Daily Archives: March 25, 2018

William Nordhaus: The Economics of Climate Change

Scaling Up Innovation in Agriculture

Congresswoman Confirms Erik Prince Tied to Assassination Program Run Out of Dick Cheney’s Office

Enough! A Million Students Walk Out of Schools to Demand Action on Guns in Historic Day of Action

Meet the American Professor Suing Cambridge Analytica for His Psychographic Profile

China vows resilience, retaliation against new US tariffs at development forum

Pope Francis urges young people to shout

March For Our Lives: Six key takeaways from the US gun control rallies – BBC News

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43531391

It was the biggest gun control protest in a generation. Hundreds of rallies were staged across the US and beyond as marchers filled the streets calling for the implementation of tighter measures following the deadly mass shooting at a Florida school in February.

That incident not only ignited the #NeverAgain movement, but also Saturday’s mass demonstrations, which took place under the banner of March For Our Lives and were led by a rally in Washington DC attended by some 200,000 demonstrators, according to CBS News.

With events not just in the US but as far afield as London, Paris, Mauritius, Tokyo, Stockholm, Sydney, Geneva and Berlin, the day was made up of powerful messages delivered by articulate students and children, most of whom have already in some way experienced gun violence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: We Are Witnessing The ‘Unraveling Of An Informed Democracy’ | MSNBC


MSNBC
Published on Sep 20, 2017

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how climate change deniers in government are ‘unraveling’ our informed democracy by making policees that are not based on scientific fact. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc

Major New Investigation into Trump Real Estate Deals in India Reveals Corruption, Lawsuits, Fraud


Democracy Now!
Published on Mar 23, 2018

https://democracynow.org – A major new investigation has just been published into Trump’s business partnerships in India and the conflicts of interest these deals pose for the White House. The new cover story for The New Republic is titled “Political Corruption and the Art of the Deal.” In it, journalist Anjali Kamat notes the Trump Organization has entered into more deals in India than in any other foreign country. These deals, she writes, are worth an estimated $1.5 billion and produced royalties of up to $11 million between 2014 and 2017. During her year-long investigation, Kamat traced Trump’s India partners’ long history of facing lawsuits, police inquiries and government investigations that contain evidence of potential bribery, fraud, intimidation, illegal land acquisition, tax evasion and money laundering.