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May
Unity is Not Compromise: Towards a Real Palestinian Strategy
As the Palestine Papers demonstrated, the major obstacle to a real, lasting and just peace in Palestine is the Israeli leadership's unwillingness to accept anything less than full domination over the Palestinians.
Republicans Defend Tax Breaks for Oil Companies
There's a big fight happening in Washington over oil company subsidies.
Students of the World, Unite!
In England when Parliament attempted to nearly triple the cost of tuition for university students last year, thousands took to the streets in mass protest.
Challenging Ideological Hegemony: Taking on the Media
Original source: Diary of a Heartland Radical
Cuban SEALs for Florida?
The debate continues: Was the killing of Osama bin Laden justified? Perhaps a rather useless debate since he is now most certainly dead.
Reducing Global Energy Use
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of the need for safe, renewable energy sources, isn’t the elephant in the room really that we should use far less energy than we do? Wouldn’t more rules about conservation (like not leaving commercial building lights on all night) make the challenges easier? -- Jennifer B., New York, NY In short, yes: Scaling back our energy consumption significantly, whether voluntarily or as a result of laws and regulations, would go a long way toward achieving our pollution reduction and air and water quality goals.
Presidential Order on Campaign Donations Could Counter Citizens United
In the case known as Citizens United, the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court essentially gave free reign to the wealthy and powerful to influence the political process by striking down certain requirements that political groups disclose their income sources.
60 MPGs by 2025
Echoing President Obama's recent call to ween the U.S. off oil, a coalition of almost three dozen local and national environmental groups are calling for a fuel economy standard of 60 miles-per-gallon by 2025.In a letter to the President earlier this month, the coalition cited rising gas prices, global pollution, oil-based trade relations with "regimes and individuals who are hostile to the United States," and the need for investments in job-creating, clean energy industries in the U.S. as reasons for raising the fuel economy standard.In his first week in office, President Obama raised fuel economy standards, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), from an average 25 mpg to more than 35 mpg by 2016.
