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“Years of Living Dangerously”: James Cameron, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford in TV Climate Change Series
A new Showtime television show featuring Hollywood actors and award-winning journalists brings the issue of climate change alive with the full drama and suspense of a blockbuster movie.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Wealth Gap Today Is as Bad as It Was in the 1920s, and More
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: those at the very top hold more of the wealth than at any time since 1928, and …
Monsanto You Make My Stinger Itch
Monsanto believes that Life on Earth is only a practice run for their product, Life on Earth Two, showing soon at a theater all around you.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Supreme Court Undermines Democracy by Allowing Billionaires To “Buy Elections”
Amy Goodman speaks to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont about Wednesday's landmark decision in McCutcheon v. FEC and his fight to remove big money from the electoral process.
Hopkins Hospital Workers Speak Out Against “Poverty Wages”
Jaisal Noor talks to workers at Baltimore's internationally renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital as they prepare for a possible strike in order to obtain a $15 hourly wage.
UN Climate Panel Issues Dire Warning of Threat to Global Food Supply, Calls for Action and Adaption
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …
Oil Lobby Spent $56.3 Million in Sacramento Over Past Five Years
A new chart released by Stop Fooling California reveals that the oil industry, including the Western States Petroleum Association, Chevron, BP and other oil companies, spent $56.63 million on …
UN Report Says Climate Change Will Threaten Food Production Worldwide
Not only are the effects of climate change already occurring on every continent, the world is ill-prepared for what is to come.
Carbon Delirium: The Last Stage of Fossil-Fuel Addiction and Its Hazardous Impact on American Foreign Policy
We're now on a drill, baby, drill and frack, baby, frack planet, where the prevailing state of mind is what Michael Klare calls “carbon delirium.”
Meet the Plush GMO Mascot, Frank N. Foode
Frank N. Foode is “your friendly neighborhood genetically modified organism,” who helps “make the science of biotechnology fun and approachable.”