by Omega | Apr 13, 2023 | Economy
By Andrea Shalal Climate change is already having a major economic and financial impact on the United States and may trigger asset value losses in coming years that could cascade through the U.S. financial system, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will warn on...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Environment
The project foregrounded Rights Of Nature as an expansion of Right to Life as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Following on from an earlier project staged as a Commission of Inquiry under the Commission of Inquiry Act 1952, Landscape As...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Environment
By Jack Nicas The illegal tin mine was so remote that, for three years, the massive gash it cut into the Amazon rainforest had gone largely ignored. So when three mysterious helicopters suddenly hovered overhead, unannounced, the miners living there scrambled into the...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Community
By Cyndi Suarez “The formal engagement of neighborhood-based nonprofits in urban governance constitutes one of the most profound, if hidden, transformations in the United States over the second half of the twentieth century.” Claire Dunning, author of Nonprofit...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Environment, Politics
By Alex Kingsbury Excerpt from the interview with Daniel Ellsberg: Q. As you look around the world today, what scares you? A. I’m leaving a world in terrible shape and terrible in all ways that I’ve tried to help make better during my years. President...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Culture
By Thomas L. Friedman “You need to understand,” Craig warned me before he started his demo, “this is going to change everything about how we do everything. I think that it represents mankind’s greatest invention to date. It is qualitatively...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Economy
“The Big Myth” details how even as the New Deal improved millions of lives, economists, writers (like Ayn Rand), politicians and trade organizations committed to ideas aimed, as journalist John T. Flynn wrote, at building “power outside the parties so strong that the...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Environment
By Laura Paddison Argentina is grappling with an unprecedented late-summer heatwave as temperatures soar to record-breaking levels – causing crops to wither, helping wildfires spread and adding huge pressure to a country already facing an...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Environment
Link to book talk with Dr. Eve Darian-Smith Dr. Darian-Smith serves as the Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies and is a professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has published several award-winning books focused...
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Economy
By Nate Hagens How do the catalysts triggering the SVB collapse compare to the 2008 financial crisis? What might world financial market reactions indicate as we move closer to The Great Simplification? What can we learn and proactively plan for by taking a balanced,...
