Monthly Archives: October 2015

Death by Fracking

Posted on Oct 18, 2015 By Chris Hedges     Tanker trucks used in fracking operations line up near gas burn-off flares at a storage facility in Williston, N.D. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP) DENVER—The maniacal drive by the human species to … Continue reading

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‘A Pipeline Straight to Jail’

Posted on Oct 11, 2015 By Chris Hedges   Boris Franklin in a classroom at Rutgers. When he was in prison, he was a student under the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium (NJ-STEP), and he is now attending … Continue reading

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Here’s Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is Just Plain Wrong

By Robert Reich     A Toronto protest against the TPP trade agreement in 2014. (arindambanerjee / Shutterstock) This post originally ran on Robert Reich’s website in January. Republicans who now run Congress say they want to cooperate with President … Continue reading

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