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Hunger
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What It Means to Starve for Freedom in Guantanamo
George Pauk takes a closer look at the Gitmo hunger strikers and hypothesizes about how starvation relates to freedom.
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Curse of American Nutritionism: Industry Ignores Realities of Healthful Eating
Nutritionism is keeping the American working class confused, self-hating, tranquilized and demoralized.
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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.
Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton on How Hunger Hurts Everyone
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“Pure” Capitalism Is Pure Fantasy
Call it “crony, gangster, casino” or “monopoly” capitalism, its supposedly objectionable features - big government, monopolies, the Federal Reserve, welfare, taxation and labor unions - are intrinsic to any …
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Is the Monsanto Protest the Next Salt March?
Is it possible that the fight against Monsanto could be a tipping point in the battle against corporate greed?
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Mexico – Ground Zero in the Fight Against Monsanto for the Future of Maize
Mexico, the birthplace of maize, is at the centre of the global fight to protect the cropu2019s diversity
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt
Medical debt and bankruptcy are uniquely American experiences among wealthy nations.
GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food – and Everything Else
Indian physicist and philosopher, activist and ecofeminist pioneer Vandana Shiva talks with Truthout in Hawaii about GMO, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation and the primacy of …
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What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
Frances Moore Lappe: There is a solution to hunger and it is democracy, not food.