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Environment
Ecological Burial Practices: Overcoming the Myth of the Infectious Corpse
Author Suzanne Kelly discusses the myths that drive many of our standard, environmentally damaging burial practices.
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Trump Migrant Proposals Could Be “Catastrophic” to Both the US and Mexico
Raising fees on Mexicans who cross the border to do business could have a greater impact - and affect Americans who do vote.
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William Rivers Pitt | Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
We are killing ourselves with coal, with chemicals, with carelessness and with greed.
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Seventy Years of Military Mediocrity: The Shared Failings of US Military Academies and Senior Officers
US military academies are supposed to be educating and developing leaders of character. If they're not doing that, why have them?
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Company That Sued Soldiers Closes Its Stores
After the investigation of USA Discounters' lending practices, a barrage of lawsuits and changes to Defense Department policies followed.
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Judge Gives OK to Uranium Mine at Grand Canyon
Slamming ruling, conservationists warn of irreversible contamination of the canyon's underground aquifers.
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Where the Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Lose
North Americans could take a lesson from activists in Chile who have made their government draw red lines on the corporate friendly investment deal.
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Is Fox News Poisoning the Well of Public Discourse?
Mainstream US media has two ways of describing motives for mass killings, terrorism or a personality disorder.
Ladydrawers: Epidemic
Ladydrawers traces links between federal laws and the alarming rise of autoimmune diseases in the US.
Attacks on Planned Parenthood Are Not About One Organization
These attacks are merely the latest salvo in a systematic, ideological crusade to deny personal reproductive health decision making.