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Environmental IssuesDecember 18, 2012
Elizabeth Royte: It’s Time to Talk about Food and Fracking
Ranchers and farmers working the land near fracking sites are seeing their livestock suffer, and their own health deteriorate.
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EnvironmentJune 30, 2011
Christian Parenti: Geography of Violence in the Global South
The impact of climate change on developing countries has so far been devestating, and stands to get only worse.
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Foreign PolicyJune 17, 2011
What the WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cables Reveal About Haiti
Despite a veneer of red cross assistance and earthquake relief volunteers, it seems that a new cold war is developing in Haiti, this time between the north and south of the western hemisphere.
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Drug War and Drug PolicyJune 2, 2011
Mexico’s Drug War Hits Monterrey—One of the Country’s Major Financial Centers
The drug war in Mexico has hit affluent, formerly stable cities that were once protected from the violence. The US’s role in this? Supplying the weapons and demanding the drugs.
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GovernmentMarch 18, 2011
Documenting the Obama Administration’s ‘Gitmo in the Heartland’
The Obama Administration has continued to operate Bush’s legally-dubious detention centers for terrorism prisoners, but the opaque practices at these secret prisons deserve to be rigorously reconsidered.
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