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Hard to Swallow: Exploring Corruption and Cover-Ups During the Flint Water Crisis

August 24, 2021 / By

Note: This article was originally written as a report on May 6, 2021. The story of a working-class neighborhood betrayed by its public institutions, often to be economically frugal, is too common for comfort. Poverty and man-made environmental disasters are correlated even in “first-world” nations such as the United States; from the Centralia Mine Fire …

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The “Great Man-Made River:” Libya’s Massive Infrastructure Project You’ve Likely Never Heard Of

July 26, 2021 / By

With 26 percent of the nation’s GDP reliant on agricultural exports, Libya and its 1.3 million inhabitants received a break in 1958 when oil reserves were found resting under its desert territory.[1] The discovery of the natural resource was ideal because of the reserves’ volume – roughly 48 million barrels worth– and because Libya was …

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