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  • Interview with "Green Gone Wrong" Author Heather Rogers Heather Rogers discusses the incompatibilities between an economic system based on consumption and one based on environmental sustainability, and how green products have gotten trapped in the middle.
  • The Power of Soy: Commercial Relations between Argentina and China Argentine President Fern?ez traveled to China to address the soy oil controversy between the two countries. China has been blocking the commodity from entering the country in retaliation against anti-dumping measures that Argentina has applied against Chinese imports.
  • Want to Cut the Deficit? Start by Getting out of Afghanistan With military spending out of control and the war in Afghanistan now more protracted than Vietnam, the United States simply refuses to downscale its biggest liability.
  • Unsustainability in Today's Sustainable Development For development to be integrated into a community, governments and NGOs need to find a way to educate and involve local people for the long term.
  • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: 21 Years Later Two decades later, the havoc wreaked by the Exxon spill is still being felt by the habitat and wildlife, which makes envisioning the future of the Gulf of Mexico a scary thought.
  • The Gulf Oil Spill: Crisis of Unfathomable Consequences The consequences of the BP oil spill are literally incalculable. While BP and government agencies argue over money and regulations, our ecosystem suffers the devastation.
  • Interview with Claudia Medina The filmmaker discusses alternative ways to look at the Western economic model, taking a more holistic approach than the traditional growth- and GDP-oriented thinking.
  • Re: Tar Sands of Alberta The fact that Canada allows this type of extraction to occur, and that operations have no requirement for containment or capture of these chemicals, is criminal.
  • Tar Sands of Alberta While the Gulf fills up with BP's massive oil spill, Canada plays host to another eco-disaster caused by the oil industry, Alberta's tar sands, which are likely responsible for a rise in cancer in the area.
  • Why Amnesty Now? It isn't some of the illegal aliens who broke the law; it is every one of them.
  • The Corporate Roadblock in Washington Behind the struggle to pass any meaningful legislation in the United States, from healthcare to finance reform, a stifling amount of corporate money is keeping Capitol Hill in gridlock.
  • Touring New York City New York is a people-packed, adrenaline-charged, “love it or hate it” city that holds immense romantic appeal for visitors.
  • Haiti's Rising Urgency Two months after the earthquake-with over a million people homeless, the education system in tatters, and a season of deadly rainfall and hurricanes on the way-the people of Haiti face a situation that grows more dire by the day.
  • Canada, the UNRWA and the Arabs The U.N. caretaker agency for Palestinian refugees, which is already neglected by Arab nations, is now being dropped by the Canadian government.
  • Aid Failure Bodes Ill for Haiti With aid to Haiti largely failing in the past and the daunting task of rebuilding the capital at present, many wonder whether international development plans will be lost in the rubble.
  • Orphans Blocked from Departing Haiti After 79 orphans were brought to Florida from Haiti for adoption, another 27 are now being trapped in the country by Haitian bureaucracy.
  • Haiti Ends Search for Survivors Even as a man is pulled alive from the rubble 11 days after the earthquake, the search for survivors is being called off. The focus moves on to the emergency relief operation.
  • Haiti: Quake Victims Dying from Treatable Wounds The devastated country's limited infrastructure and damaged roads have created a bottleneck, and too little help is getting to people too slowly.
  • Canada: Prorogation Nation With troops in the Middle East and the economy still in a slide, the last thing Canada needs is for its Parliament to shut down until springtime, but that's what's happening.
  • Fire Island's Sunken Forest Not far from the maelstrom of New York City, one can escape to this tranquil piece of wildlife tucked between two sand dunes.
  • Interview with Dr. Michael Byers The author discusses Canadian leadership, climate change, the Northwest Passage dispute, and a host of other issues concerning Canada and the northern hemisphere.
  • New York City Nightlife The lobby of the Royalton Hotel is tres chic with spacious velvet couches and high-back chairs, providing the perfect setting for New York professionals and European visitors to enjoy appetizers and drinks, noon and night.
  • The Break from Impunity in Argentina For the first time in nearly 30 years, testimonies, to be followed by criminal prosecutions, have been reinitiated against those responsible for the state sponsored terrorism that occurred between 1976 and 1983.
  • Honduras: Stop Blocking Human Rights Inquiries The international community should back prosecutors efforts and oppose amnesties for abuses in Honduras.
  • Divali Festival in Trinidad and Tobago Although it is a Hindu festival, people of all religions and ethnicities in Trinidad and Tobago take part in the magnificent and colorful celebration of Divali.
  • Chile's Mapuches Call for Regional Autonomy Mapuche political leaders are taking the logic of land reform one step further and demanding regional autonomy for Wallmapu, as Mapudungun speakers call the Araucan?
  • Bridges of Rhetoric and Suspicion It is sad to see CAIR-Ohio descending further into extremism.

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