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Democracy Now! – Jan 21, 2022 As many of the world’s wealthiest people wrap up virtual talks today at the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam reports the incomes of 99% of the world’s population dropped during the … Continue reading →

A Trip Down the Niger River November 3, 2021 by Julie Stoner This is a guest post by M. Amelia Raines, Reference Librarian in the Geography and Map Division. In 1887, a French lieutenant named Edmond Caron sailed a gunboat … Continue reading →

23 Dec 2021 Oxfam America has accused Moderna of misleading its investors about an ongoing dispute over whether it needs to share vaccine patent rights with the U.S. government. Oxfam filed a shareholders complaint against Moderna with the Securities and … Continue reading →

“In truth, there is only one legitimate response to the fact of anti-Black racism and the damage it inflicts. That response is opposition.” — President Biddy Martin Amherst College The goal of a liberal arts education is to fight prejudice … Continue reading →

14 Dec 2021 As unionizing efforts have taken the U.S. by storm, we look at the history of the U.S. labor movement and how unions have acted as a bulwark against corporate power. Worker organizing at Starbucks, Kellogg’s and Amazon … Continue reading →

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the … Continue reading →

Democracy Now!Oct 26, 2021 Thousands of internal Facebook documents leaked to media outlets continue to produce damning revelations about how the social media giant has prioritized its profits over user safety. The Facebook Papers have provided fresh evidence of how … Continue reading →

NewsClickin – Oct 15, 2021 Research by Tim Wise (GDAE-Tufts University) is conclusive and fully resonates with claims by Africa’s biggest grassroots movement, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa: the corporate capture of food systems should be rejected. Donors … Continue reading →

http://ecoethics.net/2014-ENVRE120/20211015-EV&N-408-Link.html YouTube Version Concerning the Cumbre Viehja volcano and potential Atlantic coastal vulnerability see Bill McGuire’s assessments see: “Megatsunami Scenario – La Palma Landslide,”and La Palma Landslide – East Coast Megatsunami Scenario For a preliminary discussion of other problems the … Continue reading →

The Hill – Oct 4, 2021 Ryan Grim and Robby Soave break down what the leaked Pandora Papers reveal, and what their implications for U.S. tax policy might be.