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Are We on the Verge of Total Self-Destruction?

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch

For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-nuclear?akid=10521.9992.nKKZdE&rd=1&src=newsletter850252&t=3

Monsanto Mystery Wheat Appears in Oregon, No One Knows Why

Alex Kane, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/genetically-modified-wheat-crop-found-oregon?akid=10521.9992.nKKZdE&rd=1&src=newsletter850252&t=7

Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out on the Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food

Fritz Kreiss, Occupy Monsanto

http://occupymonsanto360.org/blog/former-pro-gmo-scientist-speaks-out-on-the-real-dangers-of-genetically-engineered-food/

Obama’s Arctic Strategy Sets Off a Climate Time Bomb

Nafeez Ahmed, EarthInsight, The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/17/obama-arctic-energy-security-climate

Wall Street’s Climate Finance Bonanza

Janet Redman and Antonio Tricarico

http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/wall_st

Has There Been a Great Progressive Reversal?  How the Left Abandoned Cheap Electricity

Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/environment/how-progressives-abandoned-cheap-electricity?akid=10524.9992.uMigDu&rd=1&src=newsletter850372&t=10