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"All Risk, No Reward": U.S. Tribes Oppose Massive Pipeline Expansion In Canada
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project would carry crude from Alberta's tar sands to the Vancouver area to be loaded on to tankers for Asian and U.S. markets – drastically putting the fishing and cultural heritage of U.S. tribes at risk.
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Nader: The Devastating Cost of Monetized Elections
You outnumber the politicos and their entourages everywhere – yet you are the ones who keep paying the price for letting politics remain a deadly form of distracting entertainment with a media obsessed with the horse race rather than the human race.
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Scientists Confirm: Plastic Now Pollutes Every Corner of Earth
A new study shows that plastic waste now covers the planet – with every corner of the globe polluted with the remains of water containers, supermarket bags, polystyrene lumps, compact discs, cigarette filter tips, nylons and other plastics.
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McKibben: Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
How to stop the fossil fuel industry from wrecking our world.
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"We Had To Make Some Cuts": Flint Water Catastrophe A Matter Of Business
You might have heard that there is lead in Flint’s water. You’re not going to believe how much. And you’re not going to believe how bad lead exposure is for people – thanks to government-hating Republicans who set aside democracy for profit.
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How Secret Donations Influence U.S. Elections
A guide to dark money in American politics.
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Bursary Or Bust: Thousands of Student Nurses and Midwives Take To U.K. Streets Over Cuts
Starting in August of next year, the Tories plan to scrap vital funds for student nurses in training, who instead will be forced to take out loans that leave them saddled with debt.
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Wealthy Cabals Run America: This Is What Our Democracy Looks Like
Oligarchs aren’t even trying to hide their influence any more, as groups of millionaires determine education policy, communications policy, agriculture policy, monetary policy, and whatever other policy you can think of.
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The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
The portal to the Federal Reserve's stream of riches has been forced open, if just a crack – the trickle could one day become a flow, a mighty river of liquidity powering the engines of productivity of a vibrant economy.
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A New Era of Global Protest Begins
In line with the steady rise in social unrest over the past decade, it’s likely that we will witness an unprecedented escalation in large-scale citizen protests across the globe in 2016 and beyond.
