Wolf's Sociology Resources

Inside the RUF: at last the child soldiers of Sierra Leone have their say. Hannah Strange. Times Online/UK. 6/16/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.

Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

Climate scientists issue dire warning. David Adam. Guardian. 2/28/2006.

Food and Fuel Compete for Land. Andrew Martin. NY Times, 12/18/07.

----Biotechnology----

How human genes become patented. Elizabeth Landrau. CNN. 5/13/2009.

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition. Kari Lydersen. In These Times. 11/21/2008. GM crops in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

BIODIVERSITY: Indigenous Peoples Fight Theft. Julio Godoy. Inter Press Service. 5/24/2008.

Family Seed Business Takes On Goliath of Genetic Modification. Marian Scott. The Edmonton Journal (Canada). 5/25/2008.

Is in vitro meat the future?. Carol Midgley. Times/UK. 5/09/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory in Seed Battle Against Monsanto. Matt Hartley. Globe & Mail (Canada), 3/20/2008.

----Children and Elderly----

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.

Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive. Xoliswa Sithole. BBC. 3/02/2010.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.

The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)

4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.

Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.

Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Inside the RUF: at last the child soldiers of Sierra Leone have their say. Hannah Strange. Times Online/UK. 6/16/2008.

Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

In India, a bank for street children. Henry Chu. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.

Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

----Corporate Power----

Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .

Backlash grows against free trade. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/16/07.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here

3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.

3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 2/16/2011. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

Matt Taibbi on DemocracyNow! 2/22/11. Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?

Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.

World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.

Weekend Warrior Bootcamp. Dan Kenney. In These Times. 6/02/2010.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.

Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

ICE snaps up Climate Exchange for £395m. Jeremy Grant & Hal Weitzman. Financial Times. 4/30/2010.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

Obama's Big Sellout. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 12/09/2009.

Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money. ABC News. 2/05/2010.

Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive. Xoliswa Sithole. BBC. 3/02/2010.

GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.

STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original

Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil. Sophia Grene. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Big shift benefits emerging markets. David Oakley. Financial Times. 10/25/2009

Private equity's love affair with leverage. Steven Johnson. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Unbelievable returns, thanks to government. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks. Roland Rousseau. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Eric Uhifelder. Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

Pablo Triana. Blame toxic lethality not complexity. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug. Gardiner Harris. NY Times. 9/02/2009.

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

'Pirates' Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story?. Jeremy Scahill. AlterNet. 5/08/2009>

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide. IRIN News Agency. 4/18/2009.

Empire Foreclosed?. Mark Engler. FPIF. 4/17/2009

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 6/09/2009.

POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.

The Case Against Shell in Nigeria. Site tracking the complaints of the Wiwa of Nigeria against Shell Oil Company.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

How human genes become patented. Elizabeth Landrau. CNN. 5/13/2009.

Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise . Michael Powell & Janet Roberts. NY Times. 5/15/2009.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.

The Quiet Coup. Simon Johnson. The Atlantic May 2009.

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government

Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government. Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.

The Inflection Is Near?. Thomas Friedman. NY Times. 3/08/2009.

Greenspan backs bank nationalisation. Krishna Guha and Edward Luce. Financial Times/UK. 2/18/2009.

Bilaterals.org. bilaterals.org is a collective effort to share information and stimulate cooperation against bilateral trade and investment agreements that are opening countries to the deepest forms of penetration by transnational corporations.

FightingFTAS.org. "Fighting FTAs: the growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreements" is a collaborative document on tree trade acts and resistance to them. Excellent resource page, and an excellent document.

What Cooked the World's Economy?. James Lieber. The Village Voice. 1/27/2009.

Who Owns The Federal Reserve?. Ellen Brown. Global Research. 10/8/2008.

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon. Joe McDonald & Charles Hanley. AP. 1/25/2009.

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009

Pulp Friction - loss of the Kimberly-Clark mill. Roger Bybee. In These Times. 1/07/2009.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)

Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. David Guiterez. Natural News. 11/10/2008.

As the World Economy Sinks, So Does Global Shipping. Jeff Israely. Time. 12/08/2008.

$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.

Canada's black gold oil rush. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/10/2008.

Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Economic Woes? Look to Kerala. Shirin Shirin. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.

AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 12/21/2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.

The Effects of the GATT/WTO in World Resource Allocation:A Case Study that Uses both Raw and Processed Timber Resources -Conservation/Deforestation Explored. Helen-Eagle Norwin. Electronic Green Journal. Issue 16, 2002.

As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006

Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.

One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex. David Barstow, NY Times, 11/29/08.

Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 11/13/2008.

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition. Kari Lydersen. In These Times. 11/21/2008. GM crops in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

The New Trough . Naomi Klein. Rolling Stone. 11/13/2008. The $700 billion Federal Bailout.

Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT-ANGOLA: Building Sustainable Water Systems. Louise Redvers. IPS. 10/01/2008.

ENVIRONMENT: Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources. Wolfgang Kerler. IPS. 10/01/2008.

Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.

Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.

Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.

How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie. Binyamin Appelbaum, Carol D. Leonnig and David S. Hilzenrath. Wa. Post. 9/14/2008.

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush. Bill Law. BBC. 8/21/08.

MEXICO: Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine. Diego Cevallos. InterPress Services. 8/31/2008.

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Wal-Mart to invest $1bn in Brazil. BBC. 8/13/2008.

Behind the growing instability in Nigeria. Eugene Puryear. Intelligence Daily. 8/20/08.

Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.

Africa's Unnatural Disaster. Sameer Dossani. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/26/2008.

New fight for Congo's riches. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/29/2008.

Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.

As G-8 meets, free trade under fire. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 7/07/2008.

New pressures force U.S. farmers south of the border. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 7/15/2008.

Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies. CNN. 6/02/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

ECONOMY: Global Woes Hit Developing Countries. Abid Aslam. Inter Press Service. 6/10/2008.

The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

U.S. says ending trade barriers key to food crisis. Reuters. 6/13/2008.

South Korea's Beef with America. Christine Ahn. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/13/2008.

Falling like a ton of bricks. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

The United States of Advertising. Kevin Connolly. BBC. 6/14/2008.

RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert. Abrose Evans-Pritchard. Telegraph/UK. 6/18/2008.

Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.

Monsanto Seeks Big Increase in Crop Yields. Andrew Pollack, NY Times. 6/05/2008.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

World hunger's urban edge. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/05/2008,

Americans $1.7 trillion poorer. Tami Luhby. CNN. 6/05/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

Nigeria power shortage to persist. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Trade boss criticises financial mess. Steve Schifferes. BBC. 5/30/2008.

. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Global press freedom declines in 2007: study. The Age / AU. 4/30/08.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Bolivia nationalises key firms. Al Jazeera. 5/01/2008.

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Executive Summary of the Synthesis Report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and
Technology for Development (IAASTD). PDF. Report on traditional vs industrial agriculture, original report site

NBC Universal, ad agency to create product-centered programs. AP. 4/18/2008.

South Korean workers on edge of burnout. Bruce Williams. LA Times. 4/19/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.

Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.

Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

IMF plans gold sale to raise $6bn. BBC. 4/07/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Oregon's healthcare lottery. Rajesh Mirchandani. BBC. 3/30/2008

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory in Seed Battle Against Monsanto. Matt Hartley. Globe & Mail (Canada), 3/20/2008.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Depression drugs don't work, finds data review. David Rose. Times Online. 2/26/2008.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

Daniel Troy's Poison Pill. Stephanie Mencimer. Mother Jones. 3/07/2008.

3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.

Surveillance states. The Economist. 2/06/2008.

Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.

Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.

Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 2/16/2011. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League

World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.

Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.

Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money. ABC News. 2/05/2010.

STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original

Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.

CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.

'Pirates' Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story?. Jeremy Scahill. AlterNet. 5/08/2009>

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)

Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.

What Cooked the World's Economy?. James Lieber. The Village Voice. 1/27/2009.

Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. David Guiterez. Natural News. 11/10/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.

The New Trough . Naomi Klein. Rolling Stone. 11/13/2008. The $700 billion Federal Bailout.

States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts. Solomon Moore. NY Times. 9/13/2008.

Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.

New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

What happened at Abu Ghraib?. Rowan Wolf. 5/01/2004.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.

Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.

Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.

Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.

The Power of Nightmares. Adam Curtis. Internet Archive. Video: This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today.

Study Finds Cohabiting Doesn't Make a Union Last. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/02/2010.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.

Torture memos and historical amnesia. Noam Chomsky. Asia Times. 5/21/2009.

When is inequality unfair?. Sunder Katwala. Guardian/UK. 6/23/2009.

The dam that divides Ethiopians. Peter Greste. BBC. 3/26/2009. Interactive map of the impacts of a hydro-electric dam.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

The Inflection Is Near?. Thomas Friedman. NY Times. 3/08/2009.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.

100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. Originally published on The Prism.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.

Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.

Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' . Mike Lanchin. BBC, 10/22/2008. The practice of being an honorary man.

Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To Nature. Eoin O'Carroll. Christian Science Monitor. 9/04/2008.

Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) Gas. Emily Udell. In These Times. 8/11/2008.

Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.

Climate change? Blame your stuff. Scott Learn. Oregonian. 8/01/2008.

The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

We won't be Berlusconi's scapegoats, say Gypsies. Tom Kington. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

The United States of Advertising. Kevin Connolly. BBC. 6/14/2008.

James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.

In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.

How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.

The Other Karen Tribe Antonio Graceffo. Boxun News. 5/22/2008.

Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

Is in vitro meat the future?. Carol Midgley. Times/UK. 5/09/2008.

The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

NBC Universal, ad agency to create product-centered programs. AP. 4/18/2008.

Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.

Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line. Douglass McDougall. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

The art of Chris Jordan. The environment and the culture of consumption.

Now showing: Map that gave America its name. Frank Greve. McClatchy. 2/26/2008.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Running the Numbers. Art reflecting the waste of U.S. consumer culture by Chris Jordan.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?. Ira Chernus. Mother Jones. 1/14/2008.

Climate change may spark conflict between nations. John Reid. Independent. 2/28/2006.

----Domestic Violence----

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

----Economy and Labor----

Backlash grows against free trade. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/16/07.

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.

3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 2/16/2011. Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?

Matt Taibbi on DemocracyNow! 2/22/11. Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years

World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.

ICE snaps up Climate Exchange for £395m. Jeremy Grant & Hal Weitzman. Financial Times. 4/30/2010.

Michael Mackenzie. Derivatives boost NYSE profit. Financial Times. 5/04/2010.

Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive. Xoliswa Sithole. BBC. 3/02/2010.

GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

Shale gas numbers may not add up. John Dizard. Financial Times/UK. 11/01/2009.

Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil. Sophia Grene. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Big shift benefits emerging markets. David Oakley. Financial Times. 10/25/2009

Private equity's love affair with leverage. Steven Johnson. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Unbelievable returns, thanks to government. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks. Roland Rousseau. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Eric Uhifelder. Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

Pablo Triana. Blame toxic lethality not complexity. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

New Economics Foundation: Nef is an independent think-and-do tank aimed at improving quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. We work in partnership and put people and the planet first.

Recession barely dents 'eco-debt' . Judith Burns. BBC. 9/25/2009.

