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Znet Article Frank: Nike and Dead Coal Miners

Znet Article, September, 05 2010 Joshua Frank
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Nike is again embroiled in a controversy it may not easily shake, and this time around it has nothing to do with sweatshop labor practices. An ad spot for the company's new Pro-Combat football apparel line has hit prime time and not everyone is th...

Znet Article Frank: Not All Environmentalists Pleased With Climate Legislation

Znet Article, June, 23 2010 Joshua Frank
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One would think that the environmental community would be united behind what is being hailed by some as the most significant and important piece of climate legislation to ever be introduced in the United States Senate.

Znet Article Frank: How NYC May Be Revolutionizing the Way Kids Eat

Znet Article, June, 13 2010 Joshua Frank
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When one envisions a stereotypical school lunch, a plate of leathery cheese pizza and a high fructose-laden soda with a side of green jello may come to mind. Fortunately this concept of lunch is soon to be tossed in the trash at a handful of New Y...

Znet Article Frank: The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal

Znet Article, February, 28 2010 Joshua Frank
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If you've tuned in to the Winter Olympics this past week, you likely sat through repeated showings of a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign paid for by Big Coal regarding the potential laurels of "clean-coal" technology. The premise of t...

Znet Article Frank: The Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Data

Znet Article, January, 29 2010 Joshua Frank
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The coal ash industry manipulated reports and publications about the dangers of coal combustion waste, reports Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The group stated that the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the multibil...

Znet Article Frank: Big Greens Criticized for Climate Compromise

Znet Article, December, 10 2009 Joshua Frank
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All eyes are on the United Nations Climate Change conference talks that kick off in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week. Known as the COP15 summit, the international negotiations will center on cap-and-trade and offset schemes to combat global warming,...

Znet Article Frank: Coal Kills: Medial Group Denounces Coal in Critical Report

Znet Article, November, 28 2009 Joshua Frank
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So you thought smoking cigarettes was bad for your health? Try living next to a coal-fired power plant...

Znet Article Frank: Sen. Max Baucus, the Man Behind the Health Care Bill

Znet Article, September, 20 2009 Joshua Frank
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While still in high school I had the pleasure of flying across the country to Washington, D.C., for a weeklong youth workshop on leadership and democracy. I remember the excitement I had knowing I was about to meet both of my Montana senators. Bac...

Znet Article Frank: These are Obama's Wars Now

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 Joshua Frank
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It's time to toss those Obama t-shirts in the trash.

Znet Article Frank: Foes of Mountaintop Removal Have no Ally in the White House

Znet Article, February, 14 2009 Joshua Frank
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Barack Obama seems to be following a dirty legacy when it comes to his official energy policy, a policy that has left Appalachia with fewer mountaintops every year.

Znet Article Frank: Obama's Neocon

Znet Article, January, 23 2009 Joshua Frank
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In wee morning hours on Friday, January 23, a U.S. spy plane killed at least 15 in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. It was Barack Obama's first blood and the U.S.'s first violation of Pakistan's sovereignty under the new administration. The a...

Znet Article Frank: Barack Obama on Israel's Siege of Gaza

Znet Article, December, 29 2008 Joshua Frank
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As President-Elect Barack Obama vacationed in Hawaii on December 26, stopping off to watch a dolphin show with his family at Sea Life Park, an Israeli air raid besieged the impoverished Gaza Strip, killing at least 285 people and injuring over 800...

Znet Article Frank: Looking Under the Hood of an Obama Administration

Znet Article, November, 06 2008 Joshua Frank
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Tuesday's celebration hangovers have finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Change will be coming to Washington in January, but it is difficult to decipher what form it will take. Early clues, however, sugges...

Znet Article Frank: Follow This Dime

Znet Article, August, 04 2008 Joshua Frank
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Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry ...

Znet Article Frank: Largest Conservation Deal in History a Taxpayer Funded Crapshoot?

Znet Article, July, 13 2008 Joshua Frank
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The wild forests of North America have almost completely disappeared over the past century and a half, and so too have the great timber barons that stole these lands from the public trust. Even so, the corporate pillage continues to be celebrated.

Znet Article Clair: We Shouldn't Exist

Znet Article, July, 13 2008 Jeffrey st. Clair
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An excerpt from the new book Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, published this month by AK Press.

Znet Article Frank: Election Piffle

Znet Article, May, 01 2008 Joshua Frank
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Back in 2000, during Nader's most spirited presidential run, anti-globalization sentiment, fueled by the WTO protests, was coming to a head...

Znet Article Frank: Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade With Turkey

Znet Article, February, 22 2008 Joshua Frank
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According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, there is a vast black market for nukes, and certain U.S. officials have been supplying sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests through its conduits. It’s a scathing al...

Znet Article Frank: Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey

Znet Article, January, 27 2008 Joshua Frank
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According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds there is a vast black market for nukes, and certain U.S. officials have been supplying sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests through its conduits. It’s a scathing all...

Znet Article Frank: The Fight to Save the Rocky Mountains

Znet Article, August, 29 2007 Joshua Frank
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This year I find myself in Colorado attempting to put a few miles between my overburdened mind and the mechanized drone of Southern California. The al...

Znet Article Frank: The Weeds of Willapa Bay

Znet Article, August, 24 2007 Joshua Frank
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Something bizarre is going on in Willapa Bay, Washington...

Znet Article Frank: Censoring Pearl Jam:

Znet Article, August, 20 2007 Joshua Frank
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Censoring Pearl Jam:

Znet Article Frank: Richard Holbrooke: A Hillary Clinton Neocon

Znet Article, July, 26 2007 Joshua Frank
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Richard Holbrooke likes Hillary Clinton. In fact he may well be aske...

Znet Article Frank: Another Step Toward War With Iran

Znet Article, July, 21 2007 Joshua Frank
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Another Step Toward War With Iran

Znet Article Frank: The Problem with the Global Warming Skeptics

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Joshua Frank
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The Problem with the Global Warming Skeptics

Znet Article Frank: The Iraq War: Hillary Clinton's Achilles' Heel? By Joshua Frank

Znet Article, May, 23 2007 Joshua Frank
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The Iraq War: Hillary Clinton's Achilles' Heel? By Joshua Frank

Znet Article Frank: Democratic Blood Money and Senator Feinstein's War

Znet Article, April, 05 2007 Joshua Frank
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Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California silently resigned from her post on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) la...

Znet Article Frank: Broken Promises and Barefaced Lies

Znet Article, March, 28 2007 Joshua Frank
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We have observed the same song and dance so many times before it’s hard to believe more didn...

Znet Article Frank: A New Congress?

Znet Article, January, 09 2007 Joshua Frank
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Now that the Democrats are back in power, the American public can finally exhale. Bush is doomed. Cheney is on the ropes. Condi is updating her résumé while Rove prepares his exodus. Well, such an optimistic outlook is boldly misguided. The Demo...

Znet Article Frank: President Bush Uncut

Znet Article, July, 20 2006 Joshua Frank
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It was a candid moment. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were chatting over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg on Monday when a Russian microphone sitting in front of Bush was unknowingly live. After almost ...

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