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• When Half a Million Americans Died and Nobody Noticed

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  Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far?   ARE American lives cheaper than those of the Chinese? It's a question raised by Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, who has produced a compelling comparison between the …

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• Afghan War Risks Are Shifting to Contractors

  Source: The New York Times

  This is a war where traditional military jobs, from mess hall cooks to base guards and convoy drivers, have increasingly been shifted to the private sector. American employers here are under no obligation to publicly report the deaths of their employees and frequently do not. Wh …

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• Danger from Three Gorges Dam may force out 100,000

  Another 100,000 people may have to move away from China's Three Gorges Dam due to the risk of disastrous landslides and bank collapses around the reservoir of the world's biggest hydroelectric facility, state media said Wednesday.

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• Robert Fisk: Madness is not the reason for this massacre. by Robert Fisk. Commentators SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2012

  Source: Independent.co.uk

  I'm getting a bit tired of the "deranged" soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the defence experts and the think-tank  …

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• Muslim Persecution of Christians: February 2012

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  Half of Iraq's indigenous Christians are gone, due to the unleashed forces of jihad [holy war]. Many Christians fled to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack from al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians are experiencing a level  …

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