Wall Street’s Buying the World’s Water Supply at an Alarming Pace
"Water barons" may soon own every drop of H2O left on earth; techies may be responsible for women getting pushed out of journalism; meanwhile, no one seems to want to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. These discoveries and more after the jump.
“Water barons” may soon own every drop of H2O left on earth; techies may be responsible for women getting pushed out of journalism; meanwhile, no one seems to want to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. These discoveries and more below.
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Wall Street Mega-Banks Are Buying Up The World’s Water A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.
It’s Not Just Jill Abramson: Women Everywhere Are Getting Pushed Out of Journalism The firing of New York Times editor Jill Abramson has been covered with all the gossipy verve of a traditional tabloid scandal.
Hacker, Creeper, Soldier, Spy Matt DeHart, a former U.S. soldier seeking asylum in Canada, claims he’s wanted for working with Anonymous. The U.S. says he may be a spy — and more.
Does Anyone Want to Host the 2022 Winter Olympics? For all the talk of global honor and prestige that the Olympics bring to a host city, talk largely promoted by the International Olympic Committee itself, the truth is that the Games tend to smother cities in debt and saddle them with venues they can’t ever use again.
NYU’s Promise of Academic Freedom in Abu Dhabi Is ‘Essentially Worthless’ May’s been a bad month for New York University and its branch in Abu Dhabi.
Maidan: Tonight Tomorrow In “Maidan: Tonight Tomorrow,” a short film about the unrest in Ukraine, a protester tells the camera, not without pride, that most of his friends call him a fascist.
Ph.D. Programs Should Change but Not Shrink, MLA Says Humanities doctoral programs are under intense scrutiny.
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The candidate's supporters in the media have long insisted that she is fundamentally honest. Now, emails hacked allegedly from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta tell a far different story.
Jill Abramson reported in The Guardian on Monday that PolitiFact, a Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking organization, judged the Democratic candidate to have “the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates.”
As we learned last week, it's projected that we still have the better part of a century to go before women earn the same as their male counterparts. So what can we do today to address this imbalance?
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss the big and sudden changes that shook up the newsroom at The New York Times this week. Does the ousting of executive editor Jill Abramson represent a setback for women at the Gray Lady and in newsrooms everywhere?
Jill Abramson was removed from her position as executive editor of The New York Times on Wednesday without warning. Now it’s been revealed by several sources, including The New Yorker, that Abramson had recently complained she was being paid significantly less than her Y-chromosome carrying predecessor, which some believe may have led to her dismissal. […]
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