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The Billion Dollar Global Market for Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear insanity: ongoing development and deployment, endless investment, eventual (either accidental or intentional) use.

Robert C. Koehler ·


Covid-19 Death Rates in Poorer US Counties Were Nearly Double

The tragic reality is that our economic and public health systems do discriminate.

Karen Dolan ·


More Than $900 of Your Tax Dollars Went to Corporate Military Contractors

This tax season, I'd rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn't you?

Lindsay Koshgarian ·


Of Fire and Water: The Portuguese Climate Justice Caravan

From the contact with the populations and the walks through wooded areas, something becomes clear and notorious: the conditions for the repetition of catastrophic forest fires not only exist again, but have worsened.

João Camargo ·


Make Peace Possible With a United Nations Emergency Peace Service

This dysfunctional, war-prone system does not need to be anarchic nor ruled and selectively enforced by the strongest or the Western military alliance, NATO.

Peter Langille ·


The Outrageous—and Largely Hidden—$5.9 Trillion Annual Subsidy to the Fossil Fuel Industry That Is Killing Us

Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the full extent of these subsidies has been hidden by the methods used to measure them.

Jayati Ghosh ·


Invasion of Ukraine Is Exacerbating Food Insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa

The ongoing conflict is disrupting the supply chains of cereals and oilseeds, increasing food prices, and is expected to significantly raise domestic production costs in the agricultural sector.

Mohammed Tazrouti ·


Autocrats Like Trump, Putin, and Le Pen Exploit Failures of Neoliberalism

The question is whether we'll return to sane and humane economic policies and ban big money from politics or if we'll embrace the authoritarian policies of Putin, Trump, and Le Pen.

Thom Hartmann ·


Ceasefire for Ukraine Now!

The U.S. should be publicly leading in a campaign to force both Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table.

Ted Glick ·


WaPo Gives Bigots Platform to Control Narrative on Sexual Politics in Schools

These malicious accusations, part of a spreading movement led by Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law, have not a shred of truth to them.

Julie Hollar ·

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