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Half of a Yellow Sun With the Shell settlement for complicity in murdering Nigerian human rights activists in the news this week, I thought that readers might enjoy getting to…
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read moreFRONTLINE remembers Tiananmen. Do you remember Tlatelolco? How about Kent State?
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read moreRoyal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in…
read moreFossil-Fueled Mobility This paper on the Western Amazon describes the relatively intact bioregion as one of the, if not the, most biologically diverse areas on the planet. It also describes…
read moreIndigenous groups do not want to accept plans that could completely change the way they hunt for food and raise crops. Development of the Amazon is a matter of life…
read moreThe library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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