Reporting for The Lever in June 2022, Rishika Pardikar revealed how big oil investors are adopting new legal strategies to combat climate change policies. These fossil fuel shareholders are opening cases against state governments, claiming that climate change proposals are taking advantage of their profits—and, therefore, investors must be compensated for…
Google operates the world’s largest and most influential search engine. It has recently hired a number of former CIA employees to fill sensitive positions. As a result, these employees possess significant influence over its affiliated products, controlling what Google users are able to see or not. As reported by senior…
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In September 2022, commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces were authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Marjorie Cohn reported for Truthout. Hamas called the order “a dangerous step” and urged Palestinians “to continue resisting the Israeli occupation with all means possible until they…
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Recent reports from the Intercept highlight hundreds of undisclosed biolab accidents that have gone unreported by major news outlets. A November 1, 2022 article, titled “Bent Over in Pain,” by Mara Hvistendahl spotlights a graduate student who in 2016 contracted the debilitating Chikungunya virus, a recombinant mosquito-borne pathogen which is…
In an article published by Medium on August 22, 2022, independent journalist Deborah L. Armstrong reported on the blacklisting of Roger Waters, co-founder of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd, by Ukrainian nationalists. In early August, Rogers was featured on a 90-minute CNN special where he publicly criticized the US…
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Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) measured the effects of oil- and gas- drilling sites on the health of pregnant women living within six miles of drilling operations during a thirteen-year period, from 1996-2009. The study, which DeSmog reported on in January 2022, was the first that specifically examined the…
In October 2022, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report showing that the Fulton County jail, near Atlanta, Georgia, was holding some 2,892 people, or 301 people more than its official capacity. As a result, hundreds of detained people had been assigned makeshift sleeping arrangements on jail floors.…
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Continuing a Trump-era policy to keep migrants from seeking asylum in the name of limiting the spread of COVID-19, the Biden administration expanded Title 42 to expel Venezuelan migrants to Mexico, José Luis Granados Ceja reported for Venezuelanalysis in October 2022. Although the Biden administration’s extension of Title 42 allowed…
Through monthly calls starting in November 2020, the organizers of the Mother Earth Foundation offered advice––based on their experience establishing community composting systems in the Philippines––to Breathe Free Detroit, a community-based organization working with city officials to establish a municipal composting system. As Jena Brooker reported for Nexus Media News in…
Citizen journalists in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand “risk harassment, detention, and economic hardship for their work,” according to an October 2022 report for Global Voices by Mong Palatino. Restrictions on journalism in these countries have made it nearly impossible for journalists to do their jobs. Palatino’s report gave voice to…
