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Environment
“We Are on a Course Leading to Tragedy”: At UN Talks, Kerry Delivers Urgent Plea on Climate Change
John Kerry said time was running out to reverse a course leading to tragedy.
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Faiths United Against Nuclear Weapons
For Bailey-Haynie, nuclear weapons serve no purpose other than mass destruction.
Dawn Paley: Drug War a Pretense to Expand Transnational Capitalism Southward
Author Dawn Paley offers a transformative view of the US war on drugs in the Western Hemisphere.
UN Climate Negotiators Drop the Ball in Lima – Now It’s Up to the Grassroots to Pick It Up
It's up to the people to push our governments to action.
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Dan Berger Illustrates Centrality of Prison to Civil Rights Struggle
Author Dan Berger shows how prison and carceral violence fit into structural US racism and the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s in ‘Captive Nation.’
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Austerity – The Caloric Kind
If you're trying to limit calories, people really are different.
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Fighting for Farm Workers at Our Dinner Table
We need to establish a “slave-free” section at our supermarkets.
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Torture Is Not an American Value
Are we going to stand behind American values or stand behind the Bush administration?
The Missing Photos From the Senate Report on CIA Torture
A complete report on torture must include military prisons and the release of 2,000 photos that show the full spectrum of abuse.
The Laundering Machine: How US Corporations Threaten Peru’s Forests Through Illegal Logging
A new report reveals more than 20 US companies have imported millions of dollars in illegal wood from the Peruvian Amazon since 2008.