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The Cost of Doing Business: Regulators Impose Minor Fine on Duke Energy Over Coal Ash Pollution
Rachel Maddow reports on how NC state regulators got in the way of environmental lawsuits against an energy company that is now responsible for a toxic spill.
People Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent
If we continue to build the independent, people-powered media, greater numbers of people will build up immunity to the destructive misinformation of corporate media.
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Evidence Mounting That Walker Campaign Is at Center of Criminal Probe
Newly-unsealed court documents add to a growing body of evidence that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign is at the center of a wide-ranging secret probe into campaign finance violations …
Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil
Bill Moyers talks with Bill McKibben, an activist who has dedicated his life to saving the planet from environmental collapse, about his hopes that Americans will collectively pressure Obama …
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Heads of Killing, Lying and Spying Under Fire at Senate Intelligence Hearing
In the midst of bipartisan bashing of Edward Snowden in a Senate intelligence hearing on January 29, some stood up for truth in the face of repeated lies and …
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Big Media Pumps Again for Mideast Wars
Forever pushing what they view as Israel's strategic needs, the neocons now are stoking fires of war against Iran and Syria by piling on old and new arguments.
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Sharing the Struggle: Three Ways Environmental and Economic Activism Overlap
The pursuit of economic justice IS the pursuit of environmental justice, says Kevin Mathews.
Missing the Marx: On Intellectual Failure and Environmental Catastrophe
Getting radical anti-capitalist ideas wrong and ignoring those ideas completely are timeworn traditions for US intellectuals.
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Beyond Keystone XL: Eight Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change
Recent signs that Barack Obama may approve the Keystone XL pipeline have some environmentalists feeling down about the future of the climate. But huge and positive changes are quietly …
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Scarred by War, Exploited in Peace: Review of “Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific“
Mary Cronk Farrell 's new book tells the story of 79 white female American nurses who were captured by the Japanese during World War II and held as prisoners.