What 8.5 Percent Looks Like. NPR. 4/03/2009.

Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents. Art Levine. AlterNet. 9/03/2009.

Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.

State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide. IRIN News Agency. 4/18/2009.

Empire Foreclosed?. Mark Engler. FPIF. 4/17/2009

Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)

Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise . Michael Powell & Janet Roberts. NY Times. 5/15/2009.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

Materials from Party for Socialism & Liberation. What is Capitalism?. What is socialism?. Is socialism possible in the United States?

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)

Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.

The Quiet Coup. Simon Johnson. The Atlantic May 2009.

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource

The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

Rural Poverty and Gas in America. eweining YouTube. 12/01/2007 Video (U:wolf PW:wolf)

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf

The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.

The Inflection Is Near?. Thomas Friedman. NY Times. 3/08/2009.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.

Greenspan backs bank nationalisation. Krishna Guha and Edward Luce. Financial Times/UK. 2/18/2009.

What Cooked the World's Economy?. James Lieber. The Village Voice. 1/27/2009.

Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.

Who Owns The Federal Reserve?. Ellen Brown. Global Research. 10/8/2008.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009

Pulp Friction - loss of the Kimberly-Clark mill. Roger Bybee. In These Times. 1/07/2009.

Social Watch - Global Poverty & Gender Equity. An international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality. Good source of international research and reports.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.

Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.

As the World Economy Sinks, So Does Global Shipping. Jeff Israely. Time. 12/08/2008.

No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.

$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.

Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Economic Woes? Look to Kerala. Shirin Shirin. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.

Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.

AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

Low-Skilled Workers Struggle Amid More Competition and Fewer Openings. Chris Jenklins. Washington Post. 12/20/2008.

As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006

Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.

Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.

. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.

Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.

Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.

Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.

Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.

Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.

How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie. Binyamin Appelbaum, Carol D. Leonnig and David S. Hilzenrath. Wa. Post. 9/14/2008.

Factory Facts. Christian E. Weller and Diego Flores, The Center for American Progress. 8/04/2008.

A proudly American shoe company ships jobs to China. Michelle Nijhuis. Christian Science Monitor. 8/27/2008.

Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.

Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide--and growing--gap between rich and poor. Elizabeth Gudrais. Harvard Magazine. July/August 2008.

Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.

New pressures force U.S. farmers south of the border. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 7/15/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

ECONOMY: Global Woes Hit Developing Countries. Abid Aslam. Inter Press Service. 6/10/2008.

Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

U.S. says ending trade barriers key to food crisis. Reuters. 6/13/2008.

South Korea's Beef with America. Christine Ahn. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/13/2008.

Falling like a ton of bricks. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

New homes slump worst since 1945. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2009.

World crude production has peaked: Pickens. Jasmin Melvin & Missy Ryan. Reuters. 6/17/2008.

RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert. Abrose Evans-Pritchard. Telegraph/UK. 6/18/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

In India, a bank for street children. Henry Chu. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

World hunger's urban edge. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/05/2008,

Americans $1.7 trillion poorer. Tami Luhby. CNN. 6/05/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

Experts see no early end to world's food crisis. Renee Schoof. McClatchy. 5/14/2008.

Trade boss criticises financial mess. Steve Schifferes. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Food crisis talks set to begin. BBC. 5/30/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

U.S. Legal Work Booms in India. Rama Lakshimi. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.

Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

The Solidarity Center. The Solidarity Center is a non-profit organization that assists workers around the world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade unions. We work with unions and community groups worldwide to achieve equitable, sustainable, democratic development and to help men and women everywhere stand up for their rights and improve their living and working standards.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.

Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.

Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.

Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South. Julio Godoy. International Press Service. 4/14/2008.

Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

IMF plans gold sale to raise $6bn. BBC. 4/07/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.

Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.

US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.

Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.

World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns. Elisabeth Rosenthal. International Herald Tribune.

----Education----

Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .

Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

Materials from Party for Socialism & Liberation. What is Capitalism?. What is socialism?. Is socialism possible in the United States?

Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.

Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008

Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.

----Environment----

Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.

Living on Earth. "Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues."

National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces Committee This is a prepublication copy and also available on this site

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

WorldWatch Institute. Worldwatch Institute delivers the insights and ideas that empower decision makers to create an environmentally sustainable society that meets human needs. Worldwatch focuses on the 21st-century challenges of climate change, resource degradation, population growth, and poverty by developing and disseminating solid data and innovative strategies for achieving a sustainable society.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

ICE snaps up Climate Exchange for £395m. Jeremy Grant & Hal Weitzman. Financial Times. 4/30/2010.

Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials: Stockpiling Minerals Takes on Greater Urgency as Global Supply Gets Squeezed. Liam Plevin. Wall Street Journal. 5/03/2010.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja. Martin Chulov. Guardian. 11/13/2009.

UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars". Wambi Michael. IPS. 11/13/2009.

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Recession barely dents 'eco-debt' . Judith Burns. BBC. 9/25/2009.

Feds document shrinking San Joaquin Valley aquifer. Matt Weiser. Sacramento Bee. 7/13/2009.

The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world. Patrick Barkham. Guardian/UK. 9/01/2009.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Chemical pollutants likely culprits in rising birth defects. Roxanne Chan & Sarah Petras. Anchorage Daily News. 8/25/2008.

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 6/09/2009.

The Case Against Shell in Nigeria. Site tracking the complaints of the Wiwa of Nigeria against Shell Oil Company.

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say. Sarah Boseley. Guardian/UK. 5/13/2009.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

GRAIN Resource Page - GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

The War Against Water Bottles. Don Peat. Toronto Star. 1/25/2009.

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon. Joe McDonald & Charles Hanley. AP. 1/25/2009.

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

Sinking island's nationals seek new home. CNN. 11/11/2008.

Canada's black gold oil rush. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/10/2008.

Drought parches much of the U.S., may get worse. John Blake. CNN. 12/15/2008.

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/11/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 12/21/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Environmental collapse - sooner not later. Rowan Wolf, 2/04/2004.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Electronic Green Journal. Peer reviewed digital journal on environmental issues.

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Peak Oil Advisory Taskforce. City of Portland, OR. March 2007.

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 11/13/2008.

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition. Kari Lydersen. In These Times. 11/21/2008. GM crops in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

California Green Innovation Index. Next 10. November 2008. Analysis of the impact of global warming on California. (original)

An Ocean of Plastic. News Hour, 11/13/2008. Explores the continent size collection of debris in the Pacific Gyre. (9:29)

Acid Test: Can We Save Our Oceans from CO2? (original). Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Jacqueline Savitz. Oceana. 10/2008.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

DEVELOPMENT-ANGOLA: Building Sustainable Water Systems. Louise Redvers. IPS. 10/01/2008.

ENVIRONMENT: Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources. Wolfgang Kerler. IPS. 10/01/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush. Bill Law. BBC. 8/21/08.

SOUTH PACIFIC: Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.Z.. Stephen de Tarczynski. InterPress Services. 9/01/2008.

Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To Nature. Eoin O'Carroll. Christian Science Monitor. 9/04/2008.

Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) Gas. Emily Udell. In These Times. 8/11/2008.

On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction. Oliver Tickell. Guardian/UK. 8/11/2008.

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Climate change? Blame your stuff. Scott Learn. Oregonian. 8/01/2008.

KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?. Rosalia Omungo. Inter Press Services. 6/02/2008.

Africa's Unnatural Disaster. Sameer Dossani. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/26/2008.

Got Water? Elizabeth de la Vargas. Mother Jones. 7/22/2008.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Monsanto Seeks Big Increase in Crop Yields. Andrew Pollack, NY Times. 6/05/2008.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

World's Wildlife and Environment Already Hit by Climate Change, Major Study Shows. Ian Sample. Guardian/UK. 5/15/2008.

An Epidemic of Extinctions: Decimation of Life on Earth. Independent/UK. 5/16/2008.

Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution "Blueprint for American Prosperity Series. 5/2008. (Original) Summary Tables of Cities Carbon Footprint)

Environmental collapse - sooner not later. Rowan Wolf. 2/2004.

Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?. Marc Clayton. Chrisitan Science Monitor. 5/30/08

Coal in the United States: America Approaching Peak Coal. Richard Heinberg. IntelDaily. 5/30/2008.

Economic Toll Mounts From High Oil Prices. Graham Bowley & David Jolly. NY Times. 5/23/2008.

BIODIVERSITY: Indigenous Peoples Fight Theft. Julio Godoy. Inter Press Service. 5/24/2008.

Family Seed Business Takes On Goliath of Genetic Modification. Marian Scott. The Edmonton Journal (Canada). 5/25/2008.

Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.

Chemical Weapons Come Home. Stan Cox. Chronogram. 4/25/2008.

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States. National Center for Atmospheric Research. May 2008,

WorldWatch Institute. Research on environment, and social implications of global warming and resource issues,

ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX. Stephen Leahy. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

"Literally, This Is Energy From Dirt". Inter Press Service. 5/10/2008.

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV. Scott Streater. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/11/2008.

Tornado might sound death knell for Oklahoma town. Kevin Murphy. KC Star. 5/12/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing. Kenneth Weiss. LA Times. 5/02/2008.

Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer. Randolf Schmid. Associated Press. 5/02/2008.

Sinking Without Trace: Australia's Climate Change Victims. Independent/UK. 5/05/2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Polar Cities a Haven in Warming World?. Andrew Revkin. NT Times. 3/30/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line. Douglass McDougall. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Centre. 2/06/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

True scale of C0â‚‚emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

The art of Chris Jordan. The environment and the culture of consumption.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say. Juliet Eilperin. Washington Post. 3/10/2008.

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory in Seed Battle Against Monsanto. Matt Hartley. Globe & Mail (Canada), 3/20/2008.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Running the Numbers. Art reflecting the waste of U.S. consumer culture by Chris Jordan.

Blue Planet Project. Water resource issues.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

Sex-Changing Chemicals Make Male Starlings Sing Sweet Songs. Brandon Keim. Wired News. 2/29/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Center. 2/06/2008.

Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns. Mitch Weiss. AP. 1/23/2008.

Prius Designer Says Toyota-Led Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction. John Lippert and Alan Ohnsman. Bloomberg. 1/23/2008.

Climate change may spark conflict between nations. John Reid. Independent. 2/28/2006.

Climate scientists issue dire warning. David Adam. Guardian. 2/28/2006.

Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'. Jonathan Amos. BBC. 12/12/2007.

Food and Fuel Compete for Land. Andrew Martin. NY Times, 12/18/07.

----Environmental Justice----

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Chemical pollutants likely culprits in rising birth defects. Roxanne Chan & Sarah Petras. Anchorage Daily News. 8/25/2008.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon. Joe McDonald & Charles Hanley. AP. 1/25/2009.

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

Sinking island's nationals seek new home. CNN. 11/11/2008.

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/11/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Peak Oil Advisory Taskforce. City of Portland, OR. March 2007.

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To Nature. Eoin O'Carroll. Christian Science Monitor. 9/04/2008.

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Behind the growing instability in Nigeria. Eugene Puryear. Intelligence Daily. 8/20/08.

