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Teflon, Fatalism, and Accountability
“Teflon is, I believe, an apt metaphor for the protective veneer of privilege and power.”
Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
Elaine's work re-imagines risk prevention beyond prepping: the meaningful steps that communities, organizations and governments should take long before the first sirens go off.
Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nuclear Arms Programme
Early suspicions led to US intelligence assessments saying Iran was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons for a decade.
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Do We Learn Anything from History?
Our decision makers have no respect for the lessons of history.
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Union-Backed Candidate Wins First Round in El Salvador Election
Ten unionists were martyred in a 1989 bombing by right-wing death squads, targeted because they were union leaders.
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How the UN Can Ignore 8,000 Deaths in Haiti
Many more Haitians will die from cholera, a disease brought to their country by the very people who were supposed to be saving them from disaster.
Washington’s Military Aid to Israel: Fake Peace Process, Real War Process
We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid.
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Emancipation
People Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent
If we continue to build the independent, people-powered media, greater numbers of people will build up immunity to the destructive misinformation of corporate media.