Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Document Reveals Failed Enforcement of Environmental Protections
The once seemingly invincible largest trade bill in history, covering 40% of the world’s economy, looks very much like it can be defeated. Let's put a stake in it.
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Land Conflicts in Argentina: From Resistance to Systemic Transformation
Six corporations control 90 percent of soy production and its derivatives, making record profits - but the environmental costs of production are socialized.
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Could Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises Be Our Economic Solution?
The centuries-old idea of workers' self-directed enterprises has been revived, and the result is a new vision of an alternative to capitalism that could help to mobilize a new left.
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Harvard's Lawrence Lessig Embarks on 185-Mile Trek to Battle Money in Politics
Dubbing his march "the New Hampshire rebellion," Lessig set out January 11 – the first anniversary of the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz – for a 2-week walk to highlight the role of corporate money in elections.
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Humboldt Exclusive: As Pot Money Grows, the River Runs Dry
Growing weed in Northern California isn't what it used to be. Today's use of chemicals, cultivation on industrial-sized scale and the overuse of scarce water resources means that despite pot's quasi-legalization, growers may need to rethink.
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Bay Area Protests Underway to Stop WesPac-Pittsburg Oil Mega-Terminal
Demonstrators at Pittsburg, Calif., City Hall said that plans to store highly volatile crude oil imported from the Bakken fields of North Dakota – and even the Alberta tar sands – were unacceptable.
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Thousands of New Yorkers Rally Against Fracking at Gov. Cuomo’s State of State Address
Protesters representing more than 100 organizations highlighted the environmental and health dangers fracking would pose to the state, calling for a ban as the only way to protect New York’s water and the health of residents.
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Angry Londoners React to Verdict of Mark Duggan's “Lawful Killing” That Led to 2011 Riots
The response to Wednesday's decision has been polarizing, as raw public outrage expressed toward Tottenham's assistant police commissioner, Mark Rowley, has led to calls for a peaceful protest to take place this Saturday.
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Letter from Bangladesh: Why Two Activists Fear Their Country's Future
High-level Bangladeshi activists are going into hiding after days of intense police activity saw violence and uncertainty pervade the South Asian country.
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Popular Resistance: Tasks of the People-Powered Movement in 2014
We are often told by those who want reform that the solution we are urging is “not on the table.” We must refuse to accept this.
