These days, Santa can be used for just about anything. This Christmas, it’s a good old fashioned dose of guilt thanks to a new ad from UNICEF. “This ain’t no Christmas gift. So, you buy this products for your friend, and all this stuff goes to poor kids? Like in Africa?” asks an apparently slightly […]
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I want to echo essentially everything Freddie deBoer says here (and again in his disturbing follow-up.) The Libyan war was articulation enough of the arrogance and disdain of American (and Western European) foreign policy. The horrific murder of the murderous Qaddafi simply underscores this. The repercussions of our actions, however swift a victory Libya may have been, are […]
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Don’t tell Michelle Bachman, but trials of the new malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline have met with great success: Final-stage trial data released on Tuesday showed it gave protection against clinical and severe malaria in five- to 17-month-olds in Africa, where the mosquito-borne disease kills hundreds of thousands of children a year. “These data bring us […]
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Are the chocolate bars your kids come home with on Halloween the product of child labor in Africa? Is that bag of candy you picked up at the store the end-result of children being taken from their homes and sold as slaves to cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast? A report from the International Institute of […]
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This has been making the rounds: To an extent, this is true. The western, industrialized world is far richer than Africa and most of Asia and most of South America. The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia […]
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Occupy Wall Street is growing steadily, with cities across the country and in Canada seeing their own protesters hit the streets. Now unions are lending the movement their support. Transport Workers Union Local 100 spokesman Jim Gannon said the protests advocated issues that align with union interests like income inequality and worker’s rights. “Their goals are […]
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