November 2014 - Page 2 of 5

Fracking the Poor

Hannah Guzik November 20, 2014 Hannah Guzik

We know who lives near wells. We don’t know how it’s harming them.

It was supposed to be a good day. It was the first day of school and Johanna Romo, 12, had just woken up. It was already hot, and if she had looked out the window, she would have seen smog hugging the valley floor, obscuring the mountains, as it has almost every day this year. But she didn’t have a chance to look out the window.

As Johanna sat up and prepared to put on her school uniform—a blue shirt and khaki pants—her body lurched backward onto the floor, violently shaking. read more

Who Rules the World? How a Concentration of Wealth and Political Power Undermines Democracy

Benjamin Dangl November 19, 2014 Benjamin Dangl

With elections in the US, we are granted the illusion that voters generally have power over our elected leaders, the direction of the economy, and how to tackle climate change and other major issues. But where does the real power lie?

Talk of a Third Intifada: Where to from Here, Palestine?

Ramzy Baroud November 19, 2014 Ramzy Baroud

When a journalist tries to do a historian’s job, the outcome can be quite interesting. Using history as a side note in a brief news report or political analysis oftentimes does more harm than good. Now imagine if that journalist was not dependable to begin with, even more than it being “interesting”, the outcome runs the risk of becoming a mockery.

Nigeria: The Spirit of Saro-Wiwa Rises

Patrick Naagbanton November 18, 2014 Patrick Naagbanton

In one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance. - See more at: http://newint.org/features/2014/11/01/oil-niger-delta/#sthash.oEHtnn4P.dpuIn one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance.

In one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance.

Mexico: This Mass Grave Isn’t the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For

Greg Grandin November 18, 2014 Greg Grandin

Source: The Nation

They have found many mass graves. Just not the mass grave they have been looking for. The forty-three student activists were disappeared on September 26, after being attacked by police in the town of Iguala, in the Mexican state of Guerrero. A week later, I set up an alert for “fosa clandestina”—Spanish for clandestine grave—on Google News. Here’s what has come back:

On October 4, the state prosecutor of Guerrero announced that twenty-eight bodies were found in five clandestine mass graves. None of them were the missing forty-three. read more

Why NATO is a Danger to World Peace

Immanuel Wallerstein November 17, 2014 Immanuel Wallerstein

NATO and what it symbolizes today represents a severe danger because it represents the claim of western countries to interfere everywhere in the name of western interpretations of geopolitical realities. This can only lead to further, highly dangerous, conflict. Renouncing NATO as a structure would be a first step towards sanity and the world’s survival.