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EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
Environmentalists are warning the agency that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf is in violation of federal law.
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Recalculating the Climate Math
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.
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Worries Grow As British Government Vows To Scrap Human Rights Act
The Human Rights Act will be replaced with a so-called British Bill of Rights, a controversial manifesto that was written under the former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government.
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Scottish Independence Moves Closer As Momentum Swings Against UK
In light of the Brexit chaos, the broken promises and democratic deficit, it would be easy to think independence is certain – and judging by the movement's energy in Scotland, 2018 could be the year.
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Despite Severe Climate Warnings, Pakistan Presses Ahead Full Scale With Coal
On its projected track, Pakistan will generate a total capacity of over 23,000 megawatts of electricity from coal in the next few years to overcome its steep energy requirements.
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How Student Income Loans Transfer Wealth to Investors and Risk to Students
A crucial difference between the subprime debt bubble and the student debt bubble is that the properties that comprised subprime mortgage securities served as collateral to the mortgage debt.
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Europe’s Left After Brexit
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis responds to his critics and lays out DiEM25’s plan for resisting within the European Union.
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5 Star on the Rise: Italy's First Crowd-Sourced Party Delivers Direct Democracy In Action
The transparency and political openness that helped the 5 Star Movement rise to power must now bring the party's current and future proposals to the forefront if it hopes to achieve any lasting change.
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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.
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Report Finds Racial Wage Gap Widest In Nearly 4 Decades
As wages for American workers have stagnated for more than a generation, the income gap between black and white workers has widened, and discrimination is the main reason for the persisting disparity.
