What's The Real Price Of Unhealthy Food
By Nozomi Hayase When we talk about the price of food, it is important to see food within the context of our larger society. Looking at the true economical reality here in the US, corporations and...
View ArticleNorthern Light: Why Canada's 'Casserole' Movement Is All Of Ours
By Chris Hedges I gave a talk last week at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Many in the audience had pinned small red squares of felt to their...
View ArticleThe Starving Children On TV Are Your Neighbors Kids
Matt Lawrence of Occupy NH protests the GOP's child poverty agenda outside Congressmen Frank Guinta and Darrell Issa's event @ Delux in Manchester. Voted 'Best Protest Sign' by Manchester Police....
View ArticleFight The Status Quo With Your Rage
By Bill McKibben My solution is: get outraged. Campaigners marched in Copenhagen under the banner "System Change, Not Climate Change." On the eve of Rio+20, that message again will rise, but slogans...
View ArticleIn The Dawn Of Time Before Toilet Paper
Before TP, there was... By Creative Subversion Enterprises The first product designed specifically to wipe one’s nethers were aloe-infused sheets of Manila Hemp dispensed from Kleenex-like boxes. They...
View ArticleSome Shocking Facts About Water
Over 1500 million people do not have access to clean, safe water. A five minute shower in an typical household will use more water than a person living in a developing world slum will use in a whole...
View ArticleA Confused Debate: a Review of The Question of God
By Brett Mullins The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life is a book with the potential for far reaching insight into the minds of two individuals...
View Article350: Tweet To End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Use #endfossilfuelsubsidies On June 18th, our friends at 350 (dot) org need you to help send a strong message to Washington. Interwebs users are encouraged to use the #endfossilfuelsubsidies on...
View ArticleThe Return Of Occupy
By Chris Hedges In every conflict, insurgency, uprising and revolution I have covered as a foreign correspondent, the power elite used periods of dormancy, lulls and setbacks to write off the...
View ArticleA Silent March To End Stop And Frisk
A silent march against the NYPD's discriminatory "Stop-and-Frisk" policy. Thousands of people holding signs, and banners participated in the march down Fifth Avenue ending near Mayor Bloomberg's...
View ArticleBill McKibben is a Tweetaholic
Dear friends, A confession: I like to tweet. When I come across something particularly sweet or peculiarly depressing, I feel better once I’ve shared it on Twitter. Twitter was designed as an outlet...
View ArticleHow POTUS Is Involved In The Shell Oil Shitshow
By Subhankar Banerjee What do Arctic drilling and drone killing have in common? They are both being decided by Barack Obama without public debate. Also oil is a common ground—drilling will produce it...
View ArticleInjection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us
The Hidden Risks of Pumping Waste Underground By Abrahm Lustgarden [ProPublica] Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the...
View ArticleBy Any Meme Necessary: Corporations Are Psychopathic
If It's Not Love, Then It's The Bomb, Then It's The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together We Put Hedge Fund Interest Before Our Children's
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