InvestigationBusiness, World Typhoid, Tyranny and Tax Havens Fiji Water is marketed as “green,” but the company has a sweetheart deal with Fiji’s military dictatorship that allows it tax-free access to a lush aquifer, while locals live without potable water. Anna LenzerThe Independent (UK)November 8, 2009
InvestigationWorld Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising? President García’s legislative decrees, promulgated in 2008 to ready Peru for the new U.S. free trade agreement — would open indigenous lands to oil drilling, logging, and resource extraction as never before. Bill WeinbergNACLANovember 2, 2009
InvestigationEnvironment The Last Breakup What does global warming look like in the tiny frozen town of Eagle, Alaska, nearly lost to massive floods? Ted GenowaysMother JonesNovember 1, 2009
BackstoryEnvironment The Backstory: Heather Rogers Heather Rogers tells about how she mucked through old growth forest in Borneo only to come upon locals with the chain saws out. It turns out they were clear cutting ancient trees to plant biofuel crops — a green energy paradox. Heather Rogers & Andrea DCruzOctober 22, 2009
InvestigationJustice A Heartbeat and a Guitar The story of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians — iconoclast Johnny Cash and little known folk artist Peter LaFarge – and the album they created, Bitter Tears. Antonino D'AmbrosioNation BooksOctober 22, 2009
InvestigationJustice, World A Truth Commission on the Amazon Massacre Weinberg exposes a June 2009 police massacre of indigenous activists opposing oil exploitation in Peru’s Amazon, while protests against a Hunt Oil contract threaten renewed unrest. Bill WeinbergIndian Country TodayOctober 13, 2009
InvestigationWorld Russian Journalists Still Under Threat The brazen killing of journalists in Russia and its former territories continues post-Putin, unabated, unpunished – and too often uninvestigated. Adam FedermanThe NationOctober 7, 2009
InvestigationJustice, World The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking How the Gates Foundation’s “war” on child prostitution in developing countries may harm the young victims it is supposed to rescue. Part one of two. Noy ThrupkaewThe NationOctober 5, 2009
InvestigationBusiness, Justice, Politics A Healthcare Reform Foe’s History of Discrimination A probe into the chain of profitable clinics founded by Rick Scott, the health care reform nemesis who once ran the Columbia-HCA hospital conglomerate. Part two of two. (See part one.) Tristram KortenSalon.comOctober 1, 2009