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Health Is Where the Home Is
It's not hard to understand the devastating health consequences of homelessness.
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Obama Builds a Legacy: Deporting Women and Children to Death
In his last address to Congress, the US president barely mentioned immigration, showing he's now content to enforce the status quo.
The Blood of the Earth: Agriculture, Land Rights and Haitian History
Ricot Jean-Pierre tells how inequitable control of land has devastated the vast majority throughout Haitian history.
Mosquito-Borne Illness Fueled by Climate Change Linked to Spike in Birth Defects in Brazil
Our ever hotter and more humid world is becoming increasingly hospitable to virulent infectious diseases spread by insects.
The Oil Pricequake: Political Turmoil in a Time of Low Energy Prices
The changing economics of oil will transform the political face of the planet.
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Happy Birthday, Guantánamo: Reflections on the 14th Anniversary
Gitmo is an offshore penal colony that's close enough to administer with ease, but far enough away to exist on the margins of legality.
El Chapo Is Caught, but Corruption, US Consumption and Failed Drug War Keep the Cartels in Business
It is unclear how much of an impact his arrest will have on a drug war that has killed tens of thousands.
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Bundy’s Oregon Occupation Is Capitalist at Its Core
Ammon Bundy's occupation in Oregon is rooted in a history of Indigenous dispossession and land enclosure in the West.
Drugging Animals on Factory Farms – Enough Already
A drug company that makes animal drugs, purchased not by consumers but by factory farms, is advertising directly to consumers who will never actually purchase those drugs.
The US Revisits the Dark Side: Candidates Compete to Promise the Most Torture
From the look of the presidential campaign, war crimes are back on the US agenda.