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By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
Among other effects, cancer clinics in March began turning away thousands of Medicare patients being treated with expensive chemotherapy drugs, which the clinics say they can no longer afford.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By David Sirota — In case you missed the news, humanity just spent the Earth Day week reaching another sad milestone in the history of catastrophic climate change.
Posted on May 3, 2013
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Artwork, images and photo from Brian Wood's website.
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By Sheerly Avni — Brian Wood is a best-selling comic book writer whose body of work expresses a political and social awareness that ranks with the best in speculative fiction.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Having directed NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for most of the past four decades, Dr. James E. Hansen retired this month to devote himself to the scientific activism that has brought both awards and catcalls during his long and distinguished career.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — The Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath has dominated the nation’s headlines. Yet, another series of explosions that happened two days later and took four times the number of lives, has gotten a fraction of the coverage.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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With apologies to the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson, who is widely credited as the founder of Earth Day, I don’t really feel like celebrating.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Economist Michael Hudson attacks Obama’s proposed cuts. Also on the program: the fight to keep Monsanto from polluting Hawaii’s natural wonders, a college degree ain’t what it used to be, and a new movie documents the legal showdown over medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Economist Michael Hudson attacks Obama’s proposed cuts. Also on the program: the fight to keep Monsanto from polluting Hawaii’s natural wonders, a college degree ain’t what it used to be, and a new movie documents the legal showdown over medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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Pioneering Lancaster, Calif., Mayor R. Rex Parris wants his city to generate more power from renewable energy than it consumes. In fact, he wants the dusty, desert town to be the solar power capital of the universe. And he’s a Republican.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
Why take a look at the history of gay rights in the context of the climate struggle? Because the hardest part of the Keystone pipeline fight has been figuring out what to do about the Democrats.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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AP/Jeannie Nuss
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The oil giant is sure doing its best to prevent journalists from covering the recent oil spill from its Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Ark., reporters say. And unfortunately for them, a pliant county sheriff’s office has shown it’s all too willing to help Exxon Mobil out.
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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More than half of the country’s rivers and streams are unable to support healthy populations of aquatic insects and other creatures, a survey of nearly 2,000 locations by the Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
According to activists such as Chris Williams, capitalism is designed for infinite growth, but the planet is not.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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josef.stuefer (CC BY 2.0)
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Thanks to the dreaded sequester cuts, the nation’s habitat will take a sizable hit as the development of clean energy is set back and 8,400 meat inspectors are furloughed. The oil industry, however, emerges as a victor as it gets to keep its billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies while the EPA sees its funding for monitoring and cleanup reduced, Mother Jones reports.
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The test of President Obama’s seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It’s whether he effectively consigns coal-fired power plants—one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions—to the ashcan of history.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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United States Department of Energy
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Five more tanks are leaking at a shuttered nuclear facility in Washington state.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By David Sirota — Despite its success in recent elections, and despite the image of unity it projects, the Democratic Party is in the throes of an epic identity crisis pitting its corporate money against its stated principles.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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Organizers of Sunday’s “Forward on Climate” rally and march claim the estimated 35,000 activists who descended on Washington, D.C., to demand the Obama administration take action on the critical issue of global warming constitute the largest turnout ever for a climate rally.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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If President Obama reprises the environmental theme in Tuesday night’s speech, “he’ll join a long list of predecessors to warn that we’re leaving a mess for future generations. And if past is prologue, the green talk and pageantry may be the only things delivered on the president’s lofty words,” writes Peter Dykstra, publisher of The Daily Climate.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
Mexico City plans to draw drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer. The effort challenges a key tenet of U.S. clean water policy: Water far underground can be intentionally polluted because it will never be used.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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AP/Julio Cortez
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By Juan Cole — It is vital for the president and his allies in Congress to remember that those Americans most defenseless against extreme weather and natural disasters form the backbone of the Democratic Party.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Photo by Jayson Shenk (CC-BY)
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The Environmental Protection Agency may be making evidence of water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing disappear to satisfy the drilling industry and lawmakers.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The mounting distortions of climate change and the rapid depletion of natural resources have done little to blunt the self-destructive notion of ceaseless expansion. The road we are on points toward human extinction.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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By David Sirota — There’s a big reason climate change differs from so many public policy challenges: Unlike other crises, addressing the planet’s major environmental crisis truly requires mass consensus.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — All right, now can we talk about climate change? After a year when the lower 48 states suffered the warmest temperatures, and the second-craziest weather, since record-keeping began?
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Mother Jones profiles a growing coalition of environmental, labor and civil rights groups, including Greenpeace and the NAACP, that began meeting off the record in December to try to figure out “what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — If Calvin Coolidge of Vermont were alive and awake now—he was noted for taking long naps—he might want to change it to, "The business of America is show business."
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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“What should really be scaring the daylights out of us—the crisis which could make all the others irrelevant—is global warming,” Bill Moyers says on the latest edition of “Moyers & Company.” “Get this one wrong and it’s over—not just for the USA, but for planet Earth.”
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The security and surveillance state, recently released FBI documents show, monitors even mainstream dissenters and is determined to shut down all organized resistance to corporate rule. The goal: an encompassing system of pervasive fear and overt intimidation.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Right now the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world population at 7 billion and growing. Feeding all those people is going to be a challenge and, like it or not, it may involve really disgusting meat jelly.
Posted on Jan 6, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The natural gas industry is waging an aggressive public relations campaign to bolster investor confidence, despite evidence showing that shale gas is an unreliable resource and that the production process releases large amounts of methane into the atmosphere.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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A new policy approved by the EPA will allow states to permit the sale of fuel that contains up to 15 percent ethanol, and the difference could damage your car.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The myth of NRA power, the fiscal “obstacle course” and your guide to surviving apocalypses real and imagined.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The myth of NRA power, the fiscal “obstacle course” and your guide to surviving apocalypses real and imagined.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at 104, was one of my heroes.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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