World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 8/20/08.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Human cost of Brazil's biofuels boom. Patrick J. McDonnell. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

Nigeria power shortage to persist. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Q&A: 'Biofuels Must Include the Poor'. Interview with Ali Mchumo. IPS. 5/30/2008.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Polar Cities a Haven in Warming World?. Andrew Revkin. NT Times. 3/30/2008.

How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line. Douglass McDougall. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Blue Planet Project. Water resource issues.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.

CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.

This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.

111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty. Shawn Pogatchnik. AP. 5/31/2008.

Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report. Stephen Lendman. IntelDaily. 5/29/2008.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.

Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.

----Global Warming----

National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces Committee This is a prepublication copy and also available on this site

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

ICE snaps up Climate Exchange for £395m. Jeremy Grant & Hal Weitzman. Financial Times. 4/30/2010.

UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars". Wambi Michael. IPS. 11/13/2009.

Americas on alert for sea level rise. James Painter. BBC. 4/08/2009.

Feds document shrinking San Joaquin Valley aquifer. Matt Weiser. Sacramento Bee. 7/13/2009.

The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world. Patrick Barkham. Guardian/UK. 9/01/2009.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

Ecological refugees flee China's expanding desert. Sean Gallagher. Untold Stories: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. 4/17/2009.

CO2 Benchmark. Tracks emissions of companies worldwide.

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say. Sarah Boseley. Guardian/UK. 5/13/2009.

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon. Joe McDonald & Charles Hanley. AP. 1/25/2009.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

Sinking island's nationals seek new home. CNN. 11/11/2008.

Drought parches much of the U.S., may get worse. John Blake. CNN. 12/15/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Environmental collapse - sooner not later. Rowan Wolf, 2/04/2004.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

Paradise Lost (or here). Aired 12/12/2008 on PBS - NOW. Examines the issue of rising oceans on island populations.

California Green Innovation Index. Next 10. November 2008. Analysis of the impact of global warming on California. (original)

Acid Test: Can We Save Our Oceans from CO2? (original). Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Jacqueline Savitz. Oceana. 10/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Climate Futures: responses to climate change in 2030. Forum for the Future. October 2008. Focuses on social impacts and responses to climate change. 76 pg pdf (original)

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Your Flat Screen Has (Greenhouse) Gas. Emily Udell. In These Times. 8/11/2008.

On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction. Oliver Tickell. Guardian/UK. 8/11/2008.

World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 8/20/08.

Climate change? Blame your stuff. Scott Learn. Oregonian. 8/01/2008.

Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies. CNN. 6/02/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest . David Streitfeld & Keith Bradsher, NY Times. 6/10/2008.

Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.

Turning Los Angeles wastewater to tap water. Rich Connell. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

World's Wildlife and Environment Already Hit by Climate Change, Major Study Shows. Ian Sample. Guardian/UK. 5/15/2008.

An Epidemic of Extinctions: Decimation of Life on Earth. Independent/UK. 5/16/2008.

Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution "Blueprint for American Prosperity Series. 5/2008. (Original) Summary Tables of Cities Carbon Footprint)

Environmental collapse - sooner not later. Rowan Wolf. 2/2004.

Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area. Joe Robinson. LA TImes. 5/30/2008.

. Interview with Ali Mchumo. IPS. 5/30/2008.

WorldWatch Institute. Research on environment, and social implications of global warming and resource issues,

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA). Timothy Gutowski et al. IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment. 5/2008. Research study on life style effects on global warming emissions.

Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing. Kenneth Weiss. LA Times. 5/02/2008.

Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer. Randolf Schmid. Associated Press. 5/02/2008.

Sinking Without Trace: Australia's Climate Change Victims. Independent/UK. 5/05/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Polar Cities a Haven in Warming World?. Andrew Revkin. NT Times. 3/30/2008.

How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line. Douglass McDougall. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Centre. 2/06/2008.

True scale of C0â‚‚emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say. Juliet Eilperin. Washington Post. 3/10/2008.

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns. Mitch Weiss. AP. 1/23/2008.

Prius Designer Says Toyota-Led Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction. John Lippert and Alan Ohnsman. Bloomberg. 1/23/2008.

Climate change may spark conflict between nations. John Reid. Independent. 2/28/2006.

Climate scientists issue dire warning. David Adam. Guardian. 2/28/2006.

Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'. Jonathan Amos. BBC. 12/12/2007.

World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns. Elisabeth Rosenthal. International Herald Tribune.

----Globalization----

Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .

Backlash grows against free trade. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/16/07.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

Michael Mackenzie. Derivatives boost NYSE profit. Financial Times. 5/04/2010.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money. ABC News. 2/05/2010.

Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive. Xoliswa Sithole. BBC. 3/02/2010.

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil. Sophia Grene. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Big shift benefits emerging markets. David Oakley. Financial Times. 10/25/2009

Private equity's love affair with leverage. Steven Johnson. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Unbelievable returns, thanks to government. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks. Roland Rousseau. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Eric Uhifelder. Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

Pablo Triana. Blame toxic lethality not complexity. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

Recession barely dents 'eco-debt' . Judith Burns. BBC. 9/25/2009.

Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

'Pirates' Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story?. Jeremy Scahill. AlterNet. 5/08/2009>

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide. IRIN News Agency. 4/18/2009.

Empire Foreclosed?. Mark Engler. FPIF. 4/17/2009

Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.

POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.

The Case Against Shell in Nigeria. Site tracking the complaints of the Wiwa of Nigeria against Shell Oil Company.

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

The dam that divides Ethiopians. Peter Greste. BBC. 3/26/2009. Interactive map of the impacts of a hydro-electric dam.

The Quiet Coup. Simon Johnson. The Atlantic May 2009.

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

What Cooked the World's Economy?. James Lieber. The Village Voice. 1/27/2009.

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon. Joe McDonald & Charles Hanley. AP. 1/25/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

Pulp Friction - loss of the Kimberly-Clark mill. Roger Bybee. In These Times. 1/07/2009.

Social Watch - Global Poverty & Gender Equity. An international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality. Good source of international research and reports.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.

As the World Economy Sinks, So Does Global Shipping. Jeff Israely. Time. 12/08/2008.

Canada's black gold oil rush. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/10/2008.

Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Economic Woes? Look to Kerala. Shirin Shirin. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/11/2008.

Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.

Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

DEVELOPMENT-ANGOLA: Building Sustainable Water Systems. Louise Redvers. IPS. 10/01/2008.

ENVIRONMENT: Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources. Wolfgang Kerler. IPS. 10/01/2008.

Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.

Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.

Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Factory Facts. Christian E. Weller and Diego Flores, The Center for American Progress. 8/04/2008.

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush. Bill Law. BBC. 8/21/08.

A proudly American shoe company ships jobs to China. Michelle Nijhuis. Christian Science Monitor. 8/27/2008.

MEXICO: Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine. Diego Cevallos. InterPress Services. 8/31/2008.

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Wal-Mart to invest $1bn in Brazil. BBC. 8/13/2008.

Mumbai's slum solution?. Mukul Devichand. BBC. 8/14/2008.

Behind the growing instability in Nigeria. Eugene Puryear. Intelligence Daily. 8/20/08.

World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 8/20/08.

The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.

US loses WTO Brazil cotton appeal. Al Jazeera. 6/09/2008.

Africa's Unnatural Disaster. Sameer Dossani. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/26/2008.

New fight for Congo's riches. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/29/2008.

As G-8 meets, free trade under fire. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 7/07/2008.

Indonesia's answer to rising food prices. Simon Montlake. Christian Science Monitor. 7/14/2008.

New pressures force U.S. farmers south of the border. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 7/15/2008.

Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report. Reuters. 6/02/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest . David Streitfeld & Keith Bradsher, NY Times. 6/10/2008.

ECONOMY: Global Woes Hit Developing Countries. Abid Aslam. Inter Press Service. 6/10/2008.

U.S. says ending trade barriers key to food crisis. Reuters. 6/13/2008.

South Korea's Beef with America. Christine Ahn. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/13/2008.

Falling like a ton of bricks. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

New homes slump worst since 1945. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2009.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Human cost of Brazil's biofuels boom. Patrick J. McDonnell. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

World crude production has peaked: Pickens. Jasmin Melvin & Missy Ryan. Reuters. 6/17/2008.

RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert. Abrose Evans-Pritchard. Telegraph/UK. 6/18/2008.

Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.

Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

In India, a bank for street children. Henry Chu. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

World hunger's urban edge. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/05/2008,

Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

Global Food Crisis: On The Margins in Mauritania. Washington Post. 5/07/2008.

Experts see no early end to world's food crisis. Renee Schoof. McClatchy. 5/14/2008.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

Nigeria power shortage to persist. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Trade boss criticises financial mess. Steve Schifferes. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Food crisis talks set to begin. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?. Marc Clayton. Chrisitan Science Monitor. 5/30/08

Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area. Joe Robinson. LA TImes. 5/30/2008.

PERU: Indigenous Groups Challenge Private Investment Decree. Milagros Salazar. IPS. 5/29/2008.

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

The Other Karen Tribe Antonio Graceffo. Boxun News. 5/22/2008.

BIODIVERSITY: Indigenous Peoples Fight Theft. Julio Godoy. Inter Press Service. 5/24/2008.

Family Seed Business Takes On Goliath of Genetic Modification. Marian Scott. The Edmonton Journal (Canada). 5/25/2008.

Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.

Fair Trade: Spreading The Wealth. Sharon Cullars. One World Net. 5/28/2008.

African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

G7 loses grip on global policy to O5. Barry Herman. Asia Times. 5/09/2008

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX. Stephen Leahy. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

U.S. Legal Work Booms in India. Rama Lakshimi. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

Global press freedom declines in 2007: study. The Age / AU. 4/30/08.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Bolivia nationalises key firms. Al Jazeera. 5/01/2008.

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

South Korean workers on edge of burnout. Bruce Williams. LA Times. 4/19/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South. Julio Godoy. International Press Service. 4/14/2008.

Made in China. Finlo Rohrer. BBC. 4/14/2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

IMF plans gold sale to raise $6bn. BBC. 4/07/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Mexican Farmers Protest End of Corn-Import Taxes. James McKinnely. NY Times. 2/01/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

EU loses banana battle at WTO. Al Jazeera. 2/08/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

True scale of C0â‚‚emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes

Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon

Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry. Tom Phillips. Guardian/UK. 1/06/2009.

100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. Originally published on The Prism.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

White extremists lash out over election of first black president. Howard Witt. LA Times. 11/23/2008.

The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.

Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.

We won't be Berlusconi's scapegoats, say Gypsies. Tom Kington. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.

James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.

111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty. Shawn Pogatchnik. AP. 5/31/2008.

African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.

Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.

Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.

The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja. Martin Chulov. Guardian. 11/13/2009.

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug. Gardiner Harris. NY Times. 9/02/2009.

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.

Chemical pollutants likely culprits in rising birth defects. Roxanne Chan & Sarah Petras. Anchorage Daily News. 8/25/2008.

Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.

High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say. Sarah Boseley. Guardian/UK. 5/13/2009.

How human genes become patented. Elizabeth Landrau. CNN. 5/13/2009.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. David Guiterez. Natural News. 11/10/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 12/21/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 12/02/2008.

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 11/13/2008.

