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Israel’s spraying “has created a dead zone of entire swathes of formerly arable land.”

Industrial hemp has been proved to absorb more CO2 per hectare than any forest or commercial crop, making it the ideal carbon sink. It can be grown on a wide scale on nutrient-poor soils with very small amounts of water and no fertilizers.

The NLRB persists in its fight to outlaw Scabby the Rat, the balloon rodent who helps out workers when they picket their bosses.

Is there a democratic road to socialism? And if so, what does it mean for socialists today?

Worsening economic inequality in recent years is largely the result of policy choices that reflect the political influence and lobbying power of the rich. There is now a self-reinforcing pattern of high profits, low investment, and rising inequality

A new Brennan Center report details vast racial and gender disparities on state supreme courts around the country.

We cannot be certain, despite what many have contended, that the Universe began from a singularity. We can, however, break the illustration you see into the different eras based on properties the Universe had at those particular times.

Last November when Alex Villanueva became Los Angeles County’s 33rd Sheriff, he did so with the widespread support of police and prison reformers. This week Los Angeles Magazine termed Villanueva “the Donald Trump of Los Angeles law enforcement”.

Sheriffs’ Departments are rife with scandal. And Sheriffs know the feds are often the only ones who can stop the abuse, which is why so many California sheriffs prioritize the immigration-related whims of federal authorities over fealty to state law.

They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. —English folk poem, circa 1764