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Cuba: Before and After Castro’s Revolution
A balanced, source-led account of Cuba before and after the 1959 revolution, examining social gains in health and education, housing and poverty claims, U.S. sanctions, the Bay of Pigs, and the political costs of one-party rule.
Ecological Connectivity/Climate Change and Urban Environments
The Survivability Question: Can Cities Endure the Incoming Global Climate? Can large urban environments continue to be survivable for humans in a world where climate change is disrupting global and local supply chains, where extreme heat, fires, and violent floods are becoming ever more prevalent? This is no longer a speculative question. It is an…
America’s Cunning Plan to Control all the Oil
When we speak of American power abroad, we tend to picture aircraft carriers and drone strikes. But the most durable instruments of control are not military — they are financial. Across the oil-producing world, from Baghdad to Tripoli, from Caracas to Buenos Aires, a sophisticated architecture of financial dependency has been constructed…