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Palestine's Golden Oil
Underneath much of the Middle East lies the world’s oil supply. In one special place in the Middle East, a different type of oil reigns supreme: olive oil. | Read more »
How important is Citizens United?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Many people are quite concerned about the doctrine of “corporate personhood,” and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Did that decision in fact make a crucial difference with regard to the role of money in elections? | Read more »
Funding a National Single-Payer System
Don’t like the Obamacare (or Romneycare) mandate? Single-payer is a viable—and more redistributive—alternative. | Read more »
Way Beyond Greenwashing
Led by the World Wide Fund for Nature, many of the biggest conservation nonprofits including Conservation International and the Nature Conservancy have already agreed to a series of global bargains with international agribusiness. In exchange for vague promises of habitat protection, sustainability, and social justice, these conservation groups are offering to greenwash industrial commodity agriculture. | Read more »
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Myths of Famine
- By William G. Moseley
- March/April 2012
- Issue 299
Five Misunderstandings of the 2011 Hunger Crisis in the Horn of Africa |
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