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition. Kari Lydersen. In These Times. 11/21/2008. GM crops in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.

World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 8/20/08.

KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?. Rosalia Omungo. Inter Press Services. 6/02/2008.

Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.

Why Children Are Not 'Little Adults'. NY Times. 7/10/2008.

Indonesia's answer to rising food prices. Simon Montlake. Christian Science Monitor. 7/14/2008.

New pressures force U.S. farmers south of the border. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 7/15/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.

Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report. Reuters. 6/02/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest . David Streitfeld & Keith Bradsher, NY Times. 6/10/2008.

U.S. says ending trade barriers key to food crisis. Reuters. 6/13/2008.

South Korea's Beef with America. Christine Ahn. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/13/2008.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

The United States of Advertising. Kevin Connolly. BBC. 6/14/2008.

Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Monsanto Seeks Big Increase in Crop Yields. Andrew Pollack, NY Times. 6/05/2008.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.

World hunger's urban edge. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/05/2008,

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

Global Food Crisis: On The Margins in Mauritania. Washington Post. 5/07/2008.

Experts see no early end to world's food crisis. Renee Schoof. McClatchy. 5/14/2008.

Food crisis talks set to begin. BBC. 5/30/2008.

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.

Chemical Weapons Come Home. Stan Cox. Chronogram. 4/25/2008.

Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

Is in vitro meat the future?. Carol Midgley. Times/UK. 5/09/2008.

Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV. Scott Streater. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/11/2008.

Tornado might sound death knell for Oklahoma town. Kevin Murphy. KC Star. 5/12/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Oregon's healthcare lottery. Rajesh Mirchandani. BBC. 3/30/2008

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

Depression drugs don't work, finds data review. David Rose. Times Online. 2/26/2008.

Sex-Changing Chemicals Make Male Starlings Sing Sweet Songs. Brandon Keim. Wired News. 2/29/2008.

Daniel Troy's Poison Pill. Stephanie Mencimer. Mother Jones. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

ERs fail as the nation's safety net. Mary Engel and Rong-Gong Lin II. LA Times. 2/09/2008.

----Homelessness----

The art of Chris Jordan. The environment and the culture of consumption.

ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.

Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Running the Numbers. Art reflecting the waste of U.S. consumer culture by Chris Jordan.

----Media----

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers Interviews the I.F. Stone Award Winners. The first "Izzies," are awarded to Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman. Excellent discussion of the media and the role of journalism. (wolf wolf)

100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. Originally published on The Prism.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

The United States of Advertising. Kevin Connolly. BBC. 6/14/2008.

Boxun News. One of the few credible news sources from China and Burma.

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

NBC Universal, ad agency to create product-centered programs. AP. 4/18/2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

----Military----

National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces Committee This is a prepublication copy and also available on this site

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.

Weekend Warrior Bootcamp. Dan Kenney. In These Times. 6/02/2010.

Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.

Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials: Stockpiling Minerals Takes on Greater Urgency as Global Supply Gets Squeezed. Liam Plevin. Wall Street Journal. 5/03/2010.

The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja. Martin Chulov. Guardian. 11/13/2009.

Millions for textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. AP. 4/23/2009.

POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.

"Our world. Views from the field." opinion survey, part 1: the impact of armed conflict. International Red Cross. 6/23/2009.

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex. David Barstow, NY Times, 11/29/08.

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.

111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty. Shawn Pogatchnik. AP. 5/31/2008.

Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.

Chemical Weapons Come Home. Stan Cox. Chronogram. 4/25/2008.

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Centre. 2/06/2008.

Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Center. 2/06/2008.

Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.

Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.

Climate change may spark conflict between nations. John Reid. Independent. 2/28/2006.

Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.

Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.

Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.

Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.

Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

Obama's Big Sellout. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 12/09/2009.

UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.

CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.

Torture memos and historical amnesia. Noam Chomsky. Asia Times. 5/21/2009.

This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.

The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government. Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.

Greenspan backs bank nationalisation. Krishna Guha and Edward Luce. Financial Times/UK. 2/18/2009.

Who Owns The Federal Reserve?. Ellen Brown. Global Research. 10/8/2008.

$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years

Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.

AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Bob Drogin. LA Times. 12/07/2008.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.

One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex. David Barstow, NY Times, 11/29/08.

Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.

Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.

The New Trough . Naomi Klein. Rolling Stone. 11/13/2008. The $700 billion Federal Bailout.

The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.

Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.

No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.

Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.

Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.

Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.

Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.

How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie. Binyamin Appelbaum, Carol D. Leonnig and David S. Hilzenrath. Wa. Post. 9/14/2008.

Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.

AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.

Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.

Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies. CNN. 6/02/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.

Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool. Foster Klug. AP. 6/04/2008.

Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true. Jonathan S. Landay. McClatchy. 6/05/2008.

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.

What happened at Abu Ghraib?. Rowan Wolf. 5/01/2004.

Fascism USA. Rowan Wolf. 12/19/2004.

Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.

Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.

Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.

How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.

Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.

Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

Surveillance states. The Economist. 2/06/2008.

Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.

Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?. Ira Chernus. Mother Jones. 1/14/2008.

Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

Ecological refugees flee China's expanding desert. Sean Gallagher. Untold Stories: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. 4/17/2009.

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say. Sarah Boseley. Guardian/UK. 5/13/2009.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

Sinking island's nationals seek new home. CNN. 11/11/2008.

SOUTH PACIFIC: Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.Z.. Stephen de Tarczynski. InterPress Services. 9/01/2008.

Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.

Mumbai's slum solution?. Mukul Devichand. BBC. 8/14/2008.

Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

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The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland

State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.

The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.

One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City

Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

Jim Crow in the North. Lewis Steele. In These Times. 1/08/2009.

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.

White extremists lash out over election of first black president. Howard Witt. LA Times. 11/23/2008.

Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)

No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.

Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.

Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.

Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.

Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.

New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.

Race and Extreme Inequality. Dedrick Muhammad. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.

James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

Japan's Ainu hope new identity leads to more rights. Takehiko Kambayashi. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.

Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Kevin Merida, Wa. Post. 5/13/2008.

Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.

Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.

The Other Karen Tribe Antonio Graceffo. Boxun News. 5/22/2008.

Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.

Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.

New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.

Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race. Mireya Navarro. NY Times. 3/31/2008.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US. Paul Harris. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.

Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.

The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.

US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.

ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.

National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces Committee This is a prepublication copy and also available on this site

Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials: Stockpiling Minerals Takes on Greater Urgency as Global Supply Gets Squeezed. Liam Plevin. Wall Street Journal. 5/03/2010.

Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money. ABC News. 2/05/2010.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original

Feds document shrinking San Joaquin Valley aquifer. Matt Weiser. Sacramento Bee. 7/13/2009.

Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting

Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.

The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

"Our world. Views from the field." opinion survey, part 1: the impact of armed conflict. International Red Cross. 6/23/2009.

RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.

One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City

Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.

What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

Social Watch - Global Poverty & Gender Equity. An international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality. Good source of international research and reports.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

Sinking island's nationals seek new home. CNN. 11/11/2008.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.

As the World Economy Sinks, So Does Global Shipping. Jeff Israely. Time. 12/08/2008.

No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.

$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.

Canada's black gold oil rush. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/10/2008.

Economic Woes? Look to Kerala. Shirin Shirin. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/11/2008.

Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.

Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Electronic Green Journal. Peer reviewed digital journal on environmental issues.

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.

Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Peak Oil Advisory Taskforce. City of Portland, OR. March 2007.

1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 12/02/2008.

Learning from Concentrated Poverty in America: A Synthesis of Themes from the Case Studies. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. Full report.

The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America: Case studies from communities across the U.S.. A joint project of the Community Affairs offices of the Federal Reserve System and the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution. 2008. (original) Synthesis of Themes

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

California Green Innovation Index. Next 10. November 2008. Analysis of the impact of global warming on California. (original)

An Ocean of Plastic. News Hour, 11/13/2008. Explores the continent size collection of debris in the Pacific Gyre. (9:29)

Acid Test: Can We Save Our Oceans from CO2? (original). Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Jacqueline Savitz. Oceana. 10/2008.

Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Climate Futures: responses to climate change in 2030. Forum for the Future. October 2008. Focuses on social impacts and responses to climate change. 76 pg pdf (original)

Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.

Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution "Blueprint for American Prosperity Series. 5/2008. (Original) Summary Tables of Cities Carbon Footprint)

Coal in the United States: America Approaching Peak Coal. Richard Heinberg. IntelDaily. 5/30/2008.

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.

Study Finds Cohabiting Doesn't Make a Union Last. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/02/2010.

U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.

The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Chemical pollutants likely culprits in rising birth defects. Roxanne Chan & Sarah Petras. Anchorage Daily News. 8/25/2008.

"Our world. Views from the field." opinion survey, part 1: the impact of armed conflict. International Red Cross. 6/23/2009.

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.

One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City

What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

Electronic Green Journal. Peer reviewed digital journal on environmental issues.

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.

1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 12/02/2008.

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

California Green Innovation Index. Next 10. November 2008. Analysis of the impact of global warming on California. (original)

Acid Test: Can We Save Our Oceans from CO2? (original). Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Jacqueline Savitz. Oceana. 10/2008.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Climate Futures: responses to climate change in 2030. Forum for the Future. October 2008. Focuses on social impacts and responses to climate change. 76 pg pdf (original)

Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution "Blueprint for American Prosperity Series. 5/2008. (Original) Summary Tables of Cities Carbon Footprint)

Global press freedom declines in 2007: study. The Age / AU. 4/30/08.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials: Stockpiling Minerals Takes on Greater Urgency as Global Supply Gets Squeezed. Liam Plevin. Wall Street Journal. 5/03/2010.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

Shale gas numbers may not add up. John Dizard. Financial Times/UK. 11/01/2009.

Recession barely dents 'eco-debt' . Judith Burns. BBC. 9/25/2009.

Feds document shrinking San Joaquin Valley aquifer. Matt Weiser. Sacramento Bee. 7/13/2009.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists. Paul Vallely. BBC. 8/10/2009.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 6/09/2009.

The Case Against Shell in Nigeria. Site tracking the complaints of the Wiwa of Nigeria against Shell Oil Company.

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

Rural Poverty and Gas in America. eweining YouTube. 12/01/2007 Video (U:wolf PW:wolf)

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Canada's black gold oil rush. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/10/2008.

Drought parches much of the U.S., may get worse. John Blake. CNN. 12/15/2008.

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/11/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 12/21/2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Peak Oil Advisory Taskforce. City of Portland, OR. March 2007.

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 11/13/2008.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

DEVELOPMENT-ANGOLA: Building Sustainable Water Systems. Louise Redvers. IPS. 10/01/2008.

ENVIRONMENT: Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources. Wolfgang Kerler. IPS. 10/01/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush. Bill Law. BBC. 8/21/08.

MEXICO: Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine. Diego Cevallos. InterPress Services. 8/31/2008.

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Behind the growing instability in Nigeria. Eugene Puryear. Intelligence Daily. 8/20/08.

World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 8/20/08.

KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?. Rosalia Omungo. Inter Press Services. 6/02/2008.

Got Water? Elizabeth de la Vargas. Mother Jones. 7/22/2008.

New fight for Congo's riches. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/29/2008.

Indonesia's answer to rising food prices. Simon Montlake. Christian Science Monitor. 7/14/2008.

Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report. Reuters. 6/02/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

Human cost of Brazil's biofuels boom. Patrick J. McDonnell. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

World crude production has peaked: Pickens. Jasmin Melvin & Missy Ryan. Reuters. 6/17/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Turning Los Angeles wastewater to tap water. Rich Connell. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

Nigeria power shortage to persist. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Food crisis talks set to begin. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Q&A: 'Biofuels Must Include the Poor'. Interview with Ali Mchumo. IPS. 5/30/2008.

Coal in the United States: America Approaching Peak Coal. Richard Heinberg. IntelDaily. 5/30/2008.

Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area. Joe Robinson. LA TImes. 5/30/2008.

Economic Toll Mounts From High Oil Prices. Graham Bowley & David Jolly. NY Times. 5/23/2008.

Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.

WorldWatch Institute. Research on environment, and social implications of global warming and resource issues,

Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch. 5/22/08 King & Fritsch, WSJ

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

"Literally, This Is Energy From Dirt". Inter Press Service. 5/10/2008.

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Centre. 2/06/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

True scale of C0â‚‚emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Blue Planet Project. Water resource issues.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Center. 2/06/2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns. Mitch Weiss. AP. 1/23/2008.

Prius Designer Says Toyota-Led Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction. John Lippert and Alan Ohnsman. Bloomberg. 1/23/2008.

Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.

Food and Fuel Compete for Land. Andrew Martin. NY Times, 12/18/07.

World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns. Elisabeth Rosenthal. International Herald Tribune.

Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.

Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear. Joby Warrick & Peter Finn. Washington Post. 4/26/2009.

RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.

How human genes become patented. Elizabeth Landrau. CNN. 5/13/2009.

4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

The dam that divides Ethiopians. Peter Greste. BBC. 3/26/2009. Interactive map of the impacts of a hydro-electric dam.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

Bolivian voters back pro-indigenous constitution. Carlos Valdez. AP. 1/26/2009.

Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.

Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry. Tom Phillips. Guardian/UK. 1/06/2009.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Bob Drogin. LA Times. 12/07/2008.

----Security - Terrorism----

An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare. Eric Fair. Washington Post. 2/9/2007.

'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes

Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.

National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces Committee This is a prepublication copy and also available on this site

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.

Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.

Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials: Stockpiling Minerals Takes on Greater Urgency as Global Supply Gets Squeezed. Liam Plevin. Wall Street Journal. 5/03/2010.

CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.

'Pirates' Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story?. Jeremy Scahill. AlterNet. 5/08/2009>

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

Millions for textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. AP. 4/23/2009.

Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear. Joby Warrick & Peter Finn. Washington Post. 4/26/2009.

POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.

Torture memos and historical amnesia. Noam Chomsky. Asia Times. 5/21/2009.

"Our world. Views from the field." opinion survey, part 1: the impact of armed conflict. International Red Cross. 6/23/2009.

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry. Tom Phillips. Guardian/UK. 1/06/2009.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Bob Drogin. LA Times. 12/07/2008.

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.

High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.

Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.

No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.

The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.

Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.

Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.

Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' . Mike Lanchin. BBC, 10/22/2008. The practice of being an honorary man.

Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.

Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.

Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.

More Women May Retire Poor. Candice Choi. ABC News. 7/09/2008.

New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.

Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.

Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.

Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.

How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.

Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective

Women face bias worldwide - UN. BBC. 4/05/2008.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.

----Sexual Orientation----

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.

HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.

ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.

The Breathing Earth. CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation © David Bleja 2006-2010.

Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon

Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League

World Press TV Documentaries. On global issues.

Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting

CO2 Benchmark. Tracks emissions of companies worldwide.

The Case Against Shell in Nigeria. Site tracking the complaints of the Wiwa of Nigeria against Shell Oil Company.

Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.

Social Watch - Global Poverty & Gender Equity. An international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality. Good source of international research and reports.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Electronic Green Journal. Peer reviewed digital journal on environmental issues.

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Boxun News. One of the few credible news sources from China and Burma.

WorldWatch Institute. Research on environment, and social implications of global warming and resource issues,

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Running the Numbers. Art reflecting the waste of U.S. consumer culture by Chris Jordan.

Blue Planet Project. Water resource issues.

----Social Change----

Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .

Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.

----Social Class----

The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.

U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource

The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf

Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.

Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry. Tom Phillips. Guardian/UK. 1/06/2009.

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

Peak Oil and the Working Class. Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 9/16/2005.

As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006

Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).

Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)

Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.

Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)

Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.

Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide--and growing--gap between rich and poor. Elizabeth Gudrais. Harvard Magazine. July/August 2008.

New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.

Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

Americans $1.7 trillion poorer. Tami Luhby. CNN. 6/05/2008.

Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.

Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.

Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.

Mom forced to live in car with dogs. Thelma Gutierrez & Wayne Drash. CNN. 5/20/2008.

Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.

A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.

Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.

Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.

Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.

Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .

An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare. Eric Fair. Washington Post. 2/9/2007.

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes

ZipRealty Guide to Affordable Housing. Site has good information and resources regarding housing around the country.

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon

Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League

World debt crisis: eight reasons you should care. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor. 5/26/2010.

Zimbabwe's forgotten children, struggling to survive. Xoliswa Sithole. BBC. 3/02/2010.

GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.

U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.

The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.

World Press TV Documentaries. On global issues.

STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original

Big shift benefits emerging markets. David Oakley. Financial Times. 10/25/2009

What 8.5 Percent Looks Like. NPR. 4/03/2009.

Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland

State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.

Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.

High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.

Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.

When is inequality unfair?. Sunder Katwala. Guardian/UK. 6/23/2009.

RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.

The Case Against Shell in Nigeria. Site tracking the complaints of the Wiwa of Nigeria against Shell Oil Company.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)

Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise . Michael Powell & Janet Roberts. NY Times. 5/15/2009.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.

Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.

One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City

Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.

Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource

The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

Rural Poverty and Gas in America. eweining YouTube. 12/01/2007 Video (U:wolf PW:wolf)

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

What's Hurting the Middle Class. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Boston Review.

Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.

Who Owns The Federal Reserve?. Ellen Brown. Global Research. 10/8/2008.

World's highest drug levels entering India stream. Margie Mason. AP. 1/26/2009.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009

Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry. Tom Phillips. Guardian/UK. 1/06/2009.

Jim Crow in the North. Lewis Steele. In These Times. 1/08/2009.

Social Watch - Global Poverty & Gender Equity. An international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality. Good source of international research and reports.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.

100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. Originally published on The Prism.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.

$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.

Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).

What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.

Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.

AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.

Low-Skilled Workers Struggle Amid More Competition and Fewer Openings. Chris Jenklins. Washington Post. 12/20/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Peak Oil and the Working Class. Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 9/16/2005.

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.

Paradise Lost (or here). Aired 12/12/2008 on PBS - NOW. Examines the issue of rising oceans on island populations.

As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006

Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Peak Oil Advisory Taskforce. City of Portland, OR. March 2007.

US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.

White extremists lash out over election of first black president. Howard Witt. LA Times. 11/23/2008.

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.

Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.

. Interview with Ali Mchumo. IPS. 5/30/2008.

Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.

Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.

Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty. Robert Pear. NY Times. 10/29/2008.

No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.

Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.

Wealth gap creating a social time bomb. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 10/23/2008.

Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.

Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.

Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.

Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.

Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.

Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.

States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts. Solomon Moore. NY Times. 9/13/2008.

Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush. Bill Law. BBC. 8/21/08.

SOUTH PACIFIC: Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.Z.. Stephen de Tarczynski. InterPress Services. 9/01/2008.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.

Mumbai's slum solution?. Mukul Devichand. BBC. 8/14/2008.

Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.

Behind the growing instability in Nigeria. Eugene Puryear. Intelligence Daily. 8/20/08.

Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide--and growing--gap between rich and poor. Elizabeth Gudrais. Harvard Magazine. July/August 2008.

KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?. Rosalia Omungo. Inter Press Services. 6/02/2008.

More Women May Retire Poor. Candice Choi. ABC News. 7/09/2008.

The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.

Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.

Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.

Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report. Reuters. 6/02/2008.

ECONOMY: Global Woes Hit Developing Countries. Abid Aslam. Inter Press Service. 6/10/2008.

New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.

Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

Race and Extreme Inequality. Dedrick Muhammad. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

We won't be Berlusconi's scapegoats, say Gypsies. Tom Kington. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Inside the RUF: at last the child soldiers of Sierra Leone have their say. Hannah Strange. Times Online/UK. 6/16/2008.

Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.

Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.

Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool. Foster Klug. AP. 6/04/2008.

Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.

World hunger's urban edge. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/05/2008,

Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.

Americans $1.7 trillion poorer. Tami Luhby. CNN. 6/05/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.

James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.

U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.

Japan's Ainu hope new identity leads to more rights. Takehiko Kambayashi. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.

Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Kevin Merida, Wa. Post. 5/13/2008.

Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.

How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.

Nigeria power shortage to persist. BBC. 5/30/2008.

What happened at Abu Ghraib?. Rowan Wolf. 5/01/2004.

Fascism USA. Rowan Wolf. 12/19/2004.

Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?. Marc Clayton. Chrisitan Science Monitor. 5/30/08

PERU: Indigenous Groups Challenge Private Investment Decree. Milagros Salazar. IPS. 5/29/2008.

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.

Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.

Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.

BIODIVERSITY: Indigenous Peoples Fight Theft. Julio Godoy. Inter Press Service. 5/24/2008.

Fair Trade: Spreading The Wealth. Sharon Cullars. One World Net. 5/28/2008.

Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.

Mom forced to live in car with dogs. Thelma Gutierrez & Wayne Drash. CNN. 5/20/2008.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

G7 loses grip on global policy to O5. Barry Herman. Asia Times. 5/09/2008

Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX. Stephen Leahy. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.

Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Bolivia nationalises key firms. Al Jazeera. 5/01/2008.

Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

Sinking Without Trace: Australia's Climate Change Victims. Independent/UK. 5/05/2008.

Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

South Korean workers on edge of burnout. Bruce Williams. LA Times. 4/19/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.

Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.

Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.

Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays. Jenny Anderson. NY Times. 4/16/2008.

Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South. Julio Godoy. International Press Service. 4/14/2008.

Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race. Mireya Navarro. NY Times. 3/31/2008.

Oregon's healthcare lottery. Rajesh Mirchandani. BBC. 3/30/2008

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.

Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.

Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective

Women face bias worldwide - UN. BBC. 4/05/2008.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.

Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US. Paul Harris. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line. Douglass McDougall. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Mexican Farmers Protest End of Corn-Import Taxes. James McKinnely. NY Times. 2/01/2008.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.

Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.

Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.

Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

ERs fail as the nation's safety net. Mary Engel and Rong-Gong Lin II. LA Times. 2/09/2008.

Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.

Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?. Ira Chernus. Mother Jones. 1/14/2008.

Food and Fuel Compete for Land. Andrew Martin. NY Times, 12/18/07.

World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns. Elisabeth Rosenthal. International Herald Tribune.

----Social Problems----

The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

Matt Taibbi on DemocracyNow! 2/22/11. Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?

GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Climate Futures: responses to climate change in 2030. Forum for the Future. October 2008. Focuses on social impacts and responses to climate change. 76 pg pdf (original)

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Centre. 2/06/2008.

UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.

Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.

Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

Running the Numbers. Art reflecting the waste of U.S. consumer culture by Chris Jordan.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

Daniel Troy's Poison Pill. Stephanie Mencimer. Mother Jones. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Center. 2/06/2008.

Surveillance states. The Economist. 2/06/2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns. Mitch Weiss. AP. 1/23/2008.

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.

Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.

The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills. Norman Birnbaum. The Nation. 3/19/2009.

----Sociology----

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.

U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.

The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills. Norman Birnbaum. The Nation. 3/19/2009.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 2--1960s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/07/2008.

Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

----Veterans----

Fascism USA. Rowan Wolf. 12/19/2004.

----Video----

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

Matt Taibbi on DemocracyNow! 2/22/11. Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?

World Press TV Documentaries. On global issues.

May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government. Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource

The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf

Paradise Lost (or here). Aired 12/12/2008 on PBS - NOW. Examines the issue of rising oceans on island populations.

An Ocean of Plastic. News Hour, 11/13/2008. Explores the continent size collection of debris in the Pacific Gyre. (9:29)

Global Food Crisis: On The Margins in Mauritania. Washington Post. 5/07/2008.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

----Wealth----

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.

3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

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"Literally, This Is Energy From Dirt". Inter Press Service. 5/10/2008.

"Our world. Views from the field." opinion survey, part 1: the impact of armed conflict. International Red Cross. 6/23/2009.

3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with JesÃºs LeÃ³n Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009

$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

$73 an Hour: Adding It Up. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 12/09/2008.

'Everyone's starving' in Ethiopia, aid worker says. CNN. 6/09/2008.

'Less Than Human': The Psychology Of Cruelty. NPR. 3/29/2011. Listen to program - 30 minutes

'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.

'Pirates' Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story?. Jeremy Scahill. AlterNet. 5/08/2009>

1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 12/02/2008.

1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India. The Independent. 4/15/2009.

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs. Jere Downs. Louisville Courier-Journal. 10/08/2009.

100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping. Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. Originally published on The Prism.

111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty. Shawn Pogatchnik. AP. 5/31/2008.

3 CEOs made $460 million - House panel - Sub-prime mortgages. Ben Rooney. CNN. 3/06/2008.

4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.

40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream. Dedrick Muhammad. The Institute for Policy Studies. April 2008. Report examines the current state of inequality for African Americans.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs' pursuit of wealth. David Walsh. World Socialist Web Site. 4/16/2008.

A proudly American shoe company ships jobs to China. Michelle Nijhuis. Christian Science Monitor. 8/27/2008.

AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.

AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.

Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks. Roland Rousseau. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Acid Test: Can We Save Our Oceans from CO2? (original). Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb and Jacqueline Savitz. Oceana. 10/2008.

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states. Linda Royce. CNN. 3/07/2008.

Africa's Unnatural Disaster. Sameer Dossani. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/26/2008.

African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal. Adrienne Gibbs. Women's eNews. 1/04/2009.

Aging Statistics Interagency federal government data site on aging statistics.

Amazon Cattle Footprint: Mato Grosso - State of Destruction. Greenpeace Report. 1/29/2009. Research report on the impact of expanding cattle ranching in Brazil

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration. Iam Sample. Guardian/UK. 8/13/2008.

Amazon pollution case could cost Chevron billions. Frank Bajak. AP. 12/20/2008.

American Human Development Project. Interactive site regarding inequality and development in the U.S.

Americans $1.7 trillion poorer. Tami Luhby. CNN. 6/05/2008.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2007.

Americas Slave Labor. Christopher Moraff. In These Times. 1/17/2008.

Americas on alert for sea level rise. James Painter. BBC. 4/08/2009.

An Epidemic of Extinctions: Decimation of Life on Earth. Independent/UK. 5/16/2008.

An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare. Eric Fair. Washington Post. 2/9/2007.

An Ocean of Plastic. News Hour, 11/13/2008. Explores the continent size collection of debris in the Pacific Gyre. (9:29)

Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool. Foster Klug. AP. 6/04/2008.

Henry Giroux. Truthout, 4/9/13. Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education .

Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'. Jonathan Amos. BBC. 12/12/2007.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

As G-8 meets, free trade under fire. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 7/07/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

As Workers' Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal. June 23, 2006

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

As the World Economy Sinks, So Does Global Shipping. Jeff Israely. Time. 12/08/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

Averting a perfect storm of shortages. Stephen Mulvaney. BBC. 8/24/2009.

BIODIVERSITY: Indigenous Peoples Fight Theft. Julio Godoy. Inter Press Service. 5/24/2008.

BP 'not prepared' for deep-water spill. Ed Crooks, Financial Times. 6/02/2010.

BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Backlash grows against free trade. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/16/07.

Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Center. 2/06/2008.

Ban Ki-moon Warns That Water Shortages Are Increasingly Driving Conflicts. UN News Centre. 2/06/2008.

Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.

Behind the growing instability in Nigeria. Eugene Puryear. Intelligence Daily. 8/20/08.

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

Big shift benefits emerging markets. David Oakley. Financial Times. 10/25/2009

Bioenergy: Fuelling the food crisis?. Stephanie Holmes. BBC. 6/04/2008.

Biofuel Land Demand Puts Peasants at Risk: Report. Reuters. 6/02/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.

Pablo Triana. Blame toxic lethality not complexity. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

Blocking the Transmission of Violence. Alex Kotlowitz. NY Times. 5/04/2008.

Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Blue Planet Project. Water resource issues.

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution. Agence France Presse. 6/04/2008.

3/08/11 Justin Baer. BofA Predicts Pre-Tax Earnings of $40 Billion after Recovery Financial Times.

Bolivia nationalises key firms. Al Jazeera. 5/01/2008.

Bolivian voters back pro-indigenous constitution. Carlos Valdez. AP. 1/26/2009.

Boxun News. One of the few credible news sources from China and Burma.

Broken Laws Unprotected Workers. NELP. 9/2009.

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies? Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 11/13/2008.

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.

CNN Planet Peril : World Water Crisis. World water crisis CNN's Isha Sesay speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, about the world's water problems. 10/27/07 4:41.

CO2 Benchmark. Tracks emissions of companies worldwide.

California Green Innovation Index. Next 10. November 2008. Analysis of the impact of global warming on California. (original)

Canada's 'dirty oil' challenge. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/11/2008.

Canada's black gold oil rush. Sarah Shenker. BBC. 12/10/2008.

Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say. Juliet Eilperin. Washington Post. 3/10/2008.

Center for Social Inclusion. The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Characteristics of Low-Income Households With Very Low Food Security. Mark Nord. Economic Information Bulletin Number 25. May 2007. USDA. (research copy).

Chemical Weapons Come Home. Stan Cox. Chronogram. 4/25/2008.

Chemical pollutants likely culprits in rising birth defects. Roxanne Chan & Sarah Petras. Anchorage Daily News. 8/25/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC. 4/15/08.

Children of the black dust. David Cohen. CNN, 10/13/2008. Explores the salvaging of carbon from batteries by children in India.

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon. Joe McDonald & Charles Hanley. AP. 1/25/2009.

Chinese illegal immigrants discovered in Texas border town. CNN. 6/06/2008.

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.

Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.

City air pollution 'shortens life'. Humphrey Hawksley. Guardian. 4/12/2009.

Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.

Climate Futures: responses to climate change in 2030. Forum for the Future. October 2008. Focuses on social impacts and responses to climate change. 76 pg pdf (original)

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - Full Report (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights - summary (original). Oxfam. 9/09/2008.

Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say. Sarah Boseley. Guardian/UK. 5/13/2009.

Climate change may spark conflict between nations. John Reid. Independent. 2/28/2006.

Climate change? Blame your stuff. Scott Learn. Oregonian. 8/01/2008.

Climate scientists issue dire warning. David Adam. Guardian. 2/28/2006.

Coal in the United States: America Approaching Peak Coal. Richard Heinberg. IntelDaily. 5/30/2008.

Coalition Against hate Crimes Portland, Oregon

Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region. Paul Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 3/21/2009.

Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.

Conflicts Fuelled by Climate Change Causing New Refugee Crisis, Warns UN. Julian Borger. Guardian/UK. 6/17/2008.

Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 3/25/2008.

Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least. Rowan Wolf. 11/20/2005.

Contamination of American Rivers Triggers International Complaint. Alberto Saldamando. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

Convictions Reversed in Pennsylvania. AP. 3/26/2009.

Countries Still Maintain Laws that Discriminate against Women - report for sale at Amazon - Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective

Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

Crop Prospects and Food Situation November 2009. FAO Repository.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Culture & Survival. Promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples. Publications, resources, and research support.

DEVELOPMENT-ANGOLA: Building Sustainable Water Systems. Louise Redvers. IPS. 10/01/2008.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars. Ranjit Devraj. IPS. 10/01/2009.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Summit Agrees Greater Liberalisation. Sabina Zaccaro. Inter Press Service. 6/05/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. International Press Service. 4/15/2008.

Daniel Troy's Poison Pill. Stephanie Mencimer. Mother Jones. 3/07/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

Depression drugs don't work, finds data review. David Rose. Times Online. 2/26/2008.

Michael Mackenzie. Derivatives boost NYSE profit. Financial Times. 5/04/2010.

Descending the Oil Peak: Navigating the Transition from Oil and Natural Gas. Peak Oil Advisory Taskforce. City of Portland, OR. March 2007.

Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending. Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg. NY Times. 4/13/2008.

Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.

Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report. Stephen Lendman. IntelDaily. 5/29/2008.

Diversity TV. Online video programming on diversity issues.

Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug. Gardiner Harris. NY Times. 9/02/2009.

Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade. Michelle Nichols. Reuters. 4/29/2009.

Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.

Double Edged Prices. OXFAM 10/13/2008. Lessons from the food price crisis: 10 actions developing countries should take. (original)

Dozens of Children In US Face Life In Prison. Matthew Bigg. Reuters. 3/21/2008.

Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.

Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns. Mitch Weiss. AP. 1/23/2008.

Drought parches much of the U.S., may get worse. John Blake. CNN. 12/15/2008.

Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.

EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable. Wambi Michael. International Press Service. 1/16/2009.

ECONOMY: Global Woes Hit Developing Countries. Abid Aslam. Inter Press Service. 6/10/2008.

ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX. Stephen Leahy. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT: Companies Scramble for Ever-Scarcer Resources. Wolfgang Kerler. IPS. 10/01/2008.

ERs fail as the nation's safety net. Mary Engel and Rong-Gong Lin II. LA Times. 2/09/2008.

EU loses banana battle at WTO. Al Jazeera. 2/08/2008.

Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.

Ecological refugees flee China's expanding desert. Sean Gallagher. Untold Stories: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. 4/17/2009.

Economic Toll Mounts From High Oil Prices. Graham Bowley & David Jolly. NY Times. 5/23/2008.

Economic Woes? Look to Kerala. Shirin Shirin. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To Nature. Eoin O'Carroll. Christian Science Monitor. 9/04/2008.

Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear. Joby Warrick & Peter Finn. Washington Post. 4/26/2009.

Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working. EDIE. 3/27/2009.

