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Corporations using nondisclosure agreements to gag whistleblowers

vendredi 4 juillet 2014 à 14:00

US corporations are using nondisclosure agreements to gag whistleblowers.

In India there are thousands of temple prostitutes

vendredi 4 juillet 2014 à 14:00

In India today there are thousands of temple prostitutes, given to the temple as children by their families. For the most part, they are treated with the same contempt that other prostitutes receive. (I don't understand why many men feel that sort of contempt for prostitutes.)

Urgent: Conflicts of interest

vendredi 4 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Everyone: call on Temple University to tighten its standards for disclosure of researchers' conflicts of interest.

Two professors there did a study which purported to find that private prisons are great improvements in efficiency; it turns out they were funded by private prison companies, and the study is biased.

Ethiopian "terrorist" faces execution

vendredi 4 juillet 2014 à 14:00

An Ethiopian "terrorist" (i.e., opposition party leader) faces execution after being extradited by Yemen.

Chernobyl meltdowns

vendredi 4 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Although some nuclear power advocates claim that the Chernobyl meltdowns did not directly hurt the public, some groups that were nearby show high levels of certain diseases.