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  • Big Meetings

    World Beat

    By John Feffer, June 19, 2012

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    I'd much rather that representatives of the world's nations gather on a regular basis to bore themselves to death in a conference rather than beat themselves to death in a war. Make resolutions, not war is the bumper sticker of the future.

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  • Time to Recall the Land Grabbers

    Commentary

    May 31, 2012

    This speech (delivered before the Swedish parliament) addresses the impact that land grabbing has on peasants throughout the world, particularly in Africa.

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  • Okinawa's Nature Groaning

    Commentary

    By Urashima Etsuko and Gavan McCormack, May 25, 2012

    This article reflects upon the ecological impact and widespread resentment of the U.S. military base in Okinawa.

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  • Fukushima Team Under Constant Pressure to Protect Interests of Nuclear Power

    Blog

    By Erin Chandler, May 24, 2012

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    The Japanese coalition government is still woefully unprepared to handle crises like Fukushima.

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  • Global and national resistance to GMOs

    Commentary

    By Nnimmo Bassey, May 15, 2012

    This article articulates an argument against the use of genetically modified organisms and discusses the reasons why states and non-state actors have resisted this practice and how they have done so.

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  • Epistle to the Ecotopians

    Commentary

    By Ernest Callenbach, May 9, 2012

    Callenbach's writing reflects upon the direction that America has moved, since he wrote Ecotopia several decades ago, and offers a pessimistic outlook for the capacity of humanity to survive in a self-sustaining and harmonious manner, however, he offers final suggestions about how Americans can embrace our decline, and live with such evolution.

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  • Review: Learning from the Octopus

    Review / Department: FPIF Picks

    By Yunping Chen, April 30, 2012

    Learning from the Octopus

    Nature is the best model for human security, according to a new book by a marine ecologist.

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  • Scraping the Bottom

    World Beat

    By John Feffer, April 17, 2012

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    We are all trust fund babies living off the wealth of our ancestors.

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  • Rio+20

    Commentary

    By Nidhi Tandon, April 9, 2012

    Social policies and instruments will need to be developed to ensure that the Green Economy not only alleviates poverty and improves equity, but that the interests of the people who depend on Green Economy are deliberately safeguarded from the very outset.

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  • About angels IX

    Commentary / Department: FPIF Picks

    By Homero Aridjis, March 22, 2012

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    It's man versus butterfly in this poem about the competing demands of nature and economy.

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