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Watching Our Health Go Up in Smoke

Brian Moench, Truthout: Medical waste incineration never made any public health or economic sense, but now that the science overwhelmingly demonstrates its noxiousness, capitalist ideology prevents it from dying a necessary death.

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San Fernando Migrant Massacre: How US, Mexican and Latin American Governments Share Responsibility

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Mayor de Blasio's "Living Wage" Increase Is Too Little for Too Few

James Hoff, Truthout: Minimum wage activists across the country are abuzz over the announcement that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed an executive order to increase the city's living wage. While it's a good start, all of New York's minimum wage workers deserve a raise.

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Heavy Metal Songs: Contaminated Songbirds Sing the Wrong Tunes

Helen Fields and Alanna Mitchell, Environmental Health News: After extensive research in Virginia, scientists have shown that mercury alters the very things that many birds are known for - their songs. Understanding why mercury-contaminated songbirds can't sing their songs could help scientists learn more about how human brains are damaged, too.

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Justices in Walker Criminal Probe Face Conflicts of Interest

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ISIS in Washington: The United States' Soundtrack of Hysteria

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Michael Brown Had a Father

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