nature Doesn’t Quit
So much of Monsanto's poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally developed a resistance to it.
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Massey WV Coal Battle Take Two: Erie, Colorado Citizens Fight Fracking
Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal — the …
An Interview With Medea Benjamin About the Life-and-Death Decisions of Drone Warfare
It is mind-boggling that we are empowering one person to make life-and-death decisions, but it is perhaps even more mind-boggling that this unconstitutional, immoral killing spree (that is making …
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The US Army has confirmed that they are investigating the Bradley Manning Support Network, an international activism group that advocates on behalf of the imprisoned accused whistleblower.
Mental Health Movement Resists Chicago Austerity Measures
Chicago Shuts Down 6 of the Cityu2019s 12 public mental health centers, moves towards privatization of services.