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The Obvious Relationship Between Climate and Family Planning – and Why We Don’t Talk About It
Policy makers need to recognize that family-planning policies affect a host of other issues.
Lebanon: The Forgotten Front
While the world's attention has been focused on the combined efforts of Arab and US forces attacking “Islamic State” positions in Iraq and Syria, there is unfolding in Lebanon, …
The Blunt Truth About the Recent Election in New Zealand
Contrary to what the government has been telling the public, debt has dramatically increased since New Zealand's Key government first took the reins in 2008.
Corporations Are Not Going to Save Us From Climate Disruption
The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, SEFA and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative are among many public-private partnerships.
Terrorism Serves the State
Continual attention to non-state terrorism helps justify state power.
Uruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
In December of last year, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
The Book of Trans-Genesis: Protecting the World’s Seeds
At the recent international Biosafety Alliance conference in Portland, Oregon, educators, attorneys, human rights activists and organic farmers contrasted the apocalyptic consequences of genetically modified crop cultivation and people's …
Policing for Wealth
When proponents claim that the broken windows policing strategy reduces crime, they overlook that it has marshaled state power for a very unfair model of urban development in every …
Obama’s Propagandistic UN Address
The longer President Obama has been in office the less honest he has become, a problem growing more apparent in his second term.
Militarizing the Ebola Crisis
The Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa.