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Top consumer brands, big banks linked to brutal palm oil worker abuses
September 24, 2020Some of the brands you buy every week at the grocery store have links to brutal abuse of workers in Southeast Asia's palm oil industry.
Read moreMaduro claims CIA spy arrested with explosives near oil refinery
September 21, 2020Minister of Petroleum Tareck el-Aissami also said the government foiled a plan to set off an explosive device at the El Palito oil refinery in the northern state of Carabobo recently.
Read moreCoup figurehead drops out as Morales’s Socialists set to win Bolivian presidency
September 18, 2020Bolivia’s coup President Jeanine Añez has dropped out of next month’s presidential elections after polls showed her scraping just over 5% of the vote. Añez, who was appointed by the army after it forced just re-elected...
Read moreUnderground Railroad to Mexico: The other escape route from slavery
September 18, 2020Stories about African Americans and Mexican Americans working together to fight racism are not widely shared. “If we knew this history, we would come together and strengthen that solidarity.”
Read moreExperts question right-wing government’s low COVID-19 death toll claims in India
September 17, 2020When Narayan Mitra died on July 16, a day after being admitted to the hospital for fever and breathing difficulties, his name never appeared on any of the official lists put out daily of those killed...
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