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Can Mali Reunite?
Al-Qaeda's power has waned in Mali, but unresolved ethnic conflicts still threaten the country after 16 months of civil war.;
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Current Political System Incapable of Meeting Social, Economic, Environmental Challenges
A long and slow-developing path forward might be called “evolutionary reconstruction.”
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Watchdogs: Regulators Fail to Enforce Pipeline Safety Despite Spills and Deadly Accidents
A watchdog group's data supports accusations that federal regulators are either negligent or too cozy with the energy industry to ensure the public's safety from gas explosions and pipeline …
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Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence With Citigroup
This big bank has a sordid history of predatory profiteering and criminal activity, not unlike all the other large banks.
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Death by Corporation, Part II: Companies as Cancer Cells
Many corporations work like tumor cells for the relentless destruction of the environment.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
Suspicious Details Emerge after Three Men Burned Alive in Pakistan
A human-rights investigator alleges government complicity in the burning alive of three Sindhi men in Pakistan.
SCOTUS v. the Right to Vote: Three Strikes, but We’re Not Out
This ruling is the third time in the past five years that the Supreme Court has struck a blow against fair elections.
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TJ English and the Political Economy of Crime
In ‘Whitey's Payback and Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge’ TJ English reports on a 'vast ecosystem, a parallel universe to the social and economic system we …
Global Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties
Dynastic power, embedded in the institution of family, has been with humanity for as long as empire.