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On World Day of Food, Struggling for Land in Brazil
Food sovereignty is the concept that every people has the right to make decisions about, produce, and consume its own local, healthy, culturally appropriate food.
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Open Letter to Temple University on Disclosure of Funding Sources for Research
While we take no position on the methodology and conclusions of Professor Hakim and Blackstone's study, we are troubled about the lack of transparency and adequate disclosure of the …
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Greed as a Mental Health Disorder
As a psychiatric diagnosis, it could be called the Great Gatsby Syndrome or, better yet, Wealth Accumulation Disorder.
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On October 15, the United Nations Will Fail Haiti Once Again
We have a moral and political obligation to support the struggle for self-determination by the popular classes in Haiti.
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Congress Ignores Obama’s Broad Executive Power Use – Except on Guantanamo
While The Washington Post writes that closing Guantu00e1namo is “potentially the most dramatic use” of President Obama's executive power, it and Congress simultaneously ignore Obama's other dramatic uses of …
In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got a Mining Company What It Wanted
An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.
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It is Time for the Deporter-in-Chief to Act
The amount of pain and suffering caused by Obama's draconian policy is indescribable.
Duvalier: Dead But Not Gone
Baby Doc may be dead, but Duvalierism is embedded in this upside down Haiti of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their presidential puppet, Michel Martelly.
Judge Pens Plea to SCOTUS to Overturn His Own Landmark Voter ID Ruling
Judge Richard A. Posner's courageous reversal of his opinion on photo ID voting laws should convince the US Supreme Court that such laws violate the US Constitution and the …
A Murder Mystery at Guantanamo Bay
The grotesque court testimony brought to mind the period in spring 2006 when torture and forced feedings were rampant - not only at the CIA annex at Guantanamo but …