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  • A Roadmap to Peace and Security

    Mar 30, 2013

    On Sept. 20, 1961 the US and USSR signed the McCloy-Zorin Accords. It was partly the work of both a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his Democrat successor, John. F. Kennedy and was an ...

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  • Money & Energy

    Feb 15, 2013

    by Richard Douthwaite  Money and energy have always been linked. A gold currency was essentially an energy currency, because the amount of gold produced in a year was determined by the cost of the en...

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  • Cover Story: The Progress Myth

    Nov 27, 2012

    Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Prog...

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  • A Snapshot of US Nuclear Policy

    Sep 11, 2012

    Do They Speak for You? The increased or decreased risk of nuclear war is often determined by people who speak for us when proposals regarding nuclear weapons are presented at organizations like the U...

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  • Zero is the Only Option

    Sep 06, 2012

    A GAMEPLAN FOR ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS Ever since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, people around the world have campaigned for an end to the nuclear age. We now have the be...

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  • High Alert Nuclear Weapons

    Sep 02, 2012

    The Threat to All Nations and People by Steven Starr Although US and Russian Presidents have jointly declared that relations between their nations have been “reset”, and that nuclear war b...

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  • AIDS in Central China

    Apr 03, 2012

    BACKGROUND: AIDS propagated in Central China during the 80’s and 90’s through the selling of blood in small Chinese villages. Many of the poor sell their blood to supplement their income. To en...

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  • The Great Carbon Bubble: Why The Fossil Fuel Industry Fights (Science) So Hard

    Mar 29, 2012

    by Bill McKibben If we could see the world with an illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the...

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