After Iran Pact: Will the Nuclear Powers Also Play by the Rules?

After Iran Pact: Will the Nuclear Powers Also Play by the Rules? Lawrence Wittner: 45 years after the Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect, nine nations continue to cling to about 16,000 nuclear weapons, thousands of which remain on hair-trigger alert.   READ MORE shared from

MONDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2015 Will National Teachers' Union Endorse Hillary Without Consulting Its Members? Steven Singer: Leadership at the National Education Association has been making troubling moves toward endorsing Clinton that could commit the organization to supporting the Democratic presidential hopeful with no regard for the wishes of its 3.2 million members. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend After Iran Pact: Will the Nuclear Powers Also Play by the Rules? Lawrence Wittner: 45 years after the Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect, nine nations continue to cling to about 16,000 nuclear weapons, thousands of which remain on hair-trigger alert. READ MORE Campus Rape: Guns Not the Answer Laura Finley: Having a gun involved is unlikely to make things better. In fact, numerous studies have found that guns actually make the situation worse. READ MORE Predators, Near and Far Kathy Kelly: Greedy predators, purportedly delivering health care, have steadily taken money from desperate people, like Jamila, in payment for useless or even murderous treatments. READ MORE How Marx Can Save American Capitalism John Peeler: Left to its own devices, capitalism really will create a world in which workers are driven ever harder to produce ever more, with a division of labor that becomes profoundly alienating. READ HERE

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Bernie Sanders Offers GOP Debaters a Tutorial on Democratic Socialism

Bernie Sanders Offers GOP Debaters a Tutorial on Democratic Socialism

The Republican candidates had a lot to say about the senator, and he has something to say to them.

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Bernie Sanders Offers GOP Debaters a Tutorial on Democratic Socialism The Republican candidates had a lot to say about the senator, and he has something to say to them.   JOHN NICHOLS

Oakland Residents Respond as the Largest Police Training in the World Invades The Urban Shield police expo has become so popular among police around the world that the Sheriff’s Office no longer has to advertise. AARON CANTÚ

This Is What Jeremy Corbyn’s New Labour Coalition Looks Like Even as the right-wing press derided Corbyn as a “weaponized lentil,” the shock was setting in. PAUL MASON

VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack. DAN COHEN, REBECCA PIERCE

Tell Etsy to Pay Its Fair Share of Taxes Despite its claim to be a socially responsible company, Etsy is taking advantage of secretive tax-haven laws in Ireland. NATIONACTION

The False Compassion of Pope Francis   No, women who get abortions aren’t automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. But you wouldn’t know that from the pope.   FRANCES KISSLING

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Giant ‘dying polar bear’ appears outside Shell UK headquarters in protest over Arctic drilling

Giant ‘dying polar bear’ appears outside Shell UK headquarters in protest over Arctic drilling

Sep 21st, 2015 

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BY KARA O’NEILL: 21 Sept 2015

A giant dying polar bear has been placed outside the headquarters of oil and gas company Shell in a bid to stop their Arctic drilling programme.

British actress Emma Thompson was among the protesters who manoeuvred the three-tone puppet into place, locking six people inside so the bear cannot be moved.

The bear, which is the size of a double decker bus, and is named Aurora (after the Northern Lights) is intended to sit outside the company’s headquarter in South Bank, London, until they cease their drilling.

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Environment groups to file case vs ‘big polluters’ before CHR

Environment groups to file case vs ‘big polluters’ before CHR

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By: Kristine Angeli Sabillo 04:51 PM September 21st, 2015FILE PHOTO

Environmental groups led by Greenpeace will file on Tuesday a potential landmark case through a complaint before the Commission on Human Rights.The groups cited a study by scientist Richard Heede, which named 90 “Carbon Majors” or “big polluters” composed of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies and cement producers.

The complaint asks the CHR to investigate top fossil fuel and cement producers dubbed “Carbon Majors” believed to have been committing human rights violations by producing carbon emissions and eventually contributing to climate change.The groups said they would file the case before the CHR, which has the power to investigate on complaints on all forms of human, civil and political rights, because “climate change interferes with the enjoyment of our fundamental rights as human beings.”

Carbon Majors Heede’s study tracked “anthropogenic” or human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from 1751 to 2010. It was later updated to include 2011, 2012 and 2013. Heede’s study showed that 50 investor-owned Carbon Major companies contributed 315 gigatons (Gt) of equivalent carbon dioxide (CO2e) or 21.72 percent of global industrial emissions through 2010.

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Philippine ex-governor, brother arrested in Thailand

Philippine ex-governor, brother arrested 

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Philippine provincial governor and his brother, who are among the country's most-wanted crime suspects for the 2011 murder of a radio anchor and prominent environmentalist, have been arrested in Thailand, officials said Monday.

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Are we ready for 'gray swan' storms?

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