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Brazil’s Unending World Cup: Twenty-Two Communities Still Fighting for Home in Fortaleza
After a World Cup light rail project forced them to relocate, residents continue to fight for fair compensation and housing.
Koch Brothers Backing Misleading Anti-Solar Campaign in Florida
Solar is booming in the US, with a 30 percent increase in generation in 2014, but surprisingly it's facing an uphill battle in Florida.
Guatemalan Activist Murdered After Court Suspends Palm Oil Company Operations
A palm oil company remains at the heart of conflict in northern Guatemala, months after a mass fish die-off.
Bankruptcy Lawyers Strip Cash From Coal Miners’ Health Insurance
Secure health insurance has been one casualty of the wave of bankruptcies.
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University Research Controversy Exposes the Perils of Industry Influence
How close should academics let industry get to fracking research?
Even in GovernmentÂ-Run Prisons, the Profiteering off of Human Lives Is Staggering
A wide range of companies, organizations, individuals and even towns profit economically or politically from prisons.
France’s Government Aims to Give Itself – and the NSA – Carte Blanche to Spy on the World
By legalizing France's own plans to spy on the rest of the world, France would take a step to establishing the NSA model as an acceptable global norm.
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Garifuna Communities of Honduras Resist Corporate Land Grabs
The displacement of these Honduran Afro-descendant communities accelerated after the installment of a US backed golpista regime.
Why Debates Over the Fed’s Interest Rate Miss the Point
The structure of our economy - not the Fed and its interest rates - is to blame for our ongoing crises. Worker co-ops may offer a solution.
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Russia: Has the World’s Biggest Country Turned Against the Environment?
Russia trundles sluggishly behind the rest of the world in international environmental policy.