Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Oil Drilling In Greece? This Is What the High Cost of Debt Payments Looks Like
The Greek Parliament has voted on a concession to begin exploratory oil drilling in the country in early 2020 as part of a larger effort to offset the country’s debt.
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How Fair Is Fair Trade? A Lot Better Than the Alternative
The fair trade market generates a robust $6.4 billion annually and affects the lives of more than 1 million workers. We should be boosting these kinds of models for doing business.
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‘Political Manipulation, Bullying and Lies’: Why BoJo’s Reign Is Melting
Did Boris Johnson really think he could suspend parliament as a way to get his no-deal Brexit through, threaten to sack Tory rebels for voting to block a no deal default scenario, then get away with it?
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Gulf of Mexico States Believe In Climate Change, Even if Their Elected Leaders Don’t
Polls show a majority of people in Gulf Coast states say the threat of climate change is real – and they increasingly expect their Republican elected officials to address the crisis.
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An Invitation to Crisis: Loosening the Volcker Rule, Regulators Court Disaster
This is how financial crises begin – with subtle, incremental regulatory changes that few notice when they occur but which can have calamitous consequences when taken to their logical extreme.
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An End to Justify All Means: Nea Dimokratia Seeks To Turn the Clock Back In Greece
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's administration had barely settled in last month before it made a very sharp, very sudden bank in a worrisome direction.
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Revealed: How Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists
Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
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Alarm over voter purges as 17 million Americans removed from rolls in two years
US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.
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BoJo and the 'Most Right-Wing Cabinet Ever' Is Poised to Heighten Britain’s Crippling Inequality
Broken Britain has met its breaker.
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Why is Monsanto Losing Lawsuits Over Roundup?
In the past year alone, three highly publicized lawsuits have resulted in courtroom losses for Monsanto surrounding its widely used pesticide Roundup, which contains cancer-causing glyphosate.
