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Fukushima’s Owner Adds Insult to Injury – Claims Radioactive Fallout Isn’t Theirs
In the amoral milieu of the corporate bottom line, you can't blame Tokyo Electric Power Co. for trying. Tepco owns the six-reactor Fukushima complex that was wrecked …
Leaderless Global Governance
(Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) Cambridge - The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become …
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What 70 Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War
A member of the 214th Reconnaissance Group flies a Predator aircraft drone in support of ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, March 10, …
Ron Paul’s False Founding Narrative
Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman from Texas who has topped 20 percent in the first two Republican contests, is fond of claiming that the U.S. Constitution was written “to …
Iowans Frustrate Reporters With Their Multiple Opinions
The usual criticisms of the Iowa caucuses—that the votes of a small, demographically unrepresentative slice of America gobble up too much airtime—are basically correct. As David Sirota …
Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production
Mainstream media outlets and consumers have been understandably quick to take note of the benefits chocolate and coffee offer. Yet most American consumers are ignorant to the mounting evidence …
Do You Have a Sign?
3CDC's signs are popping up everywhere in Over-the-Rhine. (Photos: John Blake) Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati's oldest and poorest neighborhood, predominately of color and listed on the National Register of …
Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Students take a break between class at Locke High School, in Los Angeles, May 14, 2010. (Photo: Michal Czerwonka / The New York Times) “Every …
How Did 15-Year-Old Jakadrien Turner, a US Citizen, Get Deported?
The troubling case of a 15-year-old U.S. citizen’s wrongful deportation has raised alarm about what immigration agents have long known is a serious problem: increased enforcement has led to …
Mining Ban: Good for the Grand Canyon, but Not for El Salvador?
With patriotic fanfare, the Obama administration announced this week that it would ban new uranium mining projects around the Grand Canyon. At a ceremony at the National Geographic Society …