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International Intervention in Afghanistan Has Led to Heroin Resurgence
After a decade of US and NATO occupation, opium cultivation is again on the rise in Afghanistan.
Tar Sands Will Be Piped to the Gulf Coast, With or Without the Northern Segment of Keystone XL
Why the health of one woman's farm is not only vital to her, but also crucial to the preservation of the global climate.
Julian Assange on George Bush’s Library and Bradley Manning’s Trial
Activist Medea Benjamin interviews WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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A Hard Day’s Labor for $4.76: The Offshore Assembly Industry in Haiti
As we mourn the deaths of the Bangladesh factory collapse, we explore the implications of sweatshop labor as a model for development.
Time to Renounce the “War on Terror“
Norman Solomon: The “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death.
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When You Cheapen One Life, You Cheapen Every Life
Richard Eskow: The mass killings of innocent workers are routine, and they'll stay that way until we stop treating real people as if they were inputs for someone's simplistic …
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When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Trend That’s Sweeping America
Wage theft is fast becoming a top trend of the 21st-century labor market.
Weeding Corporate Power Out of Agricultural Policies: Communities Mobilize for Food and Farm Justice
Urban gardeners, PTA parents, ranchers, food coops, and a host of others are organizing to make the policies that govern our food and agricultural systems more just, accountable and …
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Let a Thousand Militias Bloom
Gen. David Petraeus stoked Iraq's still-ongoing sectarian war u200bby establishing the Special Police Commandos as a force to fight the Sunni-based insurgency.
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Billions Proposed for New Border Security. Where Would the Money Go?
Federal spending on border security is at an all-time high, and it would get even higher under the Gang of Eight's new plan.