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Agribusiness and the Environment
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I’ve been hearing more and more references to the need to clean up our agricultural practices for reasons pertaining to health, food quality,...
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Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa
“When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of ‘starving and helpless’ people throughout the Horn...
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Truth Held Hostage
Original source: Cubadebate.cu “There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.” (Luke 12:2) To start out, from a juridical standpoint the case of the...
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Norway Attacks: Christian Jihadi Strikes Terror and Shoots Down Multiculturalism
The horrific slaughter of 76 people by the Christian Jihadi Anders Behring Breivik has surely closed the door on Europe’s multiculturalism experiment. Media reports indicated that Breivik was opposed...
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Seeing "Islamic Terror" in Norway
Media AdvisorySeeing 'Islamic Terror' in NorwayLearning no lessons from Oklahoma City mistakes7/25/11 Fairnesss and Accuracy in Reporting Right-wing terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik reportedly...
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Labor Movement: We will Not Be Quiet
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Boilermakers 32nd Consolidated Convention, Las Vegas, NevadaJuly 26, 2011Thank you, Newt [Jones]. And thank you all for inviting me here today to address...
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Debt Ceiling Showdown: Time to Look Deeper?
The latest news has muted, but falling, markets in the wake of Republican Speaker John Boehner walking out of debt-ceiling negotiations with the President. The Sunday night deadline the President set...
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China Approves Plan for Energy "Golden Zone"
The central government has approved plans for an energy industry “golden zone” linking Shaanxi province and the autonomous regions of Ningxia Hui and Inner Mongolia in northwestern China, said an...
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Movie discussion: Capitalism – A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love storyMichael Moore's 2009 film is more relevant now then ever. Below are some possible discussion question to help better understand the issues in the movie and the problems our...
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Arab Awakening and Western Media: Time for a New Revolutionary Discourse
When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen’s popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his efforts evidently failed, and the revolution continued...
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Report: Racial Wealth Gap at Record Levels
The Pew Research Center has just released stunning statistics on the aggravation of inequality by race, ethnicity, class and gender since the onset of this depression. The study focuses one of the...
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Does It Matter Which Party Wins?
It is obvious that there is a growing feeling of frustration and even anger among supporters of the Democratic Party with its performance over the past two years.AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka,...
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Obama Admin. Boosts Fuel Economy Standard
The average car fuel economy will nearly double by 2025 to almost 55 miles per gallon, President Obama announced July 29 in a White House gathering that included both auto company executives and UAW...
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Coalition Demands GOP Compromise on Debt Talks
Call on Republicans to Compromise and Not Wreck our Economy to Protect Tax Breaks for Millionaires, Private Jet Owners and Corporations (Washington, DC) - Like a broken record Republicans in the House...
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Stench of Corruption: The Power of a Media Monopoly
Original source: The Guardian (Australia) The forced closure of News of the World (NoW), a gutter tabloid that profited on sensation, sex, scandal, sleaze and sport, while promoting the right-wing...
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India: More Evidence of Jobless Growth
Original source: People's Democracy It is a feature that sullies a pretty picture. Growth in post-reform India accelerates, but fails to deliver adequate jobs for its citizens. As is widely...
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US Mired in Debt Limit Deadlock Amid Anemic Economic Growth
Original source: Xinhua The US House of Representatives passed a debt ceiling plan in a vote on Friday evening, but the bill was quickly killed in the Senate, which further dampened hope for a...
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The Most Dangerous Game
Allow me to get first response stuff out of the way. The dangerous game we know we are all in --- every expanding returns on investments for a few and continuously maximizing profits to active...
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Debt-for-Nature Swaps
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: As I understand it, “Debt-for-Nature Swaps” are arrangements by which countries can erase debt by preserving land. Are any being done today?...
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An American Dilemma: 2011
Original source: Diary of a Heartland Radical Common threads run throughout America's history from the revolution to 2011. Class and race are particularly enduring features of the life of the nation....
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