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Articles about Currents, ordered by date. 
Princess and President
Despite the country being hit by Typhoon Fengshen, Filipino President Arroyo arranged a 10-day trip to the US for herself and at least 59 of her loyal congress members, at a reported cost of 66 million pesos ($1.42 million)!
Their guns will not conquer
The Karen fight ethnic cleansing in Burma with economic development
Eau de victory
Water privatization heads back to public management around the world
The drugs don't work
Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills
Tortured for 'refusing to kill'
A conscientious objector from Istanbul was beaten with sticks until he passed out
Getting fair treatment
Brazil’s AIDS fight against Big Pharma continues
Rights for albinos
Tanzanian authorities launch a crackdown on anti-albino witch doctors
Court in the act
Apartheid accomplices Coca-Cola, Barclays, BP et al are heading for court
A kick in the balls
New Zealand intelligence gathering or US & NATO spy satellite?
Inside China’s prisons
It’s difficult to know for sure how many political prisoners there currently are in China, but it’s safe to say that there are thousands of them.
Starved by the system
The companies making a killing from the food crisis
Cyclone survival
Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity
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