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February
Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet
Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a paper mill) could justify dumping its raw industrial effluent into a nearby river. The river—which had taken Mother Nature centuries to create--was used for drinking water, fishing, boating, and swimming. In just...
Prison Firms, Suspected Hate Group behind Georgia's Immigrant Bills
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News
Financial Journalism and The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo
Original source: Black Commentator
Israel: Anti-boycott Bill Approved
Bill imposes fines on Israeli citizens who back, initiate boycotts against occupation
Racist Roots of Republican Party Immigration Policy
Republican extremism on immigration could cost them at election time, especially in states with significant Latino populations, recent polling data appears to confirm.
Podcast: Who's Afraid of Socialism, an Interview with John Nichols
On this episode we play a special interview with author John Nichols.
From Local to Global: Politics and the Balance of Forces
Editor's note: The following is a slightly excerpted/edited version of a report delivered at the 12th international meeting of communist and workers parties in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dec. 3-5, 2010.
Technology for Change: Building a Text Messaging Service for your Organization
It’s two in the morning when the cell phone by your bed beeps you awake with a text message. You turn over, pick up the phone, and read, “Urgent! Need more pickets @ the site.” As you toss your clothes on, another text arrives.
Against Public Wishes, Republicans Go Forward with Pro-Pollution Agenda
Supporters of clean air and water this week pushed back against a Republican Party proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from doing its job to protect American families from air pollution.
Republicans Plan to Eliminate Medicare and Social Security
Republicans got elected by saying the word "jobs" a lot during the worst recession since the Great Depression, despite having voted against every job-creating program offered by the President or the Democrats in the last two years.
