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Community Leads its Own Relief Efforts in the Rockaways
Rockaway residents get to know each other, show ingenuity while working in solidarity to provide relief from devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy and the apparent indifference/incompetence of state relief …
Economic Update: Our Unjust Federal Tax System
Updates on how the new US tax deal favors the rich, deepening student loan problems, and how 2012 benefited billionaires. Analysis of possible conversion from a war-oriented to a …
Neoliberalizing Nature and Privatizing the Air
Climate writer Patrick Bond: In 2013 bankers will increase their efforts to make money out of the climate crisis and put a dollar value on everything.
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Don’t Feed The Debt-Ceiling Trolls
As conservative right-wing politicians continue to bring down our economy by refusing to raise the debt-ceiling limit, maybe the answer is simply to call their bluff.
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Why Climate Change Won’t Wait for the President
Maybe if we go fast enough even this all-too-patient president will get caught up in the draft. But weu2019re not waiting for him. We canu2019t.
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FDA Offers Broad New Rules to Fight Food Contamination
It is a long-awaited step toward codifying the food safety law that Congress passed two years ago.
Meet Anthony Ingraffea – From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
Dr. Anthony Ingraffea: My position is this. Where shale gas development has not yet occurred, ban it. Period.
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Suicides Outnumber Battle Deaths in the Armed Services
This is a public health crisis and an epidemic; veterans alone account for 20 percent of US suicides.
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Political Football Over Disaster Relief: Another Argument for Public Banking
Disaster victims are now being expected to shoulder relief expenses that used to be shared publicly.
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Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace
The ‘Iranian threat’ is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations.