The Climate Group The Official Website of Author and Activist Gloria Steinem - Home Disrupt Dirty Power Carbon Visuals: Home Youth At Work: Home Page Welcome to Youth@Work, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) website for youth in the workforce. The EEOC's goal is to eliminate illegal discrimination from the workplace for all workers. This website is designed to teach you about some of your rights and responsibilities as an employee. Use the menu on the left to learn about different types of discrimination affecting young workers and what you can do to help prevent discrimination in the workplace. Be an informed employee - Know your real world rights and responsibilities! The Youth@Work website is part of EEOC's Youth@Work initiative - a national education and outreach campaign to promote equal employment opportunity for America's next generation of workers.
The Climate Deception Dossiers: Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation For nearly three decades, many of the world's largest fossil fuel companies have knowingly worked to deceive the public about the realities and risks of climate change. Their deceptive tactics are now highlighted in this set of seven "deception dossiers"—collections of internal company and trade association documents that have either been leaked to the public, come to light through lawsuits, or been disclosed through Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests. Each collection provides an illuminating inside look at this coordinated campaign of deception, an effort underwritten by ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP, Shell, Peabody Energy, and other members of the fossil fuel industry. View on mobile | View full-screen | Download high-resolution images The climate deception dossiers Containing 85 internal memos totaling more than 330 pages, the seven dossiers reveal a range of deceptive tactics deployed by the fossil fuel industry. The documents clearly show that: The result?
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media | Connecting scientists, journalists, and communicators Consortiumnews.com Before the Iraq War spins further out of control, former President George H.W. Bush should sit down his son, George W. Bush, and level with him about the real history of U.S. relations with Iraq, Iran and Israel’s Likud Party – even if the father has to admit to illegal and unethical conduct in the process. The latest Iraq embarrassment – allegations that the longtime U.S. favorite Ahmed Chalabi and the intelligence chief for Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress were Iranian spies – derives from the younger Bush’s continuing failure to see the Middle East as it is, not how he might like it to be. While Bush junior crafts hopeful nation-building plans, he doesn’t seem to have the foggiest notion who the players are, where their true allegiances may lie or why these conflicting interests could undermine U.S. policy. These are relationships that the senior George Bush knows well because he was there as they took shape over the past quarter century. Back to front
the consensus project The Iran-Contra Affair . Reagan . WGBH American Experience Ronald Reagan's efforts to eradicate Communism spanned the globe, but the insurgent Contras' cause in Nicaragua was particularly dear to him. Battling the Cuban-backed Sandinistas, the Contras were, according to Reagan, "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers." Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the CIA trained and assisted this and other anti-Communist insurgencies worldwide. Corbis Oliver North Assisting involved supplying financial support, a difficult task politically after the Democratic sweep of congressional elections in November 1982. What followed would alter the public's perception of the president dramatically. In 1985, while Iran and Iraq were at war, Iran made a secret request to buy weapons from the United States. Reagan during the Iran-Contra Affair The arms-for-hostages proposal divided the administration. Poindexter resigned, and North was fired, but Iran-Contra was far from over.