President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Peter Rugh
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Greenwashing and the Bloombergification of the World's Cities
Are you an unpopular mayor who terrorized minorities and mistreated your employees? Try giving lip service to climate change, like Michael Bloomberg has.
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Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?
Seventy percent of Japan's population wants a nuclear-free future but the government is ignoring their demands, even as experts give cleanup operations at Fukushima a centuries-long timetable.
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Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama's New Energy Pick
President Obama's appointment of Dr. Ernest Moniz to head the U.S. Energy Department is a literal payoff to the hydrofracking industry, which has funneled millions into Moniz's Energy Initiative research at MIT.
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New York's Victory Against Big Gas: Frackers, Get Packing
A major battle in America's frack war came to a head in New York this week as opponents of drilling mobilized by the thousands to successfully maintain a 2010 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
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New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture
Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.
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Can the Occupy Movement and Organized Labor Strengthen Ties in 2013?
With its emphasis on direct democracy, spontaneity and flexibility of tactics – unbounded by union hierarchies or legal impediments such as the Taft-Hartley Act – Occupy has infused the labor movement with a fresh dose of radicalism.
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At Doha Climate Conference, Arab Spring or Silent Spring?
At the latest failed UN climate negotiations, held in Qatar, youth delegates walked out in protest joining indigenous tribes, trade unionists and students rallying for a just and sustainable economy.
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Thousands Flock to Albany to Resist Fracking
Several thousand people flooded New York’s state capital Monday, delivering letters to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office containing pledges to take nonviolent direct action against hydraulic-fracturing, or fracking.
