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Economists Identify the 100 Top Air Polluters and Highlight the Economics of Environmentalism
What do General Electric, Koch Industries, Bayer, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil all have in common? They all rank in the top ten of the Toxic 100.
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Corporations Create the Problem, Co-Ops Offer the Solution
By bringing democracy to our communities - in our workplaces, grocery stores and beyond - we can transform society and the economy.
Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment: Pipelines, Fracking, or Clean Energy?
Politics has pushed President Obama away from the green agenda and towards fossil fuels, but fracking and pipelines are not the answer to our nation's energy dilemma.
Romney Calls 47% of Voters Dependent in Leaked Video
WASHINGTON — During a private reception with wealthy donors this year, Mitt Romney described almost half of Americans as “people who pay no income tax” and are "dependent upon …
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Five SCOTUS Cases That Could Be Overruled In A Romney Court, And Five That Could Be Overruled Under Obama
On Monday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a report outlining many of the Supreme Court cases that could be overruled if President Obama appoints just one …
Fracking in Suburbia
About 79 gas wells have been drilled in Broadview Heights since 2005, including one well about 600 feet from Michelle Aini's house.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: International Report on Corrupt Democracies Issues Explicit Warning About US Politics, and More
In today's On the News segment: France will continue its ban of genetically modified food and natural gas hydrofracturing, and more.
How Coal Brought Us Democracy, and Oil Ended It: Lessons From the New Book “Carbon Democracy”
Long before politicians mewled helplessly about the power of u201cBig Oilu201d, carbon-based fuels were shaping our very political, legal, intellectual, and physical structures.
Why Romney and Ryan Are Going Down
They don't seem to know how to satisfy their middle-aged white male base without at the same time turning off everyone who's not white, male, straight, or middle-aged.
Putting US Nuclear Weapons Policies on Trial in the Court of Public Opinion
Until the issue of US nuclear weapons policy can be properly litigated in in a US domestic court, US policies related to the threat or use of nuclear weapons …