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Cuba struggles for food self-sufficiency
June 27, 2012Cuba is restructuring its economy. Agricultural changes are part of the process.
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Is Obama’s TPP trade deal worse than NAFTA?
June 26, 2012The campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement is picking up steam. TPP FTA is aimed at a tariff-free pacific rim, backed up by an extreme intellectual property rights protection agenda.
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Nuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics
June 26, 2012The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.
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After Arizona
June 26, 2012The ruling sends a signal to the right wing and lawmakers in Arizona, Alabama and elsewhere that state laws, recently put on the books for racist and political reasons across this country, are unconstitutional.
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Rio environmental summit disappoints — again
June 26, 2012The weak-at-best conference statement merely reaffirmed the goals from 20 years ago for a sustainable world, without making any binding agreements which could make that actually happen.
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