Articles by Thomas Hedges

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“Everyone Is Corrupt, I Have Come to Learn”
Thomas Hedges - Salon, 15 Jul 2013

John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on Bush’s torture program and is now in prison, sent an open letter to Edward Snowden last week warning him not to trust the FBI. “DO NOT,” Kiriakou wrote, “under any circumstances, cooperate with the FBI. FBI agents will lie, trick, and deceive you. They will twist your words and play on your patriotism to entrap you.

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An Economic Alternative to Exploitative Free Market Capitalism
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Feb 2013

The commons movement protects large resources from privatization and allows collectives to regulate extraction. Exploitation is avoided because no one individual has more of a right to the source than any other.

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How Germany Is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Nov 2012

There is no debate on climate change in Germany, where architects of the clean energy movement estimate that from 80 percent to 100 percent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050.

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Growing an Alternative Economy One Community at a Time
Thomas Hedges - Center for Study of Responsive Law, 29 Oct 2012

“The best thing about farmers markets is that people talk,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben. “A study found that shoppers at farmers markets had 10 times as many conversations per visit than at supermarkets.” The farmers market is a microcosm of an alternative economy. It is marked by conversation, not by profit.

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