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How Much is the Environment Worth to You?
When debating whether or not to pass legislation aimed at stopping global climate change, those who reject climate protection legislation usually use one of two arguments: A Denial of Climate Science: A significant percentage
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CARTOON: Last Scraps
“Last Scraps” by Stephanie McMillan. To see more of Stephanie’s work, visit her website
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Why Organized Labor Must Stand Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Spurred by real urgency over the corporate driven ruin of the environment, a growing social movement is taking shape that will be on display this Sunday, February 17, when tens of thousands descend on
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Ecological Emergency Calls for Radical Response
The super-storm which struck the East Coast in October 2012 reminded a few more millions of people that we have an ecological emergency on our hands. But how deeply they were reminded of this
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patches
Water is essential to all life, and the Earth is 75% water. The Industrial Revolution increased industrial pollution, increased temperatures and increased oceanic trash. The danger of plastic in our oceans, rivers and streams
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Disaster Capitalism Hits New York
This article originally appeared in In These Times. For more than a decade before Hurricane Sandy, oceanography professor Malcolm Bowman, head of the Storm Surge Research Group at the State University of New York at Stony
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Oliver Stone, Obama, and the War in Vietnam
Posted January 11, 2013 on http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/. Oliver Stone’s Showtime series, Untold History of the United States, is the most radical mainstream television I have ever watched. Eye-opening scenes, shocking speech by our presidents, splendid narration by
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Beyond Green Dogma: Environmentalists Need to Take Nuclear Power Seriously
Back in 2007, I was, like all self-identified, self-respecting greens, anti-nuclear. And I was pretty sure that, based on my reading of ecosocialists like Bellamy Foster and Magdoff (more on them below) as well
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Stephanie McMillan: Nonbinding Nonspecifics
Image and text by Stephanie McMillan. To see more of Stephanie’s work, visit her website.
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A Life or Death Choice is Upon Us
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Production Board to meet the needs of retooling the USA for the looming war effort. His demands were
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