Summary: Children living on rubbish tips, drug barons, gang warfare, disappearances, marked and unmarked graves, a concentration camp, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, another oil spill in the Amazon, extreme poverty, a communist enclave, a socialist paradise and the worlds largest rainforest at risk of going up in flames.

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“If you switch from taxing work and taxing savings to taxing pollution overall wellbeing would actually be enhanced, we would do less of the bad things and more of the good things and societies would be better off.”
– Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Joseph Stiglitz

News

Drug Wars

• Drugs and Violence: Mexico’s Addiction
• The only thing the drug cartels fear is legalization
• Mexico mass grave highlights abuse of migrants heading to US
• List of the most dangerous cities in the world
• The missing women of mexico
• Could decriminalization be the answer?
• War on Drugs: why the US and Latin America could be ready to end a fruitless 40 year struggle

Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

• The crime of the century: what BP and the US government don’t want you to know
• Gulf oil spill’s wildlife toll: sharks near shore, turtles incinerated
• Fishermen sick from clean-up work in gulf
• Gulf residents are getting sick: blood tests confirm ethylbenzene, xylene, and high levels of hexane
• Coast Guard Blocks Out Media at the Gulf; Activists Demand Answers
• Photographer detained by police, BP employee near refinery
• Contractor: BP is trying to hide dead animals, since the ocean will eventually wash away the evidence
• BP’s Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill
• BP oil spill: US scientist retracts assurances over success of cleanup

Haiti

• Haiti quake: Death toll may be 200,000, US general says
• Scientologists in Haiti: A Firsthand Account
• All Haiti ‘orphan’ children reunited with parents
• Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds

Cuba

• Fidel Castro takes blame for persecution of Cuban gays

Guantánamo

• Exclusive: Obama’s pledge to close down Guantanamo is ‘not even close’
• Guantánamo is gulag of our time, says Amnesty
• 60 Minutes: Obama Reiterates Promise To Close Guantanamo Bay, End Torture

Economy of Venezuela

• Misreporting Venezuela’s economy
• Lifestyle Statistics: happiness by country

Tags: Amazon Rainforest, America, Climate Change, Forest Fires, Haiti, Oil Spill, Pollution, South America, War on Drugs

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