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October 13, 2014
Privatized hospitals not providing proper training and equipment to front line workers, charges country's largest nurses union Read more
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October 13, 2014
'Columbus did not discover America, he plundered it and he brutalized its people,' Seattle's Sawant says Read more
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October 10, 2014
Most of us can recall Columbus Day activities in our elementary school classrooms. reciting "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," learning the names of his three ships. Read more
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October 10, 2014
On Monday the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that the isolated Kurdish enclave of Kobani was "about to fall" to a massive, sustained assault from ISIS. Read more
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October 10, 2014
As I have said before, the GOP position on climate is unstable, both intellectually and politically. You can't credibly deny the science at this point, but if you accept it, "do nothing about it" is an incoherent response. Read more
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September 23, 2014
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Read more
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October 9, 2014
Student protesters in rural Mexico have long dealt with heavy-handed police officers. But on the black night of Sept. 26, students who attended a rural teachers' college realized they were facing a far worse menace in this southern city. Read more
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October 1, 2014
This week, tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents turned out to protest China's plan for bringing democracy to that city. Read more
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October 6, 2014
According to a new federal database put online last week, pharmaceutical companies and device makers paid doctors some $380 million in speaking and consulting fees over a five-month period in 2013. Read more
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