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Fracking Won’t Avert Energy Crisis, Davos Is Told

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Jan 25, 2014 A world oil crisis is imminent, a British renewable energy entrepreneur is to tell the World Economic Forum this week -- and fracking for shale oil and gas is not the answer to it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Blurring Mandela and Neo-Liberalism

By Danny Schechter Dec 15, 2013 Rather than tell how global corporations and banks pressured the Mandela government to keep economic power where it was during apartheid, Andrew Ross Sorkin and The New York Times claimed the South African hero saw "the light" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Rather than tell how Mandela was pressured to keep economic power where it was during apartheid, The New York Times claimed the South African hero saw "the light" at the World Economic Forum. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Economist Stern: ‘I Got It Wrong on Climate Change — It’s Far, Far Worse’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 28, 2013 Lord Nicholas Stern, the widely respected author of a landmark 2006 government-commissioned report on global warming’s effect on the world economy, says he underestimated the risks and should have been more “blunt” about the dangers posed by rising temperatures. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Your Ticket to Davos

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2011 The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, where big shots go to talk turkey and soak up a bit of Switzerland, is being streamed live across the Internet tubes. They're waiting for you after the jump, prime minister. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gates Announces Huge Vaccine Pledge

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2010 Bill Gates made a big announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday. The Microsoft entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist revealed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next 10 years to the cause of fighting disease around the globe through vaccines and immunizations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America Faces the Music in Davos

William Pfaff / Truthdig Feb 2, 2009 The American participants in this year's World Economic Forum have been the first to confront the full international blowback to the U.S.-created world economic crisis, which has devastated the nation's reputation for competence, along with the justification for its six-decade role as world leader. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )