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Dow Chemical Pretends To Care About Water Scarcity

In what amounts to an incredible hypocrisy, the Dow Chemical Company is sponsoring “Run For Water” events across the globe. The events, organized by environmental organization Live Earth, are taking place tomorrow, April 18, and are supposed to raise global awareness about water scarcity. “The Dow Chemical Company cannot run from its responsibility for the […]

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Iceland: Volcano’s Wrath Matches The 2008 Financial Collapse

Iceland: Volcano’s Wrath Matches The 2008 Financial Collapse

It is as if Mother Nature on April 14 in Iceland illustrated what will surely be Icelanders’ eruption of anger once they have the time to look into what is called Iceland’s Black Report. The ashes of Eyjafjallajokull volcano are likely to dissipate long before the ones still smoldering from Iceland’s financial collapse, created in […]

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UN Report: Pakistani Government “Failed Profoundly” To Prevent Bhutto’s Killing

UN Report: Pakistani Government “Failed Profoundly” To Prevent Bhutto’s Killing

According to a United Nations report released on Thursday, the Pakistani government could have prevented the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The UN report also accused Pakistani officials of failing to properly investigate Bhutto’s murder. The United Nations appointed independent panel concluded that security measures on the day that a suicide bomber blew-up Bhutto’s vehicle […]

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Poverty: Half the World Lives on Less than $2.50 a Day

Poverty: Half the World Lives on Less than $2.50 a Day

Almost half of the world-over 3 Billion people- has to survive with less than $2.50 per day. The current events unfolding in Thailand, India and Kyrgyzstan have a lot more to do with the problems of poverty and social injustice than conventional ideological issues. In Thailand, the Red Shirts are the poor from the rural […]

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Fiscal Year 2009: A Third Of Your Tax Dollars Finances Wars

Fiscal Year 2009: A Third Of Your Tax Dollars Finances Wars

April 15 is right around the corner, and according to the National Priorities Project from each income tax dollar collected by the Federal government 26.5 cents was spent on the military in 2009, and 13.6 cents was spent to pay for military and non-military interests on the sky rocketing national debt, which currently amounts to […]

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