Electronic Green Journal. Peer reviewed digital journal on environmental issues.

Empire Foreclosed?. Mark Engler. FPIF. 4/17/2009

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Ending Homelessness. Lori Aratani. Washington Post. 1/16/2008.

Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America . Charles Bogle. World Socialist Web Site. 2/11/2008.

Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch. 5/22/08 King & Fritsch, WSJ

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States. Robert Bullard. UNRISD. 2004. (pdf 42 pgs).

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Environmental collapse - sooner not later. Rowan Wolf, 2/04/2004.

Environmental collapse - sooner not later. Rowan Wolf. 2/2004.

Environmental quality low in London's deprived areas. Environmental Data Interactive Exchange (EDIE). 2.04.2008.

Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.

Equity Atlas for Portland, Oregon. By Regional Equity Atlas Project. Coalition for a Livable Future. 2007.

Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution. National Academy of Science. 4/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership. Multiple Authors. UFE and Institute for Policy Studies.

Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top. 4/06/2008. NY Times. Interactive display.

Executive Pensions Often Secured First. Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis. Hartford Courant (republished in The Wall Street Journal. 4/27/2003.

Experts see no early end to world's food crisis. Renee Schoof. McClatchy. 5/14/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.

FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.

Factory Facts. Christian E. Weller and Diego Flores, The Center for American Progress. 8/04/2008.

Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008

Fair Trade: Spreading The Wealth. Sharon Cullars. One World Net. 5/28/2008.

Falling like a ton of bricks. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.

Family Seed Business Takes On Goliath of Genetic Modification. Marian Scott. The Edmonton Journal (Canada). 5/25/2008.

Feds document shrinking San Joaquin Valley aquifer. Matt Weiser. Sacramento Bee. 7/13/2009.

Fiery death sent a message. Jill Leovy. LA Times. 3/17/2008.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Food and Fuel Compete for Land. Andrew Martin. NY Times, 12/18/07.

Food crisis talks set to begin. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.

For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.

Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes. Gretchen Morgenson & Jonathan Glater. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Former nun helps Mexico 'femicide' victims recover. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 6/05/2008.

Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US. Paul Harris. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.

G7 loses grip on global policy to O5. Barry Herman. Asia Times. 5/09/2008

GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide. IRIN News Agency. 4/18/2009.

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South. Julio Godoy. International Press Service. 4/14/2008.

GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall St. Suzanne Kapner. Financial Times. 3/03/2010.

This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)

Gays fear an influx of hate. Erick Bailey. LA Times. 3/16/2008.

Gendered Job Losses. Catherine Rampell. NY Times. 4/20/2009.

Global Food Crisis: On The Margins in Mauritania. Washington Post. 5/07/2008.

Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.

Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.

Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'. Christine McGourty BBC. 3/19/2009. Population and resources on a collision course.

Global press freedom declines in 2007: study. The Age / AU. 4/30/08.

Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.

Got Water? Elizabeth de la Vargas. Mother Jones. 7/22/2008.

Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.

Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory in Seed Battle Against Monsanto. Matt Hartley. Globe & Mail (Canada), 3/20/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

Greenspan backs bank nationalisation. Krishna Guha and Edward Luce. Financial Times/UK. 2/18/2009.

Guardians: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. Culture & Survival. # 32.2. 2008.

Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area. Joe Robinson. LA TImes. 5/30/2008.

HEALTH-AFRICA: UNICEF Reports Five Million Child Deaths Every Year. Steffanie Nieuwoudt. IPS. 5/30/2008. (Report)

HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved. Dalia Acosta. Inter Press Service. 6/07/2008.

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Children in the Path of the (AIDS) Pandemic. Kathryn Strachan. Inter Press Service. 6/06/2008.

Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says. Lindsey Tanner. AP. 11/02/2009

Harmful Chemical Wafts Off Your TV. Scott Streater. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/11/2008.

Hate Crime Laws from the Anti-Defamation League

Hate Crimes Linked to Immigration Debate. Dave Crary. AP. 3/10/2008.

Eric Uhifelder. Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation. Financial Times/UK. 10/25/2009.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

High health costs hit women hardest. Reuters. 5/11/2009.

Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend. Evelyn Nieves. AP. 7/17/08.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007. Nord, Andrews, and Carlson. Economic Research Report No. 56. US Department of Agriculture. (research copy)

How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie. Binyamin Appelbaum, Carol D. Leonnig and David S. Hilzenrath. Wa. Post. 9/14/2008.

How do Muslims view women's rights?. Christian Science Monitor. 5/16/2008.

How human genes become patented. Elizabeth Landrau. CNN. 5/13/2009.

How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.

How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 12/21/2008.

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja. Martin Chulov. Guardian. 11/13/2009.

Human cost of Brazil's biofuels boom. Patrick J. McDonnell. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Hunger. World Food Program. 2009. Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

Illegal dumping plagues some Los Angeles neighborhoods. Robert J. Lopez. LA Times. 6/16/2008.

Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes. CNN. 4/15/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

Immigration agents detain hundreds at poultry plants. CNN. 4/17/2008.

Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.

In Burma (Myanmar), how many cyclone orphans?. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/08.

In India, a bank for street children. Henry Chu. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.

In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.

In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

Indonesia's answer to rising food prices. Simon Montlake. Christian Science Monitor. 7/14/2008.

Inequality in major U.S. cities rivals Africa: U.N.. Reuters. 10/23/2008.

Insecurity drives farm purchases abroad. David Montero. Christian Science Monitor. 12/22/2008.

Inside the RUF: at last the child soldiers of Sierra Leone have their say. Hannah Strange. Times Online/UK. 6/16/2008.

Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.

Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil. Sophia Grene. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Investigation: U.S. Banks Funnel 'Dirty' Money. ABC News. 2/05/2010.

Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.

Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?. Ira Chernus. Mother Jones. 1/14/2008.

Is Water Becoming 'The New Oil'?. Marc Clayton. Chrisitan Science Monitor. 5/30/08

Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.

Is in vitro meat the future?. Carol Midgley. Times/UK. 5/09/2008.

James Byrd, Jr.:10 Years Later, 'Horrific Death' in Jasper Won't Fade From Memory. Bill Hanna. Star-Telegram - TX. 6/08/2008.

Japan's Ainu hope new identity leads to more rights. Takehiko Kambayashi. Christian Science Monitor. 6/09/2008.

Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor. Shino Yuasa. AP. 10/26/2008.

Jim Crow in the North. Lewis Steele. In These Times. 1/08/2009.

Jobs down 3rd straight month; recession looms Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 4/04/2008.

KENYA: Water Studies - But Where Are the Water Supplies?. Rosalia Omungo. Inter Press Services. 6/02/2008.

KKK store, civil rights activist landlord may go to court. CNN. 3/10/2008.

Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' . Mike Lanchin. BBC, 10/22/2008. The practice of being an honorary man.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town. Heidi Vogt. Associated Press. 1/03/2009.

Lead for car batteries poisons an African town . Heidi Vogt. AP. 1/03/2009.

Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes. Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Oregonian. 4/30/2011. Gentrification in North Portland.

Listening to Latinas. National Women's Law Center (NWLC). Sept. 2009 Study of educational barriers for Latina's. Executive Summary.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless. Kevin G. Hall. McClatchy. 2/18/2008.

Low-Skilled Workers Struggle Amid More Competition and Fewer Openings. Chris Jenklins. Washington Post. 12/20/2008.

MEXICO: Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine. Diego Cevallos. InterPress Services. 8/31/2008.

Made in China. Finlo Rohrer. BBC. 4/14/2008.

Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer. Randolf Schmid. Associated Press. 5/02/2008.

Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17 in the United States: 2004 to 2006. 5/13/2008.

Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.

Measure of America - Factoids. Breif facts from the "measure of America" report by Oxfam's American Human Development Project. 7/2008

Measure of America - Interactive Maps. Interactive maps of health, environment and economic wellbeing from Oxfam's American Human Development Project.

Media Education Foundation (MEF) created this video as part of Screen Free Week 2011. Or here

Men become richer after divorce. Amelia Hill. Guardian/UK. 1/25/2009.

Mexican Farmers Protest End of Corn-Import Taxes. James McKinnely. NY Times. 2/01/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.

Migrant workers under pressure. Stephanie Holmes. BBC, 12/16/2008.

Migration and Global Recession. Migration Policy Institute. Aug. 2009.

Millions for textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. AP. 4/23/2009.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise . Michael Powell & Janet Roberts. NY Times. 5/15/2009.

Minorities expected to be majority in 2050. CNN. 8/13/2008.

Mom forced to live in car with dogs. Thelma Gutierrez & Wayne Drash. CNN. 5/20/2008.

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition. Kari Lydersen. In These Times. 11/21/2008. GM crops in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Monsanto Seeks Big Increase in Crop Yields. Andrew Pollack, NY Times. 6/05/2008.

More Women May Retire Poor. Candice Choi. ABC News. 7/09/2008.

More than 2 million U.S. youths depressed: study. Reuters. 5/13/2008.

David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

Mumbai's slum solution?. Mukul Devichand. BBC. 8/14/2008.

NBC Universal, ad agency to create product-centered programs. AP. 4/18/2008.

National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces Committee This is a prepublication copy and also available on this site

Native American health suffers due to inequality. Donald Wame. The Progressive. 5/20/2008.

New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million. Darryl Fear. Washington Post. 6/12/2008.

New Look at Death Sentences and Race. Adam Liptak. NY Times. 4/29/2008.

New fight for Congo's riches. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/29/2008.

New homes slump worst since 1945. Nick Mathiason. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2009.

New pressures force U.S. farmers south of the border. Sara Miller Llana. Christian Science Monitor. 7/15/2008.

Nigeria power shortage to persist. BBC. 5/30/2008.

No advance for women in top U.S. jobs. Ellen Wulfhorst. NY Times. 12/10/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.

Now showing: Map that gave America its name. Frank Greve. McClatchy. 2/26/2008.

Obama's Big Sellout. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 12/09/2009.

Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling. Abraham Lustgarten. ProPublica. 6/09/2009.

Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Oil War' Rages in Niger Delta. NTDTV. 9/17/2008. (2:03)

Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.

Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.

Older Americans wealthier, living longer. Julie Steenhuysen. Reuters. 3/28/2008.

On Thin Ice. NOW. 4/17/09. Impacts of global warming focusing on the loss of glaciers and the impacts on water supply.

On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction. Oliver Tickell. Guardian/UK. 8/11/2008.

One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex. David Barstow, NY Times, 11/29/08.

One Region: Promoting Prosperity Across Race. Center for Social Inclusion. March 2009. pdf 70 pages. Structural racism in NY City

Oregon's healthcare lottery. Rajesh Mirchandani. BBC. 3/30/2008

Our world. Views from the field. The impact of conflicts and armed violence on civilians. International red Cross report. 6/23/2009.

Overwhelmingly White, the Green Movement is Reaching For The Rainbow. Paula Bock. 3/10/2008. Seattle Times.

Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing. Kenneth Weiss. LA Times. 5/02/2008.

PERU: Indigenous Groups Challenge Private Investment Decree. Milagros Salazar. IPS. 5/29/2008.

POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.

