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[Originally posted 9/21/2016 on Otherwords.org under a “Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives Work” license.] The Climate Change Debate is Over Increasing major storms and rising sea levels have long been predicted … Continue Reading Todd Larsen: “The Climate Change Debate is Over”
Wall Street Sodbusters [Reposted with acknowledgement and thanks from Otherwords.org Please see original post page for copyright information.] Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing … Continue Reading Jim Hightower: “Wall Street Sodbusters”
(Originally published on OtherWords.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. Copyrighted under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported license.) Trump is using sympathetic out-of-work miners as a cover for … Continue Reading Jill Richardson: Gutting Climate Protections Won’t Bring Back Coal Jobs
How’s this for a grand generalization? The United States is not great at providing health care and really good at waging war. And by “good” I do not mean effectively. … Continue Reading “War is the Health of the State”–But Not People
So one of the largest printers of magazines (Quad/Graphics of Sussex) wants an energy discount for its expansion plan, a plan the corporation says will “create up to 500 jobs” … Continue Reading Small businesses, consumers need not apply for WE Energies’ power discount
If we need anymore proof that a corporation is really not a person, we can turn to an item in the news which so far the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has not … Continue Reading Corporations are People, Except at Tax Time
(CAFO hogs by USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) If you operate a wealthy “mega farm” in Wisconsin or anywhere else in the nation, some lawmakers in Congress are working hard … Continue Reading Farm Subsidies & Food Stamps: Stuffing the rich, starving the poor
Much shocked outrage was voiced in Wisconsin after a recent undercover video taken at a dairy factory farm by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals was made public. The Wisconsin Farm … Continue Reading CAFOs: A farm is not a factory
