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State of Surveillance
Pratap Chatterjee
December 1st, 2011
A new cache of Wikileaks documents on the secretive surveillance industry uncovers 160 companies in 25 countries that make $5 billion a year selling sophisticated surveillance technology to security authorities around the world to secretly carry out mass surveillance of people via their phones and computers.
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Nightmare on Christmas Island: Serco's Australian Detention Center
Patrick O'Keeffe
October 25th, 2011
Serco, a UK company, has a contract to manage the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre some 1,600 miles off the West Coast of Australia, which houses thousands of asylum seekers. The detainees at the overcrowded facility are experiencing serious mental health problems that union organizers say are a result of poor training and understaffing.
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 | | Isolation cage, Christmas Island Detention Centre. Photo: Pamela Curr |
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Keystone Pipeline Faces Indigenous Trans-Border Opposition
Geoff Dembicki
October 4th, 2011
TransCanada is seeking permission to build a 1,661-mile-long oil pipeline to carry crude from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Tribal leaders from both sides of the border have joined environmental activists to oppose the project.
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 | | Chief John Spotted Tail of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Photo: Geoff Dembicki |
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Indian Betel Farmers Battle South Korean Steel Giant
Moushumi Basu with Pratap Chatterjee
August 30th, 2011
Farmers in Odisha are challenging POSCO, a South Korean steel giant. The confrontation is yet another David versus Goliath battle pitting “progress” against traditional agriculturists in a struggle to define development in India.
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 | | Sukhdev Sahoo mourns the loss of his betel farm. Photo: Basant Sahoo |
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Burmese Crossroads: Oil & Gas Rush Stokes Civil War
Matthew F Smith
July 26th, 2011
Chinese and South Korean companies are leading an investor rush to Burma to build lucrative cross-country pipelines to deliver Saudi oil and Burmese natural gas to China. Poor communities have been displaced and allegations of human rights abuses are rife in the pipeline's route.
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Toxic Pop: How Tar Sands Fuel Disposable Cans
Geoff Dembicki
July 11th, 2011
One in six of the 100 billion soda, beer, and juice cans cracked open by North Americans each year owe their existence to an industrial product manufactured from Alberta’s tar sands. The result is an environmental disaster for Canada as well as a major contributor to global warming.
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Subcontracting Substandard Services
David Isenberg
June 27th, 2011
Najlaa International Catering Services of Kuwait faces numerous complaints and court actions for non-payment of bills and alleged fraud for work conducted on U.S. military bases in Iraq. The allegations show that the Pentagon is still unable to manage subcontractors eight years after the invasion.
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Killing Clean Energy Laws
Geoff Dembicki
May 5th, 2011
Tar sands from Alberta have enabled Canada to become the largest supplier of crude oil to the U.S. Tom Corcoran, a Washington lobbyist, is paid to promote this rapidly growing industry that produces some of the most emissions-heavy gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel on the planet.
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 | | Syncrude Tar Sands Mining Operations. Photo by David Dodge, The Pembina Institute |
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