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Blog Entries by Johann Hari from 05/2011

From the Crack Dens of Miami to the Royal Shakespeare Company: An Interview With Tarell Alvin McCraney

| Posted 05.05.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Hip Hop, Gay, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Miami, Drag Queens, Crack, Entertainment News

McCraney has made an unusual journey in his life -- from the slums of Miami, where his crack-addicted mother died of AIDS and his brother ended up in jail, to writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Can We Now Learn the Real Lesson of Bin Laden's Death?

| Posted 05.05.2011 | World
Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Osama Bin Laden Death, War in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

If we follow the path of returning to sanity, al Qaeda will wither. Bin Laden knew that. We know that. Now that he is gone, will we finally stop playing into his cold, dead hands?

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David Cameron's Claims to Be a "Green" Prime Minister Go Up in Flames

| Posted 05.14.2011 | Green
Read More: Clean Air, Fracking, Oil Drilling, David Cameron, Gasland, Renewable Energy, Oil, Carcinogens, Clean Water, Logging, Trees, Green News

You certainly wouldn't have expected Cameron's latest plan. He has decided to convert us to a new energy source that seems, in the U.S., to have released cancer-causing chemicals and radiation into the water supply.

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The Deal We Dare Not Turn Down: Save This Rainforest, or Trigger Our Destruction

| Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Oil Rigs, Rising Sea Levels, Natural Resources, Rainforest, Ecuador, Biodiversity, Rafael Correa, Save the Rainforest, Digging for Oil, Oil Reserves, Global Warming, Mass Extinction, Green News

Ecuador's government says that if the rest of the world offers just half of what the oil beneath their rainforest is worth -- $3.5 billion -- they will keep the rainforest standing and alive and working for us all.

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Larry Flynt -- Freedom Fighter, Pornographer, Monster?

| Posted 05.27.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Larry Flynt, Entertainment News

Larry Flynt has won. He was America's pioneer pornographer -- the man who fought against a still-Puritan nation all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to get hard core close-ups into the grasp of every young man.

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