Environment
Toward cyborg socialism
February 10, 2014The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. It was also Lenin's hundredth birthday. The coincidence was not intentional.
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Keystone XL pipeline and the jobs controversy
February 7, 2014XL backers' arguments that the project is a jobs provider are being disputed. Many, including some labor activists, feel that the pipeline issue does not need to be divisive, and that they share the same underlying...
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Unions jump into the controversy over Keystone pipeline
February 5, 2014Environmental activists, among them many union members, are escalating their protests against approval of the pipeline.
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The war on the planet
February 5, 2014We usually think of violence as something that is abrupt and explosive - a bomb going off, a bullet finding its mark. But there is another kind of violence that is increasing worldwide.
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Major Duke Energy ash spill turns Dan River gray
February 5, 2014Duke Energy and local officials assure residents that the water is fine. End of subject. But the crisis isn't over.
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