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Pollution to Protest
Chinas rapid economic growth has stunned the world, making it a global power in a short span of years. It has also produced a staggering amount of environmental damage, which the world is also beginning to note. But it has also done something elsespurred ordinary Chinese citizens to start organizing, sometimes in defiance of the government. In the process, theyve created the beginnings of a civil society that could bring greater freedom overall inside the worlds largest dictatorship. Chinas rapid economic growth has stunned the world, making it a global power in a short span of years. It has also produced a stagge... more
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Vanguard Mission Statement Video
This is the Vanguard Mission Statement Video
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Current Vanguard: The Price of Vice
From prostitution in China, which has an estimated 6-10 million sex workers, to the world's largest marijuana plantations in Morocco, Vanguard looks at how criminal activity has become industrialized and in many cases has reached an "almost legal" status. Like most conventional industries, it's the workers at the bottom of the ladder that take on the brunt of the labor, and get remunerated the least. Vanguard gives a face to these everyday people who make up the foundation of these illegal enterprises so big that they amount to major industries.
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Turkey Bombs PKK forces in Northern Iraq
"'We, as the government, are resolute to remove this trouble from the agenda of our country,' Cemil Cicek told the state-run Anatolia news agency.
Mr Cicek also called on Kurdish militants to lay down their arms and return to their homes, insisting their fight was futile.
Turkey has regularly targeted the PKK inside Iraq in recent months, but this is thought to be the first fighter jet raid outside its own territory."
I am so glad that the US is not influenced by having several strategic airbases in turkey. I am also glad that the EU uses its power to prevent potentially destabilizing actions by member states.
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Turkish Warplanes Attack Kurds Near Iraqi Border
Tension along the border is heating up. This is the first time that Turkey has used warplane assaults on Kurdish rebels since the fall of Saddam regime. Tension along the border is heating up. This is the first time that Turkey has used warplane assaults on Kurdish rebels since the fal... more
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The Amazon Frontier
A look at how the Amazon forest is being developed and how this is affecting preservation efforts.
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Cupping
While in Vietnam, Laura Ling experiences a unique treatment that is said to help one's health.
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Toxic Villages
Take a trip to an electronic wasteland in Southern China. Here, much the world's electronic waste ends up. The crude process of recycling this e-waste can have serious health and environmental consequences. Take a trip to an electronic wasteland in Southern China. Here, much the world's electronic waste ends up. The crude process of recy... more
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Narco State
A look at the drug trafficking business taking place in California's national forests.
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Callus Collection
Some people collect coins, others collect...foot calluses.
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Bud Business
See why California is considered the marijuana growing capital of the U.S.
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