Multi-millionaires Charles and David Koch have reportedly expressed interest in purchasing some or all of the holdings of The Tribune Company, which owns newspapers and television stations across the USA, including the Los Angeles Times. The Koch brothers, who inherited their wealth, are accused of buying elections, funding anti-science research, bankrolling ultra-conservative organizations, union-busting, and …

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Pakistan is fixated on its nuclear armed foe, India. Yet we are far more likely to be destroyed by “the time bomb ticking away in homes across the country” – our explosive population growth. There are now nearly 200 million of us, a rise of more than 60 million in just the last 15 years. …

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The artist brings the viewer face to face with their own pre-conceived hierarchy of cultural values and assumptions of cultural worth. Each mirror imaginatively propels its viewer forward into the seemingly infinite progression of possible reproductions that the artist’s practice engenders, whilst simultaneously pulling them backwards in quest for the “original” source or reverent that …

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Between 2002 and2010 $118 million has been doled out to 102 think tanks, obscure policy forums, contrarian Harvard professors and activist groups to fund the discrediting of climate science. All are determined to prevent cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. The money is funneled through two organizations, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, who “promote liberty, …

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