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Afghanistan may be the graveyard of empires, but Iraq is home to a graveyard sense of humor. Iraqis wonder aloud whether the U.S. and Britain would have invaded Iraq if its main export had been cabbages instead of oil.
However obvious the answer, a remarkable array of American pundits and pseudo-savants have [...]

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On this anniversary of the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, attention here in south Louisiana is focused on the consequences of that traumatic event. As the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to recede into history, we have heard wildly divergent views of what its effects have been for our region.
On [...]

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Al acercarse el primer aniversario del derrame de crudo causado por British Petroleum (BP) en el Golfo de México, expertos en salud mental y científicos sociales advierten de que la población de la zona sufrirá el impacto durante décadas.
El 20 de abril de 2010, la plataforma de perforación Deepwater Horizon, que [...]

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Por primera vez, víctimas del derrame de crudo en el Golfo de México denunciaron por fraude, negligencia y enriquecimiento ilícito al administrador del fondo de compensaciones de la empresa británica British Petroleum (BP).
La demanda fue presentada en un tribunal estatal de Florida, en el sudeste del país, contra Kenneth Feinberg, [...]

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“Dolphins off the bow!”
I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formation on the other side.
After taking my fill of phone video [...]

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Naomi gave the following talk at the first-ever TEDWomen conference on December 8, 2010, in Washington, DC. It includes a few of the slides that accompanied the talk.

I just did something I’ve never done before. I spent a week at sea on a research vessel. I’m not a scientist but I was [...]

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Desastres socio-ecológicos y responsabilidad política y empresarial
Después de contemplar aliviados cómo la Pachamama gustó de volver a parir milagrosamente a los 33 mineros chilenos, y de haber derramado lágrimas y suspiros de alivio frente a la caja boba, es el momento para enfriar la cabeza y volver a la reflexión.
Los medios masivos se centran en [...]

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Source: GRITtv
“We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible.”
Who better to say such a thing than Naomi Klein, Nation columnist, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, and longtime rabblerouser? Naomi makes a special visit to [...]

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It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people – a view which looks at the impact on the elderly, the renter, people of color, the disabled, the working and non-working poor. So, while one commentator may happily say that the median income in New Orleans has risen since Katrina, a street level perspective recognizes that is because large numbers of the poorest people have not been able to return.

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Crustáceos del Golfo de México crecen con gotas de crudo en su interior, las aves empetroladas sirven de alimento a los coyotes y los tiburones se asfixian cuando el petróleo que tragan tapona sus branquias.

Dentro de las valvas de diminutos cangrejos azules que apenas están dejando de ser larvas se han hallado gotitas de petróleo, dice a este reportero Harriet Perry, directora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones de la Costa del Golfo en la Universidad de Mississippi del Sur, Estados Unidos. Según el Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Estados Unidos, hasta el 14 de julio, unos 890 kilómetros de la costa del Golfo están cubiertos de crudo, se recuperaron 2.930 aves (1.828 muertas y 1.102 cubiertas de combustible), y más de 500 tortugas marinas y mamíferos muertos.

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