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When Clearcuts Kill
The landslide that killed Delsa Hammer also began in a clear-cut that environmental officials knew might trigger a slide.
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Breathless in North Korea
For 60 years, Koreans on both sides of the DMZ have awaited a peace treaty. Instead they've gotten an arms race and political repression.
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Pacific Islands at Sea Over Land Rights
Land in most Pacific countries is for public access for survival and not fenced off by the legal system.
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Resistance to Racism Intensifies in the Netherlands
In the face of these dehumanizing and marginalizing processes, Dutch Moroccan youth have grown restless with the current system.
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A New Examination for Missile Launch Officers and the Rest of Us
Which is the greater moral failure: cheating on an examination or being willing to launch nuclear-armed missiles that could lead to the deaths of millions of innocent men, women …
Keeping the Peace in Frightening New Arena: The UN’s Cyber Options
It's essential that the United Nations take serious steps to regulate the cyber domain and reduce cyberwarfare with frameworks that could help address this grey area and avoid dangerous …
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Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason To Avoid World Vision
Sponsorship reeks of colonialism, pure and simple - privileged, mostly white people using their position to manipulate poor brown people.
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White America Is Oblivious to the Truth About Black Poverty
A recent debate between Jonathan Chait and Ta-Nehisi Coates reveals the misconceptions that rule America's understanding of race and poverty.
Truthout Interviews Featuring Panayota Gounari on Greece, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis of Capitalism
In a sort of orgy of social necrophilia, the Greek government trumpets the “success” of austerity as the people of Greece suffer high unemployment, a shrinking of social services, …
What Corruption? McCutcheon Reveals Absurdity of Citizens United
The McCutcheon decision appears to acknowledge that big donations to independent Super PACs can be useful to candidates — and arguably, pose a risk of corruption.