MARJAH, Helmand province, Afghanistan - Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a poppy field during a clearing mission April 9. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)
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New Study Highlights Devastating Global Effects of War on Drugs

An International group has called for a major rethink of global policy on narcotics and an end to the failed efforts that governments refuse to relinquish

by Jon Queally

Doctors Without Borders: Myanmar Military Killed Over 700 Rohingya Children

59 percent of the children were shot, while 15 percent burned to death in their homes, 7 percent succumbed to beatings and 2 percent were killed by landmines.

Doctors Without Borders: Myanmar Military Killed Over 700 Rohingya Children

An estimate from Doctors Without Borders shows that at least 6,700 refugees have been killed during the first month of militarized persecution. At least 730 Rohingya children under the age of five have been

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Report: Average American Taxpayer Spent $23,386 for the War on Terror

“The American public should know what the true costs of these choices are and what lost opportunities they represent.”

Report: Average American Taxpayer Spent $23,386 for the War on Terror

A new "Costs of War" report published by Brown University's Watson Institute shows the actual costs incurred by the U.S. as part of its global "war on terror" that widely contradicts the cost of war figures put together by the Pentagon in its report. The report points out some of

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Report: Without Taxpayer Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Companies Would Fail

A new report found that industry subsidies cost U.S. taxpayers more than $20 billion each year, $14.7 billion at the federal level and $5.8 billion at the state level.

Report: Without Taxpayer Subsidies, Fossil Fuel Companies Would Fail

In the midst of a hurricane season that shows just how expensive inaction on climate change can be, two new reports highlight how massive taxpayer-funded subsidies for fossil fuel companies are propping up an industry that 

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Report: 63 Million Americans Exposed To Potentially Unsafe Water

The findings highlight how six decades of industrial dumping, farming pollution, and water plant and distribution pipe deterioration have taken a toll on local water systems.

Report: 63 Million Americans Exposed To Potentially Unsafe Water

As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency. The

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Report: World Powers Keeping Firm Grip On Nuclear Weapons Arsenals

At the beginning of 2014, the U.S., U.K., France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea possessed a combined total of 16,300 nuclear weapons.

Report: World Powers Keeping Firm Grip On Nuclear Weapons Arsenals

Nations known to possess nuclear weapons are modernizing their arsenals while failing to rapidly cut stockpiles, showing that nuclear weapons remain embedded in military strategies around the world, a new report finds. Released annually by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the report finds that China, France, Russia, the U.K.

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Mass Shootings Are Becoming More Frequent

A new FBI report shows troubling trends in the last decade’s mass shootings.

Mass Shootings Are Becoming More Frequent

After a man opened fire at Los Angeles’s airport a few months ago, friends and coworkers undoubtedly turned to each other shaking their heads: Could this really be happening again, so soon? Are these things getting more frequent, or am I imagining it? You’re not imagining it, according to a new study 

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