Barack Obama: “Deporter and Ch...

Jun 19, 2013 by

….Barack Obama promised a kinder more humane treatment of undocumented migrant workers and their families.

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You want to ration my what?

Jun 17, 2013 by

When Stan Cox’s Losing Our Cool questioned America’s fetish for air-conditioning…

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Tale Of Two Revolutions

Jun 17, 2013 by

Let’s take a look at two revolutions moved by the same underlying force…

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The Five Uncontrollable Urges ...

Jun 16, 2013 by

We face a strangely contradictory future in which ever more draconian regimes…

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Peak soil: industrial civilisa...

Jun 16, 2013 by

New research on land, oil, bees and climate change points to imminent global food crisis…

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Our Government’s Secrecy...

Jun 11, 2013 by

Bradley Manning has done more for U.S. security than SEAL Team 6.

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The Death of Truth

Jun 11, 2013 by

A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies…

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Noam Chomsky: Are We on the Ve...

Jun 9, 2013 by

For the first time in the history of the human species…

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Why the U.S. Is Becoming Groun...

Jun 19, 2013 by

The practice that has devastated parts of Canada is already underway in the U.S. and things could get a lot worse.

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What We Owe Michael Hastings

Jun 19, 2013 by

I met Michael Hastings (1980-2013) three times.

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The Last Mystery of the Financ...

Jun 19, 2013 by

It’s long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s helped trigger the meltdown.

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The World Food Prize, Brought ...

Jun 19, 2013 by

Today Secretary of State John Kerry will announce the recipient of the quarter-million-dollar World Food Prize.

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The Farmery is a radical visio...

Jun 19, 2013 by

What if you could grow and sell food in the same place?

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“We need a design diet.&...

Jun 19, 2013 by

The wonderfully named Brooks Rainwater writes in Metropolis..

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Overgrown garden shed shows be...

Jun 19, 2013 by

Near my home in Arkansas sits an old commercial greenhouse that has been vacant for years.

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Happy World Sauntering Day

Jun 19, 2013 by

There is a holiday for everything, and today is, believe it or not, World Sauntering Day.

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Are fungus-farming ants the ke...

Jun 19, 2013 by

“If you have ants in your house,” the great Harvard ecologist EO Wilson once said, “be kind to them.”

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Dead zone could break records ...

Jun 19, 2013 by

Get ready for a swath of marine sterility the likes of which Gulf fishermen have never seen.

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We work on climate change ever...

Jun 19, 2013 by

Everywhere I travel as secretary of state –

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NSA’s Domestic Surveilla...

Jun 19, 2013 by

Pentagon concern over “anti-government and radical ideologies that potentially threaten government stability.”|

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It’s OK, New York! You’ll figu...

Jun 19, 2013 by

In an obvious effort to be more like San Francisco, New York is rolling out a composting program.

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The Terror Con

Jun 18, 2013 by

For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks..

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How Obamacare Is Trying To Mak...

Jun 18, 2013 by

Officials overseeing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act have proposed rules …

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America: Its Own Worst Enemy

Jun 18, 2013 by

America is at war.

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Live Animals Trapped In Plasti...

Jun 18, 2013 by

If your heart has ever ached looking at pictures of animals pent up in tiny pet store cages …

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What Congress and the Media Ar...

Jun 18, 2013 by

To follow the congressional debate about food stamp (SNAP) funding in the Farm Bill—

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PlanetSolar, World’s Largest S...

Jun 18, 2013 by

She has been transformed into a scientific platform as part of the “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition..

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Chinese science academy slaps ...

Jun 18, 2013 by

The Heartland Institute — the right-wing group best known for its Unabomber billboard —

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The feds get seriously creepy ...

Jun 18, 2013 by

[Translate]   By Susie Cagle Shutterstock It’s about your friend — you know, the one who has been paranoid about the government...

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One in Three Americans is Poor...

Jun 18, 2013 by

A look at the U.S.’s new, but only marginally improved, poverty measure.

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Syngenta Plays Dirty to Shape ...

Jun 18, 2013 by

As a journalist, it takes a lot to really piss me off:

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Obama says a climate plan is c...

Jun 18, 2013 by

A cavalry of lawyers representing states and environmental groups…

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Why Are Techies Trying to Tar ...

Jun 18, 2013 by

Efforts to take down Greenwald and Snowden are ultimately destructive of the interests of American technology companies …

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Revealed: The 48 People Stuck ...

Jun 18, 2013 by

The release of the list is the first time the Obama administration has publicly named the prisoners deemed..

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5 Disturbing Takeaways from NS...

Jun 18, 2013 by

What we’ve learned from the hearings — and we have yet to find out.

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Billionaire-backed Campaign Fa...

Jun 18, 2013 by

Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers!

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When the Government Asks, Tech...

Jun 18, 2013 by

How often do technology companies hand over user information to the government?

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