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On the News With Thom Hartmann: College Students Are Increasingly Turning to Food Banks, and More
All around the world, people are talking about a basic minimum income, and what they're saying makes a lot of economic sense. To ensure everyone has a sense of …
SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, Selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year
SOIL is proud to announce that SOIL’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, was selected as a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Every year the …
Following DOE Approval, LNG Opponents Call on Oregon’s Governor to Protect the State’s Rivers and Ratepayers
The US Department of Energy took the long-expected step of granting a conditional export license to the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project in Oregon.
Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Echoing the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century, Australia is once again “removing” Aboriginal children from their families.
Campaign Financing: Can the US Follow Europe’s Example?
The US compares unfavorably to the many European countries that succeed in limiting the influence of corporate and other money in elections.
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Migratory Birds Face Danger From Oil Spill Long After Shipping Channel Will Open
Heavy fuel oil that spilled from a Kirby Inland Marine oil barge after it collided with a cargo ship on March 22, began washing up on Galveston Bay's shoreline …
How Fallujah Became the Iraqi Government’s New Battleground
Journalist Dahr Jamail discusses how the Iraqi city of Fallujah went from welcoming American intervention to fighting the US-backed Iraqi government.
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Dying To Give Back To the Earth
The funeral industry is, by and large, a $20 billion for-profit enterprise, whose environmental impact has been greatly overlooked.
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With Hippocratic Oath, Doctors Pledge Allegiance To Patients, Not Profits
It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.
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To Infinity and Beyond: Navigating the Global Void
Disappearance is the most tortuous form of violence, because it lives on in our imaginations as a resilient psychosis of loss, says James Fennell.