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Romney World’s Freedom from Fact
The Republican National Convention offered a look into one alternate future for America, a place where the ultimate liberty is to be fact-free. Mitt Romneyu2019s campaign set sail confidently …
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ALEC Goes After the Center for Media and Democracy
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sent a message to hundreds of legislators and corporations across the country attacking the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the creator of …
Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell’s Arctic Drilling
Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yanomami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Shellu2019s drilling in …
The Environmental Health Costs of a Petrochemical Future
A chemical industry trade group is touting a job-creating side benefit of fracking in North Carolina, claiming that building a plant to process natural gas into the petrochemical products …
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Brooklyn’s Self-Powered Solar Building: A Game-Changer for Green Construction?
The unique bed and breakfast and green building showcase aims to redefine the limits of green urban designu2014everywhere.
Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans and Haiti
As a native and resident of New Orleans who has spent three decades in and out of Haiti, and as director of an organization with offices in both places, …
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Not On Our Land: Land Recovery Kicks Off in Honduras
Globalization threatens the survival of indigenous and small-farming communities all over our world. Carla Garcia speaks about the ongoing land struggle in Honduras with the Afro-Indigenous Garu00edfuna communities.
Obama’s “Twisted Version of American Exceptionalism” Laid Bare
Obama also wants the whole, wide world to get this through its thick skull: only rogue governments that implement a policy of rendition, torture, indefinite detention and extrajudicial assassination …
Meet the Industry That Makes the Koch Brothers Look Poor
When will the United States start thinking beyond bars?
Investors Seek to Profit From Privatizing Public Schools
Activists at Peopleu2019s Education Convention demand an end to excessive testing.