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Carbon Delirium

Michael Klare TomDispatch
The Last Stage of Fossil-Fuel Addiction and Its Hazardous Impact on American Foreign Policy: For anyone familiar with addictive behavior, this sort of delusional thinking would be a sign of an advanced stage of fossil fuel addiction. As the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality evaporates, the addict persists in the belief that relief for all problems lies just ahead -- when, in fact, the very opposite is true.

Chile Derails ‘Monsanto Law’ That Would Privatize Seeds

Asha DuMonthier New America Media
“We reject this law because it is a threat to family farms and to biodiversity,” said Lucía Sepúlveda from the Alliance for a Better Quality of Life/Pesticide Action Network of Chile (RAP-AL Chile). Last August, her organization and thousands of other Chileans took to the streets of cities across the country in mass protests against the law.

The Debate: Independence or Partisanship

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Nation of Change - Op-Ed
With Senator Bernie Sanders considering a presidential run and asking people to share their thoughts on whether he should run as an independent or a Democrat, the debate over partisanship is going to grow. We view this as an important opportunity to help many Americans realize that we need to escape from the two-party trap, as we try to do through our daily movement news and resource website, PopularResistance.org.

Obamacare Secret: If You Quit Your Job, You Have a Plan and Keep Wages

Dean Baker The Guardian
Expanding health insurance to the uninsured was never the big story. The most important benefit of Obamacare is the security it provides to the tens of millions of people who already had insurance – except that insurance, before the Affordable Care Act, was only as safe as their job.

How to Raise Wages

Harold Meyerson American Prospect
Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers.

Ocean Garbage Thwarts Flight 370 Search

Aljazeera America
The searchers, in an area about 1,150 miles west of Perth, have stumbled onto the eastern edge of a garbage gyre in the Indian Ocean.

Raising Wages: It's Overdue!

Harold Meyerson American Prospect
Boosting workers' power within the corporate framework requires more than expanding profit sharing or altering the company's charter. It requires altering the corporate structure.