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Just Say NO to REAL ID Before October 15, 2024
By tying Real ID to travel within the country, the American government is creating an ‘internal passport’ of the sort that oppressive regimes (like North Korea) use to limit their people’s freedom of movement, and to create distinct classes of citizens.
The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism establishes a tollbooth over the essential systems necessary for human survival. This system enables the rich class of oligarchs to use their exclusive capture of assets, assets which the rest of us need, to ensure that we pay way over the odds to them in order to use those assets.
RFK Jr. Is Replicating Bernie Sanders’ Sheepdog Play for MAGA
The move was clever, as it gave Trump plausible deniability about his current stance on his Covid-era policies (e.g. mRNA vaccines) and it made it appear that Kennedy had stood strong to his opposition to those same policies and had perhaps influenced Trump in those matters.
Appalachia: Murder always happens for a reason
Hurricane Helene has arrived just in time to clear out the property owners local to the mining interests in Western North Carolina. Piedmont Lithium was heavily opposed in Gaston County by local residents and commissioners. But now it appears the opposition has been eliminated.
Green Jobs or Greenwashing?
Behind each piece of green technology is extraction. A recent International Energy Agency report estimates that reaching “net zero” by 2050 would require six times the amount of minerals used today.
Communities are Responding to Federal Court Fluoridation Ruling
The first to act was the Yorktown Water District in New York, which provides water to over 50,000 people in the towns of Yorktown and Somers. On Thursday, September 26th, Yorktown Supervisor Ed Lachterman ordered the suspension of fluoridation as a precautionary measure.
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
This is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance, or torture, or habeas corpus, or secret prisons, or rendition, or any of a dozen other things, we ignore laws. Institutional impunity is the chief characteristic of our current form of government.
From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds
Farmers’ leaders from 18 states in India have resolved to oppose GM crops. They say GMOs in agriculture are harmful to human and animal health, the environment, farmers’ livelihoods and trade and are based on failed promises.
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