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Climate change causes sinkholes, unstable bridges, and ruptured pipelines

A bus got caught in a sinkhole in downtown Pittsburgh on Oct. 28, 2019. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) Shahid Azam, University of Regina Roads, buildings and industrial…

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World’s deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47

What kills? Guns, or those who carry them? The flag of Mozambique features an AK-47 with an attached bayonet. The inventor with…

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Nearly 1.5 million young people have registered to vote for election 2019 – and more could join them

Benjamin Bowman, Manchester Metropolitan University According to the gov.uk live statistics on voter registration, from the October 22 to the November 19,…

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Another “Democracy” fights to maintain the rule of law — this time, it’s Israel

“Democracy” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not the leader of a real Democracy, it is rather an apartheid state since Palestinians…

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So you want to be an autocrat? Here’s the 10-point checklist

Two autocrats: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, left, and Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, right, in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 7, 2019. AP/Presidential Press Service Shelley Inglis, University of Dayton…

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Debate: Welcome to the new-old global age of weaponised racism

Racism is the exposure of a certain part of the population to premature death. Prof. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Director of Center for…

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Veneto council flooded minutes after it rejected measures to combat climate change.

“Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority League, Brothers of Italy, and Forza Italia parties rejected our amendments to…

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The day it forgot to rain on Australia

For the first time in recorded history of 137 years there was no rain on Mainland Australia on November 11. 2019. According…

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Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Author provided Claas Kirchhelle, University of Oxford;…

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TRUMP, INC. Follow the Money in the Ukraine Scandal

The impeachment inquiry focuses on whether or not there was a quid pro quo: Military aid in exchange for an investigation. But…

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