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Renowned Jeju Island based artist Koh Gilchun’s art is a common sight on and around the Gangjeong base construction site. (Photo: Campaign to Save Jeju Island) They …

NPR just ran a story called “Unpaid Bills Land Some Debtors Behind Bars.” As they report, ”Here’s how it happens: A company will often sell off its debt to …

President Barack Obama speaks at Osawatomie High School, in Osawatomie, Missouri, December 6, 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) President Barack Obama would like …

Population Action International, COP 17, Durban, South Africa, December 8, 2011. (Photo: WWF@COP17) Last week's UN climate change meeting in Durban, South Africa, closed with an agreement …

When Newt Gingrich maligned our “truly stupid” child labor laws and suggested that children 14 and under be put to work cleaning their schools, he sparked the outrage the …

Lehman Brothers headquarters, New York City. (Photo: Helge V. Keitel) Last week, federal court Judge James M Peck approved the final phase of the Lehman …

The US Senate Appropriations Committee, in a move initiated by the Obama administration, has voted to waive Bush-era human rights restrictions on military aid to the Islam Karimov dictatorship …

A radical change in law to allow the use of the military inside the United States, against U.S. citizens and residents, and to allow their indefinite military detention based …

Managua, Nicaragua - Amid accusations of fraud and expressions of serious doubt by international observers, Daniel Ortega’s re-election as Nicaragua’s president constitutes a new kind of “incumbent’s” coup – …

A voter arrives at Samaritan Village to vote with new electronic privacy voting machines, in New York, in this September 14, 2010 file photo. (Photo: Uli Seit / The …