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  • Vacuuming Up the Pacific's Resources

    Commentary

    By Arnie Saiki, March 5, 2012

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    If NAFTA is any indication, the TPPA will open up the islands of the South Pacific to tremendous exploitation.

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  • Shifting Winds in the South China Sea

    Commentary

    By Derek Bolton, February 17, 2012

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    As global warming takes its toll on the South China Sea, an already tense political climate could become more perilous.

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  • Preventing a Blowout in the Arctic

    Commentary

    By Julia Heath, February 15, 2012

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    Russia's push to explore for oil in the Arctic is bad news.

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  • The Next Marx

    World Beat

    By John Feffer, January 31, 2012

    The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.

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  • Steer clear of this climate 'Ponzi scheme'

    Commentary

    By Patrick Bond and Michael Dorsy, January 24, 2012

    Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme -- the "privatisation of the air."

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  • Review: The Unconquered

    Review / Department: FPIF Picks

    By Julia Heath, January 6, 2012

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    A new book describes an attempt to map uncontacted tribes in the Amazon without contacting them.

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  • Durban's Climate Debacle

    Commentary

    By Janet Redman, January 5, 2012

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    What we got from Durban was largely a set of promises to do something...some other time.

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  • Challenging Climate Apartheid

    Commentary

    By Nnimmo Bassey, December 12, 2011

    The climate conference in Durban has led some observers to conclude that developed countries are engaged in a form of apartheid against the rest of the world. But Nnimmo Bassey hopes negotiators will heed the voices of the people.

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  • Fiddling on Climate

    Column

    By Laura Carlsen, December 7, 2011

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    At Durban, international negotiators are fiddling while the world burns.

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  • America Is Not Broke

    Report

    By Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, November 21, 2011

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    How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.

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