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Four Years Later, Fukushima Victims Speak – But Will Anyone Listen?
On the 4th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Americans may be surprised to learn that no one in Japan has been held accountable – that in fact Japanese police and prosecutors have yet to conduct a thorough investigation.
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Eight Ways To Reduce Global Inequality
By taxing progressively, respecting worker rights, and rethinking economics, we could make a great start at creating a more equal world.
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Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
The former Army general and CIA director gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and lied to the FBI about it – but he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor, with no jail time, thanks to a deal with prosecutors.
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ISIS Recruits, European Racism – and Why Jihadi Johns Are the Product Of the State
When I was in southern Pakistan last year, poor youths told me that constant police pressure combined with unrelenting unemployment made joining the militias the only viable means of survival.
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Canadian Government Targets "Anti-Petroleum Movement" As A Growing Security Threat
New legislation would expand the ability of government agencies to infiltrate environmental groups on the suspicion that they are promoting civil disobedience or other criminal acts to oppose resource projects.
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Princes of the Yen: How Japan's Central Bankers Engineered their Country's Boom and Bust
The documentary shows how the Japanese boom and bust of the 1980s and 90s was deliberately orchestrated and prolonged by actors inside the Bank of Japan to transform the country's economic, political and social system.
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Pentagon Makes No Secret of Wanting to Monitor Social Change Activism
The U.S. military is increasingly concerned about the risks to social, political and economic stability from resource stress and climate change – and whether they might lead governments to collapse.
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Neo-Nazi Pegida Rallies Fading In Germany, But Europe's Deadly Shootings Continue
Support for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West has fallen thanks to the group's own slip-ups as well as the counter-demonstrators who've consistently fought its racist message.
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Anti-Tar Sands Activists Are Getting FBI Visits
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted, at home and through calls and texts, by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to the oil sands.
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Seedy Business: What Big Food Is Hiding with Its PR Campaign on GMO's
Big Food’s $100 million campaign to defend GMOs includes manipulating the media, public opinion and politics with sleazy tactics, bought science and PR spin.
