Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 5:48 pm

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Check out tarsandsaction.org if you want to get involved and protest the Keystone XL pipeline proposal

Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org, explains the connection between climate change, Hurricane Irene, and overall extreme weather (democracynow!)

A reporter who tracks solitary confinement in America condemns Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to not evacuate Riker’s Island, leaving prisoners stranded in a scenario that could have mirrored Katrina, when many prisoners were left to die in their cells

New study finds that climate cycles, particularly el nino, create civil wars, accounting for “one-fifth of the 240 civil conflicts since 1950″

Politifact:  Warren Buffet is correct when he says, “The “mega-rich” pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class ‘fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.‘”

Politifact:  ”Wall Street hedge fund managers “pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland.” 

Politifact: 53% of black wealth has disappeared in the downturn

2012 might see the end of the presidential public financing system

How America’s war against cocaine in Columbia is totally counterproductive

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