Data For Progress:
"In recent years, fossil fuel combustion has been responsible for approximately 73 percent of the U.S.’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 89 percent of the world’s emissions. While taxpayers have been forced to pick up the tab for the climate crisis, fossil fuel companies have continued to prosper. In 2021, leading fossil fuel companies made $205 billion in profits, of which their executives pocketed $394 million.
It’s no mistake that fossil fuel companies have continued to make major financial gains through the climate crisis; fossil fuel industry executives, knowingly, have long misled the public about their impact on it and used their profits to manipulate climate research. Many of the nation’s most prominent universities, including Harvard, MIT, and George Washington, are awash with fossil fuel funding.
New research conducted by Data for Progress confirms this, finding hundreds of millions of dollars donated from key fossil fuel companies to fund climate research at many of these academic institutions. Climate activists, allies, academics, and universities can cut the dangerous tie between academia and the fossil fuel industry via policies that crack down on fossil fuel funding. In the third edition of our Accountable Allies project, Data for Progress empowers advocates with tools and information to hold companies accountable for exploiting the credibility of academic institutions."
https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/accountable-allies-the-undue-influence-of-fossil-fuel-money-in-academia
-->The NYT covered this story back in August 2022, but it was limited to Fossil Fuel Money at Cambridge University in the UK. No mention of US colleges like Harvard in sucking up this fossil fuel cash.
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Mondoweiss:
"U.S.-based human rights group loses fundraising platform over association with Palestinian NGO. The Alliance for Global Justice's had its online fundraising platform shut down after complaints from a Zionist lawfare group. Is Israel's war on human rights groups coming to the U.S.?
The group Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) announced that its ability to fundraise has been impeded over its connection to a Palestinian NGO. AfGJ serves as a fiscal sponsor for nearly 150 non-profit organizations across the United States, including some that work in Palestine. One of those groups is Samidoun, which has established an international support network for Palestinian prisoners. In February 2021 the Israeli government added Samidoun to its “terror list” over its alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Samidoun has repeatedly denied the allegations and vowed to continue their work amid mounting political challenges. 'Almost every organization, movement and even individual activist that stands for Palestinian freedom is targeted by the Israeli occupation and its leading war criminals for harassment, threats and attempts to mobilize state power to suppress an anti-colonial, anti-racist movement for justice and liberation,' said the group at the time. 'We are proud to stand with all of those who face such smear campaigns and repressive attacks — by intensifying our work and coming together to confront Israeli apartheid, occupation, war crimes and colonization, and organizing for the liberation of Palestine.' ”
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/02/u-s-based-human-rights-group-loses-fundraising-platform-over-association-with-palestinian-ngo/
-->No word in the NYT of this Israeli censorship of US human rights groups. Shame on the NYT for aiding and abetting apartheid Israel by not reporting this attack on human rights funding.
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Common Dreams:
"'$2.5 Trillion Theft': Study Shows Richest 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From Bottom 90% in Recent Decades...
New research published Monday found that the top 1% of U.S. income earners have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90% over the past several decades, and that the median worker salary would be around twice as high today as it was in 1945 if pay had kept pace with economic output over that period.
The study's authors, Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, examined income distribution and economic growth in the United States from 1945 to the present. The researchers found stark differences between income distribution from 1945 to 1974 and 1975 to 2018."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/25-trillion-theft-study-shows-richest-1-americans-have-taken-50-trillion-bottom-90
-->This well documented example of class war is shocking to read about. But thanks to the influence of the very richest, not many reading the mainstream media will ever learn about it.
"In recent years, fossil fuel combustion has been responsible for approximately 73 percent of the U.S.’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 89 percent of the world’s emissions. While taxpayers have been forced to pick up the tab for the climate crisis, fossil fuel companies have continued to prosper. In 2021, leading fossil fuel companies made $205 billion in profits, of which their executives pocketed $394 million.
It’s no mistake that fossil fuel companies have continued to make major financial gains through the climate crisis; fossil fuel industry executives, knowingly, have long misled the public about their impact on it and used their profits to manipulate climate research. Many of the nation’s most prominent universities, including Harvard, MIT, and George Washington, are awash with fossil fuel funding.
New research conducted by Data for Progress confirms this, finding hundreds of millions of dollars donated from key fossil fuel companies to fund climate research at many of these academic institutions. Climate activists, allies, academics, and universities can cut the dangerous tie between academia and the fossil fuel industry via policies that crack down on fossil fuel funding. In the third edition of our Accountable Allies project, Data for Progress empowers advocates with tools and information to hold companies accountable for exploiting the credibility of academic institutions."
https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/accountable-allies-the-undue-influence-of-fossil-fuel-money-in-academia
-->The NYT covered this story back in August 2022, but it was limited to Fossil Fuel Money at Cambridge University in the UK. No mention of US colleges like Harvard in sucking up this fossil fuel cash.
=====
Mondoweiss:
"U.S.-based human rights group loses fundraising platform over association with Palestinian NGO. The Alliance for Global Justice's had its online fundraising platform shut down after complaints from a Zionist lawfare group. Is Israel's war on human rights groups coming to the U.S.?
The group Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) announced that its ability to fundraise has been impeded over its connection to a Palestinian NGO. AfGJ serves as a fiscal sponsor for nearly 150 non-profit organizations across the United States, including some that work in Palestine. One of those groups is Samidoun, which has established an international support network for Palestinian prisoners. In February 2021 the Israeli government added Samidoun to its “terror list” over its alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Samidoun has repeatedly denied the allegations and vowed to continue their work amid mounting political challenges. 'Almost every organization, movement and even individual activist that stands for Palestinian freedom is targeted by the Israeli occupation and its leading war criminals for harassment, threats and attempts to mobilize state power to suppress an anti-colonial, anti-racist movement for justice and liberation,' said the group at the time. 'We are proud to stand with all of those who face such smear campaigns and repressive attacks — by intensifying our work and coming together to confront Israeli apartheid, occupation, war crimes and colonization, and organizing for the liberation of Palestine.' ”
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/02/u-s-based-human-rights-group-loses-fundraising-platform-over-association-with-palestinian-ngo/
-->No word in the NYT of this Israeli censorship of US human rights groups. Shame on the NYT for aiding and abetting apartheid Israel by not reporting this attack on human rights funding.
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Common Dreams:
"'$2.5 Trillion Theft': Study Shows Richest 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From Bottom 90% in Recent Decades...
New research published Monday found that the top 1% of U.S. income earners have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90% over the past several decades, and that the median worker salary would be around twice as high today as it was in 1945 if pay had kept pace with economic output over that period.
The study's authors, Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, examined income distribution and economic growth in the United States from 1945 to the present. The researchers found stark differences between income distribution from 1945 to 1974 and 1975 to 2018."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/25-trillion-theft-study-shows-richest-1-americans-have-taken-50-trillion-bottom-90
-->This well documented example of class war is shocking to read about. But thanks to the influence of the very richest, not many reading the mainstream media will ever learn about it.
