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Paul Krugman | Conservatives Revive the Canadian Fantasy
Conservatives have fallen in love with an imaginary Canada, whose history and current reality is nothing like the real place.
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Guatemalan Government, Canadian Mining Industry Responsible for Violent Conflicts
The Guatemalan government is fueling the fires of conflict by failing to consult local communities before awarding mining licences to companies.
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An Appeal From Okinawa to the US Congress
The fact that the governments of Japan and the United States should be committed to a project against the wishes of “most” of the people of Okinawa should in …
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Fed Whistleblower Carmen Segarra, Snowden and the Closing of the Journalistic Mind
Most journalists are afraid to rock the access journalism boat and do real sleuthing.
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Watching Our Health Go Up in Smoke
Medical waste incineration never made any public health or economic sense, but now science has overwhelmingly demonstrated its noxiousness.
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Mayor de Blasio’s “Living Wage” Increase Is Too Little for Too Few
Increasing the living wage is a good start, but all of New York's minimum wage workers deserve a raise.
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ISIS in Washington: The United States’ Soundtrack of Hysteria
“Amid the waves of fear and continual headlines about terror plots, we, the people, have now largely been relegated to the role of frightened spectators.”
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Michael Brown Had a Father
Will Ferguson shift media ideas on “fixing” black men?
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A Crisis Turned Catastrophe in Texas
The Texan legislature created a crisis of women's health care with House Bill 2, and the latest decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will bring Texan women …
International Day of Nonviolence in Afghanistan
We need this excitement to generate more and more circles of friendship, along with many more relationships that can help us understand that our governments have unfortunately disguised perpetual …