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“Everyone but China” Agreement Prevents Regulation of Hot Money and Speculation
International relations scholar Kevin Gallagher: Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens national sovereignty, extends corporate rights, and targets China
Can We Cut Healthcare Costs Without Hurting Patients?
Keeping the u201cbest careu201d option out of the health spending equation.
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“The Consumer’s Got to Change the System”: Farmer Ben Burkett on Racism and Corporate Control of Agriculture
We struggle every day to bring about a change.
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Why Chavez Chose Social Safety Net Over Skyscrapers
The late Venezuelan president believed people needed and deserved a comfortable baseline from which to survive and prosper, and he put that ahead of capitalist shows of his …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 200,000 Taiwanese Publicly Protested Nuclear Power on Saturday, and More
In today's On the News segment: Legislation that would penalize employers for lockouts in labor disputes introduced in Minnesota, and more.
Price for Denial, Inaction on Climate Is Higher Than Toll of Reducing Consumption
Petroleum expert: 'People need to realize that oil is a finite resource, and using it in the crazy, irresponsible ways we use it today is in fact suicidal - …
Five Ways the FDA Has Failed Consumers on Genetically Engineered Foods
Revolving door policy and lax to no regulation are a win for Monsanto and a loss for everyone else.
Uprooting Racism in the Food System: African Americans Organize
A shovel overturned can flip so much more than soil, worms, and weeds.
The US Military, Green Energy and the SPIDERS at Pearl Harbor
Andrew DeWit outlines and analyzes the US Military's latest green energy program.
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Playing Into Assad’s game
The US media has been especially emetic recently in their coverage of the sequester. While cuts to human services, education, health care, and environmental protection are huge, most of …