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Environment
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I Ain’t Got No Home: (Re)learning the Value of Place and Occupying a Sustainable Future
Can we truly be at home in the marketplace? What kind of place is the marketplace, anyway, and how is it related to places like our communities, our homes, …
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Follow English Commoners’ Lead: Band Together to Force Corporate Reform
In recent years, senior Wall Street managers relentlessly pursued short-term profit and personal windfalls by any and all means while bringing Main Street to its knees (where it remains …
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Canada Announces Exit From Kyoto Climate Treaty
Ottowa - Canada said on Monday that it would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under that accord, major industrialized …
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Newt Gets a Tattoo
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Burying Your Victories: What if Obama Taxed the Rich but Never Told Anyone?
President Barack Obama talks with staff in Senior Advisor David Plouffe's West Wing office at the White House, Oct. 6, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) …
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A Mild Victory in Durban
Washington - I'm inclined to believe that the apparent result of the climate change summit in Durban, South Africa, might turn out to be a very big deal. Someday. …
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2011 – the Year of the Global Revolution
So here we are, mid-December 2011. Looking back, January 2011 started with Jared Lee Loughner going on a shooting spree in Tuscon, killing a Federal Judge five …
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Labor Not Represented in Management of “the People’s Universities“
Although more than one million Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of worker exploitation and union activism, neither of the two largest …
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GOP Closets
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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine
Wall Street, New York. (Photo: SheepGuardingLlama) On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Federal Reserve to reveal the lending …