Category: Media
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

U.S. Government Turns Somalia Into Failed State to Steal Its Oil for Shell and Exxon-Mobil Instead of promoting what it claims to—peace, stability, “nation-building”—the U.S. government, Ingiriis elaborates, keeps Somalia “wartorn,” a “failed state.” The Somali people pay the cost—the ultimate cost, in thousands upon thousands of cases—as a result. But not everyone loses. #ForeignPolicy #Somalia #oil #bloodmoney…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Photographer Depicts the “Boys of Volta” Who Fish in the World’s Largest Man-Made Lake Child trafficking around Lake Volta has recently been spotlighted by organizations such as IJM and in reporting by CNN. While some experts disagree on the extent of trafficking in the region, all agree with the findings of the International Labor Organization that working on the lake is…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe

A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico “The thing that really caught my eye was that African Americans were going to another country and actually treated better, knowing we had freedoms in Mexico that we didn’t have in the United States,” says Duntavian Thomas, a 24-year-old kinesiology major…






