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| | Bill McKibben: We 'Dont Trust' Obama on Climate Change by Jon Queally “McKibben says President Obama's looming decision to approve or reject the Keystone XL will be the ultimate indicator of whether his loyalties reside with the health of the planet and future generations or with the desires and financial interests of the fossil fuel industry." | | | | | | Ending the World the Human Way: Climate Change as the Anti-News by Tom Engelhardt "Unlike 'the news,' climate change and its potential devastations exist on a time scale not congenial either to media time or to the individual lifetimes of our short-lived species." | | | | | | As Coal Ash Spews Into N.C. River, More 'Ticking Time Bombs' Threaten by Sarah Lazare "One of largest such spills in U.S. history shines a light on 'high-risk' unregulated coal ash dumping grounds near waterways." | | | | | | Excuse Me, But We Shouldn't Be Moving on from West Virginia's Chemical Spill by Ana Marie Cox "The underlying crisis behind most environmental tragedies is the part of the story that we rarely hear about." | | | | | | Fracking's Terrifying Water Usage Trends Spell Disaster by Jon Queally "A new study shows that the fracking boom is happening in places that can least afford to lose precious water supplies." | | | | | | Philip Seymour Hoffman Is Another Victim of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws by Russell Brand "We have set our moral compass on this erroneous premise, and we have strayed so far off course that the landscape we now inhabit provides us with no solutions and greatly increases the problem." | | | | | | Indigenous Groups: 'No Keystone XL Pipeline Will Cross Our Lands' by Sarah Lazare "We stand with the Lakota Nation, we stand on the side of protecting sacred water, we stand for Indigenous land-based lifeways which will NOT be corrupted by a hazardous, toxic pipeline." | | | | | | NCLB Crashed and Burned. When Will We Ever Learn? by Lisa Guisbond "The names of the tests may have changed, but the strategy remains the same. As the late, great Pete Seeger sang, 'When will we ever learn?'" | | | | | | As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening by Jon Queally "Opposition to the deal dubbed 'NAFTA on steroids' is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets." | | | | | | When Did "The Sixties" Really Begin? Here's Why It Matters by Ira Chernus "The seeds can be all around us, yet the change itself remains unexpected, invisible, even unimaginable to most people at the time." | | | | |
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