Paradise Lost (or here). Aired 12/12/2008 on PBS - NOW. Examines the issue of rising oceans on island populations.

Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.

Peak Oil and the Working Class. Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 9/16/2005.

Pentagon in Race for Raw Materials: Stockpiling Minerals Takes on Greater Urgency as Global Supply Gets Squeezed. Liam Plevin. Wall Street Journal. 5/03/2010.

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

STILL WAITING: "Unfair orDeceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue
as AmericansWait for New Reforms to Take Effect. Nick Bourke and Ardie Holifield. Pew Charitable Trusts. 11/01/2009. Original

Plutocracy Reborn. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

Polar Cities a Haven in Warming World?. Andrew Revkin. NT Times. 3/30/2008.

Pollution, Race, and Poverty. James Kwak. Baseline Scenario. 5/05/09.

Population Growth Is a Threat. But It Pales Against the Greed of the Rich. George Monbiot. Guardian/UK. 1/29/2008.

Portland's low-income neighborhoods are city's 'food deserts'. Paige Parker. The Oregonian. 11/15/2008. (research copy)

Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America

Poverty Is Poison. Paul Krugman. NY Times. 2/18/2008.

Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows. Mike Ervin. The Progressive. 11/03/2009.

Poverty In America. St. Vincent dePaul Charities. 6/05/2008, Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.

Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. David Guiterez. Natural News. 11/10/2008.

Price rises hit Indonesia parents. Lucy Williamson. BBC. 6/04/2008.

3/08/11 Shachtman, Wired, Prisoners Help Build Patriot Missiles

Prius Designer Says Toyota-Led Industry Must Lose Oil Addiction. John Lippert and Alan Ohnsman. Bloomberg. 1/23/2008.

Private equity's love affair with leverage. Steven Johnson. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US. Evelyn Pringle. The Public Record. 4/27/2010.

Pulp Friction - loss of the Kimberly-Clark mill. Roger Bybee. In These Times. 1/07/2009.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls. Suvojit Bagchi. BBC. 4/12/2009.

Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.

Q&A: 'Biofuels Must Include the Poor'. Interview with Ali Mchumo. IPS. 5/30/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

Quarter of US Women Suffer Domestic Violence: CDC . Will Dunham. Reuters. 2/07/2008.

RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert. Abrose Evans-Pritchard. Telegraph/UK. 6/18/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

RIGHTS: U.N. Revisits U.S. Policies on Racial Profiling. Haider Rizvi, IPS. 7/01/2009.

Race and Extreme Inequality. Dedrick Muhammad. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

Racial Shift in a Progressive City (Portland) Spurs Talks. William Yardley. NY Times. 5/29/2008.

Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Kevin Merida, Wa. Post. 5/13/2008.

Recession barely dents 'eco-debt' . Judith Burns. BBC. 9/25/2009.

Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests. Erik Eckholm. NY TImes. 5/06/2008.

Reversal of Fortune: Economic gains of 1990s overturned for African Americans from 2000-07. Economic Policy Institute. 10/2008.

Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

Rio Slum Barrier Plans Spark Outcry. Tom Phillips. Guardian/UK. 1/06/2009.

Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan. Reuters. 4/08/2008.

Running the Numbers. Art reflecting the waste of U.S. consumer culture by Chris Jordan.

Rural Poverty and Gas in America. eweining YouTube. 12/01/2007 Video (U:wolf PW:wolf)

SOUTH PACIFIC: Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.Z.. Stephen de Tarczynski. InterPress Services. 9/01/2008.

Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years

Scientists: Smog contributes to premature death. AP. 4/22/2008. Link to report summary

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

Seattle Battles the Homeless. Silja Talvi. In These Times. 3/27/2008.

Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true. Jonathan S. Landay. McClatchy. 6/05/2008.

Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans. Anne-Claire Duffay. The First Post/UK. 5/14/2008.

Sex-Changing Chemicals Make Male Starlings Sing Sweet Songs. Brandon Keim. Wired News. 2/29/2008.

Shadow Government Statistics. Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting

Shale gas numbers may not add up. John Dizard. Financial Times/UK. 11/01/2009.

Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution "Blueprint for American Prosperity Series. 5/2008. (Original) Summary Tables of Cities Carbon Footprint)

Sinking Without Trace: Australia's Climate Change Victims. Independent/UK. 5/05/2008.

Sinking island's nationals seek new home. CNN. 11/11/2008.

Small-town residents living on deadly ground. Ronnie Greene. Miami Herald. 5/03/2008.

Social Watch - Global Poverty & Gender Equity. An international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality. Good source of international research and reports.

Materials from Party for Socialism & Liberation. What is Capitalism?. What is socialism?. Is socialism possible in the United States?

Sociological Images, a resource site that collects images and graphics that are pertinent to sociological content.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights. Yifat Susskind. The Progressive. 6/03/2008.

Some rural communities pushed to the edge by high cost of fuel. Tom Kizzia & Tom Hopkins. Anchorage Daily News. 5/16/2008.

South Korea's Beef with America. Christine Ahn. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/13/2008.

South Korean workers on edge of burnout. Bruce Williams. LA Times. 4/19/2008.

3/08/11 Anousha Sakoui. Sovereign wealth fund assets rise to $4,000bn. Financial Times.

Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Bob Drogin. LA Times. 12/07/2008.

State of black Oregon: precarious. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Oregonian. 7/26/2009.

States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts. Solomon Moore. NY Times. 9/13/2008.

Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.

Still Working Hard - Still Falling Short. Working Poor Families Project. October 2008. Includes state rankings. (original)

Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program. Kevin Hall. McClatchy. 3/29/2008.

Struggling with India's gender bias. Steve Bradshaw. BBC. 8/19/2008.

Study Finds Cohabiting Doesn't Make a Union Last. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/02/2010.

Study: Language barrier can keep children from getting healthcare. Patrick McGee. Huston Star-Telegram. 6/16/2008.

Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies. Maggie Fox. Reuters. 6/04/2009

Sub-prime CEOs defend high wages. BBC. 3/07/2008.

Surveillance states. The Economist. 2/06/2008.

Survey: Risky acts more likely for Hispanic teens. CNN. 6/04/2008.

System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States. Human Rights Watch report. May 2008.

Teens locked up for life without a second chance. Stephanie Chen. CNN. 4/08/2009.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government. Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)

The art of Chris Jordan. The environment and the culture of consumption.

The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.

The Black Mesa Controversy. Enei Begaye. Culture & Survival. #29.4, 2005.

The Cost Of Race: Retirement. NPR. 5/15/2009. (From Pew research Report)

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

The Great Immigration Panic. NY Times Editorial. 6/03/2008.

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills. Norman Birnbaum. The Nation. 3/19/2009.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

The Inflection Is Near?. Thomas Friedman. NY Times. 3/08/2009.

The L-Curve: Income Distribution of the U.S.. David S. Chandler. 2/04/2007. Video Resource

The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a single graph. For more see http://www.lcurve.org

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009. Synopisi of the report by the American Human Development Project.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Mom. Paul Nyhan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 5/13/2008.

The New Trough . Naomi Klein. Rolling Stone. 11/13/2008. The $700 billion Federal Bailout.

The Other Karen Tribe Antonio Graceffo. Boxun News. 5/22/2008.

The Other Nuclear Survivors. Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/02/2010.

The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.

The Politics of Triage: The Contract With America's Surplus Populations. Charles Derber. 1995. Tikkun 10(3): 37.

The Quiet Coup. Simon Johnson. The Atlantic May 2009.

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government

The Rich and the Rest of Us. John Cavanagh & Chuck Collins. The Nation. 6/11/2008.

The Rise of the New Global Elite. Chrystia Freeland, The Atlantic. January/February 2011.

The Sermilik fjord in Greenland: a chilling view of a warming world. Patrick Barkham. Guardian/UK. 9/01/2009.

The State of Africa's Children 2008. UNICEF. 5/2008. 5 million children dying a year due to poverty. (Original Link)

The State of Black Oregon, pdf 144 pgs. Urban League of Portland. 7/27/2009. (Also at Urban League of Portland

The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

The United States of Advertising. Kevin Connolly. BBC. 6/14/2008.

The War Against Water Bottles. Don Peat. Toronto Star. 1/25/2009.

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

The Year in Hate: Active U.S. Hate Groups Rise to 888 in 2007. David Holthouse & Mark Potok. SPLC. 3/2008.

The dam that divides Ethiopians. Peter Greste. BBC. 3/26/2009. Interactive map of the impacts of a hydro-electric dam.

They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers. Courtney Yeager. CNN. 12/10/2008.

Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line. Douglass McDougall. Guardian/UK. 3/30/2008.

Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)

Tornado might sound death knell for Oklahoma town. Kevin Murphy. KC Star. 5/12/2008.

Torture memos and historical amnesia. Noam Chomsky. Asia Times. 5/21/2009.

Toxic Tour: A Visit to Waste-Dumping Sites Shows UN Conference to Be Ignoring Environmental Racism. Deepa Fernandes. Village Voice. 8/28/2001.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

Trade boss criticises financial mess. Steve Schifferes. BBC. 5/30/2008.

Trail of Tears was trail of betrayal. Mark Anthony Rolo. The Progressive. 5/25/2008.

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

Troubled loans rise, but Umpqua says it can cope. Jeff Manning. Oregonian, 1/25/2008.

True scale of C0â‚‚emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

Turning Los Angeles wastewater to tap water. Rich Connell. LA Times. 6/07/2008.

U.S. Families Struggle to Eat. CBS. 7/09/2008. Video Resource user: wolf password: wolf

U.S. Legal Work Booms in India. Rama Lakshimi. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty. Sam Roberts. NY Times. 3/2/2010.

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U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.

UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars". Wambi Michael. IPS. 11/13/2009.

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UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.

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US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.

US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

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US prison numbers reach record high. Al Jazeera. 2/29/2008.

US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.

Unbelievable returns, thanks to government. Financial Times. 10/25/2009.

Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.

Unease over Guatemalan gold rush. Bill Law. BBC. 8/21/08.

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Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

Up to 70% interest - credit card aimed at the poor. Patrick Collinson. Guardian UK. 2/12/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Utah Mine Disaster Was Preventable, Report Says. Ian Urbina. NY Times. 5/09/2008. Reports: Complaint (31pgs); Referral to Committee (4pgs); Final Report (164pgs)

Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family. Ben Stocking. AP. 8/10/2008.

Wal-Mart to invest $1bn in Brazil. BBC. 8/13/2008.

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Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies. CNN. 6/02/2008.

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What Cooked the World's Economy?. James Lieber. The Village Voice. 1/27/2009.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

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Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Where a baby girl is a mother's awful shame. Gethin Chamberlain. Guardian/UK. 11/23/2008.

Where the Waters Are Rising. Madeline Nash. Time. 4/18/2005.

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Women Behind Bars Project. Women in the criminal justice system.

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Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 1--1940s/1950s. Paula Rosenberg. Open Left. 6/03/2008.

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Women's Voices / Women's Struggles By The Decades: Part 3--1970s. Paula Rosenberg. OpenLeft. 6/14/2008.

Working Group on Extreme Inequality. The site provides income inequality information - primarily for the U.S., and analysis of inequality issues. It is part of the Institute for Policy Studies.