The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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Taking A Stand Against Coal
It is frustrating (and terrifying) to devote so much of our effort to preventing fossil fuel expansion rather than actually reducing emissions, but springtime brings some good news from the northwest coast.
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Koch Brothers Plan To Buy Eight Major Newspapers
Billionaire oil moguls and ultra-right climate denial propagandists Charles and David Koch intend to purchase a handful of major U.S. news outlets, including the Tribune company.
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Revealed: Europe is Facing a Crisis of Land Concentration and Land Grabs
A new report reveals the hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land.
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Letter from Mayflower, Arkansas: From the Blockade to Mutual Aid
Before going to Mayflower, I had never seen tar sands bitumen in person. I had never smelled it, nor had I experienced how it starts to sicken you the minute you get near it: headaches, burning throat, fatigue, gut-aches, vomiting and diarrhea.
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Complicit No More: Tar Sands and What to Do About Parasitic Capitalism
The parasitic form of capitalism that is harvesting the tar sands applies the same rationale that is intrinsic to austerity and bank bailouts.
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Monsanto, After Patent Victory Over DuPont, Creates World's Largest GMO Monopoly
Now that the two companies have agreed to partner together, the world faces a much larger threat in the form of a massive GMO cartel controlled by Monsanto.
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Exxon Swears to Gosh it Doesn’t Hate Your Children, Really
On the heels of ExxonMobil's really tough couple of weeks sopping up that grievous tar sands oil spill in suburban Arkansas, America's most profitable corporation is now trying to stop a different leak: a novel attack-ad campaign.
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A House Divided: This Time, Between The People and The Corporations
We must confront the corporate corruption of democracy to ensure that our American family still has a house to fight in.
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Exposed: State Department Ignores Climate Facts of Keystone XL Pipeline
A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.
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Shell Oil's Plot to Silence Protests Against Arctic Drilling
The company's legal team is working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace -- most recently, by appealing to California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to curb protester rights.
