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For Albert Cossery, the world is split between those who respect a cause and those who don’t give a tinker's damn.

Gulf residents and cleanup workers continue to suffer serious health problems from the 2010 disaster, but the oil giant is not being held to account.

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Obama breaks new ground when it comes to war with Iran.

Widespread resistance to natural gas fracking is rising above New York's Marcellus Shale.

A health risk assessment required by California state law was never completed, but that hasn’t stopped police from using the weapon against thousands of citizens, including the students at UC Davis.

Occupy Wall Street has exposed a system that regards people as disposable, but not usually so literally.

It’s not hard to understand how environmental quality and economic inequality came to be joined at the hip.

Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, makes the case in this Q&A.

From Kyrgyzstan to Kenya, from Libya to Yemen, Syria and even Egypt, violence and upheaval can be traced back to the price of a loaf of bread.