Stories by Ellen Cantarow

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The Enviro Disaster You Know Nothing About: The Eco-Devastating Quest for "Frac Sand" in Rural America

Posted on May 20, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

Midwestern rural communities are being devastated by energy companies searching for a form of sand to use in their destructive fracking operations elsewhere in rural America.

Fracking's "Little Revolution": How a People-Powered Movement Fights Big Business for Clean Water

Posted on Jan 22, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

Consider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water.

Big Oil Makes War on the Planet

Posted on Jul 18, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

Our addiction to oil is now blowing back on the civilization that can't do without its gushers and can't quite bring itself to imagine a real transition to alternative energies.

Gaza Is a Concentration Camp

Posted on Jan 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet

One Israeli official promised a holocaust in Gaza; it is impossible to keep pace with the death toll.
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