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The Retro GOP Dismantling the EPA

The Retro GOP Dismantling the EPA

January 20, 2019 By V.B. Price Leave a Comment

The GOP’s relentless attack on the EPA could create conditions far worse than those 50 years ago when President Nixon responded to the public’s outrage at gross environmental degradation.

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Trump’s Shutdown, Trump’s Wall: Sadism in the Oval Office

Trump’s Shutdown, Trump’s Wall: Sadism in the Oval Office

January 13, 2019 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

Will a sadistic White House continue to use the shutdown as a form of political torture?

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The Future is in the House: The Green New Deal

The Future is in the House: The Green New Deal

January 6, 2019 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

The idea of a Green New Deal has become a tangible rallying cry for environmental advocates, young people and activists for social and economic justice across the country.

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Good Deeds and Fierce Resistance

Good Deeds and Fierce Resistance

December 30, 2018 By V.B. Price 3 Comments

In these trying and confusing times, working strenuously for the world one wants doesn’t take the horror out of the world one opposes, but it does absolve it of devastating hopelessness.

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FIVE TREASURE MAPS TO THE LABYRINTH  OF TRUST

FIVE TREASURE MAPS TO THE LABYRINTH OF TRUST

December 24, 2018 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

Christmas 2018 V.B. Price For Rini, as always, Ryan, Talia, Mercedes, Sophia, Chris and Deanna, Jody, Amy, Keir, Helena, Teresa, and Ruth, and for all of us who are enduring more than we ever thought we could. Map Number One KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW That’s the vine tossed to you in the quicksand of self-pity […]

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Donald Trump is John Adams’ Aristocratic Nightmare Come to Life

Donald Trump is John Adams’ Aristocratic Nightmare Come to Life

December 16, 2018 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

Adams thought elitism, and the fiscal inequality that comes with it, was a fundamental danger to America’s fledgling democracy.

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The Impact of Pollution on Public Health

The Impact of Pollution on Public Health

December 9, 2018 By V.B. Price 4 Comments

It’s not going too far to say that the environment of the modern world is a chaos of human-caused pollution — from plastics, industrial solvents, radioactive contamination, pesticides, mercury and continent-sized islands of waste in the oceans to CO2 and methane in the atmosphere, fumes from household cleaners, oil and gasoline in aquifers, hormones in […]

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