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The Sneaky Way Austerity Got Sold to the Public Like Snake Oil
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Emilio Godoy, Inter Press Service:</strong> Mexico's hydrocarbons law stipulates that oil contracts must include a social impact assessment. This has not been followed by the country's former oil monopoly, Pemex, or by private companies. Civil organizations argue this is illegal.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Sabrina Vourvoulias, New America Media:</strong> Democrats have gleefully seized on Donald Trump as representative of the Republican Party's xenophobic and nativist tendencies. But for all their fine words, many Democratic leaders are advancing plans to target undocumented immigrants.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Andy Bellatti, YES! Magazine:</strong> Big food companies spend a lot of time diverting attention away from the negative science related to their products. This year, Coca-Cola and Monsanto were called out for conflicts of interest. Many in the public health sector wonder if next year transparency might become the new normal.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Laura Goldman, Care2:</strong> In 1972, about 2 million tires were bound with metal clips and dumped in the Atlantic Ocean to get rid of tires filling Florida landfills and create an artificial reef. Decades later, the project has created a 35-acre landfill at the bottom of the ocean and is damaging the natural reef.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks:</strong> Cenk Uygur speaks with former US Air Force drone operator and whistleblower Brandon Bryant and <i>Drone</i> filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei about the process of becoming a drone operator, what it's like to kill someone you've never met from thousands of miles away, and more.</p>
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