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Price of Top-Tier Birth Control Plummets as New IUD Breaks Monopoly
This month, a new IUD became available to American women, and it may be a game changer.
Financial Exploitation of Women in the Workplace Is the Canary in the Coal Mine
Author Caroline Fredrickson shares her findings on how female workers continue to be economically shortchanged in the United States.
Colombian President Calls for the Suspension of Aerial Spraying of Illicit Crops
Call Comes After World Health Organization Research Arm Exposes Health Risks of Herbicide Used in Colombia
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Stop, Hey, What’s That Sound? Environmental and Political Background Hum of Civilization Tinnitus
The threat to survival of life as we know it is the creeping artificial background.
Women Farmers Rewrite Their History in Chile’s Patagonia Region
More than 100 women small farmers from Chile's southern Patagonia region have joined together.
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French Peacekeeper Abuse Scandal Fits an Old Pattern of Impunity
The news of the CAR report makes it clear that the culture of impunity around peacekeeping still has not changed.
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The Drone War Saga Continues
President's drone initiative is a disaster of epic proportions and it is emblematic of a foreign policy much like Bush II.
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The US From Abroad: Still Seen as a Strange Liberator
How can a racialized “democracy” teach the world lessons about respect for the law when it violates the law within its borders?
The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest
Thoroughly militarized, surveillance-heavy forces are bringing counterinsurgency thinking from Iraq and Afghanistan back to this country.
Who Counts? Body Counts, Drones and “Collateral Damage“
In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts?