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Efforts to Resolve the Growing Numbers of Aging Behind Bars
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"If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go": Efforts to Resolve the Growing Numbers o=
f Aging Behind Bars
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-to-resolve-the-growing-numbers-of-aging-behind-bars
Victoria Law, Truthout: Imagine your grandparents and great-grandparents in=
shackles or dying behind bars. By 2030, the prison population age 55 and o=
ver is predicted to be 4,400 percent more than what it was in 1981. Some st=
ate and federal prison systems look at alternatives.
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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21230-us-involvement-in-iraq-never-ended
Michael Z. Youhana, Truthout: After decades of war, Iraq is a divided and s=
hattered country that seems as far away from peace as ever. Neither the Ira=
q War nor US involvement in it has ever really ended.
The Greek "Success Story" of a Crushing Economy and a Failed State
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economy-and-a-failed-state
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my is not recovering, and the continuation of the Troika's neoliberal auste=
rity medicine assures the country a bleak economic and social future.
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Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Richard Smith says no amount of recycling, buying =
environmentally friendly goods or market-based carbon reduction schemes can=
change corporate capitalism's rapacious depletion of natural resources in =
the production of consumable goods.
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/21312-spotlight-on-worldwide-inequality
Graham Peebles, Redress Online: The disparity between the wealthy minority =
and the billions living in suffocating poverty is greater than it has ever =
been.
Shame on Congress for Its Criminal Neglect of the Jobless
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21313-shame-on-congress-for-its-criminal-=
neglect-of-the-jobless
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: The same Republicans who co=
mplained that people should be getting jobs instead of unemployment checks =
also boxed Congress into passing a budget that will essentially guarantee t=
hat the long-term unemployed will continue struggling to find work.
A Mexican State Armed to the Teeth
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of weeks into 2014, the state has already taken some drastic, anti-progress=
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