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Haitian Tourism Project Leads to Environmental Damage and Community Repression
“Destination lle-a-Vache” is a government-driven tourist project planned for a small island off the northern coast of Haiti.
“Socially Responsible” Capitalism Still Feeds the Disease
Socially responsible investment companies invest heavily in the stock of tech corporations, which have poor human rights records.
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Why We March: Stepping Forth for a Planet in Peril
There's a world to march for — and a future, too.
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Scott Walker’s Snow Job
The governor's race in Wisconsin between the Republican incumbent, Scott Walker, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Burke, is coming down to one issue: jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Four Ways Industrial Ag Is Destroying the Soil – and Your Health
If the numbers are any indicator, there's a crisis in worldwide soil health that is rapidly becoming a crisis in human health.
Obama Vows to Destroy Islamic State, but Expanded Strikes in Syria and Iraq Point to “Endless War”
President Obama has authorized US airstrikes for the first time in Syria and their expansion in Iraq against the militant group Islamic State.
Why End War?
A two-minute sample of why we should end all war, recorded for submission to TED talks.
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Warning to War Supporters
If you want to bomb a country every time an evil group murders people in a gruesome manner, you'll have to bomb a lot of countries including our own.
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Misperceptions About Middle-Class Society
Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe that they live in a middle-class society, even though income is much less equally distributed here than it is in Europe.
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MS Breakthrough: Switching Off Aggressive Cells Stops Body From Attacking Itself
There are a wide range of strategies for treating people who have autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately, none can cure the diseases.