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Patients May Die When Doctors Moonlight as Big Pharma’s “Key Opinion Leaders”
As the crimson sun slipped into the gray Pacific Ocean, a multibillion-dollar drug deal took -
Too Late to Contain Killer Flu Science, say Experts
Attempts to censor details of controversial influenza experiments that created a highly infectious form of -
What can save the euro?
Growth is needed in order to save the euro, not sermons and homilies, says Nobel
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The Pathology of Inequality
Inequality is a disease of society, a cancer growing out of control at one end -
Map Reveals Stark Divide in Who Caused Climate Change and Who’s Being Hit
When the world’s nations convene in Durban in November in the latest attempt to inch -
Africa: Gov’ts Fail to Invest in Hungriest, Poorest Regions
For millennia, people have coped with drought in the Horn of Africa, comprised mainly of
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China, Oil And Ethnic Cleansing In Horn Of Africa
Chinese oil workers once again seem to be at the center of a nasty counterinsurgency -
The Big Lie Marches On
We must have an honest accounting of the Iraq War. The war is over, sort -
Arundhati Roy: “The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution”
The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn
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No therapy in retail – The Industry of Hunger
The entry of big corporations into the food chain pushes up retail costs and decreases -
Climate Change, Migration And Conflict: Addressing Complex Crisis Scenarios In The 21st Century
The costs and consequences of climate change on our world will define the 21st century. -
A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society
The Book of Jobs: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other
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Haiti more »
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Haiti’s Hard Road to Recovery
Two years after the earthquake life is improving, but the nation still faces a cholera -
Haiti’s Cholera Victims’ Message to the UN
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Wyclef’s Statement
I started Yele in 2005 because I wanted to help people that were helpless
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Our World more »
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Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This
In medieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and princes as their major customers. But -
Afghanistan, An Indecent Silence
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Africa Begins To Rise Above Aid
An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as
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7 Reasons America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession. The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that includes drug company corruption, pseudoscientific research and a “standard of care” that is routinely damaging and occasionally [...]
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Noam Chomsky on the US-Afghan Strategic Partnership
‘Part of a Global Program of World Militarization’ “Right now, the United States is militarily engaged in one form or another in almost 100 countries.” Hakim: Thank you, Professor Chomsky, for speaking to us. We are speaking from the highlands of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, and we wanted to start off by thanking you sincerely for [...]
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How We Got Here With the Economy and How to Get Out
It’s easy to get fixated with small-bore issues on the economy, even if they don’t seem so small-bore at the time. Stimulus packages. Bailouts. Debt ceilings. Deficit commissions. Payroll tax-cut extensions. They seem like life and death issues while they’re being fought out. But, in fact, they are distractions from the one real question that [...]
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Goodbye to 2011, Year of the Rabbit, Welcome 2012, Year of the Dragon
January 5 Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion and humiliation seep through the culture, to the extent that before Christmas American travelers began to rebel at the invasive pat-down searches, [...]
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The Book of Jobs
Forget monetary policy. Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. is now facing and must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago. It has now been almost [...]
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The Lies of War
You are part of an unbroken line of heroes spanning two centuries — from the colonists who overthrew an empire, to your grandparents and parents who faced down fascism and communism, to you — men and women who fought for the same principles in Fallujah and Kandahar, and delivered justice to those who attacked us [...]
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5 Companies That Did Something Good for the World This Year
While no company is perfect, it’s good to know that at least a few for-profit entities did some good things for the environment and society this year. Occupy Wall Street has us all thinking about the bad things companies can do – and rightly so, because often those things are very, very bad. (The 2008 [...]
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Deciding the Value of Human Life
Are We Gods? This holiday season, as you walk through a public area (any mall, grocery, or restaurant will do), start counting the people you see there. Look in their faces, listen to their conversations, and try to appreciate each of them not just as strangers, but as fellow human beings. When you get to [...]
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A Christmas Message From America’s Rich
It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out. True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry conferences and country clubs, meaning they don’t have to look the rest of America in the eye when they call us all imbeciles and complain [...]
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6 Tricks Corporate Elites Use to Hoard All the Wealth
How Can the World’s Richest Country Let Children Go Hungry? America is filthy rich, but the money is hidden away by the 1 percent while poverty rises all around. “Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans, nearly 1 in 2, have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify [...]
